The most famous speech in American political history.

If they dare to come out in the open field and defend the gold standard as a good thing, we shall fight them to the uttermost, having behind us the producing masses of the nation and the world. Having behind us the commercial interests and the laboring interests and all the toiling masses, we shall answer their demands for a gold standard by saying to them, you shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

You can listen to it here:

http://historymatters.gmu.e...

Workers rejoice. (Giuliani's Health plan).

Hey, he's going to give all you minimum wage earners who only make 11,000 dollars a year. A 15000 dollar tax deduction so you can afford to pay for private health insurance.. That deduction will sure come in handy. Let's see. What was your total tax bill. 100 bucks?

Giuliani's himself says he has no idea how many of the uninsured his plan will help. In other words he doesn't care about the uninsured. He cares about the insurance companies.

This proposal will sink his campaign. The Princes Giuliani's article in Vanity Fair Sept. issue. Will hold his campaign under water until it is dead.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id...

Washington Peace March - 1971

Steve it's all your fault. You tube is the best..  <grin>

List of designated terrorist organizations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

The majority of terrorist groups are not Muslim.

Religious terrorism is a form of religious violence. As with other forms of terrorism, there is no real consensus as to its definition. Groups are frequently classified as practitioners of religious terrorism for any one of the following reasons:

• The group itself is defined by religion rather than by other factors (such as ideology or ethnicity).
• Religion plays some part in defining or determining the objectives or methods of the group.
• The ultimate objective of the group is religiously defined.

Controversy concerning classification is often found because:

• Religion and ethnicity frequently coincide. Ethnic conflict may thus appear as religious, or religious conflict may appear as ethnic.
• Religious groups, like other groups, frequently pursue political goals. In such cases it is often not clear which is uppermost, the political goal or the religious motivation.

Groups which have used principal religious motives for their terrorist acts and were deemed as such by supranational organizations and governments are listed here in alphabetical order by religion.

Christian

• Army of God - An American pro-life terrorist group. ^[2]
• God's Army - A terrorist group in Myanmar.^[2]
• Nagaland Rebels (1947-present) Active in predominantly Christian state in Hindu majority India. Involved in several bombings in 2004. Goal: Independence from India after annexing parts of neighboring Indian states and Burma if it has Christian majority.^[2]
• National Liberation Front of Tripura (1989-present) A group that seeks the independence of Tripura from India to create a Christian Tripura.^[2]
• Phineas Priesthood An American based Christian Identity movement. ^[2]
• National Democratic Front of Bodoland, active terrorist in the Indian state of Assam, involved in the murder of Bineshwar Brahma, prominent Hindu Bodo activist.^[2]

Capitalism, does it exist anymore?

It seems that capitalism is lost. Today our system seems to honor the old money. Not work.

We honor investment of cash. Not the investment of labor.

We assume that it is ideas that create riches. Not labor.

When the value of ideas fail. We diminish the honor of labor even more. We dismiss it and call the layoff an increase in productivity.

We discarded apprenticeship and pretended to replace it with 4 years of college.

We now have a system that is solely dependent on first come first serve. The gate to success has swung closed to many Americans. And the only way in is through deception for many. Criminality for others.

This faux capitalism has it's roots in Reagonomics. The idea of trickle down. The union busting. The failure to stop illegal immigration. Are all Reagan ideas. That haunt us today.

The professionals that accepted the influx of illegals to pick our lettuce. Are suffering the fate of their refusal to honor the profession of others. The Radiologists sees his work transferred and performed over the Internet in India. The doctors sees his job being performed by the nurse practitioner. The dental schools that decedents of dentist had a strangle hold on in the 70's. Have been replaced by dental schools in Granada. The lawyer has his jobs farmed out to the para legal.

Security belongs only to those who control the economy. Hedge funds control money that could buy any of the leading multinational corporations outright. They control money that could sell off a stock and wipe out your retirement funds.

Today. Both the professional and the laborer is at risk.

We are not the big money. But we are the deciding vote. We have to work together to protect our health. Protect our family. Protect our castle and Save Capitalism.

We can no longer settle for trickle down. Labor and hard work is the source of all wealth.

Darlyn Baker, Do you have family? Seek their help.  (Sicko health card)

Darlyn, let me suggest that your Letter on page B9 in TBC Sunday Forum. Was outrageous.

Let me quote you:

'The uninsured are able to receive health care via tax dollars now. Emergency rooms cannot turn away patients. All patients receive treatment sooner or later.'

'Stay home. You can help keep your cholesterol under control by not eating the buttery movie theater popcorn. Save your money for your next co-pay. '

TK continues:

Darlyn, I certainly hope you are not involved in the triage performed at your interim health care business.

Your thought process is not one that I would admire of a medical professional.

You go on to say:

What does Moore think would change? Would it make him happy if we each had a plastic universal health card?

TK continues:

It is a card possessed by every human, of every industrialized nation, of the World.

Except America.

Yes, that card would make him happy. Yes it would make me happy. Yes it would make the CEO and financial leaders of General Motors happy.

Darlyn, would it make you happy? If not, Why? Would you like to be in Moore's next movie?

http://youtube.com/watch?v

I have said that both RKH and Justin have a high degree of intelligence. They are very capable of argument. If the sole purpose is argument, they do a wonderful job expressing one.

But an opinion can not be presented as proof. They both fail to recognize the need for, “The Link”. Some indication that there is some reality based information that will support their argument.

On occasion it appears as if they may take a position that they do not literally support. But one that will provide exercise for the argument muscle.

I have no complaint of this. What becomes tiresome is when the argument has lost it's momentum. And turns to fight. It's as if it has now become a contest of wills. A contest of staying power.

Who will get in the last word? Who will have the last post?

This attitude works fine for my style. My original blog post contains all of the information that I want absorbed from my blog. The endless comments keep my blog at the head of the comment page. This increases my views and allows a greater chance that someone will read my blog.

I am hopeless. I require a great amount of attention. I am the one in the middle of the crowd jumping up and down. It's Me! Me! Me! It's all about ME!

I am a veteran. I worked for the American people.

Today, I am told that our soldiers are dieing to protect my freedoms to save me from Al Quada..

While I know that when in combat the trooper fights for his buddy. I am being held up as an excuse for this war by the Bush regime. My nation/my freedoms the reason these troopers lose their lives and their limbs.

The trooper makes up his mind when he joined the service to follow orders. His beliefs and political views are welcome in church and his prayers. At the voting booth. His service is honored. But whether he supports the war. Whether he considers the war justified or worthy. Means nothing. His duty is to fight.

Over 70% of Americans do not want another limb sacrificed in Iraq for their freedom. We do not recognize a hazard worth that sacrifice.

Over 70% of Americans do not want to ordain another American hero. So that 10 thousand more Iraqi's will die. Without any resolution to this civil war possible while Iraq is occupied.

Over 70% of Americans do not want to spill another drop of our troopers blood. Blood that takes with it the beat of a fathers life. The warmth of a loving husbands hug. And the smile that shined, a Mothers very reason for existing.

Over 70% of Americans do not want photo ops. We want out of the war. We want to be relieved of the responsibility for any more tragedy in Iraq.

We want the Iraqi people to be responsible.

We want our troopers home.

To be or not to be. Turning over a new leaf.

Scriptnorist. Or Wordsmythnorist.

That is the question.

This is not a democratic election.

Your suggestions will be taken with a grain of salt.

But I have been short on reading material as of late.

And I will promise to read anything that can hold my attention for at least the first sentence.     

The current conditions are a result of the reduction in capital gains tax and the influx of monies due to the private retirement accounts such as 401k plans . This has created a improper attitude with regards to speculation in the three major sectors.

1. Securities.

2. Real estate.

3. Commodities. (including oil)

There has been a huge massing of funds for the extremely rich. Top 1%. They are working within the hedge fund market. Gaming the situation. Transferring monies at a moments notice from the three above mentioned markets. Their vast amounts of money able to affect the markets, drawing in the small investor. Then gathering their profits and moving on.

Today is an example of the perfect storm.  Real estate, securities and commodities are all falling. The only safe place to move your money is to cash. Everything is falling because everything was over priced.

It is a pyramid scheme. No different than the pyramid scheme of the technology boom of the 90's.

The pyramid scheme called individual retirement accounts have no purpose but to increase the wealth of the wealthy. Individual retirement accounts are stuck in investments until you retire. Or you pay he tax penalties. The 70 thousand dollar average retirement account, in an annuity, will not pay your electric bill in retirement.

Your IRA is the chain letter dollar mailed in to the one or two lucky ones that actually win.

The Hedge funds come and go as they please. Playing with money that has no consequence if they lose.

Welcome to the Board Nick Belardes

This is a good place for views on the News. Hey, We even get a scoop now and then..

Maybe I shouldn't be disappointed.

'Reconscout09 h', Has deleted all of my messages of best wishes.

Of course that is his right. And no matter, my concerns for his safety and hope for his safe return go unchanged.

I do hope he deleted my message for personal rather than political reasons. It would disappoint me to see a fellow service men turn to such measures in anticipation of garnering political advantage.

I know of no one who would wish harm to our brave troopers. I served myself for 7.5 years as a 11c. I know the sacrifice. And this sacrifice is separate and above any political motivation. Superior to any failure of any regime.

Best Wishes and good luck , Reconscout09 h'

TK, The Last Bako Capitalist.

Bakersfield is full of something. But it is not capitalists.

You can make your own rules and call your form of economy anything you want.

But if you wish to be a capitalist. You must follow the rules set by the founder of American Capitalism. Adam Smith. In his book Wealth of Nations. Smith is in full support of the progressive tax and the redistribution of wealth.

If you can not adhere to the following you can not call yourself a capitalist.

From, 'The Wealth of Nations.'

http://www.econlib.org/libr...

Smith Says:

Before I enter upon the examination of particular taxes, it is necessary to premise the four following maxims with regard to taxes in general.

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I. The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state. The expence of government to the individuals of a great nation is like the expence of management to the joint tenants of a great estate, who are all obliged to contribute in proportion to their respective interests in the estate. In the observation or neglect of this maxim consists what is called the equality or inequality of taxation. Every tax, it must be observed once for all, which falls finally upon one only of the three sorts of revenue above mentioned, is necessarily unequal in so far as it does not affect the other two. In the following examination of different taxes I shall seldom take much further notice of this sort of inequality, but shall, in most cases, confine my observations to that inequality which is occasioned by a particular tax falling unequally even upon that particular sort of private revenue which is affected by it. 

TK continues

There is such disregard for the rules of capitalism today. Smith no doubt would be considered a socialist by many.

Those who are interested in morality and goodness should also read:

The Theory of Moral sentiments.

http://www.google.com/searc...>http://books.google.com/boo...

Lt. Colonel Hal Moore

http://www.youtube.com/watc... 

There is a Chance

http://www.youtube.com/watc... 

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Some Tractors hanging around the old barn. An old IH pickup also.

Not sure if you can make them out.  But there are some spoke wheels on those tractors. And a Popping Johnny in the back.

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Wheat, Flax and Canola.

North Dakota on the 4^th of July

The Wheat is green.

The flax is blue.

The Canola is yellow.