Curt Doolittle

Form: Short Note

  • LEARN FREEDOM THE HARD WAY, AND THE RIGHT WAY: MILITIA Freedom is obtained, and

    http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/ukraine-young-partisans-106411_Page2.html#ixzz32A17JQrCUKRAINIANS LEARN FREEDOM THE HARD WAY, AND THE RIGHT WAY: MILITIA

    Freedom is obtained, and maintained, at the point of a gun. Pacifists are free riders, liars and thieves.

    —“Kyiv has a large strategic reserve of Kalashnikov assault rifles and other light weapons—around 5 million pieces—as a mobilization reserve dating back to Soviet times. It has made clear to the Kremlin that it is now considering the possibility of opening up this stockpile to its citizens in East Ukraine. At least half this reserve is concentrated near Sloviansk and it is the reason that Russian special forces were sent there to secure the area.”—-

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    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-19 07:38:00 UTC

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    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9f6_1399588813&comments=1

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-19 07:19:00 UTC

  • WOULDN”T BE THAT VIOLENT. IT DOESN”T HAVE TO BE. ITS FRAGILE. Interesting progno

    http://www.libertychat.com/2014/05/violent-u-s-revolution-look-like-today-compared-1776-ian-cioffi/IT WOULDN”T BE THAT VIOLENT. IT DOESN”T HAVE TO BE. ITS FRAGILE.

    Interesting prognostication. Not one that is supported by the evidence. At no time in history has communication and coordination been available to so many, nor has the systemic infrastructure upon which a society rests, been so fragile. If it were true what you say, the DC Sniper would have had no economic impact, and the rise of professional international insurgents would not have become the de facto means by which war is being conducted. Multiple books, some fairly popular have been written on this subject. Not only is it effective to use systemic facility to drive an efficient economy into shock, and a government in to visible discredit and failure, it’s cheap, and it takes fewer people, a shorter time, than at any point in history. The problem americans face is actually (a) a catalyzing event, and (b) general awareness of a possible solution or alternative to the current order.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-18 19:44:00 UTC

  • (fun)(movies) Finally got around to watching Pompeii. OMG. Who approved this scr

    (fun)(movies)

    Finally got around to watching Pompeii. OMG. Who approved this script? What a waste of good actors. I mean, HBO’s Rome and Starz’s Spartacus were vastly superior, on trivial budgets by comparison. What a dishonor to the dead.

    Sad.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-18 12:15:00 UTC

  • THE RICH DON’T CONSUME RETURNS ON SAVINGS (worth repeating) –“Piketty’s rich-ge

    THE RICH DON’T CONSUME RETURNS ON SAVINGS

    (worth repeating)

    –“Piketty’s rich-get-ever-richer projection can happen only if the rich don’t live like rich people, that is, that they don’t spend their wealth or the income generated by their wealth. All those savings just sit there making the economy more productive and, in the process, raising wages for the proletariat while the top 1% don’t actually consume any of the returns on those savings. Piketty’s scenario is close to Charles Murray’s desire that the rich live a little less ostentatiously.”—Andrew Biggs.

    (Except for food -restaurants- I bet I ‘live poorer’ than the middle class today. Almost every cent I’ve made goes into investment in my next business. Furthermore, to build ascentium, I lived on zero to 50K a year for two years, and at half my income for most of the rest, and even at my highest salary, less than 60% of my market value. Everything else was reinvested in the business. This is pretty common. Being rich isn’t a matter of consumption. It’s a matter of using your money to make money, rather than using your time, arms and legs. But then there is the entire state-corporatist-financial-sector that vampires off all of us. But entrepreneurs and private investors are not in that category.)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-18 06:31:00 UTC

  • OPERATIONALISM, PROPERTARIAN DEFINITION OF PROPERTY, AND STRICT CONSTRUCTIONISM

    http://www.amazon.com/Supreme-Court-Attitudinal-Model-Revisited/dp/0521789710WHY OPERATIONALISM, PROPERTARIAN DEFINITION OF PROPERTY, AND STRICT CONSTRUCTIONISM ARE NECESSARY FOR RULE OF LAW

    The “Attitudinal Model”: When decisions are unclear, they are made by moral intuitions. Not by reason.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-17 22:22:00 UTC

  • DEAR UKRAINIAN FRIENDS – CHARGE RUSSIA FOR CRIMEA IN GAS Russia stole territory.

    DEAR UKRAINIAN FRIENDS – CHARGE RUSSIA FOR CRIMEA IN GAS

    Russia stole territory. Lets just estimate the value of Crimea and the oil and gas fields. Say, at $4T Euros. So we will just take $4T euros as gas as payment for the seized territory at 22% interest, which is the going rate for high risk capital. This means Ukraine will not have to pay for gas for many years.

    If they don’t like it then we must collect our debt from Russia forcibly.

    I think that’s a pretty good deal. Don’t you?

    🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-17 15:46:00 UTC

  • DEAR UKRAINIAN FRIENDS Take the war to Russia. Russia is a fragile economy. We’v

    DEAR UKRAINIAN FRIENDS

    Take the war to Russia. Russia is a fragile economy. We’ve blown a few gas lines already. It works. These lines are fragile. They cover vast distances. Those vast distances are very expensive to defend. They are nearly impossible to logistically defend.

    Russia cannot leverage european dependence on gas if it cannot sell gas. Europe cannot remain neutral, because it is dependent upon gas, if it cannot purchase gas.

    The army has artillery shells in storage. Every shell, easily converted into a bomb, deprives the Russian economy of tens of millions of dollars. A few shells in sequence deprive the Russian economy of tens of billions.

    You know, 50% of Russians are dependent upon that revenue. The entire corrupt pyramid depends upon that gas and oil.

    Two men, a shovel, a flashlight and a motorcycle, and a camping trip.

    Take the war to Russia.

    If you kill the body the head will die.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-17 10:06:00 UTC

  • Strategy? Revolution Only Takes Individuals Now

    STRATEGY? [N]ow, we have spent the past century or more criticizing the keynesians, leftists, and progressives for creating systemic fragility. Not only in our culture, our laws, our institutions, our economy – but in our complex infrastructure and systems. It used to take armies to implement political change. Then it took mobs. Recently is takes insurgents. And at present it takes only individuals. Welcome to fragility. They made it possible to get our freedom back.

  • Strategy? Revolution Only Takes Individuals Now

    STRATEGY? [N]ow, we have spent the past century or more criticizing the keynesians, leftists, and progressives for creating systemic fragility. Not only in our culture, our laws, our institutions, our economy – but in our complex infrastructure and systems. It used to take armies to implement political change. Then it took mobs. Recently is takes insurgents. And at present it takes only individuals. Welcome to fragility. They made it possible to get our freedom back.