Open house

Posted on November 28, 2011 by KG

whatever…from music to mastodons.

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27 Responses to Open house

  1. Orion says:
    November 28, 2011 at 20:19

    I’ve been thinking about Heinlen, of Starship Troopers fame, and whether Universal Sufferage actually works.

    As Ben Franklin pointed out, once the majority of the voting population are net takers, they will only vote to take more until they’ve killed their host, which is the wealthy. I think we have gone well past that point, and the options are along the lines of Ayn Rand’s passive “leave them to themselves” strategy or the more conventional Jeffersonian “Watering the tree of Liberty with the blood of tyrants” Revolution.

    And perhaps leaving a footnote on the new constitution, assuming freedom wins (I don’t assume it will, btw): you only get to have a say on how the public finances work if you put in your fair share of effort first.

    • Katie says:
      November 29, 2011 at 04:48

      I do believe that Heinlein had a good idea there.

      First you serve your nation. Then you get to vote. Service guarantees citizenship. It is an all volunteer military.

      The OWS idiots would have been rounded up and given lashes under that system. Yet free speech was guaranteed.

  2. Seneca III says:
    November 28, 2011 at 21:00

    Quite, Orion.

    The critical question concerning all of our futures “Is democracy as we know it, instituted through the use of a universal franchise, failing (as predicted by Franklin); essentially, as currently defined and exercised, can democracy produce any solution at all and, if not, what can or will replace it?.”

    • KG says:
      November 28, 2011 at 21:51

      I think democracy has had its day. Tyranny will replace it and tyranny will be the norm until the next uprising of men who will be free at any cost. Already, all the tools necessary for a totalitarian regime are in place and only a fool, surely, believes that those with the power to do so won’t use them. And sooner rather than later.

  3. KG says:
    November 28, 2011 at 21:49

    Hmm..Gecko just had a busy couple of hours in E.D. (chopper crash). That’s cheered her up no end. :lol:
    http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/two-critical-after-helicopter-crash-in-queensland/story-e6frfku0-1226208517508

  4. KG says:
    November 28, 2011 at 22:18

    “I think I know who are behind all of this They are the same people that are behind The Climate Change lie , The War on Terror lie, The Swine Flu lie, The Too Big to Fail shame, The Overpopulation lie. The Arab Spring Revolutions lie and many many more falsehoods. They will not stop until they can use us as cattle, until we all are chipped and numbered. .”
    Robertvdl, commenting under the “Europe. This what totalitarianism looks like” post below. (bold mine)
    For what it’s worth, I think he’s right on the money.

  5. KG says:
    November 28, 2011 at 22:45

    Britain:
    Massive surveillance of citizens.
    Draconian laws introduced in the name of fighting terrorism.
    Politicised police.
    Giving away national sovereignty to the EUSSR.
    The current “conservative” government indistinguishable from their socialist predecessors.
    Destruction of common law and the introduction of “superior” EU laws.
    America:
    Supreme Court citing foreign laws in its decisions.
    The proliferation of SWAT teams and their ability to flout the law with impunity.
    Massive voter fraud, engineered by the left.
    The Dept. of Homeland Security, its powers and the abuse of them.
    The Constitution being flouted openly and with impunity by politicians and bureaucrats.
    Rule by bureaucratic fiat.

    And lots, lots more. Is there any doubt that the mechanisms are in place?

  6. Darin says:
    November 29, 2011 at 00:08

    Atlas Shrugged the movie is supposed to be on DVD now,although Netflix doesn’t have it,how odd :roll: –

    Edit,wait they do have it,that was quick,they still don’t have the Global Warming swindle after 3 years :evil:

    http://www.atlasshruggedpart1.com/dvd?gclid=CP73yeu_2awCFcqa7Qod33taqg

  7. Darin says:
    November 29, 2011 at 04:33

    Ya,I’d tackle her too :grin:

    http://youtu.be/Cs-cwQcHIkM

  8. Robertvdl says:
    November 29, 2011 at 05:13

    Throw Them All Out: How Politicians and Their Friends Get Rich Off Insider Stock Tips, Land Deals, and Cronyism that Would Send the Rest of Us to Prison.

    Peter Schweizer Interview – November 22, 2011
    http://www.schiffradio.com/

    On the right you see.BROADCAST CENTRAL
    Click on the Peter Schweizer Interview

  9. WAKE UP says:
    November 29, 2011 at 07:36

    Something I noticed in the election: John Banks and Winston Peters (both, generally speaking, allied with older generation/s) profusely thanked the young people who supported / worked for them – maybe there’s a new “conservative” generation out there (swings and roundabouts etc) that we don’t know about.

  10. Orion says:
    November 29, 2011 at 09:57

    ACT on Campus have always been strong in Auckland, and they helped Banks win the electorate.

    NZ First now has a youth wing of sorts, a couple dozen activists.

    It seriously does not take much to make your presence felt in anything other than the National party these days, even a group of fifty people with an agenda moving into Labour would have a big impact. They have a lot more paper members than actual activists, I would estimate that outside of paid staffers there is less than a thousand dedicated Labour activists around the whole country. Fifty people moving into ACT now would run the whole show :shock:

  11. mawm says:
    November 29, 2011 at 16:06

    Health in a Bottle: The Health Benefits of Alcohol

    As a service to fellow bloggers who have been lied to by the media and PC brigade here is a short selection of medical studies showing that alcohol consumption can improve your health and protect you from disease. The link below will provide you with lots more and the references to these studies.

    Moderate drinkers tend to have better health and live longer than those who are either abstainers or heavy drinkers. They are generally less likely to suffer heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, arthritis, enlarged prostate, dementia (including Alzheimer’s disease), and several major cancers.

    – Drinking alcohol in moderation (1-2 drinks per day for women and 2-4 for men) was found to reduce risk of mortality significantly according to meta-analysis of 34 studies of alcohol and total mortality among 1,015,835 men and women around the world.

    – A nation-wide Canadian study found that moderate drinkers who consumed alcohol daily had 15% less disability than the general population.

    – The Harvard Health Professionals Follow-Up Study of over 44,000 men found moderate alcohol consumption to be associated with a 37% reduction in coronary disease.

    – The American Stroke Association states that “Studies now show that drinking up to two alcoholic drinks per day can reduce your risk for stroke by about half.”

    – An analysis of 32 studies found that “Compared with no alcohol use, moderate consumption (one to 3 drinks/d) is associated with a 33% to 56% lower incidence of diabetes and a 34% to 55% lower incidence of diabetes-related coronary heart disease.”

    – A study in France found moderate drinkers to have a 75% lower risk for Alzheimer’s Disease and an 80% lower risk for senile dementia.

    – Data from 34,694 participants in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial were analyzed. Researchers found that greater alcohol consumption was strongly associated with decreased risk of benign prostatic hyperplasia.

    – Analyses using data from 13,512 persons ages 20 or older found that bone density was higher in men and postmenopausal women compared with those who do not drink.

    – A total of 80,898 women in the U.S. were followed for 20 years, with alcohol consumption being measured every two to four years. The resulting finding was that alcohol consumption decreased the risk of developing gallstone disease. As consumption increased, the risk decreased. Compared with women who did not drink, those who drank an average of up to one drink per day experienced a 14% decrease in risk whereas those who drank an average of four or more drinks per day had a 38% reduced risk of developing gallstone disease. In addition, as frequency of consumption increased risk decreased dramatically. Beer, wine and spirits all reduced risk.

    :shock:

    http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/AlcoholAndHealth.html

    • KG says:
      November 29, 2011 at 16:31

      Many thanks, Mawm–I’ll raise a glass to that! :smile:
      It’s good to see the wowsers put in their place.

  12. KG says:
    November 29, 2011 at 16:31

    And it’d make a good post….

    • mawm says:
      November 29, 2011 at 16:38

      I’m tired of all the bullsh*t that goes on around alcohol, from not consuming it with antibiotics to trying to shame one if one has more than the occasional glass of sherry.

      It is OK to drink…………just don’t get pissed and fall overboard.

  13. Sci Fi Guy says:
    November 29, 2011 at 18:24

    Going by this study I should live to be 134. :smile:

  14. KG says:
    November 29, 2011 at 18:44

    Mind you, I disapprove of drinking and driving at the same time–it ruins the taste of red wine. Must be the way it slops around in the glass.