IRS gobbles remaining value of Olympic gold; Iran more moral than US? Plus CONVENTION PROVOCATEURS

If you or yours ever embark on a trek to athletic greatness, rest assured the IRS is already sharpening its fangs in your behalf as we speak:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/go-gold-pay-irs_649187.html
Go for the Gold! (Pay the IRS.)

...........The politicians and media have hit a new high on screeching about the evils of Iran the past day or two. That beautiful and dignified country and former "Hitler of the Month" honoree has turned into "Hitler of the Millennium" as the media-government complex attempts to stampede it into submission and us into a state of total confusion. Better minds than mine have pointed out that if there were any substance whatsoever to this alleged threat against us, some kind of horrible danger would have come to fruition. Thank God it hasn't, but wouldn't you agree something about it doesn't add up?

Fear-mongering works by throwing out constant abstractions, which has the effect of divorcing people from reality as it steals their attention off the specific and onto the generalized. Don't worry about conditions in your own country, comrades -- we'll fix all that for us once we rape-murder ten countries on the other side of the world where mortal danger lurks against you! And pay no attention to that man behind the curtain as he points out a few ways your supposed enemy puts your own society to shame:

http://politicaloutcast.com/2012/08/does-iran-have-higher-ethical-standards-than-washington/
Does Iran Have Higher Ethical Standards than Washington?

Abstractions will be our epitaph. Over the past couple of days I've had a couple of interesting encounters with fellow religious fanatics. I tried to point out to them the main problem in the world today, the major subject never mentioned in polite company. One was hopeless -- everything I gave him, he countered with what the Bible says is going to happen at some point in the future. He's so heavenly-minded he's no earthly good! Oh, but he has his church to back him up in defying scoffers like me.

The encounter other was just the opposite. The Book of Revelation was not this friend of mine's oyster -- every proposition I threw down to him, why, he had the perfect dodge for it from the Old Testament -- "I see here in I Chronicles that evil has always existed," etc. etc. When I pointed out that that it had nothing to do with the pressing matters I was talking about, his next escape hatch was "Well, there are only so many hours in the day -- I can't cover it all!"

The Bible is the Book of Life including those portions. But people use it to twist things beyond recognition, building glorious abstractions which become phenomenal distractions -- you know, from unpleasant reality. This explains much of ameriKa's insane foreign policy. And the hysteria they're trying to involve us in against Israel's enemies (real and imagined) is a colossal abstraction with no intrinsic basis in reality, from which politicians and presstitutes create a virtual reality that people aren't even aware of even as they wallow and swim in it year after year.

...............This just in!--

http://politicaloutcast.com/2012/08/undercover-cops-incite-violence-at-republican-and-democrat-conventions/
Undercover Cops Incite Violence at Republican and Democrat Conventions

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