16 Sunday Jul 2017
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I’ve mentioned this before. In the hopper, I have some 60 or so drafts – some of them over four years old (without edits). Some need publishing, some deletion, and some are just notes for me.
Therefore, I figure I’ll use the slow month of July to dig into them. If I can finish one up as I originally intended, I’ll do so. Otherwise I plan to throw up what exists now, here, and then maybe expound at Patreon.
In keeping with tradition, I make no further progress on this today…
16 Sunday Jul 2017
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Two subjects from modern Christianity: one Catholic, the other Protestant – both uncomfortably related.
First, offbeat Catholics in Brazil make deals with the Devil in furtherance of the “conservative” agenda.
If I read that one right, Satan controls climate change. Therefore he can get rid of Pope Francis. This will allow in a conservative Pope and possibly rescind Vatican II. This would be so far fetched as to almost seem fictional. Except that is how some people attempt to abuse religion. “Dangerous” isn’t even close…
On a somewhat related note, my favorite Baptist preacher, Chuck Baldwin, admonishes the American Evangelicals to drop the “war fever.” This, a jingoistic pseudo-philosophy, attempts the same sort of outcome as the aforementioned deal makings – minus the direct conversations with the Devil.
The spirit of war will never be extinguished from our country until it is first extinguished from our churches. A sizeable percentage of all of the evangelical/fundamentalist churches in America today are splits and splinters off of other churches. Christians will fight at the drop of hat. They will split a church at the drop of a hat. They are filled with the spirit of war.
A people, who can’t stop fighting each other over the slightest doctrinal interpretations, naturally incline towards wanting to fight others. In this instance, just substitute the U.S. government and its lies for Satan and his. Slightly different game, same effect.
It was raining last night and it was raining this morning. How many feet per cubit?
15 Saturday Jul 2017
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Paul Craig Roberts reminisces from out the tattered remains of the post-modern nation:
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He could remember riding his horse into the town three miles from his grandparents’ farm with a real pistol strapped to his side and a rifle in the scabbard when he was 12 or 13. No one said a thing. Today a SWAT team would be on the scene. He would be lucky not to be shot dead and never know the fate of his grandparents, who would be guilty of all sorts of offenses, including failure to supervise a minor.
That reminded him of what he had recently read in a newspaper. On a cul-de-sac devoid of car traffic a mother sat in a chair outside the house while her child played in the front lawn. A busybody neighbor, trained to report parental malfeasance, whose view of the mother was blocked by shrubbery, saw an unsupervised child at play and called the police. When the police arrived, they arrested the mother on the basis of the unverified report from the neighbor. The mother was taken to jail. The newspaper did not say what had happened to the child, whether the kid was taken to foster care and whether the husband had to rush home from his job and ply lawyers with money to help put his family back together. These kinds of horrors inflicted on families by public authorities often have worse consequences than the predations of criminals. He wondered if parents and children would be safer if the police were disbanded and outlawed.
Yet, society had accepted these abuses as justified. What, he thought, would have been the public reaction when he was a kid? The policemen would have been fired, the chief disciplined, and the mayor would have lost the next election. It would not have been possible for them to become heroes by destroying a family. The busybody neighbor would have become a pariah in the community.
Just the other day he had seen a grandmother at the supermarket with tattoos and face piercings. A grandmother? How had this come about? At the mountain resort pool and exercise center it wasn’t just the men. He had seen young women who were covered in tattoos. A friend told him that some women not only had face and tongue piercings, but also navel, labia, and clitoris piercings. Piercings were what he remembered from boyhood days of looking through stacks of National Geographic magazines from the 1940s and 1950s. Articles explained with words and photographs facial piercing practices by tribes in “darkest Africa.” Now they were the practices of upper class womyn who played in resorts.
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Read that one, especially if you’re over 40. It’s a totally different country today, maybe not for the better. Ignorance, sloth, and weakness masquerade as individuality and liberation. And with the dumbing down comes a constant lose of freedom.
For a more in-depth look back, please buy and read the following, which I recalled as I nodded along with Roberts:
Liddy / Amazon.
The lost past.
The sad present.
The better future is at: Patreon, with Perrin.
14 Friday Jul 2017
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After eight months of doing a weekly, Friday news column for FP, I give you the first video episode.
Perrin Lovett/YouTube (for FPTV).
Boy, yes, does need improvement. More and better to come…Developing…
14 Friday Jul 2017
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A federal judge just ruled to weaken President Trump’s travel ban so as to allow in even more “refugees” and their family members. This, on the heels of a unanimous Supreme Court ruling to uphold and vindicate the restrictions. Play legal games, win legal prizes.
And, does it really matter?
There is an administration imposed cap on “refugees” coming into the U.S. Obviously it has the same effect on immigration that the debt ceiling has on drunken Congressional spending – zero. We’ve hit the cap but more keep coming, seeking the ghost of Emanuel Cellar.
The U.S. has reached the Trump administration’s limit of 50,000 refugees for this budget year. That won’t stop some additional refugees from entering the United States in the next few months, but they will now face tighter standards.
A Supreme Court order last month said the administration must admit refugees beyond the 50,000 cap if they can prove a “bona fide relationship” with a person or entity in the United States. That was part of a broader ruling that allowed President Donald Trump to partially administer his contested travel ban affecting six Muslim majority countries.
As of Wednesday, 50,086 refugees have been admitted since the budget year began last October.
Students and scholars, all, no doubt.
The Posterity thanks you, Jerk. Wiki.
14 Friday Jul 2017
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Mainly for men. There’s a whole lot of truth in this one:
If you are the primary wage earner in the middle of a divorce, you are likely the victim of a hidden trap that you may never become aware of even when the divorce is finally over.
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The process of modern divorce is a crime. It is an exercise in wealth transfer. But who will put a stop to it? Divorce today is not fair, but it is legal. Somebody told me in divorce nobody in the courtroom believes anybody is telling the truth, certainly not the attorneys and sometimes not even the judge. Be forewarned.
Much of this comes from a layman’s perspective, which is a good thing, here. I knew this was Cali-based before it was stated (“pro per” and community property, etc.). However, the experience, especially for men, is nearly universal across the country. Please pay attention to everything he warns about if you are: 1) getting a divorce; 2) unhappily married, or 3) thinking about getting married.
A few facts:
Women initiate most divorces;
Divorce is more common than cancer;
Women “win” in divorce cases at least 75% of the time despite usually being at least 50% of the problem(s);
Women, according to every study conducted in the U.S., Canada, and Europe, are the majority of domestic violence aggressors (despite the facts that women grossly over-report and that men grossly under-report);
This system is rigged, it was designed to be rigged;
Domestic courts are a sham in America;
Courts are a sham in America;
The law is a sham in America;
No one seems to care, at all, about any of this.
Do take heart that, eventually (and that may be a loooong time), the offending party will self-destruct. However, like a truck bomb, this usually takes out half the neighborhood.
A note: the “private judges” Sardi writes about are usually known as mediators or arbitrators. Do beware of them along with Guardians, friends of the court, and other expensive meddlers. Also know that they are frequently mandated the courts. This, while not binding, can be expensive. It can also be a useful trial-run for determining how much of a case you and the other side may have (not that often matters in a rigged system) – make of it what you will, if you have to do it.
Again, consider Sardi’s advice. I have three additional points which go a long way towards preventing any of these headaches, heart attacks, robberies, and jail terms from ever happening to any man. They are as depressing as the are effective. Accordingly, I withhold them…
It’s a Trap!
Lucas/20th Cent. Fox/Disney?
13 Thursday Jul 2017
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This is the most pitiful crowd of governing idiots ever assembled. Tacitus’s recitation of Tiberius’s mocking condemnation of the Roman Senate seems kind and weak by comparison to what must be said of this rabble.
I miss the old days, when Republicans stood for repealing Obamacare. Republicans across the country and every member of my caucus campaigned on repeal – often declaring they would tear out Obamacare “root and branch!”
What happened?
Now too many Republicans are falling all over themselves to stuff hundreds of billions of taxpayers’ dollars into a bill that doesn’t repeal Obamacare and feeds Big Insurance a huge bailout.
Obamacare regulations? Still here. Taxes? Many still in place, totaling hundreds of billions of dollars.
Insurance company bailouts? Those, too. Remember when Republicans complained about Obamacare’s risk corridors? Remember when we called the corridors nothing more than insurance company bailouts? I remember when one prominent GOP candidate during a presidential debate explicitly called out the Obamacare risk corridors as a bailout to insurance companies. Does anyone else?
Now, the Senate GOP plan being put forward is chock full of insurance bailout money – to the tune of nearly $200 billion. Republicans, present company excluded, now support the idea of lowering your insurance premium by giving a subsidy to the insurance company.
Remarkable. If the GOP now supports an insurance stabilization fund to lower insurance prices, maybe they now support a New Car stabilization fund to lower the price of cars. Or maybe the GOP would support an iPhone stabilization fund to lower the price of phones.
The possibilities are limitless once you accept that the federal government should subsidize prices. I remember when Republicans favored the free choice of the marketplace.
The Senate Obamacare bill does not repeal Obamacare. I want to repeat that so everyone realizes why I’ll vote “no” as it stands now:
The Senate Obamacare bill does not repeal Obamacare. Not even close.
In fact, the Senate GOP bill codifies and likely expands many aspects of Obamacare.
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Thank you, again, Senator Paul. Much like his father and, unfortuantely, probably doomed to Ron’s effectiveness. There is no hope in either conservatism or in the utterly failed GOP.
All we have left? Applewhite/AP.
My Republican friends, please, please, please, please remember this (and more) come the next election – I’ll be here to remind you. Kindly retire the mantra that you, “have to vote Republican or else the Democrats will win.” You did and they have. The GOP, by this measure at least, is the worst offender of the two.
Just pathetic. Men not even fit for slavery.
13 Thursday Jul 2017
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It’s a little old short story, a legend of sorts.
Once upon a time, and it was a time very long ago, there lived a Little Old Man. It was more like fifty – sixty years ago, if that makes it a long time. Anyway the Little Old Man lived way down South. South as in down where Georgia and Florida sort of melt together in a big, steamy, pinetree-ridden swamp…
So, it was long ago and deep in the South.
The Little Old Man lived in the not-so-unpleasant little old woods near the Big Water.
More to come, here, a little later today.
12 Wednesday Jul 2017
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Belle Plaine, MN gets the first one; it won’t be the last.
A small Minnesota town is getting a lot of attention for a Satanic monument coming to their veterans park.
The monument going up for The Satanic Temple — which features an upturned helmet atop a black cube — will soon be at the site of the Veterans Memorial Park in Belle Plaine.
It is being built by a group of Satanists out of Massachusetts, and it will be the first Satanic monument on public property in United States history.
The city is allowing the monument to be built after a religious freedom group threatened to sue over another statue, which features a soldier praying over a grave marked with a cross.
City officials say the memorial, which is not inside the park yet, is finished, but they are still working out a date for when it will go in.
It has to be put in a small area called “The Free Speech Zone.” It is an area designated to 10 or fewer memorials, as long as they honor veterans.
“They said they were putting it up and I did not like it,” said resident Donna Karnitz.
City Councilmember Cary Coop says he voted against the designated free speech area.
“I don’t think there’s too many Satanists around here, but it’s free speech,” Coop said.
He says they anticipated other groups coming in.
“We were warned against creating this free speech zone, and it will be probably be just as well that we didn’t have one, that people could use private property to say whatever they want,” Coop said.
Karnitz, whose husband is a veteran of the Vietnam War, says she finds the new Satanic monument offensive.
“It was approved a while back already, and it has not come here,” she said. “I am hoping and praying that it doesn’t come into the park here [laughs]!”
Karnitz is not alone. There is a protest planned at the park on Saturday during the city’s popular BBQ Days festival.
Despite its name, the Satanic Temple says it does not promote a belief in a personal Satan and that that “religion can, and should, be divorced from superstition.”
This ugly thing. CBS.
It’s interesting that they had come all the way from Massachusetts, this lousy, hellish outfit. There must be some reason they chose this little town – much as why they target different localities for their “prayers” prior to assembly meetings and such. Hmm.
So, in modern Amerika, they tear down old monuments to Confederate heroes and soldiers only to erect new ones dedicated to the prince of darkness. In my humble opinion, if you didn’t defend the former, then you really have no right to complain about the latter. And I thought the stadiums were bad.
On a totally unrelated note, people of Belle Plaine, Lowe’s has sledge hammers at very reasonable prices.
12 Wednesday Jul 2017
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Paul Craig Roberts on the gullibility of Americans and those ever so happy to lie to them:
The false reality constructed for Americans parallels perfectly the false reality constructed by Big Brother in George Orwells’ dystopic novel 1984.
Consider the constant morphing of “the Muslim threat” from al-Qaeda to the Taliban, to al-Nursra, to ISIS to ISIL, to Daesh with a jump to Russia. All of a sudden 16 years of Middle East wars against “terrorists” and “dictators” have become a matter of standing up to Russia, the country most threatened by Muslim terrorism, and the country most capable of wiping the United States and its vassal empire off of the face of the earth.
Domestically, Americans are assured that, thanks to the Federal Reserve’s policy of quantitative easing, that is, flooding the financial markets with newly printed money that has driven up the prices of stocks and bonds, America has enjoyed an economic recovery since June of 2009, which must be one of the longest recoveries in history despite the absence of growth in median real family incomes, despite the growth in real retail sales, despite the falling labor force participation rate, despite the lack of high value-added, high productivity, high wage jobs.
The “recovery” is more than a mystery. It is a miracle. It exists only on fake newspaper.
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Chasing and creating phantoms while the economy rots.
And of the economy, rumors circulate that Trump will soon make it four in a row at the Fed’s helm:
President Donald Trump is increasingly unlikely to nominate Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen next year for a second term, four people close to the process said.
National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn is now the leading candidate to succeed Yellen as the world’s most important central banker, these people said. Yellen begins two days of congressional testimony on Wednesday, and her own future in the job may come up in questioning.
If Trump taps Cohn for the Fed, it could enrage economic nationalists in the White House and some staunchly conservative Republicans on Capitol Hill who don’t like the former Goldman Sachs president’s background as a Democrat who generally favors free trade.
And it would spur a backlash from progressive lawmakers who have blasted the president for picking multiple Goldman alums to run economic policy.
While the departure of Aunt Janet would be a great thing, her replacement by the former president of Goldman does not induce that warm, fuzzy feeling.
The best thing about Cohn is that he isn’t a credentialed economist – those have been dead wrong about everything for the past 100+ years. Otherwise, this will be the fox managing the henhouse.
But, hey, it’s now less than two months until football season…
PERRIN LOVETT 
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