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A Pledge Of Allegiance For The New Normal America
For the new normal America...
I pledge allegiance to no flag, but to truth and morality...
...which doesn’t seem to exist in the Divided States of America.
And to no republic, for it stands for nothing; One nation, under surveillance,
completely divided
with Liberty and Justice destroyed
and inalienable rights taken from us all.
Source: ArmstrongEconomics.com
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However, there should be hope... As STA Wealth Management's Lance Roberts notes, as you celebrate the 4th of July with your family and friends, it is vitally important to remember exactly what we are supposed to celebrating. The following excerpts are from the Independence Day speech given by John Fitzgerald Kennedy (then just a candidate for Congress) on July 4, 1946. I encourage you to read the speech in its entirety.
On The Religious Element
"The informing spirit of the American character has always been a deep religious sense.
Our government was founded on the essential religious idea of integrity of the individual. It was this religious sense which inspired the authors of the Declaration of Independence: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights.'
Our earliest legislation was inspired by this deep religious sense: 'Congress shall make no law prohibiting the free exercise of religion.'
Today these basic religious ideas are challenged by atheism and materialism: at home in the cynical philosophy of many of our intellectuals, abroad in the doctrine of collectivism, which sets up the twin pillars of atheism and materialism as the official philosophical establishment of the State.
Inspired by a deeply religious sense, this country, which has ever been devoted to the dignity of man, which has ever fostered the growth of the human spirit, has always met and hurled back the challenge of those deathly philosophies of hate and despair. We have defeated them in the past; we will always defeat them.
On The Idealistic Element
"In recent years, the existence of this element in the American character has been challenged by those who seek to give an economic interpretation to American history. They seek to destroy our faith in our past so that they may guide our future. These cynics are wrong, for, while there may be some truth in their interpretation, it does remain a fact, and a most important one, that the motivating force of the American people has been their belief that they have always stood at the barricades by the side of God.
It is now in the postwar world that this idealism--this devotion to principle--this belief in the natural law--this deep religious conviction that this is truly God's country and we are truly God's people--will meet its greatest trial.
Our American idealism finds itself faced by the old-world doctrine of power politics. It is meeting with successive rebuffs, and all this may result in a new and even more bitter disillusionment, in another ignominious retreat from our world destiny.
But, if we remain faithful to the American tradition, our idealism will be a steadfast thing, a constant flame, a torch held aloft for the guidance of other nations.
It will take great faith."
On The Patriotic Element
"From the birth of the nation to the present day, from the Heights of Dorchester to the broad meadows of Virginia, from Bunker Hill to the batteries of Saratoga, from Bergen's Neck, where Wayne and Maylan's troops achieved such martial wonders, to Yorktown, where Britain's troops surrendered, Americans have heroically embraced the soldier's alternative of victory or the grave. American patriotism was shown at the Halls of Montezuma. It was shown with Meade at Gettysburg, with Sheridan at Winchester, with Phil Carney at Fair Oaks, with Longstreet in the Wilderness, and it was shown by the flower of the Virginia Army when Pickett charged at Gettysburg. It was shown by Captain Rowan, who plunged into the jungles of Cuba and delivered the famous message to Garcia, symbol now of tenacity and determination. It was shown by the Fifth and Sixth Marines at Belleau Wood, by the Yankee Division at Verdun, by Captain Leahy, whose last order as he lay dying was "The command is forward." And in recent years it was shown by those who stood at Bataan with Wainwright, by those who fought at Wake Island with Devereaux, who flew in the air with Don Gentile. It was shown by those who jumped with Gavin, by those who stormed the bloody beaches at Salerno with Commando Kelly; it was shown by the First Division at Omaha Beach, by the Second Ranger Battalion as it crossed the Purple Heart Valley, by the 101st as it stood at Bastogne; it was shown at the Bulge, at the Rhine, and at victory.
Wherever freedom has been in danger, Americans with a deep sense of patriotism have ever been willing to stand at Armageddon and strike a blow for liberty and the Lord."
On The Individualistic Element
"The American Constitution has set down for all men to see the essentially Christian and American principle that there are certain rights held by every man which no government and no majority, however powerful, can deny.
Conceived in Grecian thought, strengthened by Christian morality, and stamped indelibly into American political philosophy, the right of the individual against the State is the keystone of our Constitution. Each man is free.
- He is free in thought.
- He is free in expression.
- He is free in worship.
To us, who have been reared in the American tradition, these rights have become part of our very being. They have become so much a part of our being that most of us are prone to feel that they are rights universally recognized and universally exercised. But the sad fact is that this is not true. They were dearly won for us only a few short centuries ago and they were dearly preserved for us in the days just past. And there are large sections of the world today where these rights are denied as a matter of philosophy and as a matter of government.
We cannot assume that the struggle is ended. It is never-ending.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. It was the price yesterday. It is the price today, and it will ever be the price.
May God grant that, at some distant date, on this day, and on this platform, the orator may be able to say that these are still the great qualities of the American character and that they have prevailed."
May you have a happy, safe and blessed "Independence Day."
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Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels.
There has been absolutely nothing in the history of man that represented what is good and great about us, that has not been turned back against us, that has not been used to manipulate us towards our own self destruction. These truths are self evident yet few if any see them. It is our willingness to subvert all that is good to advance our causes that turns the good of men into evil. Our only hope is to study everything with a cynical but rational eye to determine truth from lie and benefit from risk.
Now lets all go out and drink too much and try not to blow our fingers off or burn down the house.
Why Grow Up? Scott Timberg interview with Susan Neiman
[http://www.salon.com/2015/07/03/why_grow_up_is_a_political_question_our_...]
"This is a radical political critique. Our inability to grow up is not, or not only, our own fault. The social structures within which we live are constructed so as to keep us childish. The state has an interest in preventing us from thinking independently, and it cultivates and exploits our worst tendencies in order to do so, for grownup citizens are mor trouble than they're worth. The state's desire for control and our own desire for comfort combine to create societies with fewer conflicts, but they are not societies of adults."
edit: can't fix link sorry
I noticed, this was the least number of flagsflying, on homes, for the 4th of july.
Interesting; I noted that the realtor who thinks he owns this neighborhood, and who for years in the past has staked flags (with his business card attached) in every lawn for Memorial Day and the Fourth, didn't bother for either holiday this year.
Today, I read a piece on HP from Robert Reich on what a patriot is. I nearly fucking gagged. Robert Reich wouldn't know a patriot if it bit him in the ass. In fact, Reich claims a patriot pays his taxes obediently and supports his criminal government. No shit.
I wrote this and posted it on his FB site. Fucking poser. http://thecivillibertarian.blogspot.com/2015/07/what-patriot-is.html
I love Robert "Israeli fourth" Reich! /sarc
"Although he was drafted to serve in the Vietnam war, he did not pass the physical as he was under the required minimum height of five feet."
And he's never gotten off his knees in service to the ZOG and the Clintons to this very day!
Lucky for him... At 5'1" he would have been a tunnel rat hunting charlie.
Reich is a patriot in the same sense that smegma is cheese.
I beg to differ. Patriotism is what makes a country hold together. It's what makes a group of human beings act as a people. It means some common values which unify those who feel similarly. Patriotism was so much demonized by the "modern" societies that is became almost an extinct element. Once that happened, the respective societies started their unstoppable slide to dissolution, having lost their binder for their construction. Look around and you'll see the signs of disintegration in every Western (aka progressive, i.e. non-patriotic) society, no exceptions. We are going the way of the Dodo bird, and it was our choice (we thought it smart at the time, and still do...)
I don't think thats the patriotism the good Dr. meant, when he said it all those years ago.
It was that evil men would cloak their true motives behind it, and would not be questioned.
Just as they are now.
Smart guy.
"But let it be considered, that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak of self-interest. "
Is the last subterfuge of the Patriots an underinflated football?
True, but we shouldn't really single out "patriotism" as a means to an evil end. Any word can be used to justify a bad act. How about "children", as in "it's for our children..." Sounds familiar ?
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The sort of 'patriotism' born out of events like the 9th month of 2001, that shows its slavish devotion to anything that wears a government uniform and gives license to any deed in the name thereof.
"... and to the Republic for which it once stood (for).."
There, I fixed it. I took my flag down with the second ACA SCOTUS "ruling". I am an "American of the past". Theere are fewer and fewer that understand the basic tenants of liberty.
Happy Fourth. I celebrate waxing nostalgic.
Everyman, I turned my flag upside down on Inauguration Day, (the first one) when the Usurper In Chief was sworn in.
I understand and am aligned with your sentiment. However, it is the so called "conservatives"that have done more damage to this republic. Take Chief Justice Roberts. Or Bohner. Or McConnell. Roberts blew two calls clearly constitutionally, and interpreted wrongly and not within law. McConnell pushed the TPP and TISA and "won". And what more can I say about a spoiled little shit bohner??? What a piece of filth that assclown is.
I have more heartburn with our corruptocratic assclowns in the GOP. Hell we know what the other side is about. All these GOP "leaders" are showing the word is that "old white men have no balls".
We shall see about that when they start siezing people's assets for not paying a $900 non moving violation ticket.
Sounds like that ticket should be paid in full. With lead.
Agreed! I really don't identify with any of them. As far as I'm concerned, 535 heads in baskets would make an excellent start. I could go into more detail (and have) but to summarize, cool the building down to about 55F, place said heads behind their respective nameplates, hold 2wk Emerg. elections, and only if you're willing to go carry out the head from your seat, would one be allowed to take office.( Damn, what a run-on sentence). The head removal would be a good moral lesson/reminder to the newbies.
None of those that you mention are conservatives... They are all statists consumed by their need to expand the power of the federal government.
A conservative is a strict constructionist. He or she does not see the Constitution as a rubber band that can be stretched around any argument that would promote the current populist agenda. None of the above are conservatives. Simply because they are publicly against abortion or gay marriage does not make them conservatives. The real truth is that abortion and gay marriage are none of the business of the federal government. At best these issues are the business of the states. In truth, those issues are a private not a public concern.
These men are all federalists. They have welched on the deal their ancestors made with the antifederalist, the deal that gave rise to the founding of the republic. The social contract between the federalist and the antifederalist has been broken. Both the Republicans and Democrats are complicit in the shredding of the Constitution and the relegating of the Bill of Rights to the dust bin of history. We now live in a post Constitutional America.
When this bites us individually in the ass, I have no clue.
Just a few days ago I was standing in the cell block in Buchenwald that housed Reverend Niemöller. It is in a long hall that was part of the Buchenwald administration wing. What is believed to be his cell is marked by a small alter consisting of a cross on top of a small suitcase. His warning is stark and rings as true now as it did then.
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
Excellent Cloud
YES!! Few understand that, and the majority can't get their head wrapped around that very fact.
THANK YOU for clearly stating what conservativism is. You did it well.
Angel_of_ joy Patriotism is what makes a country hold together.
No I believe pure stupidity is running the shit show now. Stupidity like this bullshit ISIS / ISIL "threat" on Drudge all weekend.
We (USA) Fucking FUNDED, TRAINED and continue to SUPPORT ISIS (along with Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Jordan...etc..) and have been doing so for four fucking years in an attempt to overthrow Syria and then on to IRAN. For fucks sake Israel medivacs wounded ISIL into their territories to treat them.
Maybe it's time to wake the fuck up.
So "patriotism" is a cutle little jingo trotted out when ever the PTB need to keep the sheeple in line. Hoo-rah and all that bullshit.
I'm flying the US Flag in its Distress mode: UPSIDE-DOWN.
The moment that a country eliminates the Draft and replaces it with a Professional Army, it no longer deserves "patriotic" responses.
For such an Army is nothing more than an army of MERCENARIES.
I care not/naught for the false/sophist arguments as to their or so-called "Patriotism" or "Sacrifice". A Merc is a Merc is a Merc. And let's stop pretending and bullshitting: >80% of Enlisted people are "Economic Refugees", i.e. people who'd have a very difficult time finding a decent-paying and secure job in the Private Sector. Most of them will also want to stay on the Gov payroll after they leave, if not absorbed by the MIC.
For all these reasons and more, I'm flying the Flag in Distress mode: UPSIDE-DOWN. I'm about to fly it under an Israeli flag, to indicate that the US is under Foreign Occupation.
Happy Occupation Day, Sheeple!
The Bible has sage advice for the time we live in.
"And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. For the old skins would burst from the pressure, spilling the wine and ruining the skins. New wine is stored in new wineskins so that both are preserved."
Turn your back on America. No more romanticism. She is dead. Forever more. If you are to find freedom....it is now underground that you will have to find it.
Go "Amish"......in any and every way you can. Turn your back on family and friends.....husbands and wives and children if need be. But no more romanticism. No more hope. Here's hope for ya'. Find hope in leaving everything and everyone behind and maybe one day finding someone of like mind to share the rest of your life with. If not......then be a free man in the wilderness.....even if that is in your mind only. Walk amongst the Zombies if you must.......only interact with them if you REALLY REALLY must. But each and everyone of us who are freedom minded are now....complete....and utterly.....alone and on our own.
Be invisible....educate no one. That time has come and gone. Fuck patriotism.....Fuck the 4th.....Fuck the Constitution. No new wine in the old wine skin. Make your own new wine skin and pour your own vintage in it. And serve it only to yourself if you have to......and hope and pray that one day someone comes along in your life to share it if they are of like mind.
I take it then that the concept of loyalty to your own kind is foreign to you.
Loyalty is a romanticism. Loyalty is earned and has an expiration date. 99.9 % of the people I've dealt with in my life including my family, my own fucking mother, my wife, friends, lovers, fellow workers, and employers have been unfaithful and/or disloyal.
It's foreign to them. Ask a vet if America has been loyal to them. Ask freedom lovers if America has been loyal to them. Ask Constitutional loyalists if America has been loyal to them.
It's foreign to America.
http://youtu.be/cwQAyskqG0g
Land of the Free
Free government handouts....
Free bank bailouts....
Free for banks to manipulate markets....
Free stock gains.....
Free electronic surveillance.....
Free unwanted taxes via healthcare proxy....
Like a sore dick. Can't beat it.
Free to shop and maybe free to take one vacation every now and then.
The "excepionalismo" North American is a joke as was the English, French, Spanish and Portuguese and, before that, the Roman, Greek, Egyptian, Chinese.
Some national anthem speaks of "democracy"?
If, say, I do not know.
Brazil's anthem speaks of freedom and more, much more.
hehe.
The Constitution, as the Framers and Ratifiers intended it, was exceptional. People with nothing but smart ass comments to offer, however, did little to help preserve it.
Yeah...the fucking founders. White men who killed in order to be free to own slaves. These motherfuckers killed America when they shit on States Rights and The First Constitution (The Articles of Confederation) only to enshrine Federalism in the ratification of the Second Constitution ( what the ignorant call THE Constitution). And not long after that they ratified the first Central Bank and killed their own people in the Whiskey Rebellion.
Fuck the Founders.
Amen. Goodnight sweet prince.....
That's about it, unfortunately.
Not flying the . Gov flag this 4th. Got the battle ensign out. Nascar banned from the tube. The colt navy's going down to the river, before my beer and ribs.
NASCAR says they're not going to outright ban the stars and bars, but if you bring one to the race they'll swap you a stars and stripes flag.
NASCAR is a perfect caricature of aMeriKa. Corporate sponsors call the shots and people don't matter at all.
Chunga: "NASCAR is a perfect caricature of aMeriKa....................."
Got that right. Restrictor plates, permanent yellow fucking flags and one long slo-mo fucking car wreck sold as patriotic bullshit and overdosed with corporate tentacles.
Watching fucking grass grow or wet paint get dry is a more productive use of time.
Haven't been able to watch a "STOCK CAR" race since about 1973 or so...........
Like so many other things, 4th of July for example, it used to be fun but now it's not.
Probably the most interesting thing to watch at the Firecracker 400 (oops coke zero 400) will be the camera angles. They try to trick you into thinking the place is full by not showing all the empty seats. It's pretty embarassing but that's what they do; and now they'll try to hide Confederate flags from view. Good luck at Talledega.
Chunga:Probably the most interesting thing to watch at the Firecracker 400 (oops coke zero 400) will be the camera angles. They try to trick you into thinking the place is full by not showing all the empty seats.
You know my friend who is into NASCAR told em the exact same thing... I thought he was BS'ing me. Apparently not.
If I'm forced to watch a race it will be at Dover.
"Haven't been able to watch a "STOCK CAR" race since about 1973 or so..........."
Yep....same here. Ever since Plymouth stopped producing the Superbird.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Superbird
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Superbird#/media/File:RichardPett...
Your avatar is not PC.
I stopped watching shit TV years ago and also Zollywood's shit.
I was watching Max Keiser online on RT the other day from his studio on the Thames River next to the gherkin (pickle) office building.
This old three mast sailing ship was passing the Tower Bridge. Max quipped "there goes a ship loaded with booty stolen by the City of London" or something to that effect.
Funny as hell and so true. The City of London is probably more evil than Wall Street.
It's not the places themselves, it's the Jews that infest the places that are Satanically evil! There is a reason Jews are the most hated people in the history of the world!
"Is not a pax americana, enforced by american weapons of war"
"Our most common link is that we all inhabit this small planet,
We all cherish our children's futures,
And we are all mortal....."
Any society that prized its children's future would never do what has been done here. Trillions in debt and a world full of hate and derision.
Thanks to endless brainwashing by Hollywood, TV and the rest o fthe media - many Americans think the best way to solved problems (fake problems started by media and State Dept or false flags) is to bomb people back into the stone age.
So Americans, almost reflexively, believe that mass murder with B-52s and nuclear weapons is justified. How amazingly F'ed up is that?
a torch held aloft for the guidance of other nations.
Ever since Kennedy's brains were blown out on November 22, 1963 by the CIA, which he had vowed to shatter into a thousand pieces and scatter to the winds, a Deep State has ruled the land of the free. It thrives on conflict and war and military spending and infinite spying and control. America has started 81% of the wars since WWII. None so blind as those who refuse to see:
Earth: 248 armed conflicts after WW2; US started 201 (81%), killing 30 million so far. Arrests are when now?People around the world view the US as the greatest threat to peace; voted three times more dangerous than any other country. The data confirm this conclusion:
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/05/earth-248-armed-conflicts-ww2-us-...
USA bringing freedom and democracy to this world:
Ron Paul says U.S. has military personnel in 130 nations and 900 overseas baseshttp://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/sep/14/ron-paul/...
In today's news:
NSA spied on Brazil’s President Rousseff, dozens of top officials - WikiLeaksJuly 04, 2015
The US National Security Agency tapped the telephones of 29 Brazilian government top officials as well as waged economic espionage against the country by listening in to calls of those managing Brazilian economy, WikiLeaks claims in a new release.
http://rt.com/news/271699-nsa-brazil-new-wikileaks/
Inalienable Rights are exactly that INALIENABLE. Exercise them DAILY. ALL OF THEM. Without apology, Bitchez......
I've always wondered about the missplelling of that in the Declaration.
Were they taking the piss ?
T'was not misspelled.
Standardized spelling came about in the late 19th Century.
Is it still legal to recite the Pledge? I don't want to be called a tearr-ist or labeled politically incorrect.
"The informing spirit of the American character has always been a deep religious sense.
Our government was founded on the essential religious idea of integrity of the individual. It was this religious sense which inspired the authors of the Declaration of Independence: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights.'
One reads that today and assumes the Founding Fathers meant all classified as "human" is what they meant. It was not. They meant "WHITE" men. A minor point of history and in the USSA it will not reach the masses.
"Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people—a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by their joint counsels, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established general liberty and independence."
Concerning Dangers from Foreign Force and Influence, Independent Journal, October 31, 1787
John Jay in Federalist No. 2, wherein he describes Americans as a “band of brethren united to each other by the strongest ties.”
Cass Sunstein: “Picking The Right Words To Ban From Campus”
JFK must roll in his grave from time to time at what this once great nation has become. R I P
All good...
California farmers using #fracking water bought from oil companies
http://sputniknews.com/us/20150704/1024187464.html?utm_source=t.co%2FLJ7...
I know God personally, and I can guarantee you he won't grant the USA diddly squat until I am paid $30 trillion in physical gold bullion directly into my bank account, motherfuckers.
NOTE: All payments are past due in full, America. Interest charges are clocking out at 28% which is what major credit cards charge Muppetts like the American Government when the ratings agencies downgrade their credit standing.
Pay up, SUCKERS, or get ready for Shmeeettaaa time, and contagion.
I feign allegience
To the flag
Of the Divided States of America
And mourn the Republic
For which it stood
One Nation, devoid of God
Disintigrating
With Liberty and Justice
For the politically connected.
Has anyone noticed the difference between Independence Day and say Thanksgiving.
Ever wonder why we don't say November 26 when referencing Thanksgiving but always use 4th of July for Independence Day?
Maybe because they don't want us to use the word "Independence"?
Maybe because it might remind the People of the reason for the day other than another Military celebration day.
The U.S Army did not exist,,, nor the Marines, Navy, Coast Guard and the plethora of others.
The People resisted,,, the People Fought,,, the People suffered,,, the People died.
Not one U.S Military soldier was involved. Not one suffered,,, Not one died.
That is why only the Militia is mentioned in the Articles and the Constitution. And that Militia was the only organization that ever fought for the country's independence.
Not one war afterwords other than possibly the war of 1812 was fought for that reason.
Happy Independence Day...
The only other holiday that I can think of that TPTB do this to is Christmas.
This is because the state doesn't want a challenger to their assumed authority.
Go USA USA USA.corp.
Not.
This bullshit can't tank soon enough.
I'm running for President at GoFundMe. Joseph Maloy
Stop the madness in Washington.
GoFuckMe
But meanwhile. I will vote for no one else:
Stop World War-III and the Deep Underground Bunker Elite.
http://2016.green-party.info/McKinney/
Oh My! A down-vote in 30 seconds!
I must be diong something right!
America, thank you.
https://twitter.com/daviddpearce/status/617398406634434560
"The U.S. will do all we can in coming days, weeks, and years to sustain and strengthen ties between the U.S. And Greece on all levels." -
David D. Pearceno point singing sour grapes; a country has to be retaken to its origins by a generation who knows no fears.
That generation still has to be born its back to the wall; thats how a generation finds its true face of fortitude.
Never despair, always care. ANd know who your true enemies and their values are.
"I pledge allegiance to no flag"...sad !
maybe we can reintroduce this one : http://www.c-span.org/video/?326487-1/discussion-flags-american-revolution ( no need to play video )
The USA has lost it's sovereignty to centralized supra national control of the money.
Just like Europe.
The only thing left to pledge allegiance to is a corrupt, malevolent, immoral state that's using its citizens until they're used up.
Yes land of the free....
Free to buy a product from a private corporation as a condition of citizenship.
Free to have a large part of your income and property confiscated and redistributed.
Free to be searched without a warrant or cause in order to travel
Free to have your phone and computer wire tapped
Free to practice your religious beliefs in the confines of your home
Free to have your guns taken away without cause if your a veteran
Free to be means for revenue generation by the states
Free to have your children turned into monsters
Free to abort your children
Etc...etc....etc.
Gona sip a bottle of eagle rare 10 year , but the fake 4th can fuck off. The current government it's got nothing to do with 1776 but good whiskey is still american.
WHATEVER...
And they are singing "Sweet Caroline" in Boston..... Shamed they are all sheep.
Effects of DomesticationDomestication has changed sheep so much that they are almost helpless in the wild, according to animal scientists M. E. Ensminger and R. O. Parker, who in Sheep and Goat Science note that "domesticated sheep of all breeds are universally timid and defenseless and the least intelligent and least teachable of all the domestic fourTwo-footed animal. . . . Unlike other farm animals, they are unable to return to a wild life"
Armstrong Economics, what a joke, coming from a second rate opportunist trying to rub two dimes together to make 25 cents.
Come on down and buy some gold and silver, we have a flourishing business selling the “spread” mentality.
What pisses me off is that Armstrong wrote this whole bull-shit article and never mentioned “American democracy” once. He has got to be another brainwashed Teabagger that hates democracy form of government.
I understand why bankster fascist hate democracy but I am amazed at the number of brainwashed Americans that hate our once Constitutional Representative Republic form of democracy. They are like zombie Manchurian candidates.
All you Teabaggers should be overjoyed because your once democracy has been destroyed. What are you celebrating today?
ZH is utterly infested with pro-religious (aka pro-Christian) horseshit. WTF, man? One article after another: have you had your Jesus today? come get your Jesus! The "Pledge of Allegiance" is the stuff of religio-statist indoctrination, and is utterly terrifying in its brainwashing utility. The felonious author bemoans our lost freedoms, while proudly disregarding any American's freedom not to worship ancient Hebrew mythological characters. What a turnoff.
Ain't it hard,
when you discover that,
he really wasn't where it's at,
After he has taken from you,
everything he could steal.
Bob Z.
Our gov't is not our country. We can be patriotic about our country, and detest our gov't. Wasn't that the basis of the American revolution?
It is amazing reading JFK. Today, he would be to the right (maybe far to the right) of every Democratic member of Congress.