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Democracy is no solution - it's just 51% bossing the other 49% around. For God's sake, Hitler was democratically elected. Democracy is just mob rule dressed up in a coat and tie.  - Doug Casey

You know, I keep sending "unsubscribe USA.gov" messages to Washington, but I never get a response.

Doug: Good luck. To them, you're cattle. They care only so much as you and all the others don't stampede. Other than that, you exist for their benefit and have as much say in the matter as a steer.- Doug Casey

Basic law is "Do as thou wilt - but be prepared to accept the consequences," you can extrapolate that out, as a practical matter, to two others. One, do all you say you're going to do. And two, don't aggress against other people or their property.- Doug Casey

The tribal way of organizing a society actually makes more sense than the nation state does - at least in a tribe you basically know everybody, typically have a blood or family relation with them, and almost certainly share values. The nation state is just a piece of geography controlled by a central government.- Doug Casey

Listen to what Bin Laden said was upsetting those people so much. We should get our troops out of their holy land, stop setting up brutal puppet regimes, and stop supporting Israel. If we did that, and sincerely apologized for our destructive actions and the criminal actions our tax dollars have paid for, a lot of those people would cool off and go back to herding goats, looking for oil, making shish kebabs, or some other pursuit of happiness.- Doug Casey

4 Rules for Acquiring Knowledge

(1) Accept nothing as true unless clearly recognized as such;

(2) Solve problems systematically by analyzing them part by part;

(3) Proceed from the simple (seed) to the complex; and

(4) Review everything thoroughly to ensure that nothing is omitted.

- Descartes

 

Sadly, non-producers outnumber producers and, in a democracy, the war is often won by the non-producer.

Democracy is like having a vote by five coyotes and a lamb over what to have for lunch. -Rick Rule

"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there'd be a shortage of sand." - Milton Friedman