Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

I note there is an outpouring over the death of Nelson Mandela. He was a Communist. And that is all I’m going to say.

I never knew the Dylan Song “Like A Rolling Stone” had a University of Chicago connection. But it does. Consider the link “liner notes”. I get the UC Magazine (I’m an alum – X63 – as is my #2 son who graduated with honors) and was going through some back issues and found the article.…

Commenter Man Mountain Molehill doesn’t like Credence. I couldn’t help myself. And for something different – an entertainer Man Mountain Molehill likes And some more 50s music. Because I like it.

Obama voter Peggy Noonan shares an inside glimpse of the sort of thinking that goes on in the Obama White House: For four years I have been told, by those who’ve worked in the administration and those who’ve visited it as volunteers or contractors, that the Obama White House isn’t organized. It’s just full of…

From: Physician says Obamacare is causing ‘chaos’ for doctors which is referred to in the video as the back back end problem. The back end problem is also called the 834 problem. So called because of the name of the data transmission. Which is not working.

It is now up to 40%. I believe that is due to his program of continual improvement. “If you like your health care plan you can keep it.” I look forward to the day when it improves to 35%. Given the trajectories shown in the graph that day may not be far off. I attribute…

Suggested by Bill Whittle starting about 1 hour 49 minutes in to the video linked. All we need do is stand and fight. We have a certain fearful slime who has attached its self to us. Why us? Because he lives in fear. And he attempts to infect us with his fear. And if he…

Published on Nov 29, 2013 0:00:00 Being in TX (CA vs TX) 0:13:05 How did America’s Greatest generation spawn its worst ? 0:44:00 Trolls in general 0:56:10 If you could bring only one person from the left over to the right, who would it be ? (Jon Stewart) 1:03:30 Nuclear option in the Senate, “It’s…

I was part of this Enterprise task group in 1966. I was a reactor operator in training aboard the USS Bainbridge DLG(N)-25. I spent time in Idaho training. I was trained and qualified on the prototype of the Enterprise reactors. I spent about three months at Yankee Station in the South China Sea. I got…

We have a perfect exemplar of the left commenting at Classical Values. He is excellent at showing the true colors of the socialists. You are lucky the democratic party is controlled by corperate liberals and not the left or you would be blogging from a re-education camp! I wonder if he has in mind National…

From the It Is Worse Than We Thought Dept. The Obamacare insurance marketplace is even more vulnerable to security breaches since the administration “fixed” Healthcare.gov, according to a cyber security expert. Health and Human Services (HHS) released a progress report on Sunday following its self-imposed Nov. 30 deadline to repair the website, saying that the…

From an ObamaCare(less) website conversation. [2:34:26 pm]: Dipika But we are available to help you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You can reach us toll free at 1-800-318-2596 and we can’t continue with your application. I swear. I didn’t make that name, Dipika, up.

“Professional liberals are too arrogant to compromise. In my experience, they were also very unpleasant people on a personal level. Behind their slogans about saving the world and sharing the wealth with the common man lurked a nasty hunger for power. They’d double-cross their own mothers to get it or keep it.” – Harry S…

  Socialism’s inherent ‘virtue’ is the equal sharing of miseries – Winston Churchill  

A lot of people are upset over the fact that the Obamacare website doesn’t have a payment mechanism, As unbelievable as it sounds, word now comes that the beleaguered ObamaCare website doesn’t have a payment mechanism. And Fox’s Megyn Kelly, for one, isn’t happy about it. In fact, she’s downright ticked off. Kelly was flabbergasted to…

I was looking up quotes from Lawrence Of Arabia and found this one particularly apt. T.E. Lawrence: There may be honor among thieves, but there’s none in politicians.

Commenter Frank at It Will Only Get Worse suggested the below video. Frank suggests starting at about 11:00 in to learn about Obama. However, even more important is the question at 21:00 in, “Is Communism Reversible?”. The interviewer (Glasov) is pessimistic. Horowitz is optimistic. You can see part one of the interview at Front Page.…

From Rudy Giuliani: ObamaCare site security is ‘damaging’.

Why Economic Interventionism Doesn’t Work and Is In Fact Counterproductive -pdf. About 110 pages. From the Ludwig von Mises Institute. Written as the Great Depression was about 10 years old. With a few more years to go. Written in 1940 as part of Nationaloekonomie, the German predecessor to Human Action. Translated from the German manuscript…