Ron Paul Not Electable?

One minor problem with the Republican Party is that as a party, they're...well...pathetic. But just which party is MORE pathetic?  I guess history will determine that.

If it wasn't so sad listening to people who get their news and views spoon fed to them by the main stream media, it would be laughable. Unfortunately where we've come and where we're headed is anything BUT laughable. These establishment republicans have nothing but the establishments best interest at heart, and in turn their own.  But the followers who still get led around by the nose, say they want a change and claim to realize we're in dyer straights as a country, and then listen to the same old so called "experts" who tell them every 4 yrs who is and isn't electable, then wonder why miraculously things just keep getting worse, are the real ongoing threat. But I believe their numbers are shrinking and the establishment, now more than ever, has to rig things more inconspicuously to get their way AND their man.

Speaking of their man...

The party champion Mitt Romney held a rally at Ford Field prior to the Mich primary and he had 300 or so attend.
300?  Really?

Well take a look at the reception Ron Paul gets at MSU.  This is what's truly happening that the MSM won't tell their zombie faithful.  4,000+ for a guy who's been elected 12 times and saying the same thing for 30 yrs.

Unelectable?  I think not!

Below is part 1 of the speech with the same advice that congress has ignored all this time.
This is what truth sounds like.

Cheers

The Law Isn't JUST for Lawyers Ya Know

How many times have ya heard that we're a nation of laws by the same people who write 'em and break 'em?

They seem to do so with impunity while the rest of us get hammered every day by some new law that just created another criminal.  Is it you this time?

The one thing lawmakers count on is that we'll remain ignorant and they do their level best to keep it that way.
One way of doing it is to make the law so voluminous and convoluted that the average Joe, upon seeing the size, will run the other way or find a lawyer instead of trying to tackle the actual law and understand what language their speaking.

The Jurisdictionary link top left can help you go a long way towards understanding the law itself and the game that's being played on us citizens.  How to actually read law and understand it is a vital part of protecting and maintaining our rights as Americans.  If you don't know what they are or how to protect them, they will be stripped from you as sure as you're reading this.

Reading and understanding law takes practice and at least a basic knowledge of what differentiates law from plain English.  I highly recommend you gain that knowledge before you have to. You never know these days when you're going to be faced with something you don't understand and find yourself at the receiving end of some state butt kicking.  Go to Jurisdictionary and take a look.

Cheers

Excuse Me...Your Kids?

"Take at hazard one hundred children of several educated generations and one hundred uneducated children of the people and compare them in anything you please; in strength, in agility, in mind, in the ability to acquire knowledge, even in morality — and in all respects you are startled by the vast superiority on the side of the children of the uneducated".
~ Count Leo Tolstoy, "Education and Children" (1862)

Now take the above quote and consider what's happening with children today in public schools:

Take the 19 crazy things school children are being arrested for in America.

I'll just give a few example here in case you decided not to read the article.


A 13-year-old student at a school in Albuquerque, New Mexico was recently arrested by police for burping in class.

A security guard at one school in California broke the arm of a 16-year-old girl because she left some crumbs on the floor after cleaning up some cake that she had spilled.

A 6-year-old girl down in Florida was handcuffed and sent to a mental facility after throwing temper tantrums at her elementary school.

In Allentown, Pennsylvania a 14-year-old girl was tasered in the groin area by a school security officer even though she had put up her hands in the air to surrender.

That's just a few of many, many examples of 3 very detrimental policies we Americans have allowed to become entrenched in our society.  Allowing the state to take control of our disciplinary practices as parents, to take control of our schools, and to back up and defend the actions of the mentally challenged neanderthals they call 'security officers' or 'police'.

The fact that these individuals have no problem doing what they're doing, worse yet, think it's the RIGHT thing to do, is a good indication of just what we have given up as parents and citizens.  The fact that this is even a discussion in America is pretty sad.  There will be a lot who see these and say "Well it's not happening in MY kids school so I don't have to worry about it.  I know the principal".  Then when it shows up it changes to "Well it's not happening to MY kid because he's a good boy".

Until the parents take the schools back, the state has complete and total authority over your child.  In fact, if you got a marriage license before getting married, then the state has complete control over your marriage AND the children.  In fact, legally you're raising the kids FOR the state, who is the actual authority.

There are some good things going on to combat this, but the only effort that's making any REAL difference is the home schooling movement.  Maybe it's time to consider how homeschooling has changed so many lives for the better and actually producing civic-minded, intelligent and responsible kids.

Here's a good site for Washington residents.

Worth a look-see.

 

 

 

Faux News Revealed Again

Well they've gone and done it again.  Fox News axed Judge Napolitanos show.  Anyone who speaks truth and gains a large audience as a result must go because it shines a glaring light on all of the phony dipsh*ts they put on the air for public consumption.

I've a feelin' we haven't seen the last of Judge Napolitano though.  I'm hopin' he pops up on...oh...I don't know...as Ron Paul's running mate maybe?  Being a Constitutionalist I'm sure Fox couldn't get rid of him fast enough.

2 Great Articles

If you pay attention to the main stream media, they would have you believe that Ron Paul is an 'isolationist', and would disconnect America from the world and throw Israel and our allies under the bus. The establishment stands to lose a ton of money and influence by a Ron Paul nomination, let alone presidency, and their control over the world stage and the demise of America would fall apart.

Here are 2 very good articles explaining Ron Paul's foreign policy when it comes to our military, the Constitution, and the reality of our global position. 

If you are one who likes to consider and weigh both sides of an argument before you make a decision, then other than Ron Paul's site and writings on the foreign policy of a Paul President, these 2 articles present the case extremely well. 

What is a Just War?

Ron Paul: Reactionary or Visionary?

I will leave you with a song that I thought was prophetic when it came out in the early eighties, is more appropriate now then ever, and is, in my mind, the best song ever written bar none.  No...it is NOT Vanilla Ice, it's the original song Under Pressure, and it's relevance today is obvious. Enjoy!

5 Stages of Death

As far back as I can remember I've been kind of a movie buff.  My mother has an affinity for musicals and epics and it rubbed off on me. There's been some pretty good acting, some incredible talent and some terrific stories told by movies. And for various reasons certain movies will reach out and grab ya and not let go. They are forever etched in your brain.

Roy Shieders "All That Jazz" was one of them for me.  It was a movie directed by the directer that the movie was about. Got that?  Bob Fossie I believe his name was.

Anyway, in that movie the main character, throughout the movie, is in the process of editing a film and you only see one scene from this movie he's editing.  It's a comedian doin' a stand up and going on about a book that was written about the 5 stages of death.  They show the same scene over and over in the movie and I still remember it from the '80s.

He recited the stages as:

Anger
Denial
Bargaining
Depression
And acceptance

Now this post is about a death, of sorts, and how those stages very often apply just as directly in this case, as they evidently do in the book, although I've never read it, seen it or even know who the author is.  I just know that the book exists.

The death I'm referring to is the death of ignorance as a general state of mind, an awakening, or even an individual apocalypse.  The period one goes through while having his eyes open to the reality of the world around him. When the old paradigm is first challenged, then exposed for the fallacy that it is, then discarded for the new reality, it is absolutely, positively, the death of ignorance on a grand scale.  Because for many people this process involves all 5 of the above stages.

Anger-"You don't know what you're talking about so take your ignorance elsewhere"!
Denial-"That's crazy! No way does that happen, it's impossible".
Bargaining-"Yea but it's not ALWAYS like that. Not everyone plays that game".
Depression-"Aw man it's all around me. This sucks. It's hopeless".
Acceptance-"Ok. This is the way it is. So what do I do about it? What's MY part in this whole thing"?

That entire process, the whole thing, can take a short time or a long time or somewhere in between.  It's different for everyone. There are so many variables that come into play for every individual that effect the length of time, the intensity of the process, whether or not the outcome is positive or negative and motivating or paralyzing. But it seems the one universal among those that experience this transformation, is the innate, often inarticulate FEAR of what lies beyond that curtain.  The lucky ones stumble into it and are well on their way before they realize what's happening. That can be both a good AND a bad thing depending on the individual.

I believe fear is the most debilitating emotion known to man.  It's natural, it's self-preserving, it can be all encompassing, and it can run our lives no matter how content and fearless we think we are.  And if there's an awakening out there to experience, the one emotion that can surely stop it dead in it's tracks, for better or worse, is fear as surely as I'm sittin' here.

But fear of what?  That's for every individual to determine for themselves.  I have my observations, but I can only speak for myself and my experience. What I do know, and can speak to, is that those 5 stages are very real, and very necessary.  But what they AREN'T, is something to fear.

There is an awakening to be had out here in La La Land, and it's well worth the process.  It opens your eyes and changes your life in ways you cannot imagine.  And the only thing I can guarantee is that if you find yourself going through it, you'll look back and see all the clues that were around you and wonder how in the hell you could've been so friggin' ignorant.

BTW--I tend to use that word, ignorant, quite a bit. But I hope i'm using it in context so as to clearly convey the meaning, and people will see clearly when or when not to be offended. Although I have no control over whether or not they will be.  It's a simple word that just means one lacks knowledge...that's it. And it needs to be kept in perspective.  We are all ignorant about various things and always will be. That in and of itself is the reality of the situation.  There is no such person as a 'know-it-all', but there are people who know less, that certainly like to label people who know more, as 'know-it-alls'.  I think for obvious reasons, but I could be wrong.  Those people are often referred to as the 'willfully ignorant', and they get offended pretty darn easily.  Go figure.

So if you haven't seen "All That Jazz", I highly recommend it.  And if you haven't experienced the 5 stages, I highly recommend those also.  But if you do the latter, remember to cut yourself some slack, it's what you do when you come out the other side that counts.  And as far as soul searching goes, don't worry, it's a natural byproduct. You'll know who you are afterwards, believe me.

Cheers

Property, The Forgotten Right

Most of us in America go about our daily lives not giving much thought as to whether or not our rights are being actively stripped away from us. Sure we may hear a tidbit on the radio while in transit, or catch a snippet on the local news about some poor schmuck who came up against the state and lost. But other than that we're just too busy living and planning and doing to notice or really care too much about what we have taken for granted over the last century.

It's funny how we're supposedly the "land of the free", where people come from all over the globe to realize their dreams, or at least live in relative peace and comfort while pursuing them. Yet many of the older immigrants from Europe and Russia will tell you if you ask, that we're repeating history hear in the good ol' U S of A, by creating precisely what they thought they were leaving behind.

That being said...

"Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness".  Isn't that the way it goes?

Well let's see...millions of lives snuffed out every year by abortions. So much for the "Life" part.
Millions more imprisoned and or otherwise ruined by myriad senseless laws and victimless crimes. So much for the "Liberty" part.
Then there's that "pursuit of happiness part".  The one that's often synonymous with "property".

This is the one that doesn't get much attention.  It doesn't because the "property" that's being denied most blatantly is not often reported in the news for fear of all of us urban dwellers putting 2 and 2 together and maybe stopping our 'living-planning-doing' lives long enough to pay attention.

"Property", in many many instances, is the most abused right, and the least protected.  But American Stewards is working on changing all of that county by county, and they're succeeding.  Much of what we hear in the media is based on certain assumptions that we blindly go along with, no questions asked.  We figure if it's being done, it must be right and legal. Or if it isn't, at least it's not happening to us right?

Property rights is a simple concept but a very complicated issue, and when it comes to what's happening in our counties, and why and how these things are done that we shake our heads at, it seems so monumental a task to satisfy our curiosity that we just don't bother.

So American Stewards has done a fantastic job of explaining what's been happening, how, and what's being done and taught throughout the country (mostly in the west) to educate property owners and citizens, and begin to turn this around one county at a time. So don't remain clueless if that's your case, there's too much good news from them to just ignore. Make it a part of your 'livin'-plannin'-doin' day.  It's news you'll like talking about. Especially if you have land or property.

Cheers