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Satelite Border Patrol?

Posted by Ronald James Gores on October 8, 2010 at 8:07pm

Well, there is more violence on the border with the U.S. and Mexico this time its on lake Falcon, never heard of it till now.Evidently this lake is another crossing point for drugs and, more than likely, illegals.

I don't understand why we cannot secure our borders.I have a cell phone and with it I can google any part of the world and zoom in on roads and even houses.If I can do that how hard would it be to patrol the border with satelites?-I don't get it!, can somebody please explain this to me!

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The Original Tea Party

Posted by Novus Ordo Seclorum on October 8, 2010 at 7:30pm
CapitalGainsandGames Washington, Wall Street and Everything in Between
13 Apr 2010


Posted by Bruce Bartlett

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I hope Tax Notes won't mind too much if I reprint a great piece

by tax historian Joseph Thorndike here. Since the original

Boston tea party is the subject of so much mythology,

which animates many latter day tea partiers to this day,

it's important to set the record straight. As Thorndike

correctly explains, the Boston tea party was not a revolt
against high taxes, but, ironically, a protest against

a tax cut.


APRIL 8, 2010

Tax History: Four Things You Should Know About the Boston Tea Party

Joseph J. Thorndike
Almost everyone knows a little about the Boston Tea Party.
Most of us learned in grade school about Samuel Adams, his
band of phony Indians, and the tea dumped in Boston Harbor.
We might even know something -- or think we do -- about the
meaning of the event. It was all about taxes, right? Indeed it
was But not the way you might think.

The Tea Party has long figured prominently in the folklore
of American nationalism. But it has also been the object of
fierce contention, as political factions have struggled over its
meaning and importance. The modern tea party movement is
only the latest in a long series of claimants to the mantle of
the original event. The Tea Party meant one thing to its original
participants, but it has meant something else to the generations
that followed.
Still, it's worth recalling what the Tea Party first meant.
The public memory of this iconic event may be mutable,
but that doesn't mean its original meaning is lost to us.
Nor does it mean that all claims to the Tea Party heritage
are equally valid. It is, after all, possible to get the history wrong.
So let's set the record straight. What follows is a primer of sorts:
Four things that everyone -- and especially modern tea partiers
-- should know about the events of December 16, 1773.


1. The Tea Party was not a protest against high taxes.
The Boston Tea Party was certainly a tax protest, but it was
not a protest against high taxes. In fact, it was sparked by a
tax cut, not a tax hike. The Tea Party was part of a longer
protest against British taxation of theNorth American colonies.
The conflict had its roots in the French and Indian War
(known as the Seven Years' War in Europe). Having run up a
huge debt fighting the war -- and defending the colonies from
external threat -- the British thought the colonists should help
pay it back. But the colonists had other ideas, and they resisted
British attempts to collect new taxes. In 1765 they objected to the
Stamp Act, insisting that Britain could levy taxes only to regulate
trade, not raise revenue.
London capitulated. The next year Parliament took another
run at the colonial purse, imposing the Townshend duties on
a variety of goods imported into the colonies, including paper,
paint, lead, glass, and tea. Once again the colonists organized
boycotts and protests, and once again Britain backed down.
But rather than repeal all the Townshend duties, Parliament
chose to retain the tax on tea, chiefly to underscore
the government's right to impose such a levy. For a while the
colonists seemed content to ignore that imperial assertion.
But in 1773 Parliament passed the Tea Act, which left the
Townshend duty on tea intact, but repealed another tax on
tea imported to Great
Britain for subsequent reshipment to the colonies. This
amounted to a tax cut on colonial tea, promising lower
prices for colonial consumers. Bostonians responded by
dumping their cheap imported tea into Boston Harbor.


2. The Tea Party was prompted by a corporate bailout.
What's not to like about cheap tea? Plenty, at least when it
comes as part of a corporate bailout. Because that's what the
Tea Act was: an 18th-century version of corporate welfare.
After Parliament repealed all the Townshend duties except
the tax on tea, colonists seemed to ignore the assertion
of the right to tax the colonies. Boycotts petered out, and
colonial consumers began buying tea again. But not all that
tea was taxed. A large portion -- by some estimates as
much as 90 percent -- came from smugglers, who sold Dutch
tea unburdened by the British duty. Meanwhile Parliament was
struggling to rescue a corporation it had deemed too bigto fail:
the British East India Company. The company was saddled with a
large debt and even larger inventories. Its warehouses were
stocked to the rafters with unsold tea (among other things)
and lawmakers soon hit on a brilliant idea: lower the tax on
company tea, permit its direct exportation to the colonies
and let the company undercut the smugglers.

The colonists, however, were unswayed by the prospect of
legal, affordable tea. Instead they invoked the specter of monopoly
insisting that the East India Company would soon grow too powerful
to resist. Colonial merchants would be ruined, the company would
tighten its grip on the marketplace, and average consumers would be
left at the mercy of a mercantile leviathan. As one writer noted at that time:
The scheme appears too big with mischievous consequences
and dangers to America, [even as we consider it only] as it may
create a monopoly; or, as it may introduce a monster, too powerful
for us to control, or contend with, and too rapacious and destructive
to be trusted, or even seen without horror, that may be able to devour
every branch of our commerce, drain us of all our property and substance
and wantonly leave us to perish by thousands.1
Such complaints carried the day. Rather than settling down with a
nice cheap cuppa, agitators found their way to Griffin's Wharf,
boarded the tea ships, and tossed the imported Bohea overboard.


3. The Tea Party was a grass-roots movement -- with an element of AstroTurf.
What moved Bostonians to activism? Ideology certainly played a role.
But so did political leadership, particularly on the part of the Sons of
Liberty, Adams, and Boston's merchant class. It bears repeating that
the colonists were not objecting to the financialburden of the tea tax.
Or any other tax, for that matter. Instead, they
were making a point about political legitimacy. They were more than
willing to pay taxes imposed by their own representatives. But they were
utterly unwilling to pay taxes imposed by Parliament -- a more or less
alien power, given the lack of colonial representation.

Historian T.H. Breen recently made that point in an article for
The Washington Post. Even after the Tea Party, he noted,
colonists in Massachusetts continued to pay taxes originally
levied by the Crown. But instead of sending the money to British
authorities, they gave it to one of their own leaders. "Anyone who
misses this point risks missing the fact that ordinary American
patriots accepted the legitimate burdens of supportinga government
in which they enjoyed genuine representation,"
wrote Breen. But if complaints about taxation without representation
were necessary to theTea Party, they were not sufficient. Leadership
proved pivotal in mobilizing mass action against the East India
Company and British authority. Many of those organizing the Tea Party
-- and it was a highly organized event -- were drawn from Boston's
mercantile class.
The same class, as it happened, that stood to lose
the most if the East India Company were to get its monopoly.
Popular complaints about taxation were genuine, historian Arthur
Meier Schlesinger observed in 1917, but they were "the flowering,
not the roots, of the tree that had been carefully planted and nourished
by the beneficiaries of the existing business order."2

As it played out, the Tea Party itself was certainly a mass protest.
While led by a small cadre of activists, it was carried out by a
much larger crowd. Among those boarding the ships were not just
the invited leaders-- who donned the famous Indian outfits --
but perhaps a hundred spontaneous volunteers, who smeared ash
on their faces to approximate a disguise. Perhaps a thousand more
Bostonians lined the wharf as spectators, forestalling intervention
by British authorities. All these participants were integral to the event.
But for all its mass involvement, the Tea Party was hardly a mob action.
It was instead a carefully managed (if not entirely scripted) episode of
civil disobedience.


4. The Tea Party wasn't always a touchstone of American nationalism.
The Tea Party looms large in the annals of American civil disobedience.
Who can't warm to the notion of outraged citizens moved to public action
against monopolistic tyranny?

Well, as it turns out, quite a few people. As historian Alfred F. Young
has documented, the Tea Party was more or less ignored by proper
Bostonians or almost half a century after it occurred. The event was
too raucous, too uncontrolled to suit the conservative tastes of
Boston's mercantile gentry. Its tinge of radicalism diluted the dominant
American narrative, which cast the colonists as victims of British
tyranny, not unruly provocateurs.

By the 1830s, the Tea Party had been rediscovered, rescued from
obscurity by the forces of conservatism. Worried by the efforts
of labor activists to claim the Revolution as a radical precedent for
worker activism, conservatives advanced the notion of a tamer, more
genteel tea party. Indeed, the name "Tea Party" was itself an invention
of the 1830s, adopted in place of the radical-sounding name used
previously: "the destruction of the tea." Parties are just less threatening
than any sort of destruction.


Conclusion

Since its rediscovery, the Tea Party has been a political football of sorts.
It has been invoked by tradition-minded conservatives, as well as
reform-minded radicals. Most recently, of course, it's been embraced by
reform-minded conservatives -- an oxymoron of sorts, but real enough
just the same. All of these claims are legitimate. After all, almost
every historical event has a protean quality, its meaning malleable
enough to serve the interests of almost any political faction.
But even as we bend the past to our contemporary agenda, it's
important to stay honest. Over the centuries, the Tea Party has been
many things to many people. But it was still something specific to the
people who lived through it. And don't you forget it.




NOTES

1 Quoted in Arthur Meier Schlesinger, "The Uprising Against the East India Company," Political Science Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 1 (Mar. 1917), 74.

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QUESTIONS FOR CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES

Posted by Cathy O'Brien on October 8, 2010 at 3:33pm

As the Nov 2nd elections are finally within reach, we are witnessing the onslaught of a herd of wolves in sheep's clothing. Suddenly the Democrats are talking like conservatives, but their voting records show these people are lying.

QUESTIONS FOR CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES

We look forward to the 2010 elections in the hope that we can decisively reject Barack Obama's plans to "fundamentally transform the United States." http://bit.ly/9NlrzD

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Reflections

Posted by Joseph Whitworth Smith on October 8, 2010 at 9:05am

Congrats, Tea Party members. You are aware, but you are not aware of this. President Obama is a reflection of me in 1975. My 25 year business career was on the rocks and my wife was divorcing me. At age 49, I was a failure. All my effort left me at square one. Actually, my failure in life was my fault, but no way could I have been convinced. I blamed it all on rotten government.

Understand that none of this is Obama’s fault, as he sees it. He will not bend, I can tell you. He is right and there is no two ways about it. He goes about the world apologizing for America. Obama has the power to cause suffering and death to get his way. Compare me with an ant’s power. But by God’s will, I was given a new life, new liberty, and happiness. All I have is the ability to influence people.

My bad feelings caused me to study the Constitution, and the legal procedure for taking the IRS to court. In studying the Constitution, I got the feeling that the writers were speaking to me, personally. I had a bigger than life calling. Obama studied the Constitution at Harvard Law School. Obama’s thinking process was influenced by Harvard doctrine. He speaks in his autobiography of being influenced by Marxist professors.

When I didn’t know what my future held, I had a bigger than life calling, from studying the Constitution. The American people today face a similar situation. The future is uncertain. This could be the end of America as we know her.

In 1975, I decided to go to sea, where I could be totally removed from all distractions, where I could look within for answers. I purchased a 37 foot sailboat and set sail on the South Atlantic. Let me first say that I never found satisfying answers in my Presbyterian religion. I don’t call myself a Christian. At sea, a couple of miracles occurred that convinced me of the power within me, which I attribute to God having a plan for me. One doesn’t have to have a religion to have God. In fact, a religion’s God is another religion’s Great Satin. It’s a cause for war.

I was in a violent storm. I had the feeling that God’s hand was on my wheel. Years later I read about John Newton, a terrible man, who joined the British navy. He was so bad the navy left him in Africa. Newton became captain of a slave ship. With Newton at the helm, his ship encountered a violent storm. During the storm, Newton found God and became a minister of the Gospel. Newton wrote Amazing Grace. “Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me.” The same goes for me.

After I left the sea, entering the same world I left, without any external influence, with a new and far different outlook, my life improved until today I can say if life could be any better, I don’t know how. There is too much in my life, now that I’ve the time to think back, to say my present good life is coincidental. Chance favors the prepared mind. Obama’s mind was muddled at Harvard. With all the power he has, he has succumbed to evil. He will go down in history as the worst president America has ever had.

God surely does have a plan for each of us. I learned this on my own. I’ve come to believe Jesus is my personal redeemer, simply in the fact that everything Jesus said was aimed at me, for my personal benefit.

God works in strange ways. Once I removed myself from all distractions, placing myself in an environment that could become life-threatening in minutes, without being consciously aware of it, Jesus’ truth started changing me; it was in me all the time.

“In earth as it is in heaven,” words in the Lord’s Prayer, has me here as Aquarius rising. Looking back on my life, I say there have been signs telling us of our future. We are at the threshold of a quantum leap. Here’s what astrologer Jeanne Avery says about Aquarius rising: “He becomes the water-bearer by walking to the beat of a different drummer.” The Gospel of St. Matthew tells about three Persian astrologers finding the birthplace of Christ by following the Star of Bethlehem. My star in the east, the rising sun, my astrological chart fits me like a hand in a glove.

Jesus was a profit of the Age of Aquarius. I’m an Aquarian messenger. According to my astrological chart, Astrologer’s Handbook says this about me. I’m able to work slowly and make “fundamental and irrevocable changes” in my own life and others lives. “Often there is a sense of destiny or a peculiar karmic mission which they must fulfill.”

Peculiar mission? I don’t think so. New and different, yes. We’re more than Muslims, Jews and Christians, something to fight over. According to Jesus, we are all God’s children. Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s and unto God the things that are God’s. Jesus is always absolutely and inevitably right in the end. We Americans are facing hard times. Here’s what Jesus said: “Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light” (Mt. 11:29,30).

America was born under the sign of Aquarius. Long live America, land that I love! Forget Obama. He is a Harvard trained loser. Spread Jesus’ everlasting truth. Without even being consciously aware of it, his truth worked for me; it can work for everyone.

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General McChrystal Would Be Better Suited

Posted by Novus Ordo Seclorum on October 8, 2010 at 6:00am

No matter how many times Blackwater gets

in trouble or is sued under another name it still

manages to get lucrative contracts.


You would

think that the US public might get a

little bit riled up and even form a tar and

feather party rather than a tea party.

But probably this will not even make the

mainstream news to any extent.


Xe will guard CIA facilities in Afghanistan

and elsewhere. Watch out Afghans don't

get too close to the wrong places.

Of course exactly where these places

to be guarded are classified.


This new contract comes exactly one

day after a commission investigating war

zone contracts blasted the State Dept. for

awarding another 120 million dollar

contract to Xe for guarding U.S.

consulates under construction in Afghanistan.


The firm has been facing lawsuits and

possible prosecution since 2007. Apparently

Blackwater is for sale.



Maybe General McChrystal will buy out

owner of Xe services to keep himself busy.


Let's hope.


(I found this comment on a comment site. (I like to know where the site I put down here, went too!!

I did not write this comment. Someone else did.)

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7 Key Benefits of Teamwork

Posted by Novus Ordo Seclorum on October 8, 2010 at 2:30am
By: Rachel Mork


The benefits of teamwork are undeniable

when employees work well together the

company as a whole benefits.


Some managers consider teamwork building

sessions a waste of time and it's true that some

activities geared toward team building can be

ridiculous or ineffective.However, when

successful teamwork is fostered, the improved

communication coordination and morale results

in happier more productive employees.While you

don't want to waste your time with silly exercises

you may want to look for ways to promote real

tangible teamwork.


These are the concrete results to watch for as you

focus on building teamwork in your department.



1. Efficiency
With teamwork comes improved efficiency.

The last thing you want is to have two employees

reproducing the same projector doing the same

work when the task can be handled by one employee.

Make sure employees communicate regarding

task assignments, project scopes and how

projects intersect to maximize efficiency.



2. Morale
Employees who work well together are happier

which boosts morale.This makes your office a more

pleasant place in which to work,and that may lead

to better employee retention.




3. Information Preservation
If employees work together, valuable information

is shared protecting the company from injury or

loss when someone leaves the company.

When an employee works on a project by herself

and other employees don't know exactly what she

does or how to run the project this lone employee

handles a problem can arise when that employee

quits or is let go. Sharing information can cut down

on time spent learning valuable information a former

employee understood well.



4. Innovation
When successful teamwork prevails, innovation

skyrockets It's true that two heads can be better

than one; let your employees brainstorm for solutions

together, working out the kinks in project plans.



5. Reduced Waste
While teamwork building meetings can feel like

a waste of time, the resulting cooperation and

reduction of redundancy can more than compensate

for the time invested in collaborating

with one another. Encourage employees to look

for ways to reduce duplication of efforts and

streamline production.



6. Usability
When employees collaborate on projects that

affect other employees in the company, you'll

see great benefits in the usability and work

ability of projects. The employees who will

actually use the product or process in question

will have valuable input for those on the design

end of the product or process. If you give employees

a chance to work together as a team, you'll reduce

the need to rework projects products and procedures.



7. Unity
One of the most valuable benefits of teamwork is

the sense of unity that accompanies a positive work

environment. By fostering this sense of unity, you also

promote a sense of "all for one and one for all," which

is good for the whole company.



http://www.life123.com/career-money/career-development/team-player/benefits-of-teamwork.shtml



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Tea Party Gaurdian, or Americans Guardian?

Posted by Novus Ordo Seclorum on October 7, 2010 at 11:00pm

I thought the Tea party was about fighting to keep Americans/America ideals strong?


Is the tea party a Republican knock off (generic political party)
Because if it it is, I want no part of it!

I did not come on here to be manipulated by a bunch of Karl Roves.
It appears to me he is all over this site. Karl Rove is a sniveling "poor me" divider.
Haven't you people had enough of Rove?
I have had enough of him the minute he opened his mouth.

I see Tea party doesn't represent Americans.
If the party did, wouldn't you be supporting Americans overall views?
But your not. You people only support Republican views.
Right-winger fell off the map views.
You people are wandering around in the forest.
Did you lose direction?
Where is your compass?

I thought Tea party was in the middle of the road (where majority of Americans are)

Sure America is a Republic but that doesn't mean
Republicans should be running the show
because their name is similar to the word republic.
That's absurd.

ARTICLE IV OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES "GUARANTEES EVERY
STATE A REPUBLIC FORM OF GOVERNMENT.

Why because a bunch of lawyers over 300 hundred years ago
decided to create a party therefore lawyers own us?
I think not.The word republican doesn't mean shit. Its just a word.
What do republicans (as people) stand for anyway?
What is on the Republican agenda this time around?

Looking to win the White house back so they can once again
gain special interest, favors?
That's apparent. Its republican party M.O


Republicans could careless about America.
Their behavior says it all; past, present and future!
Republicans had their chance, but they fudged it up.
It is unlikely they will win in 2010 or 2012.

Americans are not interested in more of the same.
Politics is an oxymoron. It defeats its own purpose.







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REAL ESTATE SALES TAX

Posted by Jessica Grillos on October 7, 2010 at 5:03pm 
REAL ESTATE SALES TAX

  So, this is "change we should believe in"?

  Under the new health care bill - did you know that all real estate
transactions will be subject to a 3.8% Sales Tax?  The bulk of these new taxes
don't kick in until 2013 (presumably after Obama's re-election).  You can thank
Nancy, Harry and Barack and your local Democrat Congressman for this one.  If
you sell your $400,000 home, there will be a $15,200 tax.  This bill is set to
screw the retiring generation who often downsize their homes.  Is this Hope
& Change great or what?  Does this stuff make your November and 2012 votes
more important?

  Oh, you weren't aware this was in the Obamacare bill? Guess what, you aren't
alone. There are more than a few members of Congress that aren't aware of it
either (result of clandestine midnight voting for huge bills they've never
read). AND, there are a few other surprises lurking...
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Ways to massively cut Federal Spending

Posted by Robert Jordshaugen on October 7, 2010 at 12:44pm
Excluding entitlements, the ways to dramatically cut federal spending in the US can be categorized three ways: Removing non core departments - ones that have no purpose or violate the Tenth Amendment; cutting federal pay to US privets sector averages; and refocus federal department employees onto the core task, changing the way managers are rewarded, and removing obstacles to outsourcing or partnerships. I would like to focus on the third as a way to cut non entitlement and defense spending by 20%.

For the most part, federal bureaucrat managers are measured in power by the size of the budget that they administer. As with most people who manage large groups in private or public sectors, these people tend to be ambitious. If you are rewarded by size of the budget, how will you behave? There're is no incentive to manage or reduce costs, and no reason to do so. Spending as much money as possible becomes the proper way to manage, and is the natural way to progress your career. This is rational behavior in an irrational environment.The second area is the difficulty of partnering and outsourcing. Has anyone actually tried to become a federal vendor? If one actually reads an RFP, imagine the costs of the consultants who prepared the document. The complex rules throughout the entire engagement mean that only the companies who can understand and abide by the rules, generally those with extensive legal and compliance groups, can even hope to participate in a bid, much less handle the complex and sometimes contradictory requirements of working with Uncle Sam. Do we imagine that these costs are not built in? For large bids, how much lobbying takes place? Most companies that could help lower the costs of government simply cannot participate, and those that can, drive up the prices to cover those extra costs.The most important are and the one dearest to my heart is the lack of task focused employment and the tight delivery of the "product" of that department with the minimum of resources. In the government, if an analyst is hired, he needs data to analyze. To get data, there needs to be software. To buy software in the government, you need consultants to write and respond to the RFP. To hire consultants, you need to perform an internal needs assessment. To perform the internal needs assessment, you need more analysts, who of course need more software. Take this circle forward for 40 years, and you have a supreme mess of people who do nothing but send reports to each other, generally informing other people why the reports do not include some data. In most federal agencies, more that half of all employees deliver nothing coinciding with the mission of the actual federal department. Try surviving like that you your business...healthcare has been trying, but some hospitals are finally noticing that most administrative employees have no purpose (this is what I fix as a living). Cut the extra people, and be surprised at the savings.
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A cop thats concerned!

Posted by Novus Ordo Seclorum on October 7, 2010 at 10:30am

“I’m troubled by the use of military personnel — whether they be US soldiers or private mercenaries — performing a police or law enforcement function. While they may be experts in fighting wars, they are not constrained by the US Constitution as to how they operate as cops,” said former NYPD detective and owner of FLT Security Services, Sid Frances.


“Soldiers are soldiers and cops are cops. What’s next? Using smart bombs to crash into drug dens?” he asked.

Since its inception in 2003, the US Department of Homeland Security has faced significant challenges related to recruiting, retaining, and managing its workforce of over 170,000 employees.




*


I am glad I am not the only one who sees a problem with private companies training our cops mercenary tactics.



Its time for intelligence driven martial law. It would wipe out private contracting services for good.

This is not China, Xe. Why don't you go live there, where you belong, your all communist!

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A Song For The Upcoming Election.

Posted by FreedomWriter on October 7, 2010 at 9:20am

It's almost payback time at the polls and it seems like we've been waiting forever. My band and I have written and recorded a song to remind us all how important this election is, short and long term. It's called "Rise Up Together!" and that's what I believe we are going to do on November 2nd to take back our country. You can listen to the song in its entirety and if you like it, you can follow the link below to CDBaby and purchase it. It's also available on iTunes, Amazon and many more worldwide.

"Now is your time,

Now is your choice,

Rise Up Together,

Or they will silence your voice!"

Chorus lyrics from "Rise Up Together!" Copyright 2009, Greg Phillips.

Rise Up Together!.mp3

cdbaby.com/cd/GregPhillips

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Commander in Chief needs to be a General not a self absorbed politician!

Posted by Novus Ordo Seclorum on October 7, 2010 at 1:30am

McChrystal crossed the line when he criticized civilian chain of command?

A decorated General is expected to take orders from a non military member.... is absurd!

What does a career politician know about military matters? Nothing. So why do they even weigh in? Makes no sense.

I propose, when we are at war, General of the military (not arm chair general of draft dodger era) step up to take command over military matters. Lets leave public policy matters up to President (of politicians)

We must separate the two in order to run an efficient and productive government. Don't you think?

Who says politician and General cant get along? General knows all too well the importance of being a team player (politicians are clueless about the importance of team work)

Lets do a switcher roo Politician be subordinate to military General.
Military general mentor politician make for a more rounded government.

Intelligence driven martial law anyone?
We are at war. War calls for leaders with experience.
We cant carry on depending on politician to win the war, when all politician has is his own interest at heart.


Separate but equal. Needs to be law.



here, here


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We are fighting tyranny

Posted by Don Alexander on October 6, 2010 at 11:06pm
We have thousands of troops fighting in foreign countries, fighting to help other nations become a better place to live.We the true citizens at home support our troops with all our being , our harts and love go out to them and we wish there safe return to the shores of this embroiled nation.You and I as patriots are also involve in contention or strife. We are not fighting with deadly weapons butting fighting just the same, fighting for our values, and our way of life, the way of life of our children and their children. We are fighting tyranny being imposed on us by the carrier politicians and their despotic abuse of authority.We must put a stop to this; we will put a stop to this unrestrained exercise of power.The solution is to replace the career politician with a citizen patriot of our choice.I have joined a group named Go – GOOOH is an acronym for Get Out Of Our House. GOOOH is not a party, nor is it a platform. It is a process for electing citizen representatives to serve the people in the U.S. House of Representatives. I urge you to visit this web site and join today. www.goooh.com
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I Propose; "The People" Revolution [Centralist Government]

Posted by Novus Ordo Seclorum on October 6, 2010 at 7:30pm
I have a revolution for you! Its called Centralist
government. Centralist is non political, non
religious influence run our country
like a business being that it is one.

I will admit there is no wrong/right way to create a
revolution. But I have learned you cannot force
politicians or any other government entity
to bow down to your wishes.

How then do we construct a revolution? Answer:
influence government to take action on your behalf.

Approx ten years ago I started influencing key
intelligence agencies not to err in their ways, by
openly expressing my point of view. I pointed
out what will happen if the intelligence community
does not take action to defend Americans interest.
I didn't just point out problems, I also
proposed solutions to the problem.

No one, especially not the US government,
wants to hear complaining. I mean would you want
to hear complaining on a constant basis? You
wouldn't (its annoying) You would start to think
citizens are a bunch of sniveling babies.
I mean really, if you cant help yourselves then what
makes you think the government is willing to
step up to the plate and assist you? If you
don't have a solution to the problem, then don't open
your mouth.

One thing is certain, I didn't start Centralist so
some Republican, Democrat, or Independent or
other political entity could make a name for
themselves. My main objective has always
been to start 'the people' revolution.
As Centralist quote is; "for the people,
we the people"

And NO! Centralist isn't the attempt to
overthrow the US government. Centralist
enhances our government, adds onto it.
Benefits citizens as a whole.

What is Centralist? Centralist minimizes
political influence and replaces it with
business initiatives. In other words subordinates
the political arena. Yes I said subordinates.
Instead of having politicians run the show
as in Congress or Senate, its proposed that
our intelligence community along with US
military work as team players.

Centralist is not a military state, nor is it
a totalitarian state either. I said Centralist is
"the people" revolution.

What may I ask; "Is our military, duty?" It
is to secure this country from foreign and
domestic enemies, right? Correct. So in
saying it is the military that will secure
Americans interest. Understand? I proposed
the military merge with key government
agencies and eventually emerge
as a newly reformed entity. Say like
for example FBI merging with the
military will produce the agency FIA.

What is the FIA? FIA is military intelligence
mixed with FBI agents. You can say military
is FBI mentor. Because that is what FIA is;
mentorship. You cant expect FBI to "just
become reformed" wave a magic
wand and *poof* FBI is FIA. Reality doesn't
work that way. In order to
reform [any] government the correct way,
you have to create policies and
programs that grant particular entity,
leadership positions. At the
same time instill team work initiatives.
Cant be successful without the
dedication to team work idealism.

Excluding is not the answer. Exclude important
entity and watch the dream of a revolution slip
through your fingers like sand.

Centralist is not about replacing US government
it is about reconstructing US government.
Move things around a little bit.

What will politicians be doing, what will be
their position? I propose board of directors.
Support services to the NIA.
NIA is National intelligence community
.[previously known as IC: intelligence community]

Yes IC has merged too.

Whats the objective with this merging? But of
course, keeping our government small.
Do we really need to duplicate? No. So
merging services is the answer.
Combining key agencies means for
greater services to Americans.

Maybe you are not aware, if it was not for
the intelligence community, this country
wouldn't have much protection at all!

Look at the NIC as hero's because that is
what they are. Soldiers are not the only warriors
that deserve credit for protecting this great nation.
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The American Patriot

Posted by Matthew Kaiser on October 6, 2010 at 5:29pm
I am an American Patriot and a United States soldier. I am the first and last line of defense. It is my job as a American soldier to serve and protect my country against all enemies; foreign and domestic. The army can no longer defend the United States alone without the help of it's citizens. America, it is time to rise up and take our country back, restore it back to it's former glory and a beacon of freedom. I have faithfully served two years in the army and have one tour to Korea. I have a deep love for my country that runs so deep that I would give my life one hundred times for the American dream. I have been waiting for America to wake up stand up for our freedom. Please America, as a soldier and a Patriot do not allow the two million men, my brothers and sisters in arms to have given their life in vain. Stand up against the tyranny that is in our government now. God Bless America.
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Hurricane Season

Posted by Barry Leviticus on October 6, 2010 at 3:50pm

Daily Devotions With Barry Leviticus


Well it looks like another hurricane season is upon us. Even as I sit here typing this, or I should say as the Lord is typing through me with his most holy typing skills, hurricane after hurricane is blitzing it’s way through the Gulf of Mexico. To many this is a scary proposition, but to the saved it is a time of celebration, because as we all know God uses hurricanes to punish the wicked, and by wicked of course I'm speaking of homosexuals and Moabites. God's punishment is only scary to the sinful; to God's chosen; it is dinner and a movie.

I have to say that I celebrate hurricane season with as much Christian enthusiasm as I do Christmas or Easter or NRA pledge month, you know God's anointed holidays. Every year me and my wife Sara Rebekah Mary Leviticus and my wonderful children Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego sit around the ice-cream maker singing hurricane carols:

Hark! The Herald Angels sing

Queers will die this morning. You will fry in hell tonight

Cause God hates all you sodomites.

Then we go outside and hunt for the chocolate heterosexuals that Jesus left in the night.

Pray with me now.

Oh Most Holy God.

Ye who shows the sinful the error of his ways,

even if the showing has no direct cause and effect relationship.

Teach us all how to be better heterosexuals.

And bless those heterosexual loins with thy loving hand.

amen.

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The Light of the World

Posted by Joseph Whitworth Smith on October 6, 2010 at 3:03pm

In the news today, a group of German Catholics want to do away with Santa Claus because of the fictional figure’s commercial hype and replace him with St. Nicolas and the selfless giving they say he represents. I’m going to now tell them how to make this happen, starting with a story my now deceased missionary cousin told me about when he was in what was the Belgium Congo, now Katanga. My cousin’s mission, to bring Christianity to primitive villages in the Congo, the only means of penetration of the jungle, rivers, my cousin, on a return visit to a jungle village, came upon a problem. The elders told him of an old woman in the village who refused to accept Christianity. She believed God lived in a tree near her hut. The elders cut down the old woman’s tree. Instead of becoming a Christian, she died of a broken heart.

I asked my cousin about the moral of his story. He told me that was for me to decide. After considerable thought, not that Christianity is not for anyone, I decided that Christianity was not for me. I’m a deep thinker. I look within for my answers. I’m inclined to think my cousin thought he was serving Jesus and his simple message: we are all God’s children, including the old woman who thought God lived in her tree.

The church is stained glass windows, beautiful music, all the trappings, dogmas, and doctrines, not selfless giving, not the inner self. “I am the light of the world. He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life,” please follow me in my reasoning. Light travels in waves. When observed in the physics lab, wave collapses and becomes photon, a particle. Said photons, tiny packets of energy, are processed in our brains. We see a tree, there by natural law. Not so with our minds. A thought is shapeless, yet becomes manifestation. Man’s creations are by Higher Law, which happens to be the background of American constitutional law.

Once away from the Higher Law, out of fear, it is do unto others before they do unto you, reminding me that in Psalm 23, “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. . .”

I found the sea to be comparable to the valley of the shadow of death. While in a violent storm at sea, I felt that God’s hand was on my wheel; that I was saved for a purpose. At sea on a small boat, when everything could have gone wrong—when I was asking for a disaster, you might say—everything started going right. I’ve always given a lot of thought to my life. Being a pioneer, out of the mainstream of thought, in order to learn who I really was, a leap into the unknown, was it the luck of the draw that my sea adventure ended well?

From what Jesus taught, I believe luck favors the prepared mind. The cutting edge of science backs me. “The observer emerges as a co-equal in the foundry of creation,” writes quantum physicist Evan Harris Walker in The Physics of Consciousness. “The observer interacts with matter. Consciousness, the substance of this newfound reality that defines the observer, has fundamental existence.”

Religion, the law, and science are all out of the same mold. What is this President Obama tells us? Is our Constitution flawed, our liberties negative? The man is living in La La Land.

The microcosmic cannot be separated from the macrocosmic. When we take the clockworks universe apart, we find, says Walker, that “we can understand mind as including conscious experience and will. We can see how these fit into the physical processes of the brain that are involved in thinking. . .”

Were our thinking straight, there would be no question about it. St. Nicolas is preferable to Santa Claus. The Higher Law, which is behind life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, says that our highest purpose in life is to become selfless.

When we look within for our answers, I can tell you from experience, we don’t need the makers and keepers of our laws or God’s laws guiding us. God put each of us here for a special purpose, of which we are each capable of knowing. Think on this: If we’d been put here for authority’s purpose, with hive mentality, then God would not have said in Gen. 1:26, “Let us make man in our image.”

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Rajjpuut's Folly: Obama Loses Presidential Sea Lion of Approval

Posted by Bob VanDeHey on October 6, 2010 at 2:00pm

Presidential Seal Abandons Obama,

Moves to Vancouver, Canada

In what’s seen as another serious blow to public perception of the Obama administration’s competence, the presidential seal told reporter Payne Hertz, standing in for Rajjpuut, she was leaving her long time post in Washington, D. C. due to “irreconcilable differences” with President Barack Obama, top administration officials, the Obama czars and First Lady Michelle Obama. The seal, who doesn’t speak human languages vocally and is only semi-fluent in English, had to tap out her Spanish language answers in Morse code on a bongo drum in exchange for sardines turning a short interview into a long, drawn out beat-bop session. Our 96-year old veteran of the journalistic wars claims that he constantly found himself interrupting “the music” to get back to the thread of the interview . . . . “Rather like a really extended Greenwich Village poetry session,” according to Hertz. The video-recorded bongo serenade translates to this:

Hertz: Hola, Como esta` usted? (Hello, Wasap?)

PSL: Estoy harto de Obama hasta aqui (raises flipper above head and says, “I’m fed with Obama at least this much”)

Hertz: OK. How long have you served as the presidential seal?

PSL: Actually, I was the presidential sea lion, most of you humans don’t appreciate the difference . . . .

Hertz: Oh, yeah, I can see your tiny ears. And your flippers are really long; do you have any underfur at all?

PSL: Just a little, of course we sea lions can actually walk on all four flippers and are much more intelligent than those damn seals (sneers). That’s part of the problem. Obama gave me four promises and he’s reneged on all of them.

Hertz: Before we get into that, isn’t it true that Vice President Biden has accused you of “racism?” And . . . .

PSL: Oh, that again. I accuse the veep of stupidity, just as I accuse seals of stupidity. It’s not racism to say that a snail is slow, a skunk stinks or a seal is stupid. Take it up with National Geographic and Discover magazines. They’ve both done testing and seals average 70% lower IQs than we sea lions do and they come out only a point or two above Mr. Biden and Michelle Obama.

Hertz: You’re calling the First Lady unintelligent?

PSL: Look who she married. When it comes to capitalism and the spirit of the U.S. Constitution he’s an illiterate and an ignoramus. On economics, if you can show me a less intelligent fellow . . . .

Hertz: Hold it, you can’t just go around calling down the President of the United States . . . .

PSL: Listen, he made four promises to me and he didn’t keep one of them that’s batting .000 in my book and except for being a pretty-boy and making an occasional four-foot putt or three-point shot, there isn’t much there.

Hertz: Yeah, ah . . . . What were the promises?

PSL: For #1 He would introduce me within three days after the inauguration and explain to the American public the differences between seals and sea lions. He said it would be an excellent “teachable moment.” Instead he’s had the EPA undergo a “spread the intelligence” campaign to call us all “pinnipeds.” It’s like lumping human civilization in with monkey tribes and lemurs and calling you all “primates” to “spread the IQ wealth.”

Hertz: And?

PSL: #2 He said he’d provide me with my favorite snack after every televised appearance with him. #3 He’d allow me input into the Economic Recovery Board. #4 He refrain from any actions against gold traders . . . .

Hertz: Obama promised to allow a seal . . . .

PSL: Sea lion, damnit . . . .

Hertz: Excuse me, Obama promised to allow a sea lion to help make administration policy?

PSL: What? You think I could do worse?

Hertz: OK, OK, tell me more about the promises . . . .

PSL: Well, the most disappointing was about the “teachable moment” and then the snacks . . . .

Hertz: Skip those two . . . just promises #3 and #4.

PSL: Well, he tried to whip it past me, but while he was putting funded abortions in Obamacare, he also snuck in a bunch of onerous control over gold traders . . . I think it was on page 752 . . . I’ve got a cousin near Portland’s really going to be ill-affected by that one. As for the Economic Recovery Board people: they’re only a slightly paler shade of pink then Mr. “Jobs President” himself . . . they’re all experts at killing jobs.

Hertz: You’re claiming the president is a Marxist?

PSL: I swim in the water and hang out with sea lions; he populates his inner circle with commies . . . you get known by the company you keep . . . .

Hertz: That’s hardly conclusive . . . .

PSL: You don’t read much do you, fella?

Hertz: Excuse me?

PSL: You’re a liberal, huh? Dreams from My Father, well, youngster, his father’s dreams included 100% taxes.

Hertz: Well, you’re just a sea lion. Sorry, that was uncalled for, ‘er tell me about the problem with the snacks.

PSL: Pardon me too, I shouldn’t have referred to your age . . . . just get so damned mad, you can’t imagine what it’s like being surrounded by anti-American pinheads 24/7. It was right there in my contract, “four north Pacific herring” after every televised appearance with the two of us . . . and instead he pays me off with three of the tiniest, most tasteless . . . .

Hertz: I see, well it doesn’t sound like you got along very well . . . .

PSL: . . . dried out Delta Smelt, like eating french-fried cockroaches . . . .

Hertz: Did you say, Delta Smelt?

PSL: You’ve eaten ‘em, eh? So you catch my drift?

Hertz: But Delta Smelt are on the endangered species list. They’re stopping irrigation in California’s Central Valley because of the danger to Delta Smelt from being sucked into the piping systems . . . .

PSL: The fewer the Delta Smelt, the more environmental votes they get . . . .

Hertz: I can’t believe . . . .

PSL: Now, maybe you understand why I jumped off his lectern the other day . . . it was all just too much . . . .

Hertz: Well, there must have been something good about the experience . . . ?
PSL: Oh yeah, getting to sit in on sessions with Reid, Pelosi, Frank and Hoyer really made my day! Damn Keystone Cops . . . .

Hertz: (At this point the video-tape’s audio recording reveals only the snoring of a 96-year old man for the next twelve minutes. Hertz takes his afternoon siesta precisely at 2:45 every day . . . .)

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut

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