The Moon enters practical Virgo today, bringing our fantasies and illusions down to earth. Pay attention to the small print today and you will succeed, as the more focused you are on perfection, the better your efforts will turn out. Remember, the "devil is in the details.
Qutoe of the Day
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
Confucius
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Thursday, January 28, 2010
The way we were, The way we weren't
"Remember the good old days
before I was replaced by a fake
I'm not the only one that thinks
it's safe to say you're only hip
as in hypocrite and critically unacclaimed
Stop looking at the mess that we've made
Oh what the hell, let's have another night of making mistakes
We'll work it out
Maybe it will work out itself
Where tomorrow takes us no one can tell
I took the long way home today
hoping that we wouldn't cross paths like usually
It's a part of my routine
that I am trying to change
I take the long way..
before I was replaced by a fake
I'm not the only one that thinks
it's safe to say you're only hip
as in hypocrite and critically unacclaimed
Stop looking at the mess that we've made
Oh what the hell, let's have another night of making mistakes
We'll work it out
Maybe it will work out itself
Where tomorrow takes us no one can tell
I took the long way home today
hoping that we wouldn't cross paths like usually
It's a part of my routine
that I am trying to change
I take the long way..
Are We There Yet?
They say that home is where the heart is...
I guess I haven't found my home.
And we keep driving around in circles,
afraid to call this place our own.
And are we there yet?
I am curled up under blankets, trying to keep in the warmth.
I clutch the phone to my ear at 1:30AM.
"You're the person I would have a relationship with but you're too far away"
My stomach leaps.
I am a mixture of asleep and awake.
We were full of laughter
and then we were fighting...
Fighting about her true intentions, my inability to show enough interest, just about what we were doing in general with all of this...
and then she came out and said that.
I closed my eyes and sighed.
I don't want her to be the voice on the other end of the line.
I want her to be here.
But she'll never be here...at least not when I need her the most.
and I'm afraid to put more effort in this because I don't want to get hurt.
They say there's linings made of silver
Folded inside each raining cloud
Well, we need someone to deliver
Our silver lining now
I want to move on with my life...but I don't even know what that means.
Maybe I want him to be apart of all of that.
But, we are two giant entities of chaos.
And it won't be too much
'Cause this is too much
'Cause this is too much for me to hold
This is too much for me to hold
It's all up in the air for now.
But, it's a new year and it's all just beginning.
Here's to hoping I can find the right answers and the right people to have in my life.
And are we there yet?
I guess I haven't found my home.
And we keep driving around in circles,
afraid to call this place our own.
And are we there yet?
I am curled up under blankets, trying to keep in the warmth.
I clutch the phone to my ear at 1:30AM.
"You're the person I would have a relationship with but you're too far away"
My stomach leaps.
I am a mixture of asleep and awake.
We were full of laughter
and then we were fighting...
Fighting about her true intentions, my inability to show enough interest, just about what we were doing in general with all of this...
and then she came out and said that.
I closed my eyes and sighed.
I don't want her to be the voice on the other end of the line.
I want her to be here.
But she'll never be here...at least not when I need her the most.
and I'm afraid to put more effort in this because I don't want to get hurt.
They say there's linings made of silver
Folded inside each raining cloud
Well, we need someone to deliver
Our silver lining now
I want to move on with my life...but I don't even know what that means.
Maybe I want him to be apart of all of that.
But, we are two giant entities of chaos.
And it won't be too much
'Cause this is too much
'Cause this is too much for me to hold
This is too much for me to hold
It's all up in the air for now.
But, it's a new year and it's all just beginning.
Here's to hoping I can find the right answers and the right people to have in my life.
And are we there yet?
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
The Obama Brand: Feel Good While Overlords Loot the Treasury and Launch Imperial Wars
Barack Obama is a brand. And the Obama brand is designed to make us feel good about our government while corporate overlords loot the Treasury, armies of corporate lobbyists grease the palms of our elected officials, our corporate media diverts us with gossip and trivia, and our imperial wars expand in the Middle East. Brand Obama is about being happy consumers. We are entertained.
We feel hopeful. We like our president. We believe he is like us. But like all branded products spun out from the manipulative world of corporate advertising, this product is duping us into doing and supporting a lot of things that are not in our interest.What, for all our faith and hope, has the Obama brand given us? His administration has spent, lent, or guaranteed $12.8 trillion in taxpayer dollars to Wall Street and insolvent banks in a doomed effort to re-inflate the bubble economy, a tactic that at best forestalls catastrophe and will leave us broke in a time of profound crisis. Brand Obama has allocated nearly $1 trillion in defense-related spending and the continuation of our doomed imperial projects in Iraq, where military planners now estimate that 70,000 troops will remain for the next fifteen to twenty years. Brand Obama has expanded the war in Afghanistan, increasing the use of drones sent on cross-border bombing runs into Pakistan, which have doubled the number of civilians killed over the past three months. Brand Obama has refused to ease restrictions so workers can organize and will not consider single-payer, not-for-profit health care for all Americans. And Brand Obama will not prosecute the Bush administration for war crimes, including the use of torture, and has refused to dismantle Bush's secrecy laws and restore habeas corpus.
Brand Obama offers us an image that appears radically individualistic and new. It inoculates us from seeing that the old engines of corporate power and the vast military-industrial complex continue to plunder the country. Corporations, which control our politics, no longer produce products that are essentially different, but brands that are different. Brand Obama does not threaten the core of the corporate state any more than did Brand George W. Bush. The Bush brand collapsed. We became immune to its studied folksiness. We saw through its artifice. This is a common deflation in the world of advertising. So we have been given a new Obama brand with an exciting and faintly erotic appeal. Benetton and Calvin Klein were the precursors to the Obama brand, using ads to associate themselves with risqué art and progressive politics. This strategy gave their products an edge. But the goal, as with all brands, was to make passive consumers confound a brand with an experience. Obama, who has become a global celebrity, was molded easily into a brand. He had almost no experience, other than two years in the Senate, lacked any moral core, and could be painted as all things to all people. His brief Senate voting record was a miserable surrender to corporate interests. He was happy to promote nuclear power as "green" energy. He voted to continue the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
He reauthorized the Patriot Act. He would not back a bill designed to cap predatory credit card interest rates. He opposed a bill that would have reformed the notorious Mining Law of 1872. He refused to support the single-payer health care bill HR 676, sponsored by Reps. Dennis Kucinich and John Conyers. He supported the death penalty. And he backed a class-action "reform" bill that was part of a large lobbying effort by financial firms. The law, known as the Class Action Fairness Act, would effectively shut down state courts as a venue to hear most class-action lawsuits and deny redress in many of the courts where these cases have a chance of defying powerful corporate challenges.
Obama's campaign won the vote of hundreds of marketers, agency heads, and marketing-services vendors gathered at the Association of National Advertisers' annual conference in October. The Obama campaign was named Advertising Age's marketer of the year for 2008 and edged out runners-up Apple and Zappos.com. Take it from the professionals. Brand Obama is a marketer's dream. President Obama does one thing and Brand Obama gets you to believe another. This is the essence of successful advertising. You buy or do what the advertisers want because of how they can make you feel.
Celebrity culture has leached into every aspect of our culture, including politics, to bequeath to us what Benjamin DeMott called "junk politics." Junk politics does not demand justice or the reparation of rights. Junk politics personalizes and moralizes issues rather than clarifying them. "It's impatient with articulated conflict, enthusiastic about America's optimism and moral character, and heavily dependent on feel-your-pain language and gesture," DeMott noted. The result of junk politics is that nothing changes
-- "meaning zero interruption in the processes and practices that strengthen existing, interlocking systems of socioeconomic advantage." Junk politics redefines traditional values, tilting "courage toward braggadocio, sympathy toward mawkishness, humility toward self-disrespect, identification with ordinary citizens toward distrust of brains." Junk politics "miniaturizes large, complex problems at home while maximizing threats from abroad. It's also given to abrupt unexplained reversals of its own public stances, often spectacularly bloating problems previously miniaturized." And finally, it "seeks at every turn to obliterate voters' consciousness of socioeconomic and other differences in their midst."
The old production-oriented culture demanded what the historian Warren Susman termed "character." The new consumption-oriented culture demands what he called "personality." The shift in values is a shift from a fixed morality to the artifice of presentation. The old cultural values of thrift and moderation honored hard work, integrity, and courage. The consumption-oriented culture honors charm, fascination, and likeability.
The junk politics practiced by Obama is a consumer fraud. It is about performance. It is about lies. It is about keeping us in a perpetual state of childishness. But the longer we live in illusion, the worse reality will be when it finally shatters our fantasies. Those who do not understand what is happening around them and who are overwhelmed by a brutal reality they did not expect or foresee search desperately for saviors. They beg demagogues to come to their rescue. This is the ultimate danger of the Obama Brand. It effectively masks the wanton internal destruction and theft being carried out by our corporate state. These corporations, once they have stolen trillions in taxpayer wealth, will leave tens of millions of Americans bereft, bewildered, and yearning for even more potent and deadly illusions, ones that could swiftly snuff out what is left of our diminished open society.
We feel hopeful. We like our president. We believe he is like us. But like all branded products spun out from the manipulative world of corporate advertising, this product is duping us into doing and supporting a lot of things that are not in our interest.What, for all our faith and hope, has the Obama brand given us? His administration has spent, lent, or guaranteed $12.8 trillion in taxpayer dollars to Wall Street and insolvent banks in a doomed effort to re-inflate the bubble economy, a tactic that at best forestalls catastrophe and will leave us broke in a time of profound crisis. Brand Obama has allocated nearly $1 trillion in defense-related spending and the continuation of our doomed imperial projects in Iraq, where military planners now estimate that 70,000 troops will remain for the next fifteen to twenty years. Brand Obama has expanded the war in Afghanistan, increasing the use of drones sent on cross-border bombing runs into Pakistan, which have doubled the number of civilians killed over the past three months. Brand Obama has refused to ease restrictions so workers can organize and will not consider single-payer, not-for-profit health care for all Americans. And Brand Obama will not prosecute the Bush administration for war crimes, including the use of torture, and has refused to dismantle Bush's secrecy laws and restore habeas corpus.
Brand Obama offers us an image that appears radically individualistic and new. It inoculates us from seeing that the old engines of corporate power and the vast military-industrial complex continue to plunder the country. Corporations, which control our politics, no longer produce products that are essentially different, but brands that are different. Brand Obama does not threaten the core of the corporate state any more than did Brand George W. Bush. The Bush brand collapsed. We became immune to its studied folksiness. We saw through its artifice. This is a common deflation in the world of advertising. So we have been given a new Obama brand with an exciting and faintly erotic appeal. Benetton and Calvin Klein were the precursors to the Obama brand, using ads to associate themselves with risqué art and progressive politics. This strategy gave their products an edge. But the goal, as with all brands, was to make passive consumers confound a brand with an experience. Obama, who has become a global celebrity, was molded easily into a brand. He had almost no experience, other than two years in the Senate, lacked any moral core, and could be painted as all things to all people. His brief Senate voting record was a miserable surrender to corporate interests. He was happy to promote nuclear power as "green" energy. He voted to continue the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
He reauthorized the Patriot Act. He would not back a bill designed to cap predatory credit card interest rates. He opposed a bill that would have reformed the notorious Mining Law of 1872. He refused to support the single-payer health care bill HR 676, sponsored by Reps. Dennis Kucinich and John Conyers. He supported the death penalty. And he backed a class-action "reform" bill that was part of a large lobbying effort by financial firms. The law, known as the Class Action Fairness Act, would effectively shut down state courts as a venue to hear most class-action lawsuits and deny redress in many of the courts where these cases have a chance of defying powerful corporate challenges.
Obama's campaign won the vote of hundreds of marketers, agency heads, and marketing-services vendors gathered at the Association of National Advertisers' annual conference in October. The Obama campaign was named Advertising Age's marketer of the year for 2008 and edged out runners-up Apple and Zappos.com. Take it from the professionals. Brand Obama is a marketer's dream. President Obama does one thing and Brand Obama gets you to believe another. This is the essence of successful advertising. You buy or do what the advertisers want because of how they can make you feel.
Celebrity culture has leached into every aspect of our culture, including politics, to bequeath to us what Benjamin DeMott called "junk politics." Junk politics does not demand justice or the reparation of rights. Junk politics personalizes and moralizes issues rather than clarifying them. "It's impatient with articulated conflict, enthusiastic about America's optimism and moral character, and heavily dependent on feel-your-pain language and gesture," DeMott noted. The result of junk politics is that nothing changes
-- "meaning zero interruption in the processes and practices that strengthen existing, interlocking systems of socioeconomic advantage." Junk politics redefines traditional values, tilting "courage toward braggadocio, sympathy toward mawkishness, humility toward self-disrespect, identification with ordinary citizens toward distrust of brains." Junk politics "miniaturizes large, complex problems at home while maximizing threats from abroad. It's also given to abrupt unexplained reversals of its own public stances, often spectacularly bloating problems previously miniaturized." And finally, it "seeks at every turn to obliterate voters' consciousness of socioeconomic and other differences in their midst."
The old production-oriented culture demanded what the historian Warren Susman termed "character." The new consumption-oriented culture demands what he called "personality." The shift in values is a shift from a fixed morality to the artifice of presentation. The old cultural values of thrift and moderation honored hard work, integrity, and courage. The consumption-oriented culture honors charm, fascination, and likeability.
The junk politics practiced by Obama is a consumer fraud. It is about performance. It is about lies. It is about keeping us in a perpetual state of childishness. But the longer we live in illusion, the worse reality will be when it finally shatters our fantasies. Those who do not understand what is happening around them and who are overwhelmed by a brutal reality they did not expect or foresee search desperately for saviors. They beg demagogues to come to their rescue. This is the ultimate danger of the Obama Brand. It effectively masks the wanton internal destruction and theft being carried out by our corporate state. These corporations, once they have stolen trillions in taxpayer wealth, will leave tens of millions of Americans bereft, bewildered, and yearning for even more potent and deadly illusions, ones that could swiftly snuff out what is left of our diminished open society.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
let go
Time and time again we want to win but we feel that we can't. When those thoughts arise in your mind it is time to refrain, from what you supposedly know. In life we must try many things to find our true ability. Nothing comes easy we must truly accept failure because we need some type of failure in our lives so we can grow. Stop we all of the flakiness and the self made hype we are all losers and sinners the more you true to hide yourself the more people will stray away. In life due processing comes to those who are truly evil it is not my job to judge them, all I can do is remove my self from a situation were I am not needed. The day will come when we all will look at ourselves in the mirror and fix the minor things that hold us back. Them finally we will all be on the same page so peace can truly be let out in its rarest form.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Boom Box 1-25-10
Atrocity Solution - Scales Of Injustice
MC5 - Skain' Street
Riptides - Johnny's Back In Vietnam
Brand New - Jude law and semester boarded at sea
Iggy Pop - move ass baby
Evil Survives - Die Like A Samurai
Violent Arrest - Shit For Brains
Violent Arrest - Invisible War
Blake Shelton - Hillbilly Bone
MC5 - Skain' Street
Riptides - Johnny's Back In Vietnam
Brand New - Jude law and semester boarded at sea
Iggy Pop - move ass baby
Evil Survives - Die Like A Samurai
Violent Arrest - Shit For Brains
Violent Arrest - Invisible War
Blake Shelton - Hillbilly Bone
Conservative vs. Liberal Could Destroy U.S.
Beyond the fear mongering main-stream media, asinine rivalries amongst Americans and rants of Russian analysts lays a serious and potentially deadly conflict on the horizon. This future, and imminent, conflict may or may not shatter our bodies but could certainly decimate the soul and body of our nation. Not long ago Igor Panarin, a Russian scholar and analyst, predicted that 2010 would see the disjunction of the United States into six super-states. Russia and China would be the most favored nations to lead the new world order through its birthing pangs and US hegemony would serve to a lesser effect in the remnants of the old Anglo-American empire. And while “normalists” screamed “belligerence!” at his predictions, they gave credence to his credentials, and something real was stewing in the chat-rooms, vlogs and town halls of America.
The idealistic young president was no longer to be heard spouting rhetoric designed to inspire, he needed to now be seen making a difference in our Nation and yet he was not. While Wall Street began its hoarders rebound, unemployment grew, in fact, soared well beyond the promised stopping points, bank bailouts were legislated, the Patriot Act renewed, young men marched off to Iraq and Afghanistan, bombs dropped in the sovereign nation of Pakistan, Americans became paralyzed from government propagandized Swine-flu shots, and health-care legislation was crammed down the, as listed, choking throat of the American populace and Igor Panarin slyly grinned. In fact he is probably elated, euphoric over the notion that Americans will prove him right simply because they have yet to grasp that it is themselves who will destroy their own nation with the most simple of Machiavellian tactics, divide and conquer.We are not a nation of conservatives and liberals; we are a nation of constitutionally free human beings. The only ideas that we can agree upon stem from this one equality we give power to through our consent, equal protection under a rule of law. It is through this ratiocination that Republicans and Democrats proposition that they represent what is the best of the American way of life. “Join us!”, they say, “we believe in liberty, free markets, equality and a safer America!”, and you all know what they mean; liberty means you pay taxes and we don’t, liberty means say nothing of our corruption and we’ll hand you a conviction on middle management every-so-often, free market means freely open for upper echelon corruption and consolidation, equality means that you must be labeled, tracked and “secured” a place in our vision of society, safe means you are a terrorist until proven innocent, and safe means you must support the wars or “shut up”.
However, Igor is dead wrong about America and Americans. He is wrong because we do realize that the left-right paradigm is destroying our Nation. Our problem is that we, collectively, don’t know how to turn over 100 years of political in-fighting from the Democratic-Republican Party (founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison) into a second party system.
Most Americans see themselves as independent voters or free thinkers. And as a result, rattlebrained sycophants like Glenn Beck pray on the populace as they are being forced to wake from the Democratic-Republican illusion. Men like him only intend to represent a new movement in politics while heartbreakingly submersing their audience into a Jabba the Hut carbonite-encased ideological super trap. If my fellow Americans do not shatter the political world in 2010 by electing a truly new second party into the spotlight, there may be little hope for the long term future of our Republic.
So it is left to you. You have 10 months left until an election that could seal the fate for the story of America. 10 months to collect into your Campaign for Liberty, street action, We Are Change, truth movement, patriot movement, whatever group of like minded individuals you can muddle together to place in office a truly new breed of politician. Live out our destiny now by becoming the only politician you can trust. Will it be a destiny fueled by the uncompromised juggernaut of liberty or one where Igor Panarin’s vision of a dysfunctional America teeters on the edge of history with only a disaster between freedom and tyranny? That is, immeasurably, your choice.
The idealistic young president was no longer to be heard spouting rhetoric designed to inspire, he needed to now be seen making a difference in our Nation and yet he was not. While Wall Street began its hoarders rebound, unemployment grew, in fact, soared well beyond the promised stopping points, bank bailouts were legislated, the Patriot Act renewed, young men marched off to Iraq and Afghanistan, bombs dropped in the sovereign nation of Pakistan, Americans became paralyzed from government propagandized Swine-flu shots, and health-care legislation was crammed down the, as listed, choking throat of the American populace and Igor Panarin slyly grinned. In fact he is probably elated, euphoric over the notion that Americans will prove him right simply because they have yet to grasp that it is themselves who will destroy their own nation with the most simple of Machiavellian tactics, divide and conquer.We are not a nation of conservatives and liberals; we are a nation of constitutionally free human beings. The only ideas that we can agree upon stem from this one equality we give power to through our consent, equal protection under a rule of law. It is through this ratiocination that Republicans and Democrats proposition that they represent what is the best of the American way of life. “Join us!”, they say, “we believe in liberty, free markets, equality and a safer America!”, and you all know what they mean; liberty means you pay taxes and we don’t, liberty means say nothing of our corruption and we’ll hand you a conviction on middle management every-so-often, free market means freely open for upper echelon corruption and consolidation, equality means that you must be labeled, tracked and “secured” a place in our vision of society, safe means you are a terrorist until proven innocent, and safe means you must support the wars or “shut up”.
However, Igor is dead wrong about America and Americans. He is wrong because we do realize that the left-right paradigm is destroying our Nation. Our problem is that we, collectively, don’t know how to turn over 100 years of political in-fighting from the Democratic-Republican Party (founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison) into a second party system.
Most Americans see themselves as independent voters or free thinkers. And as a result, rattlebrained sycophants like Glenn Beck pray on the populace as they are being forced to wake from the Democratic-Republican illusion. Men like him only intend to represent a new movement in politics while heartbreakingly submersing their audience into a Jabba the Hut carbonite-encased ideological super trap. If my fellow Americans do not shatter the political world in 2010 by electing a truly new second party into the spotlight, there may be little hope for the long term future of our Republic.
So it is left to you. You have 10 months left until an election that could seal the fate for the story of America. 10 months to collect into your Campaign for Liberty, street action, We Are Change, truth movement, patriot movement, whatever group of like minded individuals you can muddle together to place in office a truly new breed of politician. Live out our destiny now by becoming the only politician you can trust. Will it be a destiny fueled by the uncompromised juggernaut of liberty or one where Igor Panarin’s vision of a dysfunctional America teeters on the edge of history with only a disaster between freedom and tyranny? That is, immeasurably, your choice.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
The Truth
Tell em all I'm on vacation,
Say I went to visit friends,
That you ain't heard or seen from me in quite a while,
When they ask you where I've been,
Tell em I'm out on the west coast where it don't ever rain,
And that I'm probably doing fine,
Just don't tell em I've gone crazy,
That I'm still strung out over you,
Tell em anything you want to,
Just don't tell em all the truth,
Yeah don't tell em all the truth,
Tell em all I'm out in Vegas,
Blowin' every dollar I ever made,
Tell em that I must be into something bad for me cause,
I sure lost a lot of weight,
Tell em I'm out on the road with some old rock and roll band,
Living like a gypsy can,
The truth is that I'm asking you to lie,
And we both know that it ain't right,
But if you ever loved me please,
Have some mercy on me,
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Tell em anything you want to,
Just don't tell em all the truth,
Yeah don't tell em all the truth,
I still need you,
Yeah that's the truth,
I still love you,
Baby that's the truth.
Say I went to visit friends,
That you ain't heard or seen from me in quite a while,
When they ask you where I've been,
Tell em I'm out on the west coast where it don't ever rain,
And that I'm probably doing fine,
Just don't tell em I've gone crazy,
That I'm still strung out over you,
Tell em anything you want to,
Just don't tell em all the truth,
Yeah don't tell em all the truth,
Tell em all I'm out in Vegas,
Blowin' every dollar I ever made,
Tell em that I must be into something bad for me cause,
I sure lost a lot of weight,
Tell em I'm out on the road with some old rock and roll band,
Living like a gypsy can,
The truth is that I'm asking you to lie,
And we both know that it ain't right,
But if you ever loved me please,
Have some mercy on me,
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Tell em anything you want to,
Just don't tell em all the truth,
Yeah don't tell em all the truth,
I still need you,
Yeah that's the truth,
I still love you,
Baby that's the truth.
Man in the Mirror
I'm Gonna Make A Change,
For Once In My Life
It's Gonna Feel Real Good,
Gonna Make A Difference
Gonna Make It Right . . .
As I, Turn Up The Collar On My
Favourite Winter Coat
This Wind Is Blowin' My Mind
I See The Kids In The Street,
With Not Enough To Eat
Who Am I, To Be Blind?
Pretending Not To See
Their Needs
A Summer's Disregard,
A Broken Bottle Top
And A One Man's Soul
They Follow Each Other On
The Wind Ya' Know
'Cause They Got Nowhere
To Go
That's Why I Want You To
Know
I'm Starting With The Man In
The Mirror
I'm Asking Him To Change
His Ways
And No Message Could Have
Been Any Clearer
If You Wanna Make The World
A Better Place
(If You Wanna Make The
World A Better Place)
Take A Look At Yourself, And
Then Make A Change
(Take A Look At Yourself, And
Then Make A Change)
(Na Na Na, Na Na Na, Na Na,
Na Nah)
I've Been A Victim Of A Selfish
Kind Of Love
It's Time That I Realize
That There Are Some With No
Home, Not A Nickel To Loan
Could It Be Really Me,
Pretending That They're Not
Alone?
A Willow Deeply Scarred,
Somebody's Broken Heart
And A Washed-Out Dream
(Washed-Out Dream)
They Follow The Pattern Of
The Wind, Ya' See
Cause They Got No Place
To Be
That's Why I'm Starting With
Me
(Starting With Me!)
I'm Starting With The Man In
The Mirror
(Ooh!)
I'm Asking Him To Change
His Ways
(Ooh!)
And No Message Could Have
Been Any Clearer
If You Wanna Make The World
A Better Place
(If You Wanna Make The
World A Better Place)
Take A Look At Yourself And
Then Make A Change
(Take A Look At Yourself And
Then Make A Change)
I'm Starting With The Man In
The Mirror
(Ooh!)
I'm Asking Him To Change His
Ways
(Change His Ways-Ooh!)
And No Message Could've
Been Any Clearer
If You Wanna Make The World
A Better Place
(If You Wanna Make The
World A Better Place)
Take A Look At Yourself And
Then Make That . . .
(Take A Look At Yourself And
Then Make That . . .)
Change!
I'm Starting With The Man In
The Mirror,
(Man In The Mirror-Oh
Yeah!)
I'm Asking Him To Change
His Ways
(Better Change!)
No Message Could Have
Been Any Clearer
(If You Wanna Make The
World A Better Place)
(Take A Look At Yourself And
Then Make The Change)
(You Gotta Get It Right, While
You Got The Time)
('Cause When You Close Your
Heart)
You Can't Close Your . . .Your
Mind!
(Then You Close Your . . .
Mind!)
That Man, That Man, That
Man, That Man
With That Man In The Mirror
(Man In The Mirror, Oh Yeah!)
That Man, That Man, That Man
I'm Asking Him To Change
His Ways
(Better Change!)
You Know . . .That Man
No Message Could Have
Been Any Clearer
If You Wanna Make The World
A Better Place
(If You Wanna Make The
World A Better Place)
Take A Look At Yourself And
Then Make A Change
(Take A Look At Yourself And
Then Make A Change)
Hoo! Hoo! Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!
Na Na Na, Na Na Na, Na Na,
Na Nah
(Oh Yeah!)
Gonna Feel Real Good Now!
Yeah Yeah! Yeah Yeah!
Yeah Yeah!
Na Na Na, Na Na Na, Na Na,
Na Nah
(Ooooh . . .)
Oh No, No No . . .
I'm Gonna Make A Change
It's Gonna Feel Real Good!
Come On!
(Change . . .)
Just Lift Yourself
You Know
You've Got To Stop It.
Yourself!
(Yeah!-Make That Change!)
I've Got To Make That Change,
Today!
Hoo!
(Man In The Mirror)
You Got To
You Got To Not Let Yourself . . .
Brother . . .
Hoo!
(Yeah!-Make That Change!)
You Know-I've Got To Get
That Man, That Man . . .
(Man In The Mirror)
You've Got To
You've Got To Move! Come
On! Come On!
You Got To . . .
Stand Up! Stand Up!
Stand Up!
(Yeah-Make That Change)
Stand Up And Lift
Yourself, Now!
(Man In The Mirror)
Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!
Aaow!
(Yeah-Make That Change)
Gonna Make That Change . . .
Come On!
(Man In The Mirror)
You Know It!
You Know It!
You Know It!
You Know . . .
(Change . . .)
Make That Change.
For Once In My Life
It's Gonna Feel Real Good,
Gonna Make A Difference
Gonna Make It Right . . .
As I, Turn Up The Collar On My
Favourite Winter Coat
This Wind Is Blowin' My Mind
I See The Kids In The Street,
With Not Enough To Eat
Who Am I, To Be Blind?
Pretending Not To See
Their Needs
A Summer's Disregard,
A Broken Bottle Top
And A One Man's Soul
They Follow Each Other On
The Wind Ya' Know
'Cause They Got Nowhere
To Go
That's Why I Want You To
Know
I'm Starting With The Man In
The Mirror
I'm Asking Him To Change
His Ways
And No Message Could Have
Been Any Clearer
If You Wanna Make The World
A Better Place
(If You Wanna Make The
World A Better Place)
Take A Look At Yourself, And
Then Make A Change
(Take A Look At Yourself, And
Then Make A Change)
(Na Na Na, Na Na Na, Na Na,
Na Nah)
I've Been A Victim Of A Selfish
Kind Of Love
It's Time That I Realize
That There Are Some With No
Home, Not A Nickel To Loan
Could It Be Really Me,
Pretending That They're Not
Alone?
A Willow Deeply Scarred,
Somebody's Broken Heart
And A Washed-Out Dream
(Washed-Out Dream)
They Follow The Pattern Of
The Wind, Ya' See
Cause They Got No Place
To Be
That's Why I'm Starting With
Me
(Starting With Me!)
I'm Starting With The Man In
The Mirror
(Ooh!)
I'm Asking Him To Change
His Ways
(Ooh!)
And No Message Could Have
Been Any Clearer
If You Wanna Make The World
A Better Place
(If You Wanna Make The
World A Better Place)
Take A Look At Yourself And
Then Make A Change
(Take A Look At Yourself And
Then Make A Change)
I'm Starting With The Man In
The Mirror
(Ooh!)
I'm Asking Him To Change His
Ways
(Change His Ways-Ooh!)
And No Message Could've
Been Any Clearer
If You Wanna Make The World
A Better Place
(If You Wanna Make The
World A Better Place)
Take A Look At Yourself And
Then Make That . . .
(Take A Look At Yourself And
Then Make That . . .)
Change!
I'm Starting With The Man In
The Mirror,
(Man In The Mirror-Oh
Yeah!)
I'm Asking Him To Change
His Ways
(Better Change!)
No Message Could Have
Been Any Clearer
(If You Wanna Make The
World A Better Place)
(Take A Look At Yourself And
Then Make The Change)
(You Gotta Get It Right, While
You Got The Time)
('Cause When You Close Your
Heart)
You Can't Close Your . . .Your
Mind!
(Then You Close Your . . .
Mind!)
That Man, That Man, That
Man, That Man
With That Man In The Mirror
(Man In The Mirror, Oh Yeah!)
That Man, That Man, That Man
I'm Asking Him To Change
His Ways
(Better Change!)
You Know . . .That Man
No Message Could Have
Been Any Clearer
If You Wanna Make The World
A Better Place
(If You Wanna Make The
World A Better Place)
Take A Look At Yourself And
Then Make A Change
(Take A Look At Yourself And
Then Make A Change)
Hoo! Hoo! Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!
Na Na Na, Na Na Na, Na Na,
Na Nah
(Oh Yeah!)
Gonna Feel Real Good Now!
Yeah Yeah! Yeah Yeah!
Yeah Yeah!
Na Na Na, Na Na Na, Na Na,
Na Nah
(Ooooh . . .)
Oh No, No No . . .
I'm Gonna Make A Change
It's Gonna Feel Real Good!
Come On!
(Change . . .)
Just Lift Yourself
You Know
You've Got To Stop It.
Yourself!
(Yeah!-Make That Change!)
I've Got To Make That Change,
Today!
Hoo!
(Man In The Mirror)
You Got To
You Got To Not Let Yourself . . .
Brother . . .
Hoo!
(Yeah!-Make That Change!)
You Know-I've Got To Get
That Man, That Man . . .
(Man In The Mirror)
You've Got To
You've Got To Move! Come
On! Come On!
You Got To . . .
Stand Up! Stand Up!
Stand Up!
(Yeah-Make That Change)
Stand Up And Lift
Yourself, Now!
(Man In The Mirror)
Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!
Aaow!
(Yeah-Make That Change)
Gonna Make That Change . . .
Come On!
(Man In The Mirror)
You Know It!
You Know It!
You Know It!
You Know . . .
(Change . . .)
Make That Change.
They don't care about us
Skin head, dead head
Everybody gone bad
Situation, aggravation
Everybody allegation
In the suite, on the news
Everybody dog food
Bang bang, shot dead
Everybody's gone mad
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
Beat me, hate me
You can never break me
Will me, thrill me
You can never kill me
Jew me, sue me
Everybody do me
Kick me, kike me
Don't you black or white me
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
Tell me what has become of my life
I have a wife and two children who love me
I am the victim of police brutality, now
I'm tired of bein' the victim of hate
You're rapin' me of my pride
Oh, for God's sake
I look to heaven to fulfill its prophecy...
Set me free
Skin head, dead head
Everybody gone bad
trepidation, speculation
Everybody allegation
In the suite, on the news
Everybody dog food
black man, black male
Throw your brother in jail
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
Tell me what has become of my rights
Am I invisible because you ignore me?
Your proclamation promised me free liberty, now
I'm tired of bein' the victim of shame
They're throwing me in a class with a bad name
I can't believe this is the land from which I came
You know I do really hate to say it
The government don't wanna see
But if Roosevelt was livin'
He wouldn't let this be, no, no
Skin head, dead head
Everybody gone bad
Situation, speculation
Everybody litigation
Beat me, bash me
You can never trash me
Hit me, kick me
You can never get me
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
Some things in life they just don't wanna see
But if Martin Luther was livin'
He wouldn't let this be
Skin head, dead head
Everybody gone bad
Situation, segregation
Everybody allegation
In the suite, on the news
Everybody dog food
Kick me, strike me
Don't you wrong or right me
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
Everybody gone bad
Situation, aggravation
Everybody allegation
In the suite, on the news
Everybody dog food
Bang bang, shot dead
Everybody's gone mad
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
Beat me, hate me
You can never break me
Will me, thrill me
You can never kill me
Jew me, sue me
Everybody do me
Kick me, kike me
Don't you black or white me
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
Tell me what has become of my life
I have a wife and two children who love me
I am the victim of police brutality, now
I'm tired of bein' the victim of hate
You're rapin' me of my pride
Oh, for God's sake
I look to heaven to fulfill its prophecy...
Set me free
Skin head, dead head
Everybody gone bad
trepidation, speculation
Everybody allegation
In the suite, on the news
Everybody dog food
black man, black male
Throw your brother in jail
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
Tell me what has become of my rights
Am I invisible because you ignore me?
Your proclamation promised me free liberty, now
I'm tired of bein' the victim of shame
They're throwing me in a class with a bad name
I can't believe this is the land from which I came
You know I do really hate to say it
The government don't wanna see
But if Roosevelt was livin'
He wouldn't let this be, no, no
Skin head, dead head
Everybody gone bad
Situation, speculation
Everybody litigation
Beat me, bash me
You can never trash me
Hit me, kick me
You can never get me
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
Some things in life they just don't wanna see
But if Martin Luther was livin'
He wouldn't let this be
Skin head, dead head
Everybody gone bad
Situation, segregation
Everybody allegation
In the suite, on the news
Everybody dog food
Kick me, strike me
Don't you wrong or right me
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
Daily overview 1-20-10
The Moon enters independent and fiery Aries today, giving us a burst of energy and enthusiasm. Action, action, and more action is the motto for the day. Complete whatever you can get done. Now is the time to move boldly forward on plans and ideas, confident that you will succeed in your efforts.
qutoe of the day
Quote of the day:
I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
John Burroughs
qutoe of the day
Quote of the day:
I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
John Burroughs
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Anti- Manifesto
Dance and laugh and play. Ignore the message we convey.
It seems we're only here to entertain.
A rebellion cut-to-fit. I refuse to be the soundtrack to it.
While we entertain we're still knee-deep in shit.
There's something wrong inside.
We've played it safe, enjoyed the ride.
You won't like this but I've something to confide.
We stand for something more than a faded sticker on a skateboard.
Now we've rained on your parade and we're out the door.
And I don't even care any fucking more.
Witness this pair in accomplice.
Witness this pair; lethargic, unconscious.
No brows furrowed in question, complacent, completing their tasks
(no questions asked)
Consider this critic a cretin,
Just resting on laurels completely invented.
Word acrobatics performed with both harness and net.
I am so full of shit.
But I will remain until this self-awareness fades
Until I defeat the purpose of this soapbox that you made.
That you made.
Hope, perseverance, a vision (some doubt).
Green ink, a 26 oz., a bad case of big-mouth.
A sum of our parts and I've never laughed harder.
A song in our hearts and I've never laughed harder.
It don't really matter cuz nothing's ever felt as right as this.
(by the way, I stole this riff)
It seems we're only here to entertain.
A rebellion cut-to-fit. I refuse to be the soundtrack to it.
While we entertain we're still knee-deep in shit.
There's something wrong inside.
We've played it safe, enjoyed the ride.
You won't like this but I've something to confide.
We stand for something more than a faded sticker on a skateboard.
Now we've rained on your parade and we're out the door.
And I don't even care any fucking more.
Witness this pair in accomplice.
Witness this pair; lethargic, unconscious.
No brows furrowed in question, complacent, completing their tasks
(no questions asked)
Consider this critic a cretin,
Just resting on laurels completely invented.
Word acrobatics performed with both harness and net.
I am so full of shit.
But I will remain until this self-awareness fades
Until I defeat the purpose of this soapbox that you made.
That you made.
Hope, perseverance, a vision (some doubt).
Green ink, a 26 oz., a bad case of big-mouth.
A sum of our parts and I've never laughed harder.
A song in our hearts and I've never laughed harder.
It don't really matter cuz nothing's ever felt as right as this.
(by the way, I stole this riff)
punk to me
Now a days punk is misrepresented in my mind these are some of my faves when it comes to punk. Worthless shit heads their is no Blink 182 and green day if you are looking for that shit fuck you eat shit and die. This shit is hype to over throw the government.
tim Berry
House boats
cobra skulls
leftover crack
star fucking hipsters
choking victim
jfa
atrocity solution
strike anywhere
koffin cats
cro-mags
bad brains
black flag
jawbreaker
queers
chuck ragen
Modern actions
Now this is a short list of punk to me so go fuck your self
tim Berry
House boats
cobra skulls
leftover crack
star fucking hipsters
choking victim
jfa
atrocity solution
strike anywhere
koffin cats
cro-mags
bad brains
black flag
jawbreaker
queers
chuck ragen
Modern actions
Now this is a short list of punk to me so go fuck your self
Daily OverView 1-13/10
The Moon entered Capricorn last night, making today is a good time to pay attention to our serious and long-term relationships with friends, partners, and family. Take the time to honor your commitments to the people you care about the most and you will reap future rewards.
Quote of the day:
Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.
Sigmund Freud
Quote of the day:
Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.
Sigmund Freud
BoomBox
Common Feat. Kanye West – Punch Drunk Love
Cool Kids – Free Throws
Curren$y – Smash On O’Leary
Dee Goodz – Go Live
Jay Electronica – Hagler
Pac Div – Pac Div
Willie The Kid – Conjuring The Cure
Leftover Crack - So you want to be a cop
Cool Kids – Free Throws
Curren$y – Smash On O’Leary
Dee Goodz – Go Live
Jay Electronica – Hagler
Pac Div – Pac Div
Willie The Kid – Conjuring The Cure
Leftover Crack - So you want to be a cop
Monday, January 11, 2010
The Constitution will never enforce itself
I want to talk with you about the State Sovereignty movement and Nullification. Our Founding Fathers secured for us a land of freedom and opportunity that has been the envy of the entire world, and sought to protect those freedoms and that opportunity with our Constitution. But the Constitution is not in itself the protection, only the means for us to protect ourselves.
It is quite clear the federal government is completely out of touch with those they are supposed to be serving. Yet the Constitution provides for us, the inheritors of the greatest system of government the world has ever known, a way to defend our rights. This is the tenth amendment! And while Amendment Ten has not stopped the power grab from all branches of the federal government, it does provide both the framework and the justification for “we the people” to maintain and defend our share of the power in our political system.
First you have to understand that power is a finite resource, meaning that as one group gains power, it must come from another group. In this case us. Make no mistake about it; a lot of laws passed in the last ninety six years have been about power. More to the point, it is about power that is going from “we the people”, to the political class in Washington D.C
So it is not enough to be against Nationalized Healthcare,
It is not enough to be against Cap and Trade,
It is not enough to be against the bailouts, against TARP, against the Patriot ACT, against No Child Left behind!
It is not enough to oppose activist judges legislating from the bench, or executive orders, or bureaucratic regulations or any other “laws” without the understanding that these “laws” were NOT passed in a legislative branch of Government as laid out in the Constitution. You must see that it is really about power, and you have to begin to recognize that this power has been taken from “we the people”!
How? Through apathy, indifference, and willful ignorance, we have let it be taken.
This brings us to the tenth amendment and Nullification.
Nullification is the idea that the people of the several States entered into a contract called the Constitution where the Federal Government was granted specific powers, most of which are found in Article One Section Eight. And that the states had not only a right, but an obligation to interpose or nullify laws passed by the Federal Government that go beyond those powers, and infringe upon the rights of “we the people”. This idea is clearly spelled out by the Tenth Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
It is common sense that the states must have some recourse available to them should the Federal Government overreach its powers, and infringe upon the liberty of “we the people”. Does this sound crazy? Some notes on this idea from the founders before the Constitution was ratified.
“It may safely be received as an axiom in our political system, that the State governments will, in all possible contingencies, afford complete security against invasions of the public liberty by the national authority.” Alexander Hamilton Federalist Papers#28
“The local or municipal authorities form distinct and independent portions of the supremacy, no more subject, within their respective spheres, to the general authority than the general authority is subject to them, within its own sphere.” James Madison Federalist Papers# 39
“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.” James Madison Federalist Papers#45
“Hence, a double security arises to the rights of the people. The different governments will control each other; at the same time that each will be controlled by itself.” James Madison Federalist Papers# 51
“We may safely rely on the disposition of the state legislatures to erect barriers against the encroachments of the national authority.” Alexander Hamilton Federalist Papers#85
The Federalist papers were never meant to define the Constitution; but to sell it to the general public to get it ratified. You see, the former colonist were not eager to trade a despotic centralized Government across the ocean for one on their own continent. Proof is self evident by the fact that they had to promise that a bill of rights would be added to get it ratified.
The Doctrine of Nullification was first introduced in 1798 in the Kentucky Resolution, written by Thomas Jefferson, and the Virginia resolution, written by James Madison. These were in response to the “Alien” and Sedition acts”. I urge you to read these resolutions, and I brought a few copies of the pocket constitution put out by the Campaign for Liberty which includes both. And in case you didn’t know, the “Alien and Sedition” acts among other things made it illegal to criticize the Government. This doctrine was later adopted by Massachusetts and Wisconsin to nullify parts of the “Fugitive Slave ACT”, and by South Carolina to nullify a tariff they believed harmful to their state economy, and by the New England states in response to embargos.
‘What about the “Supremacy clause”?’ The one that states the Federal Government is the Supreme law of the land.
“Mack/Printz vs. the US” Where two County Sheriffs sued the Federal Government over the Brady Bill. This was a law that forced county Sheriffs to run background check on their citizens who bought handguns at the expense of the county, and any sheriff who did not comply with this law would be subject to arrest. These sheriffs argued that this law violated the tenth amendment. This case was heard and ultimately won before the Supreme Court.
Justice Scalia writes for the majority, “…the Constitution’s conferral upon Congress of not all governmental powers, but only discreet, enumerated ones.” And in a direct challenge to this interpretation of the Supremacy clause, he writes, “It is incontestable that the Constitution established a system of dual sovereignty” he also states “This separation of the two spheres is one of the constitution’s structural protections of liberty. Just as the separation and independence of the coordinate branches of the federal government serve to prevent the accumulation of excessive power in any one branch, a healthy balance of power between the States and the Federal Government will reduce the risk of tyranny and abuse from either front.”
But there is really a supremacy clause, and it states:
“This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land.” This clearly states the Constitution and laws that carry out, follow and continue the Constitution are the Supreme Law of the land.
How about the Real ID Act, whereby the States had until May of 2008 to issue everyone of its citizens a national ID card complete with biometrics, resulting in the complete loss of privacy from the state. States who failed to comply by the deadline would see its citizens loose the ability to board an air plane or enter a federal building. It has been over a year since that deadline has passed, and I ask you, do any of you have a “real ID”? How many of you have entered a federal building or boarded an airplane in the last year? Do you know why? Because the states said NO!
Is there anyone here tonight, having heard what I have had to say about States Rights, and the Doctrine of Nullification, who believe that this is a real and viable strategy in the fight to, not only secure the freedoms we still enjoy, but to take back the power that has always been our god given natural rights?
For those of you who have answered yes, here is a strategy for how we will win!
First, we must redirect the efforts from the Federal office holders who not only have ignored us, but hold us in contempt! And direct that energy towards the State Legislators. These people live here in our communities with us and have much less insulation from “we the people”.
We must get them to introduce and pass key laws including: nullifying both a National Healthcare act and Cap and Trade, an honest money act, to protect Coloradoans from the oncoming hyper-inflation that will be the result of this out of control spending. Furthermore we should follow Tennessee, whose legislators are introducing a bill which creates an escrow account whereby legal federal taxes are collected and held by the states as protection against federal backlash against our nullification efforts.
Next we must have them introduce and pass legislation which will “build and impenetrable wall around the county sheriff and the second amendment” examples include “Sheriff First” “Extension of the Castle Doctrine” “Prohibition of Gun and Ammunition Tracking” and finally a “Firearms Freedom Act”. This is laid out in detail in an article I have printed out, and brought with me.
At some point as “we the people” work to make the Constitution relevant again, you will begin to hear the progressives and their puppets use the term “general welfare clause”
The general welfare clause has been interpreted by those favoring a strong central government to mean that as long as the law was meant to be in the “general welfare” of the union, congress has the authority to pass it. The argument against this is the Virginia plan, which was introduced by Madison at the Constitutional Convention. This plan would have created a National Government that gave the central government the authority to do anything it wanted. It is important to remember this plan was rejected by the delegation, and more importantly, it was never ratified by “we the people”.
James Madison, considered the ‘father of the Constitution’ and the author of the defeated Virginia plan, stated the following about this interpretation of the “general welfare clause”.
“Such a view of the Constitution would have the effect of giving to Congress a general power of legislation instead of the defined and limited one hitherto understood to belong to them.” Think on that a second. Now let me give you one of my favorite quotes from James Madison. “Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.”
This should help to explain where we are today and how we got here, and hopefully what we need to do next.
Will it be easy? No. Every step of the way not only will enemies of Freedom tells us this wont work, but even our friends, who should be on our side will say it is impossible. The Central Government is too big to take on!
Will there be risk? Yes. We will be taking on the most powerful “empire” in the world today, and you can be sure that they will not give up all this power without a fight. But I ask you to consider what dangers our founding fathers faced, surely this pales in comparison.
I think Samuel Adams said it best when he said this, “If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better then the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsel or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen”
I want to leave you all with a few closing thoughts. Remember;
It is about your future,
It is about your children’s future
It is about your grandchildren’s future,
It is about control,
It is especially about power, and finally
It is about TIME people were willing to stand up for themselves and do more then just complain to our would be masters for better treatment. And begin to assert the power that is our god given birth right as American Patriots!
It is quite clear the federal government is completely out of touch with those they are supposed to be serving. Yet the Constitution provides for us, the inheritors of the greatest system of government the world has ever known, a way to defend our rights. This is the tenth amendment! And while Amendment Ten has not stopped the power grab from all branches of the federal government, it does provide both the framework and the justification for “we the people” to maintain and defend our share of the power in our political system.
First you have to understand that power is a finite resource, meaning that as one group gains power, it must come from another group. In this case us. Make no mistake about it; a lot of laws passed in the last ninety six years have been about power. More to the point, it is about power that is going from “we the people”, to the political class in Washington D.C
So it is not enough to be against Nationalized Healthcare,
It is not enough to be against Cap and Trade,
It is not enough to be against the bailouts, against TARP, against the Patriot ACT, against No Child Left behind!
It is not enough to oppose activist judges legislating from the bench, or executive orders, or bureaucratic regulations or any other “laws” without the understanding that these “laws” were NOT passed in a legislative branch of Government as laid out in the Constitution. You must see that it is really about power, and you have to begin to recognize that this power has been taken from “we the people”!
How? Through apathy, indifference, and willful ignorance, we have let it be taken.
This brings us to the tenth amendment and Nullification.
Nullification is the idea that the people of the several States entered into a contract called the Constitution where the Federal Government was granted specific powers, most of which are found in Article One Section Eight. And that the states had not only a right, but an obligation to interpose or nullify laws passed by the Federal Government that go beyond those powers, and infringe upon the rights of “we the people”. This idea is clearly spelled out by the Tenth Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
It is common sense that the states must have some recourse available to them should the Federal Government overreach its powers, and infringe upon the liberty of “we the people”. Does this sound crazy? Some notes on this idea from the founders before the Constitution was ratified.
“It may safely be received as an axiom in our political system, that the State governments will, in all possible contingencies, afford complete security against invasions of the public liberty by the national authority.” Alexander Hamilton Federalist Papers#28
“The local or municipal authorities form distinct and independent portions of the supremacy, no more subject, within their respective spheres, to the general authority than the general authority is subject to them, within its own sphere.” James Madison Federalist Papers# 39
“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.” James Madison Federalist Papers#45
“Hence, a double security arises to the rights of the people. The different governments will control each other; at the same time that each will be controlled by itself.” James Madison Federalist Papers# 51
“We may safely rely on the disposition of the state legislatures to erect barriers against the encroachments of the national authority.” Alexander Hamilton Federalist Papers#85
The Federalist papers were never meant to define the Constitution; but to sell it to the general public to get it ratified. You see, the former colonist were not eager to trade a despotic centralized Government across the ocean for one on their own continent. Proof is self evident by the fact that they had to promise that a bill of rights would be added to get it ratified.
The Doctrine of Nullification was first introduced in 1798 in the Kentucky Resolution, written by Thomas Jefferson, and the Virginia resolution, written by James Madison. These were in response to the “Alien” and Sedition acts”. I urge you to read these resolutions, and I brought a few copies of the pocket constitution put out by the Campaign for Liberty which includes both. And in case you didn’t know, the “Alien and Sedition” acts among other things made it illegal to criticize the Government. This doctrine was later adopted by Massachusetts and Wisconsin to nullify parts of the “Fugitive Slave ACT”, and by South Carolina to nullify a tariff they believed harmful to their state economy, and by the New England states in response to embargos.
‘What about the “Supremacy clause”?’ The one that states the Federal Government is the Supreme law of the land.
“Mack/Printz vs. the US” Where two County Sheriffs sued the Federal Government over the Brady Bill. This was a law that forced county Sheriffs to run background check on their citizens who bought handguns at the expense of the county, and any sheriff who did not comply with this law would be subject to arrest. These sheriffs argued that this law violated the tenth amendment. This case was heard and ultimately won before the Supreme Court.
Justice Scalia writes for the majority, “…the Constitution’s conferral upon Congress of not all governmental powers, but only discreet, enumerated ones.” And in a direct challenge to this interpretation of the Supremacy clause, he writes, “It is incontestable that the Constitution established a system of dual sovereignty” he also states “This separation of the two spheres is one of the constitution’s structural protections of liberty. Just as the separation and independence of the coordinate branches of the federal government serve to prevent the accumulation of excessive power in any one branch, a healthy balance of power between the States and the Federal Government will reduce the risk of tyranny and abuse from either front.”
But there is really a supremacy clause, and it states:
“This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land.” This clearly states the Constitution and laws that carry out, follow and continue the Constitution are the Supreme Law of the land.
How about the Real ID Act, whereby the States had until May of 2008 to issue everyone of its citizens a national ID card complete with biometrics, resulting in the complete loss of privacy from the state. States who failed to comply by the deadline would see its citizens loose the ability to board an air plane or enter a federal building. It has been over a year since that deadline has passed, and I ask you, do any of you have a “real ID”? How many of you have entered a federal building or boarded an airplane in the last year? Do you know why? Because the states said NO!
Is there anyone here tonight, having heard what I have had to say about States Rights, and the Doctrine of Nullification, who believe that this is a real and viable strategy in the fight to, not only secure the freedoms we still enjoy, but to take back the power that has always been our god given natural rights?
For those of you who have answered yes, here is a strategy for how we will win!
First, we must redirect the efforts from the Federal office holders who not only have ignored us, but hold us in contempt! And direct that energy towards the State Legislators. These people live here in our communities with us and have much less insulation from “we the people”.
We must get them to introduce and pass key laws including: nullifying both a National Healthcare act and Cap and Trade, an honest money act, to protect Coloradoans from the oncoming hyper-inflation that will be the result of this out of control spending. Furthermore we should follow Tennessee, whose legislators are introducing a bill which creates an escrow account whereby legal federal taxes are collected and held by the states as protection against federal backlash against our nullification efforts.
Next we must have them introduce and pass legislation which will “build and impenetrable wall around the county sheriff and the second amendment” examples include “Sheriff First” “Extension of the Castle Doctrine” “Prohibition of Gun and Ammunition Tracking” and finally a “Firearms Freedom Act”. This is laid out in detail in an article I have printed out, and brought with me.
At some point as “we the people” work to make the Constitution relevant again, you will begin to hear the progressives and their puppets use the term “general welfare clause”
The general welfare clause has been interpreted by those favoring a strong central government to mean that as long as the law was meant to be in the “general welfare” of the union, congress has the authority to pass it. The argument against this is the Virginia plan, which was introduced by Madison at the Constitutional Convention. This plan would have created a National Government that gave the central government the authority to do anything it wanted. It is important to remember this plan was rejected by the delegation, and more importantly, it was never ratified by “we the people”.
James Madison, considered the ‘father of the Constitution’ and the author of the defeated Virginia plan, stated the following about this interpretation of the “general welfare clause”.
“Such a view of the Constitution would have the effect of giving to Congress a general power of legislation instead of the defined and limited one hitherto understood to belong to them.” Think on that a second. Now let me give you one of my favorite quotes from James Madison. “Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.”
This should help to explain where we are today and how we got here, and hopefully what we need to do next.
Will it be easy? No. Every step of the way not only will enemies of Freedom tells us this wont work, but even our friends, who should be on our side will say it is impossible. The Central Government is too big to take on!
Will there be risk? Yes. We will be taking on the most powerful “empire” in the world today, and you can be sure that they will not give up all this power without a fight. But I ask you to consider what dangers our founding fathers faced, surely this pales in comparison.
I think Samuel Adams said it best when he said this, “If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better then the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsel or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen”
I want to leave you all with a few closing thoughts. Remember;
It is about your future,
It is about your children’s future
It is about your grandchildren’s future,
It is about control,
It is especially about power, and finally
It is about TIME people were willing to stand up for themselves and do more then just complain to our would be masters for better treatment. And begin to assert the power that is our god given birth right as American Patriots!
The Lexicon
Fruit booty means a square
yadda means good times
Bobby Bobby means dank weed
beatnik means a easy girl on mill
know what I'm talking about means shit is about to go down
Cool whip means a drunk name to give drunk folks
Lindsey Lohan means a red headed slut yadda
cha means i am about my business
skip means move when the cops come
broham means the ultimate coolness
fucking gnarly means the greatest time of your life
yadda means good times
Bobby Bobby means dank weed
beatnik means a easy girl on mill
know what I'm talking about means shit is about to go down
Cool whip means a drunk name to give drunk folks
Lindsey Lohan means a red headed slut yadda
cha means i am about my business
skip means move when the cops come
broham means the ultimate coolness
fucking gnarly means the greatest time of your life
Dro your own'
It's that time again
Feeling like it ain't no sin
To sing this song
While loadin up my bong.
Getting down with our show,
putting down words bout staring up some high dro
don't be afraid,
let the water cascade
it ain't no Field
But know about the yield
soon the buds will swell
you can't conceal the smell
and then you start to freak out
until the nugs are at their peak
and now remember
it's like those bubs in September
only this how we grow
when the seasons bring snow
it's an indoor, game so get down with some dro.
Feeling like it ain't no sin
To sing this song
While loadin up my bong.
Getting down with our show,
putting down words bout staring up some high dro
don't be afraid,
let the water cascade
it ain't no Field
But know about the yield
soon the buds will swell
you can't conceal the smell
and then you start to freak out
until the nugs are at their peak
and now remember
it's like those bubs in September
only this how we grow
when the seasons bring snow
it's an indoor, game so get down with some dro.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Daily Overview 1-5-2010
Today the Moon in down-to-earth Virgo moves into an opposition with wacky Uranus, signaling that a few surprises may erupt even in our best laid plans. Try and roll with the punches today, as you may not be able to control whatever chaos does occur.
Quote of the day:
I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Quote of the day:
I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
Rainer Maria Rilke
2010 Kicks
It’s a new year and you know what that means. New kicks these are some of the latest kick that will be dropping throughout 2010 that I have my ear to the streets. Let me give you little more info I will be listing some kicks that I will be rocking in this next year. You may say that is bold, but I am so bold I make Malcolm X proud. The first shoe that makes me hype is the
1. Jordan IX Citrus
2. The converse first string is going to be hard as nails
3. Nike KD2 Creamsicle this is the shoe of Kevin Durant this shit may help out some of you weak ballers.
4. Nike Air Griffey Max 1 Grey/Teal This shoe is sick the Griffey’s are for comfort and performance.
5. The Star Wars and the Adidas is sick because I love both of these nice kicks and star wars what else could you ask for.
6. Nike Foamposites Copper Wale showed them off on his album cover but in February everyone else will have a chance to.
7. NIKE DTR 1” DEION SANDERS” Primetime does that ring a bell.
These are just a short list of kicks that got me hyped for this year. To all you posers in the kick game step your game up I have been doing this shit since 1994, so therefore I have paid the cost to be the boss. Yada….
1. Jordan IX Citrus
2. The converse first string is going to be hard as nails
3. Nike KD2 Creamsicle this is the shoe of Kevin Durant this shit may help out some of you weak ballers.
4. Nike Air Griffey Max 1 Grey/Teal This shoe is sick the Griffey’s are for comfort and performance.
5. The Star Wars and the Adidas is sick because I love both of these nice kicks and star wars what else could you ask for.
6. Nike Foamposites Copper Wale showed them off on his album cover but in February everyone else will have a chance to.
7. NIKE DTR 1” DEION SANDERS” Primetime does that ring a bell.
These are just a short list of kicks that got me hyped for this year. To all you posers in the kick game step your game up I have been doing this shit since 1994, so therefore I have paid the cost to be the boss. Yada….
Monday, January 4, 2010
Day by Day (theme song)
Day by day
Minute by minute
That's how we're living
Day by day
Minute by minute
That's how we're living
Day by day
Minute by minute
That's how we're living
Day by day
Minute by minute
That's how we're living
Day by day
Minute by minute
That's how we're living, child
Day by day
Minute by minute
That's how we're living
Day by day
Minute by minute
That's how we're living
Minute by minute
That's how we're living
Day by day
Minute by minute
That's how we're living
Day by day
Minute by minute
That's how we're living
Day by day
Minute by minute
That's how we're living
Day by day
Minute by minute
That's how we're living, child
Day by day
Minute by minute
That's how we're living
Day by day
Minute by minute
That's how we're living
New Year.
With this being the start of a new year, we all can use some major work in our personal lives. I believe it all starts and ends with truth. Truth is the foundation of our self being if we continue down the path that we are on, there will be nothing left. Take a look at your self some of you believe that you are the shit, that type of thought process is giving this nation a dark cloud over it. We are not the savior of everyone, we need to save our selves before we can do anything else. Drop all of the negative attacks on others, start taking accountable for all of our own actions. It is easy to lie but, it takes a strong person to say that I have fucked up. In this new year I feel that i will see major changes, and some people will finally come to a realization that nothing is set in stone. Take a sit and enjoy the new year and work on yourself so that you can see what is really out there.
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Capricorn Horoscope 1-3-2010
You know that problem you had yesterday regarding someone who may be plotting against you, Capricorn? You could be right, but you could be wrong. Be sure before you do anything that puts you in an irreparably bad position. Make a call, check your sources, and be sure. Then mete out the proper punishment.
Lucky Numbers: 36, 26, 32, 20, 14, 23
Lucky Numbers: 36, 26, 32, 20, 14, 23
Daily Message 1-3-2010
The Moon in Leo opposes the expansive and exuberant planet Jupiter today, bringing a touch of over-the-top energy to your day. Try to make the most of it by getting out and about. This is a great time to see and be seen as you show others exactly what you are made of.
Quote of the day:
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote of the day:
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2009 Top Albums
Yadda sizzle it is that time again, top albums of the past year. 2009 was an okay year for music it had some hits and some major misses over the past year. Enough with all of the bullshit open rant about the year. Now it is time for the list for all you punks and sheep’s and whatever else is out there.
13. Bk one Radio do Canibal: Inspired by Brazilian culture, BK One’s Radio Do Canibal demonstrates not only his seasoned ear but also his ability to create a cohesive arrangement of both instrumentals and vocals capable of moving even the most stubborn listener, thoughtfully at least.
Although the album’s guest appearances include renowned acts like, Raekwon, Scarface, Brother Ali, and Phonte of Little Brother, Radio Do Canibal is more of a producers gem than a writer’s prize. Hot tracks: must listen smoke one and sit back
12. Raekwon: Only built for Cuban Linx 2: Rak comes back to the game hard as nails Hot tracks: House of Flying daggers, New WU Catalina
11. Blakroc: Blakroc is a rap rock collaboration album by Ohio-based blues rock band The Black Keys and several hip hop and R&B artists. The project has been overseen by Damon Dash, co-founder and formerly owner of a share in Roc-A-Fella Records. The album was recorded at Studio G by co-producer Joel Hamilton. Album guests include Raekwon, RZA and the late Ol' Dirty Bastard of the Wu-Tang Clan, Jim Jones and NOE of ByrdGang, Mos Def, singer Nicole Wray, Pharoahe Monch, Ludacris, Billy Danze of M.O.P., and Q-Tip of a Tribe Called Quest Hot Tracks: another must listen something new for the ears.
10. Nasa: sprit of the Apollo N.A.S.A., and their worldwide debut The Spirit of Apollo, is an ongoing creative collaboration between two lifelong music aficionados, Squeak E. Clean and DJ Zegon, and their friends, friends of friends and musical heroes.
While N.A.S.A. stands for North America South America and contains a number of superstar artists from both coasts of the U.S. Hot tracks: Money, The Mayor, and Gifted.
9. J Dilla: Stay Paid: a Top albums list is shit without dilla R.I.P.
8. La Coka Nostra: A brand you can Trust: Hard beats for the streets, Ill Bill and fam kills another album Hot tracks: Cousin of death, bang bang, choose your side.
7. Fashawn: Boy Meets World: The west coast stand up, this new kid on the block came up strong on his debut. Hot Tracks: Freedom, Stars
6. Legendary Classics, Vol. 1 by R.a. The Rugged Man
"Nice addition to any collection."
5. Brother Ail: Us
4. Tech N9ne K.o.d.
3. Animal collective
2. Jason Aldean: In the Great wide open. This is a kickass the board great concepts, sick song writing and it just hits the soul. Hot Tracks: the truth, big green tractor, crazy town, in the great wide open.
1. Bruce Springsteen Working on a dream: The Boss does it again tops another of my list. No one can top the boss, he jerks at your soul, also this album just brings you hope.
Hot tracks: My lucky day, the wrestler, this life, tomorrow never knows, life itself.
13. Bk one Radio do Canibal: Inspired by Brazilian culture, BK One’s Radio Do Canibal demonstrates not only his seasoned ear but also his ability to create a cohesive arrangement of both instrumentals and vocals capable of moving even the most stubborn listener, thoughtfully at least.
Although the album’s guest appearances include renowned acts like, Raekwon, Scarface, Brother Ali, and Phonte of Little Brother, Radio Do Canibal is more of a producers gem than a writer’s prize. Hot tracks: must listen smoke one and sit back
12. Raekwon: Only built for Cuban Linx 2: Rak comes back to the game hard as nails Hot tracks: House of Flying daggers, New WU Catalina
11. Blakroc: Blakroc is a rap rock collaboration album by Ohio-based blues rock band The Black Keys and several hip hop and R&B artists. The project has been overseen by Damon Dash, co-founder and formerly owner of a share in Roc-A-Fella Records. The album was recorded at Studio G by co-producer Joel Hamilton. Album guests include Raekwon, RZA and the late Ol' Dirty Bastard of the Wu-Tang Clan, Jim Jones and NOE of ByrdGang, Mos Def, singer Nicole Wray, Pharoahe Monch, Ludacris, Billy Danze of M.O.P., and Q-Tip of a Tribe Called Quest Hot Tracks: another must listen something new for the ears.
10. Nasa: sprit of the Apollo N.A.S.A., and their worldwide debut The Spirit of Apollo, is an ongoing creative collaboration between two lifelong music aficionados, Squeak E. Clean and DJ Zegon, and their friends, friends of friends and musical heroes.
While N.A.S.A. stands for North America South America and contains a number of superstar artists from both coasts of the U.S. Hot tracks: Money, The Mayor, and Gifted.
9. J Dilla: Stay Paid: a Top albums list is shit without dilla R.I.P.
8. La Coka Nostra: A brand you can Trust: Hard beats for the streets, Ill Bill and fam kills another album Hot tracks: Cousin of death, bang bang, choose your side.
7. Fashawn: Boy Meets World: The west coast stand up, this new kid on the block came up strong on his debut. Hot Tracks: Freedom, Stars
6. Legendary Classics, Vol. 1 by R.a. The Rugged Man
"Nice addition to any collection."
5. Brother Ail: Us
4. Tech N9ne K.o.d.
3. Animal collective
2. Jason Aldean: In the Great wide open. This is a kickass the board great concepts, sick song writing and it just hits the soul. Hot Tracks: the truth, big green tractor, crazy town, in the great wide open.
1. Bruce Springsteen Working on a dream: The Boss does it again tops another of my list. No one can top the boss, he jerks at your soul, also this album just brings you hope.
Hot tracks: My lucky day, the wrestler, this life, tomorrow never knows, life itself.
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