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Navy’s solar power satellite hardware to be tested in orbit
Instead of spending a trillion $ a year to suck CO2 out of the air and pump it underground!:
Jeff Fullerton
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El Neil:
I have been worried about gun rights since I was in the navy in 1981. The banners have been nibbling at us for too long. The proposed gun laws will make standard capacity magazines to be nfa items along with modern sporting rifles. The nra does nothing, I donate to gunowners of CA and CA rifle and pistol ass’n
But it goes on.…
These new red flag laws will have people that are wrongfully accused of spanking the kid or hitting the wife means that the police will come and remove all the guns from the home. “They” say you can get them back when you are cleared by the judge but I know the guns will gone forever.
All for gun “safety” Or one can call the police on a burner phone with a complaint about drugs next door and get the swat team into your home to search for drugs or whatever. They’ll shoot first.
I had a gun safe and all your guns and ammo are supposed to be locked up. What about home defense?
The teenage boy and his sister across the street if they read your and Victor Milan’s [RIP] books will have SUCH a headstart on their peers I think it amazing. I was a bookworm as is Nate. Most teenagers are glued to the screens. My parents tolerated my reading and would let me checkout only a few. books and none in the summer. I then read the paper and kept track of Dow Chemical [DOW] stock.
Oh this uplifts me by Alan Moore:
“Roschach’s Journal: October 12th, 1985
Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen it’s true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"…
…and I’ll look down, and whisper "no."
They had a choice, all of them. They could have followed in the footsteps of good men like my father, or President Truman. Decent men, who believed in a day’s work for a day’s pay. Instead the followed the droppings of lechers and Communists and didn’t realize that the trail led over a precipice until it was too late. Don’t tell me they didn’t have a choice.
Now the whole world stands on the brink, staring down into bloody hell, all those liberals and intellectuals and smooth-talkers… and all of a sudden, nobody can think of anything to say.
― Alan Moore, Watchmen
Donald Beeler
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Civics Review
Thus beginneth the lesson:
The government is a tool which people use to protect their rights. A perfect government does not violate the rights of any of its people. It must act to meet the needs of the largest possible majority while at all times guaranteeing and protecting the rights of the minority under its authority. If I understand correctly, this is the moral purpose under which the government of the United States of America and the various State governments are allowed to exist.
Libertarians may not agree with all of this, but this is what is observably going on. However, meeting these ends are what give the USG its legitimate authority. If you will, this is how the government earns the consent of the people from which its just powers are derived.
When any other purpose is adopted as the raison d’etre of the US Government (or any other government) the government inevitably creates a situation where it must begin to sacrifice the rights of its citizens, usually beginning with watering down rights people don’t seem to miss, then blatantly violating the rights of minorities ( not necessarily ethnic minorities, but also religious and political minorities). If nothing else, the government’s job of guaranteeing and protecting these rights is pushed aside as a distraction from pursuing this other purpose.
War is often a pretext for such a repurposing of government authority. Political ideology, such as Nazism or Communism is anther. So is theocracy. To concentrate on America, so is the Green New Deal, so is my race versus your race rights movements.
Trying to preserve/repair the environment is a decent goal, and so is correcting racial injustice (a nice, vague term that can be used to protect or violate people’s rights). But when they become pretexts to violate people’s rights or placed above our rights you create an opening for tyranny. The only question is, are you doing so deliberately, or are you so focused on your goals you fail to see or even care about the consequences?
Thus endeth the lesson, and please pardon my pedantry.
A.X. Perez
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Two Issues That Bother Me
1. Shutting down outdoor ranges. There have been 2 ranges in my area that have shuttered due to lead contamination and noise. This is impossible to stop since we are trying to keep long rifle ranges open. What will hunters do to sight-in their rifles? How will hand gunners maintain proficiency? There is an inside range [Targetmasters] but is thirty miles away and does not have a rifle or shotgun range, of course.
2. Screentime for Zombies
a] Our school district has prohibited use of cell phones during all school hours. Too much disconnection of the students who ought to be studying rather than sexting.
b] Too many people plugged into the Matrix. I was seated the SFO airport and I noticed that everyone except me was texting to contacts and it was 7am. I carry a cell phone only for emergencies.
c] The one thing that really bugs me was seeing a toddler with a cell-phone sized game that he was playing. I wanted to slap his mother.
d] I noticed a father plugged in texting on his cell and his young son was attempting to gain his attention and was ignored. Great parenting, eh?
These are big issues and I don’t have any solutions.
Donald Beeler
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Do or do not. There is no try. — Yoda.
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The End of the Roman Republic and The Crusades
If you can bear my voice for ten whole hours, here are some of the lectures I’ve given and recorded this year. I also have some lectures on Roman Epic that I will upload when I’ve removed all the student contributions.
Sean Gabb Lectures January-February 2021
The Crusades
1. The Long Prehistory: [Link]
2. The First Crusade: [Link]
3. The Crusader States: [Link]
4. Life in Outremer: [Link]
Rome: From Republic to Empire
1. Mistress of the Mediterranean: [Link]
2. A Constitution out of Balance: [Link]
3. The Decay into Violence: [Link]
4. Ancient Slavery: [Link]
5. Sulla: A Failed Reaction: [Link]
Best regards,
Sean
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There seem to be two takes on the Holocaust. The first is that it is a unique event in the history of human evil. The second is that there are lessons to be learned about how and the Holocaust was allowed to occur by the dent majority of people. My observation is that people who support the lesson point of view never apply it to their own behavior, only to their opponents, while those who support the unique event thesis tend to walk down the slippery slope leading to sending people they don’t like to re-education and death camps.
I wonder which of these groups the execs at Disney belong to, keeping in mind that with a little bit of mental gymnastics you can belong to both?
A.X. Perez
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