3 New Beers I've Tried This Week

Sonoma Anvil Bourbon Cider

1) Sonoma Hard Bourbon Cider (THE ANVIL!)

Pros: This bourbon flavored cider is smooth and delicious!  It's almost as good as my favorites from Angry Orchard.  I'd gladly try their other flavors, but won't try this one again.

Cons: The balance between the apple and bourbon is skewed more towards bourbon than I'd prefer for a cider.

Other: I love the green tint of this bottle, and their logo is awesome.  This is the cider I was drinking while installing Manjaro Linux (running cinnamon).

ratebeer.com rating: 22

Shock Top Honey Bourbon Cask Wheat

2) Shock Top Honey Bourbon Cask Wheat

Pros: The honey flavors overpowered the bourbon and wheat flavors in this Shock Top beer.  My wife loved this beer- but that's because it didn't taste like beer.  The sweetness actually reminded me of a soda!  I wouldn't buy it again.

Cons: It was too sweet and the bourbon flavor wasn't strong enough.

Other: As you can see in the background, this is the beer I was drinking while trying Mageia Linux (review of that coming later).  

ratebeer.com rating: 15

beeradvocate.com rating: 56

Great Divide Claymore Scotch Style Ale

3) Great Divide Claymore Scotch Style Ale

Pros: This beer from Great Divide is my personal favorite of the three, but then again, I'm partial to Scotch Style ales.  (Hence my love for bourbon style ales as well!) The taste was smooth with no bitter aftertaste (an unfortunate trait of many hipster IPAs in my opinion).. I would definitely buy it again. It's comparable it to my favorite beer, Kilt Lifter from Pike Place Brewery.

Cons: I ONLY BOUGHT A SINGLE!

Other: I was trying a Linux version called Korora 20 (based upon Fedora 20) this night.  Perhaps I'll post a three way comparison tomorrow night, between Korora, Mageia, and Manjaro.

ratebeer.com rating: 94

beeradvocate.com rating: 86

3 ways the Ferguson riots could've turned out differently.

Let's play a what if game.

1) What if the store owner that Michael Brown assaulted and robbed, was armed?

Answer) What if that store owner exercised his legal right of lethal self defense or his life and property?  A minority store owner, kills a minority robbing his store?  It wouldn't even hit the front page news.  Unfortunately, he got away with robbery, and was confronted by a white police officer.  It's a shame, that it wasn't one of the black police officers, because chances are, it would have ended the same for the thug Michael Brown.

2) What if the police officer that stopped Michael Brown was black instead of white?  Would there still be so much fomented faux outrage?

Answer) Would Michael Brown have assaulted a black officer?  I think he would've, he assaulted the minority store owner. The police officer, is assaulted in his car, Michael (or his cohort) slam the door on the officer, the officer gets out of his car, and demands the perp freeze.  Instead of LISTENING, to the officer, Michael turns around and charges the officer.

3) What if Michael had listened to the officer and NOT turned around?

Answer) He would have been arrested, instead the officer had to turn on his instinctual training and unloads his clip into the charging perp.  The damage to his eye socket, proves his life was in danger.

Conclusion:
The Saul Alinsky agitators, foment the faux outrage, and then get these black people to destroy their own community, FORCING the state to deploy force.

They then get the Alinksy meme's going that draw in the libertarians, like this picture here.  The force IS REQUIRED now, to keep the civil society in order.

What do you think would happen, if the state left a vacuum of power?

The city of Ferguson would be burned down and destroyed, and the cancerous anarchy would spread to other areas.  This is where I part ways with libertarians and anarchists.  Anarchy always leads to violence.
Might makes right.

Islam The Religion Of Peace?

Origins of hate

This will be a short post debunking that Islam is a Religion of Peace.  I will use news sources and the Quran and Haditha itself.  I will also connect recent events to losses and victories of the past.

Surah Al-Baqara: (2:190 - 193)

And slay them wherever ye find them, and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution is worse than slaughter. And fight not with them at the Inviolable Place of Worship until they first attack you there, but if they attack you (there) then slay them. Such is the reward of disbelievers. (191) But if they desist, then lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful. (192) And fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is for Allah. But if they desist, then let there be no hostility except against wrong-doers. (193) The forbidden month for the forbidden month, and forbidden things in retaliation. And one who attacketh you, attack him in like manner as he attacked you. Observe your duty to Allah, and know that Allah is with those who ward off (evil). 

This (is one of many) sections in the Quran that advocate violence against the non-believer.  The Taqiyya (lying is allowed for jihad) espousing Muslim will say they must be attacked first.  Does that mean physically attacked?  Nope wrote a man Rushdie wrote a controversial book called the "Satanic Verses". A book actually attacking western Capitalism (called "Materialism"), was seen as an attack on Islam.

The response from Muslims was to declare a fatwa (death sentence) against Rushdie.  This isn't the only time that "speech against Islam" was declared an attack on Islam.  The infamous bomb turban Mohammed was also seen as a direct attack against Islam.  The result was justified violence against infidels.

Timur Lane, the ultimate barbarian

Timur was a descendant of Ghengis Khan and a muslim.  Those two things combined into making Timur Lane the world's first mass murderer.  In an interesting historical irony, Ghengis Khan allied with the Knights Templar against Islam, as he too saw them as dangerous.

Timur built his kingdom in what is present day Turkey, Iraq and Iran.  The extent of his Tyranny even went into India.  His conquests killed 17 million people, a claim Wikipedia states with skepticism, but it's a number I think is on the low side.  This evil tyrant built pyramids of skulls, out of the infidels he slain.

How is that connected to modern times?  The parents of the Boston bomber so revered this mass murderer, they named one of their sons after him.  What would you think if some white family named their child Adolph?

That's precisely what they did, but that's what every muslim does.  Mohammed was also a mass murderer, and every Muslim understands what Mohammed did.

As I said in the intro, this was meant to be a primer, far from complete, and far from a book (which could easily be compiled) on the subject.  I didn't get a change to go into Honor Killings, Islam's real life apartheid, their child and sex slaves, their bestiality problem, etc.

Which topic on Islam should I cover next?

Arguing with idiots and Dystopian dreamers

Over this past weekend, I've ran across some interesting opinions on the left.  consider this document as a primer on how to reply to these comments.

It's the job of government to rule over us.
That's why our founders fought against tyranny, so they could set up another tyranny.

The false outrage over the memorial shutdown is ridiculous.
Really? Of the seventeen previous shutdowns since 1976, spread across four presidents the open air parks have never been shutdown.

Government health care is a right!
Really, it's in the constitution?
Yes, it says we have a right to life.
You're forgetting a word there. Pursue.

The constitution says that Congress has to provide for the general welfare.
No. The constitution states congress must promote the general welfare. If they did provide for the welfare of some people it would be selective as they have to destroy some people's welfare for selective people.  it's also worth noting the term "welfare" like "liberal" had a different meaning. Congress' job was to make sure there was a healthy society for business.  as Calvin Coolidge correctly pointed out, the business of America is business.

The supreme court decided the law and upheld it's constitutionality.
And? Go and read article 3 of the constitution. You don't have a pocket constitution and you call yourself a patriot? They aren't the supreme kings. Certainly the founders would never want them to have such legislative authority.

The last election was a mandate for obamacare!
I didn't realize we were in Cuba and that elections were mandates. Opposingly though, one could say the house retained their seats with a mandate to repeal obamacare.

Syria dilemma

Once again the body politic marches to war in the middle east. Unlike Bush though, Obama can't get international support to help the Al Qaeda rebels, fighting Hezbollah.

Its important to note that these al Qaeda rebels are just as savage as Hezbollah. The murdered Syrian soldiers get their chests cut open, and organs eaten, to demonstrate Allah's will.

Is that really who we want to side with? It's bad enough that would be helping al Qaeda, its even worse that their savagery is plain to see, (even Putin talked about it) yet we are still siding with Al Qaeda!

That's like getting involved in a war between the fascists and national socialists. As long as they aren't attacking our allies, why should we get involved?

If we did get involved it should be on the side of our ally (Turkey or Israel) not on the side of Hezbollah or Al Qaeda.

Government is not the solution

I have to wonder if people who advocate solutions from Government to lives problems, have ever been to the DMV.  You go there and pull a ticket, and then sit down for four hours, and watch as one to two people try to serve a room of forty.

It looks like there's at least seven to eight people working, but they only let one to two work the counters at a time.  As soon as a new person goes out to the counter, one of them heads to the back.

This isn't an exception of Government in action, this is the rule.  When FDR tried to help feed the people, and give the farmers more money, he simultaneously made it impossible for the poor to buy food, and created massive shortages of food.  The result should have been obvious.  People standing in line waiting for bread!

When Nixon tried to control the rising cost of gas, (caused by government spending, deflating the value of the dollar!) he created gas lines that went around the block.  Setting a price cap, created supply shortages and made demand higher than supply.

It stands to reason by this point, any rational person would see that Government involvement causes long lines.  Is that enough to stop the masterminds from trying to make our lives better?

NOPE!

There are Progressives in America trying to get our healthcare system to be managed by the same people that can't figure out how to avoid long lines at gas stations, or long lines for bread.

The average wait time for Health care in the UK is OVER SIX MONTHS!!

Why in the hell would we want to model that?  The British love to stand in queue, we *don't*.  I don't want the Government involved in my family's health care decisions.  I don't want my wait time to see the Doctor to increase by 61% to over six months!  That means it was close to three months the year before btw...

Still not convinced?

The minimum wage is also a price control.  It also has created long lines.

How is minimum wage a price control, you ask?

Simple, labor is a fungible commodity like any other.  If the Government set a minimum price on milk (which ironically they do, and there is too much produced) there would be too much produced because they have a *minimum price*.

Similarly with labor, government has set a price floor.  The current price of labor is above market demand.  Hence, unemployment increases followed the minimum wage increases.  The end result is we have an abundance of labor available, with no demand at the set price.

Lines of people waiting for jobs, and because of Government, masses of people thinking they are entitled to a job.

Remember in the words of Reagan;
"Government is not the solution to our problem, Government IS the problem!"

How to make money and become financially dependent.

Funny how most of those who disparage making money as inferior to their own brand of caring for humanity are elites who have all they need
— Rabbi Daniel Lapin (@DanielLapin) August 27, 2013

This tweet got me thinking about money today, and why so many on the right and left view money as evil, or even like Government a necessary evil.

I'm here to shatter your conceptions and misconceptions to make you think.

1) Money is neither evil or good, it's inanimate like a handgun.  Similar to the handgun, it can be used for either purpose.

2) Worship of money above all else, is idolatry.  Ancient Jewish wisdom teaches us to not worship money, but to serve others FOR money.  There is nothing more noble, than receiving money voluntarily from someone else, who appreciated the goods or service you provided.  I believe the Randian view of Capitalism is closer to worship of mammon, and is something I would highly discourage.  If your goal is to just make money, than you will not put the customer first.  If your goal is to just make money, your inhibitions will get the best of you.

3) There are two states of mind.  Spending and making.  If you are in a spending state of mind, than you will not want to save anything you make, or go that extra mile to serve others for more money.  If you are in a making state of mind, you will want your money working for you, and you will want to be working for money.

4) Charity should not be expected.  While it is noble to help others, it's far more important to try and teach people on welfare how to work for themselves, and catch their own fish.  So many welfare recipients have an entitlement mentality and are permanently on the Government dole.

The worst part of this mentality, is they believe they deserve someone else's labor.  If you want to help someone, do it through micro loans.

5) The money in your bank account is your life force.  You expend your time (your life energy) to get paid by your customer.  Your customer could be your employer, or it could be someone buying a good or service from you.  In exchange for you expending your life force they give you money, likewise when you purchase property (from a TV to a car, to a toaster oven), you are spending your life energy.  This is why Jewish law was okay with using lethal force to stop theft.  People who steal property and money, are literally stealing people's life force.

6) All taxation is by force, and is another theft of your life force.  This is why the founders wanted taxes applied equally, so that the democracy, couldn't pile on the wealthy.  The Jewish slaves of the Pharaoh were only forced to hand over 20% of their life force.  We currently force 5% of the people to hand over anywhere from 40 to 60% of their life force to the Federal and State Government.  That is EXTREMELY immoral.

The fact that we punitively tax wealth creation is why the economy is stagnating and why more people are not escaping poverty.  We should eliminate the progressive income tax, and hold up the wealthy as a model to follow.  We should all aspire to work that hard, and become self dependent.