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For The Love of Money

If you take a careful look at all the evils that we suffer right now, you’ll find a love of money at the very heart. Yes, there are other evils mixed in, but the very foundation of these events is greed. And, since power and money are essentially the same thing, to speak of one is to speak of the other.

The Democrats, the Republicans, the BLM movement, George Soros, China, the Catholics, (ew boy. I’m Roman Catholic) Corrupt Bible Translations, (especially corrupted translations) Neo-Nazis, Antifa, Pornography, Gay Rights, and even Baptists like Jerry Falwell… all have the love of money at the root of their evil.

It probably does not surprise you that my big mouth got me kicked out of high school on the day before graduation. I didn’t like being told what to do and what to believe, so I pushed back when they tried. I was allowed back to walk down the isle to receive my diploma, but it was a grim experience none-the-less.

Fortunately, when I went to university, I learned to keep my mouth shut in the classroom. (Yeah, I know. A miracle.) And, if I had a chance to talk to my teenage self all those years ago, I would have told myself to shut up and stop making mountains out of mole hills. (Which I am very good at doing.)

Unfortunately, none of that is why I was kicked out that last day. The reason why they threw me out was because I was a threat to the power and money of the administration. Worse, they used lies and dirty tricks to get me to shut up, before eventually getting rid of me, but only on the day before graduation of which I did return for ceremonies and for which I’m sure they wished they had done so much sooner and which would have also kept me from graduating.

Now, since the Catholic Church has since the Vatican II between the years 1962 – 1965 made itself null, void and having fallen into heresy, you may be able to more fully understand my angers.

All of that explains why I am not surprised by recent revelations of corrupt and horrifying behavior by Jerry Falwell Jr. And, I can tell you that there are so many like him in positions of leadership of Christian churches and organizations, that it would shock you to find out.

I have been a Roman Catholic for 69 years. I have attended a lot of churches around the world. All of those churches were corrupt. All of them, except two – and maybe a third. And yes, let me emphasize that.

ALL OF THOSE CHURCHES WERE CORRUPT.

Except two or three.

And, the only reason why those two or three churches were not corrupt – as far as I can tell – was due to their small size. Having said that, I found myself in a couple of churches that were both small AND corrupt, so size isn’t the only thing.

However, every church that I have ever attended that was about 100 members and above, were all – without exception – corrupt in some vital and important way. And, all of their corruption was directly connected to money and power.

Yeah, there were other sins involved. There was arrogance, pride, adultery, pornography, dishonesty, hypocrisy, false teaching, abortion, theft, coercion and everything else except outright murder in the sanctuaries. And, all of that was happening while the priests or pastors would stand up every Sunday and give what sounded like a great sermon.

I’ve seen it. I’ve experienced what these people are willing to do. And, I have heard horror stories from others who have had similar experiences. And, for every ‘Jerry Falwell’ who is caught, every priest that is caught, there are many, many more who are not – whose sins are covered up by loyal parishioners, ‘elders’ and ‘deacons’.

I have seen so much of it, it’s always a surprise when I don’t find it.

I am equally surprised when I find someone actively fighting it.

If you are a young Christian or have never been in a position of responsibility in a church, you probably do not know or understand what I am talking about. 

Unfortunately, it also means that you are probably being poisoned by your church if it is as corrupt as some of the ones that I have seen.

Remember that half of all pastors have admitted to regularly consuming pornography and I don’t even wanna’ go there with the priests. As far as my faith with Catholicism, the entire Roman Catholic church is no longer valid.

Since Vatican II, there are no longer any valid priests or clergy in the entire church world-wide and the few that are will only be found in nursing home care because they are the few remaining that have been ordained since before the Vatican II nullified and made further priests invalid.

And, those are just the ones who admit to it. That makes me wonder about the other half.

Is your priest or pastor a regular consumer of pornography?

And, that’s just one of many corruptions our priests and pastors are involved in. Then there are the elders and treasurers who are engaged in God-knows-what kinds of sin. 

And yeah, God surely does know. And, there will be a reckoning one day, and that price will be high for those who have betrayed their responsibilities.

The Bible speaks to this point in Paul’s letter to Timothy:

For the love of money is the root of all evils. Some people in reaching for it have strayed from the faith and stabbed themselves with many pains.

 – 1 Timothy 6:10 (NET)

TRANSLATION NOTE: The New English Translation (NET) seems to have it most correct, (although I myself will only follow and study the original Haydock Douay Rheims Bible), but they corrupt that verse with their footnotes. Other translations say ‘root of all kinds of evil’, but that is not what the original Greek translation actually says. As I always tell people, we should NEVER insert our own interpretation of the Bible, into the Bible.

Just look at how this verse is being played out right in front of our eyes. Everywhere. In everything.

Did you know that pornography is the single, biggest reason why your Internet speed is so fast?

Did you know that porn was the first industry to make money on the Internet?

Have you wondered why no one in the Obama administration has gone to jail?

Why does China want to crush and destroy Taiwan?

Why do so few know that there was a third building that fell on 9/11, in New York City?

Why have the heroin distribution networks never been uncovered?

Why was JFK assassinated?

How did Hitler rise so fast? So quickly?

Why is there so much sex and violence coming from Hollywood?

Why is there so much erotic imagery in marketing?

Why are there so many Bible translations?

Why does the Roman Catholic Church continue to be so powerful?

Why did Jerry Falwell abuse his power and engage in such awful sin?

I could go on and on and on, but the one thing that ties every single one of those questions together is the love of money. Yes, there are other sins and abominations mixed into all of those questions, but the love of money weaves its way through all of them. Every. Single. One.

When the Antichrist rises and takes control of the world, he will succeed in doing so because of the Love of Money.

THE 2A ACID TEST FOR HOW TO MAKE A FOOL OUT OF THE ‘SO-CALLED’ ‘GUN SAFETY ADVOCATES’

Earlier this year, there were two occasions when I wound up in discussions with gun prohibitionists trying to pass themselves off as ‘gun safety advocates.’

In one of those encounters, it seemed necessary to remind the listening audience there was one certified firearms user in the room and it wasn’t the other person who was representing the gun prohibition lobbying group.

Take this as a learning experience because the elections are on the horizon, you’re a voter with an opportunity to question candidates and you might wind up in a debate with some gun grabber ‘glubber’ who claims to be an authority on gun safety or a member of some so-called ‘gun safety’ organization. This is when you can put them on the spot and they will unintentionally help you do it.

NRA Certified firearms instructors and trained firearms users have a card identifying them as such. Mine has been protected with a laminated plastic cover. A friend who used to lobby for the industry was an instructor and he habitually pulled out his instructor’s card to ask opponents, “Do you have one of these? If you don’t, you probably shouldn’t be here talking about gun safety”

If you can’t say you’re a certified instructor or trained user, the next best thing is to challenge these anti-gunners to recite the four rules of gun safety as set down by the late Col. Jeff Cooper, the “Father of the Modern Technique.” The founder of the American Pistol Institute, now known as the Gunsite Academy, Cooper kept it simple and his rules have withstood the test of time:

• Treat all guns as if they are always loaded.
• Never let the muzzle cover anything you are not willing to destroy.
• Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on target and you have made the decision to shoot.
• Be sure of your target and what lies beyond it.

There more than likely will be a moment of silence; possibly a blank stare as your opponent’s try to figure out who Cooper was and and how to artfully address the question and then maybe offer a remark about ‘not being the point’ before they scramble to change the subject, but DON’T allow this to happen at that point! This is when you’ve got them. They can’t answer directly since they don’t know. Whatever else is said after this point, just keep reminding your opponent — and anyone else listening or even within listening range—that your question wasn’t yet answered.

These self-appointed arbiters of firearms etiquette don’t know anything about guns or safety, other than they don’t like them and don’t want anyone to have them. It’s up to you to set it in concrete so people remember it. You’re the expert. NOT them. PERIOD!

If or when one of these people claims to be a gun owner, it’s easy to make them begin stammering by asking, “how long have you handled firearms?” Or better still, if they’ve sold one or two to someone else that required them to go through the background check?

But never, EVER ask them how many firearms they have or have owned in their life because you very might be met with the rudimentary none-of-your-business response, which would lower your credentials right there and then. It’s like touching another biker’s ‘scoot’ at Sturgis. It’s just NOT done. PERIOD!

Firearms people do not ask that question and many, even within their own firearms communities, don’t or won’t divulge it.

Finally, there most always is a point where these idiots will trip over their own shadow. Some will get frustrated with your logical treatment to a logical conversation and eventually retort that the best ‘gun safety’ is NO firearms in society.

THAT my friends, is when you have FINALLY got them absolutely and unequivocally nailed down to their true intentions and agenda.

Was that an under-handed bait? Of course it was, but so what? Those sneaks are doing a LOT worse than using baiting questions, while they never use bait only because they don’t have the truth behind them with which any bait would work anyway.

Do NOT allow them to walk away without your having DECISIVELY BRINGING THAT TO THEIR ATTENTIONS!

It’s not unfair to ask when the last time was they went to the range to practice or ask if they’ve taken any gun safety course or courses? These same questions apply to anyone running for local public office as well.

And IF in response they should come back asking why you need a firearm, ANY firearm or why you feel required to carry or own high capacity weaponry, there are one of two SOLID answers to retort back with.

Depending on the question and even possibly how it was phrased, when asked WHY one owns ANYTHING, the TRUE RESPONSE is to state that this is the one question that is by its very nature, quintessentially socialistic and communistic just in and of itself as asked.

The second, and possibly the better response is to ask those in defense of gun control if they value protecting the lives of ones they love, family, friends, acquaintances or even other good people or strangers? And before they have the chance to take a breath, treat the question almost rhetorically and continue with your surprise if they felt otherwise.

This leaves their backs up against a brick wall with absolutely nothing logical they can counter with.

If you’re in a discussion with somebody who says he or she is a member of a “gun safety” group, stop them cold by asking them if offer classes on safety?

When they respond they don’t really hold classes, (and they will) this is the moment to remind them that they’ve then no business preaching gun safety if they’re not teaching gun safety because their actions can only set up their ‘students’ for failure and even possibly loss of their lives. AGAIN. PERIOD!

This same strategy applies to meeting candidates, because the next eight weeks should provide plenty of opportunities to attend at least one of these sessions. Any candidate who claims to support ‘gun safety’ legislation should be challenged -AND- INSISTED to recite Cooper’s Four Rules.

Cooper’s Laws have stood the challenge of time; the candidates of not.

Here’s another way to make these people look foolish:
(which they are)

Offer to go shooting with them. If they’ve claimed to be gun owners, invite them to bring their own firearms.

A couple of years ago, as a private citizen and constituent, I attended a public forum with three local legislators. A woman in the audience demanded to know if the Republican state representative had taken money from the National Rifle Association.

It’s a fair question, but the savvy activist should immediately counter by asking whether the politician or candidate has accepted contributions from Everytown for Gun Safety, a regional or local gun control group or ANY OTHER groups funded either by George Soros or Mike Bloomberg?

During the weekend of Sept. 18-20 the 35th annual Gun Rights Policy Conference will be held at the Mariott Orlando Airport Lakeside hotel in Orlando, Fla.

Rest assured there will be panel discussions on how best to prevail over the enemies of gun rights, not just between now and Election Day but in the months and even years ahead.

This annual conference is considered a “must” event for the most active of gun rights activists and many people travel great distances to be there. If you can’t attend, there’s an opportunity to watch it being live-streamed on the Second Amendment Foundation’s Facebook page.

As this is written, a complete roster of speakers is still being finalized, but it’s safe to expect a veritable roster of “Who’s Who?” in the Second Amendment community.

The conference is the brainchild of the Second Amendment Foundation’s (SAF) Alan Gottlieb and he will be serving as the Master of Ceremonies. The event is co-sponsored by SAF and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, and includes representatives from other rights groups such as Gun Owners of America, the NRA, Illinois State Rifle Association, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, and other state organizations from around the country.

This is a genuine learning opportunity, and much of this year’s agenda will be focused on national and local elections.

git’ off ‘ur arsess’ and make the change!

The Bigger Switch: Why The Left Has Lost Touch

-or- why they’re so screwed-up, bat-shit crazy now

“Remember when Demonrats said, ‘The Republican Party’s the country-club party!’ And the Republican Party said, ‘That’s not true!’ It was totally true! Let’s be honest, it was totally true… We used to scoff at it poolside at the country club. ‘That’s not true! Bring me another bourbon! That’s ridiculous! Guffaw!’” – Tucker Carlson I hate politics. In fact (trigger warning!), I’ve never voted in a national election. Ever. (Cue the chant: “Then you have no right to complain!”) That said, there’s a dynamic playing out in politics right now that’s not getting enough (or any!) airtime. And it has nothing to do with coronavirus. It has everything to do with… 1] Why Cuomo is so out of touch, he thinks a book deal about his leadership during COVID was a brilliant idea (spoiler alert: It’s not) 2] It has everything to do with why Nancy “Let Them Eat Ice Cream” Pelosi is looking like a modern-day Antionette… 3] And it’s why the Democratic Party still seems to think they’re running against a 1960’s Republican Party. (Again, spoiler alert: They’re not.) All of this has to do with the weird word, enantiodromia. The phenomenon of “enantiodromia” is a very real psychological principle. It means the tendency for things to “run counter to” prevailing norms. Simply put, everything happens in cycles… especially culture. When society moves too far to one side… the “creative impulse” tends to quickly gravitate to the other side. And the “ossified” side begins to lose touch with reality. This “balancing mechanism” seems, strangely, built into the human psyche. If you were a real-estate developer any time during the past 100 years, you knew to follow the artists — the rebellious “creative impulse” — wherever it goes. What we’re seeing right now in politics, beneath the surface (if we make it through this coronavirus hoopla), is “The Bigger Shift.” 1] The Democratic Party has become frozen in time, incredibly rigid, out of touch, and ossified. Though it believes it is still the “counterculture,” it’s no longer the energetic, rebellious Democratic Party of the 1960’s. (And, as you’ll see, it definitely still believes we’re in the 1960’s.) And… 2] The Republican Party, on the other hand, is far from ossified. What the Left doesn’t realize is humpty-dumpty got pushed off of the wall in 2016, and there’s no putting him back. He’s gone. Dead. The Republican Party is now 1970’s SoHo… full of trash, blown out buildings, room for improvement, and, most importantly, room for creativity… and the artists are slowly moving in.   The Republican Party is no longer the “Old Boy’s Club,” or the “Country Club Party,” as the Left seems to think it is. It’s set to become the party of the new middle-class, which will look nothing like the old one. Both parties, to be sure, are radically splintered.But only one of them is being taken over by what’s remaining of the middle class and those sick of the status quo. The Bigger Switch In the 1960’s, the Left was all about free expression, anti-censorship, racial harmony, anti-authoritarianism, alternative lifestyles, experimentation, and broadening what it means to live the “American Dream.” To put it lightly and politely as possible… let’s just say today’s Democratic Party is not that. (The Republican Party has been no better… but we’ll get to that.) If you needed any proof that the Democratic Party is stuck in the 1960’s… Consider the music video played after the recent Democratic National Convention, with actor Billy Porter on the mic singing the Buffalo Springfield 1966 counter-culture classic “For What It’s Worth.” Vietnam-era song begs question: Who in the world were they trying to connect with here? The Republican Party is no better. They helped sell the Middle Class out decades ago. But what most on the Left don’t realize is the Old Boy’s Club — the “Country Club Republican Party” — is dead. They’re not running against a 1960’s Republican Party. And good riddance.Many years ago, as you know, the rules of the economy changed. Labor became basically irrelevant, and the “knowledge economy” flourished. When this happened, it was officially the nail in the coffin for the Republican Party in the “culture wars.” The vast majority of people in entertainment, the ‘knowledge economy,’ academia, and the service economy… had all long gone Left. The Old Boy’s Club refused to embrace the only people that didn’t run to the left — the middle class. No, the Republicans abandoned the middle class. But now we’re seeing a realignment. The Republican Party, whether they like it or not, is the middle class party. As Tucker Carlson, in vivid imagery, put it: “Trump’s singular contribution to this whole thing was forcing that. He’s a blunt instrument. He’s a viking. I’m serious! He showed up at the Republican Party, long hair, matted beard. He torched all their huts, he slayed their livestock. I’m not kidding! He carried their women over his shoulder back to his longboat and rode back to Norway! I mean he really pillaged the Republican Party and with him came hordes of middle class people. And by the way, that’s a good thing.” “Let them Eat Ice Cream”Long ago, the Left overthrew the (at-the-time) ossified, morally self-righteous, finger-wagging right wing. And good for them. Today, however, the Left has become as ossified and self-righteous as the Right was in the ‘60s. And, indeed, the Left still believes — despite controlling a vast majority of the media, Hollyrot, academia, and the indoctrinating public school system — that it’s the counterculture. Nancy Pelosi has become the new tone-deaf Marie Antionette: “Let them eat ice cream.” And the scripted jokes just, even if you hate Trump and Pence, aren’t landing. The Republican Party, on the other hand, is, like I said, 1970s SoHo. Behind Trump is an abandoned, trash-littered warehouse neighborhood, pregnant with potential. The “creative minority,” the creative impulse, is moving in to counter the prevailing status quo. In this way, the so-called “Red Wave” is real. This is all happening in the background, behind the smokescreens of the mainstream media. Nothing is set in stone… In the coming years, the Right has the clear opportunity to be what the Left was in the ‘60s… It doesn’t necessarily mean it will happen… But, it can become, like the Left was in the ‘60s, the champion of free expression, anti-censorship, social harmony, anti-authoritarianism, experimentation, and broadening what it means to live the “American Dream. ”In small ways, it’s already happening. Compare the energy of that “For What it’s Worth” music video above with the energy of Republican Kim Klacik’s viral Baltimore ad. Even if you fundamentally disagree with Kim, you have to admit… the energy behind her campaign is far more potent… and I would suggest, a sign of the times (clocking in at almost 10 million views). And for more “signs of the times,” here’s additional rap about Andrew Cuomo’s ridiculous book deal. When I first saw it, I thought it was a joke and that someone was poking fun at Cuomo. It’s still a joke. But it’s real, too. Read on.

Andrew Cuomo’s Book Deal and Why the Worst Rise to the Top in The coronavirus pandemic has hit the state of New York especially hard. Almost 33,000 New Yorkers have died from the virus, more total deaths than any other state in the country. And New York ranks as the second-worst state for deaths when adjusted for population. The Empire State alone accounts for one in five coronavirus deaths in the US despite having only around six percent of the nation’s population.Why did New York fare so poorly? Well, the coronavirus is far more lethal for older people. How well a state has mitigated the death count closely corresponds with how well they protected elderly, vulnerable populations. In New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo mandated that nursing homes accept patients who had tested positive for COVID-19 even if it means exposing their residents to the virus.Yes, you read that right.It shouldn’t come as a shock, then, that at least 6,600 of the state’s deaths happened in nursing homes. And this is almost certainly an undercount, as the Associated Press says it could be more like 11,000 when you adjust for the odd way in which New York defined its deaths. (The AP described New York’s death toll as “cloaked in secrecy” and even Democratic state legislators have accused the state of trying to cover up the number of nursing home deaths). Of course this is what would happen if you force institutions housing the elderly to accept carriers of a virus that is highly lethal for older people. Other states such as Florida did the opposite. By barring COVID-19 positive patients from nursing homes, they escaped thousands of deaths.Worse, Cuomo has refused to allow an independent investigation into his handling of the nursing home debacle despite bipartisan calls for oversight.From start to finish, Cuomo botched the COVID-19 response woefully. National Review’s Kyle Smith summarized the governor’s mistakes “breathtakingly bad moves” that “in retrospect amounted to catastrophe.” “Cuomo failed to call for, and even actively discouraged, informal social-distancing measures in early March,” Smith wrote. And don’t forget “his March 25 edict to long-term care facilities that they must accept infected patients, which caused a mass deadly outbreak among helpless, trapped, elderly New Yorkers.”Of course, at first glance, Cuomo deserves some grace. The COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented in modern American history, and the governor was hardly the only policymaker who fell flat on his face in response to the novel crisis. Yet Cuomo didn’t just woefully botch his handling of COVID-19, but UNder-handled it. He actively brags about his supposed “success” and has even attempted to capitalize on it personally. After all, the same governor who sent nursing homes into death spirals with his foolish government mandates promoted posters that celebrated New York’s COVID-19 response, and, of course, celebrated Cuomo himself. So, it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that he is a political opportunist with few scruples reining him in.CNN anchor Jake Tapper blasted the governor’s “victory tour” and shameful poster in a powerful on-air takedown: “There are no illustrations of the more than 32,000 dead New Yorkers, the highest death toll by far of any state.” The level of arrogance required for a politician to engage in such a tone-deaf display is stunning.But it gets worse.Apparently, Cuomo had time to write an entire book while handling the COVID-19 crisis. Even if it was ghost-written, Cuomo still must have had an eye on capitalizing on the crisis for self-promotion all along. The governor’s new book is titled American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic and is set for an Oct. 13 release. Cuomo has so far refused to disclose the financial details of his book deal. He won’t reveal how much money he will make, beyond promising vaguely that some of the money will go to charity. Critics, understandably, blasted the governor’s book deal as selfish and obtuse. “[Governor Cuomo] should be writing condolence cards to families who’s loved ones died thanks to his deadly nursing home mandate instead of writing a book about his so called leadership,” Fox News meteorologist Janice Dean, who lost her in-laws to COVID-19 in a New York nursing home, wrote in a tweet. “People are mourning the loss of loved ones, yet [Cuomo is] putting out a book declaring himself a bold, great leader,” New York GOP Chairman Nick Langworthy said in response to the book’s roll-out. Faced with such blatant mismanagement and callous arrogance amid a national crisis, it would be fair for observers to conclude that Andrew Cuomo is among the worst politicians in America. Yet we must also note that this isn’t a coincidence. New York didn’t simply draw the short straw and happen to get stuck with a bad governor. It’s also no coincidence that one of the country’s worst politicians is “failing upward” in his career, from his skyrocketing public profile to his (likely lucrative) book deal. New York has one of the largest governments of any states in the country. From sky-high taxes to soda bans, it has overwhelmingly voted for statist policies. And, as economist Friedrich A. Hayek famously noted in a chapter of The Road to Serfdom titled “Why the Worst Get on Top,” positions of power in big-government systems inevitably attract a society’s worst and most immoral individuals. “[Hayek] argued with great insightfulness that ‘the unscrupulous and uninhibited are likely to be more successful’ in any society in which government is seen as the answer to most problems,” FEE President Emeritus Lawrence W. Reed explained. “They are precisely the kind of people who elevate power over persuasion, force over cooperation. Government, possessing by definition a legal and political monopoly of the use of force, attracts them just as surely as dung draws flies. ”Hayek himself wrote, “The probability of the people in power being individuals who would dislike the possession and exercise of power is on a level with the probability that an extremely tenderhearted person would get the job of whipping-master in a slave plantation. ”Cuomo’s rise and New York’s COVID-19 saga prove Hayek right and leaves us with a clear lesson: So long as we entrust massive amounts of power to the government, we will continue to unintentionally place our fate in the hands of the worst among us. However, by leaving more of our problems to be solved by the private sector and civil society, we can ensure that true innovators and moral leaders are the ones leading us forward.

Panic At Costco, et, el

It was September of 1873 when Louisian Senator J.R. West received an urgent telegram from his home state:

“The people are panic-stricken. All that could, have left. The poor are nearly all on our hands; no money in the city treasury. All pecuniary aid will be thankfully received. Fever increasing.

“Samuel Levy, Mayor”

Yellow fever had taken hold of the state.

Its cause at the time was largely unknown, but it was assumed the sick were spreading it. Perhaps even without symptoms. 

All the doctors knew was internal hemorrhaging was causing organ failure.

One surefire way to know you had the fever was if you found yourself projectile vomiting a viscous mixture of mucus and blood.

But by that time it was probably too late.

You knew your neighbor was on his last legs — and that you and the kids should stay away — if he was wandering around in a state of delirium, talking all kinds of nonsense.

Corpses were hardly recognizable from the living, breathing humans they once were. Coffins lined every major street.

Social isolation, as it is today, was well embraced.

Citizens living in unaffected areas brandished shotguns at roadblocks to fend off potentially infected outsiders.

In Jackson, Mississippi, residents even ripped up all the railroad tracks.

“Indignation,” a local Jacksonian newspaper read, “is at fever heat here, and the people say that if necessary… they will burn every bridge between here and Vicksburg.”

Of course… we now know it wasn’t being spread person-to-person.

It would take over a decade for Americans to realize that the yellow fever was being spread by the skeeter, the mozzie… the mosquito…

In their panic, they couldn’t see what was right in front of their faces.

The Origins of Panic

The word “panic” comes from the Greek trickster-god Pan, who, it was said, sometimes caused humans to erupt in irrational fear.

Pan-demon-ium was the temple of the demons who caused chaos and all kinds of mischief.

(Their claim to fame, after all, was the pan-dem-ic.)

Greek gods were often used by the ancients to describe archetypal (or perennial) patterns of human behavior.

After a three-day grape wine bender, one would often (conveniently), as he nursed his hangover, assume he’d become possessed by Dionysus…

And not that he’d become a drunken fool.

Despite all of the evidence which shows widespread panic is precisely the wrong approach to COVID-19…

Pan still seems to have a stranglehold.

In my own neighborhood, I often see the same masked woman frantically (yes, frantically!!!) pacing around passersby dragging her dog along in mindless zig-zags being sure to stay at least 20 feet (or more) away… lest that last lone droplet land on Lassie and they both sizzle away on the spot in broad daylight like The Wicked Witch of the East in The Wizard of Oz.

Who knows how she handles a trip inside the human-infested supermarkets?

Despite the data, I still see the masked drivers with their windows rolled up.

And Dr. Birx is now recommending all Americans wear masks inside their homes.

Even absent the streets filled with coffins and corpses…

Those possessed seem perpetually geared up to burn every bridge between here and Vicksburg.

When Politicians Panic

If you take a step back, however, you’ll notice a trend.

The most possessed often have the least to lose. Higher stakes tend to help clear the mind of fog.

As you’ll see, according to a UN study, some 285 million people may die of starvation [because] of “an American upper middle class that was making decisions for everyone and for whom lockdowns were merely an inconvenience or vacation.”

With that in mind, I’d like to continue to rap about a world where economically-perched politicians panic…

Where the poorest and most economically unstable pay the price…

And where those trying to inject some common sense back into the equation are drowned out by those too afraid to let the dog walk in peace.

A World where Politicians Panic

Up in Maskachusetts, in the Berkshire Hills, they have a new form of fascism that might well be called “phasism” as their Governor Charlie Baker phases out their freedoms and economic life.

Banning music and theater, Tanglewood concerts, tennis tournaments, baseball games, track meets, and schools and colleges — he has put his knee on the arterial flow of their tourism and services-dependent economy and it can no longer breathe.

For the last couple months, citizens have been hunkering down and hiding out from this mad-phasist Fuhrer with his menacing black mask inscribed “Science will Win” and his new COVID-forever police state.

Imposing a new travel ban and new alcohol prohibition rule early in August while COVID deaths sink to virtually none, the Governor has been rescinding “step 2 of phase 3” of his reopening plan.

He storms at reports of a “recent [beer] kegger in Chatham, that graduation event in Chelmsford, the booze cruise in Boston Harbor, the football camp in South Weymouth, the lifeguard party in Falmouth, the prom in Cohasset,” as the inimitable Howie Carr recounts in the Boston Herald. Like some demented puritan divine, the governor seethes at “troubling clusters” of “private recreational activity.”

Hey, I’m guilty as sin. I still watch unmasked TikTok dancers, and pruriently ponder Doctor Anthony Fauci’s porno YouTube “film clips” of nude happy faces of people dancing in the streets and I travel freely about the country. Although I’m not a resident of his state, I’m trusting you not tell Governor Charlie!

Skulking under my sheets, I write timidly in the knowledge that Baker has scores of thousands of apparatchiks hounding down any secret hoarders of residual capacity to think for themselves without gubernatorial guidance and medical counsel.

I only cherish a futile hope that Baker doesn’t amend his mask order with Doctor Fauci’s proposed mandate for goggles. I can hardly breathe in a mask, and I sure don’t know how I can prophesize in goggles.

But I’m relieved to report that righteous scriveners and saner doctors, academics and statisticians across the land are publishing books debunking this amazing COVID madness. I’ve already people about the Discovery Institute colleagues Jay Richards and Douglas Ax, and statistician William Briggs, and their demonstration in The Price of Panic which will be available in October, that lockdowns do no good whatsoever in suppressing epidemic but do effectively devastate much of the economy. I’ve also talked many times about John Schroeter’s stirring ebook, already available on Amazon: Covid19: A Devil’s Choice.

With cogent authority, these books present all the statistical arguments on the insignificance of COVID compared to earlier, more deadly epidemics that brought no lockdowns or mask edicts.

Once to every man and nation, however, comes a moment to speak truth to power without statistical distractions or utilitarian extenuations.

This Libertarian Star Shines Through

Now John Tamny, the libertarian star of Forbes’ Real Clear Markets, has unleashed a devastating tract, to be published as soon as possible, entitled When Politicians Panicked: The New Coronavirus, Expert Opinion, and a Tragic Lapse of Reason.

Naming names and describing the endless carnival of outrageous overreach, Tamny vividly shows that Governor Baker is just one of many demented governors reveling in power like a Charlie Chaplin Fuhrer during this mass media madness.

Tamny is not much interested in COVID-19 data, except to dismiss the virus drama as just another epidemic event like scores of others over the centuries. He derides the call to continue lockdowns until the arrival of vaccines. He quotes Holman Jenkins of the Wall Street Journal, “There were no vaccines for the ’57 Asian flu [that caused 70,000 US deaths, including many young people (nearly equivalent to COVID-19 deaths adjusted for population)], or the ’68 Hong Kong flu or the 1918 Spanish flu [50 million world deaths]. They were never ‘cured.’ They ended when people decided to accept and adapt to the virus’s existence.”

Nothing offers any answer to the all-cause death data that show COVID to have been a trivial event in medical terms, with some 300,000 lives lost, average age over 80, in the face of some 58 million global all-cause deaths in 2019. COVID deaths, even according to the Imperial College of London, it will be drastically fewer in 2020 than the some 1.4 million new tuberculosis deaths resulting from the lockdowns and COVID hospital distortions.

As Tamny points out, the relative triviality of COVID-19 was blatantly evident as early as March 18, 2020, when Fred Smith, the venerable FedEx founder-CEO, was interviewed by Fox News’ Bret Baier. Smith had extensive operations in the epicenter of the virus in Wuhan, China, and 907 employees there, delivering packages for weeks all over the stricken city.

All employees were tested for the virus and only four tested positive. Of those four, two proved to be false positives. None of the FedEx workers got exceptionally sick and all recovered.

Tamny concluded: “That [Smith’s Wuhan] employees were largely spared the virus’s spread, and that none had died from it, reads as a reasonable market signal going back over two months (and realistically much longer than that) [discrediting] the presumed lethality of COVID-19.” COVID seems chiefly to threaten people already dying and physicians who expose themselves repeatedly to a load-dependent viral attack.

Today’s Prophecy

What we have undergone is an egregious and perhaps criminal and certainly unconstitutional power grab by politicians. Whether merely stupid or demagogic or driven by polls or by a nefariously political media, the politicians from Trump on down simply blundered like no others in the history of public policy.

“Proper history,” Tamny writes, “will indicate that what happened in 2020 was a global debacle… The reaction by pols… amounted to the biggest crime against humanity [in two centuries]. When politicians panicked, those with the least suffered in unimaginable ways…

According to a UN study he cites, some 285 million people may die of starvation [because] of “an American upper middle class that was making decisions for everyone and for whom lockdowns were merely an inconvenience or vacation.”

“To blame this on the coronavirus is to excuse ineptitude that is the norm when the combined decentralized knowledge of millions and. billions of humans is ignored in favor of the centralized and highly limited knowledge of very few politicians, and even fewer experts.”

“In robbing us of our freedom to live and work as we wanted…politicians suffocated wealth creation along with the information necessary to save us from the maladies and death brought by the virus. [It was] tragic…The expert standard replaced the market standard…”

Tamny understands economics with an intuitive and uncanny contrarian eye that penetrates beyond all the macroeconomic fantasies of conventional economists. He points out: “If the virus had been lethal, the lockdowns would have made even less sense…The biggest enemy of life is poverty.” Lockdowns simply cause poverty without relieving disease in any way.

“Let’s never again fight disease with the taking of freedom and wealth so essential to knowledge, prosperity, and by extension life itself.”

As AIER’s Jeffrey Tucker declares: “This country needs a serious anti-lockdown movement, one that is not just political but cultural and intellectual, one that is deeply educated on history, philosophy, law, economics, and all sciences, and can rally around traditional American civic postulates concerning individual freedom and the limits of governments, and also around universal principles of human rights. If liberty means anything, it means that we are not locked down.”

Tamny is giving us a heroic book just in time. We have been suffering not from a medical crisis but from a political and economic and institutional crisis. We have undergone a vast breakdown of moral, educational, intellectual and journalistic standards. Tamny tells this story better than anyone else. 

All should read his shocking tale.

We’re All Being Played As Damn Fools With This So-Called ‘Virus’

It is really laughable.  The United Nations (UN) has successfully discovered something more ominous to frighten us than the demise of the world through environmental degradation.  When was the last time as much emphasis was placed on our environment being destroyed?  That there are threats to our water security?  Or that wildlife is dying right and left because we humans are robbing them of their wilderness to roam freely?

Nope, their new scam, a virus, has exceeded any hopes they had in using the environment to achieve their agenda, scaring us to death that catastrophic doom is upon us if we don’t immediately change our ways.  No need to wait for world destruction by 2040.  Brilliant!  What is happening currently was all laid out for us last fall with Event 201.  While the existence of the Covid-19 (SARS-CoV-2) virus is real, that it originated in China, the motives and methods behind its spread are still unclear.

However, the hidden motives behind this virus are the same.  Starting with Agenda 21 in 1992, never ratified or adopted by Congress, implemented through an executive order in 1993 which embedded “sustainable development” into all federal legislation that trickled down its oppression onto states, and now with Agenda 2030, the objectives are the same.  What a long, struggling road it has been for the UN.  Beginning 28 years ago, using the environment to frighten and force us to change, just wasn’t fast enough for them.  But this new virus plan, threatening more immediate death, has scrambled everyone to bow to their whims.

Everything is tied to the UN, everything.  Every issue that every patriot group works on is tied to the UN.  Now with COVID-19, everyone is focused on sorting out truth vs fiction, just another brilliant distraction.  Who is feeding us all the countering information to the truth?  The UN partners, corporations, foundations, and sadly, even our own government.  So desperate are they to shut down the truth, censorship is rampant.  For every truth that is put out about Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and masks, UN partners slam those truths with contradicting information.  The UN is predicting rising infection numbers, new virus threats, shortages, starvation, and that pesky Center for Disease Control (CDC) World Health Organization (WHO) partner is forecasting a dire double flu season this fall  The list of Covid-19 symptoms has grown so any physical malady can be automatically construed as related to COVID-19, and even if symptoms are absent we are still guilty of its spread.  Let’s just face it, gloom and doom persist and this will continue until the necessary changes for The Great Reset are in place, fed to the public as the “new normal“, and outlined in the World Economic Forum (WEF), “Accelerating Digital Inclusion in the New Normal Playbook“.  Read it, folks, this is the direction you are being taken; a new form of government.

Oh, because the virus scam is working so well, add in the forecast that it will continue to just get worse, especially if you don’t comply, it will be your fault.  But, in truth, it won’t matter how many people wear masks, social distance, or do all the other bizarre recommendations passed down from the UN to Dr. Fauci and fed to us.  It won’t matter how much we comply, the future is set because the virus has been working so well to advance agendas with all of those plans laid right out there in front informing us.  Yet, in spite of all this gloom, the UN says we are globally happy, happy, happy.

And don’t forget those vaccines.  Agenda 2030 has a specific goal to meet just for that.  In fact, all sustainable development goals are integrated with vaccines.  There are also other vaccine advantages that will contribute to enhancing one’s identity, which fits into the digital scam.  Or, perhaps a CoviPass would be better as it provides “control” over one’s personal information, has already been shipped out to countries for use, and is impressively providing its “…technology to work with the UNITED NATIONS as part of their SDG Collaboratory (Sustainable Development Goals) program.”  Luckily, in true capitalist form, choices are available for people to decide how they want to be tracked such as with iRespond, Simprints, onfido, Clear, Yoti, IDnow, or iDenfy.

Think about it.  Just as with the environmental scam, this virus is being used as a means to entirely restructure our country, from our form of government as a Republic, to education, healthcare, how we socialize and vote.  Even our first amendment rights and freedom to assemble in worship have been removed.  How can a virus have so much power to change a system that has been in place for over two centuries?

It is because it is not a virus causing this, it is the UN through WHO and its partnership with CDC, along with all of its other partners, using a virus as a tool.  Are we going to allow this to happen?  The goal has always been to force us into a digital world, online education, telemedicine, even our economy in which the Federal Reserve is already participating.  As part of forcing us into a cashless society the new ploy of coin shortages is being thrown at us.  Maybe it is just the start of removing cash from society that will coerce us into a digital economy.

Don’t you see?  Nothing has changed, the end game remains the same.  The UN is till executing the same agenda on us only this time they have discovered a more efficient and expedient tool, one that can threaten imminent death rather than waiting for years, and results in more immediate manipulation of your behavior.  It’s working far much better than the environment scam, is far quicker in eliciting panic, which is probably much to their glee.  Our government is already working on manipulating us to take the vaccine.  This does nothing more except to pit us against each other.  We all have the same enemy and it isn’t a virus.

In the background the same UN objectives are happening, only more rapidly.  A digital world is being built through 5G, enabling the Internet of Things (IoT) to gather all the necessary data to track us and what we do, eventually having the ability to control all resources along with monitoring consumption and production.  Infrastructure for these goals is being put into place as they keep us tied up with arguing about whether face masks work, what is being censored, or if studies and doctors support HCQ as a treatment.  The UN is behind this push for this pandemic which “…has renewed and anchored the role of digital government…”.  All of this is being executed regardless of concerns about the safety of 5G.

Everyone is running around putting the brush fires out, but the forest is rapidly burning to the ground.

Does it not become tiresome to read the same information over and over?  How many articles need to be read to understand the Gates Foundation is evil, that some anarchist group is part of a larger Marxist plot, that we are to be chipped, and that Soros is behind all of it?  The WEF, Gates, Rockefeller Foundation, corporations, other foundations, and the UN continue to be in charge, it is all documented.  This test run of a virus was all previously documented, and we are now being told where they intend to take us.  It must be taken seriously.  Now is the time to stop reading repetitive information and start addressing the true core of the problem and what needs to be done to stop it.

Idaho. One of the first test tables.

What is the solution?  Can the state legislature take some action to stop this agenda in Idaho?  Will the governor aid in the protection of the state even though he has joined with the Western Governors Association with implementation through its Reimagining the Rural West Initiative?  What actions do Idaho citizens need to take?

Our Constitution is not going to protect us as this agenda excludes its protections and the players have no intention to consider it as seen by the rights already being impacted by this virus.  It is clear that if immediate action is not taken, our near future is written out for us to see.  This will become our new Constitution, a technocratic world of “experts” managing our lives through technocracy.  Yes, we are being played as fools if we do not take action to end this tyranny.

This is not fear mongering or hyperbole. This is the stuff of nightmares that turn real while prevention is too late.

The Ever Rising Messianic Police State

Today’s mask mandates are but more evidence of today’s messianic police state, impossible under a biblical government of, by, and for God established upon His moral law, including His quarantine statutes that only require quarantine for the infectious diseased and ill.

This in turn means that today’s mask response is but another of the tens of thousands of consequences of today’s uproar resulting from the winds sown by the constitutional framers and promoted by those who advocate their biblical seditious Constitution as the law of the land:

Today’s America is reaping the inevitable ever-intensifying excitement (including today’s insane government response to Covid-19) fanned by today’s hoodwinked Christians and patriots who have been bamboozled into believing today’s turmoil can be dissipated by appealing to that which is responsible for spawning all this bullshit.

“[B]ecause they have … trespassed against my law … they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind….” (Hosea 8:1, 7)

For more, see online Chapter 3 “The Preamble: We the People vs. Yahweh” of “Bible Law vs, the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective” at http://www.bibleversusconst…

Defensive Gun Uses Will Always Outnumber Mass Shootings – Always

I really didn’t want to have to write about the recent mass shootings, but here we go again. The stupid-o-meter has been dialed up to 11 in response to the isolated incidents in El Paso and Dayton. Not to mention the fact that there is an added narrative this time: White people so dangerous! Eww!

Here’s a number that you should just burn into your brain every time some STUPID left-winger starts telling you that they want “common sense” gun laws which are nothing more than destructions of our ancient freedoms referred to in – but not conferred upon us by (THAT was God) – the Second Amendment. That number is 2.5 million, or 2,500,000.

In contrast to the 2.5 million number, we had two (2) mass shooting incidents recently. Actually, it was three (3) mass shootings, but you’re supposed to forget the one at the Garlic Festival in California because that shooter had Islamic hate tracts in his house. Forget that guy.

Notice that the number 2,500,000, which I’ll explain momentarily, is a larger number than 2. As an equation, you could write it:

2,500,000 > 2

Next, the media is getting all hysterical and weepy because they’ve finally decided to count black-on-black gang-related crime as “mass shootings” for the current rodeo. That makes the numbers shake out like this, per CBS News: There have been 255 mass shootings in America as of this week. By that definition (with black-on-black shootings included), there have been more mass shootings than days in the year so far.

The number 2,500,000 still appears to be a greater number than 255. As an equation:

2,500,000 > 255

While the media is throwing out these arguably fudged numbers, every candidate running for president as a Democrat in 2020 was spewing the same message: The shootings are President Trump’s fault, the shooters are all white nationalists, and white nationalists are an existential terrorist threat against America.

Huh.

That’s weird, because when you break down the details of many of the “mass shootings,” it’s kind of tough to follow that argument. For example, the same weekend that the El Paso and Dayton shootings occurred, there were 60 people shot and 7 deaths in Chicago. Every single one of those incidents had a black shooter.

Out of the mass shootings where we know the race of the shooter in 2019, 51% were committed by black males, 29% were committed by whites, 11% were committed by Hispanics, .01% were committed by Asians, .007% were committed by American Indians (real Indians, not former Harvard professors who are running for president), and .003% were committed by Arabs.

Whites aren’t even committing a majority of mass shootings. If you lump the other races together, minorities account for 71% of mass shootings compared to whites.

But let’s get back to the 2.5 million figure, because it’s an important number. Back in 1996, 1997 and 1998, the CDC conducted some of the most comprehensive phone surveys ever done in America. They asked gun owners in America how often they engage in defensive gun uses, using a firearm to protect their own lives, the lives of their family members, or their property. The number was staggering: 2,500,000 defensive gun uses were taking place in America every single year.

The Bill Clinton Ministry of Truth and Government Transparency was quick to publish the number, because it was so important for the public to know it.

THAT of course was FACETIOUSLY stated. The CDC buried those numbers and never published the results. We didn’t find out about it until Donald Trump was in the White House 20 years later.

2.5 million annual defensive gun uses, per the scientific research of the CDC, works out to 6,849 average defensive gun uses every day. So, while there were two incidents where high-profile mass shootings took place on a single day recently, Americans quietly used their personally owned firearms 6,849 times defensively.

Even if just one life was saved in each of those incidents, the equation still works out to: 6,849 > 2