Sidewalk of Worms

Posted on December 3, 2011 by Brian Gallimore

I don’t think I ever saw anything like this before I moved to Dallas. My guess is the clay soil takes a long time to drain, so the worms start to suffocate quickly. Maybe more organic matter and some hills would help?
Earthworms on Sidewalk

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The Electibility of Ron Paul – Part 3

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Brian Gallimore

Stop listening to the two-headed political monster (shown with advanced speech capabilities in this video) and think for yourself for a change!  Might want to follow the money too.


Ron Paul: Electable

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Kucinich bill seeks to end the Federal Reserve

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Brian Gallimore

There is another congressman serving at the federal level who is for Constitutional law, and he is a Democrat from Ohio.  It is Dennis Kucinich.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/01/kucinich-bill-seeks-to-end-the-federal-reserve/

It sure is nice to see someone other than Ron Paul beating the drum of legal money and sane fiscal policy.

Highlights from his video update:

  • The Fed gave almost $8,000,000,000,000 in secret loans to banks and businesses
  • $Millions of this were paid out in bonuses to executives
  • This money was created out of nothing
  • Unlimited resources for the central banks, nothing for the American public (wealth transfer occurs from middle class to ultra-rich through inflation)

The Fed Grants $7.77 Trillion in Secret Bank Loans

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Experimental Economist Vernon Smith on the Housing Bubble

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Brian Gallimore

Vernon Smith is a pioneer, discovering a whole new way to study economics and winning a Nobel Prize for doing so.
Experimental Economist Vernon Smith on the Housing Bubble, Adam Smith, and Libertarianism

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Richmond City Audits Local Tea Party After Standoff with Mayor

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Brian Gallimore

» Richmond City Audits Local Tea Party After Standoff with Mayor – Big Government.

snippets from the article:

 the Richmond Tea Party delivered an invoice for charges incurred in our previous three Tax Day rallies at Kanawha Plaza because Mayor Jones chose to allow Occupy Richmond protesters to convene in the same park for two weeks.

The Mayor not only allowed the Occupiers to break the law, but he visited them in the city-owned park.

at least two Richmond City Council members agreed with our plight. “I guess we’ll be writing a check to the Tea Party people,” said Councilman Bruce W. Tyler, as quoted in the Richmond Times Dispatch. “You can’t treat one group different from the other. It’s unfair.”

Mayor Jones, apparently too busy to listen to his constituents, got up and left before we spoke. He had no problem inviting members of the Occupy group to his office for a closed door meeting days later, at the same time refusing to meet with us.

His administration, however, found the time to send us an audit letter (provided in full below). No need for the city to audit the Occupiers, because, as the Mayor knows, all of their costs were provided by the taxpayers of Richmond

the City and Mayor apparently feel that the Richmond Tea Party has not paid its fair share for use of Kanawha Plaza. We challenged the Mayor’s unequal treatment between groups and he responded with even more unequal treatment.

 

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Dear Left: Corporatism Is Your Fault

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Brian Gallimore

I found a good article on the Bleeding Heart Libertarians site today explaining that the problems the moderate left are complaining about were caused by themselves!  (oh, and for the Reagan fanatics, there is a little bonus at the end of the article for you!)

Dear members of the moderate left,

America is suffering from rampant, run-away corporatism and crony capitalism. We are increasingly a plutocracy in which government serves the interests of elite financiers and CEOs at the expense of everyone else.

You know this and you complain loudly about it. But the problem is your fault. You caused this state of affairs. Stop it.

Unlike we libertarianish people, you people actually hold and have been holding significant political power in the US over the past 50 years. What have you done with this power? You’ve greased the corporatist machine every chance you’ve gotten. You’ve made things worse, not better. Our current problems are your fault. You need to stop.

We told you this would happen, but you wouldn’t listen. You complain, rightly, that regulatory agencies are controlled by the very corporations they are supposed to constrain. Well, yeah, we told you that would happen. When you create power—and you people love to create power—the unscrupulous seek to capture that power for their personal benefit. Time and time again, they succeed. We told you that would happen, and we gave you an accurate account of how it would happen.

The full article is at bleedingheartlibertarians.com/2011/11/dear-left-corporatism-is-your-fault/ and gives more details to this simple truth that the possible Jefferson quote speaks to: “A government big enough to give you everything you need, is a government big enough to take away everything that you have….”

Since I don’t see ideological left-wingers being honest enough to admit they are wrong or realistic enough to stop doing what has been proven to fail, and I don’t see libertarianish people rising to power in enough numbers to correct the problem, I’ll continue my current assessment of the situation:  We are all fucked, and the Democrats and Republicans are debating if we should use a thimble or a teaspoon to bail out the water from this massive, sinking ship.

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Bryson the Paper Fetcher

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Brian Gallimore

On cold, windy mornings…


Paper Fetcher

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The Electibility of Ron Paul – Part 2

Posted on November 26, 2011 by Brian Gallimore

I’ve talked to several people recently who:

  • have the intention of voting in the Republican primary
  • have not watched any of the debates
  • have picked their favorite candidate (either Romney, Cain or Newt)
  • can’t articulate principals or positions of their candidate, which makes me think their decision is almost 100% emotional and 0% intellectual

Another lame-brain comment sounds something like “a vote for Ron Paul is a vote for Obama”.  Consider this:  Ron Paul is the only Republican candidate who captures the independent voter.  (he also captures some votes from the Democrat voters)  The independent voters decide elections in the US.  Given the choice of BO or another neo-con, many independent voters will choose BO.  If Republican voteers care about unseating BO, they should vote for a true conservative who understands the issues, and has a record of standing with the Constitution. (vote for Ron Paul!)


CNN: Should Ron Paul Run As A Third Party Candidate?

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The Electibility of Ron Paul

Posted on November 26, 2011 by Brian Gallimore

I’ve heard from several people that Ron Paul is “unelectible”.  Here is his answer to that exact question.

Ron Paul is the only candidate that has a 100% voting record against excess federal spending, against war, and protecting civil liberties.

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When Telling the Truth Is Wrong

Posted on November 25, 2011 by Brian Gallimore

This one hits close to home!

via Prager University: When Telling the Truth Is Wrong – YouTube.

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