Blogs

Announcing: www.curtisweyant.com

Wow, six months since I've posted here. That's awhile.

Anyway, I have a new blog called Money $ Liberty. Basically, it's a fusion of personal finance and libertarian thoughts. The premise is based on a couple sentences lifted from Francisco d'Anconia's speech about money in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged:

Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to be the tool by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of men. Blood, whips and guns – or dollars. Take your choice – there is no other – and your time is running out.

Feel free to pop on over, make some comments, and/or subscribe to the feeds (ATOM, RSS).

I just uploaded Dan Smoot's The Invisible Government to Plucker Books.

Published in 1962, The Invisible Government is a scything treatise against the Council on Foreign Relations. In it, Smoot attempts to show how the CFR has – since its creation in the 1920s at the behest of President Wilson and his good friend and adviser Colonel Edward M. House (anonymous author of the infamous Philip Dru: Administrator) – subverted the U.S. government through a number of "interconnections" and placements of its members in high power, up to and including the presidency.

Although a bit boring at times, as much of the books is taken up by lists of names and organizations, it does make for a fairly interesting read just to see the extent to which the high rollers of business and politics schmooze together. Smoot doesn't necessarily do any favors to more mild-mannered conspiracy theorists though, as some of his comments tend to bleed over into racial and cultural editorializations.

Dave undoubtedly will have more to say. In the meantime, check it out.

Hi all (that is, mom). I've been focusing on doing more blogging over at Prolefeed now that the site's been redesigned. Pop on over and check it out.

I updated my sweepstakes page to add a couple more sweeps as well as organize it a bit into categories. Enjoy.

My contention that state-mandated vehicle inspections are a racket was reaffirmed again today. My car failed inspection for having a tail light out.

Now, don't get me wrong, I'd much rather have to replace a $3 tail light than a $100 set of tires or something. But it's never quite that simple, is it. Instead of just the $3, I also need to pay a whopping 166% more in labor ($5). And it's not like I can just replace it myself – if I did that I would have to have it reinspected for at a cost of $10 (333% more).

Yeah, we're talking less than $20 here, but it's the principle that counts. As if the state doesn't get enough of my money already.

Who else would think to create blue grass versions of "Another Brick in the Wall" by Pink Floyd and "Last Dance with Mary Jane" by Tom Petty? Not to mention classics like "Big A** Hole." It's sheer genius!

This is a funny parody of "socially responsible" investing companies.

Just had to share that line from a conversation I had today with a colleague.

(If you don't get why it's funny, please stop reading my blog.)

Well, if The New York Times can give a list of people it likes for office, then so can I. Of course, my list is very different from theirs.

Here are my "picks":

U. S. Senate

Jeffrey T. Russell

U. S. House of Representatives

Michael J. Sylvia

New York State Governor

John Clifton

New York State Lieutenant Governor

Donald Silberger (I voted for him when he ran for the Senate against Schumer in the last election)

New York State Comptroller

John J. Cain

New York State Attorney General

Christopher B. Garvey

You may have noticed a pattern...