Brad Thor's "Path of the Assassin"

Brad Thor's "Path of the Assassin"
Currency Wars - Rickards
The people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave, and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature. -President James Garfield
We have a giverment/takerment, we deserve a government for the people - AgAuGal 2010
Dear Wife got me a Kindle Fire for Christmas, so I've been doing more reading than usual. Finished re-reading The Forever War by Joe Haldeman and will be starting re-reading The Penultimate Truth by Phillip K. Dick.
gringott (12-20-2012)
I just pre-ordered David Icke's latest book "Remember Who You Are"
It's a long story, but my dentist has caused me to start re-reading Starship Troopers, and my son is also re-reading it - a couple thousand miles away.
Argentsum (05-11-2012)
Petrus Romanus By Thomas Horn and Cris Putnam
"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes her laws."
Mayer Amschel Rothschild
"Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them."
Ephesians 5:11
Steve Jobs ~ just finished... really interesting...
"...a Republic, if you can keep it!" Ben Franklin - Statesman
Truth requires no law. Ignorance of the law is no excuse!
Derivatives are contracts whose value is derived from stocks, bonds, loans, currencies and
commodities, or linked to specific events such as changes in interest rates or the weather.
"Money is the future idea of value." Armstrong
"Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance." Sun Tzu
Be the change you want to see in the world. Gandhi
Coopersmith talked me into "The Covenant" by James A. Michener. Thank you, Jason. It will be another great read.
This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare
Haunted Indianapolis.......probably not on alot of people's reading lists..but one of my hobbies...some friends and I get together and go out and do paranormal investigations around the state for fun and to see what we can find![]()
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No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on the couch.
Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock.......
“Those who tell the stories rule society.”
by Plato
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.” Harry S Truman
gringott (12-20-2012)
Im about 25 pages into Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quigley
" 'The problem' is, uh, I'm the president of the United States;
I'm not, uh, the emperor of the United States."
-- Barrack Hussein Soerto Soebarkah Obama Shama-Lama-Ding-Dong the Magnificent! - 02/17/13
I've gone through a couple of books a week for most of my life, sometime fiction and sometimes not. Read something way off my beaten path recently but pretty cool, "Sandman", a graphic novel series by Neil Gaiman.
You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. -C.S. Lewis
In economics, rent-seeking is an attempt to derive economic benefit by manipulating the social or political environment in which economic activities occur, rather than by adding value.
No monopoly in the history of mankind has reformed itself from within. It has always taken an external threat – a competitor – to drive internal change.
TimoneX (05-03-2012)
Love Sandman/Hellblazer/Constantine. Great books.![]()
notasockpuppet (05-03-2012)
I'm reading Adventure Capitalist by Jim Rogers.
The Beekeeper's Handbook
My bees should be ready in the next 2 weeks.
“Those who tell the stories rule society.”
by Plato
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.” Harry S Truman
Before we can know where we are headed, we need to know where we came from.
Conventional ancient history is pure political BS.
This book blew me away. If you look up "meticulous researcher" in the dictionary, there is a photo of Robert Temple
The Sirius Mystery: New Scientific Evidence of Alien Contact 5,000 Years Ago
" 'The problem' is, uh, I'm the president of the United States;
I'm not, uh, the emperor of the United States."
-- Barrack Hussein Soerto Soebarkah Obama Shama-Lama-Ding-Dong the Magnificent! - 02/17/13
Ten Lost Years 1929-1939. Barry Broadfoot. Lots of stories of how people survived the depression in Canada. The author interviewed people on how it is when there is no money. How they did it, what tricks and knowledge they had to use every day just to EAT.
Good read, lots of individual stories, fascinating read on how clever people become when they are down to nothing.
Ask not what those in power can do for you, ask what you an do for those in power."
That ancient alien astronaut stuff is fascinating, in part because a whole lot of it makes perfect sense. Reading through the Mahabharata and or Ramayana is enough to make one question the "official" history of mankind and it's only one tiny piece of evidence to support these theories. Great reading if you don't mind having your mind blown.
Just finished Skeletons on the Zahara, which I really enjoyed. It's about some shipwreck survivors that are sold into slavery when they wash up on the north coast of Africa. It's a non-fiction book, but reads like a fiction story, very gripping.
http://www.amazon.com/Skeletons-Zaha.../dp/0316835145
Fnord
American Gunfight: The Plot to Kill President Truman--and the Shoot-out That Stopped It
American Gunfight is the fast-paced, definitive, and breathtakingly suspenseful account of an extraordinary historical event -- the attempted assassination of President Harry Truman in 1950 by two Puerto Rican Nationalists and the bloody shoot-out in the streets of Washington, D.C., that saved the president's life.
The Wife just bought me the 50th Anniversary edition of "The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged". Going to reread both, but one at a time. Just finished, The California Trail: An Epic With Many Heroes by George Rippey Stewart. Great book.
"Walk the gold trails of my good friend, do I. On my feet are "strong sole" of thick leather, purchased with much knowledge of physical gold. These shoes not go bare before our journey is done. On trail I see your "thin sole" gold investments cast aside and scavenged by beasts." - ANOTHER (THOUGHTS!) (04/14/01; 18:08:54MT - #: 51887)
Personal best on calm water: SAE - 32 skips. GAE - 21 skips.
Moved from Paleo Solution to the Primal Blueprint, kind of expands the Paleo diet into a full lifestyle change.
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May all living beings have happiness and the causes of happiness; May all living beings be free from misery and the causes of misery; May all living beings never be separated from boundless joy; May all living beings abide in equanimity free from grasping and aversion.
A Nuclear Family Vacation; various short stories about nuclear tourism, great stuf, highly recommend!
"The two most common substances in the Universe are hydrogen and stupidity."
Be the Organ Grinder, not the Monkey.
A Trillion Dollars is a stack of $100 bills, 679 miles high.
Ineptocracy (in-ept-o-cra-cy)—a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.
Just finished reading "One second after" about a terrorist EMP (stock up on food and ammo please!) and "Practicing Medicine without a License" about the Linus Pauling Vitamin C/Lysine cure for heart disease (forget what your cholesterol level is and for God's sake throw the statin drugs away if you are stupid enough to be taking them).
Both highly recommended.
"The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same." - Carlos Castaneda
democracy, is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner... liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote : ben franklin
Non-fiction, "Inside the Priory of Scion" by Robert Howells. Just about half way through and am not really impressed. Trying to link Freemasons with Priory with Rosicrucians and the Jesus had a bloodline story all centering around the Templars and Rennes-le-Chateau. A lot of speculation from a "priory insider" and the writer. Maybe the second half will be better and shed some light on something.Granted, there were some interesting things I didn't know, but, most is rehash if you've done any prior reading on the subject.
Fiction, "Dust" by Charles Pellegrino. Good fiction about end of the world. Biology changes and bugs disappearing and others morphing to adapt. Various science groups trying to figure out "why". The story delves into the earth resetting itself like in some grand universal precession. The cycle of the planet and it just happens to be when we're inhabiting the world. Really intense fiction. It was written in 1998. Granted I don't know how it ends yet and what conclusion they eventually arrive at if any (only 3/4 of the way through). Good read so far.![]()
“Those who tell the stories rule society.”
by Plato
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.” Harry S Truman
Gardening know how books..Also my medical books as usual for the coming exam..![]()
Pattern Making and Foundry Practice by L.H. Hand 1905
Gold Beneath the Waves: Treasure Hunting the Surf and Sand by Jim F. Brouwer
For the 3rd time, something new makes sense and clicks every time I read it.
http://www.amazon.com/Gold-Beneath-W...eath+the+waves
Treasure Hunting Gold Hoor ~
"Is that you in the water? Bobbing for gold. Jeezers. " ~ Kingfisher
this isn't practice
I really hope One Second After has been updated - I read that book right after it came out and it was the most painful read ever. "Could of", "Should of", "Would of" instead of "have" ... plus many other editing issues.
I recommended it to my brother with the stipulation he wait a year to read it - I didn't hear any complaints, so I'm assuming it was re-edited.
Fiction: Stephen Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen Decalogy, Tokien's The Hobbit, S.M. Stirling's Emberverse Series ... a few others
Non-Fiction: Griffin's Creature from Jekyll Island (for the second time), Ron Paul's End the Fed
"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms, disarm only those who are neither inclined, nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants. They serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
- Thomas Jefferson, 1764
Considering the error was in almost every single paragraph, trust me, you would have noticed, no matter how important the subject matter. Now that I think about it, it might have been a free advance copy my wife picked up at one of her conferences...that would explain the egregious editing problems.
I finished reading Neil Kramer's - "The Unfoldment". I truly enjoyed it and somewhat changed the way I think about things. Its well worth a read.
I am about 70% of the way thru Christopher Knowles - "Our God Wear Spandex". This is a really interesting book which ties in comic book heroes to archetypes of the past.
Other books on my list to read in the future are books by Joseph P Farrell and Phillip K Dick, starting with VALIS.
Would enjoy hearing comments if anyone has read any of the above.
Got this yesterday and starting today I hope - Forgotten Civilization The Role of Solar Outbursts in our Past and Future.
Copyright 2012
Robert M. Schoch, Ph.D. [Geology and Geophysics]
I'll report back if it is any good.
http://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-Civi...n+Civilization
I got the paperback but they have a kindle version for $9.99.
“Those who tell the stories rule society.”
by Plato
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.” Harry S Truman
WHEAT BELLY
Because I'm fat.
$100OZ SILVER
~~Paddle faster I think I hear banjos~~
gringott (01-06-2013)
Treasure Hunting Gold Hoor ~
"Is that you in the water? Bobbing for gold. Jeezers. " ~ Kingfisher
this isn't practice
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by some dude named William L. Shirer.
May all living beings have happiness and the causes of happiness; May all living beings be free from misery and the causes of misery; May all living beings never be separated from boundless joy; May all living beings abide in equanimity free from grasping and aversion.