Two State assembly seats are up got grabs in California.
District 17 and District 28.
Filing apparently closes Monday. 03 January 2011.
Here is a link to the article if you are interested.
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Not only is Obama a sneaky, underhanded something or other, with a missing link he hides from the public—unqualified to be our president—but his Obamacare, with his underhanded scheme in 2,400 pages aimed at making you think government is giving 30 million people health care at no cost, if it sounds too good to be true, it is.
The U. S. gives selected people health care with the idea that it is right, good, and proper. It is proven in Canada and England that socialized health care does not give many needing health care the care they need. If it is right, good, and proper for government to give people health care, it is certainly right, good, and proper to give people food, clothing and shelter. Guaranteed health care is but one cog in the wheel of cradle to grave security, compliments of government, government producing nothing. Government is merely people acting as redistribution agents. What makes them more right than those who produce? Nothing. It is people with the power to make might right, good, and proper.
In order to reduce the cost of health care, so that the 30 million new recipients can get theirs, the U. S. is paying doctors to advise senior citizens to not take advantage of costly treatments, but rather to let their lives end. Since senior heath care is responsible for most of the cost, and government is obliged to pay it, government should have the right to cut the cost, but the question: why should government be at all involved in the decision of whether we live or die? Why should government be involved in our health care at all? Since government’s involvement, the cost has skyrocketed. Because of government’s involvement in our personal lives, giving and taking at will, the national debt is out of control. Just since Obama took over, the debt has increased more than the total debt created since America’s beginning.
Enter the drug cartel. The drug industry has bought government and medicine. Chemo medicine alone is a $300 billion a year industry in the U.S. The results of chemo are absolutely dismal, with oncologists making millions, and Uncle Sam, the goon squad, protecting them. There are cancer cures that work, and at a fraction of the cost. Chemo does not work. The drug industry is putting out billions fighting sure cures.
The way America’s government has heretofore paid its debt is mostly by controlled inflation, watering down the value of the dollar with printing press money. The mighty, to keep inflation from hurting a weak economy, make printing press money. Monopoly money has reached an unprecedented amount. The mighty have the thought that it is better to loan money to the nations about to fold than to let the world’s economy go up in smoke.
I’m not interested in control. So I ask: why is it better to put off this manmade disaster? The only assurance we have is the public’s confidence that this pie in the sky will not come down in flames. Sooner or later, when people lose confidence in the dollar, we will have uncontrolled inflation. We know what happens in uncontrolled inflation. The mighty take total control; the people become slaves. Obama is not an American. He is hiding his identity. A something or other Obama is part of a worldwide plan engineered by people who have convinced themselves that they have the answers for all of the world’s problems. They start with a desired end and then force all the pieces to fit. We are in that process. When we reach the point of moral, spiritual, and fiscal bankruptcy, desperate for the answer, the mighty will have their answer for the whole world. They think they can take the place of God. We’ll see. I say they don’t have a chance.
Inelegant END-RUNS Rule the Day
Obama and Obamacare Officials SPIT
Obama and Obamacare Officials SPIT
Cheerfully on U.S. Constitution AGAIN!
To progressives, liberals, socialists, Marxists and other Obama fans, this is literally “less than nothing.” To living, breathing, feeling, thinking patriotic Americans the latest two outrages against our constitution and common decency enacted by the Obama administration are the final insults and a declaration of war against America and decent Americans . . . before we get to the latest desecration of the American Way of Life, let’s look at the serious Constitutional principles involved . . . .
Any intelligent American knows that the system of checks and balances written into the Constitution by the Founding Fathers and the separation of the branches of government by giving us independent judiciary, house, senate and executive branches was done to protect our freedoms and allow the nation’s business to be conducted in a sensible and orderly fashion. Laws are not supposed to be created from the bench; or from the Oval office . . . that is the province of the house and senate.
ITEM: When any judge can decide to tell the military how to run their business (for example: when a Riverside, California judge can order an injunction on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policies which will take action in 60 days) over-ruling congress without even a high-level appellate court getting involved and, by the way, unenthusiastically opposed in court by the Obama Department of Justice, that is an outrage.
ITEM: When failing to pass Cap and Trade legislation in early 2009; the Obama administration can order its Mean Greenies (willing to sabotage jobs and other human good for their distorted reading of ecological “necessity”) in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to issue a new regulatory standard on emissions declaring “Carbon dioxide is a toxic emission . . .” thus bypassing the congress and defiling the EPA’s own charter that is an outrage. When a legal challenge reminded EPA officials that they were required to do a study on their own and not allowed to rely on outside “research” before making such a move . . . and the EPA backed off and now . . . ten months later, not having done any legitimate study the EPA is once again calling CO2 (which plants need to live and to use to provide us with oxygen) a dangerous emission . . . that is a horrific outrage.
ITEM: When the EPA can make another such edict and stop farmers in Central California from irrigating their vegetable fuels (thus putting lots of people out of work and driving the cost of foodstuffs higher) citing danger to a 2” long fish (the delta smelt) rather than coming up with a cheap and efficient and effective way to stop the danger (EPA could surely come up with a smelt-danger pheromone, for example) to keep the dumb fish from getting near the irrigation intake, no? Why is it the farmer’s problem?) and thus putting much of the area around Fresno, California into 40% unemployment, that is a disgustingly short-sighted outrage.
ITEM: When rather than backing up and taking the time to do right by a major piece of legislation, President Obama can flim-flam an idiot like Bart Stupak to swinging the dozen or so so-called anti-abortion Democrats in the house to back Obamacare by giving him a single sheet of paper with the president’s promise that no federal funding of abortion is authorized under Obamacare and four months later we find out that the very earliest covered Obamacare “medical treatments” include federally-funded abortions . . . that is a monstrous outrage.
ITEM: When Obama promised that control over health issues by you and your doctor was inviolate and would be preserved by Obamacare that was the ultimate lie as you’ll see . . . .
ITEM: When for the first time in a lame-duck session a nuclear arms-reduction treaty is passed based upon President Obama’s promise (oral, this time) that the treaty will not affect U.S. missile defense that is an utterly dangerous outrage.
ITEM: When the Democratic dominated congress does not fulfill its most basic function and pass a budget while driving the country deeply into debt and Unfunded liabilities by passing outrageous spending bills and huge government boondoggles (like Obamacare); and passes several thousand page bills which have not seen the light of day in committees; are not even read or posted; and never offered up for meaningful debate or amendment; and told we can’t find out what’s in them until after they’re passed . . . that is Constitutional outrage of the highest order.
What do all these outrages have in common? Every one of them is a refutation of Obama’s word on bi-partisanship; openness; transparency; and meaningful change; as well as a deliberate spitting upon the Constitution of the United States. And now we see a couple more acts in the continuing drama Barack Obama Uses the Founding Documents for Toilet Paper . . . in a series of end runs, Obama shows us once again his total contempt for our Constitution and all great things American . . . .
Among Obama’s other lies about Obamacare (not one dime added to the debt; no abortion funding; you can keep your present insurance; etc.) was the promise that no “death panels” were created by the bill. “Death Panels” also called “review boards,” mean government-conducted oversight of potential treatment to the elderly; the very young; the very sick; and severely injured people; and government-decision making allowing operations and treatment under these circumstances or denying circumstances . . . thus the name “death panel” is fitting. The death panel’s encouragement and authorization of “end of life consultations” (“Do you want to pull the plug?” “How about now, should we pull the plug?” “Have you thought this over real carefully, shouldn’t we just go ahead and pull that nasty old plug?” “Are you there yet --- ready to pull the plug?” “Are you there yet . . . ?) enraged the public so the provisions for it were removed in the Obamacare law that was passed.
Now, however, these hideous laws are back with a vengeance courtesy of the Obama administration and its bureaucratic fiats from Medicare officials. Representative Earl Blumenauer and Senator Jay Rockefeller who led the Democrats’ effort in Congress to pass Section 1233 of pending Medicare legislation, which would have paid doctors to include "end of life" counseling in their patients' physical checkups, the Congress as a whole voted to delete that provision from the original bill so Obamacare would have some hope of passing. Now that an even worse regulation has been created and added to the health care processes of the nation . . . Blumenauer has sent out an e-mail asking his supporters “not to say anything, as his office on the one hand praised the Medicare bureaucratic action but warned: "While we are very happy with the result, we won't be shouting it from the rooftops because we are not out of the woods yet." If this new regulation is so wonderful, why NOT shout it from the rooftops and alert the citizenry? Here’s why . . . .
Speaker of the House designate, John Boehner, objected mightily to this provision in 2009, saying: "This provision may start us down a treacherous path toward government-encouraged euthanasia." Now as Boehner feared we have not only “gone down the treacherous path toward government-sponsored and government-rewarded euthanasia” . . . we have done so by virtue of the actions of a lowly bureaucrat, someone we’ve never elected!!!
The great columnist Thomas Sowell put it this way, “Whatever the merits or demerits of the proposed provision in Medicare legislation, the Constitution of the United States makes the elected representatives of "we the people" the ones authorized to make such decisions. But when proposals explicitly rejected by a vote in Congress are resurrected and stealthily made the law of the land by bureaucratic fiat, there has been an end run around both the people and the Constitution.”
While the START Treaty vote can potentially get us blown to heaven or hell; there is no doubt that the Death Panels and the Death-Encouragement Education are the first step in Obama and Science Czar John Holdren’s master plan to kill off citizens whose lives prove to be too inconvenient to be continued . . . and clearly the chances for opponents of the administration to fit into that undesirable category are multiplied a hundredfold. Brave New World of HOPE AND CHANGE.
Can you remember Obama insulting conservative America as if he'd won 95% of the popular and electoral vote in 2008 . . . he said, "Elections have consequences" and went on to totally ignore all conservative voice and to ram his socialist agenda down our craws. And once again he was lying, elections only have consequences when they go Obama's way. He has zero intention of getting the message the 2010 election sent his way, ZERO! "What's the big commotion?" Can't you just hear the progressive Obama fans, to them this is literally “no big deal" moving toward adding "euthanasia by omission of treatment" as a prerogative of BIG GOVERNMENT. This continuous desecration, these outrages, these deliberate affronts to living, breathing, feeling, thinking patriotic Americans and common decency enacted by the Obama administration are the final insults and a declaration of war against America and decent Americans . . .
Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
“The world as we know it, will in a sudden flash, disappear . . . .”
Warning, Unmitigated Catastrophe Waits Ahead,
Capitalism Crippled and Undermined
Capitalism Crippled and Undermined
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year: the very best to you and your families!
A crisis is upon us. That is, there are potential problems, even dangers you must choose to either avoid or face and there are potential opportunities which you must either exploit or allow to slip away. If you do nothing, alas, you will definitely face the dangers and miss the opportunities. “What is the nature of the crisis?” you ask. In a phrase: American civilization is at severe risk as the collapse of our long-time friend and trusted storehouse of value, the American Dollar, is upon us. I’ll begin with a quick word on A. how it happened . . . then provide B. proof a crisis exists . . . C. Give a quick rundown on the likely scenario as the realized problem begins to play out in everyday lives of the common folk . . . and finally D. some sage advice about protecting yourself and your family.
A. How did it happen? Up until the 2010 elections we have been dominated for 82 years by a political philosophy known as Progressivism (“We must ‘progress’ beyond the ‘outdated and ill-conceived’ U.S. Constitution if we hope to ‘progress’ toward our earthly (socialist) Utopia.”) The most “progressive” of politicians of the United States for some 65 years now at a minimum have undermined capitalism and the Constitution and destroyed the American Meritocracy that made this nation the hope of the world for over 200 years. They have also considered themselves the only truly important special interest group and have used the resources of the country to ensure their repeated re-election. This ploy has worked because the people have lazily and ignorantly (not aware; not caring to educated themselves about political activities) allowed the politicians uninterrupted benefit from promising us the various free lunches we’ve so craved. In those 65 years the nation has amassed not only a $14 TRillion debt but more importantly $112 TRillion in unfunded liabilities. One example will suffice: the so-called “Cash for Clunkers” program diverted new car sales forward roughly two and a half months on average but otherwise did NOT affect auto sales. The program was very expensive and the American taxpayer bore the huge burden. Meanwhile, like all government programs we were not advised of the “unintended but easily foreseeable consequences” of this government interference. So many decent and serviceable used cars disappeared just like that, that the price of the average used car following “Cash for Clunkers” rose $1,800 . . . and even now 17 months later, the average used car still costs $1,100 more than it should have been expected to cost. What is the end result? Society is not only poorer by 700,000 used vehicles deliberately destroyed . . . the poorer citizens now face greater expense in the future when purchasing used vehicles. Yet, in comparison to the typical government spending boondoggle, which on a scale of 1-10 probably rates a 1.75 or less, Cash for Clunkers was a roaring success . . . let us call it an 8.0; for comparison, Obamacare will rate a deeply negative number . . . but enough of that, you’ve got the picture what 65 years of Government Spending Boondoggles amounts to . . . the combined more than $125 TRillion the country’s obligated for is roughly 2.8 times the GDP (gross domestic product) of the entire world . . . .
B. As if the debt and unfunded liabilities statistics were not enough, in late 2008, the Federal Reserve Bank used the money-printing presses and began to print up 14 times the amount of paper dollars already in circulation making a combined total of 15 times the original amount circulating around the nation. Theoretically, therefore, the June, 2008 dollar was worth 15 times the value of the June, 2009 dollar since the amount of goods and services did not increase. By the law of supply and demand the 2009 dollar was theoretically worth 6 2/3 pennies worth of the 2008 dollar. Recently the Federal reserve has used another method of creating money out of thin air called “quantitative easing” twice in the last five months and will do so once again in February, 2011. The net result of all this new “money-magic” is that the 2011 dollar will be worth (theoretically) the same as 3 ½ cents worth of the 2008 dollar. In any other country on earth this would have meant immediate and crippling inflation . . . . the United States had one huge advantage that up till now allowed the nation to willy-nilly print as many new dollars any time the government wished: the United States has been the preferred world storehouse of value for 65 years (a.k.a. the “world’s reserve currency” was the American dollar) as nations all over the globe including our enemies trafficked in dollars the most consistently-trusted currency among all the 208 nations of the world. Before World War II the world’s reserve currency was the British Pound Sterling which had born that noble role for about two centuries. The Brits after the end of World War II tried to inflate their currency and spend their way out of debt . . . it didn’t work and hundreds of billions of pounds worldwide were sold in a heated rush as nations and individuals stampeded away from the pound to the dollar. This is why the United States didn’t resume the financial problems we’d known prior to World War II . . . we had become the owners of the most preferred money in the world and our economy was buoyed up then and has been wonderfully blessed ever since. Of course the truly in the know people, the wealthy, kept huge amounts of their wealth protected in gold, silver, and collectible like art and numismatic coins and rare stamps; and, of course, property . . . but that’s another story . . . in any case the bottom line today is that the stampede into the dollar that saved our bacon in 1945 and ’46 has reversed directions right now. Currently it’s an orderly retreat by nations like China, Russia, Japan, Turkey and Brazil . . . countries who don’t want to cause a panic by selling too many dollars at once since their reserve funds are so deeply, deeply dedicated to greenbacks . . . someday soon it’ll become a panic as everybody and their poor relations stampedes to trade dollars for anything of value. Nobody with any sense wants to stay in a currency which has multiplied its paper presence 28.5 times in less than 25 months. Yes, some of these foreigners will be badly hurt by the collapse of the dollar and its loss of “world reserve currency” status, but, that’s nothing compared to the problems facing Americans for whom the dollar is our personal friend and trusted storehouse of value. This should become noticeable within 18 months.
C. Don’t expect things to be pretty . . . when Americans find that overnight their dollar’s buying capacity has been drastically diminished . . . they’re going to be shocked, frightened, angry and very bitter. If the dollar starts a headlong plunge toward its true value (3.5 pennies) absolute panic could very well ensue. The strikes in Greece, Italy, England and France we’ve seen and the coming demonstrations and panic in Spain, Ireland, Italy, Hungary and all the British Isles (the Euro is far preferable to the dollar, but nothing to cheer about) are infinitesmal compared to what we betrayed Americans will feel toward our government. The TEA (Taxed enough already) Party groundswell of protest against the government these last two years has been circumspect, logical and respectful. When less patriotic people who’ve been buying the government’s promises for the last 65 years suddenly find they’ve been taken by a scam that makes Bernie Madoff look like an inept pickpocket . . . well, you get the idea Expect violence lots of it and a lot of incredible hardships especially for the poor, the elderly and just about everyone excepts crooks and conmen (“speculators” of all classes will be about the only ones enriched by the situation if preventive measures aren’t taken by the government to reverse the direction now in play; or more likely by smart individuals seeking to protect their wealth and families). America, indeed the world, as we know it, will in a sudden flash, disappear . . . .
D. There are no guarantees, physical danger can be expected to ride along with economic ruin . . . prudence says that big cities will be flashpoints and hunger riots and ceasing of services like electricity and heat all carry enormous power to injure, deprive, and cause suffering. Utter self-sufficiency (food stored; safe haven; silver or gold or a trusted foreign currency to use as money when stores won’t accept the dollar; weapons present and the will to use them if necessary) is almost impossible . . . but any steps in the right direction are preferable to apathy or worse (joining in the rioting).
One step Ol’ Rajjpuut would advise for anyone interested in avoiding problems would be the purchase of a $100 face-value bag of “junk-silver” right now costing roughly $2,350. It’s conceivable that in a severe monetary crisis, merchants may so crave some fundamental storehouse of value that a couple of pre-1964 dimes might provide a person with a day’s nutrition.
A second step would be for someone in your family to learn the art of safe canning; or for your family to accumulate five or six month’s worth of non-perishable groceries or perhaps even more such stores.
A third step would be to let those you know and love in on the probable truth about the upcoming dangers. The more people as a whole who are self-sufficient, the less danger we all face.
Here’s hoping we’re 100% wrong.
Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
Repairing the American Republic
in Ten** Years
in Ten** Years
Barack Obama is purportedly the “leader of the free world,” but all his political manipulations in the last two years have borne an ultra-socialist flavor and made America a much less free country; threatened the role of the American dollar as the “world’s reserve currency”; and done everything possible to kill the free markets’ abilities to return us to our natural position as the world’s leading economy. Here’s how we change all that and return the country to its former excellence:
- Immediately cut all federal salaries 15% and keep them frozen at this level until the budget is balanced and all UNfunded liabilities are funded.
- Otherwise cut all federal spending by 10% and similarly freeze it at those levels until the budget is balanced and all UNfunded liabilities are funded.
- Amend the Constitution to include a balanced budget amendment except in times of invasion of our country budget must balance and no future liabilities may go UNfunded.
- Amend the Constitution so that Unfunded liabilities are unconstitutional.
- Amend the Constitution so that the Federal Government has no power to demand state spending on Federal Programs.
- Initiate a flat very low income tax beginning at $30,000 earnings per person with no deductions allowed to anyone. Every dollar earned above $30,000 by an individual is taxed at 16% by the federal government. For married couples every dollar earned above $70,000 is taxed at $16%.
- The corporate income tax for America is now the highest in the world. Drop it for ten years to a flat 5% on all earnings above $150,000 and jobs and businesses will flood back into this country.
- Put the country back on a hard money standard: one ounce of silver = $100 or (but NOT and) gold = $5,000 per ounce.
- Eliminate Federal Reserve banking and all the inflationary power that goes with it.
- Make unemployment insurance a purely federal program; cut unemployment insurance duration to 13 weeks.
- Set up a commission to eliminate duplicate or unnecessary programs or unconstitutional programs; and to eliminate fraud, waste and abuse of federal programs and require this commission to report to congress and the president every year two weeks before the State of the Union report by the president.
Eliminate Obamacare and
a. Allow all citizens and businesses and states to shop across state borders for health care insurance
b. Provide tort reform to eliminate nuisance malpractice suits and cap tort awards at $1,200,000
c. Put the CDC (Center for Disease Control) in charge of improving Americans’ health and lowering medical costs.
d. Reduce Medicare and Medicaid coverage to levels existing in 2000. There will be zero state Medicare or Medicaid coverage . . . only federal coverage at these new levels will exist.
e. Re-establish HSA’s as programs which people can use to responsibly plan their own health care funding protection
Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
**It's too big a job for any "instant fix," so not all will be repaired in ten years but the government will be 100% on the right track within three years
By the way, you may recall President Obama telling us that too much information was a bad, even dangerous, thing and recommending that we just read the Huffington Post to avoid confusion . . . . Well, get this the owner of the HP website Arianna Huffington has declared that the leftwing progressives “are responsible for all that’s good in America, 100%”. Does she mean the shrinking dollar? $112 TRillion in UNfunded liabilities just courtesy of Social Security; Medicare; and the federal side of Medicaid (not to mention that the new Obamacare legislation will, via the state side of Medicaid bankrupt every state but Utah and Texas by 2022; and all fifty by 2024)? Government and unionized government pensions bankrupting 43 of our states right now?
“(By her description of the left), every single breakthrough in American politics from the Emancipation Proclamation onward was a left-wing initiative and espoused by the left,” Huffington declared this week on her website.
The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, symbolizing generally accepted beliefs—orthodoxy—Adam and Eve symbolizing making man in our image, the Garden of Eden, nature, who or what is God is my question?
After Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit—disobeyed God’s command, or generally accepted beliefs—when they heard God approaching, they hid in the bushes. God called Adam out. Adam told God he hid because he was ashamed of being naked. God demanded: “Who told thee that thou wast naked?” What followed was not a pretty picture. I take it that naked meant knowing good and evil, or being anyone who is not orthodox.
My question: Why did God create man with reason and logic? My thought is that anything I might think is good that doesn’t agree with the orthodox is evil. Is that reasonable? No. I’m forced to conclude that what I believe is good for me is good, as long as I don’t impose on others. It jibes with Jesus’ idea of doing unto others as you would have them do unto you, and fits with God giving me reason and logic. So far it has worked for me.
I find that orthodoxy, the establishment, is always a day late and a dollar short. Isn’t it an undeniable fact that the orthodoxy in place is driving us into bankruptcy morally, spiritually, and fiscally? Dare we eat the forbidden fruit? The orthodoxy juxtapositions the question—places both sides together and compares, building a straw man as evidence that the unorthodox solution is evil. This divides the orthodox and unorthodox. A house divided cannot long stand. With the orthodox in control, we’re not long for this world.
We’ve been in the Age of Pisces for the past 2,000 years, the symbol of which is two attached fish swimming in opposite directions; you could say the orthodox and unorthodox directions. Jesus, who was born at the beginning of the Age of Pisces, challenged the Orthodoxy. (He turned over the money changers’ tables.) Pisceans are easily impressed. Although they desperately want to do the right thing, we read in Astrologer’s Handbook, they are weak willed. Jesus told Peter, his most faithful follower, on his last night with his disciples, that before the cock crowed Peter would deny him three times. The weak willed, under the Orthodoxy, freed Barabbas, a convicted murderer, and crucified the unorthodox Jesus. Jesus knowing the Piscean nature, said “Forgive them Father, for they know not what they do.”
We read in The Rising Sign, under “Aquarius Rising,” (I’m Aquarius rising) that I can be the one to bring back information that has been lost for centuries; that I can be the forerunner in setting style, discovering new methods, and showing the rest of humanity the way. We find in numerology, coincidentally, that my Path of Destiny number is “7.” I psychically separate the true from the false and can discover that reveal some of the mysteries of life to a waiting world. That’s what I’m here to do, as follows:
The new rules governing the global economic restructuring revolve around, first wealth: it flows directly from innovation, not optimization. For instance, saving the biggest because they are too big to fail is as nonsensical and destructive as anyone can get. Under the new rules, we give the individual the opportunity to show what he can do. Wealth is formed by perfecting the unknown. Second, the ideal environment for cultivating the unknown is to nurture the supreme agility and nimbleness of networks. Third, the domestication of the unknown inevitably means, not bailing them out, but abandoning the highly successful known—letting them die on the vine. I got this from Kevin Kelly’s “New Rules for the New Economy” in Wired magazine in September 1997, long before the bumbling othodoxy bailed out Wall Street. Yet here we are with New York Times best seller, Joseph E. Stiglitz, winner of the nobel prize in economics, telling us that free markets don’t work, and Chuck Leddy, Boston Globe, telling us Stiglitz’s Freefall is a must read.
We are now entering the Age of Aquarius. Compare the Age of Pisces, an age of orthodoxy and impressionable, weak willed people with Aquarians, strong willed and determined. The age of Piscean orthodoxy, with its brooding omnipresence in the sky, rather than correct prevalent injustices, rather than become enlightened, has circumscribed justice and clung to the past. The Scofield Reference Bible guides us to the truth of the matter. In the foot notes of Matthew at 6:33 (But seek ye first the kingdom of God), the kingdom of God is to be distinguished from the kingdom of heaven.
When you look at all the evidence, perhaps the Tea Party’s progressive opposition should take a hard look at where they are heading. Reverend C. I. Scofield offers in the Introduction that the real meaning of progressive is the order of the divine dealings of God with humanity. He offers that we are here with “increasing purpose,” which runs through and links together the ages.
Astrologer’s Handbook tells us that Pisceans are influenced by external factors. Hey you guys, your future depends on whether you learn to exclude external control and explore and control your own nature. We are going back to natural law, the background of America’s Constitution. Welcome to the Age of Aquarius.
I read a really good article by Phyllis Schaffly: about the so-called “free-trade” alliancewith communist China. She extols on how China forces the US companies inChina to divulge their trade secrets and then goes into direct competition with those verybenefactors, forcing them out of the markets. Well … DUH! Does this surprise anyonewith an IQ above a moron? Of course they are screwing US companies. Likethe legendary scorpion, it their nature. This situation in and of itself is badenough, but has anyone except myself had a bad experience with theplethora of Chinese trashflooding our stores? I mean this stuff is pure crap. Every store my wife and Ivisited during the Christmas shopping days stocked merchandise from China,Thailand, Bangladesh, Egypt, Mexico, and so on ad nauseum. We had to really searchto find a US manufactured object. Folks, in light of the massiveunemployment problems we currently face, this should be a stadium sized red flag. All ofthese countries practice protectionism on a grand scale. US companies are“allowed” to build their plants and hire local workers but they are heavilyrestricted in what they can sell in the marketplaces. All the cheap crap finds itsway here under trade agreements. China happens to be the worst by several ordersof magnitude.
I air condition my modest home using window units. I have six in my house. All weremanufactured in China by GE. In the first year, Ihad to replace five of them due to mechanical or electronic problems. I replace themwith Frigidaire units made in Atlanta I believe. At any rate they are madehere in the US. They are mechanical units with little if any electronics.They work flawlessly. I can’t remember how many space heaters I have purchased,all made in China. They have about an 80-90% failure rate within the first3 months. I bought a microwave oven to replace an old one made here. The new oneis from China. It lasted six months and the magnetron burned out. A toasteroven of the same manufacture lasted about eight months before dying a horrible death.
I could go on and on about the crap and trash I have purchased at the local Chinese departmentstores (Wal-Mart, Target, K-Mart,et al). The thing is, it isn’t bad enough that the merchandise is so bad, butunless it breaks when you take it out of the box, the seller will not honorthe warranty. I have lost track of the times I have been told I will have to talkto the factory to resolve warranty issues. THE FACTORIES ARE IN CHINA YOUMORONS! I am not going to spend hours on international phone calls to get a toasterreplaced. And the manufacturers know it. In fact, they count on it. And itreally galls me to be told I will have to purchase a service policy in orderto get the warranty coverage I am entitled to for free. Why should I have to paythe store to enforce the warranty they are responsible
for? Why should they, an agent for themanufacturer, be allowed to squirm out of their responsibilities? They sellthe crap; they should have a responsibility to replace it when it breakswithin the warranty period. If my car breaks under warranty, I take it back tothe dealer where I bought it. They fix it. It is between them and themanufacturer to work out how to pay for it. If my new house has problems during the firstyear, it is covered by the builder’s warranty. I call the real estateagency that I bought it from and they see that the builder makes things right. Whyshould the purveyors of Chinese crap be any different?
It is far past time for us to let our representatives in the congress know that we are fed uppaying hard earned cash for cheap,poorly designed and manufactured crap. They can and they must stop the flood ofjunk (and I don’t mean boats) coming out of China.
China holds a massive chunk of our national debt. This doesn’t mean they can ruin our economyat will. Nor does it mean they canflood our markets with crap. My mortgage banker doesn’t tell me what brand of socks to wear, nor would I
allow him to. We must find some way to enforce a degreeof quality control on their products before they are allowed into our markets. If theycan’t (or won’t) improve the quality of their products and if they are unable tomanufacture products without using dangerous chemicals, then stop the flow ofthose products until they do … period. The same goes for the other countries aswell.
As for the manufacturer themselves, they made their beds. They should be prosecuted or atleast penalized for divulging tradesecrets and techniques.
The good news is that if we ever go to war with China we probably only need to keep it going fora week or so. By then all theirmilitary hardware will start to fall apart and fail. At least we can hope they usethe same degree of attention to detail they use on consumer products.
If the formatting of this article looks weird, it's because the text editor keeps re-formatting the text. Must be Chinese.
A dear friend, for Christmas, sent me Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy by Joseph S. Stiglitz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics. Chuck Leddy of the Boston Globe: “Freefall is a must read for anyone seeking to understand the roots of the financial crises.” Absolutely!
On page 4 of Freefall, I read under “The Story in Short,” “There is no natural point to cut into the seamless web of history.” End of story.
I read that Stiglitz had consulted with Congressman Barney Frank and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and found their input helpful. By page 4, he had already stated that free enterprise is not the answer. He asserted that we are living beyond our means in America and the rich should be taxed more. Stiglitz is the establishment speaking. I’m anti-establishment. I closed Freefall at page 4 and went back to Knockout by Suzanne Somers.
I was reading about her interview with Dr. Nicholas Gonzales. Somers asked Dr. Gonzales if he was into nutrition and alternative medicine for the money. Stigllitz and Leddy are unable to find a natural point to cut into the seamless web of history. How about the point in time when America’s pioneers declared their independence? Was it unnatural? Is their present time natural? I don’t think so.
Dr. Gonzales: “If I wanted to make money, I’d become a cardiovascular surgeon making $60,000 an operation. They do two a day.”
Somers: “Do you think your kind of medicine will ever see the light of day?”
The kind of medicine Dr. Gonzales practices was applicable to all phases of American life in early America. The best wagon builder in the community prospered. It's called free enterprise.
Gonzales: “I think it has already seen the light of day.” Speaking to Stiglitz and Leddy on understanding the roots of the financial crises, Gonzales: “One of our big problems is that our medical and political leaders could care less. They talk about global warming, but they never get into nutrition or alternative medicine. The drug companies control medicine, and they are very powerful. There are a thousand full-time, paid drug industry lobbyists in Washington, D.C.; that’s not counting state capitals. That’s two for every senator and congressman. A thousand full-time drug lobbyists and they are all getting six-figure salaries. But I think the truth is very powerful. And I also believe that truth always comes out on top.”
Somers: I have buried two people in the last week with pancreatic cancer. I begged, begged one of them to try another way, your way, but they were both sold this bill of goods. One died in four months, the other in a year. Why do patients go for it? I watched my friends degrade before my eyes.
Gonzales: “You can’t save them. You just have to love them and let them do what they want to do.”
Dr. Gonzales’ mentor was a chemist named Kelly. Dr. Gonzales asked Kelley, “What percentage of cancer is physical, what percentage is nutritional, and what percentage is psychological-spiritual. He waited about two seconds, and then he said, ‘It’s 100 percent physical and 100 percent nutritional.’ He waited about two seconds , and he said, ‘It’s 100 percent psychological.’ And then he waited two more seconds and said, ‘It’s 100 percent spiritual in every single patient.’”
Stiglitz said on page 4 of Freefall, “There is no natural point to cut into the seamless web of history.”I take this to mean it is at his point you have to cut into the seamless web. In opposition, Kelly was saying that you can’t separate the law, religion, or science. It is all in one seamless mold. Stiglitz, an establishment freak, cuts himself slack in natural law. This is at the root of the financial crises.
Alas, speaking of my dear friend and my Christmas present—that is, how to become a socialist—“You can’t save them. You just have to love them and let them do what they want to do.”
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Each December, I vowed to make Christmas a calm and peaceful experience. I
had cut back on nonessential obligations -- extensive card writing, endless
baking, decorating, and even overspending. Yet still, I found myself exhausted,
unable to appreciate the precious family moments, and of course, the true meaning
of Christmas.
My son, Nicholas, was in kindergarten that year. It was an exciting season
for a six-year-old. For weeks, he'd been memorizing songs for his school's "Winter
Pageant."
I didn't have the heart to tell him I'd be working the night of the production.
Unwilling to miss his shining moment, I spoke with his teacher. She assured
me there'd be a dress rehearsal the morning of the presentation. All parents
unable to attend that evening were welcome to come then. Fortunately, Nicholas
seemed happy with the compromise.
So, the morning of the dress rehearsal, I filed in ten minutes early, found
a spot on the cafeteria floor and sat down. Around the room, I saw several
other parents quietly scampering to their seats. As I waited, the students were
led into the room. Each class, accompanied by their teacher, sat cross-legged on
the floor. Then, each group, one by one, rose to perform their song.
Because the public school system had long stopped referring to the holiday
as Christmas," I didn't expect anything other than fun, commercial
entertainment - songs of reindeer, Santa Claus, snowflakes and good cheer. So, when
my son's class rose to sing, "Christmas Love," I was slightly taken aback by its bold
title. Nicholas was aglow, as were all of his classmates, adorned in fuzzy mittens,
red sweaters, and bright snowcaps upon their heads. Those in the front
row-center stage -- held up large letters, one by one, to spell out the title of the
song. As the class would sing "C is for Christmas," a child would hold up the
letter C. Then, "H is for Happy," and on and on, until each child holding up his
portion had presented the complete message, "Christmas Love."
The performance was going smoothly, until suddenly, we noticed her; a small,
quiet, girl in the front row holding the letter "M" upside down -- totally
unaware her letter "M" appeared as a "W." The audience of 1st through 6th graders
snickered at this little one's mistake. But she had no idea they were laughing at her,
so she stood tall, proudly holding her "W." Although many teachers tried to shush
the children, the laughter continued until the last letter was raised, and we all saw it
together. A hush came over the audience and eyes began to widen. In that instant, we
understood the reason we were there, why we celebrated the holiday in the first place,
why even in the chaos, there was a purpose for our festivities.
For when the last letter was held high, the message read loud and clear:
"C H R I S T W A S L O V E"
For a Christmas present, I received Free Fall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy.
I sent “The Day I Found My Soul” to a couple of magazines. My true story was rejected.
The Day I Found My Soul
In late August 1976, Tropical Storm Dottie cut across the Florida Keys from the Gulf of Mexico and swept northward up Florida’s east coast. Along with me on Bold Venture, my 37 foot sloop, were my girl friend, an Air Force colonel and wife. We were sailing from Nassau, in the Bahamas, to Palm Beach, Florida. Dottie hit us at 2:00 A.M. some 50 miles east of Ft. Lauderdale.
I was due to stand watch at 2:00 A.M. Only a few minutes before Dottie hit, the colonel’s wife, who had been on watch, awakened me. She said a storm was approaching. I hastened into my foul weather gear and went topside to view a line of lightening filled clouds from horizon to horizon. I furled the head sail and took the wheel. The two women were below. The storm hit and over we went, the colonel hanging onto the stern rail. I brought the boat into the wind. With the mainsail snapping and popping, we stopped and I held my breath. If the wind got behind the sail, the boom would fly across decks with such force it could demast us.
The sail filled and over we went again. This time I slowly brought the boat into the wind. With the rail just above the water I had control. The wind was out of the northwest. We were in the Gulf Stream, which moves northward. With the wind against the Stream, the waves were steeper, the tops airborne, and I was unprotected. With my head down, hanging onto the wheel to keep from being swept overboard, I had not had time to put my safety harness on, I steered by the slope of the deck. It was like walking a tightrope. The wind spilling off the trailing edge of the sail, making the boat shake, it’s force unbelievable, reflecting off the airborne sea was my running lights. All I could see out there was that eerie glow. I got the feeling that this was not real, that it was a dream; I wasn’t really there. We couldn’t be afloat in a storm like this.
After a time, my tension eased. I anticipated which way to turn the wheel. It was like I was an orchestra conductor getting maximum performance out of Bold Venture.
The storm lasted in all of its violence from 2:00 A. M. to 5:00 A.M., and then began to abate. With daylight all I could see was sea when we went down a wave, and sky when we went up. At around 9:00 A.M. I saw smoke stacks in the west. The wind direction had changed enough for me to point toward them. The stacks turned out to be Florida Power and Light’s, a mile south of our destination, Lake Worth Inlet. We arrived at my estimated time of arrival, before the storm.
We were in the Bermuda Triangle, where there have been reports of time warps. As we approached our inlet, to our horror, with the tide going out, completely across the inlet were huge breaking seas. I was exhausted. Something in me said to go for it. Seas were breaking on both sides of us. My stern went up and I held my breath. We slid down a huge wave that never broke into the inlet. My friends hugged and kissed me. They called it a miracle.
Mine is a story that has never been told. The stories about the Bermuda Triangle all have a bad ending. My story that led to the above story was about when my life went up in smoke.
What follows the sinking world economy? We are told that we are entering the Age of Aquarius, an age of brotherhood and spiritual awakening. Some believe in miracles. It is our choice.
Learning from Suzanne Somers’ Knockout about alternative medicine in cancer treatment, treatment that actually cures incurable cancer, I’m wondering how much of it is faith that it works. First of all, it sounds reasonable to me; chemo and radiation don’t, like so much of the established ways these days. The flaw is worship of the golden calf; anything to make a fast buck. American medicine is fast turning into a gigantic rip off, dragging down the American economy. What does Obama offer but a gigantic government fraud to replace a private fraud. The American people, sadly, have lost faith in their establishment, and consequently in themselves.
We were created with reason and logic. This tells us that if we were a cancer patient, if the doctor would treat our cancer as an individual case, perform tests to determine our specific form of cancer, prescribe a treatment engineered specifically for us, and one that didn’t kill normal cells, didn’t use the cookie cutter approach, some magical money-making chemical concoction that does not work in most cases, and worse, makes you sick as a dog, even kills you, would we not have faith and survive in many cases? Likewise, would the economy not survive and prosper were money-mad frauds not in control.
S O U L F O O D
1+6+ 4+3+6+6+6+4=36, 3+6=9, the discrete number for soulfood, on the theory that everything reduces to numbers, esoteric numerology gives letters a number value. A=1, B=2, and so on to Z, with a value of 26/8. The number 9, herein attributed to soulfood, in esoteric numerology represents selflessness. The way to selflessness begins with 1, the pioneer seeking experience which will establish its distinct identity. Here’s the story on it. Rather than claws and teeth to cope, our Creator gave us reason and logic.
L O G I C
3+6+7+9+3=28/1, as a personal number vibration, if you use your God-given logic, there are great possibilities in your life. We read in numerology that there is a vital, stimulating, resourceful quality in this number.
The Zohar, a collection of mystical kabalistic writings, states: “The universe was created by three forms of expression—numbers, letters, and words.” In John 1:1—1, the beginning—“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” Something we don’t think about: numbers take up where sensibilities leave off. Numbers geometrized are symbolic of universal principles.
Numerology reduces us to numbers. The universe is ordered by numbers. On earth as it is in heaven, after the pioneer, 1, finding his identity, the next step 2, the pairing, 2 representing the female, receptivity, the yin, the unionizing of distinct identities, then comes 3 to combine the qualities of 1 and 2, to give exuberant expression to life. Next comes 4, the symbol of stability, encompassing law and order. 5 is freedom, change, adventure. 6 is the conscientious desire to bring harmony, truth, justice, and a sense of balance into the environment. 7 seeks answers. 8 assumes power, for now has achieved control and responsibility, leading to the highest number and the highest of human aspirations, the desire to be of universal service. You will not find any of my suggestions in religion or in the law.
Under collectivism, the self, zero; no number applies, under natural law, the individual with inalienable rights that can’t be taken or swapped without the individual’s permission, the United States of America allows zero inalienable rights, as I proved in court. Government entitlements, as claimed by the powers that be, are not rights; they are government granted privileges, currently being grossly abused. They take precedence in court over inalienable rights. Progressive predators in control are bent on totally eliminating the Constitution and taking the American people back to the law of the jungle. The stripped of personal power individual has lost his soul. Government wolves in sheep’s clothing knocking on our doors, with nothing to put up but our money, activated me. I’m suggesting how to get your soul back back in a way you have not likely heard.
Natural law, pushed aside in favor of materialism, as T. H. Huxley put it, “Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside Hercules,” “But science’s investment in materialism has itself turned into a creed,” says quantum physicist Evan Harris Walker, listen, my children, to a story that will boggle your minds. The mind interacts with a dimension of infinite possibility. You, the observer, make your reality.
In 1975, I was the “1” principle in numerology, the beginning of the universe. I was strictly on my own, alone, the pioneer seeking a new identity. Having found it, “2” the pairing, the yin principle, I found my soul mate, followed by my days of wine and roses, an exuberant expression of life, numerology reveals. Right on course was I. Came 4, the symbol of stability, encompassing law and order.
From Psalm 23, the Lord “restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the path of righteousness; Jesus: “Blessed are those who do hunger and thirst after righteousness;” the IRS hung itself with its own rope. You don’t know the power that lies within you. It is mind over matter.
I was freed from an IRS wolf attack. Came 5. My life became change and adventure. Without knowing it, I was following natural law. Jesus was with me, in me.
My soul number was what I already was before I changed my life. Numerology gives me the number 8. Ambition is the key word; let no obstacle stand in the way. My outer personality number, how others see me is 6. I emanate a protective vibration, a sense of personal responsibility. Listen, my children, and your dreams will come true. My path of destiny number, 7, I psychically separate the true from the false. I can discover some of the mysteries to a waiting world. Corroborating this, Jeanne Avery, in The Rising Sign, under Aquarius Rising, I’m Aquarius rising, “He may be the person to bring back information that has been lost to civilization for centuries. The person with Aquarius on the rise can be very avant-garde. He is a forerunner in setting style, discovering new methods, and showing the rest of humanity the way.” My life lesson number is 7. I’m here to develop and use my mind.
Like a genie in a glass bottle, my Constitution rests in a glass case in Washington, D.C. From my study of it, I felt that voices of the past were speaking to me. I uncorked my genie and my Constitution was activated. This one individual, with my Constitution, beat the all powerful IRS.
We Americans have been fighting a losing battle in every way. A thousandth of America’s taxpayers, with their Constitution, in a do-it yourself effort—individuals, not groups—the Constitution does not protect groups; it protects individuals who know they have God-given rights—under the Constitution we, individually, could put the IRS out of business and send the progressives packing.
Without the IRS there to do its dirty work, Uncle Sam would become a basket case, and our world would rejoice! Joined together in a growing worldwide brotherhood, spiritually united, believe me, we will continue on our path of destiny. Peace be to all, welcome the Age of Aquarius, an age of brotherhood and fraternity.
Merry Christmas to All and a Blessed New Year to You and Yours! Enjoy!
Merry Christmas in America
The clean crisp smell of Evergreen boughs in the air
Sprigs of holly, green leaves and red berries, everywhere
Pieces of mistletoe tied up with a bow over the door
Everyone so jolly as they tramp from store to store
A time to share gifts and love, a wonderful celebration
A time to be grateful for freedom and our bountiful Nation
And to remember, foremost this day, God’s gift to all men
His only begotten son, sent here, to pay for our sin,
How merciful is He, to sacrifice, His only son’s life
That we on earth may be granted blessed eternal afterlife
Long ago near the end of December, on a cold winters night
Our Lord was born under watchful eyes and a guiding light
Just as mother Mary, father Joseph, the shepherds and wise men,
Watched over the precious child, born that day to carry our sin
There are those, our nations defenders, under starlit wintry skies
On a cold vigil, ever watchful through the darkness, our fears to belie
No glow of soft candlelight as they watch with sharp eye
Or crackling fire with crimson sparks wafting to the sky
Courageous men and women all standing their ground
Stalwart for centuries, uncomplaining, uttering nary a sound
Guarding our freedom, over the seas and in lands far away
Standing silent vigil, some here at home, do also stay
Honor, Dignity, Courage and unselfish Sacrifice
Are just a few of the things we learned from Jesus Christ.
Christ the Savior was born in Bethlehem and for good reason
We celebrate with love and joy this very special season
We follow His teachings that we may be better men
And are thankful for His sacrifice and forgiveness of our sin
Our Country, was founded, by men of Godly faith and foresight
A land of religious freedom where all men may pray by right
Where they can practice their peaceful religions without any fear
A land where Godliness, honor, character and courage are revered
A wondrous place where all of good intent have always been welcome
Where Christmas isn’t just for Christians; it is Christ’s birthday and then some
It is about what He stood for, His always open arms; His lessons of love for all
About Peace on Earth and Goodwill toward all men, be they great or small
It is a holy day for Christians just as other religions celebrate theirs openly
The Jews with Yom Kippur and Hanukah, Sikh and Hindu celebrate Diwali
The Moslems with Ramadan and Eid-al-Adha, all, celebration days to remember
Then Christmas comes just before New Year, spreading peace and joy, in late December
Some choose to make wishes of “Season’s Greetings” or “Happy Holidays”
Instead of wishing a very “Merry Christmas” for this most special of days
They are afraid of offending just who, I am afraid I know not
But their political correctness costs them, in stature, quite a lot
God gave a gift to Washington and our great Republic, the U.S. of A.
It was the Revolutionary war’s turning point, at Trenton, on Christmas Day
So happily light your candles, exchange gifts and drink your eggnog
Decorate your Christmas trees, roast a turkey and burn a Yuletide log
But remember, with a quickness of step and a twinkle in your eye
To always be grateful, to live in a free nation, where we understand why
Spreading the gifts of love, peace and joy in exchange for our sins is the reason
God chose to bless the world with, his beloved son, this most holy season.
Have A Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year!
Tom Whitmore
Copyright 2010 Thomas J. Whitmore
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