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Why did the "Fiat Bank Cartel" allow for the debt after WW2 to be reduced? Why not just keep on running up the tab?

I was with you all the way until you got to "great on rations and on those terrific powdered eggs"....yours must have come from a different place than the ones I had!! :)

Thanks for the explanation, NS - I was at the same place as 73S - spinning in circles in the ole' brain.

He has been working on doing that, with some success. However, it is fairly embedded and is going to take time. It is always amazing to me how a system can get FUBAR'ed in one Democrat term and then the adults come back in the room and it takes two or more terms to unwind.....

Thanks for the post LP - well stated. And when the state discovers a way to infringe, and the courts back them up the second step is always more intrusive.
As was pointed out in the article, coming next will be stopping vehicles to check for "subversives" or whatever they decide a good reason would be....

I don't make it to Florida anymore because the relatives I had in New Smyrna Beach passed away, but I have a brother with a place outside of Titusville but he is rarely there. It would be a hoot if I could sit in the back of one of your classes and just listen in and I'd buy you a steak dinner for the privilege, but alas me getting to Florida any time soon is very unlikely. Sometimes a Feynman video will pop up on YouTube when I'm exploring it at night and I'll click on it. Many times he's over my head, but playing the video over helps out. I figure sitting in one of your lectures would have the same impact, but no rewind, LOL! I've taken the liberty of exploring some of your work online, which you put up links to, and I wish I was 50 years younger to take more advantage of it.

And that would be a tough way to commit suicide....

No bet rainman - They would win going away. Especially if they counted all of the "suspected" Arkancided bodies....

I just didn't know it.

What a great way to get into the weekend. Well done.

Thank you, DOB and OUC!

Dino, you are a poet.

Loved the last one. And deliver us from evil.

I teach about that O-ring example every semester. Our former university president was on the disaster investigation team that testified before Congress.

That situation was entirely preventable. There is a Discovery Channel documentary on that disaster that was accurate and fairly complete, but I know more of the story.

The Morton Thiokol engineers tried to call off the launch because they knew that the coefficient of thermal expansion was high enough that the O-ring would shrink too much. The temperature that morning was an all-time record cold in recorded Titusville, Florida history of 18 degrees Fahrenheit. We just had our coldest temp since then was about a month ago, and quite a few plants are going to be replaced this March.

DUI checkpoints aren't always near places that serve/sell adult beverages, either. Odd, don't you think?

Nice article, LibertPen.

Way back when I was still working for a large corporation job postings with "diverse candidates welcome" always meant white male need not apply. Maybe Pete Hegseth will make a difference by throwing DEI into the trash can of history.

For sure, but it doesn't even have to be cryogenic cold. Some time back I read a biography on Richard Feynman (title: "Genius" as I recall) and he determined the Challenger disaster was caused by an O-ring that cracked due to the extreme cold snap the launch pad and rocket suffered just before launch. Choosing the right materials is crucial.

I was being pleasantly amused as I moved along this morning, especially with the new Lone Ranger and Tonto as well as AOC's millionaire socialists (hammer and sickle for the C is spot on), but clicking on the obese Gretta was a coffee spewer, LOL! Follow that up with the bust gag and more AOC wisdom and please please save from lefty white women (but are they all women - woman? What's a woman?). Thanks OUC!!!!!!

Outside the US, often 'liberal' still means the opposite of what the Deep State stands for.
Unfortunately, people don't often support those 'liberal' policies.
Instead many support socialist policies.

NASA? Call it BASA - Bureaucrats in Space. What have they done in the past 30 years and $100's of Billions but put a telescope in space?

DEI is their priority, not space exploration. Russia spends 1/10 the money but shuttles the US astronauts to the US space station while NASA made a telescope..

Same deal at the Pentagon. Creative people like me are not considered for contracts, all "set-aside" for others bearing the preferred physical characteristics.

Additionally, Rand’s writings are eerily prophetic. Paraphrasing one of her insightful observations, she indicated:

"The liberals will defeat the conservatives; the progressives will defeat the liberals; the socialists will defeat the progressives; the communists will defeat the socialists."

As Rand concluded, when the Marxist communists win, total European collectivism will be achieved: the sacrifice of all individuals to the state, resulting in an inevitable authoritarian dictatorship.

We are witnessing a transformation of America that began over a century ago. With the continued violation of nearly every one of our precious Bill of Rights, we have a civic responsibility to call out the immorality of this Fascist corruption. As Ayn Rand so aptly noted in her 1963 essay, "Collectivized Rights,"

"There is a difference between a country that recognizes the principle of individual rights, but does not implement it fully in practice, and a country that denies and flouts it explicitly. All "mixed economies" are in a precarious state of transition which, ultimately, has to turn to freedom or collapse into dictatorship. There are four characteristics which brand a country unmistakably as a dictatorship: one-party rule – executions without trial or with a mock trial, for political offenses – the nationalization or expropriation of private property – and censorship. A country guilty of these outrages forfeits any moral prerogatives, any claim to national rights or sovereignty, and becomes an outlaw. Observe, on this particular issue, the shameful end-of-trail and the intellectual disintegration of modern 'liberals'."

Notice those four characteristics and how they have crept into our current political reality. The division created by ceding to an all-knowing, all-powerful State undermines the rugged individualism and fundamental principles that our founding fathers expressed in crafting the Constitution. We must never let that slip away. As paraphrased by the eighteenth-century statesman and philosopher Edmund Burke,
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

Wernher Von Braun and his team wrote the systems book on the Saturn V project . It would pay NASA to do a deep review on how that team got the Saturn V stack to the Moon in 8 years.

Hey OGC - did not know that you had them out this early!!!
The first one is so on point!
And you AOC's are so true...
But your ending was perfect - save us from the liberal white women....

Thanks OGC!!!

Was just going back through the history of "The Long 19th Century" and at the beginning the professor (Robert Weiner) it was pointed out that "Liberal" is a term that the definition has changed so many times. In the 19th Century the term was used for someone that would be considered Conservative today. Terms change meaning - going back to the comments on 1984 if "they"continue to change the meaning the hope is to confuse us.