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Perspectives From The Bunker

Anybody involved in any conservative movement these days, are radicals, if you were to believe the MSM and the liberally insane.  Okay...whatever you say.  Go take your meds, the guards will be here shortly to lock you up in your rubber room again.

     The outright violence, vitriol and assaults committed by union thugs, and encouraged by their leaders, starting with Barack Hussein Obamalinsky and trickling down through people like Richard Trumka (not to mention a large number of Congressional leaders) is unprecedented in American history.  Maybe I've got that wrong---trickling UP from the like of Trumka, et al, TO Obamalinsky might be more accurate. 

     Point being, we're in the perfect storm now, and the forecaster is Obama, the unions and Soros are the real storm.  The globalists, anarchists, communists, Islamacists, facsists and all other "ists" that have longed for the destruction of the only free-market the planet has ever known, the only true beacon and example of human liberty, are all coming together in the culmination of a long thought-out strategy.

     It's been an obsession of mine for many years as to why the contempt for liberty and dignity has always been so prevalent in the human psyche over many millenia.  Even the most seemingly honorable people, those whom you might respect and emulate, seem to have at least a seed of the dementia.  So what is it?

     First thought---They're ***holes.  Period.  Not hard to get your mind around that one.  Self-explanatory.

     Now, more to the point.  Perspectives from the bunker.  That bunker being the patriot bunker, the TEA Party bunker, the really-tea'd-off bunker.  Got an e-mail last night from a fellow who had been getting our weekly alerts, etc., from our local TEA Party organization.  Don't know how he got on there, or why, if his tone was any clue.  He basically said "Take me off your list.  I don't want any editorializing.  I quit doing that.  I want solutions. If you're going to be a leader, then lead."

     So I wrote him back, very respectfully, and informed him that if he had been paying attention to our e-mails, he would have seen that we are very active in forming new groups, have organized a number of educational summits etc., with Americans For Prosperity, and Joel Foster, among others, and have a huge seminar coming up in April festooned with nationally-prominent speakers, numerous break-out sessions and training programs.  We DO offer solutions.  But we can't lead those who don't want to do anything.  We can "editorialize", because the times, they are a'changing fast,  Conversation can be illumination, and the arena of ideas must never be silent.  If anything, we need to be louder, and at the same time, more informed.  For me, a good rant is packed full of statisticts, commentary, and various points of view, culminating in a crescendo of inspiring oratory that has blown away all the lies and vapors of deceit.

     But that's just me. 

     So we're in this time-frame, and it's being defined FOR us, not BY us, and the structure of it's definition began a very long time ago, by very evil men.  Think 1846, or thereabouts.  Communist Manifesto.  Social revolution.  Social "justice".  It began even before that.  Way before that.

     See Genesis chapters 3, 4, 5 and 6.  Then read the entire story.  That should explain just about everything, if you have an eye to see and an ear to hear. 

     Then read the Federalist Papers.  Our Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights, and all the correspondence of our Founding Fathers that you can lay your hands on.  That, fellow patriots, is our true BUNKER, where we can hunker down, re-group, and come out shooting.

     If that analogy offends you, try not to choke on your spit-balls.

God Bless the United States of America!  God Bless all of you Patriots!

 

 

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Washington Young Americans for Freedom: Seattle Declares War on Non-Minority College Grads!

 

(Seattle, WA – 3/2/2011) Washington Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) announced their opposition to the City of Seattle’s social justice policy as outlined in the City’s “Race and Social Justice Initiative.” The city’s adoption of the initiative has sparked a national debate on “social justice,” which amounts to preferential treatment for minorities. This preferential treatment includes different standards by police when citing or arresting minorities. It also included decreasing hiring standards because, since more whites have college degrees than minorities, jobs that require college degrees are now considered “racist.”

 

In a supposed attempt at equality, the City of Seattle has embarked on a social engineering nightmare. By selectively deciding on the basis of race, the city has assaulted the rights of all citizens. Of particular alarm is the admission that prosecuting attorneys are requesting lighter sentences for illegal immigrants to decrease the likelihood of deportation.

 

“We affirm the right of all Americans to equal treatment,” said Anthony Wallace, Acting State Director of Washington YAF.  “This policy,” he continued, “is an attack on basic Rule of Law and eliminates the cornerstones upon which the values of our great nation were founded—personal responsibility and liberty.  Institutionalizing a lowering of standards in regards to crime—under the guise of social justice—is simply another aspect of the liberal war on law-abiding citizens and the moral fabric which binds us.”

 

Young Americans for Freedom is the nation’s oldest, largest, and most active conservative – libertarian youth organization. YAF was started at the estate of William F. Buckley, Jr. in 1960 to uphold the principles of the Sharon Statement. To learn more about the Sharon Statement and YAF please visitwww.YAF.com.

 

 

 

City of Seattle Race and Social Justice Initiative

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Julie Nelson and Glenn Harris 
lead an RSJI workshop.

The Race and Social Justice Initiative (RSJI) envisions a city where racial disparities have been eliminated and racial equity achieved.

RSJI is a citywide effort to end institutionalized racism and race-based disparities in City government. There was no roadmap for this work; no American city or other government institution had ever undertaken an initiative that focuses explicitly on institutional racism.

As part of the City’s commitment to RSJI, City departments develop and implement annual RSJI work plans. City employees also attend RSJI training to learn more about the Initiative and how to apply racial equity tools to City business.

“In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way.”
– Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun

Resources: 

In 2008, the Mayor’s Office released a report that assessed the Initiative’s accomplishments and challenges so far, as well as looked ahead to the Initiative’s next phase. In 2010, RSJI will continue to address racial disparities internally within City government, as well as externally, in partnership with community members and stakeholders.

The City’s Race and Social Justice Initiative is coordinated by the Seattle Office for Civil Rights (SOCR). For more information, please contact RSJI Manager Glenn Harris at 206-255-7556,glenn.harris@seattle.gov or Elliott Bronstein at 206-684-4507, elliott.bronstein@seattle.gov.

Want to learn more about the Race and Social Justice Initiative? Please read “Race and Social Justice Initiative Report 2008: Looking Back, Movin...” or the “RSJI Overview.”

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Politicians Need to Listen

to the Voters NOW!

 

      Despite adding hundreds of billions of dollars in spending laws and Obamacare (a massive new entitlement program) in 2010, Nancy Pelosi’s Democrat-controlled House of Representatives didn’t bother to pass a budget last year.  Now Pelosi and Senate Majority leader Harry Reid, another Democrat, have decided that despite the results of November’s election, the only budget concerns that matter today (spend, spend, spend!) are theirs.   Taxpaying voters, meanwhile according to a recent Rasmussen Reports survey say, “A pox on both of your houses, shut down the government, until agreement on substantial CUTS*** is reached.” 

      While the two parties haggle, 58% of voters would rather see a partial shutdown of the federal government rather than maintaining spending at current levels ($3.7 TRillion in the Obama budget) according to the ever accurate Rasmussen Reports. Only 33% of likely voters told Rasmussen they’d prefer to see government spending continue at present levels rather than shutting down the government.   Opinions fell upon partisan lines with 58% of Democrats opting for maintaining spending levels; contradicted by 80% of Republicans and 59% of Independents who thought partial shutdown until agreement on cuts was the better idea. Overall just 6% of voters support more spending while 61% say cuts are in order. 

      The public seems more clear-thinking on fiscal matters than our elected representatives according to numerous Rasmussen polls. The majority of voters for years have said that cutting taxes and reducing government spending are best for the economy.   Of all Mr. Obama’s promises casually-made and super-casually-unfulfilled, voters have consistently rated “cutting the federal deficit by half  by the end of his first term” as the most important promise that nominee Obama made. Today survey after survey confirms that few voters expect he’ll keep it.  

      Mr. Obama’s present $3.7 TRillion budget will see government spending increased taking it over $4 TRillion very soon unless some drastic cuts and changes to the Washington modus operandi are quickly made. Who’s going to make the hard decisions?   70% of voters believe that the voting public is more willing to make the hard choices necessary to reduce federal spending than our politicians are.   66% of polled voters say that the Democratic Party is NOT interested in cutting spending; and 49% say Republicans don’t go far enough with the spending cuts they’re seeking. These voter opinions on government spending have held very consistent since late 2005. The survey-meister himself, Scott Rasmussen observed in his 2010 book In Search of Self-Governance that . . . .

 

                     "The gap between Americans who want to govern themselves and politicians(and power brokers) who want to rule over them may be as big today as the gap between the colonies and England during the 18th century." Rasmussen added that “The American people don’t want to be governed from the left, the right, or the center. They want to govern themselves.”

 

 

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery

Rajjpuut
 
 
*** NOTE:  just before this blog was completed, two huge stories popped up 1)  the House had just overwhelmingly agreed upon $4 Billion in spending cuts with 104 Democratic Reps siding with Speaker John Boehner as part of a CR (continuing resolution) to fund the federal government for two more weeks.  $2 Billion in cuts per week is a good but not great precedent.  Every time a new CR is created a $2 or $3 Billion cut per week of extension would be a phenomenal idea.  2) The General Accounting Office, one of the few government oversight agencies worth its salt, announced that in reviewing  some (but not all) the discretionary budget they found between $200-$250 Billion in overlap, duplication of services and conflict between U.S. government agencies.  For example fifteen different agencies look at food safety; ninety-two different agencies are assigned to educational improvement; etc.    One shudders in ecstasy to think how much more the GAO might find a) in the discretionary budgets and then b) in the entitlements and defense spending
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The Logic of the Gods

Geo, meaning “the earth,” like geography, or geological—a mathematical means of explaining things  concerning the earth that are too complex for the sensibilities to fathom—it has come to mind something earth shaking I’m going to write about today.

 

Yesterday, I started reading The Mystery of Atlantis by Charles Berlitz. I only read a couple of pages.  This morning I’ve solved the mystery.  The human mind is an amazing thing.  It can either reach into the unknown and pull in answers or be voluntarily limited to nothing past the end of the nose.  I’ve been involved in a mind workout ever since I decided in the spring of 2001 to write my memoirs.

 

Berlitz pointed out to me in his book that the ancient Greek Plato, from information he got from Solon, who had learned from Egyptian priests of “an island continent beyond the Pillars of Hercules (the ancient name for Gibraltar) called Atlantis, the heart of a great and wonderful empire.”

 

I read that Troy was also a mythical place until it was actually discovered.  Troy fit Atlantis so closely that Plato quit writing about Atlantis.  The world continues to search for Atlantis.  After sleeping on the couple of pages I read in The Mystery of Atlantis, I awakened this morning with the mystery solved. We will now take it from there.

 

Ancient Egyptian priests were astrologers. Astro, pertaining to the stars, Egyptian priests made logic from the stars.  They used geological reasoning.   Egyptian priests enabled the pharaohs to envision the future. Atlantis was not a place. It was a vision of the future.  Astrologer Jeanne Avery informs us in The Rising Sign, under Aquarius Rising (I’m Aquarius rising), “He becomes the water-bearer by walking to the beat of a different drummer. He may be the person to bring back information that has been lost 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.” Jeanne Avery  said the sign of Aquarius was on the United States of America on July 4, 1776, the day she was born. If you had the mind of ancient Egyptian pharaohs, you would have made the connection I’ve made.

 

I’ve been involved in a mind workout for the past ten years, in fact, every since I decided to write my memoirs in the spring of 2001. Every day the real me becomes clearer. Not only am I building my image, but of mankind as well from what I read.  

 

We read on the back cover of  Cosmos and Psyche, “distinguished philosopher and cultural historian Richard Tarnas demonstrates the existence of an astonishingly consistent correspondence between the planetary alignments and the archetypal patterns of human history and biography. Based on thirty years of meticulous research, this brilliant book points to a radical change in our understanding of the cosmos, shining new light on the drama of history and on our own critical age. It opens up a new cosmic horizon that reunites science and religion, intellect, and soul, modern reason and ancient wisdom.”

 

In The Physics of Consciousness by quantum physicist Evan Harris Walker, I read, “Now we see that the independent existence of matter and the absoluteness of space were false dogma. But it has only been with the advent of quantum theory that we have discovered proof that we exist as something more than pieces of matter. In the development of quantum theory, the observer emerges as a co-equal in the foundry of creation. . . The tests of Bell’s theorem have shown us that objective reality as it has been conceived is not the true fabric of reality.  The observer interacts with matter.  Consciousness, the substance of this newfound reality that defines the observer, has fundamental existence.  It is the quantum mind that is the basic reality.”

 

In The Scofield Study Bible, in the Preface, “the appointed mission of Israel was, (1) to be a witness to the unity of God in the midst of universal idolatry; (2) to illustrate to the nations the greater blessedness of serving the one true God; (3) to receive and preserve the Divine revelation; and (4) to produce the Messiah, earth’s Saviour and Lord. The prophets foretell a glorious future for Israel under the reign of Christ.”

 

Where is Israel?  Israel, nowhere, is a state of mind.  To know the ideal state of mind, turn in the Bible to The Gospel According to St. Matthew.  We read of the visit of the Magi. The Magi were Persian astrologers who saw in the stars the coming of the Messiah.  In Chapter 2 of Matthew, “behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, saying where is he that is born King of the Jews? For we have seen his star in the east and come to worship him.” 

 

The prophets glorious future for Israel notwithstanding, it didn’t turn out under the reign of Christ, now let us proceed to Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. In it he said, in Chapter 6, “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven.”  He followed this with, “But seek ye first the kingdom of God.”  Where is the kingdom of God? In Chapter 23, Jesus confronts the scribes and Pharisees, calling them hypocrites, “for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. . . Ye fools and blind for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold.”  Where is this kingdom Jesus speaks of? 

 

Alas, in Chapter 26, “And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said unto his disciples, ‘Ye know that after two days is the feast of the Passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.’”   

 

The Son of man came with nothing and he left without leaving one tangible thing behind, and everywhere Jews have been in the past 2,000 years they have been persecuted.   And now, regardless of the right or wrong of it, surround by enemies, say whatever you will in defense of Israel, but these are undeniable facts.

 

So what do astrologers say about all that has transpired in the past 2,000 years?  Jesus was born at the beginning of the Age of Pisces.  In Astrologer’s Handbook, we read, “They (Pisceans) unconsciously absorb the ideas and mental outlook of those around them.”  It reminds me of my teenage years. “They desperately want to do the rights thing,”  exactly the way I felt when I was a teenager, “but as a rule they do not have strong willpower. Therefore, they are easily influenced by external factors.”  What is the left wing doing today?  The hypocrites are going after the young and inexperienced.    Astrologer’s Handbook: “They (the young and inexperienced) must learn to stand alone and face the unknown with a simple faith.”

 

What do astrologers say about the coming Age of Aquarius?  Astrologer’s Handbook: “Individuals born under the sign of brotherhood and fraternity have as their symbol the water-bearer.”  By the way, the symbol of Pisces is two attached fish swimming in opposite directions—immature people who cannot see past the end of their noses, people who promote mediocrity.   The screwed public has finally said enough of this!  Alas, these simple minded brats of a bygone era have worked so long and hard for control.  It is so very sad. Now, bitterly and hatefully, they head for ultimate and complete defeat, left at the switch, never to be seen or heard from again. Goodbye spooky George Soros.  You wasted your time and money. We’re “moving on.”  Welcome to the Age of Aquarius.

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by: Trent Derr - American Exceptionalism

 

The other day on a Southwest Airlines flight back to Houston, I saw him, Cooter. He was one big dude, and he was making his way down the aisle of the plane carrying his duffel bag and his hardhat. As usual, his hardhat was decorated with stickers from most of the plants where he had worked. Since Cooter does contract work, he had a lot of stickers! The row I was in was full. It just so happened that Cooter’s traveling companion, Bubba, was seated in the window seat of my row. So Cooter put his carry-on in the overhead and sat in the row behind me.

 

Ok, I didn’t really know if his name was actually Cooter, but I know a lot of Cooters. Cooter is a slang name for a group of working people across the United States. Cooter builds cars in Tennessee, raises cattle in Kansas and installs cat crackers in refineries in Texas. Cooter is good at what he does. He takes pride in his work, his family and his yard. You wouldn’t want to make Cooter mad if you were another man. However, he loves babies and little kids.

 

Cooter voted for Carter, Reagan, Clinton and George W Bush (the first time). He didn’t vote at all in the 2008 election because he was disgusted with the candidates. Cooter often chooses not to vote unless something has him fired up. He can get fired up about anything that he thinks impacts his family.    Continue...
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Wake up time

As far as I can see some of us have been handed a wake up call and we have come awake. The rest of the people are walking around in a daze thinking that it'll all get better on it's own. It's not going to get better unless We The People stand up and let it be known that we're not asleep anymore and we need to start holding the Politicians feet to the fire. In todays day and age it seems to only take alot of money and alot of lies to get elected. If the rest of the American people do not wake up soon the Country will not be recognizable anymore.
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I Pledge.....

"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
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by: Trent Derr - American Exceptionalism

 

As a continuing part of our series What Would Reagan Do, we’re going to discuss what Reagan would do to address our current immigration problems. Clearly Reagan would have been shocked by our current situation related to rampant illegal immigration, the violence across our southern border in Mexico, and the crime being brought into American cities by illegal aliens.

 

Addressing Reagan’s views regarding immigration is complex because he had two seemingly conflicting views. For one, Reagan believed in the integrity of the borders of the United States. This view would have been only reinforced by our current international terrorism risks in a post 9-11 world. In fact one of Reagan’s most well-known quotes is: “A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.”

 

On the other side of the coin, Reagan believed the United States was the last great hope for the world. Reagan lived the American Dream and saw that dream as a gift from God for all free people. He fully understood the desire of the masses to come to America and to assimilate into the melting pot as Americans.  Continue...
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“Barack is Standing With Us”

 

“Wis-Cairo’s” Senate Desertion, “Capitol Take-Over”

Orchestrated by Re-election Committee and DNC

 

 

          Nancy Pelosi used the term “astro-turf” to describe what she saw as a “fake grass-roots” movement, the TEA Party, created, she said:  by the Republican Party.   It appears now that the “leftist pot” has been calling the “tax-paying kettle” black for quite some time now.

 

            It begins with information provide by two union workers . . . who said they took part in the planning of “Wis-Cairo” and were told “Barack is standing with us,” and who insisted, “They’ll kill us, I mean it, they WILL kill us, if they ever find out” . . . was revealed because the two men were active TEA Party members in the Midwest.  According to the men, who will be called “Tom and Jerry” because that’s not their real names . . . .

 

Item #1: The campaign of labor unrest was dubbed “Wis-Cairo” very early in the campaign. Union leaders in early spring, 2010, had visited Egypt, Tunisia, and many other Middle-Eastern nations to foment a “grass-roots” movement toward democracy among the young, the unemployed, the malcontented, students, etc. The idea was to make it appear that a world-wide grass-roots rebellion against the “evil” status quo was occurring virtually simultaneously. The Middle-East was chosen for the “first-wave” because so many of the leaders were dictators that almost no one approved of.

 

Item #2: Both the decisions for Democratic senators to abandon their posts and flee their states (thus preventing key votes) and for Union protestors to “take-over” the Capitol in Wisconsin came from the Obama Oval office with members of the president’s 2012 re-election campaign, “Obama for America,” the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and two key Union Bosses involved. Washington has been “calling every move, every step of the way.”

 

Item #3: The president referred to his “Wis-Cairo Campaign” as a chance to “revisit his roots” as a community organizer. (The President was an attorney for ACORN shaking-down mortgage lenders to force them to comply with the CRA ’77 law and make knowingly bad loans to high-risk of default clients. As an ACORN attorney, Obama was famous for not only getting the loans and promises of further loans from beleaguered bankers, but even coaxing out ACORN donations from them.) He reportedly told some Labor Department officials and at least one Union Boss, the exercise made him “feel like a General.”

 

Item #4: The term “Wis-Cairo,” invented by AFL-CIO leader Richard Trumka and it pleased Obama immediately. One thing that did not please President Obama was his own involvement . . . . Almost as soon as he made his (Cambridge-police-like) comment three weeks ago attacking Wisconsin governor Scott Walker for bringing an all-out attack on the rights of working people, President Obama regretted his words. He regretted them even more once Walker suggested that Obama needed to pay attention to Washington matters and work on “reducing his own debt.” Rather than following up on his comment about Walker being out to destroy collective bargaining, Obama elected to remain silent for roughly three weeks because media attention on himself, the White House, the DNC and his election committee would undermine public perception that a grassroots, simultaneous up-swelling of emotion was taking place in Wisconsin. 

 

Item #5:  From the start “spreading the excitement” to Indiana and then backlash against Governor Chris Christie in New Jersey was part of the plan as were all the coordinated union demonstrations at other state capitols held on Saturday, February 26.

 

Item #6: The campaign has just begun. According to Tom and Jerry, further coordinated efforts aim at . . . .

 

a)    “making ‘them’ start laying off people”

b)    “making  ‘them’ shut down the government”

c)    “embarrassing FOX to get a ‘media neutrality’ law passed”

d)   “spreading this thing across the entire country”

 

          In related news, President Obama elected to re-join the fray today both personally and through his Labor Secretary Hilda Solis. Solis said, “The fight is on” and vowed that she was going to be part of it. Nice, the federal government entering a labor battle to the detriment of a state’s citizens and taxpayers, NICE! Obama’s comments were much more toned down, he not only did not mention Wisconsin or Walker by name, but also merely re-iterated his opinion that “attacks upon working people” by government entities must be fought. Both put efforts at “collective-bargaining” repeal among Wisconsin government employees at the heart of the matter. Solis, meanwhile went further and blamed not just Walker but the entire Republican Party for “trying to strip the rights of America’s workers.”

 

         Walker himself was not inactive, he gave the hooky-playing fourteen Wisconsin Democratic Senators “24 hours” to return to the state and vote on the bill so that he would not be forced by law to begin laying off 1,400-1,500 government workers to make up the state's budget red-ink. Wisconsin is facing a shortfall of $3.6 Billion.  While the unions belated agreed to accept some slight cuts in pay and benefits the crux of the matter has been "collective bargaining" on items other than pay.  Walker, saying that the typical budget battle and union negotiations at the county and local and state levels takes fifteen months . . . aims to remove the union's power to dominate Wisconisn affairs.  As one measure of how pervasive Wisconsin union influence is, according to Tom and Jerry, their workers never have to pay union taxes because the money is "automatically removed" from the workers' checks and then the state pays the dues in one lump sum to the unions.  Wow . . . . excuse Rajjpuut's "tell" (never have had a poker face) but what an obvious conflict of interest that's taken part in Wisconsin for 'lo these many years.

 

         At the protest site in and around the Capitol in Madison, FoxNews reporters and camera crew have been heckled, shouted down and otherwise interfered with. Reporter Mike Tobin was caught on camera being shoved and punched twice. Tobin laughed and called the affronts “part of my job.”

 

         Meanwhile in Washington, D.C., despite reports of “secret negotiations” between House and Senate Republicans and Democrats, no movement toward any sort of compromise or action leading to passing a new CR (continuing budget resolution) to keep the government “fully operational” has been spotted. A shutdown appears imminent, but complicating the issue is that the cuts most recently requested by Republicans were items President Obama approved of axing. One way or another, we can hope that some money will be saved, either by shut-down or by deliberate budget cuts.

 

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut
 
 
 
 
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Not only are Facts wrong but there is a political bias.

  • Pro Democrat

  • We work 40+ hours and they have an 8 Hour work week what is that all about?   

Read it in their own words: http://dpi.wi.gov/cal/labor-history.html

Labor History




Wisconsin has long been a leader in labor rights. The Progressive Movement, which had its beginnings in our state, led to laws limiting child labor and safety in the workplace. Unions such as the AFL-CIO and Teamsters allow us to enjoy an eight-hour work week and vacation time. In fact, it has been argued by some historians that the history of the United States itself could be a history of labor.

In December of 2009, Assembly Bill 172 was signed into law, making Wisconsin the first state to require the incorporation of “the history of organized labor in America and the collective bargaining process” into the state standards for social studies. We are convening a workgroup to research, discuss, and implement this change, as well as to revisit and update the Lessons in Labor History curriculum guide that the Department of Public Instruction published in 2001.

There are some websites that offer information and ideas on how to incorporate labor history into your social studies classroom.

Educational Communications Board Surf Report on Labor History

Wisconsin Historical Society Labor Collections

Wisconsin Labor History Society


For questions about this information, contact Kristen McDaniel (608)266-2207

Last updated on 9/28/2010 11:05:40 AM


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Wisconsin Guv Walker First Gets it Right;
Then Screws-up in Battle vs. Unions
 
 
“Collective Bargaining for government employment conflicts with the interests of the nation and the tax-payers.”  President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
 
I respect the right of workers in the private sector to strike. Indeed, as president of my own union, I led the first strike ever called by that union. I guess I'm maybe the first one to ever hold this office who is a lifetime member of an AFL - CIO union. But we cannot compare labor-management relations in the private sector with government. Government cannot close down the assembly line. It has to provide without interruption the protective services which are government's reason for being. It was in recognition of this that the Congress passed a law forbidding strikes by government employees against the public safety . . . . I must tell those who failed to report for duty this morning they are in violation of the law, and if they do not report for work within 48 hours, they have forfeited their jobs and will be terminated.”  President Ronald Wilson Reagan
 
 
Confusion Reigns on All Fronts as Nation Stagnates;
Seethes in Obama-Created Swamp
 
            “. . . She’s the most disgraceful country that ever you have seen,
            They’re hanging men and women there for wearing o’ the green . . .”
 
            The Founding Fathers must be spinning at 300 revolutions per second in their graves right now. And like “dear old 'Oirelan'” in the song The Wearing of the Green, something quite disgraceful is going on in America right now. 
 
Item: Democratic Senators from Indiana and Wisconsin have left the states where they won election and are now roasting weenies and enjoying the Iron Chefs reality TV show in Illinois. This “protest” (which is really a disgusting aberration of their responsibilities as elected representatives of their state) is in its second week.
 
Item:   Spend, spend, spend and spend some more. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is propagating the Democrats message that taxing creates jobs. Trumka, who next to SEIU President Andy Stern is the second-most frequent visitor to the White House and therefore ranks as an Obama-advisor, wants to dramatically raise the federal gas tax so that “a dedicated source of revenue will be created to fund infrastructure permanently.” Of course the unions and Democrats, who claim to be the proponents of the poor and the middle class, have to realize that taxes upon necessities like food and gas are “regressive” . . . that is they harm the middle-class and especially the poor by taking a far greater proportion of their meager disposable incomes for taxation. And then there’s the fact that a tax on gas amounts to a huge inflation as the costs of it will show up in every single item that’s bought or sold in the country. Of course, yes, more union and government jobs would be created at the cost of 2-5 times that many jobs in the private sector. This is an example of the well-known economic gaff called the “Broken Window Fallacy.”
 
 
Item:  the Democrats are now talking about renewing their highly successful, they say, “Cash for Clunkers program which is an example of “The Blessings of Destruction” another gaff that an Econ-101 should never make, much less an elected official.
 
 
 
specifically, Cash for Clunkers created a scarcity of used cars (they were destroyed in huge numbers, remember) and pushed the cost of the average used car in the country up $1,800.  Mr. President, the rich don't buy used cars, so who do you suppose your stupid law hurt?
 
Item: Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has been thwarted in his attempt to bring his state back from a $3.6 BIllion shortfall and to free all state and county and local governments from the shackles of collective bargaining and may soon have to start laying off government employees to make his budget balance. By the way, there is no “right” to collective bargaining either in the constitution or the laws of nature, no matter how often such a “right” is trumpeted about.
 
 
Item: The just mentioned Governor Scott Walker is, however, playing favorites. No doubt because of the political realities, Governor Walker is not addressing unionized police and unionized fire-fighters in Wisconsin they are exempt under his new bill which otherwise would be an impossibly unpopular move.   A real statesman does the right thing, not the popular or expedient one.  The good governor needs to familiarize himself with the history of the 1981 Air Traffic Controllers Union that resulted in the firing of 11,000 ATC employees who refused to honor the law created by Reagan’s predecessor, Jimmy Carter; and who violated their oaths of office. Carter removed the ability of federal workers’ unions to strike or use other collective bargaining against the taxpayers with Title VII of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978. In Walker’s defense, President Obama who often speaks without knowing anything about his subject: vowed that he would “put on comfortable shoes and march with a picket sign” anywhere where the collective bargaining process was being challenged . . . sounds like it’s been really challenged in Washington, D.C., Mr. President, no need to go to Wisconsin.
 
Item: President Barack Obama has ordered his INjustice Dept. to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act. The aim is twofold:  to please his gay supporters cementing their votes in his behalf; and to eventually make gay marriage legal with all the rights of real marriage including adoption. The folks at NAMBLA must be enjoying bouts of orgiastic excitement about now. Who cares about non-voting children after all?
 
 
Item: It’s begun abundantly clear since the revelation of the pathetic Obama budget that in his eyes no single government spending or government interference or government abuse or fraudulent government boondoggle deserves to be cut; apparently no federal government program ever created suffers from fraud, abuse or incompetence and all must be continued into perpetuity with ever-increasing budgets?   The United States’ federal government officially faces a $14.1 TRillion national debt and $112 TRillion in UNfunded liabilities (Social Security, Medicare, and the federal side of Medicaid; and NOT including all the Welfare programs) and the president and his Progressive buddies on the left side of the aisle cannot understand why the America voters kicked so many of them out of office last November. They are refusing to consider $30 Billion in spending cuts and moving the country closer to a federal government shutdown. ‘Lest you think this is just the Rajjpuut’s interpretation of the economic situation . . . two voice no less far apart on the political continuum than Secretary of Defense Hillary Clinton and new TEA Party Senator Rand Paul when asked what constitutes the greatest threat to America’s security gave the same answer: the nation’s DEBT.
 
 
Item: That privileged class known as unionized government workers has become the new elite that President Obama prefers above and beyond all others. It works like this: The government unions use up to 85% of the union dues they collect for the salaries of union officials and for political contributions. 96% of those political contributions go to the campaign funds of Democratic candidates. Those candidates when elected create a bunch of new “goodies” for the unionized government workers whose dues again fund the bloated salaries of union officials and the war chests of the Democratic Party. If, occasionally, they are not successful in electing a lot of Democrats one year, little will be lost between then and the next election and the dues-campaign funds vicious circle continues eternally. And who pays for this vicious circle profitable to progressive Democrats and union leaders alike? The taxpayer, of course.
 
Item: Even without Obamacare, the ridiculous budget submitted by Obama will almost double the National Debt in the next decade: $13.2 TRillion more. The present Republican budget (which is just a preliminary <designed to make up for the fact that the last Pelosi House did not pass a budget> doesn’t include necessary further cuts . . . but IF the present Republican budget extended into the next decade it would result in additional debt of over $10 TRillion dollars. Of course with Obamacare, both budgets would swell by another $2.4 TRillion over the next decade.  When will the voters wise up? When will they understand that government spending programs and entitlement programs are all PONZI SCHEMES? When will they understand that Thomas Jefferson had it right when he said, “That government is best that governs least . . . “?
 
Item: The Obama administration is drawing up a bill that will charge sellers of artificial trees a “tariff” to support a marketing fund for the natural Christmas tree industry to make up for their ever falling share of the holiday tree market. Can one eagerly look forward to the day when the feds will bailout the natural tree promoters?
 
Item: You may not know these facts, but facts they are . . . the United States has discovered and verified the discovery of the biggest oil deposit in the world 88% beneath us and 12% below Canada called the Bakken Fields oil deposit. This makes Saudi Arabia look like energy-paupers. Even without the Bakken deposits (now outlawed for use except those portions under Indian reservations), recent advances in natural gas and oil drilling technology would presumably soon allow the United States to become an exporter of natural gas and IF drilling were maximized, to be virtually free of foreign oil dependence . . . but, of course, that would mean that green energy subsidies would not have any merit. Government studies showing that wind energy is NOT practicable for large scale use; and the Spanish economic study of the results of that nation’s 23-year failed (Unemployment went from 4% to 21%) green energy program have been stifled by the EPA and not reported in the mainstream/ lamestream media. The EPA and Progressive Democrats are attempting to quash reports contrary to their green agenda . . . for example: turbines require enormous quantities of concrete, steel, copper, and rare earth minerals – and huge orders of difficult resource extraction, refining, smelting, manufacturing and shipping and monstrous amounts of pollution and carbon dioxide emissions (which the EPA has called “toxic”) at every step of the way.
            Greater wind-turbine development which the Obama administration is describing as a “MUST” would also necessitate greater dependence upon China. Roughly 96% of the world’s rare earth production is centered now in China and Mongolia. Theirs is a very pollution-concentrated process which hopefully we will not emulate seeking rare earths here in the U.S. In 2009, China produced 150,000 tons of rare earth metals – and over 15,000,000 tons of waste.  As mentioned earlier, wind turbines do NOT work on a large-scale basis. Why? Because the backup power plants (the wind doesn’t always blow, hence the need for backups) are not only far more INefficient but according to the EPA’s own literature they also generate far more pollution and carbon dioxide than if they were able to run at full capacity. As backups for turbines they must operate constantly but ramp up to full power, and back down, numerous times daily, in response to shifting wind electricity production.

Ya'll live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
 
 
 
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Astrological Profiles

4063282011?profile=originalI’m Aquarius rising. Around here I’m known as Joseph Aquarius Smith.  So let me tell you about us.  Astrologers say we are different, can be so far ahead of our time that we are accused of being eccentric. We can express strong human concern; have a strong sense of freedom for ourselves and others. We can be musical and be a genius. I don’t know about being a genius, but I’m musical.  We can brand ourselves mavericks and oddballs.  People who know me would verify that.  Aquarius rising screams to the world, “Don’t fence me in.”  The universe is my playground. I bring back information that has been lost for centuries.

 

Naturally, rather than on the street protesting, I’m 100 percent behind Governor Walker.  I’d go further.  I’d force public service employees to accept equal pay for equal work and bar them from unions.

 

Now let’s talk about the Pisces profile.  The symbol for Pisces is two attached fish swimming in opposite directions.  That’s interesting. Astrologers say the symbol says, can’t make up the mind, inability to take direct action, the need to be directed.  Astrologers say this weak willed individual, strongly influenced by external factors, tends to keep him in a hopeless situation.  He may appear with large dreamy eyes, and you can almost see a halo encircling his head. He seems to stay 10 feet off the ground. He expects people to be perfect; that is, to live up to his expectations.  We read that he may be totally unaware of his faults.  Often, he can see only good and refuse to see evil.  All of this makes him want to save the world.  His trouble is that he can’t see the forest for the trees.

 

After reading all of the above, we read that we are leaving the Age of Pisces and entering the Age of Aquarius.  Time waits for no man.  Congratulate yourselves  for being part of the Tea Party movement.  Tell a friend what I reveal.

 

 Tim Pawlenty:  “The message of the tea party, as I see it, is pretty simple, it’s pretty straight forward,” Pawlenty said to loud cheers. “And it’s this: God made us to be free and the Founding Fathers made the Constitution to keep us free.”  I’m for Tim Pawlenty.

 

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Opposition to unions in general.

                        Let me start off by saying I'm a union member as well as a tea party member.I believe some would say I can't effectively be both.I beg to differ.Contrary to popular belief,being a union member does not automatically mean fiscally irresponsible.I am one union member who is sick and tired of being put under the same umbrella as the teachers and state workers.My union dosn't have that kind of power,and other than the two mentioned,and possibly construction unions in NY,I don't know any who do.In my opinion if they don't pay towards their retirement,and health care,they should.However I do not think collective bargaining is a bad thing.and Remamber,it took two sides to make the agreement their working under,and it took years(and many contracts) to get to this point.I'm not opposed to correcting the problem,but I don't think it's fair to try to do it in one fell swoop.What will happen is you run the risk of pushing these people into financial ruin.Is that what this nation's become ? If I fall victim to circumstances of my making or not,misery needs company ? It will only make things worse.Remember these people(again,contrary to popular belief)pay taxes,and if they stop,and go on any form of public assistance,it's only going to make the burden on the rest if us greater.Admittedly,"some" unions have gotten VERY GREEDY over the years,and they need to come back to reality and show the same understanding their expecting from others.Everybody is suffering,and if we're going to pull out of this every body has to help.I just think the general hatred of a few unions,and the excessive benefits they get, should not manifest itself into a general hatred of all unions.Unions do serve a purpose,and those of you who think thier not needed, remember that when your employer decides your no longer needed because a younger person will do the same job for less money,or a personality issue(not job performance)with a supervisor costs you your job,and you have no recourse.When your told(after what you know to be a very profitable period) we can't afford to give you a raise,or contribute to your profit sharing plan,and again you have no recourse, because there are a hundred people standing in line to cut your throat and take that job,and your employer knows it.Collective bargaining can guarantee that raise,or that contribution,and can protect you against being fired on a whim.If an employee screws up the employer should have the right to fire you.If the company is having legitimate financial hardship they should be free to make responible choice,but don't take advantage.and that is what a good union should do,protect the employee from being taken advantage of.Reigning in out of control organizations(some unions,greedy corporations, GOVERNMENT) is a good idea.In my opinion,breaking all unions will lead to corporate greed and "legal" abuse of the american worker, like we have never seen before.And it will drop drastically the american standard of living.BE CAREFULL WHAT YOU WISH FOR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I say Amen to this advice.

 

 

National Anthem at the Super Bowl - an editorial

 

My sentiments EXACTLY… AMEN! 

 

“So, with all the kindness I can muster, I give this one piece of advice to the next pop star who is asked to sing the national anthem at a sporting event: save the  

vocal gymnastics and the physical gyrations for your concerts. Just sing this song the way you were taught to sing it in kindergarten — straight up, no styling. Sing  

it with the constant awareness that there are soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines watching you from bases and outposts all over the world. Don't make them  

cringe with your self-centered ego gratification. Sing it as if you are standing before a row of 86-year-old WWII vets wearing their Purple Hearts, Silver Stars and  

flag pins on their cardigans and you want them to be proud of you for honoring them and the country they love — not because you want them to think you are a  

superstar musician. They could see that from the costumes, the makeup and the entourages.  Sing The Star Spangled Banner with the courtesy and humility  

that tells the audience that it is about America , not you.”

 

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Today's Big News

“US labor groups hoped to turnout the largest crowds yet in demonstrations planned in every state capitol in the nation to show solidarity with Wisconsin in fighting the proposal they see as trying to break the labor movement.” 

 

One can assume millions of people all over the world are out on the street today protesting, because they don’t have it as good as they want it.  Every single one of those protesters have some authority they look to.  Not one of them knows he has the power within himself to control his life.  Not a single one of the protesters knows that he was created with the same reason and logic as the authorities he looks to. Every last one of the protesters has been taught to look to the powers that be to  produce the lives they desire.  Every single one of the protester’s energies are concentrated in the particular movement that supports whatever his hopes and aspirations happen to be.  Thanks to powerful, self-serving groups, America is almost bankrupt morally, spiritually, and fiscally.  

 

I observe that powerful groups don’t exist in nations such as Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran. There is only one group with power, the dictator’s group. Come the revolution, that’s the group I’m going to join.

 

Until then, the Tea Party, people from all walks of life who appreciate their freedom to do their thing suits me.  We don’t have a powerful union or politician to look to. We do the talking; they do the listening.  We look within for the power to bring us the kind of lives we desire. I’ve got no reason to protest.  My life is good.

 

You can never get what you want by massively protesting. The labor movement protesters will not be satisfied until nobody as anything—everyone equally with nothing.  But this is a fast moving storm. When it’s over, and protesters are satisfied, we will pick up the pieces and move on to our intended future.  Some will make their lives good, others will not.  It will be back like it was again because that’s the way it is.  

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2012 election

I'm a registered candidate for the 2012 election for U.S. Senate for Maryland.  Please view my website: <rickhoover.org>.  Your support is greatly appreciated!

 

Rick Hoover

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WE really need to think about this seriously.

  

  

 

 

Let us pray.  Don't worry about Obama. 

   

 

 

 

 


 

In 
1952
 
President  Truman
 
established  one  day  a  year  as  a

"
National Day of Prayer." 
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In
 
1988

President Reagan
 
designated the
First Thursday in May of each year as
 
the National 
Day of Prayer.   
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In June
 
2007

(then)
 
Presidential 
Candidate Barack Obama
 
declared that the USA
 
"Was no longer  a 
Christian nation." 

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This year
President Obama
 
canceled the 
21st annual National Day
 
of Prayer ceremony
 
at the White
House under the ruse 
Of "not wanting to offend anyone"
   

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BUT... on September 25, 2009
 
from 4 AM until 7 PM,
 
a National Day of Prayer
 
FOR THE MUSLIM RELIGION
 
was Held on Capitol Hill, 
Beside the White House.
 
There were over 50,000 Muslims
in  D.C. that day. 
  

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HE PRAYS WITH THE MUSLIMS! 

I guess it Doesn't matter
 
if 
 "Christians" 
Are  offended  by  this  event - 
We  obviously
Don't  count  as
 
"anyone"  Anymore. 


The direction  this country is headed 
should strike fear in the heart of every Christian,
especially knowing that the 
Muslim religion believes that if Christians cannot be
converted, they should be annihilated. 


This is not a Rumor -
 
Go  to  the  website 
To  confirm  this  info:
 
http://www.islamoncapitolhill.com

  
Send this to ten people 
and the person who 
sent it to you!...
to let them know that 
indeed, it was sent 
out to many more.

 

 

 

 

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The Truth is Incredibly Simple

While I write my answer, you have time to think and write your answer.

 

My Answer:

 

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know where we are going, but, obviously, the American people don’t know how to stop an impending catastrophe.

 

I listen to Glenn Beck every day. He has been accurately predicting what is taking place in America, but like the rest of the people, doesn’t have the answer. Beck reveals that he has thought a great amount of time about his life. He says he has faith that he is here for a purpose. He is living his purpose, and I think for the good of all.  It is up to us to come up with our own answers.  Beck agrees.

 

I believe we are each here for our own unique purpose. It is what makes us human.  We’re not herd animals.  This very truth is fundamental to the problem.  You’ve heard it: the end justifies the means; it’s for the good of all; collective salvation; power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.  Bottom line: might makes right, the law of the jungle.  Dare to attempt to be human—go your own way—and there are dire consequences.

 

The aims of the powers that be, although the means may differ, is control of the masses—in violation of  the  U. S. Constitution;  which has it that the law is king; it gives we individuals inalienable rights, rights that cannot be bartered or taken by any manner or means without individual’s permission.  The majority of the American people don’t choose to believe that.  The courts don’t believe that. The courts and the people accept the end justifies the means, for the good of all. The majority believes the law of might makes right. The majority are herd animals doing the bidding of their leaders.  

 

One in a million, I cut from the herd.  There were consequences.  I prevailed. Was it the luck of the draw that my life is now as good as it gets?

 

Some of you government workers living on the backs of the taxpayers on the street protesting, the same as I, are going to learn the simple truth the hard way. But something for all of you protesters out on the street in Madison, Wisconsin to think about, those of you who have the good sense to awaken to reality will look back at this protest as the death throes of a bygone age.  

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Get A Little Bloody

Do politicans have any conception of rights? To acquaint you with what has gone before, Warren Harding, a Repubican, President from 1921 to 1923, a self-made newspaper publisher, promised to undo Woodrow Wilson’s progressive government escapade, which ended in depression.  Calvin Coolidge, Harding’s Vice President, after his death, continued to reinvigorate the hopes of the middleclass. I call myself Joe Smith, the Original.  I was born in 1925, in the “Roaring Twenties,” in the year that the politicians authorized the IRS to examine personal income records.  It only affected the very rich. Yea! We now face the consequences.  We are being taxed out of house and home to enhance the power of unions and politicians—only because we’ve accepted this outrage.  The voters of Wisconsin voted for Governor Walker to get government spending in balance with expenditures.  Get a little bloody, politicians tell union workers.  Your rights mean nothing to politicians.  This is raw power on the rampage.

 

The current scene in Madison, Wisconsin clearly tells us what progressive government means.  Group rights have superseded individual rights. The teacher’s union deprives us of the education we need to keep life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness alive.  The power of the union—collective bargaining—causes us to get a poor education at the highest cost in the world—all  for the purpose of stigmatizing us.  Get on your knees and pray that this will end now and forever after.   Never compromise!

 

In order to effectively cure the problem progressive government caused, Governor Walker knew it required taking away some of the collective bargaining rights of teachers.  Otherwise, the problem would never go away. What are governments always about?  Without being controlled by the taxpayers, they will rob the taxpayers of every right they have.  That’s why the U. S. Constitution gave the individual inalienable rights.  That’s why I had my bigger than life calling. That’s why my life is good.  That’s what President Obama, the unions, and all of those whose philosophy is after me you come first, want to change.  They have for years and will continue their self-serving rampage on rights unless the majority stops them.

 

I’m known here as Joe Aquarian Smith.  I was born Aquarius rising. The United States was born under the sign of Aquarius.  We are leaving the Age of Pisces, whose sign is two attached fish swimming in opposite directions.  Does the sign of Pisces not exactly describe the current world situation, and the situation your President calls democracy? The sign of Aquarius is the water-bearer to humanity.  The sign stands for brotherhood and fraternity.  The sign of Pisces means oppression—you under control—you the slave.  It starts with dependence on government—government entitlements.    

 

You come to this life a unique individual with a destiny all your own.  From that time forward you are dumbed down by politicians to think in terms of a cog in the wheel of progress (progressive government). You people on the street are probably doubting Thomases  who give lip service to God.  But progressive government has you by the nap of your neck.  Personally, a nobody; the good of all is all that counts, how otherwise could the scene in Madison, Wisconsin have come about?  You people with the signs are weak willed Pisceans. Not a single one of you on the street knows the power that lies within you. You mindlessly take orders from your herd hierarchy—union bosses.  I know because I’m witnessing  your deplorable  behavior.  And to think you are teaching our children makes me sick. 

 

I took up the torch of liberty and justice.  Everyone I know thought I’d lost my mind.  Alone, I challenged the politicians in court, claimed they were unconstitutionally taxing me.  I fought them singlehandedly eleven years to no avail.  I didn’t give up. I took the court record to the press and got a front page story.  Why?  Because I did something no else had done.  That’s the difference in me and you people on the street. The IRS ate crow throughout the newspaper story.  I won big because I had the guts to stick my finger in the IRS eye.  The difference in me and you ranting and raving on the street is that I know I came with a purpose.

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