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October
06 , 2008 This week starts our
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Well, the month of September is gone, and good riddance. It is a late Fall (I'm sitting here on Monday morning with 60F temps, and that is after the first nighttime lows below 40 degrees in three months, in this part of the Black Hills), and a hard start to the official election season. This week started out a LOT better, freedom-wise and economic-wise, than it ended, sadly. October will be better, at least after this week - it certainly would be scary if it is worse. Still, DC is trying its best to make it bad. The
Great Bank Holdup of 2008: Bottom
line:
The
Current "Economic Crisis" Government - this federal government, and the state governments that tolerate and enable and support it, and the local governments that cooperate with it - is a cancer, and it has just demonstrated its malignancy. Immediate and decisive, drastic action is necessary: it is no longer a matter of adjusting diet, or a biopsy here, or an excisement there. It is no longer even a matter for chemotherapy or radiation therapy or some other therapy by itself. The cancer must be killed. Now. If we do not wish to see our nation, our community, our liberty dead - dead and buried, we must kill the government before it kills us. There is no choice. I do not know how this will be done. But it must be done. Now, not later. It is not rebellion. It is not even revolution, except in the broadest sense. I fear that it IS armed action. (Read the rest here)
An
Election Day Sermon I Would Like To Preach While I will touch on numerous contemporary political and social issues, a few things will be off limits. Specifically, I will not be mentioning any candidate, party or contemporary political figure. Indeed, I will not even mention my own party affiliation. And I will not talk about voting. Christianity is an intellectual exercise. We are called to love God with all our heart, soul and mind. (Matthew 22:37) We come to church to glorify God. God gave us each an absolutely incredible brain that does 20 trillion calculations every second. We glorify God when we engage and stimulate our brains, not when we turn them into apple sauce talking about Tuesday's election. (Read the rest here)
Reverberations
and Synergies Sound is a funny thing. In the Civil War, entire battles were sometimes fought within a few miles of troops who passed the day unaware that their comrades-in-arms were fighting desperately. In other times and places, the sounds of battle have reverberated and carried for many miles. This is especially true across bodies of water. You know, like Smith Lake. For sound and fury, the skirmish at the old Gordon cabin hadn't been much as skirmishes go, all the gunfire being one-sided. And Smith Lake and the Bankhead National Forest are no strangers to echoing gunshots from hunters, target shooters and occasional drunken white boys blasting holes in federal, state and local signage. But automatic weapons fire is a bit rarer and would have drawn the notice of curious passersby -- not that there were many of those in Charlie Quintard's neck of the woods -- even in the peaceful days before the Battle of Sipsey Street and the disappearance of the first four ATF agents right afterward. But now? (Read the rest here) (Sample chapters from the novel "Absolved.") From
The Archives Some folks responded to my last article, "For Her Safety" by asking me to write in more detail about the abominable tragedy told of in that short story. The topic is massive, and I can't do it all justice in the scope of an article like this, but I hope to be able to give you some things to think about, things to do and put in place, and at least a few links to more complete information. Some people may object to this article because it requires working within the "laws" and dealing with the bureaucracy, but those things are impossible to ignore if you want to navigate the overwhelming forces set against you in the political reality of today. Dying with dignity, in the setting of your choice, is possible. Laws regarding "patient rights" and such things as durable power of attorney (DPOA), "do not resuscitate" (DNR) options and hospice care can help a great deal with that process. They can't help if you are not diligent to put them in place. (Read the rest here)
Politically Incorrect
Movie Reviews Limp-wristed feeelm crit-teeks are all atwitter about Tropic Thunder. They rave about the film, their voices rise to a fever pitch and their lisping and prancing becomes more even more pronounced than usual. They love this flick. Of course they love this movie, because it’s jam-packed with wee-wee and poo-poo jokes. It’s not as bad as Forgetting Sarah is, but nothing could top that. The problem is Tropic Thunder features three big name Hollyweirdo’s; one of which should know better. Watching Robert Downey, Jr. portray a blue-eyed-whitey trying mightily to play a stereotypical black-exploitation ahk-tor is a hoot – and this is the only reason to see the film. Tropic Thunder could easily be re-titled “Rambo First Blood meets Porky’s Revenge.” This brings a question to mind; has Ben Stiller ever done a movie where he does not make reference to genitalia and body functions? (Read the rest here) Few
Women in Abuse Shelters are True Victims of Violence Lachrymose tales of battered women abound when representatives of abuse shelters come calling, hat in hand, for taxpayer money. But what is the truth of the matter -- are abuse shelters really brimming with hapless victims trying to break free of the cycle of violence? The answer to that question is a surprising "No." In the great majority of cases, women at abuse shelters have suffered no physical injury or harm. A former worker at the YWCA Emergency Shelter in Enid, Okla. reveals, "In all the time that I volunteered there, I saw one woman who showed signs of physical abuse." Likewise, the former director of a mid-Atlantic shelter reports, "only about one in 10 women had experienced any kind of physical injury." (Read the rest here) External
Articles "'It is not the amount, Colonel, that I complain of; it is the principle. In the first place, the Government ought to have in the Treasury no more than enough for its legitimate purposes. But that has nothing to do with the question. The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be entrusted to man, particularly under our system of collecting revenue by a tariff, which reaches every man in the country, no matter how poor he may be, and the poorer he is the more he pays in proportion to his means. What is worse, it presses upon him without his knowledge where the weight centers, for there is not a man in the United States who can ever guess how much he pays to the Government. So you see, that while you are contributing to relieve one, you are drawing it from thousands who are even worse off than he. If you had the right to give anything, the amount was simply a matter of discretion with you, and you had as much right to give $20,000,000 as $20,000. If you have the right: to give to one, you have the right to give to all; and, as the Constitution neither defines charity nor stipulates the amount, you are at liberty to give to any and everything which you may believe, or profess to believe, is a charity, and to any amount you may think proper. [Resubmitted occasionally for those who have never seen this great story about how David Crockett learned about the proper role of governments and charity. Well worth a read. ML] (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.) Who
Really Wants to Be President? In the race for the presidency, what we are really seeing is a race to lose the presidency. And while it may not be immediately apparent, this is a total win for the American people, and the country. A reluctant president, barely elected by voters and clearly refused by the vast majority of Americans who either voted otherwise, or voted "none of the above," is a lot different than the current tyrant. While Bush 43 was electorally rejected by the majority of Americans, this living proof of the Peter Principle actually wanted to do his god’s work in the oval office. The next president will be infused with doubt, not fervor. The next president will face a panicked Congress that has tasted blood – some of it their own. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
The
Future of Freedom Foundation According to popular myth, the current financial turmoil is the result of Bush administration deregulation. One problem with that theory: there was no deregulation. The last banking deregulation, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley bill, was signed by President Bill Clinton in 1999. Oops. Gramm-Leach-Bliley undid the New Deal-era Glass-Steagall Act, which — for no good reason — separated commercial banking from investment banking. The act was finally scrapped because the artificial separation of banking functions prevented diversification and made American banks vulnerable to full-service foreign competition. Repeal of Glass-Steagall doesn’t mean banks have not been subject to myriad regulations by the federal and state governments. Besides, Glass-Steagall has nothing to do with today’s troubles. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
The
Independent Institute In his inaugural lecture delivered at the London School of Economics on March 1, 1933, Friedrich A. Hayek warned about government planning in markets: “... the belief in the inevitability of the ultimate victory of planning, the conviction that, since where there is no directing Will there must be chaos, deliberate planning will necessarily mean an improvement on existing conditions, is more and more recognized to be the result of our insufficient understanding of the existing system.” (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
From The Ludwig von Mises Institute The 1994 movie Shawshank Redemption is the fictional story of Andy Dufresne, a prisoner at the infamous Shawshank Penitentiary. One of Dufresne's fellow inmates, Brooks Hatlen, has spent nearly his entire life in Shawshank, and has settled in to the routine and become the prison's bookkeeper. After a lifetime in prison, Hatlen is finally freed as an old man. Once on the outside, Hatlen finds life beyond bars too complicated and confusing, too new, too risky. He cannot cope with this newfound freedom after a life of bondage and, tragically, he commits suicide. Brooks Hatlen forgot how to be free. He became accustomed to bondage and let the yearning for freedom die within him over his long stay in the penitentiary. Andy Dufresne, on the other hand, never let his freedom die. While locked in Shawshank, despite oppressive and often gruesome circumstances, Dufresne's spirit was unshakable. He constantly cultivated the seeds of freedom in the least free setting imaginable. When Dufresne escaped, unlike Hatlen, he embraced life in the free air and pursued his dreams. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
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