Hello Dave, I just took a look at your blog: and I must say that it is pretty damn awesome. I will likely even subscribe or whatnot. I liked your critiques on Marxism particularly. Kudos on the good work!
Hello Dave, I just took a look at your blog: and I must say that it is pretty damn awesome. I will likely even subscribe or whatnot. I liked your critiques on Marxism particularly. Kudos on the good work!
TY. Always encouraging to get positive feedback.
Pa. family’s fight for rare coins reaches court
“…The 10 coins could bring $80 million or more at auction. But it’s not clear that day will ever come. …”
Lew Rockwell misrepresented Ben Shapiro’s position on trial by jury by saying, ‘he wants to abolish the jury.’ If you read the opinion by Shapiro, Shapiro says, ‘Should we embrace the European inquisitorial system, in which judges ask the questions and come up with the decisions? Should we hire professional jurors? The answer doesn’t lie in abolishing the jury system utterly, but in revamping it completely. The rationale behind juries is still important, particularly with regard to politically-oriented trials: We don’t want judges paid by government to have full authority to condemn those of different political persuasions. And the rationale behind a public trial is also still relevant – we don’t want Star Chambers or clandestine hearings. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.’
I have no love for trial by jury. A bunch of uneducated, unaccountable riff-raff randomly picked off the street is hardly a recipe for justice. The supposed dilution of the power of the bench by placing the decision in the hands of the jury is a bigger myth than that democracy makes us self-rulers. The jury had to be invented as a cover for the abuse of power by the King through the King’s courts. Without the power of monopoly on arbitration services, a jury is a useless appendage. Arbitrators would be professionals that bear full legal liability for their own actions just like anybody else and arbitration would lose its Great White Throne aura and become just another pedestrian white-collar job.
Clayton -
:EDIT:
why didn’t you just ask me to change it?
Original posting of the video:
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html
^^Look at #23.
Here’s a fun one. If you want to get to the best part skip to 4:25
The photo for his drier’s license: http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/54052000/jpg/_54052148_fsm_strahlenhaube-1.jpg
Declaring himself a pastafarian, believer in the flying spaghetti monster as God, this fellow was allowed to wear his religious headgear, a pasta strainer, in his photo for driver’s license.
For a second there I thought it was going to be an article about some guy who committed some act of civil disobedience for his photo in protest for having to get a license to own a drier.
Her accent was just too good to pass up. Yes. That’s the only reason I thought you’d enjoy this.
From Ron Paul: “Here it is, our first campaign ad of the election cycle. What do you think about the ad? Be sure to share it with your friends and help spread our message.”
This is next-level shit. This is really unlike anything I’ve seen from him in past campaigns. Could he win it? If he won, could he stay un-assassinated?
Clayton -
RP: why do central banks hold gold instead of diamonds?
BB: its tradition
Hahaha, really?! was that really his answer?
Just made up a quote:
“Unintended consequences always trump good intentions.”