Julius Caesar vs. Alexander the Great?

Don't forget the vic!

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• Who would Victor David Hansen pick in a Las Vegas style bet and what would be the spread between Julius Caesar vs. Alexander the Great?
• Alexander's landscape was far greater, much more vast in conquest. But he didn't create anything afterwards. It was divided up into Greek monarchies which later turn over to the Romans.
• Julius Caesar was very different. He had far fewer resources and large amount of civil unrest back in Rome. He was trying to create stable provinces and institutions that would integrate via a marriage with Rome. These provinces would later become places like Belgium, France & parts of Spain.
• The achievements as a general, Julius Caesar wasn't as spectacular as Alexander. But Caesar's achievements were more realistic, rational and they latest longer. Caesar had a better mind then Alexander. Alexander was more of a romantic, a person of the day, where as Caesar had a mind of a century.

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Calling out all .. for modern Roman Tribunes

Your augment, is that you don’t want to get screwed by the other side!
A continuing series of learnings from a variety of interesting & informative podcasts.

This Extract is from Dan Carlin's Common Sense "The Reform Mirage" RSS http://feeds.feedburner.com/dancarlin/commonsense?format=xml

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  Wishing for reform - can only a dreamer really think we'll reform.
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  1st step is to admit that we have a problem.
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  Pie in the sky - state of our times, that reform is closer to a fantasy then reaility.
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  We only need 23% of the public to vote in the same direction to reform
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  We need a whistle blower and chief
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  How much of a dreamer do you need to be. The simplest solution is almost impossible to imagine
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  The last and only time (our lifetime) that a person gave the Democrats & Republicans a real sweat was Perot.
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  Bipartisan problems are the real problems
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  You’ll never see a 3rd. party in the debates again unless the supreme court gets involved.
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  What makes Democrat Presidents even more dangerous then the Republican Presidents, is what the Republican run into: ie. Liberal protest. For the Dems the prottest is muted . If the Republicans did what the Democrats Presidents are and have done, there would be rioting in the streets.
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  That’s why the problem can’t be solved.
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  When your augment is that you don’t want to get screwed by the other side, so you’ll vote for your side again, even through you are unhappy with your side’s actions.
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  Do we need Roman Tribunes again to look after the avg Joe?
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  WSJ reports members of congress are currently allowed to profit on insider trading. A bill to ban this has been blocked in the house for 6 years.
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  We need more avg Joes and avg Janes in congress. But once they are there, how do we keep them as avg Joes . Because they will become "one of them".
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  The following will be on the ballot in 2012. Obama, Palin, Gingrich & Romney. If you vote for anyone of them "nothing will change".
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  Challenge the power structure from the outside. It the only way to reform.
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  We're going to need to cut the outsider some slack

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Can Swarming Work in a Big War?

Uncommon Knowledge Extract
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This Extract is from Uncommon Knowledge's "New Rules of War" RSS http://tv.nationalreview.com/uncommonknowledge/audio.xml

• Aircraft carriers will become ineffective and cost too much.
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  Technology has made a new form of war "Network Warfare".
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  We'll want to distribute our resources across the entire system.
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  What do you need to fight the really big war vs. the more common small wars we are fighting?
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  Is the Pentagon is open to this new ways of thinking?
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  Can big wars come again / they will most certainly they will.
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  Our current military does scale down easy.
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  After the military victory in Iraq, we didn't scale down. we did the opposite and increased even to a point of building a burger king on the huge base
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  The cloud computer metaphor a good way of looking at this Network Warfare
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  After the thunder run in Iraq. we should have broken the army into thousands of groups of 50 vs. building huge bases.
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  One year later our approval was down to single digits, when just a year earlier it was over 75 percent.
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  China is great at push and retreat.
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  China is building a "small and many" navy.
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  Our navy is also looking at a small and many version.
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  Swarming is the new Surged
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  In Afghanistan our troops were on horseback for the sole purpose of making sure the aircraft could bomb any vehicle because are troops were on horseback.
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  People turned on Rumsfeld, he was a rock star at one time.
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  When you can't have a Roman peace, what do we do it now?
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  We really needed to have troops walking around in a swarming feel.
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  Only 10% out of the 30,000 increase really went outside of the wire
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  We need to move away from the super-carrier. Use troop transport.
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  In WWII we had 100 carriers, but most were the small carriers. These were extremely effective.
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  We should use 10 small raids,not to destroy, but to show the world the weapons are in Iran
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  We don't want to fight the old / last war
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  The question is. "Can the swarming work in a big war?"

Soft Treatment of Collective Behaviors

Extension 720 Extract

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This Extract is from Dr. Milt Rosenberg & Extension 720 Episode dated Feb 18, 2010 RSS 
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  Milt speaks with Bernard Wasserstein, Professor of history at University of Chicago about his new book, Barbarism and Civilization.
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  History of Europe in the 20th. Century. starts in 1914 and goes up to the present.
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  It was the worst of centuries in the case of Europe, but not for North America.
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  It was the best of centuries in case of life expectation, education, food supply, ... ect.
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  Wasserstein doesn't present the book as a forecast, but as analysis or chronicle.
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  There was a feeling of an age of progress and low crime before the Balkans broken out in fighting before WWI.
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  If Hitler was killed in WWI. would WWII have happened?
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  Was Hitler turned wicked by the gassing he received during WWI or was he a warped personality due in part of abnormal sexually parts?
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  Hitler was still blaming the Jews to the very end in the Berlin bunker.
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  The Nazi were out for broke in what they considered a noble process to remove not only the Jews, but the Poles, Russians POWs, Gypsy and Gays any one they considered unmoral or worthly.
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  The birth rate is currently too low in Europe even with the huge influx of Muslims. The Europeans are still having trouble with replacing themselves to keep a healthy economy.
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  Italy by 2050 will switch to mostly Muslims.
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  European countries are not Christian countries currently. They will be rainbow countries in the near future. In the Netherlands, there's a movement in which English may be the official language, because its the most used. Not because there's a large influx of English nationals.
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  There's still a East West divide in the Eastern part of Europe.
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  Russia is still not a modern economy.
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  The Russian economy just after the fall of the USSR, was only the same size of the Netherlands.
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  Jewish community is dying out in Europe, due to a low birth rate as well as immigration out of Europe.
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  Jews will be a minority between the area of Jordan river and the Mediterranean sea.
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  There will need to be some Jewish state territory retraction of some sort. in the very near future.
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  New Europe has been a soft treatment of collective behaviors, i.e. the death penalty, accepting  of gay life style, women's equal rights, with a soft treatment on criminals, the mad, and its illegal to beat/ punish one's own children as a form of family discipline.
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  History is fun. A human need to know where you came from.
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  History isn't a guide to the future but history remains a mystery.

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While Mark is away, John Disagrees

Ricochet Extract

This Extract is from Volume 1 Episode 6 "A Good Ricochet Fact" with Rob Long & Peter Robinson on Ricochet RSS  http://feeds.feedburner.com/RicochetPodcast

 Joining Ricochet is Powerline Blog's John Hinderaker.

• Mark Steyn believes the Dems are going for broke, hell or high water.
• John disagrees Dems are not doing a death pack, because they are not pushing all of their pet ideas like id cards, card check & cap and trade. Its just political calculus.
• Are they doing this to energize their base. They need to have something to show their base in Nov. They should go for it all.
• The dems believe the only good way to increase jobs is to spend government money.
• The dems have forgotten that we agreed to in the 70's and 80's that trying tax cuts was a way to get economic growth.
• Haley Barbour would make a great President but knows he is unelectable ... too southern
• Could the Republican still screw up the Nov elections?
• Per Barbour since 1993 we've elected 26 new Republican Senators to replace a Dem. 18 times it has came along with the election of a Republician as a Governor in the same election.

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Live from New York !

Powerline Extract

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A complete break down of the unbelievable things we'll need to deal with during the trial of KSM, via by Andy McCarthy of National Review.

• Here's just a few
  Providing a soap box to the world.
• Their main goal of putting the Bush Administration on trail.
• Tons of discovery which include personal information and a mountain of government files.
• In a national security case like this,they'lll get access to the entire national security process in an attempt to make sure that the government isn't withholding something back.
• The government will turn over, way too much information, then needs to be turned over. Because no one wants to take the chance of a mistake and retrial.
• A major push for classified documents with the hope that someone will bring Bush in front of the World Court.
• The jury may need long term protection.

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The Truth Will Set You Free But You May NOT Like It

Common Sense Extract

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This Extract is from the first half of Dan Carlin's Common Sense Show 175 Blue Pills & Green Bills RSS  http://feeds.feedburner.com/dancarlin/commonsense?format=xml 

• Wall street reform & illegal immigration are just a smoke screen & side show
• We need to watch for the person who is picking our pockets while we watch the fight.
• Wall street and Illegal Immigration falls into the same categories as Abortion because nothing is ever going to be done with these subjects. Because the powers that be (the Oligarchy), likes the system in its current form
• Vegas style logic
• Determine which side is the oligarchy is on
• Its possible the Oligarchy may not be on either side of the issue.
• Need to ask where is the money being made?
• Bet on the side of the Oligarchy
• Reagan's immigration law didn't do any thing, because that is what it was designed to do.
• Reagan's law was basically set up to have the paperwork done for the people who wanted to hire illegals
• Wall Street can't be reformed via a law which provides cover for both sides.
• The goal of the law is really to have money pour into both sides.
• Next time your listening to a debate
• Take 3 steps back and ask yourself, who is making money off of this.
• You just took the Blue Pill. Welcome to the real world.
• Its not that nice. But its reality
• The truth will set you free but you may not like it.

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On the Good-Side of the Decline

ardcore History Extract

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This Extract is from Hardcore History Show 33 ( Blitz Old School Toughness) RSS http://feeds.feedburner.com/dancarlin/history?format=xml

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  Could we beat our grandparents in a major war?
• Down side of a civilization.
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  Do we need the toughness to survive?
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  Life cycle of history doesn't really work.
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  Good historians look at human trends from deep history over thousands of years, not hundreds.
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  Sparta was as great as it was, only because it had a culture's goal to grow the ultimate fighting man in Greece. Men were raw material to one goal.
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  They became corruptible & luxury loving which caused the fall of their city-state.
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  Like in Young Frankenstein, the Doctor wanted the Hans Delbrück's brain, but gets switched with a brain as Igor states, is from "Abby Normal" (a.k.a."Do Not Use This Brain! Abnormal").
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  You can give them (your fighting force) the best spears or guns, but if the men won't stand there to throw the spear or shoot the guns. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are.
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  In Afghanistan if we had to use the same weapons as the Afghans It would be a very interesting war.
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  Can you make society tougher.That's what the Nazis were trying.
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  In the end, we're currently most likely on the good side of the down-side. It the bad side of a downward society that sucks to be there.

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Petrocracy

The Petrocracy of Iran (the Petroleum Theocracy) 

This is the first in a continuing series of learnings from a variety of interesting & informative podcasts.

This Extract is from Uncommon Knowledge's conversation between Hoover fellow Fouad Ajami & Peter Robinson  RSS
http://tv.nationalreview.com/uncommonknowledge/audio.xml


Iran (the Petroleum Theocracy) Petrocracy

• Harmid Karzai is just a bandit. Afghanistan can't be won.
• President Obama gave up on the wrong war. Yemen is more important then Afghanistan
• Iraq was a nation to rebuild, Afghanistan isn't even a nation. we're not rebuilding ...we're building. we would be better off to have started a new nation in the middle of no where.
• Iran never wanted to reach a common ground with the US.
• We should start to think about Iran after the bomb.
• The radicals are trying to weaponize Islam
• The free world can't modernize Islam. Islam must be modernized by Muslims. The battle is a Muslim battle.
• Obama doesn't understand the Arabic saying "my brother and I against my cousin"... "my cousin and I against a stranger" . He was ill-informed. He isn't respected in the Arab world for what he said on his Middle East tour.

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Spending Our Way Out?

This is our problem in a nutshell

Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky states we needs to spend more to reduce the deficit  as hear on the Wade and Roma's morning show on 890am

James is on his way

Giving Up

What a loser, Do we really want him on the Bulls?

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Smoking Hot

Lighting up the Stage with 5,000 friends

Sarah was looking and sounding great last night. I won two tickets from WIND 560 AM to an Evening with Sarah Palin. Sarah sported a black leather jacket which was a very nice touch. I like her advice in taking on the libs. "Invite them over to Tea". If the way the crowd was reacting is any sign of now November will go. It should be a blood bath for the Dems.

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