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Flavius Jesephus refers to Hatshepsut as the Queen of Egypt and Ethiopia.

I think one day that Velikovsky will rank with Copernicus. His reconstruction of Egyptian history makes it all come alive. Should I mention that he makes most Egyptologists look like idiots. Kind of like us Conservatives and the Liberal Left...

Oh, are you ever mistaken!

I was reading F. A. Hayek when I was still in high school almost 40 years ago.

I didn’t say that the emmployees should elect the CEO. If a CEO can’t convince 1/2 of the employees of the corporation he runs that he is better than some unknown alternative (i.e. whoever replaces him could be lots worse), then he probably doesn’t deserve to be the CEO.

Huge corporations seem to suffer from the same syndrome that our Republic does. When ownership (or the vote) is sufficiently diffused, it is almost inevitable that a narcissist will wind up in control.

I will never buy another appliance manufactured by an American corporation because American corporate management is only interested in making money in the short term. Every American-made appliance I have purchased in the last 10 years has had a problem.

As soon as a corporation becomes big enough (and 1000 employees is big enough), the emphasis of the management seems to be more about THEM and THEIR compensation and THEIR plan, than about producing products that people are willing to buy.

I agree that corporations are in business to make money. But over what timeframe? This quarter? Next quarter? Long term? And make money for whom? Day traders, or people in it for the long haul?

The CEO works for the board stacked with his cronies.

Well, that was what Employee Stock Ownership Plans were all about. They have never really gotten off the ground. I would contend that one reason they did not is that management did not want to have owners who knew what liars and cheats they really are/were.

Now that the full eight years of the Bush presidency are complete, has anyone run the stats comparing the number of unusual deaths of government staffers with those from the Clinton years?

Off the top of my head I remember Brown, Brown’s assistant, Foster, Boorda from the Clinton years. Don’t seem to remember the same kind of numbers from the Bush years. Or else they hushed it up.

Maybe we should call it Democide.

As usual, Dr. Sowell is correct. But Lew Rockwell posted an article some months ago that has an even better explanation. It's Cargo Cult Government. These people have no clue what they are doing. They go through the motions because they have seen others go through similar motions, and they expect good results.

I won't try to describe what a Cargo Cult is, but follow the link for an explanation. What a hoot! Right up until you realize that it is a plausible explanation for the behavior of our government -- and governments the world over.

After 15 years in the workforce,I discovered that the key to success was not that silly little paper that now hangs over my toilet, but rather who you know, an inheritance or selling ‘magic beans’ to a gullible public....

After 35 years in the workforce, I belive you should also have mentioned "who you have slept with" and "who you have dirt on."

There are all kinds of issues at work here. There are enough honeybee pests that beekeepers are often forced to use pesticides in their hives. These pesticides get into the wax and eventually some of it gets into the honey. There are some passionate beekeepers (mostly hobbiests like me) who are doing "integrated pest management" to avoid pesticides if at all possible. I also try not to smoke my bees as the smoke is a contaminant.

Bees do forage for miles around the hive and there is no telling what they will bring home. If a neighbor misapplies a pesticide (Sevin for example) and the bees drag it back to the hive, you can end up with a large pile of dead bees in front of your hive, and a hive that may collapse.

Raw, unprocessed honey contains enzymes and flavors that are destroyed by heat. It also can contain small amounts of salmanella which is why it shouldn't be fed to humans under one year of age (although there is debate about that, too). Those enzymes are much of what gives honey its healing properties. Raw honey is absolutely the best thing for burns. Most store-bought honey is pasteurized which destroys the enzymes and much of the flavor.

Beekeeping is a great hobby. It is not all that expensive and it is one way to guarantee the quality of your honey.

One of these days, the "scientific community" is going to have to admit that Immanuel Velikovsky was correct and that within historical times (he said approximately 1500BC) Venus was a comet that a) interacted with Mars and b) made a "swipe" at the earth that nearly destroyed civilization.

Next time you see a Chinese Dragon look for the ball close to it. It is usually red or gold and smoking. That would be Mars.

Velikovsky's books are out of print, but you can still find used copies. I liked "Earth in Upheaval" best. He talked about the three meters of "muck" which was jumbled tropical plant and animal remains that had to be dug through to get to the gold in Alaska. Funny how I haven't heard about that anywhere else.

And Herodotus said that the Egyptians said that during their history the sun had changed its direction of travel three times. He wrote is if he didn't believe them. But why would someone lie about something like that?

What is interesting about all of this is that if catastrophies occur on a regular basis, then mankind is NOT IN CONTROL OF ITS DESTINY. This is anathema to liberals, socialists, communists and that ilk.

It is all academic. The U.S. Senate will ultimately decide the victor as it has that right and privilege granted to it by nothing less than the Constitution of the United States. The U.S. Senate is controlled by the Democrats. The Democrats always decide in favor of the Democrat. Therefore Al Franken will be seated as the junior senator from Minnesota.

And most Americans will not care one way or the other and will continue to believe that Democrats are reasonable and trustworthy.

When the Democrats control a body, all contested races are decided in favor of the Democrat. Period. When the Republicans have controlled a body, contested races have been decided in favor of the Democrat. And the voters don't care. So the race will be contested, and Franken will be seated. Get over it.

It's all about power. The only difference between the Republicans and the Democrats is that the Republicans amass power a little more slowly than the Democrats, and the Democrats are better liars.

The problem is that people in other states keep reelecting politicians who amass more power than they should. Especially Massachusetts. Teddy Kennedy, Barney Frank.

And there is another issue of professional politicians. I believe citizen-legislators would be preferable. Politics should be a part of people's lives, not their whole lives. And professional politicians whose whole lives are politics apparently believe that all of life is politics. Bah!

We have reached the point in our Republic where we need a constitutional amendment which prohibits family members of current and past federal officials from having any government post elective or otherwise.

We stole Texas fair and square when a number of citizens decided that they wanted to be independent of Mexico. Not all that long afterwards, certain southern States of the United States decided that they wanted to be independent of the northern States. This attempt at independence was soundly defeated in one of the bloodiest wars ever fought. As a result, the United States has little to say about attempts by viscious govenments to quash independence movements, e.g. Chechnya.

Please see reply 25. The body (House or Senate) is the final arbiter of all races per the Constitution, and the Democrats have always used that to their advantage. Trust me, they will seat Al Franken regardless of the outcome of the recount. And the writer is mistaken about the anticipated results. When the Democrats control a house, contested races are ALWAYS decided in favor of the Democrat regardless of the circumstances. Ron Paul in his second run for Congress was the victim of massive and obvious voter fraud (he should have won hands down) but his Democrat opponent was seated anyway. Don't bother the Democrats with facts or analysis, the Democrat will get seated. And the stupid electorate will forget in two years and vote for the morally bankrupt, corrupt, lying, thieving Democrats.

Remember, to a Democrat, something is "fair" only when the Democrat wins.

bttt

We should be bringing up Trofim Denisovich Lysenko any time AGW is mentioned. Soviet Russia nearly starved because his wacko theories were used to dictate agricultural policy. The parallels between Lysenko’s theories and AGW are alarming.

I don’t know who said it first, but the only thing we learn from history is that we don’t learn from history.