So it’s after Thanksgiving. We Americans did what Americans do. We ate, and ate, and ate some more. Enjoying such things as ham, turkey, roast beast, mashed potatoes with gravy, and finished with confectioners like pie and cake. We then sat in a lethargic heap on the couch, digesting while being entertained with a football game, unless you were at your in-laws house, which was quite conversation which you did not participate. The conversation centered on the latest family gossip, and ended with heated debate about the next four months to four years.
The next day, those not suffering from a binge eating hangover battled life and savings at the local retailer promising incredible sales on the latest this and that for the first four to five hours after opening. The day was sensationalized with the tragic death of some hapless holiday shopper whom has been lulled into a state of spending friezes. This poor person spends aggressively because they have been duped into spending when they should be saving. By saving, I actually mean not spending money, not getting that extra 10% off of whatever gadget or gizmo or thneed (yes I stole that from my favorite author Dr. Susse).
Now comes the next day. Chaos still stands at the edge of a cliff. We are on a stage coach, riding along that cliff on a rough and bumpy trail with blind curve along the entire way as so far as we can see. Currently, our horses are dragging along, without a team master. There is no leader among them, and without the leadership of the team master, they sway to and throw, speed up and speed down, narrowly missing the edge of the cliff from time to time. Occasionally, the security man, with the shotgun tries to get hold of the reigns, without success, trying to will the team this way and that, to spur them on faster… to no avail.
Unfortunately for us, (those inside the stage coach) are urging on a promising new team master. He has thus refused to do anything to stabilize the coach. He sits next to the reigns, telling everyone that he has a plan, picking members to participate in that plan, but has said little to the people in the coach that means anything substantial. Furthermore, the moves he has made, picking the people that lead to this current state of affairs, has not inspired the leaderless coach team, nor those along for the ride.
The next day, it used to mean a time of starting over, a fresh start, renewed. Today, the next day looms over us like a dark cloud of a winter storm, threatening a deep and penetrating cold. The next day, once the epitome of American exceptionalism, an eternal hope that anyone from any background, from any circumstance could and would make their individual dreams come true, according to their intellect, talent, and hard work, now a threat of despair, despotism, tyranny, and socialism / Marxism / communism. In short the total loss of individual freedom.
What can one do to prevent the death of liberty? The only thing that one can do, keep those phone lines hot to the touch. Be in touch with your representatives. Call your senators, and house representative. I know they won’t like it one bit. Remind them that “We the People” are the boss. It is an irritating fact that the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution of the United States of America get in the way of total rule of the governed. “We the People” is not just an ideal. “We the People” actually means that the governed determine our own fate.
When the Declaration of Independence was so elegantly written, long standing abuses of government over the governed had been gone unchanged. We stand and the precipice of history. Before us is not only the loss of individual freedom, but those whom are religious, with a resolute belief in the Almighty God, are threatened with persecution. Those that persecute the Godly people refine those people. Either they will be forged as strong steel, able to withstand the bombardment of the persecutors, or they will be brittle, weak and break. As we approach those days, I implore you to study the Declaration of Independence, as you would study for a final exam for a math class. Also study with the same zeal and detail the Constitution of the United States of America. Use the documents to compare any and all ideas, policies, and laws that are handed to us as “solutions” to our problems.
Eventually, I fear that our government will require us to act in ways that contradict those ideas and practices of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America. If that day comes, will you be ready and able to defend the Constitution, a sacred document from great and God fearing me: men that resolved to the loss of their own lives if necessary, to bring freedom and liberty to a new nation.
This past thanksgiving, for what did you give thank? Did you ponder the day that we now know, and how it came to be? Now is the time that we dedicate ourselves to the cause of freedom. Now is the day that we declare liberty. Our own homes should be a source of the education in liberty and freedom: a place where our children are taught the cause and cost of freedom. Our homes should be a place where men like Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Adams, Hancock, and Charles Carroll of Carrollton are common, and we should know whom these me were and what they did.
Are you going to be one of the Army of liberty? If that day should come, I hope that I am.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Thoughts that kept me out of the really good schools...
Did anyone really take account for that which they are or were truly thankful? As we stand on the precipice of a new era (and no I am not talking about the next President of the United States, per se) of chaos, did you talk time to think of those things which are most precious? The next few years, if not decades, are going to be extremely difficult.
We, the American People, have a unique opportunity before us. We have the ability to shine like a city on a hill. Though dark clouds of doubt and fear threaten to overwhelm each of us, one an individual, can still make a difference.
This total chaos in the financial market and credit market has been terrifying to the standard American. If one lists all the problems that this country faces and how those problems creep into the daily lives of the American individual, it can be and is overwhelming. Add to this problem that there is a true vacuum of leadership, and everything that has been tried, is currently failing in spectacular fashion. Even better, when we oppose any particular “solution” with a clear and loud voice, “We the People” are wholly ignored, upbraided, and scolded for our, “lack of understanding and knowledge”, on the subject.
The commodity of trust is nonexistent, other than we trust politicians to protect themselves at the all cost of the governed. These same elected governors of the people continue to strip individual freedom from the individual in the name of the common good. (Though how the common good is served with freedom taken from the individual is beyond my reasoning to comprehend.) Perhaps once on becomes a politician, they cease to be a homo sapien. I submit that once one becomes a politician, a new genus is created called taxus spendus.
These creatures, some from the geriatric era of civilization, have a truly mercenary instinct. They confiscate from those that produce. If one takes from another without permission, it is called theft. When a government does it, it’s called taxes. To add insult to injury, one is no longer a patriot if one opposes oppressive taxes. These cold hearted, selfish, arrogant, taxus spendus beings in Washington D.C. and state houses across this grand nation are suffocating the general public.
Taxus spendus is a parasite. It leaches on to the general public and does everything it can to control that which it depends on for its existence. Taxus spendus siphons lifeblood from its host. Most hosts are unaware of the lethal danger that is taxus spendus. Indeed, taxus spendus has the skills of the chameleon, disguising itself very effectively as a homo sapien, often mimicking emotion on occasion, and pseudo-intellectual thought. Once taxus spendus has a firm grip on the mind and heart of a homo sapien, that poor homo sapien is then taken over by the taxus spendus, thus the taxus spendus has reproduced. Taxus spendus can also reproduce once taxus spendus finds the opposite gender of taxus spendus.
Taxus spendus seems to thrive along the West and East coast of the United States of America. They are most heavily concentrated in high population centers – cities with over one million in population. While there are strength in numbers, this phenomena can be used against them.
While taxus spendus seems to be taking over all the homo sapiens in the United States of America, there is hope. There is a counter to taxus spendus. Taxus spendus has a weakness. That weakness is logic. Once logic is applied to the actions, proposals, and positions of taxus spendus, there is often a violent reaction. With venom and bitterness, taxus spendus uses all reserve emotion to protect itself. However, with persistent persuasion of truth and logic, even this last defensive measure can be defeated.
Now that you are fully informed on this most dangerous of creatures, you will have adequate defenses against them, with the opportunity to defeat taxus spendus. While total inhalation of taxus spendus is unlikely, a dramatic drop in their numbers is possible, and even likely. Our best chance is to eliminate all the taxus spendus within our own communities first. We first start locally, with your own city. Then move covertly to the county. Once your local government is cleansed of this parasite of taxus spendus, move on to the State level. Eventually, this parasite can be kept in check.
Make no mistake; this is the most difficult plague to reach the American People. It will take a very long time to recover from the damage inflicted upon the American People by the toxic taxus spendus. It will be a long and slow recovery. If we fail to control taxus spendus, taxus spendus will eventually take over the world, and homo sapiens will cease to exist.
This is a call to arms. Start in your own neighborhoods, cities and states. Do it for your children, grand children and great grand children. There is hope, and a future, but you must make that future.
Good luck, and God Bless.
We, the American People, have a unique opportunity before us. We have the ability to shine like a city on a hill. Though dark clouds of doubt and fear threaten to overwhelm each of us, one an individual, can still make a difference.
This total chaos in the financial market and credit market has been terrifying to the standard American. If one lists all the problems that this country faces and how those problems creep into the daily lives of the American individual, it can be and is overwhelming. Add to this problem that there is a true vacuum of leadership, and everything that has been tried, is currently failing in spectacular fashion. Even better, when we oppose any particular “solution” with a clear and loud voice, “We the People” are wholly ignored, upbraided, and scolded for our, “lack of understanding and knowledge”, on the subject.
The commodity of trust is nonexistent, other than we trust politicians to protect themselves at the all cost of the governed. These same elected governors of the people continue to strip individual freedom from the individual in the name of the common good. (Though how the common good is served with freedom taken from the individual is beyond my reasoning to comprehend.) Perhaps once on becomes a politician, they cease to be a homo sapien. I submit that once one becomes a politician, a new genus is created called taxus spendus.
These creatures, some from the geriatric era of civilization, have a truly mercenary instinct. They confiscate from those that produce. If one takes from another without permission, it is called theft. When a government does it, it’s called taxes. To add insult to injury, one is no longer a patriot if one opposes oppressive taxes. These cold hearted, selfish, arrogant, taxus spendus beings in Washington D.C. and state houses across this grand nation are suffocating the general public.
Taxus spendus is a parasite. It leaches on to the general public and does everything it can to control that which it depends on for its existence. Taxus spendus siphons lifeblood from its host. Most hosts are unaware of the lethal danger that is taxus spendus. Indeed, taxus spendus has the skills of the chameleon, disguising itself very effectively as a homo sapien, often mimicking emotion on occasion, and pseudo-intellectual thought. Once taxus spendus has a firm grip on the mind and heart of a homo sapien, that poor homo sapien is then taken over by the taxus spendus, thus the taxus spendus has reproduced. Taxus spendus can also reproduce once taxus spendus finds the opposite gender of taxus spendus.
Taxus spendus seems to thrive along the West and East coast of the United States of America. They are most heavily concentrated in high population centers – cities with over one million in population. While there are strength in numbers, this phenomena can be used against them.
While taxus spendus seems to be taking over all the homo sapiens in the United States of America, there is hope. There is a counter to taxus spendus. Taxus spendus has a weakness. That weakness is logic. Once logic is applied to the actions, proposals, and positions of taxus spendus, there is often a violent reaction. With venom and bitterness, taxus spendus uses all reserve emotion to protect itself. However, with persistent persuasion of truth and logic, even this last defensive measure can be defeated.
Now that you are fully informed on this most dangerous of creatures, you will have adequate defenses against them, with the opportunity to defeat taxus spendus. While total inhalation of taxus spendus is unlikely, a dramatic drop in their numbers is possible, and even likely. Our best chance is to eliminate all the taxus spendus within our own communities first. We first start locally, with your own city. Then move covertly to the county. Once your local government is cleansed of this parasite of taxus spendus, move on to the State level. Eventually, this parasite can be kept in check.
Make no mistake; this is the most difficult plague to reach the American People. It will take a very long time to recover from the damage inflicted upon the American People by the toxic taxus spendus. It will be a long and slow recovery. If we fail to control taxus spendus, taxus spendus will eventually take over the world, and homo sapiens will cease to exist.
This is a call to arms. Start in your own neighborhoods, cities and states. Do it for your children, grand children and great grand children. There is hope, and a future, but you must make that future.
Good luck, and God Bless.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Glad to know there is tollerance
I was reading the news online, like always when I ran across this little story. http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20081112/NEWS01/811120369. This story's headline reads "Gay rights protester disrupt Sunday service." As I read this story of what took place, I thought of those poor people that wished for a little peace of mind from a loving Almight God, and these petty protesters infringed on the worshipers First Amendment Right to worship. While I am enraged at the actions of these "Gay Activists", more disturbing to me is the idea that those from without an organization has the hubris to believe that they have any influence on church doctrine.
The same can be true of those protesting the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Temple in Santa Monica. While they are protesting a group of people that was less than 2.3% of those that voted Yes on Prop. 8, it could be argued that the Church perhaps is the most recognizable organization that opposes gay marriage. It's hard to protest millions of individuals, so why not protest a very visual organization.
Basically, my First Amendment Right to "peacefully assemble" is infringed upon when groups act as did those in the article. Personally, I am the type that refuses to be a victim. I would be tempted to protect my rights, with force and violence. To those that think they should disrupt my Sunday service I have three words for you... "Bring it on."
The same can be true of those protesting the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Temple in Santa Monica. While they are protesting a group of people that was less than 2.3% of those that voted Yes on Prop. 8, it could be argued that the Church perhaps is the most recognizable organization that opposes gay marriage. It's hard to protest millions of individuals, so why not protest a very visual organization.
Basically, my First Amendment Right to "peacefully assemble" is infringed upon when groups act as did those in the article. Personally, I am the type that refuses to be a victim. I would be tempted to protect my rights, with force and violence. To those that think they should disrupt my Sunday service I have three words for you... "Bring it on."
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