I've tremendously enjoyed my two decades in South Carolina -- and I always enjoy an excuse to head for the capitol. The state house plaza has to be somewhat unique for its size, its stunning park-like aspects, its numerous memorials to the greatness of our War Between the States saga.
Inside the august gray buildings, politicians and functionaries move with professional finesse. One would never guess from all this the corruption beneath the surface (unless, of course, one kept up with votes on issues). In the opinion of some pollsters, it's very, very bad (thanks, V):
South Carolina Corruption Risk Report Card
http://www.stateintegrity.org/south_carolina
SC named one of the most corrupt state governments in nation
http://www.abcnews4.com/story/17194713/sc-named-one-of-the-most-corrupt-state-governments-in-nation
........Headlines at Drudge today include:
REPORT: 'Stunning lack of diversity' in Obama's re-election campaign...
$1 million pizza party in Detroit -- on sterling silver plates!
WHouse basketballs emblazoned with Obama's image...
Fidel Castro mocks Obama over 'guayabera' diplomacy...
Herbal remedy 'blamed for high cancer rate' in Taiwan...
Gas Prices Grow More Under Obama than Carter...
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/04/09/dry-air-strong-winds-increase-danger-of-fire-across-tri-state-area/
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Monday, April 9, 2012
Sunday, April 8, 2012
Happy Resurrection Day -- let freedom ring!
The Lord is risen, he is risen indeed. Please -- let freedom ring. I beg of you, help ensure that freedom rings -- because it appears to be heading into a rock-hewn sepulchre never to emerge for a long, long time!
Some of you will know the name of Brother Lester Roloff. You may know I'm very particular about preaching. Condemning the good and exalting the bad in that field is a specialty of mine, simply because the Bible commands us to exercise keen discernment in all things and makes an example of false prophets and shepherds from cover to cover. In my humble opinion, Bro. Roloff is the best preacher in this country (despite having been dead for 30 years. Write for my column declaring him the greatest American of all time -- and enjoy this example of his blunt yet compelling, un-compromising, distinctly Southern homilitics:
http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=112611018472
Jesus The Supreme Person
We in greater Greenville, SC are blessed with the ability to hear him on radio a handful of times a day (WMUU and WTBI). I don't see an "Easter" sermon on Bro. Roloff's page, but the above dovetails perfectly with the occasion and the political stuff I've got for you today -- because it deals with the question of who is really supreme in this country. The preacher sounds very tired in this audio file -- possibly ill -- but anybody who reviews his lifetime of Christian heroism will see why that could be so on occasion.
We still have the right to share "Easter" greetings together; stores still close on Christmas and Thanksgiving, some even on Good Friday. But for how long under present trends? And incidentally..... how Scriptural are those holidays? I won't ruin them for you today other than to suggest you research the choice of December 25 and the derivation of the word Easter. I do this not out of the desire to be a killjoy (the eternal temptation of the muckraker) but out of a concern for bedrock truth.
Our first article is thus a killer for those who cherish certain illusions about the nature of the USA:
http://www.panamalaw.org/getting_out_of_dodge_04-08-12.html
Where We are At With Obama – Summary
This article is itself a kind of Resurrection Day miracle, because it's a radical departure from its author's usual. It too concerns the "parallel universes" that exist openly for those with eyes to see them: there's the truth of the Gospel (which PanamaLaw does not embrace), and then the American political realm which our kind of people fondly view as saturated with Christian symbolism and principles, and then there's the truth that this country has always been run by pagans for pagan purposes.
Various excuses are offered for the prominence of the Great Pyramid on our greenbacks through the years, but the fact remains that that structure is a temple of ancient Egyptian polytheism with parallels in ancient Mesoamerica and other parts of the world.
Well, these resources are there for anybody interested in scraping all the layers of old paint off things. To end on a happier note, an Easter bonbon from DrudgeReport.com:
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-04-07/news/os-sandy-adams-obama-martial-law-20120407_1_order-powers-barack-obama
Orlando's Rep. Adams fears Obama power grab
For those who collect evidence of blatant media spin and attempted damage control, this article may win the prize for 2012 when it's barely one-fourth over! Don't dare doubt that the laws under discussion contain all the horrible things Rep. Adams and friends are warning and much worse... Can it possibly be that any reporter actually disbelieves in the dangers Obummer and his ilk pose to this Republic? Yes, because lots of media scribblers appear to be low-paid young folk with the best of intentions and the worst brainwashing flooding their skulls. They are educated to ignorance and paid to put forth the PC party line. It never seems to occur to them that the very thing they claim to prize above all else, "diversity", is totally lacking in the worldview and values their industry force-feeds the public. They are as monolithic as the Skull and Bones cult's (in)famous headquarters.
Ah! More good news via Drudge despite his frequent toeing of the PC line!
http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/marine-corps/220423-case-of-obama-bashing-marine-renews-first-amendment-debate
Case of Obama-bashing Marine renews debate over First Amendment rights
Now, this is one soldier that really should get a major medal.... in my "humble" opinion.
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Some of you will know the name of Brother Lester Roloff. You may know I'm very particular about preaching. Condemning the good and exalting the bad in that field is a specialty of mine, simply because the Bible commands us to exercise keen discernment in all things and makes an example of false prophets and shepherds from cover to cover. In my humble opinion, Bro. Roloff is the best preacher in this country (despite having been dead for 30 years. Write for my column declaring him the greatest American of all time -- and enjoy this example of his blunt yet compelling, un-compromising, distinctly Southern homilitics:
http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=112611018472
Jesus The Supreme Person
We in greater Greenville, SC are blessed with the ability to hear him on radio a handful of times a day (WMUU and WTBI). I don't see an "Easter" sermon on Bro. Roloff's page, but the above dovetails perfectly with the occasion and the political stuff I've got for you today -- because it deals with the question of who is really supreme in this country. The preacher sounds very tired in this audio file -- possibly ill -- but anybody who reviews his lifetime of Christian heroism will see why that could be so on occasion.
We still have the right to share "Easter" greetings together; stores still close on Christmas and Thanksgiving, some even on Good Friday. But for how long under present trends? And incidentally..... how Scriptural are those holidays? I won't ruin them for you today other than to suggest you research the choice of December 25 and the derivation of the word Easter. I do this not out of the desire to be a killjoy (the eternal temptation of the muckraker) but out of a concern for bedrock truth.
Our first article is thus a killer for those who cherish certain illusions about the nature of the USA:
http://www.panamalaw.org/getting_out_of_dodge_04-08-12.html
Where We are At With Obama – Summary
This article is itself a kind of Resurrection Day miracle, because it's a radical departure from its author's usual. It too concerns the "parallel universes" that exist openly for those with eyes to see them: there's the truth of the Gospel (which PanamaLaw does not embrace), and then the American political realm which our kind of people fondly view as saturated with Christian symbolism and principles, and then there's the truth that this country has always been run by pagans for pagan purposes.
Various excuses are offered for the prominence of the Great Pyramid on our greenbacks through the years, but the fact remains that that structure is a temple of ancient Egyptian polytheism with parallels in ancient Mesoamerica and other parts of the world.
Well, these resources are there for anybody interested in scraping all the layers of old paint off things. To end on a happier note, an Easter bonbon from DrudgeReport.com:
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-04-07/news/os-sandy-adams-obama-martial-law-20120407_1_order-powers-barack-obama
Orlando's Rep. Adams fears Obama power grab
For those who collect evidence of blatant media spin and attempted damage control, this article may win the prize for 2012 when it's barely one-fourth over! Don't dare doubt that the laws under discussion contain all the horrible things Rep. Adams and friends are warning and much worse... Can it possibly be that any reporter actually disbelieves in the dangers Obummer and his ilk pose to this Republic? Yes, because lots of media scribblers appear to be low-paid young folk with the best of intentions and the worst brainwashing flooding their skulls. They are educated to ignorance and paid to put forth the PC party line. It never seems to occur to them that the very thing they claim to prize above all else, "diversity", is totally lacking in the worldview and values their industry force-feeds the public. They are as monolithic as the Skull and Bones cult's (in)famous headquarters.
Ah! More good news via Drudge despite his frequent toeing of the PC line!
http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/marine-corps/220423-case-of-obama-bashing-marine-renews-first-amendment-debate
Case of Obama-bashing Marine renews debate over First Amendment rights
Now, this is one soldier that really should get a major medal.... in my "humble" opinion.
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Friday, April 6, 2012
Tax day opportunities; LA Times censors Ron Paul extravaganza
Did you catch this in the PN egroups?
http://www.nwtrcc.org/taxday2012.php
Tax Day Protests and Events 2012
It's great to see so-called income taxes and war paired as a subject. For one thing, it's true that without so-called income taxes the war machine would grind to a halt. For another, it harks back to the 1960s when socio-political ferment was heady, some of it actually good and meaningful. I'm grateful to still be here to see it and make up for my brainlessness back then.
How times change -- people, too. Two generations ago lots of us in the freedom movement were well-intentioned but ignorant and blind in their support of what was presented as the conservative worldview. Gee, how could it be wrong with supposed hard-rightists as William F. Buckley and Barry Goldwater in the lead?
Central to "mainstream" conservatism in the 1960s were notions like "you pay your taxes as a good American" and "We have to win in Vietnam or we're cowards and deserters". I bit that bait as much as anybody -- until my number came up in the draft, that is. That brought instant values clarification and I successfully applied as conscientious objector, which I if course don't regret.
Those who escaped the draft to Canada were scorned as unpatriotic communist sympathizers. Some were that, but some simply had a conscience and the common sense to see that the war was a total fraud, something no decent person could have anything to do with. Tragic they had to exile themselves -- heroic that they did! Canada doesn't appear as welcoming as it used to be:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_and_Iraq_War_resisters
Today's true conservatives agree with Ron Paul that peace is patriotic, and income taxes un-Constitutional. In this we've left the left in the dust, because it still has no interest in tax truth -- 'twould be very bad for their agenda if the people weren't being bled by the IRS for "programs" and the wars that leftists actually do support today. But many of them agree with us about war, thank God. It's just amazing how much we can agree on and how much we've switched sides on other things from the old days.
Just looking at some of the names in the above article should bring a nostalgic smile to those who remember that previous era -- Michiana War Tax Refusers, War Tax Boycott cards, Heartland Peace Tax Group, Worcester Friends Meeting.... these events may bring a lump to the throat:
Ithaca — Ithaca War Tax Resistance invites all to voice our discontent over the government’s misuse of trillions of dollars for projects of killing, destruction, and coercion. Bring signs. Participate in the “draw war to a close” chalk drawings, at the Post Office on Tioga Street, Monday, April 16, Noon–4 p.m. Info: Tom Joyce at (607) 277-7426.
New Orleans — Vigil and leafleting with “Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes” pie chart flyer. April 16, 4–6 p.m., Main Post Office/Federal Building. Sponsored by Pax Christi New Orleans, (504) 522-3751 or email benhgordon[at]yahoo.com.
I.e. has ameriKa learned absolutely nothing since the Vietnam era? HOW MANY MORE VIETNAMS, a buzzphrase I help propagate. God bless these protesters and their creativity -- let's hope for huge numbers!
...........Headline among the many in today's inbox haul: "LA Times blacks out Ron Paul's UCLA visit -- So now we know what paper to never buy again! Thank You." Speaking of boycotts and moratoriums!
...........Lew Rockwell says Ron can win, more easily than most people have any idea:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2012/04/05/268-ron-paul-has-won-the-future/
268. Ron Paul Has Won the Future
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http://www.nwtrcc.org/taxday2012.php
Tax Day Protests and Events 2012
It's great to see so-called income taxes and war paired as a subject. For one thing, it's true that without so-called income taxes the war machine would grind to a halt. For another, it harks back to the 1960s when socio-political ferment was heady, some of it actually good and meaningful. I'm grateful to still be here to see it and make up for my brainlessness back then.
How times change -- people, too. Two generations ago lots of us in the freedom movement were well-intentioned but ignorant and blind in their support of what was presented as the conservative worldview. Gee, how could it be wrong with supposed hard-rightists as William F. Buckley and Barry Goldwater in the lead?
Central to "mainstream" conservatism in the 1960s were notions like "you pay your taxes as a good American" and "We have to win in Vietnam or we're cowards and deserters". I bit that bait as much as anybody -- until my number came up in the draft, that is. That brought instant values clarification and I successfully applied as conscientious objector, which I if course don't regret.
Those who escaped the draft to Canada were scorned as unpatriotic communist sympathizers. Some were that, but some simply had a conscience and the common sense to see that the war was a total fraud, something no decent person could have anything to do with. Tragic they had to exile themselves -- heroic that they did! Canada doesn't appear as welcoming as it used to be:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_and_Iraq_War_resisters
Today's true conservatives agree with Ron Paul that peace is patriotic, and income taxes un-Constitutional. In this we've left the left in the dust, because it still has no interest in tax truth -- 'twould be very bad for their agenda if the people weren't being bled by the IRS for "programs" and the wars that leftists actually do support today. But many of them agree with us about war, thank God. It's just amazing how much we can agree on and how much we've switched sides on other things from the old days.
Just looking at some of the names in the above article should bring a nostalgic smile to those who remember that previous era -- Michiana War Tax Refusers, War Tax Boycott cards, Heartland Peace Tax Group, Worcester Friends Meeting.... these events may bring a lump to the throat:
Ithaca — Ithaca War Tax Resistance invites all to voice our discontent over the government’s misuse of trillions of dollars for projects of killing, destruction, and coercion. Bring signs. Participate in the “draw war to a close” chalk drawings, at the Post Office on Tioga Street, Monday, April 16, Noon–4 p.m. Info: Tom Joyce at (607) 277-7426.
New Orleans — Vigil and leafleting with “Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes” pie chart flyer. April 16, 4–6 p.m., Main Post Office/Federal Building. Sponsored by Pax Christi New Orleans, (504) 522-3751 or email benhgordon[at]yahoo.com.
I.e. has ameriKa learned absolutely nothing since the Vietnam era? HOW MANY MORE VIETNAMS, a buzzphrase I help propagate. God bless these protesters and their creativity -- let's hope for huge numbers!
...........Headline among the many in today's inbox haul: "LA Times blacks out Ron Paul's UCLA visit -- So now we know what paper to never buy again! Thank You." Speaking of boycotts and moratoriums!
...........Lew Rockwell says Ron can win, more easily than most people have any idea:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2012/04/05/268-ron-paul-has-won-the-future/
268. Ron Paul Has Won the Future
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Thursday, April 5, 2012
Extra! Extra! Ron Paul wows UCLA -- !?!?!?!?!!
The Paul campaign is putting System hypocrisy in high relief. Check the latest figures and footage -- via a PN egroup:
Ron Paul Draws 7,800+ at UCLA Rally! Video of Crowd and Speech
http://youtu.be/ootad-Ylvqg
[ 3:49 youtube]
April 2: Ron Paul draws record crowd of 5200 in Wisconsin
April 4: Ron Paul draws record crowd of 6200 at Chico, CA
April 4: Ron Paul draws record crowd of 7,800 at UCLA......
And the Lamestream News reports that he is scaling back his campaign????
The University of Southern California at Los Angeles has a long history as a center of radical-chic "liberalism". To see him even allowed to speak there, much less meet with such acclaim, is mind-blowing.
This non-political show should make your heart skip a beat:
http://www.terrafugia.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrafugia
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Ron Paul Draws 7,800+ at UCLA Rally! Video of Crowd and Speech
http://youtu.be/ootad-Ylvqg
[ 3:49 youtube]
April 2: Ron Paul draws record crowd of 5200 in Wisconsin
April 4: Ron Paul draws record crowd of 6200 at Chico, CA
April 4: Ron Paul draws record crowd of 7,800 at UCLA......
And the Lamestream News reports that he is scaling back his campaign????
The University of Southern California at Los Angeles has a long history as a center of radical-chic "liberalism". To see him even allowed to speak there, much less meet with such acclaim, is mind-blowing.
This non-political show should make your heart skip a beat:
http://www.terrafugia.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrafugia
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Wednesday, April 4, 2012
The US now has the highest corporate tax rates in the OECD
The USA is a land of innumerable superlatives and extremes. For a long time it was considered the richest, most noble and praiseworthy land on the planet. It isn't any longer, yet literally billions are spoiling to come and live here, and scores of millions are succeeding.
Many a time nowadays, though, ameriKan statistics cast a withering eye on our starry notions about ourselves. A larger percentage of the population is in prison here -- that can't be normal. Our crime rates are shocking -- we're now leading the former First World in that doing likewise. More recently, it comes out that the Permanent Regime in Washington charges corporations more for the "privilege" of their existence than does any other country in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and development -- or possibly the world!
http://www.batr.org/negotium/040412.html
U.S. Corporate Tax Rate Consequences
Of the citizens that hear or read this news, I fear many will shrug and say "Well, that's the price of living in a free country!" It doesn't occur to them that things that used to be free now cost money, and things that were affordable are now luxuries.
This is happening because the fedgov and its real, hidden owners have clearly decided that freedom must go -- no less in business than private life and thought.
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Many a time nowadays, though, ameriKan statistics cast a withering eye on our starry notions about ourselves. A larger percentage of the population is in prison here -- that can't be normal. Our crime rates are shocking -- we're now leading the former First World in that doing likewise. More recently, it comes out that the Permanent Regime in Washington charges corporations more for the "privilege" of their existence than does any other country in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and development -- or possibly the world!
http://www.batr.org/negotium/040412.html
U.S. Corporate Tax Rate Consequences
Of the citizens that hear or read this news, I fear many will shrug and say "Well, that's the price of living in a free country!" It doesn't occur to them that things that used to be free now cost money, and things that were affordable are now luxuries.
This is happening because the fedgov and its real, hidden owners have clearly decided that freedom must go -- no less in business than private life and thought.
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Monday, April 2, 2012
There is neighborhood watch -- and there is neighborhood watch!
(N)eighborhood (W)atch is when citizens take the rising crime problem head on and agree to keep vigilant, promptly report anything suspicious etc. It's a great, basically perfect idea -- who could argue with it?
The case in Florida, the assault on George Zimmerman as I prefer to call it, is no doubt classic. Reports that are no doubt trustworthy have it that Zimmerman's neighborhood had had nasty crime problems. Based on the ample evidence of "Mister" Martin's character and the incident itself, it seems certain Zimmerman was entirely right in his actions.
Here's an article from Blacklistednews.com that uses pure irony to apply the above term to how the politicians are building layer upon layer of snooping and spying on us, the people. This time, though, technology is not the focus, but rather goold ol' USSR style spying on everybody by everybody else -- especially the prostitution of police departments to that end:
http://www.blacklistednews.com/New_U.S_Domestic_Spy_Program_Takes_‘Neighborhood_Watch’_to_Scary_New_Level_/18761/0/0/0/Y/M.html
New U.S Domestic Spy Program Takes ‘Neighborhood Watch’ to Scary New Level
BlacklistedNews is a fine site for those who have the stomach. Other headlines there just now:
Arizona Legislature Passes Sweeping Electronic Speech Censorship Bill
China May Be Buying Gold "Anonymously" Through BIS
Biden To Welcome Accused Organ Trafficker To White House
Colombia: 8 Former Israeli Military Men Arrested on Suspicion of Drug Trafficking, Money Laundering and Exploitation of Minors
Who is Kofi Annan? The UN “Peacekeeper” Handpicked by the CIA.
Man whose WMD lies led to over 100,000 deaths confesses all
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The case in Florida, the assault on George Zimmerman as I prefer to call it, is no doubt classic. Reports that are no doubt trustworthy have it that Zimmerman's neighborhood had had nasty crime problems. Based on the ample evidence of "Mister" Martin's character and the incident itself, it seems certain Zimmerman was entirely right in his actions.
Here's an article from Blacklistednews.com that uses pure irony to apply the above term to how the politicians are building layer upon layer of snooping and spying on us, the people. This time, though, technology is not the focus, but rather goold ol' USSR style spying on everybody by everybody else -- especially the prostitution of police departments to that end:
http://www.blacklistednews.com/New_U.S_Domestic_Spy_Program_Takes_‘Neighborhood_Watch’_to_Scary_New_Level_/18761/0/0/0/Y/M.html
New U.S Domestic Spy Program Takes ‘Neighborhood Watch’ to Scary New Level
BlacklistedNews is a fine site for those who have the stomach. Other headlines there just now:
Arizona Legislature Passes Sweeping Electronic Speech Censorship Bill
China May Be Buying Gold "Anonymously" Through BIS
Biden To Welcome Accused Organ Trafficker To White House
Colombia: 8 Former Israeli Military Men Arrested on Suspicion of Drug Trafficking, Money Laundering and Exploitation of Minors
Who is Kofi Annan? The UN “Peacekeeper” Handpicked by the CIA.
Man whose WMD lies led to over 100,000 deaths confesses all
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Sunday, April 1, 2012
More zeroes for Ron Paul -- the good kind -- and woes for the IRS
In a country more and more known for freakish, even ridiculous yet ultimately horrible elections, this year's presidential scramble may take the prize. Ron Paul seems to be finding infinitely better public acclaim than the Establishment Republi-cons, yet the corporate cartel media act as if he doesn't exist. Via email:
"Rock Star" treatment for Ron Paul
1700 plus rally in Maryland. Where is the News Media?
http://youtu.be/sOnuFJ_eKag
Thank God for RT or the Russia Today news network -- you can get the straight story from them most of the time, although this is a rather sarcastic report for them. Please help spread the word! The fat lady has yet to sing.
...........Tsk, tsk -- yet more woe and grief for the tax rats!
http://amren.com/news/2012/03/billions-lost-in-tax-refund-scam/
Billions Lost in Tax-Refund Scam
What won't they think of next for an anti-IRS scam? This one's tragicomic like so many. Crime simply doesn't pay, for either decent people or lowlifes. If people would spend as much time educating themselves and others there would be no IRS terrorizing the sheeple in the first place.
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"Rock Star" treatment for Ron Paul
1700 plus rally in Maryland. Where is the News Media?
http://youtu.be/sOnuFJ_eKag
Thank God for RT or the Russia Today news network -- you can get the straight story from them most of the time, although this is a rather sarcastic report for them. Please help spread the word! The fat lady has yet to sing.
...........Tsk, tsk -- yet more woe and grief for the tax rats!
http://amren.com/news/2012/03/billions-lost-in-tax-refund-scam/
Billions Lost in Tax-Refund Scam
What won't they think of next for an anti-IRS scam? This one's tragicomic like so many. Crime simply doesn't pay, for either decent people or lowlifes. If people would spend as much time educating themselves and others there would be no IRS terrorizing the sheeple in the first place.
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