Tigga you need some new friends if you want people to like you. The Messque is still open to the infidels who repent for reading the Koronaldo7. The balls in your court princess :)>

Hi Mark,

I appreciate the thought behind your note.

However, I just don't see differences of opinion, even in politics, as a reason to not get along with people.

I have someone in my family who gets along great with people, if they agree with his politics.

If they don't, he is an obnoxious jerk to those people.

<"The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive. Do we have the confidence in our values to defend them? Do we have the desire and the courage to preserve our civilization in the face of those who would subvert and destroy it?">

Why do you say that?>

Because it's true, for one thing.

The Republic is probably the most influential book of all time, after the Bible. It set in motion lots of ideas about education, politics and society that are still relevant today and have informed our education systems for thousands of years, one way or another.

There's more to it than that though.

It's the kind of book that you find yourself going back to over and over again. You don't understand everything in it on one reading. You'll read and reread this book for 10 years and still find something new in it. Truly remarkable.

The book is written kind of like a conversation, rather than a treatise, so it's pretty good reading.

Anyway, The Republic is so fundamentally influential and important and has had such tremendous impact that you're not *really* rightfully an educated person unless you've read it.

People who know The Republic well, and have read it a few times and go back to it over and over, will understand. Those who haven't done so will not.

People who haven't read The Republic are lacking the kind of culture and sophistication that all educated people should have, quite frankly.

I think it is a 10. It is the perfect distillation of the circumstances that we find ourselves in, and also of the challenge that people who value Western Civilization need to receive, to motivate them to fight for it and defend it.>

Yes, Trump nailed it. I think I saw that speech on vacation in July.

The left, with all the kneeling at the games and Black Lives Matter protesting, and with all the support the whole left gives to that, is demonstrating that they don't think Western values are worth fighting for.

The White Man is the new Jew. He's the scapegoat for anything that people don't like. If a black man shoots another black man in Chicago one day, it's because of whitey. Slavery. The 1830s.

This destructive, subversive, anti-America, anti-Christian, anti-white man, anti-western values narrative has grown into this tidal wave of societal influence. Whereas in years past it was either nonexistent or barely on the radar, now it has come to define our times.

Where did this narrative come from?

It's not the result of some organic process, a natural reaction to some deep injustice inherent in western values. No. This is a narrative that has been stoked and created by design by people, certain people.

Who are they?

What do they want?

How does something like this actually get started?

This narrative comes from the left and the left is opposed to western values, including especially the influence of Christianity. What we are seeing right now is exactly like the novel 1984. In so many ways it's just like that.

At the base of it all is morality. The defining and redefining of what is good and right underlies all of this. Consider the denial that occurs surrounding Islamic terror. Consider the denial that occurs regarding the systematic attack on the white man. Consider the attack on Christianity from the gay cakes, to the effort to try to normalize homosexuality, to the silencing of all things Christian in the public square, to even making the words Merry Christmas a taboo (while justifying child sex changes).

Christianity is the bedrock that western civilization stands on. Blacks have been taught now that Christianity is the white mans religion and they are being turned from it.

By seeking to overturn the moral values of western society by attacking Christianity, the left has created a culture of denial that simply denies reality. When you deny reality you deny the truth, because the truth is a statement about reality. The left is about a lie and it hates the truth, hates God and hates what is right.

This is the reason that people who are otherwise intelligent can say such stupid things and be in such denial on the left. That is, it's not a matter of understanding or knowing. It's entirely a spiritual issue.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/24/...

This is a very interesting article in the NYT. This lecture was given in Australia and it's worth the read.

Here's a bit.

<This has become the depressing trend on American university campuses, where the roster of disinvited speakers and forced cancellations includes former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Condoleezza Rice, former Harvard University President Larry Summers, actor Alec Baldwin, human-rights activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, DNA co-discoverer James Watson, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, filmmaker Michael Moore, conservative Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist George Will and liberal Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Anna Quindlen, to name just a few. Continue reading the main story

So illustrious is the list that, on second thought, I’m beginning to regret that you didn’t disinvite me after all.

The title of my talk tonight is “The Dying Art of Disagreement.” This is a subject that is dear to me — literally dear — since disagreement is the way in which I have always earned a living. Disagreement is dear to me, too, because it is the most vital ingredient of any decent society.

To say the words, “I agree” — whether it’s agreeing to join an organization, or submit to a political authority, or subscribe to a religious faith — may be the basis of every community.

But to say, I disagree; I refuse; you’re wrong; etiam si omnes — ego non — these are the words that define our individuality, give us our freedom, enjoin our tolerance, enlarge our perspectives, seize our attention, energize our progress, make our democracies real, and give hope and courage to oppressed people everywhere. Galileo and Darwin; Mandela, Havel, and Liu Xiaobo; Rosa Parks and Natan Sharansky — such are the ranks of those who disagree.

And the problem, as I see it, is that we’re failing at the task.

This is a puzzle. At least as far as far as the United States is concerned, Americans have rarely disagreed more in recent decades.

<According to a new survey from the Brookings Institution, a plurality of college students today — fully 44 percent — do not believe the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects so-called “hate speech,” when of course it absolutely does. More shockingly, a narrow majority of students — 51 percent — think it is “acceptable” for a student group to shout down a speaker with whom they disagree. An astonishing 20 percent also agree that it’s acceptable to use violence to prevent a speaker from speaking.>

<This is a puzzle. At least as far as far as the United States is concerned, Americans have rarely disagreed more in recent decades.>>

Really?
You have to wonder how naive these people are?
Is he just saying what he needs to,
or is he that stupid?
I think of it as, "the plan."

<We disagree about racial issues, bathroom policies, health care laws, and, of course, the 45th president.>

Still, it would be nice if someone actually asked. "Disagree" tends to be a liberal defining my disagreement. Their lie is much better vs. my actual answer.

When Democrats keep launching Titanics.
(and sinking them)

Violets are blue

<It's #NationalPoetryDay>

?>

Roses are red

Paul?

-yes?

Yes, <Big Pawn> from Investors Associates. How ya doin today?

-Pretty good

Good… good to hear. We had a quick conversation a while back concerning the market. You said you owned some Casio, some BMH – you still holding on to them?

-Oh, ah, well, yeah. Uhm, I’m um, I’m buying more oh, more Japanese things now. Japanese things.
-ah, tysco
Oh, that’s great, okay. Well I did make a commitment to you to get back to you when we reached the next explosive situation. I just want you to jot down these symbols and follow the, follow the stock a little bit. The company’s name is Republic Industries, the symbol is RWIN. The stock is offered right now at 36 and 3/8, but we don’t think it’s going to be sitting there much longer.

-ohhh

Let me just explain why to you for a minute. Are you familiar with a man by the name of Wayne Huizenga?

-well yeah I know about him. Do mind if empty my bladder while you’re talking to me?

Excuse me?

-Do you mind if I empty my bladder while you’re talking to me?

Not at all.

-okay go ahead

Aright, the man’s a visionary, obviously you know that. He created block buster video, ayergored every major sports franchise in Florida. He was voted entrepreneur of the year last three years in a row right now. Republic right now is a company in solid waste management. Company revenues were about 15 million just a year ago. When Mr hyzenga took over the company, within one year revenues increased to almost 1 billion and the stock price soared from 3 to 40 dollars. Not a bad return for a year, right?

-ah, tell me about the solid, solid waste management

Ah right. The company’s earnings – they’re expected to double from 64 cents a share, to a dollar twenty eight. Now Paul that’s all well and good but here’s the key right now. The stock has already split once 6 months ago. Historically, when hyzenga took over block buster and waste management, he took the stock to 50 dollars and split them on 6 different occasions each. Over the short term we expect the stock to run up to 50, split again, and run back up to 35 dollars a share. Now on that account I’ve been accumulating blocks of stocks for all my clients. But Paul that’s not what I’m suggesting with you, because obviously you and I don’t have the luxury of a track record yet, but what I would like you to do (pause) is pick up 500 shares, and investment of about 18,000 into the company. During for the next five days, I clear it through Prudential, I mail it to your desk Monday morning.

-ah right

If you position yourself now and if you do hold the stock for 60 to 90 days, your percentage gains should be absolutely staggering. What do you say we work on this today?

-well, give me a call Monday, I’ll make up my mind by Monday.

Monday?

-Monday.

The stock will already be up by Monday.

-well, it’s saturday - sat, Saturday today

Right, and I’m in the office Saturday but let me ask you a question, does the idea of this make sense to ya? Put buying aside for a minute. D, do you like the idea?

-yeah I love the idea

Right, Paul, well if I had been your broker already for the past few years and I was making you money on a consistent basis, and I’m not talking 5 or 10 percent, I’m talking 40 to 50 percent CONSISTENTLY, isn’t it fair to say you’d be a bit less hesitant at this time?

(no answer)

Isn’t that safe to say Paul?

-well, yeah, uh, yes, S. H.

Of course.

-Safe for you to say...

Right, Paul let me just take a step back for a second here. Right now I realize I’m just voice over the phone, and all you know is that man is <Big Pawn>, but what you don’t know is that I’m one of the top brokers here at Investors Associates. Now I didn’t get to my position by being wrong or losing my client’s money-

-I gotta go again, wait a minute

Excuse me?

Okay. I didn’t get to my position by being wrong, losing my client’s money, and I never did it by working on small trades, but in an effort to make you feel a bit more comfortable, we’ll work on 200 shares. We’re talking about a cash outlay of only 8000 dollars right now. It’s not the amount we were just talking about, it might cost you money if the stock hits higher, but the percentage gains should remain the same. Staggering! Trust me in that, compare my performance against your other brokers, and the only problem you’ll have is you didn’t know me well enough and long enough to take 10,000 shares of this company.

-well alright, let me think about it and call me back on Monday then I’ll talk to you about it.

Monday! The stock’s gonna be up by Monday. You have to work on my pricing and timing here Paul. I don’t want to get involved Monday because it already may be too late, the stock already may have hit.

-well, I have to, I have, I can’t get it right this minute then.

Alright, I, I understand. Paul – but Paul, this is just the tip of the iceberg here. This relationship is really about my investment banking deals. Being in my position here, I’d be, I’d be interested to take care of you with my private placements and my initial public offerings. Not that I’m talking about companies such as Compared Generics, which I brought public at 10 dollars, my clients watched it go to 27 that same day. The truth of the matter is, last year I averaged my clients WELL OVER 150% of my new issues, from the first 30 days of trading. I have an IPO coming out probably in April some time, registration coming out within next few weeks.

-would you be interested in a 72 cadillac?

Excuse me?

-1972 cadillac

What about a 1972 cadillac?

-I’m selling one. You interested in one?

Oh please, I’m located out in Boston and you’re out in Georgia. Let’s talk serious here. What’s holding you back right now Paul? What’s holding you back from closing this deal?

-well I gotta do a little investigative research into it

Research? I have all the information right in front of me right now. Listen, if making money in the stock market was as easy as reading a research report, all we do is call Merril Lynch up, ask them to send the 800 stocks they’re buying, order across them and we’d all make millions.

-oh, here I go again

Paul, it’s not that easy. Every report looks great including mine. Words on a piece of paper won’t make you money. The pricing, the timing of a good broker, will make you A FORTUNE!! Now I want you to test me on two things here Paul, my pricing and my timing. If we were talking about 50,000 shares here and a 2000 fee, a 2000 dollar fee, yeah, I would, I would, expect you to question my motivation. But the fact that I’m talking about 200 shares, only 8000 dollars and 75 dollar fee, shows you my true intentions is to take this relationship for the long haul. After I pay my sales assistants, get this fed ex’d out to you, I’m up for a cup of coffee and a donut in the morning. My intention is to build a relationship here.

-you’re not getting mad are ya?

No I’m not getting mad at all. I’m getting a little upset that you’re not working with me here. I’m talking about 200 shares. What’s holding you back right now?

-well you’re yelling at me

I’m not yelling at you Paul. I’m getting a little upset.

-you’re yelling at me

Don’t misconstrue my enthusiasm for pressure, I mean, I’m very excited about this stock. I want to watch it Monday go up.

-we do things a little different down here in the south see

I understand that Paul.
Paul, let me ask you a question, a you familiar with a stop l---

-we’re just a bunch of jed clamput kinda bozos,

(excuse me?)

-round this area here.

Right, right. Paul, are you familiar with a stop loss order at all?

-well I just hadn’t got more time to talk to you about it right now cuz I gotta mosey on.

Paul, you’re gonna miss out on a great deal here. I don’t want you to miss out. I want you to get involved now.

-well the old lady’s getting loud.

I understand. Paul, is it the money, is that what’s holding you back?

-no, its that I don’t move that fast down here.

Excuse me?

-I don’t move that fast down here

Last time I talked to you you said you were working with 5 to 7 brokers. You still working with that many?

-well yeah me and my buddies down here

Right, and you love IPOs right?

-yeah!

Do you watch the market at all? Cuz we came out with our IPO on Thursday.

-well….

Xxxxx supplements NESU, now we only gave it to our registered clients already working here. I’d like to get you involved in my next deal. I’m gonna lower it down to 100 shares.

--(wife yells) - shut up old lady, I’m coming. Call me back on Monday now.

Knowing that you don't like Jimmy Carter, you might enjoy the first couple of jokes from Johnny Carson's 17th Anniversary opening monologue:

You cannot be a Christian and vote for anyone in the Democratic Party.>

Zell Miller?>

As long as you're looking at Democrats who are done.

Id go for JFK.

He was the pre Democrat Plantation Ronald Reagan.>

Things have changed since Kennedy.>

I was hoping <pre Democrat Plantation> indicated that.

But nowadays, a person cannot vote for a Democrat and be a Christian. These people promote homosexuality, a transvestite lifestyle, abortion (even very late term abortion like Obama), they are offended by "merry Christmas", they bood God at the DNC a few years ago, they always side against Israel, their incentives are anti-family etc...