This is definitely a mess that's been building for more than a century. I have no personal solution other than prepare for the SHTF event. I would like to see a better solution than that, but we aren't going to get it out of the bunch (uniparty) that's running things now.

"The anti-vaxers were right."....dies from aggressive cancer.

+1 to you both.

"To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death." AR

"Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness, but the refusal to see, not ignorance, but the refusal to know. Irrationality is the rejection of man's means of survival and, therefore, a commitment to a course of blind destruction; that which is anti-mind, is anti-life." Ayn Rand

The abandonment of reason may have reached its limit. See this link to a Washington Post editorial from a couple of days ago regarding transgender issues.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...

I had to look up the word "seigniorage". Seigniorage is the profit a government makes from issuing currency, calculated as the difference between the face value of money (coins or banknotes) and the cost to produce it.

From LibertyPen's brilliantly written essay: "Compassion that ignores consequences is not compassion at all; it is irrationality dressed in moral clothing."

"The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it". - George Orwell

Above is a Scott Adams quote, not mine, but I agree with him.

RIP to one who spoke his mind and was censored for it by those who consistently lie.

I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.

Yes, I do think that at least me, myself and I is stuck with a big fat trust issue when it comes to anyone who comes from a Muslim country.
This is way less for nothing to do about race and far more about 9-11!
That kind of "prejudice" is all about self-preservation, looking out for one's loved ones and keeping more Americans from getting killed by Islamic fanatics..

Correct, it might always remain that way because of the Quran but I don't think that they could burn down their churches and remain loyal followers, but here is the rubb; With all the BS gone, there wouldn't be a reason to migrate to America, in fact, I think that anyone that would migrate to America should be treated with prejudice.

Occurs to me that makes it hard in this country to go figure which migrating Iranian is telling the truth about rejecting Islam
and who still obeys the Qur'an about lying to and killing unbelievers.

They are rejecting Islam

Me dino has been out and about capped off by an old man's late afternoon nap. Drinking coffee now.
I have four long metal racks filled with DVDs on a wall beside my TV with more DVDs stacked on the floor below.
You have way more to watch than I do.

Love the Star Wars one. Carbonite for the win.

I had to look up FAFO, but ever since the suicide by cop, I have had a similar ditty running through my mind:

"Play Stupid Games. Win Stupid Prizes."

I also have it on DVD. However, I took my entire DVD collection accumulated since they were available to the public and ripped them onto an external drive on my Apple desktop that I can call any one up on my Apple TV at the click of the remote and watch it. I have on disk over 1600 movies and 1000s of TV episodes. I did that so I didn't have to actually load the DVD to watch something. All the TVs in my house that have an AppleTV box can stream these movies off the same computer. I haven't watched all the movies in my collection yet because I may have picked up a 3-movie DVD in the $5 bin for one movie, but I ripped all three just in case I may want to watch the other two. I've done it this way for years so I don't have to dig through boxes of DVDs to find the one I want. The computer keeps them all listed so all I have to do is scroll through the list and select the one I want.

Edit add: I have to admit most of my collection is dated because I have no desire to waste my money on the latest woke crap.

You must have it on a DVD like I do. Unless you can stream it.

Dino, I think we are usually on the same page. Even if we don't start there we get there eventually, LMAO!

Hmmm... I haven't seen that movie in quite a while. Maybe tonight...

Conan The Barbarian is a favorite of mine, though the sequel stinks. I never connected snake towers to murderous Islam . . .until now.
Now the deceitful snake in the Garden Of Eden springs to mind. Along with what I read about it OK to lie and murder in the Qur'an.

Good links! Every time I see a mosque or image of one all that pops in my mind is the snake towers in the "Conan The Barbarian" movie. I don't get that mental imagery with church steeples or spires on ancient Hindu or Buddhist temples. But that's just me.

Heh heh, I'm old enough to remember the '70s cry "global cooling" and New York City was going to be a glacier by the year 2000 and, since it was all our fault, our rights had to be restricted and we had to be taxed more to combat it. By the early '90s "they" realized that wasn't happening so the call was "global warming" and NYC was going to be under water by 2020 and, since it was all our fault, our rights had to be restricted and we had to be taxed more to combat it. By 2010 "they" could see that wasn't going to happen so the mantra became "climate change" and whatever happens is all our fault so our rights had to be restricted and we had to be taxed more to combat whatever happens. The truth is the climate has been changing since the beginning of the planet's atmosphere and will continue changing until it is gone and no amount of rights restrictions and taxes will change it.