tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post3197052180214392590..comments2024-03-28T09:59:13.754-07:00Comments on bionic mosquito: A Frustrating Bookbionic mosquitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-56768946311576283882020-01-25T09:29:42.716-08:002020-01-25T09:29:42.716-08:00"Let’s start with the timing: World War II ma..."Let’s start with the timing: World War II marked the end of a thirty-year war that represented, according to Jacques Barzun, the suicide of the West. The suicide can be dated to the summer of 1914 . . . ."<br /><br />Indeed it can. Pope St. Pius X saw the suicide as it was happening. It killed him: <br /><br />"In 1914, the pope fell ill on the Feast of the Assumption of Mary (15 August 1914), an illness from which he would not recover. His condition was worsened by the events leading to the outbreak of World War I (1914–1918), which reportedly sent the 79-year-old pope into a state of melancholy. He died on 20 August 1914, only a few hours after the death of Jesuit leader Franz Xavier Wernz and on the very day when German forces marched into Brussels" (Wikipedia).Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05242683448708605585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-16503495224181478352020-01-23T11:41:12.947-08:002020-01-23T11:41:12.947-08:00"Don’t tell me about market deregulation.&quo..."Don’t tell me about market deregulation."<br /><br />I hear you. It is a bogeyman people want to point at, but government intervention is the overwhelming theme of the US market in the 20th Century. There a few pockets where some intervention went down but much like government spending never down to the point it was at before and always back up from there.<br /><br />People look at me weird when I say this but the American economy is fascist and becoming more so all the time. Hitler would love the way the Federal Government dictates pretty much everything to corporations.RMBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13603112499567064214noreply@blogger.com