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Martin Luther King Jr said--"Our lives begin to end the day we stop speaking out."
John Adams said--"Fear is the foundation of most governments."
What keeps people from speaking out? Fear, intimidation, uncertainty, lack of character, inability to discern right from wrong, true from false?
I've gotta tell ya, I'm so proud and enthused by the TEA Party movement nation-wide some days I could just bust. As vice-chairman of the TEA Party of Gilmer County, Ga, I see a lot of folks doing what they never thought they would do, or imagined they would ever HAVE to do. Many, if not most of them have already spent their lives working, building families, futures, and look forward to a dreamed-of retirement. Many are veterans.
And what still brings tears to my eyes is to look every one of these great Americans straight in the eye at our meetings, in our correspondences, and KNOW, without a shadow of a doubt, that WE HAVE EACH OTHERS BACK. We have a common course we've embarked upon, a cause with roots as deep as any man's soul, and the same cause that animated our Founding Fathers those many years ago.
To paraphrase Thomas Jefferson slightly--"Indeed I tremble for my nation, when I know that God is just, and his justice will not sleep forever."
America is awakening from a lethargy that was brought on by the very things we were warned about in the writings of our Founding Fathers...that good men will not always be in government, beware the follies of faction and party, and due diligence is required of all men at all times, because liberty is the gift of God, not government, and we are but one generation away from tyranny at any given moment in time.
Renewing the vigor of education to all regarding our liberties, as the Founders knew them, is key to our success as we go forward. The student of the Federalist Papers, the anti-Federalist Papers, and the letters of Jefferson, Madison, Washington, Jay, etc. will discover the lengths and depths of history our Founders went to as they sought to craft a system of government that was by the people and for the people, not government. They examined the Republics of ages gone by, the differing circumstances of various ancient nations, and how they might apply to a Republic of much larger extent, and how best to modify a system of government that was small enough that it would not encroach upon individual liberty, but would be strong enough to provide the basic essence of all good government---that of national defence and basic structural essentials. Period.
Glad to be here. Can't wait to get to know y'all better. Let's get busy and get this usurper and his henchmen the HELL OUT OF OUR HOUSE!!!------Jim Seigfreid
No Excuses Now, Mr. Obama,
Socialism’s Sad History Repeating in Greece
Europe Semi-Cheerfully Opts for Combined Ruin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_of_1989
Should we, the United States of America, opt-out of greatness and turn the mantle of “the world’s lone super power” over to Red China? It’s NOT a rhetorical question, unfortunately . . . . Harry S. Truman used to say, “The buck stops here.” Unfortunately, Mr. Obama has not once in his sixteen months in office shown any proclivity for facing responsibility for his failings. So, if China quickly becomes the world’s single super-power . . . expect nothing but excuses from Mr. Obama as we slide into history’s trashbin.
With the specter of Greece hanging over the world’s markets and the halls of government everywhere, there can no longer be any pretense for the Obama administration. The potential debacle awaiting us is dramatically etched in our brains from the violent images repeatedly seen on the nightly news. Mr. Obama who reportedly went into a “three-year fugue” when the Berlin Wall came down and the USSR collapsed can NOT deny the obvious truth about his preferred political ends. You canNOT help the poor by willfully becoming one of them. The United States must resume its economic leadership. If this country wishes to remain the beacon of hope in the world, only three choices remain for Obama (only one for a STATESMAN):
- 1) a return to sanity by butting out of the free markets (the choice Bill Clinton made in 1994) and ending the “let’s completely take over everything” games of socialism and “Obama and Progressives Know Best” . . . as stated a “return to sanity.” Rajjpuut states without reservation . . . this will NOT happen so long as Barack Obama has power in the oval office and so long as progressives Democrats call the tune in both chambers of congress
- 2) ignore Greece’s example, continue the charade of “I am NOT a socialist, I’m not” and assume that the recent historical example from Greece as well as the older examples given by Cuba’s super-booming civilization and the defunct USSR and the defunct Warswa Pact and China prospering by stacking capitalism atop its Marxism and the failed attempts at communism in Italy long ago, and Chile long ago are all just anomalies . . . and this time we’ll get it right because . . . well, because we’ve got Barack Obama working things this time . . . this would be the choice one would expect if Obama were merely a socialist, dyed in the wool, and convinced of the rightness of his ideology (“I’m not an ideologue!”).
- 3) Embrace Greece’s example and deliberately push even harder for financial markets takeover under the guise of a “financial ‘reform’ act” and the new “America’s Power Act” (actually NOT new at all, just “Cap and Trade” under a sweet sounding name) and literally see how quickly we can emulate Greece. “What,” you say, “he’d deliberately take the country into financial ruin?” Yes, Pilgrim he definitely could choose either door #2 or door #3 and they both might lead to abject financial ruin. And it’s NOT a moot question which choice he makes. More on that below.
As recently as last month, Rajjpuut’s Folly’s ran a hard-hitting little blog under a title something like “PIGIES R Us” which told of the sad state of economic collapse found in Portugal, Italy, Greece, Ireland, England (U.K.), and Spain whose initial gave us the “PIGIES” countries. The kicker to the story was that the United States’ ratio of debt/Gross Domestic Product (D/GDP) was worse than all but two of the six European countries mentioned. Things are changing rapidly in Europe. If written today the blog title would have to be ammended to: “BIG PIES R Us.” Belgium has now entered the “room of doom” and become an entrant in the “Who’s Next” Sweepstakes. And, you guessed it, the U.S. D/GDP ratio is worse than Belgium’s. Thankfully, the United States has a far more resilient economic system in place than most of the BIG PIES countries do. Socialism is not our underlying economic system YET. In terms of absolute risk we are very much caught between England (the U.K.) and Spain.
Yes, the U.K. just made a half-hearted effort to change directions by booting out the fanatically socialist government of Gordon Brown but they didn’t give a mandate to the conservatives either. Rajjpuut predicts the tenuous coalition between the Conservatives and the Social Democrats will break apart within a year. Remember that the so-called “Tories” are only fiscally-lukewarm conservatives anyway . . . in these days true Libertarianism is required and England’s condition will worsen, if only slightly. In short, England can most-likely only serve as a bad example: going fiscally-conservative with all your heart is the only viable path out of the swamp for them and they show no willingness to make that choice.
Yes, the U.K. just made a half-hearted effort to change directions by booting out the fanatically socialist government of Gordon Brown but they didn’t give a mandate to the conservatives either. Rajjpuut predicts the tenuous coalition between the Conservatives and the Social Democrats will break apart within a year. Remember that the so-called “Tories” are only fiscally-lukewarm conservatives anyway . . . in these days true Libertarianism is required and England’s condition will worsen, if only slightly. In short, England can most-likely only serve as a bad example: going fiscally-conservative with all your heart is the only viable path out of the swamp for them and they show no willingness to make that choice.
Spain, also, is a very good example the United States can learn from. Again the lesson learned is a negative one, however. Spain about eight years back bragged of Europe’s most robust economy. Among other things, surpluses were being run and unemployment was sticking around 3%. Today,” Tinta roja se encuentra por todas partes,” that is, “Red ink is everywhere!” Unemployment is also at 21% and rising (19% a year ago). “What the hell happened? “ you ask.
Spain’s economy went “GREEN!”
The cost of “political-correctness” in Spain was devastating. For every subsidized job in the green-pipedream world of Spain, 2.2 real, permanent jobs were lost. The hit didn’t come overnight but insidiously over about three years. Cost on average for creating one green job? $677,000 U.S. dollars. Most green jobs lasted only between six weeks and eighteen months. Only 10% proved permanent. The median green job paid $13.18 per hour, virtually all paid between $10 - $15 per hour. So for every permanent green job created, twenty-two real jobs were jeopardized and ultimately LOST!
Now let us translate that Spanish horror onto Barack Obama’s stated goal of “. . . creating five million green jobs . . .” That means eleven million real jobs lost. That means only 500,000 permanent green jobs created. That means a net loss of 10.5 million jobs. That means ruin . . . but wait, there’s more , much much more . . . .
Barack Obama and roughly twenty cohorts (their leaders are ex-U.N. bigwig Canada’s Maurice Strong and communist Wisconsin professor Joel Rogers) and seven or eight upstanding progressive foundations and Al Gore and his private London-based company have been pushing like madmen to pass “Cap and Trade” legislation, now euphemistically known as “America’s Power Act.” (doesn't it look beautiful all green like that without the ugly words "cap and trade"?) Compared to the results of cap and trade, Obama’s green jobs promise (five million of ‘em, remember, resulting in only half a million permanent ones at the cost of eleven million real jobs) would seem like laissez faire capitalism.
Twenty-years ago Maurice Strong set this whole cap and trade boondoggle in motion. He was quoted by a reporter for a left-wing group in 1990 as saying,
“. . . What if a small group of these world leaders were to conclude that the principal risk to the Earth comes from the actions of the rich countries? In order to save the planet, the group decides: Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring this about?”
The reporter when queried about this later said that Strong was just discussing “a novel plot idea” he had. Mr. Strong had no novels written or published at that time and today twenty years later has still not written or published a novel.
Remember, Maurice has not yet acted on his bang up novel idea (he’s now approaching 80 years old) but fortunately, Michael Crichton has taken the bull by the horns and done the job for him and it’s a very good novel “State of Fear” which environmentalists and progressives detest with every atom of their beings. You remember Michael Crichton? If anyone could have been expected to be an environmental alarmist Crichton would have been everybody’s anti-technology #1 candidate. Everyone of his books starting with “The Andromeda Strain” and running through to mention just a few “Terminal Man,” “Jurassic Park”( and “Lost World “which was Jurassic Park II, really), and “Prey” are all 100% stories of technology run amok and threatening humanity’s very survival.
Crichton, unfortunately for Maurice Strong and his buddies, has a very bad habit of actually doing monumental research about the subjects of his forthcoming novels. He started to write a story about global warming, Al Gore's and the Climate Research Unit's (CRU's) preferred "global warming story" he believed it was true . . . so then Crichton went where his research took him . . . to a belief that global warming was a monstrous hoax aimed at creating a new power elite . . . feeling actually at risk for his life, he put that knowledge and conviction into writing “State of Fear.” His research took him to a strong conviction that Maurice Strong’s “novel idea” was being put deliberately into motion . . . but back to Maurice . . . Here in a piece from the ultra-liberal London Times is a story that our mainstream media has refused to disclose to American for over five months now:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6936289.ece
Besides refusing to let Americans know that European liberals are fed up with the Climate-Gate scandal (link immediately above) and NO LONGER believe in global warming‘s inevitability and connection to man’s activites . . . here’s what the American mainstream media will NOT tell you, much less investigate about Maurice Strong’s activities and their connection to our favorite socialist president and ex-vice president:
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=531731
http://www.fusionfx.net/index.php/2010/05/01/crime-inc-obama-climate-collusion/
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,591845,00.html
Too bad Maurice was not just talking about conspiracy novel plots. No he’s never written that novel, but Maurice Strong is active in the Chicago Climate eXchange with Barack; Al Gore; John Ayers; Valerie Jarrett; Joel Rogers; Richard Sandor; Franklin Raines; David Blood; Paula DiPerna; several U.N. environmental honchos; the AFL-CIO union; the SEIU union; Andy Stern; Van Jones; several Goldman Sachs bigwigs (and independently 10% owned by Goldman Sachs itself); the Joyce Foundation; the Tides Foundation; ACORN (name now changed to fifty-one separate names); the Apollo Alliance; the Emerald Cities Collaborative; and so many others.
http://justincofield.typepad.com/my-blog/2010/05/digging-into-the-cap-trade-story.html
And the bottom line for Maurice and his fellow bandits is this: if cap and trade becomes the law of the land they each profit by BILLIONS from their connection to CCX (now supposedly talks are under way to sell CCX to a European group, bet we’ll find a lot of the same names hooked up with that) and most importantly the “ten TRillion dollar industry that Richard Sandor bragged about would be created. And the bottom line, what would be the result for America if cap and trade is created? Well you take a $15 TRillion economy and you create a $10 TRillion price tag for selling it “blue sky” (literally) and you have a nominal $25 TRillion economy with only $15 TRillion worth of goods and services. That is, 40% of the economy has become bogus –completely BS. The bottom line: everything in America would eventually cost 67% more than it now does (not counting any inflation caused by the Federal Reserves unending money-press activities). For you mathematically challenged, look at it this way 40% false economy supported by 60% real economy = 67% increase in prices or 40%/60% = .666667.
So, the only question left is this one, what is the goal for Strong, Obama, Gore, et. al. door #2 or door #3 mentioned above? Rajjpuut leaves you with a famous quote you may be familiar with . . . .
“. . . What if a small group of these world leaders were to conclude that the principal risk to the Earth comes from the actions of the rich countries? In order to save the planet, the group decides: Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring this about?”
Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
Dale Robertson: “We, The People, demand the best candidate, not the usual Democrat or Republican, but who lines up with Constitutional conservative platform.” Hey Dale! How are we to know? Can anyone tell us what the Tea Party is really about? I have not found agreement. Everyone has his or her own idea.
Gen. 1:26: “And God said, Let us make man in our image.” Did that mean with the help of the clergy? Did that mean with the help of government? If you take an isolated Bible passage, you can make a case for your idea of what Gen. 1:26 means. If you take a statutory law, one that attends to today’s needs, you can make a case for the law. If you take the Bible in its overall context, or if you take the whole of the U.S. Constitution, the meaning of Gen. 1:26 is clear. “Us” is you and I, individually, first, last, and always. “In light of today’s needs,” you do not make laws that rob Peter to pay Paul.
The image you have of yourself is more than likely to be an image the environment put in you. For instance, white people were taught that black people were somehow less than white people. I was born in the South. That’s what I was taught. During World War II, I was behind a black man in uniform at the train depot in Atlanta, Georgia. He was denied entrance in the depot restaurant. We were on a troop train heading for the war in the Pacific. This black man, who was willing to give his life for his country, was not good enough to dine with white folks.
Black people, by law, were like mules. The South depended on slavery. Black people were thought to be physically better equipped to do hard manual labor in the blistering heat of the South than whites. Southerners were taught, and in their churches, that black people were inferior to white people. If they had equal rights with whites it was feared they could not handle it. This way of thinking was general. It included the Founding Fathers. Was it “in light of yesterday’s needs?” Was it the law, or was it rationalization? There are certain intrinsic principles that never change. How can we be so dumb!
In America, many people believe they have the ability to cope without government help. Many believe they could not exist without government help, mostly black people, but a growing number of white people also believe they could not exist without government help. It is unbelievable. Many people believe that black people, because of the way they were treated, should be preferred in the law. Is it the luck of the Irish that those who believe they have the ability to cope without government help are the prosperous? How could we be so dumb!
Many people think they have the ability to cope without a religion. Many believe without their religion they could not cope. The Muslims who destroyed the World Trade Center, and killed thousands of innocent people, believed they were ordered by Allah, as the World Trade Center was a symbol of the “Great Satin.” Millions of Muslims danced in the streets. This is a fact of history that cannot be denied, no matter how it is rationalized. Is it racial profiling to think the way I think? Give me a break!
We, the people, are created with reason and logic. It is neither reasonable nor logical to believe all men, whether they are black or white, are not all equal; it’s a rationalization. It is neither reasonable nor logical to believe that God favors one religion over another; it’s a rationalization. Reasonably and logically, God does not destroy his own creation.
Our Creator gave human beings the ability to cope, not by the law of the jungle, but by the higher law of nature, the background of my Constitution. My Constitution was written for you and I, not for the powers that be—and used, not put in a glass case in Washington, D.C. Not many know how to use it. Indeed, the powers that be discourage the individual, in every conceivable way, not to use it. They encourage the individual, in every conceivable way, to depend on government.
The Founding Fathers knew this would be the case. They divided the powers of government and give the individual the Bill of Rights. If you don’t use this protection, what do you expect? I studied my Constitution and came to the conclusion that I should use it. I had a bigger than life calling. It turned my life around. All of my dreams came true.
All sentient beings, including man, are created with the power drive. The higher law of nature gives man the power to control any situation. The God I know gave me the “regenerative agency by which may make himself what he wills.” James Allen, As A Man Thinketh. I studied my Constitution, looked within, and came up with the right answers for me. Who knows me better than I know myself? I’ve been reborn the person I was meant to be.
Having said this, I read in Time-Life’s Mysic Places that at Stonehenge, 80 miles west of London, from the roof of his car in the parking lot, a young investigator with a wire antenna bent in the shape of a “awkh” (an Egyptian cross with a loop at the top) pointed it at the great stones. A bolt surged up his arm, hurling him to the ground unconscious. When he came to, his arm was paralyzed. It took six months to get the full use of his arm back. He tempted fate.
The ever-curious Werner von Siemens, founder of the giant German electrical company that bears that name, climbed to the top of the Great Pyramid at Giza. Having reached the top, he struck a pose, jabbing his finger upward. He experienced a prickling feeling in his finger and heard a sharp sound. Knowing a lot about electricity, Siemens wrapped a wet paper towel around a metal-necked wine bottle, his way of storing static electricity. When he held the bottle up, it became electrically charged and emitted sparks.
A French ironmonger, Antoine Bovis, toured the King’s Chamber of the Great Pyramid. He came upon several dead cats and other small animals. The bodies had no odor. Bovis found that they had dehydrated and mummified despite the chamber’s humidity.
Back home in Nice, Bovis constructed a wooden model of the Great Pyramid, oriented it due north, same as the Great Pyramid, and placed a dead cat inside. In a few days the body mummified. The forces of the Great Pyramid continued to multiply. It came to be thought that this was the essence of life forces itself. But, alas, scientific research found none of the claims to be true.
What was true for the above mentioned was not proven, and the same for my experience in the Bermuda Triangle. It is thought, but not proven, that there are time warps in the Triangle. In Mystic Places, I read that Bruce Germon, Jr., with his father the co-pilot of his Beechcraft Bonanza, had taken off from Andros Island in the Bahamas, bound for Palm Beach, Florida.
Germon accelerating to avoid a thick cloud, remembers that it seemed to rise to meet him and then enveloped him. He spotted a tunnel through the cloud. He dived down, hoping to exit into clear sky. The walls of the tunnel were growing white with small white clouds rotating clockwise around the tunnel. The plane seemed to pick up speed. For several seconds Germon and his father experienced weightlessness. Then the plane exited the tunnel and entered a greenish white haze. Trying to fix his position, Germon was startled to see his compass rotating counterclockwise. His navigation equipment was non-functional and he could not make contact with radar control.
Through the haze, he spotted an island which he thought to be Bimini. Minutes later, Germon recognized it as Miami Beach. Little more than half the expected flight time had elapsed.
I set sail from Nassau with three friends on my sloop Bold Venture, heading for Palm Beach. After we left the Bahamas Banks, I set my course southwest to allow for the north moving Gulf Stream, with the wind from southeast. At 2:00 A.M. we encountered tropical storm Dottie (1976) moving north up the Florida coast. I changed my course to North, as the wind was coming at me from the Northwest. My estimated time of arrival had been 10:00 A.M. Shortly after daybreak, as we rolled over a huge wave, I spotted the smokestacks of Florida Power and Light, a mile south of our inlet. It was impossible. I had been sailing north on the north moving Gulf Stream. We arrived at my estimated time of arrival, horrified that seas were breaking completely across Lake Worth Inlet. I was exhausted and my friends were in no shape to take the wheel. I went for it. My stern went up. Seas were breaking on both sides. The one behind never broke. We slid down it into the Inlet. My friends called it a miracle. My time warp experience was not published. It doesn’t matter. There is no way to prove it happened. There is no way to prove that after my bigger than life calling my life changed for the better.
America is currently in deep trouble, naturally, because We, The People, let the authorities have their way. God said, Let us make man in our image, and so says my Constitution. We’ve a long way to go and a short time to get there.
Liberals are liberal about SEX!!!
Beyond that they are 100% about SLAVERY and HATE. As you examine the policies they introduce on a regular basis, the resulting effect support this.
- Governmental care (welfare) produces a dependency and nurtures NON productivity and by natural law subordinates to the provider.
- Slaves! Consistent dismantling of biblical truth creates a society of morally bankrupt people that have no foundation so they follow the religion of government.
- The Federal takeover of our schools, teaches children WHAT to think NOT HOW to disseminate information, and if you (the student) disagree… you are reviled as a mental midget and berated. (an usurping of power of the parents and over the youth)
- Free to murder the unborn innocent but not put to death the guiltiest (Death row murderers). Creating a dependence on a support group NOW and Planned Death or parenthood, to appease the continual guilt of abortion justification therefore rather than reconciliation, forgiveness and peace.
- Dismantling the second amendment turns citizens into subjects and increases crime. (Statistically proven). They use civilizations as a tool for personal power and financial gain. Just look at what they have done to the minorities.
They tell minorities on a regular basis that they are so STUPID and WEEK that they cannot get along without the white liberals to feed and cloth them (welfare). Then they sell the story that they will never be rich so let’s go rob the rich man so you can be a SLAVE TO THE STATE. Brothers, I thought you hated slave ownership… Do you not realize that you only traded the Democrat plantation owner for the Democrats party? To the Hispanics they say NO BORDERS because we need the Hispanic SLAVE LABOR and more importantly VOTES. While Men are enslaved, women and children get raped left to die in the Sonora desert; While both Democrats and Republicans utilize the drug trade for the purpose of Federal expansion and creation of a police state with a so called war on drugs. States have become nothing more than a dairy cow of the federal government. Milked for all it can produce and then suckled on the tits of pork barrel projects to pacify the anger of the electorate.
The LEFT contribute to the death of the most honored among us, Our solders and Veterans!!! They vote to send them into battle then tie them to prolong the battle so as to milk from them financial and political gain. They empower and encourage our enemy by publicizing our failings and hiding our victory’s. All in the name of political campaign victories.
They use political correctness to destroy the first amendment as they cannot seem to win a debate on the facts. This from those who say I am inferior for not attending college. The left “for being so enlightened” are about the most inbred ignorant people in the United States. They scream “Freedom of speech” until they get offended. What offends them? Predominantly anything that encompasses common sense or simply the TRUTH!!! These people defile the constitution and the majority of what our founders intended.
Let us make sure to vote them out every chance we get; Left or right. This war in America and is going to be won or lost with BALLETS NOT Bullets. As predictable as ever, these liberal simpletons believe that we will grab our guns and run on Washington…. They are pushing and insulting our populace to create an Oklahoma Bombing scenario just to further there cause. They want someone to pop…
Look gang don’t buy the lie any longer… 2010 election is the battle field and the vote is the bullet. EVERY NON CONSTITUTIONAL elected OR appointed official needs to be replaced. I do not care IF THEY ARE DEMECRAT OR REPUBLICAN!!! Do not let politics destroy our great nation. Get the government back to the STATE level where we can confront and control it.
When we are born we are blissfully unaware of the circumstances that will dictate the course of our lives. As we grow into adulthood and become more aware of our surroundings, to some an appalling realization becomes evident. In the social structure that exists today in these United States, there are those who claim for themselves the right to control the people who by right of their birth are born free. These so-called rulers who today govern the free have equated the words "to govern" as "to rule." These "rulers" of the free believe it is Divine Providence, handed down from father/mother to son/daughter, that they rule by divine right. Even in "our" governing body there are those who have ruled for 20, 30 and 40 years and their reason has become so blinded to the will of the people, that their acts are less the voice of the people and more the dictates of the totalitarian.
When the Founding Fathers began the "great experiment" and called it America, the very meaning of the word government took on an entirely new meaning. In the founding documents, the preamble begins with the words "We The People," and continues to now and forever declare the duty of the government is for the protection and defense of the natural, God given rights of the people. In this one document it declares that the People have the Right to live their Life; to live in the state of Liberty; and the Right to own Property and pursue that which makes them happy.
Over these past two hundred and thirty some years things have changed substantially. We are no longer the America called the Land of the Free, with Liberty and Justice for all. Today the government controls/rules the education of our children; the law abiding Citizen must carry State issued identification papers or be subject to arrest, fine or jail. To be engaged in a private business one must obtain permission from the State and pay the State fee and tax in order to enjoy the fruits of their labor. The normal Citezen must pay up to one half of their earnings to the Internal Revenue and the Social Security Administration.
The "Land of the Free" and "The Home of the Brave" no longer exists as it did when our Founders first had the "Dream of Liberty" called America. But there is a spark beginning to ignite once again, and soon, with the chance for the "Flame of Liberty" to once again burn bright, the patriots who are "We The People" can and must stand up for the one word that sets us apart from the oppression and control of the rulers of a tyrannical government and that word is...FREEDOM!
"In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man and brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot." Mark Twain
HOW TO END THE TEA PARTY MOVEMENT
A Primer for the Current Major Parties
By Bob Bennett
It is good that the major political parties are wondering how to end the Tea Party movement. If the Tea Party wins or ends, rational government should return. However, as both major parties have been in bed with their major campaign contributors for so long, real reform seems unlikely. Neither party seems to remember that the purpose of any just government is to protect the people from the abuses of the powerful. That is simply natural law. The left never bothered to learn political theory, while the far right abandoned it, in favor of misreading Darwin. It is Survival of the Fittest, not survival of the most powerful, and not survival of the best backstabbers.
Instead of focusing on paying off debts to major campaign donors, government and the parties need to address the problems the common people face due to the privileges given to the elites. How many laws have been passed solely to benefit your elites? Has there been a single law in the past 30 years that actually benefitted the common people? The FDA exists to curry favor with the Drug and pesticide Companies. The “FDA Food Safety Modernization Act” would give a bureaucracy the right to tell you how to grow your home garden; fining you if you don’t use enough pesticides. The Drug companies have run rampant for decades, with phony studies, and marketing campaigns designed solely to force drugs on people who don’t really need them. Big oil has avoided any meaningful oversight, as have most major corporations. The bureaucrats know they will have a fat paycheck waiting for them at the corporations they are suppose to be regulating, if they stab the public in the back enough.
Katha Pollitt writes (The Nation May 3rd- Letter From Berlin) “As for the political value of the Second Amendment in defending the Republic, the idea that homeowners could hold off a tyrannical government with their individual weapons is bound to look ridiculous to people who have actually experienced fascism.” The idea of the 2nd Amendment is to prevent a tyrannical government from getting in power in the first place; and then give the people a chance should they slip. Basically the position of the Left has been that any bureaucrat on the face of the earth should be allowed to tell you how to live your life, down to the tiniest detail. It is a large part of the reason many feel the USA is becoming tyrannical.
George Washington warned the nation about getting involved with foreign nations largely because, at the time, foreign nations, primarily European, used lies and deceit as the common way of doing business, and only those who were skilled in lies and deception were capable of avoiding the landmines inherent in such a system. We have become a land where lies and deceit are the common way of doing business, especially in government.
Eisenhower warned, in his farewell address, of the dangers of the military industrial complex. We have become a nation where by the military industrial complex rules every decision. A Free People must, first of all, be free from hate and fear. Both parties feed on hate and fear. The left is in favor a bureaucratic dictatorship, the right a dictatorship for corporate elites. Neither is acceptable.
The latest ploy of the Right is using the problem of terrorist to eliminate the individual’s rights under Miranda; but except for television programs and the rich, Miranda was eliminated in the 80’s; especially in urban areas. (I do have a personal bias in this; in 1988 I was given the choice of dying in the Los Angeles County Jail or pleading no contest to misdemeanor charge I didn’t believe myself guilty of. After 74 days in solitary, denied pen, pencil, access to a telephone and prescription medication, and a court appointed attorney who refused to speak to me, except to demand I plea no contest, I caved. The California Bar Association – Decision 93-29417 failed to see any ethical violations.)
Aside from reading a person his rights, the Miranda decision also required counties provide a public defender to all defendants facing 6 months or more incarceration (Possibly the first of many unfunded mandates). In most states, it now applies to all defendants, including those facing less than 6 months imprisonment.
Naturally enough, counties looked for ways to avoid the increased costs involved with providing a public defender. The result is the plea bargain system. At first, this system of injustice was used primarily to put pressure on individuals suspected of major crimes, but for which inadequate evidence existed to have a reasonable chance of conviction. Also, at about the same time police officers lobbied successfully to get paid for appearing in court, which previously they often had to do on their own time.
However, by the early 80’s, the plea bargain system was being used for just about everything, including to cover up abuses by police officers. (According to the Criminal Justice Profile, published by the State of California; the conviction rate in Los Angeles County rose from 81% in 1981 to 98.6% in 1988. I haven’t tracked this since 1996, when it was at 96%.) While prosecutors touted their high conviction rates as evidence of their tough on crime positions, the plea bargain system actually encourages crime (“Plead no contest and I can get you out of jail by tomorrow.”), increases the amount of jail time spent by those who believe themselves innocent, or at least had mitigating circumstances, and spews hatred for those who administer the criminal justice system.
But that is not the sole reason for the crime in cities, which began irritating the people outside the cities long ago.
Starting in the late 60’s individuals who really didn’t belong there began to be released from mental institutions. In the 70’s drugs were found which mitigated the symptoms of mental patients, and many more were released from institutions. In the 80’s, with the election of Ronal Reagan, who believed these individuals should compete with everyone else, both homelessness and the criminalization of the mentally ill began. Mental Health Courts began to reduce this aspect of the problem; although mentally ill individuals still make up abnormally high percentage of prison populations. (Full disclosure: I received Honorable Mention from the Pacific Research Institute (1992) for a paper on how Mental Health Courts could save communities money while providing better treatments.)
Drug laws – Are today’s drug laws the result of J. Edgar Hoover being blackmailed (for being a transvestite) by one or more mafia families? We will probably never know for sure, but we spend way too much money to keep people incarcerated for activities which primarily just injure themselves.
Both major political parties promote greater privileges for their elites. County prosecutors are on the list of the privileged elites for both Republicans and Democrats. This is part of the reason this country is sinking toward dictatorship, which appears to be the favored position of both far left and far right, although each appears to want a different flavor of dictatorship. This helps fuel the increase in gun advocates.
When government, State and Federal begin to address the problems created by the greed, both of power and money, of the elites instead of covering up their abuses, we will once again become a fit nation, deserving of survival.
Barack Obama Sets Another Record for Incompetence
with Elena Kagan Nomination to Supreme Court
With the Sotomayor nomination and now the Elena Kagan nomination to be a United States Supreme Court Justice, Barack Obama is setting a record. Yes, yes he is attempting for the first time to place three women on the nation’s highest court. Yes, yes, for the first time it will be possible that the U.S. Supreme Court will not have a Protestant justice (Kagan is Jewish) . . . but more importantly, for the first time it will be possible that the U.S. Supreme Court would feature two justices who have seen their interpretations of American law overturned by a 9-0 or 8-0 contrary vote (against a Sotomayor judicial decision; and a Kagan advocacy position). The obvious assumption? Kagan, like Sotomayor, is a “living constitutionalist” that is she believes in creating law or attempting to create it from the bench or the advocate's chair or even the Dean's chair rather than making sincere efforts to respect the United States Constitution.
The shocking matter is that both cases featured the two ladies advocating great expansion of government powers against individual liberties. Sotomayor was clearly unqualified for the Supreme Court seat because in her two cause celebre`s one favored affirmative action that took away earned (by test scores) promotion from twenty-some firefighters of mixed races but NO Blacks in favor of affirmative action promotion of Black candidates who failed the test; and in another she sided with the state’s power to force an individual to sell his land over his objection so that a corporation could build a potentially lucrative shopping center. Like Sotomayor, Kagan, also, stands right in the crosshairs of legal philosophy. You’ll recall that Barack Obama insulted the Supreme Court attendees at his state of the union speech by cutting them down for their alignment 8-0 on corporate free speech and campaign donations. Kagan was the lawyer, technically the “solicitor general,” arguing the case for Obama when he tried to shutdown corporate free speech.
Kagan’s most clearly controvrsial actions as Dean of Harvard’s Law School were banning the presence of military recruiters on the campus and her defense of the action by referring to her distaste for “don’t ask don’t tell” standards for soldiers and other military citizens. Conservatives across the board favor denying federal funds to schools that oppose military presence (ROTC programs, recruiters’ visits and guest speakers for the most part) and this alone makes her highly suspect. Voicing her opposition to the policy is totally, OK. Rajjpuut disagrees mightily with her opinion, but free speech is guaranteed. Banning the recruiters is totally out of line . . . she was taken to court on the matter and when it reached the Supreme Court, surprise, surprise, her lower court wins were overturned and the school was denied government funding.
Kagan has been very guarded and even ingenuous about her views. Feigning a belief in constitutional limits regarding one matter in her only semi-open interview, she was pushed later in the interview for clarification and she would only say, she was referring to present status of the law, not necessarily her own views. The Obama administration has not allowed her since then to talk to the press. They engineered a phony-interview with an Obama administration sending her softball question and released that videotaping to the various press outlets apparently fearing another gaffe. So the opponent of free-speech is protected by denying the country a free-speech interchange with the news media??
She’s lived a circumscribed life in Academe and government, never had a real job and has always been aligned with the progressive-left leadership. Every action and word indicates that she’s like all those who in their ivory-towered stupidity believe we must “progress” well beyond the U.S. Constitution . . . ready, perhaps eager, to progress us over every available cliff in search of political correctness and expansion of government. Elena Kagan will definitely NOT exhibit a “principled view of the U.S. Constitution. Nor of common sense . . . she kicks the United States military off her campus and want federal funding for her unilateral UN-American show of political correctness??? Horse Pucky! Peter Beinart, no conservative he, puts it this way:
“On the day he or she is unveiled, conservatives will announce that they are approaching the selection with an open mind. Ten minutes later they will declare, more in sadness than anger, that the nominee has the judicial philosophy of Chairman Mao and the temperament of Dennis Rodman. Ten minutes after that, liberals will rise en masse to defend the nominee as wise, brilliant and humane, a person who restores our faith in humankind. And the kabuki theater will continue like that all summer long.
“I can’t blame my fellow liberals for playing along; if the other side fires, we have to fire back. But there’s one exception. If Solicitor General Elana Kagan gets the nod, conservatives will beat the hell out of her for opposing military recruitment on campus when she was dean of Harvard Law School. And liberals should concede the point; the conservatives will be right.”
Beinart has just committed the ultimate sin of political incorrectness in supporting a conservative argument and been proved right beyond the shadow of a doubt by the U.S. Supreme Court's rejection of Kagan's ugly argument 8-0, If only the United States Senate had Beinart's guts and integrity . . . .
Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
"We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America"! How naïve was America when Barack Hussein Obama shouted those words on the brink of his election. What an education we have had in the past tumultuous 18 months, with a new transformation occurring on an almost daily basis. It has been quite a ride, reminding me of the Disneyland Tea Cup ride where I watched my little boy lose his cookies. As disturbing as this ride as been, you have to admit -- this is the ONE statement Obama has made truthfully.
The Socialist Judge: Elena Kagan and the Teachable Moment
The teachable moment for conservatives... has arrived: http://bit.ly/9kkyz7
THE MOSQUE IN NEW YORK CITY RIGHT ACROSS FROM GROUND ZERO SITE TO BE BUILT RIGHT ACROSS THE
STREET FROM THE WORLD TRADE CENTER TOWERS . TO HAVE THE DEDICATION DATE SET FOR
9/11/2011 !
SHOULD NOT BE BUILT THERE !
A SLAP IN AMERICA'S FACE AND THE
3000 PEOPLE WHO DIED THERE.
MR. HOLDER NEEDS TO GO-
BRASS1USA
I wish I may, I wish I might have the wish I wish tonight. The poor wish for material abundance. The government accommodates them by giving the poor the Lottery. Anything that raises revenue, by government standard, is good. Taking from those who have and giving it to those who don’t, redistribution of the wealth, by government standard, is good. Government is giving the American people their wish. It makes as much sense as playing Russian roulette. Intelligent people don’t do this. This is my point. Cluck, cluck! It’s the fox watching over the henhouse.
I keep asking myself, “why would intelligent people do this to themselves?” Redistribution of the wealth grows government, and personal power, in a nation of the people, for the people—of those who have less than other people, who make up the majority. It's hogwash, not the law. It is people who live by their emotions, not their common sense. It is absolutely childlike.
Why do some people have less than other people? Is it luck? I don’t think so. The personal power drive is natural for all sentient beings. It is natural for those with a grant of power to do what they can to gain more power. It is natural to take from those with resources, those with personal power, render them powerless, and by law give to have-nots? Doing what comes naturally is not what humans do. It is not natural law, the law of the jungle, that directs humans. America’s Constitution has a background of “higher law” meant for humans. Is it for the good of all to take from those who have and give to have-nots? I don’t think so. We are above lower life forms; we’re above behaviorist animals; that is, if we are mature adults.
Redistribution of the wealth, taking from the rich and giving to the poor, grows government. Failure of a big, powerful government to enforce the U. S. southern border doesn’t make sense unless you consider the source. Allowing poor Mexicans the opportunity to take advantage of the welfare state makes perfect sense. Obama and colleagues are engaged in a global movement to take from nations that have, the U. S. being one, and give to have-not nations. It’s an expansion of the idea of welcoming the poor of the world to America, giving the poor of the world a God-given opportunity to succeed. This the U. S. gives us is a manmade opportunity given by America’s political opportunists. It’s all about the powerful seeking to control the world (including the leaders of the most repressive nations on earth). Look out! It’s backroom wheeling and dealing, the individual’s God-given rights no different than an ant’s rights.
What makes those with a grant of power in the U. S. any different than other tyrants? It’s terrifying. It’s working. America is going bankrupt, morally, spiritually, fiscally. History’s record is enough to convince any thinking person that too much power in too few places is corrupting. America’s Founding Fathers were careful to create a government of divided powers, to avoid this we now have. Their Constitution has been replaced by New Deal law, Great Society programs, and now by “transformation,” the final solution: socialization of the law—the end result justifies the means: government oppression. It’s as old as the hills.
Common sense says we are born for justice, and right is not the mere arbitrary construction of opinion but an institution of nature. Cicero, the father of modern law. We are born for moral rightness, based on reason and logic, which is fundamental to the law. Government is rightly servant of the people, not our masters. The majority of the American people have voluntarily reduced themselves to child status, in need of government control.
The U. S. grew into a great nation long before the New Deal. The Great Depression and all that followed was planned by progressives. Their idea was to eat away at individual liberty, to place themselves in control of our lives by redistribution of the wealth. I’ve yet to hear even one politician, Republican or Democrat, speak the full truth.
Obama’s plan is to have accomplished his socialist goals by 2012. If the Tea Party is to accomplish its goal, it needs to concentrate on electing politicians who are committed to giving everyone equal opportunity: no less and no more. The Tea Party needs to admonish politicians to state specifically how they intend on accomplish balancing the budget, shrinking bureaucratic control, shrinking lobbying. Money goes where money flows. It is about giving us back our Constitution, letting all politicians know it means elimination of New Deal law, Great Society programs, and Obama’s transformation into a socialist state.
We’ve run out of time and remain whistling Dixie.
Here's an email I received from Grassfire Nations. Use Grassfire to fax your individual message to Congress.
A message to all members of Patriotic Resistance
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The possibility of Obama ‘vetoing’ his Obamacare legislation because of recent discoveries from the Congressional Budget Office that it violated two of his campaign pledges about overall costs and reducing the deficit . . . now seems to be on the back-burner. Apparently the sensible notion was released as a trial balloon and was just a “tease” designed to confuse conservatives. No change is now expected. This is a perfect time to see how well President Obama came through on the fifteen most crucial promises he made about “reforming” health care in this country.
- 1. Health care will cost less for the individual and the government. That was why the "vetoing" of Obamacare actually made sense. It has now been revealed by the CBO that it will cost much more and will not help reduce the deficit.
- 2. Better care would result. Not according to the Congressional Budget Office and American physicians. Worse care and longer waits are the future for American patients.
- 3. Deficits would be reduced and Obamacare would help the nation meet the challenges of the future. Sorry, the CBO shows that Obamacare will NOT pay for itself even using ten years of taxes to cover the first six years of the program's operation. It will increase deficits and the National Debt.
- 4. It was part of his promise there would be “no new taxes on the middle-class.” However, Obamacare will begin collecting taxes on virtually everyone including the middle-class right away to pay for the program’s start in 2014.
- 5. Abortions will NOT be paid for with Obamacare and your tax dollars. The reason that Bart Stupak and eleven other “pro-life” Democrats held out till the last 24 hours was that they could see there was no provision in the law forbidding abortion funding. Then President Obama gave Stupak a promise there would be no funding of Abortions – a promise that has no legal power. Abortion funding is still NOT prohibited in the law as passed.
- 6. Not one dime over $900 Billion to fund it. The CBO now shows it coming in at over $1 TRillion which is what’s causing the deficit increases it will bring.
- 7. Health Care unconscionable profits for Insurance agencies will be reduced dramatically. First of all health insurance profit margins were 3.2% last year one of the lowest profit margins of any profitable industry. Secondly, thanks to Obamacare their absolute profits wil rise at least for the foreseeable future as 30 million new customers are added to their client rolls.
- 8. This is NOT socialized medicine. Ahem, FDR implemented 39 key agencies as part of the “New Deal" . . . but Obamacare creates almost 400 new agencies in just one monster law . . . medicine will become much more complicated and less user-friendly and, yes, it is obviously a government program now incorporating all the old agencies and 392 new ones . . . .
- 9. We will seek bi-partisan input and support. The only thing bi-partisan was that 34 House Democrats joined the Republicans in voting against Obamacare. Obama held a shuck-and-jive bi-partisan meeting where Republican input was totally ignored though it obviously made the most sense. Democrats talked for a bit longer than Republicans but Obama talked and harrangued for longer than both together. In the end not one of about ten great Republican ideas made it into the bill.
- 10. We’ll put this on C-Span; the creation of this new law will be open, transparent and a non-political process. BARF!
- 11. You’ll till be able to keep your current doctor and current health care insurance if you want to. Sorry, but a lot of doctors will not be a part of this program; and a lot of insurors will no longer be insuring the same employers because of the debilitating effect of Obamacare on employer finances.
- 12. There will be NO rationing of health care. Were you born yesterday? Longer lines? Fewer doctors? More regulations between you and your doctor? Attempts to call a great deal of the most expensive medical possibilities “optional” for the elderly – rationed care is the ONLY way that Obamacare could hope to work, sort of.
- 13. We’ll not go down that road (reconciliation) to pass the bill. That’s how they did pass it.
- 14. We’ll make sure there’s a five-day period for public comment before the bill is signed into law. Never happened.
- 15. We will “reform” the health care industry. They have enlarged the government and the health care bureaucracy and thrown a lot of money at the “problem.” The word “reform,” however, means to “improve” or “make better.” They clearly have NOT reformed the health care system.
Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
Last Rajjpuut Remembers . . . .
Loyal readers will remember that repeatedly Rajjpuut not only excoriated the Congressional Budget Office for their gutless refusal to stand up to the “pie-in-the-sky” assumptions included in the Obamacare budgeting but also assured followers that if made into law, Obamacare would bankrupt the country among other hideous consequences. The process of passing the law particularly the last minute cave-in by Bart Stupak and eleven other so-called “pro-life” Democrats to pass the bill; and the particulars of the bill which NO ONE STILL HAS READ IN ITS ENTIRETY even now; and the irresponsibility of cost estimates; and the moving of 16% of our economy into the government sphere were each of them more than enough to demand a thumbs-down vote. Taken together, they promised a hideous new law sure to wreck the country. Right now 58% of Americans agree the law must be repealed and only 31% think it shouldn’t be repealed. All of that, however, might have just become moot points.
The “Anointed One” himself, Barack H. Obama, Jr. appears ready to exercise the veto pen upon his own foul “reform” of the health care system. You read that correctly. In the train of recent revelations by the CBO that the bill was not going to cut deficits but rather increase them mightily , Obama appears poised to axe parts of his legislation. Rajjpuut has a better idea: sh__can the whole mess and start over with five goals:
A. Real tort reform to make malpractice insurance costs less and excess testing costs much less and health care costs dramatically much less
B. Cutting costs with minimal effect on the present system by eliminating waste and abuse and fraud
C. Insurance sales across state lines allowed
D. Emphasis on prevention and regular physials
E. Less than 200 pages employed in the whole bill.
As Rajjpuut has mentioned often, politicians tend to be slimy individuals when it comes to semantics and use of semantic tricks. While it sounds “bad” to be against “reform” any time; the word-reform, especially from Barack Obama’s tongue, is not the thing-reform. The word “reform,” you’ll note has been attached by Obama and his administration and the Democrats in both chambers of Congress to mean “changing to greater government control” rather than its previous dictionary meaning of “improving something.” Rajjpuut suggests a 100% reform of the Democratic Party and Barack Obama and especially of his administration.
This not-that-surprising turn of events comes after the so-called “surprise-announcement” that congressional budget referees now predict healthcare reform could top $1 trillion as conservatives have said for over a year now. Let Rajjpuut be clear here: Obamacare will eventually come in at $4 TRillion, not in total -- but $4 Trillion per year, the way it is currently written. Government-Freebies, or more accurately “Perceived-Government Freebies” always are in much higher demand than predicted. If, like Rajjpuut you’ve ever seen four or five male bears in the wild (who normally can’t stand each other within 100 yards) five feet apart during berry season as they gorge on nature’s bounty . . . you’ll understand where the 4X factor prediction comes from. And, of course, the law doesn’t really begin to come into play until 2014 . . . so meanwhile it’s killing the economy for four years with nasty taxes.
Those naïve hayseeds among you might consider all this to be an “explosive” revelation. Nothing could be further from the truth. The laws of economics did NOT go to sleep for a hundred years just because a politician totally ignorant of them moved into the oval office. Oh, a few more details, besides its own internal lack of integrity and fiscal inconsistency: the law still threatens to cut physicians’ income and to raise Medicare costs and to bankrupt each and every one of the states because of new Medicaid requirements. Ain’t that sweet?
House Minority Leader John Boehner, said this new CBO analysis ". . . coming just weeks after the Obama administration itself released an analysis confirming that the new law actually increases Americans’ healthcare costs, this provides ample cause for alarm. The American people wanted one thing above all from healthcare reform: lower costs, which Washington Democrats promised, but they did not deliver. These revelations widen the serious credibility gap President Obama is facing."
Jennifer Hing, spokeswoman for Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee, told Fox News: "If Congress were to approve all of this new discretionary funding authorized in the healthcare bill, almost all of the administration's highly touted savings would be made null and void."
CBO estimators also said they simply had not had enough time to run the numbers. Costs could go even higher, because the legislation authorizes several programs without setting specific funding levels. Rajjpuut would say, that is virtually always true. Too little study and too much spend-spend-spend and way too little actual understanding make Congress dangerous to the country’s political health and fiscal soundness. NO BILL should ever become law until sufficient time to truly understand all its ramifications has been taken . . . .
In the wake of the obvious example of highly-socialistic Greece’s present demise with fellow European socialistic countries England, Italy, Ireland, Portugal and Spain (more or less in that order) waiting in the wings for their own fiscal comeuppance . . . Rajjpuut suggests it’s high time this country and its leadership got its feet on the ground. Europe is in chaos trying to avoid the utter financial failure of tiny self- indulgent Greece, the European Union (EU) this week pledged $1 trillion to inject green money into the veins of Europe's socialistic vampires. Not to go unmentioned: about $76 Billion coming from the IMF (International Monetary Fund) comes from American taxpayers . . . we’re actually supporting other countries’ failed experiments in socialism, doesn't that make you happy? Ronald Reagan must be spinning in his grave and the Founding Fathers? Their ghosts are right now discussing reincarnation to ignite a new American Revolution***.
Last Rajjpuut remembers, the Berlin Wall came down . . . a symbol of the differences between capitalism and communism (socialism taken to its logical extreme). Remember . . . they had to pen their people in and even that didn’t work thousands died trying to leave their corrupt stinking corpse of a system. Look at our borders, we’re having huge problems keeping people out. Last Rajjpuut remembers, the Union of Soviet SOCIALIST republics (what a laugh, republics!) collapsed freely and voluntarily as her leaders admitted their system didn’t work. Last Rajjpuut remembers, the Warsaw Pact countries joyfully abandoned their own wonderful socialisms. Last Rajjpuut remembers, communist China is now prospering as they’ve adopted a huge level of capitalism upon its own rotten corpse of Marxism. Last Rajjpuut remembers, people still die striving to leave Cuba and make for our shores on inflated truck inner tubes. Last Rajjpuut remembers Adolf Hitler only gets credit for 13 million deaths while Stalin and his commies killed 25 million and Mao, IN PEACETIME, caused the death of almost 57 million Chinese. How difficult is it to reach the conclusion that SOCIALISM SUCKS!
Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
*** For God’s sake, fellow citizens, IF you have NOT read and understood the following brief words, you are, like Obama, an utterly ignorant fool when it comes to economics, correct that situation immediately:
http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl1.html
and for good measure, more brevities:
http://jim.com/econ/chap02p1.html
http://jim.com/econ/chap02p1.html
and the Full Monty:
President Obama says we don’t know who to believe because there is too much information at our disposal. I suspect he had Fox News in mind. Similarly, a Christian on teaparty.org told me I’m misinformed on my interpretation of the Bible. A Muslim would tell me I’m misinformed on my interpretation of the Koran. I’m told by another on teaparty.org that the Tea Party cannot be the imposition of a religion. The Declaration of Independence says I have God-given rights. Is that guilt by association?
Wall Street bankers were making a killing and politicians were happy to see people getting homes, regardless of the fact that they could not afford them. Common sense says the bubble was bound to burst but not the establishment. The Obama Administration blamed the Bush Administration for the problem and then proceeded to multiply many times the debt the Bush Administration incurred by telling us that Wall Street bankers were too big to fail and bailing them out. We, the people, asked for exactly what we got. In order to make the problem go away, politicians are playing a shell game, again exactly what we, the people, ask for. We don’t know who to believe, says Obama. Say I, we left our common sense for that proverbial pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
Birds fly in flocks and fish swim in schools. Astrologer’s Handbook: “Pisces is a sensitive sign (the sign, two attached fish swimming in opposite directions). . . They desperately want to do the right thing, but as a rule they do not have strong willpower. Therefore, they are easily influenced by external factors.” Hello!
We are leaving the Age of Pisces and entering the Age of Aquarius. Coincidentally, I was born with Aquarius rising. Quoting Astrologer’s Handbook, under “Aquarius:” “Individuals born under the sign of brotherhood and fraternity have as their symbol the water-bearer, who spill out to mankind the life-force and spiritual energy. . . Aquarians have eccentric temperaments and are determined and stubborn . . . There is no affectation or snobbery in the Aquarian personality but a dislike for spurious imitation and hypocrisy in any form. Aquarians operate as equals among equals. . .they are not dependent on their environments for their security." Coincidentally, America was born under the sign of Aquarius.
I learned in Astrology that my ruling planet, Uranus, in its orbit around the sun, had traversed half way in my forties, opposing itself when I was born. It meant pressure for change. Circumstances forced me to change. My business enterprise failed and as well my second marriage. I didn’t know what to do. I was frightened, depressed, and unbelieving of anything I’d been taught. Moreover, I looked upon my government as the greatest fraud of all times.
I was bitter and fired up to take action against the tyrannical IRS. By chance, I happened upon Edward S. Corwin’s essay, The “Higher Law” Background of American Constitutional Law. That’s when I started looking within for my answers. That’s when my bitterness turned into a bigger than life calling.
Everyone I knew thought I’d lost my mind. Everyone knows little. By looking within for answers, I turned my life around. I discovered my path of destiny. By insight and intuition, my life improved. Ask and you will receive.
According to astrologers, Aquarius rising means the part of me I show the world. As I age, I become more my outer personality. When I was forty-nine, I cut my umbilical cord with my past. I reinvented myself. I went to sea for two years and discovered the power in me that had been dormant. I became Aquarian.
There is too much information available, Obama tells us. The result is a lot of squabbling, all of it dealing with the symptoms of the problem, never the cause or the cure. Coincidental with Obama’s election, Saturn and Pluto went into unfavorable aspect. “You picked the right time to lead us, Barack.” (Coincidentally, I was born with Saturn trine Pluto. It means that I’d understand the subtle workings of the cosmos.) When America’s illustrious cosmic nurturer, with practically zero understanding of how the cosmos works, when President Obama’s term of office ends, according to the Mayan calendar, the world ends.
I bring you a good omen. I’ve learned from the experience of writing my memoirs that the more I think about my life the more I connect with happenings; certain events in my life are no longer coincidental. There isn’t too much information. It gives me a great selection from which to choose. My conscious awareness is expanding from the stuff I read. I’m now reading Time-Life’s Mysteries of the Unknown and intrigued over what the ancient priests of Egypt knew about mathematics.
Tying science with religion, Charles Piazzi Smyth, an astronomer whose social and intellectual credits gained him election to the Edinburg Royal Society, an honor for any scientist, it all came from his revelations on the Great Pyramid of Egypt. From his measurements, Smyth claimed that ancient Egyptian priests must have known the circumference of our planet. They must have known that there were 365.2 days in the time it takes Earth to circle the sun. What they knew in 2,500 B.C. Europe’s priests in the year 1,500 A.D. didn’t know. They insisted that Earth was a disc surrounded by four great rivers. If you didn’t accept their false notion, you were condemned as a heretic and subject to torture and imprisonment.
Came the Age of Enlightenment. The church no longer had the authority for force its will on Europeans, but it still had its domain. Science had its domain. The law had its domain. Many Europeans didn’t like it. They escaped to America where they were free to think and do as they wanted. Capitalistic in their thinking, neighbors helping one another directly, the man who built the best wagon prospered, they would never have stood for redistribution of the wealth. Over the years, there has been a slow return to the European way. Obama has put his foot to the metal.
In Time-Life’s Mysteries of the Unknown, I read about Atlantis, a nation of advanced people, which vanished, it is thought, under the ocean some 9,000 years ago. The Greek philosopher Plato started this legend. The closest actual history comes to Atlantis is during the Fourth Dynasty in Egypt, about 2500 B.C. On Crete and on other islands in the nearby Aegean Sea, an empire amassed wealth to build huge temples, create large cities, and to lay out complex waterworks. Their art, frescoes and pottery were highly sophisticated.
By Plato’s time, this civilization had disappeared. He knew nothing of the magnitude of this society. No one really knew its accomplishments until 1900, when Sir Arthur Evans began excavations. He unearthed stunning remains of what may have been Europe’s first civilization. He called it Minoan, after the legendary King Minos. Much that Plato told about Atlantis applied to the Minoans.
As Plato told it, Atlantis disappeared in a day. There is irrefutable evidence that the Minoan civilization was obliterated by a gigantic volcanic eruption on a nearby Aegean island, the enormous cauldron of which is plainly visible.
The ancient Egyptians were familiar with this great Minoan seafaring society. They traded together. There could easily have been a connection with those Minoan seafarers, ancient astrologer Egyptian priests, and Mayan priests. The Mayans built pyramids, the mathematics of which tells much about time and space. It is coincidental that astrologer Mayan priests invented a calendar based on time and space.
Three astrologers followed a new star in the east, the Star of Bethlehem; it’s called, to the Christ child, coincidental with the beginning of the Age of Pisces. According to Christians, from Revelations, these are the End Times. It connects with the Mayan calendar.
When we consider time, space, and our time—astrology—do we look back for the truth; do we look forward to godless technological development? The truth comes from connecting with all that we know about the past and the likely future, and weighing it.
The Age of Aquarius, the last of which occurred around 24,000 years ago, are we reliving past lives? What Plato said about Atlantis compares with today. With each repeating cycle, however, we are left with increasing purpose, who is to make the decisions? Do we remain under the dogmas and deceptions of authorities or do we look within for our answers?
The Tea Party is made up of individuals whose cause is gaining back our inalienable rights, defined in Black’s Law Dictionary as “Rights which are not capable of being surrendered or transferred without the consent of the one possessing such rights.” Morrison v. State, Mo.App.,252 S.W. 2nd 97, 101.
We members of the Tea Party have the law on our side, but that isn’t enough. We might have been ridiculed out of existence were it not for the fact that we realize we’re not spectators; we’re on the playing field.
I’m an Aquarian messenger. When my future looked hopeless, I cut from the herd and went strictly on my own. Miraculously, I found the power to overcome obstacles. All my dreams came true. The die has yet to be cast. The end could be the beginning of all of our hopes and dreams. It depends on you and I.
I'm a United States Navy Veteran with Parkinson's... According to the V.A. who is suppose to help veterans is twisting the knife along with the courts and congress and putting it to us Navy Vets. We are the so called "Blue Water" Navy Veterans exposed to agent orange while serving aboard ships in the " Tonkin Gulf " VietNam. I'm not whinning for myself, but, for the vets who don't have a spouse that works and has health care. I am considered 100% disabled because of the Parkinson's
My job while serving was a flight deck trouble shooter in V.F.103. We were exposed to anything that took place during launchs and recovery. When my government called I answered without hesitation. My shipmates and I who worked the flightdeck help load bombs and unknown weapons. Now because we never put a foot on shore the V.A. as well as the courts and Congress are turning thier backs to the few who served as a " BLUE WATER VET! "
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Charles
Item: Most Americans don't realize that late last year Mr. Obama authorized an immense compromise of U.S. sovereignty by authorizing the International Police Organization to enter the United States at will and for them, InterPol that is, to actually have greater powers within our borders than the FBI. Recently Iran has taken to using Interpol to chased down its "criminals" actually political exiles. In the wake of conservative outcry in this country, the list of Iranian fugitives has been removed from the Interpol "fugitives" list. Purportedly some Interpol officials have said -- off the record -- that they personally would never violate U.S. sovereignty to arrest Iranian political prisoners and they don't know anyone in their organization that would either. That's all very nice, but Mr. Obama had no way of knowing that . . . In any case Iran last week began putting pressure on Interpol to live up to its duty to the individual countries (in this case, to Iran) and start making some arrests in cases of well-known "criminals" with well known addresses. So push has come to shove . . . the Interpol charter forbids tracking of political fugitives but, of course, one man's political fugitive is another's abject criminal. We'll see
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Item: A few months ago, a bi-partisan vote established Pay-Go which sounded like an actual piece of fiscal intellect by the congress. The idea was simple, any vote requiring expenditures must also include a way to pay for the new law: either a tax increase or elimination of another program. To date at every chance to use Pay-Go, the Dems have either by-passed it by declaring the new bill an "emergency" or just outright ignored it while at every instance the minority G.O.P. has sought to enforce it.
Item: WOW! Today, the cap and trade bill was introduced into the senate after a huge hiatus since it barely passed in the house about eleven months ago. Except, oooops, it’s now wearing a different name. It’s called “America’s Power* Act,” these days. The hoopla is incredible. This bill is really great . . . purportedly cures cancer (actually make our environment far healthier they say), saves the planet, cures the economy by creating jobs (actually green policies in Spain took them from 3% unemployment to its present 21% unemployment disaster now) and gives Obama a hell of a lot more control over the United States’ free markets. Rajjpuut believes only the last claim is accurate, not to mention the huge conflict of interest scandals involving Obama and Gore and about thirty cronies and six or seven major leftwing foundations. See the story and links at the bottom of the page. U.N. bigwig Maurice Strong of Canada called the “Godfather of Global Climate Change” (who has personally benefitted to the tune of several millions of dollars from Al Gore speaking to congress on behalf of Strong’s “Molten Metal Co." and who is a participant of Gore-Obama-Joel Rogers’ Chicago Climate eXchange <CCX>) is the major driver of this bill -- yep, a foreigner in league with our Joel Rogers and others. A conservative blog listed below gives us a picture of the colorful Mr. Strong.
Item: WOW! Today, the cap and trade bill was introduced into the senate after a huge hiatus since it barely passed in the house about eleven months ago. Except, oooops, it’s now wearing a different name. It’s called “America’s Power* Act,” these days. The hoopla is incredible. This bill is really great . . . purportedly cures cancer (actually make our environment far healthier they say), saves the planet, cures the economy by creating jobs (actually green policies in Spain took them from 3% unemployment to its present 21% unemployment disaster now) and gives Obama a hell of a lot more control over the United States’ free markets. Rajjpuut believes only the last claim is accurate, not to mention the huge conflict of interest scandals involving Obama and Gore and about thirty cronies and six or seven major leftwing foundations. See the story and links at the bottom of the page. U.N. bigwig Maurice Strong of Canada called the “Godfather of Global Climate Change” (who has personally benefitted to the tune of several millions of dollars from Al Gore speaking to congress on behalf of Strong’s “Molten Metal Co." and who is a participant of Gore-Obama-Joel Rogers’ Chicago Climate eXchange <CCX>) is the major driver of this bill -- yep, a foreigner in league with our Joel Rogers and others. A conservative blog listed below gives us a picture of the colorful Mr. Strong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm4h-f6nRDY&feature=player_embedded
Item: German citizens are up in arms about bailing out Greece and the European Union as reflected in newspapers there running headlines loosely translated as “We are now the schmucks of Europe yet again^^,” “German taxpayers bailing out the Euro, again” and “European hands reach deep into our pockets.” Germans believe that Greece and the EU will drag them down the drain with them. For us here in this country think of “Greece R Us” as the blueprint for the USA’s future financial calamaties thanks to outlandish irresponsibility in Congress and the Oval Office.
Item: It’s illegal to break into my house and to break into my country also. However, California communities and the state of California itself are boycotting or considering boycotting Arizona based upon that state’s immigration law trying to enforce that state’s and the nation’s borders. Not mentioned in all this, the policies and laws of numerous cities and counties in California, particularly in Southern California that amount to little more than “sanctuary policies” for those who traffic in illegal aliens and rent shoddy “safehouses” as stopovers. Since California is finding schools, hospitals and the entire state overloaded with welfare problems, crime problems, and totally bankrupt . . . hmmmm, whose ideas are bankrupt anyway?
Item: For some reason, the total lack of response by Barack Obama and his administration to the horrific flooding in Tennesse, Kentucky and the Cumberland River area for about ten days now; and to yesterday’s Oklahoma tornadoes . . . no response at all, so far as Rajjpuut can tell . . . this problem has not been reported on by the mainstream media. If this was George W. Bush we’d have the progressive press and broadcast media in fits . . . but Mr. Obama rates an unending pass on their criticism, of course. The oil spill in the gulf is news of a future great tragedy but these are monstrous disasters NOW which the president is ignoring.
Item: Several economists are suggesting that the bailout of Greece (some of the money comes from U.S. taxpayers) is a band-aid stuck on the carotid artery. Their projections for Greece’s total collapse vary from one to two years down the road.
Item: Two more long-time incumbents have been ousted in primary voting. Utah Republican Senator Bennett and a less high profile West Virginia Democratic Senator Allan Mollohan with 55 years of experience between them are both now out of the picture. Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania is now at risk in his upcoming primary. Besides their long-time incumbent status, all three men have the label “big spender” attached to them and favored the stimuli and bailouts. Specter and Mollohan voted for Obamacare. Fiscal conservatives are making their preferences known; is all this a “referendum” on Obama policies? Well yes and no. Bennett is a Republican, remember. More on Mollohan in a few sentences . . . . Minimal government is the hope of fiscal conservatives and little-known ideas for Washington, D. C. like fiscal responsibility, balanced budgets, and eliminating debt are very popular on Main Street. The U.S. government normally runs a surplus in the month of April. Last year the deficit in April was $20 Billion about 25% of that deficit belonged to Barack Obama. This year, the first entirely under Obama’s administration the budget deficit was $82.7 Billion. Oh speaking of deficits, W. Va.’s Mollohan not only had been running as a fiscal-conservative and against Obamacare, but he was also one of the twelve House Democratic “pro-life” group opposing Obamacare who flip-flopped at the very last moment with Bart Stupak and the other ten to allow the bill to become law by three votes. Stupak, of course, refused to run. Obamacare, now according to the Congressional Budget Office’s latest figures will not cut deficits as promised but actually increases the deficits. The FBI has recently been investigating Mollohan’s ethics recently. Rajjpuut is SO surprised.
Item: Oh, oh the worm has turned . . . Widely reviled by the left, Bush’s faith-based initiatives were considered evidence that Bush was a “religious zealot” aiming to destroy America with evil Christianity. Now, sixteen months into the Obama administration, we are seeing what Obama intends to do with his continuation of Bush’s faith-based offices: he wants to use them to push the religion of Green-faith on America’s churches. You may have heard news reports of “faith-based” groups aligned under the banners of "climate change leadership" and 'eco-justice" now are getting behind Obama’s Cap and Trade legislation a.k.a. the “American Power Act.” Except, guess what, the majority of the groups involved are the religious sect for which Jeremiah Wright preaches and roughly 90% of their membership is Black (Blacks voted 95.8% for Obama in 2008) no surprise these two groups are Obama supporters. At the bottom of their website they show a link to “DemocracyinAction.org” which it turns out is a Marxist group who’s main concern is wealth redistribution.
Item: http://politicallydrunk.blogspot.com/2008/10/web-archives-confirm-barack-obama-was.html Here is a factoid that the mainstream news media has still not reported upon: it seems that Obama’s claims that the “New Party” and the “Democratic Socialists of America Party” that supported Barack Obama’s campaign efforts in 1995 not only were both socialist organizations But the claims of both groups that Obama was never a member of them . . . were both lies. Hmmm, that makes 18 months without the mainstreamers letting America know Obama’s true colors . . . then five months without letting Americans know the facts about Climate Gate: . . .
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6936289.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6936328.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7009710.ece
and roughly a month now has gone by without the U.S. mainstream media investigating or even mentioning the connections between Obama, Al Gore, Joel Rogers, Goldman Sachs et. al and several progressive foundations in a scheme to defraud the United States economy of “Ten Trillion dollars” the estimate according to CCX participant Richard Sandor. The Chicago Climate Exchange would enrich this group greatly (from carbon exchange commissions) and raise virtually all prices in the country by roughly 67%.@@@
http://rajjpuutsfolly.blogtownhall.com/2010/05/11/journalistic_corruption_allows_$10_trillion_obama_betrayal.thtml
Ya’all live long, strong and ornery
Rajjpuut
** America's POWER Act? Think of it as a monstrous TRANSFER of America’s money and power to Zimbabwe, etc. and other poorer countries around the globe via U.N. programs created and advanced by Maurice Strong’s efforts.
^^ Schmucks Again??? What does that mean? After World War I, the U.S. allowed England and especially France to RAPE the German economy with the evil Treaty of Versailles. Without Versailles' corruption, Nazis don’t exist, Hitler doesn’t exist and World War II never happens. Rajjpuut who lived in Germany as a boy, collected German stamps from the post World War I era with one or two horizontal lines running across them. For example the number 500 DM on an early 1922 stamp might be lined out and the number 2,500 DM might be printed over the stamp’s original coloring. Or later at the height of the runaway inflation the two-lined out stamps might show 80,000 DM is lined out and replaced with 300,000 DM which is itself lined out and 1, 000,000 DM printed over both of them. All this is more dramatic if the reader realizes that four Deutsch Marks exchanged for an American Dollar about 1916. Germany was ruined by runaway inflation (see the Erich Maria Remarque book “The Black Obelisk” for a graphic portrayal of the events leading up to Adolf Hitler) and the World was later ruined by Germany.
@@ In a $15 TRillion economy $25 TRillion worth of expensese for the same number of goods and services means $10 TRillion/$15 TRillion or 67%. CCX, should it come to exist, would be selling "blue sky" literally.
