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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 15 February 2013 |
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HALF-FULL REPORT 02/08/13 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 08 February 2013 |
"The fact that we are here today to debate
raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure.
It is a sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a
sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries
to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies... Increasing
America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means
that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of
bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has
a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I
therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt limit."
These are
the first and last lines of a speech delivered on the floor of the US Senate on
March 16, 2006. The speaker was
Illinois Senator Barack Hussein Obama. The
full text of the speech from the Congressional
Record is appended at the end of this HFR.
Feel quite free to cut and paste the full speech into an email informing
your friends of the hideous hypocrisy of President Zero.
Speaking of hideousness, our next subject is
The PIAPS - The Pig In A Pants Suit - Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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OBAMA IS OBSOLETE |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 07 February 2013 |
Zero's fascist seizure of America's healthcare system is
kicking into high gear. On Tuesday
(2/05), the CBO - Congressional Budget
Office - issued its updated budget and economic forecast.
Zerocare, the CBO says, will now cost $233 billion more than
previously estimated, and will surge well over $1 trillion for the next 10
years. Seven million workers will lose
their employer-paid health coverage.
In addition, one of the more lethally noxious consequences of Zerocare is
its enabling of an enormous expansion of power by the Federal Death Agency -
the FDA.
The FDA is the perfect example of the ball-and-chain the
Federalie Fascists place around the economy.
The "safety and efficacy" requirements of the FDA now take an average of
12 years and between 1 and 4 billion dollars for a pharmaceutical company to gain
approval to bring one new chemical entity drug to market.
Here's how insanely obsolete this is. You've heard of Moore's Law, right? Back in 1965, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore
predicted that the number of transistors on integrated circuits would expand
exponentially, doubling every two years or less - and it has ever since.
So - here we go.
Strap yourself in for a ride in a rocket sled. Moore's
Law has come to biology.
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ENHANCING AND EXTENDING YOUR LIFE WITH DURK PEARSON |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Saturday, 02 February 2013 |
A Special
Announcement: To The Point is
co-sponsoring, along with Life Enhancement Magazine, a Life
Enhancement Symposium with Durk Pearson & Sandy Shaw in Las Vegas,
March 22-24.
Shortly
after Merv Griffin, the beloved talk show host, passed away in August 2007, I
penned a tribute to him in To The Point,
How Merv Griffin
Enhanced and Extended the Lives of Millions.
I
told the story of how I introduced Merv to one of my dearest friends, Durk
Pearson. He was a completely unknown
scientist with an IQ so high MIT could not measure it. It was 1978, and Durk was dedicating his IQ
to figuring out how to live healthily for a very, very long time. What's more, Durk could explain how to do so
with incredible clarity.
35
years have passed since Durk's first appearance on Merv. The amount of
anti-aging research, the number of years added and quality of life improved for
so many millions of people stemming from it is incalculable. But as Durk and his partner in science Sandy
Shaw say, there is so much more to come!
The
latest advancements in life extension science are astounding - but how do you
learn about them?
To
enable TTPers and friends of To The Point
learn about where Durk & Sandy's latest research is leading, my wife
Rebel and I are co-sponsoring, along with my friend Will Block, publisher of Life Enhancement Magazine,
a rare public appearance of Durk & Sandy at a Life
Enhancement Symposium in Las Vegas next month.
The length and
quality of your life may indeed depend on what you learn at it.
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WATERBOARDING AND DRONE STRIKES |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Friday, 08 February 2013 |
Remember
how outraged liberals said they were when they learned three al Qaeda bigwigs
were waterboarded?
After
they were waterboarded, the al Qaeda big shots disclosed information that
prevented follow-on attacks on Los
Angeles and London,
according to intelligence officials. A
scene in the movie "Zero
Dark Thirty" indicates Osama bin Laden's hideout was located in part by
information obtained from waterboarding.
No
matter, said outraged liberals. Waterboarding is torture. When we use their
techniques, the terrorists win. Our international reputation is besmirched; our
civil liberties endangered.
Why, then, have liberals said so little about the report Monday
(2/04) on the vague criteria the Obama administration uses to justify killing
American citizens suspected of terrorism with drone strikes?
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PAUL KRUGMAN’S SILLY KEYNESIAN DESPERATION |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Tuesday, 05 February 2013 |
What do you do if the facts don't support your beliefs? If
you are honest, you will rethink what you previously believed. If you are a
Keynesian economist, though, like New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, you
make silly assertions.
In his Jan.
31 column, Mr. Krugman said he wants to see "some example, somewhere,
of austerity policies that succeeded."
If you are a Keynesian school economist like Mr. Krugman,
you define "austerity" as a reduction in government spending as a
percentage of gross domestic product (GDP). If you are a classical Austrian
school economist, you view a reduction of government spending not as austerity,
but a growth-enhancing policy.
Mr. Krugman seems to have forgotten that the government
share of GDP dropped after Reagan was able to get most of his policies through
the Democrat-controlled Congress (which Mr. Krugman would define as austerity).
The economy boomed and employment soared. Likewise, when government spending
was reduced as a share of GDP during the Clinton administration and the
Republican Congress, the economy and employment boomed.
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WE ARE OUT OF TOMORROWS |
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Written by Robert Agostinelli
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Wednesday, 06 February 2013 |
After Mr. Obama delivered his second inaugural address week
before last, it has been dawning on people that his political strategy is that
of the Thunderdome in Mel Gibson's Mad Max 3 movie: "Two men enter, one man leaves." He is totally win/lose, the total antithesis
of win/win.
From Mau-Mau tautology mixed with Marxist ideals inbred from
his absent father and a mother enriched in the heresies of the deep left
Communism of Frank Marshall Davis, this man has unfurled his true colors.
Unbridled by the need to appear moderate for his next
campaign, "the One" has declared war on anything or anyone who would
stand in the way of his Progressive radical agenda.
Yes, Saul Alinsky's hand can be seen everywhere along with
Chicago thuggery, but there is much more.
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WHY CHINA WILL NEVER CATCH THE UNITED STATES |
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Written by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
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Wednesday, 06 February 2013 |
The reason in a nutshell?
China's vast reserve of cheap
workers in the hinterland is vanishing at a vertiginous pace.
We can now discern more or less when the catch-up growth
miracle will sputter out. Another seven years or so -- enough to buoy global
coal, crude, and copper prices for a while -- but then it will all be over.
China's demographic dividend will be exhausted.
Beijing revealed last week that the country's working age
population has already begun to shrink, sooner than expected. It will soon go
into "precipitous decline," according to the International Monetary Fund.
Japan hit this inflexion point fourteen years ago, but by
then it was already rich, with $3 trillion of net savings overseas. China has
hit the wall a quarter century earlier in its development path.
The ageing crisis is well-known. It is already six years
since a Chinese demographer shocked Davos with a warning that his country might
have to resort to mass suicide in the end, shoving pensioners onto the ice.
Less known is the parallel - and linked - labor drain in the
countryside. A new IMF paper - "Chronicle of a Decline Foretold: Has China
Reached the Lewis Turning Point?" - says the reserve army of
peasants looking for work peaked in 2010 at around 150 million. The numbers are
now collapsing.
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WHAT WE HAVE IN COMMON WITH MONARCH BUTTERFLIES |
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Written by Matt Ridley
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Tuesday, 05 February 2013 |
You've probably heard of the spectacular migrations of hundreds
of millions of monarch butterflies, which home in on one
small region of Mexico for the winter then return as far north as Canada in
a flight of thousands of miles that takes more than one generation. Clearly the
insects have an inherited "map" of where to go, but what compass do
they use?
It seems they have at least two compasses. One is a
"time-compensated sun compass," located in their antennae, which
calculates bearings from the angle of the sun corrected for the time of day.
But butterflies can also use the Earth's magnetic field to
navigate. The butterfly antennae contain a protein molecule called cryptochrome, which can
apparently act as a magnetic compass when exposed to blue or violet light.
Human beings and other mammals also have a cryptochrome in their retinas,
albeit in slightly different form, but until recently it was thought not to
have magnetic directional properties.
Recently Dr. Steven M. Reppert of the University of Massachusetts Medical School and his colleagues took
the human version of the gene that's the recipe for cryptochrome and
genetically engineered it into flies, replacing the flies' own version. They
then showed that, presented with two routes in a maze, the flies could choose a
magnetic direction they had been trained to associate with a sugar reward, and
they did so just as well with the "human" cryptochrome as with their
own.
If it is at least possible to use our cryptochrome molecules
to sense direction from the Earth's magnetic field, do we?
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GETTING TO THE CARNEGIE HALL OF YOUR LIFE |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Friday, 08 February 2013 |
The legendary violinist Jascha Heifetz (1901-1987) was strolling down
57th Street in Manhattan one spring morning when a young man,
looking lost, approached him. "Excuse
me, sir," he said to the virtuoso not knowing who he was, "could you tell me
how to get to Carnegie Hall?" Heifetz
smiled gently, nodded sagely, and answered, "Practice, my son, practice."
It's a famous joke -
Jack Benny was fond of telling it - that points to an eternal truth. One of the principles of living a happy life
is that it takes willpower, it takes discipline, and it takes practice in order to live well.
This may seem strange
if your vision of happiness is ease and momentary pleasure. But ease and
momentary pleasure are not what make for a happy life, any more than ice cream
is what makes for a healthy diet.
In my work I talk
about and teach a lot of different skills that can make for a happier life - if
you practice them. Knowing about them, understanding them, thinking about them
are fine intellectual exercises, but they will not improve your life.
What improves your
life is practicing the skills of a good life; or, if you're more ambitious,
practicing the skills of a great life.
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JESUS AND THE DEMOCRAT |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 08 February 2013 |
A Republican in a wheelchair entered a restaurant one
afternoon and asked the waitress for a cup of coffee. The Republican looked
across the restaurant and asked, "Is that Jesus sitting over there?" The waitress nodded "yes," so the
Republican requested that she give Jesus a cup of coffee, on him.
The next patron to come in was a Libertarian with a hunched
back. He shuffled over to a booth, painfully sat down, and asked the waitress
for a cup of hot tea. He also glanced across the restaurant and asked, "Is
that Jesus over there?" The waitress nodded, so the Libertarian asked her
to give Jesus a cup of hot tea, "My treat."
The third patron to come into the restaurant was a Democrat
on crutches.
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HALF-FULL REPORT 02/01/13 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 01 February 2013 |
In The Brexit and Texit
this week, we learned an important word: hysteresis. Originally a concept in physics to quantify
the effects of lag time, it's now used in economics: "If people are out of work for long enough,
the damage to skills and human capital becomes a permanent loss. The underlying
growth potential of the economy is damaged for years."
Under Zero,
hysteresis has become a political strategy.
Damage America's economy, national security, and moral culture long
enough and consistently enough to become permanent. Part of the strategy is convincing people
that resistance to it is futile, even immoral.
Thus the number of his fellow travelers and useful idiots increases.
You could
not get a clearer example than, on Tuesday (1/29), 94 out of 100 Senators voted
to confirm a treasonous, characterless scumbag as Secretary of State. There are now only 3 Senators with any
self-respect or decency: John Cornyn
(TX), Ted Cruz (TX), and Jim Inhofe (OK) who voted No (Kerry along with 2 others
abstained).
And it could
get worse. Yet for all of this, there were a number of bright spots this week. Here we go.
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BOB KABOB AND SNUFFY JACK |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 31 January 2013 |
Col. Robert K. Brown, Founder, Publisher and Editor of Soldier of Fortune Magazine, is writing his
memoirs. It's about time, as Bob turned 80
a couple of months ago.
Bob and I have been good friends since 1977, when we met as
guests on the Merv Griffin Show and instantly hit it off. The most memorable adventure we had together
was in Afghanistan with the Mujahidin fighting the Soviets. That was in 1988, and Bob asked me to recount
it for his book. I thought I'd share it
with you.
Early on in the Reagan Presidency, I began working with my
buddy from our Youth For Reagan days (Reagan's original campaign for California
governor in 1966), Dana Rohrabacher and other friends in the White House, such
as Constantine Menges on the National Security Council, on a strategy that
became known as The Reagan Doctrine.
(That wasn't our name for it - we just called it FTC... Foil the Commies,
or something like that.)
My role was to "go inside" captured guerrilla-held territory
in those Soviet colonies where anti-Soviet insurgencies had emerged, such as
the Contras in Nicaragua, UNITA in Angola, RENAMO in Mozambique, the EPLF/TPLF
in Ethiopia, the KPNLF in Cambodia, the Hmong in Laos, and most of all, the
various groups of Muj in Afghanistan.
I did this all through the 80s, and Dana and I often talked
of his going inside with me at some time.
His chance came after he left the White House to run for Congress in his
California home town district, and got elected.
He celebrated by coming with me and Bob, who I'd been promising to take
inside as well.
We convened in mid-November, 1988, at Green's Hotel in
Peshawar, Pakistan.
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GET OVER IT! WE ARE NOT ALL CREATED EQUAL |
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Written by Capt. Katie Petronio, USMC
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Wednesday, 30 January 2013 |
The Marine Corps
Times recently published a handful of articles in regard to opening
Infantry Officer Course (IOC) to females and the possibility of integrating
women into the infantry community. In mid-April the Commandant has directed the
‘integration' of the first wave of female officers into IOC this summer
following completion of The Basic School (TBS).
Before the
Marine Corps moves forward with this concept, should we not ask the hard
questions and gain opinions of combat-experienced Marines (male and female
alike) as to the purpose, the impact, and the gains from such a move?
As a combat-experienced Marine officer, and a female, I am
here to tell you that we are not all created equal, and attempting to place
females in the infantry will not improve the Marine Corps as the Nation's
force-in-readiness or improve our national security.
This issue is being pushed by several groups, one of which
is a small committee of civilians appointed by the Secretary of Defense called
the Defense Advisory Committee on Women
in the Service (DACOWITS). Surprise: none of the current committee members are on active duty or have
any recent combat or relevant operational experience relating to the issue they
are attempting to change.
Here's what they and the DoD need to know: should the Marine
Corps attempt to fully integrate women into the infantry, we as an institution
are going to experience a colossal increase in crippling and career-ending
medical conditions for females.
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THE BREXIT AND THE TEXIT |
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Written by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
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Wednesday, 30 January 2013 |
Last year, Europe's fear was the Grexit - Greece's leaving
the EU. Now, the fear du jour is the Brexit - Britain's departure.
Yet British Prime Minister David Cameron's pledge for an
'in-or-out' referendum on UK membership in the European Union will be overtaken
by internal events long before we reach 2017. The vote may never be necessary.
The eurozone's North-South misalignment has not been
resolved. The Club Med bloc is still sliding into deeper depression. The
financial crisis - never more than a symptom - has graduated into a more
intractable economic, social, and therefore political crisis.
Take a moment to read Eurozone
crisis: it ain't over yet by Professor Paulo Manasse from Bologna
University, posted on VOX EU.
Look at the German-Italian gap below. The two economies have
diverged 14% of GDP since 2006 and the split is certain to keep growing this
year, next year, and the year after that:
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