Damn interesting?

[charles royer]

The Dutch Tulip Bubble of 1637
The later part of the 20th century saw its share of odd financial bubbles. There was the real-estate bubble, the stock market bubbles, and the dot com bubble, just to name a few. In each instance of price inflation people paid exorbitant amounts for things that shouldn’t have been worth anything like the going price. And each time people stood around afterwards and said “What were we thinking?”

One has to believe that the same thought occurred to the Dutch in the 17th century when they settled down after their bout with tulipomania, wherein the humble tulip bulb began to sell for prices to make New York Realtors blanch.

As much as the tulip is associated with Holland, it is not native there. Rather it was introduced in 1593 by a botanist named Carolus Clusius, who brought it from Constantinople. He planted a small garden, intending to research the plant for medicinal purposes. Had Clusius’s neighbors been morally upright, the tulip might still be a rare exotic in the gardening world. Instead they broke into his garden and stole some of his bulbs in order to make some quick money, and in the process started the Dutch bulb trade
http://www.damninteresting.com/the-dutch-tulip-bubble-of-1637/
Just sayin!

[charles royer]

It's worse than you think!

US Gives China Eminent Domain Over US Property Beyond High Treason.
Let's connect some dots today, boys and girls to learn about the HIGHEST POSSIBLE TREASON that has happened in this country.

THIS IS AS REAL AND AS UGLY AS IT CAN GET. Read on!
http://rense.com/general85/give.htm

[jack ludwig]

we currently have constitutional checks on all laws, it's called the supreme court, as defined by our constitution. 

[M]

Jack,

Plese show me where in the Constitution there is an enumerated power that authorizes Judicial Review. What SCOTUS is and has been doing is going around Congress and Legislating from the bench. That is compounded by Congress doing nothing to correct the problem.

[jack ludwig]

Article III they are given the power of judicial review of all laws. If they rule on any legislative action it is because in their view the law does not meet constitutional standards which much show it does not infringe in anyone's individual rights unless it is for the good of society as a whole.

[Hankelvis]

Importing 

https://www.cbp.gov/trade/basic-import-export

Immigration

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1924

For every 300 new children, a new school is built with union labor -nationwide. Billions each year!

When our government gives away food stamps and other freebies, they issue each recipient a VISA card.

VISA charges each recipient a minimum of 10.00 a month for "processing". Billions each year!

Who profits from illegal immigration? 

VISA!

When illegals send money home to Mexico, who profits?

Western Union, Walmart, GE Capital, and other banks! Billions each year!

Why do "they want to import illegals?

Money.

Billions each year!

[charles royer]

"Diversity" is about Disinheriting Whites
A participant, Greg tells the group:

"As for my race, I am white but I never really had to think about it before. I don't feel that it ever affected the people with whom I associated or talked to. My two best friends are Black and (Canadian) Indian. I was brought up in a family that didn't believe in prejudice and I'm proud of that. If I don't like a person, it is because of their personality, not their race or heritage."

Now you'd think that Greg would pass with flying colors. - See more at: http://www.savethemales.ca/the_truth_about_diversity.html#sthash.Mq...

[charles royer]

Is this really protesting or paid anarchy?

At least some of the protesters who looted, rioted, burned buildings and overturned police cars in Ferguson, Missouri, last year were promised payment of up to $5,000 per month to join the protests.

However, when the Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE), the successor group to the now-bankrupt St. Louis branch of ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), stiffed the protesters, they launched a sit-in protest at the headquarters of MORE and created a Twitter page to demand their money, the Washington Times reports.

Breaking News at Newsmax.com http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Ferguson-Missouri-paid-protesters/...
Urgent: Do You Back Trump or Hillary? Vote Here Now!

[kevin kiernan]

We are living in sick times...I am blessed to have grown up in the best times in history. I am afraid those times are changing...

[charles royer]

When Nations Die
http://www.leaderu.com/common/nationsdie.html

[The Bull]

PROOF That Hillary Is Either LYING Or Is AN IGNORAMUS: You Decide

FBI Director James Comey asserted two things in deciding not to prosecute Hillary Clinton that are important to note:

First, that only a “very small number” of email sent and received by Clinton “bore markings indicating the presence of classified information” and that Clinton was not “technically sophisticated” enough to understand what the classification marking system meant. By the way, the “marking” that Comey is talking about is a capital “C” in parenthesis, like this: (C).

This is important because as Secretary of State, Clinton not only must have known how the incredibly clear marking system worked, but as an “original classification authority,” she is actually charged with deciding what information is classified or not.

WikiLeaks has obtained 23,025 documents officially listed as “classified” in Clinton’s first year as secretary.

What we learn by perusing these documents is that the “(C)” marking that Hillary Clinton is apparently not sophisticated enough to understand is so obvious on the documents –and in the beginning of every paragraph, that it boggles the mind anybody with the cognitive ability above a toddler wouldn’t either understand what they meant – or ask what they meant.

Here’s a screenshot of one of the documents:

As you can see, the memo BEGINS with the words “CLASSIFIED BY” and has the “(C)” marking at the beginning of the memo.

In fact, there are markings at the beginning of every paragraph of every memo. If the paragraph is “confidential,” it’s marked with a “(C),” if it’s not, it’s marked “unclassified,” or “(U)” – like this:

Comey might not have been absolutely certain that Hillary Clinton didn’t understand what the “(C)” meant, but if she didn’t, she’s not qualified to tie her own shoes, let alone run the country. After reading more than two of these documents, anyone who isn’t “sophisticated enough” to understand what the “(C)” meant and didn’t ask about it doesn’t have the intellectual curiosity of a squirrel.

Finally: We don’t know where WikiLeaks got these documents from, but if more than a “very small number” of them came from Hillary’s server, then the FBI director has a lot more explaining to do than how stupid he thinks Hillary Clinton is.

H/T: weaselzippers.us

http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/us/proof-that-hillary-is-either-...

[M]

This e-mail about Gowdey grilling Cormey has gone viral;

[kevin kiernan]

Gowdey is the best. We are lucky to have him serving us.