Three Equals Five

The Great Unwashed. Jon, Mike, and Tom discuss individuals and groups moving from one location to another, carpetbagger invasion, breeding out things, naturalization versus immigration, denouncing your nation, swearing fealty, declaring war, definition of naturalization, culture versus citizenship, post-war immigrants, individual freedom and liberty are the fundamental values of the United States, social classes and upward mobility, the great American dream, China Town and Little Italy, indigenous people are immigrants, English and German immigrants dominating the United States, Highland Scots and Viking invaders, Cape Fear River Basin and inbreeding Scots, cultures and peoples have dominated and been dominated throughout history, indigenous people have no better claim on a land than anyone else, Native Americans torturing and eating their defeated enemies alive, immigration is healthy, serving up some freedom, Russia beat Napoleon and Hitler and wore down the Mongols, kill them all and let God sort them out, culture is downstream from religion, grace through works and the Protestant work ethic, Constantine and the genesis of christian dominance in western society, liberals and the left used to be against immigration, G K Chesterton and his fence, liberal versus conservative versus libertarian versus monarchist, Marxist thought and The Great Turning, tearing things down and creation through destruction, Mexican immigrants are the saviors of the United States, liberals and the blank slate, the white man’s burden, you are your brother’s keeper, christian schools for American Indians, Frankfurt School and Critical Theory, a nice worker’s revolution, people classify everything to get through life, the United States used to have open immigration, The Gangs of New York, Tammany Hall and voting, nativism, the Spanish were in the southwest before the English, Canadian Mounties and Dudley Do Right, immigrants adopting the norms of their new country, violent versus nonviolent crime, manipulation of illegal immigrants by organized crime organizations, actual rule of law, the luxury of information and reflection, liberal nonprofit group members and looking down on immigrants being farmers, ICE being focused on naturalization support, Castro releasing prisoners, recent immigrants commit less crime than generationally established citizens, Irish and Italian beat the hell out of each other, Scots-Irish descent rednecks have highest per capita rural poverty and crime rate, walls and doors in houses, digging tunnels and human trafficking, the mark of the beast and numeric tattoos, the welfare state is not compatible with open immigration, and Vermont.
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#Immigration #Naturalization #Indigenous #Native
New Research on Illegal Immigration and Crime
https://www.cato.org/blog/new-research-illegal-immigration-crime-0
History of the Bering Land Bridge Theory
https://www.nps.gov/bela/learn/historyculture/the-bering-land-bridge-theory.htm
Chavez, the UFW and the “Wetback” Problem
https://humanrights.fhi.duke.edu/chavez-the-ufw-and-the-wetback-problem
Marx vs Foucault: Reflections on History and Power
https://areomagazine.com/2019/08/29/marx-vs-foucault-reflections-on-history-and-power
Early American Immigration Policies
https://www.uscis.gov/about-us/our-history/overview-of-ins-history/early-american-immigration-policies

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Rich people are pushing poor people out of their homes. Or are they? Mike is back! He and Jon and Tom discuss local gentry, environmental justice and bleeding heart liberal nonprofit organizations, saving Gaea, government services proportional to taxes paid, geriatrics versus gerrymandering, affordable housing availability, property ownership, Section 8 housing, changes in minority family dynamics in the 1960s, white versus back home ownership, cost of basic land surveying services for low value properties, negative and positive aspects of gentrification, cost of living increases with gentrification, Black Liberation Movement and the Bureau of Land Management, BLM grants and loans for real estate purchases and business investment, pride in ownership, white trash and estate properties, wealth generation and debt, a definition of gentrification, lack of home economics and personal finance education in high school and college, increasing real estate values, they’re printing more money but not making any more land, property taxation, highest and best use basis for property taxation, losing your property due to failure to pay taxes, mixed use zoning, Zillow not understanding the real estate market, buying a dilapidated house, vehicle ownership is a bad investment, gentrification occurs rapidly, tax locking versus tax offsets for historic properties, the poor always suffer the most, killing people in cities doesn’t help urban investments, single use zoning, providing housing for displaced residents, absentee ownership and urban blight, Detroit was the wealthiest city in the United States, ten dollar housing and sixty thousand dollars in taxes, taxation is theft, Mike and Jon are carpetbaggers, white guilt, Ben Shapiro, money and grass are green, people protecting their community and Kenosha.
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#Gentrification #Taxation #RealEstate #Poverty #Wealth #BLM
Property Taxes and Highest and Best Use Valuation
https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/present-use-value-transferring-property-enrolled-in-present-use-value-property-taxation
You Can Gentrify A Neighborhood Without Pushing Out Poor People
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/04/08/yes-you-can-gentrify-neighborhood-without-pushing-out-poor-people/

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Some people want to keep on living and it’s gonna cost them. And cost you. Jon, Mike, and Tom discuss how much money you are worth, fiduciary tables, life insurance, a Mexican standoff versus a duel, the federal government being involved in healthcare when all other aspects of healthcare outside the military is at the state level, rising costs of healthcare, politicians running on healthcare as an issue, European healthcare models, government extending people’s lives to tax them longer, younger people health needs and risks, Hillary Clinton draining and injecting the blood of the youth, healthcare as a human right developed out of the nanny state, definitions of healthcare, why is there a need for government healthcare involvement, behavioral and occupational causes of poor health, group homes, locking people away, eastern holistic medicine versus western reactionary medicine, conspiracy theories and collusion in the medical industry, cash surgery hospitals, should we have government supported healthcare or insurance, the economy of healthcare, body shop work after wrecking your car, negative incentives to treat sicker patients, acute versus chronic treatment, pills and diet versus pills, the opioid crisis, multiple medical specialists now in the treatment process, consumerism as downfall of our society, communism solves all our problems, end of life care cost compared to healthcare cost over lifetime, population getting older, distribution of healthcare costs of a person's lifetime, cost of treating preventable diseases, firing squads, incentivising healthy behavior, sedentary lifestyle, playing versus watching sports, work satisfaction by field and profession, medical overhead cost increases due to non-providers, lack of transparency in medical costs, overcharging for medical services, job creation from medical insurance bureaucracy, healthy at every weight, proctologists and dermatologists and plastic surgeons, the body can be beautiful but most aren’t, rationing of healthcare, walking out in the woods to die, the free market, poor people, the time delay of medical conditions, the Catholic Church healthcare system and the Hospitallers, risk and insurance, Christopher Reeves, pay as you go cash basis medical service, WebMD diagnoses, smoking and drinking and exercising and eating right, proactive healthcare habits, self respiratory care, insulin manufacturer as a hot stock tip, physician medical school training process, Mark Cuban and the Cost Plus Drug Company online pharmacy as public relations after banning the National Anthem, government involvement has driven up prices as have lack of personal responsibility, physicians do not know how much their services cost, the Affordable Care Act, moving government supported healthcare at the state level versus the federal level to provide better choice and care, state level insurance regulations, and cats and dogs and Tom dying.
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#Life #Healthcare #Insurance #ObamaCare #AfforableCare Act
The Relation of the Chronic Disease Epidemic to the Health Care Crisis
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7077778/
Healthy Lifestyle Habits May Be Associated With Reduced Risk Of Chronic Disease
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090810161906.htm
The Lifetime Distribution of Health Care Costs
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1361028/

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There’s SAD and then there’s MAD. We’re here to help you settle into Cold War v2.0. Jon, Mike, and Tom talk about a definition of Mutually Assured Destruction, MAD shaping world politics, the United States nuclear deterrent triad of silos and bombers and submarines, fail deadly and dead hand fail-safe launch systems, boomers lurking under the sea surface, the alien greys, Russia’s Satan missile, gathering and safeguarding nuclear weapons after the fall of the Soviet Union, proliferation and countries with nuclear weapons, South Africa and Israel joint nuclear weapon development, England carved up most of the world, the Scots rule Great Britain, US troops training Ukrainians, lining up armor along a road is generally not the smartest of moves, shoot and move antitank operations, Fins downing reindeer alcohol and getting feisty with Russia, how we will be shown to be clearly wrong, European Union member countries, the threat to heads of state from those close to them, a rational actor is required for MAD to work, overwhelming force, nuclear launch systems and multiple warheads, nuclear war is like a bad divorce, everyone is an expert, the lack of an existential threat, The Day After, an electromagnetic pulse, goggles for checking out nuclear blasts, Bikini Atoll tests, Backfire bombers, a big flash and that is it, a couple of hits in Japan, China’s nuclear weapons program is generally defensive, natural disasters, Generation X was the last great generation, things moving too fast to react, Putin thought things would be different in Ukraine, hopes and dreams and logistics of warfare, going to the nuclear brink, research rocket launch almost led to full nuclear launch, respect versus support, detente, working with your enemy to prevent world destruction, Henry Kissinger, Europe versus NATO countries, the idiots in Europe fighting each other, the United States getting dragged into WW1 and WW2, Germany going flower child and being energy dependent on Russia, Helsinki Accords, faster and funnier, Spain lost to the United States, the Habsburgs and Stewarts, Mercator map projection, Scotland and Ireland and Belgium, Polish people are in Poland, the Chinese Olympic team is comprised of Chinese, Israel versus the rest of the Middle East, geopolitical relations, we are spoiled in the United States, when some become weak others become strong and dominate the weak, being safer in the cold war, and the balance of power.
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#MAD #NuclearWar #Fallout #Detente #ColdWar #ICBM #Boomer #B52 #Submarines #Bombers

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Tom isn’t happy about the federal government taking property rights from landowners and how it undermines the foundational rights and freedom of citizens. As a follow-up to our previous episode, we discuss potential trespass by falcon, sterilization of hippos, property rights, ad coelum (whatever that is), airspace regulations, land conveyance, property boundaries, common law, civil law, alien and sedition act, free speech, apparent suicide by domestic fowl, eminent domain, supreme court case law, the American dream, renting versus owning, fifth amendment, government takings, drone operation, state versus federal jurisdiction, legal precedent, cellphone surveillance, Patriot Act, enumerated and unenumerated rights, social contract, freedom and personal responsibility, nanny state, the Great Reset, urbanite government dependency, etymology of Allegheny, aircraft safety, superjacency (whatever that is), balsa wood framed rubber band powered toy airplane, constitutional amendment process, navigable waters, privatizing airspace, navigation easements, just compensation, petitioning the government, restricted airspace, regulatory burden, Al Gore, Donald Trump, 1984, Brave New World, soma, and general government over-reach.

https://www.namic.org/pdf/drones/1703_privateairspace.pdf

https://dronelife.com/2017/03/20/taylor-vs-huerta-faa-comes-off-badly-oral-arguments

https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/recordings/recordings2017.nsf/469F0B57EDA3C53A852580E300577ED7/$file/15-1495.mp3

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