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234 E. Foothill Blvd.
Arcadia, CA 91006-2508
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Monday, September 3, 2018
Saturday, September 1, 2018
Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Monrovians - Unite! Know and defend our Constitution. What do you think it means? Your comments are welcome. One resource is the Center for Constitutional Studies.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Ratified effective December 15, 1791.
Here is a Constitutional Reading List, with all materials free to you.
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Ratified effective December 15, 1791.
Here is a Constitutional Reading List, with all materials free to you.
Right and Duty to Bear Firearms
Monrovians - Unite! Know your Constitutional Rights, and the duties that they impose on us.
"The right of having and using arms for self-preservation and defense is justly called the primary law of nature, so it is not, neither can it be in fact, taken away by the law of society."
Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England.
The Blackstone Institute honors Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780). Blackstone was the great Eighteenth Century English legal scholar whose philosophy and writings were infused with Judeo-Christian principles. The Ten Commandments are at the heart of Blackstone's philosophy. Blackstone taught that man is created by God and granted fundamental rights by God. Man’s law must be based on God’s law. Our Founding Fathers referred to Blackstone more than to any other English or American authority. Blackstone’s great work, Commentaries on the Laws of England, was basic to the U.S. Constitution. This work has sold more copies in America than in England and was a basic textbook of America’s early lawyers. It was only in the mid-Twentieth Century that American law, being re-written by the U.S. Supreme Court, repudiated Blackstone. An attack on Blackstone is an attack on the U.S. Constitution and our nation’s Judeo-Christian foundations.
Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England.
The Blackstone Institute honors Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780). Blackstone was the great Eighteenth Century English legal scholar whose philosophy and writings were infused with Judeo-Christian principles. The Ten Commandments are at the heart of Blackstone's philosophy. Blackstone taught that man is created by God and granted fundamental rights by God. Man’s law must be based on God’s law. Our Founding Fathers referred to Blackstone more than to any other English or American authority. Blackstone’s great work, Commentaries on the Laws of England, was basic to the U.S. Constitution. This work has sold more copies in America than in England and was a basic textbook of America’s early lawyers. It was only in the mid-Twentieth Century that American law, being re-written by the U.S. Supreme Court, repudiated Blackstone. An attack on Blackstone is an attack on the U.S. Constitution and our nation’s Judeo-Christian foundations.
The Pacific Bridge Companies
Monrovians - Unite! Know your local businesses and employers. Cross-border financial services anyone?
Pacific Bridge Investment Services, Inc.
Pacific Bridge Wealth Resources, Inc.
825 S. Primrose Ave., Suite C
Monrovia, CA 91016
Tel:; 626-303-5890
Fax: 626-303-3591
Pacific Bridge Investment Services, Inc.
Pacific Bridge Wealth Resources, Inc.
825 S. Primrose Ave., Suite C
Monrovia, CA 91016
Tel:; 626-303-5890
Fax: 626-303-3591
Stephen L. Kagawa, LUTCF, FSS
President & Chief Executive Officer
The Pacific Bridge Companies, Inc.
Hozumi Honada, LUCTF
Vice-President and Chief of Staff
The Pacific Bridge Companies, Inc.
&
President, Pacific Bridge Wealth Resources, Inc.
Jerome E. Paul, CLU, ChFC
Vice-President and Chief Marketing Officer,
The Pacific Bridge Companies, Inc.
&
President, Pacific Bridge Insurance Services, Inc.
&
President, Pacific Bridge Asia, Ltd.
Pacific Bridge provides cross-border financial planning solutions for business professionals, high net-worth individuals, and companies throughout the Pacific Rim.
Pacific Bridge works with your financial advisors to develop and implement a broad-based financial plan that leverages tax-based insurance and investment solutions to address your wealth accumulation, preservation, and transfer goals.
Your financial advisor(s) works with your own Pacific Bridge Ohana Development Team, a dedicated group of professionals, to coordinate and implement your financial plan, which is monitored, reviewed, and updated on a regular basis.
Pacific Bridge works with your financial advisors to develop and implement a broad-based financial plan that leverages tax-based insurance and investment solutions to address your wealth accumulation, preservation, and transfer goals.
Your financial advisor(s) works with your own Pacific Bridge Ohana Development Team, a dedicated group of professionals, to coordinate and implement your financial plan, which is monitored, reviewed, and updated on a regular basis.
Pacific Bridge also maintains a global network of Ohana Members, specialized financial services consultants and companies, to assist with your financial planning. They include:
- Banking Advisors
- Tax Advisors and Accountants
- Global Investment Firms and Advisors
- Venture Capital Firms
- Real Estate Firms
- Insurance Companies, Agencies, and Advisors
- Risk Management Professionals
- Attorneys
Kicks on Route 66 - Transforming Seminarian blog
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Transformingseminarian.blogspot.com is a blog by Mark Baker-Wright, who was an Assistant to the Faculty and Dean's Office at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California (the views expressed on that blog do not necessarily represent the views of the seminary). Mark received his Master of Divinity degree several years ago.
His wife, Michelle, also an MDiv graduate, is a professionally trained flutist and aspiring theologian, working on a PhD in Worship and Culture.
After posting for ten years (10 years!) on the blog, Mark decided to stop. He learned a lot about blogging, especially comments, and about social media, which he shares in his last post after ten years of blogging.
Check out Mark's post about the reasons he stopped blogging here.
His wife, Michelle, also an MDiv graduate, is a professionally trained flutist and aspiring theologian, working on a PhD in Worship and Culture.
After posting for ten years (10 years!) on the blog, Mark decided to stop. He learned a lot about blogging, especially comments, and about social media, which he shares in his last post after ten years of blogging.
Check out Mark's post about the reasons he stopped blogging here.
Monrovia Public Library Blog
Monrovians - Unite! Our Monrovia Public Library
321 S. Myrtle Avenue (between Lime and Palm Avenue)
Monrovia Public Library Computer Classes,
(Monrovia Library offers computer classes for adult learners who are having trouble crossing the digital divide or are afraid of getting started. The staff teaches computer basics... starting with how to use a mouse. Registration is required for the limited seating. The Monrovia Public Library provide the laptops, and you provide the willingness to learn.)
321 S. Myrtle Avenue (between Lime and Palm Avenue)
Phone # 626 256-8274
has an anonymous blog about the library,
(Monrovia Library offers computer classes for adult learners who are having trouble crossing the digital divide or are afraid of getting started. The staff teaches computer basics... starting with how to use a mouse. Registration is required for the limited seating. The Monrovia Public Library provide the laptops, and you provide the willingness to learn.)
Thursday, April 5, 2018
Friday, March 2, 2018
Hayek - The "Inevitability" of [Central] Planning
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Hayek asserts that the most frequently heard argument employed to demonstrate the "inevitability" of central planning is that due to technological changes that have made true competition impossible in an increasing number of fields, the only choice left to us is between control of production by private monopolies and direction by the government. This primarily derives from Marxist thought, but it has been repeated so often that people often have no idea of its origin.
The alleged technological cause of the growth of monopoly is the superiority of the large firm over the small, owing to greater efficiency of mass production.
Various economic studies have concluded otherwise. Monopoly is, rather, attained through collusive agreements and promoted by public policies. When these agreements and policies are reversed, competitive conditions can be restored. Big businesses at every turn seek to obtain favorable treatment from government.
The big idea behind the believe that large and complex problems require a central government solution is that it is difficult to obtain a coherent picture of the complete economic process, hence only government can obtain the information necessary to properly plan and direct the economic activity of each person.
"This argument is based on a complete misapprehension of the working of competition." It is because of the complexity of the division of labor under modern conditions which makes competition the only method by which such coordination can be adequately brought about.
It is only as the factors which have to be taken into account become so numerous that it is impossible to gain an overall view of them that decentralization becomes imperative, writes Hayek. The problem of coordination requires that separate agents be free to adjust their activities to the facts which only they can know, and yet brings about a mutual adjustment of their respective plans.
If instead of central control we have a system by which each agent obtained the information he must possess in order effectively to adjust his decisions to those of others, with constantly changing conditions of supply and demand, we would have the perfect system.
It happens that the price system does this under competition, and no other system can possibly hope to do so. By watching just a few prices, an entrepreneur can adjust his or her activities to those of their fellows. "The more complicated the whole, the more dependent we become on that division of knowledge between individuals whose separate efforts are coordinated by the impersonal mechanism for transmitting the relevant information known by us as the price system."
When there is a strong and urgent demand for copper in one part of the world, we do not have to know the details, but only that the price of copper has suddenly increased, causing us to adjust our use of it. Whether we use less of it, or are willing to pay more for it, or stop using it altogether, we affect the price (and the supply and demand) and further transmit important information to all others who might use copper.
By comparison, a system of central planning is incredibly clumsy, slow, inflexible - and ultimately disastrous.
One need only survey our world to realize that it is not the product of a central planner but instead rose up of its own accord.
Then there is always the problem of the identity of the planners - who decides? The very people who are so sure that they have the only true answers and that their preferences are entitled to priority over those of everyone else would be motivated to become the ones with the power, yet they would be the ones most likely to terrorize everyone else if they ever had true power. So, do we really need central planning? Would a politician have come up with the i-phone?
The alleged technological cause of the growth of monopoly is the superiority of the large firm over the small, owing to greater efficiency of mass production.
Various economic studies have concluded otherwise. Monopoly is, rather, attained through collusive agreements and promoted by public policies. When these agreements and policies are reversed, competitive conditions can be restored. Big businesses at every turn seek to obtain favorable treatment from government.
The big idea behind the believe that large and complex problems require a central government solution is that it is difficult to obtain a coherent picture of the complete economic process, hence only government can obtain the information necessary to properly plan and direct the economic activity of each person.
"This argument is based on a complete misapprehension of the working of competition." It is because of the complexity of the division of labor under modern conditions which makes competition the only method by which such coordination can be adequately brought about.
It is only as the factors which have to be taken into account become so numerous that it is impossible to gain an overall view of them that decentralization becomes imperative, writes Hayek. The problem of coordination requires that separate agents be free to adjust their activities to the facts which only they can know, and yet brings about a mutual adjustment of their respective plans.
If instead of central control we have a system by which each agent obtained the information he must possess in order effectively to adjust his decisions to those of others, with constantly changing conditions of supply and demand, we would have the perfect system.
It happens that the price system does this under competition, and no other system can possibly hope to do so. By watching just a few prices, an entrepreneur can adjust his or her activities to those of their fellows. "The more complicated the whole, the more dependent we become on that division of knowledge between individuals whose separate efforts are coordinated by the impersonal mechanism for transmitting the relevant information known by us as the price system."
When there is a strong and urgent demand for copper in one part of the world, we do not have to know the details, but only that the price of copper has suddenly increased, causing us to adjust our use of it. Whether we use less of it, or are willing to pay more for it, or stop using it altogether, we affect the price (and the supply and demand) and further transmit important information to all others who might use copper.
By comparison, a system of central planning is incredibly clumsy, slow, inflexible - and ultimately disastrous.
One need only survey our world to realize that it is not the product of a central planner but instead rose up of its own accord.
Then there is always the problem of the identity of the planners - who decides? The very people who are so sure that they have the only true answers and that their preferences are entitled to priority over those of everyone else would be motivated to become the ones with the power, yet they would be the ones most likely to terrorize everyone else if they ever had true power. So, do we really need central planning? Would a politician have come up with the i-phone?
The Distressing Disguise of the poor - a great place to meet Jesus!
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Mother Theresa has been such an inspiration to so many. Perhaps she will inspire you.
40 Days for Life in Monrovia - five years of non-stop prayer on Fifth Avenue!
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Did you know that a small group of Monrovians have been praying on Fifth Avenue just north of Huntington Drive for five years? Every weekday morning, around 10 AM these days I believe, a small group gathers to pray.
For whom do they pray? The unborn children, the abortionist whose offices are on Fifth Avenue, police officers, clergy, the media, and oh so many more. These pro-lifers celebrate every life, even those with whom they disagree.
How often do we see such long-suffering actions taken in the name of love? Lets celebrate the power of love, of God's grace.
Did you know that a small group of Monrovians have been praying on Fifth Avenue just north of Huntington Drive for five years? Every weekday morning, around 10 AM these days I believe, a small group gathers to pray.
For whom do they pray? The unborn children, the abortionist whose offices are on Fifth Avenue, police officers, clergy, the media, and oh so many more. These pro-lifers celebrate every life, even those with whom they disagree.
How often do we see such long-suffering actions taken in the name of love? Lets celebrate the power of love, of God's grace.
Friday, November 28, 2014
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