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Luis Fernando Mises‘s article Six simple tips to help you organize with your kids has a new comment 35 minutes ago
If you have kids, you will certainly appreciate these SIX SIMPLE TIPS. I know they have worked for me and have alleviated a lot of frustration that existed in my little people’s lives (and mine).
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Jeffrey Tucker‘s article Just One Word: Plastics has a new comment 38 minutes ago
The hot iron stopped generating steam, which meant that it was out of water.
But no one really has a special tool for filling it up — at least not nearby– and you really don’t want to unplug it and take the w [Read story]
Disagree with this. EVERY kind of plastic leeches tiny bits of plastic into your food. Heating, acidic, fatty, & salty foods accelerates the process.
Many kinds of plastics formerly though safe have been found to have harmful health effects. The plastics currently approved haven’t been proven unsafe yet, but bisphenol A and phalates are currently under investigation. In particular, they are known to disrupt both estrogen and testosterone production. (http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/features/cookware-plastics-shoppers-guide-to-food-safety)
The only safe action for young people and parents who can afford it is to avoid all plastic food containers.
I broadly agree with David. No kind of plastic makes an ideal food container. And yet … there’s such a chasm between the worst and the least worst plastics, that if you stick with the least worst you’re probably OK. Of course, plastic can also have significant environmental externalities.
Glass, on the other hand … non-toxic, non-flavouring, made out of plentiful raw materials (it’s essentially molten rock), easily recyclable, beautiful. Everything is good about glass except for the breakage!
Matt Kibbe published a new article, There’s Nothing Fun About Asset Forfeiture, on the site Free the People 2 hours, 41 minutes ago
Laiza Williamson posted an update in the group Music Lovers 3 hours, 28 minutes ago
I sing a cover of Concrete Blonde’s “Joey” while wearing my Rothbard shirt. 🙂
Interesting bonus content, to make sure we watched through to the end 🙂
@rogerribuck Thank you!!!
I love this song! I just learned how to play a simple arrangement of it on guitar, and can’t stop playing it. I can’t wait to get home and listen to your cover 🙂
@sleepyhead Awesome thanks! Let me know if you would ever like to do a music collaboration!
@tintinnabulation @tintinnabulation I would love to collaborate! I’ve only been playing for a few months, so complex arrangements are beyond my reach right now. I’ve never actually collaborated with anyone before. But if you’re up for it, I’ll put in the time and practice and take your direction.
@sleepyhead Okay that’s great! Let me know if you have a song that you would like to do. Maybe something liberty themed! I will look for a song as well.
Craig Spencer posted an update 4 hours, 2 minutes ago
This is a (private) libertarian elementary and secondary school in Nuevo Esperanza, Canindeyu, Paraguay. It is over 10 years old and has over 300 students.
Centro Educativo Canindeyu
Incidentally, they are seeking (Spanish speaking) teachers for science and mathematics.
Can you provide a thumbnail history, how did it come to occur?
@rrule
Thirty years ago an American man left the US for Brazil because he was dissatisfied with the lack of freedom in the US and saw that it would only be getting worse. He married a Brazilian woman and they moved to the nearby NE corner (Canindeyu) of Paraguay where he created several farming businesses. They had 3 sons. When the Stroessner…[Read more]
@ccspencer
What an inspirational story. And the press just talks about Iowa.
@rrule
I have talked to the father and suggested that there might be lots of American farmers from Iowa who would love the wonderful farming country in Canindeyu and the greater freedom they could have in Iowa. He told me that years ago he had tried to interest such people but never got any takers so he gave up. Americans are just too…[Read more]
@ccspencer
in Iowa -> in Paraguay
Generally, the people in Canindeyu are very entrepreneural, prosperous and freedom minded. It reminds me of the American West of my youth. Most of them speak 3 languages: Spanish, Portuguese and Guarani.
@ccspencer Thanks Craig! I love hearing these kinds of success stories! I’ve seen Paraguay mentioned as an expat destination in some libertarian discussions.
@greggers
The asado (high quality BBQ beef) is not bad either.
Thx for sharing! cheers
@ccspencer Is there really more freedom in Paraguay than in Iowa? I’m not really well versed in the Americas, but don’t the USA people always say it’s the freest country in the world? 😀
@honza
I see you jest.
Paraguay is far from a libertarian paradise and, like everyplace in the world, getting worse. However, it is incomparably better than Iowa. “USA people” are ignorant, deluded fools.
CEC 2016 — First Science Fair
In this school the students have six years of economics classes. They have an enthusiastic young libertarian economics teacher from Hugo Vera’s Fundacion Issos.
https://www.facebook.com/issos.org.py
However, they have almost no Spanish language instructional materials available. So I donated (in Spanish) to the school:
* 30 copies of Hazlitt’s…[Read more]
@ccspencer
I heard they have no extradiction in Paraguay?
@justinhale
You are probably confusing Paraguay with Brazil.
Thomas L. Knapp published a new article, Thanks For Asking! — 09/19/17, on the site KN@PPSTER @ Liberty.me 7 hours, 17 minutes ago
Thomas L. Knapp published a new article, A Cool New Way to Support KN@PPSTER!, on the site KN@PPSTER @ Liberty.me 7 hours, 17 minutes ago
Bruce Koerber posted an update 7 hours, 33 minutes ago
Bruce Koerber was born in 1956 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1985-6 he studied Austrian economics at Auburn University shortly after the establishment of the Ludwig von Mises Institute in 1982 in Auburn, Alabama. Reading, contemplating, and some teaching over the next twenty years prepared the seed bed for a unique and marvelous germ which…[Read more]
Bruce Koerber posted an update 10 hours, 14 minutes ago
I have the opportunity to send 5-20 copies of “More Than Laissez-Faire’ to friends in Burundi to be used by liberty minded students in universities. I was contacted by the Students for Liberty Burundi who serve Burundi, Rwanda and the Congo.
The books will be sent from Amazon to Aimable Manirakiza and he will distribute them to “the best…[Read more]
where do I send a check?
@rrule
Dear Rick,
This is the first time I have done this and so I don’t know how best to do it. What is in the works is shipping directly from CreateSpace which means the cost/book will be much less (around $2.70). Now, for example, if you wanted to ‘donate’ a sum equal to the cost of sending 10 copies it may be that you would send your check to…[Read more]
Tim Preuss posted an update 10 hours, 49 minutes ago
Bruce Koerber posted an update 10 hours, 54 minutes ago
The patience of roundabout production from capital yields most products and services. Being patient rather than impatient will make others seek your services.
Any comments?
Any questions?
Ken Jons-un posted an update in the group Liberty.Meme 15 hours, 29 minutes ago
Craig Spencer posted an update in the group Outdoors Enthusiasts 15 hours, 31 minutes ago
Tres Cañones in Suykutambo distict, Espinar province, Department of Cusco, Peru.
David Veksler published a new article, Six People Who Were Rescued by Crowd-Sourced Legal Advice, on the site The Ungoverned 16 hours, 37 minutes ago
The legal system is a mysterious and forbidding institution to most of us. This leaves us vulnerable to both private and public abuse when we either have no choice but to plead guilty to a criminal charge, or have [Read story]
Craig Spencer replied to the topic Global Currency Reset in the forum International Currencies 17 hours, 3 minutes ago
“Haha. The Putin smirk was a dead giveaway, Craig.”
Too subtle for me!
Why, oh why, did I not think of “Use hooks instead of hangers” when I had children?