CommentsDisplaying Avigdor's 10 most recent comments.

• Have You Seen the Attention-Grabbing New TIME Cover?

  May 10, 2012 at 11:43am

  In reply to makeemstop.

  My great grandmother, a preacher’s wife, breast fed her kids well past the age of three. She stopped breast feeding one of my great, great uncles when he got up in church and yelled “Tit me Ma, tit me!”. Another uncle was immediately weened when he bit her nipple off!

  True family stories…..

• ‘Not Really Set Up to Cover the Extreme Left’: Southern Poverty Law Center Explains Why it Doesn‘t Track Occupy as a ’Hate Group’

  May 5, 2012 at 1:59pm

  It is against US law and several executive orders to engage in gathering intelligence on US persons (citizens and resident aliens). EO 13333 is an example. No agency of the US government can use intelligence gathered in this manner.

  Think of what the outcry would be if some group would gather intel on the various leftwing groups such as ALF, ELF, DailyKos, Code Pink as well as on individuals,

• What Is ‘Disruptive Innovation’ and Is it a Path to Political De-Polarization?

  May 1, 2012 at 3:14pm

  In reply to Belovedsword.

  Actually many conservatives have already been doing this. The left tends to only talk to themselves. Thus when they have real conversations with conservatives, finding that conservatives are not some form of demons, they tend to shift their thinking. It also surprises the left on how well educated many conservatives are.

  Breaking up the myths that the left has is disruptive innovation on the part of conservatives.

• New Film Exposes the Lifestyles of ‘Tiny House People’ Who Live in Bizarrely Small Homes

  April 20, 2012 at 4:23pm

  In reply to thorkyl.

  Well, it appears to be more like aging Baby Boomers wanting a smaller place to live. Or a second house in Florida for retirement. BTW, have you seen the size of apartments in most senior complexes? These houses are larger.

  Besides, you could put on your property for you mother-in-law to live in. Nice way to have family living close yet seperate.

• New Film Exposes the Lifestyles of ‘Tiny House People’ Who Live in Bizarrely Small Homes

  April 20, 2012 at 4:21pm

  In reply to MONICNE.

  Yeah, at the best in Afghanistan was the B-huts at Bagram. Just a big plywood hut that slept 10 men. Try living in that for 14 months!

• New Film Exposes the Lifestyles of ‘Tiny House People’ Who Live in Bizarrely Small Homes

  April 20, 2012 at 4:18pm

  In reply to Sara123.

  No, it is more like aging Baby Boomers wanting a small place in Florida yet keeping the bigger house up north.

  Have you seen the size of apartments in most senior complexes? These houses are larger.

  Besides, you could put on your property for you mother-in-law to live in. Nice way to have family living close yet seperate.

• New Film Exposes the Lifestyles of ‘Tiny House People’ Who Live in Bizarrely Small Homes

  April 20, 2012 at 12:46pm

  I have seen these being used as either second house on the lake or the second house in Florida.
  http://dornob.com/small-mobile-homes-bike-trailers-shopping-cart-campers/
  http://dornob.com/small-space-homes-tiny-mobile-movement-gains-traction/
  http://www.designboom.com/contemporary/tiny_houses2.html
  http://www.cavco.com/
  http://www.jandmhomes.com/company-news/advantages-of-small-mobile-homes/
  http://www.free-mobile-home-info.com/small-mobile-homes.html they are also known as Park models
  http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/houses/
  http://www.mawilliamshomes.com/small-mobile-homes.html

• Are We Facing The Biggest Bubble Since Housing?

  April 14, 2012 at 8:07am

  In reply to sillyfreshness.

  Luker W

  There are number of leftwingers, Prof Peter Singer of Princeton is the leader of this movement, that sees the poor as human pollution (we used to call people trash). His belief is that if you do not produce but only consume then your carbon footprint is too high. His solutions are to euthanize those who are old and sick, those who are disabled and to sterilize poor women after two children. His views are very common within the bio-ethics community in academia.

  More and more college kids agree with him. Mayor Emanuel of Chicago is pushing the poor out of the city. This is happening as in DC. The democrats now have so many college kids brainwashed that they no longer need the poor to stay elected. Emanuael’s brother is a doctor at CDC and has even stronger views than does Dr Singer. Another 10 years and the left will no longer have issues with euthanization or sterilization.

• Are We Facing The Biggest Bubble Since Housing?

  April 14, 2012 at 7:57am

  In reply to Wdawg.

  Think about the education bubble. Universities are overpriced. At some point that cost will burst.

  All of this goes back to the 1990s which was the beginning of this cycle. It takes about 20 years to clean up the mess. Just look at the last bubble economy, the Roaring ’20s, which was followed by 10 years of the Depression then 10 years of WW2. The previous bubble was in the 1850s followed by the Civil War then the Recession of the 1870s. Basically the cycle is about 70 years long, from bubble to bubble.

• ‘The PC Left is Just Hysterically Deranged’: John Derbyshire Speaks Out After Leaving National Review

  April 9, 2012 at 11:00pm

  In reply to Avigdor.

  Over the next 10 years a majority of Baby Boomers will retire. Just within the universities 70% of the Ph.D candidates are foreign born, primarily from India or China. This means that in a very few years most of the progressives will be gone, replaced by Asians who will not have much use for feminism nor progressivism. That will be a huge shift. It will effect journalism, public education, even Hollywood.

  Plus most Baby Boomers are facing death. At some point they will “cram for their finals”. We are already seeing a huge influx of aging Boomers into the Evangelical churches. Once a critical mass has been reached, the numbers will go up exponentially. Plus the evangelicals are making huge gains in Asia, Africa and South America. While Europe is dying, the evangelical church is growing in other regions.

  The hardest regions in the US to reach is the corridor from Washington DC to Boston which has a third of the US population and a third of the universities. After that, it is the West Coast. But those areas are being sent missionaries so in time you will see growth there as well.