Kenny Florian
Killer instinct. You either got it or you don’t, right? Wrong! I believe that killer instinct is learned and honed over time. To ward off the uneducated MMA fan, I do NOT mean “killer instinct” in the literal sense. Nobody involved in MMA is trying to kill another human being. The killer instinct I’m referring to is the kind we see in many sports. The moment a basketball player decides to dunk the ball over his opponent, the moment a football player makes the game-ending tackle, or the moment a NASCAR driver decides to pass the car in front of him: These are all examples of killer instinct.
In the cage, killer instinct is essential for finishing off your opponent with a decisive technique. There are many ingredients to the killer-instinct recipe for a MMA fighter. First of all, you must have the proper fighting skills to finish the fight. Second, you must have the tactical skills to choose the right attack. Third, you need the eye to recognize the moment to attack. Fourth, precision and timing are essential to landing your techniques. Fifth, and last, there’s the lack of sympathy for your opponent that comes at the critical moment, when you realize “it’s either you or me.” I am unsure if that comes from a dark place in your mind, in your heart, or both. But wherever it is, it is the realization that you must destroy your opponent without mercy. All these ingredients generate the thoughts and movements that combine to create the lovely crescendo of fighting will, skill, and brutality that we call “killer instinct.”
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Question Authority (Unless I Say Not To)
Anyone who dares to question authority, to propose that these false alternatives are intellectually bankrupt, is on the "fringe," you see. These are the approved alternatives, citizen. Choose from among them. The experts know what is best.
Citizen: But the experts have been all wrong! Shouldn’t we question them? Shouldn’t we listen to the people who had a clue?
Commissar: Let us hear no more of this anti-social talk about your betters. Stay away from the fringe, citizen. Listen to the experts.
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Citizen: But the experts have been all wrong! Shouldn’t we question them? Shouldn’t we listen to the people who had a clue?
Commissar: Let us hear no more of this anti-social talk about your betters. Stay away from the fringe, citizen. Listen to the experts.
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A Taste of American "Democracy"
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
Free health care for everyone is possible, without raising taxes. Cost is not the issue, the government has plenty of money already. The problem is that the thought of sacrificing any corporate and government wealth on such a service is inconceivable to them.
The United States is a Constitutional Republic, not a democracy. Government, however, spends billions of your dollars and thousands of man-hours trying to convince the general public otherwise. Yet, when faced with a situation that can be categorized as an exercise in democracy, the myth of "majority rule" is exposed for the lie that it really is. Government has become one that does not care about the People, only money and power. They make the decisions. You don't.
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Osama bin Dead
Two weeks ago, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zadari suggested that Osama bin Laden might be dead, saying that U.S. and Pakistani intelligence agencies had been unable to detect any sign of the world’s most wanted man since an audio recording of his voice was released in March.
Sunday morning, Zadari went further: “I don’t think he’s alive,” the president told NBC’s David Gregory. “I have a strong feeling and reason to believe that.” Zadari continued: “I have asked my counterparts in the American intelligence services and they haven’t heard [from] him in seven years.”
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PARIS ? Osama bin Laden is dead. The news first came from sources in Afghanistan and Pakistan almost six months ago: the fugitive died in December and was buried in the mountains of southeast Afghanistan. Pakistan's president, Pervez Musharraf, echoed the information. The remnants of Osama's gang, however, have mostly stayed silent, either to keep Osama's ghost alive or because they have no means of communication.
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On October 24 [2001] a Chinese internet news site, Zhongxin Wang, ran a piece describing in detail the purported assassination of Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar by members of their retinue at an underground base near Kandahar on October 16. They were both shot twice in the back. One of bin Laden's sons and two of Omar's were also killed. The story was picked up today by the Tokyo-based Yomiuru Shimbun, the largest daily newspaper in Japan.
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Usama bin Laden has died a peaceful death due to an untreated lung complication, the Pakistan Observer reported, citing a Taliban leader who allegedly attended the funeral of the Al Qaeda leader.
"The Coalition troops are engaged in a mad search operation but they would never be able to fulfill their cherished goal of getting Usama alive or dead," the source said.
Bin Laden, according to the source, was suffering from a serious lung complication and succumbed to the disease in mid-December, in the vicinity of the Tora Bora mountains. The source claimed that bin Laden was laid to rest honorably in his last abode and his grave was made as per his Wahabi belief.
About 30 close associates of bin Laden in Al Qaeda, including his most trusted and personal bodyguards, his family members and some "Taliban friends," attended the funeral rites. A volley of bullets was also fired to pay final tribute to the "great leader."
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Earlier on Saturday, the French newspaper L'Est Republicain cited a report by the French intelligence service, Direction Generale des Services Exteriors (DGSE), saying that Saudi intelligence officials "seem to have become convinced that Osama bin Laden is dead." The report quoted by the newspaper said the Saudis believe bin Laden "might have succumbed to a very serious case of typhoid fever resulting in partial paralysis of his lower limbs while in Pakistan on August 23, 2006."
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Prime Minister Benazir Bhuto: Osama bin Laden murdered - Video (5min, 32sec in)
What was the opinion of OBL at the White House? This.
Hmmmmm.
Sunday morning, Zadari went further: “I don’t think he’s alive,” the president told NBC’s David Gregory. “I have a strong feeling and reason to believe that.” Zadari continued: “I have asked my counterparts in the American intelligence services and they haven’t heard [from] him in seven years.”
Read more...
PARIS ? Osama bin Laden is dead. The news first came from sources in Afghanistan and Pakistan almost six months ago: the fugitive died in December and was buried in the mountains of southeast Afghanistan. Pakistan's president, Pervez Musharraf, echoed the information. The remnants of Osama's gang, however, have mostly stayed silent, either to keep Osama's ghost alive or because they have no means of communication.
Read more...
On October 24 [2001] a Chinese internet news site, Zhongxin Wang, ran a piece describing in detail the purported assassination of Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar by members of their retinue at an underground base near Kandahar on October 16. They were both shot twice in the back. One of bin Laden's sons and two of Omar's were also killed. The story was picked up today by the Tokyo-based Yomiuru Shimbun, the largest daily newspaper in Japan.
Read more...
Usama bin Laden has died a peaceful death due to an untreated lung complication, the Pakistan Observer reported, citing a Taliban leader who allegedly attended the funeral of the Al Qaeda leader.
"The Coalition troops are engaged in a mad search operation but they would never be able to fulfill their cherished goal of getting Usama alive or dead," the source said.
Bin Laden, according to the source, was suffering from a serious lung complication and succumbed to the disease in mid-December, in the vicinity of the Tora Bora mountains. The source claimed that bin Laden was laid to rest honorably in his last abode and his grave was made as per his Wahabi belief.
About 30 close associates of bin Laden in Al Qaeda, including his most trusted and personal bodyguards, his family members and some "Taliban friends," attended the funeral rites. A volley of bullets was also fired to pay final tribute to the "great leader."
Read more...
Earlier on Saturday, the French newspaper L'Est Republicain cited a report by the French intelligence service, Direction Generale des Services Exteriors (DGSE), saying that Saudi intelligence officials "seem to have become convinced that Osama bin Laden is dead." The report quoted by the newspaper said the Saudis believe bin Laden "might have succumbed to a very serious case of typhoid fever resulting in partial paralysis of his lower limbs while in Pakistan on August 23, 2006."
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Prime Minister Benazir Bhuto: Osama bin Laden murdered - Video (5min, 32sec in)
What was the opinion of OBL at the White House? This.
Hmmmmm.
Friday, May 8, 2009
Cincinnati City Council's Pot Policy Hypocrisy
Council Makes Permanent Marijuana Ordinance
Cincinnati's ordinance beefing-up the penalties for marijuana possession isn't going anywhere.
It would have expired Wednesday, but council made sure that it didn't.
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*Here is what happened last year:
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Special Report! The Effectiveness of Ordinance 910-23 (The Cincinnati Anti-Marijuana Law)
After intense lobbying, I was able to convince Council members Jeff Berding and Leslie Ghiz to amend the ordinance with a sunset clause, which means the law will expire on March 29th of this year unless renewed.
Despite the solid evidence that increasing marijuana penalties would increase crime and despite the fact that not one citizen testified in favor of the new law, six out of nine City Council members voted for the ordinance. Vice Mayor Jim Tarbell and Council member David Crowley voted against it. Council member Jeff Berding was not present for the vote.
At the full Council vote on this ordinance, several council members expressed skepticism about its potential effectiveness. The history of the war on drugs shows that that skepticism was well-founded.
During the vote on this ordinance last year, two Council members made a promise. Cecil Thomas said: “And I promise you, if the statistics do not show that this is helping a year from now, I’ll be the first to say it’s not working.” Leslie Ghiz said: “And I promise you…in twelve months I will beat Mr. Thomas to the punch. If we do not have statistics it is working and it is curbing the drug crimes in this city, I will be the first to ask to have it repealed.” I called the offices of Mr. Thomas and Ms. Ghiz to ask for comments on their statements, but my calls were not returned.
Cincinnati's ordinance beefing-up the penalties for marijuana possession isn't going anywhere.
It would have expired Wednesday, but council made sure that it didn't.
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*Here is what happened last year:
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Special Report! The Effectiveness of Ordinance 910-23 (The Cincinnati Anti-Marijuana Law)
After intense lobbying, I was able to convince Council members Jeff Berding and Leslie Ghiz to amend the ordinance with a sunset clause, which means the law will expire on March 29th of this year unless renewed.
Despite the solid evidence that increasing marijuana penalties would increase crime and despite the fact that not one citizen testified in favor of the new law, six out of nine City Council members voted for the ordinance. Vice Mayor Jim Tarbell and Council member David Crowley voted against it. Council member Jeff Berding was not present for the vote.
At the full Council vote on this ordinance, several council members expressed skepticism about its potential effectiveness. The history of the war on drugs shows that that skepticism was well-founded.
During the vote on this ordinance last year, two Council members made a promise. Cecil Thomas said: “And I promise you, if the statistics do not show that this is helping a year from now, I’ll be the first to say it’s not working.” Leslie Ghiz said: “And I promise you…in twelve months I will beat Mr. Thomas to the punch. If we do not have statistics it is working and it is curbing the drug crimes in this city, I will be the first to ask to have it repealed.” I called the offices of Mr. Thomas and Ms. Ghiz to ask for comments on their statements, but my calls were not returned.
Facebook urged to remove Holocaust-denial groups
Editor's note: Questioning specific numbers of victims of the holocaust, as well as any criticism of Israeli action or policy is prosecutable under "hate crime" and "hate speech" legislation as "anti-semitism". In other words, if you don't agree with it, you are a Jew-hater. The United States gives billions of tax dollars to Israel every year.
(CNN) -- Part of the power of social networking is the ability to form communities with like-minded individuals.
But what happens when those communities are offensive to others?
That issue is at the heart of attempts by a Dallas, Texas, attorney to have social-networking site Facebook remove pages for Holocaust deniers.
The Holocaust Denial movement seeks to deny or minimize the Holocaust, in which Nazis killed about six million European Jews during World War II.
Attorney Brian Cuban, brother of Dallas Mavericks team owner Mark Cuban, has been trying since last year to have the pages of groups with such names as "Holocaust: A Series of Lies," and "Holocaust is a Holohoax" removed from Facebook.
He pointed out that Facebook has removed groups based on complaints before and said the site is "setting the subjective standard on what they remove and what they don't."
"There is no First Amendment right to free speech in the private realm," Cuban said. "This isn't a freedom-of-speech issue. Facebook is free to set the standard that they wish."
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(CNN) -- Part of the power of social networking is the ability to form communities with like-minded individuals.
But what happens when those communities are offensive to others?
That issue is at the heart of attempts by a Dallas, Texas, attorney to have social-networking site Facebook remove pages for Holocaust deniers.
The Holocaust Denial movement seeks to deny or minimize the Holocaust, in which Nazis killed about six million European Jews during World War II.
Attorney Brian Cuban, brother of Dallas Mavericks team owner Mark Cuban, has been trying since last year to have the pages of groups with such names as "Holocaust: A Series of Lies," and "Holocaust is a Holohoax" removed from Facebook.
He pointed out that Facebook has removed groups based on complaints before and said the site is "setting the subjective standard on what they remove and what they don't."
"There is no First Amendment right to free speech in the private realm," Cuban said. "This isn't a freedom-of-speech issue. Facebook is free to set the standard that they wish."
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A taste of the 2nd Amendment
I'll take my chances with the right to bear arms over gun control, thank you.
*update:
The Frontsight facility is actually finished. They'll send you a free 90 minute DVD that is newer than this video.
*freebie training video here
*update:
The Frontsight facility is actually finished. They'll send you a free 90 minute DVD that is newer than this video.
*freebie training video here
Fantastic Natural Phenomena
The classical natural wonders are huge and hard to miss - vast canyons, giant mountains and the like.. Many of the most fantastic natural phenomena, however, are also least easy to spot. Some are incredibly rare while others are located in hard-to-reach parts of the planet. From moving rocks to mammatus clouds and red tides to fire rainbows, here are seven of the most spectacular phenomenal wonders of the natural world.
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Wednesday, May 6, 2009
College Student Shoots, Kills Home Invader
COLLEGE PARK, Ga. -- A group of college students said they are lucky to be alive and they’re thanking the quick-thinking of one of their own. Police said a fellow student shot and killed one of two masked me who burst into an apartment.
Channel 2 Action News reporter Tom Jones met with one of the students to talk about the incident.
“Apparently, his intent was to rape and murder us all,” said student Charles Bailey.
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*This is an example of how "gun control" legislation protects criminals and results in the deaths of countless more people, who are actually just more victims of the criminals. Criminals, by definition, disregard the law. so to think that anti-gun laws will keep criminals from getting guns is beyond dumb. Another example is the Virginia Tech shooting. More people died because guns were not allowed on campus, so no one could defend themselves or the people around them.
Channel 2 Action News reporter Tom Jones met with one of the students to talk about the incident.
“Apparently, his intent was to rape and murder us all,” said student Charles Bailey.
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*This is an example of how "gun control" legislation protects criminals and results in the deaths of countless more people, who are actually just more victims of the criminals. Criminals, by definition, disregard the law. so to think that anti-gun laws will keep criminals from getting guns is beyond dumb. Another example is the Virginia Tech shooting. More people died because guns were not allowed on campus, so no one could defend themselves or the people around them.
Prison Awaiting Hostile Bloggers
Proposed congressional legislation would demand up to two years in prison for those whose electronic speech is meant to “coerce, intimidate, harass, or cause substantial emotional distress to a person.”
Instead of prison, perhaps we should say gulag.
The proposal by Rep. Linda Sanchez, D-Los Angeles, would never pass First Amendment muster, unless the U.S. Constitution was altered without us knowing. So Sanchez, and the 14 other lawmakers who signed on to the proposal, are grandstanding to show the public they care about children and are opposed to cyberbullying.
The meaasure, H.R. 1966, is labeled the Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act. It’s designed to target the behavior that led to last year’s suicide of the 13-year-old Meier.
In response to Meier’s suicide, prosecutors turned to an anti-hacking statute, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and prosecuted Lori Drew. She was accused of violating MySpace’s terms of service agreement in what prosecutors said was a complex conspiracy to harass Meier via a fake MySpace online profile.
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Instead of prison, perhaps we should say gulag.
The proposal by Rep. Linda Sanchez, D-Los Angeles, would never pass First Amendment muster, unless the U.S. Constitution was altered without us knowing. So Sanchez, and the 14 other lawmakers who signed on to the proposal, are grandstanding to show the public they care about children and are opposed to cyberbullying.
The meaasure, H.R. 1966, is labeled the Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act. It’s designed to target the behavior that led to last year’s suicide of the 13-year-old Meier.
In response to Meier’s suicide, prosecutors turned to an anti-hacking statute, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and prosecuted Lori Drew. She was accused of violating MySpace’s terms of service agreement in what prosecutors said was a complex conspiracy to harass Meier via a fake MySpace online profile.
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Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Who Killed Kata?
Welcome to the 1930s black and white detective story in my mind: I’m sitting in my office on a dark New York night. The camera pans across the outside of my dreary building, then up to my dimly lit window, as you hear a subway train scream past. Cut to the window, “Mayhem Miller - Private Investigator.”
I lay my head on my desk, pull a puff from my cigarette and lay my brimmed hat beside me. I stare deep into an empty bottle of whiskey. The name’s Miller. I’m a gumshoe. A private Eye, a dick. Call me what you will, I call it a living. A meager one at that, see. The Great Depression has hit like a ton of bricks, and all that I got to comfort me is this here bottle of whiskey and this pack of Jack Johnsons. At least nothing like this will ever happen again. Not with the New Deal and all that jazz. At least real estate is a sure thing.
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*caution: "language"
I lay my head on my desk, pull a puff from my cigarette and lay my brimmed hat beside me. I stare deep into an empty bottle of whiskey. The name’s Miller. I’m a gumshoe. A private Eye, a dick. Call me what you will, I call it a living. A meager one at that, see. The Great Depression has hit like a ton of bricks, and all that I got to comfort me is this here bottle of whiskey and this pack of Jack Johnsons. At least nothing like this will ever happen again. Not with the New Deal and all that jazz. At least real estate is a sure thing.
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*caution: "language"
Drug companies abuse power by quashing evidence linking vaccines to autism
By Nicole Crosby
Posted: 04/30/2009 04:27:59 PM EDT
It's day 30 of Autism Awareness Month, which means 2,160 new cases of autism were added this month -- one every 20 minutes. At a cost of $3 million per child, the bill for this epidemic -- $90 billion per year -- will hit every pocketbook and every school budget. Hard.
And yet, the Centers for Disease Control deny an autism epidemic exists. Polio was considered epidemic when the numbers reached 1 in 3,000, but not so for autism, which now affects 1 in 150 -- a 100-fold increase in 30 years. The Department of Education puts the autism rate even higher: 1 in 67. Somali Immigrants in Minnesota who didn't even have a word for "autism" in their country are seeing an astonishing 1 in 28 autism rate in their children. Yet the CDC and the American Academy of Pediatrics claim "better diagnosis" explains the increase in autism cases. If so, then in 1992, 93 percent of kids with autism were missed. That's how many more children are receiving services for autism in schools today.
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Posted: 04/30/2009 04:27:59 PM EDT
It's day 30 of Autism Awareness Month, which means 2,160 new cases of autism were added this month -- one every 20 minutes. At a cost of $3 million per child, the bill for this epidemic -- $90 billion per year -- will hit every pocketbook and every school budget. Hard.
And yet, the Centers for Disease Control deny an autism epidemic exists. Polio was considered epidemic when the numbers reached 1 in 3,000, but not so for autism, which now affects 1 in 150 -- a 100-fold increase in 30 years. The Department of Education puts the autism rate even higher: 1 in 67. Somali Immigrants in Minnesota who didn't even have a word for "autism" in their country are seeing an astonishing 1 in 28 autism rate in their children. Yet the CDC and the American Academy of Pediatrics claim "better diagnosis" explains the increase in autism cases. If so, then in 1992, 93 percent of kids with autism were missed. That's how many more children are receiving services for autism in schools today.
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Monday, May 4, 2009
What's Up With Social Security?
by Judge Sixkiller
Many years have passed since that day as a young boy when I put my John Hancock on my new Social Security card. With looping, elementary cursive letters I followed the instructions of the adult presenting the card, and confirmed my identity as a legitimate American citizen. Of course, at the time I had no idea what the card and number actually were.
The card, and the reason I eventually was given as to why it is necessary to have such a number, seemed fairly innocuous: the government puts social security tax money in savings and investments, and in turn provides me with steady income after I retire. As I got older, I began to notice that my Social Security number was required in all sorts of transactions, from opening a bank account to getting a cell phone account to getting a job. So, like anyone who questions authority and never made a lot of money, I wanted to know exactly where that money goes, and why a supposed retirement account number is used by outside agencies for totally unrelated matters.
This subject leads down more than a rabbit hole. It's more like a mirkat or prarie dog hole, with branches and sub-branches and dead ends that are enough to make you stop trying to find your way around and just curl into a ball and weep uncontrollably. The following is a basic summary of observations of the law regarding Social Security, its sources of funding and investment, and its actual use and enforcement by government and various commercial institutions.
Government, out of kindness and concern for our well-being, decided that it would use its impeccable knowledge and record of fiscal wisdom and responsibility to enact Social Security as a retirement program, considered a contract between an individual and the government to volunteer a withholding tax from the individual's wages in return for future retirement benefits. This voluntary contract for working-age adults is pushed on parents of newborns and pre-public school children (who are obviously too young to work or understand and agree to a contract) as a requirement. After being assigned a number, participation in Social Security cannot be terminated without filling out a form declaring that paying into the program is against your religion, complete with church member witness signatures. Employers are not required by law to obtain your Social Security number, but try to get a job without giving it to them and see what happens. There is no law requiring parents to apply for a Social Security number for their child, nor any law requiring an employed person to have one. No business in general is authorized by law to request your Social Security number, although the PATRIOT Act requires financial institutions to provide the Social Security or tax ID number of its customers to the government, in order to check the names against terrorist and fraud/counterfeiters lists. At the same time, businesses frequently do ask for it, and often refuse service if you refuse to provide it. The Social Security Administration says that your number is not to be used as an ID number, and rightly so, since free America has historically been fiercely opposed to the notion of a mandatory identification number, rendering such a number unlawful. Meanwhile, the Social Security card has been stealthily elevated above its legal purpose to become regarded as a secondary driver's license in cases of identification and verification.
A Ponzi or pyramid scheme is described as a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to investors from their own money or money paid by subsequent investors rather than from any actual profit earned. These schemes are illegal, and persons involved are subject to criminal prosecution. Through investigation and even government admission, the Social Security trust fund has been proven insolvent for years. Goverment "borrowed" the money a long time ago. There is no money other than that taken in by the "voluntary" tax - so, in essence, all retiree benefits are paid out using only the payments from those who aren't retired yet.
Obviously the facts raise several questions. Why do I get a number at birth if it's for working adults? How can a Social Security number be both voluntary and mandatory? Why is the revenue not in trust or investments? Why did I never get to vote on this tax? Why is my employer unaware of the law? What right does government have to presume to know how to plan for my retirement better than I can? Where did the money go? Will I have access to the money I paid into the system? Without a complete shift in public awareness, the truth will continue to be twisted, manipulated and hidden by those who have the most to gain from doing so. In the meantime, suffice it to say 2+2=4. The whole thing stinks.
Related: Medicare is a Ponzi scheme
Many years have passed since that day as a young boy when I put my John Hancock on my new Social Security card. With looping, elementary cursive letters I followed the instructions of the adult presenting the card, and confirmed my identity as a legitimate American citizen. Of course, at the time I had no idea what the card and number actually were.
The card, and the reason I eventually was given as to why it is necessary to have such a number, seemed fairly innocuous: the government puts social security tax money in savings and investments, and in turn provides me with steady income after I retire. As I got older, I began to notice that my Social Security number was required in all sorts of transactions, from opening a bank account to getting a cell phone account to getting a job. So, like anyone who questions authority and never made a lot of money, I wanted to know exactly where that money goes, and why a supposed retirement account number is used by outside agencies for totally unrelated matters.
This subject leads down more than a rabbit hole. It's more like a mirkat or prarie dog hole, with branches and sub-branches and dead ends that are enough to make you stop trying to find your way around and just curl into a ball and weep uncontrollably. The following is a basic summary of observations of the law regarding Social Security, its sources of funding and investment, and its actual use and enforcement by government and various commercial institutions.
Government, out of kindness and concern for our well-being, decided that it would use its impeccable knowledge and record of fiscal wisdom and responsibility to enact Social Security as a retirement program, considered a contract between an individual and the government to volunteer a withholding tax from the individual's wages in return for future retirement benefits. This voluntary contract for working-age adults is pushed on parents of newborns and pre-public school children (who are obviously too young to work or understand and agree to a contract) as a requirement. After being assigned a number, participation in Social Security cannot be terminated without filling out a form declaring that paying into the program is against your religion, complete with church member witness signatures. Employers are not required by law to obtain your Social Security number, but try to get a job without giving it to them and see what happens. There is no law requiring parents to apply for a Social Security number for their child, nor any law requiring an employed person to have one. No business in general is authorized by law to request your Social Security number, although the PATRIOT Act requires financial institutions to provide the Social Security or tax ID number of its customers to the government, in order to check the names against terrorist and fraud/counterfeiters lists. At the same time, businesses frequently do ask for it, and often refuse service if you refuse to provide it. The Social Security Administration says that your number is not to be used as an ID number, and rightly so, since free America has historically been fiercely opposed to the notion of a mandatory identification number, rendering such a number unlawful. Meanwhile, the Social Security card has been stealthily elevated above its legal purpose to become regarded as a secondary driver's license in cases of identification and verification.
A Ponzi or pyramid scheme is described as a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to investors from their own money or money paid by subsequent investors rather than from any actual profit earned. These schemes are illegal, and persons involved are subject to criminal prosecution. Through investigation and even government admission, the Social Security trust fund has been proven insolvent for years. Goverment "borrowed" the money a long time ago. There is no money other than that taken in by the "voluntary" tax - so, in essence, all retiree benefits are paid out using only the payments from those who aren't retired yet.
Obviously the facts raise several questions. Why do I get a number at birth if it's for working adults? How can a Social Security number be both voluntary and mandatory? Why is the revenue not in trust or investments? Why did I never get to vote on this tax? Why is my employer unaware of the law? What right does government have to presume to know how to plan for my retirement better than I can? Where did the money go? Will I have access to the money I paid into the system? Without a complete shift in public awareness, the truth will continue to be twisted, manipulated and hidden by those who have the most to gain from doing so. In the meantime, suffice it to say 2+2=4. The whole thing stinks.
Related: Medicare is a Ponzi scheme
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Not Your Granny's Gospel Music
Grammy Award-nominated song "Nothing Left", from Christian metalcore band As I Lay Dying. I'm posting this because of all the boogyman screams coming from the boob-tube about pandemics and quarantines. And because they just kick arse.
The video has a part 2: this time to the song "The Sound of Truth".
If the pandemic alert level is raised to 6, the highest level, I'd better be hacking my neighbors up with a chainsaw or something because they changed into flesh-eating zombies. If not, shut the #@!% up.
The video has a part 2: this time to the song "The Sound of Truth".
If the pandemic alert level is raised to 6, the highest level, I'd better be hacking my neighbors up with a chainsaw or something because they changed into flesh-eating zombies. If not, shut the #@!% up.
Fresh interest in Ayn Rand
'Atlas Shrugged': From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years
Some years ago when I worked at the libertarian Cato Institute, we used to label any new hire who had not yet read "Atlas Shrugged" a "virgin." Being conversant in Ayn Rand's classic novel about the economic carnage caused by big government run amok was practically a job requirement. If only "Atlas" were required reading for every member of Congress and political appointee in the Obama administration. I'm confident that we'd get out of the current financial mess a lot faster.
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Is Rand Relevant?
Ayn Rand died more than a quarter of a century ago, yet her name appears regularly in discussions of our current economic turmoil. Pundits including Rush Limbaugh and Rick Santelli urge listeners to read her books, and her magnum opus, "Atlas Shrugged," is selling at a faster rate today than at any time during its 51-year history.
There's a reason. In "Atlas," Rand tells the story of the U.S. economy crumbling under the weight of crushing government interventions and regulations. Meanwhile, blaming greed and the free market, Washington responds with more controls that only deepen the crisis. Sound familiar?
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If you’ve been checked the news lately, you may have heard references to Atlas Shrugged.
What are they talking about?
Atlas Shrugged was Rand’s magnum opus with a simple moral: Politicians invariably respond to crises — that in most cases they themselves created — by creating new government programs, laws and regulations which only increase the downward spiral as the “motor of the world” stops.
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Churchgoers more likely to back torture, survey finds
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The more often Americans go to church, the more likely they are to support the torture of suspected terrorists, according to a new analysis.
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Friday, May 1, 2009
The Franklin School: Conspiracy to Corrupt
Western civilization at the present day is passing through a crisis which is essentially different from anything that has been previously experienced. Other societies in the past have changed their social institutions or their religious beliefs under the influence of external forces or the slow development of internal growth. But none, like our own, has ever consciously faced the prospect of a fundamental alteration of the beliefs and institutions on which the whole fabric of social life rests ... Civilization is being uprooted from its foundations in nature and tradition and is being reconstituted in a new organisation which is as artificial and mechanical as a modern factory.
Christopher Dawson. Enquiries into Religion and Culture, p. 259.
Basically, the Frankfurt School believed that as long as an individual had the belief - or even the hope of belief - that his divine gift of reason could solve the problems facing society, then that society would never reach the state of hopelessness and alienation that they considered necessary to provoke socialist revolution. Their task, therefore, was as swiftly as possible to undermine the Judaeo-Christian legacy. To do this they called for the most negative destructive criticism possible of every sphere of life which would be designed to de-stabilize society and bring down what they saw as the ‘oppressive’ order. Their policies, they hoped, would spread like a virus—‘continuing the work of the Western Marxists by other means’ as one of their members noted.
To further the advance of their ‘quiet’ cultural revolution - but giving us no ideas about their plans for the future - the School recommended (among other things):
1. The creation of racism offences.
2. Continual change to create confusion
3. The teaching of sex and homosexuality to children
4. The undermining of schools’ and teachers’ authority
5. Huge immigration to destroy identity.
6. The promotion of excessive drinking
7. Emptying of churches
8. An unreliable legal system with bias against victims of crime
9. Dependency on the state or state benefits
10. Control and dumbing down of media
11. Encouraging the breakdown of the family
One of the main ideas of the Frankfurt School was to exploit Freud’s idea of ‘pansexualism’ - the search for pleasure, the exploitation of the differences between the sexes, the overthrowing of traditional relationships between men and women. To further their aims they would:
• attack the authority of the father, deny the specific roles of father and mother, and wrest away from families their rights as primary educators of their children.
• abolish differences in the education of boys and girls
• abolish all forms of male dominance - hence the presence of women in the armed forces
• declare women to be an ‘oppressed class’ and men as ‘oppressors’
Munzenberg summed up the Frankfurt School’s long-term operation thus: ‘We will make the West so corrupt that it stinks.'
The School believed there were two types of revolution: (a) political and (b) cultural. Cultural revolution demolishes from within. ‘Modern forms of subjection are marked by mildness’. They saw it as a long-term project and kept their sights clearly focused on the family, education, media, sex and popular culture.
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Christopher Dawson. Enquiries into Religion and Culture, p. 259.
Basically, the Frankfurt School believed that as long as an individual had the belief - or even the hope of belief - that his divine gift of reason could solve the problems facing society, then that society would never reach the state of hopelessness and alienation that they considered necessary to provoke socialist revolution. Their task, therefore, was as swiftly as possible to undermine the Judaeo-Christian legacy. To do this they called for the most negative destructive criticism possible of every sphere of life which would be designed to de-stabilize society and bring down what they saw as the ‘oppressive’ order. Their policies, they hoped, would spread like a virus—‘continuing the work of the Western Marxists by other means’ as one of their members noted.
To further the advance of their ‘quiet’ cultural revolution - but giving us no ideas about their plans for the future - the School recommended (among other things):
1. The creation of racism offences.
2. Continual change to create confusion
3. The teaching of sex and homosexuality to children
4. The undermining of schools’ and teachers’ authority
5. Huge immigration to destroy identity.
6. The promotion of excessive drinking
7. Emptying of churches
8. An unreliable legal system with bias against victims of crime
9. Dependency on the state or state benefits
10. Control and dumbing down of media
11. Encouraging the breakdown of the family
One of the main ideas of the Frankfurt School was to exploit Freud’s idea of ‘pansexualism’ - the search for pleasure, the exploitation of the differences between the sexes, the overthrowing of traditional relationships between men and women. To further their aims they would:
• attack the authority of the father, deny the specific roles of father and mother, and wrest away from families their rights as primary educators of their children.
• abolish differences in the education of boys and girls
• abolish all forms of male dominance - hence the presence of women in the armed forces
• declare women to be an ‘oppressed class’ and men as ‘oppressors’
Munzenberg summed up the Frankfurt School’s long-term operation thus: ‘We will make the West so corrupt that it stinks.'
The School believed there were two types of revolution: (a) political and (b) cultural. Cultural revolution demolishes from within. ‘Modern forms of subjection are marked by mildness’. They saw it as a long-term project and kept their sights clearly focused on the family, education, media, sex and popular culture.
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What is the Price for Your Child's Life?
Michael Rivero
No, seriously, how much would you charge me to let me kill your kid? I'll make up a whole batch of comfortable lies about it so you can assuage your guilt when your kid comes home in a cheap box with a cheaper flag draped over it, but, c'mon, let's talk money here. How much?
No?
Ummm, okay, how much will you charge me to let someone else's kids get killed? Better deal, huh? You don't have to know them, and I'll try to make sure you don't have to see them.
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No, seriously, how much would you charge me to let me kill your kid? I'll make up a whole batch of comfortable lies about it so you can assuage your guilt when your kid comes home in a cheap box with a cheaper flag draped over it, but, c'mon, let's talk money here. How much?
No?
Ummm, okay, how much will you charge me to let someone else's kids get killed? Better deal, huh? You don't have to know them, and I'll try to make sure you don't have to see them.
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Conditioning the Public
Civil liberty is more than your right to "go to the movies". Your rights are not subject to the permission of a government official.
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."Franklin's Contributions to the Conference on February 17 (III) Fri, Feb 17, 1775
Columbine Rooftop Sniper Footage
Posted by ZoloftBusted on Thu, 04/30/2009 - 5:25pm
Quoted from the 2000 Jefferson County Sheriff’s Report:
“Denver Police Department put out a call to respond to Columbine about 11:30 a.m. and members of its team also went with the first ad hoc SWAT group advancing on the school. Many of its members, armed with AR-15 rifles, provided suppression fire [but there are NO ballistics reports documenting where the bullets they fired ended up! Also, how do you lay down "suppression fire" when you've got two shooters mixed up with hundreds of innocent students and teachers inside a large building?] during attempts to rescue...."
http://columbinefamilyrequest.org/?page_id=500
Quoted from the 2000 Jefferson County Sheriff’s Report:
“Denver Police Department put out a call to respond to Columbine about 11:30 a.m. and members of its team also went with the first ad hoc SWAT group advancing on the school. Many of its members, armed with AR-15 rifles, provided suppression fire [but there are NO ballistics reports documenting where the bullets they fired ended up! Also, how do you lay down "suppression fire" when you've got two shooters mixed up with hundreds of innocent students and teachers inside a large building?] during attempts to rescue...."
http://columbinefamilyrequest.org/?page_id=500
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