Two different quotes listed here pretty much sum up the overall attitude generally held on ethics.
“Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.”-Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
“Grub first, then ethics.”-Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)
I'm of the second opinion myself....How about you?
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Monday, September 30, 2013
Selling America out from under us
http://www.fsa.usda.gov/Internet/FSA_File/afida_thru_12312011.pdf
The above map and study from the USDA is for AGRICULTURAL land, folks! This is land used for renewable resources that you know is being shipped out of the US, or even if used here, the money is going to foreign lands.
Why do we bother sending aid to all these foreign countries when they're getting there food here anyway?
Due to Common Core, future generations will not be able to read this post.
The new national education standards adopted by 45 States and the District of Columbia and now slipping into America’s schools are a collectivist’s dream.
Called Common Core, it is an attempt to create a Federally controlled education system designed to turn children into mind-numbed drones devoid of imagination and inculcated with a progressive culture of redistributionist economics, social justice, the mainstreaming of perverted lifestyles, secular humanism and radical environmentalism. It is a one-size-fits-all scheme that will dumb down students to the lowest common denominator.
I've posted a couple of times about things I think are wrong with Common Core. The above excerpt from Personal Liberty Digest pretty much sums it up though. And by 'sums' I don't mean the Common Core concept that 2+2=5. Note even close.
Obama bribed states into acceding to teaching immoral and inherently liberal, get-on-the-carousel-shut-up-and-enjoy-the-free-ride ideals in order to continue his agenda of a zombie populace with no ability to think for itself and blindly follow where fearful leader leads: To the morally and financial bankruptcy or our once great nation.
Fuck Common Core.
And Fuck Obama
Called Common Core, it is an attempt to create a Federally controlled education system designed to turn children into mind-numbed drones devoid of imagination and inculcated with a progressive culture of redistributionist economics, social justice, the mainstreaming of perverted lifestyles, secular humanism and radical environmentalism. It is a one-size-fits-all scheme that will dumb down students to the lowest common denominator.
I've posted a couple of times about things I think are wrong with Common Core. The above excerpt from Personal Liberty Digest pretty much sums it up though. And by 'sums' I don't mean the Common Core concept that 2+2=5. Note even close.
Obama bribed states into acceding to teaching immoral and inherently liberal, get-on-the-carousel-shut-up-and-enjoy-the-free-ride ideals in order to continue his agenda of a zombie populace with no ability to think for itself and blindly follow where fearful leader leads: To the morally and financial bankruptcy or our once great nation.
Fuck Common Core.
And Fuck Obama
Is THIS why Feinstein wants our guns?
I came across an interesting story over at The Outrider. Makes you wonder if FIENDstein wants us disarmed in case we hear about shit like this.
The US has entered into a contract with a real estate firm to sell 56
buildings that currently house U.S. Post Offices. The government has
decided it no longer needs these buildings, most of which are located on
prime land in towns and cities across the country. The sale of these
properties will fetch about $19 billion.
A regular real estate commission will be paid to the company that was
given the exclusive listing for handling the sales. That company is CRI
and it belongs to a man named Richard Blum.
Richard Blum is the husband of Senator Dianne Feinstein. (Most voters and
many of the government people who approved the deal have not made the
connection between the two because they have different last names).
Senator Feinstein and her husband stand to make a fortune (est at between
$950 million and $1.1 billion!!) from these transactions. His company is
the sole real estate on the sale. CRI will be making a minimum of 3% and
as much as 6% commission on each and every sale.
Is this fact? Snopes has a story on it. Says its true, but of course, she has nothing to do with it. Supposedly.
I ain't buying it though.....Not even with the millions she'll make on this deal.
The US has entered into a contract with a real estate firm to sell 56
buildings that currently house U.S. Post Offices. The government has
decided it no longer needs these buildings, most of which are located on
prime land in towns and cities across the country. The sale of these
properties will fetch about $19 billion.
A regular real estate commission will be paid to the company that was
given the exclusive listing for handling the sales. That company is CRI
and it belongs to a man named Richard Blum.
Richard Blum is the husband of Senator Dianne Feinstein. (Most voters and
many of the government people who approved the deal have not made the
connection between the two because they have different last names).
Senator Feinstein and her husband stand to make a fortune (est at between
$950 million and $1.1 billion!!) from these transactions. His company is
the sole real estate on the sale. CRI will be making a minimum of 3% and
as much as 6% commission on each and every sale.
Is this fact? Snopes has a story on it. Says its true, but of course, she has nothing to do with it. Supposedly.
I ain't buying it though.....Not even with the millions she'll make on this deal.
Sunday, September 29, 2013
"EPA" the Environmental Propaganda Agency
Quite a few, let's call them Off-Gridders, as Prepper or Survivalist sound so negative, use wood stoves to heat and often to cook on in their self-sufficient homes. And that's a problem. You see, if you don't have one of the 'new and improved' woodstoves approved by the EPA, you could be in violation of guidelines set forth on how much your current stove 'pollutes'.
Let's face it, this isn't a 'save the planet' movement. This is a drive by Big Business to get their product approved and force us to bow to their whims. The EPA exists to fatten their own pockets like every other department of Big Government and control the sheeple who could otherwise depend on their own resources to survive in our modern Nanny State country. This is the same agency that 'increased' the acceptable amount of radiation in your food after the Fukishima Incident in Japan's radiation hit California.
Here is the information right from the EPA:
If the issue here is environmental, wouldn't it make more sense to list by G/ph emmison?)
One of the easiest ways for the government to force this issue is through homeowner’s insurance policies. If you have a mortgage, you have absolutely no option but to carry homeowner’s insurance. Even if you own you homestead outright, most people consider insuring their homes and property to be a vital safety net. When your policy comes up for annual renewal, the insurance company can require an inspection of your home. At that time, compliance can easily be forced by either charging insanely high rates or through the cancellation of the policies of those who have “outdated” woodstoves.
(Comments in red added by yours truly.)
- See more at: http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/the-epa-takes-an-ax-to-self-sufficiency-most-woodburning-stoves-will-soon-be-illegal-09282013#sthash.wW1L1WFC.dpuf
Let's face it, this isn't a 'save the planet' movement. This is a drive by Big Business to get their product approved and force us to bow to their whims. The EPA exists to fatten their own pockets like every other department of Big Government and control the sheeple who could otherwise depend on their own resources to survive in our modern Nanny State country. This is the same agency that 'increased' the acceptable amount of radiation in your food after the Fukishima Incident in Japan's radiation hit California.
Here is the information right from the EPA:
Enclosed is the list of wood stoves certified by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The EPA Certified Wood Stoveslist contains information about wood stoves or wood heating appliances that have been certified by the EPA along with its manufacturer name, model name, emission rate (g/hr), heat output (btu/hr), efficiency (actual measured and estimated), and type of appliance. It also indicates whether the appliance is still being manufactured. An EPA certified wood stove or wood heating appliance has been independently tested by an accredited laboratory to determine whether it meets the particulate emissions limit of 7.5* grams per hour for noncatalytic wood stoves and 4.1* grams per hour for catalytic wood stoves. All wood heating appliances that are offered for sale in the United States are subject to the New Source Performance Standard for New Residential Wood Heaters under the Clean Air Act and are required to meet these emission limits. An EPA certified wood stove can be identified by a temporary paper label attached to the front of the wood stove and a permanent metal label affixed to the back or side of the wood stove.See the EPA’s list of acceptable woodstoves HERE. (It's eighteen pages long, and arranged first by manufacturer. The actual emission rate is listed third and has no real bearing on the order. One putting out 0.6 grams per hour is just as acceptable as one putting out a total of 7.0 G/ph.
If the issue here is environmental, wouldn't it make more sense to list by G/ph emmison?)
One of the easiest ways for the government to force this issue is through homeowner’s insurance policies. If you have a mortgage, you have absolutely no option but to carry homeowner’s insurance. Even if you own you homestead outright, most people consider insuring their homes and property to be a vital safety net. When your policy comes up for annual renewal, the insurance company can require an inspection of your home. At that time, compliance can easily be forced by either charging insanely high rates or through the cancellation of the policies of those who have “outdated” woodstoves.
(Comments in red added by yours truly.)
- See more at: http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/the-epa-takes-an-ax-to-self-sufficiency-most-woodburning-stoves-will-soon-be-illegal-09282013#sthash.wW1L1WFC.dpuf
Saturday, September 28, 2013
Quotes on the job
I like quotes. They are often profound, humorous, and memorable. And you can quote me on that.
"A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D. or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B." - Fats Domino
"By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day." - Robert Frost
"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." - Confucius
"Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it." - Katherine Whitehorn
"I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours." - Jerome K. Jerome
"If A equals success, then the formula is A = X + Y + Z. Where X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." - Albert Einstein
"If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter." - John Gotti
"Many people quit looking for a job when they find a job." - Unknown
"Monday is a lame way to spend 1/7 of your life." - Unknown
"Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit." - George Carlin
"Researchers at Harvard say that taking a power nap for an hour in the afternoon can totally refresh you. They say that by the time you wake up you'll feel so good, you'll be able to start looking for a job." - Jay Leno
"The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does." - Unknown
"The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form." - Stanley J. Randall
"The difference between a job and a career is the difference between 40 and 60 hours a week." - Robert Frost
"The golden rule of work is that the boss's jokes are always funny." - Robert Paul
"We pretend to work because they pretend to pay us." - Unknown
"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly, I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it." - Theodore Roosevelt
"Whenever you leave behind failure, you're doing good. If you think everything you've done is great, you're probably dumb." - Louis C.K.
"Who says nothing is impossible? I've been doing nothing for years." - Unknown
"By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day." - Robert Frost
"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." - Confucius
"Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it." - Katherine Whitehorn
"I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours." - Jerome K. Jerome
"If A equals success, then the formula is A = X + Y + Z. Where X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." - Albert Einstein
"If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter." - John Gotti
"Many people quit looking for a job when they find a job." - Unknown
"Monday is a lame way to spend 1/7 of your life." - Unknown
"Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit." - George Carlin
"Researchers at Harvard say that taking a power nap for an hour in the afternoon can totally refresh you. They say that by the time you wake up you'll feel so good, you'll be able to start looking for a job." - Jay Leno
"The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does." - Unknown
"The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form." - Stanley J. Randall
"The difference between a job and a career is the difference between 40 and 60 hours a week." - Robert Frost
"The golden rule of work is that the boss's jokes are always funny." - Robert Paul
"We pretend to work because they pretend to pay us." - Unknown
"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly, I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it." - Theodore Roosevelt
"Whenever you leave behind failure, you're doing good. If you think everything you've done is great, you're probably dumb." - Louis C.K.
"Who says nothing is impossible? I've been doing nothing for years." - Unknown
Friday, September 27, 2013
The Constitution, as interpreted by the Senate:
Guess what. The Second Ammendment isn't clear on gun ownership for individuals, and the Third Amendment is 'obsolete'.
Who knew?
From Personal Liberty Digest:
The host website is www.senate.gov, the official Web presence for the U.S. Senate. If you visit the page and click on the “Reference” tab in the top right-hand corner, you’re taken to a second page that links to a number of jumping-off points for learning about the Nation’s founding documents.
One of those links connects you with a full text copy of the U.S. Constitution, which is presented, in columnar form, alongside an “Explanation” commentary that purports to offer insight on the meaning of each Article and Section, as well as each amendment. Here’s a direct link.
Remember, this is hosted on an official publication of the U.S. Senate, with all the probity that implies.
So scroll down to the “Amendments” section (or simply click on the “Amendments” link at the top of the page to jump directly to the Bill of Rights.
There it is: “Amendment II (1791).” By heart, you know what it says. So what does the Senate’s “explanation” have to say?
“Whether this provision protects the individual’s right to own firearms or whether it deals only with the collective right of the people to arm and maintain a militia has long been debated.”
Makes you want to read through the entire “explanation” column, to see what else the Senate wishes to tell Americans about how government reinterprets its own charter, does it not?
You don’t have to read very far. The very next “explanation,” for the 3rd Amendment, glibly calls the amendment “virtually obsolete” and insinuates it had only transitory value because it arose out of a specific set of circumstances. Does that mean it doesn’t function in 2013, like the rest of the Bill of Rights, in “extending the ground of public confidence in the Government,” as the preamble states?
Perhaps it does to the U.S. Senate — or to whoever has been designated to reimagine the Constitution on its behalf.
Who knew?
From Personal Liberty Digest:
The host website is www.senate.gov, the official Web presence for the U.S. Senate. If you visit the page and click on the “Reference” tab in the top right-hand corner, you’re taken to a second page that links to a number of jumping-off points for learning about the Nation’s founding documents.
One of those links connects you with a full text copy of the U.S. Constitution, which is presented, in columnar form, alongside an “Explanation” commentary that purports to offer insight on the meaning of each Article and Section, as well as each amendment. Here’s a direct link.
Remember, this is hosted on an official publication of the U.S. Senate, with all the probity that implies.
So scroll down to the “Amendments” section (or simply click on the “Amendments” link at the top of the page to jump directly to the Bill of Rights.
There it is: “Amendment II (1791).” By heart, you know what it says. So what does the Senate’s “explanation” have to say?
“Whether this provision protects the individual’s right to own firearms or whether it deals only with the collective right of the people to arm and maintain a militia has long been debated.”
Makes you want to read through the entire “explanation” column, to see what else the Senate wishes to tell Americans about how government reinterprets its own charter, does it not?
You don’t have to read very far. The very next “explanation,” for the 3rd Amendment, glibly calls the amendment “virtually obsolete” and insinuates it had only transitory value because it arose out of a specific set of circumstances. Does that mean it doesn’t function in 2013, like the rest of the Bill of Rights, in “extending the ground of public confidence in the Government,” as the preamble states?
Perhaps it does to the U.S. Senate — or to whoever has been designated to reimagine the Constitution on its behalf.
EVERYONE should show this video
I first saw this at The Outrider blog. I had to watch it probably 3 or 4 times to actually believe my eyes.
This fucking mouth breathing bitch STOLE a ball out of a little girl's hands! And, disappointed, the little girl walks away, while the evil woman gets a high-five from a guy in the stands.
This is what's wrong with America's attitude toward sports. And in general.
This woman needs to be SHAMED. Pass this video around. And if anyone knows who this woman is, let me know. I have no compuntion to posting it here for the world to see. Please. I'm BEGGING you.
Fuckin' bitch.
Feinstein's Fury once more raises 'her' ugly head
Any bets on how long it'd take her to remove our complete right to free speech after that?
Kinda like obummer taking it away as long as someone is around who's 'important' enough to have Secret Service protection, huh?
THIS is why we won't let the bitch take our guns. If we keep the Second Ammendment, we get to keep all the others!
Read the full story of her nefarious efforts against Americans HERE.
Disclosure: This post has been published by an unlicensed and unregistered journalist-blogger-commentator. It has not been sanctioned by the United States government, Nor by Feinstein herself. Under new legislation pending in Congress, this post, as well as those who comment and share it online may be determined by a future court to be criminalistic or terroristic in nature and subject to penalties under U.S. Law.
And did I mention: Fuck Obama
High School Coach Suspends Entire Football Team
This may piss off some armchair quarterbacks out there, but this is a GOOD thing.
Too often our 'boys of fall' feel like being THE school athlete is the end all and be all of life's achievement. And the fame and prestige with which we treat our national sportsmen only reinforces this issue.
Don't get me wrong, I grew up playing sports, and have been known to attend a few Super Bowl parties in my time. But I believe also that there is something inherently wrong in a Nation that pays more for its 'entertainers' than it does its political leaders.
Give regular John Q. Public his sixpack and an easy chair to watch his favorite sport all Saturday, and he's happy. Fat, drunk, and happy. Just like a good sheeple should be.
So here's a coach willing to teach young men that athletic ability is NOT the end all be all. Its an aspect of being part of a community. Healthy, young, athletic teenage boys helping out a community rather than expecting privilege and prestige based on the merits of how well they play football. Good Man, Coach!
Its high time we start giving more than taking in this country. If our congress were told they couldn't wear their big-boy pants and play politics until they did something for the country they represent, maybe this country would get back on track...
Thanks to "B" at In the MIDDLE of the RIGHT for the tip.
Too often our 'boys of fall' feel like being THE school athlete is the end all and be all of life's achievement. And the fame and prestige with which we treat our national sportsmen only reinforces this issue.
Don't get me wrong, I grew up playing sports, and have been known to attend a few Super Bowl parties in my time. But I believe also that there is something inherently wrong in a Nation that pays more for its 'entertainers' than it does its political leaders.
Give regular John Q. Public his sixpack and an easy chair to watch his favorite sport all Saturday, and he's happy. Fat, drunk, and happy. Just like a good sheeple should be.
So here's a coach willing to teach young men that athletic ability is NOT the end all be all. Its an aspect of being part of a community. Healthy, young, athletic teenage boys helping out a community rather than expecting privilege and prestige based on the merits of how well they play football. Good Man, Coach!
Thanks to "B" at In the MIDDLE of the RIGHT for the tip.
Maybe we should call ourselves 'The Atoms of Anarchy'
One helluva post by John Hayward over at RedState.com:
I've posted an excerpt here, but the entire article is worth the read.
The laws of supply and demand are beautiful things – expressions of logic as elementary as the basic laws of physics, which govern everything except the more unruly subatomic particles, which thumb their noses at laws, dress like slobs, and listen to the kind of music that drives their parent atoms crazy.
Supply and demand even applies to the use of government power, although the highest imperative of socialism is to pretend otherwise. There is always enormous demand for government. Lots of people want State power to be deployed for their benefit, or to punish their competitors. (That’s why Big Business is not at all antithetical to Big Government.) There is a bottomless appetite for “free” goodies. Lots of people will always believe that any given social problem can be solved through the application of coercive force, which they prefer to think of as “political leadership” – smart people rolling up their sleeves and bringing order out of chaos.
Nobody likes chaos, which is why desperate Big Government hacks, like Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, have taken to insulting those who want smaller government by calling them “anarchists.” A $3.6 trillion government that only spends $3.5 trillion next year would be “anarchy” under this definition. The natural desire for orderly life is carefully and deliberately perverted into demand for government control by the people who profit from supplying such control.
Full article HERE
I've posted an excerpt here, but the entire article is worth the read.
The laws of supply and demand are beautiful things – expressions of logic as elementary as the basic laws of physics, which govern everything except the more unruly subatomic particles, which thumb their noses at laws, dress like slobs, and listen to the kind of music that drives their parent atoms crazy.
Supply and demand even applies to the use of government power, although the highest imperative of socialism is to pretend otherwise. There is always enormous demand for government. Lots of people want State power to be deployed for their benefit, or to punish their competitors. (That’s why Big Business is not at all antithetical to Big Government.) There is a bottomless appetite for “free” goodies. Lots of people will always believe that any given social problem can be solved through the application of coercive force, which they prefer to think of as “political leadership” – smart people rolling up their sleeves and bringing order out of chaos.
Nobody likes chaos, which is why desperate Big Government hacks, like Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, have taken to insulting those who want smaller government by calling them “anarchists.” A $3.6 trillion government that only spends $3.5 trillion next year would be “anarchy” under this definition. The natural desire for orderly life is carefully and deliberately perverted into demand for government control by the people who profit from supplying such control.
Full article HERE
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