Nov 13
There is a recent trend toward ‘tiny homes,’ those with less than 500 square feet (about the size of a small motel room).
Increasingly, people are wanting to “break free of mortgages, taxes, utility bills and the general trappings of ‘stuff.'” Tiny homes are “specially attractive to millennials and retirees, or those seeking to live off-grid.”
But tiny homes are banned by building codes in many cities. See here.
Nov 13
The recent election of skeptical Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency heralds a growing understanding that the hysterical claims of government-trusting socialists regarding the theory of manmade global warming are untrue.
A vast majority of U.S. voters view the apocalyptic-global-warming claims as an elaborate big-government scam.
Now the most hysterical among hysterics are panicking even more, and doubling down on their apocalyptic yarns. See here (claiming the world’s average temperatures are set to increase by as much as 7 degrees Celsius!).
The reality, according to intrepid data analyst Tony Heller, is that Trump’s election may signal “game over” for the government’s elaborate scam.
Nov 13
Astounding news from tech writer Cyrus Farivar.
The FBI has admitted in court documents that it secretly managed and operated 23 Tor-hidden child porn sites, and even deployed malware from them.
You know, to “catch criminals.”
According to the ACLU, the FBI operated 23 separate child pornography sites and hosted the sites from a government facility, with the FBI’s knowledge and to the FBI’s informational benefit.
“Security researcher Sarah Jamie Lewis told Ars that “it’s a pretty reasonable assumption” that at one point the FBI was running roughly half of the known child porn sites hosted on Tor-hidden servers. Lewis runs OnionScan, an ongoing bot-driven analysis of the Tor-hidden darknet. Her research began in April 2016, and it shows that as of August 2016, there were 29 unique child porn related sites on Tor-hidden servers.
Nov 12
Summer 2016 has come and gone in the Rocky Mountains, and the glaciers are still here. (We have heard no news that any long-existing glacier melted away this year despite repeated governmental pronouncements that Summer 2016 was the ‘hottest ever.’)
Here are some shots of Lysander Spooner University glacier chasing expeditions in 2016. Join us next summer for more fun!
The Crazy Mountain Ranch (known to locals as the ‘Marlboro Ranch’ because it is owned by the Marlboro company) with Montana’s Crazy Mountains in the background. May 21, 2016
Quinn and Sophie on the Cottonwood Trail in the west Crazies (a few miles below the expansive Grasshopper Glacier). May 21, 2016.
Dr. Roger Roots and Montana State University adjunct Music Professor David Charles journeyed to the Grasshopper Glacier in July 2016.
Dr. Roots on the Grasshopper Glacier. July 24, 2016.
Nov 11
Once again, U.S. military officials have been caught lying about their murders. See here.
“An American drone strike thought to have struck Islamist militants in Somalia actually killed 10 members of a regional force allied with the United States, according to results of a Pentagon investigation that have not yet been made public.”
Statistically, the average person is far more likely to be killed by his own government or a government he supports than by any foreign government.
Nov 09
Last night, Trump and the Republicans defeated Democrats who were more heavily funded.
In January 2010, the Supreme Court decided Citizens United v. FEC, which government trusters described as heralding an era of “unlimited” control of American politics by campaign donors.
There have been powerful movements to overturn the decision by repealing parts of the 1st amendment. Every claim supporting these movements is untrue.
Every single claim.
There have now been 4 major national elections after Citizens United. The side which spent the most money lost all 4:
In 2010, Democrats outspent Republicans but were soundly defeated across the U.S. Republicans took control of the U.S. House and added six U.S. Senators. Republicans also flipped 18 state legislative bodies to Republican control.
In 2012, Republicans outspent Democrats. Romney outspent Obama. Yet Obama held the White House and Democrats carved back on Republican control of the House and added to their control of the Senate.
In 2014 the situation was reversed again. Republicans were vastly outspent by Democrats. The biggest individual donors were Democrats. The 2 largest superPACs were Democratic and spent more than twice what the 2 largest Republican superPACs spent. Yet it was a “wave” election” in favor of Republicans who took over the Senate and added governors and state legislators.
Now we learn that forces supporting Trump were VASTLY outspent by forces supporting Hillary. See here.
In total, Trump raised at least $270 million, a little more than a third of the money that Obama’s re-election campaign spent in 2012. Trump spent less than 5 dollars per vote.
Clinton raised and spent $521 million–about twice as much.
Nov 08
An unemployed Stockton, California woman mentioned on her Facebook page that she would sell a sample of her homemade ceviche (a South American dish of marinated raw fish) for $12.
An overpaid, underworked, undercover government investigator responded to the Facebook ad, purchased his meal and left. Now the woman faces prison time for selling food without a government license. See here.
Nov 07
Canadian climatologist Tim Ball and America’s premier temp data analyst Tony Heller are assisting Australian Senator Roberts with an address at Parliament regarding the manipulation by governments of world climate science.
According to Professor Ball, the present global push for the manmade-global-warming-by-carbon-dioxide theory represents the greatest hoax in all of the history of science.
Professor Ball elaborates that the sheer scale of governmental spending to promote the governmental climate agenda easily eclipses all previous scientific hoaxes. See here.
Beginning about minute 31, Ball and Heller began discussing the topic of glacier retreat. Ball states that glaciers are “more about precipitation than they are about temperature,” and that half of the world’s glaciers are advancing.
Nov 07
From David Wallechinsky’s Tyrants: The World’s 20 Worst Living Dictators:
Prisoners in Burma can be held without trial for 3 years. Torture is the state’s most common resource for evidence gathering. Political activists are beaten and tortured as soon as they arrive in jail.
“Most political trials take place behind closed doors and the defendants are not allowed legal counsel, nor are they allowed to call witnesses.”
Nov 06
For generations, our masters in government have imposed massive regulations and controls on the health care industry. Health care is probably the most regulated industry in America.
Many States require that people desiring to build a hospital or clinic must first apply to government, and obtain a ‘certificate of need.’ Government then gets to be the final word on the opening and closing of medical facilities.
The stated goals behind such controls are to: (1)Ensure an adequate supply of health resources, (2) ensure “access to care,” (3) increase quality, (4) ensure the provision of charity care, (5) encourage the use of hospital substitutes such as ambulatory surgery center (ASCs), and (6) restrain the cost of care.
A new comprehensive study by the Mercatus Center shows that the ‘certificate of need’ controls FAIL ON EVERY FRONT. The impositions accomplish NONE of the stated goals. See here.
