Junk Science?

Political Calculations

The joys of misinformation

In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior: "A democracy is always
temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a
dictatorship."

"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:

From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage."

The Obituary follows:
Born 1776, Died 2012
It doesn't hurt to read this several times.
Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the last Presidential election:

Number of States won by: Obama: 19 Romney: 29
Square miles of land won by: Obama: 580,000 Romney: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by: Obama: 127 million Romney: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Obama: 13.2 Romney: 2.1

Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Romney won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country. Obama territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in low income tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..."

Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.
If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal's - and they vote - then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.

OK.  Sounds goods.  Not likely true.  http://www.snopes.com/politics/ballot/athenian.asp Also: http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/government/a/election_stats.htm

Also see: http://www.lewrockwell.com/2006/10/gary-north/stage-theories-of-history/

Professor Joseph Olsen denies writing the piece and claims it is bogus: http://law.hamline.edu/constitutional_law/joseph_olson.html

I receive a ton of spam every day

Want some good news?  Spam has decreased significantly since the summer!

In the last few months security firms have scored several notable successes against gangs that own and operate botnets - collections of hijacked home computers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11757347

Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.

Bill Gates

LinkedIn Phishing

Watch out for fake LinkedIn messages

The BBB is warning LinkedIn users to beware of a new email ‘phishing’ scam. The email states that you have new “invitations” from people who want to connect with you.  It also says that you have new “messages” awaiting your response. These emails have links for you to click on to see your new invitations and new messages.  However, the links do not include the Linkedin.com domain name.

http://charlotte.bbb.org/article/bbb-warns-first-linkedin-phishing-scam-surfaces-22447

If you don't know how to do a task, start it, then ten people who know less than you will tell you how to do it.
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