tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62524105710956078772024-03-12T20:33:54.453-04:00Come Towards the LightLuxomni's Cathartic Ramblingsluxomnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04424783301733279218noreply@blogger.comBlogger444125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6252410571095607877.post-85636465104583297802020-03-01T17:05:00.004-05:002020-03-01T17:05:31.779-05:00<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Dr.
Jack Devere Minzey, born 6 October 1928, died 8 April 2018, was the
Department Head of Education at Eastern Michigan University as well as a
prolific author of numerous books, most of which were on the topic of
Education and the Government role therein. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">(Editor's note)This was the last of his works: </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Civil War: How do civil wars happen? By Dr. Jack Devere Minzey</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Two
or more sides disagree on who runs the country. And they can't settle
the question through elections because they don't even agree that
elections are how you decide who's in charge. That's the basic issue
here. Who decides who runs the country? When you hate each other but
accept the election results, you have a country. When you stop
accepting election results, you have a countdown to a civil war.<br />
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The Mueller investigation was about removing President Trump from office
and overturning the results of an election. We all know that. But
it's not the first time they've done this. The first time a Republican
president was elected this century, they said he didn't really win. The
Supreme Court gave him the election. There's a pattern here<br />
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What do sure odds of the Democrats rejecting the next Republican
president really mean? It means they don't accept the results of any
election that they don't win. It means they don't believe that
transfers of power in this country are determined by elections. That's a
civil war.<br />
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There's no shooting. At least not unless you count the attempt to kill a
bunch of Republicans at a charity baseball game practice. But the
Democrats have rejected our system of government. <br />
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This isn't dissent It's not disagreement. You can hate the other
party. You can think they're the worst thing that ever happened to the
country. But then you work harder to win the next election. When you
consistently reject the results of elections that you don't win, what
you want is a dictatorship.<br />
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Your very own dictatorship.<br />
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The only legitimate exercise of power in this country, according to
Democrats, is its own. Whenever Republicans exercise power, it's
inherently illegitimate The Democrats lost Congress. They lost the
White House. So what did they do? They began trying to run the country
through Federal judges and bureaucrats. Every time that a Federal
judge issues an order saying that the President of the United States
can't scratch his own back without his say so, that's the civil war.<br />
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Our system of government is based on the constitution, but that's not
the system that runs this country. The Democrat's system is that any
part of government that it runs gets total and unlimited power over the
country.<br />
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If the Democrats are in the White House, then the president can do
anything. And I mean anything. He can have his own amnesty for illegal
aliens. He can fine you for not having health insurance. He can use
the IRS as his own police force and imprison citizens who speak against
him. He can provide guns and money (Fast and Furious) (Iran nuclear
deal) to other countries to support his own agenda, and watch while one
of America's Ambassador's is dragged through the streets and murdered
doing nothing to aid our citizens. His power is unlimited. He's a
dictator. But when Republicans get into the White House, suddenly the
President can't do anything. He isn't even allowed to undo the illegal
alien amnesty that his predecessor illegally invented. A Democrat in
the White House has 'discretion' to completely decide every aspect of
immigration policy. A Republican doesn't even have the 'discretion' to
reverse him. That's how the game is played. That's how our country is
run. Sad but true, although the left hasn't yet won that particular
fight.<br />
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When a Democrat is in the White House, states aren't even allowed to
enforce immigration law. But when a Republican is in the White House,
states can create their own immigration laws. Under Obama, a state
wasn't allowed to go to the bathroom without asking permission. But
under Trump, Jerry Brown can go around saying that California is an
independent republic and sign treaties with other countries. The
Constitution has something to say about that. Whether it's Federal or
State, Executive, Legislative or Judiciary, the left moves power around
to run the country. If it controls an institution, then that
institution is suddenly the supreme power in the land. This is what I
call a moving dictatorship<br />
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Donald Trump has caused the Shadow Government to come out of hiding:
Professional government is a guild. Like medieval guilds. You can't
serve in if you're not a member. If you haven't been indoctrinated into
its arcane rituals. If you aren't in the club. And Trump isn't in the
club. He brought in a bunch of people who aren't in the club with him.<br />
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Now we're seeing what the pros do when amateurs try to walk in on them.
They spy on them, they investigate them and they send them to jail.
They use the tools of power to bring them down.<br />
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That's not a free country.<br />
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It's not a free country when FBI agents who support Hillary take out an
'insurance policy' against Trump winning the election. It's not a free
country when Obama officials engage in massive unmasking of the
opposition. It's not a free country when the media responds to the
other guy winning by trying to ban the conservative media that supported
him from social media. It's not a free country when all of the above
collude together to overturn an election because the guy who wasn't
supposed to win did.<br />
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Have no doubt, we're in a civil war between conservative volunteer
government and a leftist socialist Democrat professional government.<br />
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Well now Pilgrims and Patriots, having read the above, I suggest two
things: forward this very timely, very important analysis to those whom
you believe think like you do (and those that don't) and make sure you
vote on every Election day!"</span></span></div>
luxomnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04424783301733279218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6252410571095607877.post-26336071362481336022020-03-01T17:04:00.000-05:002020-03-01T17:04:56.338-05:00<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-offset-key="cll4b-0-0"><span data-text="true">The financial and commercial disruption will dwarf the medial effects of COVID-19. China is "only" 28% of the work's manufacturing BUT, much of that manufacturing is parts and sub-assemblies of goods made in other countries, especially US. And it is shut down and [announced that] do not expect new container shipping until June. That hits the American Railroad and Trucking industries.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-offset-key="f9mta-0-0"><span data-text="true">Wuhan is not the modern city it is because of its entertainment industry. It is a major manufacturing center of 11 mil. They are already suffering general, if not total, food shortage.</span></span></span></div>
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luxomnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04424783301733279218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6252410571095607877.post-42897503617362498572020-02-22T03:02:00.002-05:002020-02-22T03:02:41.765-05:00<span style="font-size: x-large;">You say the Shadow Government doesn't exist. To say that is have undeserved trust in a Government. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">We are called "conspiracy theorists" for entertaining the suspicion the one more time the Government is FSCKing us. You say "Snopes said it never happened" but you heard it or saw it. So excuse me for believing this is misinformation too.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">From spraying virii into the New York and San Francisco subways to "Miss Ever's Boys"* in the Tuskeegee Experiment, the Government has consistently disregarded the knowing consent of participants in their projects.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">For the first five years here, just fifty miles North of me, The Government and Lockheed had an little known unshielded nuclear reactor reacting suspended 50 feet in the air for "research". Basically "to see what happens." Shh! It's a secret.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">So you think the Government has gotten honest? Never happen. Lord Acton was correct. Trump is the only one who ever even tried. No wonder they hate him so much. Don Quixote de la Trump. It was a fool's errand. Everyone knows that everyone there is enriching themselves at the public trough above and beyond their legal compensation. Every last one will deny it. You don't mess with a good thing. And they don't give a shit about you!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">We like the blame the people at the top, especially if they are not on "our team". But the truth is Party is immaterial posturing debate over trivialities of things they never should have meddled in to begin with. The problem is at every level from top to bottom. And is inherent not in real capitalism, but in this Government dominated capitalism. There is a word for that. a word whose meaning, even in the dictionary has altered over the decades. Now used by the Left to describe anyone who disagrees with them.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">And the Webster definition is now "</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="st">a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as
that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the
individual".</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="st">When the man who presented the world the Movement described it it was a financial system based on capitalism but controlled by the Government. Private ownership of Property and Government control, Fascism. It's what we have kids.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="st">We even had a bit of a headstart on Mussolini but we won't call it that. "What's good for General Motors is good for the US". No one said that Government control would be bad for the companies. Labyrinthine rules and regulations never voted in Congress but passed to an Administrative system the an army of unelected bureaucrats. The rules exist in many places to be difficult understand and comply with. They provide a barrier to entry as the cost in money and time block off competition to the established players who are big enough to afford to comply.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="st">But do we have to have the endless wars?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="st"> On Trump</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="st">My, look at how the powers that be hate him. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="st">It seems curious that putting a person who actualy was on the paying side of the equation and loved the "us deplorables" is so reviled by the Elites and the people on the taking side. Not at all. He is up-setting their good thing. He is rocking the boat. He is overturning the apple-cart. He is overturning the tables in the Temple. and they don't like it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="st">On his taxes. I am not this least bit interested in the theatrics of his taxes. Theatrics? Yes that's all it is. There is a point where you cross-over from the chance of being audited by the IRS to the certainty of it to being continually audited. The Trump organization was large enough to be continually audited. And they are better at it than the U. S. Congress. Between the zealousness of the usual IRS Agent and the Lois Lerners still lurking in there, if there had been anything, we would have known it before he was even Nominated.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">* HBO softened the story a good bit. Covering for the Gov't again? </span>luxomnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04424783301733279218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6252410571095607877.post-17599548622267087442020-02-21T01:31:00.002-05:002020-02-21T01:31:11.447-05:00<span style="font-size: x-large;">To escape my scorning and boring teachers. I read the dictionary cover-to-cover, several versions; and the Encyclopedia topic-by-topic. They were much more interesting than the assigned readings. Probably more educational as well.</span>luxomnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04424783301733279218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6252410571095607877.post-74087597753472180322020-02-20T23:25:00.005-05:002022-04-18T12:31:39.587-04:00<span style="font-size: x-large;"></span>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Luxomni is vulgate Latin for 'all light' not 'Light for all". That would be 'Lux pro omnia.' The latter would imply the ownership of the light provided was the givers to be given.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> The same with the rights listed in the Constitution which President Obama decried as "negative rights"; the <i>sine qua non</i> of our nation's founding, the line in the sand beyond which the Government shall not go. Without which the "Several States" would not have banded together to be a Nation, the Bill of Rights. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> A right is not the Government's to give us. It can only deny them. A right is inherent in our birth. No 'Right' can compel the actions of another soul.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> So is healthcare a right? There is a lot of compulsion to go around, taxpayers, providers, pharmaceutical companies, the pensions that are invested in them,hospitals, Doctors & Nurses and finally patients. That doesn't quite sound like a Right.</span></div>
luxomnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04424783301733279218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6252410571095607877.post-53673598061837270622020-02-20T16:29:00.000-05:002020-02-21T01:23:30.481-05:00<span style="font-size: x-large;"></span>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Thinking of the Big Bang Theory TV show, I realized that I identified a bit too much with Sheldon Cooper although I have not as great a memory anymore. The writers had really intended us to identify with Leonard, the George Antrobus, the every man. But no, though not as totally emotionless as Sheldon, much of my thought processes mimic his.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Typing has become more difficult because it is the primary time my obsessive compulsiveness kicks in, and in my old age my typing is getting worse as I hit adjacent keys instead of the ones I want. Meanwhile the thought pattern is still going into overdrive pursuing ideas, yet at the same time justifying every definition and statement. Hence, Almost ever statement contains the word 'and' two clarifying words of the type which un-worded people would tease me as 25¢ words. (I wonder how much large words are worth today? Last I heard, a dollar.*) More than merely highly precision-ed indecisiveness? The words have concrete meanings. Or could it be depth of inquiry. an excess of options to choose from and so many more to try. The bounds of unlimited curiosity. And our ever-present Master of those boundaries? Time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">*Does anyone know if <strike>strippers</strike> exotic dancers take Bitcoin? </span></div>
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luxomnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04424783301733279218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6252410571095607877.post-91694506216449317252016-10-08T14:41:00.002-04:002016-10-08T15:57:25.582-04:00<div>
<span style="font-size: 24px;">It is time to start thinking what comes next, After Trump is elected. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 24px;">It will be a disaster no matter which one is elected. But the disasters will quite different. </span><span style="font-size: 24px;">There will be problems that don't care which one is in place. Problems that are built into the system, and problems where the die has been cast irrevocably years ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 24px;">But I am interested in the ones that will come possibly as early as the morning after the election.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 24px;">President Obama and the Establishment cabal of which Hillary is the heir apparent have been setting us up for a number of different wars. Not all of them are external.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 24px;">1) Race - For the last eight years President Obama. Racial relations have taken a disasterous turn, reversing all the gains in racial harmony of the sixties and seventies. Whether it was by design, which I believe it was, or by accident; it will not miraculously heal when Obama leaves. For all the talk of police attacking blacks, the truth is that black crime and, especially, murder and mayhem is a real thing. Many of them are at war with white America as well. Trump's election will exacerbate their violence. Probably with almost instantaneous riots.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 24px;">2) Financial - The Clintons, the Bushes, and Obama were wholly owned representatives of certain "too big to fail" international banking houses. The banks have been playing imaginary money games with us for more than 50 years. The Government has run interference for them because they too benefited from the arrangement. During the Obama terms, they, having escaped punishment for the part excesses, continued to play the risky derivatives games. Whether by design or unintentionally, this system collapse is inevitable. In 2008, the collapse actually started when Obama became the Democrat nominee. This time the trap is larger and loaded. They will spring it and blame Trump. You might says the threat is "Trumped up". </span><span style="font-size: 24px;">Here is their opportunity to break out of the quagmire and blame someone else. </span><span style="font-size: 24px;">I am not saying that Hillary could avoid it. No one can. The bubble is blown. It will pop. It becomes a question of sooner? Or later? It will only be bigger later. It is probable that the banks will engineer a crash to punish us as they are attempting to do to Britain for Brexxit. What we do know is the the Mainstream Media will 'blame the innocent' and protect the real criminals who just happen to own them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 24px;">3) Immigration. - The last administrations have let a torrent of unvetted, illegal, immigrants into this county with attempt to bring them into mainstream American values. The resulting Balkanization already is destroying the American standard-of-living. Those jobs that have not been shipped overseas have instead been attacked by non-chattel slave wages. The Democrats are using them to block-bust American communities and voting. The RINOs (or Washington-centric Republicans) want them to suppress wages. The only people who do not want them is the Americans who have to live in the lawless mess they create, as illegal is not merely how they get here. It is their way of life. And that is without even considering the unique problems of those of MidEastern descent. The day after a Trump election we can expect the Community Agitators to whip these people into a frenzy replete with violence, and for three month a mad scramble to rush our Southern border ahead of the inauguration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 24px;"> 4) China - China has been militarizing for a while, accelerating in the last five years undoing the relationship improvements that occurred under Carter, and Reagan and the first Bush. Bill Clinton in return for contributions allowed them both legally and illegally to obtain technology for the aiming and control of Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles. While at the same time, we have been purchasing virtually everything we buy from them with ever more worthless currency. You know how you feel about losing a $20 bill, multiply that be trillions! When the bankers exact their revenge on us for putting Trump in, the least we can expect is for the Chinese to cease selling to us except payable in gold. The most? Armed conflict.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 24px;">5) Russia. Despite the people's rising up against and stopping President Obama's first attempt to depose Bashar al Assad's Russian supported regime in Syria, we are involved in the war against the Russian supported dictator. The Obama administration has been maneuvering us toward armed conflict with Russia in Syria for some time. They have even been deluging us with propaganda about it. President Obama will have 3 months to saddle the incoming President with a war openly against Russia that could be a one-way street to nuclear war. Obama has nothing to lose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 24px;">6) Iran and Saudi Arabia - Obama has been packing our nation deliberately with hundreds of thousands of Muslims who have no plans to assimilate to the American culture and political system. In fact, there continue to be Muslims who randomly commit acts of violence not against those in charge but against ordinary people going about their lives. Trump has promised to do something about that. Their time to take action against us will again be (just like Sept 11, 2001) before the administration has itself in order. Expect violence here also. The barbarians are within our gates.</span>
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<span style="font-size: 24px;">7) Korea. - </span><span style="font-size: 24px;">a definite wild Card. But not Trump specific, other than just opportunistic exploitation of the other turmoil.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 24px;">None of this is to say that we would be better off with Hillary, the Queen of All Liars and Swindlers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 24px;"><u>The very most we could get from Hillary</u> is a temporary reprieve during which time the problems grow inexorably larger and more devastating. We can pay the price of the Elite's games now, or later when it is more massive. But pay we will. So when do we pay the piper? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 24px;"><u>The very least we will get from Hillar</u>y is a Supreme Court that overturns the Constitutional restrictions on Government usurping powers the Government was not supposed to have. </span><span style="font-size: 24px;">There will be tortuously worded decisions that chip away at the Bill of Rights until there are none at all. </span><span style="font-size: 24px;"><b>This effectively makes this election our very last chance to reassert 'We, the People's', dominance over our government. </b></span></div>
luxomnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04424783301733279218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6252410571095607877.post-5739983689917546462016-08-22T12:02:00.001-04:002016-08-22T12:02:43.808-04:00<span style="font-size: large;">Our feelings about immigration are greatly colored by where we live. It is easy to see why a person living in Fairbault, Minnesota would not be concerned about immigration, while a person living in Dearborn, Michigan or even Gwinnett County, Georgia might be overwhelmed by it.</span><div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Here is a list of Mosques and Masjids in Gwinnett County Georgia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It does not include those just across the line in Dekalb County even though several of them are literally withing stoning distance of Gwinnett County. Some of them have congregations of hundreds that can be observed milling around their parking lots on Friday afternoons. </span><div>
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<td class="xl76" style="width: 53pt;" width="71">1645</td>
<td class="xl67" style="width: 172pt;" width="229">Pirkle Road</td>
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<td class="xl67">Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam</td>
<td class="xl76">6113</td>
<td class="xl68">Oakbrook Pkwy</td>
<td class="xl68">Norcross, GA 30093</td>
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<td class="xl67">AL-FALAH ACADEMY</td>
<td class="xl76">4805</td>
<td class="xl67">Lawrenceville Highway, Suit 220</td>
<td class="xl67">Lilburn, GA 30047</td>
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<td class="xl67">Al-Furquan Academy</td>
<td class="xl76">568</td>
<td class="xl67">N. Norcross-Tucker Rd. </td>
<td class="xl67">Norcross. GA 30071</td>
<td class="xl69">http://www.myalfurqan.com/</td>
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<td class="xl68">AL-MADINAH MASJID OF NORTH ATLANTA </td>
<td class="xl77">5950</td>
<td class="xl68">Goshen Springs Rd</td>
<td class="xl68">Norcross, GA 30071</td>
<td class="xl68"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">6</td>
<td class="xl68">Al-rasol Mosque and Islamic Center</td>
<td class="xl77">476</td>
<td class="xl68">Hillcrest Rd NW,</td>
<td class="xl68"> Lilburn, GA 30047</td>
<td class="xl70" style="width: 252pt;" width="336"><a href="http://www.al-rasol.org/donation.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; mso-font-charset: 0;">al-rasol.org</span></a></td>
</tr>
<tr height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">7</td>
<td class="xl68">Baitul Baqi Mosque</td>
<td class="xl77">6187</td>
<td class="xl68">Oakbrook Pkwy</td>
<td class="xl68">Duluth, GA 30096</td>
<td class="xl69"><a href="http://www.alislam.org/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; mso-font-charset: 0;">alislam.org</span></a></td>
</tr>
<tr height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">8</td>
<td class="xl68">City of Knowledge Islamic School</td>
<td class="xl77">4800</td>
<td class="xl68">Lawrenceville Highway</td>
<td class="xl68">Lilburn, GA 30047</td>
<td class="xl71"><a href="http://cityofknowledgeschool.org/City_of_Knowledge_Islamic_School/Home.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; mso-font-charset: 0;">http://cityofknowledgeschool.org/City_of_Knowledge_Islamic_School/Home.html</span></a></td>
</tr>
<tr height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">9</td>
<td class="xl67">Community of Bosniaks</td>
<td class="xl76">950</td>
<td class="xl67">Grayson Hwy</td>
<td class="xl67">Lawrenceville, GA 30046</td>
<td class="xl68">http://www.bosnjaciatl.com/</td>
</tr>
<tr height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">10</td>
<td class="xl67">Darul Huda Majid</td>
<td class="xl76">2755</td>
<td class="xl67"> Centerville Hwy.</td>
<td class="xl67">Snellville, GA</td>
<td class="xl69"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">11</td>
<td class="xl72">Faizan-e-Madina </td>
<td class="xl78">4800</td>
<td class="xl68">Lawrenceville Highway</td>
<td class="xl68">Lilburn, GA 30047</td>
<td class="xl69"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/faizanemadinaga/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; mso-font-charset: 0;">https://sites.google.com/site/faizanemadinaga/</span></a></td>
</tr>
<tr height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">12</td>
<td class="xl67">G.I.E.F school</td>
<td class="xl76">1670</td>
<td class="xl67">Oakbrook Dr Suite 330</td>
<td class="xl67">Norcross, GA 30093</td>
<td class="xl68"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">13</td>
<td class="xl67">Georgia Islamic Institute</td>
<td class="xl76">177</td>
<td class="xl66">Simonton Rd SW </td>
<td class="xl68"> Lawrenceville, GA 30046</td>
<td class="xl68"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">14</td>
<td class="xl68">IQRA Academy</td>
<td class="xl77">2329</td>
<td class="xl67">Lawrenceville Highway, Bldg. B1</td>
<td class="xl67">Lawrenceville, GA 30044</td>
<td class="xl68">http://www.iqraacademy.us/</td>
</tr>
<tr height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">15</td>
<td class="xl67">Islamic Circle of North America</td>
<td class="xl76">5265</td>
<td class="xl67">Jimmy Carter Blvd</td>
<td class="xl67">Norcross, GA 3009</td>
<td class="xl69">http://icnaatlanta.org/</td>
</tr>
<tr height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">16</td>
<td class="xl68">Ismaili Center</td>
<td class="xl77">3025</td>
<td class="xl68">Old Norcross Rd #100</td>
<td class="xl68">Duluth, GA 30096</td>
<td class="xl69"><a href="http://ismaili.net/heritage/home"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; mso-font-charset: 0;">http://ismaili.net/heritage/home</span></a></td>
</tr>
<tr height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">17</td>
<td class="xl67">Madani Masjid</td>
<td class="xl76">3455</td>
<td class="xl66">Greenview Dr NW</td>
<td class="xl67">Lawrenceville, GA 30044</td>
<td class="xl69"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">18</td>
<td class="xl67">Madina Institute and Masjid</td>
<td class="xl76">3580</td>
<td class="xl67">Sweetwater Rd,</td>
<td class="xl67">Duluth, GA 30096</td>
<td class="xl68">http://www.madinainstituteusa.org/</td>
</tr>
<tr height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">19</td>
<td class="xl68">Majid Darul Huda </td>
<td class="xl77">2755</td>
<td class="xl68">Centerville Hwy</td>
<td class="xl68">Snellville, GA</td>
<td class="xl68">http://www.darulhudamasjid.com/</td>
</tr>
<tr height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">20</td>
<td class="xl68">Masgid Madani </td>
<td class="xl77">3455</td>
<td class="xl68">3455 Greenview Dr NW,</td>
<td class="xl68">Lawrenceville, GA 30044</td>
<td class="xl69"><a href="http://www.madanicenter.org/"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; mso-font-charset: 0;">madanicenter.org</span></a></td>
</tr>
<tr height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">21</td>
<td class="xl68">Masjid Abdullah</td>
<td class="xl77"></td>
<td class="xl68">Dickens Rd NW</td>
<td class="xl68">Lilburn, GA 30047</td>
<td class="xl68"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">22</td>
<td class="xl68">Masjid Darus Salam LLC</td>
<td class="xl77">3122</td>
<td class="xl68">Cruse Rd</td>
<td class="xl68">Lawrenceville, GA 30044-3232</td>
<td class="xl68"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">23</td>
<td class="xl68">Masjid Maryam - Islamic Center of Duluth</td>
<td class="xl77">3650</td>
<td class="xl68">Savannah Pl Dr</td>
<td class="xl68">Duluth, GA 30096</td>
<td class="xl68">http://www.masjidmaryam.org/</td>
</tr>
<tr height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">24</td>
<td class="xl68">Masjid Momneen</td>
<td class="xl77">884</td>
<td class="xl68">Harbins Rd NW</td>
<td class="xl68">Lilburn, GA 30471</td>
<td class="xl68"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">25</td>
<td class="xl68">Masjid Omar Bin Abdul Aziz</td>
<td class="xl77">955</td>
<td class="xl68">Harbins Road</td>
<td class="xl68">Lilburn, GA 30047</td>
<td class="xl68">http://masjidomar.org/</td>
</tr>
<tr height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">26</td>
<td class="xl68">Mosque - under construction</td>
<td class="xl77">695</td>
<td class="xl68">Beaver Ruin</td>
<td class="xl68">Lilburn, GA 30047</td>
<td class="xl68"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">27</td>
<td class="xl67">Musallah Mosque</td>
<td class="xl76">50</td>
<td class="xl67">Old Peachtree Rd.</td>
<td class="xl68">Suwanee, GA 30024</td>
<td class="xl69"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">28</td>
<td class="xl67">Nasfat of Georgia</td>
<td class="xl76">432</td>
<td class="xl67">Dogwood Lane</td>
<td class="xl67">Lilburn, GA 30047</td>
<td class="xl69"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">30</td>
<td class="xl67">Saudi Students House</td>
<td class="xl76">6191</td>
<td class="xl67">Atlantic Blvd,</td>
<td class="xl67">Norcross, GA 30071</td>
<td class="xl69"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">31</td>
<td class="xl67">The Islamic Homeschool of Atlanta</td>
<td class="xl76">788</td>
<td class="xl67">Hillcrest Rd</td>
<td class="xl67">Lilburn, GA 30047</td>
<td class="xl68">http://www.islamichomeschoolofatlanta.com/</td>
</tr>
<tr height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">29</td>
<td class="xl68">Unnamed Magid (as
yet) </td>
<td class="xl77">669</td>
<td class="xl68">Beaver Ruin</td>
<td class="xl68">Lilburn, GA 30047</td>
<td class="xl68"></td>
</tr>
<tr height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">
<td class="xl74" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">32</td>
<td class="xl68">Unnamed Mosque (as yet)</td>
<td class="xl77">192</td>
<td class="xl68">Arcado Rd</td>
<td class="xl68">Lilburn, GA 30047</td>
<td class="xl68"></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
</div>
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Narcissism is a type of personality disorder. Narcissists not only have a high opinion of themselves, but they have an obsessive need to have other people affirm this superiority, and as a result they engage in a lot of attention-seeking behavior.<br /><br />Solipsism is a legitimate philosophical position...just not a very popular one. Much like people don't want to admit universal skepticism—the idea that no knowledge of any kind is possible—no one wants to say that he is the only real person in the universe. So it usually regarded as a dead-end that means you have made a mistake somewhere if your argument leads to solipsism.<br /><br />Nevertheless, solipsism as such says nothing about how you will behave or treat other people. Even if you regard all other people as some sort of illusion or creation of your own mind, you might treat them very nicely. After all, you observe that being nice to these phantoms tends to bring about good results for you. (That is just an example; it's not to say that egoism—the belief that the good is what benefits oneself—<em>must</em> be a consequence of solipsism.)</div>
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<u>Lets' check out The Trumpster's presidential referrals... - by Triple A</u><br />
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The Obama is against Trump... Check<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
The Media is against Trump... Check<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
The establishment Democrats are against Trump... Check<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
The establishment Republicans Are against Trump... Check<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
The Pope is against Trump... Check<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
The UN is against Trump... Check<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
The EU is against Trump... Check<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
China is against Trump... Check <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
Mexico is against Trump... Check<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
Hateful, Racist, Violent Liberals against Trump... Check</div>
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Best qualifications Ever!!</div>
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Cher says she will leave the country...<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
Cyrus says she will leave the country...<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
Whoopi says she will leave the country...<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
Rosie says she will leave the country...<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
Sharpton says he will leave the country...</div>
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My Vote for Trump... Check<br />
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<br />luxomnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04424783301733279218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6252410571095607877.post-31529176194611620372016-03-16T13:52:00.002-04:002016-03-16T13:52:14.943-04:00<span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is not and never has been a Democracy. We are a Republic. This is a nation built on a contract</span> </span><span style="font-size: large;">between the Government and the people. The people that tell us we have elected them violate that contract routinely and more-and-more with impunity. The Democrat and Republican establishments attempts to thwart the voice of the people is just another example of that</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> . </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The Founders of this nation feared Democracy, for the will of the people is fickle and unpredictable; but more than that it is arbitrary and without analytical forethought.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">You would not play chess with rules subject to the whims of expediency. You would not play Monopoly® with a Banker that cheats. Why do we play real life this way?</span>luxomnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04424783301733279218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6252410571095607877.post-36496520452577132332016-03-16T13:46:00.000-04:002016-03-16T13:46:03.845-04:00<span style="font-size: large;">
<span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #546673; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Apparently, the American population has been well trained to seek rulers rather than managers. And that desire draws people seeking power and wealth. I have long said that anyone who wants these elected offices should not be trusted with them.</span></span>
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</span></span>luxomnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04424783301733279218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6252410571095607877.post-45775301281072941692016-02-20T10:09:00.003-05:002016-02-20T10:09:49.344-05:00Power and Wealth<span style="font-size: x-large;">In a Capitalist system, the Rich use their wealth to seek power.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"> Evidence: Donald Trump.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">In a Socialist system, the powerful use their power to become rich.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"> Evidence: Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi.</span>luxomnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04424783301733279218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6252410571095607877.post-89298873414573183822015-10-04T11:23:00.001-04:002015-10-04T11:23:19.465-04:00How to Destroy the World<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YHnuIlzgGZ4" frameborder="0" allowFullScreen=""></iframe>luxomnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04424783301733279218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6252410571095607877.post-66968419822748500432015-07-17T06:48:00.001-04:002015-07-17T08:36:05.094-04:00<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: 9.0pt;">
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The little Red Hen</span></b></span></div>
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Italian mouse, a Spanish cat, a Greek pig, and a little red German Langshan hen
lived </span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 18pt;">on an old farm on a flowery hill surrounded by fields of golden wheat.
One day, the Little Red Hen found some grains of wheat scattered in the
barnyard. "Look, look at what I've found!" she said to the other
animals. "Who would like a hot fresh loaf of bread?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18pt;">“Oh, I would!” said the mouse.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18pt;">“Oh, I would!” said el
Gato.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Oh, I would!” said
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And then, they all
laid down to take a short siesta only to be awokened by the little red hen who
was still very excited about the thought of a hot baked fresh loaf of bread.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Great!” said the
Little Red Hen "Who will help me plant these grains of wheat?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Oh no, Not
I!" said the mouse, "this is a Saint’s day, Saint Irving, I can’t
work on a Saint’s day".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Oh no, Not I!"
said the cat, "Mayor Vitoria in Valencia has declared </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, serif;">2 to 5
p.m. as the official time for the city’s residents to take their afternoon
siestas</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Oh no, Not
I!" said the pig, "I’m 52. I’ve retired. Please pass the Ouzo".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Fine, then I'll
do it myself," said the Little Red Hen. And so she did. She dug some holes
and carefully planted each seed. She also placed a wooden stake in the ground
with a picture of a loaf of bread attached to each one. The Little Red Hen also
knew that the seeds would need water to grow tall and strong and once again ran
to the barn yard and asked for help. "Who will help me water these
seeds?" asked the Little Red Hen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Not I!" said
the mouse, "Today is the Feist of Saint Shirley of Padua".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Not I!" said
the cat, "Manaña".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Not I!"
said the pig, "the seeds don't need water, besides, it isn’t
environmentally responsible. Global warming or cooling or whatever it is this
time. You can't deny that!"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Then I'll do it
myself," said the Little Red Hen. And so she did. The Little Red Hen
watered the soil and waited patiently for the wheat to grow. When the wheat was
tall and golden, she knew it was ready to be cut. "Who will help me
harvest the wheat?" asked the Little Red Hen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18pt;">"Not I!"
said the mouse, "the drivers are on strike and I have to observe their
protest".</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Not I!"
said the cat, " who simply rolled over and went back to his siesta".</span><br />
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">"Not I!"
said the pig, “please pass me another Ouzo”.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Then I'll do it
myself," said the Little Red Hen. And so she did. The Little Red Hen's
basket was soon filled with wheat. "Who will help me take the wheat to the
mill to be ground into flour?" asked the Little Red Hen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Not I!"
said the mouse, "I put all my money in the collection plate at Mass".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Not I!"
said the cat, "You are just too bossy".</span><br />
<span style="line-height: 18pt;">At this point, The
Little Red Hen couldn't even find the pig to ask him.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Alrighty then,
I'll do it myself," said the Little Red Hen. And so she did. The kind
miller had seen all the work she had done so far and gladly ground the wheat
into powdery, velvety flour, and didn't even charge her. The Little Red Hen
thanked the miller and then carried it home in a rough brown sack. "Who
will help me make this flour into bread?" timidly asked the Little Red
Hen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Not I!"
said the mouse, "I must go to the parade honoring the feast of the Immaculate
Contraption ".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Not I!" said
the cat, "Es muy caliente".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Not I!"
said the pig, "the banker will probably bring me some more food, he has
plenty, I'll just wait".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Then I'll do it
myself," said the Little Red Hen. And so she did. The Little Red Hen mixed
the flour into sticky dough and kneaded it into a smooth loaf. "Who will
help me chop some wood, start a fire, and put this bread into the oven to
bake?" asked the Little Red Hen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This time, not the
mouse, not the cat, nor the pig even responded. The Little Red Hen saw them
huddled together on the other side of the barn yard laughing and pointing in
her direction. She thought that yes, maybe they were right. Maybe this whole idea
was a bad idea. Perhaps, she should just forget about making a loaf of bread
and just go join them and laugh at her idea too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But, she didn't.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Then I'll do it
myself," said the Little Red Hen. And so she did. Soon the kitchen was
filled with the delicious scent of baking bread and the smell drifted across
the barn yard. The other animals came to see what was happening and watched as The
Little Red Hen took the warm, crusty loaf out of the oven, and set it on the
table. She saw the mouse, the cat, and the pig with eyes wide open staring in
through the window. "Who will help me eat this fresh, tasty bread?"
asked the Little Red Hen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/create/bookmarklet/?media=http://usercontent1.hubimg.com/12144066_f260.jpg&url=http://joeldiffendarfer.hubpages.com/hub/Who-will-help-me-eat-this-loaf-of-bread&is_video=false&description=Who%20will%20help%20me%20bake%20my%20bread?"><span style="color: #297ccf; display: none; mso-hide: all; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Pin It</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; display: none; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hide: all;">See all 6 photos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"I will!"
said the mouse as he jumped through the window and sat down at the table. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"I will!"
said the cat as she jumped through the window and sat down at the table.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"I will!"
said the pig as he jumped through the window and sat down at the table.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Oh no you will
NOT!," said the Little Red Hen. "You didn't help me plant it, or
water it, or harvest it, or mill it, or bake it. I have invited the miller to
come over and help me eat it" And so she and the miller did just that.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">At this point. the pig threw a tantrum and stomped around the barnyard destroying things and overturning the farmer's car.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>But here is where the
story turns to Fiction</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The very next time the
Little Red Hen found some grains of wheat, she didn't even have to ask for
help. The mouse planted it in the rich, brown soil, the cat watered it
carefully every day, and the pig harvested the wheat when it had grown tall and
strong. When the dough was baked, together the animals sat down and ate the
fresh, warm bread. It was delicious! While they were eating the bread, the
other animals listened intently to The Little Red Hen's new idea and looked
carefully at her plan. Later that day, they all visited the miller who also
became excited about selling their wonderful loaves of bread.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>The truth is that next time they did the very same thing but used the power of the press to make the starvation the fault of the little red state hen.</b></span></div>
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luxomnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04424783301733279218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6252410571095607877.post-89731565214102828812014-06-05T11:49:00.000-04:002014-06-05T11:49:00.711-04:00<div>
<span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: x-large; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">Politicians lie the most to the people who most support them, there being no need to curry favor with their enemies.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: medium; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"><br /></span></div>
luxomnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04424783301733279218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6252410571095607877.post-23795541843157139662014-01-10T11:44:00.001-05:002014-01-10T11:46:48.586-05:00<span style="font-size: large;">As I look at the earnest smiling face of a young man who went to the same college as I and read his words, I am astounded by the naiveté that he and my classmates have about the nature of government. They believe that somehow having the appropriate person steering the crushing power of the Federal Government and it myriad of laws, life is suddenly.better. In their case, it is Obama and the Democrats. It could just as easily have been what passes for Republican in today's world. They believe that they are the beneficiaries of the government if only he is captaining that ship.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The <i>Ship of State </i>is incapable of being steered. It is coursing full speed at a shoal of rocks and only unstoking the engine of bureaucracy of its fuel of laws will slow it down. That is done in Congress and the Senate, not the Presidency.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Those rocks? Those rocks include the boulders of the collapse of our currency under an overburden of debt, the destruction of the middle class, the end of what manufacturing is left in the US, and being sunk by a tidal wave of ever more inexpensive labor. These boulders on shore are surrounded by the rip-rap of </span><span style="font-size: large;">the end of our medical system, further diminishment of racial harmony, a loss of domestic tranquility, further loss of freedoms, and perhaps even national sovereignty. And ultimately even starvation. Needless to say (and to continue the metaphor) there are those moonrakers, domestic and foreign, who greedily await our nation running aground to pick up the spoils.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Pete, Dianne, Dave, Felicia, Warner, and the rest somehow do not recognize that they also will be throw over the side to drown, not merely Republicans. They do not have some special life jacket because they believe. We will sink or swim while carrying the dead weight burden of our government. And with any karma at all, the ones who have riding on the backs of others will the be first to drown.</span><br />
<br />luxomnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04424783301733279218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6252410571095607877.post-10696608295768300762014-01-10T10:25:00.003-05:002014-01-10T10:26:04.676-05:00<div>
<span style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Please, take back control of our language: </span></span></div>
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<span style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Those people in Washington and on TV are not Liberals, </span></span></div>
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<span style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">they are Progressives. People have been brainwashed by the TV to believe that government control of everything, and government robbing Peter to buy Paul's vote is liberal. Whether they are for that or against that, they both have bought the TV dialog. Liberal was about Liberty and Freedom for the individual, the end of the slavery and serfdom that marked most of mankind's existence; not about making us slaves of the commons. Progressives are hiding behind that term "Liberal". Drag them out into the open - </span></span></div>
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<span style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">They are Progressives, and where they are progressing us to is particularly ugly</span>.</b></span></span><br />
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luxomnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04424783301733279218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6252410571095607877.post-67011440428522137712014-01-10T10:07:00.001-05:002014-01-10T10:07:47.596-05:00Rule from the Shadows - The Psychology of Power - Part 1<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/p8ERfxWouXs" width="480"></iframe>luxomnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04424783301733279218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6252410571095607877.post-41978758817351654132014-01-07T13:24:00.003-05:002014-01-07T13:27:59.125-05:00<span style="color: red;">Written while enduring an unusually cold spell. 49 of the 50 US states are experiencing freezing weather. Many of them setting records not just for the date, but since records were kept. Current temperature here in Georgia 7°F - not a record low, but cold as ####.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: large; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">A religion does not need to be proved by science or even observation. Credo, "I Believe". The belief alone is enough to sustain the belief system.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Global Warming does not require facts or consistency for its believers to be certain of its existence or to condemn non-believers. In fact, even contra-indication is proof of its existence. It is a religion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">THEREFORE: Any official Government action is support of the belief in Global Warming is a de facto Government support of religion, and a violation of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution's "Establishment Clause" prohibition against an official religion.</span><br />
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luxomnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04424783301733279218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6252410571095607877.post-11401313024494024442013-12-29T10:22:00.002-05:002013-12-29T10:25:28.649-05:00Stay in Line<span style="font-size: large;">***************************************</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have learned something of my roots in libertarianism:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Looking back over all my interactions with Government, it appears that at all levels from the lowest county office to the highest Federal one,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">All Government is about putting people in lines.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span>luxomnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04424783301733279218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6252410571095607877.post-21217200142259877862013-12-16T12:30:00.002-05:002013-12-16T12:30:28.606-05:00<h3 style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
It's Not "If;" It's "When"</h3>
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By Jeff Thomas / <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1873822265" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">December 16, 2013</span></span></div>
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Cicero had it right when he described the Sword of Damocles.</div>
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To be the leader of a country is like having a sword constantly dangling over your head from a single horse hair. You never know if or when the sword is going to cause your demise, but you know that the danger is ever-present.</div>
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That is just as true today as it was in Cicero's time, but the modern-day Sword of Damocles hangs over the heads of not just the world's leaders. It hangs over the heads of the populations as well.</div>
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If we rely on the conventional media for our interpretation of world economic and political conditions, we may well be scratching our heads continuously as to what needs to be done to "save" the situation.</div>
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Whether the discussion is over the debts of nations, the likelihood of war, or the increase in the loss of rights, the governments of much of the world are heading in a similar direction.</div>
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And that direction is not a positive one.</div>
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However, the pundits in the media offer a wide variety of solutions for the problems being discussed.</div>
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The solution to national debt is either to expand monetisation or to back off on it, depending upon who is speaking at the moment. Whether debt monetisation is the right thing to do in the first place is rarely discussed.</div>
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The solution to the Middle East problem is either to arm the rebels or send in the military.</div>
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The solution to domestic terrorism is either to build up the power of the various authorities, or to pass more dramatic laws restricting basic freedoms.</div>
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And so, we are to be forgiven if we imagine that the solution to such problems lies in whether we choose one destructive approach or another.</div>
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Truth be told, the most difficult assessment for us to make is that we should sit very far back from the rhetoric and ask ourselves, "Is a solution even possible at this point, or have the powers-that–be gone past the point of no return?"</div>
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Here's why the problems won't be solved:</div>
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As regards the debt of the most prominent countries of the world, the point of no return has certainly been reached by most.</div>
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Historically, once the present level of debt has been reached, no amount of monetisation will save the economy. It may be possible to give the addict yet another injection of heroin to stave off the immediate withdrawal symptoms, but at some point, it becomes necessary to go cold turkey.</div>
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It may be a very painful thing to do, but it truly is the <em>only</em> solution. <strong>A country cannot reach solvency through increased debt</strong>.</div>
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However, political leaders are loath to go cold turkey. To do so is to cut the horse hair that holds the sword hanging above their careers. Better to push the situation further into ruin, if it can buy a little more time.</div>
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As regards the rapid deterioration into police states that is occurring in so many countries, no amount of discussion by the pundits in the media will reverse the present destruction of basic rights. After all, the decision is not in their hands. It is in the hands of congresses, parliaments, presidents, and prime ministers.</div>
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They know that, very soon, the façade of "economic recovery" will come tumbling down, and they have no intention of allowing the populace to have the basic freedom of removing them from power, once the veil has been removed from the lie that a solution is in the works.</div>
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<strong>Political leaders, whose hold over power is in danger, will always do whatever is necessary to retain that power.</strong></div>
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As regards warfare, it is interesting that none of the pundits who discuss the subject in the media ever raise the question, "How can a country that is facing bankruptcy possibly fund a war—traditionally the most expensive undertaking for any country in any era?"</div>
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Yet, throughout history, political leaders have often used warfare as a distraction when a government has reached the tipping point economically. As Hermann Goering said,</div>
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<em>"The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."</em></blockquote>
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The disconnect here seems to be that the populace seems to believe that the governments of the West sincerely hope to avoid war, so the discussion in the media revolves around what can be done to that end.</div>
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However, far from seeking peace, the governments of the day consciously seek to create war. After all, a populace that is otherwise unhappy with its government tends to toe the line if the country is at war. Further, the government has a greater ability to silence domestic detractors in time of war.</div>
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Thus, the ability to hold power is assured. <strong>A state of war is the single most effective tool in silencing dissent in any country.</strong></div>
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In considering all of the above, not only as a present-day anomaly, but as a recurrent theme throughout history, any discussion of "if" there will be an economic collapse, "if" there will be an increase in the loss of basic freedoms, "if" there will be a ramping up of warfare, becomes a non-starter. It is a question of "when."</div>
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Of course, in spite of this, there will be those individuals who will say, "I like to be positive. I'm going to hope for the best."</div>
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But, in truth, this is not positive thinking at all. If we see the truth before our eyes and then cover our eyes in order to be positive, we are merely delving into self-deception.</div>
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Positive thinking begins with truth. Once we accept what is true, we may then be as positive or as negative as we wish regarding what that truth means to us.</div>
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If we are faced with the fact that much of the world is, once again, passing through the classic cycle of economic decline / removal of rights / distraction of war, we can either shut our eyes to that fact and hope for the best, or we can open our eyes and recognise that the one choice left to us is to try to step aside of coming events.</div>
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As Benjamin Ola Akande wrote, <em>"Hope is not a strategy."</em></div>
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If we recognise that the sword of Damocles is indeed hovering above our own heads, we would be unwise to continue to sit below it and ponder whether the horse hair may break.</div>
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Instead, we should understand that our very first move should be to put some physical distance between ourselves and the potential harm that unquestionably hangs over us.</div>
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John Boehner, you become more transparent every time you open your mouth. The problem is, we don't like what we see and hear - IT 'IS NOT GOOD FOR AMERICA'. The transparency of your agenda is to America's detriment precisely the same as is the agenda weaseling behind Obama's non-transparency: Both are a dead give-away of an individual in a powerful political position skewering America as if it were a toilet for your corrupt minds to dump in. Each of you is doing it the same way, professing a different logos while neither of you has an ounce of ethos functioning in your twisted psyches. There is no conscience there. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />To correct one of your misnomers: It is ‘you’ who are ‘ridiculous’, as well as the turncoat Wisconsin Lib, Ryan, pretending to be a fiscal Conservative – and, not those few members who are raising hell about the corruption of the GOP establishment, in both chambers.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />What you, Cantor, and your GOP-establishment supporters, have done is equivalent to what you have accused Snowden of doing: You are all ‘Traitors’ to America – rationalized by your personal self-interests, not those of the country’s socio-political foundations. You were just as ridiculously blatant about Snowden as you are about Cruz, Lee, Paul, and all others who oppose your anti-American agenda. What Snowden did falls into a grey area between ‘morality’ and ‘the rule of law’ – but, what you’ve done falls smack dab into ‘immorality’ and ‘violation of the Rule of Constitutional Law’: You’ve aided and abetted a criminal in the position of POTUS, whose treasonous actions define him as impeachable, who has been destroying The Rule of Law as did Robespierre, in order to destroy the tracks that would lead back to condemn him 'legally' when the country has finally developed a spine (***) - as it will to you, along with John Glover Roberts who has 'unlawfully' aided Obama even more egregiously, having used his position as the supreme legal personage in the country, to deliberately reposition an unconstitutional law, to make a square peg fit into a round hole, by critically redefining it to a Tax, which carries the full force of punishment of the most extreme measures, if an 'individual' refuses to have his/her 'body' owned and used as chattel to redistribute his very life's productivity, by a Communist politburo run by a criminal terrorist, whose authenticity as an American is in greater question today than it was when it was publicly scrutinized - handing to Obama a sceptre of dictatorship 'above The Constitution', above the irreversible, immutable God-given rights of the American people to 'rule themselves within the socio-spirituous frame-reference of Constitutional Law'!. (There is no greater assault against humanity than the foregoing. Period! Within its energy dynamic rumbles a Big Cosmic Boomerang. Believe it..)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Each and all of you are ‘transparent societal scum’. You may define ‘scum’ differently than the definition given above, but ‘scum’ of this magnitude stands apart from all other ‘scum’: It is called ‘Treason’. You, too, no doubt do not believe this, along with the ‘scum populace’ of low-class individuals who are Barack Obama’s base – and, his virtual army: His ‘Scum-Abetters’, from Michelle to Jarrett, to every person who is part of his administration, thru every bureaucrat in every dept of this Admin’s government – to his two daughters, (*) and your family who ‘depend on your 'Scumship'’ to make their economic lives tick on the calculus of your ‘scumming scams’ against the American Populace.</div>
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(*) Science informs us that ‘genetics’ are not a function of coincidences or ‘work place accidents’. Ne c’est pas?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Here is a juncture where the crassness of your temerity to 'skewer' America, should not be described in complex metaphors, though they visually drive home 'the point'; but this writer reserves the right of using your level of 'crass' to define ‘you’ - and the creature to whom you have sacrificed your life – ‘literally’. Sucking up to Barack Obama, Reid, and Pelosi, has a price. You and John Roberts are ‘in line’ for ‘justice’ of a kind that you aren’t accustomed to, it comes as “The law of equilibrium’ – called by many other names, but scientifically defined in Newton’s 3rd law of Motion and Einstein's Relativity theory.. All of that which is ‘coming at both of you’, at this very moment, to its final destination - 'your ruination', is equivalent to that which you and he have perpetrated on America - done selfishly, merely for the benefit of carving out a cushy place for your own personal derrieres. You may be certain that it will be a bottomless pit of misery.</div>
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Make a diary note, because neither of you will recognize it when it hits full force in your lives, as being that which is of the precise measure of damage you've done to others. People never do recognize 'themselves' coming back at them in the form of the pain and suffering they've done to others, when what they’ve done to others has fulfilled its relativistic SpaceTime tour, and its mandated destiny returns from the place where they've sent it to harm others, now to do the same to them – multiplied. It’s an immutable law of motion-dynamics. (Whatever you and Roberts are trying to protect for yourselves , will fall on its face – with a few more good blows from – guess who? – Obama! He will take you down – in due time – just as Hitler took down every ‘loyalist’ who was evidence of ‘his corruption’ against the public, and posterity.(**)</div>
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Barack Obama studied The Constitution ‘only and solely’ to become intimately familiar with ‘how to attack it’. Period. (You can keep that bit of information, if you want to! Period!)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(**) THERE was an old sow with three little pigs, and as she had not enough to keep them, she sent them out to seek their fortune. The first that went off met a man with a bundle of straw, and said to him:</div>
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'Please, man, give me that straw to build a house.'<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Which the man did, and the little pig built a house with it. Presently came along a wolf, and knocked at the door, and said:</div>
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'Little pig, little pig, let me come in.' To which the pig answered:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />'No, no, by the hair of my chiny chin chin.' The wolf then answered to that:</div>
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'Then I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house in.'<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />So he huffed, and he puffed, and he blew his house in, and ate up the little pig.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(***) They 'got him'! At the end of Robespierre's Reign of Terror in 1793-94, the people of France decided that his famous maxim, "The end justifies the means" wasn't acceptable. (Which Saul Alinsky borrowed from him 2 centuries later, and Barack Obama immortalized, against the U.S.). They sent his neck to the guillotine.</div>
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Excerpt from: "Treason & Shroud" Pref. Part III / See link below'<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />“THE ENDS AND THE MEANS OF MAXIMILIEN ROBESPIERRE: “THE REIGN OF TERROR”</div>
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“Robespierre met the wrath of the Ninth of the Thermidor--the mobilization of his enemies. They had assembled and were able to courageously interrupt Robespierre's speech with cries of "Down with the Tyrant!" His arrest was decreed, and his execution soon followed. On July 28, 1794, Robespierre and nineteen of his supporters went to the guillotine.”</div>
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"Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible" Maximilien Robespierre</div>
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“People do not judge in the same way as courts of law; they do not hand down sentences, they throw thunderbolts; they do not condemn kings, they drop them back into the void; and this justice is worth just as much as that of the courts.” <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Maximilien Robespierre</div>
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What he sent around, came back around. It will to you and Barack Obama, as well.</div>
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<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">"skewering America as if it were a toilet" </b>???<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />That is a textbook example of a mixed metaphor. I know you will think "grammar nazi", but what the hell does that mean? Do you skewer your toilet? How do you skewer your toilet? How does anyone skewer a toilet?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Beyond that, I suspect that at root we are in agreement on the government, but your rant is quite disjointed and reads like a student essay where the student didn't read the assignment and is trying to bluff his way through the report by name dropping and misuse of terms like logos and ethos.</div>
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That’s a rather large chip you are carrying around on your shoulder. One that surely is comparable to Hercules twelve Labors, which virtuous struggle must qualify you as the perfect embodiment of Aristotle’s ‘pathos’. Or, more likely yours is a parallel of Sisyphus struggle of ceaselessly pushing a boulder up a mountain, only to have it – as ceaselessly – roll back on his shoulder. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />A qualified student of classical studies will notice quite quickly, the difference between a presumptuous dilettante poseur of fine grammar and rhetoric, and those who are not limited by a lack of education. The former tends to be an individual of a provincial social experience, whose academic education has been as limited as his social education. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />This response may benefit you in future attempts to assign a qualitative value to strangers, whose educational and social experience exceeds yours, by a measure that is evident to the extent that your criticism of their commentary betrays your ignorance of proper use of terms, and – your lack of familiarity with the dynamical use of mixed metaphors, a noblesse oblige literary art form of a classical turn of phrase (*) – particularly, when feigning knowledge not possessed, in comparison of yourself with one whose maternal grandmother was one of the 20th c. most renowned British linguistic scholars, who read Sanskrit, read, wrote and spoke Classical Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and a total of 14 languages from Romance to Indo-European, and Arabic – who also formalized the grammar of 6 spoken Bantu languages. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />As did Aristotle, Cicero, and Isocrates – the three greatest classical arbiters of ‘modes’ of ‘idea conveyance’ – i.e. rhetoric - this writer also “uses” ethos, pathos, and logos, semantically, as a ‘means of conveyance of intent’. These ‘nouns’ are linguistic ‘tools’, ‘modes’ – which are verbs, establishing and stylizing, ‘intent’ vis a vis their ‘conveyance of a state of thought, emotion, intent’. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Quote:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />“Each of you is doing it the same way, professing a different logos while neither of you has an ounce of ethos functioning in your twisted psyches. There is no conscience there."</div>
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In summary, your failure to connect the rational syntax of a comment, is a problem of unfamiliarity with 'thought forms', as well as of literary forms, history, and social standards which are clearly not of your experience, so must seem terribly 'disjointed' - 'in your mind'. It is apparent by your comment, and choices of subjects to comment on, that your life experience has been limited to a provincial classical Christian – Bible Belt – sociology – with a self-perpetuating attempt to appear to think outside of that box.</div>
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Merry Christmas, Alexis A.</div>
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Alexis rarely responds to 'commenters', preferring to direct people to "A Boudica Point of View: Take no Prisoners". But, on occasion, she does - as she did to your comment. We've informed her of your 'reaction' to her 'response' to you, and, she has asked us to respond again to you, to 'kindly' point out to you that your social and intellectual experience is limiting your perceptions of the realities of society - from an objective persepctive - adding that there is no measure of meaningful discourse to be found in the 'Minds of Mice and Men' - who epitomize historic events such as The Scopes Trial - AKA The Monkey Trial.</div>
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P.S. She is amazed by the subjective ignorance of most individuals who use the internet to 'communicate their personal, subjective opinions' - who are individuals who assume that the social status of others, is the same as their own. She noted that you spoke of "name dropping" - and, asked, 'What if this person knew the genealogy of my family'? Would he say I was 'name-dropping'?'</div>
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Forgive me, I am not accustomed to being responded to by commenters with a staff, other than about the head and ears. Here in the world of the hoi-poloi, most of the commenters we encounter are in their pajamas in their parent's basement.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />I do appreciate the delicate way you reminded me that this world belongs to those of appropriate "social status". And that they are the only ones who opinions matter. For some reason, I suddenly have a strong desire to reread Beaumont and Fletcher's <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Knight of the Burning Pestle</i><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />So, you may return to assisting her in preventing the Honorable[?] Representative Boenher from skewering the America like a toilet.</div>
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luxomnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04424783301733279218noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6252410571095607877.post-79775169235446148832013-11-30T20:59:00.000-05:002013-11-30T21:09:50.991-05:00<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">About 4 years ago I posted about an incident at the Swiss Italian border involving two Asian men "smuggling" bonds from Italy to Switzerland. Nothing was mentioned in the American press and that astounded me. At the time it was claimed that they were counterfeit, a claim I could not accept, because what could the bonds be copied from?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Now I have found that we also heard nothing about the suit to recover the bonds. There is a suit by the agent for the "Dragon" cartel that owned them. <span style="background-color: white;">Here is the link to the 114 page pdf document of the OFFICIAL LAWSUIT! I suppose a trillion dollar lawsuit isn't worth mentioning in the news anymore.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"This is a civil claim arising out of the concerted, knowing, malicious scheme and </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">international conspiracy engaged in by the Defendants for the designed purpose of defrauding </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">plaintiff KEENAN, the designated Agent of his Principal, the "Dragon Family," for the express </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">purpose of expropriating, stealing and converting certain negotiable financial instruments </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">lawfully owned by the Dragon Family and entrusted to KEENAN in early 2009. These assets </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">(hereinafter referred to as the "Dragon Family Financial Instruments" or the "DFFI") had been </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">intended for participation in select, registered and authorized Private Placement Investment </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Programs (or "PPPs " ) for the benefit of a wide range of global humanitarian purposes. At the </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">time of the criminal and deceitful acts of the Defendants, the approximate face value of the </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">stolen DFFI was One Hundred Forty-Five and One Half Billion ($145,500,000,000.00) United </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">States Dollars with an approximate accrued interest value of One Trillion </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">($1,000,000,000,000.00) United States Dollars"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I will post more after I have a chance to do a little follow up research. Oh, well, I didn't want to sleep anyway</span></div>
luxomnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04424783301733279218noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6252410571095607877.post-17444487090844849342013-11-12T17:28:00.000-05:002013-11-12T17:28:56.547-05:00Why did Lincoln make United States Notes instead of inflating the Silver or Gold Certificates?<br />
And why is the only currency in circulation today a note written by the Federal Reserve Bank and not the US?<br />
And what do they have in common?<br />
As I have written before, <span style="background-color: #fff3db; color: #29303b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The Coinage Act of 1792 is the enactment of the laws that support the United States Constitution. It has been amended and added to, but it is still the controlling legal law for our currency and coin.</span><span style="background-color: #fff3db; color: #29303b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> The Founding Fathers were skeptical of currency. Paper money always comes to a bad end, and the had been bitten by it several times, like a merchant being stuck with a bad check today. Except that the check was drawn on a national bank or even a nation itself.</span><br />
<span style="color: #29303b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The dollar is defined in the Act as </span><span style="background-color: #e0e0e0; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;">371 </span><sup style="background-color: #e0e0e0; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1em;">4</sup><span style="background-color: #e0e0e0; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;">/</span><sub style="background-color: #e0e0e0; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1em;">16</sub><span style="background-color: #e0e0e0; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> grain (24.1 g) pure or 416 grain (27.0 g) standard </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver" style="background-color: #e0e0e0; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px; text-decoration: none;" title="Silver">silver</a>. The piece of paper was never legally a dollar. The dollar is a standard weight and purity of silver.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff3db; color: #29303b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> § 19 of </span><strong style="background-color: #fff3db; color: #29303b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the Act authorizes the death penalty for government officials who debase the currency. And the law still stands today.</strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff3db; color: #29303b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">So rather than debasing the currency, Lincoln issued a side currency. Since this currency did not debase the silver and gold Constitutional currencies but instead was like a non-interest bearing bond, it got a pass.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff3db; color: #29303b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The same appears true with the Federal Reserve Note, but is it? The US Notes were redeemed in silver, gold, or other currency; so the debt was settled. The amount authorized was never increased from the original amount and so was not debased. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff3db; color: #29303b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Now think of cutting a pie and then re-cutting it to double the number of slices. You do not have more pie. In fact each piece is worth half the pie it used to be.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff3db; color: #29303b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The Federal Reserve Notes have increased and increased and increased upon the issuance of debt by the Congress of the United States. There is not corresponding increase in the backing, there is no backing at all. </span><span style="background-color: #fff3db; color: #29303b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">In fact, the debt is required to be settled in silver and gold by the US Constitution Silver and gold that has not increased in amount in many decades and even decreased. So the remaining national inventory of precious metals being constant, the value of our currency has dissi</span><span style="background-color: #fff3db; color: #29303b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">pated . </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff3db; color: #29303b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Since that dollar is representative of our debt but not our assets, it is steadily being debased so that now it is but pennies on the dollar of as recently as 1964. Debasement may be slow to the eye like Kudzu growing, but like Kudzu, it is strangling everything is grows over.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff3db; color: #29303b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b>It is my fervent hope that when section 19 is finally enforced , they bring back the Guillotine.</b></span>luxomnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04424783301733279218noreply@blogger.com0