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!

[The Bull]

My experience is that they do not want to be educated.  Infact most of them will just delete your post before anyone gets a chance to read it. Or they will tell you that you are a hater and your posting is a lie. In fact my own kids unfriend me on Facebook, hell of thing after paying for their collage "education"  You see the left likes living in their make-believe world of peace love and socialism. everything outside of that world is hate and lies.

[kevin kiernan]

That is the sad truth.

[kevin kiernan]

DNC SERVER HACKED BY RUSSIA...Trump files were taken. .. They are building a Profile on Trump is my guess.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russian-gove...

[The Bull]

[charles royer]

FBI not watching every one!
MUSLIM MOSQUES ARE OFF LIMITS TO PRESIDENT OBAMA’S SNOOPING
The White House assures that tracking EVERY PHONE CALL and PRYING INTO OUR LIVES is essential to stopping terrorists. Isn’t it ironic that President Obama feels a need to snoop into every area of our life, but he refuses to snoop into mosques, the very place where the terrorists reside?

That is precisely correct. The government’s soaring surveillance into our private lives excludes “the jihad factories where homegrown terrorists are radicalized,” according to The Investors.

Since October 2011, mosques have been a “DO NOT TOUCH”
http://libertynews.com/2013/06/muslim-mosques-are-off-limits-to-pre...

[charles royer]

Sessions: 'Dictator' Obama flooding rural towns with illegals

Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions said that the administration's plan to ship some 2,000 illegals to his state has been met with the same outrage as other efforts to take undocumented immigrants seized in Texas and Arizona and house them as far away as Massachusetts.

"They feel like this is a dictator from Washington who will not listen to the people's concerns and they are very concerned about it," Sessions told Secrets after a speech to the Security Industry Association in downtown Washington.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/sessions-dictator-obama-flooding-...

[charles royer]

June 17, 2016

After Orlando, Reinstate Mosque Monitoring

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/06/after_orlando_reins...
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[charles royer]

It makes you wonder: Who at the White House feels compelled to send women of color out to humiliate themselves on national TV?

[The Bull]

Clamoring for a champion – revisiting ancient Israel’s mistake

This past year of presidential jockeying is a tableau painted by an electorate feeling so violated that it has cried out for a champion. The desperation encouraged statesmen and women to enter the contest, but was also an invitation to anyone with a penchant for publicity and power. Motivation behind both the call and some who responded to it should be cause for concern, and how we arrived at this point in history is the question that requires hard answers.

Years of reversing our educational system from admiring America’s founding to disparaging it, has reaped a harvest of younger voters (those 40 and under) who have been trained to yearn after any governmental organization other than our compound constitutional republic. Oddly, the seeming opposites of self-denigration and self-aggrandizement underlie the transformation. Many educators are groomed to loathe the Founders as elitists, who were actually the oppressed, and elevate themselves as advocates for those they consider oppressed – an elitist attitude. Paradox made simple, and explains the draw to other ‘isms.

By A. Dru Kristenev - Monday, June 20, 2016 - Full Story

[The Bull]

Is Trump ‘Conservative’?

By Bill Weckesser

I’ll certainly admit to being flummoxed by Donald Trump’s brand of conservatism but in reading one of the heroes of the faith I find myself re-evaluating The Donald.  Years ago Russell Kirk humbly laid out “Ten Conservative Principles.”  As you read number three, bear in mind Mr. Trump’s campaign pledge to “Make America Great Again.”

…conservatives believe in what may be called the principle of prescription. Conservatives sense that modern people are dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, able to see farther than their ancestors only because of the great stature of those who have preceded us in time. Therefore conservatives very often emphasize the importance of prescription—that is, of things established by immemorial usage, so that the mind of man runneth not to the contrary….  Conservatives argue that we are unlikely, we moderns, to make any brave new discoveries in morals or politics or taste. It is perilous to weigh every passing issue on the basis of private judgment and private rationality. The individual is foolish, but the species is wise, Burke declared.  In politics we do well to abide by precedent and precept and even prejudice, for the great mysterious incorporation of the human race has acquired a prescriptive wisdom far greater than any man’s petty private rationality.  

 What Democrats loathe of Trump’s campaign is that little word at the end of his slogan: again.  They’d much prefer simply “Make America Great.”  In fact Hillary and Bernie could endorse that; it’s their stated aim; it’s their admitted purpose -- free college education, men in ladies’ restrooms, the bureaucratic state and on and on. They scorn the founding fathers and the Constitution and our freedoms, and are convinced they should be tossed aside. 

Now, along comes a guy named Trump who says, “No.  We’re throwing a bunch of stuff out and going back to the way it was.”   A call to heritage, custom, respect for those who came before, those who fought for the country -- this is the essence of conservatism.  Petty policy issues are tangential.

Can one imagine a World War II veteran being opposed to the Trump agenda as outlined at the Journal of American Greatness:  Secure boarders, economic nationalism and interests-based foreign policy?  Seems that would be why they served?  Why they fought. 

I wince at a lot of Trump’s comments.  But, where on Kirk’s list is open borders, political correctness, multiculturalism and free trade?  And who said these are tenets of conservatism?  I’d direct the #NeverTrumpers to Kirk’s website.  And also to National Review -- of all places -- where Victor Davis Hansen has had the courage to call for party unity.

…perhaps #NeverTrumpers should adopt one rule for the sake of party unity: For each of their attacks on the Republican nominee, vow to match it with one attack on the Democratic nominee. And for each conservative guest editorialist in the New York Times or Washington Post deploring what the Republicans have done, perhaps a #NeverHillary liberal might write a commensurate critical op-ed about Clinton in The Weekly Standard or National Review.

While conservatives argue and debate what conservatism is and whether or not to support Trump, the Democrats will be focused on only one thing:  Winning.  Why do they drive the national debate?  Because outwardly, they’re unified.  Case in point:  Elizabeth Warren.  Does anyone really believe she meant what she said in endorsing Hillary?

Maybe it’s time for us to recapture a conservatism that’s rooted in tradition, culture and heritage and “Make America Great, Again!”

I’ll certainly admit to being flummoxed by Donald Trump’s brand of conservatism but in reading one of the heroes of the faith I find myself re-evaluating The Donald.  Years ago Russell Kirk humbly laid out “Ten Conservative Principles.”  As you read number three, bear in mind Mr. Trump’s campaign pledge to “Make America Great Again.”

…conservatives believe in what may be called the principle of prescription. Conservatives sense that modern people are dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, able to see farther than their ancestors only because of the great stature of those who have preceded us in time. Therefore conservatives very often emphasize the importance of prescription—that is, of things established by immemorial usage, so that the mind of man runneth not to the contrary….  Conservatives argue that we are unlikely, we moderns, to make any brave new discoveries in morals or politics or taste. It is perilous to weigh every passing issue on the basis of private judgment and private rationality. The individual is foolish, but the species is wise, Burke declared.  In politics we do well to abide by precedent and precept and even prejudice, for the great mysterious incorporation of the human race has acquired a prescriptive wisdom far greater than any man’s petty private rationality.  

 What Democrats loathe of Trump’s campaign is that little word at the end of his slogan: again.  They’d much prefer simply “Make America Great.”  In fact Hillary and Bernie could endorse that; it’s their stated aim; it’s their admitted purpose -- free college education, men in ladies’ restrooms, the bureaucratic state and on and on. They scorn the founding fathers and the Constitution and our freedoms, and are convinced they should be tossed aside. 

Now, along comes a guy named Trump who says, “No.  We’re throwing a bunch of stuff out and going back to the way it was.”   A call to heritage, custom, respect for those who came before, those who fought for the country -- this is the essence of conservatism.  Petty policy issues are tangential.

Can one imagine a World War II veteran being opposed to the Trump agenda as outlined at the Journal of American Greatness:  Secure boarders, economic nationalism and interests-based foreign policy?  Seems that would be why they served?  Why they fought. 

I wince at a lot of Trump’s comments.  But, where on Kirk’s list is open borders, political correctness, multiculturalism and free trade?  And who said these are tenets of conservatism?  I’d direct the #NeverTrumpers to Kirk’s website.  And also to National Review -- of all places -- where Victor Davis Hansen has had the courage to call for party unity.

…perhaps #NeverTrumpers should adopt one rule for the sake of party unity: For each of their attacks on the Republican nominee, vow to match it with one attack on the Democratic nominee. And for each conservative guest editorialist in the New York Times or Washington Post deploring what the Republicans have done, perhaps a #NeverHillary liberal might write a commensurate critical op-ed about Clinton in The Weekly Standard or National Review.

While conservatives argue and debate what conservatism is and whether or not to support Trump, the Democrats will be focused on only one thing:  Winning.  Why do they drive the national debate?  Because outwardly, they’re unified.  Case in point:  Elizabeth Warren.  Does anyone really believe she meant what she said in endorsing Hillary?

Maybe it’s time for us to recapture a conservatism that’s rooted in tradition, culture and heritage and “Make America Great, Again!”

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/06/is_trump_conservative.html

[kevin kiernan]

Julian Assange has a present for Hillary.

[charles royer]

Go Boma!
American nightmare: Home ownership at 48-year low
Home ownership is at a 48-year low, driven in part by a shocking pattern of foreclosure that put 9.4 million out of their homes during the recent recession, according to a Harvard survey.

In its "State of the Nation's Housing 2016," Harvard said that "the U.S. homeownership rate has tumbled to its lowest level in nearly a half-century."

Figures from the St. Louis Fed showed a homeownership rate of 63.5 percent. The last time it was lower was in 1967.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/harvard-9.4-million-houses-lost-i...