tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79666928124029058392024-03-05T22:09:55.857-08:00... Is a Great Place!My thoughts on optimism and patriotism.Michael Barthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17485606529000689080noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966692812402905839.post-26223997994818443022022-02-07T14:17:00.004-08:002022-05-15T13:13:39.610-07:00It's Getting Better All the Time.More and more people today are developing a sense of dread for the future. Did you know that every person in every age felt the same way? For some reason human nature tends to think the present seems worse than the "good old days" and the future looks even worse.<br />
<br />
But I feel it a duty to point out to all reasonable, thinking adults that there is no reason to fear the future. And I have the facts to prove it. Please ignore all the negative news and doomsday predictions. You are old enough to remember, if you take the time, that there have been dire predictions for as long as you can remember. Right?<br />
<br />
And did those predictions come true? Absolutely not.<br />
<br />
In fact, things got better. And that is exactly what will happen again. The end of the world predictions will not occur and things will again get better. So rejoice! The future looks bright.<br />
<br />
<b>Julian Simon changed my life.</b><br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0Lb9cSNPcr7WapOQr69TzvlxZTCFt9Ik5-cTzyvPU4jMUN_Lvh5X_Z0Kwq5TEX8qXYS_CLaid850itb4YlVR0wUDLb_7avoCe_nMcLOV_J_fJZf58IZ2xmKsVHG0tqbAIeZIjykdm6iFi/s1600/jsimon.gif" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0Lb9cSNPcr7WapOQr69TzvlxZTCFt9Ik5-cTzyvPU4jMUN_Lvh5X_Z0Kwq5TEX8qXYS_CLaid850itb4YlVR0wUDLb_7avoCe_nMcLOV_J_fJZf58IZ2xmKsVHG0tqbAIeZIjykdm6iFi/s400/jsimon.gif" width="278" /></a>I think I began my life of optimism after learning about Julian Simon around the early 1990s. We were starting a mail order business so I read his book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/How-Start-Operate-Mail-Order-Business/dp/0070575657/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1477943438&sr=8-9&keywords=julian+simon" target="_blank">How to Start and Operate a Mail Order Business</a>. It turned out that this book was a one-off for him. He was an economist and most of his books where about the historically optimistic side of economics. He used his years of data research to try and plead with the people to not listen to the doomsayers because the <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Resource-Julian-Lincoln-Simon/dp/0691003815/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1477943438&sr=8-1&keywords=julian+simon" target="_blank">Ultimate Resource</a> as he put it was <u>human ingenuity</u>. Which historically ALWAYS solved man's problems and made things better for EVERYONE.<br />
<br />
Think back to the 70s. The pessimists in the media were predicting ecological catastrophe, overpopulation, a coming man-made ice age, running out of resources, drought, famine, etc. - yet amid all that bluster, the cool mind of Julian Simon argued the opposite.<br />
<br />
He even put his money where his mouth was. In 1980, he challenged any and all of these doomsayers to a bet. Choose any number of precious resources that you think would be depleted in a ten years time and he would bet them that they would be wrong. Simon was so sure he would win, he even let <u>them</u> choose which resources.<br />
<br />
So Paul Ehrlich, the media's darling go-to for ratings-boosting scary predictions, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%E2%80%93Ehrlich_wager" target="_blank">took up the bet</a>. Ehrlich chose 5 resources that he thought for sure would go up in price due to high demand and scarcity in the industry. 10 years later he lost the bet. All 5 went down in price (adjusted for inflation). The negative thinkers are still arguing that Simon was just lucky. But he wasn't. History has shown repeatedly that, overall, we as a human race consistently progress and make things better. And the more minds at work, the better. So bring on the population! There is room for all of us on this beautiful planet.<br />
<br />
Think of all failed predictions we've seen in our lifetime. Examples include overpopulation, running out of resources, the end of civilization, <a href="http://isagreatplace.blogspot.com/2016/11/its-getter-better-all-time-global.html" target="_blank">man-made ice age</a> and other catastrophic climate events, mass starvation, mass extinctions, and more. Julian Simon understood our world better than these prophets of doom. And every one of these scary predictions have not even come close to coming to pass - the world is consistently becoming a BETTER place in which to live. Thanks to the human race coming together and solving problems.<br />
<br />
So have faith in the future. Make plans. Invest in yours and your children's future. Things are getting better all the time.<div><br /></div><div>Check out these uplifting charts and statistics below.<br /><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge9EU8MZbgw_SWhlFORVZ3QTPoVbsVj81Tb113UwcQYcGtUENOs6qmwDABHh7Ut6mE3fU1C2abJQznBqMH-9DuIwxVcrLyGgSMpl5Xnu-0fivCd0184zbVg2XUC9g0pEy4qLZI9mIQYqtMUWiYnK558FDVy5Kbox3GfbhJuX9hnWDZG2l1lOh2P_chRg/s3360/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-01%20at%2010.28.02%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1884" data-original-width="3360" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge9EU8MZbgw_SWhlFORVZ3QTPoVbsVj81Tb113UwcQYcGtUENOs6qmwDABHh7Ut6mE3fU1C2abJQznBqMH-9DuIwxVcrLyGgSMpl5Xnu-0fivCd0184zbVg2XUC9g0pEy4qLZI9mIQYqtMUWiYnK558FDVy5Kbox3GfbhJuX9hnWDZG2l1lOh2P_chRg/w640-h360/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-01%20at%2010.28.02%20PM.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Look at how the much of the world was lifted out of poverty in the last 30 years.</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqxx_V9EuBw9epkRPzRcNP_8DIQlERYva-kSY269tHSB5CsCobAzAou0BljJ41KqYUvFLB1GGR6MbKDaaJBpeWwudwu4kPz6uVcjSTgQzXUUOaxs3EcaSHuDExNI_F915YU6JTdRDx-LhNFdF2cMn5igPpNB2cSoMzF2uTB5mbZAHOh_St6Dxr5T-DhQ/s3360/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-01%20at%2010.28.14%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1879" data-original-width="3360" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqxx_V9EuBw9epkRPzRcNP_8DIQlERYva-kSY269tHSB5CsCobAzAou0BljJ41KqYUvFLB1GGR6MbKDaaJBpeWwudwu4kPz6uVcjSTgQzXUUOaxs3EcaSHuDExNI_F915YU6JTdRDx-LhNFdF2cMn5igPpNB2cSoMzF2uTB5mbZAHOh_St6Dxr5T-DhQ/w640-h360/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-01%20at%2010.28.14%20PM.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hunger is on the decline world wide</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSE0GHI82GMbqzcgrHQOa2Htidn1X_dvR_srxHVSphQRdwB4knDozfu53KiTCp_03d2rs-YIQzQx9onhGv85xp6ORkQtQhBLQN_ZktJG_x51HGO6d0LO6YvONtRVrBv0TgrUagwxXXvB2VO7OG4GE56FOKuAYRg8D8Cp3sVWuwksysAdVY8pLBLPJ9pg/s1024/global-poverty-rates-chart-1024x862.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="862" data-original-width="1024" height="538" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSE0GHI82GMbqzcgrHQOa2Htidn1X_dvR_srxHVSphQRdwB4knDozfu53KiTCp_03d2rs-YIQzQx9onhGv85xp6ORkQtQhBLQN_ZktJG_x51HGO6d0LO6YvONtRVrBv0TgrUagwxXXvB2VO7OG4GE56FOKuAYRg8D8Cp3sVWuwksysAdVY8pLBLPJ9pg/w640-h538/global-poverty-rates-chart-1024x862.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Extreme poverty declining world-wide</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfxGk3tNZk6sLGN3Y_pVk-5FFPnUNZhkH4xXOjucotMsIpPQ3gKbNqF9vwUUfRTmGg47F960XsEcx7WOzzrexUcWsCP7r9iCp1qazRyHWB8CjPWoJXjDz3U6qcaRWX3aF8E0T1k3vGzAq7_y-Xz1ICXMt17iR-8KrY2Kv7xCyvpIBb7kvu5ZPb7gv25w/s1279/iu-3.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1279" data-original-width="1070" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfxGk3tNZk6sLGN3Y_pVk-5FFPnUNZhkH4xXOjucotMsIpPQ3gKbNqF9vwUUfRTmGg47F960XsEcx7WOzzrexUcWsCP7r9iCp1qazRyHWB8CjPWoJXjDz3U6qcaRWX3aF8E0T1k3vGzAq7_y-Xz1ICXMt17iR-8KrY2Kv7xCyvpIBb7kvu5ZPb7gv25w/w536-h640/iu-3.jpeg" width="536" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42QuXLucH3Q" target="_blank">Is Most Published Research Wrong?</a><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.thewashingtongazette.com/2022/05/which-economists-should-have-gotten.html" target="_blank">Which Economists Should Have Gotten Nobels Before They Died?</a></div><br /></div>Michael Barthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17485606529000689080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966692812402905839.post-69762878361826370432022-02-01T16:19:00.034-08:002023-06-22T08:09:01.824-07:00A Conspiracy of Idiots<div style="text-align: right;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEimgOk9IEYma_Xta9UVJyVbkGPOnDQTZhocQSket8zkxHZ0wJNrM6uE9jNgrZ4mgjeJq4SUyKL83aQ5BiLMt-hyroAXM94MZ_CehpTPBMG9iNxuiT01MdVZOhGO5lfHPQL1PvpFP5mboQ9A945pOhnDJZ2XmNVPlHbUxrX2NUEFY4SsyvCPAnq1THRX3Q=s642" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="642" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEimgOk9IEYma_Xta9UVJyVbkGPOnDQTZhocQSket8zkxHZ0wJNrM6uE9jNgrZ4mgjeJq4SUyKL83aQ5BiLMt-hyroAXM94MZ_CehpTPBMG9iNxuiT01MdVZOhGO5lfHPQL1PvpFP5mboQ9A945pOhnDJZ2XmNVPlHbUxrX2NUEFY4SsyvCPAnq1THRX3Q=w400-h219" width="400" /></a></div>I am sad that so many good Patriots are inclined to see a conspiracy under every rock and around every corner. You give our ruling elite way too much credit if you think this way - meaning, to think they are secretly manipulating every aspect of life and history. <p></p><p>They are NOT that smart.</p><p>Yes, there is a huge amount of collusion among corrupt and unethical government, media and business leaders in the USA and around the world, but they are NOT smart enough to be one step ahead of every single thing everyone thinks and does.</p><p>However, they ARE smart enough to mess with your mind.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjXpVAqfXvy2IsWj5OBwdaoyN38GL3za2jqfgzRsypAccu9VxqCV4ukZR4GS-e-OAtcTqMKSL7jQrwg6ZqEib_p-jCTu8eeeclbGGjHqbbiFxFifMxHjLKG7Wngwvy2KyYkE_Xef0dCk2XF6UaU8xfuO_fwvsNDQ97FAWYYz43SqGZbnQlI0z_0WEeFfg=s720" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="405" data-original-width="720" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjXpVAqfXvy2IsWj5OBwdaoyN38GL3za2jqfgzRsypAccu9VxqCV4ukZR4GS-e-OAtcTqMKSL7jQrwg6ZqEib_p-jCTu8eeeclbGGjHqbbiFxFifMxHjLKG7Wngwvy2KyYkE_Xef0dCk2XF6UaU8xfuO_fwvsNDQ97FAWYYz43SqGZbnQlI0z_0WEeFfg=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br />They have enough influence on the corporate media to manipulate it like a pro. They even manipulate the right-wing news and social media to play on your disposition to see a conspiracy everywhere by making it look like there really is one. They want you to think they <u>are</u> smart enough to be involved in everything and one step ahead of you. Their intent is to make good people like you give up on trying to drain the swamp. <p></p><p>That is their game. And they are wildly successful.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjlNt7UtLskK7trzW8FW7VLlQnXNVyHa677f79IFHIQSSwtBm4drAGowvZFnSet9qNFk5FMvWAO6bqtGGvW6GMJc9MI-_wgojd60dhOjYiGRLKjz68rW_Be_yRd-LmXBkg-J3V9YVHlQ0C_RbB2JC86_C3SNc9fkZ9fZrwa2Q9UkrDeOGVeZfdw4CGN6Q=s640" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjlNt7UtLskK7trzW8FW7VLlQnXNVyHa677f79IFHIQSSwtBm4drAGowvZFnSet9qNFk5FMvWAO6bqtGGvW6GMJc9MI-_wgojd60dhOjYiGRLKjz68rW_Be_yRd-LmXBkg-J3V9YVHlQ0C_RbB2JC86_C3SNc9fkZ9fZrwa2Q9UkrDeOGVeZfdw4CGN6Q=s320" width="320" /></a></div>Entertaining far-fetched conspiracies misdirects your energy from the real conspiracy. Some people call it the Deep State. I call it a Conspiracy of Idiots.<p></p>The Conspiracy of Idiots is professional government types trying to do anything and everything to keep their careers and power intact. They help each other. <p></p><p>When someone's position is in trouble, they help preserve the other's survival with the implicit knowledge that when or if they themselves are ever in danger of losing their job, or held accountable for wrong-doing, that some other bureaucrat, in turn, will have their back.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgDGiw15_RAvW_vAkJsvCAlGRxCOKwdGOmVMHPp06njCIc8WvM7nkjmMXeUDCXTheN1JrdOKZA-miLn89ZfZTPyMzBv2Ee0Xg0V38byWGhX3oIQQtuJlJncrdB-3seHZzozo8ttDXzPn1X6pfeZeNcY2d1wZMCRzfmrIeXAbWudqYkkoyHWrWMLmXabmQ=s1200" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="890" data-original-width="1200" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgDGiw15_RAvW_vAkJsvCAlGRxCOKwdGOmVMHPp06njCIc8WvM7nkjmMXeUDCXTheN1JrdOKZA-miLn89ZfZTPyMzBv2Ee0Xg0V38byWGhX3oIQQtuJlJncrdB-3seHZzozo8ttDXzPn1X6pfeZeNcY2d1wZMCRzfmrIeXAbWudqYkkoyHWrWMLmXabmQ=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br />These lifetime bureaucrats get so well connected after decades of "service" that the back-scratching happens across agencies. <p></p><p>Employees of the NSA, CIA, FBI, IRS, EPA, FDA, CDC, NIH, ATF, DOJ, DOD and a host of other agencies, as well as the media and lobbying industries are all part of the "revolving door" culture. That's where elected officials, bureaucrats, lobbyists and the media all aspire to move around, back and forth in pursuit of higher-paying, more influential jobs. </p><p>They are all following the unwritten rule to watch each others backs and keep the honest elected officials, you and I in the dark as much as possible. The members of the RNC/DNC, or in other words, the people behind the Incumbent Party, are deeply in on this game. </p><p>That's not so much a conspiracy as it's human nature - the instinct for self-preservation and greed.</p><p>That's why our country's founders tried to put checks and balances in place to avoid this. However, after 200 plus years, career politicians and bureaucrats have beaten down those checks and balances and now use them to their own advantage. They do NOT care what you think or want. They know they can get re-elected and get their appointments reconfirmed without your vote.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiL-lbCXv6acE1JjArtANt9YwQbOMH2aq0qVKXrNcEp2ZGMxEdialGNISsgQUTGRGu7JDnTIcmv-8e3cskeg_9XVLAQ61jz725AFC2JTFkKrPUFQYWZgxuhLlqjTsWE1WKxRVO0xlbgIj_-9jVTwHN8bMnRqbUbqWLO_n6fhszkPGdQlFJ7fviv4ABQVg=s1200" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiL-lbCXv6acE1JjArtANt9YwQbOMH2aq0qVKXrNcEp2ZGMxEdialGNISsgQUTGRGu7JDnTIcmv-8e3cskeg_9XVLAQ61jz725AFC2JTFkKrPUFQYWZgxuhLlqjTsWE1WKxRVO0xlbgIj_-9jVTwHN8bMnRqbUbqWLO_n6fhszkPGdQlFJ7fviv4ABQVg=s320" width="320" /></a></div>Here is an example of the Conspiracy of Idiots in action. <p></p><p>The media gave Donald Trump the most airtime during the 2016 campaign, thinking there was no way he would win. They did it because it was good for ratings and brought in money. They considered him a joke. So, when he did win, they went ballistic out of self-loathing frustration. </p><p>They forgot that the candidate who gets the most news coverage will benefit from a 10% boost in votes. </p><p>So much for evil geniuses.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiSoSmG67z1pWLFYjV-N3tSgULEawkfEPPADp1gniGrTTmM0zSmmo4VMM6vIzi8LlugEkWJ_8rFKXBS1jP7mypxmKDfDkZyPyiSUX1bUcCaCYPhMmimi081rFiUTD0i8crQG1tvC2ojBuzO1hQ5UtQ24qBbH-8fzUV9SJUxgw6UljW3yA78mkcHQLnnAw=s600" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="310" data-original-width="600" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiSoSmG67z1pWLFYjV-N3tSgULEawkfEPPADp1gniGrTTmM0zSmmo4VMM6vIzi8LlugEkWJ_8rFKXBS1jP7mypxmKDfDkZyPyiSUX1bUcCaCYPhMmimi081rFiUTD0i8crQG1tvC2ojBuzO1hQ5UtQ24qBbH-8fzUV9SJUxgw6UljW3yA78mkcHQLnnAw=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br />Seeing the media melt down at their huge mistake, the Deep State saw an opportunity to remove the Trump thorn in their side by leaking misleading, out of context and outright <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k6X03XvxWw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">fabricated information</a> to the media, knowing these "journalists" will gobble up any and all stories that might remove President Trump and atone for their sin of helping Donald win.<p></p><p>This is an example of the idiots that run our government, media, and corporations. They are barely one step ahead of their own stupidity to ever be a secret cabal of evil geniuses pulling the strings to shape history and daily life.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhumwU3iJ2v2sJIvYy6Fyt1WdHVoV4qzuMO-LerwxiqAOTxt7suH4o05WeCZKvbrXAwuOG2e8vvsaNYptGhEsl7Izem1EM9qIPvM-2Xaq7mUirf0V7vM45K9vlwP88yVGFH-f6ot3PfVSflxfO_50WtGhFLb_kHOsvKFu5py8ORLGujNhZF61xsFWGbeg=s872" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="399" data-original-width="872" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhumwU3iJ2v2sJIvYy6Fyt1WdHVoV4qzuMO-LerwxiqAOTxt7suH4o05WeCZKvbrXAwuOG2e8vvsaNYptGhEsl7Izem1EM9qIPvM-2Xaq7mUirf0V7vM45K9vlwP88yVGFH-f6ot3PfVSflxfO_50WtGhFLb_kHOsvKFu5py8ORLGujNhZF61xsFWGbeg=w400-h184" width="400" /></a></div>That gives them WAY too much credit.<p></p><p>If you fall for every conspiracy, you run the risk of not trusting an organization that actually could help drain the swamp. Organizations like your own church, the America First arm of the Republican Party or the <a href="https://conventionofstates.com/">Convention of States</a>. </p><p>The best example of this is QAnon.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEim5LtEwZ63YEi7AQVD0cUYK4SUEFvBGkEUqOtqQj32IH8F0MtHskQQ-_RWyySiW7Fa8pETmYz42tP2Zs6zm6531eXE377UnmYjbLqKXsQaBJ-tLoHxGqYT3rOjN3zcpVa9-Pud8_vSUVosC1U2JuBntT_NH4-yREw-UF_DpYedGtaji_-g4GKYmS-j0w=s630" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="305" data-original-width="630" height="155" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEim5LtEwZ63YEi7AQVD0cUYK4SUEFvBGkEUqOtqQj32IH8F0MtHskQQ-_RWyySiW7Fa8pETmYz42tP2Zs6zm6531eXE377UnmYjbLqKXsQaBJ-tLoHxGqYT3rOjN3zcpVa9-Pud8_vSUVosC1U2JuBntT_NH4-yREw-UF_DpYedGtaji_-g4GKYmS-j0w=s320" width="320" /></a></div>It became obvious to me early on that QAnon must be a Deep State troll - probably run by the NSA, CIA and/or FBI. Their goal was to make the most active group of God-loving, USA-loving, Constitution-loving people withdraw from action and do nothing.<p></p><p>QAnon followers and bots spewed the terms #TrustThePlan and #StayTheCourse by giving promises that something big would drop in the next week or so that would solve all the problems with the corrupt politicians, fake impeachment, phony pandemic, shut downs, stolen election, etc.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxrMNyyQeBnuhKSl4zcqbyUwRCC9liDeS3YZh2dr6JIAOhCXWND8fLDdyqKKiGc1pm_McKaeOA3L5NKElzQdTXq93bJBuIT1WoA6wc8Ldpg4qIxj0-FKbits4IwHjvX2eK7AEnEGTT9cym20tOdLiD-9EDEEEV_OGxjrk5xX3O0hEH2yaVkJJhqmNX6g=s1280" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxrMNyyQeBnuhKSl4zcqbyUwRCC9liDeS3YZh2dr6JIAOhCXWND8fLDdyqKKiGc1pm_McKaeOA3L5NKElzQdTXq93bJBuIT1WoA6wc8Ldpg4qIxj0-FKbits4IwHjvX2eK7AEnEGTT9cym20tOdLiD-9EDEEEV_OGxjrk5xX3O0hEH2yaVkJJhqmNX6g=s320" width="320" /></a></div>All it took was for the shoe NOT to drop during their promised time frame two, maybe three, times for me to realize that QAnon was full of shit. <div><br /></div><div>The biggest threat to the elites in power is the Conservative movement. You, I and the rest of the silent majority. So they spend lots of time trying to neutralize that threat.<p></p><p>They constantly point out that the biggest threat to America is a "right wing conspiracy" and they do it with a straight face while America burns from left-wing anarchists. Why? Because they know they can end the left-wing anarchy any time they want to. But if the silent majority got off their asses and got involved in a meaningful way, they would have no chance in hell of surviving. So they smear the Right and any classic liberal who questions the status quo with accusations of racism and hate.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhaABrWL2RmpK45Gi10su0bQO_aMduC7zd2nsQUYiqRXLXFrmZGDaVBIJl5Kra7rCk-g5Vmri-Jn7YG78-y6UKHyLSF2et2kse2BStISFpORSzws35_morljhYT3JbDn5QqB93qs88F0BJKpCqpStvurzIcmLrCfh9EO8uGSGyhCBfKqQtvUh-j9KpdIg=s702" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="468" data-original-width="702" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhaABrWL2RmpK45Gi10su0bQO_aMduC7zd2nsQUYiqRXLXFrmZGDaVBIJl5Kra7rCk-g5Vmri-Jn7YG78-y6UKHyLSF2et2kse2BStISFpORSzws35_morljhYT3JbDn5QqB93qs88F0BJKpCqpStvurzIcmLrCfh9EO8uGSGyhCBfKqQtvUh-j9KpdIg=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br />The Conspiracy of Idiots uses subtle extortion and the threat of "exposure" to keep the elected officials in line. The honest elected officials are heavily manipulated. Republicans have so little support in the media that even a threat of exposure, no matter how unfounded or out of context the accusation would be, will make them put their tails between their legs and obey the whispering Deep State bogeyman. <p></p><p>However, Donald Trump was mostly immune to their games. Their threats didn't work on him. Some conspiracy buffs think President Trump was their puppet, but that is not true. He was the first person in Washington that refused to be manipulated and that is why they wanted him out so desperately. This is another example of how falling for a non-existent conspiracy could make you withdraw support from something can effect meaningful change. Believing Trump was part of the "big conspiracy" is just plain paranoid.</p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg7N2yrNBc0M5j5uEsiXnFLFdF6zIFir2HmET1p01P-B0MX1I96nJy2sOMxwMR2V67mqeKk_u6_rqYO_ps5VSHXKB6DlGSIlKd3D71weDb-XS3dNpzA3_QH5jg2nPEbgGALS9N2SLPYaxBL102bOLHzD3MbFZX-eMV16gUd-W8BQ6vg46j6f7RMU_BzMA=s600" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg7N2yrNBc0M5j5uEsiXnFLFdF6zIFir2HmET1p01P-B0MX1I96nJy2sOMxwMR2V67mqeKk_u6_rqYO_ps5VSHXKB6DlGSIlKd3D71weDb-XS3dNpzA3_QH5jg2nPEbgGALS9N2SLPYaxBL102bOLHzD3MbFZX-eMV16gUd-W8BQ6vg46j6f7RMU_BzMA=s320" width="320" /></a></b></div><b>The Illuminati Baloney</b><p></p><p>I grew up with a father who fully believed in the centuries-long conspiracy of the Illuminati. But when I came to the age of critical thinking, I realized it was nonsense. </p><p>And for one very simple reason. </p><p>No one would ever be interested in a secret society that had a plan of global domination that would take centuries to fulfill. People are too self-centered for that. If they can't benefit during their lifetime, they would have no part of it.</p><p>Now, Satan did whisper in the ears of people in power down through the ages and it now looks like there was a conspiracy the whole time. That's because his aim IS world domination and world misery. He'll do everything he can to achieve that. But he has been thwarted in his scheme by good men doing good things just as often as he has succeeded in influencing bad men to do bad things. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqzaqa7VMjFiQVexdVgygdrPsHKj31XygUiX4X57Zez2C9E1H8NjhlxMSz9G2TgF5zPVgvfxit4H_AKMv--mQwVhCzuU2FYAck4aH2Xcsz0ECxD6VgO__OdYwYdV4dahf7k3GImx7JMqwm8p6E-ifdZrtxwuJJtQ0e70wCGHqK5D3gpLDi1lviRYjeiQ=s630" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="630" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqzaqa7VMjFiQVexdVgygdrPsHKj31XygUiX4X57Zez2C9E1H8NjhlxMSz9G2TgF5zPVgvfxit4H_AKMv--mQwVhCzuU2FYAck4aH2Xcsz0ECxD6VgO__OdYwYdV4dahf7k3GImx7JMqwm8p6E-ifdZrtxwuJJtQ0e70wCGHqK5D3gpLDi1lviRYjeiQ=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br />God will win in the end. But the end is NOT near so don't sit on your arse and wait for the end to come. Your death is more likely to happen during your lifetime than you are to see the Second Coming of Christ. Use your time wisely!<p></p><p>Some people think that 9/11 was planned and executed by the Deep State. Again, they are not smart enough to pull off a false flag event that huge and get away with it. </p><p>They ARE smart enough, however, to not let a good crisis go to waste. They used their positions to campaign the American people and our Representatives to hand more power and control to them in the name of safety. Hence the Patriot Act. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhh59T7QCEZ2I--sFsGCMUGBgtg_l4wYXc8vEQMzJ-SuHB8JotAYHbGMOvXvNowWHXdP_UZzjR4a90SpaP0lIoHNefFeWJcjxoJ90KbjBujYouHElWCKVbDyHQob5PC_Rya0Sb4ee0kmCLvrmlqZlJw8HhHWrmDE2nsIFlCba4p6c8IcEQwU0wehXtflg=s985" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="985" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhh59T7QCEZ2I--sFsGCMUGBgtg_l4wYXc8vEQMzJ-SuHB8JotAYHbGMOvXvNowWHXdP_UZzjR4a90SpaP0lIoHNefFeWJcjxoJ90KbjBujYouHElWCKVbDyHQob5PC_Rya0Sb4ee0kmCLvrmlqZlJw8HhHWrmDE2nsIFlCba4p6c8IcEQwU0wehXtflg=s320" width="320" /></a></div>Some people think that the government knew exactly when and where Pearl Harbor was going to happen and did nothing to stop it. If you believe that, you need to read some history books. American intelligence didn't crack Japanese codes until January of 1942. </div><div><br /></div><div>The other sources of intelligence during the fall of 1941 hinted to the Japanese Imperial Navy being in and around Japan, ramping up for a possible attack on US or British interests somewhere in the western Pacific (Guam, Philippines, Borneo or Malaysia). Of course, a large part of that belief came from deliberate Japanese disinformation to hide their true aims.</div><div><br /></div><div>American leadership was more concerned about sabotage from Japanese covert ops at Pearl Harbor than a military strike. That's why so many warplanes where neatly lined up far away from the base's fences, making them easy targets for the attacking Japanese air force.</div><div><br /></div><div>Yes, Franklin Delano Roosevelt wanted a reason to declar war on the Axis. But he didn't cleverly orchestrate Pearl Harbor. <p></p><p>Politicians, military and bureaucrats weren't evil geniuses then and they still aren't. So, stop treating them like they are.</p><p>Then get involved and do something to restore the constitutional checks and balances that have been lost.</p><p>More reading:</p><p><a href="https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/rule-of-midwits" target="_blank">The Rule of Midwits</a></p><p><a href="https://fabiusmaximus.com/2019/11/01/the-deep-state-emerges-this-will-change-america-forever/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Deep State emerges. This will change America forever.</a></p><p><a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/02/the_silent_coup.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Silent Coup</a></p><p><a href="https://waynedupree.com/2022/03/newsmax-emerald-expose/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Former Newsmax Host Takes a Blowtorch to Network, Exposes “Traitorous Behind-The-Scenes Deals”</a></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0_MMUBRlcte5LbSxUauQe5-BsoUPJNR2eX5UwTMhYK65FO_edB8dGQnvoBzvAYDtis05Nf-hAcAhXRXJfj1_Q2p6eDgXzQTCpHGbfPc7Mq4PfQU1jdBNHCgevvXNRkDTQn3wwKhAB4WnQ/s1600/how_the_states_can_save_america-banner.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0_MMUBRlcte5LbSxUauQe5-BsoUPJNR2eX5UwTMhYK65FO_edB8dGQnvoBzvAYDtis05Nf-hAcAhXRXJfj1_Q2p6eDgXzQTCpHGbfPc7Mq4PfQU1jdBNHCgevvXNRkDTQn3wwKhAB4WnQ/s1600/how_the_states_can_save_america-banner.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><a href="https://youtu.be/td7SXuv1LG8" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">How the States Can Save America</span></a></td></tr></tbody></table></div>Michael Barthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17485606529000689080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966692812402905839.post-37146251663994293192022-01-01T22:22:00.002-08:002022-02-14T17:38:40.348-08:00Why Lockdowns Are a Two Hundred-Year Backwards Step<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjcO4-yBE1wvUgnTGNr6Th0X3nrtTqGD8178bvjrb7x6G7Rq8S3xCP7--1TvQ0yG2JMqmMDkhXYQq3nuXA82crfBs2YL2ZVVSfFRFFYBIXszvlR6aw__Zti-2VsSzJ_iqmJkh-3QrkQ9YKiXvtMYkESN3FSEFcOs0ObFuxFJIDt6-KlUI-51D3Ekc6W9A=s875" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="492" data-original-width="875" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjcO4-yBE1wvUgnTGNr6Th0X3nrtTqGD8178bvjrb7x6G7Rq8S3xCP7--1TvQ0yG2JMqmMDkhXYQq3nuXA82crfBs2YL2ZVVSfFRFFYBIXszvlR6aw__Zti-2VsSzJ_iqmJkh-3QrkQ9YKiXvtMYkESN3FSEFcOs0ObFuxFJIDt6-KlUI-51D3Ekc6W9A=w400-h225" width="400" /></a></div>Throughout history, pandemics arrived in communities every 8 to 20 years. These plagues where devastating - usually claiming the lives of ten to forty percent of the population. However, this frequency pattern started to decline throughout the 19th century and all but disappeared in the first few decades of the 20th century.<p></p><p>Why?</p><p>The reason is because of the increase of international travel. </p><p>First by steamer, then by airlines. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhA-infv5wNga9CGtXEJJF-f1R9BR6fTDuJ59dqtAzwYvgoxiolCfzQ0ge92kPg1-e1qhZHLqLKHb373i5t7C2o0WOYT5k2nGd8o6n5CA8CnztYInsyzO0QNr0p11_1Q2byXIME5WhZ_-6V8V1DUiv79YaohK3s2nvw-JcWDezL2HHlOtiJhRW9YRWArA=s800" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="521" data-original-width="800" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhA-infv5wNga9CGtXEJJF-f1R9BR6fTDuJ59dqtAzwYvgoxiolCfzQ0ge92kPg1-e1qhZHLqLKHb373i5t7C2o0WOYT5k2nGd8o6n5CA8CnztYInsyzO0QNr0p11_1Q2byXIME5WhZ_-6V8V1DUiv79YaohK3s2nvw-JcWDezL2HHlOtiJhRW9YRWArA=w320-h208" width="320" /></a></div><br />Before international travel, when a new disease came upon the scene, the pathogen mutated into new variants but the original population of people were affected in a minor way because they had built up immunity from the original outbreak. <p></p><p>It was when someone (a sailor, soldier, merchant or adventurer OR with fleas or rats in tow) that had the disease in its advanced evolution arrived in a new and distant community that havoc was wreaked. </p><p>Mainly, because that new community had missed out on developing antibodies to the contagion during the pathogen's evolution.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhIBEsOgpUbhKmWRKfhgaiWDMMVh-UgutvcJqkoDb267CLDIVopvTsUHgXIrNmizi69G8CHc5D9rZhcCf5rB2ZX_2lK-Uy1KqMUEX3rtGN0a7lopt01kXhfJQxax3dtojJfQM4ulPmUf293IRkwRCjy36Q_lBp1QQOZPB_kaoQStfMFaqyKIq71HvwaPw=s1600" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhIBEsOgpUbhKmWRKfhgaiWDMMVh-UgutvcJqkoDb267CLDIVopvTsUHgXIrNmizi69G8CHc5D9rZhcCf5rB2ZX_2lK-Uy1KqMUEX3rtGN0a7lopt01kXhfJQxax3dtojJfQM4ulPmUf293IRkwRCjy36Q_lBp1QQOZPB_kaoQStfMFaqyKIq71HvwaPw=w320-h180" width="320" /></a></div><br />This is the reason why the discovery of the Americas by Europeans was so devastating. The Europeans brought with them viruses to which they had developed immunity over the time period that these microorganisms had become more virulent. They had little effect on the hosts but had become superbugs to the native Americans.<p></p><p>So, with that in mind. Why in the hell do the "experts" think that lockdowns are the best way to slow the spread of a new disease? If someone hides in their house and effectively misses out on the first generations of the infection without developing natural immunity, then they are more and more at risk of dying when they finally catch a later, possibly more virulent strain.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgPy0M1ZCQ8T4VYPOnT-YpHqfIseCvbZOoyiekNmsYFnNSU6DrNoaRb3j7NbkrlP_7J_PpwmxpxjLhOCOYF66vvugx9gH7LLLzIJm05IEls9pqhK2c4QlQ0uQFDZoBev_uS1rx-EUo3i3Dx91uwp5NpJgOi6sBxhxS4aw-et8wTwnXHBnVa4jaJJ_sLCA=s803" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="537" data-original-width="803" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgPy0M1ZCQ8T4VYPOnT-YpHqfIseCvbZOoyiekNmsYFnNSU6DrNoaRb3j7NbkrlP_7J_PpwmxpxjLhOCOYF66vvugx9gH7LLLzIJm05IEls9pqhK2c4QlQ0uQFDZoBev_uS1rx-EUo3i3Dx91uwp5NpJgOi6sBxhxS4aw-et8wTwnXHBnVa4jaJJ_sLCA=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br />That's like turning the clock back 200 years and losing the benefit we are reaping of international travel, which keeps any one virus from mutating in an isolated population before breaking away and devasting another population.<p></p><p>Then add to the mix that the vaccines that have been developed are considered <a href="https://youtu.be/cjMZvpmuaKY?t=97" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"leaky" vaccines</a> that accelerate the rate of mutation beyond the natural mutation rate as the viruses that are resistant to the vaccines pass their genes on more quickly to new generations of virus.</p><p>It seems to me, these "experts" don't have any common sense.</p>Michael Barthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17485606529000689080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966692812402905839.post-7228504802785562852020-10-10T23:20:00.020-07:002023-01-04T13:15:21.116-08:0012 Things You Need to Know About Politics<p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh17ldwXhWlug8QovQVGiurEaHqhlLdY82mWtjdsIq9kyNLxz5jIMN1dtAbqGBz9cw0JABd-hbVLHZa9FZ8Ogbzs1NCWECovsiNAGlsWEdB0WGlItGnqqT-_Msr94at9RWIHQovqgY4wRy1/s750/US-Democratic-and-Republican-Logo-Designs-1.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="381" data-original-width="750" height="163" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh17ldwXhWlug8QovQVGiurEaHqhlLdY82mWtjdsIq9kyNLxz5jIMN1dtAbqGBz9cw0JABd-hbVLHZa9FZ8Ogbzs1NCWECovsiNAGlsWEdB0WGlItGnqqT-_Msr94at9RWIHQovqgY4wRy1/w320-h163/US-Democratic-and-Republican-Logo-Designs-1.png" width="320" /></a></b></div><b><br />1. No politician can get elected and stay elected without Party support.</b><p></p><p>The American form of government lends it self to two major parties. The Ross Perots, Bernie Sanders and Ralph Naders of our country will never win the presidency without running as the candidate of one of the two major parties. Donald Trump would never have won as an independent. </p><p><b>2. Politicians need to vote overwhelmingly along party lines or they lose that support.</b></p><p>You may think a particular Democrat you support is "conservative." But they have to vote the way their party says on the most important issues. Unless, it is a slam dunk for the party (meaning they have a clear majority in their favor) and then they can do a "show" anti-vote to appease their red supporters. So check out their voting record. This is a good place to start. <a href="https://heritageaction.com/scorecard" target="_blank">Scorecard</a></p><p><b>3. Therefor you need to know the party platforms to see what you are supporting with your vote. </b></p><p>You really should choose a party. Being an independent is a copout and a form of virtue signalling. You have no control over the party direction or the candidates they put forward if you stand on the sidelines. In many states, you can't vote in a given Primary unless you are registered with that party. Here are the party platforms for each party: <a href="https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/what-you-should-know-about-the-2020-republican-party-platform/" target="_blank">Republican</a> and <a href="https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/democratic-party-platform-2020/" target="_blank">Democrat</a>.</p><p><b>4. Over 95% of corporate media are Democrats, so the media are the information arm of that party.</b></p><p>It used to be that the news was subtle about their spin. Not any more. Ever since Donald Trump won, they have given up all pretense at non-biased news coverage. They know that millions of viewers only get their news from them, so they spread blatant propaganda. Learn more at Media Research Center's <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org" target="_blank">NewsBusters</a>.</p><p><b>5. The media have been making Republicans look evil and Democrats look good for decades.</b></p><p>Even Reagan was demonized during his tenure. It was the media warming up for Donald Trump. When the corporate media reported on Al Gore's incessant lies, they did so with an aw-shucks-isn't-he-cute?-he-just-fibbed-a-little-today spin. If a Republican had lied like Al Gore did, he would have been run out of town.</p><p><b>6. Republicans have gotten used to this game and have learned to co-exist as the minority party as long as they get the crumbs from the corruption.</b></p><p>Just look at all the Republican Never-Trumpers whose true colors have been revealed when Donald Trump threatened to upset their boat. George Will, Bill Kristol, George W. Bush, and everyone in the Lincoln Project are fake conservatives who have been playing a role no different than Stephen Colbert in "The Colbert Report."</p><p><b>7. Neither party in DC want to deliver on their promises.</b></p><p>They like the status quo. They want to keep issues alive to fire up their base for re-election. They are always dangling that carrot that maybe this time they'll succeed in delivering on their promises.</p><p><b>8. The Marxists/Globalists have targeted and are hi-jacking the Democratic party.</b></p><p>Most liberals gravitated to the Democrat party and they share many beliefs of Marxists. (<a href="http://isagreatplace.blogspot.com/2018/11/understanding-left-and-right.html" target="_blank">Understanding Left and Right</a>) So, naturally they ended up as bedfellows. But the Marxists are kicking the Democrats out of bed. And now they ARE delivering on promises to their extreme Leftist base. Here's a good read: <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jun/23/democrats-open-door-to-marxist-totalitarian-rule-t/" target="_blank">Democrats open door to Marxist totalitarian rule through attacks on police, history and institutions</a></p><p><b>9. True conservatives have been slowly taking over the Republican party. </b></p><p>However, there are still a lot of hold outs of the old-school Republicans who like the status quo. And many of the new representatives get folded into the club. They get crumbs from the corruption banquet that fall off the table, so they are complicit in the oligarchy that has taken root in Washington and are trampling on the Constitution daily. Unfortunately, many of the true Conservatives get sucked into the swamp and join the corruption party. But we can't give up!</p><p><b>10. Trump is the first Republican that has fought back against the status quo. </b></p><p>They've ramped up their lies. The mainstream Republicans support this as long as they get DC back to corrupt business as usual.</p><p><b>11. Trump is actually implementing many of the Republican party platform that has been promised and never delivered by mainstream Republicans.</b></p><p>And for some reason, the DC Republicans are offended by this. Why? Because they are losing their "issues" that get them elected year after year. If things get fixed then who will vote for them ever again?</p><p><b>12. You can verify this if you start reading alternative news sources.</b></p><p><a href="https://thefederalist.com/most-popular/" target="_blank">www.thefederalist.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.newsmax.com" target="_blank">www.newsmax.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.breitbart.com" target="_blank">www.breitbart.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.oann.com" target="_blank">www.oann.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.dailycaller.com" target="_blank">www.dailycaller.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.wnd.com" target="_blank">www.wnd.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com" target="_blank">www.theepochtimes.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.bonginoreport.com" target="_blank">www.bonginoreport.com</a></p>Michael Barthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17485606529000689080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966692812402905839.post-710403595850576382020-10-07T15:29:00.274-07:002022-02-14T17:56:09.895-08:00How Did We Get Here?<div class="separator"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivqr7YMZM6w6NZCBRTPxUpj3mNoNrFoQF9n_zKdoe_3-IEM6bURQkr9XhyiBTKb7Z6UMqHcGjDFUubVNM-i5SRSRHQW4R3PG98dHcJLIQbcU0hzX6bRX9w3_oAF-Ai7-TE0orMGbWxYSXy/s586/orig-thedangerofglobalism-1554320774.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="386" data-original-width="586" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivqr7YMZM6w6NZCBRTPxUpj3mNoNrFoQF9n_zKdoe_3-IEM6bURQkr9XhyiBTKb7Z6UMqHcGjDFUubVNM-i5SRSRHQW4R3PG98dHcJLIQbcU0hzX6bRX9w3_oAF-Ai7-TE0orMGbWxYSXy/s320/orig-thedangerofglobalism-1554320774.png" width="320" /></a></div>The people who want a one-world government don't like free-market capitalism because it's too unpredictable and difficult to control. Yet, communism has failed due to its attempt at the government micro-managing business and industry. They now prefer Neo-Marxism which is a hybrid of free market economy coupled with an authoritarian rule by the government.</div><div class="separator"><br /></div><div class="separator">So, they push that Neo-Marxism under the lovely name of Democratic Socialism.</div><div class="separator"><br /></div><div>Socialism is their tool of choice not because they actually believe the principles. They just know that the "promise" of having everything equal and bringing all countries together in a peaceful utopia is a powerful lure. But make no mistake, they have no intention of making everything equal. At least not for the people in power. "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - George Orwell</div><div><br /></div><div>“The goal of socialism is communism.” - Vladimir Lenin</div><div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEopQMmNZeM0jtM7_I0tKFHqtKxy00GbNVGERjPU_QG_lA0LZekxbKTowOMZ3YK2Vi3hIFhvyJa9alRxi3DhKOttotTod70g4FRkGi8aAqL-h1mlfW41NzB07fOeaXsjgAZKMcDMPWbOiA/s600/marxbook.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="375" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEopQMmNZeM0jtM7_I0tKFHqtKxy00GbNVGERjPU_QG_lA0LZekxbKTowOMZ3YK2Vi3hIFhvyJa9alRxi3DhKOttotTod70g4FRkGi8aAqL-h1mlfW41NzB07fOeaXsjgAZKMcDMPWbOiA/w125-h200/marxbook.jpeg" width="125" /></a></div><br />In his writings, Karl Marx had predicted the workers would naturally rise up and overthrow the merchants/landlords/capitalists and create a communal government as countries got richer and more industrialized and the workers got more downtrodden. But by 1900, it became clear that wasn't going to happen. The middle class was actually growing and getting richer in the more advanced countries. <p></p><p>Communism was in crisis.</p><p>So, Lenin took advantage of World War I and the backwardness of Russia to overthrow his government and force communism on his country. Lenin almost immediately set up <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_International" target="_blank">Communist International</a> (or COMINTERN) with the goal of exporting communism world-wide through propaganda, espionage, bribery, subversive tactics and flat out military force.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRmwzaMfy3s5Mwal3dCxnyQXn_6Uu8adjHK4tva2sePoMMDgBpqXXF6lCxMqFfk_uKDKHvL0hQTzOV2AjUuzVewmGiH0tZVG1USqz7zUGFEum-O1EgVNP2N_ShxPvr9ZOwgpsM38ztTE8C/s600/mccarthy.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="518" data-original-width="600" height="277" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRmwzaMfy3s5Mwal3dCxnyQXn_6Uu8adjHK4tva2sePoMMDgBpqXXF6lCxMqFfk_uKDKHvL0hQTzOV2AjUuzVewmGiH0tZVG1USqz7zUGFEum-O1EgVNP2N_ShxPvr9ZOwgpsM38ztTE8C/w320-h277/mccarthy.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p>So it turns out that Senator Joe McCarthy was not crazy in his desire to root out the communist infiltrators in our society. The threat was real. But since he and his colleagues lost that battle, the winners of the culture war have since been able to demonize McCarthyism with impunity and if anyone defends that line of thinking they are ridiculed and discredited. The winners get to write the history.</p><p>How did this charade get rooted in American culture?</p><p>Just before World War II, a group of Soviet-sympathizing German philosophers left Germany because they didn’t agree with Hitler's version of socialism, National Socialism or Nazi for short. They set up the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School" target="_blank">Frankfurt School</a> at Columbia University. They realized that communism would never take hold world-wide as long as the United States of America still existed. They helped create a game plan to take out the US and aided and abetted the USSR to infiltrate the American government and other institutions.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBGKiy5fhdPRsAcOwoJ4yZcg8S8mJEE73I7LtUXZFzfxGvZRYxns5NSfexcXALPP3UmeaEx0tjPhn6LEH1CsCVMmNkNdENUscPCCum4x1oypaHCc5nEMacTMQVXszh9JCBrHzlevjlmvgX/s483/underground.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="396" data-original-width="483" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBGKiy5fhdPRsAcOwoJ4yZcg8S8mJEE73I7LtUXZFzfxGvZRYxns5NSfexcXALPP3UmeaEx0tjPhn6LEH1CsCVMmNkNdENUscPCCum4x1oypaHCc5nEMacTMQVXszh9JCBrHzlevjlmvgX/s320/underground.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Their goal was to reshape the hearts and minds of Americans so they could replace the USA's constitutional form of government with something more sympathetic to the communists goal of global domination. Divide and conquer was their main strategy. And the first and most obvious divide that they could take advantage of was the racial divide. <p></p><p>Emboldened by their success in defeating McCarthyism, they launched a race war in the 1960s. However, rather than destroy our country it made us stronger since America ended segregation. The <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Weathermen" target="_blank">people behind the Sixty's revolution</a> faded into the background to continue their cultural revolution by taking <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Weatherman_members" target="_blank">jobs in eduction</a> and Hollywood to bide their time for another opportunity for radical change.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-suqwv93vUviL4AWKobODCUjEr6XmXkbiyGSKHkvki80ph_NejWRZ0nevl4YTnVVqK51GInVamPahW0J5eZD3727ZvpxZgXdrkSb-1UftuvPy2g9CuaGuW7ud0L68p0B6lXIgXauSK2h2/s723/obamas-alinsky-playbook.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="723" data-original-width="471" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-suqwv93vUviL4AWKobODCUjEr6XmXkbiyGSKHkvki80ph_NejWRZ0nevl4YTnVVqK51GInVamPahW0J5eZD3727ZvpxZgXdrkSb-1UftuvPy2g9CuaGuW7ud0L68p0B6lXIgXauSK2h2/s320/obamas-alinsky-playbook.jpg" /></a></div><br />That opportunity came when Barack Obama was elected president. He was a community organizer, or activist, during his college years. He was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Alinsky#Influence_on_Hillary_Clinton_and_Barack_Obama" target="_blank">influenced</a> by the man who literally wrote the neo-Marxist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_Radicals" target="_blank">book</a> on activism and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beL40QeyGo0" target="_blank">subversion</a>, Saul Alinsky. <p></p><p>Obama subscribed to the globalists' tactic of creating tension among various groups, including blacks and whites in America. He gave glowing reviews to Black Lives Matter after the Ferguson riots. And since Black Lives Matter had the goal of destroying the police, there were several <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_shooting_of_Dallas_police_officers" target="_blank">assassinations of police officers</a> after President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_shooting_of_Dallas_police_officers#Lawsuits" target="_blank">Obama gave a nod</a> to BLM. </p><p>These neo-Marxists and their useful idiots are behind everything that disrupts our country and culture, including the agendas of various groups: gay/lesbian, transgender, climate change, abortion, anti-cops and more.</p><br />Now we are faced with a whole generation who have been raised on this subversive education system and are now indoctrinated to hate our country. Whether they are the people who will benefit as the leaders of the New World Order or just <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot" target="_blank">useful idiots</a> it is the same. <p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-I4PiShFG28tuyJLN8qZ4KdY5GBjYlxzTKQhwpzTz_WinH2YZqOvLTFm338wARRM69EzaNdnVTFaJEBOozQes9wLpe1GRejE8IFoQqlPq4HY3nWUliopu3Nyegj3nLDBhImH-rGNPS7jE/s600/hqdefault-6.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="337" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-I4PiShFG28tuyJLN8qZ4KdY5GBjYlxzTKQhwpzTz_WinH2YZqOvLTFm338wARRM69EzaNdnVTFaJEBOozQes9wLpe1GRejE8IFoQqlPq4HY3nWUliopu3Nyegj3nLDBhImH-rGNPS7jE/s320/hqdefault-6.jpg" width="320" /></a></p></div><div><br /></div><div>Our culture has been hijacked by people pushing the hate America first agenda.</div><div><p></p><p>Where do we go from here?</p><p>The first step is to get educated and then educate others. We don't need control of Hollywood and the universities to get the word out. The most effective method is grass roots education. Most people have a suspicion they have been lied to and will be responsive to the right words.</p><p>We the People are still in control of this country. If we stay vigilant and push back we can regain the America we know and love.</p><p><br /></p><p>Additional Reading:</p><p><a href="https://thefederalist.com/2018/09/14/democrats-using-saul-alinskys-smear-tactics-brett-kavanaugh/" target="_blank">How Democrats Are Using Saul Alinsky’s Smear Tactics Against Brett Kavanaugh</a> - The Federalist</p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Big-Lie-Exposing-Roots-American/dp/1621573486" target="_blank">The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left</a> - Dinesh D'Souza</p><p><br /></p></div><div><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtAYXxNwpfjqJKLJGWI5pyTI44B2I4yBQs_7IZGjt5A_0ZGhodB-kZbfkUzenoinDV4aLs0sLyvV3V0XmjIm7uCQh2DmVgiDQuKFaPMJcnh6WOdHcLihaS3aK6JfaipM5MPzUrMyWlN_3H/s320/marx.webp" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtAYXxNwpfjqJKLJGWI5pyTI44B2I4yBQs_7IZGjt5A_0ZGhodB-kZbfkUzenoinDV4aLs0sLyvV3V0XmjIm7uCQh2DmVgiDQuKFaPMJcnh6WOdHcLihaS3aK6JfaipM5MPzUrMyWlN_3H/s0/marx.webp" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhEkJ4noN68" target="_blank">Video: Who Was Karl Marx</a><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIr2V8Oc-LSElEeH3KGNxseErC1wpkpJ4CCtRPy38Tkyo_sYbvQ1_AEK6vkDcCJ7q6uYlBMN5qVsaINkPiRcj7pQ65lRsDqdL_foHYhzPm2rPI16RvhE1LJFL-ERSD7AV8bSUs4LHmS36D/s320/mqdefault_6s.webp" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIr2V8Oc-LSElEeH3KGNxseErC1wpkpJ4CCtRPy38Tkyo_sYbvQ1_AEK6vkDcCJ7q6uYlBMN5qVsaINkPiRcj7pQ65lRsDqdL_foHYhzPm2rPI16RvhE1LJFL-ERSD7AV8bSUs4LHmS36D/s0/mqdefault_6s.webp" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QopdZ7G8ww" target="_blank">Video: What Was the Cold War</a><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh00DTndh7RdfGAx_gcNhSowCtnpSW78o_zZcaC9zAgUKcXbSphAv2JDYGQTF5oeSWPPmt7hbz0yo0Xgj32E-HepYxJpUObd0QSoBnSHhrqKiBQM_BNgVQLTSSZ6_TI87LIsEXNvKpSo-jR/s320/education.webp" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh00DTndh7RdfGAx_gcNhSowCtnpSW78o_zZcaC9zAgUKcXbSphAv2JDYGQTF5oeSWPPmt7hbz0yo0Xgj32E-HepYxJpUObd0QSoBnSHhrqKiBQM_BNgVQLTSSZ6_TI87LIsEXNvKpSo-jR/s0/education.webp" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LquIQisaZFU" target="_blank">Video: Dangerous People Are Teaching Your Kids</a><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBZH6mvf78e_NaSIjiJD7VUC7eNWfYJ4Dl5ODjSJeUh6S-M3VTzvbBSeTwQYGCOUCbVKlMdlJy6ikf4w1S4NobRxP2Pgz52A0kbv7qG4n9sR6yP6KBLt13iUMAUEZZLc4NEF-Fwg301tEq/s320/ferguson.webp" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBZH6mvf78e_NaSIjiJD7VUC7eNWfYJ4Dl5ODjSJeUh6S-M3VTzvbBSeTwQYGCOUCbVKlMdlJy6ikf4w1S4NobRxP2Pgz52A0kbv7qG4n9sR6yP6KBLt13iUMAUEZZLc4NEF-Fwg301tEq/s0/ferguson.webp" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkoGZIYvWm0" target="_blank">Video: The Ferguson Lie</a><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEQp1xYdOUFhQs4e00uR8Un-sDcQ3yadsgVYx_RgNbkDzmzVJmBlk2doL2ks9ucxnrxI2jUGqaNy_3Qr6OukZPfJdxKPGX1PEa2_0VTh5E5cdtBoQTWJggE7yrgI2Z3W7Ow90D3rFpAtLE/s336/d%2527sousa.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="188" data-original-width="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEQp1xYdOUFhQs4e00uR8Un-sDcQ3yadsgVYx_RgNbkDzmzVJmBlk2doL2ks9ucxnrxI2jUGqaNy_3Qr6OukZPfJdxKPGX1PEa2_0VTh5E5cdtBoQTWJggE7yrgI2Z3W7Ow90D3rFpAtLE/s320/d%2527sousa.webp" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="320" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RTj1WazIFw" target="_blank">Video: D'Sousa Talks About Alinsky and Obama</a><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEQp1xYdOUFhQs4e00uR8Un-sDcQ3yadsgVYx_RgNbkDzmzVJmBlk2doL2ks9ucxnrxI2jUGqaNy_3Qr6OukZPfJdxKPGX1PEa2_0VTh5E5cdtBoQTWJggE7yrgI2Z3W7Ow90D3rFpAtLE/s336/d%2527sousa.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwkQjczA4CPcbY_GFuC_9TfMD0qrn1K7efvF0lC1GT-ehq1uO-mx0yqhaG9rCvl9wwGhqrP77WU8mnd_JgPw_Q_OYcDSLVRWYflFyA-bP9IDs8N9GnIu4-Mq5bjJ531ENl7VO-FDwZ9jPv/s320/cops.webp" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwkQjczA4CPcbY_GFuC_9TfMD0qrn1K7efvF0lC1GT-ehq1uO-mx0yqhaG9rCvl9wwGhqrP77WU8mnd_JgPw_Q_OYcDSLVRWYflFyA-bP9IDs8N9GnIu4-Mq5bjJ531ENl7VO-FDwZ9jPv/s0/cops.webp" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0chi9zD4Zo&t=52s" target="_blank">Video: Cops Are the Good Guys</a><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg48dLUH2Pi2dhO63UfcZhMyv3RCuo9b487nMmkjuzEj6JY1rRoUR5gif6oR8IZeNP8oRlwT7gXSZu9DT6QqooRoYd-56Tu6M5WmN4IWslgdmix5AcCTb1mPssCO14jf9Hld3jJxez2BN_L/s320/farage.webp" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg48dLUH2Pi2dhO63UfcZhMyv3RCuo9b487nMmkjuzEj6JY1rRoUR5gif6oR8IZeNP8oRlwT7gXSZu9DT6QqooRoYd-56Tu6M5WmN4IWslgdmix5AcCTb1mPssCO14jf9Hld3jJxez2BN_L/s0/farage.webp" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLp7LtXmy68&t=26s" target="_blank">Video: Brexit. Why Britain Left the EU</a></td><td class="tr-caption"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br />Michael Barthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17485606529000689080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966692812402905839.post-62121767534093534582020-03-22T10:37:00.002-07:002020-03-22T10:37:51.648-07:00Ray Bradbury's 1979 Afterword to Fahrenheit 451My wife just finished Fahrenheit 451 and fell in love with all things Ray Bradbury. She's been watching his interviews on Youtube and reading everything about his life.<br />
<br />
She read his afterword to me and I was amazed at his clarity of things. I felt that the world today needs to read this. Every word is pertinent to today's great divide among Americans. I couldn't find it published anywhere on the web so I felt compelled to scan the text and post it here.<br />
<br />
I was especially struck by his description of the intersectional censorship he dealt with and how it is alive and well in today's PC culture.<br />
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Fire-Captain Beatty, in my novel <i>Fahrenheit 451</i>, described how the books were burned first by minorities, each ripping a page or a paragraph from this book, then that, until the day came when the books were empty and the minds shut and the libraries closed forever. </blockquote>
-------<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
The point is obvious. There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist/Unitarian, Irish/Italian/Octogenarian/Zen Buddhist, Zionist/Seventh-day Adventist, Women's Lib/Republican, Mattachine/Four Square Gospel feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse.</blockquote>
<br />
Either the world hasn't changed much or he was very prescient. Which one do you think?<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlnIZcintItviH2p3CbNk1ndoMFFWPEz3j7GkSIZWFw9qSpIa4oADKLXpcKVazloERblXInbdYRoZZpPH43tOoDYtex5IEceVd2irCmNRx5PrSzIkLvs7cxru0PJ5vIu6RS22G6vnMjenP/s1600/Afterword1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="911" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlnIZcintItviH2p3CbNk1ndoMFFWPEz3j7GkSIZWFw9qSpIa4oADKLXpcKVazloERblXInbdYRoZZpPH43tOoDYtex5IEceVd2irCmNRx5PrSzIkLvs7cxru0PJ5vIu6RS22G6vnMjenP/s640/Afterword1.png" width="364" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPfkJ4lsmHpxQdY_W7lWww3VMH9EfnLXCtPHn90xl-huVVAkYdIQg63L9VjGIgVifpgsWBkHHSj7krx2UqKLxmWsPyH7Ufr9dJoFoUY_rQcUVubKOZ8pf_-Lq4tyJtorUhq7R4MaZcXNTW/s1600/Afterword2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1003" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPfkJ4lsmHpxQdY_W7lWww3VMH9EfnLXCtPHn90xl-huVVAkYdIQg63L9VjGIgVifpgsWBkHHSj7krx2UqKLxmWsPyH7Ufr9dJoFoUY_rQcUVubKOZ8pf_-Lq4tyJtorUhq7R4MaZcXNTW/s640/Afterword2.png" width="400" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBStJcLtKkDOj-lemrSZ-ZEKA0y3k7UosXhs8Ga_q_cwwkz3lthyphenhyphenFl4jkqcpjO12JpAyHZQWlMYIwg53v3dWtt7WWt6p7St6LCkMjeAqrNBD0IeNKAajplHUhpozpZQgNPy0MTSKIEIwNA/s1600/Afterword3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="961" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBStJcLtKkDOj-lemrSZ-ZEKA0y3k7UosXhs8Ga_q_cwwkz3lthyphenhyphenFl4jkqcpjO12JpAyHZQWlMYIwg53v3dWtt7WWt6p7St6LCkMjeAqrNBD0IeNKAajplHUhpozpZQgNPy0MTSKIEIwNA/s640/Afterword3.png" width="384" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi1CEViQ1bswCBwaGNVkPLHBwnuE8udUWPIIcU6uEpNO-wsSLJxMXPYj5EMFY5Wvy13miPQ9rgEbQ-VQNt6kDFm5O6sJad8HmRE8A7U1tCok5eVJqbUYaeqNmlnkuk5fNoLZ3mhiHtSBtj/s1600/Afterword4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi1CEViQ1bswCBwaGNVkPLHBwnuE8udUWPIIcU6uEpNO-wsSLJxMXPYj5EMFY5Wvy13miPQ9rgEbQ-VQNt6kDFm5O6sJad8HmRE8A7U1tCok5eVJqbUYaeqNmlnkuk5fNoLZ3mhiHtSBtj/s640/Afterword4.png" width="398" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3w9Mk8AWvNiCZi9FngjfF4qecxXH79sTdvKSmtw2iSmqf_tdfagu8aieXOB3BZEWgaZnyXj08QUsEZ3O1T4_QMVso-2guhkvMBrGZWJrYojTEWzyee8vqqgFBL2ZN0AilAfZTNPIPoS9j/s1600/Afterword5.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="997" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3w9Mk8AWvNiCZi9FngjfF4qecxXH79sTdvKSmtw2iSmqf_tdfagu8aieXOB3BZEWgaZnyXj08QUsEZ3O1T4_QMVso-2guhkvMBrGZWJrYojTEWzyee8vqqgFBL2ZN0AilAfZTNPIPoS9j/s640/Afterword5.png" width="398" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<br />Michael Barthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17485606529000689080noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966692812402905839.post-30937316337262925382018-11-16T05:44:00.010-08:002022-08-24T17:10:26.257-07:00Understanding Left and RightWe will never be able to solve our problems in America until the Left and the Right understand each other, accept those differences and work to find solutions. This is more productive than trying to change each other - or worse - demonize each other.<br />
<br />
Here is a basic primer of the differences.<br />
<br />
<div style="border: 5px ridge; float: left; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 5px; width: 45%;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>The Left</b></div>
<br />
<ul>
<li>Rights are man-made</li>
<li>Morality is subjective</li>
<li>Look to the future for guidance</li>
<li>Past and present evil </li>
<li>Must move toward utopian future</li>
<li>Man is inherently good, social constructs are bad and must be changed</li><li>Individuals are the center of society</li><li>The collective is the source of education</li><li>Equality means all should be the same.</li><li>The government should erradicate society's inequities</li>
<li>Centralized power is progress</li>
<li>Knowledge and wisdom are based on theory (and "scientific" studies)</li>
<li>American founders were evil hypocrites</li>
<li>US Constitution is out-dated and irrelevant</li><li>US Constitution should be changed through activist judges</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div style="border: 5px ridge; float: right; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 5px; width: 45%;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>The Right</b></div>
<br />
<ul>
<li>Rights are God-given</li>
<li>Morality is objective</li>
<li>Look to the past for guidance</li>
<li>The past was good </li>
<li>Must avoid dystopian future</li>
<li>Man is inherently bad, must be checked by laws and religion</li><li>Family is the central unit of society</li><li>Parents are the source of education</li><li>Equality means equal under the law</li><li>Religion and charities should ease society's inequities</li>
<li>Centralized power must be checked</li>
<li>Knowledge and wisdom are based on experience (and historical studies)</li>
<li>American founders were good men</li>
<li>US Constitution was inspired and must be restored</li><li>US Constitution should only be changed through the amendment process</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div style="clear: both;">
</div>
<br />
<div style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">
I love how Paul Jossey frames the right in his <a href="http://thefederalist.com/2018/09/11/read-pile-top-nazis-talking-love-leftist-marxism/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=3d033a926d-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-3d033a926d-83949729" target="_blank">Federalist article</a>:<br />
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
The right consists of free-market capitalists, who think the individual is the primary political unit, believes in property rights, and are generally distrustful of government by unaccountable agencies and government solutions to social problems. They view family and civil institutions, such as church, as needed checks on state power. </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
These people don’t think government should force a business to provide employee birth control or think law should coerce bakers to make cakes against their conscience. They think the solution to bad speech is more speech, and the solution to gun violence is more guns. </blockquote>
<br />
In the graph below, the reason why the Libertarian groups are further right than the Republican groups are because they advocate total freedom, including moral freedom. They advocate the legalization of drugs, prostitution and other social issues. Republican groups agree on fiscal freedom but draw the line at legalizing immoral practices.<br />
<br />
Who is right?<br />
<br />
Libertarians have solid arguments but we are seeing the results of this failed experiment in the states that legalized marijuana lately. Rather than legalizing it for pharmaceutical research, so they can develop controlled doses for the various illnesses, it is legal for anyone and everyone to self medicate. Of course, people with no medical problems are eager to get there hands on it for recreation. And they easily do. We are already seeing an increase in DUIs and lowered productivity. Not to mention people moving out of those states to find a more moral state to live in.<br />
<br />
I think it is because the majority of the Republican groups are God fearing people. They try to live a higher law of morality. These people don't need laws because their faith enforces those "laws" through a desire to fit in and do what is right. But they take umbrage over people flaunting these laws of God. They can see that the more people shun these laws the weaker our society becomes. So, naturally they will side with laws that curtail that.<br />
<br />
The Libertarian groups are a strange hybrid of the left (morally) and the right (fiscally). However, they fall on the side of Liberty more strongly than Tyranny so they are definitely considered right wing however wrong their ideas are. The classic example of too much of a good thing no longer being a good thing. We need some laws and some order to really enjoy freedom. Total freedom would be chaos.</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
</div>
<div style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "open sans", arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhywFTYKOaOijEvLxe4fJIDR_savt-IBF55SERSI_9PWf7fD3M1fwUgQ4fg12QFF7UMscTi5kZGm6wb2M7aeYpjMTBinjVX4jIAGz5cD2TPYO0wiG6DfSNR2mikBBuPUrlQy_ri0ML4gRW/s1600/left_right_political_spectrum.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="390" data-original-width="1514" height="163" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhywFTYKOaOijEvLxe4fJIDR_savt-IBF55SERSI_9PWf7fD3M1fwUgQ4fg12QFF7UMscTi5kZGm6wb2M7aeYpjMTBinjVX4jIAGz5cD2TPYO0wiG6DfSNR2mikBBuPUrlQy_ri0ML4gRW/s640/left_right_political_spectrum.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
<div style="font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: start;">
<span face="'open sans', arial, sans-serif" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: start;">
<span face="'open sans', arial, sans-serif" style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhVhdnHFKC0GUBjIo2_hwVscfTzALXN_OM0iFnDXWQYwELjL99f9QuGPpyuUschC9SS32hP1eVMP-ZTmbV4FPv-w43BSqsgGrp9Z5dUK5oAGqMBTiKNrxyN_Wv7TwPi9YQAI6EX7z2kgVYRCe-2HMNGFr3bXj7OJGMSorCldlGbZA8_BhuuXF4ZzsDriA=s449" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="449" data-original-width="137" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhVhdnHFKC0GUBjIo2_hwVscfTzALXN_OM0iFnDXWQYwELjL99f9QuGPpyuUschC9SS32hP1eVMP-ZTmbV4FPv-w43BSqsgGrp9Z5dUK5oAGqMBTiKNrxyN_Wv7TwPi9YQAI6EX7z2kgVYRCe-2HMNGFr3bXj7OJGMSorCldlGbZA8_BhuuXF4ZzsDriA=s320" width="98" /></a></div><br />Nazis on the left? That is an idea that is steadily gaining momentum. Dinesh D'Souza has rightly exposed the Left's rewriting of history in order to smear the right with Nazism when it was originally a Marxist ideology in his book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Big-Lie-Exposing-Roots-American/dp/1621573486" target="_blank">The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left</a>. </span></div>
<div style="font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: start;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: start;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Paul Jossey also pointed out that "</span>We can find clues to Hitler’s practical stance on economic questions from the writings of his confidant, Otto Wagener. In texts only translated in the 1980s, Wagener explains that <b>Hitler saw the Russian experiment as right in spirit and wrong in execution</b>. Removing production from the industrial class had spewed unnecessary blood. Industrialists could be controlled and used without slowing the economy or impeding social progress. His task was to <b>convert socialists without killing the entrepreneur and managerial classes</b>."</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "open sans", arial, sans-serif;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-family: "open sans", arial, sans-serif;">What about the Alt-Right?</div><div style="font-family: "open sans", arial, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "open sans", arial, sans-serif;">The American Alt-Right might as well be a left wing hate group, because they espouse views more commonly held by left wing political groups. Maybe, that is what the "alt" means. Not right. Or opposite of right. Look at Michael Knowles' explanation in his video, "<a href="https://www.prageru.com/courses/political-science/what-alt-right" target="_blank">What Is the Alt-Right?</a>" Or Dinesh D'Souza's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNsdmvijLfs" target="_blank">interview of Richard Spencer</a>, the head of the "alt-right" movement.</div>
<div style="font-family: "open sans", arial, sans-serif;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-family: "open sans", arial, sans-serif;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_nC_8S91pSyI4oCVZ1hAXOzb05eluKlZgEfIhxzDR3BuWW6zHxQBQqKehP39tl9WLtzwaRwTIAfehrkJgHIoZp9XaJbORKEMxrbRNVxiccvqY0Z8GLpRbOIbt05mUiQS4_SgiAEHiz3w8RekOOOymJSED9g_ctwz92oCrzN68J_2_kB-Zugu1OHoBTg=s1024" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="768" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_nC_8S91pSyI4oCVZ1hAXOzb05eluKlZgEfIhxzDR3BuWW6zHxQBQqKehP39tl9WLtzwaRwTIAfehrkJgHIoZp9XaJbORKEMxrbRNVxiccvqY0Z8GLpRbOIbt05mUiQS4_SgiAEHiz3w8RekOOOymJSED9g_ctwz92oCrzN68J_2_kB-Zugu1OHoBTg=w242-h320" width="242" /></a></div><br />Note that Spencer doesn't believe in God given rights and that we get rights by being part of the community. That is the Left's viewpoint. And he likes Andrew Jackson over Ronald Reagan? Wow! That is a dead giveaway to his basic ideals. Yeah, pick the president who founded the Democratic party and was for slavery and Indian removal.</div><div style="font-family: "open sans", arial, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "open sans", arial, sans-serif;">It is almost like the alt-right is really just trying to resurrect the original Democratic Party complete with their Klu Klux Klan. It's the party that more closely resembles every form of tyranny from the beginning of time. The people who are comfortable in the Democrat Party today would be in favor of monarchy, oligarchy, communism, fascism and Nazism in previous eras. It's obvious they fall for governments that wield absolute power and demand that citizens be a contributing part of the government's vision of how we should think and act.</div>
<div style="font-family: "open sans", arial, sans-serif;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-family: "open sans", arial, sans-serif;">
I also leave out the traditional notion of Anarchy on the right. Anarchy in it's purest, theoretical form would mean complete Liberty, or no government. But the term Anarchy today is more of a method rather than a state of things. Anarchy is used by all radical groups to destroy the current state of affairs in order to implement their desired form of government or culture. So Anarchy no longer means "no government" but rather chaos and destruction.</div>
<div style="font-family: "open sans", arial, sans-serif;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-family: "open sans", arial, sans-serif;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiI3Quc0UjKpM9xCvfMDyRKlb1kMc8hwGP0V1JRmPXhvb_lahMHQ86g3G0fZuLDQz_skdGscRXPIxK46Pqa_iSyKqfNV2z79GiEE7sa_nYoK2FT_VPsqcQZXoOs4rt091db7JTDPLHH0BO1vO49l6f3fyt5adIXs2lyWAq32hUOIq9x0-6h0hWLDpO7nA=s600" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="600" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiI3Quc0UjKpM9xCvfMDyRKlb1kMc8hwGP0V1JRmPXhvb_lahMHQ86g3G0fZuLDQz_skdGscRXPIxK46Pqa_iSyKqfNV2z79GiEE7sa_nYoK2FT_VPsqcQZXoOs4rt091db7JTDPLHH0BO1vO49l6f3fyt5adIXs2lyWAq32hUOIq9x0-6h0hWLDpO7nA=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br />Many people would put Anarchy on the far right or replace the word "liberty" in my image above with anarchy. But I disagree. Anarchy is immoral or amoral and sits outside the line because it is more of a phony tactic and can be used by anyone to disrupt society. Even on the far right, near the liberty end, there are still laws. It is the law that ensures liberty for all. Anarchy violently removes liberty for all. If people were naturally good, then we would have no need for society and laws. People would govern themselves and always do the right thing, but they don't. So we need laws.</div><div style="font-family: "open sans", arial, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "open sans", arial, sans-serif;">There are two mistakes when applying the terms Right and Left, as well as, Liberal and Conservative. And those are 1) thinking the meaning has remained constant through the centuries and 2) lumping the American experience with the European one.</div><div style="font-family: "open sans", arial, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "open sans", arial, sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjnXIqNY72Hrcrwa3UBE0WL0oDuqY_DTdff4e7UEsZEf5mHRJaRSxShgZgqAG4mQHSrsmQvv2X91lM4oFSW5xK7EkmxbdTo7GIB3xvcX0HZ9yGgh32SIYtQwcnzHMG7cWGFGxPY-3S5mDglR8wusE3uwOCMWOyQyLyLTloyom7vAYgKUlhSdQav4Ifh-A=s440" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="293" data-original-width="440" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjnXIqNY72Hrcrwa3UBE0WL0oDuqY_DTdff4e7UEsZEf5mHRJaRSxShgZgqAG4mQHSrsmQvv2X91lM4oFSW5xK7EkmxbdTo7GIB3xvcX0HZ9yGgh32SIYtQwcnzHMG7cWGFGxPY-3S5mDglR8wusE3uwOCMWOyQyLyLTloyom7vAYgKUlhSdQav4Ifh-A=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br />In order to understand this, you need to understand the concept of the "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_nineteenth_century" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Long Nineteenth Century</a>." Wikipedia says, "The long nineteenth century is a term for the 125-year period comprising the years 1789 through 1914. It was coined by Russian writer Ilya Ehrenburg and British Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm. The term refers to the notion that the period reflects a progression of ideas which are characteristic to an understanding of the 19th century in Europe."</div><div style="font-family: "open sans", arial, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "open sans", arial, sans-serif;"><div>This period saw the decline of monarchy and the rise of republicanism and socialism. The "conservatives" during this period where pro-monarchy so they can not be compared to conservatives of today, who revere the radical-for-their-time founding fathers. By the end of the long century, there were no more "conservatives" of this type. All were enamored by political Darwinism and Marxism. So most politically-minded people were part of one or another warring faction of socialism. </div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEie7_JP64-QPRg9BB_HHlniHiF7FiEKiHYeLuDs5kiiHPwB7HMk10PKVPa3JVkGlxmCEi8m3y0qQbdnBUMJG7BCVnd4ssOisVHCQvyaTbBmRtDDBSJhAAY-AxVhPZxIkcVvird8y3T9xTo2wE8CzIZUh3nCCSFzD7oqkJJjeQSOPMfXhE_p-aOgWB-xPg=s1600" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1102" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEie7_JP64-QPRg9BB_HHlniHiF7FiEKiHYeLuDs5kiiHPwB7HMk10PKVPa3JVkGlxmCEi8m3y0qQbdnBUMJG7BCVnd4ssOisVHCQvyaTbBmRtDDBSJhAAY-AxVhPZxIkcVvird8y3T9xTo2wE8CzIZUh3nCCSFzD7oqkJJjeQSOPMfXhE_p-aOgWB-xPg=w138-h200" width="138" /></a></div><br />In America, this included the Progressive Republicans and various avowed Socialists. The latter were aligned with French Socialism or Soviet Marxism. </div><div><br /></div><div>The Democratic Party were the most conservative. Using the definition of "conservative" being someone who resists change. The Democrats of the early 20th century wanted to preserve the Jim Crow laws and segregation. They believed in social Darwinism but did not trust in a natural social evolution. Instead, they actively fought to make whites superior and blacks inferior. </div><div><br /></div><div>This was driven part by their jealousy of the progress of American blacks. In only one generation from the end of slavery, and in spite of being segregated, the black communities had achieved a remarkable level of success and wealth. They were faithful church goers and enjoyed nuclear families. There were many strong male role models ranging from ordinary fathers to capable political leaders, doctors, lawyers, merchants, and entrepeneurs. The black community's wealth was growing by leaps and bounds. </div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjC2KHppQ8OemMVFBnv_gaVomdqs-XH2Mc-vcdA--WRAL34r4y1u5clKqTjUBvEzck2UnabcbS867prpOBfYqB-emsa3D29PDcGq7Gtt46IgsjyxLAQqPLszep7wc78fepx6uvxNSnC4wiV_XTMzTgU8VkvSB0chrTB5jKqtqzyQhcgCyV8wb8dgKHnsg=s543" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="543" data-original-width="520" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjC2KHppQ8OemMVFBnv_gaVomdqs-XH2Mc-vcdA--WRAL34r4y1u5clKqTjUBvEzck2UnabcbS867prpOBfYqB-emsa3D29PDcGq7Gtt46IgsjyxLAQqPLszep7wc78fepx6uvxNSnC4wiV_XTMzTgU8VkvSB0chrTB5jKqtqzyQhcgCyV8wb8dgKHnsg=w192-h200" width="192" /></a></div><br />[Side note: my grandfather was a traveling mens clothing salesman. He noticed that blacks were coming into wealth but could not put that money into better homes in better neighborhoods because of segregation. So they developed a habit of spending money on clothes and cars. One extreme example of this was when he showed his fabric swatches to a black gentleman who was not impressed by his array of low to high quality fabrics. My grandfather realized that he was fixated on the price rather than the quality of his fabrics. So he told the gentleman that his best samples were in the car. He went to the car, rearranged his best fabric samples, then returned and doubled their prices. The man was happy and chose one for a suit.]</div><div><br /></div><div><br />Southern white Democrats wanted to end that prosperity. So, back to reason number one. You can't lump today's conservatives with the conservatives of the early 1900s. They are entirely different people with different worldviews, in spite of today's conservatives being demonized and accused falsely as racists. Conservatives today agree with the Martin Luther King, Jr. and his comment, "I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."</div></div>
<div style="font-family: "open sans", arial, sans-serif;">
<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiuVcD5Qku8oLKcgqpPcNLvzuKCta_aoXSKZQrvGhMF_f9ENMCU-XzrGwiJ1KWm63vXT4uro4RkpecLPaOa3dE7-Ul_6FdK7M9FxM8pKD3rXezOzXieLjlwrqJuiojZ3iJXxkG21HxwePzOeq65Zqmy8BFvsOntcxt4Bzh-NjPlOPX4A2Dog9Z6wKDm_w=s300" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="300" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiuVcD5Qku8oLKcgqpPcNLvzuKCta_aoXSKZQrvGhMF_f9ENMCU-XzrGwiJ1KWm63vXT4uro4RkpecLPaOa3dE7-Ul_6FdK7M9FxM8pKD3rXezOzXieLjlwrqJuiojZ3iJXxkG21HxwePzOeq65Zqmy8BFvsOntcxt4Bzh-NjPlOPX4A2Dog9Z6wKDm_w" width="300" /></a></div></div><div style="font-family: "open sans", arial, sans-serif;"><div>And for reason number two. You can not compare today's conservatives with the conservatives of Europe. The politics of Europe has been based on dying monarchies and the rise of socialism and republicanism. The Left and Right of the National Assembly in Revolutionary France are not remotely like the left and right in America today. Even today, the left and right in Europe don't share everything with the left and right in America.</div></div><div style="font-family: "open sans", arial, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "open sans", arial, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "open sans", arial, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "open sans", arial, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "open sans", arial, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "open sans", arial, sans-serif;"><br /></div>
<div style="font-family: "open sans", arial, sans-serif;">
Further reading:</div>
<div style="font-family: "open sans", arial, sans-serif;">
<a href="http://thefederalist.com/2018/09/11/read-pile-top-nazis-talking-love-leftist-marxism/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=3d033a926d-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-3d033a926d-83949729" target="_blank">Read A Pile Of Top Nazis Talking About How They Love Leftist Marxism</a></div><div style="font-family: "open sans", arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Conflict-Visions-Ideological-Political-Struggles/dp/0465002056/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2YY98N5K84RHZ&keywords=a+conflict+of+visions+thomas+sowell&qid=1644384134&sprefix=a+conflict+of+%2Caps%2C207&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles</a></div>
<div style="font-family: "open sans", arial, sans-serif;">
<br /></div>
</div>
Michael Barthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17485606529000689080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966692812402905839.post-20066181512514223852018-08-03T12:21:00.000-07:002022-02-13T12:08:16.123-08:00American Conservatives: A Misnomer for the Real Radicals<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Pc7hmrY0fIfhkCoDLixkV4Jo4tXh11edHjg1nNuBp-Wlxo-BDl5WX30pIxaWFmVinSD6KGs3w8mAlOsNkgUYn2-QO-uIuDUqHyJnKFW1GvLsYij5kH0g7QBndGSxaqK7SyO99u8ir6lG/s1600/950544-ronald-reagan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1247" data-original-width="1600" height="249" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Pc7hmrY0fIfhkCoDLixkV4Jo4tXh11edHjg1nNuBp-Wlxo-BDl5WX30pIxaWFmVinSD6KGs3w8mAlOsNkgUYn2-QO-uIuDUqHyJnKFW1GvLsYij5kH0g7QBndGSxaqK7SyO99u8ir6lG/s320/950544-ronald-reagan.jpg" width="320"></a></div>
One problem we have with today's debate is the confusion that labels bring. And nowhere is that more evident than with the label of "conservative" used for the people who want to defend the US Constitution and roll back the many governmental policies that have led America to stray from the founding principles of the Great American Experiment.<br>
<br>
The reason why "conservative" is not a good label is because "conservative" in the rest of the world and throughout European history means the people who resisted change and wanted to keep the order of things the way they were.<br>
<br>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg56-iOPDyrDRNuDd5DAZFovgEX3EyrfDepdngMEYk-TQHLbjyABSDpjbeCAEDNdC5PvUTRT5Kmf0fbDHrQ2LsjgyoSgBn06N99e_ANKSQJBn9xaw5911SBhkmo9SseU5SMvqP5p_4PLhn5/s1600/7272088.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="489" data-original-width="719" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg56-iOPDyrDRNuDd5DAZFovgEX3EyrfDepdngMEYk-TQHLbjyABSDpjbeCAEDNdC5PvUTRT5Kmf0fbDHrQ2LsjgyoSgBn06N99e_ANKSQJBn9xaw5911SBhkmo9SseU5SMvqP5p_4PLhn5/s320/7272088.jpg" width="320"></a>That meant, in Europe, they supported the various monarchies.<br>
<br>
The 18th, 19th and 20th century struggle world-wide was between the traditionalist/conservatives who defended the monarchy and the radicals who wanted to tear that down and build up free societies based on equality or citizen rule.<br>
<br>
The radicals in Europe gravitated to equality through socialism (See: <a href="http://isagreatplace.blogspot.com/2018/07/alexis-de-tocqueville-warns-of.html" target="_blank">Alexis de Tocqueville Warns of Socialism: 170 Years Ago!</a>)<br>
<br>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe6ghsI8Bf0JyW8zCElhPo8T4qdZ3fIEjOID3Mi4O-4AQu01LZY_hbwX_dCy3HODw4tbJj5QhRpig3IaW7YeVa_D29j_LWgMRBBIE4MtPy4NaE0swsf5vzVh-64XcqCD7_A2YtfgVAoy4l/s1600/Founding-Fathers-I-5135.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="815" data-original-width="900" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe6ghsI8Bf0JyW8zCElhPo8T4qdZ3fIEjOID3Mi4O-4AQu01LZY_hbwX_dCy3HODw4tbJj5QhRpig3IaW7YeVa_D29j_LWgMRBBIE4MtPy4NaE0swsf5vzVh-64XcqCD7_A2YtfgVAoy4l/s320/Founding-Fathers-I-5135.jpg" width="320"></a></div>
That was not the atmosphere throughout America's history. The radicals in America were the Patriots who wanted to set up a free society based on citizen rule. The Tories where the traditionalist/conservatives who wanted to keep things the way they were.<br>
<br>
People everywhere gravitate to a government that controls everything and tells you what to do. America is no exception. It never had a monarchy, but the American people still gravitate to centralized government.<br>
<br>
How often do you hear people say, "There ought to be a law!"<br>
<br>
That role in America has been filled by Marxism. Whether it is Communism, Socialism or Democratic Socialism, it is all the same - a centralized government ruled by an oligarchy who calls all the shots and forces their will on the populace.<br>
<br>
This is just what the Patriots where trying to avoid by implementing the principles enshrined in the Constitution.<br>
<br>
Since that time, the struggle in America has been between Patriots who believe in the founding principles of equality, freedom, self-governance and the sanctity of private property and those who think that we should give Socialism yet another try - ignoring the ugliness that it has brought upon the world in every form it has arrived.<br>
<br>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaWkQp8lvPqE7X_DS4QciUj84SAyubujLGfEfc8blIKvTfpdH1ImHCM3fAZJ0n7xdfZK3iDZkgbgEpfXnd606Qg81Xt6LEODQIEZYeDolR-2Xz89wNniEcVWa5xDWQc4wwEYsz3-nbjX2l/s1600/marxists.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="244" data-original-width="454" height="339" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaWkQp8lvPqE7X_DS4QciUj84SAyubujLGfEfc8blIKvTfpdH1ImHCM3fAZJ0n7xdfZK3iDZkgbgEpfXnd606Qg81Xt6LEODQIEZYeDolR-2Xz89wNniEcVWa5xDWQc4wwEYsz3-nbjX2l/s640/marxists.jpg" width="640"></a></div>
<br>
So the bottom line is that the Patriots of today are NOT conservatives in the historical sense. The American Experiment never fully matured before the tendency for centralized power crept into American government.<br>
<br>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJD1k6HJV9T9Y_dzlP7UN0v_2_WCmTOKQSTBkUeFtN_dUJYVTs8hCeFCr8PmIsXmOVbRU-sIQsst-wj6scIumumtvOYe5M-iqhscQaLQXSgcJMjY1rK9FpYcNDfP3VVZLMYOcc7FmOju0h/s1600/Shining_City_Upon_a_Hill_by_hawk862.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1295" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJD1k6HJV9T9Y_dzlP7UN0v_2_WCmTOKQSTBkUeFtN_dUJYVTs8hCeFCr8PmIsXmOVbRU-sIQsst-wj6scIumumtvOYe5M-iqhscQaLQXSgcJMjY1rK9FpYcNDfP3VVZLMYOcc7FmOju0h/s400/Shining_City_Upon_a_Hill_by_hawk862.jpg" width="308"></a></div>
Centralized governments have been around for 1000s of years so the people who desire to return to that system - whether it is a monarchy or an oligarchy of Socialists - are the real conservatives/traditionalists. The citizens of America who want to return to the founding principles of the Constitution and further the American Experiment are the true radicals.<br>
<br>
We modern Patriots believe that the reason America has led the way during the last 200 years is because of the radical ideas put forth by our founding fathers.<br>
<br>
Those principles have stood up in comparison to the alternate governments. Nowhere has life been better than in the USA. And those countries who implement those principles thrive more than the countries who embrace tyranny - whether in the form of Communism (China, USSR, Cuba, North Korea), National Socialism (Nazi Germany), Democratic Socialism (modern Europe), Theocracy (the Muslim world) or Monarchy (every two bit dictator in Latin America, Asia and Africa).<br>
<br>
The other source of confusion is to assume that the original radicals in America (Patriots) and the radicals in the rest of the world (Rousseauists/Marxists) are one and the same. Both rejected the concept of divine monarchies. But that is were the similarity ends.<br>
<br>
The Patriots want equality of opportunity for the people. Marxists want equality of outcome. The latter has been proven to be impossible.<br>
<br>
Another way the lines are blurring is with the rise of nationalism in the European countries. The conservatives there are fed up with the failed and failing policies put forward by the Left and are now using the same language as the Patriots in America. They are trying to supplant the entrenched Socialism with a variation on the American experiment. They are seeking a more sustainable form of government with more freedoms, while preserving their cultures from the engineered homogenization of people through uncontrolled immigration. Immigrants who have no desire to integrate but rather supplant the cultures of Europe with their own cultures.<br>
<br>
That is what happens when there are too many similar immigrants arriving all at the same time. Rather than integrate, they form separate communities because they are more comfortable with their own language, morals, religion and culture.<br>
<br>
Unfortunately this keeps them and their children from progressing in society due to their self-inflicted ghettoizing.<br>
<br>Michael Barthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17485606529000689080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966692812402905839.post-47663255586339593222018-07-05T19:33:00.002-07:002022-10-29T13:33:11.521-07:00Alexis de Tocqueville Warns of Socialism: 170 Years Ago!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9TAAbQRfV5QCsCOEN0bUAHU7cqFS7NB78qWoD4giyxiimtrBMwMnUAe8u7Sb03utkcGpOdkf-qlaB4jBXIEZVBSUJtIe0RPIc3GcFnnQxt5PU6zz7L97IBSc3CRp4fs6xm6xMlAs3zAOL/s1600/image-20150427-18138-r42azo.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="733" data-original-width="668" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9TAAbQRfV5QCsCOEN0bUAHU7cqFS7NB78qWoD4giyxiimtrBMwMnUAe8u7Sb03utkcGpOdkf-qlaB4jBXIEZVBSUJtIe0RPIc3GcFnnQxt5PU6zz7L97IBSc3CRp4fs6xm6xMlAs3zAOL/s400/image-20150427-18138-r42azo.jpg" width="363" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Even in 1848, Tocqueville saw the dangers of socialism. </td></tr>
</tbody></table>
Alexis de Tocqueville was a French nobleman who wrote extensively about the new American republic. His writings give a clear description of how the newly formed American republic was faring. By reading his, "Democracy in America" you can see what part of the system was working and what part of the system was weak. Some of his predictions have come true, including how it would only be a matter of time for people to realize that they can vote for people who will give them money out of the national coffers.<br />
<br />
In 1848, he gave a scathing rebuke of socialism during a debate about instituting a socialist style work project in the Second French Republic. His full speech can be found <a href="http://oll.libertyfund.org/pages/tocqueville-s-critique-of-socialism-1848" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWr0sqCPilcUqmH4hdkQlq5Mc_OMnk9iuhtOmE_0fntiQnW0JurLf7EA-0lGnC2_B0uNmza1FAbSPc6JLGY8Cv8OSQIYvhB0y6B9f30srpVRjzfaZ_gpCPevcJi_a-4kowLW_NN2cUfn2t/s1600/Democracy-in-America-I.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="460" data-original-width="329" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWr0sqCPilcUqmH4hdkQlq5Mc_OMnk9iuhtOmE_0fntiQnW0JurLf7EA-0lGnC2_B0uNmza1FAbSPc6JLGY8Cv8OSQIYvhB0y6B9f30srpVRjzfaZ_gpCPevcJi_a-4kowLW_NN2cUfn2t/s320/Democracy-in-America-I.jpg" width="227" /></a>Below are the excerpts that I specifically felt needed highlighting. For a long time, I've felt that 21st century mankind is so wrapped up in ourselves that we don't realize how brilliant and enlightened the people of yesteryear were.<br />
<br />
It is uncanny how the words of Alexis de Tocqueville sound like the words of a brilliant conservative pundit of today. But this was delivered in 1848!<br />
<br />
"Now, the first characteristic of all socialist ideologies is, I believe, an incessant, <b>vigorous and extreme appeal to the material passions of man</b>."<br />
<br />
"A second trait, always present, is an attack, either direct or indirect, on the principle of private property. From the first socialist who said, fifty years ago, that “property is the origin of all the ills of the world,” to the socialist who spoke from this podium and who, less charitable than the first, passing from property to the property-holder, exclaimed that “property is theft,” <b>all socialists</b>, all, I insist, <b>attack</b>, either in a direct or indirect manner, <b>private property</b>."<br />
<span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWerrYaocakyfY9rk_vdqG74u0daT778VhxNPPpcrI47XuwkU68mVPze2VWcgmVSdVErnMEwKrFntmfRIVc84OptU9w4moEVq4eiegIIw7e0xVBvQra7SGHRJSoY833sJnVDnaUI5-B_3-/s1600/nosocialism.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="495" data-original-width="700" height="141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWerrYaocakyfY9rk_vdqG74u0daT778VhxNPPpcrI47XuwkU68mVPze2VWcgmVSdVErnMEwKrFntmfRIVc84OptU9w4moEVq4eiegIIw7e0xVBvQra7SGHRJSoY833sJnVDnaUI5-B_3-/s200/nosocialism.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="text-align: center;">"Now, a third and final trait, one which, in my eyes, best describes socialists of all schools and shades, is a profound opposition to personal liberty and scorn for individual reason, <b>a complete contempt for the individual</b>. They unceasingly attempt to mutilate, to curtail, to <b>obstruct personal freedom</b> in any and all ways. They hold that the State must not only act as the director of society, but must further be master of each man, and not only master, but keeper and trainer. For fear of allowing him to err, the State must place itself forever by his side, above him, around him, better to guide him, to maintain him, in a word, to confine him. They call, in fact, for the forfeiture, to a greater or less degree, of human liberty, to the point where, were I to attempt to sum up what<b> socialism is, I would say that it was simply a new system of serfdom</b>."</span><br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxQNFgVgrcMRPLlhJIPCcuyhgRswfe49fadFW1B-hL6jy1QYN44ZvoUSy6tXHEz-TAlj8y_wrFtQWJ1xgJOHUGCQdVstHLBwdis4QLpwdFAJHopQhhEpI09Eeq5bffJJ-RFa5kzIE8sW60/s1600/french-revolution-2.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="453" data-original-width="489" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxQNFgVgrcMRPLlhJIPCcuyhgRswfe49fadFW1B-hL6jy1QYN44ZvoUSy6tXHEz-TAlj8y_wrFtQWJ1xgJOHUGCQdVstHLBwdis4QLpwdFAJHopQhhEpI09Eeq5bffJJ-RFa5kzIE8sW60/s320/french-revolution-2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
"Is socialism, gentlemen, as so many have told us, the continuation, the legitimate completion, the perfecting of the French Revolution? Is it, as it has been pretended to be, the natural development of democracy? No, neither one or the other."<br />
<br />
"There is one thing which strikes me above all. It is that the Old Regime . . . was, in its political philosophy, far less distant from socialism than we had believed. It is far closer to that system. The Old Regime, in fact, held that wisdom lay only in the State and that the citizens were weak and feeble beings who must forever be guided by the hand, for fear they harm themselves. It held that it was necessary to obstruct, thwart, restrain individual freedom, that to secure an abundance of material goods it was imperative to regiment industry and impede free competition. <b>The Old Regime believed, on this point, exactly as the socialists of today do</b>."<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoe3zKhRbWJBejfgUR-UFz2ohMi8uMjakJEL8DvgTbOJcHgbTQaoKQqt3D5LBPCF3FdPyLfEWMPqHnw3S7LKDVrw53uxy7xVdnjZeOTjLAg5LxCtP7SFNpbgrx080TmBVopL5FsHEgfNZl/s1600/328eada103cd7935c4712d601cea4092.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoe3zKhRbWJBejfgUR-UFz2ohMi8uMjakJEL8DvgTbOJcHgbTQaoKQqt3D5LBPCF3FdPyLfEWMPqHnw3S7LKDVrw53uxy7xVdnjZeOTjLAg5LxCtP7SFNpbgrx080TmBVopL5FsHEgfNZl/s200/328eada103cd7935c4712d601cea4092.jpg" width="150" /></a></div>
"After this great [French] Revolution is the result to be that society which the socialists offer us, a formal, regimented and closed society where the State has charge of all, where the individual counts for nothing, where the community masses to itself all power, all life . . . where the very air is stifling and where light barely penetrates? Is it to be for this . . . that the French Revolution took place? Is it for this that so many great men died on the field of battle and on the gallows, that so much noble blood watered the earth? No! I swear it by those men who died for this great cause! It is not for this that they died. It is for something far greater, far more sacred, far more deserving of them and of humanity. If it had been but to create such a system, the Revolution was a horrible waste. A perfected Old Regime would have served adequately."<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK6IOsP7V-0q5UCgh39FRweZGiAwoii9AhYBCIbcFMAXuh0oPKoKgdtqvghstlzDGqRELtbEc7zcTl88Wrf_QX3P3jQV2V2C58FDG8Bx78X_v1UHJ-h46FtqathGV8Ie_7GyoWZz0OzArI/s1600/o-DECLARATION-OF-INDEPENDENCE-facebook.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1017" data-original-width="1536" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK6IOsP7V-0q5UCgh39FRweZGiAwoii9AhYBCIbcFMAXuh0oPKoKgdtqvghstlzDGqRELtbEc7zcTl88Wrf_QX3P3jQV2V2C58FDG8Bx78X_v1UHJ-h46FtqathGV8Ie_7GyoWZz0OzArI/s400/o-DECLARATION-OF-INDEPENDENCE-facebook.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
"I mentioned a while ago that socialism pretended to be the legitimate continuation of democracy. I will not . . . rummage around in the garden of Greek roots to find from whence comes this word. <b>I look for democracy where I have seen it, alive, active, triumphant, in the only country on earth where it exists</b>, where it could possibly have been established as something durable in the modern world — <b>in America</b>."<br />
<br />
"<b>There you will find</b> a society where social conditions are even more equal than among us; where the social order, the customs, the laws are all democratic; where all varieties of people have entered, and where each individual still has complete independence, <b>more freedom than has been known in any other time or place</b>; a country essentially democratic, the only completely democratic republics the world has ever known. And in these republics you will search in vain for socialism. Not only have socialist theories not captured public opinion there, but they play such an insignificant role in the intellectual and political life of this great nation that they cannot even rightfully boast that people fear them. America today is the one country in the world where democracy is totally sovereign."<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX8fM_rzOaQfKX1S3ScALi6qN90Gu-Qeb1RFrj84hDQxoIfF1Qm2ip6qbXBHtfujrVtPdbPIGVSON7ONWELNQpod2Kq3ZfuYy8KagexNdJJTrDXflnisHUEP-w6ja7AzK1zU0nJ8FIM33_/s1600/american_freedom_by_rtrev.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1237" data-original-width="1600" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX8fM_rzOaQfKX1S3ScALi6qN90Gu-Qeb1RFrj84hDQxoIfF1Qm2ip6qbXBHtfujrVtPdbPIGVSON7ONWELNQpod2Kq3ZfuYy8KagexNdJJTrDXflnisHUEP-w6ja7AzK1zU0nJ8FIM33_/s400/american_freedom_by_rtrev.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
"Democracy and socialism are not interdependent concepts.<b> They are not only different, but opposing philosophies.</b> <b>Is it consistent with democracy to institute the most meddlesome, all-encompassing and restrictive government, provided that it be publicly chosen and that it act in the name of the people? Would the result not be tyranny</b>, under the guise of legitimate government and, by appropriating this legitimacy assuring to itself the power and omnipotence which it would otherwise assuredly lack? Democracy extends the sphere of personal independence; socialism confines it. Democracy values each man at his highest; socialism makes of each man an agent, an instrument, a number. <b>Democracy and socialism have but one thing in common—equality. <u>But note well the difference</u>. Democracy aims at equality in liberty. Socialism desires equality in constraint and in servitude.</b>"<br />
<br />
Sources:<br />
Federalist Radio Hour <a href="http://thefederalist.com/2018/07/03/listen-coolidge-douglass-tocqueville-american-independence/" target="_blank">podcast</a><div><br /></div><div>Additional Study:</div><div><div><a href="https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/americas-founding-fathers" target="_blank">America's Founding Fathers, Professor Allen C. Guelzo</a></div><div>Lecture 35: Professor Guelzo explains how Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America fortold exactly how we would end up in the mess are are in today. He suggested America's focus on self-interest instead of virtue was the key to our success (as opposed to France's failure at creating a republic by focusing too much on equality). He also pointed out that the only thing keeping self-interest in check were the newspapers and voluntary associations in America, especially the religious ones. He warned that if we lose those two checks on self-interested power and corruption that a soft tyranny from the beaurocracies we create to ensure equality would destroy our liberty. The quest for equality under the law would not be enough and would breed jealousy and resentment as it morphs into the desire for equality of outcome.</div></div><div><br /></div>Michael Barthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17485606529000689080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966692812402905839.post-24281814077150900972018-04-23T11:54:00.008-07:002023-09-30T09:39:33.767-07:00Terraforming a New Planet: My Strategy for Success<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZBnM6Ml1_NCPBGE1mqcSb7vLB-RGdAX6W-p55UC81awjwF8EgZ79nfHNuwFSjrbbg0Tkyzx0lQt__ap_94pqHcJMH89aAOs6F6LPqfZsT0_240OJRrvD3-MLkxkAtyDU4PANY8pCnoxQ8/s1600/Im1.gif" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="666" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZBnM6Ml1_NCPBGE1mqcSb7vLB-RGdAX6W-p55UC81awjwF8EgZ79nfHNuwFSjrbbg0Tkyzx0lQt__ap_94pqHcJMH89aAOs6F6LPqfZsT0_240OJRrvD3-MLkxkAtyDU4PANY8pCnoxQ8/s320/Im1.gif" width="240" /></a></div>
<b>Year: 2144</b><br />
I've been directed to to spell out the plan for creating a new home for human colonists. This process of transforming a bare planet into a livable one is called "terraforming." And to reduce the amount of trial and error, I will pattern my project after our home planet - based on what is written in our planet's rocks.<br />
<br />
Here is my 12 step plan:<br />
<br />
<b>Step 1: Find the Right Size, Perfect Distance</b><br />
I cannot over stress the importance of this step. If we skip it, the project will fail. We need the perfect size planet. If the planet is too big, the planet's gravity will hold too much atmosphere, resulting in crushing pressure at the surface. However, if the planet is too small, the atmosphere's gaseous molecules bouncing off each other will eventually fly off into space, because their average speed will exceed the escape velocity of a small planet's gravity. Mars is the poster-child for that scenario. It had an atmosphere once, but it's gone now because Mars is too small. Now, Venus is about the size of our planet, but she is our go-to example of a planet too close to the sun. A run-away greenhouse effect makes the average surface <a href="https://www.space.com/18526-venus-temperature.html">temperature of Venus</a> 864° Fahrenheit (462° Celsius). We won't get many colonists signing up for that!<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjqdK6v-hW5p4QPM-zElObcTtYfEmgCkhgCO6Rx4wQs3t94kW74SHqIrEh4_HtGiPiIz8w7fHh4Cu7iCECK9N6e7cc0fw9jZHFDuint5Skgxh1U64PUNyg6GFa5EswoTWw2_dK1HFemhqQ/s1600/4_colonizing-another-planet_24530289999_o_706.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="449" data-original-width="706" height="126" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjqdK6v-hW5p4QPM-zElObcTtYfEmgCkhgCO6Rx4wQs3t94kW74SHqIrEh4_HtGiPiIz8w7fHh4Cu7iCECK9N6e7cc0fw9jZHFDuint5Skgxh1U64PUNyg6GFa5EswoTWw2_dK1HFemhqQ/s200/4_colonizing-another-planet_24530289999_o_706.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>
<b>Step 2: Send an On-Site Crew</b><br />
You won't be getting very far without a dedicated team of engineers, scientists and support staff in a comfortable self-sustaining residence. When things go wrong - and they WILL go wrong - you need a crew capable of fixing things before they get out of hand. The distances are far too great for command control at home to do everything remotely.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAQxV4QiF4fqguSQl-0yyL3Zd1HDwhR2fVMzbJs5_rHQd_VN86IMdmIey2vHdZWDAx5M2FJHcD1bd9M-oFl7ph-eleMi0e5A8nCeb0JR55PouI6S7wiArskw96-bedT_WCGR0dRrwlfpmr/s1600/cloudy-planet-dietmar-scherf5.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="589" data-original-width="900" height="130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAQxV4QiF4fqguSQl-0yyL3Zd1HDwhR2fVMzbJs5_rHQd_VN86IMdmIey2vHdZWDAx5M2FJHcD1bd9M-oFl7ph-eleMi0e5A8nCeb0JR55PouI6S7wiArskw96-bedT_WCGR0dRrwlfpmr/s200/cloudy-planet-dietmar-scherf5.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>
<b>Step 3: Establish an Atmosphere</b><br />
The planet will be a barren rock at first. So, without an atmosphere, any water we add would just freeze. And we NEED water. So we must enshroud the planet with life sustaining air. Atmosphere formation will also focus on generating tons of water vapor to prepare for Step 4. In fact, the resident crew won't see their sun for a long, long time. Humidity will be at 100%, with a pea-soup-like fog everywhere.<br />
<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: right;">
<a href="https://www.binaryomen.com/about" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="451" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjZIgtFKBHIOkWAatFBimQfKeYtJgJAPPoFHlBKmP7KWb_vFZLKE48CJZxOiuu5mM4P1quR0oPgOd2OiM_ypQ0EsMvd5RBtQC5i1f0wVlS8WFeHss-6N2Tv2tWzLWH2-TRYlFMDdjHvZHI/s200/underwater.jpg" width="146" /></a></div>
<b>Step 4: Put Water Everywhere</b><br />
The resident buildings will be air tight and strong enough to withstand high pressure, because they will now be underwater. In this step, the foggy atmosphere will release most of the water vapor and precipitate on the planet as liquid water. We will keep this up until the entire planet is covered with water since we will introduce life to the ocean first. We won't wait for the atmosphere to be "human-ready" before introducing life, however. The early stages of our own planet had the same scenario. Part of the plan is to allow time for the organisms to live and die. That will enrich the silt that accumulates on the sea floor. You see, we are thinking ahead to Step 8.<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLuaNzxdLlIuUaa-kP4eNtF8JOuC3f6CDiPd9bi0-uasE6QCEdwvcZ-yM34O6nQokt7MT_KHSCrSTdcpav5WDyS9yfjzpCgAIYwboVgQ0Y-XajxiTxNmDJ7tM2a28YGL5rbr5CamHAbVz5/s1600/sunrise.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="377" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLuaNzxdLlIuUaa-kP4eNtF8JOuC3f6CDiPd9bi0-uasE6QCEdwvcZ-yM34O6nQokt7MT_KHSCrSTdcpav5WDyS9yfjzpCgAIYwboVgQ0Y-XajxiTxNmDJ7tM2a28YGL5rbr5CamHAbVz5/s200/sunrise.jpg" width="161" /></a></div>
<b>Step 5: Let the Sun Shine Through</b><br />
As the water settles out of the sky and into the ocean, our resident crew will finally start catching glimpses of their sun. Eventually, they will enjoy blue skies, fluffy clouds, sunrises, sunsets, thunderstorms, wind and the stars at night. They will have to come up to the surface to enjoy the beginnings of these atmospheric pleasures, though, because the ocean still covers the entire planet. We want that valuable sea silt to build up and don't want to leave even one section of land exposed to remain barren. We have important things to do with that organic matter. So let it coat every square foot of the planet.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHcYGsHOIke6c7GkSS_0F9Pyj3tugeYnQhK4vTBMu3Bb9ZLQ8llqiQAaqj7zGMhuY9OQEPJQ3cC07t1Rl7PGMdYx2HSAl3b2o1vTHMAAX0rGRBYn1kdltZfVFmPStcBkJW32VYjRU2SQko/s1600/4159922511_3d079972a1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="334" data-original-width="500" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHcYGsHOIke6c7GkSS_0F9Pyj3tugeYnQhK4vTBMu3Bb9ZLQ8llqiQAaqj7zGMhuY9OQEPJQ3cC07t1Rl7PGMdYx2HSAl3b2o1vTHMAAX0rGRBYn1kdltZfVFmPStcBkJW32VYjRU2SQko/s200/4159922511_3d079972a1.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>
<b>Step 6: Add Simple Sea Life</b><br />
Here's an analogy to help you understand why we start simple. Long ago, some humans had aquariums. If they put a fish in a fresh tank it would die. The tank was too barren and had to be seasoned by establishing a cycle where bacteria would convert the ammonia from fish waste into nitrite and then into nitrate. The latter being the least toxic to life. They could speed things along by adding water from an established tank that already had bacteria. As these chemicals came under control, they would add sturdy, inexpensive fish until it was stable enough to add their prized angelfish. We'll need to do the same thing in our new ocean. So, we'll start with bacteria, algae, diatoms and other hardy single-cell organisms like our planet's pre-Cambrian seas. The bonus now is that the algae will start converting <span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12px;">CO</span><sup style="font-family: helvetica;">2</sup> into oxygen.<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFVhGBICmlaBT3GKVJ9WsIYlcoZeMru5DYZXJp_kvgmPtejBI6pC8czEiElGe38swWQ9APF0JSj9AMjGOt52IUwjsrkMS-8hv1qzH9mn6Dyt4jj33kO4htOmFMGm-DaMF7l0gsti5p95cX/s1600/Ordovician-Ordovician-Period-seas.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="843" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFVhGBICmlaBT3GKVJ9WsIYlcoZeMru5DYZXJp_kvgmPtejBI6pC8czEiElGe38swWQ9APF0JSj9AMjGOt52IUwjsrkMS-8hv1qzH9mn6Dyt4jj33kO4htOmFMGm-DaMF7l0gsti5p95cX/s200/Ordovician-Ordovician-Period-seas.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>
<b>Step 7: Add Complex Sea Life</b><br />
Now we'll introduce complex lifeforms a little at a time. Remember, our atmosphere is still not "human-ready" so make sure our lifeforms can stand the current make up of the air and sea. Most of these won't survive the transition to a "human-ready" atmosphere, so don't get too attached to them. In fact, why don't we have some fun and make some really crazy plants and animals. What we are emulating here is our planet's Paleozoic seas. We'll systematically introduce more complex life, in as many varieties and sizes as possible - including giant animals similar to our Mesozoic oceans. The more biomass there is to live and die, the richer the seafloor silt will become.<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEaz3vzBeqPp3c8KIPckGEF2ADxexBZqu-FU2v-zvCVsHHZsph5PEwkzIoZp3IVOGNiuvTAHPn_kyufs7sMcpvjqOlvoE4spToh2pe5F_cemiOXPEWwxpjwsUR-1eBm9bP-ZsGNGU7JLZz/s1600/terraformed_callisto_by_jeansowaty-dbd5dh1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="631" data-original-width="571" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEaz3vzBeqPp3c8KIPckGEF2ADxexBZqu-FU2v-zvCVsHHZsph5PEwkzIoZp3IVOGNiuvTAHPn_kyufs7sMcpvjqOlvoE4spToh2pe5F_cemiOXPEWwxpjwsUR-1eBm9bP-ZsGNGU7JLZz/s200/terraformed_callisto_by_jeansowaty-dbd5dh1.jpg" width="180" /></a></div>
<b>Step 8: Transfer Organically Rich Seafloor to Land</b><br />
Next we'll expose some landmass. We'll bend and break the crust of the planet to form sea basins and continents. Even better! We'll start with one big landmass. A supercontinent. That way the dissemination of life will be easier (see Steps 9 and 10). We can always split that continent later into multiple continents for more diversity and beauty. We'll leave the majority of the planet as ocean, however, for a more naturally stable planet (around 70%). The oceans are the lifeblood of the planet, driving the water cycle, the weather patterns and oxygen-carbon dioxide cycle. The built-up foundation of silt laid down in steps 6 and 7, as well as the ash strewn around by the vulcanism from bending and breaking of the crust, will now provide some topsoil to support the land life we will introduce in the next step. We aren't just doing this so our colonists will enjoy a beautiful place to live, the ecosystems we are building are the key to a self-sustaining planet.<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF7tmX7A6YEmiQNDpLHdQHZ6Wc6DMEpJmwZkxL6ajGi1K7zA7oOQ37GDEV_F4CnHynJk4WhKkOb8kP3Emn_YAZLmXotSjiiKbbNtMLMTB0oOsxosnjVqhTx8ALKMz0O8VD_dTKvqUz3P6L/s1600/late_devonian_extinction_1.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="395" data-original-width="640" height="123" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF7tmX7A6YEmiQNDpLHdQHZ6Wc6DMEpJmwZkxL6ajGi1K7zA7oOQ37GDEV_F4CnHynJk4WhKkOb8kP3Emn_YAZLmXotSjiiKbbNtMLMTB0oOsxosnjVqhTx8ALKMz0O8VD_dTKvqUz3P6L/s200/late_devonian_extinction_1.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>
<b>Step 9: Add Simple Land Life</b><br />
So now we have some topsoil to work with, but we can't get carried away and plant a rose bush, yet. The soil will barely support hardy plants and small animals. Let's be pragmatic and start with algae, moss and plants that reproduce with spores. We'll save those seed-bearing flowering plants until later. We will include worms, insects and other creepy-crawlies that thrive on scavenging dead stuff, like the Devonian and Carboniferous periods. As we gradually add more complex land life we want something to clean up the mess and add to enriching the top soil.<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP8ZqowGQbikgq1B-RvgALJarc0uUstwewCv74pGCMGUYHrKcXS2tMqX5YLZvsJ_WRas_A_ENxeysUBOFi_t2dAV-qwOySKwZP45zkS3ZdDXgcimA8bTjNIZ0ucQ6FaxkuTeVUwswMaDFD/s1600/cenozoic-era-publiphoto.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="900" height="135" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP8ZqowGQbikgq1B-RvgALJarc0uUstwewCv74pGCMGUYHrKcXS2tMqX5YLZvsJ_WRas_A_ENxeysUBOFi_t2dAV-qwOySKwZP45zkS3ZdDXgcimA8bTjNIZ0ucQ6FaxkuTeVUwswMaDFD/s200/cenozoic-era-publiphoto.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>
<b>Step 10: Add Complex Land Life</b><br />
Now comes the fun part. We'll gradually fill the continent with complex lifeforms. Reptiles, birds, mammals and seed-bearing plants of all kinds. And again, we'll try to include as many giant animals as possible, to speed things along with a large biomass. In fact, if we didn't have to worry about our resident crew's safety, now would have been a great time to create some big, scary monstrous creatures. But, alas, we'll have to be content with more placid predators.<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh-mLQNhjbtmy9oTR4HNgDMblFG-wjfjzoX3M34RJ9jkQ1TkZBZm9WSmdbOPZ7zPOesGpZjnS0oKNRVYGjPG2hXRvbRe8CNq5Q1IlKDl_pIP4LGDZuD0TAA3EwMYv2gGPH059I0ZMzVvEd/s1600/surrounding_calm-wide.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1600" height="125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh-mLQNhjbtmy9oTR4HNgDMblFG-wjfjzoX3M34RJ9jkQ1TkZBZm9WSmdbOPZ7zPOesGpZjnS0oKNRVYGjPG2hXRvbRe8CNq5Q1IlKDl_pIP4LGDZuD0TAA3EwMYv2gGPH059I0ZMzVvEd/s200/surrounding_calm-wide.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>
<b>Step 11: Sit Back and Relax</b><br />
If we did everything right, now all we need to do is take time off and watch our new world establish equilibrium. As more time passes, the more stable the planet will become. The wildlife and their environments will evolve jointly into thriving ecosystems. This would be a good time for our residents - who have grown to be a rather large population by the way - to take a much deserved rest and to enjoy the beautiful world they helped create.<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj24j1UNokoD6gbgKiGGAn1qgzqkw0ImH1JzTIUH8NsqhuX3BrVSLeilsAsqIHanrH2mo5zkixU40f8M7uIUhy6tuI8e-1GO7TFYGyZBv52fc3NA7Lu2Hivom_aorxKt4Z-Eo-XDJzvTEjP/s1600/the_colony_ships_arrive_in_system_by_mototsume-d4rrj0r.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="670" data-original-width="1191" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj24j1UNokoD6gbgKiGGAn1qgzqkw0ImH1JzTIUH8NsqhuX3BrVSLeilsAsqIHanrH2mo5zkixU40f8M7uIUhy6tuI8e-1GO7TFYGyZBv52fc3NA7Lu2Hivom_aorxKt4Z-Eo-XDJzvTEjP/s320/the_colony_ships_arrive_in_system_by_mototsume-d4rrj0r.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<b>Step 12: Bring on the Colonists!</b><br />
The moment we've all waited for - and it has been a long, long wait. Terraforming a planet doesn't happen overnight. But all that effort was worth it, because the rest of the humans are coming in their colony ships. We pioneers who first set this project in motion have long since passed away, but our offspring should honor our memory by taking good care of their new home. They have been watching things unfold and waiting eagerly for this time to arrive.<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfZLa_zoDRNvfilcvDJPQAKaE0XQSTedLQ-W-bxo2QtuEVB1gz3mZZOyjrzEPxvs9zo5DVxPb4DHzMhDcTrNO3LnTgrOp75YXKLpGkFtewrReROuMAU-BeekugrU-dFh6hI1g6O0KNv2oP/s1600/Prayer-before-reading-the-Bible.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="375" data-original-width="500" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfZLa_zoDRNvfilcvDJPQAKaE0XQSTedLQ-W-bxo2QtuEVB1gz3mZZOyjrzEPxvs9zo5DVxPb4DHzMhDcTrNO3LnTgrOp75YXKLpGkFtewrReROuMAU-BeekugrU-dFh6hI1g6O0KNv2oP/s320/Prayer-before-reading-the-Bible.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<b>Epilog</b><br />
Why does this all sound familiar? Wait a minute, I remember! I read about a similar plan in an ancient book called the Holy Bible. The first and second chapters had two separate "creation" stories.<br />
<br />
The <a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/kjv/gen001.htm" target="_blank">first chapter</a> was the blueprint or planning stage or <a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/moses/3.5?lang=eng&clang=eng#p4" target="_blank">spiritual creation</a> - whatever you want to call it. See Genesis 2:5.<br />
<br />
The <a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/kjv/gen002.htm" target="_blank">second chapter</a> had a very scant explanation of the physical creation, yet the order that was laid out was curious.<br />
<br />
First, there "went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground." (Sounds like my foggy atmosphere.) Then man was created BEFORE the plants and animals and he was given a pleasant home. Why? It sounds like the workplace for an on-site manager to me. A man in an immortal state. (Much like my resident oversight crew.) The Book of Moses says; "And I, the Lord God, formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul, the <u>first flesh</u> upon the earth, the first man also..."<div><br /></div><div>Then man was joined by plants and animals of all kinds. When his job was done, "a deep sleep [fell] upon him" and he was re-created in a state that had the potential to become mortal should he fall, and he was given human companionship in the form of a female mate. He was made to forget about his role in the creation, too.<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGVuQ8w8n9R7OFCH8SiPeMK54zv1kf06AVvyTNeBn-XcK9fC3CJYpVf_TNb6ssG2IlCi43sBs643Sgvoq6evLTtk2D_VVxowQBKWX2K4cplv7HCSl8_xUGM1WWxeibIh7wvfxOSs2QMVsP/s1600/creation-image.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1172" data-original-width="1600" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGVuQ8w8n9R7OFCH8SiPeMK54zv1kf06AVvyTNeBn-XcK9fC3CJYpVf_TNb6ssG2IlCi43sBs643Sgvoq6evLTtk2D_VVxowQBKWX2K4cplv7HCSl8_xUGM1WWxeibIh7wvfxOSs2QMVsP/s200/creation-image.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>It makes sense that the physical creation followed similar steps to the spiritual creation. Hearkening back to the first chapter of the ancient book's planning stage, one of the first things discussed was the atmosphere, or "firmament" or "heaven." Then that atmosphere "divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament." This all sounds like my plan's Steps 2 through 4: the atmosphere, it's precipitation and the formation of an ocean.<br />
<br />
Furthermore, the "lights in the heavens" were not "created" until the fourth day. Again that sounds like what I expected in my plan about the the sun, moon and stars not being visible because of the thick cloudy atmosphere. Even the mention of the "waters under the heaven [being] gathered together unto one place, and [letting] the dry land appear" perfectly mirrors my plan to start with a global ocean then creating a continent later.<br />
<br />
I tried to pattern my plan after the history written in the rocks of our home planet, but it is interesting how closely it imitates the plan written in that ancient book. That book said the planning took 6 days, however it didn't say how long the physical creation took. I bet it took a long time. Our little exercise in terraforming suggests that it would have taken a long, long time. (Read also: <a href="https://cataclysmiccontinentalshift.blogspot.com/2018/02/science-and-religion-both-dating.html" target="_blank">Science and Religion: Both Dating Methods Are Wrong</a>)</div>Michael Barthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17485606529000689080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966692812402905839.post-91759255399761288002018-04-03T22:55:00.004-07:002024-01-03T16:10:13.286-08:00Peace and Prosperity without Globalism<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7XhbB1HZKS8sDBc_8DwtluiBWc6EMdHSbg1xDFaW88zJK6k6Cj8zDDo_hVrfJ2rmoQqbhf4mv5nA5EKQrb9GVKJk_yBLfKs75zzWZTwMl3gRAqPj3vIcqCtqGPA8X0pDzDb-DElYpr0m-/s1600/anti-eu2.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="406" data-original-width="714" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7XhbB1HZKS8sDBc_8DwtluiBWc6EMdHSbg1xDFaW88zJK6k6Cj8zDDo_hVrfJ2rmoQqbhf4mv5nA5EKQrb9GVKJk_yBLfKs75zzWZTwMl3gRAqPj3vIcqCtqGPA8X0pDzDb-DElYpr0m-/s400/anti-eu2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
There is a problem with the European Union. There are too many diverse cultures lumped together. If you think the United States federal government is out of touch with the common man in the respective 50 states, the EU is worse.<div><br /></div><div>Regardless of the constant claim that diversity is a strength, we must realize that it really is a weakness. </div><div><br /></div><div>As <a href="https://spectator.org/is-diversity-our-stength/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Thomas Sowell</a> explained, "It has not been our diversity, but our ability to overcome the problems inherent in diversity, and to act together as Americans, that has been our strength."<br /><div>
<br />
Their solution is to import immigrants and destroy the identities of these member countries so that a superpower can be born after homogenization is complete. The problem is that it won't work. They are heading down the road to destabalization and violence. Another failed state like the USSR and Nazi Germany. But instead of wars between countries, they will have internal wars. Civil wars drag on forever and never reach an definite outcome. They just continue to smolder.<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqfAaIQKflKw6HasvhGeVVbAA6p6FFAMOvFGwkhoyQsqyM2KBIQpKuw144yikkeE86oLsBr8QQ-S73Ui2T3JilzuDVM8Y3GNjGW1KnZXY9XjL_NkZ7VoY22gbD2MdhcBXo0sUTS6IHkHL8/s1600/oktoberfest-festival-enjoy.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="922" data-original-width="1600" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqfAaIQKflKw6HasvhGeVVbAA6p6FFAMOvFGwkhoyQsqyM2KBIQpKuw144yikkeE86oLsBr8QQ-S73Ui2T3JilzuDVM8Y3GNjGW1KnZXY9XjL_NkZ7VoY22gbD2MdhcBXo0sUTS6IHkHL8/s400/oktoberfest-festival-enjoy.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
Each country must retain their sovereignty and make their own domestic laws, treaties, immigration laws and trade agreements - while preserving their cultures and languages because "multicultural" really means "monoculture." What a boring world that would be.<br />
<br />
But going it alone in this world doesn't seem to work anymore. The smaller countries will not be able to compete in the global game of politics and economy.<br />
<br />
One solution to a gargantuan, ineffective union like the EU, is to allow groups of countries with similar customs, languages, religions and heritage form smaller unions. They'll benefit from block trading, unified group treaties, and common defense. Much in the same way as the United States of America. The success of the United States lies in the fact that the diverse 50 sovereign states are similar enough that they can forge a united, national character.<br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGRZB5p2xU7xjfPke5QpYM4L5pt3p6vhlCIurU0_B8ZOnCWu0oHAFjQXVurSodu8cBK92S8axCbxVQ-A28KFsAuvfBuQljGf5TIFy6p61LKTCarFsWbfMBHfQ_71bjkL394JoIPzrA_7r6/s1600/Visegrad_group.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGRZB5p2xU7xjfPke5QpYM4L5pt3p6vhlCIurU0_B8ZOnCWu0oHAFjQXVurSodu8cBK92S8axCbxVQ-A28KFsAuvfBuQljGf5TIFy6p61LKTCarFsWbfMBHfQ_71bjkL394JoIPzrA_7r6/s1600/Visegrad_group.png" /></a>That will never happen when you try to put dissimilar countries like, say Turkey and Belgium, under one umbrella. (Turkey is not a member but is trying.)<br />
<br />
If similar countries would unite in the same way as the Visegrad Group (Poland, Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary), then we would have the best of both worlds. These medium-sized federations can protect each other militarily and benefit from a shared economy. All while maintaining their own unique national identities, something they can capitalize on to attract tourism.<div><br /></div><div>Another example a successful small regional union is Mercosur. An economic union between Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina. As well as their associate members of Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Guyana, Ecuador and Suriname. (Venezuela has been suspended as of this writing.)<br />
<br />
This would decrease the chance of war. You won't have violent border disputes with someone on your own team. And non-allied countries would think twice about invading a given country when there are 4 to 8 other countries watching their back.<div>
<br />
This is a map showing the possible breakdown of the various unions. The key is that they voluntarily form these unions. The larger countries are already a union of smaller states, provinces or departments, so they have no need to unite with anyone. Beyond a certain size, bigger is not better. It is actually worse - having reached a point of diminishing returns, especially for small businesses.<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTaqE1oPgjLSTO1spJg0FmZbHi0KDGvdPsDkjVOoJMQYjz3IyO5rIpnfk_7T2dINVVfcWe8t8kKFTuvV3yQzGTLiYv40zradgoOLrQt2DdH-VoAhR2qX679X0r61ERJ0UvZdDgLhPNcCG_/s1600/Ideal-Political-Map-Colors.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="758" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTaqE1oPgjLSTO1spJg0FmZbHi0KDGvdPsDkjVOoJMQYjz3IyO5rIpnfk_7T2dINVVfcWe8t8kKFTuvV3yQzGTLiYv40zradgoOLrQt2DdH-VoAhR2qX679X0r61ERJ0UvZdDgLhPNcCG_/s640/Ideal-Political-Map-Colors.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
<br />
<br />
<div></div><blockquote><div>"If there is any place in the Guinness Book of World Records for words repeated the most often, over the most years, without one speck of evidence, “diversity” should be a prime candidate. </div></blockquote><blockquote><div>Is diversity our strength? Or anybody’s strength, anywhere in the world? . . . Have the Balkans been blessed by their heterogeneity — or does the very word “Balkanization” remind us of centuries of strife, bloodshed and unspeakable atrocities, extending into our own times? . . . </div></blockquote><blockquote><div>It has not been our diversity, but our ability to overcome the problems inherent in diversity, and to act together as Americans, that has been our strength." </div></blockquote><blockquote><div>- Thomas Sowell, <a href="https://spectator.org/is-diversity-our-stength/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Is Diversity Our Strength?</a> American Spectator; June 14, 2016</div></blockquote><p>Additional learning:</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/Uinema17UPA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Why Diversity Doesn't Work</a></p><p><br /></p><div></div></div></div></div></div>Michael Barthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17485606529000689080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966692812402905839.post-38203645592898226282017-02-15T18:28:00.002-08:002022-09-20T21:52:01.466-07:00Faith, without Works [in politics] Is Dead<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUJcfObj8NH6E3Pbr1f_eEncCQge0dG7soXmT9jghWA0AwSAmH1PPqS_CROrM5rRPN83kxP-e0nqGu1GmP_JOHfo26KPkp5GVPDkGi_qxU-ElMBDrCGcwgI279DGHKfuaF66VjorcA07po/s1600/547513.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUJcfObj8NH6E3Pbr1f_eEncCQge0dG7soXmT9jghWA0AwSAmH1PPqS_CROrM5rRPN83kxP-e0nqGu1GmP_JOHfo26KPkp5GVPDkGi_qxU-ElMBDrCGcwgI279DGHKfuaF66VjorcA07po/s400/547513.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br />
<h3>
Voting alone is not enough.</h3>
<div>
<br /></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I'm a little disappointed as a Mormon towards my fellow Mormons in the following way.<br />
<br />
Many have the tendency to believe that since the LDS church stays out of politics, the members themselves should also remain apolitical. And that is in spite of the church leadership’s repeated encouragement to <a href="http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/first-presidency-2016-letter-political-participation" target="_blank">get involved</a>. Oh, yeah. They'll vote. But that's about it.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Further, many will say, “It is in God’s hands. So I don’t have to worry about that.” But this is a classic example of “faith without works, is dead.” Can you imagine how disappointed God would be if we had that attitude toward our fellow man's needs? "Have faith my brother, but I think I'll stay my hand in helping you in your time of need because God will take care of you." Nope. It doesn't work that way. We are the instruments in God's hands to further his work.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Take the current attempt for state legislatures to call a Convention of States to propose much needed amendments to the Constitution that the US Congress will never propose. <a href="https://www.conventionofstates.com/solution" target="_blank">Article V</a> spells out that process clearly. And it will only work if the citizenry is engaged.<br />
<br />
<h3>
The Constitution was inspired to be USED, not hung on a wall.</h3>
<div>
<br /></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
One of the best loved LDS scriptures on the subject is <a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/101.80" target="_blank">Doctrine & Covenants 101:80</a>. </div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
And for this purpose have I established the Constitution of this land, by the hands of wise men whom I raised up unto this very purpose, and redeemed the land by the shedding of blood.</blockquote>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Many stop reading there, but <b>look at these nuggets</b> in the following verses, <a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/101.85-90?lang=eng" target="_blank">Doctrine & Covenants 101:85 to 90</a>.</div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Thus will I liken the children of Zion.<br />
Let them importune at the feet of the judge;<br />
And if he heed them not, let them importune at the feet of the governor;<br />
And if the governor heed them not, let them importune at the feet of the president;<br />
And if the president heed them not, then will the Lord arise and come forth out of his hiding place, and in his fury vex the nation;<br />
And in his hot displeasure, and in his fierce anger, in his time, will cut off those wicked, unfaithful, and unjust stewards, and appoint them their portion among hypocrites, and unbelievers;</blockquote>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<h3>
God will bless our nation AFTER we have exhausted our efforts.</h3>
<div>
<br /></div>
This is clear to me. God won’t bless our nation and restore our self-governing principles, until AFTER we do the work. The Lord will not “come forth out of his hiding place” and “vex the nation” until we have exhausted all of our own efforts. The silent majority has to wake up and <a href="https://www.conventionofstates.com/" target="_blank">DO something!</a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Politics can get dirty. But like farming, you have to get your hands dirty if you want to reap the harvest. And the harvest I speak of is the restoration of the Constitution's original intent that has been lost by the Federal government’s unchecked usurpations.<br />
<br />
What if Washington, Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson and the other founders decided to leave the politics of their day entirely in the hands of God? What if they never lifted a finger to fight the uphill battle for freedom and self-governance. Were would we be today?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Additional listening: <a href="https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucG9kY2FzdG9uZS5jb20vcG9kY2FzdD9jYXRlZ29yeUlEMj0xOTMw/episode/ZWNjMzg1YjAtNzY5MS00MmI4LWE5ODgtYWYxNDAxMGQ5NGQw?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjAiqvniqX6AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ" target="_blank">What Happens if We Do Nothing? LIVE from Redeemer Bible Church with John Benzinger</a></div>
Michael Barthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17485606529000689080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966692812402905839.post-3979313407279113072016-12-02T14:17:00.001-08:002022-08-25T16:03:38.825-07:00It's Getting Better All the Time: Global Cooling?<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHlSsJ-v25_1GBVsXetLW2eYyx2HW9FnvgrDB-Cm4zqzUmN1nrFB5h5ekdJQtl7E9lf150hhjAK-D939NjM6Sy62N6md5PiRBkghLlmDD19jVEoVGbnqy6duAxiq2NCOPcUtG0HfdcxTUP/s1600/screenhunter_1038-feb-11-18-32.gif" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHlSsJ-v25_1GBVsXetLW2eYyx2HW9FnvgrDB-Cm4zqzUmN1nrFB5h5ekdJQtl7E9lf150hhjAK-D939NjM6Sy62N6md5PiRBkghLlmDD19jVEoVGbnqy6duAxiq2NCOPcUtG0HfdcxTUP/s400/screenhunter_1038-feb-11-18-32.gif" width="275" /></a>I have a darn good memory. And one thing that has stuck in my mind is the fear we had during grade school of the pending disaster of a coming man-made Ice Age in our lifetime.<br />
<br />
We heard predictions like, "By 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half." and "Increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will affect the earth's temperature, leading to mass flooding or a new ice age." <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=bFAEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA5&vq=masks&pg=PA22">Life magazine</a><br />
<br />
Well, 1985 came and went and that never happened. What really happened is that human ingenuity found ways to make our water and air cleaner. And our standard of living much, much better and environmentally friendly - in spite of population growth and increased levels of CO2 being released worldwide.<br />
<br />
(Some history revisionists online are tying real hard to convince us that the scientific community and the media never warned of an ice age. Bah!)<br />
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRBID_iONvztZYxAvC6K6yPkuimP5CmREZNDAsmi-8XM7HkIYtuu9obzKtjW-vwtaJoJDNgqP-IdlO5BogzleXaACEyJ6tfNP7b71H0ZOvDT_b7VOxwgV6g-mIxiMS6hNpTvPRBpBbxV4g/s1600/globaltemps.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="394" data-original-width="623" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRBID_iONvztZYxAvC6K6yPkuimP5CmREZNDAsmi-8XM7HkIYtuu9obzKtjW-vwtaJoJDNgqP-IdlO5BogzleXaACEyJ6tfNP7b71H0ZOvDT_b7VOxwgV6g-mIxiMS6hNpTvPRBpBbxV4g/s400/globaltemps.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
Earth's climate has been been warmer during most of written history than it is today. Our climate today is similar to the worst of the "Little Ice Age" in the middle ages. That dip in temperature wreaked havoc on farming. So, I can understand the fear in the 70s of an ice age with that steady downward trend.<br />
<br />
But the current global warming hysteria makes no sense to me. Today's temperatures are still relatively cold.<br />
<br />
<br />
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1mfPS3kpbXIduKKxibcbbV_B1US_NqsTni6AFxdZZXWOPe7WxERRQlwTJXPTFEATh8fWH0K0a7CfDj8URZ_LakjICZFNxGomKqU4zimqHVZmIfK1ENsYVwJvb22U-DRDcQY8lpt9stWzS/s1600/trend.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="517" data-original-width="1000" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1mfPS3kpbXIduKKxibcbbV_B1US_NqsTni6AFxdZZXWOPe7WxERRQlwTJXPTFEATh8fWH0K0a7CfDj8URZ_LakjICZFNxGomKqU4zimqHVZmIfK1ENsYVwJvb22U-DRDcQY8lpt9stWzS/s400/trend.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yze1YAz_LYM&index=3&list=WL&t=0s" style="text-align: start;" target="_blank">Dan Britt</a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
We are not perfect and we have room for improvement, but I think I'll tune out the strident voices that tell us we need to make unreasonable and drastic changes, NOW - OR ELSE! I think you should, too. They are obviously profiting from it somehow and don't want their cash cow to dry up.<br />
<br />
Don't let the current predictions of doom keep you from investing in your future. Use the trends of the past to predict the future. Not computer models. The past shows us that things usually get better.<br />
<br /><a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/08/25/climate_change_forecasts_148097.html" target="_blank">Climate Change Forecasts</a><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yze1YAz_LYM&index=3&list=WL&t=0s" target="_blank">Dan Britt - Orbits and Ice Ages: The History of Climate</a> (learn how human activity stopped the natural cooling trend)<br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling" target="_blank">Wikipedia: Global Cooling</a><br />
<a href="http://science.sciencemag.org/content/173/3992/138" target="_blank">Science 09 Jul 1971: Vol. 173, Issue 3992, pp. 138-141</a><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42QuXLucH3Q" target="_blank">Is Most Published Research Wrong?</a><br />
<br />
<a href="http://isagreatplace.blogspot.com/2016/11/its-getter-better-all-time.html" target="_blank">Previous Article</a>Michael Barthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17485606529000689080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966692812402905839.post-56050544704158144822016-11-11T09:25:00.000-08:002022-01-20T23:10:43.151-08:00Let's Be Logical: UFOs Are NOT Alien Spacecraft<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAXFMSHpDTK-ryKj5wOSDkP-mC7qeDULwZcujTwqXouTOrwdcFtVHgRNMZXr5tLf7Z8HPqD9Vh3jA9uIfFu9RQBaN9U52A21lXEh0BRYZQV8a25OS0SN8PAwxT5hHnr49FjUrGs4vQNWeo/s1600/maxresdefault.jpg" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="724" data-original-width="1280" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAXFMSHpDTK-ryKj5wOSDkP-mC7qeDULwZcujTwqXouTOrwdcFtVHgRNMZXr5tLf7Z8HPqD9Vh3jA9uIfFu9RQBaN9U52A21lXEh0BRYZQV8a25OS0SN8PAwxT5hHnr49FjUrGs4vQNWeo/s320/maxresdefault.jpg" width="320" /></a></p>I used to be thrilled about the idea of aliens from other worlds flying around our planet in high-tech space ships. But then I grew up and realized something sad. <b>They aren't real. </b>The chances of them arriving are slim to none. Mainly, because the distances in space are just too incredibly, mind-boggling huge to support plausible interstellar space travel.<br /><br />The fastest that a ship can theoretically travel is the speed of light. And that is a highly dubious feat, since light waves and particles have near-zero mass.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKfPW-O0KtXDC8fDIzybFDorXIHYnulVHiIBaKH8a3teTVeczfAwz6SzoVreJOIzc93yKo-03_49zGMY49W2_vzgNa8eluNUT-SKiDU8ImrtwNnzh-m_YkmsPGVvr598cRkNQAhC68fIBA/s1600/maxresdefault-2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKfPW-O0KtXDC8fDIzybFDorXIHYnulVHiIBaKH8a3teTVeczfAwz6SzoVreJOIzc93yKo-03_49zGMY49W2_vzgNa8eluNUT-SKiDU8ImrtwNnzh-m_YkmsPGVvr598cRkNQAhC68fIBA/s320/maxresdefault-2.jpg" width="320" /></a>A massive space ship would be lucky to achieve half that speed. Faster than light warp-drives and worm holes are literary devices invented by science fiction writers to make it possible for their characters to get from place to place for their adventures. If they made their stories realistic, the books would be incredibly, painfully boring. Like a 100,000 pages of dialog as the characters take centuries to travel from place to place.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6yf2nz8Zsn0-TooYRdx177zO7ttw44offOlcggN32SrKIKXd899Q3xijA18JP9AwgKgF7k4ybAP8Gq2PD25oybahzB7kh6u-HVKfdrAOc-n-nf027x5HIUv6o3qpuSJC0v6VKTP7J4Bl5/s1600/sig2.jpgde4c1e87-494d-4398-902f-6bd0156032f3Original.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6yf2nz8Zsn0-TooYRdx177zO7ttw44offOlcggN32SrKIKXd899Q3xijA18JP9AwgKgF7k4ybAP8Gq2PD25oybahzB7kh6u-HVKfdrAOc-n-nf027x5HIUv6o3qpuSJC0v6VKTP7J4Bl5/s200/sig2.jpgde4c1e87-494d-4398-902f-6bd0156032f3Original.jpg" width="200" /></a><br />The nearest yellow star, like our sun, is 4.7 light years away. And as far as we can tell, there are no planets that can support life. Looking further, there are only 64 yellow stars within 50 light years away. And the odds that another habitable planet out of the infinite universe just happened to be so close to ours is near zero probability.<br /><br />But let's say there is one such planet that close. And those inhabitants have the technology to send a ship here to observe us. One that can fly in and out of our atmosphere, defying gravity, maneuvering in incredibly wild ways, fly ultrasonic without creating a sonic boom or maybe even have cloaking capabilities - à la Klingon warbird.<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsA_b9JyUGmV6l5ghQP1J9_YsZCMzQ94TIfnuButFOQNA56ljR541WHmuaaH9VhSBkMUQgxiAyDM-mmJ3XDRICvtuh7Qy__mfmStprAvhMnyNzIqqXO_YGgI8sUFWGlcPwrBQhFfrZV9M/s1600/australia-ufo-660x400%25402x.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="660" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsA_b9JyUGmV6l5ghQP1J9_YsZCMzQ94TIfnuButFOQNA56ljR541WHmuaaH9VhSBkMUQgxiAyDM-mmJ3XDRICvtuh7Qy__mfmStprAvhMnyNzIqqXO_YGgI8sUFWGlcPwrBQhFfrZV9M/s400/australia-ufo-660x400%25402x.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My favorite UFO photo. A light fixture reflected in the window<br />through which the photo was taken.</td></tr></tbody></table>Don't forget that this ship would have taken centuries to reach us, and if those aliens live that long, they would have a long, boring drive. Or their children's children's children would be the ones to finish the mission. (Mom! Are we there, yet?) If they traveled twice as fast as the fastest current space drive we humans possess then it would take 640,000 years. Wow! Even if they sent a drone with artificial intelligence, the ones who stayed behind would not get the results of such a mission for a 1000 years.<br /><br />What then, would be the point? Unless they wanted to make contact and use our planet for something important like an outpost or a colony, sending a probe to watch (and probe) us would seem incredibly boring to them and a waste of time and effort and money (if they use money). Kind of like us sending a submersible to study sea slugs and waiting 20 lifetimes for the results.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieq0ihaUGib_mvyFP5SzeXHtHw6zIb2i2CuFhDnj8BGAWSxMj7rSgCBfakbdmxdUFPNEle3ToHFVKFknIFAwF_GbobA9_mx-djz8apOcxK2HTTKUvHYELfiNfPf2YyvuQz_pAj4GNIn_ZA/s1600/crash.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1000" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieq0ihaUGib_mvyFP5SzeXHtHw6zIb2i2CuFhDnj8BGAWSxMj7rSgCBfakbdmxdUFPNEle3ToHFVKFknIFAwF_GbobA9_mx-djz8apOcxK2HTTKUvHYELfiNfPf2YyvuQz_pAj4GNIn_ZA/s320/crash.jpg" width="320" /></a>Another nail in the coffin is the fact that sightings have not increased much in the <a href="http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/ndxpost.html" target="_blank">20 years</a> they have been keeping track of sightings in earnest. Yet the world population has grown by 30%. That's a heck of a lot more eyes. You would think sightings would have gone up by the same percentage.<br /><br /><br />Also, smartphone usage has gone from 0 to almost 1.5 billion in just the last 10 years. You would think that with all those high-resolution cameras clicking selfies, there would be some pretty good images of our alien visitors by now. But the images we see are still the same blurry, shaky footage that we saw in the 1970s. Where is the improvement? The only improvement seems to be in stunning CGI manipulation. That doesn't instill much confidence. With all the Photoshopped, nonsensical click-bait around, even if we did get to see the latest space ship in all it's glorious detail, it would be suspicious because so many people are creating hoaxes these days with their editing software.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxYFO-xxNhhPfWXkqV32arWzUrgYiYz9PSiqd7hoby5rS_ygP42qBGwmxXrQouhVhTWLwZyBuzD1nj3GzCf0MVzejZ59cM1U7F1FollHge1A8476EaNRu3u5AGRSr5BI55DhM3NFflJb4T/s1600/metero002.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="562" data-original-width="950" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxYFO-xxNhhPfWXkqV32arWzUrgYiYz9PSiqd7hoby5rS_ygP42qBGwmxXrQouhVhTWLwZyBuzD1nj3GzCf0MVzejZ59cM1U7F1FollHge1A8476EaNRu3u5AGRSr5BI55DhM3NFflJb4T/s400/metero002.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />And what about all the outdoor security cameras and dashboard cameras and body cameras in use today compared to even 10 years ago. Where is the footage? Come on! We can find footage of the latest terrorist bombing or meteor strike or plane crash, but no UFOs? Why is that?<br /><br />Maybe everyone should stop pointing their cameras at kittens and point them at the sky.Michael Barthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17485606529000689080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966692812402905839.post-5632001353666015152016-10-26T17:14:00.004-07:002022-02-19T11:56:11.643-08:00PragerU: Overview 101<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
Consider this is a jumping off point if you are just starting to learn about the important issues that are tearing America apart. I've highlighted the most important and informative videos from Prager University to get you up to speed quickly.
<br />
<br />
The silent majority has to push back on the deliberate destruction of this wonderful world by the progressive elite pushing their leftist ideas. After decades of eloquent, right-leaning thinkers being prohibited to voice their views in the mainstream, it is refreshing to see that these ideas finally have a platform.<br />
<br />
The mainstream media, academia, Hollywood and the Democratic Party have overtly moved so far left lately that they now alienate classic liberal thinkers. These liberal voices now find an accepting audience among the right. Many of the presenters of these videos would have been in opposition to the conservative camp just a few years ago. Now they are friendly to the conservative movement since even their center-left ideas are coming under attack by the extreme left who have entrenched themselves in the mainstream.<br />
<br />
<h3 style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: orange;">---------------- Left vs Right -----------------</span></h3>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikvzCdLKFMr_fqhibW5MNqK4SuhXNhFudz5TBXUl0yn5zyoSfmUyz67Nu4tZxjKKcwxvMSWIo9cEY-d3s0nmGK08NRB0qb82BnfcpiCqQfC-N0ehZ3_GUbSSDRTymQRT_I2feeSZT0OSId/s1600/rubintolerance_thumbnail_1280x720.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikvzCdLKFMr_fqhibW5MNqK4SuhXNhFudz5TBXUl0yn5zyoSfmUyz67Nu4tZxjKKcwxvMSWIo9cEY-d3s0nmGK08NRB0qb82BnfcpiCqQfC-N0ehZ3_GUbSSDRTymQRT_I2feeSZT0OSId/s1600/rubintolerance_thumbnail_1280x720.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35AxkSgQUTI" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">So, You Think You're Tolerant?</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</div>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuBUPI5mrdKPxGIw3Yc0u3GHZ_waZkHILIKJEiGAl__4CVjfhSPMR9E3l_lMHUnVPW4ChRvqW8ShVhTlY2B5sq1ejKoenF0pKbi52gEVUnFWDNhJHs-S_ClaxMJF9E7X0kTtRbULki5vbH/s1600/is_fascism_right_or_left-thumbnail1080-notitle.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuBUPI5mrdKPxGIw3Yc0u3GHZ_waZkHILIKJEiGAl__4CVjfhSPMR9E3l_lMHUnVPW4ChRvqW8ShVhTlY2B5sq1ejKoenF0pKbi52gEVUnFWDNhJHs-S_ClaxMJF9E7X0kTtRbULki5vbH/s1600/is_fascism_right_or_left-thumbnail1080-notitle.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6bSsaVL6gA" target="_blank">Is Fascism Right or Left?</a></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhqf8q30gWtIUYq1RvNicBYnq0GjQsb-nTG0gArUA7xGePjpRn27GQ1y0htXNX85foBLbaCtb0mQ92MPt45lN6e_nfe9XLBKNbVGXIXKi0cT2-sS_yefflchijN9dkR3xaEc2O5s-e2J6M/s1600/coolidge-the-best-president-you-dont-know.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhqf8q30gWtIUYq1RvNicBYnq0GjQsb-nTG0gArUA7xGePjpRn27GQ1y0htXNX85foBLbaCtb0mQ92MPt45lN6e_nfe9XLBKNbVGXIXKi0cT2-sS_yefflchijN9dkR3xaEc2O5s-e2J6M/s1600/coolidge-the-best-president-you-dont-know.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcINPY21pVA" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Coolidge: The Best President You Don't Know</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuR4NqDGSNwGbVlds07rOsVaggGEPqEh6s1wpGdk4R-OqIhjzHGS09kK4aYLJUstjI5ci-wwSufi0BmrKWHalrsATJWCJyBHzzgMfDy_T4VrIYbCnNzwBS-8HVP5gdlD5JKsJhxv1uI08R/s1600/why-i-left-the-left-banner.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuR4NqDGSNwGbVlds07rOsVaggGEPqEh6s1wpGdk4R-OqIhjzHGS09kK4aYLJUstjI5ci-wwSufi0BmrKWHalrsATJWCJyBHzzgMfDy_T4VrIYbCnNzwBS-8HVP5gdlD5JKsJhxv1uI08R/s1600/why-i-left-the-left-banner.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiVQ8vrGA_8" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Why I Left the Left</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">
</h3>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBhwFxWCTNMzz4H2D0JuA4T_81jAhXEC2UjqxE5d7bPunGIy83auVKdr09-TFx-IJSD-hW4-XVbakL0o6hYW2Z6ft4OCcLXMiXocklp9U1GLERXTsmQRAj8m5zTzpjO-FibgwYAEtTD4II/s1600/benjaminowen_whyyoucantargue_thumbnail_1280x720.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBhwFxWCTNMzz4H2D0JuA4T_81jAhXEC2UjqxE5d7bPunGIy83auVKdr09-TFx-IJSD-hW4-XVbakL0o6hYW2Z6ft4OCcLXMiXocklp9U1GLERXTsmQRAj8m5zTzpjO-FibgwYAEtTD4II/s1600/benjaminowen_whyyoucantargue_thumbnail_1280x720.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeAYNn5cFwY" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Why You Can't Argue with a Leftist</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXkHl9CcEzkj9uRJb4pcyzgmBc35f0Wcl6p5EmiJxTMXcOjt1IyGhL7NKAbmtenSzM68Z56kMFQwsHYaFafULjfkRw8HOO3vsoGeHnG4SIXpQERtqnkCcoPGQAWz55ZEdJV1Cq48bGFQuu/s1600/6obhv7aa-720.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="406" data-original-width="720" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXkHl9CcEzkj9uRJb4pcyzgmBc35f0Wcl6p5EmiJxTMXcOjt1IyGhL7NKAbmtenSzM68Z56kMFQwsHYaFafULjfkRw8HOO3vsoGeHnG4SIXpQERtqnkCcoPGQAWz55ZEdJV1Cq48bGFQuu/s400/6obhv7aa-720.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXbR3oADwaM" target="_blank">The Left Ruins Everything</a></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: orange;"><br /></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: orange;">---------------- U. S. Constitution ----------------</span></h3>
<div>
<br /></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8YP4uguvEdDnavkLO2ABuKKkALEf6x_rev5tQJd9X9LlnNMroCQboEAlhqWQWz88tlPjCP0IbQXC62hP412cklhMOHszGICTHGpNexQEp1Pdd-F2oRBvD4xyNmWmRuCVS2ClOrbfiFdmQ/s1600/did-the-founding-fathers-believe-in-god-banner.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8YP4uguvEdDnavkLO2ABuKKkALEf6x_rev5tQJd9X9LlnNMroCQboEAlhqWQWz88tlPjCP0IbQXC62hP412cklhMOHszGICTHGpNexQEp1Pdd-F2oRBvD4xyNmWmRuCVS2ClOrbfiFdmQ/s1600/did-the-founding-fathers-believe-in-god-banner.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/uDFsG4xzfDw" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Were the Founders Religious?</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkUJ2yUXn3VklzfLdtm0CBgDQRV7tIPXg-1QqnJe6sjaPbgPR4OU2pyjSSqAZaTxr2XczHMg_CGx7epWI4E8GFVd00MJvunKIMLHy-6VFRUMaQHOIMmaUNofSLN6Jigri3CSUsdetnZui_/s1600/swain_3-5thcomp_thumbnail_1280x720.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkUJ2yUXn3VklzfLdtm0CBgDQRV7tIPXg-1QqnJe6sjaPbgPR4OU2pyjSSqAZaTxr2XczHMg_CGx7epWI4E8GFVd00MJvunKIMLHy-6VFRUMaQHOIMmaUNofSLN6Jigri3CSUsdetnZui_/s1600/swain_3-5thcomp_thumbnail_1280x720.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://youtu.be/giBRnKRWR6M" target="_blank">Why the 3/5ths Compromise Was Anti-Slavery</a></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</div>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><br />
<br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0_MMUBRlcte5LbSxUauQe5-BsoUPJNR2eX5UwTMhYK65FO_edB8dGQnvoBzvAYDtis05Nf-hAcAhXRXJfj1_Q2p6eDgXzQTCpHGbfPc7Mq4PfQU1jdBNHCgevvXNRkDTQn3wwKhAB4WnQ/s1600/how_the_states_can_save_america-banner.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0_MMUBRlcte5LbSxUauQe5-BsoUPJNR2eX5UwTMhYK65FO_edB8dGQnvoBzvAYDtis05Nf-hAcAhXRXJfj1_Q2p6eDgXzQTCpHGbfPc7Mq4PfQU1jdBNHCgevvXNRkDTQn3wwKhAB4WnQ/s1600/how_the_states_can_save_america-banner.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/td7SXuv1LG8" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">How the States Can Save America</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7B5jRWPXcvNzKLf4N4Mg1wr9e4q_5txW8EFKGsZUfHpTcqkWOiSo81lZVnAE-V45pL7zBlbv2o1yzl99lSPekKpOvf799_n4Wyey9qCLKyKOo8UJ8PygCv00tnJRHgu2lYaowHEykV_s1/s1600/do-you-understand-the-electoral-college.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7B5jRWPXcvNzKLf4N4Mg1wr9e4q_5txW8EFKGsZUfHpTcqkWOiSo81lZVnAE-V45pL7zBlbv2o1yzl99lSPekKpOvf799_n4Wyey9qCLKyKOo8UJ8PygCv00tnJRHgu2lYaowHEykV_s1/s1600/do-you-understand-the-electoral-college.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://youtu.be/V6s7jB6-GoU" target="_blank">Do You Understand the Electoral College?</a></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<h3>
</h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: orange;"><br /></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: orange;">---------------- History ----------------</span></h3>
<div>
<span style="color: orange;"><br /></span></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfUkBnb7R0kCYIY1t-vCfoHWFJWcqCxjglKW1l-3E8Xvo8hts9RbuCJC1A6FzJDZXGGu73G8q9cNNAC98CnfLRc_u9mtdSuRnBTQt5hCywSFk-FyqJyrx77V9uz8YYQ2TP4SnzMcjkac18/s1600/5minvideo_thumbnails_cornilssteve_howthereformationshapedyourworld_1280x720.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfUkBnb7R0kCYIY1t-vCfoHWFJWcqCxjglKW1l-3E8Xvo8hts9RbuCJC1A6FzJDZXGGu73G8q9cNNAC98CnfLRc_u9mtdSuRnBTQt5hCywSFk-FyqJyrx77V9uz8YYQ2TP4SnzMcjkac18/s1600/5minvideo_thumbnails_cornilssteve_howthereformationshapedyourworld_1280x720.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/NCbhlC_sThY" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">How the Reformation Shaped Your World</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div>
<br /></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihX1P1AGSGJ3GTogHAzm1eS9Kxwfnwzkw7KSpQJbXWyP2cDjucumxvDeqlexz4r68vZnGu1CBkurZAf_I3BqsQvd2OZEhi3od1GJIMKciYxNGk6gcz_XSROpYJd0wz2fgIRPNGbv8MMBHZ/s1600/w22hc3ws-720.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="406" data-original-width="720" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihX1P1AGSGJ3GTogHAzm1eS9Kxwfnwzkw7KSpQJbXWyP2cDjucumxvDeqlexz4r68vZnGu1CBkurZAf_I3BqsQvd2OZEhi3od1GJIMKciYxNGk6gcz_XSROpYJd0wz2fgIRPNGbv8MMBHZ/s400/w22hc3ws-720.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://youtu.be/RVD0xik-_FM" target="_blank">Why Has The West Been So Successful?</a></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWoFZd_fq7LzG2aQ38WOxte6xyfrbk9ctBGaF6JiGwMokoJkcKBa2WE7zuI2anGMjIIMZ35Fvf5VtBUqp7V8_Ff84evk0-NbLDYQwW0knrRgqd9OSLB4Gq4Z-g0YdVskyrLm46XxegL0N8/s1600/rhodehameljohn_georgewashington_thumbnail_1280x720.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWoFZd_fq7LzG2aQ38WOxte6xyfrbk9ctBGaF6JiGwMokoJkcKBa2WE7zuI2anGMjIIMZ35Fvf5VtBUqp7V8_Ff84evk0-NbLDYQwW0knrRgqd9OSLB4Gq4Z-g0YdVskyrLm46XxegL0N8/s1600/rhodehameljohn_georgewashington_thumbnail_1280x720.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/D7FFtMlm4V0" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">What Made George Washington Great?</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6JwQq5fCZFLzlxND_VGe44SmbYYhubljr6veMzQoDtTUrhhFYazPubAKPvDUVLBHTMrv-PIIdiqDPAvz5jNLmDIrsyisJ1YTbOqmxrUfhorqTOsEh5sddb_OVPUgosDbOYg8TBAqgyXqa/s1600/religious-tolerance-made-in-america.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6JwQq5fCZFLzlxND_VGe44SmbYYhubljr6veMzQoDtTUrhhFYazPubAKPvDUVLBHTMrv-PIIdiqDPAvz5jNLmDIrsyisJ1YTbOqmxrUfhorqTOsEh5sddb_OVPUgosDbOYg8TBAqgyXqa/s1600/religious-tolerance-made-in-america.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://youtu.be/TVcTSLsS3WE" target="_blank">Religious Tolerance: Made in America</a></span><br />
<br />
<br /></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3bygQEwUEK96RPEIHT_wv8U1nUrRJN9ZOv5cXtAgwwMcdhM0Rtc7pXbCOHSdwhL9x0owhb902y0SezEHfrFEg841X7bD8b_6z5_kpG6XiLWfVeT-A_fv79d54PaLAXjJ8mx7Ree2MPrGd/s1600/5minvideo_thumbnails_tartakovskyjoseph_hamilton_1280x720-2.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3bygQEwUEK96RPEIHT_wv8U1nUrRJN9ZOv5cXtAgwwMcdhM0Rtc7pXbCOHSdwhL9x0owhb902y0SezEHfrFEg841X7bD8b_6z5_kpG6XiLWfVeT-A_fv79d54PaLAXjJ8mx7Ree2MPrGd/s1600/5minvideo_thumbnails_tartakovskyjoseph_hamilton_1280x720-2.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/MNWX7hgTK4c" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Hamilton: The Man Who Invented America</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj55d9p8Qv05zqCh_J73roDV1WQQkA45VW-TqUlzsbHPC1KqHJxCfPOf5xhmybaROlel8v5nIfJLXvbKFChjTEYFvcMZdJRUS-zSSuzZ98pNdBvai8PNenYOYPcyDf4e_Quum4MWJzaFMkt/s1600/6ahz7gxh-720.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="404" data-original-width="720" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj55d9p8Qv05zqCh_J73roDV1WQQkA45VW-TqUlzsbHPC1KqHJxCfPOf5xhmybaROlel8v5nIfJLXvbKFChjTEYFvcMZdJRUS-zSSuzZ98pNdBvai8PNenYOYPcyDf4e_Quum4MWJzaFMkt/s400/6ahz7gxh-720.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://youtu.be/icOFEc5uVts" target="_blank">Reconstruction: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly</a></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgP8zm4G4e3LXWiRUGUgZRXZz__3omCk5dXQawHrfIBUn5-lkAcGpA1d8aCNMhPv0xLammdbk-N6Ku4zYCP9MCH3wQylOKVritSIcjc0hMRrBIshlQr9pMg206l4hlrbhv4h7s0C8ujD7o/s1600/the-history-of-the-democratic-party.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgP8zm4G4e3LXWiRUGUgZRXZz__3omCk5dXQawHrfIBUn5-lkAcGpA1d8aCNMhPv0xLammdbk-N6Ku4zYCP9MCH3wQylOKVritSIcjc0hMRrBIshlQr9pMg206l4hlrbhv4h7s0C8ujD7o/s1600/the-history-of-the-democratic-party.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/g_a7dQXilCo" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">The Inconvenient Truth About the Democratic Party</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBwMhzYLgcoeXRc7fz4h6nnJHJbYo4H3nVA-kFSPn15s9RZDeTFMonBRH_eUYJgdZu7q3U2sQkeMGjxpmSuK46mZLSGEiNdr7ySMC16lQJDMDul1qnKfmrybTKD-Kj9e4K1VQjCiQ-NG_h/s1600/truth-about-the-republican-party-feature.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBwMhzYLgcoeXRc7fz4h6nnJHJbYo4H3nVA-kFSPn15s9RZDeTFMonBRH_eUYJgdZu7q3U2sQkeMGjxpmSuK46mZLSGEiNdr7ySMC16lQJDMDul1qnKfmrybTKD-Kj9e4K1VQjCiQ-NG_h/s1600/truth-about-the-republican-party-feature.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/OURy5WFp0zk" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">The Inconvenient Truth About the Republican Party</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div>
<br /></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsESUY8vGzcwrUuyNXJjSuzqy6_yupDC172z-sk50dzjjZteCOsxpFGK0Cb6gpRcPSR0slNX8206J6VsDe-sEVhnvBGsPAOUr1vvf_Y6_0rKGHrbK76lRWuVFQDERAjr9qeCAKnIyx_P-J/s1600/c5ncc9vy-720.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="406" data-original-width="720" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsESUY8vGzcwrUuyNXJjSuzqy6_yupDC172z-sk50dzjjZteCOsxpFGK0Cb6gpRcPSR0slNX8206J6VsDe-sEVhnvBGsPAOUr1vvf_Y6_0rKGHrbK76lRWuVFQDERAjr9qeCAKnIyx_P-J/s400/c5ncc9vy-720.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://youtu.be/RYulzUPHqOY" target="_blank">The Chicago Fire: America at Its Best</a></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZUxU9lkqN5zgkAWHqC8cbbQFgvrhnSdv14BXLpjPg6F-_jl_h8fFZjs10haSYVoa2ywvPVpSAeCj45FLeLASVdpZeflZBS1CI7-fu6-RcwuHWzJgI__Q7uZPwKg7vmzyN1vRB_TtZfjH2/s1600/southern_strategy_thumbnail_6_1200x415.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZUxU9lkqN5zgkAWHqC8cbbQFgvrhnSdv14BXLpjPg6F-_jl_h8fFZjs10haSYVoa2ywvPVpSAeCj45FLeLASVdpZeflZBS1CI7-fu6-RcwuHWzJgI__Q7uZPwKg7vmzyN1vRB_TtZfjH2/s1600/southern_strategy_thumbnail_6_1200x415.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/UiprVX4os2Y" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Why Did the Democratic South Become Republican?</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div>
<br /></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggyLEkY0hTtNGAjZUAYlM1guS4eCBfzGv2tOZRT_dxh8qwwzNwQCneNUNk2ibR_5UBinPYCPnzW406eeQK7Y26xA2-HPIc4KPR8SJ4-LHeVJrvT-uVbJ64NGgNg8eNnCJFsSZJqI6zhtiL/s1600/robertsandrew_wwi_website.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggyLEkY0hTtNGAjZUAYlM1guS4eCBfzGv2tOZRT_dxh8qwwzNwQCneNUNk2ibR_5UBinPYCPnzW406eeQK7Y26xA2-HPIc4KPR8SJ4-LHeVJrvT-uVbJ64NGgNg8eNnCJFsSZJqI6zhtiL/s1600/robertsandrew_wwi_website.png" style="cursor: move;" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://youtu.be/J9lWdkCxXYg" target="_blank">WWI: The War That Changed Everything</a></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB1zDol9g-8fmFWMAgdNRmhJGuL32rIx94Mz7LTuiYlOKivH3wl8QFWBDAKQuqvIYRNkdAwp3w6L8DMg0N-9JfN8NwRz7pCzErfn-Fxv_UYGx2XCYdEeoHgtyfQ78KgIw9BFrZuRtTixSF/s1600/roberts_coldwar_thumb_website.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB1zDol9g-8fmFWMAgdNRmhJGuL32rIx94Mz7LTuiYlOKivH3wl8QFWBDAKQuqvIYRNkdAwp3w6L8DMg0N-9JfN8NwRz7pCzErfn-Fxv_UYGx2XCYdEeoHgtyfQ78KgIw9BFrZuRtTixSF/s1600/roberts_coldwar_thumb_website.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/-QopdZ7G8ww" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">What Was the Cold War?</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijRSlhVT45pw5n8IXELDeEe1d_7dxZQouiLfzNRDOoDzQ06DH3bqt4bwfzTiQDsmOiy1Lr7C07MNFYj2eS9rXxAWzxc0ViOlmdBwJWQRcmFBF2eGwUVY_eRNEkk-3EUtyZgdb5T1lwx-4Q/s1600/vietnam-temp.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijRSlhVT45pw5n8IXELDeEe1d_7dxZQouiLfzNRDOoDzQ06DH3bqt4bwfzTiQDsmOiy1Lr7C07MNFYj2eS9rXxAWzxc0ViOlmdBwJWQRcmFBF2eGwUVY_eRNEkk-3EUtyZgdb5T1lwx-4Q/s1600/vietnam-temp.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/EunyfX-Zjo4" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Why Did America Fight the Vietnam War?</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: orange;"><br /></span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: orange;">---------------- Media Bias ----------------</span></h3>
<br />
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwW9dqSA2IHQXWm7DKVzbilXdHXuOnDNnxWRQGggGre9min8dfGPUg2fvlLsX51Zviu24klR-gxlVY-JlzUXfyqL90vzI676TfC-EvJjNfktwdgb5KmjFE_PpeBhEZ-jmsKKgaOovYQCTk/s1600/why-no-one-trusts-the-mainstream-media-feature.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwW9dqSA2IHQXWm7DKVzbilXdHXuOnDNnxWRQGggGre9min8dfGPUg2fvlLsX51Zviu24klR-gxlVY-JlzUXfyqL90vzI676TfC-EvJjNfktwdgb5KmjFE_PpeBhEZ-jmsKKgaOovYQCTk/s1600/why-no-one-trusts-the-mainstream-media-feature.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/4pzZvMzotMc" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Why No One Trusts the Mainstream Media</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLKBJAL_rRr8h7ywx9xC4fb0hQLfw39Ap6-MfsX0TN3wtEnwogq65rNrt1dJ3G32Cl6p3HKBISn09nYnr8x58aGQ6WQaqRtbCBdwALN-DizfMsAuPM0l7PA_2IaiTzRgPwe30H1CbkSWJo/s1600/what-is-fake-news.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLKBJAL_rRr8h7ywx9xC4fb0hQLfw39Ap6-MfsX0TN3wtEnwogq65rNrt1dJ3G32Cl6p3HKBISn09nYnr8x58aGQ6WQaqRtbCBdwALN-DizfMsAuPM0l7PA_2IaiTzRgPwe30H1CbkSWJo/s1600/what-is-fake-news.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/FOZ0irgLwxU" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">What Is Fake News?</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmFDKvjKsf0LSwYI6H_yz3J2OxjfZ8ZfqCGroPLUyzW5jYvONF3XdvLpNjozB39knlGlWfl-hHmi-iAG_0t2d9Qsa0eCxPdeqsH7bLC2igRyGY6zY-IXzOgvdo0AMSRsXUJk_5o5qYQu9W/s1600/vl8ag572-720.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="406" data-original-width="720" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmFDKvjKsf0LSwYI6H_yz3J2OxjfZ8ZfqCGroPLUyzW5jYvONF3XdvLpNjozB39knlGlWfl-hHmi-iAG_0t2d9Qsa0eCxPdeqsH7bLC2igRyGY6zY-IXzOgvdo0AMSRsXUJk_5o5qYQu9W/s400/vl8ag572-720.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://youtu.be/KiJS_VjaNKQ" target="_blank">AJ+ Is Al Jazeera</a></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: orange;">---------------- Immigration ----------------</span></h3>
<div>
<br /></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVALNVGpU7tKNxl-cbxT4eq2C5b1GkojX16nMy_GtIJwnxqUDiBMg35xHCuii073fvTu22Y0IMNKaGNfO7O_1K6GMtx7YyC7uhtBbkpZ9ZtqkGLg4HwOVznjrf4drO3qAkfNiXYr3GZlrv/s1600/j3hov3ks-720.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="406" data-original-width="720" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVALNVGpU7tKNxl-cbxT4eq2C5b1GkojX16nMy_GtIJwnxqUDiBMg35xHCuii073fvTu22Y0IMNKaGNfO7O_1K6GMtx7YyC7uhtBbkpZ9ZtqkGLg4HwOVznjrf4drO3qAkfNiXYr3GZlrv/s400/j3hov3ks-720.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://youtu.be/XGMZVE_Nu8A" target="_blank">A Fine Time to Become an American</a></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzpc1kR6He2hSxeRuvK0pC7WxOc_w8ZEVcUugLPhtCy1SGTOOtXrWrsIPZ6tMXwe9V9kWBra0Q8mpNmCcl0VzLg-ou-MmHxFapoPbr2TVEdXsLQTlN0degxun_ZqNuRR68s6hOJocYhIcA/s1600/salamreihan_betterimmigration_thumbnail_1280x720.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzpc1kR6He2hSxeRuvK0pC7WxOc_w8ZEVcUugLPhtCy1SGTOOtXrWrsIPZ6tMXwe9V9kWBra0Q8mpNmCcl0VzLg-ou-MmHxFapoPbr2TVEdXsLQTlN0degxun_ZqNuRR68s6hOJocYhIcA/s1600/salamreihan_betterimmigration_thumbnail_1280x720.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://youtu.be/NL_i8Ndgpvg" target="_blank">America Wants Legal Immigrants</a></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4fFp-inufiXSoXWcjKLiyAXyh75KbuMq3tyMfoOFi-KboabltsQllKMJUmPzdAijBhwH-EkfNJughDc60TwbjLCMH1Z0zD_-ryFhKQqahFSN_qYcRtQLPxCe7qJ6ZZklmOSOzXu14Najw/s1600/build-a-wall.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4fFp-inufiXSoXWcjKLiyAXyh75KbuMq3tyMfoOFi-KboabltsQllKMJUmPzdAijBhwH-EkfNJughDc60TwbjLCMH1Z0zD_-ryFhKQqahFSN_qYcRtQLPxCe7qJ6ZZklmOSOzXu14Najw/s1600/build-a-wall.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/_nLPsFeSw4Y" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Build the Wall</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipOIbqJMXxuhB98y2VY_CI3m5yg3U-IxAiWHB2sglne6I2TDmrqQ_YGvrGpKcwhUBy6QU2fLBvofmRdTI5QKYV_KVV32MPhyphenhyphenV0O0cZKQpAi-L-JEdz68bcEIQEHCbsudojO4oDaGQNC7ao/s1600/immigrant-dont-vote-for-what-you-fled.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipOIbqJMXxuhB98y2VY_CI3m5yg3U-IxAiWHB2sglne6I2TDmrqQ_YGvrGpKcwhUBy6QU2fLBvofmRdTI5QKYV_KVV32MPhyphenhyphenV0O0cZKQpAi-L-JEdz68bcEIQEHCbsudojO4oDaGQNC7ao/s1600/immigrant-dont-vote-for-what-you-fled.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/10uX2EhSflA" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Immigrants! Don't Vote for What You Fled</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyD2SEyBFAjaTuYPIQRrl49uFo6er4wpEA6Whpa6RmvkN5Q7T_DTUjTEDRmH9Zyuf-qz96no5sTm5RBXSdnEkwjHUZIWi3rvhd4QmI9OOTryLdwMiUO0HyywDFYWJgFxuEduniNlvLpM2b/s1600/thumbnails_carlsontucker_1280x720.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyD2SEyBFAjaTuYPIQRrl49uFo6er4wpEA6Whpa6RmvkN5Q7T_DTUjTEDRmH9Zyuf-qz96no5sTm5RBXSdnEkwjHUZIWi3rvhd4QmI9OOTryLdwMiUO0HyywDFYWJgFxuEduniNlvLpM2b/s1600/thumbnails_carlsontucker_1280x720.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/qUU2iWxrH2M" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Illegal Immigration: It's About Power</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<h3 style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: orange;">---------------- Capitalism vs Marxism ----------------</span></h3>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFqLPLm9WGpQx0Jn80qRZRzkfHAk2sjL2ol-NVEGbgYeN50MVAiJngGpl-8hvtFO2WthGUjQUan-uLcr6OZj1nWCDvfbN09hmozsJlOXVt8Dk2LeQCFTORe8C0bQoh9ue0W94rqzkgA3ui/s1600/0wb6hpyh-720.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="406" data-original-width="720" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFqLPLm9WGpQx0Jn80qRZRzkfHAk2sjL2ol-NVEGbgYeN50MVAiJngGpl-8hvtFO2WthGUjQUan-uLcr6OZj1nWCDvfbN09hmozsJlOXVt8Dk2LeQCFTORe8C0bQoh9ue0W94rqzkgA3ui/s400/0wb6hpyh-720.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://youtu.be/Fdfru9NHGvE" target="_blank">Capitalism vs. Socialism</a></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjenOkmA0RMSN3_71x9edbOZLNq4mIOQ-STqfVb3ddrqzSh9nli-Fas4dGIBjKBDvoPXoPYXg4seRQH1pW6LhSuvcmrZUxrFwD9l-9IaY6Fc-IIKhkcqR2_f_0XVQn5SPAl7uLU3NOSpIPs/s1600/5minvideo_thumbnails_kengor_karlmarx_1280x720.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjenOkmA0RMSN3_71x9edbOZLNq4mIOQ-STqfVb3ddrqzSh9nli-Fas4dGIBjKBDvoPXoPYXg4seRQH1pW6LhSuvcmrZUxrFwD9l-9IaY6Fc-IIKhkcqR2_f_0XVQn5SPAl7uLU3NOSpIPs/s1600/5minvideo_thumbnails_kengor_karlmarx_1280x720.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/UhEkJ4noN68" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Who Is Karl Marx?</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZLq0-YIaPA8C0ungh9C1ygFqszco1lsCgsxKeY15tFMXY_qoBrUawA2YbQs53cWXw9sPUHWJ6r29SSUxfuhuPOQbaJFdOEc-4bRsSemdZivKej5o52Ljf3PMwVCmYKF8LIc3pHzSGlQ7k/s1600/how-socialism-ruined-my-country.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZLq0-YIaPA8C0ungh9C1ygFqszco1lsCgsxKeY15tFMXY_qoBrUawA2YbQs53cWXw9sPUHWJ6r29SSUxfuhuPOQbaJFdOEc-4bRsSemdZivKej5o52Ljf3PMwVCmYKF8LIc3pHzSGlQ7k/s1600/how-socialism-ruined-my-country.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/bKhR9i5CGkA" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">How Socialism Ruined My Country</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<h4>
</h4>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga6avw2mWIk1ii6un1AXFA84pJ70qeXAmwrjtHvNNIGRNcs01Smz5ZU0L4RxWZbPLICgSNx6pomhZWM2LBfVOS7P_69OVE5m7xWw8nPWtkWjvIb7HXGjmBKQzUz9BuKn1KK1V0QHtrrwCT/s1600/hows-socialism-doing-in-venezuela.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga6avw2mWIk1ii6un1AXFA84pJ70qeXAmwrjtHvNNIGRNcs01Smz5ZU0L4RxWZbPLICgSNx6pomhZWM2LBfVOS7P_69OVE5m7xWw8nPWtkWjvIb7HXGjmBKQzUz9BuKn1KK1V0QHtrrwCT/s1600/hows-socialism-doing-in-venezuela.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/CCIdm3cM6zQ" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">How's Socialism Doing in Venezuela?</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp3Onob56UaRxOHdoi7Pg55YWg0MN4GN8R19GVTIrlhDAJxBqXlamOolnuH9mlbPq9Uu2o_qgV_PCF7PomoRfhRan4S-tX8JvWi1yYB7eg9R2L8nipQRi80kguoqQzeUhKTQl6CQMWno28/s1600/democratic-socialism-is-still-socialism.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp3Onob56UaRxOHdoi7Pg55YWg0MN4GN8R19GVTIrlhDAJxBqXlamOolnuH9mlbPq9Uu2o_qgV_PCF7PomoRfhRan4S-tX8JvWi1yYB7eg9R2L8nipQRi80kguoqQzeUhKTQl6CQMWno28/s1600/democratic-socialism-is-still-socialism.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/MvF_D4tVfYU" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Democratic Socialism is Still Socialism</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSpeAROrzijdRoYscZV4jfou-oRm3Mihyho8nOZBc3G12QYXFv6JJ-VoOafsEzCQF2u6TO7xQTd5vJUOZ4RE2XU59sEM-2xSO03TlMznFzxs6P3YiKX5GROk8urS65wVPsPpwoRuJRge1l/s1600/zr139fyb-720.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="406" data-original-width="720" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSpeAROrzijdRoYscZV4jfou-oRm3Mihyho8nOZBc3G12QYXFv6JJ-VoOafsEzCQF2u6TO7xQTd5vJUOZ4RE2XU59sEM-2xSO03TlMznFzxs6P3YiKX5GROk8urS65wVPsPpwoRuJRge1l/s400/zr139fyb-720.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/tzEPKrHalaY" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Is Denmark Socialist?</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: orange;">---------------- Economics ----------------</span></h3>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9Fle3ethBj7-8CQsY_jFgq62aMA5Bt0OhzngFaqD3qsyyDEoBXxgDGQUf-YJdBRTU-t71ieoeUFb5Tx2r8u8UMcv6HGxkSgoVZzDLulbOBoAOXbUiaOsobCtsFsjutGyJuZ7cMw1_JRRz/s1600/americas-debt-crisis-explained.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9Fle3ethBj7-8CQsY_jFgq62aMA5Bt0OhzngFaqD3qsyyDEoBXxgDGQUf-YJdBRTU-t71ieoeUFb5Tx2r8u8UMcv6HGxkSgoVZzDLulbOBoAOXbUiaOsobCtsFsjutGyJuZ7cMw1_JRRz/s1600/americas-debt-crisis-explained.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://youtu.be/2ziodZHZGpU" target="_blank">America's Debt Crisis Explained</a></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<br />
<h3 style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: orange;">---------------- Education ----------------</span></h3>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge9Q3v2uf3OK_pWdfkQeU1Pt1KceeUa5a4XcTBzMdRa72ldpikoC6sfWPlQZ-ceVMQ5tXRqEmX2zME4Q7LtUxOlvM71W0euPkRVMM1FgLV_n6M9N7oSGzP2AEYZtFQhrAoWIhKh2N4G4rN/s1600/itwyjg5d-720.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="406" data-original-width="720" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge9Q3v2uf3OK_pWdfkQeU1Pt1KceeUa5a4XcTBzMdRa72ldpikoC6sfWPlQZ-ceVMQ5tXRqEmX2zME4Q7LtUxOlvM71W0euPkRVMM1FgLV_n6M9N7oSGzP2AEYZtFQhrAoWIhKh2N4G4rN/s400/itwyjg5d-720.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://youtu.be/AcD5YVg9Z1Q" target="_blank">DivestU</a></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu2D9cC5PFUA221kE_W-B9N9Ad98w76LUh9tol49J1nfXRDzFOous_1S8Jnl_zX1EVtkBrBVSHT8XDmdMlUPEYcEmif8p2toN90atUo7FXcUejaDUCx_8OSDklyUy0pen2PYsy86DJ-wcC/s1600/peterson_postmodernists_thumbnail_1280x720.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu2D9cC5PFUA221kE_W-B9N9Ad98w76LUh9tol49J1nfXRDzFOous_1S8Jnl_zX1EVtkBrBVSHT8XDmdMlUPEYcEmif8p2toN90atUo7FXcUejaDUCx_8OSDklyUy0pen2PYsy86DJ-wcC/s1600/peterson_postmodernists_thumbnail_1280x720.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://youtu.be/LquIQisaZFU" target="_blank">Dangerous People Are Teaching Your Kids</a></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div>
<br /></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC38M8fA_5dZuw-BcZnP_Fbx8NfcRZogh90-qrAilSi8EukI9T-psr873VIrcO0dsGMuzqjNlF3iR-boNSqwvs_paw-nnd1VIGObU7y5AXtlJm3PhQOovDLRdqY0Kddk7mDe38ZE_Ihedo/s1600/b8u8nyq6-720.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="406" data-original-width="720" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC38M8fA_5dZuw-BcZnP_Fbx8NfcRZogh90-qrAilSi8EukI9T-psr873VIrcO0dsGMuzqjNlF3iR-boNSqwvs_paw-nnd1VIGObU7y5AXtlJm3PhQOovDLRdqY0Kddk7mDe38ZE_Ihedo/s400/b8u8nyq6-720.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://youtu.be/DOIbcOoaxuY">Evolution: Bacteria to Beethoven</a></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkrGEtaMKZM4AFVFVtcT-bJzUEg6wlBXHF8gubHZZDuAECFXhEtBrpQz50YEzku8yJcQ4LUVZ1S3DHtWDT2yQnJTT4s5ynU_3tZ0uDSrRrvo2gSqv9v9t-KCZJp1_VNpUmSMURXXjd7Krp/s1600/how-to-get-kids-to-listen.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkrGEtaMKZM4AFVFVtcT-bJzUEg6wlBXHF8gubHZZDuAECFXhEtBrpQz50YEzku8yJcQ4LUVZ1S3DHtWDT2yQnJTT4s5ynU_3tZ0uDSrRrvo2gSqv9v9t-KCZJp1_VNpUmSMURXXjd7Krp/s1600/how-to-get-kids-to-listen.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/_toRV6ziOYg" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">How to Get Kids to Listen</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPK7H1GNzf98150O0Bc92DJu_Kiy3r7moIaMa1M1S8PGE4A36vr0tJ2Kyn7Ra7iHXw0a09Pd3tJn_8pmD1pO9ImxRk9NVsA8Xg2xaSldv5Li5klSeE5D1B1kccdXMMsDuA2CRGG3XOU-NA/s1600/why-self-esteem-is-self-defeating-banner.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPK7H1GNzf98150O0Bc92DJu_Kiy3r7moIaMa1M1S8PGE4A36vr0tJ2Kyn7Ra7iHXw0a09Pd3tJn_8pmD1pO9ImxRk9NVsA8Xg2xaSldv5Li5klSeE5D1B1kccdXMMsDuA2CRGG3XOU-NA/s1600/why-self-esteem-is-self-defeating-banner.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/B8XYmA_8-H4" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Why Self-Esteem Is Self-Defeating</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHDuS7hAvFQny7372REEOnSr1KhGdjNy5WiUmWPR9O7IrL-RqLFrxpt4fl5KC1tKFN9ESsijCE0Q0H_dQmmun1XVsIPcPuysQwoD_EYeSgtGEz9WFuHdav5wVah2ld_9waZV57mqG5fMde/s1600/thumbnail_macdonaldheather_whatdoesdiversity_1280x720.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHDuS7hAvFQny7372REEOnSr1KhGdjNy5WiUmWPR9O7IrL-RqLFrxpt4fl5KC1tKFN9ESsijCE0Q0H_dQmmun1XVsIPcPuysQwoD_EYeSgtGEz9WFuHdav5wVah2ld_9waZV57mqG5fMde/s1600/thumbnail_macdonaldheather_whatdoesdiversity_1280x720.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large; text-align: right;"><a href="https://youtu.be/M9mM93scwi8" style="text-align: right;">What Does Diversity Have to Do with Science?</a></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">
</h3>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-8dUIzTd56pnmnODQEVuYTGwTpR0hhYH3i4Ph4_k610wDX2yv8T8SV7yiI6Rp9SqCa97wDHsOy8ILv13TfGvxdbKV3aqm8QsUUve3N4msWvZ804ATqTGKJ6o4_VpRZsiQCO0UlCgGvfxe/s1600/ove1vwap-720.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="406" data-original-width="720" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-8dUIzTd56pnmnODQEVuYTGwTpR0hhYH3i4Ph4_k610wDX2yv8T8SV7yiI6Rp9SqCa97wDHsOy8ILv13TfGvxdbKV3aqm8QsUUve3N4msWvZ804ATqTGKJ6o4_VpRZsiQCO0UlCgGvfxe/s400/ove1vwap-720.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://youtu.be/lOuYN-Fz6tQ" target="_blank">Is Harvard Racist?</a></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkzRElWfDvBSitMdMU8obiJHsyiCsQaUMn866ZJu98ChfU3Z-sUbpytgQVcCFXEsc9k9kCrhAs9Xdol4i1-OmtUYuaWxW746QY1dAJ9YWv_ddTWMTnUhgCEBaptyVwJ7L0-tkuHNl_XS3E/s1600/xethn2xi-720.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="406" data-original-width="720" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkzRElWfDvBSitMdMU8obiJHsyiCsQaUMn866ZJu98ChfU3Z-sUbpytgQVcCFXEsc9k9kCrhAs9Xdol4i1-OmtUYuaWxW746QY1dAJ9YWv_ddTWMTnUhgCEBaptyVwJ7L0-tkuHNl_XS3E/s400/xethn2xi-720.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://youtu.be/HIyMXNeT16o" target="_blank">Is College Worth It?</a></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: orange;">---------------- Feminism ----------------</span></h3>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjnUz4uM4EZzQWYLGZmZac9jehopTyIrBqcFPS2aMyK_wchkYOx7BAsclccLJFWlkAIpBNlPrkgXFnhih6a0zTFYck_M0x1kjUPpq6NsRFoMe8UXHMoK9JQgrw1WJIGOiYBRn33AHNgmQ1/s1600/there-is-no-gender-wage-gap.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjnUz4uM4EZzQWYLGZmZac9jehopTyIrBqcFPS2aMyK_wchkYOx7BAsclccLJFWlkAIpBNlPrkgXFnhih6a0zTFYck_M0x1kjUPpq6NsRFoMe8UXHMoK9JQgrw1WJIGOiYBRn33AHNgmQ1/s1600/there-is-no-gender-wage-gap.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/QcDrE5YvqTs" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">There Is No Gender Wage Gap</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk4mqX8ZphUMD1lGb_0e3kPIWQKJ-A7zCv9rMIUxd2MbhGN2t0beNsr6s9kpD31gs0LSY_Qc2kKCm-tQ251hGPXlHn9PPRM86cyQGjm60qqceZOQKby45e0L2uqdd9bmQVv5ausW9tagG0/s1600/war-on-boys.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk4mqX8ZphUMD1lGb_0e3kPIWQKJ-A7zCv9rMIUxd2MbhGN2t0beNsr6s9kpD31gs0LSY_Qc2kKCm-tQ251hGPXlHn9PPRM86cyQGjm60qqceZOQKby45e0L2uqdd9bmQVv5ausW9tagG0/s1600/war-on-boys.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/OFpYj0E-yb4" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">War on Boys</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOOPaEM26dn4AsW7JEs9zMQZJgVVrEOwtyFzTsVT0aqkE8f4-cUDMClPEOlb9l7-pGFMI7EL50SOHf-o2tWzW9NtqTV6xW6G7FluD7dXXLaOtU-_Nt9vqPACB3MtHY2jI1-Z-EgbdG9__u/s1600/feminism-2-0.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOOPaEM26dn4AsW7JEs9zMQZJgVVrEOwtyFzTsVT0aqkE8f4-cUDMClPEOlb9l7-pGFMI7EL50SOHf-o2tWzW9NtqTV6xW6G7FluD7dXXLaOtU-_Nt9vqPACB3MtHY2jI1-Z-EgbdG9__u/s1600/feminism-2-0.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/ZR9FHKKbMZo" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Feminism 2.0</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<h3>
</h3>
<h3>
</h3>
<h3>
</h3>
<h3>
</h3>
<h3>
</h3>
<h3>
</h3>
<h3>
</h3>
<h3>
</h3>
<h3>
</h3>
<h3>
</h3>
<h3>
</h3>
<h3>
</h3>
<h3>
</h3>
<h3>
</h3>
<h3>
</h3>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7Bsr2jRBTUJP1GU73CMVZPVdtV9hyphenhyphenjT9DdVJthxAokO6R9qviZvHmbUf_L8H7Opaa4Boy_cbZDYLzqY_wn092zdYtB_t18jqjz2H27e6UqJqqwhqUDO4udE0kHYoB0Fd9bUzYQIAqajq7/s1600/what-happens-when-google-disagrees-with-you-feature.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7Bsr2jRBTUJP1GU73CMVZPVdtV9hyphenhyphenjT9DdVJthxAokO6R9qviZvHmbUf_L8H7Opaa4Boy_cbZDYLzqY_wn092zdYtB_t18jqjz2H27e6UqJqqwhqUDO4udE0kHYoB0Fd9bUzYQIAqajq7/s1600/what-happens-when-google-disagrees-with-you-feature.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/f9_o42QaVnA" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">What Happens When Google Disagrees With You?</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5fkFzT39l9acm4nmlnZ69jvwMnI_I1uM0QHlDSHiU_XvLWd567w9N7pLZIGkcS74o_ZXTrmdFFmfhUkaINHuQqiCO628bOTVfGvNht46hjFecV_wV0XOvn5pVoCoAoET1xW89HJlhJ-Qv/s1600/why-dont-feminists-fight-for-muslim-women.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5fkFzT39l9acm4nmlnZ69jvwMnI_I1uM0QHlDSHiU_XvLWd567w9N7pLZIGkcS74o_ZXTrmdFFmfhUkaINHuQqiCO628bOTVfGvNht46hjFecV_wV0XOvn5pVoCoAoET1xW89HJlhJ-Qv/s1600/why-dont-feminists-fight-for-muslim-women.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/wJkFQohIKNI" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Why Don't Feminists Fight for Muslim Women?</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY12uxCQsLIQMgMoyYVFXaFEsEwBaFelTmYfh3uZLCzFxTNeZyST5VedFiBJaTnz37e76aYbF3Wv4CYjOqp31hDrcZKyaLFDmpE85QQhZ56IjlTB44iCXmto2KfUzS0GIoBmQXMg-hRFHI/s1600/klavan_antifeminist_thumb_website.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY12uxCQsLIQMgMoyYVFXaFEsEwBaFelTmYfh3uZLCzFxTNeZyST5VedFiBJaTnz37e76aYbF3Wv4CYjOqp31hDrcZKyaLFDmpE85QQhZ56IjlTB44iCXmto2KfUzS0GIoBmQXMg-hRFHI/s1600/klavan_antifeminist_thumb_website.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/In8jWBlc8xo" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Who Needs Feminism?</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<h3 style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: orange;">---------------- Foreign Relations ----------------</span></h3>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtoJXznALp0Orcv5wCVBeO6EXqq0uezjKxEf3QQ1JGOAgx7F1xHDObksf4N7Iy5dBtZvzoVlHtMCR-y9Ts3Nms3b2R4yDHWHV6GT8X1T7QGQ5Aav9X62dzRq60FPM2_kdgK8FqZL0kgvHM/s1600/why-brexit-happened-feature.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtoJXznALp0Orcv5wCVBeO6EXqq0uezjKxEf3QQ1JGOAgx7F1xHDObksf4N7Iy5dBtZvzoVlHtMCR-y9Ts3Nms3b2R4yDHWHV6GT8X1T7QGQ5Aav9X62dzRq60FPM2_kdgK8FqZL0kgvHM/s1600/why-brexit-happened-feature.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/GLp7LtXmy68" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Brexit: Why Britain Left the European Union</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLk8mbD5j6BCSpJutCjJxwXrhGtqXUBg_sPqHSQeJYLjT5k7HTYrJDpmcEXjnDa48R1onMG80BsiHmO5Zd9F0GYaqDFGOHsCvzZRGOOt9NpokEBvdxl-fd7YZO_bx0_s30SeGUM1TL7OXJ/s1600/whats-holding-the-arab-world-back.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLk8mbD5j6BCSpJutCjJxwXrhGtqXUBg_sPqHSQeJYLjT5k7HTYrJDpmcEXjnDa48R1onMG80BsiHmO5Zd9F0GYaqDFGOHsCvzZRGOOt9NpokEBvdxl-fd7YZO_bx0_s30SeGUM1TL7OXJ/s1600/whats-holding-the-arab-world-back.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/aAOzlinU94g" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">What's Holding the Arab World Back?</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDzg_IPxJlZXKJQle3D8ECJj4qV7xL9dUbXcT5qTpkFodmabgNFhFvc93JPCf-ykRtZO0VsBvYzzhJPdn88NvfIF2LRgv-ox9RO1vMdQVDpaZc4IQsC1CAN2Xr6fjTEQ6pMWcUnQWG5O_q/s1600/radical-islam-the-most-dangerous-ideology.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDzg_IPxJlZXKJQle3D8ECJj4qV7xL9dUbXcT5qTpkFodmabgNFhFvc93JPCf-ykRtZO0VsBvYzzhJPdn88NvfIF2LRgv-ox9RO1vMdQVDpaZc4IQsC1CAN2Xr6fjTEQ6pMWcUnQWG5O_q/s1600/radical-islam-the-most-dangerous-ideology.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/-LGzrYUGXdI" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Radical Islam: The Most Dangerous Ideology</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWmYyRvJZzNBhIJzji3WJewDJK5cqVmrBVAIQUCETxpbD1mS_NR1d2Ip02ATAhvjNsHrls_Ls42Ci647-rxh_6qpGg-MkWVs84N1cds1gd-2tNv8gCNKuWCtrXhiY5XeSaADogOSXN5Tjd/s1600/why-americas-military-must-be-strong.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWmYyRvJZzNBhIJzji3WJewDJK5cqVmrBVAIQUCETxpbD1mS_NR1d2Ip02ATAhvjNsHrls_Ls42Ci647-rxh_6qpGg-MkWVs84N1cds1gd-2tNv8gCNKuWCtrXhiY5XeSaADogOSXN5Tjd/s1600/why-americas-military-must-be-strong.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/W5o_KdvC1c8" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Why America's Military Must Be Strong</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<br />
<h3 style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: orange;">---------------- Multiculturism ----------------</span></h3>
<br />
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3VAxVImvT7OAUihZvXWtrrv_etG47KbI4W0Gdgx3elLXfMisy3a_083iFxlTAuZ-80IU05u8VIZDHOPeglgus2opjFQauRdSgX00NyZ2RRxePSms5mzYQyooaQ2ut5XXZX9hTV1JvZi_9/s1600/are-some-cultures-better-than-others-feature.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3VAxVImvT7OAUihZvXWtrrv_etG47KbI4W0Gdgx3elLXfMisy3a_083iFxlTAuZ-80IU05u8VIZDHOPeglgus2opjFQauRdSgX00NyZ2RRxePSms5mzYQyooaQ2ut5XXZX9hTV1JvZi_9/s1600/are-some-cultures-better-than-others-feature.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/m9vBJCMD69w" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Are Some Cultures Better than Others?</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO6lfPKLkB-avBzufw_ZaTRh66Pci3Wt1iHO_jYaQfC6wReb9c3JttqCRNbHriLp1W_LaeX3ELi_oq4twnY4U-ZGpYlxHXqD4dcpXiy9mx6kgGIukgoumiG7e-HRjxUjavNK8027UyUOxl/s1600/is-islam-a-religion-of-peace.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO6lfPKLkB-avBzufw_ZaTRh66Pci3Wt1iHO_jYaQfC6wReb9c3JttqCRNbHriLp1W_LaeX3ELi_oq4twnY4U-ZGpYlxHXqD4dcpXiy9mx6kgGIukgoumiG7e-HRjxUjavNK8027UyUOxl/s1600/is-islam-a-religion-of-peace.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/5AkAGc5nOXw" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Is Islam a Religion of Peace?</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<br />
<h3 style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: orange;">---------------- Race Relations ----------------</span></h3>
<div>
<span style="color: orange;"><br /></span></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVNbBKWGL9v4GVfRM-w6es7nRMejwl5aDV6pAfRq89QMUqdZ8IkNow5pfzN7pU7HPxsgvegP342oRCEqNQLnoQ7A8ItXGLwUtZsUWMfTus4Eb3x7R9tPFa0L8Z9iyOYMGHsqYtZW2rpbcA/s1600/rileyjason_martinlutherkingjr_thumbnail_1280x720.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVNbBKWGL9v4GVfRM-w6es7nRMejwl5aDV6pAfRq89QMUqdZ8IkNow5pfzN7pU7HPxsgvegP342oRCEqNQLnoQ7A8ItXGLwUtZsUWMfTus4Eb3x7R9tPFa0L8Z9iyOYMGHsqYtZW2rpbcA/s1600/rileyjason_martinlutherkingjr_thumbnail_1280x720.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/2OtVCYmbOKw" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Where Are You, Martin Luther King?</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdlhJNBw_Nl2Lc-83ZRFr0V5QAfUrD9Dda5grUlmW0qB4NpGWFzG3iwmlsTR79Rae1bjhu-HySNMo-du2yS51iMTOkzdktd_HxAxZ0VZY6pU0cPQL5pN65YZ1SzswBPwQ5sxf7u0e3Z6KG/s1600/the-top-5-issues-facing-blacks.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdlhJNBw_Nl2Lc-83ZRFr0V5QAfUrD9Dda5grUlmW0qB4NpGWFzG3iwmlsTR79Rae1bjhu-HySNMo-du2yS51iMTOkzdktd_HxAxZ0VZY6pU0cPQL5pN65YZ1SzswBPwQ5sxf7u0e3Z6KG/s1600/the-top-5-issues-facing-blacks.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/faolY5_hnIc" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">The Top 5 Issues Facing Black Americans</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqq0IFmXKN_SqzV6_-0u67rWDNJMHlYvZy_u8HFGazQU1vLIAvxLMrQCwoPHCMzRx-R22DsH_6CKePfO3ggcwvYZ40DwhaKT3dpdmJnzFU8F80Ji0apUGVzMie9bf4V7fvzD5XioRQLpC1/s1600/is-america-racist-2.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqq0IFmXKN_SqzV6_-0u67rWDNJMHlYvZy_u8HFGazQU1vLIAvxLMrQCwoPHCMzRx-R22DsH_6CKePfO3ggcwvYZ40DwhaKT3dpdmJnzFU8F80Ji0apUGVzMie9bf4V7fvzD5XioRQLpC1/s1600/is-america-racist-2.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/ThRb9x-RieI" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Is America Racist?</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBoZIaaNJuM7kBxV-ueXWc44k3RxjA4D3LkLI3UHlbbm3qZZp3nLB_37R8o_zrXdK0d73MGlCyaEmdqfA1vZ-EP0pCO89eYiC6KQoi2IAHA005-fHtiVlZ_cReWEXspn-PBSki_c0i0jZR/s1600/owens_blackcard_feature.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBoZIaaNJuM7kBxV-ueXWc44k3RxjA4D3LkLI3UHlbbm3qZZp3nLB_37R8o_zrXdK0d73MGlCyaEmdqfA1vZ-EP0pCO89eYiC6KQoi2IAHA005-fHtiVlZ_cReWEXspn-PBSki_c0i0jZR/s1600/owens_blackcard_feature.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/qKpEl9jJ4dA" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Playing the Black Card</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnTEfWtee2HEhLjU8FyKRtsodHrtNiH0XKZmhnr5XhZF7hLkZpWJg7iuxKwz2EUDLYttorEoZUWdAhVlE-5qGiHeo3fUZVKIU2r11HiEDrEAMSQNEpA5z7ohF6QOo6eJbgojyyJ3qy5YAR/s1600/blacks-in-power-dont-empower-blacks-feature.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnTEfWtee2HEhLjU8FyKRtsodHrtNiH0XKZmhnr5XhZF7hLkZpWJg7iuxKwz2EUDLYttorEoZUWdAhVlE-5qGiHeo3fUZVKIU2r11HiEDrEAMSQNEpA5z7ohF6QOo6eJbgojyyJ3qy5YAR/s1600/blacks-in-power-dont-empower-blacks-feature.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/0wfN_DtNtyo" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Blacks in Power Don't Empower Blacks</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEganzlB0He_t6CHJogHP_79JtUNWQ0INXy1n3e4FVYOiHEuZ_6pyanrXgWoRbxmpL-CrSXVINhms4C4JrhxZoWtAmXlYUICqWAHeUTJpTEYVgAMBQGTykrLwcsis2vVHZShdEtMMtRerdht/s1600/cops-are-the-good-guys-feature.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEganzlB0He_t6CHJogHP_79JtUNWQ0INXy1n3e4FVYOiHEuZ_6pyanrXgWoRbxmpL-CrSXVINhms4C4JrhxZoWtAmXlYUICqWAHeUTJpTEYVgAMBQGTykrLwcsis2vVHZShdEtMMtRerdht/s1600/cops-are-the-good-guys-feature.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/F0chi9zD4Zo" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Cops Are the Good Guys</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div style="text-align: right;">
</div>
<br />
<div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyBIleBb_jvc9OxPEKW8aPOJtc6C_cmfQS9aQbhL3WQsFZN4DpcFgPFvT79PNRKZ3xYBxnJacAF1ASJLMqtlWvW3RZwrlKQlJU0PQogVsUv5D8JrpKbY3iOeJw9abit-En4Tm1asFZTKuI/s1600/m9bfn5lv-720.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="406" data-original-width="720" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyBIleBb_jvc9OxPEKW8aPOJtc6C_cmfQS9aQbhL3WQsFZN4DpcFgPFvT79PNRKZ3xYBxnJacAF1ASJLMqtlWvW3RZwrlKQlJU0PQogVsUv5D8JrpKbY3iOeJw9abit-En4Tm1asFZTKuI/s400/m9bfn5lv-720.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/MpToEILMnA4" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Who Are the Racists?</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</div>
Michael Barthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17485606529000689080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966692812402905839.post-64805850827520027112016-09-30T13:07:00.000-07:002018-08-13T13:07:58.466-07:00Bi-Level Split Entry Homes: The Hidden Gem for Upgrades<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqfODolNdzbVc5ulmyG9pI-unbMG7Y6if_0pqgdQXnEtiEpzcK7nmnAWU8oXGBllwmCBuIHR2pjzLSU3uBgz7vxql-ncjnWW0c4svw1BOR8qfJEndorWR66tPALAIog5thcCRk1Tr4RutI/s1600/before.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1600" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqfODolNdzbVc5ulmyG9pI-unbMG7Y6if_0pqgdQXnEtiEpzcK7nmnAWU8oXGBllwmCBuIHR2pjzLSU3uBgz7vxql-ncjnWW0c4svw1BOR8qfJEndorWR66tPALAIog5thcCRk1Tr4RutI/s400/before.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Before:</b> Nothing to see here. Move along.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
The Bi-Level Split Entry Home: it is one of the most overlooked homes ever built.<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
It has some strong features but many home-buyers turn their nose up at them.<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Why?</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
1. Usually because it is a plain vanilla box-like design with not much character. </div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
2. The idea of steps going up and down as soon as you enter the home. </div>
<div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoCH1eW1uKcthJYbj0Fm3OUxLGHZIvprf2LBVH9gCR-BYcessmy4evWRzz1V9vGY5erwqfrORLRkeUX_YJN2TCzHIZDFFam2KWs6ZHBVa5NDi3hb9fjNBqyJTaghpqTFq7y8DQR7nunS7F/s1600/front.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1014" data-original-width="1600" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoCH1eW1uKcthJYbj0Fm3OUxLGHZIvprf2LBVH9gCR-BYcessmy4evWRzz1V9vGY5erwqfrORLRkeUX_YJN2TCzHIZDFFam2KWs6ZHBVa5NDi3hb9fjNBqyJTaghpqTFq7y8DQR7nunS7F/s400/front.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>After:</b> L-shaped addition on side and back, new trusses for modern roofline, <br />
larger entry and porch, transform living room windows to doors with a <br />
balcony to add another layer and offset the porch. Don't just slap on a porch.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
3. The entryway landing is usually way too small. </div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
4. Coming home with groceries means a trek up and down stairs between the car and the kitchen.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
With that in mind, let's look at a couple of cases of how these homes can be given a facelift easily - specifically because it is a plain vanilla box. Because that also means it is a blank canvas, ready for a masterpiece to be created.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA4YCcJH3i_yUTT8d_Zdo8wRpQNZQvj7WrkmaTz011eVCFnz4IK9r5O8A7MNfwPoTYfVHntirNDqnGsHdG4HPSGq2B7TtRA8arp2IBbf6L6EaawLhNQRn6himayBN3HzugrwgCrwW8BNxO/s1600/mansard.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1600" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA4YCcJH3i_yUTT8d_Zdo8wRpQNZQvj7WrkmaTz011eVCFnz4IK9r5O8A7MNfwPoTYfVHntirNDqnGsHdG4HPSGq2B7TtRA8arp2IBbf6L6EaawLhNQRn6himayBN3HzugrwgCrwW8BNxO/s400/mansard.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Before:</b> Double whammy! Mansard roof and it's a flat one!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div>
But before we go into that, let's look at some of the inherent features that make this a good home.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
1. The basement is more usable than other homes of that era with lots of natural light and outdoor views.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
2. There is a relatively open, modern feeling to the layout.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
3. There is usually a nice deck off the backdoor, making for great outdoor living options. (Or a patio if built on a sloping lot.)</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisIhL2JYxMj7zn1hOZMAP9dsm37HMB6F4d4PuR4tETFtvqOrpSz4Fd6-emr6Dl6NE25F9DXCCY9qr9QgbKip-QResfw0fG0aZmPudScZbXoEhQVLivIbPfB0vXr_58hPTNDPVWsO_FkQN2/s1600/split-entry-modern2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisIhL2JYxMj7zn1hOZMAP9dsm37HMB6F4d4PuR4tETFtvqOrpSz4Fd6-emr6Dl6NE25F9DXCCY9qr9QgbKip-QResfw0fG0aZmPudScZbXoEhQVLivIbPfB0vXr_58hPTNDPVWsO_FkQN2/s400/split-entry-modern2.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>After:</b> Embrace the flat roof and go modern! Raise the roof <br />
over the living room and add clerestory windows.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div>
4. The master bedroom usually has its own bathroom, one of the first decades to incorporate that.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
5. The bedrooms are close together.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
For more info on the history of this style of home, read: <a href="https://magazine.realtor/home-and-design/architecture-coach/article/2008/09/split-level-homes-outdated-or-underrated" target="_blank">Split-Level Homes: Outdated or Underrated?</a></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
The photos on this page give examples of what some talented architectural designers have come up with for transforming a split-entry home.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
The remodeling possibilities start with these tidbits of background building info.</div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiocy-F5SkCp3dzHU-R8UMIvG9O5jL6I1zVbFbaqx_5AN-euewQ_gHHgPQh4O4ydI2qj5lSomvCBz7z3qd6-IP4t3V5iatBhGWt9j3Gz11tqtOYIC03aJXpgsixZ8Ic0BVHobX4NYF0gs4V/s1600/winesap-before.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1600" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiocy-F5SkCp3dzHU-R8UMIvG9O5jL6I1zVbFbaqx_5AN-euewQ_gHHgPQh4O4ydI2qj5lSomvCBz7z3qd6-IP4t3V5iatBhGWt9j3Gz11tqtOYIC03aJXpgsixZ8Ic0BVHobX4NYF0gs4V/s400/winesap-before.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Before: </b>Another severely dated split.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
1. The trusses usually span the entire width of the home so opening up the kitchen even more is easily done, since so many main level walls are not load bearing.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
2. A porch with a larger foyer is an easy addition.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
3. Redoing the roofline, by adding new trusses gives you the chance to add vaulted ceilings (if it doesn't already have that feature).</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
4. The "formal dining" area off the kitchen can be easily transformed into part of the kitchen by removing one wall.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQRkS2mlmo8EQo0yKqi8stOWXkJGxpzNrYGvIH5eymeSZu9Mo14t7Fr4KQUEGLg0zLVXolx9OhRFP2TAuppyj5ADJb9TCaBJOR8icRl01ZdbT4OEIi-lfhgyWbTCCSNMB0rbvFO6-7U4gl/s1600/after.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQRkS2mlmo8EQo0yKqi8stOWXkJGxpzNrYGvIH5eymeSZu9Mo14t7Fr4KQUEGLg0zLVXolx9OhRFP2TAuppyj5ADJb9TCaBJOR8icRl01ZdbT4OEIi-lfhgyWbTCCSNMB0rbvFO6-7U4gl/s400/after.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>After:</b> Even with an extreme makeover you save money vs. tear-down/rebuild <br />
by using the original homes foundation and walls strategically. </td></tr>
</tbody></table>
5. The utility room is usually under the kitchen giving easy access to plumbing, electrical and gas range changes.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
6. If you can move the laundry upstairs, it reduces the time spent going up and down stairs. </div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
7. The straight lines of a rectangular box make it easier to make major additions without the dreaded "I can tell that part was added on" look.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
8. A basement window can be cut to the ground and made into a door without further reinforcement for easy access to an lower level addition.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
If you choose to do a completely gut and remodel, take advantage by considering the following:</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVU8fXYkYQqpQQAcL_Tq9Xh_Ommfl53xVYZbzX6S_k4nZEZ6bEOMR_buvhftafSSHXCBstmkjJJKAgU7NWJQ1tT0BwWUGQmNgCeAuKWyG2_sxbffl317a_EELVnwVVv2j0bcnFXkDakXl7/s1600/Split-Level-Transformation.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="564" data-original-width="564" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVU8fXYkYQqpQQAcL_Tq9Xh_Ommfl53xVYZbzX6S_k4nZEZ6bEOMR_buvhftafSSHXCBstmkjJJKAgU7NWJQ1tT0BwWUGQmNgCeAuKWyG2_sxbffl317a_EELVnwVVv2j0bcnFXkDakXl7/s200/Split-Level-Transformation.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Changes include wrap-around porch, raised entryway,<br />
and second story loft with gable windows.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
1. Replace the insulation in the walls with higher R-value batting. </div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
2. Add earthquake upgrades. (Talk to an engineer.)</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
3. Jack up sagging beams and sister them with steel or wood beams to it to keep them level.<br />
<br /></div>
<div>
4. Add ring shank nails to the sheathing to further strengthen the home.</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG54Dnhajb_Vptz9ZI4YPkF1sdIT3f2Ncehitr58Czmi5nIObXPj4HUja6NJ4J10tuv16pe1tZJZY_1DC7XuKsRxPPVhyphenhyphen0P2gNCWQwgBtWmZKT57b92VTsiV1OOVoQiDSP7cJJnvdphlMv/s1600/before-after.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="736" data-original-width="736" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG54Dnhajb_Vptz9ZI4YPkF1sdIT3f2Ncehitr58Czmi5nIObXPj4HUja6NJ4J10tuv16pe1tZJZY_1DC7XuKsRxPPVhyphenhyphen0P2gNCWQwgBtWmZKT57b92VTsiV1OOVoQiDSP7cJJnvdphlMv/s200/before-after.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If done right, you can even make it Craftsman style.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
5. Consider enlarging windows facing the backyard to add more natural light.</div>
</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
6. Embrace/disguise the existing cantilever design by adding wrap-around porch, balconies and such.</div>
Michael Barthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17485606529000689080noreply@blogger.com0