Black Perspectives on Ron Paul

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Ron Paul’s candidacy is for real.  He’s no longer a mere also-ran, he’s at least a legitimate contender, and quite probably the real front-runner.

The mainstream media that previously refused to say Ron Paul’s name, are now smearing him with charges of being “dangerous” and/or “racist”.

Here’s a video of half a dozen African-American’s rejecting the claim that Ron Paul is a racist.  I’m so conditioned from seeing Black rappers, gangsters, pimps and haters of whites on TV, that I’m surprised to see real Blacks talking fairly and objectively.  The media presents Blacks as such a monolithic group, that I’m surprised to see that Blacks aren’t all falling for the “race card”.

According to one of the interviewees, Ron Paul “may sound wacky to the average American . . . because he actually makes sense.”

If Congressman Paul’s message even resonates in the African-American community, he’s going to be tough to stop.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ej5_rZof7MA#!

 

The Debt Generation

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Here’s a brief video created by some Tennessee College students.  The video is affiliated with the Republican Party.  That grates a bit.  But it’s a strong video and an impressive statement by youth who do not wish to be reduced by government to the status of debt-slaves.

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

 

High Taxes

I received an email with this photo.  It’s entitled “California bureaucracy”:

 

99% Choir Forecloses on Bank of America

Watch ‘em infiltrate the Bank of America with caroler’s costumes.  It’s Christmas and these carolers look harmless.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Tns3sljBvxU

 

Mike Maloney: Gold Going to $5,000 Minimum–$20,000 Probable

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Mike Maloney is an internationally-known author and gold/silver dealer.  He’s knowledgeable, articulate and makes great graphs for communicating his ideas.

He anticipates that a new global financial system is coming with a currency backed by gold.  He goes on to explain that “if history repeats,” we should see $15,000 to $20,000 gold.  He projects that, mathematically, $203,000 gold is conceivable–although extremely unlikely.  He’s unable to imagine gold will not at least reach a $5,000 price level.

I think he’s right.  $5,000 gold is virtually certain within the next five years.  $20,000 is likely within 10 years.

If the world’s financial system imposes a new currency system backed by gold, these prices could be reached suddenly and much sooner.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tbfOKK1M6-Y

 

A “State of the United States”

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I try not to publish anything on this blog that wastes my readers’ time. I’d like to provide some “insight” with each article, but I know that some of my articles are merely interesting (I hope) or sometimes (at best) amusing. But every so often I find myself writing an article that I think might be more than interesting, or amusing or even insightful. Once in a while, the Good LORD lets me write something that I (at least) think is important. I think this is one of those articles.

I’m not claiming that this article is well written or easily understood. I’m simply saying that this article contains the germ or an idea, an insight, that I believe is important and so far, unnoticed. I’ll undoubtedly write a couple more articles on this subject over the next several months. By the time I get to the 2^nd or 3^rd article on this subject, I should be able to explain with much greater clarity.

Nevertheless, if you’ll make the effort to overcome my imperfect writing, I hope you’ll learn something that you may also believe to be important: some fundamental differences between the “United States” and “The United States of America”.

 

The Origins of Christmas

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As some of you may still recall, the purpose for Christmas is not to wait on the Christmas sales or get fat on egg nog.  The purpose is to celebrate the birth of Christ.

That celebration is always a little disturbing because, for years, I’ve heard that the Christ’s true birthday was probably in the Spring (March or April) rather than in December.  I’ve also heard that His birth took place in September.

Since I wasn’t there at the time, I don’t know when the Christ was born. But I have little doubt that, whatever the true date of Christ’s birth, modern Christmas celebrations on December 25th are ultimately based on the fact that, for the northern hemisphere, the Winter Solstice is the shortest day and longest night of the year.  Ancient cultures recognized this fact, and tended to use the winter solstice as cause for celebrations.

Today, the winter solstice actually occurs around December 21st or 22nd.  But in 46 BC, Julius Caesar declared the winter  solstice to occur on December 25th.  Thereafter the people of Europe tended to have a celebration every December 25th.

Later, the Holy Roman Empire–contrary to evidence found in the Bible–declared the birth of Christ to have taken place on December 25th.  That declaration was almost certainly based on political considerations.  The people most countries were already celebrating on December 25th–why not tell them that they were celebrating the birth of Christ?

 

Jury Refuses to Convict for Marijuana Possession

 

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A Montana judge had to dismiss charges against a man caught with marijuana.  Why?  Because the judge couldn’t find a jury willing to convict.

 

Our government imposed a prohibition on alcohol with the 18th Amendment in A.D. 1919.  The result was enormous profits in booze, an increase in alcohol use, and an increase in violent crime.  That prohibition was repealed by the 21st Amendment in A.D. 1933.

 

I’m told that the real reason the government ended the prohibition on alcohol, was not to reduce the increased use, profits or crime that resulted from prohibition.  The reason prohibition died is because jurors refused to convict bootleggers, booze smugglers and the operators of speakeasy’s.

 

Once the people, when called to serve as jurors, simply refused to convict the alleged “criminals,” there was no longer a reason to prosecute, and the underlying law became void and of no effect.

 

The All-Upper-Case Name and the New World Order?

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When I was a child, in order to read, I first learned my “abc’s”: 26 peculiar symbols that, in combination, could spell out words like “dog” or “cat”.

Then, as if 26 letters were not enough, I had to learn that each of the first “small” letters I used also had a corresponding “large” letter–its “capital” or “upper-case” form.  Now I had a total of 52 different symbols to learn to recognize, sound out, and write.

If there were no difference between word written with lower-case letters (a, b, c) and words written with both lower-case and upper-case (A, B, C) letters, why bother having upper-case letters?  Why have both “a” and “A,” “b” and “B,” and “c” and “C,” if the each the two letters in each pair didn’t mean something significantly different?

In the case of mixed upper- and lower-case letters–like “Cat”–we learned that when the first letter of a word was capitalized (upper case) as with capital “C,” the word was a proper noun/ proper name.  In this example, “Cat” might be the nickname for a woman named “Catherine” or it might be the name of a town (“Cat, Idaho”).  The capitalized word  was a “proper noun” that signified a particular man, woman or place.

The word “cat,” on the other hand, was a common noun used to signify a class of entities such as felines.

Clearly, capital letters are important in communication.  They help to eliminate ambiguity.  Without capital letters, when I write “fluffy” am I using the word as an adjective to describe the quality of an animals fur?  Or am I using the word “fluffy” to signify a particular cat?  The mix of lower- and upper-case letters expands and clarifies our language, making it more versatile and efficient for communicating a broad spectrum of knowledge and information.

However, if I write the word “fluffy” in an all-upper-case format (“FLUFFY”) the meaning becomes confused, ambiguous.  Am I using “FLUFFY” as an adjective to signify that the fur is “fluffy”?  Or am I using “FLUFFY” to signify the proper name (“Fluffy”) of a particular cat?

Here are two sentences to illustrate the enormous  value of capitalization:  1) “The cat I saw was fluffy.”  2) “The cat I saw was Fluffy.”  In the first sentence, the speaker saw one of a multitude of cats whose fur appeared to be “fluffy”.  In the second sentence, the speaker saw a particular cat whose name was “Fluffy”.  The two sentences are virtually identical except for the presence of a single, capital letter.  That single capital letter completely changes the meaning of the sentence.

 

When The World Outlawed War

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Interesting.  When the World Outlawed War is a book by David Swanson.  That book explains that in A.D. 1928, most of the nations of the world signed a treaty (the Kellog-Briand Pact) to “outlaw” war.   This treaty was signed by the U.S. and is still valid and therefore part of the “supreme law of the land” (Article 6 Section, The Constitution of the United States).    Under this treaty all war is a crime.

World War II violated this treaty, and after that war, there were efforts to try Nazi “war criminals” based on the Kellog-Briand treaty that declared war to be a crime.

I wonder if modern “wars” (as in Korea, Viet Nam, Iraq, etc.) are deemed to be “police actions” to avoid criminal liability under Kellog-Briand.  Perhaps the reason that Congress will no longer declare war and/or has passed power to the President to unilaterally initiate “war” (under some other definition) is that “war” is now a crime.