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Profits of Sin

The CEO of Bank of America says, regarding the new fees he’s charging debit card users, that his bank has the right to make a profit. So far, so good, but he’s trying to ignore one little problem: [P]eople aren’t … Continue reading

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"Occupy Wall Street" and Morality

The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protest is morally superior to the system it protests. That’s not to say it’s completely righteous, but God supports it over the system. I say this, despite my certainty the protest is partly the result … Continue reading

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Recapitulation of Intuition

So my timing was a little off, but not by much on the scale of things. Back in April I wrote I felt things would be significantly worse here in the US before my birthday, now two weeks past. I … Continue reading

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Poverty, Predation and Protest: Confluence

A confluence of events is looking nasty. This is merely my own human thinking. Does anyone question rising poverty in the US? Consider: The size of the economy is shrinking, because fewer and fewer players are involved in it. Many … Continue reading

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Watching Economics News This Weekend

Because most people know so little about economics, TPTB don’t knock out the alternative econ-news sites so quickly as the others. That’s a good thing if you know economics, but it’s opaque to the sheeple. What little they do know … Continue reading

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Clueless: Tulsa World News Site

Where I live in Oklahoma, the state capital is just a few miles west. It’s a busy place with all the horrors of any modern socialist bureaucracy. Some of the buildings are almost tolerable, but most are ugly as sin. … Continue reading

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Soap Opera World

Few people are more deeply enslaved than those who won’t walk away. These days the thing which angers me most is one person seeking to remove the options God granted to others. This ranges between literal physical force all the … Continue reading

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Advertising Slavery

It’s easy to ignore moral principles when it makes you money. Advertising as we experience it today is nothing more than slavery. It’s designed to enslave the choices and wallets of “consumers.” The very choice of the term “consumer” reduces … Continue reading

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Laboring on Labor Day

Our favorite American communist celebration, Labor Day, is tomorrow. Most folks get the day off to celebrate the rise of labor unions. I’ll be working. Today, I discovered what a “weep hole” is on automotive water pumps. It’s an opening … Continue reading

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Disasters Manmade and Natural

My friends in the Northeast tell me Irene wasn’t so strong as she was just full of rain with some wind. Local flooding and power outages abound, but it sounds like the utilities are coming back pretty well. Meanwhile, we … Continue reading

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