I rejected all phases of religion. My greatest loss was the knowledge that King Arthur did not rule the British Empire. Damnit! what else was a lie??? I remember the Movietone News films of the discovery of Jewish bones being removed from their burial pits after WW2. I had the opportunity of meeting some of the camera men who brought those movies back from Poland. I vomited again and again and had to leave the movie theater in Santa Monica. I went through this again on September 11th watching the horrors of the Twin Towers. I have many DVDs and books from that terrible morning. The question that still rings in my ears is “why again?”

Will I wake up to another news bulletin that thousands of innocent Americans were killed due to some sorry-ass leader in D.C. ignoring any warning signs? If I sound as if I am pissed off most of the time, I am!

I want to work with others to keep the brains operating in the White House. I don’t give a damn what color the POTUS or his pals might be as long as they are aware of the mess they are in. I will never buy into any excuse that God talked to anyone in the White House. I have no idea what the hell Marcus Backmann is selling to his wife’s campaign group. If the poor man is fighting homosexual problems, I don’t want to have to watch. Give the poor bastard a sewing machine and some lovely pink silk fabric and let his loose.

Carl, we don’t have to agree on any subject here at CHB. But what I would demand is that we be honest in our debate. My respecting wealth is not a moral problem. I’m certain that we could take much of the American wealth back to its inception and it might be a result of broken laws. This does not mean that all wealth is obtained by criminals.

Americans are capable of making great wealth. They are capable of creating great numbers of good-paying jobs.

Tomorrow is J.J.s birthday and she will be arriving here to celebrate it a few days later. I will expect company tomorrow and my floors must shine in cleanliness!

I will bake a lemon cake using the lovely citrus fruit picked in the morning. My lemons are lovely! Depending on who shows up, I will bake a rump roast slowly and covered with Gilroy Garlic. I have a box of goodies from John Frieda beauty products put together just for her coloring She is young enough to stay a step ahead of the age of gravity. Gravity won the fight in my case. I love doing for my girls. .

Every damn nation in all portions of the continents has been through a fight for superiority over all humans. We ended up living among those who look like each other. We managed a certain control over equality until the concept that the best Americans are all white Christian straight men. The GOP was dancing in the streets with this new division of what made up a successful American.

I expected a revolution among the GOP to rid our government of Christian laws that became not only ridiculous but redundant. They had nowhere else to go. Since the end of WW2, the GOP had nothing to base their free enterprise capitalism on because their own leaders had abused the hell out the lack of laws protecting the citizens from themselves. It is time for the American people to look directly at the “Golden Rule” and how phony the whole Christian base is founded. The majority of Americans are willing to blame God for every slimy thing they managed to do since the Separation of Church and State was abolished.

Actually I believe that America fell into corruption more quickly than other citizen-based nations. Somehow being a nation of wealth was more important than a nation of individuals of equal rights. We the People made our choices during every election we have witnessed since the end of WW2.

Instead of growing with the inventions of warfare, we dumbed our kids down with 24/7 television shows. We allowed the schools to label our own children using the alphabet soup of why they fail in schools.

Taking a new growing advanced brain from the womb and placing it in front of a television until it begins to rot with boredom has made Americans hit a new low in accomplishment. It was so bad that even our President George W. Bush had to take a step to fix things. I would have loved to have seen the books in his nursery as he was growing up with one foot in the White House. He cleverly came up with a slogan of “No Child Left Behind” that would prove without a shadow of doubt that our kids were getting dumber by the day. “Left Behind” was the clue word for scaring the hell out of the children who were being trained to discover Jesus quickly in fear of Armageddon. A series of books were published as a step into early childhood terrorism. This form of terrorism is the lowest form of abuse possible even in a nation built on liberty.

Money is not the problem, no matter what you paid for gas this morning. Money is simply the number by which we compare each other’s wealth. By the time we figure out where the problem starts, the damage will have been done.

The problem is our inability to recognize what is needed for the future of American values. Can we even define what those values represent? America is now running on bad credit with no hope of regaining our individuality. I cannot even imagine a story line more devastating than being born a negative in a world of positives.

When two negatives produce a family of negative offsprings, where does this put the whole family? Just imagine trying to explain one of those children being a homosexual. In my day, it was trying to control my left hand when it was determined that I was left-handed. We no longer even try to change which hand is preferred. When do we stop trying to change the attraction found in the same sex when puberty hits?

Who the hell is directing this show? Why is stepping out of the same rules driving others into proving their superiority? Why must we work for the first 20 years of our lives trying to look, sound, act and even end up like everybody else? It’s a futile and obnoxious way to grow up. When do we ever reach the capacity to be ourselves?

Do we have to spend all our waking hours trying to prove our sameness? Every damn time a Christian makes a statement; must he/she spend the rest of the time trying to prove what was meant?

When I was a senior in high school, I took an extension course at UCLA from Sessue Hayakawa and the subject was language in thought and action. It opened my mind into the importance of understanding each word written or spoken. It brought home the need to determine whether our words were true or made up. Were we living in a factual world or simply in the occult visions of others?

Do we seem to desire the world of other’s dreams? When do we call or raise the hands we were dealt?

A quote from the link: “The move only makes sense if Cantor wants to guard himself against a sudden and imminent collapse in Treasuries. Given the current political climate, his decision to continue to hold onto his short option could mean only one thing: he’s betting the government won’t reach a deal.”

The first sentence is spot on, which is what that type of ETF is geared to do, i.r., guard against dollar devaluation. The second sentence, however, is erroneous, as there could be a number of reasons for his buying into the ETF. Among them, is the appraisal by many of us that the value of the dollar is going down not so much because of the failure to get a debt limit increase – which will actually speed that decline, but that the Obama Administration and the Fed have already damaged the dollar beyond repair.

Anyone as knowledegable as Cantor also has it figured out that the Fed is going to institute QE3, which will further increase inflation and greatly erode the dollar’s worth, making the ETF bet a sure thing. Nothing Cantor – or anyone else in Congress could do – except get a balanced budget based on seriously reducing wasteful spending that would placate the need for more worthless dollars, could avert that outcome. That ain’t gonna happen.

Given that state of affairs, any prudent person with the ability to guard himself against dollar devaluation should/would do so. If you haven’t, better start now and hope it’s not too late.

Over the years you’ve been involved with a multiplicity of causes, party politics etc. I have not. In fact, I’m both hushed and amazed as to how many movements, groups etc. you’ve been involved with over time.

I’m informed, but not rabidly proactive. I call and write my reps on a regular basis and take the effort to go to their ‘town hall’ meetings when they show up. I’m not impressed with them or their support for our nation and the Constitution for which it stands, but they surely now how to spend and in most cases waste our tax revenues plus whatever else is borrowed from afar.

I’m 66 and I believe a few years back you revealed your age to be 78. Our world civilizations are nothing a firefly’s wink in the cosmic night and our individual lives much less so. So you and I best try to enjoy our remaining ‘short ride’ while in the cosmic amusement park…no? / : |

When I post to this site, it’s a way to release my inner thoughts concerning the order of the day on a public forum that I value highly. It’s simply my opinion and nothing else.

Peace..! : )

Carl Nemo **==

Ever since the campaign for Bush in 1999 the right wing nuts have redefined their party litmus tests. The number one focus during that election was to balance the Supreme Court onto the Christian plans for a nation based on a National plan for a biblical rewrite of the U.S. Constitution.

It put a label on all Americans as to whether they were “Pro-America” or “Anti-American” citizens.

Over the years, the labels have grown into sub-groups based on who we sleep with and/or love. We saw a new label appear this week called the new barbarians, meaning homosexuals. Are we going to have to watch a man try to cling to a sexual classification that does not fit him? This in the middle of a war against African Americans trying to look equal? Gingrich tried again to label Secular Americans as the bringers of death of freedom.

Every morning I wake up and tune into Morning Joe to see if any more labels were exposed since the previous day. It’s not the threats of losing more freedoms but the number of Americans who would be willing to give it all away

Damnit Carl, I have no card in this card game of keeping Roe v Wade legal. I’m long beyond my breeding years. I am not lusting after another woman and never did but to sit back and ignore their freedoms would make me unable to sleep as an American. I sat with a very close friend who was dying of the AIDS virus who practiced (rehearsed) how he would tell his mother that he was Gay. We both ended up in tears over the sickness of the situation.

These are people, Carl, not some names on a screen play. I was raised in a home where labels were added to new friends, new neighbors and even new relatives. I lived in the hive of the queen bee and saw her roil and cry when one of her babies stepped out of the hive. Most of my generation simply went with the wave of hypocrisy. I did not and was placed in a private boarding school to shut me up. I gave up going to college and chose to move into a one room garage just to get away from labels that offended.

Neither party has earned my vote. I knew the history of my new District’s Legislator before my books were unpacked. She may eventually vote the correct way, and I am watching!

“Could it really be that Eric Cantor, the Republican Congressman from Virginia and the House Majority Leader, bet against the market for U.S. Treasuries?”

http://www.dissentmagazine.org/atw.php?id=486

You nailed it. This IS the elephant in the room. It always has been.

declared a state of emergency to send troops into Libya. There is no doubt in my mind he will do so if there is a fiscal crisis. And perhaps this is exactly what they have in mind. They cause the problem and then promote the solution that grows their power and influence.
-woody188

Yes! This is why I love CHB! You don’t find this level of social/political consciousness anywhere else (that I know of) on the web.

… usher in the NWO’s cockamamie scheme of a one world ‘digital currency’ for all, the inflationist banking cabal’s ‘wet dream’ come true.
-CarlNemo

CarlNemo is 2 for 2!

The Hegelian Dialectic is in full motion.
If only the rest of the country were as informed.
Sigh.