$20 a week and a latch key, the dream of every mining town Cinderella.

50′s Feminism: Miss Bates feels many girls waste their time and talents on a home and children.

Tea Party Protest Gets Ugly – Bank of America Branch Burned To Ground

Another brilliant short from the Ramsey Brothers

Warning, you must find Country music funny at times and have a good sense of humor to enjoy properly.

Ron Paul – Outraged Over The Mandatory Worker ID

Rasberry Crazy Ants – “at this point I don’t see a happy ending”

Big Brother Wants to Know All About You: The American Community Survey

The Second Great Depression

Source

“This cycle will not run forever. One day soon, we’ll have the boom and bust phases, but when we try the usual bailouts, they won’t work. The destructive power of the down-cycle will overwhelm the restorative ability of the government, just like it did in 1929-31, when both the financial shock and the government capacity to respond were on a much smaller scale. The result, presumably, will be something that looks and feels very much like a Second Great Depression.”

Doom and Gloom: Durable Goods

Market Ticker reports…

• “Most important in the “new orders” column is the decrease in computers and electronic components.”
• “This is a leading indicator for hiring activity folks.  I’ve harped on it before and will keep doing so.  New employees = more computers and cell phones.  If you’re not seeing it there (and you’re not) then the entire premise of “a recovering employment picture” is absolute c*$p.”

Baby Experiments – Scientific Breakthrough! Sleep Study!

“Bottom line: A few weeks of ignoring can easily buy parents extra years of good sleep.  And they don’t even have to bite the bullet of standard ignoring; graduated ignoring is about equally effective.”

Read it here.

Southern Avenger Interviews Tom Woods Jr. (NULLIFICATION)

Part 1

• Tom Woods – Best selling author of Meltdown.
• Plenty of blame to go around, “who got drunk? well who gave them the alcohol? the federal reserve!”
• Deregulation was the problem?…Most of the deregulation was either beneficial or did not occur.
• What we need is more regulation?…Assumes regulators are infallible and markets are stupid, but is this the case?
• Regulators actually encouraged the behavior we saw.
• Wood’s next book ‘Nullification‘ (due out in June)
• Keep voting for schmucks and think things will change.
• States should resist *ALL* laws that violate the constitution. States should refuse to enforce them.
• Wood’s provides a defense of Nullification from common slanderous arguments used against the idea (i.e. it is pro-slavery).
• Chris Matthews – ignorant shill for the regime.

Part 2

• Matthews engages in smearing everyone who engages in discussion about States Rights or Nullification.
• Nullification is actually coming back into our national vocabulary.
• VA will defend individuals against the Federal govt. if the feds go after individual for not buying the right kind of health care.
• WY making it a felony for a Federal agents to go after individual for some Fed. gun law violations.
• Tea Party posting Wood’s videos on Nullification.
• Facebook groups for all 50 states for putting together Nullification measures.
• CA ignoring med. marijuana laws.

Keiser Report №18: Markets! Finance! Scandal!

Prepare For The Worst – Ron Paul

Doug Wilson on Theonomy

* Theonomy term coined by Bhansen.
* What do you think of Theonomy?
* Joke “Oh I am against it, I hate God’s Law.”
* Every Christian is a Theonomist, we all believe God’s Word as authoritative.
* What is the continuing validity of God’s Law today?
* Westminster Confession
* Moral: Constant, through all time.
* Ceremonial: Fulfiled in Christ
* Judicial: Applied to Isreal in that state/condition excpet where the general equity thereof may require.
* General Equity Theonomist
* Parapits around roof of the house.
* General eqiuty here, you have a principle to provide protection to your guests.
* IMPORTANT: Not just the content of the Law, structure of the Law is important.
* IT IS A CASE LAW SYSTEM
* English Common Law goes back to King Alfred
* Took laws of Deut. and applied them to England.
* Not an overarching regulatory code.
* BIBLICAL LAW is NOT ONLY consitent with Civil Liberties, it is the absolute FOUNDATION for them.
* Conservative Christians need to grasp the distinction between SIN and CRIMES.
* Civil penalties apply to crimes, not sins. Should not be a law against drunkenness.
* What is your response to Rushdoony?
* Was not a card carrying Reconstructionist.
* Appreciate a great deal of it, earlier stuff preferred to later stuff.
* Enormously helpful.
* Broader Christian world should not be shy about reading Rushdooney, Gary North, Bhansen.

I would add Chilton and Jordan to the list. Many of these books can be found for free here.

Doug Wilson Unwraps Twilight

Part 1

* Not classic horror fiction, about emotional security and refuge.

* Teaching girls to be allured/fascinated/attracted to the bad boy who will destroy you.

* Textbook case of the classic abusive relationship.

* Good girl attracted to bad boy.

* Infatuation and danger part of excitement.

* Girls who like the books are being attracted/effected by something their dad’s should be concerned about.

* Why is this book worth addressing?

* Because it is so popular that it must be scratching an itch, and we need to know what that itch is.

* Because it is a phenomenon which is coming into the church.

* BOOK RECOMMEND: E. Michael Jones – Monsters From The ID

Part 2

* Why are the good girls attracted to he bad boys?

* Partially a result of the dearth of masculinity in society.

* Good boys are exasperating because they are not masculine.

* Too many spineless wimps.

* Church’s accommodation to feminism.

* Church’s hostility to masculinity needs to be addressed.

* Edward allow’s girls to have it all.

* Translucent, wafey, fragile yet powerful, deadly, strong.

* Weird metro-sexuality about Edward.

* Bella

* Clumsy, no great beauty, nondescript.

* Now desired in every possible way.

* Recipient of a torrent of desire.

* Dad is nice guy but perhaps a dud also.

* She is a canvas that the reader can then fill in with themself.

Home Prices Far From Stable

• 11.3% of Tennessee residential mortgages delinquent (and they rank 11′th!)
• 26% of Florida residential mortgages delinquent (Nevada at 24.7%!)
• Fannie Mae is optimistic about a housing recovery (Hah!)
• Coming soon: 5 Million More Foreclosures
• Shadow Inventory Of Troubled Mortgages
• 9500 Shuttered Stores in Sacramento Area
• Scariest Chart EVER: Loss Severity, Subprime First-Lien (note, the .7 is actually 70%)
• The Next Leg Of The Housing Crisis In Five Simple Charts (be sure to read the 5 reasons why housing is still unstable)

Vox Popoli: The Totalitarian Feedback Loop

• “It works like this. The government enacts a stupid policy doomed to failure. When the policy inevitably fails, the government swoops in to fix it by expanding its power. Repeat as needed.”

Source

Two-Kingdom Confusion

Read the whole thing here. Always good for some stirring conversation.

• I’ve been looking through Heidelblog, Modern Reformation and several of Darryl Hart’s books to learn the dividing lines two-kingdom pastors observe in preaching and shepherding–and after several days of doing so I’m more confused than when I began.

Amen to that!

DVD: Homestead Blessings – The Art of Sewing

A DVD we will buy. We have seen two other DVD’s in this series and my young girls and wife enjoyed them very much.

Market Ticker On Housing

Read it all here.

• 70% of homes have a mortgage on them (the other 30% are “paid off.”)  This implies that approximately 10.5% of all all homes are delinquent or in foreclosure.
• What should happen is that the auditors, bank regulators and examiners should go into these institutions and demand that any loan 60+ be marked to the current appraised value of the property less 10% for rehabilitation and sales expense.
• That would give the banks and MBS-holders a powerful incentive to negotiate immediate short sales or deed-in-lieus, as doing so would relieve them of the 10% additional penalty in rehab and sales expenses.

Hightlights: Class Warfare’s Next Taraget: 401(k) Savings

• “In plain English, the idea is for the government to take your retirement savings in return for a promise to pay you some monthly benefit in your retirement years.”
• They will tell you that you are “investing” your money in U.S. Treasury bonds. But they will use your money immediately to pay for their unprecedented trillion-dollar budget deficits, leaving nothing to back up their political promises
• “this looks to me like a raw admission that Treasury knows it will not be able to sell its debt in the open market — so they will effectively tax you by forcing your ‘retirement’ money to buy them.”
• As former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said, ‘The trouble with socialism is you run out of other people’s money to spend.’ And now they want to spend our retirement savings.
• Congressional Republicans should introduce legislation to block the government from ever proceeding with anything like this. Call it the “Keep Your Hands Off My 401(k) Act of 2010.”

Read the whole thing here.

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Highlights: Civilization’s Wrecking Crew – J.R. Nyquist

• “If Bubonic plague is carried by flea-infested rats, Marxism and Keynesianism are carried by intellectuals.”
• “the intellectual class continues to feed politicians and bureaucrats with ideas that point toward one solution: big government, interventionism, wealth redistribution,”
• “”The general public contributes to the income of intellectuals in a variety of ways involuntarily as taxpayers who support schools, colleges, and various other institutions and programs subsidizing intellectual and artistic endeavors.” In other words, the people who are wrecking our civilization are paid by the rest of us to do their work.”

Read the whole thing here.

Researchers Confirm Three Little Pigs In Fact True

Vortex Cannon! – Bang Goes the Theory Preview – BBC One

William Black sits down with PBS’ Paul Solman

• “most of the too big to fail banks are currently insolvent”
• “At this stage we have zero convictions, we have zero indictments.”
• “you are going to have recurrent crises that get bigger and are disastrous”

Embedded video found here.

It Can Happen Here

Old news I think but good report. Don’t think this won’t happen here in the US if the Church continues to abandon the public square.

German socialists, liberals and psychiatrists persecute and incarcerate homeschoolers