Friday, December 27, 2019

World’s Richest Gain $1.2 Trillion

The world’s 500 wealthiest people tracked by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index added $1.2 trillion, boosting their collective net worth 25% to $5.9 trillion.

Read more at: https://www.bloombergquint.com/pursuits/world-s-richest-gain-1-2-trillion-as-kylie-baby-sharks-prosper
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The single factor that endangers our society’s future

The data are overwhelmingly, and they all point in the same direction. Children raised in a single-parent household are, statistically:
  • less likely to perform well in school,
  • more likely to live in poverty as adults,
  • less likely to be physically healthy,
  • more likely to compile a criminal record,
  • less likely to earn a college degree,
  • more likely to suffer emotional disorders,
  • less likely to succeed professionally,
  • more likely to abuse alcohol or recreational drugs,
  • less likely to marry and stay married, and therefore
  • more likely to continue the cycle of misery by becoming single parents themselves.

New details emerge in stabbing of Barnard College student Tessa Majors

Sources said Davis was interviewed at the station house in the presence of his legal guardian and uncle, Roosevelt Davis, who also was in court with him, as was an aunt.
The boy’s mother died in 2016, according to neighbors.

Tessa Majors murder: Suspect, 13, arrested in stabbing of Barnard student

Paulina Pinsky, 27, a writer who went to Barnard as an undergrad and has lived in the area her whole life, said, “I think about that 13-year-old. I think about how desperate he must have been for something.”

“My sympathy lies with the girl who died,” Pinksy added. “I can’t imagine what it must be like being a freshman and having your roommate brutally murdered. It could have been any of us. You walk around here at Barnard, a place you worked your whole life to get to, and you think you’re immune to everything, but life can be snatched away from you at any moment, no matter how privileged you are.”

https://nypost.com/2019/12/13/tessa-majors-murder-suspect-arrested-in-stabbing-of-barnard-student/

William Blackstone, Commentaries 1:120--41

The law not only regards life and member, and protects every man in the enjoyment of them, but also furnishes him with everything necessary for their support. For there is no man so indigent or wretched, but he may demand a supply sufficient for all the necessities of life, from the more opulent part of the community, by means of the several statutes enacted for the relief of the poor…” 

http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendIXs1.html

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Augustine on Shepherds

All shepherds should therefore be one in the one good shepherd. All should speak with the one voice of the one shepherd, so that the sheep may hear and follow their shepherd; not this or that shepherd, but the one shepherd. All should speak with one voice in Christ, not with different voices. Brethren, I beg all of you to say the same thing, and to have no dissensions among you. The sheep should hear this voice, a voice purified from all schism, freed from all heresy, and so follow their shepherd, who says: My sheep hear my voice and follow me.

https://www.facebook.com/StPaulGreensboro/photos/from-a-sermon-on-pastors-by-saint-augustine-bishopall-good-shepherds-are-one-in-/302250747259176/

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Stock Market Cheerleading: Why Do We Celebrate the Super-Rich Getting Richer?

The reality is starkly different: the vast majority of the gains generated by a rising stock market flow to the top 10% households who own 93% of all financial assets, and the gains within the top 10% are highly concentrated in the top .01% of financiers, super-wealthy families and corporate managers who have reaped the vast majority of the past decade of stock market gains.

https://www.oftwominds.com/blognov19/stocks-super-rich11-19.html

I am a Catholic because of St. Josaphat

Pope Leo XIII in 1894, following the lead of his immediate predecessor Pius IX, devoted an encyclical to the Eastern Churches.

https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2017/11/19/i-am-a-catholic-because-of-st-josaphat/

Monday, November 11, 2019

Crash Course Chapter 8: Money Creation: The Fed

These monetary learnings allow us to formulate 2 more extremely important Key Concepts.
The first is that “All dollars are backed by debt”.
At the local bank level, all new money is loaned into existence.
At the Federal Reserve level money is simply manufactured out of thin air and then mostly exchanged for interest paying government debt.
In both cases, the money is backed by debt.  Debt that pays interest.  From this Key Concept we can formulate a truly profound statement which is that “At a minimum, each year enough new money must be loaned into existence to cover the interest payments on all of the past outstanding debt”.
If we flip this slightly, we can say that each year all the outstanding debt must compound by at least the rate of the interest on that debt.  Each and every year it must grow by some percentage.  Because our debt based money system is growing by some percentage over time, it is an exponential system by its very design.

How Fusion GPS Saved Planned Parenthood’s Bacon

The Times headlined its story, “Planned Parenthood Videos Were Altered, Analysis Finds.” Deep in the copy, Fusion admitted they “found no evidence that CMP inserted dialogue not spoken by Planned Parenthood staff,” but the headline did the damage. To complete the rout, prosecutorial friends of Planned Parenthood, in both Texas and California, brought utterly bogus criminal charges against Daleiden and Merritt. Mainstream journalists yawned, even cheered.

Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/11/how_fusion_gps_saved_planned_parenthoods_bacon.html#ixzz64hyAPWOb
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Monday, October 21, 2019

Songs about guilt by musicians who committed suicide


All Apologies--Nirvana

New Dawn Fades--Joy Division

Democrats Making a Big Mistake by Rushing Impeachment


At Trump’s behest, Rudy Giuliani has been corralling Ukrainians to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son with the help of two Soviet-born Trump donors who were arrested Wednesday night as they attempted to leave the country with one-way tickets, hours after having lunch with Rudy at the Trump International Hotel in Washington. One of the charges they face is funneling Russian money into the Trump campaign. 


Thursday, October 3, 2019

Wednesday, September 25, 2019

cobbett reformation

86* But, besides these evidences of Scripture, besides 
our own creed, which we say we have from the Apostles, 
there is the reasonableness of the thing. It is perfectly 
monstrous to 6uppose that there can be two true faiths. 
It cannot be : one of the two must be false. And will any 
man say, that we ought to applaud a measure which, of 
necessity, must produce an indefinite number of faiths ? 
If our eternal salvation depend upon our believing the 
truth, can it be good to place people in a state of necessity 
to have different beliefs ? And does not that which takes 
away the head of the Church inevitably produce such a 
state of necessity ? „ How is the faith of all nations to 
continue to be one, if there be in every nation a head of 
the Church, who is to be appealed to, in the last resort, as 
to all questions, as to all points of dispute, which may 
arise ? How, if this be the case, is there to be “ one fold 
and one shepherd ” ? How is there to be “one faith and 
one baptisia M ? How are the “ unity of the spirit and the 
bond of peace ” to be preserved ? We shall presently see 
what unity and what peace there were in England, the 
moment the King became the head of the Church. 

https://archive.org/stream/AHistoryOfTheProtestantReformation/AHistoryOfTheProtestantReformation_djvu.txt

Hunter Biden and Ukraine: The back story

In a Fox News interview on May 19, Trump claimed the former Ukrainian prosecutor “was after” Joe Biden’s son and that was why the former vice president demanded he be fired....Bloomberg ... reported that the investigation into Burisma was dormant at the time Biden pressed for Shokhin’s ouster.

https://www.france24.com/en/20190925-hunter-biden-ukraine-back-story

Nor is there evidence that Joe Biden acted illegitimately in forcing Ukraine to fire a corrupt prosecutor.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/why-were-unlikely-to-get-a-smoking-gun-in-trump-ukraine-saga

A Ukrainian prosecutor was investigating Burisma for corruption, potentially including the Biden payoff. Joe Biden has boasted that he threatened to cancel a $1 billion loan guarantee package, demanding that Ukraine fire the offending prosecutor. Ukraine’s prior government acceded to Biden’s demand. As far as I know, Hunter Biden continued to collect his $600,000 annually.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/09/transcript-shows-no-wrongdoing-by-president-trump.php

Rudy Giuliani told Democrats last night that they are walking into a trap, and stated that he has evidence about spectacular corruption involving Joe Biden, his son, and Obama administration officials.

Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/09/transcript_of_trumpzelensky_call_released_impeachment_now_likely.html#ixzz60YjceMd6
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Thursday, September 19, 2019

What Happens After a Balk is Called

If the balk is followed by a pitch that strikes the batter, the umpire should call “Time” the moment the pitch strikes the batter. The balk rule is then enforced. The batter remains at bat unless the hit batter’s placement on first base forces all runners to advance one base in which case the play proceeds without reference to the balk.

https://baseballrulesacademy.com/topic/happens-balk-called/

Autopsy: Man killed by police was shot 3 times in back

Bailey runs away as he is about to be searched and is seen with his hands near his waistband.

The officer can be heard yelling "hands up!" three times before firing multiple shots. The footage shows Bailey falling to the ground and the officers running up to cuff his hands behind his back.

An officer kneeling at Bailey's side tugs at what appears to be a gun between his legs as he is bleeding.
"He's got a gun in his pants," another officer says as the kneeling officer struggles to free the object from Bailey's shorts. One of the officers uses a blade to cut Bailey's shorts before removing them.

Bankruptcy filings rising across the country and it could get worse

Meanwhile, record American household debt, near $14 trillion including mortgages and student loans, is some $1 trillion higher than during the Great Recession of 2008. Credit card debt of $1 trillion also exceeds the 2008 peak.

https://nypost.com/2019/08/11/bankruptcy-filings-rising-across-the-country-and-it-could-get-worse/

El Paso Walmart mass shooter Patrick Crusius' father

The therapist revealed that his drinking and drug-taking led his second wife initially to banish him to a separate quarter of the family home in Allen, Texas, and finally to divorce and kick him out the house when Patrick was 12-years-old.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7319821/El-Paso-Walmart-shooter-Patrick-Crusius-father-penned-book-life-drug-addiction.html

Naked, Angry, and Alone

Today, with age-old restraints—family, religion, community, tradition—collapsing under the forces of modernity

https://www.city-journal.org/seattle-stabbings