Jeffy, Gabey and ....er, Alleny!

(The following is a retraction/correction for a previously posted blog that I took down almost immediately for my own conscience's sake. To the best of my knowledge that previous blog was not a pack of lies, but it did amount to an attack and as I've learned from many sources these days, words mean things and they can hurt people. So it's not enough to simply remove the offending written words, for once spoken the human word hangs in eternity for all to see and recollect. What's required is a retraction, maybe even an apology....)

The idolization of my fellow man has always been a problem for me. For years I was on the lookout (and maybe still am, being a work in progress) for the best preacher, the best martial arts instructor, the most spiritual man....some kind of semi-holy leader to act as guide and instructor for me. This is a weakness and a fault on my part. A wise man once said "nobody's perfect" and with the exception of G*D Himself in a trinitarian sense, no one is. The search for a divine guide is not just idolatry it's also the evasion of personal responsibility. If I'm not responsible for my own actions by virtue of what I was taught (and by whom), then it must be my teacher who is at fault and not myself. That's how it works.

In short, it could be said that there's only 2 people in the universe: you and G*D, and let no man come between. Whether technically true or not, and quantuum physics makes a pretty good argument for just such a thing, the important thing to realize is that WE are responsible for our own spiritual lives. G*D sets the rules, makes them known, provides a path...the rest is up to us. And this is true both inside the church and outside, both inside the synagogue and outside. It's true at the tiny, rustic New Hope Methodist where my mother attended and it's true at the Kansas City Baptist Temple (KCBT) with all it's glamour and attendance. Spiritually, we rise and fall on our own merits.

I wrote some things that I regret speaking out into the ether, and I did so in the classic manifestation of a victim of personality culthood. Once I idolized pastors and personalities at KCBT. When failures of my own making caused havoc in my life it was easy to blame friends or teachers. Later I struggled with the idolization of my kung fu instructor. In the blog that I wrote I set one against the other, probably to the detriment of them both and it is certain that doing so was a self-indictment of my own mental and emotional weakness. Robert McFields, the kung fu instructor, is a good man and has had a great effect on my life. Jeff Adams and Alan Shelby are probably also good men (I don't know them as well as I might have claimed, sorry to say) and in both direct and indirect ways they too have had good effects upon my life. When I ran into trouble during what I refer to as "my baptist days" it was all to easy to turn on them. When Robert McFields shared with me that he had approached Jeff Adams with what he could do with his kung fu and how the Holy Spirit was working in his life, McFields described Jeff Adam's reaction as "proud" and a little condescending. Emotionally, I wanted to take up for my kung fu teacher (a new ido?) and bash upon my old friends at KCBT (old idols?). See the pattern? It's not them, it's me.

Regarding McFields meeting with Adams; I wasn't there, I don't know what transpired. The older and supposedly wiser I get, the more I say "I don't know", so what happened that day? I don't know. Is Jeff Adams proud? I don't know. Does Robert McFields actually have the Holy Spirit within him in a different way than other Christians? I don't know. I do know he teaches a pretty good kung fu and that this teaching has helped me. I also know that some things I've learned at KCBT at the hands of Alan and Jeff have helped me. That's about all I know. As my wife would say (bless her Jewish heart!), take the good and leave the bad, and that's what I'm going to try to do. Dragging out a bunch of garbage, most of which I was not witness or privy to, and slandering anyone with it was a mistake and I apologize. I don't know anything firsthand about Alan Shelby's marriage or his childhood, I didn't know him personally when I was at the Blue Ridge Baptist Temple, I don't know about the meeting with Jeff Adams and Robert McFields. I do know, however, what Gabe Alvarado said to me on the phone when I was going through my divorce, and that I cannot retract. And I also know that he later denied it in writing, a writing which may have been made public to a select few for reputation's sake (I would have done the same, I'm sure, had someone likewise accused me!), but other than that the man's life is unknown to me and I will cease to speak on the matter in any way.

Take the good, leave the bad. There it is.

The interesting thing about this retraction is not what but when. The timing went like this. I wrote the ugly blog in question, didn't feel all that good about it, received an anonymous comment on the blog, thought about it and took it down. The comment was unimportant, containing accusations not too disimilar than something I might say in the same vein that I was caught in my own web of deception or some such thing, which was probably partly true and partly false. I'd be interested to know who did write it, but their anonymity prevents me from addressing them and apologizing in person. I suspect however that it was one of the easily googled names mentioned both in that prior blog and this one, so I have repeated them each here in multitudes.

But here's where it gets neat. Not three days after I took it down Tom Ryan called me at home. I haven't heard from Tom in years, he having been present during the worst of my fallout at KCBT. We both said and felt ugly things towards each other and, once on the phone, apologized mutually in short order. It was a wonderful call followed up by seeing him at my class reunion and a call a month later on. I hope to continue talking to him. I at first suspected that he had read the blog, posted the comment and was addressing it in his own fashion in the hopes that I would remove it.....but - and no offense here, Tom! - he's just not that slick. Tom's a basic guy who moves straight ahead. What's important is that I took it down of my own accord and in accord with my own conscience, and then Tom called. Here's how I sum it up:

- that blog was the last in a long series of "venting" exercises for me personally
- the call from Tom that followed closed the book on that part of my life.
- the anger and bitterness (long fought) was finally removed forever, and that's a good thing! I don't ever remember feeling so liberated and at peace in years in a spiritual sense. Thank you, Tom.

It's easy to say that a blog is like a personal diary and the thoughts and feelings expressed there are my own and are basically therapeutic, but when it hits the world wide web it comes closer to slander, and that is why I'm apologizing. Sorry, gentlemen. The blog is personal but when negative things come out of my mouth or hands then I alone am responsible for them, not you. I've been able to come clean in a multitude of ways and I wish you all the best and you have my heartfelt apologies.

Except for you, Gabe. I can't forgive what hasn't been confessed. That thing between us has always been the secret heart of my dilemma and a root cause of my bitterness and I'd like to see it resolved but hold little hope of seeing it happen. That's unfortunate. But should you wish to call or write you will find me friendly, responsive and eager to make amends. Best of luck.

Oh, and Lori's great! Happy birthday, honey. I love you.

Spencer Daily Warren

Damn

I really hate to write this.
I'm going to make a vow to myself, in order to perform a litmus test of my political views. I'm going to promise myself that what I write here and what I claim to believe will also be communicated - in person - to those I happen to know personally.
The issue is illegal immigration.
The people I promise to talk to about it are Andreas, Santiago, Jonathan and my absolute favorite, Jeffrey.
(note: Jeffrey is a nine year-old boy in my kung fu class, along with Andreas, Santiago and Jonathan. He is hands down the coolest kid I've ever seen.)
Fact: crossing any border of the United States without permission and without proceeding through the proper federal channels is a violation of law.
Fact: this "border-jumping" is not only illegal it is unfair to those who wait in line and act according to our laws and regulations.
Fact: I don't know if I have the moral courage to practice what I preach on this issue.
Pat Buchanan has a new book out: "State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America".
I don't know if Pat's right about everything he says in this new book, as I haven't read it. I have a good idea of where he stands idealogically and I do not unilaterally agree with him with regards to his views. I'm not "anti-catholic" any more than I'm "anti-protestant", but there are subclasses of both groups that I'm not inclined to trust, and for good reason. I don't particularly trust Jesuits or Knights of Malta on the catholic side, nor do I trust certain groups on the protestant side that are associated with the mystery schools or mystery religions. Pat Buchanan is a Knight of Malta. To read more about the history of this organization you have to trace back its roots to the Knights of St. John or the Knights Hospitallers.
I also have good reason to believe that the dogmas of Aztlan and "reconquista" are very real in the minds of many people of hispanic descent, and I don't entirely blame them. I do, however, have to resist them in their desire to reconquer the American Southwest because, hey, we live here! If you're a true researcher it wouldn't hurt you to google Aztlan along with the Hospitallers, but be prepared for a scary ride.
Now the Knights of Malta are a branch of the mystery schools and those are the rules they play by in global geopolitics and matters of high finance. One of their outstanding credos is "Ordro ab Chao" and this is highly relevant.
Here's another fact for you: governments don't really exist. They are a relative figment of our imagination and cannot be personalized. Any government is merely a bureacracy formed and defined by the people that control and operate it, for better or for worse. But part and parcel of that fact is another fact that the only genuine characteristic of a government, its only expression of realism, is that it grows like any other parasite, and it grows along the lines of power. That is government's only true function; to expand. Our founding fathers knew quite well that the very nature of government is inimical to the free nature of man, and great pains were undertaken to guarantee us a government by the people, for the people and of the people in spite of this fact.
So government grows and consolidates power.
We have an actual explosion on our hands in this country of illegal immigration, permeating our work force and our social institutions. All the scary propaganda about illegal immigrants being diseas-ridden criminals is beyond my knowledge and beyond the scope of this blog entry, so I won't even go into that. Let it be said that this variable is at present an unknown.
Government is going to be looked to as the first defense and first solution to our problem of illegal immigration. Building a wall or border fence is fine and probably should be done if it won't further bankrupt the national treasury, but the real issue lies with the illegal aliens already taking up residence in the United States. Current best guesses estimate the number of illegal aliens in United States to be upwards of 10 million, but I personally think that this must be a low estimate. It's probably closer to 20 million but there's no way for me to know and for now nobody is saying or taking any measures to find out the real figure, if that's even possible.
So how is government...the United States FEDERAL government...going to deal with 10-20 million people taking illegal residence in the United States? There's only one way, and it ain't pretty. Cowboys would call it a round-up. I would call it kicking in doors, ratting on neighbors and concentration camps. I told you it wasn't pretty.
Now since government by nature expands and consolidates power, rarely given up any new function or power it aquires (if ever without force being applied from below) then we stand at a perilous precipice. We are a heartbeat away from asking, no begging or government to aquire a new power, the power to kick in the doors of (at present) non-violent people, round them up, contain them in some sort of camps then throw them out of the country.
If that sounds nice to you then I just want to say, for the record, that such thinking from a supposed "American" is a far greater threat than illegal immigration is today. That kind of thinking turned the German republic into the Third Reich. And therein lies the problem:
If we allow the U.S. government to do that to a bunch of Mexican nationals looking for work and a better life, and if government never gives up a new power, then how long before the government does the same thing to somebody else?
Somebody like you? Somebody like me?
The answer is: fucking no time at all.
We could easily find that the difference between an illegal alien and a dissident is little more than one breath or one heartbeat.
I don't know if Buchanan is right when he says that Rome and Carthage fell the same way; he's probably not. But I do know that we're in a helluva fix and there's no easy way out. The only course of action that doesn't create a totalitarian state AND that addresses our problem of porous borders and illegal aliens living among us is to make illegal residence in the United States a felony and rely upon the Citizen powers of citizen arrest (which is the law in Missouri, at least, when a felony is witnessed by an American Citizen), thereby empowering our citizenry to make actual arrests. But even IF the government would go along with such a concept (which is would not; governemnts don't let go of power, remember?) then we still have the problem of temporary containment and relocation.
I think this is the problem that the mystery schools have been waiting for, a problem that they are even now creating and exacerbating (corrupt Border Patrol that actually compound the problem, law or non-existent immigration laws and enforcement, a permissive air of historical guilt in our society that makes it "hate speech" to speak out on this issue and allows Mexican consulates to publish textbooks dedicated to "reconquista"). This problem is being allowed to grow and magnify on purpose.
A democrat will be elected as the next President of the United States.
Nothing will be done about this problem, at least insomuch as a solution is concerned.
Government will be empowered.
Government will never give up that power.
Government will abuse that power in short order.
Ordro ab chao.

Why Tomb Raider Sucks

All right, all right. I know I'm about 8 years behind the times on this one but I don't give a splat.
Some people go see sucky, cheese-dick movies at the theater.
Some wait for them to come out at the dollar theaters.
Some wait for them to come out on pay-per-spew.
Others wait for them to hit the video store.
There are even a few that wait until it becomes an Xbox/Playstation II game.
Not me.
I wait until it hits the video store, goes through the rental cycle, then goes up for sale, and then (finally) hits the clearance table at Blockbuster (appropriately known in my household as "Cockblocker") at the low price of 5 movies for $10.
That's how much I payed for "Tomb Raider" starring Angina Holie (Angelina Jolie): $2.00.
I got ripped off.
I was exactly 4.5 minutes into the film before I began uncontrollable vomiting had an aneurism, and that includes the credits. Obviously I'm no fan of Mrs. Angelina Agina Brad SpitPitt Homewrecker Jolie. I think she sucks as an actress and is utterly despicable in all her roles where she's not a.) a psycho bitch (which doesn't require acting) b.) involved in a long lesbian scene or c.) any combination of a.) and b.).
So I'm watching Womb Spader and I see the motion picture rating screen, a.k.a. the blue screen of boredom, and I see "PG-13, with some scenes inappropriate for gay used car salesmen due to sensuality." Look, dude, instead of that rating just put in bold neon letters: "Anga-weenie does NOT take her clothes off" and save me the trouble of seeing this catastrophe.
Getting back to Ang Jolson. Did I mention she sucks? That she's a homewrecking bitch who can't act? Oh, I did. Well, then I said it again. And what's wrong with her lips??? How in the hell did some hotshot Hellywood agent determine that Ms. Angelina Jackson is going to look sexy with extensive cosmetic surgery. The most satisfying part of this movie was imagining myself punching her dead in the mouth and making those gruesome lips look all puffy through senseless violence! She looks like a freakshow, to tell you the truth. Yeah, yeah, yeah; perfect body and all that crap, but if I wanted to look at an artificially enhance maniquin then I'd go beat off in a Montgomery Wards, not pay $12.50 for a movie about some spandex-wearing hoe who beats up robots by putting a disk in the computer brain that plays "Lara's Party Mix" then ripping it's brain wires out with her bare hands after overpowering said lethal killer robot and forcing it to cut its own legs off. Stupid. Grotesquely stupid.
I really don't feel like writing an extended hate-blog about this slut and her Nigerian breach baby and traiterous pretty boy Springfield, Missouri cornholing husband, so I'll just list out the things that bothered me during the first 8 seconds of the movie.
- She's an idiot.
- She's not good-looking, except the way a beautiful Italian convertible is beautiful (not something I'd want to stick my penis in, but I wouldn't be adverse to throwing up in the seat on my way out of a bar, say).
- She's not cool, she was never cool, she can't spell "cool".
- Lousy phoney English accent that comes and goes like her boyfriends in real life.
- Photoshop enhanced bod that is more a product of lighting and special effects, on screen and off, than actual genetics.
- Every villian in the movie is a white male
- The only good white males are sissy-boy techno-wuss assistants standing in lamely as comic relief
- She's NOT Indiana Jones and isn't worthy to BLOW Indiana Jones
- Tool Raper is NOT The Mummy (now there's a good movie, and also starring a REAL actress who IS hot: Rachel Weis, who doesn't look like something out of a Sears catalog.)
- She's totally bad and twirls her buns....I mean GUNS.... and can load clips from her utility belt just by reaching behind her to scratch her ass.
- She struts around the set like my brother who's 40 years old and still thinks he's Joe Bad from high school. In other words, she tries to walk like a guy and ends up not impersonating anything that's either male or female, which is fitting because with the amount of celluloid in her body she barely qualifies as human anymore.
- She sleeps with a Punjab dagger, which just bugs me although I can't tell you why.
- Oh, and the planetary alignment was May FIFTH, not May Fifteenth.....ASS.

And that's why Tomb Raper sucks and why Angelina should be kicked in the vagina...with her own hiking boot.

"I Am Angry"

by Susan Fassanella

Dear Lew, the Honorable Ron Paul’s piece on why Americans are angry really stirred me to respond. Mr. Paul’s piece speaks about many issues facing Americans today.
I am a 51-year-old woman. I have been married to the same man since 1976. I am the secretary/office manager for a small legal firm in the D.C. suburbs. My husband manages a wine and spirits store. I have two sons, aged 26 and 22. After realizing it wasn’t possible to support themselves and the government at the same time, both returned to the nuclear nest. Along with most people in my economic situation, I believe I am living what is supposed to be the American dream. I know why I am an angry American. I am frightened because America isn’t the same country it was when I was my children’s age. Allow me to share with you some of the reasons why I am an angry American.
I am angry because my government has been taken over by liars, thieves, thugs, deviants, and micromanagers. The propaganda it produces rivals that of the most fascist dictatorship.
I am angry that my government perceives my intelligence to be that of a jar of pickles incapable of making the smallest decision.
I am angry that my government takes it upon itself to shove its clucking nose into my pantry, medicine chest, bedroom, family room, doctor’s office, workplace, and everywhere else it thinks I need guidance to keep me safe from myself.
I am angry that the will of the American people is ignored on every issue imaginable. If voting really mattered, it would have been outlawed long ago.
I am angry that I am called a conspiracy theorist because I dare to think on my own and question authority and its lies.
I am angry that the more I read about 9-11 the more it looks like an inside job that was allowed to happen, enabling the Patriot Act to be conveniently enacted into law with the ensuing "war on terrah" following closely on its heels.
I am angry that the evil puppets in power think laws are created for the peon masses and it is their right to ignore the ones that get in the way of their agenda.
I am angry that the media has sold its soul to the evil forces running the world.
I am angry that my "leaders" have taken to calling my country the "homeland." It reeks of socialism.
I am angry that my government has invaded yet another sovereign nation and caused untold death and destruction based on a flimsy lie. I am expected to believe that weapons of mass destruction threatened my freedom and then I am told several years and billions of squandered dollars later that a massive intelligence network got the wrong information. A select group of businesses profit enormously from war. When Bush announced his intention to save Iraq from itself and that its oil would pay for the overthrow of Hussein, I laughed so hard I nearly choked. I remember the instability in the Middle East during the 1970s and the gas "shortages" that followed. I knew which direction gas prices would go. How stupid does Mr. Bush and his cronies think I am?
I am angry that the world stands silently by while my government bombs foreign lands with weapons containing depleted uranium and the news magazines wonder on their front covers why lung cancer has increased six-fold in the last year.
I am angry that Americans accept as gospel the propaganda that is routinely cranked out of the Washington lie machine. The lies become more transparent and brazen with each passing year, yet the only thing that seems to matter in living rooms across America is who will be the next American Idol.
I am angry that I am punished with high energy and gas prices and the resulting inflation because tree-hugging terrorists masquerading as environmentalists have handcuffed my country’s ability to produce its own energy. It would be easy to tell the Middle East what to do with their oil if restrictions on exploration and production were lifted in our own backyard.
I am angry that I am constantly admonished by minimalists for being a greedy consumer because I live where I choose, drive the vehicle of my choice, eat meat, and use tin foil to cover my leftovers.
I am angry that my life doesn’t belong to me anymore.
I am angry that I am required to obtain permission, fill out mandated paperwork in quadruplicate, and obtain the correct license or permit for just about everything imaginable. The tentacles of government are strangling my freedom, choice, and privacy at an alarming rate. The wrath of the machine is a constant threat should I dare do anything without leaving a neon paper trail and of course ignorance of the law is never an excuse.
I am angry that property rights are a thing of the past thanks to court-approved eminent domain theft.
I am angry that the Constitution is routinely declared irrelevant making it easier for a fascist police state and new world order to take over.
I am angry that legislation is in the works that will require me to carry "papers" to "prove" who I am. Another coming law I will ignore.
I am angry that my right to own and carry a firearm is drastically regulated and restricted.
I am angry every time I see a young person detained on the side of the road while cops paw through their possessions looking for anything that could enable them to be arrested and dragged through the criminal justice system. This has become so commonplace it is now the accepted norm.
I am angry that roadblocks are set up under the guise of keeping roads free of drunk drivers. What has happened to my right to travel freely? Why am I presumed guilty without probable cause? I am afraid to have a few drinks when I go out to dinner for fear I will be pulled over and end up in court-ordered drug rehabilitation.
I am angry when I read stories of Americans terrorized in airports and treated like common criminals by government minions after they have paid for the right to travel within a private system, yet pilots are blocked from carrying firearms.
I am angry that America has become a nation of busybodies. We are constantly bombarded with messages to be on the lookout for terrorists around every corner, report "suspicious activity," and rat on our neighbor whenever the opportunity presents itself. Is this not how the Nazis gained control of Germany and then most of Europe?
I am angry that the government requires me to sign a form every time I purchase a prescription. Whose business is it that I choose to take a thyroid medication, an antibiotic, a painkiller, an appetite suppressant, or any other substance? Am I dying of cancer? Am I facing debilitating chronic pain? Do I simply want to get HIGH? Heaven forbid someone out there might get their hands on something that might make them FEEL GOOD! No substance should be illegal or unobtainable. If a person wishes to self-medicate, that is their right. The government should not be in the business of criminalizing personal choices of any kind as long as those choices don’t infringe on another’s rights.
I am angry that my government meddles in the lives of people all over the world but looks the other way on the catastrophic issue of what to do about the millions of illegals who have crashed the gates of this nation. My country’s laws are ignored and mocked, yet I am told I must accept with open arms those who are here illegally. My taxes are used to educate their children in their native language. Hospitals are overrun with indigent people seeking medical care. Untaxed dollars earned in the underground economy are sent to the family back home while social services here are stretched to the limit. I read job want ads stating if you aren’t bilingual don’t bother to apply. What would happen to me if I placed an ad that said don’t bother to apply if your English isn’t understandable? Marches are conducted in my cities’ streets waving their countries’ flags as they shamelessly demand their "rights." I am told they deserve the same opportunities that brought my forefathers here. I am scolded that it is un-American to ask why they are not sent home. I am told that the term "illegal alien" offends them and that they prefer to be called "undocumented workers" and that my economy would die without them. I will happily pay more for fruits and vegetables if it means enforcing sensible immigration laws. But immigration isn’t about the cost of lettuce. It is another facet of an agenda that is bent on changing the face of America. When America is no longer a wealthy country of white European descent, it will be a place worse than anything Orwell could have imagined.
I am angry that my country is the only nation on earth who declares that a baby born on its soil is automatically an American citizen.
I am angry that the thugs that run my country don’t have the guts to declare English my nation’s official language.
I am angry that I have to search a package for English and push a button on every telephone system and ATM machine to continue in English.
I am angry that Washington, D.C.’s Metro is now being pressured to replace every station sign with bilingual verbiage to the tune of millions of dollars. Are bilingual road signs going to be the next mandated law of the land? I am currently forced to pay for voting ballots printed in 15 different languages and my tax dollars pay for interpreter services for people who are summoned to court for breaking laws. If English is the international language of the world, why isn’t it good enough to be the official language of the United States?
I am angry when I am told I am a bigot when I thumb my nose at political correctness.
I am angry when I wonder whether an expressed belief or opinion could land me in litigation if someone doesn’t like what I said and wants to silence my voice.
I am angry that diversity and sensitivity training is being forced on people whose only crime is to dare to speak freely.
I am angry that the symbols, customs, and roots of my Judeo-Christian country are being systematically outlawed because my culture offends newcomers. When we freely choose to go somewhere, are we not accepting the customs and cultures of that place? I am weary of being made to feel guilty for being an American.
And finally, I am angry that after working my entire adult life, I don’t see retirement in my life’s picture. My husband and I earn over a hundred thousand dollars a year, but by the time we pay federal taxes, state taxes, social security taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, excise taxes, energy taxes, telecommunication taxes, savings taxes, fees, permits, etc., there isn’t much left. But please don’t think that I mind supporting every deadbeat and down-and-outer with his hand out for a piece of my pie that I worked so hard for. I love supporting the world. After all, it’s the American way, isn’t it?
July 5, 2006
(Susan Fassanella [send her mail] was born in Washington, D.C. and resides in Frederick County, Maryland with her husband and two sons.)

* 9/11 Conspiracy: The Pro and the Con

www.loosechange911.com

http://www.ccdominoes.com/lc/LooseChangeGuide.html

Interesting Bush/Gore Election Statistics

(The following article was sent to me by Michelle Torello. I cannot vouch for its veracity - although my guts tell me it's probably closer to truth than falsehood - but I at least found it interesting enough to blublish; blog publish...I just made that up! I want a quarter every time someone says it!!!)

About the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution, in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior: "A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
1. From bondage to spiritual faith;
2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to complacency;
6. From complacency to apathy;
7. From apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage "

Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election:
Population of counties won by: Gore: 127 million; Bush: 143 million;
Square miles of land won by: Gore: 580,000; Bush: 2,427,000
States won by: Gore: 19; Bush: 29
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Gore: 13.2; Bush:>2.1

Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country. Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off government welfare..." Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some 40 percent of the nation's population already having reached the governmental dependency" phase. If the Senate grants Amnesty and citizenship to 20 million criminal invaders called illegals and they vote, then goodbye USA in less than 5 years.

The Very, Very Dead

(following is a list of persons who died suddenly - within 2 years - of the Kennedy assassination in Dallas. They were all potential witnesses, uncalled by the Warren Commission, who either witnessed the assassination personally or had firsthand and pertinent knowledge of facts connected to the case. For those of you who want a "straight answer" as to whodunnit, scroll to the bottom, click the link and see for yourself...)

Karyn Kupeinet - murdered
Jack Zangretti - gunshot victim
Eddy Benavides - gunshot to head
Betty McDonald - suicide by hanging
Bill Chesher - heart attack
Hank Killam - throat cut
Bill Hunter - accidental shooting
Gary Underhill - gunshot to head
Hugh Ward - plane crash in Mexico
DeLesseps Morrison - plane crash
Teresa Norton - fatally shot
Guy Banister - heart attack
Jim Koethe - blow to neck
C. D. Jackson - unknown
Mary Pinchot Meyer - murdered
Paul Mandal - cancer
Tom Howard - heart attack
Maurice Gatlin - fatal fall
Mona B. Saenz - hit by Dallas bus
David Goldstein - natural causes
Rose Cheramie - hit and run victim
Dorothy Kilgallen - drug overdose
Lee Bowers - automobile accident
David Ferrie - suicide
Eladio del Valle - blunt force trauma and gunshot
Lt. Commander William B. Pitzer - suicide, gunshot
George de Mohrenschildt - suicide
John Crawford - plane crash
Judge Joe Brown - heart attack
Albert Bogard - suicide
Capt. Frank Martin - cander
Marilyn Walle - gunshot
Jimmy Levens - natural causes
James Worrel Jr. - auto accident
Clarence Oliver - unknown
Hank Suydam - heart attack
Leonard Pullin - auto accident
Harold Russell - heart failure
Dr. Mary Sherman - stabbed
A.D. Bowie - cancer
Hiram Ingram - cancer
Dr. Nicholas Chetta - heart attack
Philip Geraci - electrocution
Henry Delaune - murdered
E. R. Walthers - shot in line of duty (Dallas police officer)
Mary Bledsoe - natural causes
Rev. Clyde Johson - gunshot
George McGann - murdered
Darrell W. Garner - drug overdose
Bill Decker - natural causes
Abraham Zapruder - natural causes
Salvatore Granello - murdered
James Plumeri - murdered
Clayton Fowler - unknown
Gen. Charles Cabell - collapsed and died after a physical at Fort Meyers (note: he is former Deputy Director of the C.I.A. and brother to the mayor of Dallas at the time of the assassination. Was also fired by President Kennedy.)
Thomas E. Davis - electrocution
J.A. Milteer - heater explosion
Dave Yaras - murdered
Clay Shaw - cancer (Shaw was the defendant in D.A. Garrison's case in New Orleans, the only trial brought against anyone in the assassination. He was aquitted. Richard Helms of the C.I.A. would later admit to Congress that Shaw was indeed a C.I.A. contract agent, contradicting Shaw's testimony in his own case.)
Gen. Earle Wheeler - unknown
Ralph Paul - heart attack
James Chaney - heart attack
William Harvey - complications from heart surgery
John Roselli - stabbed
William Pawley - gunshot, suicide
Carlos Pria Soccaras - gunshot, suicide (former president of Cuba)
Paul Raigorodsky - natural causes
Lou Staples - gunshot, suicide
Louis Nichols - heart attack
Alan Belmont - "long illness"
James Cadigan - fall in home
Joseph C. Ayres - accidental shooting
Kenneth O'Donnel - aneurysm
Donald Kaylor - heart attack
J. M. English - heart attack
William Sullivan - hunting accident
C. L. Lewis - natural causes
Garland Slack - unknown
Billy Lovelady - heart attack


(There are other deaths associated with the assassination but they are not listed here for various reasons. The sources for this article are the bonus material on the DVD of Oliver Stone's "JFK" and the following web site: http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/deaths.htm. The web site cited is an "anti-conspiracy" web site, which makes it even more credible as a source of information. Conveniently, this site also lists dates, causes and links to other sources of information such as death certificates and official investigation reports. For the very best information on the death of President Kennedy please see William Cooper's "The Sacrificed King", which can be obtained from www.hourofthetime.com)

(Whodunnit: it was the driver. The Zapruder film ... or the least edited 1st generation copy of the same...clearly shows the driver turn around and blow the President's brains out. The driver's name was William Greer, U.S. Secret Service, which is why Jackie attempted to climb out of the car in direct contravention to her standing orders in case of an emergency. And since Greer used an assassination weapon - an electrically-operated, gas-powered pistol firing an exploding pellet containing shellfish toxin, a weapon displayed during the congressional hearings on assassination - this is why Kennedy's brain disappeared during the autopsy. If you're wondering WHY the driver would take this chance, the answer is simple: the long-shooter's missed their target, or at least missed an indisputable "kill shot". And the best way to commit a crime is in front of 1,000 people because they will all have a different version of what happened. If you're an American over the age of 2 years of age then you've seen the Zapruder film...but be honest when you ask yourself if your eyes ever leave Kennedy during your viewing. But don't take my word for it......
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/JFK/jfk.html)

The "Unfiltered" News of The Reality Zone

There are some things that come out of people's mouths, or pens, that are a dead give-away. For instance, anytime someone starts off by saying "...and I'll tell you the truth..." as a way of introducing their next statement a little alarm bell goes off in my head. Same goes for "Honestly...". If you need a preamble to your statements that declares you NOT to be a liar, then you probably are. (Which is funny in light of last night. At the 20 year class reunion party I overheard a young lady say, "Do you think this outfit makes me look like a hooker?" You know, hun, if you have to ask that then you probably already know the answer!).

Another fine example of this kind of deception is when someone starts off by saying, "I don't want to offend you, but...." or "I'm not trying to piss you off, but..." . Well, surprise-surprise...suddenly the person you're speaking to is now PISSED OFF. What's more, you knew they would be and you went ahead and said what you WANTED to say anyway. Ergo, it seems to me that since you knew it would offend and anger and you proceeded to say what would offend and anger, then you obviously DID want to offend and you obviously DID want to piss off. That makes you a liar.

And so, when I see a supposed "media" group with name like "Watchdog" or "FAIR" (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting) or even "Unfiltered News", then the hackles on the back of my neck go up. To me that is the same as having a newspaper with the identifying banner at the top bearing the name "This Paper Isn't Lying". We are a nation of people who expect things and quite often that can be unhealthy, but one thing we do and should expect is that the press tell the truth, at least as best as can be told. And when they get it wrong we expect that little known (nowadays, at least) activity to commence called.....hold your breath, folks.....a retraction.

So, what's this current rant about anyway? If you haven't fallen asleep I'll tell you. I receive an emailed newsletter update from - you guessed it! - "Unfiltered News". It comes from an organization called "The Reality Zone", which sounds a lot like a cable "news" program to me. To subscribe to their email update, which does have some good stuff in it, then click here. Or to visit their home page....

http://www.realityzone.com/ourcrusade.html

The Reality Zone is operated by a Jack Perkins/used-car-salesman-looking guy named G. Edward Griffin, in response to whose name I must now use the following quote of my own making:

"Never, ever trust anything that anyone says who doesn't have the guts to use their given name, and instead uses an initial..."
S. Daily Warren

Here are some of the headlines from the most recent edition of Unfilted News's email update:

Iran is Bush's target in Lebanon. LA Times 2006 July 30 (Cached)

Israeli initiation of conflict is not reported in media. Fair.org Posted 2006 July 29 (Cached)

Where exactly were those Israeli soldiers when Hezbollah captured them? Representative Press Posted 2006 July 29 (Cached)

US: Police raid oriental restaurant because of illegal fish in tank. Owner says he fled Communism but now feels he is back. Boston Globe Posted 2006 July 29 (Cached)

AMA's campaign against salt ignores benefits of sea salt and trace minerals. News Target Posted 2006 July 29 (Cached)

Some pretty crazy stuff, eh? Well, don't write him off too quick because he has a lot of good points. For instance, sea salt IS the greatest thing known to man and I use it myself. But I cast a wary eye at some of his other "news" and I wrote him to voice my opinion (as opposed to "facts" and "news"!) on the matter. The text of my letter is pasted below......

To Reality Zone:
Some things from your updates I like and some things I don't, but as a journalist (freelance, not some corporate whore) with an idealist affiliation with the truth, I find it difficult to stomach your sources on how Israel is the culprit in the recent outbreak of violence in Lebanon.
Your sources include FAIR, a "watchdog" group founded by an ACLU lawyer who wrote a book about how he hates Rush Limbaugh.
Another source is a BLOG called "Representative Press".
The foundational argument from these two uncredible sources is that Israel killed innocent Palestinian women and children and therefore Hezbollah is justified in attacking Israel out of Lebanon and that the 2 Israeli soldiers were captured inside Lebanon, which started this entire affair.
FACT: Islamo-fascist extremist lie regularly to the press and have been caught on numerous occasions.
FACT: These same groups use terror tactics that put their own civilians at risk, including the lives of U.N. peacekeepers when these terror groups set up rocket-firing stations next to U.N. buildings.
FACT: According to these sources, every muslim killed is a woman, a child or an innocent civilian such as a farm worker. The inference here is that all Palestinians are peace-loving and never take up arms or throw rocks at Israelis.
FACT: I don't know where the 2 Israeli soldiers were when they were captured. I do know, for a FACT, that Hezbollah is firing Iranian-delivered rockets at civilian targets inside of Israeli and that these rocket stations MUST have been in place BEFORE hostilities began. If Mexico were setting up rocket stations to attack Texas I'd send in some people to do something about this as well. It's called self-defense.

By citing these sources you are labeling yourself as a leftist whose views are completely against the principles of freedom as enshrined in the American way of life. You're free to do this and believe what you want (I'll even work and fight to protect you're right to do so) but don't for a minute think I buy this notion of balance and fairness on your part; it doesn't exist. To make this claim is as fraudulent as the Islamo-fascist "civilian death tolls" being picked up by very suspect members of the media who are obviously out to support their own leftist agenda.

I'll continue to sift through your newsletter updates and take the good while leaving the bad, but you've been marked as what you are.

S. Daily Warren

My final point is quite simple. I was, once upon a time, a devout baptist. That means I had all the answers and you didn't and you sucked and you're a sinner and you're going to hell .... and you smell. It's a pretty great way to live, really, because no matter how wrong you are as a baptist the nice this is that you are never aware of it! But now I consider myself to be a "recovering baptist", which means that I've spent the last few years un-doing some of the rather harmful brainwashing techniques that advocates of the Mystery Schools so often use to manipulate people and cultures and religions. And what I figured out about the Bible is this: I don't know.

For instance, Where was the Garden of Eden? I don't know.
How long ago was the Great Flood? I don't know.
Did Job see a dinosaur? I don't know.
Did Jesus marry a whore, have 27 kids, fake the crucifixtion and go on to write a best-selling novel called "The Da Vinci Code"? No, he didn't (hey, even I have to draw the line somewhere!).

My point about the Bible is the same as my point about wars and history and the news. I don't know. Most people don't know. Hell, you can't even trust photographs these days thanks the PhotoShop! And the internet itself is a murky cauldron of deception full of aliens and vampires and gay telephone sanitizers. And no one has the guts to stand up and say "I don't know".

But there are a few things I DO know. One of those things is that the Jews are a pretty awesome people. They live a long time, work hard, save a lot of money and say what they think. Those things alone make them better than 98% of the Gentiles that I know. So I always take a hard look at anyone who hates them....and then I pick up a bazooka and shoot that hater in the face, on general principle and with the utmost of Christian Love, of course (a little murderous trick I learned from the baptists).

In summary:

* The things I don't know = 4,262,906,121,698,204.083 to the 5th Power.
* The things I do know = about 7, at last count (one of which I just shared)

So stick to what you know, read everything very carefully, check your sources, try to recycle, don't be an ass in traffic, try not to yell or get angry without a good reason, do your best not to kill people and above all....

...have the guts to say: I don't know.

Why did I write all this? Well, I think you know the answer....

Tax His Ass

(The following is provided courtesy of Doyel Shamley of The Hour of the Time - www.hourofthetime.com. However, the most excellent response to this is pasted below...)

Tax his land.
Tax his bed.
Tax the table
At which he's fed.
Tax his tractor.
tax his mule.
Teach him taxes
are the rule.
Tax his cow.
Tax his goat.
Tax his pants.
Tax his coat.
Tax his ties.
Tax his shirt.
Tax his work.
Tax his dirt.
Tax his tobacco.
Tax his drink.
Tax him if he
Tries to think.
Tax his cigars.
Tax his beers.
If he cries
thenTax his tears.
Tax his car.
Tax his gas.
Find other ways
To tax his ass
Tax all he has
then let him know
you won't be done
till he has no dough.
Should he beg for mercy
Then tax him more.
Tax him till
he's good and sore.
Then tax his coffin.
Tax his grave.
Tax the sod in
Which he's laid.
Put these word
supon his tomb.
"Taxes drove meto my doom...
"When he's gone.
Do not relax.
Its time to apply
The inheritance tax.
Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL license Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax.
Fuel permit tax
Gasoline Tax(42 cents per gallon)
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Interest expenseInventory tax
IRS Interest Charges
IRS Penalties (tax the tax)
Liquor TaxLuxury Taxes
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service charge taxes
Social Security Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax
Road usage taxes
Sales Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone federal excise tax
Telephone federal universal service fee tax
Telephone federal, state and local surcharge taxes
Telephone minimum usage surcharge tax
Telephone recurring and non-recurring charges tax
Telephone state and local tax
Telephone usage charge tax
Utility Taxes
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax

COMMENTS: Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago and our nation was the most prosperous in the world, had absolutely no national debt. had the largest middle class in the world and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.What happened?


Most of the taxes you mention pay for schools, roads and social services. Kids then were working, not learning, so what did it matter if there were only a few schools around that taught the 3Rs? Roads required only the occasional regraveling and horses or street cars were a more common mode of transportation.Do I pay far more in taxes than I would like? Of course! There's no one who would say otherwise. Do I want to go back to tenements with raw sewage running down the streets and hoping for an early death by Consumption so I don't have to figure out how to feed myself when I'm too old to work? No thanks. I'll pay my Uncle Sam - sometimes begrudgingly - and thank G*d above to be living now and here.
Bubba

I Wish I Had A Lethal Weapon Right Now

Well, it's a bit later than I'd hoped to post this but it has to be said and apparently it has to be said by a Gentile, or gerim as I prefer, because right or wrong, good or bad, day or night...no one takes up for the Jews.

I'd like to knock Mel Gibson on his ass. I'd like to knock his uncircumcised dick in the dirt.

I remember being a trifle offended at the Matt and Trey parody that the two boys from Southpark did on 'ol Mel, how they had him running around his mansion flogging himself and screaming like an idiot. Not Braveheart, I whined. Not Benjamin Martin. No, not RIGGS for heaven's sake! Yes, indeed, it's true: he's nuttier than a fruitcake with extra pistachios.

Either that or he's evil, and I have by no means ruled that out. We're not talking casual dog-kicking evil but REAL plot and plan evil. You know, HITLER-evil.

I never went and saw "The Passion of the Christ" so I'm a bit out of the loop about what all the hubbub is about, but I think I got the gist of it. Though I am a believer and kneel humbly at the foot of my Messiah, watching him get the snot beat out of him for 2 hours just ain't my cup of tea. In fact, it's kind of shameful. Now if that's how your faith gets its rocks off then more power to you, I simply had no desire to see the movie. And if 'ol Mel had really wanted to convert the world with "Passion" he would have shown it for free. My personal reason for not watching the flick (after all, maybe they'll start showing it on Easter Sunday like "The Ten Commandments") is that the ordeal of Yeshua on and before the cross is the very WORST part of the message of salvation. I mean, that really sucks. Does it show what time I'm writing this blog? It's 4:14 am. I woke up at 2 'something because I had a bad dream about an injured Boxer dog. I can weep like a schoolgirl when I see a burned child or a handicapped person. And this is G*D Himself, G*D Almighty, who's never done wrong and whose very message is love and forgiveness. Oh yeah, let's go beat the piss out of Him for two hours and, by the way, keep the camera running for every last second of it! Are you kidding me??? That's not the part of the story I wanted a gory close-up of. Show Him turning over the money-changer's tables in the Temple of Solomon, why don't you? Or show Him after the resurrection flying around or walking through walls. Heck, I'd even like to see the part where he puts that guy's ear back on after Peter - like the idiot Peter was in his early days - chopped it off with a sword (usually I go in for a little swordplay, but the guy Peter whacked on was a nobody; it was like beating up a baggage handler because your plane was late!). So, no, I didn't see THE "Passion". I even thought the name was pretentious, or at least I do now.

But what I most took away from that movie, like lots of other people did, was that Mad Mel was pointing the fingers at the Jews.

Now let's be honest here: everyone knows the Jews didn't do it. Voting for a guy to be crucified is a helluva lot different than crucifying him yourself, and it was a voice vote at that, not even a bent chad to count. I'll say this once and then, when I feel like it, I'll say it again 10,000 times......IT WAS THE BLOODY MOTHER-SCRATCHING ROMANS, PEOPLE!!! Sheesh! Yes, our old friends the Italians, the only people on the face of the earth that I can sit down, look in the eye and say: I'm racist and predjudiced against Italians and I have no regrets. It's wrong, but I do it anyway. From the Legions to the Mafia to the last baby-raping priest I hate the whole damned lot of 'em. Allow me to quote one of those actors in the world that makes me vomit every time I see him. Little bitty Joe Pesci, who suffers from perpetual short-man syndrome (the quote comes from "Good Fellas"):

"She's predjudiced....she's predjudiced against Italians. A JEW braud!"

What a great quote, and so telling.

Yep, folks, it was the bloody Romans, the very inventors of the concept of cruicifixtion as far as I know. And along comes Mel to reinforce nearly 2000 years of Replacement Theology doctrine (where the church, little "c", has replaced Israel as G*D's chosen people.....YEAH, in your dreams, dego!). And he's real slick about it too, even going so far as to cast the dialogue in a dead language. Who knows what the hell they were really saying? Could have been "Hari Krishna!" for all we know.

And after the preplanned fallout, Mel makes a big deal of coming out publicly to meet with leaders of the evangelical and Jewish community and supporting his film and supposedly stating his support for the Jewish people at the same time. Bastard! No sin remains uncovered, the Book says. Turns out Mel goes blowing down the road piss-drunk at 90 mph and when pulled over threatens the police, tries to run and then spews out a bunch of epitaphs which the cops tried to suppress but simply had to come to light....anti-semitic epitaphs. By their fruits you shall know them, and Mel's one of Hollywood's biggest fruits by far. And where are all the Jew-"bastards" who are supposed to own that town? Shouldn't Mel have died in his jail cell? Oh, I suppose there might be some repercussions, but that won't be spun as justice, it'll be those dirty Jews who own Hollywood, right? That's just more fuel for Mel's hellish fire. And why the hell am I calling him "Mel" like I know him personally? He's a rat bastard and I wouldn't piss on him if he were burning to death at my Uncle Herschel's barmitzva! He's Gibson from now on. No, wait: he's "Gibbon", as in the monkey. And when I feel like it I'll just call him "monkey boy".

Nice try, monkey boy, but now the world knows and they won't forget. You were right about one thing, Gibbon - you are f*cked and your life is over. Is that life so much to worry about? Don't you have an island out in the Pacific somewhere? Not like you're going to starve, eh? And you can build a big cathedral with all the stone idols you want, have as many altar boys as you want and put a big sign out front that says "No Jews Allowed". You'll just be screwing yourself out of big tourists dollars, which you'll probably be needing reeeeeeaaaal soon!

As far as his apology goes, I thought it very nice and very appropriate and I'm glad he made it. Such a gesture helps to illustrate just how insidious the papists are and always have been since about .01 AD! What's more I think the Jewish community should be big about it and accept his apology, and actually thank him for making the gesture....and then say in the interest of the survival of their own people they have no choice but to boycott everything he's ever done or ever will do and that they'll pray for his soul as it writhes in hell. Nothing personal, time to nosh!