Recent Book Reading

I just finished a very frightening book. Not the Stephan King, chills up your spine kind of frightening. The kind of frightening that you are walking across a railroad trestle to the far side of a river and you feel the telltale vibration of a train on the tracks. You start to run to the nearest side, but see the train and realize you will be run over or you will have to jump into the rocky riverbed below.
The title is The Day the Dollar Dies by Willard Cantelon. The book was published in 1973, but could read like headline news today. I’m not calling Cantelon a prophet, but an extremely astute historian, economist, and theologian. For all of us whose only study of economics was the required high school course, the title sounds boring. For those who have a more advanced study, it is probably fascinating. The latter is more accurate. I highly recommend this book, if you can find it. It is very well written, and a compelling read. It has been said that truth is stranger than fiction, what you will read in this book will (with supportive historic documentation) cause any Hollywood espionage thriller to be put to shame. It is on a scale of National Treasure in historic research and suspense. If it were presented as a work of fiction, it would have been a best seller. I can’t emphasize the importance of this book enough.
Find it, buy it, read it.

Al Sharpton a Blind Squirrel?

I hate to agree with Al Sharpton on anything, but as the old saying goes: “Sometimes even a blind squirrel finds a nut.” Sometimes even Al Sharpton can find a truth. This is the case. Sean Bell was a 23 year old American. He was celebrating with friends the night before his wedding when he and his friends were accosted by unidentified men with guns. Sean and his friends, drunk from their celebrating, jumped into their car and attempted to leave when a van drove in quickly to try to cut them off. The closest man with a gun was pointing it at them. What would you do? He attempted to run down his attacker and was killed by 50 bullets striking his body. Sean and his friends were unarmed, and there were no guns in the car. The men were NYPD undercover detectives. The van was an unmarked NYPD vehicle. The three standard sidearms for the NYPD all have a maximum capacity of 15 rounds, so if all three officers emptied their magazines, someone would have had to reload and fire 5 more rounds, just in Sean. That is not counting his two friends. Just a little overkill. We have one innocent man dead and two others wounded at the hands of government officials who are supposed to “protect and serve”. In what would appear to be an open and shut case, the unthinkable happened, the officers were acquitted. Now Al Sharpton is leading a protest in NY and I wish him luck and God speed. There have been too many cases of police abuse in the U.S. and they have been increasing in frequency over the past few years, as the federal government strikes down restrictions on government power which were put in place to protect the citizens from an aggressive government. And as The Patriot Act shreds the Constitution in a very un-patriotic way, we the people have to stand up for ourselves and each other. We have to come together as Americans and understand that whatever our differences are, we are Americans first. We also have to remember George Washington’s words that government is like fire, a dangerous servant and a fearful master. We must return the fire to the servant position.

Melloncamp

Rain On The Scarecrow
John Cougar Mellencamp

Scarecrow on a wooden cross Blackbird in the barn
Four hundred empty acres that used to be my farm
I grew up like my daddy did My grandpa cleared this land
When I was five I walked the fence while grandpa held my hand
Rain on the scarecrow Blood on the plow
This land fed a nation This land made me proud
And Son I'm just sorry there's no legacy for you now
Rain on the scarecrow Blood on the plow
Rain on the scarecrow Blood on the plow
The crops we grew last summer weren't enough to pay the loans
Couldn't buy the seed to plant this spring and the Farmers Bank foreclosed
Called my old friend Schepman up to auction off the land
He said John it's just my job and I hope you understand
Hey calling it your job ol' hoss sure don't make it right
But if you want me to I'll say a prayer for your soul tonight
And grandma's on the front porch swing with a Bible in her hand
Sometimes I hear her singing "Take me to the Promised Land"
When you take away a man's dignity he can't work his fields and cows
There'll be blood on the scarecrow Blood on the plow
Blood on the scarecrow Blood on the plow
Well there's ninety-seven crosses planted in the courthouse yard
Ninety-seven families who lost ninety-seven farms
I think about my grandpa and my neighbors and my name
And some nights I feel like dyin' Like that scarecrow in the rain
Rain on the scarecrow Blood on the plow
This land fed a nation This land made me proud
And Son I'm just sorry they're just memories for you now
Rain on the scarecrow Blood on the plow
Rain on the scarecrow Blood on the plow
Rain on the scarecrow Blood on the plow
This land fed a nation This land made me proud
And Son I'm just sorry they're just memories for you now
Rain on the scarecrow Blood on the plow
Rain on the scarecrow Blood on the plow

Melloncamp is not your typical hollywierdo, empty talking head like Sean Penn or Jane Fonda. Melloncamp actually lived and worked in the real world. He grew up in the farm country around Bloomington, Ind., and worked construction while writing songs on his own time. When a record label offered him a contract it was with the understanding that his performance name would be John Cougar. He resisted but had to go along. As he became successful he self hyphenated to Cougar-Melloncamp and was able to strike out with only his family name as success continued. John Melloncamp earned his position the hard, honest way. I don't often agree with his choice of candidates, but I agree with much of his down to earth, American patriotism. "Scarecrow" came about as a result of the farm crises of the 1980's. When corporate agriculture, (ADM, Conagra, Monsanto, and others)manipulated the government to entice family farms to overextend themselves for the big Russian wheat deal and then watched as corporate's only competition, family farms, collapsed. If the farmers are bitter,it is understandable. Dairy farmers are paid the same for milk they produce now as for the milk they produced in 1980. You paid $2.16 for a gallon of milk in 1980 and you are paying $5.00 a gallon today. And the price difference goes where? We the people are going to have to wake up and take charge of our destiny or we will not have a destiny worth living.

The Coming Food Shortages

Recently a Fox News story reported that grocers in New England and New York were limiting the amount of groceries their customers could buy. Don’t be surprised, you’ve been warned over and over. It is common knowledge that the country only has three days supply of food on hand, and much less if the weather man calls for snow. It has been time to prepare for years. Remember in your Sunday School lessons how Joseph was sold into slavery by his jealous brothers, how he interpreted Pharaoh’s dream and warned him to prepare for famine, and became a prince of Egypt? The moral of the story is to be prepared. If government/corporations control the food supply, it controls the population. I reference the previously posted poem, “Corporate Kings”: “Tell me Caesar, how do you rule so vast a people?” “Bread and circuses.” Control the food and keep the people entertained and they will accept anything government does.
Any questions?
Stock up now on drinking and sanitary water, non-perishable food and can openers, medicine, flashlights and batteries, blankets, tools, sanitation supplies (toilet paper, garbage bags, dish washing gloves, feminine items), weapons and ammunition (extra magazines for all semi-auto weapons), a compass and maps of your immediate area, comfortable, sturdy clothes and shoes, and light weight backpacks. And get healthy! This stuff won’t do you any good if you have to walk out of your area and you can’t take it with you. Remember Hurricane Katrina and how the government (local, state, federal) completely fouled things up? The only people the government would disarm were the honest citizens trying to protect themselves, leaving the criminals armed to prey on the citizens. We can only rely on ourselves, or as the Irish have said: “Sinn Fein” which translates: “Ourselves Alone”.

Subject: Atlanta Airport

From the Tower:


Atlanta Airport You gotta love this one even if
you've never lived in the South. Some of you will
enjoy this more than others... Southerners can be
so polite!

Atlanta ATC: "Tower to Saudi Air 511 --
You are cleared to land eastbound on runway 9R"

Saudi Air: "Thank you Atlanta ATC. Acknowledge cleared to
land on infidel's runway 9R - Allah be
Praised."

Atlanta ATC: "Tower to Iran Air 711 --You
are cleared to land westbound on runway 9R."

Iran Air: "Thank you Atlanta ATC. We are cleared to land
on infidel's runway 9R. - Allah is Great."
Pause...Saudi Air: " ATLANTA ATC - ATLANTA
ATC"

Atlanta ATC: "Go ahead Saudi Air 511"

Saudi Air: "YOU HAVE CLEARED BOTH OUR AIRCRAFTS FOR THE SAME
RUNWAY GOING IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS. WE ARE ON A
COLLISIONCOURSE. INSTRUCTIONS, PLEASE."

Atlanta ATC: "Well bless your hearts. And praise Jesus.
Y'all be careful now and tell Allah "hey" for us -- "

We Are Being So Stupid

We are being so stupid! As noted we are seeing history repeat itself regarding the Olympic being held in Communist China, but with applicable technological advances. We are also seeing the repeat of the banana republic wars, beginning with the Moro rebellion in the Philippines after the Spanish-American war, up through the Boxer Rebellion in China, Pancho Villa on the Mexican border, and the U.S. occupation of Vera Cruz, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Haiti. To quote Maj Gen Smedley Butler, USMC: "I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents."[19]
These operations established American authority and power in these regions while costing American lives. We are seeing the re run in the middle east, with technological advances. Look at history, the fighters our military encountered in these areas were very deadly in their respective areas but were no threat to the U.S. The terrorists in the middle east are similarly deadly in their areas. Ahmadinejad of Iran is not the Hitler of the 21st century, he is the Augusto Cesar Sandino of the 21st century. China will provide the Hitler with the technological advances, provided by U.S. businesses and bankers. We are writing our own obituary.

Repeating Mistakes

With the Olympics being held I Communist china in 2008 we are seeing history repeating itself. This is the second time the Olympics have been held I a major dictatorship. The first was in 1936 in Nazi Germany. You would have thought that the Olympic committee would have learned its lesson. But they are not the only ones repeating bad judgment. Prior to WWII U.S. business men and bankers were up to their eyeballs in helping Nazi Germany rebuild. Henry Ford, that Henry Ford of Ford Motor Company, received the Grand Service Cross of the Supreme Order of the German Eagle, the highest award that could be given to a non German, by the Nazis. He was not alone, other “great” American business leaders like Prescott Bush, Joe Kennedy, the Rockefeller Foundation, DuPont, ALCOA, and General Motors all were closely intertwined with the Nazis. We now have the same groups of businesses and leaders modernizing and equipping Communist China’s industry, all the while dismantling industry here in the U.S. Remember, it was the industrial might of the U.S. which actually turned the direction of the war and equipped all major allies fighting Germany and Japan. This time around we are not only equipping our enemy, but we are borrowing money from them and the communists are buying into the huge corporate banks. What will be the result of this folly? Without industry, in debt to our enemy, importing food, no secure border, and with our military bogged down overseas, what will become of the once great republic?