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Enjoying The "Green Energy" Follies — Manhattan Contrarian
Enjoying The "Green Energy" Follies — Manhattan Contrarian: If you are a regular reader here, you know that the big problem with so-called "green" or "renewable" energy sources -- we're talking wind and solar -- is that they don't work. �Relying on energy sources that don't work is a big problem when you are trying to provide power for a big, sophisticated modern economy. �
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IG Report: Hillary Clinton Has Committed 'Sexual Crimes Against Children'
IG Report: Hillary Clinton Has Committed 'Sexual Crimes Against Children'
!! Hillary sex crimes children minors !!!!
!! Hillary sex crimes children minors !!!!
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
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Don’t Disappoint the Man (or Woman) in the Glass | Amy Rees Anderson's Blog
Don’t Disappoint the Man (or Woman) in the Glass | Amy Rees Anderson's Blog: The Man In The Glass�
When you get what you want in your struggle for self
And the world makes you king for a day
Just go to the mirror and look at yourself
And see what that man has to say.
For it isn’t your father, or mother, or wife
Whose judgment upon you must pass
The fellow whose verdict counts most in your life
Is the one staring back from the glass.
He’s the fellow to please – never mind all the rest
For he’s with you, clear to the end
And you’ve passed your most difficult, dangerous test
If the man in the glass is your friend. You may fool the whole world down the pathway of years
And get pats on the back as you pass
But your final reward will be heartache and tears
If you’ve cheated the man in the glass. by:� �� Peter Dale Wimbrow Sr.
When you get what you want in your struggle for self
And the world makes you king for a day
Just go to the mirror and look at yourself
And see what that man has to say.
For it isn’t your father, or mother, or wife
Whose judgment upon you must pass
The fellow whose verdict counts most in your life
Is the one staring back from the glass.
He’s the fellow to please – never mind all the rest
For he’s with you, clear to the end
And you’ve passed your most difficult, dangerous test
If the man in the glass is your friend. You may fool the whole world down the pathway of years
And get pats on the back as you pass
But your final reward will be heartache and tears
If you’ve cheated the man in the glass. by:� �� Peter Dale Wimbrow Sr.
Thursday, June 14, 2018
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Breast cancer patient given just 3 months to live is cured by experimental treatment
Breast cancer patient given just 3 months to live is cured by experimental treatment: spread of cancer to her chest and liver, she was sure she was going to die — that is, until she met Dr. Steven Rosenberg at the National Institutes of Health.
Tuesday, June 05, 2018
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(5,199 unread) - jdr1228@yahoo.com - Yahoo Mail
(5,199 unread) - jdr1228@yahoo.com - Yahoo Mail:
"The fate of unborn millions"
On August 27, 1776, George Washington addressed his soldiers before the Battle of Long Island. This was the first major battle after America declared her independence.
Gen. Washington stated: "The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves . . . The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die."
"The fate of unborn millions"
On August 27, 1776, George Washington addressed his soldiers before the Battle of Long Island. This was the first major battle after America declared her independence.
Gen. Washington stated: "The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves . . . The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die."
Sunday, May 27, 2018
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Enduring Marriage
Home - Quora: Edwin Trench, Author of Book "Triumph of Family"
Answered Sat
My wife returned one day from a PTA meeting amazed with the amount of mothers who were either divorced, separated, re-married or in any sense not in their original marriage. The fact is only three of eighteen mothers in the meeting were still married to their first husband. Most of these women were coping with different degrees of success to their new and different stages of separation and/or divorce. Even so, the main topic of discussion revolved around self-growth seminars, therapies, difficulty (or not) with the payment of alimony, psychiatrists, children time-share negotiations, ex-husband problems, etc.
After some time listening to them my wife asked them if it would not have been easier for them to have fought for their original marriages instead of trying to piece together what was left of their lives after a separation or a divorce. This obviously generated dissent and a lively discussion among them, though she saw more than one pensive face among those present.
This situation reminded me of what a co-worker once expressed regarding the same situation. We had been taking some drinks and were discussing our children when he mentioned he was into his third marriage. Curious and given the right atmosphere I asked him what he thought had happened to his marriages and what he had learnt from the experience.
He mulled it over a bit and told me the following story:
“The first time I married I was relatively young, 22 years old, though I don’t think it had anything to do with the separation. During the first year of marriage everything was just fine and dandy, during the second year things started to go south and in the third year the novelty had worn out and we started to have fights and discussions that eventually led into a divorce. Once free I gave myself all the time in the world before taking the decision to marry again. This I did with my second wife, whom was a radically different person from the first one. Our first year of marriage went just fine. During our second year the first signs of boredom appeared and though I had a sense of d�j� vu, during our third year we started to break apart and though we tried, each finally followed their ways. The third time I decided to take the plunge, we talked the situation over very carefully with my wife to be. After thoughtfully analyzing the situation we went ahead and got married. The first year was marvelous, yet when during the second year I saw the first signs of boredom showing up I decided to fight it through. The third year passed and even though we did have our fights and discussions we managed to survive and save our marriage. We are now into our seventh year of marriage. Though I would not tell this to any of my former wives, with whom I get along with very well, I cannot help but think if I had fought it out with them just as I did with my third wife maybe I would never have separated in the first place”.
The message here is not if you fight it out every marriage can be saved, but if one or both of the spouses would have fought it out…maybe several of those marriages could have been saved. The truth is you can’t know it for a fact unless you try it. So my suggestion would be if you ever are in the situation, try anything and everything to see if you can revert the situation, it might just work and it’s a lot easier to patch up your marriage than to sell of the pieces that are left after a divorce or separation.
All good marriages (which is what most surviving marriages end up being) have gone through the periods my co-worker intuitively mentioned and there are several studies to back this up. What these studies conclude is that romantic love, the one that first brought the couple together, usually lasts three years. After this period, romance (at least in the many splendored, cloud N� 9 sense we conceive it) has generally faded, leaving in its place a more permanent feeling. This feeling is born from respect, knowledge and caring and is the basis for a more profound love, which though less romantic is more durable and resistant to the pounding of time. If (and for many couples this seems to be an insurmountable “if”) we manage to survive this period and grow from the marriage “that was” into the marriage that “will be”, we will have taken the first great step towards a more enduring relationship.
What I have learnt from my own marriage and many other long-lasting relationship’s is that marriages are tempered by adversity and difficulty, much as steel is tempered by fire or heat.
In other words, every time you overcome the many problems a couple is sure to encounter in life, you are adding value to said marriage and strengthening the ties that joined you in the first place. The secret is to allow yourselves the opportunity to overcome these problems and benefit from the building up of bonds you have obtained from this process, instead of giving up at the first, second or who knows how many difficulties.
Every time we overcome a break in our marriage, every time we analyze a fight and find out why it came to be, every time we share grief in each others arms, every time we grow out of our own egotism’s and support our partner, every time we ask for forgiveness, every time we forgive even though we think we are right, every time we reach out first, we will have stoked the fire that will strengthen the ties binding our marriage together.
The fact is, as we continue feeding our marriage with these efforts, lessons and overcoming, we end up giving so much value to the bond itself, that living apart becomes an unacceptable alternative to being together.
Answered Sat
My wife returned one day from a PTA meeting amazed with the amount of mothers who were either divorced, separated, re-married or in any sense not in their original marriage. The fact is only three of eighteen mothers in the meeting were still married to their first husband. Most of these women were coping with different degrees of success to their new and different stages of separation and/or divorce. Even so, the main topic of discussion revolved around self-growth seminars, therapies, difficulty (or not) with the payment of alimony, psychiatrists, children time-share negotiations, ex-husband problems, etc.
After some time listening to them my wife asked them if it would not have been easier for them to have fought for their original marriages instead of trying to piece together what was left of their lives after a separation or a divorce. This obviously generated dissent and a lively discussion among them, though she saw more than one pensive face among those present.
This situation reminded me of what a co-worker once expressed regarding the same situation. We had been taking some drinks and were discussing our children when he mentioned he was into his third marriage. Curious and given the right atmosphere I asked him what he thought had happened to his marriages and what he had learnt from the experience.
He mulled it over a bit and told me the following story:
“The first time I married I was relatively young, 22 years old, though I don’t think it had anything to do with the separation. During the first year of marriage everything was just fine and dandy, during the second year things started to go south and in the third year the novelty had worn out and we started to have fights and discussions that eventually led into a divorce. Once free I gave myself all the time in the world before taking the decision to marry again. This I did with my second wife, whom was a radically different person from the first one. Our first year of marriage went just fine. During our second year the first signs of boredom appeared and though I had a sense of d�j� vu, during our third year we started to break apart and though we tried, each finally followed their ways. The third time I decided to take the plunge, we talked the situation over very carefully with my wife to be. After thoughtfully analyzing the situation we went ahead and got married. The first year was marvelous, yet when during the second year I saw the first signs of boredom showing up I decided to fight it through. The third year passed and even though we did have our fights and discussions we managed to survive and save our marriage. We are now into our seventh year of marriage. Though I would not tell this to any of my former wives, with whom I get along with very well, I cannot help but think if I had fought it out with them just as I did with my third wife maybe I would never have separated in the first place”.
The message here is not if you fight it out every marriage can be saved, but if one or both of the spouses would have fought it out…maybe several of those marriages could have been saved. The truth is you can’t know it for a fact unless you try it. So my suggestion would be if you ever are in the situation, try anything and everything to see if you can revert the situation, it might just work and it’s a lot easier to patch up your marriage than to sell of the pieces that are left after a divorce or separation.
All good marriages (which is what most surviving marriages end up being) have gone through the periods my co-worker intuitively mentioned and there are several studies to back this up. What these studies conclude is that romantic love, the one that first brought the couple together, usually lasts three years. After this period, romance (at least in the many splendored, cloud N� 9 sense we conceive it) has generally faded, leaving in its place a more permanent feeling. This feeling is born from respect, knowledge and caring and is the basis for a more profound love, which though less romantic is more durable and resistant to the pounding of time. If (and for many couples this seems to be an insurmountable “if”) we manage to survive this period and grow from the marriage “that was” into the marriage that “will be”, we will have taken the first great step towards a more enduring relationship.
What I have learnt from my own marriage and many other long-lasting relationship’s is that marriages are tempered by adversity and difficulty, much as steel is tempered by fire or heat.
In other words, every time you overcome the many problems a couple is sure to encounter in life, you are adding value to said marriage and strengthening the ties that joined you in the first place. The secret is to allow yourselves the opportunity to overcome these problems and benefit from the building up of bonds you have obtained from this process, instead of giving up at the first, second or who knows how many difficulties.
Every time we overcome a break in our marriage, every time we analyze a fight and find out why it came to be, every time we share grief in each others arms, every time we grow out of our own egotism’s and support our partner, every time we ask for forgiveness, every time we forgive even though we think we are right, every time we reach out first, we will have stoked the fire that will strengthen the ties binding our marriage together.
The fact is, as we continue feeding our marriage with these efforts, lessons and overcoming, we end up giving so much value to the bond itself, that living apart becomes an unacceptable alternative to being together.
Sunday, May 06, 2018
Saturday, May 05, 2018
Asset Protection for Business Owners - Executive Street Blog Asset Protection Attorney | The Presser Law Firm, P.A.
Asset Protection for Business Owners - Executive Street Blog Asset Protection Attorney | The Presser Law Firm, P.A.: Protect with liens.� What is a $100,000 car worth if you owe $95,000? Take out lines of credit.� Record mortgages against your property and business. Make all of your assets valueless.� Become an unattractive candidate for a�lawsuit.
Consider International planning.� You get the best protection when your assets are international for several reasons.� Foreign Asset Protection jurisdictions do not recognize U.S.� judgments, thus a creditor must re-litigate their case within that foreign jurisdiction.� Many times, the statute of limitations to commence suit within that jurisdiction may have expired. The daunting beyond reasonable doubt evidence standard helps to explain why only fewer than 3 out of 100 judgment creditors even attempt to recover International�wealth
Estate Planning
Consider International planning.� You get the best protection when your assets are international for several reasons.� Foreign Asset Protection jurisdictions do not recognize U.S.� judgments, thus a creditor must re-litigate their case within that foreign jurisdiction.� Many times, the statute of limitations to commence suit within that jurisdiction may have expired. The daunting beyond reasonable doubt evidence standard helps to explain why only fewer than 3 out of 100 judgment creditors even attempt to recover International�wealth
Estate Planning
Friday, May 04, 2018
Thursday, May 03, 2018
Matthew McConaughey | 5 Minutes for the NEXT 50 Years of Your LIFE - YouTube
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Don Surber: Mueller's harassment of Hannity may be criminal
Don Surber: Mueller's harassment of Hannity may be criminal: PM
“Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.”
Longfellow
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Don Surber: Mueller's harassment of Hannity may be criminal
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“Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.”
Longfellow
“Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.”
Longfellow
Sunday, April 22, 2018
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Sultan Knish
Sultan Knish: The United States has 14,000 troops in Afghanistan, 39,000 in Japan, 34,805 in Germany, 23,000 in South Korea, and around 5,200 in Iraq. Our military protects the borders of countless nations.
Except our own.
In 1919, we had 18,500 soldiers on the border. “Twice a day every foot of the border line is patrolled by cavalrymen and infantrymen,” the New York Times noted.
Except our own.
In 1919, we had 18,500 soldiers on the border. “Twice a day every foot of the border line is patrolled by cavalrymen and infantrymen,” the New York Times noted.
Monday, April 16, 2018
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Oil & Gas Journal - April 9, 2018 Cover
Oil & Gas Journal - April 9, 2018 Cover: Climate witch hunts
Loss by ExxonMobil of a challenge to climate witch hunts in New York and Massachusetts should focus attention on merits of the investigation. If gullible news media stay true to form, though, they’ll mistake a judge’s ruling for science.
US District Judge Valerie Caproni of Manhattan denied ExxonMobil’s attempt to block investigations by the states’ attorneys-general on the basis of motive. The oil company said Eric Schneiderman of New York an Maura Healey of Massachusetts have acted politically since 2015 by investigating it for fraud. The AGs say they suspect ExxonMobil of misleading the public and investors about climate change and the probable effects on its business, asserting the company knew more about the subject than it disclosed. In its court challenge, ExxonMobil said political motivation was evident in meetings the AGs had with environmental groups and a press-conference declaration by Schneiderman that opponents of former President Barack Obama’s environmental agenda were “morally vacant.”
PREEMPTIVE SYLLOGISM
Somehow, Caproni didn’t see politics in any of that and scolded ExxonMobil for “running roughshod over the adage that the best defense is a good offense.” Yet the same can be said about all of climate politics.
Since it began in the late 1980s, the political response to global warming has been driven by a preemptive syllogism: Globally averaged temperature has mostly increased since about 1850. Over the same period, growth in combustion of fossil fuels has increased the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, a trace gas known to augment warming. Therefore, fossil fuels should be regulated out of the energy mix.
The conclusion implies suspension of market economics, fuel choice subject to politics, rising energy costs, and compromised freedom. It is, because of climatological complexity, scientifically doubtful. Yet it defines a political movement. Even worse, extremists driving the political agenda have succeeded in characterizing questions about their logical foundation as unrighteous and unworthy of attention. Schneiderman provides a glittering example with his moralizing about anyone challenging Obama’s fealty to climate activism.
How might ExxonMobil—and oil-company defendants in a San Francisco lawsuit alleging offenses similar to those Schneiderman and Healey want to probe—have avoided legal hazard? There seems to be only one option that would have satisfied the liberal attorneys-general and plaintiffs in California v. Chevron. The companies should have accepted speculative, worst-case scenarios about global warming, planned to withdraw from the oil and gas business, and warned shareholders accordingly or become guilty of fraud. The expectation is ludicrous, of course. Yet it’s now a central thrust of the all-or-nothing politics of climate.
Motivating the attorneys-general probe is the suspicion that ExxonMobil knew something about climate change that it should have disclosed but did not. But what, exactly? ExxonMobil and other oil companies examining climate change must have grappled with diffuse views about the subject. Scientists everywhere differ about the human contribution to observed warming, the chances that warming will become calamitous, and the ability of policy responses to meaningfully influence temperature. That was the case when oil companies began examining climate change. It remains the case now. Assertions to the contrary, so frequently made and obligingly reported, are demonstrably false.
RETROSPECTIVE JEOPARDY
Indeed, because worst-case climate projections probably overstate the threat, extreme and costly response might not be necessary. Saying this does not, as activists insist, reflect denial of warming or of the need for precaution. It does imply the need to seek answers to vital questions able to steer responses clear of inaction, at one extreme, and energy martial law, at the other. But to Schneiderman, Healey, and plaintiffs in the California case, merely expressing questions that might undermine radicalism subjects an individual or company to retrospective jeopardy. Their premise is intellectually dishonest and democratically repugnant.
What’s more, their dalliance with authoritarianism weakens a climate agenda already discrediting itself with exaggeration, dogmatism, and intolerance. Eventually, economics will force the political discussion to accommodate compromise—if undemocratic ventures of fanaticism don’t kill the movement first.
How is it that Countries Die??? | Joel D. Hirst's Blog
How is it that Countries Die??? | Joel D. Hirst's Blog: How is it that Countries�Die???
I believe there are answers that appear in the founding principles and documents penned by America’s Founding Fathers at its inception, who laid a great foundation for this country to build upon. And certainly that Foundation is being tested now in many ways never before imagined in this country as well.
Allow me to quote a few statements made by our Founding Fathers that I believe are universal to all governance:
“It is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue.
[W]e have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. . . . Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If “Thou shalt not covet,” and “Thou shalt not steal,” were not commandments of Heaven, they must
be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free.”
be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free.”
(Source: John Adams, The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States, 1776 and 1798.)
“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of man and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connexions with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked, Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in Courts of Justice?
And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government. Who, that is a sincere friend to it, can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric?
(Source: George Washington, Address of George Washington, 1st President of the United States . . . Preparatory to His Declination (Baltimore: George and Henry S. Keatinge), pp. 22-23. In his Farewell Address to the United States in 1796.
How is it that Countries Die??? | Joel D. Hirst's Blog
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Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Monday, April 09, 2018
American Digest - WHEN in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary....
American Digest - WHEN in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary....: Nor is China unified. It has a written system of several thousand characters that takes seven years of elementary education to learn, working four hours a day with an ink brush, ink pot, and paper. Learning these characters well enough to read a school textbook or a newspaper is how the Chinese are socialized. The current generation is the first where the majority of Chinese understand the common language, due to the centralization of the state and the mass media. But the Chinese still speak very different languages. Cantonese and Mandarin are as different as Finnish and French. In Hong Kong, you’ll see two Chinese screaming at each other in broken English because one speaks Mandarin and the other speaks Cantonese and they don’t have a word in common
Sunday, April 08, 2018
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