time*treat's Blog

If govt owns the rain when you want to collect it, why don't they "own" the damage it causes when your basement floods or your roof leaks?

Always got their cup out, but never chipping in.

The Cult of Chick-fil-A
The fast-food purveyor seeks loyal employees and operators who believe serving chicken is God's work. Careful screening of new hires keeps it out of trouble.

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2007/0723/080.html

It also means you're less likely to have employees who don't wash their hands after restroom visits, or think that it's cute to do rude things to customer food. 

Yeah, I know, in Lib-bizarro world "it's a free country" means anything goes ... like off-topic trolling or stomping the lettuce.

How Times Have Changed
by Walter E. Williams

(excerpt)
Much of what's accepted today would have been seen as bizarre and lowdown yesteryear. Out-of-wedlock childbirth was a disgrace and surely wouldn't have occasioned a baby shower. Popular TV shows such as "The Jerry Springer Show" and "Maury" feature guests who openly discuss despicable acts in their personal lives, often to the applause of the audience. Shame is going the way of the dinosaur.
...
[A] society's first line of defense is not the law but customs, traditions and moral values. These behavioral norms – transmitted by example, word of mouth, religious teachings, rules of etiquette and manners – represent a body of wisdom distilled over the ages through experience and trial and error. They include important legal thou-shalt-nots – such as shalt not murder, steal, lie or cheat – but they also include all those civilities one might call ladylike or gentlemanly behavior.

Police officers and courts can never replace these social restraints on personal conduct. At best, laws, police and the criminal justice system are a society's last desperate line of defense.

http://lewrockwell.com/williams-w/w-williams135.html

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Because we have no government, armed with power, capable of contending with human passions, unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge and licentiousness would break the strongest cords of our Constitution, as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. -- John Adams

Which left first, religion & morality or the Constitution?

 

http://www.coloradogold.com/archive/The_Little_Red_Hen-1180.html

 

Oh, and the other one you're thinking of is called Bar Stool Economics.

While you'll find a few sites claiming to refute that one, the budgets and cash grabs of places like CA (how many bankrupt cities do they have, now?), IL, & NY indicate that it holds true enough in the real world.

They don't show him simply getting up and walking out. No arrest. These guys handled BILLIONS for criminals hiding their drug money, while "street" people have been given major jail time for grams. If your business had handled $50 in questionable cash, your door would have been knocked in by a tank, and all your equipment that wasn't destroyed would have been stolen seized. Why are they still in operation anywhere in the 50 states? 

text and more vids, here:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-16/hsbc-aided-money-laundering-by-iran-drug-cartels-probe-shows.html

By Hugo Salinas Price

...
The disappearance of knowledge from human consciousness is a rare phenomenon, but there are recorded instances of knowledge which has evaporated. As a curious example, Pancirollus, writing in the 16th Century mentions that, among many other cases of lost technology, in the time of the Roman Empire a man who had invented flexible glass was presented to Emperor Tiberius. Tiberius condemned the poor man to death and ordered the destruction of all his products, considering that such an invention was detrimental to society. 

Tesla comes to mind.

A striking case of general human amnesia is that of Aristarchus of Samos (born 310 B.C.) who was the first man to declare that the Sun is the center of the solar system, and that the Earth and all the other planets revolve around the Sun; he also arranged the Earth and planets in the correct order of their distance from the Sun. This knowledge was fairly soon forgotten and only rediscovered by Copernicus - 1800 years later!
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The control of knowledge is not a new thing; from the dawn of history, priesthoods of all religions – the Élite of ancient times - have done their best to control knowledge through the creation of mysteries and the invention of rites of initiation into the various degrees of knowledge. Pythagoras, in the 6th Century B.C. prohibited his disciples from writing down anything related to his teachings, which is why we know so little about them. 

Ironic, given the number of people today who like being dumb & dependent and regard STEM books as kryptonite.

http://www.plata.com.mx/mplata/articulos/articlesFilt.asp?fiidarticulo=191

http://www.plata.com.mx/mplata/articulos/images/THE%20MATRIX%20OF%20POWER%20-%20HSP.pdf

Once you pay, you don't owe anything else. 

Nailing the modus operandi, especially the secong half of the vid.

The president may not be doing what many think needs to be done (although plenty of useful idiots are demanding 4 more years of this bee-ess), but he is putting in place the policies his handlers wanted.

The comparison to pets (6:40) is dead on. Refuse to be "Fluffy".   

Read comments at the link.

You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality. -- Ayn Rand

The Buck Stops Here -- Harry Truman

[Insert economic chart, here] Somebody else made that happen -- Barack Obama

Cookie jars all over America just became a little bit more imperiled.

Any majorly crappy idea takes a while to get off the ground precisely due to the number of people who can recognize its hazards. The standard success model is to wait until these people die off, while dumbing down the school system and amping up the media propaganda ... all the while hoping a plausible excuse comes along.

The EU celebtated its 50th anniversary just a few years ago. How many people were aware of it the first 30 years?

On to death panels. The first step was to take healthcare over. The next step will be rationing, as a consequence.

This is going to cause a major quality drop in med services for those people whose future productive economic value is deemed to be less than the cost of treating them. They will be not-so-subtly steered in the direction of offing themselves. (See the writings of Ezekiel Emanuel & Cass Sunstein)

Anyway, on with the show ...

Death Panels on Steroids
http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/25/death-panels-on-steroids/

Redefining Physicians' Role in Assisted Dying
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1205283

It'll take maybe ~10 years to get the concept generally accepted. This will be done by making any alternatives prohibitively expensive.

What was criminal when Jack Kevorkian did it will become standard procedure for the terminally ill (or not-so-useful eaters). From pulling a tooth to pulling the plug ...

Or, like Britain, they could always just dump you outside, alone, in the middle of the night. Oops.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/04/12/patients-discharged-at-night-nhs-hundreds-of-thousands-elderly-frail_n_1419979.html

Ya know, just in case you live in / are moving to somewhere the local thugs didn't get the memo to play nice.

Maybe the prez could issue one of his famous EXECUTIVE ORDERS demanding the criminals "Stop that!".

Until then ...

http://www.usacarry.com/concealed_carry_permit_reciprocity_maps.html

Postponed, not defeated.

U.N. member states have failed to reach agreement on a new treaty to regulate the multibillion-dollar global arms trade.

Some diplomats and treaty supporters blamed the United States for triggering the unraveling of the month-long negotiating conference.

Hopes had been raised that agreement could be reached on a revised treaty text that closed some key loopholes by Friday's deadline for action*. But the United States announced Friday morning that it needed more time to consider** the proposed treaty -- and Russia and China then also asked for more time.

A bipartisan group of 51 U.S. senators on Thursday had threatened to oppose the global treaty regulating international weapons trade if it falls short in protecting the constitutional right to bear arms.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/07/27/un-fails-to-reach-deal-on-global-arms-trade-treaty-as-us-asks-for-more-time/

 

* Friday as in the kickoff for the Olympics? Called it last week.  Shmucks were supposed to be busy watching the opening ceremony, instead of casting an eye on this plot. A certain Colorado idgit is going to get a few extra slaps upside his big stupid orange head, for this.

** The only thing these jerks are "considering" is how to slide this through without eating dirt on (s)election day. 

 

Let's presuppose that moving is not an option ...

People whose kids are forced to attend crappy schools, based on where they live, have a choice to make.
(Notice that word "choice" keeps popping up?) 

The free options are posted a few entries back. This avenue isn't free. The cost is skipping one or two iterations of the latest overpriced, sweatshop-made, athlete-endorsed gym-shoe that will be "out of style" in 6 months, anyway.
Oy vey, the sacrifice! The sacrifice!

Path 1) Parents can complain (ineffectively) about their school system, while letting their kids grow up to be idgits, thugs, parasites, and single parents with umpteen mismatched kids.

 --OR--

Path 2) Parents can get involved and add supplemental materials (e.g. Homeschool Curriculum) to the mix. *

* Yes, your kids may think you're an overbearing jerk, giving them "extra work, for no good reason"... until years later, when they see what their peers have become (see path #1) or as soon as they get their ACT/SAT scores and/or acceptance letter back from the school or internship of their choice.  Later, they can provide their own kids with better lives, schools, options.

Now, you gonna start making progress or keep making excuses?

Note that they worked him for the license/permit costs, then shut him down.

HOLLAND, MI — The Johnson family phone has been ringing nonstop Wednesday and Thursday after the story of Nathan Duszynski’s unsuccessful attempt to sell hot dogs from a mobile cart struck a nerve with readers.

Duszynski, 13, was told by city officials on Tuesday that his cart was in violation of a Holland zoning law that protects existing food businesses downtown against competition from mobile food vendors.

http://www.mlive.com/business/west-michigan/index.ssf/2012/07/how_hard_is_it_to_sell_a_hot_d.html

http://www.mlive.com/business/west-michigan/index.ssf/2012/07/holland_manufacturer_buys_hot.html

Looks like he won't be allowed to "build that".

http://readynutrition.com/resources/top-10-reasons-america-depends-on-survivalists-and-preppers_02112011/

Low-Cost Solution That Works Everywhere

For those who still put their faith in govt sponsored dial-a-prayer, your homework assignments for the day.

Riss v. City of New York
Hartzler v. City of San Jose
Balistreri v. Pacifica Police Department

Let Bloomberg get his cop strike; give 'em a pay "strike", too. The country did just fine before such agencies were created.