I'm Not Dead
Time is kinda flying for me right now. It sure doesn't feel like it's been a month since my last blog post. But it has, so I'm just writing as an update to let you know I'm not dead.
So, what have I been up to? I've been reading a booklet of quotes called "The Free Market and Its Enemies." It's a little weird to say "I've been reading" it, though, since it's just a collection of sentence- to paragraph-length quotes. The most-quoted, per my recollection, are Adam Smith, Ludwig von Mises, George Washington, Walter Williams, Henry Hazlitt, Thomas Sowell, Thomas Jefferson, Ron Paul, Winston Churchill, Leonard Read, Ronald Reagan, Thomas Payne (...and more!) . But anyway, I think it's serving its purpose - whetting the appetite for full works by the aforementioned - as I've already moved on to reading "Mises and Austrian Economics" by Ron Paul.
Actually, I've just noticed that a lot of what's in that booklet is available under "great quotes" at http://www.investmentrarities.com/. Investment Rarities is a company whose advice I have been heeding with respect to investing in silver; they sent me the book free.
Of course, you're finding this all incredibly interesting or incredibly boring. So you can check that link out for yourself, but I'm moving on!
So last weekend, I attended the relatively annual men's retreat, hosted by several O.P. churches in upstate New York. There was a lecture on singleness that I found particularly edifying... But it did make me wonder, why are there always men's retreats and women's retreats? When are they gonna have one where the men get to meet women? :)
All right, I have stuff I've got to do now, so I'll close with a guaranteed crowd-pleaser: some pictures of Nuni!
So, what have I been up to? I've been reading a booklet of quotes called "The Free Market and Its Enemies." It's a little weird to say "I've been reading" it, though, since it's just a collection of sentence- to paragraph-length quotes. The most-quoted, per my recollection, are Adam Smith, Ludwig von Mises, George Washington, Walter Williams, Henry Hazlitt, Thomas Sowell, Thomas Jefferson, Ron Paul, Winston Churchill, Leonard Read, Ronald Reagan, Thomas Payne (...and more!) . But anyway, I think it's serving its purpose - whetting the appetite for full works by the aforementioned - as I've already moved on to reading "Mises and Austrian Economics" by Ron Paul.
Actually, I've just noticed that a lot of what's in that booklet is available under "great quotes" at http://www.investmentrarities.com/. Investment Rarities is a company whose advice I have been heeding with respect to investing in silver; they sent me the book free.
Of course, you're finding this all incredibly interesting or incredibly boring. So you can check that link out for yourself, but I'm moving on!
So last weekend, I attended the relatively annual men's retreat, hosted by several O.P. churches in upstate New York. There was a lecture on singleness that I found particularly edifying... But it did make me wonder, why are there always men's retreats and women's retreats? When are they gonna have one where the men get to meet women? :)
All right, I have stuff I've got to do now, so I'll close with a guaranteed crowd-pleaser: some pictures of Nuni!
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posted by Peter G at 11:06 a. m.
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p.s. David, Jr. is also not dead. That last picture is of him SLEEPING, ya sicko! haha!
H.L. Mencken is one of my favorite all-time journalists. Some of his gems:
"Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself."
"Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard."
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."
Reminds me of this quote, though I don't know who originally said it (I think it's been attributed to a few different people):
"Democracy should be more than two wolves and a sheep deciding on what to have for dinner."
Looks like David Jr. takes after his great grandpa when in church.
Wow! Slam outta nowhere!
I have been reading "The Mainspring of Human Progress" by Henry Grady Weaver. The main point of this book is that there is no progress as long as any people hold to the pagan belief that their life is controlled by outside forces and they must be subject to a priest, a king, a despot, a dictator, or whatever. It is based on Rose Wilder Lane's Libertarian book "The Discovery of Freedom".
I finally re-found the quote I wanted to post and today I came across another. So... (and sorry, but it's gonna get long!)
"The Greeks had implicit faith in the ability of the government to take care of their needs. It seems to have never occurred to them that the individual is self-controlling and responsible for his own acts. They labored under the delusion that their democracy was a guarantee of peace and plenty, not realizing that unrestrained majority-rule always destroys freedom, puts the minority at the mercy of the mob, and works a cross-purposes to the effective use of human energy and individual initiative.
(skipping one paragraph...)
"In Greece, it was the glittering Pericles who, in the role of benefactor, set up and maintained his dictatorship through increased government spending. Then, to divert attention from the impending disaster, he led his followers into the even greater disaster of war against Sparta."
AND later in the book, he says...
"The great fact of history is this: The American Revolution had no leader. This fact is the hope of the world because human freedom is a personal matter. Only the individual can protect human rights in the infinite complexity of men's relationships with each other. Nothing on earth is more valuable than the person who knows that all men are free and who accepts the responsibilities that go with freedom.
"The pioneer Americans knew they were free. They had learned it the hard way - from stern experience. So when the British government tried to regiment them and obstruct their efforts, they simply ignored it. When the King laid down silly restrictions and controls on trade, the colonists went right on trading. When the weaving of cloth was prohibited in order to protect weavers in England, the women of America kept right on working at their looms."
One other thought - according to this book, no President ever even used the word "democracy" in any speech until 1913! They all knew that America is a REPUBLIC, based on the Roman model, but without the pagan belief system, not the failed Greek model.But what was it we all heard after Bush took the White House about somebody being cheated out of something or other? Hmmm.
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