Happy Father’s Day to all the fathers out there! Strong, healthy, and mature masculinity is absolutely necessary for any society. I was fatherless until our Heavenly Father drew me to Him. He is not far from any of us. In Him we live, and move, and have our being. Acts 17.

Grateful for each day.

"Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness." -Mark Twain

A quiet paddle on the kayak this morning. Grateful for Jesus, family, health, the sun, this beautiful planet, and all those working to create things like Bitcoin and Nostr!

I’m grateful for Bitcoin. It challenged and continues to challenge conventional wisdom. Conventional wisdom often seems like “mindless ideas traded between the conventionally wise.”* Bitcoin represents hope for the world and for the future. It emerged onto the scene in the wake of financial chaos caused by the central planners, at least in part. I have been watching the U.S. Debt Clock since 2000. I was taught how to think about whole-of-government solutions and Instruments of Power as a U.S. military officer. One of the things we talked about in the academic environment was the debt as a national security issue. The little I know about money, economies, world-reserve currencies, changing world orders, big governments, and the “great game,” tell me that we must challenge conventional wisdom. *John Kenneth Galbraith coined the term, “conventional wisdom”. He described it as: “Beliefs that are at any time assiduously, solemnly, and mindlessly traded between the conventionally wise.”

The surf was good today

Major General Smedley Butler once said “war is a racket.” Craig Whitlock just published The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War. Central bankers and a few others profit off of war. Bitcoin can help address this. From Maj. Gen. Butler: “WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.”

“WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge

The central bank, fiat system is built on lies. Money changers of the highest order. As Solzhenitsyn said, “live not by lies.” “Even if all is covered by lies, even if all is under their rule, let us resist in the smallest way: Let their rule hold not through me! And this is the way to break out of the imaginary encirclement of our inertness, the easiest way for us and the most devastating for the lies. For when people renounce lies, lies simply cease to exist. Like parasites, they can only survive when attached to a person.” From LIVE NOT BY LIES - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn