Reformation

There has been a great deal of rhetoric lately about the need for a reformation of Islam to rid us of the so-called "radical Islam" that is largely responsible for worldwide terror. Not only is Radical Islam responsible for rampant terror, it is also responsible for the new holocaust of Christians unlucky enough to be living in the lands where Radical Islam is in total control. I think this rhetoric about Islamic Reformation has currency because the Reformation of Christianity was so successful, and so it follows that a similar reformation of Islam would produce the same positive result.

Not so, say I.

The Christian reformation was enabled, in large part, by the invention of the printing press. The printing press not only put the unedited Holy Bible in citizen's hands, the start of the Industrial revolution also enabled a new middle class to form and become enlightened. The Holy Bible was not changed by the printing press; it was made available to the masses unchanged. And so, the Biblical message of Jesus riding an ass while waving palm leaves instead of a sword, and preaching a gospel of Love and Peace, was made manifest to all who would read and understand.

The impossibility of a likewise reformation of Islam is so because the Holy Koran is now available to all who would avail themselves, and that Holy Koran would have to be changed to enable a reformation. That is to say, all that is happening in the name of Islam today is clearly authorized by the Holy Koran as it is written today. So it follows that in order to reform Islam, the Holy Koran would be required to change or added to as it stands today. This in itself is not impossible because the Holy Koran is so constructed that whatever is written last will supersede all that was previously written and at odds with that which is written later.

In my opinion, changing the Holy Koran to reform Islam will never happen today, tomorrow or ever. 

Vesting Again and Again, It's Important

Vesting Redux

Please bear with me as I once again post the piece on the insidious use of VESTING as a means to make Government Programs permanent and unstoppable. I have come upon a quote from President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the implementation of Social Security Program that proves the charge that these programs were developed with vesting as a fundelmental and important part of their structure in order to make them unstoppable. President Roosevelt quote, to wit:
"Those taxes (Social Security payroll taxes) were never a problem of economics. They are politics all the way through. We put those payroll taxes (Social Security Taxes) there so as to give the contributors a legal, moral, and political right to collect their pensions and their unemployment benefits. With those taxes in there, no dammed politician can ever scrap my Social Security Program. Those taxes aren't a matter of economics, they're straight politics."
Quote source: http://www.ssa.gov/history/Gulick.html

Why We Can’t Win At The Ballot Box

You say you want to cut Big Government down to size and regain our freedoms by using the ballot box? Good luck with that. It can’t be done and here is the reason why. VESTING.

That’s right fellow citizens, VESTING. What is vesting? Vesting is when you invest your money, time or other good and valuable resources into a program and then expect a return on your investment. Let me give you a real life example of how our elected Government uses Vesting as an insidious device to perpetuate and expand power by creating basically social programs that cannot ever be stopped or curtailed because of vesting.

Let’s take Social Security as an example and here is how it works. You start a safety net program for old age and pass a law that says you must participate in the program by paying taxes to support the program. Viola, you are now part of the program and you can’t get out without losing all of the money you have paid in even if you could. After time passes you realize that you have paid a great deal of money into the system and you then demand that the program be continued in order that you receive your fair share of what you have invested into the system. In short, you have become VESTED regardless if you wanted to be or not, and the program can never, never ever, be terminated because the citizens have become VESTED in the program.

It only gets better. The Government keeps on expanding the program (Social Security) into other areas and forces you to pay more taxes because you can’t or won’t get out of the program due to VESTING. I bet most people don’t realize that Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, Aid to Dependant Children, etc. were all enacted under the Social Security Act. Insidious. Now multiply all of the others program that use vesting to perpetuate themselves and you have a situation where the citizens of this country will never allow anyone to stop these programs because of VESTING. For these programs to be fair, they should include an “Op In” clause so that if you want the Government to run your healthcare or retirement, then you must Op In into the program and only you and others who Op In to pay the taxes to support the program. I am now laughing out loud! You should live so long. I’m sorry Brothers and Sisters, you can’t fix our Big Government via the ballot box, it was designed to be unstoppable.

Radical Islam

Radical Nazism

When I constantly hear people "in the Know" keep referring to "Radical Islam" as being the cause for today's global terrorism, I got to thinking. I got to thinking about what would have happened to our war strategy during WWII if we would have considered Hitler and his followers as only the radical branch of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, (NAZI). You know, Hitler, and his followers, was just radical Nazi's and only small part of the overwhelming majority of the German people who are the peaceful, benign, and compassionate Nazis we all know them to be. This then being the case, then it follows that the vast majority of the German people did not support or approve of the radical Nazis in any manner whatsoever and we would not be at war with them. We would only be at war with the radical Nazis.

If this was our thinking at the time, (much like our thinking of today about radical Islam) how then would we have fought the radical Nazi's? Perhaps that could guide us in defeating the radical Islam that causes today's global terrorism.

I'm just thinking.   

America's Intelligentsia Is Leading Us Back To the Future Again

   As we watch Islam promote Jihad in order to subjugate the World's People into a global Caliphate, I am struck by the similarities of America's Intelligentsia response to this Islamic Political Movement of today (Global Caliphate) with that of the 1920's and 1930's US Intelligentsia response to the socialist movements going on in the Soviet Union (USSR) and the fascists in Germany and Italy at the time. Indeed, leading 1920's and 30's American Intelligentsia such as:

Charles Lindbergh, William Randolph Hurst, Joseph Kennedy (JFK's father), John D Rockefeller, Andrew Mellon, Allen Dulles, and Prescott Bush, were just some of the prominent Americans that gushed over the fascists Francisco Franco, Benito Mussolini and Adolph Hitler as being the leaders of the new world order that is surely to come. Even the influential Magazine Time, and other leading publications, had Hitler as man of the year in 1938.

American Companies were also on the fascist bandwagon, such as: DuPont, General Motors, Standard Oil, National City Bank, and General Electric. These, and other giant American Companies, were all doing business with the up and coming Fascists in the 1920's and 30's. We all are painfully aware that the American Intelligentsia and Business support for these hideous movements lead us to World War II and the unprecedented loss of innocent life and property.

            So here we are once again bearing witness to a new and improved American Intelligentsia that is embodied by the career body Politic, Mass Media, Entertainment, Art Community, and an Academia that no longer swoon over the Fascists and Dictators of yesteryear, but are now champions and paid up members of the American Progressive movement that now swoon over the prospect of no national borders and the elimination of constrictive national Governments along with their worthless scraps of paper called Constitutions. The very same Progressive Movement that inspired FDR, and other Leaders back in the day, to institute the Socialist Programs that are still with us today, such as, Social Security, Income Tax, Medicare, Medicaid, Obama Care, are the decedents of the same Intelligentsia that were yesterday's enthusiastic supporters of the Socialist movement that produced the Communists in the USSR, and the Fascists of Spain, Italy and Germany.  Yes Sir, these are the same Progressives that today find no fault with the Political movement that uses Islam as a Tactical Vehicle to make us all equal under Sharia Law.

            So it's back to the future for those of us who provide currency to today's Intelligentsia that are still very much hard at work to finally propel us all into the promise land were Utopia beams bright and strong, be it by a vehicle of new and improved Socialist doctrine or by living as one under Sharia Law.

Expediency

Expediency, Expediency,
Hurry me down to calamity.
The budget bill just passed is a excellent example 
of why Expediency should become the 8th sin.
Expediency allows small minds to justify anything,
and small minds were on full display when the passing of the budget bill had Expediency in full command and principal was summarily dispatched into the garbage can.  

Blister Packs

I really have made it my life's mandate not disparage anyone. However, there is one exception to my mandate and that is reserved for the person who invented Blister Packaging. That person should spend eternity in hell using only his hands to remove articles from Blister Packages.

Freedom's Brick Wall

We don't need no education,

We don't need no thought control,

Hey Obama, leave them citizens alone.

We won't eat your meat,

So that we can gorge on your pudding,

Hey Obama, leave them citizens alone.

2015

2015

It's now the year of our Lord, 2015. It sure took 1984 a long time to get here. But here it is with your Government forcing you to accept same sex marriage or feel the full force of Government until you do. Your Government is now in the process of creating a massive database on every American citizen in order to have the means to bring forth the full power of the Federal Government to enforce something called Social Justice. Social Justice being that magic thing that will ensure everyone is equal in every aspect of human life, that is, in terms of Economic, Academic, Social, Racial, and whatever else the idiot savants think is important. Of course, making this magic happen gives your Government the means to exercise the unlimited power they so desperately crave.  Your Government is now doing this and will soon move beyond forcing you to bent to the Government's will, you will be hammered down until, just like in 1984, you will no longer resist and love your Government for making you, and everyone else, equal and subservient. Sort of sounds like the Star Trek version of the BORG Collective, you know, "Resistance is Futile, You Will Be Assimilated."

USA, USA

I pay over $700.00 a month for health insurance that illegal aliens get for free. Is this a great Country or what?

Good Government, Bad Government

Energy in the Executive is a leading character in the definition of good Government. It is essential to the protection of the Community against foreign attacks; it is not less essential to the steady administration of the laws......
A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a Government ill executed, whatever it may be in theory, must be, in practice, a bad Government.
Alexander Hamilton

US Standard of Living In Peril

China has established the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and over 50 Nations (including most Western nations) have joined. This event, aided by the reckless $17 trillion and counting US debt, is the serious effort by the rest of the world to rid themselves of the US Dollar as the world reserve currency. I won't burden you with the history of how the US Dollar became the world reserve currency, and what it means, but on the day the US Dollar is no longer the world reserve currency, the US Standard of Living will take a nosedive and we will take our place with the 3rd world economies. That is, we no can longer print Fiat Dollars and make the rest of the world pay for our economic arrogance.

Lifestyle Rights

Brothers and Sisters United

 

Brothers and Sisters who love each other demand the right to be married. Those who are against this life style choice are bigots and the Supreme Court of the United States should grant Brothers and Sisters the right to be married just as the Feds have done for same sex marriage. The Supreme Court of America should grant the right for loving brothers and sisters to be married because it is unconstitutional for bigots to deny them their right to their life style.

Freedom and the Sovereign Man

Oh Freedom, Where Art Thou?

Fervent concern for fellow man

Self-righteously spews forth

With endless and boundless energy

To wrap itself around the perceived hapless

Who are trapped by the opiate of freedom

Into an addiction of personal liberty

That forces the hapless unenlightened to live

A life of unrestrained happiness

Such selfish and boorish behavior cannot be long endured

By the cadre of self-appointed guardians for Social Justice

So, behold,

The enlightened army of concerned

For fellow man

Marching into battle armed with Laws, Rules, Regulations,

And the ultimate device of new age social weaponry

Ubiquitous Peer Pressure

To engage the freedom loving unenlightened rabble

Into a perpetual war to ensure Social Justice for fellow man

Liberty and personal freedom must bend

To the demands of the battle tested concerned

Because only they know what is best and just for all

As they wage social war to finally usher in the Age of Aquarius

To finally bring forth the ultimate new age Utopia

Where we all will live in peace and harmony

Ushered in not from the barrel of a gun

But from the cannons of

Smothering Government nudging

This being new and improved way

To change the nature of man

Into a malleable social instrument

To finally construct the new Age of Aquarius

This then is the imperative that fuels the enlightened Soul

To fashion a new and improved world

For the annals of Human history

To celebrate their wisdom and concern

In bringing the elusive Utopia

To the huddled masses

That also brings unto the noble effort

A flattering expansion of self worth that the Ego

Embraces with each self-righteous altruistic blow delivered

Upon the proclaimed Hapless, the Ignorant, the Boorish

And the freedom loving selfish rabble

And huddled masses longing to be free

And when united with fellow enlightened social warriors

Brings forth a shining and consecrated Army

To wage social war

Upon the selfish unenlightened hordes

And brings forth onto each

Individual enlightened and self-righteous warrior

The majestic providence of POWER

POWER that force multiplies the individual holy endeavors

Into an unstoppable progressive force

While satisfying a waxing addiction to POWER

Even more forceful than Gold had over Midas

And because all humans are born

With a DNA encoded lust for power

Lesser man will always find a way

To satisfy that lust for power

Made all the better by exercising

More, more, and more POWER

For the betterment of all

Yee Ha

Now consider the poor hapless individuals who are the recipients

Of the slings and arrows of enlightened social holy war

They are as unprotected as wayward sheep

Meandering into a pack of hungry wolfs

Righteous wolfs made powerful by usurping Government force

To stampede the leaderless rabble into the loving embrace

Of the social warrior wolfs

Who always knows what is best and just for us all

So the unenlightened are constantly battered by the weapons

Of Laws, Rules, Regulations, and manufactured peer pressure

That the holy social warriors use to grind down a person's dignity

Until the freedom loving are forced to be constantly at odds

With their fellow man

Indeed,

They are made to be outcasts within the community of man

And thereby made irreverent

These are the consequences of being an independent

And free Soul nowadays in the land of Government supported

Holy social warriors forcing man to change

His nature to suit the enlightened mandate for a new age Utopia

Where the splendid Government

Of the people

By the people

For the people

So eloquently articulated by

President Abraham Lincoln

Only exists today within the echo

Of those magnificent words

That was sanctified by

The blood of fallen brethren

Upon a horrific hometown battlefield

Pray tell

Where is the today's eloquent President

That will offer inspiring and comforting

Words over a battlefield

Not littered with broken bodies

But a modern battlefield littered with broken

Human dignity and freedom

Where only the ghosts of Patriots past

Mingle with put upon Patriots of today

Once again seeking

To preserve, protect, and defend a splendid Government

Of the people

By the people

For the people

And pray tell

Where are today's free citizens?

Willing to sacrifice comfort, treasure, and life

In the endless struggle

To dignify and preserve freedom endowed Man?

Only the ghosts of Patriots past

Cry out today for freedom and liberty

Ghosts whose frail voices are

Only heard by a declining few

Battered by the united force of Progressive thought

That exiles old age man from the shining new age Utopia

Wailing with forlorn and pitiful weak voices

Still crying out

Oh Freedom, Where Art Thou?

Where even today

Feeble and frail voices are

Are still crying out

Oh Freedom, Where Art Thou?

This is the pitiful cry

From today's battered Patriots

Battered and ridiculed

By the forces by ubiquitous concern

As they swagger and point righteous fingers towards

The free and Sovereign Man.

Scott Walker

Let the media begin the systematic destruction of Scott Walker.

Coming & Going

The global cry used to be a joyus, "The Americans Are Coming, The  Americans Are Coming."
Now the global cry is a joyous, "The Americans Are Going, The Americans Are Going."

On Sided Cyber War

Here is no great revelation, I am not the sharpest arrow in the quiver. However, there are times when even a blunt edged arrow like me sees something that is so obvious that I must doubt my understanding of the real world because no one else seems to even notice what I think is of glaring importance. 

What I'm talking about here is the continuing cyber attacks by China upon all that is the United States of America and all of Her people therein. What I see, that no one else is apparently concerned about, is that the USA considers these cyber attacks as normal "Business As Usual" in the cyber world  and only worthy of strengthening our defense. Why are we not attacking back in kind with such a cyber blow that China would never again dare to attack us. And oh, By The Way, demand repatriations for damages already done or face even greater blows from the US of A until China returns to tilling the soil with sticks.       

Enternal Truth

An intrinsic Axiom that is being made manifest on a daily basis, to wit: TAXES ARE POWER.
The budgeting "process" in American Government is a power struggle that will deternmine who will have the means to exercise the most power. In case you forgot, all money the Government gets, is gotten by taxing, taxing, taxing.

You and Me

"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else." ~Margaret Mead

Reformation

Sooner or later, Islam will have to undergo a Reformation in order to remain a viable religion. If a reformation is not forthcoming, it will finally be recognized for what it is, and that is a Political Movement that uses religion as as a tactical vehicle that seeks to overthrow all governments. The overthrow of governments, either by usurption or by the sword, will lead to Islam's ultimate goal of imposing global Sharia on all of mankind. Reformation is necessary because of the ridiculous narrative that mainstream Islam does not support the goal of world domination by whatever means required.
Which brings to mind the latin term, Qui Tacet Consentire (Who Is Silent Gives Consent), and the silence coming from "mainstream" Islam is deafening.