December 2009 Newsletter
Wed, 2009-12-30 18:53 — Pat Heyman
Well, we're at the end of yet another year. As our parents always told us, time speeds up as you get older. I still think things that happened three years ago happened only a few months ago. It's been a while, since we have sent out an official newsletter/update, so it's about time. (This newsletter will only cover 2009, but I'll go back and retroactively add in some past newsletters later.)
Family Stuff
God has continued to bless us this past year with our continued health, steady jobs, good friends, our loyal doggy...and we're having a baby!!!!! Jen is seven months pregnant with our firstborn who we're told will be a boy. His tentative name is Logan Matthew Heyman. Jen's due date is March 24. We have a wishlist/registry available if you would like to contribute to the welfare of a minor.
The Logan Cometh
Tue, 2009-12-15 21:25 — Logan HeymanYou may have heard that a new Heyman is on the way. Allow me to introduce myself. The name is Logan, and I am scheduled to arrive around March 24. You can help my parents out by buying things on my wishlist or baby registries at Walmart, Babys R Us. Oh, and please do me a favor and get me clothing or blankets without any cutesy baby-style prints. If you wouldn't wear it, neither will I. (Being named after Wolverine, I do have an image to live up to after all.)
Outside Reading: What a Neocon you ask?
Sun, 2010-01-31 11:02 — Pat HeymanThis is an article from another website that I found interesting along with a link back to the original article.
From: LewRocwell.com
Synopsis: Ron Paul does an admirable job of describing the Neoconservative philosophy. For those of you who don't have time to read the whole article, they are the worst of the old-style Progressives—embodied in Woodrow Wilson, who believed that he was improving the world by fighting a war, because by "making the world safe for democracy" he was ushering in the Millennial reign of Christ. They have never met government spending they didn't like, whether military or welfare. They believe the government should lie to its own citizens for their own good Unfortunately, the conservative movement was completely co-opted by the Neocons. The revolution of 1994 gave way to the largest increases in government spending and power ever.
Outside Reading: Confiscation of Retirement Accounts is Coming
Sat, 2010-01-30 11:53 — Pat HeymanThis is an article from another website that I found interesting along with a link back to the original article.
From: LewRocwell.com
Synopsis: I clearly remember hearing Rush report in 2008 that a Congressional subcommittee had heard this confiscation plan presented to them. Naturally, he was poo-pooed for taking it seriously. The only problem is that you can bet your breeches that the bureaucrats and elected officials in Washington are taking it seriously. Medicare is bankrupt; Social Security is bankrupt; the deficit is at an all time high, and Washington can't find buyers for their worthless debt. It's only a matter of time before they come after your retirement funds. This article describes how and offers some strategies to prevent the complete destruction of your personal wealth.
Outside Reading: A Conservative Christian's Descent into Anarchy
Wed, 2010-01-27 20:55 — Pat HeymanThis is an article from another website that I found interesting along with a link back to the original article.
From: Joseph Sobran
Synopsis: Joseph Sobran, a long-time writer for the New Republic describes his journey from political conservatism to libertarianism, and finally anarchy. (For the record, when libertarians use the term, they do not mean chaos and lawlessness, but rather a condition in which there is no state.) I have excerpted the end which deals directly with Christianity.
Outside Reading: Socialized Medicine Causes Illness
Sun, 2010-01-17 21:51 — Pat HeymanThis is an article from another website that I found interesting along with a link back to the original article.
From: LewRocwell.com
Synopsis:
Ludwig von Mises explained it way back in 1922 Socialism:
To the intellectual champions of social insurance, and to the politicians and statesmen who enacted it, illness and health appeared as two conditions of the human body sharply separated from each other and always recognizable without difficulty or doubt. Any doctor could diagnose the characteristics of ‘health.’ ‘Illness’ was a bodily phenomenon which showed itself independently of human will, and was not susceptible to influence by will. There were people who for some reason or other simulated illness, but a doctor could expose the pretense. Only the healthy person was fully efficient. The efficiency of the sick person was lowered according to the gravity and nature of his illness, and the doctor was able, by means of objectively ascertainable physiological tests, to indicate the degree of the reduction of efficiency.
Now every statement in this theory is false. There is no clearly defined frontier between health and illness. Being ill is not a phenomenon independent of conscious will and of psychic forces working in the subconscious. A man’s efficiency is not merely the result of his physical condition; it depends largely on his mind and will. Thus the whole idea of being able to separate, by medical examination, the unfit from the fit and from the malingerers, and those able to work from those unable to work, proves to be untenable. Those who believed that accident and medical insurance could be based on completely effective means of ascertaining illnesses and injuries and their consequences were very much mistaken. The destructionist aspect of accident and health insurance lies above all in the fact that such institutions promote accidents and illness, hinder recovery, and very often create, or at any rate intensify and lengthen, the functional disorders which follow illness or accident.
Feeling healthy is quite different from being healthy in the medical sense, and a man’s ability to work is largely independent of the physiologically ascertainable and measurable performances of his individual organs. The man who does not want to be healthy is not merely a malingerer. He is a sick person. If the will to be well and efficient is weakened, illness and inability to work is caused. By weakening or completely destroying the will to be well and able to work, social insurance creates illness and inability to work; it produces the habit of complaining – which is in itself a neurosis – and neuroses of other kinds. In short, it is an institution which tends to encourage disease, not to say accidents, and to intensify considerably the physical and psychic results of accidents and illnesses. As a social institution it makes a people sick bodily and mentally or at least helps to multiply, lengthen, and intensify disease.
Outside Reading: Christians Should Stop Supporting the U.S. Government
Sun, 2010-01-17 21:25 — Pat HeymanThis is an article from another website that I found interesting along with a link back to the original article.
From: LewRocwell.com
Synopsis: The IRS declares war on two retired Christians who swore a vow of poverty and run a ministry. Even though broke no law, the IRS trumps up every charge in the book, fines them more than the maximum fine, and gets them jailed for more than twice the maximum time for the law they allegedly broke. American Christians need to stop thinking of themselves as Americans. We are strangers in a strange land. Like Paul, we should take advantage of being citizens when we may but never identify more with America than with Christ.
Outside Reading: Should You Pay Your Mortgage
Sun, 2010-01-17 20:44 — Pat HeymanThis is an article from another website that I found interesting along with a link back to the original article.
From: LewRocwell.com
Synopsis:
Karen DeCoster makes the case that it may be irresponsible to pay your mortgage. The line we are sold is that it would be irresponsible and morally reprehensible to renege on our financial commitments, yet those holding our commitments were not nearly so upstanding. Rather than manfully resign in disgrace, confess to their crimes, and go to jail where we, the taxpayer, could take care of them for the low cost of ~70k/year, they had their former CEO (and/or golfing buddy) Henry Paulson to loan themselves billions of my dollars. Meanwhile, using my borrowed money, Bank of America bought my mortgage from Countrywide at 30 cents on the dollar. I wasn't offered this opportunity—only the opportunity to keep paying the full price on my mortgage and possibly face 25 years of rate hikes starting next year.
Yes, reneging on my mortgage hardly seems as nefarious in that context. Anyway, read the article.
Outside Reading: The Government Can't Protect You
Sun, 2010-01-17 20:10 — Pat HeymanThis is an article from another website that I found interesting along with a link back to the original article.
From: LewRocwell.com
Synopsis: Judge Napolitano (Andrew, not Janet) makes the case that not only can the government not protect us, the more it acts, the more less security we will have.
Outside Reading: Nancy Pelosi: What a Horrible Woman
Sat, 2010-01-16 08:59 — Pat HeymanThis is an article from another website that I found interesting along with a link back to the original article.
From: HotAir.com
Synopsis:
What else needs to be said?
