BIBB COUNTY CONSERVATIVE: TALK POLITICS WITH LJP AND LEAVE THE TALKING POINTS TO THE REST

Communism in Macon, Georgia

2011-10-01T13:20:00.002-05:00

Well, today is the first day of October 2011. I went to Ace Hardware a couple of times buying supplies needed to fix things at my office. I am so tired of people saying have a great day in this one-horse backwoods town. I said to a guy at the checkout, "Oh isn't it a great day in Macon, Georgia today...I got up today and thought wow this is great....another day in Macon, Georgia and thought I am sooooo darn glad I moved here thirty years ago." Bill the sales clerk who helps me many times when I go in the store told the customer, "don't pay any attention to her she bumped her head on something this morning!" LOL

Now, back to communism. People would not know what communism is in Macon, Georgia or any other City in the United States even if it jumped up and bit them in the ass! We were founded as a Republic in 1776, but the politically correct crowd eroded that principle of that our founding fathers struggled to write into a Constitution for so long a period of time. Our Republic soon became a Democracy. Give me a break! Mob rule is what a Democracy is!

People get po'd at me when I suggest that we have a litmus test to vote. I would prepare a test so darn hard that I would have to study to pass it to get a voter's registration card in Georgia. And that would definitely be a hard test! I suppose I make no less that ten people a day aggravated at me, whether it be on the road when I am driving or when I make one of my comments in a store or a bank or whatever. I give the liberals a case of heebie geebies every time I leave my house.

What really gets my goat is that I was President of Macon Junior College SGA in 1985 and 1986 and worked hard to make the college become a four year College, and now a bunch of liberal professors (even more than those which were there when I was a student) have taken over the school. Now, it is not advisable to assume that when I went to Macon Junior College (now Macon State College) that I was politically correct at the age of 32. Dean Cloaninger ask me to run for President of SGA to help them become a four year old college, and then I think all of the Professors who had tenure were ready to have him ran off when I began telling students that they need to demand that professors be evaluated every quarter. The liberal professors who had tenure were ticked off because students back then evaluated professors only in the fall quarter. I don't know what they are doing today at Macon State College. At least the professors can get a break because most college students today don't know how to write a coherent paragraph let alone write an evaluation of a professor.

I have looked up an eight grade exam today at the Library that was given in the 1920s
that I am going to pay for copies, and I found an article about grade inflation, since the Georgia Lottery was voted in back in 1993 that allows for underperforming students to go to college. Oh, I voted no on the lottery, so I am not a hypocrit!

I plan on giving my sixteen year old son, a copy of the exam!

Well, I have six minutes remaing on my computer time at the library. I could get more time, well it has already been extended two times now for five minutes each time. That is because there are empty seats in here. If there was a waiting list, I would have already been booted off.

Well, I am still a conservative, and the trouble is that I see no conservative change to come about in 2012. The media pushes who they desire to push as usual. Ron Paul is still my choice for President, and perhaps Perry of Texas as VP or vice versa. I like Perry because he is an evangelical christian not afraid to say that he is an evangelical christian and he would make a good balance for Paul who is a Christian, but does not stray from the libertarian philosophy where religion is not discussed.

Now, that ticket would piss off every liberal in the United States because the President and Vice President would both be from Texas. I say make them pissed off real good, and move the United States Capital to Dallas, Texas and out of Washington DC. Now, that is change that would get notice all around the globe!

I am still awaiting the RNC to call me for my input on what changes need to be made for the Republican Party to have success in 2012, but no emails and or phone calls!

LINDA POOLE AT BOSTON TEA PARTY IN 2007

2011-09-28T13:47:00.002-05:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AfGvp0iiWI

I just read where people are having trouble posting a video in Blogs. All one would have to do to watch this video of me talking at the Boston Tea Party Reenactment that took place December 16, 2007 is highligh the above link and copy it, then you just paste it in the browser and click enter and you will be taken to the video. Wala! Now, that is a piece of cake. But most people have no common sense so they never figure out how to get a video in a blog. "There is more than one way to skin a cat!" Old saying my great-grandmother used to say. Linda Poole aka beebee!

ME LINDA JO ALEXANDER POOLE WITH HARD ROCK CAFE SHIRT ON FALL OF 2007 AT RON PAUL (R) SIGN PAINTING IN MACON, GEORGIA

2011-09-28T13:21:00.004-05:00

I suppose this is why the left and the right destroyed me. The left can't stand Ron Paul because he is a Republican, and the right can't stand Ron Paul because they think because he would like to have peace and peacefully trade with all Countries in the world that he is a liberal. No kidding, a lady who rents a house from me ask me just a while back, "Linda isn't Ron Paul a liberal?" That blows my mind because Ron Paul was in the Air Force; Ron Paul has been a conservative US Congressman for years from Texas; Ron Paul was a baby doctor who delivered over 4,000 babies. Now if that is the definition of a liberal, that would blow NOW women away! Give me a break.

A photo of mine from the 1972 Fairdale High School Fairdale KY Linda Jo Alexander

2011-09-28T13:13:00.002-05:00

A friend of mine from the class of 1972 at Fairdale High School set up my Facebook account for me recently. I graduated in 1973, and Kenny Reid graduated in 1972. We were not angels, but we went to school. Well sometimes if the parties lasted all weekend, we missed Mondays! Ha! But I wrote my own excuses for being absent, and I did make up my homework. These kids today cannot even take notes using a pencil or pen and paper. If the information can't be stored on a cell phone, then they are lost! My name was Linda Jo Alexander.

I suppose that is what the people in Macon,Georgia can't stand is the fact that the Class of Seventy Three that really rocked was at Fairdale High School in Fairdale, Kentucky.

Aha a photo from Facebook from a friend from seventies Cindy Bertram of Fairdale kentucky

2011-09-28T13:10:00.002-05:00

This could not have came at a better time. I am having trouble with my young sixteen year old son who thinks he is the King of the house. I hope he goes to my blog and sees this photo.

IOWA CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE CSPAN MARCH 7, 2011

2011-03-08T14:15:00.003-05:00

Last evening, I watched the Christian Alliance Caucus or whatever the correct title is for all of the Republican Presidential hopefulls for 2012. Ralph Reed told the crowd that there was no limit on the amount that could be contributed, unlike a political campaign that has, I believe, a $2,000 cap on donations per person. Ralph was encouraging the crowd to give $5,000 if one could. The speakers included Herman Cain, a former governor of Louisianna named Buddy Roehmer, Newt Gingrich (former Speaker of the US Congresswhen the Republicans led by a Democrat President put a nail in the coffin for US workers). For those of you who do not remember that is when the Contract with America was signed into law. You know what was it called Shafta? LOL Yes, workers got the shaft in the United States, and all of them still brag on it in 2011! Give me a break.

Now, I do like Rick Santorium, he is a good morals based Republican. But my favorite speech was by Buddy Roehmer who gave the lobbyist hell, and by saying that he would take no lobbyist money or special interest money. Buddy talked about taking donations of no more than $100 per person, and that each person who contributed would be listed. Now, that is a good idea! But the lobbyist in the audience and the fat cats who thrive on lobbyists were silent in the auditorium!

Now, if the Republicans can pull off a victory in the Iowa Caucuses what does that mean for the citizens of our Country? Rick Santorium (sp?) is well-intentioned, but when you stand at a speaker in this Country and talk about the American people caring for one another that is a hard stretch. Now, I am still (unfortunately a resident of Bibb County Georgia), and there are more churches in the city of Macon, Georgia per capita than anywhere else in the United States, which is a fact I heard about six or seven years ago.

Now, let me give you an example of Christianity in Macon, Georgia. Last year, I looked outside oneday and saw a friend and tax client of mine walking home from work where he works at Kroger on Hartley Bridge Road. I could not stop what I was doing and give the guy a ride, so I went out to Hartley Bridge Road and tried to flag someone over to give my friend a ride. I do believe he was not going home that day, perhaps to Lawrence Drive Baptist Church. Well, finally, I got a white-haired lady to slow down (I mean I was actually risking my life in the traffic wizzing by). I ask the lady if she could give my friend a ride, and she told me she had to be somewhere. I told her it would just take a few minutes. This woman gave me a stupid looking stare. I ask her "Are you a Christian?" She answered: "yes I am." And then she put up her window and drove off! Now, mind you my friend has worked at Kroger on Hartley Bridge Road, since probably 1999 or 2000, and he is in his forties and was born Down Syndrome. Everyone in South Macon knows who I am speaking of. Now, his father who is also a tax client of mine is lying in a bed at the Goodwill Nursing Home on Houston Avenue. This man is retired from Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corporation, and was a hard working union man. This man is a God fearing Christian, and has had Diabetes for years. This man has been going for Dialysis treatment three days a week for a few years now, and about five months ago, he had both legs cut off at the knees.

So, all the so-called Christians on Hartley Bridge Road, Jones Road, School Road and in Oakview Subdivision just go on about their lives giving their tithes or whatever to the churches to pay for the pew they sit on every Sunday, but never look around in the community at the suffering going on. Now, there is no reason whatsoever that my friend with Down Syndrome should be living in a run down trailer in a delapidated trailer park, in my opinion. Now, I am a Certified Public Accountant, and used to have a respectable business on Hartley Bridge Road until political operatives seen it as their divine right to destroy what small business I had worked so hard to build. These political operatives and religous zealots lied about my identity, lied about where I live, lied about my marital status (I was divorced from my second husband March 7, 2008, and I have lived alone in Northeast Macon in a home I have owned since 1981, since November 2007). These people have saw fit to destroy our families reputation, not telling the truth that I have a tenth grader, a son named Matthew, which means "Gift of the Lord" or not telling the truth that I have a son named Mark, age 32 who served in the United States Marine Corps for five years!

Oh, how they have spun their wicked lies! Oh, I was once the Student Government President at Macon Junior College in 1985. I was ask by Dean Cloaninger to run for President of the SGA to help the school become a four year college. I told the Dean that I was going to school to be a CPA, and shouldn't I run for Treasurer. You see, I never even thought about running. I actually received a letter from the Administration. So, I did run, and I won, and I worked with as much effort as possible to help convince anyone that would listen that people needed an affordable public college that was a four year school in Bibb County, Georgia. Now, I worked very hard, my husband at that time worked third shift at Brown and Williamson, Mark was about five years old, and his dad worked forced overtime often. Sometimes the overtime was voluntary, but many times it was forced overtime.

I was a full-time college student, with a child attending First Presbyterian Day School, he played tee ball, took piano lessons at Georgia Music,and I did all I could to promote Macon Junior College. I worked on the first float for the college that was in the Cherry Blossom Parade. And what thanks do I get from the community in Macon, Georgia. I get my name slandered all over town with people changing my identity, using other people to represent me! I am followed all over Georgia, anywhere I go with blacks and whites having cell phones to track every move I make. I have lost 85% of my CPA practice since early 2008, and my vehicles have had costly repairs. Where some assholes put my music on line, I would hear in 2008 and 2008, my stereo in my cars dragging and if I put a CD in it would drag. I could tell that someone was interfering with my cars, I mean afterall, I was not born yesterday.

I have had to replace the alternators and the batteries in the last two years in both of my cars (a 1999 Cadillac and a 1992 Pontiac Firebird). My business phone line at my CPA office has been wire-tapped, since early 2008, and my cell phone has been wire-tapped, too. When I turned on my radio in late 2007, I started noticing horrible songs would play, such as a Led Zeppelin song that always played about a woman who drives an aged Cadillac with alimony paying her way. And the song by Bob Dylan always played "how does it feel to be on your own without a home."

Oh, I have even had a former tax client of mine threaten me, holler at me, and the police have done nothing to him, as far as I know. I had a complaint filed against John MacDonald who resides at 139 Lew Drive, Macon, Georgia 31216. John told me on April 17, 2010 at Eagle Gun Range the following: "Linda we are watching your CPA office and we are going to close you down." Yes, my name is Linda Jo Alexander Poole. I used to be Linda Jo Alexander Foley when I attended Macon Junior College and Georgia College in Milledgeville, Georgia. So, this is how the people in Middle Georia treat an enterpreneur business owner who has earned a BBA in Accounting with a 3.78 GPA, Cum Laude, earned a Masters in Business in Administration at Georgia College in 1994, and has worked very hard at 4145 Hartley Bridge Road, Macon, Georgia 31216 in a building I co-own with my ex-husband, Lamar Poole!

Now, I try to explain or reconcile in my heart why people could destroy me in the manner that they have. I am down to very little money in retirement plans right now. Do these people even care that Lamar and I have had to sell about $35 thousand dollars worth of stock holding in the last three years or that I have had to sell most of my Roth IRA that was set up to send Matthew to college. Or do they care that I have had to sell most of my Simple IRA that I will have to incur a ten percent extra tax on. By the way, that tax will be on a 2009 income tax return that I have not yet filed as a single taxpayer. I have not filed my 2009 Corporate Income Tax Return for the first time that I incorporated my firm in 1996, I believe. I had an extension through October 15, 2010, that has lapsed by.

All I have to do is pull out of my driveway on Engle Drive in Northeast Macon, Georgia and be followed on the Interstate out to my office here on Hartley Bridge Road. This shit has gone on now, since 2008! I am suspicious of my next door neighbors, heck I am suspicious of everyone in Georgia, now. My next door neighbor on one side of me is Charlotte Hardy who works for the City of Macon, and on the other side is Judy Harden, Jr. "Chuck." I have known Chuck, since 1981 and I believe Charlotte bought the home from Chip and Pam Yates in 1984 or 1985.

Someday, the truth will come out and there will be hell to pay. Anyone that wants some details on what I have been through can give Judge William Adams of State Court of Georgia on the Fifth Floor of the Bibb County Court House! Just let me say this, this whole town or most of the town has violated my civil and constitutional rights to the nth degree!

Now, today has been a fairly productive day at my CPA office. I have worked on four 2010 Individual Income Tax Returns, made several phone calls and received several calls. When my clients call me about the status of their income tax return, I try to explain that I am working alone, as I have now for the past three tax seasons, and everytime someone stops by to ask about the status of their return and or calls me, then I get side-tracked, and that is time I cannot get work done.

When I tell my tax clients what all has gone on with me, they just seem to downplay it. Now, Susan who came in while ago seemed very concerned about what was going on. I made up a pink poster yesterday entitled "Who Am I," and it is tacked onto my CPA sign out in my parking lot. The "Who Am I" poster has nine hand-written points to tell who I am. I am the person that everyone followed in 2008 trying to catch me having an affair. I am the person that the Republican Party kept silent because I supported Ron Paul for President! Oh, I even went to the State Convention for the Republican GOP (Grand Old Poopers) in 2008 in Columbus Georgia. Just ask the retired General who was running for the Congressional Seat number 8 against Jim Marshall. Oh, his name is Rick Goddard and his wife is Judy. Why I sat right in front of them at the State Convention! When the delegates were announced, Rick Goddard commented: "No Ron Paul supporters are delegates." No shit Sherlock! Of course, I was my usual outspoken self. I was complaining about the ramrodding of stuff the assholes on the stage were pushing through. I remember someone looking at me and I could read his lips as he was asking some other asshole, "who is she?'' the other asshole just nodded a negative like beats the hell out of me!

Now, I will tell you there was a nice man that headed up the Georgia Party who passed away in 2008. This man's name was Donald Layfield. Don knew that I was gung ho about President Bush getting reelected in 2004, and ask questions about how I could go to the Republican Convention in New York. Well, it was tax time when the State Convention was held in Columbus, Georgia in 2004, and Don ask me to send him a resume of why I would like to go to the convention and to tell him about myself. Don always had a spot at the Convention, but was too ill to go. So, Don talked to some other people at the Convention, and he called it "backroom politics," and he was able to secure me an Alternate Delegate spot. Well, that night I was so excited when I received his phone call. I was told that I was an Alternate Delegate, that the Georgia Delegation was staying in a pricey location, and the cost was my responsibility. I was also told that many of the women were not at all happy that I was going as an Alternate Delegate because I was not at the State Convention, and plus the Country Club Southern Belles did not like me anyway (I already knew that).

Oh, this story twisted and turned away from Iowa Christian Alliance or whatever it is called, but really it tells a good story of the universal heart of Republicans. Well, now don't go getting your pride swelled up Democrats! I think most Democrat politicians are assholes, too.

As, I say sometimes "toot a loo" until next time. I heard Kathy Bates use that line in a movie a while back. Have a good day. ROFLMAO...I would like to put my fist in the mouth of assholes who tell me to have a good day everyday. (not really). But I did tell a lady at the MWA yesterday, that my line should really be Clint Eastwood's line as Dirty Harry "Go ahead and make my day!" That is my line (the have a nice day) and no one ever said have a nice day in Macon, Georgia until the last three years! Trust me, I am telling the truth. When you went through a drive through restaurant, you were lucky if the cashier looked at you when giving you the change back. And, I actually shopped at Krogers when the cashiers would be talking on the telephone and ringing up my groceries. Same at Walmart of anywhere! Customer service sucked big time in Macon, Georgia, when things were rocking along with the fake economy!

So, trust me, what people have done to me is no accident of mistaken identity. This plan was a perfect design! They know what they have done!

Security Bank and SunTrust Bank Hartley Bridge Road

2010-04-17T04:28:00.002-05:00

I had banked with Security Bank now State Bank from about 1998, until April 2008. In 2008, I noticed that people were following me to the bank, and that my mail was being opened and sealed back at my CPA office! I told the Branch Manager, Judy Johnosn that Sandy, a lady who worked at the bank and used to work at Porter Ellis School in the lunchroom, nodded to people as I was in the drive through deposited money, as if confirming what I was depositing into my CPA account! I had CNBC on during this time, and after Judy sent me a letter telling me to close my business account immediately, someone on CNBC said "they told her bank to close her account." Well, you know it is really strange to have the media no who in the hell you are.

Well, then I opened my business account around April 8th at SunTrust Bank on Hartley Bridge Road, oh what fun to be a stable person who does not like to change to have to open a new bank account a week before the tax filing deadline! So, now to just recently, I had the same thing happen when I started banking at SunTrust, people following me every time I went to the bank! Why in the hell are people following me to the bank and post office? Well, Rose Alexander, the black teller that I always, dealt with would always say "have a nice day Ms. Poole." Well, oneday when I was driving my red Firebird Convertible, Ms. Alexander said "I see you have a new red convertible." Well, the convertible is a 1992 with about 45k on it, real nice but not new. Well, I noticed early on in 2008 that people could hear me in my car. Well, when I went down Pio Nono that day after going to the bank, black people from all over the place were pulling out of streets and looking at my darn car, and at me! Well, a month or so ago, Ms. Alexander told me that bullshit of have a nice day Ms. Poole, and I told her to take her nice day and shove it up her ass.

Well, I later went into the bank and told the assholes in there that I was tired of everyone coming to the bank at the same time that I did. Well, on the 29th of March, we had a showdown of sorts. The fiasco's climax was the branch manager, Amy Miller walking out of the vault area with nearly ten thousand in cash. Amy pushed the money toward me, and told me that my account was closed that day! I told her I was not taking cash like that out of the bank and demanded an official check be written. Well, the stupid bitch who should be in prison, in my opinion, typed a check for $9,611.09 to merely Linda Poole. I drove back to my CPA office, just minutes away, and thought this is bullshit. I got back in my car, and went back to the bank, and demanded that Amy type a new check to Linda J. Poole CPA PC, 4145 Hartley Bridge Road, Macon, Georgia 31216. Amy refused to type a new check...and smarted off that your account does not have CPA on it, it just says PC. Now, mind you I have a business at 4145 Hartley Bridge Road, since 1996 and have had two banks ask me to move my account in the last two years.

Well, now I am with Mid South Community FCU, and so far so good. When I said I was going to the bank today when I visited GreenLeaf Nursery, two darn police cars were there when I went to the bank! Now, this is getting a little old. I am not a criminal! These Bibb County Police are morons. They know who I am! No doubt they are sucking the Federal government out of money to fund their sorry asses. Bibb County is bankrupt and they had to create some fraud to fund their bankrupt state of affairs! All of this shit against me and my family was purposely set up to draw people to Macon to generate money. The whole town has committed fraud against people who have drove to Macon trying to find me! I have reason to believe that I was made real old at first, and now the fraud is that they listened to me visiting my son, at my old house down the road, and created a hugh fraud scam that I as real young, and did not vote.

Well, for the record, I voted for Ron Paul in the Primary in 2008. I went to Northeast High School to vote in the fall of 2008. I got my voter's card, and oh a black lady behind me said: "is this the gold line?" Well, I put my card in the machine, hit write-in ballot, and typed in Linda J. Poole for President. Yes, that is right, I voted for myself for President! I could not think of anyone any better to vote for than myself!

For people that do not understand RICO, you know that money Amy Miller tried to hand me is just below the $10,000 amount that would be considered money laundering and/or drug money. I tell you I do believe that the mafia has taken over Macon, Georgia!

I had to go to the Bibb County Court House in 2008 to request an application to get my business license! I told Thomas Tedders that I refused to pay a late fee because an application was not mailed to me. Thomas did not charge me a late fee, and of all places my business license was locked in the vault! I want to know that I am protected because I am alone all of the time. I have never felt so scared in all of my life, as I have been in the last two and a half years. I feel that if I were to be in a car wreck that the police probably have a landfill ready to put me and my car in. Someone needs to visit Macon, Georgia and investigate this fraud against me and my family! The liars at the tax office have even insinuated that my CPA office is residential property!

I have got several pieces of mail from AT&T addressed to the residence of Linda Foley. My phone number has never been associated with Foley! Like I have written before just about everyone in Macon, Georgia needs to be put in prison!

I attest to the fact that I, Linda J. Poole, do not reside in a hotel or a motel! I detest the fact that people are living in hotels and pretending to be me. You know of all of the people who stole my identity, I think that US Supreme Court should tell them that they have lost their Citizenship! That would mean a good many stupid white people and stupid black people would never be able to vote again! I would like to see all of their properties confiscated and given to poor people in the Appalachians!

Wow, what a dream come true!

Heart of Gold and fraud against me and my family

2010-04-17T03:46:00.002-05:00

During the Bibb County Convention in 2008, I was sitting behind Pat Donnelly and her husband. I was not paying attention to Steve Dillard or Erick Erickson on the stage, except when I trid to speak one of them told me basically to be quiet! Well, who in the hell do these guys think they are telling me to not say anything? Well, all of a sudden Pat says to her husband, "Linda must be the Heart of Gold because Erick just got a call to be a Fox News contributor!" Now, Pat knew that I was sitting behind her, I mean in the row right behind them!

Ok, so that is not the only time I heard that! People followed me everywhere I went looking at what I bought and what I did in 2008. Everytime I walked in a store, this darn music started playing! I was so stressed out in 2008, I could not take it. I told Larry Andrews at my CPA office in 2008, while I was trying to do my income tax business that I could not take all of the people following me to the office and home. Why were the police allowing this to happen to me is what I want to know?

I heard Charlotte Hardy say in 2008, my next door neighbor, as I was lying in my bed at night one particular night..."if Linda finds out she is the Heart of Gold she can't run for President." Well, you know that was news to me because I darn sure was not running for President. Where in the hell would I get the money to run for President? I feel like Charlotte Hardy must have told everyone in the darn city who in the hell she thought I was because I had every asshole in town following me every where I go!

It was so bad last year that I almost got ran over a couple of times at my home just checking my mail! In 2008, I called the Macon Police when my son Matthew was at the house with me. Matthew who was thirteen at the time had flooded my basement taking a shower. I was already in bed, and he said "Mom the water is flooding in the basement." I got up and went to the basement and water was flowing out of the pipe, I believe the air conditioner fitting or something blew out. Well, I called a plumber, and then I saw a cable wire on my basement floor. Now, mind you this was the summer of 2008. I called the Macon Police and an officer named Jason Parks came to my home. I told him that I thought someone had been in my home. I felt that people were watching me and or listening to me in my home. I was divorced, and I no one had a right to watch me in my house. I also feel that I am being watched in my CPA office right now. I do not like it at all!

Jason refused to write up an incident report, and followed him up the basement steps and out the door and I hollered at him to right a report. Jason turned around and grabbed my arms and jerked them behind my back, and put handcuffs on my wrists so tight that they cut into my wrists. This all in front of my young son, Matthew! Ok, mind you I had got up out of bed because of Matthew flooding the basement. I had on pajama bottoms, no shoes a Destin tee shirt, and at least had a bra on. I sat in the back of a Macon Police car for almost an hour sweating with handcuffs on my arms behind my back waiting on Marty to pick up Matthew at my house. I had no shoes on, and my cell phone in my hand! I demanded my wallet, the asshole was wanting to take me to jail without my license! Finally, Matthew brought me a pair of shoes and my wallet with my driver's license. When we pulled into the jail a young black guy was at the gate, and pointed at me! What in the hell have you people in Macon done to me and my family?

Jason had the audacity to say, when we got to jail that he was glad to be getting off work so he could go see his baby after dragging me away from my son in handcuffs! I was placed in a cell with a black lady who got to keep her driver's license and a cell phone! My stuff was confiscated. The black bitch was sitting in there texting someone. Well, I beat on the door. Mind you I have never been arrested in my life! This little black bitch police officer said after a while, well you get to go home now. And then when she opened the door her and black male officer pushed me down the hall to a holding cell that was filthy! They pulled a white lady off the floor who had been vomiting on the floor! I stood in this filthy cell for about three hours! I kept asking to go to the bathroom, and they would not let me out. The black officer hit me on the back of the neck and head, and pulled on my arms so hard it was unbelievable.

All I had done was tried to get a report about someone coming into my own home illegally! No one had a right to listen to me, no one! Marty was finally able to get me out, Marty is my ex-husband. Marty picked me up in his pickup truck and took me to Engle Drive where I live. I ask Chuck Harden, my next door neighbor, if he heard me the night before. Chuck said he did not hear me, so how in the hell could I get arrested for disturbing the peace? Arrested in my own yard!

I went to the emergency room on Riverside Drive, and a black police officer showed up and changed the stations, as if trying to put me everywhere but Macon! I was XRayed, and the doctor said that I had multiple contusions, and wrote that up! I took the medical report with me to an oversight board in downtown Macon that is supposed to investigate wrong doing by the police. I sent several certified mails, and finally got a letter that said that an investigation had been done and no wrong doing had been found. Well you know, I am a Georgia College graduate, I graduated Cum Laude with a 3.78 GPA, I have a Masters in Business and I have been a CPA since 1990. I am quite sure that the GSCPA, the State Board of Accountancy, the AICPA would be horrified if they knew that this could happen to a business owner!

I went a few times to contest the ticket for disturbing the peace, and, of course, Jason Parks did not show up! I wish that someone woould do something about this, and arrest everyone involved. There were several police officers when I went to court and there were liberal lawyers, of course! I cannot believe that someone who is just trying to live their life has it turned upside down. The thing that I hate the most is that my young son Matthew has had to participated in this stinking fraud! I had no assignment whatsoever, and my ex-husband was lied to! I have been completely in the blind in all of this shit, and it has not been pleasant. I filed my divorce pro-se with Judge Ennis as the Judge! Everyone in this town knows that I did not leave town!

What is so bad is that my clients were lied to. My tax clients and write-up clients actually thought I did something wrong. The fraud is not telling the truth that I was a Certified Public Accountant! The town had no right whatsoever following me around and allowing complete strangers to know who I am! If Steve Wilson started this, then I would like to see him blind folded and a firing squad shoot his ass, until there was not one empty spot on his sorry body. If he did not start it, I would like to know who did!

Steve Wilson of WMCC Blogspot and other assholes

2010-04-17T03:05:00.003-05:00

Steve has conveniently taken his blog offline. I sent Steve a Christmas card at Christmas, and ask him if he was involved with the crap going on in my life, not verbatum. I also called Steve's home right after Christmas and spoke with his wife. I ask her to have Steve call me. Then I called Steve from my office here in Macon, Georgia and told him who I was. I ask Steve, do you know who I am? Steve said "I do now."

I had commented on Steve Wilson's blog in the past as Miss American Pie and BeeBee. Steve knows full well who I am because I called into 940 Talk Radio quite a bit. Steve surely knows that I filed a Contest against the SPLOST Election in 2005. Funny though because no media whatsoever showed up for the hearing before Judge Martha Christenson. I have been set up in Macon, Georgia by a bunch of liberal queers! Yes, the whole town is full of liberal faggots! I have not met one conservative in Macon, Georgia, except for the soldiers that I meet.

This town is so damn sorry that after we had Sgt Kelley Courtney and others lose their lives in 2004 during the Iraq War, by the way Kelley was a Marine with my son, Mark Foley and his brother Donny Courtney. Toys for Tots came to Macon, Georgia that year, and Marty, Matthew and I went and took three toys. The Macon Auditorium was at best 20% full! Yes, this town is a bunch of suck ass liberals, born with silver spoons in their mouths. I saw Steve Wilson and his other queer friends perform at the Macon Civic Club. That group of morons is what is wrong with this town! They are a bunch of has beens who have not grown up yet! Everyone of them think that their shit does not stink, and they look down on anyone who actually works for a living. Kenny Burgamy walked past me like he did not see me at one of the shows, as well. The whole town of Macon, Georgia is corrupt.

I told George Meadows at the Business Watch Meeting at the Texas Cattle Company on Houston Road that I was not safe and that people had been driving by my office for three tax season harassing me now. George Meadows a Bibb County Debuty said "now, now, Linda not here." Like I was a child! I tell you it is absolute disgusting fraud what this town has done to me and my family. They have literally destroyed my CPA business, by someone allowing liberals to listen to me at my office in 2008 during the 2007 tax season. Some damn Indian guy named Patel came into my CPA office and ask me if I wanted to sell my business for $150k. I said no, I would not take less than $600k. The asshole turned around and walked out, and then came back a couple of days later, and said: "This business is closed...this is an empty building." I said this business is not closed! I have furniture in here and this is a CPA business. The asshole just turned around and walked out. Am I mad, you bet your ass I am mad as hell!

In addition, after I went to a Republican meeting at the Country Buffet on Gray Highway in Macon, Georgia in early 2008, Charlie Bishop got angry with me for questioning him about the SPLOST Election. Charlie then called my office afterwards, when Scottie Shepard walked in my office, and said that he was real worried about me having a heart attack and worried about my health. Scottie Shepard who ran against Jerry Modina in 2004 said the same thing! This town is corrupt. They all knew exactly what they were doing, as all of them have conspired to destroy me and my families life. After Patel said my busniness was closed, I did not get one phone call at my CPA office during the rest of 2008 and most of 2009! I have lost 70% of my CPA practice, and no one gives a rat's ass. I have had my CPA practice here at this very office where I am now typing this blog entry, since 1996. At no time have I ever directed people what to do.

I have had people follow me from my home located at 1590 Engle Drive to my office, since November 2007. I have had people follow me to the bank, to the post office to the store and drive by my office non-stop! My office is located at 4145 Hartley Bridge Road and today some asshole drove by my office when I was putting out Eggplants and some Cucumbers that I grew from seeds (I have a garden at my office this year), and he hollered "you are f'ing nuts!" Well, I am tired of this shit, and every lawyer in Macon needs to be removed from the Bar. Judge Ennis needs to be removed from the bench, and all of the police need to be fired...Bibb County and Macon! Charlie Bishop, Scottie Shepard, Steve Wilson and everyone who has turned their back on my safety need to be stripped of all of their financial assets and put in prison for life! I am as serious as a heart attack. I charge each and everyone of them for attempted manslaughter. They have allowed rumors to spread, and have allowed people to believe that I have had a sex change and that I have no children, and what ever damn rumor they want to spread. I have a Taurus 38 Special handgun right now in my office, and I would love to use it on all of them! And I am not a violent person, but the crooks in Macon, Georgia have violated my Constitution Rights!

I have reason to believe that Steve Wilson lied and said that I left Macon, Georgia. I never left Macon! I have lived in this hell hole of a town, since
1981. I am a white divorce woman with two sons, one 31 and one 14. I do not like the fact that my son who is now 14 has been lied to about his mother. People actually believed that I left my son with a child molestor or something because of bullshit lies! My son is living with my ex-husband in the same house I moved out of in November 2007! I want people to stay the hell out of our lives, and now. I have had it with the fraud and the near cause of my having wrecks. I do not like being chased all over Macon, Georgia. That is why I left my television on in 2008, and took off many times. Just to get peace, I drove up to Wisconsion over to Nebraska, and all around. It was great getting out of this hell on Earth. I have been to San Antonio, Houston, Washing DC, Chantilly VA. I had 84k on my Cadillac when I got a divorce in March 2008, and I have 123k on it now! If I had the money, I would leave for Clearwater Beach next week. I hate Macon, Georgia and the morons who live here.

If someone wants to give me 600k for my building, I will be gone next week. Then you can run your f'ng assignments on someone else's time! Basically, you can kiss Linda J. Poole CPA's ass! Yeah that is me, Linda Poole the CPA that no one in this hell hole of a town likes! Well you know what I did not go to the Cherry Blossom Festival this year; I refuse to go to the Georgia State Fair this year! When I move from Macon, Georgia oneday, I will never step foot in Georgia again! And I will tell my sons that if they come to Georgia they will not be welcome in my home!

Basically, Macon Georgia you can kiss my ass! Yeah, if you were to see my home, you would see in my computer room a vinyl sign I ordered a while back. The sign has an hour glass on it and says "Macon, Georgia lost in time....Biggest Asshole Town in the World or USA...cannot remember at this time." But you get the picture. If I had the money, you can bet I would put it on billboards all over Georgia and throughout the United States! I will tell all of my family to never visit here! The Cherry Blossom Festival can go to hell, as far as I am concerned.

WRESTLEMANIA XXVI PHOENIX, ARIZONA

2010-03-28T22:48:00.002-05:00

Well earlier today, I had a fiasco with my son Matthew, and my ex-husband, Marty Poole. I had fixed some strawberries, and thawed out some whipped topping and took them to my old house to have strawberry shortcake with Matthew and watch Wrestlemania with them. When I pulled up in the driveway, Matthew's friend Jordan Ray and another teenager was in the driveway with Matthew. Jordan looked at me with eyes wide open like he was seeing a ghost or something. I told Matthew what I had brought and he informed me that they were all going to Hooters to watch Wrestlemania. I went inside and told Marty that Matthew was not to go to Hooters. Marty was a jerk, as usual, and did not want to cooperate with me for us to watch Wrestlemania.

I came back to my office and attempted to purchase Wrestlemania online, but I thought well I will just go to Hooters and watch it there. Well, I called Hooters from my office and found out a little after seven that the event had already started. I was certain I had called the one in North Macon. I called Matthew, while on the road, with my cell phone and he told me that it was at the Centerville location. I knew that I had called the Macon one, so I drove to the Hooters in North Macon. I will post details later about the Wreslemania held in Phoenix Arizona at the University of Phoenix. Prominent details are that there 72,219 people in attendance, which is overwhelming. The satellite feed went out at Hooters about four times, and I am sure it was due to the rain we were having or perhaps the satellite was overloaded with people viewing on pay per view. Later....

Macon City Council Meeting March 1, 2010

2010-03-02T16:32:00.004-05:00

Crowd shot photos....the top photo is of Chris Crock (spelling ?). I took a photo of Chris' face but it did not turn out. No disrespect to the 940 Talk Radio DJ here in Macon, Georgia. I did call Chris a few times a while back, actually I called him when I was in Madison, Indiana in the early am from my Uncle Charles Alexander and wife Brenda's home. I told him I was a Ron Paul supporter, and he told me I was crazy. Well, you know all of these people last evening called themselves saints, and that is fine. I suppose they are saints for the Lord and for the truth. Glory be! We cannot blame taxes on this person or that person, the bottom line is that corrupt politicians are like a runaway train that left the track before the ink was dry on our Constitution. Posted by Linda

Erick Erickson City Council of the Round Table of Macon, Georgia

2010-03-02T16:20:00.002-05:00

Not a real good photo of Erick Erickson. Erick seemed to be occupied with working on a laptop computer during the City Council Meeting on March 1, 2010. The City Council meeting in Macon, Georgia was standing room only. The meeting was very passionate, as all who spoke at the microphone were opposed to the 13% increase in the tax digest. Mayor Reichart led off the evening, which began at 6:00 pm at Macon City Hall. People were definitely not on the same page with the Mayor with his opinion that the digest was ok.

I suppose Erick will forgo his pay at the Council Meeting for last evening, since he was so busy blogging or whatever. What say you Erick? Are you willing to give up your pay for last evening? I spoke to Erick, whom I have had passionate disagreements with on his blog and on Redstate.org. I mean well Mr. Good Ole Boy Southern Hospitality even kicked me off his blog, and I got kicked of the RINO blog called Redstate.org. I wear that as a badge of honor!

Linda J. Poole, Macon, Georgia....the real red bull who knows the truth and is not in the least bit pc!!!!!!!!!!!!

Macon residents fired up at Macon City Hall over tax increases

2010-03-01T22:05:00.003-05:00

Well, I went to my first public rally over tax revolts this year. I heard Chris Crock online this morning from my office, and I heard there was going to be a tax revolt at City Hall this evening at 6:00 pm. Well, about 5:10, I left my office and thought well I need some pictures of this event. I stopped at CVS, and found a good deal on two single use CVS brand cameras, a total of 54 photos for $7.99, not developed, of course. The sale was buy one get free, and the film is 800 speed, so the photos should be good. I got a couple of shots of the pin head, Erick Erickson, and some shots of some of the rest of City Council. I got a photo of Mayor Reichart, and several shots of the audience. Standing room only, it was unbelievable!

I sat next to a couple by the name of Diane Stefano and Sam Stefano, and before the event, I walked up the steps of City Hall with my Ten Commandments sign, and I ask all the impotent tates if this is where the liars club was going to meet. A couple of Macon's finest police officers gave me sneering looks. I wish their darn faces would freeze in that position, as that would be real cool. A lady by the name of Lucille was handing out white sheets of paper that merely had the word NO on it. Every seat in City Hall was taken and the place was standing room only.

I sat back with my yellow pad, after taking several shots of the crowd, getting shots of all of the camera people and the infamous Chris Crock of 940 Talk Radio. I told him that I was the real red bull of Macon, Georgia not him! LOL After the Mayor of Macon addressed the crowd, the Mayor of Cherry Street walked up to the microphone, and that would, of course, be Mark Thornton. The Mayor had said that the tax digest was being raised by a measely (my word) 13%, you know chunk change for all of us with rows and rows of money trees that grow densely in Macon, Georgia. I cannot harvest money fast enough, and the trees need no fertilizer whatsoever because there is so much bullshit flying around the air in Bibb County that fertilizer is not needed, at all. I tell you what we are the luckiest darn people in the world right here in the Heart of Middle Georgia. It is the only place in the world where you can afford to pay higher taxes because the residents never run out of money!

Now, on a more serious note, yes folks we are in a depression, not a recession! I did not have to speak at all because there were so many well-versed spokes people in the crowd, and I mean they were mad....mad as hell, I am here to tell you. One guy, who I did not catch his name said that he was out of work and he was going to become a political consultant, and boldly told the kings and queens in their raised council chairs that they would be replaced if they voted to raise taxes! Of course, every time someone said something that hit the ball out of the park, we all raised our "NO" signs!

Folks, this is not new at all in Macon, Georgia. I remember when the Mayor of Macon was Mayor Israel, and he spoke at a CPE meeting I attended at River North Country Club in 1993, and he talked about commercial property selling for $.25 on the dollar during that time period. Oh, gee, we have heard the same old song and dance now for nearly two decades that the City and the County need to merge. You know, I did not see the City Attorney sitting up on his throne tonight, but you know he may well have been there. You see, there was this attorney who I always saw when I needed a good laugh, when I did not want to stay up late to watch Saturday Night Live, you see I am sooooooooo darn old, I go to bed with the chickens....cough...cough...cough, and everytime there was a question that needed resolved by the Council members, they would turn to this legal expert to give them an answer. All I ever heard him say, I will have to look that up. Well, you know, if someone ask me a question, I can usually give an answer on the spot. I meed what kind of darn lawyer never knows anything....hmnnnn that was a dumb question right?

Well, I just wish that we could have forced the City Council to hold a vote in our prescence tonight. Cowards! I hope they vote No, or they will most certainly be looking for another job.

Holding letter until I can find an email address for the assholes at AT&T

2010-02-12T17:59:00.002-05:00

Dear CSR Representatives,

I am writing in regard to fraud that occurred in my CPA office on July 29, 2009. Malachi Rountree and Tyree Aaron came into my office with Cathy Krattli as a witness. Cathy is a President of Georgia Marine Moms, and I am Treasurer. The Federal Identification number for Georgia Marine Moms is 77-0664292. I prepare the tax returns for this non-profit organization. On this date of 7/29/2009, these two con-artists mentioned above ask for my business line folder. They proceeded to fill out several pink sheets, and told me a bs story that my bill was going to be cheaper than the $170.00 (tax included) that I had paid prior to all of the chaos that has gone on with my billing. Long distance charges were added to my bill, my DSL was increased from lite service to super speedy gonzalez service, and Tech 360 was added to my bill that I did not approve! Well, you know how con-artists work all of this crap was checked and then when I said why is this and that checked, the line was "oh well that is no additional charge." And then this cracker jack named Marty (official title TPV Rep) called me with these Jessee James characters standing in my office and assurred me that all was well at "high noon." Joke! Ok so, I get an agent code DC X3 an office code GAB, and oh my another code, Oh I hit the jackpot, an ATB code of 879EGA. All of this was on an official (cough cough cough) AT&T Service Agreement oh my oh my pink in color how impressive with an invoice number of 377957! Ok so, the bottom line is that I have talked to about 12 Representatives at the NEwwwwwwwwww AT&T since the 10th of February with your super deluxe service. I am surprised a bucket of paint does not come out of the receiver to be thrown in my face when I get such fiiiiiiinnnnnneeeee service! The bottom line is that I do not need Tech 360 Serive at all. I mean what in the hell is that anyway. I have had my own CPA practice, since 1994 with the same phone number of 478-788-5460, and I have probably made 360 plus complaint calls, so that blows the hell out of your 360 tech service. The way I see it is that you owe me about $3 to $4 thousand dollars for my inconvenience of dealing with the morons that you employ! In addition, be happy that I do not use anti-depressants and shrinks or you would owe me so much more. Now, please correct my bill. You think you can find someone at this hi-tech company to correct my bill. Pleazzzzzzz I am fed up. By the way, check out the "I'm as Mad as hell" video on Youtube.com, and you will get a smidgen of a hint of how aggravated I really am. Have a nice day!

Good News today from GEICO Adjustor

2010-01-19T20:17:00.004-05:00

I had a mishap with the old Cadillac that I drive, and wrote about it a while back. The power window controls had gone out of the car on the way to Indiana, and I could not get my window back up. It was colder than the dickens, and I was in Nashville about six hours away from my destination. I stopped at a Walmart and bought some plastic, tape and scissors and covered the hole in the side of the door with plastic. I had to wrap tape around the frame of the door many times to hold the plastic in place. It was very hard to drive because you do use the driver's side glass often, of course. I thought about backing down I-75 North, but thought that would not be too cool (just kidding).

I could not see well, at all, so I hit a colvert at my Aunt's house, and tore the whole underneath of the car up. GEICO has been real good to me even though I lost eighteen days of my life waiting for the car to be repaired. I just got a call from my aduster today, and there is some kind of new law in Georgia where an insured motorist gets a payment for diminished value of an automobile after an accident, so I am almost going to get enough to cover the cost of my motel room in Indiana. So, that is the good news for this day, and now I pray that I can avoid hitting more road hazards. The power windows are new now, so everything is good to go. My advice is that you always get out of the car to assess all things in your way if you have plastic on a window in your car. I thought I knew my Aunt's driveway because she has lived in the same house, since I was born, but I did not know it well enough.

Yes, I saw Hell freeze over!

2010-01-15T17:48:00.003-05:00

I had my 99 Cadillac in issue haven over the coldest days ever in Madison, Indiana. I had traveled to Madison to visit my Grandmother, Helen B. Alexander, age 94, who fell and broke her hip. I left Macon, Georgia on the 26th of December, 2009, and was able to spend a few nights with an Uncle and an Aunt. I stayed a few nights with another Aunt, and then I checked into the Best Way Inn in Madison, Indiana aka The Hotel California, "where you check in and wonder when you will check out." I must say that Chandler's Chevrolet on Clifty Drive in Madison, Indiana did a fine job on my old Cadillac. On the morning of January 13, 2010, I was finally able to settle out the bill on the labor and parts for a new A frame or Cradle. I wanted to take a test drive, of course, because I had to travel back South to Macon, Georgia and the Monteagle is quite a mountainous area to travel through. I have traveled the road numerous times back and forth between Indiana/Kentucky and Macon, Georgia, since moving to Macon in 1981 with the Brown and Williamson folks.

I drove my car with Doug Van Horn sitting in the passenger seat. I told Doug to fasten his seat belt because I was going to do about 80 mph down the Hanging Rock Hill, lol. Doug said "you drive like I do." Of course, I did not drive the Hanging Rock Hill so fast, as there was still ice on the road. I drove down the hill made a left turn on Main Street, and then took the old Michigan Hill back up to the hill top and turned left on Clifty Drive. I must say the old Cadillac with 119k on it handled beautifully. I left a little after 10:00 AM and returned to Macon about 11:30 PM. I tell you what it is a long trip to make alone, and by the time I hit the 59 mile mark between Atlanta and Macon, I did not know if I could stay awake. I had to pull over a couple of times to stretch.

While in Madison, Indiana, I faced the most outrageous treatment. One of my tax clients overnighted me a $150 Official Check, and the Main Source Bank in Madison, Indiana refused to cash the check. In addition, the Centra Credit Union in Madison, Indiana refused to cash the check. I was able to get my Uncle to cash a $100 personal check for me, but after 18 days away from home, a person burns through cash. Thankfully, my two sisters, Brenda and Carol came to my rescue by wiring me a cash gift that I was able to pick up at the Walmart on Clifty Drive in Madison, Indiana.

I emailed the Senate Banking Committee about this horrid treatment that I received. I certainly hope that the Committee takes up such an issue. It is not acceptable at all that a bank will not accept an Official Bank Check, which is basically the same as a Cashier's check. These derelict women at the bank told me that they would have not have cashed a Cashier's check either!

I told the Banking Committee in my email that if loans can be handed out to people who cannot afford to pay rent, much less mortgages after 911, then why can a US Citizen not be able to cash an Official Bank Check, when stranded out of town?

I am outraged to say the least.

Linda J. Poole

Madison Indiana

2010-01-03T11:25:00.002-05:00

Well, I am here in cold, cold, cold Madison, Indiana with a broke down 99 Cadillac at Chandlers' Chevrolet. I hit the culvert at my Aunt Eva Clark's house in Chelsea and did some major strut damage to the under carriage of the car. Thankfully, the collision on my GEICO policy covers my little rental car, while I await the adjuster to look at my car tomorrow. I have $500 deductible, but that is a God send to have insurance coverage.

I drove up here to visit my Grandmother, Helen Alexander, who is 94 years old. My
grandmother who I call Mom-ma fell and broke her hip and had surgery at Kings Daughter's Hospital after Christmas. I spoke with Dr. Jackson at the hospital, and I remember him as a child. Soon, Mom-ma was moved to Thornton Terrace Nursing Home in Hanover, Indiana. This morning, I visited the nursing home, and Mom-ma was asleep with the food tray over the bed. I fed her some sausage and scrambled eggs, and she wanted some oatmeal. I mashed up some banana in her cold oatmeal, and added some milk and put it in the microwave in Mom-ma's room. Mom-ma ate quite a bit of the oatmeal, and now she is sleeping. I drove back to my room on Clifty Drive to take a nap, but then decided to have a cup of copy in the lobby. I have a small refrigerator in my room, with some groceries from Kroger, and I added some Gingerbread cream to my mug purchased in Gatlinburg in 2008, that says "Coffee Helping People Multi-Task since 1475." I have another mug that I purchased that says "You can either agree with me or be wrong." I know that is not pleasant for some to here, but you know I never worry about what other people think for the most part. You see I am not politically correct, at all. To me, PC is a computer! LOL

I may ride back to Thornton Terrace in a little while, as they are to have church at 1:00 today. I have met Nettie Grigsby, and a former Marine named Max Poling. Max had some problem with a back hoe that caused him quite a bit of pain on his right arm, and he has several pins in his arm. A lady passed away at the nursing home yesterday, and sadly I happened upon the funderal director signing the paper work in the hall. There is a lady in very bad shape in Mom-ma's room who is terminally ill with brain cancer that was in stage 4 and diagnosed just three months ago. The lady's name is Judy, and she is in her mid sixties. The family is distraught, and I do not know why Ms. Judy was moved into Mom-ma's room, since she is not expected to live. There are empty rooms that are available, I would think and the large family gathering in her room would like the privacy I am quite sure. Everytime, I enter room 105 to visit Mom-ma, I have to pass through the family of Ms. Judy's.

I am sort of aggravated with the care Mom-ma is being given, and I am afraid that my family is just waiting on Mom-ma to die. I ran into my Dad, Donald Owen Alexander on New Year's Eve, and he was very rude to me. My father is born of the devil himself, but that does not mean that Mom-ma is the devil. I do not know where my Dad got his evil way's from, at all. My aunts, Eva Clark and Wilma Conover act like a bunch of morons on the telephone, and I feel that my cousin Donna Jean is manipulating them. For some reason, Donna Jean is never around when I vist, so I smell a grand conspiriacy.

Oh well, my family is pretty dysfunctional for sure, and as a matter of fact, they pretty much broke the molds when most of them came into this world.

I am so fed up with people in Madison, Indiana, as I have been here about four times in the last couple of years, and they are so rude to this ole Hoosier gal, I was born Linda Jo Alexander on December 29, 1954 at the Kingsdaughter's Hospital. I was flat broke from my calamity of a car breakdown, and no money. I went to the Main Source Bank in Madison, and explained my situation yesterday to Karen Pritchard, and she said that they could not cash a check. I then when to Kroger on Clifty Drive and natta, the lady would not cash a check drawn on Park FCU, even though I had a Kroger card. If it were not for my Uncle Charles Alexander living here in Madison, I do not know what I would have done. I cashed a check for $100 from him, and was so thankful. In addition, I was shown some fine hospitlity from Uncle Charles and wife, Brenda, as I spent two nights with them this week.

I told some people that they may as well take "In God We Trust" of their Indiana tags because I have not met one Christian yet in Madison or Hanover nor God fearing person! I tell you these people are downright scoundrels! I am ashamed to call Madison, Indiana my home. I mean, I wrote all this nice stuff of being so proud of my hometown, and people have treated me like I landed here from Mars or something!

Oh well, have a nice day, nice month, nice year and don't take any wooden nickles!

CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2009

2009-11-11T19:39:00.001-05:00

BORROWED FROM MR. RENSE SUPPORT THE SECOND AMENDMENT

2009-11-11T19:29:00.001-05:00

Business Watch Meeting Texas Cattle Company Macon, GA

2009-11-10T20:10:00.002-05:00

Well, I attended the local Business Watch Meeting today at the Texas Cattle Company on Houston Road. I went hoping to see some corrupt realtors and bankers tarred and feathered, but I was greatly disappointed. The real thieves in Bibb County do not matter, as the only real hard core criminals are the people who get out and drink on the weekend and then get pulled over by the big bad police officers. One policeman bragged about giving out 45 DUIs over the weekend, "yeah it was a real good weekend." Not verbatum, but you get the picture. George Meadows handed out some tee shirts and some key chains. I don't know how the police force can afford to give out stuff, but hey I took one of each.

I informed George, et all that Congressman Jim Marshall is holding a Town Hall tomorrow evening at Macon City Hall from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. George wanted to know what the topic is, and I did not know so I did not add my two cents worth. I hope that people will go raise hell about why we don't need a new SPLOST in Bibb County, but I won't hold my breath. The same old people were at the Business Watch Meeting or mostly the same people, as I have not attended for a couple of years, when they used to be held at the Mexican Restaurant by Shannon's Cafe. Mr. Patel was not there, but I saw Oney Hudson, a guy from the Rainbow Corporation, Judy from Security Bank and a few other people that I do not know, but I did take some minutes on the back of my Harvey's paper.

By the way, Harvey's has opened in Northeast Macon on Shurling Drive, as they bought out Food Lion. Harvey's opened last Wednesday, and I waited until Thursday to go. I got a good price on a Turkey, $.89 per pound with a Harvey's card. I bought four cans of cranberry sauce for $1.00 per can, and then saw it at Wal-Mart yesterday for $.88 per can. That is 12% less, and that is what you folks need to look for. When you can save 12% that is real savings. Remember the old adage, "a penny saved is a penny earned." Well that is all from Granny. LOL No, I am not an old granny. I look pretty young at 54, actually, if I should say so. If you get a chance go to City Hall tomorrow evening, and let Congressman Marshall know how you feel about health care (only if you believe the government has no business in health care, otherwise don't open your mouth about health care...just kidding...I know free speech right yada yada yada), and voice your opposition to another SPLOST!

Why we will always be in a war

2009-11-09T08:27:00.003-05:00

I talked with a guy yesterday who was in the Navy or retired from the Navy, and he was standing with another guy. I was handing out literature about the H1N1 Flu Shot, well only one of a four page report that I printed from the Campaign for Liberty site. This guy said that he was glad that he was no longer fifteen, and glad that his time was almost up or something along that line. I told him that we have to be concerned about our children and grandchildren, and the future of our Country.

This kind of apathy has gone on throughout history, and civilizations before us have perished for this very reason. All of us spend our time idling away the days, which is what we should do. We should be able to enjoy our life on Earth. Unfortunately, those that always see profits in exploiting others are never idle with their time. These war profiteers, drug profiteers, oil profiteers and human labor profiteers are always scheming up ways to enrich themselves.

This man I was talking to represents the general population that stands powerless against the evil people who control 95% of the wealth in the world by taxing the entire populations to the point of extinction. It is just like the minister in church yesterday, as he preached to the congregation, who is preaching for the day when everyone will meet Jesus. This hope is implanted in the interpretation of the scriptures that says that Jesus will return again, and then you will meet him whne you die and go to heaven.

I believe that Jesus has already returned the second time, as he was to be born of a virgin birth, and then he rose again after three days when placed in the tomb after being taken from the cross. The theology that holds Christians captive to more and more wars to cause the return of Jesus to wage war on the anti-christs allows the anti-christs to continue to destroy civilization after civilization. I have several posts that show Jesus with tears in his eyes looking down on the world and have other people's writings about the signs of the times. The signs of the times is perpetual because people do not realize that they themselves hold the keys to happiness. If people would awaken from this dark sleep that they are in, they would see that collectively we could all defeat the evil ones and have a world that is what it was meant to be, which is one that is peaceful.

I truly wish that I would have never written a blog because it has me in a trap that I never wished to be in. There can be no real peace for all because too many people are asleep.

God bless

LINDA POOLE AT BOSTON TEA PARTY IN 2007

2009-10-28T11:15:00.003-05:00

I do not know how to upload such vidoeos. One may go to youtube.com, and type in the search box, Linda Poole in Boston, and you should get the youtube of where I was interviewed by the Liberty Group, as I believe that was their name. I was also interviewed by a newspaper in Boston. It was very cold and wet and slushy snow. I had never been to Boston before, and my two acquaintences and I dined at the Legal Seafood Company. What a name for a restaurant, quite appropriated for a Ron Paul supporter, such as myself. I am proud to say that I was one of the leading revolutionairies for the reenactment of the Boston Tea Party. I also attended the July 12, 2008 Freedom Rally or whatever it was entitled, where Ron Paul, Naomi Wolf, Chuck Baldwin and Adam Kokesh (sp? Adam is a Marine who wants peace) gave speeches. Forgive me if I have no doubt left out some names. I sat by a couple of guys from the border patrol group in Texas or Arizona, I believe. We marched along the DC route to the Capitol. It was qutie an experience. I voted for Ron Paul in the Republican Primary, and a little secret, since I could find no one better to vote for, I voted for myself in the write-in ballot area in the general election.

SUPPORT OUR TROOPS BRING THEM HOME

2009-10-28T11:05:00.001-05:00

BORROWED AND COPIED FROM AN ONLINE BRING OUR TROOPS HOME WEBSITE; I AM QUITE CERTIAN THAT I WILL NOT GET SUED FOR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT.

Germans and their treatment by the PTBs

2009-10-18T13:40:00.003-05:00

I am very delighted that Pat Buchanan wrote this book. I have not read because I already knew the truth from my research. I had watched Jorg Friedrich discuss his book on CSPAN several years ago entitled "The Fire" (book should be underlined, but I do not know where underline feature is, so live with the error). Mr. Friedrich was, of course, belittled and shamed by his account of his own home Country and the lies that were told thoughout the years about the truth of what really happened in Germany. You see, I too, had bought into the lies about Germans, as all of my family did. Then, I found the Storm (Sturm in Germany) side of my family on my paternal great-grandfather's side of the family, Edwin Land, and I realized that I was of German descent.

The Germans have the highest IQs of any European Country, which I just read is an average of 107. This IQ is after genetic cleansing of the population through an unneccessary war. I am quite certain that before Churchhill fraudulently conspired with Roosevelt to bomb Germany, that the average IQ was probably 125. This is the way to of the PTBs (Powers That Be), as you destroy the most intelligent people or attempt to destroy the most intelligent people in the world, and then you can take over the other unintelligent people who inhabit the world. The wars were done by design. I know that my ancestors were highly intelligent people, and most people do not realize that the Declaration of Independence was first written in German. Why do you think that is, well most certainly it is because they could read and interpret things better than any other peoples that were here, as they represented the majority of the people who lived here in our early days.

It is time for people to wake up, and realize what you are allowing tryants to do to your life, and most importantly what they are doing to our future.

STOP THE NORTH AMERICAN UNION

2009-10-10T20:10:00.002-05:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3fs2FO1zYo

YOUTUBE VIDEO OF "GARDEN PARTY" BY RICKY NELSON. THE LINE IN THE SONG: "IF MEMORIES WERE ALL I SANG...I'D RATHER DRIVE A TRUCK." DRIVE A TRUCK TO STOP THE NAU. BOYCOTT STORES THAT USE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS TO DELIVER GOODS. THOSE WERE THE DAYS WHEN SHOWS LIKE OZIETT (SP?) AND HARRIETT WERE ON TELEVISION.

Internet Closed: Photo borrowed from Jeff Rense

2009-10-05T01:46:00.007-05:00

Ah, another image borrowed from Jeff Rense, I hope he does not mind. I have used many of his images, and he was a guy who I found several years ago, who opened my eyes to the TRUTH.

We are living in 1984 for sure, and the sad thing is that there are so many stupid people that are asleep at the wheel (pardon the pun). I just hope enough sheep get awakened before they are slaughtered by the PTB.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfBtJqcmhRs
Cheryl Crow song. I have not listened to it yet, but it is no doubt good. One of the words in the song, that I saw was intellectual, so it must be in my calibar of songs.

FFF.ORG: Patriotism and Education

2009-10-04T14:58:00.005-05:00

I have attended two conferences held by FFF.ORG with Bumper or Jacob Hornberger as the organizer of the group because I like to see how different people think. Now, Jacob and most of the speakers are all of the econmic thought of the Mises Institute or Austrian Economics. Now, I do agree that we have a problem with government spending, however I was extremely disappointed by the fact that the people who attended did not first say a pledge to our flag before starting sessions.

Actually, the reason that I attended the FFF.ORG meeting in 2007 is because I was supporting Ron Paul for President, and I wanted to make sure that he did not abandon God when questioned about where his rights come from. I knew that many of the attendies were New Age type people, which that is ok with me, but I did not want to support Ron Paul if he wavered when questioned about God. Actually, someone in the back of the room, when Judge Napolitono was speaking about where our rights come from got angry when the Judge said that his rights come from God, and Judge Napolitono made a remark, "well you will have to take that up with God." (maybe not verbatum, but you get the picture). I also saw a greedy selfishness and outright arrogance put forth by some of the speakers who seemed to be interested only in peddling their books and getting paid to speak. Now, as far as Mr. Hornberger goes, I have immense respect for him, but am greatly disappointed in him for not having a flag present at the conferences that I attended.

I actually wrote in a journal that I keep in 2007, if I would have received an education when I went to school if such people were in charge of government. Now, I know not all of the people were selfish, and I do agree that we have a problem with education, which is an understatement to say the least. We need to completely overhaul the education system, and actually many ninth graders need to go back to the third grade, but that cannot be done because the desks are too small, and they would not fit in with the younger kids. So, how do we mover forward?

Each group of activists need to understand that the world is not all about them. You simply cannot abandon society, and government is not the answer. Local governments should tax for education costs, and all of the Boards of Educations should be abolished. The schools with a principal is all that we need. The Boards of Education on the state level would be unneccessary in this scenario, as would the Federal Education Board. For example, we have 159 Counties in Georgia, which could be combined into say 45 Counties maybe more for taxation purposes that way the poorest Counties' children would not have to do without an education. We could redistribute school buses to the combined Counties, and encourage more parent involvement in public education. With all of the beuracracy gone, then more funds would be available for education. For example, we have a situation in Bibb County where parents have to send boxes of kleenex to school, and often times there is no toilet paper in the bathrooms. I mean, where does all of the money go? Well, the answer is that it goes to useless paper pushers at the Boards who think it is beneath them to answer the telephones that we pay for that they have in their offices.

We have a situation in Bibb County where a computer system is supposed to exist where parents can log onto a system and get updates about how their kids are doing in school that has been in force for maybe a decade, however, the system still has technical problems and does not work yet. The problem is that no one has figured out technology in this County yet, but most importantly the teachers in the high schools have their hands full trying to teach kids who probably should have not been promoted out of the second grade. We have to the point to where teachers are not burdened with useless propaganda of filling out nonsense reports on kids, and actully teaching the three R's, which is not some new fangled "new math." There is no such thing as new math, as kids have to be taught to actually open up the textbooks that they are issued! Well, as you can see, I am sort of off topic on this post, but if you don't like how I write start your own blog!

Unemployment Rates for Veterans Returning From War

2009-09-06T12:21:00.002-05:00

There is an article online about veterans unemployment rates reaching 11.3%. I am having trouble copying and pasting the link, but an article can be found by doing a search. The reason this rate alarms me, is that it is my opinion that we should fire all of the stupid people working at corporations and replace them with those that served in the military. Now, that is hard to do, right. But is it not a shame when someone is willing to give their lives for our Country have such a hard time finding a job. A perfect example, I will share, is that when my son, Mark, was trying to find a job before he was to get out of the US Marine Corps, he applied on a site called Monsterjobs.com, I am quite sure that was the name. Mark received a reply something to the fact that "we do not hire baby killers to work for us." Perhaps, it was a corporation that he submitted a resume from the website. I was furious. It is just like when Mark was stationed at 29 Palms or 29 sticks, as my cousin, Johnny, who served in the Navy called it, went on a deployment to Palm Springs, CA with some other Marines. As they waled the streets of this snobbish town, they were called names such as baby killers, and singled out as young people who may do some sort of crime, while denziens with earrings in their lips and whatever walked the streets without being approached. Now, this happened prior to 911, and after 911 people banned together in pseudo patri0tism, much like the people in "1984" (should be underlined) who have their so many minutes of hate speech everyday to pump them up for the big bad boogy man that must be eliminated. Soon this patriotism disappeared when people started waking to the truth of what happened on 911. Now, when I was an alternate delegate in 2004 to the Republican Convention held in NYC, I was, I suppose, a dyed in the wool zionist, as I could not understand the anger of those that resided in NYC who were so angry about the war. I actually argued or debated with some of them, and told them that they do not need to be angry with us in Georgia because we wanted to help them build a memorial for the sacrifice of those that died and we had sympathy for them. Now today or actually about three years ago, I realized that yes the New Yorkers were right.

Yes, I get off track with my writing, but it is my blog, and I will write how I wish. LOL

Have a good day! wink wink ROFL

Linda

"THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN

2009-08-29T07:16:00.001-05:00

One can look up online the poem, by

POEM BY RUDYARD KIPLING

2009-08-29T07:13:00.004-05:00

1One can look up the poem by Rudyard Kipling entitled the "White Man's Burden" that has been banned from literature books for years. It is a poem about the Imperialistic nature of all leaders, since the beginning of time where the slaves of society (all of us sheep) are led to believe that there exists a big bad boogy man in some foreign land that must be exterminated at all costs to make us more safe. Thus, we rally, much like the zombie like people in "1984" who have so many minutes of hate speech everyday to get their daily fix of hell yeah let us go kill some people.

Now, the poem would seem to some to mean that other peoples do not participate in these burdens of war, and all races are in fact part of the grand scheme to keep the war profiteers full of the profits that result from making money out of nothing to finance these foreign wars. You can see the Federal Reserve Act that was created in 1913, when President Wilson was all but black-mailed into pushing it through Congress. I believe he was havning an affair, but not sure, so I do not stand fully on this memory. Wilson may have well been involved in some other scandal, but it was a scandal nonetheless. Please check out the book by Edward Griffith entitled the "Creature from Jekyll Island" where Albrecht, Rockefeller and many other notorious bankers visited Jekyll Island, Georgia to plan the grandest theft of our Country and the entire world by creating the Federal Reserve, which sounds Federal, but is actually a private corporation, and guess what, you and I cannot be shareholders!

When, I was taking my accounting classes and several finance classes to become a CPA and later to earn my MBA, I was not taught the truth about the Federal Reserve. I dare say that none of my esteemed professors who held doctorates had even bothered to learn the truth or perhaps it was not politically correct to teach the truth in college. I really do not know because I cannot answer for them. All I know is that I first heard of the New World Order in 1992, please see an earlier post that I made about learning of the NWO from a friend of mine in Arizona over a Fourth of July celebration with another professor from Arizona State University. I write that I was at a loss of words at the time, unusual for me, because I did not know at that time what the NWO was. But trust me, it is very real. It is to the point now, that we see our United States in a crumbling state, much like the Roman Empire. People are still demanding that the government solve their problems, and these people do not realize that the government is "we the people." After posting this, I may go next door and knock on my neighbor's door and inquire "will you please give me some money to fix my car, and by the way I need some money to pay my health insurance so get out your checkbook and write me a check." Now, do you think I will get the door slammed in my face????? Well, perhaps we could explain this to those fifty percent of the free loaders in our Country who think that by golly there is a free lunch behind every stop sign. All I have to do is vote for someone who will make someone else pay my bills.

Well, I suppose this is enough of the Red Bull for this morning. Yes, I have been called the Red Bull and probably a good many more names behind my back....ROFL

Have a wonderful year, and help us smart people to defeat the slackards.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScG0ilS0dgI"TAKE IT EASY" BY THE EAGLES....FITTING SONG FOR THE FOURTH OF JULY IN 1992 WITH MY OLD FRIEND AND PROFESSOR, LEE AHRENS, AND ANOTHER INTELLIGENT PROFESSOR FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, WHERE MY SON, MARK AND I ENJOYED FINE CONVERSATION AND WELL WE HAD TO HIKE THROUGH SUNSET CRATER PARK BECAUSE WE RAN OUT OF GAS, BUT WELL IT WAS STILL MEMORABLE. THIS IS HOW IT ALL STARTED WITH MY JOURNEY OF LEARNING ABOUT THE FED AND THE NWO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTFD1C4tVIg THIS IS ANOTHER PERFECT SONG FOR THE FOURTH OF JULY IN ARIZONA...."SATURDAY IN THE PARK," AS LEE ALWAYS ASK "WHAT IS THE MEANING AND PURPOSE OF LIFE?" AND HE ALWAYS SAID WHY DON'T YOU SAVE THE WORLD.....AND LATER SAID YOU NEED TO LEARN HOW TO USE THE INTERNET....WELL HERE GOES....MY LIFE INDEED HAS MEANING, HOW ABOUT YOUR LIFE?

Linda J. Poole aka BEEBEE

2009-02-09T23:07:00.003-05:00

It has been quite a while since I posted something. I am absolutely disgusted with our politicians who insist on printing more fiat money to create a stimulus that will not produce jobs at all. These shovel ready projects that these greedy mayors throughout the United States are promoting are nothing more than inflated projects that, as usual, have no oversight and do nothing but grease the palms of the corrupt insiders in each respective town.

I LOVE PRESIDENT BUSH BUT THIS IS FUNNY

2007-03-21T18:25:00.000-05:00

"BE ON GUARD" JESUS WILL RETURN SOON

2007-02-26T23:02:00.000-05:00

Luke 21:34-36 "Be on guard, that your heart may not be weighted down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of life, and that day come on you suddenly like a trap; for it will come upon the face of the earth. But keep on the alert at all times, praying in order that you may have strength to escape all these things that are about to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man."

MVP PEYTON MANNING LEADS THE COLTS TO SUPERBOWL WIN!

2007-02-04T23:58:00.000-05:00

"Yes, Watergate Was A Coup D'Etat" by Patick J. Buchanan

2007-02-04T11:36:00.000-05:00

Yes, Watergate Was A Coup D'Etat
by Patrick J. BuchananJune 17, 1997
Until I saw an unctuous individual babbling on about how our terrified city feared a coup d'etat by Richard Nixon in 1974, I had decided not to write on the 25th anniversary of Watergate. But that did it. Watergate was indeed a coup. It was the overthrow of an elected president by a media and political elite he had routed in a 49-state landslide the like of which America had never seen.
In taking Nixon down, that elite was not motivated by any love of law or the Constitution. It was driven by hatred.
The media and political establishment hated Nixon for his lead role in nailing Alger Hiss as a Soviet spy and in blistering its New Deal heroes as witless dupes of Joseph Stalin. It hated Nixon because he rallied the nation against them, when he called on the "Great Silent Majority" to stand with him for peace with honor in Vietnam, and turned Vice President Agnew loose on them to the delight of a nation that had come to detest media arrogance and bias. And it hated Nixon because he seemed, with the mining of Haiphong and bombing of Hanoi, to have won a war they said could not -- and should not -- be won.
With every provincial capital under Saigon control, and America's POWs coming home, the left seethed with resentment. And when it was revealed in March of 1973 that there had been a cover-up of the Watergate break-in, the establishment united as one to destroy Nixon. Nixon shredded the Constitution! they howled.
But this is arrant nonsense. The Constitution was in tatters when Nixon arrived in the capital in 1969. It had been scissored to bits by Earl Warren, William O. Douglas, William Brennan and the rest of the merry men of the Warren Court. And every unconstitutional power grab by that renegade court was celebrated by this city.
Nixon had an "Enemies List," they cried. How awful! But if anything terrible ever happened to anyone on that list -- other than a lost invitation to a White House Christmas party -- it has yet to be discovered.
Nixon abused the FBI to cover up Watergate, they said. Yep, he did try to keep the FBI from expanding the Watergate investigation into campaign finance. But earlier, many of the same journalists who professed themselves sickened by this "abuse of power" had been recipients of the fruits of the FBI surveillance of the hotel rooms of Martin Luther King Jr., with recordings and photos of King's liaisons provided, courtesy of Lyndon Johnson's White House. The press has never called to account the White House and Justice Department aides responsible. What did Nixon ever do to anyone, compared to what the liberals did to Dr. King?
Nixon tried to block The New York Times and The Washington Post from printing the Pentagon Papers! He sure did. To this day, I find nothing wrong with the elected head of the executive branch going to the Supreme Court to seek an injunction against publication of top-secret documents stolen from the U.S. Department of Defense by a disloyal employee.
The Pentagon Papers had nothing to do with Nixon. They detailed the decision-making of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, which had marched us into the Asian war from which Nixon was bravely trying to extricate the nation with honor. Yet, Nixon was bedeviled at every step by the same hypocrites who had cheered on JFK and LBJ.
Did Nixon misuse and abuse his power? Yes, he did.
Instead of creating a "Plumbers" unit in the White House to run down national security leaks, he should have left the black-bag jobs, as his predecessors did, to J. Edgar Hoover. But Nixon was not hated so much for what he did wrong as for what he did right -- exposing the near-treasonous conduct of much of the American left during Vietnam.
And when his presidency was broken, that left saw to it that aid to Vietnam was cut off, guaranteeing the defeat and death ofthe South in the all-out invasion by the Communist North in 1975. The mind-set of Nixon enemies was never more manifest than in their uncontrolled rage and hysteria when President Ford pardoned him, denying them the sensual delight of seeing Nixon in the dock. History, however, has a way of settling accounts.
Having destroyed Nixon, the liberals got Jimmy Carter, who announced that Vietnam was a "racist" war and Americans had gotten over our "inordinate fear of Communism." During Carter's one term, the Soviet empire drove deeper into Asia, Africa and even Central America, producing a conservative backlash that elected Ronald Reagan, who declared Vietnam "a noble cause" and led America to triumph in the Cold War. So let the left celebrate how it saved us all from Richard Nixon, as the republic recalls who it was that rescued America from the left and saved the world from the Soviet empire.

A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS

2007-01-25T23:34:00.000-05:00

"DESPITE BUSH DOGMA, MIDEAST DEMOCRACY MEANS MORE ISLAMISM" BY PATRICK J. BUCHANAN

2007-01-25T23:26:00.000-05:00

January 24, 2007
Despite Bush Dogma, MidEast Democracy Means More Islamism
By Patrick J. Buchanan
Churchillian it was not. Yet the State of the Union seemed a success if Bush's purpose was to buy time from Congress to wait and see if his surge of U.S. forces into Iraq might yet succeed.
But when Bush started to describe the ideological war we are in, one began to understand why we are in the mess we are in.
"This war," said Bush, "is an ideological struggle. ... To prevail, we must remove the conditions that inspire blind hatred and drove 19 men to get onto airplanes and to come to kill us." [Text of SOTU]
But the "conditions" that drove those 19 men "to come to kill us" is our dominance of their world, our authoritarian allies and Israel.
They were over here because we are over there.
If Bush is going to remove those "conditions," he is going to have to get us out of the Middle East. Is he prepared to do that?
Of course not. Because Bush, believing the problem is not our pervasive presence but the lack of freedom in the Middle East, is waging his own ideological war to bring freedom in by force of arms, if necessary.
"What every terrorist fears most is human freedom—societies where men and women make their own choices."
Very American. But the truth is terrorists do not fear free societies, they flourish in them. The suicide bombers of 9-11, Madrid and London all plotted their atrocities in free societies. From the Red Brigades, who murdered Italy's Aldo Mori, to the Baader-Meinhof Gang, who tried to kill Al Haig, to the Basque ETA, the IRA and the Puerto Rican terrorists who tried to assassinate Harry Truman, free societies are where they do their most effective work.
Stalin's Russia and Nazi Germany had no trouble with terrorists.
"Free people are not drawn to violent and malignant ideologies," declared Bush. Oh? Explain, then, why 70 million Germans, under the most democratic government in their history, gave more than half their votes to Nazis and Communists in 1933? In every plebiscite he held, Hitler won a landslide. In the year of Anschluss and Munich, 1938, Hitler was Time's Man of the Year and far more popular than FDR, who lost 71 seats in the House.
During 2006, free Latin peoples brought to power anti-American Leftists Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, Evo Morales in Bolivia, Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua and Rafael Correa in Ecuador, and came close to electing their comrades Ollanta Humala in Peru and Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in Mexico.
In the free elections Bush demanded in Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq, the winners were the Muslim Brotherhood, Hezbollah, Hamas and Shia militants with ties to Iran.
If a referendum were held in the Middle East on the proposition of the U.S. military out and Israel gone, how does Bush think it would come out?
"So we advance our security interests by helping moderates, reformers and brave voices for democracy," said Bush. But how many of those "moderates"—Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Morocco, Kuwait, the Gulf States—are ruled "by brave voices for democracy"?
Our Islamist enemies would likely endorse unanimously a Bush call for free elections in all those countries, as elections could not but help advance to greater power, at the expense of our friends, those same Islamist enemies.
What is Bush doing? The America that won the Cold War said ideology be damned, we stand by our friends.
"The great question of our day is whether America will help men and women in the Middle East to build free societies," said Bush.
But if we bleed our country to give the men and women of the Middle East the freedom to choose the society they wish to live in, are we sure they will not choose a society where Sharia is law?
In liberated Afghanistan, popular sentiment was behind beheading that Muslim who converted to Christianity.
What leads Bush to believe everyone wants to be like us? Is it not ideology?
To characterize "the totalitarian ideology" we confront, Bush quoted Osama bin Laden: "Death is better than living on this Earth with the unbelievers among us."
This is the true mark of the true believer. But did not the Spain of Isabella want the "unbelievers" removed from "among us"? Did not Elizabeth I feel the same about Catholics?
"Give me liberty or give me death!" said Patrick Henry of the Brits remaining in this country that Brits had founded. "Live free or die!" is the motto of the great state of New Hampshire.
This is the heart of the war we are in. Americans believe in freedom first. Millions of Muslims believe in Islam first—submission to Allah. We decide for us. Do we also decide for them?
Perhaps the best advice we can give our Muslim friends in the Middle East is the hard advice Lord Byron gave the Greeks under the Islamic rule of Ottoman Turks:
Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not,
Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow?
Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers; his book State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, can be ordered from Amazon.com.

"NEW U.S. CONGRESS SHAPING UP TO PROMOTE ISRAEL OVER ALL" BY ROBERT L. JOHNSON

2007-01-21T12:36:00.000-05:00

New U.S. Congress Shaping Up to Promote Israel Over All
By Robert L. JohnsonJanuary 19th, 2007
With Bush announcing he is escalating the war in Iraq, a war he and his neocon warmonger buddies started in order to promote the neocon dream of Israel over all and to promote Bush’s political career, it appears the government is going to take Americans further down the dark and deadly road required to build and guarantee a Greater Israel of Biblical proportions.
Many people thought that by playing the government shell game of voting in the Democrats, they were doing something good. Realistic people, however, realize the Democrats and Republicans are just two different masks for the same monstrosity–kosher government.
To quote the global news service of the Jewish People, JTA:
“No one denies that the Republican-led US House of Representatives, in power from 1995 until 2006, was overwhelmingly pro-Israel. But with Democratic wins in both houses, the 110th Congress removes from power several maverick Republicans who wanted the United States to be more critical of Israel, and boosts to leadership lawmakers who are not just Israel-friendly but intimately acquainted with the US Jewish community.”
Can you imagine the nerve of “maverick” US Congressmen daring to be critical of Israel?! Don’t they know that according to the book the ancient Jews wrote, the Bible, we, the Gentiles, are here on earth to serve the Jews, who are “above all people that are upon the face of the earth”?
The JTA article goes on to mention the many ways the 110th Congress is putting Israel’s interests above all other interests. It mentions Democratic Representative from Maryland, Steny Hoyer, who was chosen to be the majority leader. Hoyer, the article boasts, “is on a first-name basis with much of the board of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and has been to Israel multiple times, exhibiting broad knowledge of its political workings.” (more…)

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE HOLY?

2007-01-10T22:43:00.000-05:00

“But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.” (1 Peter 1:15-16)

This scripture was today's scripture from Bible Gateway, and it has had me asking myself today, what does it mean to be holy? When I think of holiness, I think of God's perfection and think of Job where God is so powerful that he can not be looked upon without a light that blinds the eyes and causes one to look away. I don't believe that means that God is a force that will zap a person like a laser beam, but that God is so perfect that looking at him would cause one to humbly look away from his all seeing eyes in shame. This shame would come from a realization that we are all guilty of watering down his truth, watering down his word as spoken in the Holy Bible that puts forth what is demanded of his children. There are no caveats in the Holy Bible other than we shall be forgiven for our sins if we accept the Lord Jesus Christ, but and this is a big but that does not give us a blank check to violate as many of God's laws with full knowledge that we are sinning and doing wrong. If one takes Noah's tribute to the Lord seriously and realizes that only eight people from his family survived the rains that flooded the earth for forty days and wiped out all those living in those days. The Lord was not happy with the sinners of the day, and he was not happy with the sexual fornication taking place that involved homosexual behavior. So why do people think that the Lord has changed his mind about such sexual perversions that are not at all holy? There are actually people that believe that man has evolved to a more perfect and intellectual being, and that laws that are holy in the bible are too archaic to follow in this new age generation. So, I suppose my conclusion at the end of this day concerning holiness is that holy can be defined as the opposite of the society that we have today. We have became everything that holy is not. God bless this nation, and God bless those fighting to keep our United States safe.

PROLIFERATION MAP-CLICK ON TO ENLARGE

2007-01-07T19:18:00.000-05:00

"ISRAEL'S BAD INFLUENCE" BY CHARLEY REESE

2007-01-06T21:18:00.000-05:00

Israel’s Bad Influence
By Charley ReeseJanuary 6, 2007
Scott Ritter, a former U.N. arms inspector in Iraq, has written a book, [1] Target Iran, in which he accuses the Israeli government and its American lobby of pushing the U.S. into attacking Iran.
Ritter writes, “Let there be no doubt: If there is an American war with Iran, it is a war that was made in Israel.” He accuses some members of the lobby of dual loyalty and urges that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee be required to register as a foreign agent.
He also blasts the Israeli lobby for its use of the Holocaust and for crying anti-Semite every time Israel is criticized. “This is a sickening trend that must be ended,” he writes.
By coincidence, an Israeli general has verified everything Ritter says. According to [2] an article published in Today.az on Jan. 2, Israeli Brig. Gen. Oded Tira published a statement urging an all-out effort by Israel and its lobby to push a U.S. attack on Iran.
“President Bush lacks the political power to attack Iran,” the general is quoted as saying. “As an American strike in Iran is essential for our existence, we must help him pave the way by lobbying the Democratic Party (which is conducting itself foolishly) and U.S. newspaper editors. We need to do this in order to turn the Iran issue to a bipartisan one and unrelated to the Iraq failure.” [3] (….Full Article Here)

GM AND FORD UPDATE

2007-01-06T20:54:00.000-05:00

January 5, 2007
Saying the No. 1 Ranking Is Worth Keeping, G.M.’s Chief Vows to Fight Toyota
By NICK BUNKLEY
DETROIT, Jan. 4 — General Motors is not ready to concede its position as the world’s largest automaker, the chief executive, Rick Wagoner, said Thursday, but he offered scant evidence that the company could fend off a challenge from Toyota, its Japanese rival.
“I like being No. 1,” Mr. Wagoner said, “and I think our people take pride in that, so it’s not something that we’re going to sit back and let somebody else pass us by.” But in an hourlong discussion with reporters, Mr. Wagoner said G.M. was not ready to project how many vehicles it would sell this year. Two weeks ago, Toyota set a global sales goal of 9.34 million for 2007, about 3 percent more than the 9.1 million vehicles that G.M. sold worldwide in 2006.
Mr. Wagoner noted that G.M.’s plants were capable of building more vehicles than Toyota intended to sell, but he added that output was going to depend on whether sales were strong in geographic regions where G.M. had available capacity.
He said G.M., which has been the largest carmaker since 1931, expects to increase sales this year in several regions outside the United States, particularly China, Russia and South America.
Mr. Wagoner spoke on the same day that the chief executive of another Detroit automaker, Thomas W. LaSorda of the Chrysler Group, announced a goal of doubling sales outside North America within five years.
Mr. Wagoner did not offer any such predictions, and he gave no indication that G.M. would fare significantly better in the United States in 2007 than in 2006, when its market share fell to 24.3 percent from 26 percent. In that period, Toyota’s share climbed to 15.4 percent, from 13.3 percent, according to the Autodata Corporation, the industry statistics company in Woodcliff Lake, N.J.
In December, G.M.’s sales in the United States fell nearly 10 percent, worse than analysts had anticipated, while Toyota’s rose about 17 percent. American dealerships accounted for about 45 percent of G.M.’s global sales in 2006.
If anything, analysts expect G.M. to sell fewer vehicles in much of the world this year, as it reduces production capacity by closing plants. Mr. Wagoner said the closings were meant to ensure G.M.’s long-term success.
“If, as a result of that, we get passed, well it won’t be a happy day for me, but I’ve lost basketball games before in my life,” said Mr. Wagoner, who played basketball for Duke University. “You get ready, you learn and you go back and play the next day.”
He went on, “We’re going to fight to keep the position and if one day we lose it, we’ll fight to get it back.”
Jeff Manning, president of the United Automobile Workers local union in Kansas City, Kan., where 3,000 G.M. workers build the Saturn Aura and Chevrolet Malibu, said falling behind Toyota would be a disappointment, though palatable if necessary for G.M. to stop losing money.
“Being No. 1 is a top priority, but is it the No. 1 priority? Probably not,” Mr. Manning said. “If it makes them profitable then that would probably be O.K. The No. 1 goal is to be profitable.”
Ford’s Plans in Brazil
SÃO PAULO, Brazil, Jan. 4 ( Reuters) — Ford Motor said on Thursday it would invest $1.02 billion in Brazil through 2011, including the amount it would pay for the off-road vehicle maker Troller.
Ford, which has been suffering financial problems, did not say how much it would pay for Troller.
Based in the northeastern state of Ceara, Troller produces about 100 vehicles each month in two off-road models: the T4 jeep and a pickup called the Pantanal. The company said in November that it was in talks to sell to Ford.
Ford said the investments would be in addition to about $139 million it planned to spend on product development and capacity expansion at a plant in São Paulo State.
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"CAKEWALK CROWD ABANDONS BUSH" BY PATRICK J. BUCHANAN

2007-01-05T10:33:00.000-05:00

Cakewalk crowd abandons Bush
Posted: January 5, 20071:00 a.m. Eastern
By Patrick J. Buchanan
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Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan, said a rueful John F. Kennedy after the Bay of Pigs. George W. Bush knows today whereof his predecessor spoke.
For as he prepares to "surge" 20,000 more U.S. troops into a war even he concedes we "are not winning," his erstwhile acolytes have begun to abandon him to salvage their own tattered reputations.
Case in point, the neoconservatives. As the Iraq war heads into its fifth year, more than half a dozen have confessed to Vanity Fair's David Rose their abject despair over how the Bushites mismanaged the war that they, the "Vulcans," so brilliantly conceived.
(Column continues below)
Surveying what appears an impending disaster for Iraq and U.S. foreign policy, the neocons have advanced a new theme. The idea of launching an unprovoked war of liberation, for which they had beaten the drums for half a decade before 9-11, remains a lovely concept. It was Bushite incompetence that fouled it up.
"The policy can be absolutely right, and noble, beneficial, but if you can't execute it, it's useless, just useless," wails Ken Adelman, who had famously predicted in the Washington Post that "liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk."
Bush's team of Powell, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice, says Adelman, "turned out to be among the most incompetent teams in the postwar era. Not only did each of them, individually, have enormous flaws, but together they were deadly, dysfunctional." Their incompetence, he adds, "means that most everything we ever stood for ... lies in ruins."
Professor Eliot Cohen of Johns Hopkins, whose book on war leaders Bush used to carry about, says his mistake was in not knowing "how incredibly incompetent" the Bush team would be.
Richard Perle is sickened by the consequences of the war he and his comrades so ardently championed. "The levels of brutality ... are truly horrifying, and, I have to say, I underestimated the depravity."
Calling the Bush policy process a "disaster," Perle blames Bush himself: "At the end of the day, you have to hold the president responsible. ... I don't think he realizes the extent of the opposition within his own administration, and the disloyalty."
This is the second fallback position of the War Party. Not only incompetence, but treachery made a nightmare of their vision.
Uber-hawk Frank Gaffney also hits hard the theme of sabotage and disloyalty: "This president has tolerated, and the people around him have tolerated, active, ongoing, palpable insubordination and skullduggery that translates into subversion of his policies. ... He doesn't in fact seem to be a man of principle who's steadfastly pursuing what he thinks is the right course."
David Frum, the cashiered White House speechwriter who co-authored the "axis-of-evil" phrase, faults the president. While he provided the words, says Frum, Bush "just did not absorb the ideas. And that is the root of maybe everything."
Where Frum, four years ago, accused anti-war conservatives of being "unpatriotic" haters of America and President Bush, he is now saying that that same president either lacked the I.Q. to realize what he was saying or lacked a belief and commitment to follow through.
As Rose writes, this is "the most damning assessment of all." Moreover, it is an indictment of Bush's judgment that he could clasp so many such vipers to his bosom.
Rose describes James Woolsey, the ex-CIA director who was ubiquitous on the op-ed pages and national TV making the case for war, as "aghast at what he sees as profound American errors that have ignored the lessons learned so painfully, 40 years ago" in Vietnam.
Conspicuous by its absence from disparagements of the president by these deserters from his camp and cause is any sense that they were themselves wrong. That they, who accuse everyone else of cutting and running, are themselves cutting and running. That they are themselves but a typical cluster of think-tank incompetents.
No neocon concedes that the very idea itself of launching an unprovoked war against a country in the heart of the Arab world – one that had not attacked us, did not threaten us and did not want war with us – might not be wildly welcomed by the "liberated." No neocon has yet conceded that Bismarck may have been right when he warned, "Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death."
"Huge mistakes were made," says Perle, "and I want to be very clear on this: They were not made by neoconservatives. ... I'm getting damn tired of being described as an architect of the war."
Almost all the neoconservatives have now departed the seats of power in the Bush administration and retreated to their sinecures at Washington think tanks, to plot the next war – on Iran.
Meanwhile, brave young Americans, the true idealists and the casualties of the neocons' war, come home in caskets, 20 a week, to Dover and, at Walter Reed, learn to walk again on steel legs.
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WHY THE BURIAL FLAG IS FOLDED THRITEEN TIMES IN MILITARY FUNERALS (BORROWED FROM GUNBROKER.COM)

2007-01-03T17:40:00.000-05:00

Meaning of Flag Draped Coffin.I hope you take the time to read this..... To understand what the flag draped coffin really means...... Here is how to understand the flag that laid upon it and is surrendered to so many widows and widowers.Do you know that at military funerals, the 21-gun salute stands for the sum of the numbers in the year 1776?Have you ever noticed the honor guard pays meticulous attention to correctly folding the United States of America Flag 13 times? You probably thought it was to symbolize the original 13 colonies, but we learn something new every day!The 1st fold of the flag is a symbol of life.The 2nd fold is a symbol of the belief in eternal life.The 3rd fold is made in honor and remembrance of the veterans departing the ranks who gave a portion of their lives for the defense of the country to attain peace throughout the world.The 4th fold represents the weaker nature, for as American citizens trusting in God, it is to Him we turn in times of peace as well as in time of war for His divine guidance.The 5th fold is a tribute to the country, for in the words of Stephen Decatur, "Our Country, in dealing with other countries, may she always be right; but it is still our country, right or wrong."The 6th fold is for where people's hearts lie. It is with their heart that They pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States Of America, and the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all.The 7th fold is a tribute to its Armed Forces, for it is through the Armed Forces that they protect their country and their flag against all her enemies, whether they be found within or without the boundaries of their republic.The 8th fold is a tribute to the one who entered into the valley of the shadow of death, that we might see the light of day.The 9th fold is a tribute to womanhood, and Mothers. For it has been through their faith, their love, loyalty and devotion that the character of the men and women who have made this country great has been molded.The 10th fold is a tribute to the father, for he, too, has given his sons and daughters for the defense of their country since they were first born.The 11th fold represents the lower portion of the seal of King David and King Solomon and glorifies in the Hebrews eyes, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.The 12th fold represents an emblem of eternity and glorifies, in the Christians eyes, God the Father, the Son and Holy Spirit.The 13th fold, or when the flag is completely folded, the stars are uppermost reminding them of their nations motto, "In God We Trust."After the flag is completely folded and tucked in, it takes on the appearance of a cocked hat, ever reminding us of the soldiers who served under General George Washington, and the Sailors and Marines who served under Captain John Paul Jones, who were followed by their comrades and shipmates in the Armed Forces of the United States, preserving for them the rights, privileges and freedoms they enjoy today.There are some traditions and ways of doing things that have deep meaning. In the future, you'll see flags folded and now you will know why.Share this with the children you love and all others who love what is referred to, the symbol of "Liberty and Freedom."MAYBE THE SUPREME COURT SHOULD READ THIS EXPLANATION BEFORE THEY RENDER THEIR DECISION ON THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.

AMEN TO COLORADO'S WEATHER BULLETIN!

2007-01-03T13:02:00.000-05:00

Saluting the People of the Colorado Republic! Report; Posted on: 2007-01-02 15:38:36 Some Acts of God are politically correct Denver Post: This text is from a county emergency manager out in the central part of Colorado after todays snowstorm. WEATHER BULLETIN Up here, in the Northern Plains, we just recovered from a Historic event -- may I even say a "Weather Event" of "Biblical Proportions" -- with a historic blizzard of up to 44" inches of snow and winds to 90 MPH that broke trees in half, knocked down utility poles, stranded hundreds of motorists in lethal snow banks, closed ALL roads, isolated scores of communities and cut power to 10's of thousands. FYI: George Bush did not come. FEMA did nothing. No one howled for the government. No one blamed the government. No one even uttered an expletive on TV. Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton did not visit. Our Mayor did not blame Bush or anyone else. Our Governor did not blame Bush or anyone else, either.CNN, ABC, CBS, FOX or NBC did not visit -- or report on this category 5 snowstorm. Nobody demanded $2,000 debit cards. No one asked for a FEMA Trailer House. No one looted. Nobody -- I mean nobody -- demanded the government do something. Nobody expected the government to do anything, either. No Larry King, No Bill O'Reilly, No Oprah, No Chris Mathews and No Geraldo Rivera. No Shaun Penn, No Barbara Striesand, No Hollywood types to be found. Nope, we just melted the snow for water. Sent out caravans of SUV's to pluck people out of snow engulfed cars. The truck drivers pulled people out of snow banks and didn't ask for a penny. Local restaurants made food and the police and fire departments delivered it to the snowbound families. Families took in the stranded people -- total strangers. We fired up wood stoves, broke out coal oil lanterns or Coleman lanterns. We put on extra layers of clothes because up here it is "Work or Die". We did not wait for some affirmative action government to get us out of a mess created by being immobilized by a welfare program that trades votes for 'sittin at home' checks. Even though a Category "5" blizzard of this scale has never fallen this early, we know it can happen and how to deal with it ourselves. "In my many travels, I have noticed that once one gets north of about 48 degrees North Latitude, 90% of the world's social problems evaporate." It does seem that way, at least to me. I hope this gets passed on. Maybe SOME people will get the message. The world does Not owe you a living. Full article

ORSON WELLES "CITIZEN KANE" SOME SAY THE BEST PICTURE EVER MADE

2007-01-02T23:29:00.000-05:00

I have seen this movie long ago, but it is my goal to watch it again in 2007. A movie about wealth and abuse of power, and how an outspoken person is destroyed in the media. There is much more to the movie, but I will have to view it to get the full meaning.

SAVE FREE SPEECH: LEGISLATION COULD MOVE THROUGH DEMOCRATIC CONTROLLED CONGRESS-VISIT REV PIKE'S SITE TO CONTACT MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TO OPPOSE!

2007-01-02T23:04:00.000-05:00

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"AMERICA ENTERS NEW DARK AGE OF DOGMA" BY PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS (ASST SEC OF TREASURY UNDER REAGAN)

2007-01-02T21:45:00.000-05:00

VDARE.COM - http://vdare.com/roberts/061228_tey.htm
December 28, 2006
America Enters New Dark Age Of Dogma
By Paul Craig Roberts
In her historical mystery, The Daughter of Time, Josephine Tey (a pen name of Elizabeth MacKintosh) has Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant, while confined to his hospital bed, solve the 15th century murder of the two York princes in the Tower of London. The princes were murdered by Henry VII, and the crime was blamed on Richard III in order to justify the upstart Tudor's violent seizure of the English throne.
Tey makes the point that if a 20th century mystery writer can detect the truth about a 15th century murder, historians have no excuse to persist in writing in school textbooks that Richard murdered his nephews. British historians remained loyal to the Tudor propaganda long after the Tudors were no longer around to be feared or served.
At the beginning of the scientific era, men had the hope that the ability to discover truth would free mankind from superstition, dogma and the service of power. The belief in truth was powerful. Truth would deliver justice and bring an end to status-based privileges and the falsehoods propagated by privilege.
The faith in truth was short-lived. Today, propaganda is everywhere ascendant.
In the panoply of left-wing propaganda about Augusto Pinochet, it is nowhere mentioned that Salvador Allende was appointed president of Chile by the Chilean congress, which three years later called on Chile's military to oust Allende for his totalitarian ways. Instead, Allende is portrayed as a "popularly elected president who was overthrown by a tyrant."
Every week, another apologist for President Bush compares "Bush's fight for Iraqi freedom" to Abraham Lincoln's "fight to free the slaves." The American Civil War was not fought to "free the slaves," as Thomas DiLorenzo and other scholars have thoroughly documented, any more than the purpose of Bush's illegal invasion of Iraq was to "bring freedom to Iraqis." The freedom excuse was invented after it became impossible to maintain the fictions about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein's connections to Osama bin Laden.
Bush has yet to tell the real reason he invaded Iraq.
In the United States today, demonization and propaganda substitute for facts and analysis. Professors and journalists are quick to lend their names and voices to the untruths that rule our lives. Just as Hitler's foreign policy was based in propaganda, so is Bush's and Blair's.
The success of propaganda enhances government's illusion that it has a monopoly on truth. It is the monopoly on truth that gives the Bush regime the right to define the "Iran problem," the "Syria problem," the "Lebanon problem" and the "Korea problem," and to apply coercion in place of understanding and negotiation.
Secure in its possession of truth, the Bush administration refuses to talk to the enemies it has manufactured. It will only fight them.
When scholars, such as Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, or President Jimmy Carter, who has tried harder than anyone else to achieve Arab-Israeli peace, point out that Israel's mistreatment of Palestinians is a cause of Middle East turmoil, they are immediately denounced as anti-Semites. Columnists and academics who know nothing about the Middle East or its troubles nevertheless understand what they are supposed to say whenever anyone mentions Israel in any critical context. And they have no compunction about saying it, the truth be damned.
Without commitment to truth, science, justice and debate falter and disappear.
The belief in truth is fading from our society. It is unclear whether scientists themselves any longer believe in truth or the ability to discover it.
The discovery of truth is no longer the purpose of our criminal justice system. Once, prosecutors believed that it was better for 10 guilty men to go free than for one innocent person to be wrongfully convicted. Today, prosecutors believe in high conviction rates to justify their budgets and re-election.
In the past, police solved crimes. Today, they round up suspects and pressure them.
There was no debate in Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia, and none today in the United States. Many Americans, who imagine themselves to be conservatives even though they have never read, nor could they identify, a conservative writer, equate truth-telling with hatred of America. They are of Bush's mindset: "You are with us or against us." Bush supporters respond to factual articles about Iraq and the rending of the U.S. Constitution by suggesting that, as the writer hates America so much, he should move to Cuba or China.
In America today, each faction's "truths" are defined by the faction's dogma or ideology. Each faction bans factual analysis that it doesn't want to hear. This is as true within the universities as it is at political rallies. The old liberal notion that "we shall follow the truth wherever it may lead" has long departed from America. Think tanks reflect the views of the donors. Studies are no longer independent of their financing. In America, truth has become partisan.
All societies have elements of myth, untruths that nevertheless serve to unite a people. But many myths serve as camouflage for evil. One of the greatest myths is that "GIs have died for our freedom." GIs have died for American empire, for the American elite's commitment to England and for the military-industrial complex's profits. Some may have died in Korea for the freedom of South Koreans, and some may have died trying to save South Vietnamese from the North Vietnamese communists. But it is hogwash that GIs died for our freedom.
There was no prospect of North Korea attacking America in the 1950s or Vietnam attacking America in the 1960s, and none today. The Nazis were defeated by Russia before U.S. troops landed in Europe. The United States never faced any threat of invasion from Germany, Italy or Japan.
America's wars have created hysteria that endanger our freedom. Abraham Lincoln shut down the freedom of the press and arrested editors and state legislators. Woodrow Wilson arrested war critics. Franklin Roosevelt interned American citizens of Japanese descent. George W. Bush has destroyed most of the Bill of Rights. In 2006, Congress appropriated funds for building concentration camps in the United States.
Recently, Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House, said that freedom of speech is inconsistent with "the war on terror." If it takes a police state to fight terror, the country is lost even if Muslim terrorists are defeated. Americans have far more to fear from a homeland police state than from terrorists.
The vast majority of the world's terrorists are the recent creations of Bush's invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and of Israel's invasion of Lebanon and brutality toward the Palestinians. Bush is simultaneously creating terrorists and a police state. It serves no one but the police to make their power unaccountable.
On December 26, Jeff Cohen explained on Truthout how war propaganda took over TV news and demonized everyone who spoke the truth about Iraq, while pushing war fever to a frenzy. Fox "News" was the worst, with its ranks of generals and colonels who sold their integrity for dollars and TV exposure. One of Fox's loudest voices for war was a retired general who sat on the board of a military contractor.
When the Clinton administration allowed the media concentration in the 1990s, the independence of the American media was destroyed. Today, there are a few large conglomerates whose values depend on broadcast licenses from the government. The conglomerates are run by corporate executives who are not journalists and whose eyes are on advertising revenues. They publish and broadcast what is safe. These conglomerates will take no risks in behalf of free speech or truth.
The challenges that America faces are not terrorism and oil supply. The challenges that we face are the police state that Bush has created and the disrespect for truth that is endemic in government, the universities and the media.
The United States has entered a dark age of dogmas and unaccountable power.
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Paul Craig Roberts [email him] was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration. He is the author of Supply-Side Revolution : An Insider's Account of Policymaking in Washington; Alienation and the Soviet Economy and Meltdown: Inside the Soviet Economy, and is the co-author with Lawrence M. Stratton of The Tyranny of Good Intentions : How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice. Click here for Peter Brimelow’s Forbes Magazine interview with Roberts about the recent epidemic of prosecutorial misconduct.

NATIONAL CATHEDRAL IN WASHINGTON D.C.-NATIONAL FUNERAL SERVICES FOR PRESIDENT FORD ON JANUARY 2, 2007

2007-01-02T16:42:00.000-05:00

Mystery Worshipper: M. Luther.The church: Washington National Cathedral (Cathedral Church of St Peter & St Paul), USA.Denomination: Episcopal Church in the USA.The building: Washington Cathedral is probably the last pure gothic, stone-on-stone construction in the world. It is the seat of the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church and that of the Bishop of Washington. The building has many unusual features, not least of which is a stained glass window with a Moon rock in it. Many of the carved stone details show people and events in American history, including a stone boss which depicts the ride of Paul Revere. Various bishops and one president (Wilson) are buried in the cathedral, as well as Helen Keller.The neighbourhood: The cathedral is surrounded by large grounds, which include a contempletive garden. The larger neighborhood is residential, apparently middle to upper-middle class. The residence of the Vice President of the United States is just down the street.The cast: Quite a parade: Rev Canon Frank M. Harron, II, Celebrant; Rev Canon Barbara T. Duncan, Gospeller; Rev Canon Erica B. Wood, Assistant; Rev Canon Patricia M. Thomas, Preacher.

COMMENTS BY BEEBEE:

The funeral of our 38th President, Gerald Ford, is historic and has so many meanings to me and many other patriotic Christians in the United States. When news that President Ford had passed first hit the air waves, the liberal press was quick to point out that this was our first unelectied President that had just passed away, as if somehow that should make all of us go about our business as usual without paying respects to this wonderful man.

There is no more beautiful a church that I have seen than the National Cathedral, and my viewings have been from television only. This historcic Episcopalian Church is most certainly on my list of a place that I want to visit oneday. When listening to the service today, I cried when I heard the eulogies and thanked the Lord that Jesus was not left out of this service. Yes, Jesus Christ is important to our history, and the leaders that our nation has had that came from what is called the greatest generation embrace the truth that all of our nation's blessings are from the Lord Jesus Christ. It was most special today that President Bush escorted Betty Ford into the services, and put to rest the hateful remarks that the media had made concerning Bob Woodward's interview of President Ford with remarks from Ford that criticized the war in Iraq. Clearly, the Ford family has much respect for President Bush, and showed the world that there exist a common bond between the Ford family and the Bush family.

Another defining moment will take place tomorrow when former President Carter will deliver a eulogy at the service in Michigan, as will Donald Rumsfield. With all of the hateful remarks toward both of these fine servants of our government, it is important for the world to see that there is peace among these political figures. President Carter has taken so much public criticism over his controversial book, "Palestine Peace Not Apartheid" released late in 2006, and what a healing moment for such a religious man who held the highest office in the United States, regarded by many to be much too liberal of a President to give a eulogy at a conservatives funeral (Carter will give the eulogy in Michigan on January, 3, 2007). God bless the Christians that can come together and attempt to heal our nation in these trying times. How fitting that this take place, as a rememberance of President Ford who brought us all together in 1974 after the wounds of the Vietnam War and Watergate. I pray that my son, Mark, now sees the importance of the larger than life man who held the Presidency when we needed someone like President Ford. Mark was not born until 1979, and took the lead from the media and did not understand why we should honor President Ford. I did not understand partisan politics when I was nineteen, and with many years added to my wisdom, I give thanks to the Lord for having the opportunity to see this spiritual moment taking place in the United States. God bless the USA. The following scriptures were read at the National Cathedral on January 2, 2007, and are the words of the most wise King Solomon:

Ecclesiastes 3
1To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
2A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
3A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
4A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

PAT BUCHANAN "AMERICA DOESN'T HAVE TO RUN THE WORLD"

2007-01-02T16:07:00.000-05:00

America doesn't have to run the world
Posted: January 1, 20074:07 p.m. Eastern
By Patrick J. Buchanan
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If there was a defining moment in 2006, it was the public firing of Donald Rumsfeld, just hours after the Republican rout of Nov. 7.
George Bush was bowing to public repudiation of his war policy, his war minister and, indeed, his war presidency.
Yet one senses voters were doing more than rejecting Bush's leadership on Iraq. They were rejecting the very idea of spilling blood and treasure in crusades for "global democracy," "ending tyranny on earth" or a "New World Order."
By saying, as most of us are saying now, "In the end, it's the Iraqis' problem," Americans seem to be bidding goodbye to all that. And as we turn our backs upon the world, that world – from Europe to the Mideast, to Russia, China and Latin America – seems to be turning its back on the United States.
The disposition to sacrifice for altruistic ends is waning. Like the Brits before us, the Yanks are coming home.
The 21st century was to be the Second American Century. But after we won the Cold War, freed the captive nations, and brought Russia and China into the international community, our victories turn to ashes in our mouths. The world America built now rejects the master builder.
Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson just led a delegation, including the chairman of the Federal Reserve and half a dozen Cabinet officers, to Beijing to convince the Chinese to help us reduce the $230 billion trade deficit we ran this year with the Mainland. Beijing sent the Americans home with a bag of stale fortune cookies.
China will continue to siphon off our technology, jobs and plants to make the Middle Kingdom the factory of the world and the first power in Asia, eventually on earth. They seek to displace us.
Why should they not? Why should China abandon a trade policy that has given her 9 percent growth for 20 years for a U.S. policy that has given us the largest trade deficits in history? Why should nations that are succeeding adopt the policies of nations that are failing, and wailing?
Japan, the European Union, Canada and Mexico are also piling up mammoth trade surpluses at our expense, by manipulating currencies and tax codes to subsidize exports and repel imports from the United States.
And we take it. What the election of 2006 demonstrated, in Ohio and Michigan and among the Reagan Democrats, is that Americans are fed up with being played for free-trade fools by the rest of the world.
Moscow is creating an OPEC-like natural gas cartel to squeeze the ex-Soviet republics and as a reminder to a gas-dependent Europe that Mother Russia is watching you. Partly because we planted NATO on her front porch and sought to subvert her in her "near abroad," Russia is reverting to an autarkic and authoritarian nationalism.
Which seems to sit well with the Russian people, as 81 percent support President Putin, more than twice the support President Bush enjoys.
In the Middle East, anti-Americanism is pandemic. So successful were Islamists in exploiting the elections Bush promoted in Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine and Egypt, Bush has ceased to beat the democracy drum.
Latin America has turned sharply left, with Brazil, Argentina and Chile gone socialist, and Ecuador, Bolivia and Nicaragua joining Hugo Chavez and Fidel in the radical-populist camp. Peru and Mexico barely escaped being converted to "Bolivarism."
South Korea, fearful of offending the North, has vetoed any tough U.S. policy. Anti-American demonstrations are common there. But why are the North's nukes our problem, 7,000 miles away? Why are U.S. soldiers still on the DMZ, 53 years after the Korean War?
Andrew Roberts, the pro-American Tory historian, says he has never seen such anti-Americanism as in Britain today. Old Europe is reveling in our misfortunes. The French are pulling out of Afghanistan. The Germans want their troops kept out of the fighting. Yet, U.S. elites are pushing to bring Ukraine and Georgia into NATO, which would require us to send our 82nd Airborne to defend Tiblisi. Though the U.S. Army, warns Colin Powell, is "almost broken," we are adding to our commitments to go to war against a nuclear-armed Russia.
We are living in a dream world. America may yet be the world's strongest nation, but our dominance is detested, our leadership is no longer wanted and our people are weary of playing Atlas.
Events abroad and disillusionment at home are causing more and more to ask whether what we call the American Empire or Pax Americana is really worth the aggravation, the cost and the ingratitude.
Interventionism has failed us. Americans are groping toward a new foreign policy that puts America first and a trade policy that puts Americans first.
When we began as a nation, the republic was feared and loathed by many of the monarchs of Europe. Yet, under Washington, Adams and Jefferson, we went our separate way, and prospered as no other republic. We don't have to run the world. Divestiture is an option.

PRESIDENT FORD'S LIFE MAY BE REVIEWED ON THIS LINK TO FORD MEMORIAL (THIS WAS MY FIRST MEMORY OF POLITICS AFTER GRADUATING FROM H.S. IN 1973)

2006-12-27T09:51:00.000-05:00

July 14, 1913 - December 26, 2006
Mrs. Betty Ford issued the following statement from her home in Rancho Mirage, California:"My family joins me in informing you that Gerald R. Ford - our beloved husband, father, grandfather, and great grandfather - has passed away at 93 years of age. His was a life full of love for God, family, and country."Funeral details for the 38th President of the United States will be provided by the Joint Force Headquarters-National Capitol Region and the U.S. Army Military District of Washington Public Affairs Office to both the public and the media as they become available. Any media requests are to be directed to the U.S. Army Military District Public Affairs Office at (202) 685-4644. For information and press releases, visit the Gerald R. Ford Memorial site at www.GeraldFordMemorial.comPresident Ford's family requests that contributions be made to the Gerald R. Ford Foundation Memorial Fund. This request includes donations in lieu of flowers. Information about the memorial contributions and the way you can send a message of condolence to the Ford family can be found at www.GeraldFordMemorial.comThe Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum are offering extended hours for those who wish to express their sympathy to the Ford family, including signing a condolence book.In Ann Arbor, the Library lobby will be open 9:00 a.m. – 7:30 p.m. Monday to Friday, and 1:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, for approximately 7 days beginning December 28, 2006. The Library’s research room will be closed during this period.In Grand Rapids, the Museum lobby will be open 24 hours/day until further notice beginning December 27, 2006. The Museum’s other areas, including all exhibit galleries and the gift store, will be closed during this period.

SENATOR HOLLINGS SPEAKS OUT IN US SENATE ABOUT THE INFLUENCE OF THE ISRAEL LOBBY AND WHY WE WENT TO WAR IN IRAQ FROM IHR MARK WEBER

2006-12-13T22:28:00.000-05:00

'Iraq was Invaded to Secure Israel,' says Senator Hollings, and 'Everybody Knows It.' By Mark WeberJuly 16, 2004
When a prominent American political figure speaks boldly about Jewish-Zionist power, that's news. So the recent remarks by South Carolina's senior Senator that Iraq was invaded "to secure Israel," and that "everybody" in Washington knows it, are indeed remarkable.
Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, a Democrat who has represented his state in the US Senate since 1966, is now serving his final term in Washington. That fact may also help explain why he's now willing to defy the pro-Israel lobby and speak candidly about its power.
It began with an essay about the Iraq war that appeared in the May 6 issue of the daily Post and Courier of Charleston.
"With Iraq no threat, why invade a sovereign country?," he wrote. "The answer: President Bush's policy to secure Israel. Led by [Paul] Wolfowitz, Richard Perle and Charles Krauthammer, for years there had been a domino school of thought that the way to guarantee Israel's security is to spread democracy in the area."
Several Zionist organizations, as well as some prominent Jewish political figures, quickly chastised Hollings, and his remarks were denounced as anti-Semitic.
But he didn't back down. Instead, he rose in the Senate on May 20 to defend and explain his essay.
"I don't apologize for this column," he said. "I want them to apologize to me for talking about anti-Semitism." President Bush went to war in Iraq "to secure our friend, Israel" and "everybody knows it," Hollings declared.
Referring to the cowardly reluctance of his Congressional colleagues openly to acknowledge this reality, he said that "nobody is willing to stand up and say what is going on." With few exceptions, members of Congress uncritically support Israel and its policies due to "the pressures that we get politically," he said. The pro-Israel lobby knows "how to make you tuck tail and run." But "not the Senator from South Carolina," he added, referring to himself. To emphasize the seriousness of his remarks, Hollings said: "I have thought this out as thoroughly as I know how, and it worries me that here we are..."
Bush's motive in going to war for Israeli interests, Hollings charged, was to get Jewish support in election campaigns. "President Bush came to office imbued with one thought: reelection. I say that advisedly. I have been up here with eight Presidents. We have had support of all eight Presidents. Yes, I supported the President on this Iraq resolution, but I was misled. There weren't any weapons, or any terrorism, or al-Qaida. This is the reason we went to war. He had one thought in mind, and that was reelection...
"That is not a conspiracy. That is the policy. I didn't like to keep it a secret, maybe; but I can tell you now, I will challenge any one of the other 99 Senators to tell us why we are in Iraq, other than what this policy is here. It is an adopted policy, a domino theory of The [Zionist] Project For The New American Century. Everybody knows it [is] because we want to secure our friend, Israel...
"Let's realize we are in real trouble. Saudi Arabia is in trouble. Israel is in trouble. The United States is in trouble. I am going to state what I believe to be the fact. In fact, I believe it very strongly. They just are whistling by on account of the pressures that we get politically. Nobody is willing to stand up and say what is going on."
Hollings cited the role of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the most important pro-Israel lobby group in Washington, in determining US policy in the Middle East. "You can't have an Israel policy other than what AIPAC gives you around here. I have followed them mostly in the main, but I have also resisted signing certain letters from time to time, to give the poor President a chance.
"I can tell you no President takes office -- I don't care whether it is a Republican or a Democrat — that all of a sudden AIPAC will tell him exactly what the policy is, and Senators and members of Congress ought to sign letters. I read those carefully and I have joined in most of them. On some I have held back. I have my own idea and my own policy..."
The Iraq war has been "a bad mistake," said Hollings. "Getting rid of Saddam was not worth almost 800 dead GIs and over 3,500 maimed for life..." This war is "a mistake like Vietnam," he added. "We got misled with the [1964] Gulf of Tonkin [incident]. We got misled here, and we are in that quagmire...
"The entire thing is a mess. Don't give me 'support the troops, support the troops.' I have been with troops, about three years in combat, so don't tell me about troops. I have always supported the troops."
Source: Remarks by Ernest F. Hollings, May 20, 2004. Congressional Record - Senate, May 20, 2004, pages S5921-S5925.
See also: A Look at the 'Powerful Jewish Lobby'.

WILLIAM BLAKE: "LITTLE LAMB, WHO MADE THEE?"

2006-12-12T19:32:00.000-05:00

By William Blake
Little Lamb, who made thee?

Dost thou know who made thee,

Gave thee life, and bid thee feed

By the stream and o'er the mead;

Gave thee clothing of delight,

Softest clothing, woolly, bright;

Gave thee such a tender voice

Making all the vales rejoice;

Little Lamb who made thee?

Dost thou know who made thee?
Little Lamb, I'll tell thee;Little Lamb,

I'll the thee.He is called by thy name,

For He calls himself a Lamb: -

He is meek and He is mild;

He became a little child.

I a child, and thou a lamb,

We are called by His name.Little Lamb,

God bless thee;Little Lamb, God bless thee.

EVEN THOUGH WE DON'T HAVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS TO GET US AID, WE REALLY DO HAVE THEM BUT WE CAN SAY WE DON'T IF WE WANT TO-LOL

2006-12-12T18:50:00.000-05:00

Calls for Olmert to resign after nuclear gaffeLuke Harding in Berlin and Duncan CampbellTuesday December 12, 2006Guardian Unlimited
The Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert. Photograph: EPA
Israel's prime minister, Ehud Olmert, was today trying to fend off accusations of ineptitude and calls for his resignation after he accidentally acknowledged for the first time that Israel had nuclear weapons.
After decades in which Israel has stuck to a doctrine of nuclear ambiguity, Mr Olmert let slip during an interview in Germany that Israel did indeed have weapons of mass destruction. He told Germany's Sat.1 channel last night: "Iran, openly, explicitly and publicly, threatens to wipe Israel off the map. Can you say that this is the same level, when they are aspiring to have nuclear weapons, as America, France, Israel and Russia?"
Mr Olmert's admission comes less than a week after the incoming US secretary of defence, Robert Gates, speculating at a Senate confirmation hearing on Iran's possible motives for trying to build nuclear arms, suggested that Israel had the bomb.
Speaking in Berlin after a meeting today with Germany's chancellor, Angela Merkel, Mr Olmert attempted to backtrack. He insisted that Israel's doggedly held position of nuclear weapons ambiguity had not changed.
"Israel has said many times - and I also said this to German television in an interview - that we will not be the first country that introduces nuclear weapons to the Middle East," Mr Olmert said. "That was our position, that is our position - nothing has changed."
But his remarks did nothing to assuage criticism in Israel. Opposition leaders accused him of "irresponsible" bungling and said he should resign.
"This causes great harm to Israel. We are in the midst of a huge [diplomatic] onslaught against Iran's attempts to make a nuclear bomb," former foreign minister Silvan Shalom, a member of the rightwing Likud party, said on Army Radio. "We always face the same question which our enemies ask: 'Why is Israel allowed to [have a bomb] and not Iran?'"
Yossi Beilin, of the leftwing Meretz party, which is also in opposition, questioned Mr Olmert's fitness to lead. "The prime minister's amazing statement regarding nuclear capability indicates a lack of caution bordering on irresponsibility," the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper quoted him as saying.
Mr Olmert's domestic approval ratings have plummeted since this summer's war against Lebanon's Hizbullah guerrillas.
Aides to the prime minister tried frantically to limit the damage. His spokeswoman, Miri Eisin, who is accompanying Mr Olmert on his visit to Germany and Italy, said it did not mean Israel possessed or wanted to acquire nuclear weapons. "No, he wasn't saying anything like that."
Israel has long declined to confirm or deny having the bomb as part of a "strategic ambiguity" policy that it says fends off numerically superior Arab enemies. But Arabs and Iran see a double standard in US policy in the region.
By not declaring itself to be nuclear-armed, Israel gets round a US ban on funding countries that proliferate weapons of mass destruction. It can thus enjoy more than $2bn (£1.02bn) a year in military and other aid from Washington.
Israel's main atomic reactor, officially for civilian use, became operational in the early 1960s. The CIA first concluded that Israel had begun to produce nuclear weapons in 1968, but few details emerged until 1986 when Mordechai Vanunu, a former technician at the nuclear facility, gave the Sunday Times detailed descriptions that led defence analysts to rank the country as the sixth largest nuclear power.
Mr Vanunu, who was released in 2004 after spending 18 years in prison, welcomed the prime minister's admission. "Obviously, I don't welcome the atomic bomb but this openness could lead at last to some realpolitik - and maybe to some real peace."
Mr Vanunu said he believed the admission was not accidental. "My idea is that it was said intentionally. For 20 years they tried to deny me and my story but the policy of cheating and lying didn't succeed. There is now a new defence secretary in the United States and there are also changes taking place in the Arab world, so I think that may have led to the change." Special reportIsrael and the Middle EastWorld news guideIsrael and the Palestinian territories Middle EastGlossaryCommonly used terms in the Middle East conflictInteractive guideHow the Israelis and Palestinians came to war Israel enters GazaGovernment sitesIsraeli Knesset (parliament)Israeli ministry of foreign affairs Israeli government site Office of the Israeli prime minister Palestinian Ministry of InformationMediaHa'aretz (Israel)Israel Insider (Israel)Jerusalem Post (Israel)Maariv (Israel)Arabic Media Internet Network (Palestinian)Palestine Chronicle (Palestinian)Electronic Intifada (Palestinian)Bitter Lemons (Israeli-Palestinian)

DAVID DUKE'S FREEDOM OF SPEECH AT HOLOCAUST CONFERENCE IN TEHRAN, IRAN

2006-12-12T14:57:00.000-05:00

Freedom of Speech and the Holocaust Report; Posted on: 2006-12-11 18:02:03 Address by David Duke, PhD at the Holocaust Conference in Tehran, Iran Distinguished friends, Thank you Dr. Mohammadi and all the distinguished scholars who are here at a conference that history shall one day deem as one of the most important of the 21st century I, and all the conference participants, must be especially thankful to the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has had the knowledge, the foresight and the courage to convene this conference to offer free speech for the world’s most repressed idea, Holocaust revisionism. We must remember that the main themes of this conference, as stated by Iran’s President, are the vital human right of freedom of speech and the condemnation of the shameful imprisonment of European scholars and academics who simply dare to state their opinions of historical events that occurred over 60 years ago. This conference embraces the idea of free speech, thought, and conscience. The U.S. State Department, under thorough control of International Zionism, in a formal statement called this conference a “disgrace.” The real disgrace is that free men are imprisoned and silenced in Europe and in other European-descended nations around the world. The disgrace is that no leaders of our own nations seem have the courage to defend free speech.I also want to thank your President for inviting me, as controversial as I am, to be here. The Zionist-influenced media lies about me with the same enthusiasm as they lie about him. He will be condemned for having me here, and I, as a former American elected official will be condemned by the Zionist influenced press in America for coming here in peace and friendship to a nation that they hate: the nation of Iran. But, we at this conference have decided that no longer will we let the Zionists dictate to us. They shall not dictate to us who will be our friends, who will be our enemies, nor will we permit them to dictate to us only their version of the past, and we will certainly not let them dictate our future! Let me say from the outset that I am no disloyal American, I love my country and my people, but I know that the Zionist extremists have lead my country to catastrophe in the Mideast and elsewhere around the world. I know that the Palestinian people, the Lebanese people, and even the American people have been sacrificed on the altar of the Holocaust. It is the chronic media and government playing of the Holocaust that has blinded our eyes to new holocausts and new outrages. As a truly patriotic American, I oppose Americans being killed or maimed by the thousands in Iraq in a war not for America, but for Israel. I am here because I love my country and oppose those who have lead America and the world to ruin on behalf of Zionism. In Iraq too, Americans and countless Iraqis, have been sacrificed on the ideological altar of the Holocaust-- for the Holocaust and its chronic recital is used as the justification of any Israeli treachery or crime against humanity. The Zionist-influenced media in America and Europe is trying to mislead the U.S. and Iran toward a war that would be catastrophic for your country, for my country and for the world. Here too, images of a Holocaust against Jews are used to justify and promote a terrible war against Iran that would constitute a new Holocaust, one against the Iranian people, and indeed for all of us in the world. I believe the people of Iran want peace, and I can tell you that the average American also wants peace. This conference is based on freedom of speech, true freedom, not the lip service brokered in the mass media. Freedom of speech will take on the Holocaust. But, freedom of speech also relies on a free press. Perhaps how little we can trust the establishment press on the issue of the Holocaust is illustrated by the lies told about your esteemed president. This morning, I read a story about this conference from a European newspaper that stated, and I quote, that Iran’s President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for "wiping Israel off the map." This assertion has been made in literally thousands of newspaper articles, and in radio and TV news reports. But, all those here know that such a translation of his speech is nothing but a big lie. He never said anything of the kind. Any proper translation of his speech shows that he never called for Israel to be quote, “wiped from the map”! But millions of people in the West and around the world have heard this so many times that they believe it. Whatever might be the ultimate truth of the Holocaust, how can we learn it from a press that repeats 5,000 times a lie about your President that anyone with an Iranian-English dictionary can disprove in 5 minutes? In short, their ability to sell this easily disproven lie shows that the media can get away with any lie, even of the largest proportions. The only way to learn the truth about any idea is free speech, free discussion, and free debate. The conference will include academics who embrace the prevalent historical conception of the Holocaust and those who have a revisionist view. Revisionists question parts of the official Holocaust story. In some Western nations, to diverge even slightly from Holocaust orthodoxy will cause an historian to face not only a loss of academic career but also imprisonment. Right now as I speak, three names come to mind immediately-- David Irving, Ernst Zundel, and Gemar Rudolf. These three men, scholars, researchers, intellects-- who their opponents dare not debate-- these nonviolent, kind and gentle men sit behind dark prison walls at this very moment for simply daring to speak their conscience, for expressing the world’s most forbidden opinion, the idea that the historical event trademarked as the Holocaust as it is popularly presented, is not an accurate historical portrayal, that it needs like all other events of history to be questioned, researched freely and constantly revised. Perhaps the hypocrisy is illustrated by devotion of Europe to freedom for the vilest kinds of pornography. Every kind of the sickest pornography is allowed in the Western world today, including pornography that delves into the worst forms of sadism and masochism and the vilest degradation of women, many of whom have been drug addicted and truly enslaved in what the world calls White slavery. Yet, these sickest, evil forms of porn are not only legal in Europe, they are lucrative! Yet, if you dare to research and offer a dissenting opinion about any aspect of the event singularly called the Holocaust, it’s off to prison for you, its bankruptcy for you and your family. In Europe you can freely question, ridicule, and deny Jesus Christ. The same is true for the prophet Muhammed, and nothing will happen to you, heck you might even get to star in your own weekly TV show, but offer a single question of the smallest part of the Holocaust and you face prison! David Irving one of the world’s most famous and well-read historians, a writer who many mainstream historians have praised as brilliant and accurate, at this moment sits in a prison near Vienna, Austria for simply stating his historical opinion about Auschwitz in a lecture in Austria in 1989. German researcher/chemist Gemar Rudolf faces years of imprisonment for simply publishing a detailed forensic analysis that challenged the authenticity of alleged Auschwitz gas chambers. Ernst Zundel, a resident of Canada and the U.S was ripped from his wife and home because he had politically incorrect opinions about the events of the Second World War. I have been honored to know personally all three of these men. They are kind, witty, humorous, men of family, of kindness and decency. None of these men were hateful or advocated hate, none were violent or advocated violence, none of these men were terrorists or supported terrorists, none of these men did anything other than express an intellectual opinion at variance with high priests of the Holocaust. All these men did was have the courage to express their opinions even though they knew that by doing so everything they held dear was endangered, their safety, their sustenance, their freedom, but they chose their conscience and their honor, even at the risk of life, that their own heart might be stilled forever. They still stood tall. I am not here to argue the truth or untruth of their claims, that is for the other speakers here, but I am here to add my voice from America from free men and women everywhere that the fact that these men are imprisoned is a scandal and injustice. The whole world knows that imprisoning men for their opinions is tyranny; that such is the opposite of everything that we mean by the word freedom. As some nations of Europe jail men for their opinions, these same nations boast about their supposed freedom and hold themselves above many other nations they view as repressive and backward. Some of the brave men here today at this conference have been jailed, even physically attacked, lost reputation, freedom, property, career, simply for speaking their conscience. I see a number of them as I look in the audience. And none of these men write or speak hatefully or intemperately, but how can the world even know that, when they and their beliefs are repressed by government and media. I want to honor one of the men here for his sacrifices over the years in his obedience to conscience and to truth, a man who has laid in a hospital bed with his bones crushed, his pain-racked body burned by acid, all for doing what his intellect dictated and his conscious demanded. He is Dr. Robert Faurisson, and we here and the world owe him a debt that we can never adequately repay. Lesser men would have given up and lived the quiet life, but he gave his all and he still gives us his all even now. I would like to ask you to stand up for him ladies and gentlemen. Robert Faurrison, the best-known revisionist in the world today. The main theme of the Holocaust Conference is that there must be freedom of speech on this subject as on all others. Free speech, inquiry and debate are the only way to learn the truth on any issue. In prosecutions of Holocaust questioners, authorities have not allowed introduction of any evidence supporting the defendant’s claims. The courts have even announced in their guilty verdicts that “The truth is no defense,” i.e. that even if the defendant can be shown to be honest and accurate, and even if his claims can be substantiated by physical and documentary evidence, he has broken the law by simply questioning aspects of the official Holocaust Story. I take no hard position on the historical accuracy of the Holocaust, I leave that to those whose whole lives are devoted to the study of the issue, but I take an unshakeable position on freedom. Obviously, Jews, as well as other nationalities suffered great losses during the Second World War. Repression, dispossession or murder against any group is wrong. Revisionists don’t deny that many Jews died and suffered greatly in the war, they condemn any and all injustices done to Jews in that period. It must also be understood that throughout history, the historical treatment of atrocities or crimes against humanity have often been colored by political purposes. Throughout history some crimes against humanity have been exaggerated and emphasized to justify political agendas or even war. Other crimes against humanity have been completely ignored or downplayed. An example is the contrast between the crimes of National Socialist Germany and that of Soviet Communism. Most researchers readily acknowledge that Bolshevism imprisoned, tortured and slaughtered many times more people in Russia and in Eastern Europe than even the high numbers alleged in the Holocaust. Yet, the Soviet Holocaust receives not one-hundredth of the attention of the Jewish Holocaust. Can anyone here name even a single movie you have seen about the Bolshevik slaughter? Isn’t it sensible to think that this disparity is because of the strong Jewish influence in Western media from the entertainment establishment of Hollywood to the news media centered in New York and across the European world? Revisionists suggest that an exaggeration and saturation of the Holocaust has been essential to establishment and support of the Zionist state in Israel and that it offers a psychological excuse for the large scale ethnic cleansing, repression, torture and genocide against the Palestinian people. Revisionists argue that this vested interest of much of the pro-Zionist media and pro-Zionist governments affords a danger that the Holocaust can be distorted and politicized just as many historical crimes against humanity have either been exaggerated or diminished in pursuit of political agendas. Whether the revisionists scholars are right or wrong is for you to decide, not those who want to crush free thought and free speech. I and every speaker at this conference believe in freedom of speech on all historical and contemporary issues. We believe in freedom of speech, conscience, opinion, and expression. It is the opponents of this conference who clearly don’t believe in freedom of speech and conscience. It is they who have thrown elderly men and women into prison for years for simply expressing their opinions. Yet, instead of condemning these tyrants, the media even celebrates the imprisonment of human beings who dare to question. Dr. Bruno Gollnisch, a professor of Literature at the University of Lyon, and a member of the European Parliament was convicted of Holocaust Denial. Speaking in Lyon, France, in October 2004, Gollnisch said: “I do not deny the existence of deadly gas chambers. But I’m not a specialist on this issue, and I think we have to let the historians debate it.” He did not contest the “hundreds of thousands, the millions of deaths” during the Holocaust, but added: “As to the way those people died, a debate should take place.” For simply advocating free speech, Gollnisch was convicted of Holocaust Denial. Has Europe gone crazy? Freedom of speech is important for two reasons. First, freedom of speech is a vital human right. It is the cornerstone of all other rights, because without freedom of speech no one has to the right to even freely know and learn of the abrogation of other rights affecting human freedom and survival. That is why the American founding fathers put freedom of speech, press and religion as the first and highest of the Bill of Rights. Second, freedom of speech and debate are absolutely vital for the truth to prevail. If one side of any controversial issue can suppress the voice of opposition, we cannot arrive at the certainty of any truth. If academics and citizens can be blackmailed monetarily and in career; if they can be threatened with firings, loss of income, or imprisonment for simply sincerely pursuing an historical inquiry and publishing it, how can the truth be discovered? How does one even know the real revisionist opinion, if that opinion is repressed? A perfect example of the biased treatment of the Western press is the recent adoption of the term “Holocaust denier” to slander anyone who may question any part of the complex and expansive Holocaust story. The term “Holocaust denier” was created by Simon Wiesenthal to denote any one who dares to question any part of his version of the Holocaust. To “deny” is usually associated with an allegation of a personal crime. For example, “John Doe denies that he committed the robbery.” It has a very negative connotation. It is not commonly used to denote people holding a contrary historical opinion. In truth, revisionists are not deniers, they are simply questioners who are being imprisoned and slandered for simply questioning with research and reason this tragic period of history during the Second World War. The Holocaust Conference in Iran is truly about respect for intellectual freedom. Iran has organized the first international conference dedicated to freedom of speech and inquiry on this important historical matter that has so many ramifications on the Mideast and many other present political realities. I am here in Tehran as a speaker in this conference because I am dedicated to freedom of speech, conscience, and thought. I am honored, as are all of you, to be here at this historic conference. I urge the fair-minded people of the world, before they condemn this conference, the Iranian President, all the speakers and me, to ask the question: who are the patrons of freedom and who are the real deniers, the deniers of our precious human right of freedom of speech! –Dr. David Duke Former member of the House of Representatives State of Louisiana, United States of America

HARMONY GRANT: "POLITICALLY CORRECT BLOODLUST REPORT" HARMONY IS THE DAUGHTER OF REVEREND TED PIKE

2006-12-10T23:03:00.000-05:00

Politically Correct Bloodlust Report; Posted on: 2006-12-08 14:18:00 "There’s something obscenely wrong with this picture" By Harmony Grant (pictured) Right now, as you read this, two men in prison jumpsuits are locked between cement walls because they question the accepted history about the killing of Jews in World War 2. Meanwhile, two other men are behind fancy desks earning thick paychecks because they advocate killing other people—disabled babies and Arabs, respectively. This sounds like a scary fable. Except it’s true. Ernst Zundel and David Irving are dissident historians who challenge the view that the Nazis intentionally murdered a full 6 million Jews in gas chambers during World War 2. Their writings and speeches violate Orwellian “anti-hate laws” that criminalize politically incorrect speech. Australia, Canada and most European countries have national hate laws. Zundel was arrested under German laws, and Irving under Austrian. You may intensely disagree with Holocaust reductionism. But ask yourself whether you really want the government jailing people for words and thoughts. Do you really want the government to decide what you are allowed to think, read, and believe? I don’t.If I did want the government meddling with the content of our minds, I’d a lot sooner let them lock up Peter Singer. This Jewish philosopher is an apologist for sex with animals, sex with groups, and sex with dead people— and, oh yeah, the murder of handicapped infants. He thinks it would be fine to kill newborn infants if sick older siblings need their body parts, or produce tons of kids for the sole purpose of harvesting their organs. It seems the only beings who actually enjoy Singer’s compassion are monkeys. He advises if you have to pick between the life of an adult chimp or a human infant, you’re morally bound to pick the chimp; he wants the UN to award personhood to great apes. In a sane world, Singer’s audience wouldn’t extend beyond a few strung-out potheads with nothing better to do. But thanks to leftist loons in media and academia, Singer is actually a professor of bioethics at no less a place than Princeton! New Yorker magazine called him “the most influential” philosopher alive. The New York Times cooed breathlessly that "no other living philosopher has had this kind of influence." (“Blue State Philosopher,” World magazine, Marvin Olasky, 2006) Singer’s Jewish heritage is shared by another man now feted in elite society. And like Singer, this fellow can and does name quite a few folks he thinks should be killed. He’s the new Israeli deputy prime minister and minister of strategic affairs, Avigdor Lieberman, an infamously racist politician. Lieberman has publicly advocated that 90 percent of Israeli Arabs should be thrown out of the country. Exile is too good for Arab members of Israeli government who sympathize with Palestinians by observing their “Day of Catastrophe.” Lieberman thinks these men should just be shot. Like Singer, Lieberman (whose last name means “lovable man”) should be seated in a softly lit room somewhere, and occasionally given little green pills. Instead, he’s in Washington to talk shop with senior US officials, and enjoys the support of Abe Foxman, head of the Anti-Defamation League, who apparently isn’t worried at all about the defamation (no, make that the murder) of non-Jews. So, to sum things up, the two White Holocaust reductionists— Irving and Zundel —can’t even call for reconsideration of highly politicized, sixty-year-old history. Meanwhile the two Jewish would-be exterminators get promotions for calling for the deaths of people who are alive right now. Have the victims become the victimizers or what? Zundel and Irving are the greatest thought criminals of this century, staring at prison toilets and hoping to be let out for exercise, while Singer and Lieberman are eating caviar at parties. Singer molds the future’s leaders at a top-flight school, and Lieberman actually sets Israeli policy toward the Arabs whose guts he hates. There’s something obscenely wrong with this picture. With Democrats in control of the House and Senate, passage of a US federal hate law becomes very likely. This law would punish “hurtful speech” against federally protected groups. It would give the federal government power to enslave our minds by completely controlling the flow of information and silencing everyone who departs from the party line. Zundel and Irving are in jail for thinking outside the bounds of political correctness, bounds that are increasingly enforced by ADL’s thought police through hate laws. Lieberman and Singer are honored because they serve the interests of the liberal Jewish activism that inspires hate laws, dominates mainstream media and largely steers US foreign policy in the Middle East. The fate of these four men spotlights how little freedom of thought we even have left to lose. But there is still some left. The United States remains one of the last industrialized nations without a federal hate law. US freedom of speech grows even more precious as it grows increasingly rare on this planet. If we do not protect our right to dissent from the Zionist-controlled establishment that protects Singer’s far leftism and Lieberman’s racism, we’ll lose that right fast. When free speech is gone, politically incorrect Americans (especially Christians) will either shut up or share a prison wall. Singer will still be eating caviar. Source

AL GORE, ALAN GREENSPAN AND FORMER PRESIDENT CLINTON WERE ALL OUT OF THE COUNTRY ON 911-HAUNTING QUESTION: IS THIS JUST A COINCIDENCE?

2006-12-07T19:23:00.000-05:00

GATES TALKS ABOUT ISRAEL'S NUCLEAR BOMBS AND SOME NOT HAPPY

2006-12-07T18:53:00.000-05:00

By Dan Williams Thu Dec 7, 2:28 PM ET
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Robert Gates, the incoming U.S. secretary of defense, won plaudits in Washington this week for his candor on the
Iraq' name=c1> SEARCHNews News Photos Images Web' name=c3> Iraq war.

Some Israelis were less pleased, however, to hear Gates mention with equal frankness what U.S. administrations have long avoided uttering in public -- that the Jewish state has the Middle East's only nuclear arsenal.
To be fair, it was pretty oblique.
During his Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday, Gates speculated on why
Iran' name=c1> SEARCHNews News Photos Images Web' name=c3> Iran might be seeking the means to build an atomic bomb. "They are surrounded by powers with nuclear weapons: Pakistan to their east, the Russians to the north, the Israelis to the west and us in the Persian Gulf," he said.
The statement led Israeli news bulletins, with some pundits suggesting that former
CIA' name=c1> SEARCHNews News Photos Images Web' name=c3> CIA chief Gates may have breached a U.S. "don't ask, don't tell" policy dating back to the late 1960s.
"I haven't a clue why Gates made those remarks," Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, a member of
Israel' name=c1> SEARCHNews News Photos Images Web' name=c3> Israel's security cabinet, said in a radio interview.
A retired Israeli diplomat, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, called the testimony "quite unprecedented" and added: "I can only assume he (Gates) has yet to get to grips with the understandings that exist between us and the Americans."
According to recently declassified documents cited by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists magazine, under President
Richard Nixon' name=c1> SEARCHNews News Photos Images Web' name=c3> Richard Nixon the United States knew Israel had developed nuclear weapons but opted against insisting that its ally come clean on the capability and accept international regulation.
Israel neither confirms nor denies having the bomb, as part of a "strategic ambiguity" policy that it says fends off numerically superior enemies while avoiding an arms race.
By not declaring itself to be nuclear armed, Israel also skirts a U.S. ban on funding countries that proliferate weapons of mass destruction. It can thus enjoy more than $2 billion in annual military and other aid from Washington.
DOUBLE-STANDARD SEEN
This sanctioned reticence is a major irritant for Arabs and Iran, which see a double-standard in U.S. policy in the region.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld was careful not to discuss the Israeli nuclear option explicitly. Pressed on it during a 2004 briefing, he said only that Israel had "arranged itself so it hasn't been put in the sea" by its foes.
Though Gates replaces Rumsfeld as part of a move by
President Bush' name=c1> SEARCHNews News Photos Images Web' name=c3> President Bush to revitalize prospects for Iraq and a wider peace in the Middle East, no one has yet gone as far as to propose openly that Washington review Israel's open secret.
"I am not aware of any change in U.S. policy on discussing Israel and its nuclear capability," said Stewart Tuttle, spokesman for the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv.
Shimon Peres, who helped found Israel's main atomic reactor in the 1950s -- officially for civilian use -- and is now deputy to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, sounded similarly unperturbed.
"This announcement makes no fundamental difference," he told Israel Radio.
"Whether or not Israel has nuclear weapons, the fact is that Israel is the only country threatened with destruction ... Israel is not threatening any country. Weapons do not fire themselves, people fire them."
He was apparently referring to arch-foe Iran, whose President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for the elimination of the "Zionist regime" but denied his country seeks nuclear arms.

I WONDER IF THE MEDIA WILL DEMAND THAT THE ADMINISTRATION FOLLOW THIS DEMAND FROM THE BAKER REPORT ON IRAQ?

2006-12-07T07:07:00.000-05:00

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Baker Report Demands Israel Give Away Golan Heights Thursday, December 7, 2006 / 16 Kislev 5767Only a number of days after the UN passed a resolution calling Israel’s sovereignty over Jerusalem illegal, former US secretary of state James Baker demands Israel leave the Golan Heights.The comprehensive report, which primarily addresses the situation in Iraq, was prepared by Baker and a former Democratic congressman, Lee Hamilton. It states that if the United States does not take a more leading role in the Mideast Israel-Arab conflict, there is no hope of America achieving its goals in the region.According to former Israeli UN Ambassador Dr. Dore Gold, the report indicates the American involvement in Iraq is going to diminish in the coming two years. He called the American demand that Israel retreat from the Golan Heights worrisome.The Golan Heights was liberated by Israel in the June 1967 Six Day War and has since become an integral part of the State of Israel. It serves a strategic value, permitting Israel the upper hand regarding a possible Syrian invasion, as was the case in 1967. The Baker-Hamilton report calls for a peace conference mimicking the Madrid model, a regional summit that would be aimed at solving the conflict between Israel, the PA (Palestinian Authority), Syria and Lebanon. In addition to an Israeli withdrawal from the Golan, the report calls upon Israel to recognize the establishment of a Palestinian state. America demands Syria halt its interference in Lebanon’s affairs, as well as ceasing its pro-terrorist policies, working to assist ongoing Hizbullah anti-Israel operations in southern Lebanon. The Baker-Hamilton report calls on Israel to withdraw from the Golan in exchange for a comprehensive peace treaty with Damascus, a treaty that would enjoy American backing in addition to White House security guarantees intended to compensate for the loss of the strategically vital Golan.The issue of ongoing Iranian efforts to build a nuclear weapon was not by any means the focus of attention in the report, calling on Tehran to comply with the demands of the international community and cease nuclear enrichment efforts.Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is opting to avoid commenting in depth on the report, stating he does not view the report signaling a change in American policy in the region.Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk a-Shara expressed his country’s willingness to enter into peace negotiations with Israel, stating such a move is welcome. A-Shara stated Damascus is willing to reach an agreement with Israel with the understanding the Golan Heights must be returned to Syria as part of such an agreement.Former National Security Advisor Giora Eiland stated US President George W. Bush is caught between a rock and a hard place, explaining that while the US government is anxious to bring an end to the Israel-PA conflict, Mr. Bush is not seeking to make any major changes in Washington’s relationship with Israel.Uzi Dayan, another former national security advisor, stated that the report will have a direct bearing on American strategy but there is no need for concern in Israel. He added that what should concern Israelis is the “lack of vision and leadership”.

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND REMEMBER TOYS FOR TOTS!

2006-12-05T13:19:00.001-05:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyF5J7au1jE

SONG FOR GRAND FUNK RAILROAD WHERE I ATTENDED THEIR CONCERT FOR TOYS FOR TOTS, WHILE IN HIGH SCHOOL. ENJOY, "I'M YOUR CAPTAIN," FROM SHEA STADIUM IN 1971.

My husband and I went shopping at WalMart to purchase gifts for the Toys for Tots, and delivered them to WMGT on Poplar Street. We purchased items for toddlers on up to teenagers. There are 5,000 toys requested in Middle Georgia, and probably two or three times as many needed because many people will not turn in a request.

The lady at the television station said Merry Christmas to me and my husband, and I said you too. I have been calling everyone under the sun to complain about them saying Happy Holidays on television. My husband told me that I did not tell this lady Merry Christmas, so I went back inside to tell her I was sorry for not saying Merry Christmas. I told her that I sure appreciate the fact that their television station is not politically correct. This is Christmas! Jesus us the reason for the season. If you can help out this Christmas, please remember the Toys for Tots program, and let the Marines know that we support their efforts. My first encounter with the program was in the seventies when I went to a Toys for Tots Concert in Louisville. It was great because for a toy, we got treated to Grand Funk Railroad. Hey don't laugh that was a good band "Riders on the Storm." No correction: That was the Doors; Grand Funk Railroad had a song "I'm Your Captain."

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

PRESIDENT CARTER'S NEW BOOK

2006-12-03T10:44:00.000-05:00

I plan on purchasing this book, and I do hope that those that are Christians wake up and not allow the Jewish controlled media to influence them in their ability to think for themselves. This is a bold book that is controversial only because we live under the influence of those that control the money in politics, namely AIPAC. Telling the truth has always been controversial, since the beginning of time.

PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS: "IS PRESIDENT BUSH SANE?"

2006-12-02T10:00:00.000-05:00

VDARE.COM - http://vdare.com/roberts/061201_sane.htm

December 01, 2006

Is President Bush Sane?
By Paul Craig Roberts

Tens of millions of Americans want President George W. Bush to be impeached for the lies and deceit he used to launch an illegal war and for violating his oath of office to uphold the US Constitution. Millions of other Americans want Bush turned over to the war crimes tribunal at the Hague. The true fate that awaits Bush is psychiatric incarceration.

The president of the United States is so deep into denial that he is no longer among the sane.

Delusion still rules Bush three weeks after the American people repudiated him and his catastrophic war in elections that delivered both House and Senate to the Democrats in the hope that control over Congress would give the opposition party the strength to oppose the mad occupant of the White House.

On November 28 Bush insisted that US troops would not be withdrawn from Iraq until he had completed his mission of building a stable Iraqi democracy capable of spreading democratic change in the Middle East.

Bush made this astonishing statement the day after NBC News, a major television network, declared Iraq to be in the midst of a civil war, a judgment with which former Secretary of State Colin Powell concurs.

The same day that Bush reaffirmed his commitment to building a stable Iraqi democracy, a secret US Marine Corps intelligence report was leaked. According to the Washington Post, the report concludes: “the social and political situation has deteriorated to a point that US and Iraqi troops are no longer capable of militarily defeating the insurgency in al-Anbar province.” [Anbar Picture Grows Clearer, and Bleaker By Dafna Linzer and Thomas E. Ricks]

The Marine Corps intelligence report says that Al Qaeda is the “dominant organization of influence” in Anbar province, and is more important than local authorities, the Iraqi government and US troops “in its ability to control the day-to-day life of the average Sunni.”

Bush’s astonishing determination to deny Iraq reality was made the same day that the US-installed Iraqi prime minister al-Maliki and US puppet King Abdullah II of Jordan abruptly cancelled a meeting with Bush after Bush was already in route to Jordan on Air Force One.

Bush could not meet with Maliki in Iraq, because violence in Baghdad is out of control. For security reasons, the US Secret Service would not allow President Bush to go to Iraq, where he is “building a stable democracy.”

Bush made his astonishing statement in the face of news leaks of the Iraq Study Group’s call for a withdrawal of all US combat forces from Iraq. The Iraq Study Group is led by Bush family operative James A. Baker, a former White House chief of staff, former Secretary of the Treasury, and former Secretary of State. Baker was tasked by father Bush to save the son. Apparently, son Bush hasn’t enough sanity to allow himself to be saved.

Bush’s denial of Iraqi reality was made even as one of the most influential Iraqi Shiite leaders, Moqtada al-Sadr, is building an anti-US parliamentary alliance to demand the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq.

Maliki himself appears on the verge of desertion by his American sponsors. The White House has reportedly “lost confidence” in Maliki’s “ability to control violence.” Fox “News” disinformation agency immediately began blaming Maliki for the defeat the US has suffered in Iraq. NY governor Pataki told Fox “News” [Video] that “Maliki is not doing his job.” Pataki claimed that US troops were doing “a great job.”

A number of other politicians and talking heads joined in the scapegoating of Maliki. No one explained how Maliki can be expected to save Iraq when US troops cannot provide enough security for the Iraqi government to go outside the heavily fortified “green zone” that occupies a small area of Baghdad.

If the US Marines cannot control Anbar province, what chance is there for Maliki? What can Maliki do if the security provided by US troops is so bad that the President of the US cannot even visit the country?

The only people in Iraq who are safe belong to Al Qaeda and the Sunni insurgents or are Shiite militia leaders such as al-Sadr.

An American group, the Center for Constitutional Rights, has filed war crimes charges in Germany against former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. A number of former US attorneys believe President Bush and Vice President Cheney deserve the same.

Bush has destroyed the entire social, political, and economic fabric of Iraq. Saddam Hussein sat on the lid of Pandora’s Box of sectarian antagonisms, but Bush has opened the lid. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians have been killed as “collateral damage” in Bush’s war to bring “stable democracy” to Iraq. Tens of thousands of Iraqi children have been orphaned and maimed. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have fled their country. The Middle East is aflame with hatred of America, and the ground is shaking under the feet of American puppet governments in the Middle East. US casualties (killed and wounded) number 25,000.

And Bush has not had enough!

What better proof of Bush’s insanity could there be?

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Paul Craig Roberts [email him] was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration. He is the author of Supply-Side Revolution : An Insider's Account of Policymaking in Washington; Alienation and the Soviet Economy and Meltdown: Inside the Soviet Economy, and is the co-author with Lawrence M. Stratton of The Tyranny of Good Intentions : How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice. Click here for Peter Brimelow’s Forbes Magazine interview with Roberts about the recent epidemic of prosecutorial misconduct.

LUKE 2 VS 1 - 20 THE KJV OF THE BIRTH OF JESUS

2006-12-01T20:14:00.000-05:00

Luke 2
1And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.
2(And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
3And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
4And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:)
5To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.
6And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.
7And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
8And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
9And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
10And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
11For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
12And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
13And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
14Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
15And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.
16And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.
17And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child.
18And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds.
19But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.
20And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.

PAT BUCHANAN "THE WAR OF ALL AGAINST ALL"

2006-12-01T13:56:00.000-05:00

The war of all against all
Posted: December 1, 20061:00 a.m. Eastern
By Patrick J. Buchanan
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A few days back, the "Today" show, speaking for NBC News, declared Iraq a "civil war," and said the network and CNBC and MSNBC would henceforth use that term to describe it.
President Bush and White House press secretary Tony Snow angrily objected. A civil war, said Snow, is when two identifiable armed forces war with each other for control of a government and nation. And Iraq is not that.
Contradicting Snow and the president are most journalists and Colin Powell. Speaking in Dubai, Powell declared, "I would call it a civil war ... because I like to face reality," a smart slap across the face of the president who made him secretary of state by a soldier who feels badly used by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the neoconservatives.
Is this a matter of politics and semantics?
Yes, but it is also far more than that. Those who insist on calling Iraq a civil war are consciously undercutting Bush's case that Iraq is "the central front in the war on terror," that we fight them over there so that we will not have to fight them over here.
Believing him, half the country is convinced we cannot retreat, cut-and-run, for that would mean the terrorists win in Iraq and bring the terror war to the United States. But if Iraq is but a "civil war," most American would say that it's not America's war – let's go home.
This battle over definitions recalls Vietnam. Those who wanted to stay the course in Vietnam argued that it was the central front in the Cold War against communism, which threatened Southeast Asia today but America tomorrow. Those who had supported the war, but concluded it was no longer worth it, suddenly changed their story to declare it was now a civil war and none of America's business.
What is happening today is that those who once cheered Tommy Frank's march to Baghdad to liberate Iraq from Saddam are trying to rationalize their throwing Iraq to the wolves that the invasion unleashed. America's elite does not wish to admit the truth: that it has no stomach for fighting this ugly and unpopular war into which it foolishly marched the United States.
The baby boomer elite arrogantly and ignorantly led us into a quagmire, as their fathers did in Vietnam – and now, just like their fathers, they lack the stamina, courage and perseverance to see it through. As they don't want to be held accountable for losing the war, they have seized upon the rationale that it was never our war to fight.
Calling it "a civil war" is a cover for people who wish to cut and run.
What is the truth? Is it a civil war, like the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939, when Franco led his armies out of North Africa into Spain to overthrow a regime and end an anarchic situation where priests and nuns were being murdered and Bolsheviks seemed about to ascend to power? No, it is not.
The war in Iraq consists rather of many small wars. The Kurds in the north are seizing and ethnically cleansing Kirkut in anticipation of a day of secession that will give them a nation. Al-Qaida and the Baathists in Anbar are fighting U.S. Marines to expel them from Iraq.
Al-Qaida attacked the Golden Mosque and perpetrated atrocities against Shia civilians to incite the Shia to reprisals and ignite a Sunni-Shia sectarian war. Zarqawi, before we got him, succeeded. He set off the chain reaction that has now a momentum of its own.
The Shia initially backed the Americans and Brits against the Sunni insurgents. Having won power, however, they now are fighting each other over how orthodox the regime should be, and whether the Shia should, like the Kurds, break away and set up an independent state.
The twin pillars of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government are the U.S. military and Moqtada al Sadr, mortal enemies who have fought bloodily before and may well be preparing for a decisive Battle of Baghdad.
Iraq seems to this writer less a classic civil war, like the Spanish and the Russian civil war between "Reds" and "Whites" from 1919 to 1921, than a version of bellum omnium contra omnes, the war of all against all. That is the Latin phrase Thomas Hobbes gave to human existence in the state-of-nature thought experiment he conducted in "Leviathan."
Even our War Between the States was not truly a civil war. For the South did not seek to overturn Lincoln's election, capture the capital or rule the country. The South wanted only to secede from the Union of Abraham Lincoln as their fathers had seceded from the England of George III.
Yet, this argument about whether Iraq is or is not a civil war is deeply consequential for what it exposes. Our elite senses this war is lost, and they are preparing alibis for their roles in what may yet prove the greatest strategic blunder in American history.

MOVIE "THE NATIVITY" OPENS TODAY LINK TO ARTICLE IN "CHRISTIAN TODAY"

2006-12-01T13:35:00.000-05:00

http://www.christiantoday.com/article/the.nativity.story.named.best.jesus.movie.since.1890s/8363.htm

BRIAN WILLIAMS INTERVIEWS PRESIDENT OF IRAN ON HOLOCAUST

2006-12-01T13:25:00.000-05:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykd-syzZ4ZY

MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD PRESIDENT OF ISLAM REPUBLIC OF IRAN: LETTER TO AMERICAN PEOPLE

2006-12-01T12:52:00.000-05:00

Iranian President Writes Letter to American People
November 30, 2006
In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
O, Almighty God, bestow upon humanity the perfect human being promised to all by You, and make us among his followers.
Noble Americans,
Were we not faced with the activities of the US administration in this part of the world and the negative ramifications of those activities on the daily lives of our peoples, coupled with the many wars and calamities caused by the US administration as well as the tragic consequences of US interference in other countries;
Were the American people not God-fearing, truth-loving, and justice-seeking, while the US administration actively conceals the truth and impedes any objective portrayal of current realities;
And if we did not share a common responsibility to promote and protect freedom and human dignity and integrity;
Then, there would have been little urgency to have a dialogue with you.
While Divine providence has placed Iran and the United States geographically far apart, we should be cognizant that human values and our common human spirit, which proclaim the dignity and exalted worth of all human beings, have brought our two great nations of Iran and the United States closer together.
Both our nations are God-fearing, truth-loving and justice-seeking, and both seek dignity, respect and perfection.
Both greatly value and readily embrace the promotion of human ideals such as compassion, empathy, respect for the rights of human beings, securing justice and equity, and defending the innocent and the weak against oppressors and bullies.
We are all inclined towards the good, and towards extending a helping hand to one another, particularly to those in need.
We all deplore injustice, the trampling of peoples’ rights and the intimidation and humiliation of human beings.
We all detest darkness, deceit, lies and distortion, and seek and admire salvation, enlightenment, sincerity and honesty.
The pure human essence of the two great nations of Iran and the United States testify to the veracity of these statements.
Noble Americans,
Our nation has always extended its hand of friendship to all other nations of the world.
Hundreds of thousands of my Iranian compatriots are living amongst you in friendship and peace, and are contributing positively to your society. Our people have been in contact with you over the past many years and have maintained these contacts despite the unnecessary restrictions of US authorities.
As mentioned, we have common concerns, face similar challenges, and are pained by the sufferings and afflictions in the world.
We, like you, are aggrieved by the ever-worsening pain and misery of the Palestinian people. Persistent aggressions by the Zionists are making life more and more difficult for the rightful owners of the land of Palestine. In broad day-light, in front of cameras and before the eyes of the world, they are bombarding innocent defenseless civilians, bulldozing houses, firing machine guns at students in the streets and alleys, and subjecting their families to endless grief.
No day goes by without a new crime.
Palestinian mothers, just like Iranian and American mothers, love their children, and are painfully bereaved by the imprisonment, wounding and murder of their children. What mother wouldn’t?
For 60 years, the Zionist regime has driven millions of the inhabitants of Palestine out of their homes. Many of these refugees have died in the Diaspora and in refugee camps. Their children have spent their youth in these camps and are aging while still in the hope of returning to homeland.
You know well that the US administration has persistently provided blind and blanket support to the Zionist regime, has emboldened it to continue its crimes, and has prevented the UN Security Council from condemning it.
Who can deny such broken promises and grave injustices towards humanity by the US administration?
Governments are there to serve their own people. No people wants to side with or support any oppressors. But regrettably, the US administration disregards even its own public opinion and remains in the forefront of supporting the trampling of the rights of the Palestinian people.
Let’s take a look at Iraq. Since the commencement of the US military presence in Iraq, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have been killed, maimed or displaced. Terrorism in Iraq has grown exponentially. With the presence of the US military in Iraq, nothing has been done to rebuild the ruins, to restore the infrastructure or to alleviate poverty. The US Government used the pretext of the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but later it became clear that that was just a lie and a deception.
Although Saddam was overthrown and people are happy about his departure, the pain and suffering of the Iraqi people has persisted and has even been aggravated.
In Iraq, about one hundred and fifty thousand American soldiers, separated from their families and loved ones, are operating under the command of the current US administration. A substantial number of them have been killed or wounded and their presence in Iraq has tarnished the image of the American people and government.
Their mothers and relatives have, on numerous occasions, displayed their discontent with the presence of their sons and daughters in a land thousands of miles away from US shores. American soldiers often wonder why they have been sent to Iraq.
I consider it extremely unlikely that you, the American people, consent to the billions of dollars of annual expenditure from your treasury for this military misadventure.
Noble Americans,
You have heard that the US administration is kidnapping its presumed opponents from across the globe and arbitrarily holding them without trial or any international supervision in horrendous prisons that it has established in various parts of the world. God knows who these detainees actually are, and what terrible fate awaits them.
You have certainly heard the sad stories of the Guantanamo and Abu-Ghraib prisons. The US administration attempts to justify them through its proclaimed “war on terror.” But every one knows that such behavior, in fact, offends global public opinion, exacerbates resentment and thereby spreads terrorism, and tarnishes the US image and its credibility among nations.
The US administration’s illegal and immoral behavior is not even confined to outside its borders. You are witnessing daily that under the pretext of “the war on terror,” civil liberties in the United States are being increasingly curtailed. Even the privacy of individuals is fast losing its meaning. Judicial due process and fundamental rights are trampled upon. Private phones are tapped, suspects are arbitrarily arrested, sometimes beaten in the streets, or even shot to death.
I have no doubt that the American people do not approve of this behavior and indeed deplore it.
The US administration does not accept accountability before any organization, institution or council. The US administration has undermined the credibility of international organizations, particularly the United Nations and its Security Council. But, I do not intend to address all the challenges and calamities in this message.
The legitimacy, power and influence of a government do not emanate from its arsenals of tanks, fighter aircrafts, missiles or nuclear weapons. Legitimacy and influence reside in sound logic, quest for justice and compassion and empathy for all humanity. The global position of the United States is in all probability weakened because the administration has continued to resort to force, to conceal the truth, and to mislead the American people about its policies and practices.
Undoubtedly, the American people are not satisfied with this behavior and they showed their discontent in the recent elections. I hope that in the wake of the mid-term elections, the administration of President Bush will have heard and will heed the message of the American people.
My questions are the following:
Is there not a better approach to governance?
Is it not possible to put wealth and power in the service of peace, stability, prosperity and the happiness of all peoples through a commitment to justice and respect for the rights of all nations, instead of aggression and war?
We all condemn terrorism, because its victims are the innocent.
But, can terrorism be contained and eradicated through war, destruction and the killing of hundreds of thousands of innocents?
If that were possible, then why has the problem not been resolved?
The sad experience of invading Iraq is before us all.
What has blind support for the Zionists by the US administration brought for the American people? It is regrettable that for the US administration, the interests of these occupiers supersedes the interests of the American people and of the other nations of the world.
What have the Zionists done for the American people that the US administration considers itself obliged to blindly support these infamous aggressors? Is it not because they have imposed themselves on a substantial portion of the banking, financial, cultural and media sectors?
I recommend that in a demonstration of respect for the American people and for humanity, the right of Palestinians to live in their own homeland should be recognized so that millions of Palestinian refugees can return to their homes and the future of all of Palestine and its form of government be determined in a referendum. This will benefit everyone.
Now that Iraq has a Constitution and an independent Assembly and Government, would it not be more beneficial to bring the US officers and soldiers home, and to spend the astronomical US military expenditures in Iraq for the welfare and prosperity of the American people? As you know very well, many victims of Katrina continue to suffer, and countless Americans continue to live in poverty and homelessness.
I’d also like to say a word to the winners of the recent elections in the US:
The United States has had many administrations; some who have left a positive legacy, and others that are neither remembered fondly by the American people nor by other nations.
Now that you control an important branch of the US Government, you will also be held to account by the people and by history.
If the US Government meets the current domestic and external challenges with an approach based on truth and Justice, it can remedy some of the past afflictions and alleviate some of the global resentment and hatred of America. But if the approach remains the same, it would not be unexpected that the American people would similarly reject the new electoral winners, although the recent elections, rather than reflecting a victory, in reality point to the failure of the current administration’s policies. These issues had been extensively dealt with in my letter to President Bush earlier this year.
To sum up:
It is possible to govern based on an approach that is distinctly different from one of coercion, force and injustice.
It is possible to sincerely serve and promote common human values, and honesty and compassion.
It is possible to provide welfare and prosperity without tension, threats, imposition or war.
It is possible to lead the world towards the aspired perfection by adhering to unity, monotheism, morality and spirituality and drawing upon the teachings of the Divine Prophets.
Then, the American people, who are God-fearing and followers of Divine religions, will overcome every difficulty.
What I stated represents some of my anxieties and concerns.
I am confident that you, the American people, will play an instrumental role in the establishment of justice and spirituality throughout the world. The promises of the Almighty and His prophets will certainly be realized, Justice and Truth will prevail and all nations will live a true life in a climate replete with love, compassion and fraternity.
The US governing establishment, the authorities and the powerful should not choose irreversible paths. As all prophets have taught us, injustice and transgression will eventually bring about decline and demise. Today, the path of return to faith and spirituality is open and unimpeded.
We should all heed the Divine Word of the Holy Qur’an:
“But those who repent, have faith and do good may receive Salvation. Your Lord, alone, creates and chooses as He will, and others have no part in His choice; Glorified is God and Exalted above any partners they ascribe to Him.” (28:67-68)
I pray to the Almighty to bless the Iranian and American nations and indeed all nations of the world with dignity and success.
Mahmoud AhmadinejadPresident of the Islamic Republic of Iran29 November 2006

FALLING DOLLAR, RISING INTEREST RATES, RISING INFLATION RATES AND LOW SAVING RATES IN THE U.S. AND WHAT IT MEANS

2006-11-29T07:11:00.000-05:00

The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: Despite the cheery economic outlooks, the dollar is continuing to disappoint. Dr. Kurt Richebächer takes a look at the factors that have put the brakes on U.S. economic growth. Read on…
A NEW ILLUSION: THE FALLING DOLLAR
Kurt Richebächer
In his recent speech in Berlin, Greenspan was amazingly frank about the "increasingly less tenable U.S. current account deficit," suggesting that foreign investors would eventually reach a limit in their desire to finance the deficit and diversify into other currencies or demand higher U.S. interest rates.
In essence, he expressed the new consensus view in America that the dollar has to bear the brunt of reducing the U.S. current account deficit. Clearly, American policymakers want a lower dollar, apparently entertaining strong hopes that this will take care of the U.S. trade deficit, and we suspect that they regard it as an easy solution for this problem.
We doubt first of all that it is a solution at all. Such expectations essentially presuppose that an overvalued dollar is the main cause of the U.S. trade deficit. This is bogus. By the measure of purchasing power, the dollar was hardly out of line with the currencies of other industrialized countries.
The favorite American explanation for the huge and growing trade deficit is the U.S. economy's superior growth performance and lacking foreign demand. But the Chinese economy is growing much faster than the U.S. economy yet has a big trade surplus. So had Japan in the late 1980s, and so had Germany in the decades to the late 1970s.
This explanation of the trade deficit with superior U.S. GDP growth is another illusion among many others. What crucially matters for a country's trade balance is not its economy's growth rate, but its internal resource allocation between consumption and investment. High rates of saving and investment make for a strong trade balance, while high rates of consumption make for a weak trade balance. America's unusually poor trade performance reflects extremely poor rates of saving and investment. Overconsuming and undersaving America lacks the necessary capital stock to increase its exports.
These observations essentially raise the question of whether or not the falling dollar is prone to rebalance the U.S. economy's foreign trade. It is argued that the dollar's slide did a great job slashing the U.S. trade deficit from 1989-1993. This is true, but was it really the falling dollar that did it? It actually happened against the backdrop of a sharp slowdown in credit growth and a recession in 1991.
During the four years 1989-93, total credit in the United States - financial and nonfinancial - grew by a cumulative $3,255 billion, or $819 billion per year. In flagrant contrast, during the four years to mid-2004, overall credit grew virtually three times as fast, by $2.4 trillion per year, and there is no letup in sight. Drawing on past experience, a fall of the dollar, however steep, will hardly make a dent in the trade deficit by itself.
Lowering the trade deficit first requires a lowering of domestic demand growth, and a drastic shift in resource allocation away from consumption and toward investment in the longer run. A mere fall of the dollar is definitely no solution. Yet we very much doubt that policymakers in Washington have the slightest intention to implement or foster the necessary changes in demand and resource allocation with policy measures.
What about the risks for the dollar and the markets? In short, they are frightening. The most frightening risk is that the dollar's fall gets out of control. Superficially, the dollar's steep fall in the 1980s and '90s may seem encouraging in this respect.
However, there is something that makes all the difference between then and now. When the dollar's decline started in 1985, dollar assets held by foreigners were close to zero. This time, they are close to $9,000 billion, one-third of which is held by central banks.
The dollar's further behavior will largely depend on the flow of news about the U.S. economy. Bad economic news is bad for the dollar. For the reasons explained earlier, we expect very bad news that will shatter the hollow optimism about the economy and the stock market. While economic growth is sharply decelerating, inflation is accelerating, a main reason for this being an accelerating rise in import prices.
In such circumstances, the Fed will face a Catch-22. With CPI inflation above 3% at annual rate and a falling dollar, a new easing of monetary policy is absolutely impossible. Rather, the market will expect the Fed to continue its rate hikes. But doing so, it would prick the carry trade bubble in bonds with disastrous effects, first on the bond market and then on the economy.
A steeper fall of the dollar, just by itself, might please U.S. policymakers. Unfortunately, it is bound to have a variety of harmful effects - in particular on psychology, inflation rates and interest rates. It may finally dawn on people that due to the horrendous magnitude of the existing imbalances, the development in the economy and the markets is out of control.
After many months of stability during 2004, the dollar has turned south all of a sudden. Observing the U.S. economy's deteriorating performance since early this year, its protracted stability surprised us. Now its sudden slide perfectly concurs with our dismal expectations for the U.S. economy in 2005. Yet the abrupt general bearishness of dollar forecasts strikes us as ominous in comparison with the highly bullish consensus growth forecasts for the economy (those for Europe are distinctly bearish).
Let us try to make sense of these contradictions. Over time, we have learned the hard way that two different things govern the behavior of markets: first, the objective facts; and second, the general perception of the facts. They can differ like black and white.
Our opinion about the economic situation in the United States has been and remains diametrically at variance with the optimistic consensus view that discarded the economy's slowdown as a "soft patch" due to the rising oil price. In our view, the economy is rapidly losing steam because prior aggressive monetary and fiscal stimulation has largely spent itself, while having failed to initiate the desired self-sustaining investment recovery. Moreover, we hold a strong opinion that the existing outrageous imbalances and structural dislocations in the economy make a normal, sustainable economic recovery flatly impossible.
Pondering the causes and implications of the dollar's sudden plunge, it ought to be recalled that global currency experts were overwhelmingly forecasting a strong dollar and a weak euro, commensurate with expected strong economic growth in the United States and sluggish economic growth in Europe.
There rules a perception in the markets that the U.S. economy is fundamentally strong and, in addition, vastly superior to that of Europe in resilience and flexibility. All that is sheer nonsense. Due to years of unimaginable credit excesses and resulting monumental imbalances, the U.S. economy is highly vulnerable to a sudden downturn. It is, in fact, in worse shape than in 2000.
U.S. policymakers and economists are hailing the dollar's fall as a boom for exports, employment and profits. They fail to realize that the consumer borrowing and spending excesses of the past few years have grossly depleted the economy of available resources for sharply higher exports. A plummeting dollar does nothing at all to offset the profound structural shortfall of savings and capital formation. Rather, it fuels inflation.
Remarkably, the dollar has plummeted despite highly optimistic expectations about the economy's outlook as reflected in stellar growth forecasts. It is our assumption that increasingly bad economic news will shake this overconfidence and speed up the dollar's decline.
For reasons already explained, we expect that sharply weaker consumer spending will soon distinctly slow the U.S. economy. Two events in particular are putting the brakes on economic growth: first, the full stop of the income creation through tax cuts; and second, the waning of the housing and mortgage refinancing booms.
The risks are frightening.
Regards,
Kurt Richebächerfor The Daily Reckoning
Editor's note: Former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker once said: "Sometimes I think that the job of central bankers is to prove Kurt Richebächer wrong." A regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal, Strategic Investment and several other respected financial publications, Dr. Richebächer's insightful analysis stems from the Austrian School of economics. France's Le Figaro magazine has done a feature story on him as "the man who predicted the Asian crisis."
This essay was adapted from an article from the December edition of:
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"TV THAT'S ALL GAY, ALL DAY" BY HARMONY GRANT

2006-11-26T20:23:00.000-05:00

National Prayer Network
TV that’s All Gay, All Day
By Harmony Grant
Viacom Int., proud purveyor of the bump-and-grind trash pouring from MTV and VH1, has a new offering for the uplift of America: Logo, “the channel for gay America.”
While an ABC news poll shows that 58 percent of Americans believe gay marriage should be illegal, Jewish leftists (like Sumner Redstone, head of Viacom), are pushing against the grain for the gay agenda. 1
At NPN we have been criticized for generalizing about the anti-Christ activism of organized Jewry. But when it comes to pushing for the normalization of homosexuality, progressive Jewry is proud to take credit.
The World Congress of GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender) Jews boasts 50 member organizations. In New York alone, gay Jewish organizations include Congregation Beth Simchat Torah, OrthoDykes, and OrthoGays.
Although some Orthodox rabbis stand fast on Leviticus 18:22 and its prohibition of sodomy, Reform Judaism has been ordaining gays and lesbians since 1990. According to the Jewish daily Forward, conservative rabbis will soon join them, consecrating same-sex marriage and ordaining homosexual rabbis. 2
Last November, Abe Foxman (national director of the Anti-Defamation League) and Rabbi Eric Yoffie (president of the enormous Union for Reform Judaism) gave back-to-back speeches attacking the Christian right. Yoffie’s union is the largest Jewish organization in the United States and includes over 900 congregations.
What did this supposed man of God have to tell his flock? At the Union's biannual convention, Yoffie sermonized to around 5,000 attendees about the “appalling” idea that one group of people might have found the absolute truth about God.
“What could be more bigoted than to claim that you have a monopoly on God,” he huffed. You’d hope a man who thought he was wrong about God wouldn’t be delivering a sermon. But that irony was apparently lost on Yoffie.
He went on to denounce the “homophobia” of the religious right, comparing it to Nazism. “There is no excuse,” he said, “for hateful rhetoric that fuels the hellfires of anti-gay bigotry.” Like Foxman, who also compared Bible-believing Christians to Nazis, Yoffie obviously thinks it’s just fine to fuel the hellfires of anti-Christianity.
Forward magazine praised Yoffie’s and Foxman’s blisteringly anti-Christian screeds for giving “voice to something their constituents have been thinking and feeling for a long time.”
One thing Jewish America is clearly thinking and feeling is that homosexuality deserves public acceptance. In a 2004 Forward article, Jay Michaelson explained the liberalizing of Jewish attitudes toward sodomy. He quoted Jeremy Gordon, a student leader at the Jewish Theological Seminary: “[Homosexuality] has become one of the most important issues for the movement and the seminary and something leadership from across the movement feel needs to be readdressed.”
Michaelson, who directs Nehirim: A Spiritual Initiative for GLBT Jews and edits Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture, comments that even conservative Jews are considering new ways to read Jewish laws against sodomy. But he says media shapes the sensibilities of American Jews more than sacred texts ever will. “The rapid change in the status of gay people within the Jewish community owes as much to [TV show] Queer Eye as it does to novel interpretations of Leviticus.”
Will evangelicals also be more influenced by media’s gay agenda than by their own sacred text, the Bible? Jewish activists hope so. With TV shows like Will and Grace (which ran for 8 years and won truckloads of awards and award nominations), films like Brokeback Mountain, and now an all-gay channel, Jewish media moguls’ motives are clear: Bring gays out of the closet and kick Christian morals to the curb.

Endnotes:
1 ABC, Gary Langer, June 5, 2006 2 Forward, “Key Rabbis Say Conservative Judaism Will Lift Gay Ban,” Jennifer Siegel, Aug 25, 2006
Harmony Grant, the niece of Rev. Ted Pike, is a staff writer and researcher for the National Prayer Network. For more of her articles go to http://www.hisnamesake.blogspot.com/..
Learn much more about the threat of liberal Jewish activism at http://www.video.google.com/. Google's video site shows Rev. Pike's videos, The Other Israel, Hate Laws: Making Criminals of Christians, and Why the Mid-East Bleeds, in their entirety, free of charge. Just search for "Ted Pike".

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EVOLUTION OF DANCE-FUNNY!

2006-11-17T15:33:00.001-05:00

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IRS TAX BREAK

2006-11-17T14:48:00.000-05:00

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There is no need to worry about high property taxes because the IRS has us covered with a tax break. Check out the the above link for a power point from the IRS.

CALLING IN MORE MARINES

2006-11-17T10:03:00.000-05:00

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061116/ap_on_re_mi_ea/us_iraq_military

I visited my hair dresser yesterday, and what a wonderful lady Su is. Her only son, Eric, is now on his second tour in the Army in Iraq. Of course, Su does not know where he is headed, but does know that he is presently in Kawait. Su's little television was on Lifetime yesterday, which is what I noticed when walking in to her little shop at her home. It is too hard for Su to watch CNN or any other news station now, and she is confused about the politics going on, as she told me that she heard all of the troops would be out in six months according to something that she heard on the news. It is wrong for the politics taking place in the news because there are real families that are in turmoil. I told her that I would pray for him, and to let me know an address to send him a card. As of yesterday, Su does not have an address to send a Christmas gift to her only son. I always marveled at how Su seemed to be able to allow Eric to be a man and grow up (I think he is the ripe old age of 20), while I always worried about my own son when he was in the Marines, and didn't want to let go of telling him how to live his life. But yesterday, Su said "I want my baby home." We all need to remember during Thanksgiving and Christmas, the sacrifices of the thousands like Su that are depressed during these holidays. Remember Su in your prayers, and her son Eric, and pray for all of the brave protecting our freedom.

TOYS FOR TOTS WILL ACCEPT JESUS DOLLS

2006-11-17T09:58:00.000-05:00

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52995

Toys for Tots, which is ran by the Marine Corp Reserves will now accept Jesus dolls. I knew that this was a grave mistake, and that the Marines, as usual, would do the right thing. Semper Fi.

TAXPAYERS HAVE NO RECOURSE FOR COMPLAINING

2006-11-17T09:40:00.000-05:00

Because of voter apathy, taxpayers have no one to complain to. The government is so swollen out of proportion that our elected leaders hire consultants to help them do a job that they are supposed to do. Our broke government in Macon, Georgia is getting us further in debt by financing a convention hotel that there is not a demand for. Mercer University is in the process of building a hotel that will be suitable for out of town guests, and we still have the Crowne Plaza that has vacancies most of the time. The financed convention hotel is nothing more than a gimmick to keep the insiders with cash flow that taxpayers will support for years to come. It is a shame to watch the abuse of taxpayers that takes place in Macon and Bibb County, but it will continue to take place from now on. It is business as usual. If you feel like a do, then here is an imaginary complaint button.

"LOOKING FOR THE EXIT RAMP" BY PATRICK J. BUCHANAN

2006-11-14T22:07:00.000-05:00

Looking for the exit ramp
By Patrick J. BuchananNovember 14 , 2006
It appears the Beltway bombing halt agreed upon at the Bush-Pelosi summit is over.
The incoming chairmen of the Senate's armed services and foreign affairs committees, Carl Levin and Joe Biden -- and Majority Leader Harry Reid -- say a phased withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq will be their first priority. Troop redeployment, says Reid, "should start within the next few months."
White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolton counters: "I don't think we're going to be receptive to the notion there's a fixed timetable at which we automatically pull out because that would be a true disaster for the Iraqi people."
John McCain says we need more troops to crush the Mahdi Army and militias, and achieve victory. If we set a deadline for withdrawal, said McCain, we risk a Saigon ending, with Americans being helicoptered off the roof of the U.S. embassy. McCain appears to be adopting the George Wallace stance of 1968 -- "Win, or Get Out!"
And so we come to the endgame in a war into which we were plunged by Bush Republicans and those neoconservatives now scurrying back to their think tanks, and the Clinton-Kerry-Edwards-Biden-Reid-Daschle Democrats, who voted Bush a blank check in October 2002 to get the war issue "out of the way" before the elections.
America has been horribly served by both parties. And as the Democrats have now captured Congress, they assume co-responsibility for the retreat from Mesopotamia. Which is as it should be.
While our leaders never thought through the probable result of invading an Arab nation that had not attacked us, we had best think through the probable results of a pullout in 2007.
We are being told that by giving the Iraqis a deadline, after which we start to withdraw, we will stiffen their spines to take up greater responsibility for their own country. But there is as great or greater a likelihood that a U.S. pullout will break their morale and spirit, that the Iraqi government and army, seeing Americans heading for the exit ramp, will collapse before an energized enemy, and Shias, Sunnis and Kurds will scramble for security and survival among their own.
Arabs are not ignorant of history. They know that when we pulled out of South Vietnam, a Democratic Congress cut off aid to the Saigon regime, and every Cambodian and Vietnamese who had cast his lot with us wound up dead, in a "re-education camp" or among the boat people in the South China Sea whose wives and children were routinely assaulted by Thai pirates.
In that first year of "peace" in Southeast Asia, 20 times as many Cambodians perished as all the Americans who died in 10 years of war.
In Iraq, a collapse of the government and army in the face of an American pullout, followed by a civil-sectarian war, the break-up of the country and a strategic debacle for the United States -- emboldening our enemies and imperiling our remaining friends in the Arab world -- is a real possibility.
Yet what Edmund Burke said remains true: "(N)o war can be long carried on against the will of the people." And the American people are losing, if they have not lost, the will to continue this war. They are weary of the daily killing and dying, and of the endless talk of "progress" when all they see is death. They believe the war was a mistake, and they want to come home.
Our hawkish elites bemoan the fact that Americans seem ready to give up on Iraq when U.S. casualties are not 10 percent of those we took in the Korean War. That is because they do not understand the nation.
Americans are not driven by some ideological vocation to reform mankind. We do not have the patience or perseverance of great imperial peoples. If an issue is not seen as vital to our own liberty and security, we will not fight long for some abstraction like democracy, self-determination or human rights.
It is a myth that we went to war to save the world from fascism. We went to war in 1941 because Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. That Hitler had overrun France, booted the British off the continent and invaded Stalin's empire was not a reason to send American boys across the ocean to die.
In 1990, Americans were not persuaded to throw Iraq out of Kuwait until Bush 1 got to talking about Saddam's nuclear weapons. Even after 9-11, Americans were skeptical of marching to Baghdad until we were told Saddam was building weapons of mass destruction and probably intended to use them on us. Americans have often had to be lied into war.
Democrats are probably reading the country right. Americans will not send added troops to Iraq, as McCain urges. They want out of this war and are willing to take the consequences.
But those consequences are going to be ugly and enduring. That is what happens to nations that commit historic blunders.

"FASCISTS UNDER THE BED" BY PATRICK J. BUCHANAN

2006-11-14T16:05:00.000-05:00

September 11, 2006 Issue
Copyright © 2006
The American Conservative
Fascists Under the Bed
by Patrick J. Buchanan
“President Likens Dewey to Hitler as Fascist Tool.”
So ran the New York Times headline, Oct. 26, 1948, after what Dewey biographer Richard Norton Smith called a “particularly vitriolic attack in Chicago” by Harry Truman.
What brings this to mind is President Bush’s assertion that we are “at war with Islamic fascism” and “Islamofascism.”
After the transatlantic bomb plot was smashed, Bush said the plotters “try to spread their jihadist message—a message I call, it’s totalitarian in nature—Islamic radicalism, Islamic fascism, they try to spread it as well by taking the attack to those of us who love freedom.”
What is wrong with the term Islamofascism?
First, there is no consensus as to what “fascism” even means. Orwell said when someone calls Smith a fascist, what he means is, “I hate Smith. ” By calling Smith a fascist, you force Smith to deny he’s a sympathizer of Hitler and Mussolini.
As a concept, writes Arnold Beichman of the Hoover Institution, “fascism ... has no intellectual basis; its founders did not even pretend to have any. Hitler’s ravings in Mein Kampf ... Mussolini’s boastful balcony speeches, all can be described, in the words of Roger Scruton, as ‘an amalgam of disparate conceptions.’”
Richard Pipes considers Stalinism and Hilterism to be siblings of the same birth mother: “Bolshevism and fascism were heresies of socialism.”
Since the 1930s, “fascist” has been a term of hate and abuse used by the Left against the Right, as in the Harry Truman campaign. In 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. claimed to see in the Goldwater campaign “dangerous signs of Hitlerism.” Twin the words, “Reagan, fascism” in Google and 1,800,000 references pop up.
Unsurprisingly, it is neoconservatives, whose roots are in the Trotskyist-Social Democratic Left, who are promoting use of the term. Their goal is to have Bush stuff al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria, and Iran into an “Islamofascist” kill box, then let SAC do the rest.
The term represents the same lazy, shallow thinking that got us into Iraq, where Americans were persuaded that by dumping over Saddam, we were avenging 9/11.
But Saddam was about as devout a practitioner of Islam as his idol Stalin was of the Russian Orthodox faith. Saddam was into booze, mistresses, movies, monuments, palaces, and dynasty. Bin Laden loathed him and volunteered to fight him in 1991, if Saudi Arabia would only not bring the Americans in to do the fighting Islamic warriors ought to be doing themselves.
And whatever “Islamofascism” means, Syria surely is not it. It is a secular dictatorship Bush I bribed into becoming an ally in the Gulf War. The Muslim Brotherhood is outlawed in Syria. In 1982, Hafez al-Assad perpetrated a massacre of the Brotherhood in the city of Hama that was awesome in its magnitude and horror.
As with Khaddafi, whom Bush let out of the penalty box after he agreed to pay $10 million to the family of each victim of Pan Am 103 and give up his nuclear program, America can deal with Syria, as Israel did after the Yom Kippur War—for an armistice on the Golan has stuck, as both sides have kept the deal.
America faces a variety of adversaries, enemies, and evils. But the Bombs-Away Caucus, as Iraq and Lebanon reveal, does not always have the right formula. Al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria, and Iran all present separate challenges calling forth different responses.
Al-Qaeda appears to exist for one purpose: plot and perpetrate mass murder to terrorize Americans and Europeans into getting out of the Islamic world. Contrary to what Bush believes, the 9/11 killers and London and Madrid bombers were not out to repeal the Bill of Rights, if any ever read it. They are out to kill us and we have to get them first.
Hamas and Hezbollah have used terrorism, but like Begin’s Irgun and Mandela’s ANC, they have social and political agendas that require state power to implement. And once a guerrilla/terrorist movement takes over a state, it acquires state assets and interests that are then vulnerable to the U.S. military and economic power.
Why did the Ayatollah let the American hostages go, as Reagan raised his right hand to take the oath? Why has Syria not come to the rescue of Hezbollah? Why has Ahmadinejad not rocketed Tel Aviv in solidarity with his embattled allies in Lebanon? Res ipsa loquitur. The thing speaks for itself. They don’t want war with Israel; they don’t want war with the United States.
“Islamofascism” should be jettisoned from Bush’s vocabulary. It yokes the faith of a billion people with an odious ideology. Imagine how Christians would have reacted had FDR taken to declaring Franco’s Spain and Mussolini’s Italy “Christo-fascist.”
If Mr. Bush does not want a war of civilizations, he will drop these propaganda terms that are designed to inflame passions rather than inform the public of the nature of the war we are in.
September 11, 2006 Issue

THE SUN HAS SET ON THE NEOCONS

2006-11-09T12:04:00.003-05:00

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v=L724tuuO1ws&feature=response_watch "BAD MOON RISING" BY CCR AND COVERED BY ANOTHER BAND

The sun has set on the Neocons even if for a short while. I heard Newt Gingrich on Neel Boring Boortz today, and he was on there tooting his horn again. There will be fools in the GOP that allow Newt to pretend that he had nothing to do with the demise of the Moral Majority. Newt played a big hand with getting AIPAC money to swing into the hands of the GOP, and this was the marriage made in hell. Those that pledge allegiance to Israel ahead of their allegiance to America caused our headaches in the Middle East. If Israel had never been given authority to displace Palestinians 60 or so years ago, we would no doubt have much more peace in the Middle East. Wars will continue to go on because the Jews cannot get along with their Muslim cousins and vice versa. So I suppose Newt thinks that he can come in now and blame everyone but himself for this hijacking of the GOP that costs many their principles that they once had before heading for Washington DC. I have read a few of the local blogs, and as usual, the young political pundits are making excuses as to why we lost and pretending that being a red state in a blue sea still gives the southern Republicans credibility. The problem is that people do not look beyond their own front door, nor do they look beyond the state borders to understand that not everyone thinks like a southernor. Will they ever learn? I think that they will not learn from their mistakes of slamming everyone that has a different opinion from Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and the writers and planners that dictate talking points from the top down. The GOP is not grass roots, at all, as they long ago threw away the seeds of what makes America great, which is people like me and my clients that can think for ourselves. It is too bad that the talking heads think that only they know what the problems are, and think that the rest of us are morons that blindlessly vote for their reelection of politicians that are corrupt. It is time for a change, and now let us see the Democrats lead and show the American public that is not so easy to lead during a time of war. We do not need for Newt to rescue us, he has done enough damage.

JESUS IS THE LEADER OF EVANGELICALS

2006-11-05T19:50:00.000-05:00

With all of the scandals about homosexuality, and the recent revelation that Ted Haggart (I believe that is his name) was leading a dark life is causing some that do not understand Christianity to think that somehow Christ's church will be destroyed. So what if a political party fails, as anything built upon absolute power over others is doomed for failure. But Christ is everlasting, and will overcome. We are all sinners, and many false Christs have come to power using others to enrich themselves. Where Christ is, there the devil resides, too. As a Christian, I will continue to pray to be strong in this changing world. With each passing day, there are more and more people that are growing to hate me and other Christians because they hate Jesus Christ. I do not understand the hatred because he gave more love to so many than we can imagine. I will not allow his sacrifice for me and the rest of humanity to be in vain, will you?

US SUPREME COURT RULES ON ARIZONA VOTER ID LAW

2006-10-23T04:51:00.000-05:00

October 20, 2006
U.S. Supreme Court Overturns Ninth Circuit Decision to Bar Voter ID Requirements Today the U.S. Supreme Court voted unanimously to overturn a recent Ninth Circuit decision barring the enforcement of an Arizona voter ID law. Enacted in 2004 by citizen initiative, the law required proof of citizenship for new voter registrations and photo identification at the polls. Both the Evergreen Freedom Foundation (EFF) and Secretary of State Sam Reed have recommended this law as a model for Washington to follow, and today's decision underscores the legality of such requirements.
The Court chided the Ninth Circuit for acting without having all the proper facts, and for interfering right before a major election. Regarding the merits of voter ID laws, the Court did not make a specific ruling but noted that: "Confidence in the integrity of our electoral processes is essential to the functioning of our participatory democracy. Voter fraud drives honest citizens out of the democratic process and breeds distrust of our government."
Jonathan Bechtle, director of EFF's Voter Integrity Project, agreed with the Court's ruling, saying, "Today's unanimous decision is good news. It helps pave the way legally for needed reforms in Washington, like proof of citizenship for voter registration. It also sends a message to courts that the legitimate desire of voters for better election security cannot be dismissed!" Supreme Court's decision
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PRESIDENT BUSH IS STILL A GREAT PRESIDENT

2006-10-10T19:52:00.000-05:00

The most remarkable thing about President Bush is that he says the same thing in every speech that he gives regardless of the location that he happens to be. When a person stands on principles, then they do not have to tell one group one thing and another group something else. I am not happy with the GOP because I think that retaining power has been the focus for so long, that politicians have lost sight of why they are in Washington D.C., but I still have unconditional support for the President.

Oh, there are things that President Bush has done that I disagree with, such as standing with Joe Lieberman, the weasel that aided Al Gore in putting our Country in turmoil in 2000. And I think that the person that advised him to do the joke to the press corp about looking for WMD, under the desk and podium was crass and disrespectful of those that gave their lives in the War on Terror and those still fighting. But I also know that he cannot please everyone all the time, and that is what is so remarkable about our President, which is that he appears so down to earth. Just imagine if Kerry were President and we were in the same War on Terror, he would no doubt deny that he ever gave the decision to go to war in the first place. I can imagine it now, as he would say that the fighter planes started dropping bombs before he had a chance to examine the war plans. The military jumped the gun he would say, and I had to go along with it. Well, maybe I am being ridiculous. But I just thank the Lord that we are not in this War on Terror with Kerry as our President.

The United States has changed so much in my lifetime, and I actually feel sorrow that secularism is winnig out over traditional Christian values. I realize that unless some miracle happens to change the attitude of many Americans, that President Bush may be the last person to hold this office that actually respects the role of Commader in Chief of the Armed Forces. I cannot think of a single Democrat active in politics today that could fill the office with the dignity that President Bush has. The President has not had one day that was easy in the last five years, and there is no doubt in my mind that he has had many restless nights worrying about our Country. Wouldn't it be great to hear the liberal media to actually say thank you Mr. President for working so hard to protect all of us? So, I will say it myself, thank you President Bush and God bless you!

NOW WE DECIDE BETWEEN "SONNY DO" AND "TAYLOR THE BIG GUY" FOR GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA-9 MILLION RESIDENTS AND THIS IS THE BEST WE HAVE?

2006-10-09T19:58:00.000-05:00

THE NEOCON MEDIA IS WAITING WITH KOOL-AID FOR THE BRAINWASHED ELECTORATE TO NOW VOTE DEMOCRAT FOR VALUES! LOL

2006-10-09T19:48:00.000-05:00

September 18, 2003
Thinking About Neoconservatism
By Kevin MacDonald
Over the last year, there’s been a torrent of articles on neoconservatism raising (usually implicitly) some vexing issues: Are neoconservatives different from other conservatives? Is neoconservatism a Jewish movement? Is it “anti-Semitic” to say so?
The dispute between the neocons and more traditional conservatives — “paleoconservatives” — is especially important because the latter now find themselves on the outside, looking in on the conservative power structure.
Hopefully, some of the venom has been taken out of this argument by the remarkable recent article by neoconservative “godfather” Irving Kristol (“The Neoconservative Persuasion,” Weekly Standard, August 25, 2003). With commendable frankness, Kristol admitted that
“the historical task and political purpose of neoconservatism would seem to be this: to convert the Republican party, and American conservatism in general, against their respective wills, into a new kind of conservative politics suitable to governing a modern democracy.”
And, equally frankly, Kristol eschewed any attempt to justify U.S. support for Israel in terms of American national interest:
“[L]arge nations, whose identity is ideological, like the Soviet Union of yesteryear and the United States of today, inevitably have ideological interests in addition to more material concerns… That is why we feel it necessary to defend Israel today, when its survival is threatened. No complicated geopolitical calculations of national interest are necessary.”
If the US is an “ideological” nation, this can only mean that the motivations of neoconservative ideology are a legitimate subject of intellectual inquiry.
For example, it is certainly true that the neocons’ foreign policy fits well with a plausible version of Jewish interests, but is arguably only tenuously related to the interests of the U.S. Also, neocons oppose the isolationism of important sections of traditional American conservatism. And neocon attitudes on issues like race and immigration differ profoundly from those of traditional mainstream conservatives — but resemble closely the common attitudes of the wider American Jewish community.
Count me among those who accept that the Jewish commitment of leading neoconservatives has become a critical influence on U.S. policies, and that the effectiveness of the neoconservatives is greatly enhanced by their alliance with the organized Jewish community. In my opinion, this conclusion is based on solid data and reasonable inferences. But like any other theory, of course, it is subject to reasoned discussion and disproof.
We shouldn’t be surprised by the importance of ethnicity in human affairs. Nor should we be intimidated by charges of anti-Semitism. We should be able to discuss these issues openly and honestly. This is a practical matter, not a moral one.
Ethnic politics in the U.S. are certainly not limited to Jewish activism. They are an absolutely normal phenomenon throughout history and around the world.
But for well over half a century, with rare exceptions, Jewish influence has been off-limits for rational discussion. Now, however, as the U.S. acquires an empire in the Middle East, this ban must inevitably fall away.
My views on these issues are shaped by my research on several other influential Jewish-dominated intellectual and political movements, including the Boasian school of anthropology, Freudian psychoanalysis, the Frankfurt School of Social Research, Marxism and several other movements of the radical left, as well as the movement to change the ethnic balance of the United States by allowing mass, non-traditional immigration.
My conclusion: Contemporary neoconservatism fits into the general pattern of Jewish intellectual and political activism I have identified in my work.
I am not, of course, saying that all Jews, or even most Jews, supported these movements. Nor did these movements work in concert: some were intensely hostile to one another. I am saying, however, that the key figures in these movements identified in some sense as Jews and viewed their participation as in some sense advancing Jewish interests.
In all of the Jewish intellectual and political movements I studied, there is a strong Jewish identity among the core figures. All center on charismatic Jewish leaders—people such as Boas, Trotsky and Freud— who are revered as messianic, god-like figures.
Neoconservatism’s key founders trace their intellectual ancestry to the “New York Intellectuals,” a group that originated as followers of Trotskyite theoretician Max Schactman in the 1930s and centered around influential journals like Partisan Review and Commentary (which is in fact published by the American Jewish Committee). In the case of neoconservatives, their early identity as radical leftist disciples shifted as there began to be evidence of anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union. Key figures in leading them out of the political left were philosopher Sidney Hook and Elliot Cohen, editor of Commentary. Such men as Hook, Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, Nathan Glazer and Seymour Martin Lipset, were deeply concerned about anti-Semitism and other Jewish issues. Many of them worked closely with Jewish activist organizations. After the 1950s, they became increasingly disenchanted with leftism. Their overriding concern was the welfare of Israel.
By the 1970s, the neocons were taking an aggressive stance against the Soviet Union, which they saw as a bastion of anti-Semitism and opposition to Israel. Richard Perle was the prime organizer of Congressional support for the 1974 Jackson-Vanik Amendment which angered the Soviet Union by linking bilateral trade issues to freedom of emigration, primarily of Jews from the Soviet Union to Israel and the United States.
Current key leaders include an astonishing number of individuals well placed to influence the Bush Administration: (Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, I. Lewis Libby, Elliott Abrams, David Wurmser, Abram Shulsky), interlocking media and thinktankdom (Bill Kristol, Michael Ledeen, Stephen Bryen, John Podhoretz, Daniel Pipes), and the academic world (Richard Pipes, Donald Kagan).
As the neoconservatives lost faith in radical leftism, several key neocons became attracted to the writings of Leo Strauss, a classicist and political philosopher at the University of Chicago. Strauss had a very strong Jewish identity and viewed his philosophy as a means of ensuring Jewish survival in the Diaspora. As he put it in a 1962 Hillel House lecture, later republished in Leo Strauss: Political Philosopher and Jewish Thinker:
“I believe I can say, without any exaggeration, that since a very, very early time the main theme of my reflections has been what is called the ‘Jewish ‘Question’.”
Strauss has become a cult figure—the quintessential rabbinical guru with devoted disciples.
While Strauss and his followers have come to be known as neoconservatives — and have even claimed to be simply “conservatives”— there is nothing conservative about their goals. This is most obviously the case in foreign policy, where they are attempting to rearrange the entire Middle East in the interests of Israel. But it is also the case with domestic policy, where acceptance of rule by an aristocratic elite would require a complete political transformation. Strauss believed that this aristocracy would be compatible with Jewish interests.
Strauss notoriously described the need for an external exoteric language directed at outsiders, and an internal esoteric language directed at ingroup members. In other words, the masses had to be deceived.
But actually this is a general feature of the movements I have studied. They invariably frame issues in language that appeals to non-Jews, rather than explicitly in terms of Jewish interests. The most common rhetoric used by Jewish intellectual and political movements has been the language of moral universalism and the language of science—languages that appeal to the educated elites of the modern Western world. But beneath the rhetoric it is easy to find statements expressing the Jewish agendas of the principal actors.
For example, anthropologists under the leadership of Boas viewed their crusade against the concept of “race” as, in turn, combating anti-Semitism. They also saw their theories as promoting the ideology of cultural pluralism, which served perceived Jewish interests because the U.S. would be seen as consisting of many co-equal cultures rather than as a European Christian society.
Similarly, psychoanalysts commonly used their theories to portray anti-Jewish attitudes as symptoms of psychiatric disorder.
Conversely, the earlier generation of American Jewish Trotskyites ignored the horrors of the Soviet Union until the emergence there of state-sponsored anti-Semitism.
Neoconservatives have certainly appealed to American patriotic platitudes in advocating war throughout the Middle East—gushing about spreading American democracy and freedom to the area, while leaving unmentioned their own strong ethnic ties and family links to Israel.
Michael Lind has called attention to the neoconservatives’ “odd bursts of ideological enthusiasm for ‘democracy’”— odd because these calls for democracy and freedom throughout the Middle East are also coupled with support for the Likud Party and other like-minded groups in Israel that are driven by a vision of an ethnocentric, expansionist Israel that, to outside observers at least, bears an unmistakable (albeit unmentionable) resemblance to apartheid South Africa.
These inconsistencies of the neoconservatives are not odd or surprising. The Straussian idea is to achieve the aims of the elite ingroup by using language designed for mass appeal. War for “democracy and freedom” sells much better than a war explicitly aimed at achieving the foreign policy goals of Israel.
Neoconservatives have responded to charges that their foreign policy has a Jewish agenda by labeling any such analysis as “anti-Semitic.” Similar charges have been echoed by powerful activist Jewish organizations like the ADL and the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
But at the very least, Jewish neoconservatives like Paul Wolfowitz, who were deeply involved in pushing for the war in Iraq, should frankly discuss how their close family and personal ties to Israel have affected their attitudes on US foreign policy in the Middle East.
Wolfowitz, however, has refused to discuss this issue beyond terming such suggestions “disgraceful.”
A common argument is that neoconservatism is not Jewish because of the presence of various non-Jews amongst their ranks.
But in fact, the ability to recruit prominent non-Jews, while nevertheless maintaining a Jewish core and a commitment to Jewish interests, has been a hallmark—perhaps the key hallmark—of influential Jewish intellectual and political movements throughout the 20th century. Freud commented famously on the need for a non-Jew to represent psychoanalysis, a role played by Ernest Jones and C. G. Jung. Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict were the public face of Boasian anthropology. And, although Jews represented over half the membership of both the Socialist Party and the Communist Party USA at various times, neither party ever had Jews as presidential candidates and no Jew held the top position in the Communist Party USA after 1929.
In all the Jewish intellectual and political movements I reviewed, non-Jews have been accepted and given highly-visible roles. Today, those roles are played most prominently by Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld whose ties with neoconservatives go back many years. It makes excellent psychological sense to have the spokespeople for any movement resemble the people they are trying to convince.
In fact, neoconservatism is rather unusual in the degree to which policy formulation — as opposed to implementation — is so predominantly Jewish. Perhaps this reflects U.S. conditions in the late 20th century.
All the Jewish intellectual and political movements I studied were typified by a deep sense of orthodoxy—a sense of “us versus them.” Dissenters are expelled, usually amid character assassination and other recriminations.
This has certainly been a feature of the neocon movement. The classic recent example of this “We vs. They” world is David Frum’s attack on “unpatriotic conservatives” as anti-Semites. Any conservative who opposes the Iraq war as contrary to U.S. interests and who notes the pro-Israeli motivation of many of the important players, is not to be argued with, but eradicated. “We turn our backs on them.” This is not the spirit out of which the Anglo-American parliamentary tradition was developed, and in fact was not endorsed by other non-Jewish pro-war conservatives.
Jewish intellectual and political movements have typically had ready access to prestigious mainstream media channels, and this is certainly true for the neocons. The anchoring by the Washington Post of the columns of Charles Krauthammer and Robert Kagan and by the New York Times of William Safire's illustrates this. But probably more important recently has been the invariable summoning of neoconservatives to represent the “conservative” line on the TV Networks. Is it unreasonable to suppose that this may be somewhat influenced by the famously heavy Jewish role in these operations?
Immigration policy provides a valuable acid test for the proposition that neoconservatism is actually a vehicle for perceived Jewish ethnic interests. I believe I have been able to demonstrate that pro-immigration elements in American public life have, for over a century, been largely led, funded, energized and organized by the Jewish community [PDF file]. American Jews have taken this line, with a few isolated exceptions, because they have believed, as Leonard S. Glickman, president and CEO of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, has bluntly stated, “The more diverse American society is the safer [Jews] are.” Having run out of Russian Jews, the HIAS is now deeply involved in recruiting refugees from Africa.
When, in the middle 1990s an immigration reform movement arose amongst American conservatives, the reaction of the neoconservatives ranged from cold to hostile. No positive voice was permitted on the Op-Ed page of the Wall Street Journal, by then a neoconservative domain. (Perhaps significantly, a more recent exception has been a relatively favorable review of the anti-illegal immigration book Mexifornia— whose author, the military historian Victor Davis Hanson, has distinguished himself by the extreme hawkishness of his views on the Middle East.) The main vehicle of immigration reform sentiment, National Review, once a bastion of traditional conservative thought, was quite quickly captured by neoconservatives and its opposition to immigration reduced to nominal.
Prior to the post-9/11 U.S. invasion of the Middle East, this suppression of the immigration reform impulse among conservatives was probably the single most important contribution of the neoconservatives to the course of U.S. history.
It may yet prove to be the most disastrous.
Kevin MacDonald [email him] is Professor of Psychology at California State University-Long Beach.
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2006-10-09T19:31:00.000-05:00

In N.Y., Sparks Fly Over Israel Criticism
Michael Powell – Washgington Post October 9, 2006 Two major American Jewish organizations helped block a prominent New York University historian from speaking at the Polish consulate here last week, saying the academic was too critical of Israel and American Jewry. The historian, Tony Judt, is Jewish and directs New York University's Remarque Institute, which promotes the study of Europe. Judt was scheduled to talk Oct. 4 to a nonprofit organization that rents space from the consulate. Judt's subject was the Israel lobby in the United States, and he planned to argue that this lobby has often stifled honest debate. An hour before Judt was to arrive, the Polish Consul General Krzysztof Kasprzyk canceled the talk. He said the Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee had called and he quickly concluded Judt was too controversial. "The phone calls were very elegant but may be interpreted as exercising a delicate pressure," Kasprzyk said. "That's obvious -- we are adults and our IQs are high enough to understand that." Judt, who was born and raised in England and lost much of his family in the Holocaust, took strong exception to the cancellation of his speech. He noted that he was forced to cancel another speech later this month at Manhattan College in the Bronx after a different Jewish group had complained. Other prominent academics have described encountering such problems, in some cases more severe, stretching over the past three decades. The pattern, Judt says, is unmistakable and chilling. "This is serious and frightening, and only in America - not in Israel - is this a problem," says Judt. "These are Jewish organizations that believe they should keep people who disagree with them on the Middle East away from anyone who might listen." The leaders of the Jewish organizations denied asking the consulate to block Judt's speech and accused the professor of retailing "wild conspiracy theories" about their roles. But they applauded the consulate for rescinding Judt's invitation. "I think they made the right decision," said Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League. "He's taken the position that Israel shouldn't exist. That puts him on our radar." David A. Harris, executive director of the American Jewish Congress, took a similar view. "I never asked for a particular action; I was calling as a friend of Poland," Harris said. "The message of that evening was going to be entirely contrary to the entire spirit of Polish foreign policy." Judt has crossed rhetorical swords with the Jewish organizations on two key issues. Over the past few years he has written essays in the New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books and in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz arguing that power in Israel has shifted to religious fundamentalists and territorial zealots, that woven into Zionism is a view of the Arab as the irreconcilable enemy, and that Israel might not survive as a communal Jewish state. The solution, he argues, lies in a slow and tortuous walk toward a binational and secular state. He has, of late, defended an academic paper -- co-authored by professor Stephen M. Walt of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and John J. Mearsheimer, a professor at the University of Chicago -- which argues the American Israel lobby has pushed policies that are not in the United States' best interests and in fact often encourage Israel to engage in self-destructive behavior. These are deeply controversial views -- Foxman of the ADL and writer Christopher Hitchens, among others, have attacked the Walt and Mearsheimer paper as anti-Semitic. And Judt's advocacy of a binational state has drawn a flock of critics, the more angry of whom accuse him of "pandering to genocide" as the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America put it. Former Bush speechwriter David Frum said Judt was pursuing "genocide liberalism." Foxman has referred to Judt's views of Israel as "an offensive caricature." The Mearsheimer and Walt paper, however, has drawn praise in some quarters in Israel, particularly on the left. So, too some Israeli writers, not least Israeli historian and social critic Amos Elon, have praised Judt's writings on Israel. Nor are Judt's arguments without historical precedent: Massachusetts Institute of Technology linguist and political philosopher Noam Chomsky, who is Jewish, has advocated a binational solution in Israel, a view that three decades ago sparked such anger that police stood guard at his college talks. More recently, the ADL repeatedly accused DePaul University professor Norman G. Finkelstein, who is Jewish and strongly opposes Israeli policies, of being a "Holocaust denier." These charges have proved baseless. "There is an often organized and often spontaneous attempt to marginalize anyone in the Jewish world who offers a critique of Israeli policy," said Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of the liberal magazine Tikkun. "It's equated with anti-Semitism and Israel denial." Foxman says such complaints are silly. "Nobody has called Judt an anti-Semite," Foxman said. "People who are critical of Israel and of the Jewish people often flaunt their Jewishness. Why isn't that an issue?" Judt replies that he only reluctantly talks of his Jewishness, in no small part to inoculate himself against charges of anti-Semitism. "For many, the way to be Jewish in this country is to aggressively assert that the Holocaust is your identification tag," Judt said. "I know perfectly well my history, but it never occurred to me that my most prominent identity was as a Jew.” http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/08/AR2006100800817

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2006-10-08T16:45:00.000-05:00

"ACLU TOP HEAVY WITH JEWS" BY REV. TED PIKE OF NATIONAL PRAYER NETWORK

2006-10-07T19:33:00.000-05:00

National Prayer Network
ACLU TOP HEAVY WITH JEWS
By Rev. Ted Pike
Most thinking people know that the American Civil Liberties Union is vehemently anti-Christian. What they don't know is that 3 of 6 of ACLU's top national leaders are liberal Jewish activists.
Although ACLU's executive director, Anthony D. Romero, is an in-your-face Hispanic homosexual, second in command is Nadine Strossen, Jewish. She was given the "Woman of Distinction" award from the Women's League of Conservative Judaism and the "Women who Dared" award from the National Council of Jewish Women. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, she is married to Eli M. Noam, professor and founding director of Columbia University's Institute for Tele-Information.
Third in command at ACLU is legal counsel Steven Shapiro. As the legal mastermind of ACLU, he may well wield greatest power. Shapiro commands an army of 90 fulltime lawyers, maintaining an active docket of cases harassing the public expression of Christian values across America.
Geri E. Rozanski, director of affiliate support, is also a Jewish activist. Before joining ACLU, she was director for the large field operation of the American Jewish Committee.
Executive Director Anthony Romero may largely fulfill the role of a token Latino/homosexual figurehead. Ultimately, he may be Gentile window dressing, meant to deflect public attention from the real brains behind the ACLU, Strossen and Shapiro.
Jews behind "Civil Liberties" Fronts
Jews comprise only 2.5 percent of the American population, yet most of the largest anti-Christian "civil liberties" organizations are disproportionately staffed by them:
B'nai B'rith International, initiator of hate crimes laws in Canada, Europe, and Australia is 100 percent Jewish. The same is true of its civil liberties pit bull, ADL.
People for the American Way, founded and directed by left-wing Jewish TV producer Norman Lear, contains a disproportionate number of Jews in its top leadership. Three of eight have Jewish names. Carol Blum is executive vice president and chief operating officer. Elliot Mincberg is senior vice president, general counsel, and legal director. Sharon Lettman is vice president of external affairs and director of national programs and outreach.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, chief antagonist to public display of Judge Roy Moore's 10 Commandments, is even more predominantly Jewish. Its three top leaders are Jews. President and CEO is J. Richard Cohen. Founder and chief trial counsel is Morris Dees. Founder and president emeritus is Joseph J. Levin Jr.
ACLU: Distraction from Real Enemy
For the past 40 years, the evangelical right has found the ACLU the perfect villain for a simple reason: Since it is not perceived as Jewish, they can criticize it without danger of being labeled "anti-Semitic."
The ACLU performs a very devious and useful role as part of the overall conspiracy of Jewish activism against Christianity: It distracts Christians and conservatives from a much greater threat, ADL. The ACLU makes itself conspicuously outrageous, as threatening to Christian values and symbols as can be imagined. This entirely preoccupies the attention of the religious right. As a result, ADL/B'nai B'rith over the last 40 years has been free to develop and put in place their Orwellian "anti-hate laws" throughout the western hemisphere.
Milestones of such erosion of Christian freedom include:
Passage of ADL's Hate Crimes Statistics Act of 1990. This gave ADL complete control in America of hate crimes education and enforcement for police, FBI, and the US Justice Department.
Passage of ADL hate laws in 46 US states during the past two decades.
Creation of thought crimes bureaucracies, outlawing public criticism of homosexuality and Judaism in Canada, Europe, and Australia/New Zealand.
Creation of an "Office of Global Anti-Semitism" in the US State Department, making Christians into anti-Semites. (See, "U.S. State Department Says New Testament is 'Anti-Semitic'?")
Creation of a vast 55-nation anti-hate bureaucracy in Europe, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. OSCE vows to outlaw "cyberhate," ending free speech and free talk radio on the internet. (See, "Global Hate Crimes Gestapo Being Created")
Failure of Perception and Strategy
Yes, ACLU is busy defending pornographers and litigating against crosses, 10 Commandments in public, and nativity scenes at Christmastime. But in a far more threatening way, taking advantage of the distraction provided by ACLU, ADL has been massively destroying freedom of speech in most of the western industrialized world. To this moment, it has done so unidentified and virtually unresisted by the leaders of Christendom and the new right.
As long as Christian leaders lay blame upon secular humanism, the New World Order, liberalism, or the ACLU and remain afraid to identify the real culprit, liberal Jewish activism, all these Jewish-dominated "civil liberties groups" will continue to harass and enfeeble the church.
With Christian activism so misdirected, Jewish activism, much more focused and relentless, will continue to prevail.

Rev. Ted Pike is director of the National Prayer Network, a Christian/conservative watchdog organization.
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"JESUS IS BUILDING HIS CHURCH" BY LYNETTE WOODS-CHRIST HAS NO NEED FOR A MAN MADE TEMPLE FOR HE IS THE TEMPLE

2006-10-05T13:56:00.000-05:00

Jesus is Building His Church... but not as we've known itby Lynette Woods
"On this rock I will build my church, and death itself will not have any power over it. " (Matthew 16:18 CEV)
Most of us who read the verse above agree that "this Rock" is not some literal, physical rock seen on this earth but something unseen and invisible: Christ and the revelation of Him ("flesh and blood have not revealed this to you but My Father..."). If seeing and knowing Christ spiritually is the Rock and Foundation upon which He is building His Church, then it follows that what He builds will also be spiritual, unseen and invisible and NOT of this earth but heavenly in nature and in character.
However, many have seen only what is earthly and have believed that the church which Jesus is building is some earthly denomination, building or organisation which can be seen and joined. These buildings and programmes often are the result of man's desire to build for God which of course sounds like the age-old cry of "Come, let us build ourselves a building with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and be in unity and not scattered over the face of the whole earth." (Gen 11:4). Jesus is not building His Church on any earthly foundation; flesh and blood cannot reveal this Truth of Who Christ is, only our Father can.
We know that Jesus said: "Destroy (undo) this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again." (John 2:19) and Mark records His accusers of stating that He'd said: "I will destroy this temple which is made with hands, and in three days I will build another, made without hands." (Mark 14:58). Made WITHOUT man's hands... raised up by God alone... His work, His do-ing... certainly that sums up resurrection Life! Anything which is of Him is filled with His Life and death has no power over it! This Church which Jesus is building is full of His Life and death cannot prevent His building project because He has already conquered death; His Church is being built and assembled in the heavenlies and is not something temporal but something eternal and out of this world!
The Scriptures are very clear: the tabernacle and temple of the Old Testament were a symbol and parable until Christ came: "When God speaks of a new covenant, He makes the first one obsolete (out of use). And what is obsolete (out of use and annulled because of age) is ripe for disappearance and to be dispensed with altogether. Now even the first covenant had its own rules and regulations for divine worship and it had a sanctuary, but one of this world... Into the second division of the tabernacle none but the high priest goes... by this the Holy Spirit points out that the way into the true Holy of Holies is not yet thrown open as long as the former tabernacle remains a recognized institution and is still standing. Seeing that that first tabernacle was a parable (a visible symbol or type or picture of the present age)... But when Christ appeared as a High Priest of the better things that have come and are to come, then through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not a part of this material creation, He went once for all into the Holy of Holies, not by virtue of the blood of goats and calves, but His own blood, having found and secured a complete redemption (an everlasting release for us). For Christ has not entered into a sanctuary (building) made with human hands, only a copy and pattern and type of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf." (Heb 8:13, 9:1,7-9,11,12,24 Amplified) "It was Solomon who built a house for Him. However, the Most High does not dwell in houses and temples made with hands; as the prophet says, Heaven is My throne, and earth the footstool for My feet. What house can you build for Me, says the Lord, or what is the place in which I can rest? Was it not My hand that made all these things?" (Acts 7:47-50).
The mention of a building "not made with hands" occurs three times in those verses. Our flesh loves having something which WE can make, feel, touch, see, hear and worship here and now instead of knowing and trusting in the invisible and unseen. Many continue to believe in and support the Judaistic type of an earthly temple. We typically look at large numbers of people and admire buildings that are large and impressive because those things appeal to our senses and to our image of what we think is worthy of God. But if we learn anything at all from the Scriptures, it is that God does not think the way we do, His ways and thoughts are not our ways! He isn't interested in many things being seen and taken notice of, He is interested in only One Thing: Christ being seen and taken account of, "On THIS Rock I will build My Church". There is only One Thing which can break through the temptation of the many things which can be seen and heard in the here and now, and that One Thing is seeing and knowing Christ and His Body by the Spirit. Once you have seen and experienced the Real, then earthly substitutes lose their grip because there is no comparison between the two!
"Faith is the assurance of the things we hope for, being the proof of things we do not see and the conviction of their reality. [Abraham] was waiting expectantly and confidently looking forward to the city which has fixed and firm foundations, whose Architect and Builder is God." (Heb 11:1,10). We have evidence all around us of our Architect's absolutely amazing design and creation! Nature everywhere speaks of breathtaking design and planning. But our Architect and Builder builds and creates very differently to how we do. Even at our most creative and most clever, we cannot make objects live, we simply co-operate with the life that is inherent in them. For instance a vine produces grapes and a fruit tree bears fruit not by striving and working hard to bear fruit or grow, it happens because of the life which is in them and it is the same with us. It is Christ and His Life within us which bears fruit and causes us to grow providing we remain (abide) in Him. He is the Vinedresser and will prune us through circumstances and people as He sees fit. Jesus spoke of this in John 15:1-9 and the Greek word which is translated as "abide" means to remain and to wait. We usually do not like waiting; we would rather try to make something happen NOW (made with hands) so we often take things into our own hands - being god and lord of our own lives.
We must be under the government of Jesus Christ and give up trying to govern ourselves. Often we usurp the role of the Holy Spirit by trying to be in control of everything in our lives, but when we yield to Him and allow Him to be our Head, we find that His yoke is easy and His burden is light! We joyfully follow Him and co-operate with Him in His work.
It is interesting that we are called living stones (1 Pet 2:5) because stones cannot make themselves into anything or move themselves anywhere; they must rely on the Builder to place them and use them in the same way as precious stones must rely upon the Jeweller to place them securely in a setting. This building cannot design itself; it must wait on the Architect. This building cannot build itself; it must wait for the Master Builder. This City is designed and built by God Himself.
One of the prime functions of both architects and builders is to create something from nothing. This City cannot be physically seen and yet is very real! Hebrews again compares the earthly with the heavenly and the Mosaic law with the new covenant: "Jesus has been considered worthy of much greater honor and glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself. For every house is built and furnished by someone, but the Builder of all things is God." (Heb 3:3,4). Until people see this Church that Jesus is building, they often unknowingly give the former house more honour than the Builder, not realizing that that house was something temporal and not eternal and pointed to something of far greater worth: Jesus as not only the Builder but also the Temple! A house or temple on this earth, whether it is called a "church" or not, is a dead structure because it is the BUILDER that is full of Life and He is now building His Church in the heavenlies with living stones/people who are full of His Life and Light!
I recently watched a BBC documentary about archeological excavations of Sepphoris, the largest city in Judea apart from Jerusalem, and which was only an hour's walk from Nazareth. When Jesus was about nine years old, Herod Antipas initiated a large scale building program in Sepphoris that lasted for twenty years. In this documentary they commented on how all these buildings were made of stone and that it was very likely that Jesus would have helped building these stone buildings. Clever, religious me thought "Everybody knows Jesus was a carpenter and not a builder, the Bible says so"! But this documentary said that Jesus may have worked on the buildings because the Greek word "tekton" which has been translated as "carpenter" in our Bibles, doesn't mean carpenter in the sense we think of it (making furniture etc). Instead it means craftsman and builder and applied to stonemasonry work as well as woodwork. I looked at the Greek to check this out and found that they were correct. Our English word architect means master builder and is made from two Greek words - archi: meaning chief, and tekton: meaning builder.
Then I thought of how Jesus used so many word pictures and parables of things that both He and others were familiar with, and yet He never once gave a parable based on wood and making something from wood. I thought that was rather odd for a carpenter! He could have talked about how a piece of wood is of no practical use (except for being burnt up in a fire!) until and unless the carpenter applies the hammer and chisel and carves something that can be used but in the process the wood must lose not only the bark that protects it, but also loses its original shape...
Instead we see in the Bible that Jesus used building with stones as examples and images: (Matt 7:24-26, 16:18, 21:33; Mark 15:29; Luke 6:48,49, 12:18, 14:28, John 2:19). It is certainly interesting to think that Jesus would have first been a builder on this earth and that He then applied that experience and knowledge to the spiritual in working with living stones and building HIS Church! This reference also then has new meaning: "As Jesus was coming out of the temple, one of His disciples said to Him, Look, Teacher! Notice the sort and quality of these stones and buildings!" (Mark 13:1). If Jesus was a builder and had worked with stone, then this comment makes a lot of sense; the disciple would have known that He would have been interested in the architecture and material of the temple because of His occupation! And the reply Jesus gave is so typical of Him, instead of admiring the architecture and the work of man He instead says "You see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be torn down"! He CAME OUT of the temple made with hands and was not impressed by what was made with human hands.
I asked Father what difference it makes whether we see Jesus as a carpenter or a builder and this is what I felt He showed me... Our established mindsets often prevent us from seeing the bigger picture, and it is the same in this case.What I saw was the differences between a carpenter and builder. A carpenter typically makes things like furniture to go into a house/structure that SOMEONE ELSE has built, whereas a builder builds the structure itself. This is exactly what we see happen with organized religion: Jesus is typically viewed only as a carpenter - someone who just makes the "furniture" that goes into a structure that man builds. Jesus is often seen as simply adding something we need and we then use this "furniture" for our own convenience whether beds, chairs or tables (in spiritual terms those things might be salvation, spiritual gifts and fruits) and the view is selfishly on MAN and his comfort, satisfaction and glory. But if God is viewed as the Master Builder, then the view is considerably different and expanded: it is HIS work and He isn't just making bits of furniture to be placed into a structure built by man, He is building HIS Church/Temple/Body - Christ - and it is all about HIS increase and Glory and Satisfaction!A house is a much more important and bigger thing than furniture. You can live in a house without furniture, but you wouldn't normally live with just furniture and no house! Furniture, no matter how ornate or useful and practical it may be, is pointless without first being in the House! Furniture can be moved from structure to structure; but a house is never moved but remains firmly placed on the Foundation (1 Cor 3:11-17). A house speaks to me of a household, family, or home and of protection from the elements of this world; Christ is certainly all of that and more!
Another difference between builders and carpenters is that a carpenter can easily make a piece of furniture all on their own but builders don't usually work by themselves, they almost always work together with at least one other person. As a builder, Jesus would have known how vital each worker is and that co-operation and joint participation (koinonia) are important. Stones are very heavy and need people working together to fit them into place. All the pictures He gives us of His spiritual Building are images of inter-relatedness - His Body, His Temple, His City, His Bride - all of these are composites.
May our eyes be opened to see Jesus Christ and the Church that He is building and may we learn to co-operate with Him as the Architect and Master Builder of all!
"In Him the whole structure is joined (bound, welded) together harmoniously, and it continues to rise, grow and increase into a holy temple in the Lord. In Him you yourselves also are being built up with the rest, to form a fixed abode (dwelling place) of God in (by, through) the Spirit." (Eph 2:19-22 Amplified)
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JANE CHASTAIN: "THE SHAMELESS REPUBLICAN PARTY" SHE IS SO RIGHT ON ABOUT HOMOSEXUALS!

2006-10-05T10:00:00.000-05:00

The shameless Republican Party
Posted: October 5, 20061:00 a.m. Eastern
Rats. I wanted to write a book about Mark Foley and the Republican Party but Bob Woodward stole my title. "State of Denial" best describes the attitude of House leadership that turned a blind eye toward the unusual amount of interest the Florida congressman showed toward young boys who were serving as House pages.
Of course, House Speaker Denny Hastert should step down! That's what an honorable man does when he makes a mistake of this magnitude.
Republican partisans are rallying to the speaker's defense and blaming it on Democrat operatives who held and released those sexually explicit instant messages just before the election. However, there is still plenty of time to call everybody back to Washington and pick a replacement for Hastert.
(Column continues below)
This would not be a great loss! This is the House leader of the party of "less government" who presided over the biggest spending spree in our country's history. This is the man who refused to reign in his out-of-control charges and, in fact, punished those who tried to put the breaks on.
This is the man who complained when the FBI raided the office of Democrat Rep. William Jefferson, who was hiding cash in the freezer of his apartment. Hastert clung to the separation of powers argument despite the fact that the FBI had to get a court order to conduct the raid: Two of the three branches of government were involved in this action! Hastert obviously thinks that anything that happens in Congress should stay in Congress and if Congress doesn't see fit to clean up the mess, by definition, there is no mess.
This is the same Denny Hastert who looked the other way when it was discovered that former Democrat Rep. Gary Condit had an affair with Washington intern Chandra Levy, whose decomposed body later was discovered in Fort Marcy Park. The voters finally dumped Condit in disgust because Congress, under Hastert, didn't do a thing!
Hastert presided over the impeachment of President Clinton, but the impeachment wasn't for doing an intern! The House simply didn't go there. Yes, both these women were older but they had never been on their own and were still under the support and protective care of their parents. Both were easy prey for men in powerful positions. The nation's parents deserve better.
The nation deserves better, and if that means that the party in power has to eat and little crow and elect some new leaders, let's get on with it. It's past time.
The Democrats in Congress have lost their right to wag their fingers over these matters. Their own members are notorious! Many Democrat lawmakers march in Gay Pride parades with NAMBLA, the "Sex before eight or it's too late" crowd. However, Republicans are supposed to know better.
Completely lost on the public is that, the very day the Foley scandal came to light, (mostly) Democrats in the Senate obstructed the Child Custody Protection Act and kept it from coming to the floor for a vote. This critical legislation would make it a federal crime to transport a minor across a state line for an abortion if this action circumvents a state law requiring parental involvement in a minor's abortion. This lack of action in the Senate empowers the sexual predators of young girls.
The majority of people in this country still believe that there should be a high moral threshold for people in public office. That's why Republicans have control of Congress and the White House, and that is why they are in danger of losing it now.
Hastert and the rest of the big-tent Republicans, who want to pretend that homosexuality is normal and natural, will be responsible for the folded tent.
There is no gay gene! And, yes, statistics show that homosexuals are much more likely to be sexual predators. The 1 to 3 percent of the population attracted to the same sex are committing one-third of sex crimes against minors.
Hastert knew that Foley was a homosexual but, when this problem came to light, it didn't set off alarm bells.
Homosexuals don't procreate, they recruit; and most of that recruitment involves our young people. A young person who is molested is "imprinted." The child may feel pleasure from being stimulated in this way and begin to associate sex with this first or this early experience.
We were told that Mark Foley was victimized between the ages of 13 and 15. He kept this "shame to himself for almost 40 years" and apparently became a victimizer.
It is sad that there isn't more shame in the Republican Party over this incident.

HILLARY AMUSED AT RETIREE JOKE!

2006-10-05T06:19:00.000-05:00

Working people frequently ask retired people what they do to make their days interesting. Well, for example, the other day I went down town and went into a shop. I was only in there for about 5 minutes and when I came out there was a cop writing out a parking ticket. I went up to him and said, "Come on, man, how about giving a senior citizen a break"?
He ignored me and continued writing the ticket. I called him a Nazi turd. He glared at me and started writing another ticket for having worn tires.
So I called him a shithead. He finished the second ticket and put it on the windshield with the first. Then he started writing a third ticket. This went on for about 20 minutes. The more I abused him, the more tickets he wrote. Personally, I didn't care. I came down town on the bus and the car that he was putting the tickets on had a bumper sticker that said "Hillary '08.
I try to have a little fun each day now that I'm retired. It's important at my age!

ELIMINATION OF ESTATE TAX "DEATH TAX" IS A NON-ISSUE!

2006-10-04T14:32:00.000-05:00

http://www.cbpp.org/policy-points6-2-06.htm

Only .5% of taxpayers pay estate taxes! It makes me want to cringe every time I hear a politician run a campaingn advertisement talking about the "death tax." If people actually took the time to learn something other than trivial nonsense when going to school, then they could learn enough about the tax code and other important issues that make them smart enough to not allow this nonsense advertising. There are so many important issues facing our country that are simply not being addressed.

MY PRAYERS ARE WITH THE AMISH FAMILIES TODAY -WHAT A WONDERFUL PEOPLE

2006-10-03T08:18:00.000-05:00

Five girls dead after Amish school shootingsTue Oct 3, 2006 8:07 AM ET
By Jon Hurdle
NICKEL MINES, Penn. (Reuters) - Two girls died overnight after a school shooting in Pennsylvania, bringing to five the number of students killed when a gunman burst into their one-room schoolhouse, state police said on Tuesday.
It was the third deadly U.S. school shooting in the past week and took place in an Amish farm community where there is little crime.
The gunman, identified as Charles Carl Roberts, 32, killed himself after lining his victims against the wall and shooting them execution-style in the head.
The two girls who died overnight were aged 7 and 8, said Commissioner Jeffrey Miller of the Pennsylvania state police. One other girl remained in critical condition and another four were described as stable, state police said.
Asked for additional information about the gunman's motive, Miller said that Roberts lost a child of his own three years ago and "that had something to do with his state of mind."
"He may have been angry with God for having lost a child," Miller said at a news briefing.
On Monday, authorities said Roberts, who was not Amish, had dropped his own three school-aged children at their bus stop in the morning, showing no sign of the rampage to come.
But Roberts had left a rambling suicide note and letter to his wife and children, referring to an event 20 years ago for which he sought revenge, and he planned for a lengthy siege.
The Georgetown School classroom had 26 students aged 6 to 13. After Roberts ordered the 15 boys and some adults to leave, the victims were shot "at close range, execution style, firing into the back of the head," Miller said.
The tragedy stunned this peaceful community some 60 miles
west of Philadelphia, where descendants of Swiss-German settlers have preserved a religious lifestyle that shuns aspects of modern life like cars and electricity.
Amish farmers live simply, travel by horse and buggy and cultivate the land using old-fashioned traditions.
Roberts fired three rounds from a shotgun and 13 from a 9mm semiautomatic pistol, police said. He also had a rifle, 600 rounds of ammunition, a stun gun, two knives and tools including a hammer, a hacksaw, pliers, wire, eye-bolts, rolls of tape and a bucket with a change of clothes.
There were similarities between the Pennsylvania tragedy and last week's school shooting in Bailey, Colorado, where a schoolgirl was killed. However, Miller said he did not believe it to be copycat attack.
In the Colorado shooting last Wednesday, a drifter took six female high school students hostage, molested them and then shot one dead before killing himself as police closed in. Then on Friday a 15-year-old student killed his school's principal in western Wisconsin.
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Le CORBUSIER'S TRIBUTE A PAGAN CHURCH IN FRANCE-THIS MAKES ME WANT TO CRY!

2006-10-01T19:31:00.000-05:00

A French church carries the legacy of Le Corbusier
By Nicolai Ouroussoff The New York TimesTUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2006-->Published: July 31, 2006
FIRMINY, France More than 40 years after he drowned off a remote beach in the south of France, Le Corbusier remains a transcendent force. Even if some blame him for the modern city's greatest sins, from the steamrolling of historical neighborhoods to a stultifying emphasis on function, he is indisputably the most influential architect of the past century.
Now workers in this rural mining town are putting the finishing touches on a small church he designed with a former student in the early 1960s. A soaring asymmetrical cone that rises out of an imposing concrete base like some strange pagan temple, it is a reminder of why Le Corbusier's work inspires such passionate devotion.
Completed by that protégé, José Oubrerie, who has tinkered with many elements of the original sketches, the church of Saint-Pierre has stirred debate among Parisian academics about the ethics of finishing a work left behind by a legendary architect.
But the core of Le Corbusier's concept remains intact: a sanctuary that distills the history of architecture from the primitive cave through Modernism. At the same time its warped planes anticipate the fluid architectural forms of today, though with a restraint that shows how so much recent work has been diluted by cheap effects.
That it exists at all is a miracle. From its inception the project seemed doomed to join the long list of architectural masterpieces that exist only on paper.
Le Corbusier first came to Firminy, tucked into a valley of the Loire west of Saint-Etienne, in the early 1950s at the invitation of Eugène Claudius-Petit, a liberal mayor who had visions of transforming the town into a postwar workers' paradise, a "green city" to replace the grimy black one. Over the following decade the two collaborated on one of the densest concentrations of Le Corbusier buildings anywhere.
The architect's 1965 House of Youth and Culture, a slender concrete-and-glass slab flanked by a small outdoor stadium, dominates the town center; to the north a low-cost version of his 1952 Unité de Habitation housing block in Marseille sits at the top of a hill, a monument to the town's egalitarian ideals.
The church, which sits alongside the stadium, occupies a privileged place in Le Corbusier's uvre. The architect, who prided himself on his Protestant heretic forebears and dismissed the church as a dead institution, designed only two other religious structures, also in France. Both buildings - his curving, elegiac 1955 chapel at Ronchamp and his monumental concrete La Tourette monastery from 1960 - rank among his most evocative works.
Yet in this case he had a hard time finding support. The bishop of Lyon was not enamored of the design's allusion to pagan forms. Nor did he approve of the site, which seemed buried at the bottom of the valley. Eventually he withdrew his pledge to pay for the church's construction.
"The bishop sent a priest to the studio on Rue de Sèvres in Paris," Oubrerie, 73, said in an interview. "He was a very traditional man, the kind who is very nice but kicks you when you turn around. We understood he would not make a positive report. So Le Corbusier wrote a letter to the bishop saying, 'At my age, with everything I have done, you should have confidence in me.' Of course it changed nothing."
Construction began in 1971, six years after Le Corbusier's death, with private funds from the Le Corbusier Foundation (raised in part by the sale of some of his art collection). But the contractor went broke, and construction stopped with only half the building completed. For years it stood abandoned, its concrete base evoking a disused military bunker.
Oubrerie, meanwhile, went on to build a few significant works of his own, including a French cultural center in Damascus, whose folding interior surfaces were a riff on Le Corbusier's fluid spaces. But Le Corbusier's brand of ascetic radicalism already seemed distant from contemporary events. And Oubrerie's association with the old master made him seem like a relic.
"It was a difficult time," said Oubrerie, who remembers wearing a suit and tie as he watched students rebel in the Paris streets in 1968. "People would ask, 'Is he still alive?' Then they would say, 'Thank you very much.' They did not like his work."
By the early 1980s, with France in the midst of a recession, Oubrerie had left for a teaching job in the United States. He organized a show at the University of Kentucky's school of architecture on the Firminy project in the hope of drumming up funds. But none materialized.
In 1995 the church's half-completed base was declared a historic landmark by the state. Unable to remove it, regional and local officials relented and agreed to pay for the project. And in 2001 Oubrerie, by then resigned to a life in academia, was brought in to oversee the design, which everyone agreed would need revision.
Because French law forbids municipal expenditures on churches, the main worship space on the second floor will be used as a performance space. And Oubrerie has transformed the ground floor, originally intended as a priest's residence and Sunday school, into an exhibition space that will be used by the prestigious Museum of Modern Art in Saint- Etienne.
"When the new mayor started to look at finishing the church, he had the idea that it was going to bring them some money," Oubrerie said. "They want to make it a place for tourists. So we are going to make an information center. We are going to organize a place for tour buses at the top of the hill." He has also adapted the design to accommodate the heating and ventilation systems demanded by current building codes.
This is not a minor change. It has meant the loss of ventilation panels that would have allowed fresh air to flow through the interiors, essential to Le Corbusier's vision of an architecture in tune with the rhythms of nature.
The changes led to intense debates about authorship. How would Le Corbusier have tackled all of these issues? With no answer to that question, could the Church of Saint-Pierre be defined as part of his work?
For me the answer is no. Le Corbusier never produced finished working drawings for the church. Like any architect, he continually revised his work, and there is no way to know what changes he would have made in the final phase of design. Oubrerie is wise enough to admit that the project is a collaboration of sorts.
The apprentice bringing the master's work to fruition is an old architectural tradition. A handful of architects worked on the design of St. Peter's Basilica. Jacques-Germain Soufflot's great neo-classical church of Sainte-Geneviève in Paris, now the Panthéon, was completed by a pupil, Jean-Baptiste Rondelet.
And while some will see the changes as a betrayal of Le Corbusier's genius, the church's monolithic dome still cloaks a remarkably assured work of architecture.
In some ways the building echoes the interlocking geometric forms of his Purist period. His earliest sketches for the site show a simple geometric composition - cube, pyramid, cone - a monumental structure that suggests a primitive machine but echoes the surrounding mountains, its top sliced off as if it were tipping toward the sun.
Romain Chazalon, a 20-something architecture student who has helped oversee construction, picked me up at Firminy's small train station and drove to a ridge above the city that he said was the best vantage for a first sighting.
Even from a few hundred meters the dome's contorted form holds its own against its mountainous backdrop. A concrete channel wraps around the base of the cone to collect storm water. It also conceals a thin strip window just below that is used to deflect natural light into the interiors, part of Le Corbusier's vision of a machine wholly in tune with the natural world.
His presence is felt strongest in the approach to the building. It is set on a slight mound, its blank concrete facade facing the main road. As you ascend, you slip along the side of the building before turning abruptly and crossing a bridge that slopes up to meet the main entry. This passage forces you to slow your pace and creates a delicious sense of anticipation.
But it doesn't stop at the doors; inside, a remarkably fluid circulation loop draws you through a series of emotional stages, with the architecture mirroring your own psychic awakening. Your first sight is the altar, flanked by a lectern and a low bench embedded in the back wall where priests were intended to sit during Mass: simple concrete forms arranged with the precision of a stage set. A small chapel is tucked beneath a balcony on the right.
The floor slopes gently, almost imperceptibly downward, drawing you toward the altar. From there, you turn to face asymmetrical rows of pews that climb to the sweeping balcony at the rear. The procession ends with a narrow stairway that leads you back down from the balcony to the worship space and out into the world.
What makes this potent architecture is its ability to draw you through these spaces without any coercion. There is no single path, but you intuitively know where to go.
That experience is reinforced by the subtle use of light. The snakelike soffit, roughly at shoulder height, extends along the walls of room, from the entrance to the back of the altar to the balcony, emitting diffuse light that illuminates the path. The towering dome, 23 meters high, or 75 feet high, is pierced by two openings - one circular, the other square, both painted in bright primary colors - whose intense glow pulls the eye upward.
This intuitive sense of balance is rare. Frank Lloyd Wright achieved it in some of his great works, but not at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, whose barreling rotunda, for all its beauty, is more controlling.
The fusion of rigor and freedom at Firminy reminds us why Le Corbusier remains so intimidating. No major talent today has escaped his influence. The sweeping ramps of Rem Koolhaas's Kunsthalle in Rotterdam, or his unbuilt design for the Jussieu library in Paris, for example, could not have been imagined without the curving ramp that penetrates Le Corbusier's 1964 Carpenter Center. (Koolhaas prefers to credit Mies van der Rohe.) And the curved planes found in the work of Zaha Hadid and Ben van Berkel can be seen as the offspring of Le Corbusier's sloping floors.
Oubrerie's triumph lies in preserving the spirit of Le Corbusier's design without treating the project as a shrine. Minor changes are visible - the use of polycarbonate instead of glass in the apertures above the altar, for instance, which slightly distorts the light - but his most aggressive are in the ground-floor museum, where the overscale ducts and pivoting red doors owe as much to the Pompidou Center in Paris as to raw concrete forms of the late-period Le Corbusier. As a graceful base for his haunting dome, the museum is respectful without being slavish, which is just about right.
It's a creative dialogue between peers, as well as a gift from a student to his master. Le Corbusier's gift to his pupil, one would like to believe, was to trust him with this legacy.

By BeeBee aka Linda: I had no previous knowledge of Corbusier, as I was just looking up a google about the church of whats happening now that I use frequently. I ran across this monstrous, despicable mass of concrete that in no way resembles any churches that I have seen in my lifetime. A protege of this designer, Corbusier, started work on this church that never was finished because of a lack of funds. Then somehow the state deemed the location to be a historical landmark, we all know how politics work, and the municpal taxpayers paid for this blasphemous building. Now, mind you, France is 84% Roman Catholic, and by reading the article one learns that a certain Bishop was very displeased and refused to offer any funds toward the construction. The laws for municpal funding in France forbid the use of such funds to go toward building churches, so the building clearly does not resemble a church that I have ever seen. Will this be the future of the world, when pagan structures replace our beautiful churches, after the secualarists have done their job in removing all things Godly from the earth. This will mark the time of the anti-christs in direct war with the Lord, and we all know that the devils will lose in the end.

A WOMAN'S PLACE IN SPREADING THE GOSPEL

2006-09-29T16:34:00.000-05:00

16] But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;[17] And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God,I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:[18] And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy: Acts 2:16-18 kjv

By Beebee aka Linda: As I have been defending Envangelical Christianity lately, I got to feeling that perhaps I was engaging in hypocrisy of the scriptures, by speaking out as a woman. I found the above scriptures that made me feel much more secure in my writing about my feelings of what the Holy Bible says to me. When I defend that the Holy Bible is clearly against homosexuality, then there are those that would accuse me of judging others, which of course is a sin. My answer is that I am not judging anyone, I am just saying that false doctrine is being preached by those churches that provide excuses to disobey the the divine will of the Lord. I lead people to read the scriptures. I found something interesting online about how to minister to homosexuals, but have forgotten the source and please forgive me for using someone else's work: the article talked about that it would be wrong to tell the person that they should give up their life style and find a member of the opposite sex to marry and have children. Instead, the article advised that the person should pray and seek God's help in abstaining from the homosexual practices, altogether and be content with living as a single person. This is a sound approach, in my opinion, for someone that sincerely wants to become a Christian and follow the Lord's will.

JACOB STURM VON STURMECK-REFORMER AND POSSIBLY AN ANCESTOR OF MINE-SEE STURMS IN EARLIER POST

2006-09-28T20:18:00.000-05:00

JACOB STURM VON STURMECK (1489-1553), German statesman and reformer, was born at Strassburg, where his father, Martin Sturm-, was a person of some importance, on the loth of August 1489. He was educated at the universities of Heidelberg and Freiburg, and about 1517 he entered the service of Henry, provost of Strassburg (d. 1552), a member of the Wittelsbach family. He soon became an adherent of the reformed doctrines, and leaving the service of the provost became a me,mber of the governing body of his native city in 1524. He was responsible for the policy of Strassburg during the Peasants' War; represented the city at the Diet of Spires in 1526; and at subsequent Diets gained fame by his ardent championship of its interests. As an advocate of union among the Protestants he took part in the conference at Marburg in 1529; but when the attempts to close the breach between Lutherans and Zwinglians failed, he presented the Confessio tetrapolitana, a Zwinglian document, to the Augsburg Diet of 1530. As the representative of Strassburg Sturm signed the " protest " which was presented to the Diet of Spires in 1529, being thus one of the original Protestants." He was on friendly terms with Philip, landgrave of Hesse. Owing largely to his influence Strassburg joined the league of Schmalkalden in 1531. The troops of Strassburg took the field when the league attacked Charles V. in 1546; but in February 1547 the citizens were compelled to submit, when Sturm succeeded in securing very favourable terms from the emperor. He was also able to obtain for his native city some modification of the Interim issued from Augsburg in May 1548. Sturm is said to have been in the pay of Francis I. of France, but this seems very unlikely. He founded the Bibliothek and a gymnasium in Strassburg, where he died on the 30th of October 1553.
See H. Baumgarten, Jakob Sturm (Strassburg, 1876) A. Baum, Magistrat and Reformation in Strassburg bis 1529 (Strassburg, 1887); J. Rathgeber, Strassburg im 16 Jahrhundert (Stuttgart, 1871); O. Winckelmann, " Jakob Sturm," in the Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, Bd. xxxvii. (Leipzig, 1894); and Johannes Sturm, Consolatio ad senatum argentinensem de morte ... Jacobi Sturmii (Strassburg, 1553).
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