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THE VULTURE SMEAR MERCHANTS OF THE MEDIA |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Tuesday, 24 July 2012 |
"Brian, you've
been investigating the background of Jim Holmes here," George Stephanopoulos,
anchor of ABC's Good Morning America program, said to reporter Brian Ross a few hours after the Aurora shotting. "You've found something that might be significant."
"There is a
Jim Holmes of Aurora, Colorado on the Colorado Tea Party site as well," Mr.
Ross responded. "Talking about him
joining the Tea Party last year."
The James
Holmes of Aurora who police arrested is a 25-year-old white man. The James Holmes of Aurora who is a Tea Party
member is a 52-year-old Hispanic.
To illustrate
how vile this is, the internet humorist David Burge (Iowahawk) tweeted the
arrest records of various felons named "Brian Ross."
"Correction: in previous tweets I mistakenly
identified ABC News' Brian Ross with a series of arrestees," Iowahawk concluded. "I apologize to the arrestees."
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THE MADNESS OF BIOFUELS |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Tuesday, 24 July 2012 |
Are you upset about rapidly rising food costs and high gas prices?
You can thank members of Congress and the administration for this situation.
Much of the United States is in the midst of a major drought.
That's not the fault of the political class, but those folks have made the
consequences of the drought far worse for the entire world.
Congress mandates the use of ethanol in motor
fuel. Currently, about 40 percent of the U.S. corn crop is used in the
production of ethanol. Corn prices rose as a result of the government creating
an artificial, additional demand.
It is simply madness that this continues, especially when fracking technology is giving us a glut of cheap, cheap energy.
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CHANGE YOUR BRAIN WITH YOUR MIND |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Wednesday, 25 July 2012 |
Do you know anyone with OCD?
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
(OCD) is a painful, debilitating and embarrassing psychological condition. If
you have an urge to count, to wash your hands continually, to constantly check
to see that the stove is off or the door is locked; if you feel compelled to do
certain rituals in order to fend off some imagined disaster, there is something
that you can do to overcome that.
It turns out that those
suffering OCD have a physical difference in their brain - specifically an over-activity
in the orbital frontal cortex and a problem with the caudate nucleus.
What is fascinating and
hopeful is that through the use of mindful awareness, people with OCD have been
able to learn to change their brain, allowing them to focus their attention on
things that are adaptive and functional, rather than the disturbing obsessions
and compulsions that they are drawn to perform as symptoms of this condition.
With some of the actions I
will outline below, the more you can train your brain away from them, the
weaker they become, and the more free you will be from the tyranny of these
symptoms.
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TIME GOES BY |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Monday, 23 July 2012 |
Time goes by, whether you are
working toward your highest values or not.
If you’d rather do the former, well, that’s what I enable people to do
as a Life Coach.
Coaching is not an abstract
indulgence; working toward your goals is not something that is esoteric or
unattainable. Life Coaching can help you to reach your goals, whether small and
practical or expansive and life-changing.
Let me get very specific;
through personal coaching with me you can:
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*Build a better marriage.
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*Plan and prioritize to
achieve your specific goals.
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*Become more optimistic, and increase your overall
positive emotions and experiences with friends and loved ones.
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*Strengthen your willpower,
and hone your skills for taking effective actions of all kinds.
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*Overcome challenging
emotional and psychological hurdles.
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*Engage and master the ideas and
visions you’ve been putting off and get you started towards actually achieving
what you’ve been thinking about doing for years.
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STILL THERE |
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Friday, 27 July 2012 |
Remember that social-climbing couple who sneaked into the White House with no credentials?
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HALF-FULL REPORT 07/20/12 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 20 July 2012 |
We might as well start right out enjoying ourselves with the
funniest headline in world news this week.
From New Zealand, we learn that Traffic
Signs Are Being Destroyed by Prostitutes.
Seems the working ladies use the signs for street pole
dancing to advertise, and some of them are "big, strong women." Since the passage of the Prostitution Reform
Act in 2003, all forms of hookerism - from brothels to street solicitation -
are legal in Kiwiland. There's even a
hooker's union: the New Zealand Prostitutes Collective (NZPC) with its own
website: nzpc.org.
More enjoyable news.
Secretary of State Pantsuit went to Egypt on Sunday (7/15) to talk with
the Moslem crazies who now run the country.
Egyptians greeted her warmly - by throwing
tomatoes and shoes (the latter being a gesture of utter contempt) at her
motorcade in Alexandra. Even more
insulting was the crowd taunting her with shouts "Monica! Monica!"
And the week's best news - that would be Mitt Romney
going lex talionis.
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LENIN IN THE WHITE HOUSE |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 19 July 2012 |
There are many contenders for who is the most evil human
being to walk the face of the earth - and there is no doubt that Vladimir
Ilyich Ulyanov (1870-1924) is among them.
He was born on the Volga River in Russia but he wasn't
Russian. His father was an Oirat Mongol, his mother was Jewish-German/Swedish. He grew up in prosperity with his father as a
prominent professor. He turned radical
Marxist in college (Kazan University) becoming the devotee of Georgi Plekhanov
("the Founder of Russian Marxism"), and was exiled to Siberia for three years
for subversive activities.
While in Siberia, copying Plekhanov who adopted the
revolutionary name "Volgin" after the Volga River, he invented his own revolutionary
name after Siberia's Lena River: Lenin.
As the great Austrian economist Ludwig Von Mises explained, his
understanding of business was that of a filing clerk. A filing clerk soon to
become a ruthlessly fascist tyrant. And
today in America, we have our very own Lenin in the White House.
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THE ANTI-GEORGE WASHINGTON |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Friday, 20 July 2012 |
Our first
president was so revered for his integrity that most believed Parson Weems when he
said that even as a child, George Washington could not tell a lie.
Can our
current president tell the truth? It's a
legitimate question. Amb. Fred Eckert
filled a 188-page
book with "untrue, duplicitous, arrogant and delusional" things Barack Hussein
Obama has said. We could call him the
Anti-George Washington.
Joel Wade is
fond of advising us that you get good at what you practice. But evidently not always, for constant
practice has not made Mr. Obama a good liar.
A good liar tells plausible lies, and lies only when the truth could do
him substantial harm.
President
Obama tells preposterous lies. He lies
when the truth wouldn't hurt. He lies so
often and so obviously about so many things it is doubtful lying for him is
merely a tactic. It's an integral part
of his character -- or lack of it.
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THE RACE CARD HAS BECOME A JOKE |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Tuesday, 17 July 2012 |
It's
crumpled, tattered and smudged from overuse, but it's the only card Democrats
and liberal journalists have left to play, so expect them to play the race card
even more.
The
economy sucks, and they hate his health care plan. But that isn't why Americans have soured on
President Barack Hussein Obama, says the executive director of the Congressional Black
Caucus. Opposition is racially
motivated, Angela Rye
declared. Her evidence? Crossroads GPS, the Karl Rove SuperPAC, used
the word "cool" in an ad. I promise this
is true, I didn't make it up.
"Persistent
racial animosity" undergirds opposition to the president, agreed New York
Magazine columnist John
Heilemann, who felt no need to produce evidence of any kind to back up that
accusation.
The
facts say otherwise, but expect the Dems to keep playing the race card all the way to November. We should encourage them to, for the more they do, the more it becomes a joke.
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ROMNEY’S SOLUTION ON A BUMPER STICKER |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Tuesday, 17 July 2012 |
When Barack Obama announced that he again wanted to increase taxes
on the top 2 percent of taxpayers, I would have recommended to Mitt Romney that
he reply by saying:
"President Obama has called for a tax increase on job
creators, which will only fund the government for eight days, while I have an
economic growth program that will fund the government for eight years and
beyond."
Mr. Romney is being justifiably criticized for not delivering a
clear and concise description of his economic plan. Since he has not done it, I
will give it shot. I can make it so consise, in fact, I can put it on a bumper sticker.
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WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT YOU DO? |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Wednesday, 18 July 2012 |
James Taggart: "He didn't invent iron ore and blast
furnaces, did he?"
Cheryl Brooks:"Who?"
"Rearden. He didn't invent smelting and chemistry and air compression. He
couldn't have invented his Metal but for thousands and thousands of other
people. His Metal! Why does he think it's his? Why does he think it's
his invention? Everybody uses the work of everybody
else. Nobody ever invents anything."
She said, puzzled, "But the iron ore and all those
other things were there all the time. Why didn't anybody else make that Metal,
but Mr. Rearden did?"
-Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, Part I, Ch. 9,
The Sacred and the Profane
We saw this week that Ayn Rand's villain in Atlas Shrugged, James Taggart, is now the President of the United States.
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WEEKLY MIND FOOD 07/20/12 |
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Written by Joe Katzman
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Friday, 20 July 2012 |
Welcome to the second issue of a new feature on TTP, Weekly Mind Food, which aims to show you
what TTPers without a regular column, but with deep expertise in key fields,
are paying attention to.
Note the "Weekly Mind Food" category in the left side-bar
now, which will have all our issues. We'll
put out each issue on a Friday so you can peruse the linked articles at your
leisure over the weekend. Note also that
"Weekly Mind Food" is Free Access, as are all the linked articles.
We call ourselves TTP's Team B. Paul continues to focus this
week on Internet technology & security, with some side trips into
economics. David will soon be joining us to cover technology, economics, and
Plan B personal security; and Citizen K is beginning to cover the global
hydrocarbon industry. More to come. We also congratulate TTPers mrapp,
hardcharger, and dougk, for freelance link suggestions that met the test.
To simplify your scans, I've divided the links into
sections: Polis (domestic politics), Techne Logos (tech), Economos
(global economy), Stratiootika (geopolitics & military), and Friday
Joy (brighten your day and/or make you better). Enjoy!
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SOMEBODY ELSE |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 20 July 2012 |
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HALF-FULL REPORT 07/13/12 |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Friday, 13 July 2012 |
It's Friday the 13th, a date that fills
many with dread. There's a cool word for our fear of it - friggatriskaidekaphobia.
Friday the 13th has been considered a bad luck day for
thousands of years, because it combines two ancient superstitions:
*13 is an unlucky number. In numerology, 12 is the number of
completeness. 13 transgresses it. The Code of Hammurabi (1700 BC) skips the
number 13, presumably because of its unluckiness.
There
were 13 Apostles with Matthias replacing Judas who caused Jesus' Crucifixion,
which, you'll recall, took place on a Friday...
*which is named after a Norse goddess (Frigg or
Freya), who early Christians associated with witchcraft. It is allegedly she who set the size of a
witches' coven at 13. Friday was
execution day in ancient Rome.
The friggatriskaidekaphobists
among you may regard it as an ill omen that I'm filling in for Jack Wheeler
on the HFR this week, while he skulks around the Iranian border in Nagorno-Karabagh. For Zero and the Obamunists, every day this
week was Friday the 13th.
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THE SURVIVAL OF ASIAN EUROPE |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 13 July 2012 |
Stepanakert,
Nagorno-Karabagh, de facto Armenia.
The only thing most Americans know about Armenia is that it’s where Kim
Kardashian’s family comes from. Me, the
only thing I know about Kim Kardashian is that she’s one of those PR
Celebrities famous for being famous.
What exactly she’s popular for I haven’t a clue.
Skye, of course, knows not only about Armenia, but this part
of it seized from Azerbaijan in 1992.
Yet even he was concerned. “Stay
safe!” he cautioned. Yes, this was a war
zone until recently, but the greatest danger I face here is imbibing too much
Armenian brandy—after all, Winston Churchill considered it the best brandy in
the world.
Actually, the scary part is getting here – driving a
ridiculously dangerous mountain road with no guard rails known as the Lachin
Corridor (see map) connecting Stepanakert to Armenia proper. It’s even more fun at night in rain and heavy
fog. They’ve built a new airport and
promise to start flights as soon as they believe the Azerbaijanis won’t shoot
the planes down.
Once you’re here, though, it’s a big surprise. This place is booming, with construction
cranes at work all over, new hotels and restaurants, folks brimming with
optimism, not a soldier in sight, streets so safe kids play at night with no
worries. I have a good internet
connection and a cold Kotayk beer.
It’s great being here – and a perfect place to talk about the
survival of Asian Europe.
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