On the email thing, if you have gmail, you can just append +[anything] to your email account. This lets you filter and find out who is selling your email account.

For example, if I sign up for CNN daily updates (yeah, right), I would use myemail+cnn@gmail.com. I will then see who is sending to that address and can just move it all to trash via a rule. Really handy feature.

If you are just defining the word, then perhaps that statement is true.

But, if you believe in private property (and I know you do), then you believe in many rulers- ruling their property directly, and indirectly, the people who happen to be on it.

What we have now is an absence of rulers and an enormous amount of rules. The owner’s wishes are subject to the bureaucrat; and the bureaucrats make rules with glee. An owner doesn’t make many rules, and often negotiates with people on an individual basis. Instead of the tons of paper necessary to print out the U.S. law code, we’d do business on the back of a napkin and/or with a handshake again.

When Lou Rockwell came up with that statement he inadvertently described what we have now, rather than what we actually want.

With google voice you can send calls directly to voice mail or Block the Caller: The caller will hear a “Number not in service” message and your phones will not ring. 🙂 I’ve used this feature many times.

Meh, “into the wild” will probably disappoint you jack. It did me. The dude was mental. He grew up affluent, and when he finally figures out the disparity and inequality in the world he takes all his trust fund money out and burns it (instead of, I dunno, sending it to an aid org in Africa where it could do some good?). See Robert Service’s “The Law of the Yukon”.

P.S. Just this week they had to go rescue yet another guy out at the bus the guy in the movie died at. It’s a common occurrence. Seems the nuts attract other nuts to their doom. We Alaskans want the thing removed.

For the caller asking about a first AR15, this is an option to consider.

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It’s an Aero Precision OEM gun, it’s the bare bones of an AR, but let’s you mount whatever you would want for a stock or rail system. It’s also only $559 currently.

Aero is a high quality brand, has a mid length gas system, low profile gas block so you can mount a longer rail system for a long sight radius and be able to reach further out on the rifle for a more controlled firing position. It also has an A3 upper receiver, which is the full picatinny rail system for sights.

Very cool bit about the Donner Party. I delved deep into the subject, and it turns out, I do believe historians have since debunked the claim that anyone was boiling babies or chewing on femurs when they were found– much of it was stirred up by one of the survivors who had been demonized in the newspapers of the time, since they did indeed find him in camp with human bones. They were eating people after all! But it was hugely sensationalized.

Inhuman things happened during the Donner party, including the murders of two native guides who were sent from the Fort to help the Donners — this is still given a pass in history as an act of desperation, since it was the survivors who made the claim that those guides were near to dying themselves. I find that hard to believe.

Patrick Breen’s diary is available online, for history buffs who want to know, as he recorded the whole thing.

And lastly, it is true the Donner Party and the Reeds would have made it to their destination faster due to several reasons, partly if they hadn’t been so tied to their stuff, and because they had bought into a “shortcut” that turned out to be bogus. The sad fact is, the Donners were quite well off, owned businesses, and had no need to leave their comfortable living conditions. There was no reason to make this trip, complete with ailing relatives and small children, risking life and limb to chase speculation. If there is a lesson in what happened, these people didn’t die in pursuit of a better life — they already had a good life, but lacked the sense to see it.

Sorry to ramble, but I love this history shit, and in particular, the lessons of the Donner Party.