Happy Birthday, Ron Paul!

Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven’t had capitalism. A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank. It’s not capitalism when the system is plagued with incomprehensible rules regarding mergers, acquisitions, and stock sales, along with wage controls, price controls, protectionism, corporate subsidies, international management of trade, complex and punishing corporate taxes, privileged government contracts to the military-industrial complex, and a foreign policy controlled by corporate interests and overseas investments. Add to this centralized federal mismanagement of farming, education, medicine, insurance, banking and welfare. This is not capitalism!

Ronald Ernest Paul (born August 20 1935)

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H.P Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937)

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
Howard Phillips Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu (1926)
(August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937)

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H/T http://geektyrant.com/news/2013/8/16/thatsreally-dark-yale-stewart


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Happy Birthday, William Jefferson Clinton!

Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
William Jefferson Clinton (born 19 August 1946)

(Art Bill Clinton, Lady Killer by Jason Heuser)
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Great Freemasons: Charles Horace Mayo, M.D. (July 19, 1865 – May 26, 1939)

 
 The scientist is not content to stop at the obvious.
Charles Horace Mayo, M.D. (July 19, 1865 – May 26, 1939)

Charles Horace Mayo, M.D. was an American medical practitioner and was one of the founders of the Mayo Clinic along with his brother, William James Mayo, Drs. Augustus Stinchfield, Christopher Graham, E. Star Judd, Henry Stanley Plummer, Melvin Millet and Donald Balfour.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Horace_Mayo


("Dr. Charlie" petitioned to Rochester Lodge No. 21 in Rochester, Minnesota for membership on December 23, 1889, he was initiated as an Entered Apprentice on January 24, 1890, and eventually raised to the sublime degree of a Master Mason on May 12th. Dr. Charlie became a member of the York Rite Bodies in 1922-23.)

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