Ah ... divorce ... the screwin you get for the screwin you got.

I'm on wife #4. This one likes being married ... we've been hitched since 12/1/2000.

I think we are seeing the non-violent attempt at shucking that weight making itself known over the past year or so. If it doesn't succeed, it's on to the third box.

Thank you SLL -- again!
I look forward to reading your articles. They are very very thought provoking.

Hello mia767ca. You may find:

"How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World" by Harry Browne

interesting.

western banks and financial companies who owe their non-free-market advantages to their influence of the state

Thank you and enjoy Temecula.

Thank you.

Reminds me of the jet black hair my ex's nice looking relative, who got mad at me when I did not show up at a party for the obvious intention of dodging her unwanted advances about four years ago.
I had no interest in her because she was (1) recently dumped and on a rebound (2) egged on my ex's two sisters who have their own complicated issues and (3) I knew she was on meds due to having mental problems.
I kinda felt guilty that she then had a breakdown and was in some facility for three months.
On the day she was to leave, she choked to death on a peach slice despite being in a cafeteria filled with doctors and nurses at the time.
I think that was partly due to her being "medicated" but I don't really know.
I was startled by her looks at the funeral. She had gray hair and looked way more haggard like a granny, which she was anyway.
Me dino likes being divorced. Nobody bothers me most of the time.

That is her middle aged med blond hair.

The Soviets had the central banksters as an enemy. The banksters are charter members of the statist DS and provide it sustenance. I don't disagree that one tactic they could use is to plunge the lesser beings (us) into starvation and dispair laying false blame on a scapegoat, then come to our alleged rescue, all the while maintaining their millions in bonuses for continuing the con. It's up to all of us to expose the charade and to convince the military of the traitors in their midst.
We should also be encouraging a consumer strike to hasten the collapse of the con, but we must provide a valid alternative to the cartel controlled "legal tender" that provides a source of liquidity to ensure survival of small and medium sized businesses. Without such a free market alternative, the people will be prey to the state.

Most unfortunate, but I can't contradict your appraisal. Though in some ways Glenn Beck has gone astray, he apparently felt the same, thus his internet born enterprise.

loved it...spot on...posted to facebook and the internet...

the revolt against the"deep state" and all it's freedom crunching edicts is only that...a revolt "against"...with no consistent philosophy "for" liberty and freedom, a democracy is doomed to, after a brief pause, to continue it's slide into a totalitarian state...
we all have to learn to live free in an unfree world...

meanwhile, i am going back to Temecula for some more wine, peace, and quiet...

Excellent article, Robert. On close examination, there is actually more in common between the Soviet superstate and our current government. Our unelected mandarins, the agencies' bureaucrats, are as unanswerable to the people they torment as were the Soviet commissars. If anything, thanks to JFK's blunder in permitting government employees to unionize, our self-serving bureaucracy is even less vulnerable to the threat of accountability than were the commissars (which FDR warned against).

If a commissar in the USSR oversaw a failure to reach five year plan goals, he was lucky if his next living space wasn't in the nearest gulag. Sadly, in our supposedly superior republic, we've witnessed various bureaucrats who've been responsible for the deaths of VA patients, embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars, and caused one of the biggest environmental disasters of the last several decades (mine waste polluting the Colorado river), with a complete lack of accountability. No one fired, charged with crimes, or even demoted.

I hope that among those brilliant minds Trump is bringing into his team, there are those who have a clear vision and plan to bring an end to the dysfunctional nature of the culture that festers in the national agencies. Removing the senior bureaucrats that accommodate the disregard for responsibility in their subordinates would be a good start, but this is a diseased culture that needs cauterizing and amputation before it will begin to resemble what our government should be.

There's a lot of Kay Griggs on YouTube.
With Christmas around the corner, me dino has no time for them until next week.
But here they be, y'all~

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=k...

Thanks. Unfortunately, the news outlets are the mainstream media, where my views are for the most part unacceptable. Fortunately, those of us who are shut out now have the Internet and can set up our own outlets. So I'll will stick with SLL until the money runs out.

Hello SLL,
Another excellent piece. I see great potential for a non-fiction political science book, if you gather together the pertinent articles you have already written. Since you have already written them, a bit of collating and editing is all that is left to do. You should be a syndicated columnist. The news outlets today are in desperate need of articles like this.
Regards,
O.A.

China would be right behind them except for Bush preferred trade partner status.

It will be interesting to watch how they continue in an "open" market.

Excellent points, although the extent of Deep State desperation at this point can only be a matter of conjecture (unless you're plugged into the DS; I know I'm not). I do remember, however, predicting in the 1980s that the Soviet Union would collapse, to substantial skepticism. The Soviet government was the second most powerful entity on the planet and exercised almost absolute control over its citizens. The fall was quick and astonishing, but what can't work ultimately won't work. Statism, in all its variants, can't work, and I now believe that the fall of the Western welfare states is closer than people think. When they go, I think chaos and devolution is much more likely than some sort of doubling down on command and control, a global police state or the like. I have to think that at least some members of the Deep State recognize that possiblity, hence the desperation. They are not nearly as omnipotent as both they and their foes believe, although it may well take pledges of our "lives, fortunes, and sacred honor" to root them out. I'm ready.

Good article, sll, as usual. You have consistently provided excellent thought provoking writing.

Two comments on some issues you raised.
1. "The microchip led to widespread distribution of cheap computing power and dissemination of information"
While true, the process has been reversed to an extent. The expanded use of "the cloud" and "social networking" makes it easier for statists to track and suppress its opponents and to fund competition to oppose both independent voices of liberty and small business alternatives to corrupt pro-statist corporatocracy.
2."In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, Americans surrendered liberties and gave the Deep State carte blanche to fight a war on terrorism"
CUI BONO. The question should always have been and should continue to be: Who benefits most from the terrorist attacks of 9/11/01? Who had the greatest incentive to plan and carry out the attacks? Who had the ability to control the media about the attacks? Who used the attacks as an excuse to suppress liberty? Who used the attacks as an excuse to waste trillions of taxpayer dollars and to drive America to the edge of bankruptcy? Who has prospered most from these actions? Who has repeatedly had record profits and millions in executive bonuses while producing nothing but death and destruction of the American middle class?

Those who have created the alleged foreign enemy are not even close to desperation. They are the real enemy and they have no alleigance to the democrats, the GOP, or any formal political party.
They can be defeated and must be opposed by those who pledge their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor.

Her husband was an assassin for military intelligence with his drinking problem he would tell her everything. When he wasn't abusing her. The video was made almost 20 years ago and similar to the prophetic writings in Atlas Shrugged. Her charges have been revealed in a lot of the so called fake news leaked in emails released by wikileaks.