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!

[kevin kiernan]

[The Bull]

Apparently the White House referred to Christmas Trees as Holiday Trees this year, which prompted Ben Stein, to say, on CBS Sunday Morning,

 

My confession: I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejewelled trees, Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are, Christmas trees.

 

It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu. If people want a nativity scene, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.

 

 I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from, that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.

 

 Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities and we aren't allowed to worship God? I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where these celebrities came from and where the America we knew went to.

 

 In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking.

 

 Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her 'How could God let something like this happen?' (regarding Hurricane Katrina). Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said, 'I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives.And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?'

 

 In light of recent events... terrorist attacks, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few years ago) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.

 

 Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave, because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said okay.

 

 Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.

 

 Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with 'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.'

 

 Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell.

 Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says.

 

 Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing.

 

 Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.

 

 Are you laughing yet?

 

 Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it.

 

 Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.

 

 Pass it on if you think it has merit.

 

 If not, then just discard it.... no one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don't sit back and complain about what a bad shape the world is in.

 

 My Best Regards, Honestly and respectfully,

 

 Ben Stein

 

Sent from my iPhone

[The Bull]

[kevin kiernan]

This video nails it. 

[charles royer]

Who the hell is propornot?
Your Friendly Neighborhood Propaganda Identification Service, Since 2016!
Got to be the frigging DNC

http://www.propornot.com/p/home.html

[charles royer]

Here's some of that fake news oboma's talking about!

CNN spreads FAKE NEWS on Jill Stein recount Who are these "voting experts" that CNN is referring to?
http://redstatewatcher.com/article.asp?id=51077

[The Bull]

 A peaceful (so far) revolution

We know that the Democratic Party, which used to identify with and support America’s working men and women, has morphed into a party aligned with wealthy donors, celebrities, Wall Street, and corporate fat cats.  We know that the Republican establishment is joined at the hip with their fellow Democratic political elites and that “we the people” have been left to twist in the wind while our “representatives” line their pockets.

We know that we love America but distrust our government, our media, and our politicians.  A distrust that has been well and truly earned many times over.  As Mark Twain said, “Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.”  “We the people” have staged a peaceful (so far) revolution against a government that we no longer respect – because it no longer respects us – because it no longer deserves respect.

http://canadafreepress.com/article/americas-2nd-patriotic-revolution

[Hankelvis]

The unions put Clinton and Obama in office by their own admission. The unions are the quasi legal arm of lacostra nostra. We need to get them out of our schools where they are poisoning our children. The Dems are 100% union owned. That is how they act as one body. They will be killed if they do not.

[charles royer]

Hera's the problem with that scooby.

Were it not that Trump after many years decided to run the republican't party would still be on the bottom & on their way out.Previously the demoncats were lock step but being taken over by the rich & the famous.Huge funding from people 10 times worse the the republican financiers Adelson & koch bros

.Now Trump pulling along "the working class" many of whom are union workers has in one election made the demoncats irrelevant.

The radical alt left wants to double down by appointing islamofacists like Kieth Ellison.

So as a bonus we can cling to our guns & bible say Merry Christmas & God bless!

[Hankelvis]

So we are both right.

[JV]

first trump has to do something as of yet he hasn't. other than stack his team with establishment rinos and say what he MIGHT do.

so your question would require me to just ..''make sht up'' and call it fact.

I wont do that.

[The Bull]