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Feds Open Investigation Into Elon Musk, Report Says
The U.S. government has reportedly opened an investigation into Elon Musk’s business dealings surrounding his recent $44 billion purchase of Twitter. “The Securities and Exchange Commission is probing Mr. Musk’s tardy submission of a public form that investors must file when they buy more than...
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By Candace Owens |
And it is all the commentary you need regarding the pro-abortionists, the feminists, and the activists in our country. Because whether you are pro-choice or pro-life, when you look at the faces of rabid feminists shrieking, raging, and marching outside the Supreme Court, you’ll recognize the “unwoman.” [remainder at: https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-beauty-of-femininity] |
A new leak from the Supremes.
““Justice Samuel Alito’s sweeping and blunt draft majority opinion from February overturning Roe remains the court’s only circulated draft in the pending Mississippi abortion case, POLITICO has learned, and none of the conservative justices who initially sided with Alito have to date switched their votes,” the outlet reported.
“No dissenting draft opinions have circulated from any justice, including the three liberals,” Politico added.”
““Justice Samuel Alito’s sweeping and blunt draft majority opinion from February overturning Roe remains the court’s only circulated draft in the pending Mississippi abortion case, POLITICO has learned, and none of the conservative justices who initially sided with Alito have to date switched their votes,” the outlet reported.
“No dissenting draft opinions have circulated from any justice, including the three liberals,” Politico added.”
It even happens that way between differing sects of Christianity.
I just remembered an old word of encouragement.
The story is about a kid who wanted a pony for his birthday.
His father put one in the barn that night, but got up early and took it out and hid it. The kid gets up and goes out to the barn to check. Then starts running all over looking for it. His dad asks him why he thinks that there is one. Kid answers “Look at the poop, dad. With all of that horse poop, there has to be a pony somewhere around here!”
Moral of the story, if you are dealing with a lot of horse poop, there is definitely a pony to be found.
The story is about a kid who wanted a pony for his birthday.
His father put one in the barn that night, but got up early and took it out and hid it. The kid gets up and goes out to the barn to check. Then starts running all over looking for it. His dad asks him why he thinks that there is one. Kid answers “Look at the poop, dad. With all of that horse poop, there has to be a pony somewhere around here!”
Moral of the story, if you are dealing with a lot of horse poop, there is definitely a pony to be found.
Some back-of-the-envelope musings about silver.
In medieval England, an English penny was (keeping it simple) 1/240 of a pound, the pound in use being roughly equivalent to a troy pound. This is essentially identical to the Roman denarius (which was also 1/240th of a Roman pound), and to many other currencies used in Europe that were also based on the denarius. To consider it really crudely, the same currency (weight of silver) was in use throughout the world for thousands of years, just renamed and with marginal adjustments to weight. Let's consider this the natural currency of civilisation prior to fiat money.
To convert it to the currently common unit of silver, one troy ounce is 20 silver pennies.
Using this source, plus some maths, we can calculate the value that 1oz of silver would have today had fiat money not been invented.
For instance, one penny would apparently buy two pounds of cheese in the 14th century. Today, 1kg (roughly 2lb) of cheese is about NZ$13 in our supermarkets. 20 pennies (1 oz of silver) would therefore buy 20kg or NZ$260 worth of cheese.
20 pennies (1 oz) would also buy you:
- 40 dozen eggs (about NZ$200)
- 40 chickens (harder to calculate as we don't buy them live, say NZ$200 if live is about half the frozen price)
- just over 1 sheep (NZ$150-250 depending on what sort of sheep)
- 20 pillows (NZ$300 for relatively cheap ones)
- Three tables (several hundred dollars)
- Six chairs (again several hundred dollars if wood)
Considering wages, a labourer would earn 2 pounds per year, ie 24 ounces of silver. At a low-end modern salary of $24,000 to $48,000, that would be $500 - $1000 per ounce.
And from here, just looking at prices from Britain, 20 pennies would buy you:
- 1.5 times "A ewe and lamb" (one shilling for a ewe and lamb, worth at least $200, so 20d worth of sheep would be at least $300)
- More than a swarm of bees (16d for a swarm, a swarm today being about NZ$200)
- Less than an entire hive (24d for a hive, today maybe NZ$350 given their different hives to the modern ones)
- Five common house dogs (maybe $1000 for really cheap mutts)
This is surprisingly uniform. Basically the old price of silver looks to translate to around NZ$200 / oz by most measures, and if that is in error it is a low estimate as the few exceptions are on the higher side. Today silver is trading at NZ$34/oz.
So it is at least 6 times underpriced.
In medieval England, an English penny was (keeping it simple) 1/240 of a pound, the pound in use being roughly equivalent to a troy pound. This is essentially identical to the Roman denarius (which was also 1/240th of a Roman pound), and to many other currencies used in Europe that were also based on the denarius. To consider it really crudely, the same currency (weight of silver) was in use throughout the world for thousands of years, just renamed and with marginal adjustments to weight. Let's consider this the natural currency of civilisation prior to fiat money.
To convert it to the currently common unit of silver, one troy ounce is 20 silver pennies.
Using this source, plus some maths, we can calculate the value that 1oz of silver would have today had fiat money not been invented.
For instance, one penny would apparently buy two pounds of cheese in the 14th century. Today, 1kg (roughly 2lb) of cheese is about NZ$13 in our supermarkets. 20 pennies (1 oz of silver) would therefore buy 20kg or NZ$260 worth of cheese.
20 pennies (1 oz) would also buy you:
- 40 dozen eggs (about NZ$200)
- 40 chickens (harder to calculate as we don't buy them live, say NZ$200 if live is about half the frozen price)
- just over 1 sheep (NZ$150-250 depending on what sort of sheep)
- 20 pillows (NZ$300 for relatively cheap ones)
- Three tables (several hundred dollars)
- Six chairs (again several hundred dollars if wood)
Considering wages, a labourer would earn 2 pounds per year, ie 24 ounces of silver. At a low-end modern salary of $24,000 to $48,000, that would be $500 - $1000 per ounce.
And from here, just looking at prices from Britain, 20 pennies would buy you:
- 1.5 times "A ewe and lamb" (one shilling for a ewe and lamb, worth at least $200, so 20d worth of sheep would be at least $300)
- More than a swarm of bees (16d for a swarm, a swarm today being about NZ$200)
- Less than an entire hive (24d for a hive, today maybe NZ$350 given their different hives to the modern ones)
- Five common house dogs (maybe $1000 for really cheap mutts)
This is surprisingly uniform. Basically the old price of silver looks to translate to around NZ$200 / oz by most measures, and if that is in error it is a low estimate as the few exceptions are on the higher side. Today silver is trading at NZ$34/oz.
So it is at least 6 times underpriced.
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The Top 10 Largest Nuclear Explosions, Visualized
Just how powerful are nuclear bombs? Here's a look at the top 10 largest nuclear explosions.
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Highly recommend conversation #724 of Joe Rogan Experience with 'Factual Feminist' Christina Sommers. I've read two of her books and loved them. Without using the word, she makes an impassioned argument for the value of true patriarchy.
www.thecollegefix.com
Joe Rogan interviews Christina Hoff Sommers in no-holds-barred interview | The College Fix
The Church of Feminism exposed.
www.thecollegefix.com
A comprehensive and very reasonable overview of the politics of identity pointing toward how defining a person by their desired behavior actually lets them off the hook for making behavioral choices . . .
www.americanthinker.com
What the leftist 'identity' movement seeks to conceal
You have probably noticed the modern proliferation of human sexual
U.S. Census Bureau Keeps Hiring “Unsuitable Individuals” with Criminal Records - Judicial Watch
Thirteen years after a federal investigation blasted the U.S. Census Bureau for hiring criminals to enter American homes to gather statistics for the decennial count, a new audit reveals the disturbing practice continues. In fact, more than a decade after the problem was exposed workers for the...
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Jank and her Tank gets Yanked:
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Busted: Biden's "Minister of Truth" Nina Jankowicz Participated in Secret NATO-Funded Cabal to Subvert Western Democracies Using Disinformation as Cover - Revolver News
Biden's almost-Minister of Truth Nina Jankowicz was part of a sinister NATO-funded globalist cabal she says doesn't exist. Busted!
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at least the pepper plants have all survived