Promises, Promises (and Arguments)

The following case touches on issues of PROMISES (unilateral contracts?) and ARGUMENT and offers a surprising amount of insight in a relatively few pages: 100205 USA v Reagan ARGUMENT

The Mutha of All Bubbles

The meaning of the term “bubble” as applied to stocks in the late 1990s and then to homes the early 2000’s meant an investment vehicle that’s been hyped and manipulated to a price that is so “inflated” that it bears little resemblance to the investment’s true, free market value.

What do you “believe” about “belief”?

The following curious email exchange took place in December between myself and a friend who prefers to remain unnamed.  The exchange touches on the difference between “The State” (of the Union) and “this state” (the unincorporated association/territory/implied charitable trust of the singular United States) and especially on the bizarre importance of “belief” in our legal system.

The conclusions (or at least suspicions) about “belief” are somewhat challenging to understand and hard to “believe”.  Nevertheless, I think those conclusions/suspicions may be roughly correct.

In essence, I’m using this email exchange to explain what I “believe” about “belief”.

God-given, unalienable Rights repudiated by Supreme Court

The American Revolution was fought to validate and secure the two, extraordinary, unprecedented principles advanced by the “Declaration of Independence”:

1) That it is both true and self evident that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights; and,

2) “That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men . . . .”

Global Free Trade = Increased US Unemployment

Last week, in “A Crisis Is a Terrible Thing to Waste,” I wrote that despite our current unemployment crisis, neither Obama, nor the Democrat Party, nor the Republican Party could or would “create more jobs”. My rationale was fairly simple:

“There will be no legitimate ‘job creation’ in this country until we restore tariffs and thereby cause manufacturers who left the USA for Mexico, China and India to return their factories to the USA.

“So long as we have global free trade, real jobs will continue to flow out of the USA and into third world countries.  So long as we have global free trade, the only ‘job creation’ gov-co will be capable of providing will be even more government employment.  Such gov-co ‘employment’ is really just a glorified form of welfare in that our new gov-co ‘employees’ make no productive contribution to society.

“A Crisis Is a Terrible Thing to Waste”

Last week, Republican Scott Brown won the Senate seat held by Teddy Kennedy for over 40 years.   Massachusetts Democrats—who should’ve been able to elect a candidate deader than Teddy—lost.   Given that Massachusetts is the “bluest” state and had been under the nearly exclusive control of Democrats for most of the last half-century, Brown’s victory sent shockwaves through the political system.  Various news media reported:

Ain’t That America!

American wedding procession:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-94JhLEiN0

Chicken a la Carte

In 2008, 3,600 cinematographers from around the world were asked to submit prize winning material as a video on the theme, “Food, Flavor, and Hunger.”

After viewing all of these, 32 were selected as being the cream of the crop.  This following short video (6 minutes) was considered the winner by the judges of the event.  This video is surprising, shocking, powerful.

http://www.cultureunplugged.com/play/1081/Chicken-a-la-Carte

Obamacare

I can’t vouch for the accuracy of the “key points” alleged in the attached 11-minute video concerning the Democrat’s proposed health care plan (H.R. 3200).  But if these “key points” are correct, the health care plan  is far worse than I’d previously supposed.  H.R. 3200 is not intended to provide health care; it’s intended to accomplish a political revolution to finally subject the American people of overt collectivism.  H.R. 3200 is about treason.

The video is infuriating:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcBaSP31Be8

The bastards in Washington who promoted and even supported this health care plan are even more infuriating.  They are engaged in treason.

Conspiracy Theory, Game Theory or Both?

I’m not anti-Israel.  In fact, my Protestant faith inclines me to be pro-Israel–but not blindly so.  I believe we’re witnessing the prophesied  reemergence of Israel in End Times and I am not about to cross our Father YHWH Elohiym’s will in this matter.  If He wants Israel, it’s fine with me.

But I also recognize that Zionists can be a royal pain in the ass who can’t be trusted because they have loyalty to no one other than themselves.  (Witness Israel’s A.D. 1967 sinking of the USS Liberty.)