Punks

are we just a couple of punks, with too much time on our hands. Or is just trashing house just a big cry for help. I see wasted youth on display with no where to go. Trying not to bad their brains but it is too late. I my seem like a downer but I am a addict a joker in the back room. although my aggression comes out at some time. at the end of the day when the black flag is waving. We will remain the same old punks. To the day comes to slow down, this punk will never die. Go fuck yourself disco heads, pop queens, fake rappers with dollar store jewelry on. Punk is a life style not a choose. Fuck because I can the American way Fuck you.

Artist Interpretation vs. Artistic Absorption

"If the production of art is up for interpretation, why doesn't the same go for the absorption of art?"

Interesting line that was just delivered by a Zack & Ant listener moments ago. Being a guy who doesn't care about the number of chords a band uses, lyrical complexity, etc. so long as the song serves it's purpose -- I fully support this train of thought. Music can be judged on many a level.

Personally, I'm content enjoying the simplicity of a country song wrapped around the warm crunch of power chords over a drum beat that makes my pulse increase. This is the first barrier to entry for me. If a song can pass this test, it's off to round two where the lyrics are looked at and further analyzed. For me, this is what can usually bring a song from "like" to "love." Not always, of course, but at times.

What I find most impressive is when a song's urgency, tempo, beat, or overall sound correlates with the words delivered. In my eyes? That's what makes a great songwriter.

And that, ladies and gentleman, is why I will never attempt to review an album. Who the fuck would trust a guy who pontificates about such things while listening to Screeching Weasel?

the truth about your tax dollars

Most taxpayers have no idea what their federal income taxes actually provide. When I ask folks if they know where their IRS check goes I get answers from, “…it pays for the operation of the Federal Government.” to, “… hummm, I really don’t know.” Actually both answers are partially true. Why were the IRS and the Federal Reserve created by the same act of Congress — what is their relationship to the Federal Government?

About a year ago, I made the assertion that the Federal Reserve through the IRS has the power to tax directly by congressional action and indirectly by inflation. It is very easy to see when you understand the “not quite governmental, not quite private” structure of the Federal Reserve System and its taxing arm the IRS.

Here is how it works. Congress passes a law, the House appropriates the funds. The Federal Treasury Department prints the notes for the appropriation. Then the Federal Reserve purchases these notes/paper at the cost of printing, about 4 cents note. A $1bill, $100 bill, or $1000 bond, costs the same 4 cents. The Federal Reserve then loans this money back to the Federal Government at interest based on face value. This interest rate may fluctuate. The cash is then distributed to the regional Federal Reserve banks from which the appropriations are disseminated as per the Congressional mandate.

Now, as the interest climbs with each appropriation, this debt requires payment your taxes – and occasionally the taxes must be increased to keep up with the “can never be paid off by design, debt”. The Federal Reserve profits greatly on this value created out of thin air paid by IRS collected taxes, and OUR REAL ASSET collateral on loans that go into foreclosure/confiscation.

Periodically, the Federal Reserve will ask Congress for an increase in money supply. This indirectly taxes folks by pumping cash into the economy which decreases the buying power of the dollar. This makes it seem as though prices have risen – not the case, the money added causes the value of the dollar to drop. This is the inflation tax. A tax that causes big problems for people with savings or on fixed incomes. The frightening thing is, the FED-IRS has NEVER had it’s books opened to Congressional scrutiny.

On 2/26/09, Representative Ron Paul rose before the House to introduce his “Federal Reserve Transparency Act” HR-1207. In his speech, he said…

Throughout its nearly 100-year history, the Federal Reserve has presided over the near-complete destruction of the United States dollar. Since 1913 the dollar has lost over 95% of its purchasing power, aided and abetted by the Federal Reserve’s loose monetary policy. How long will we as a Congress stand idly by while hard-working Americans see their savings eaten away by inflation? [...] Whenever you question the Fed about the strength of the dollar, they will refer you to the Treasury, and vice versa. The Federal Reserve has, on the one hand, many of the privileges of government agencies, while retaining benefits of private organizations, such as being insulated from Freedom of Information Act requests.

The Federal Reserve can enter into agreements with foreign central banks and foreign governments, and the GAO is prohibited from auditing or even seeing these agreements. Why should a government-established agency, whose police force has federal law enforcement powers, and whose notes have legal tender status in this country, be allowed to enter into agreements with foreign powers and foreign banking institutions with no oversight?”

In this unique Federal Reserve/Federal Government relationship the IRS works as the “Taxing Arm For The FED” – NOT the Federal Government which is prohibited from direct taxing at Article 1 section 9 clause 4 of the Constitution! Now you know. Those sneaky-rascal bankers anyway.

You're The Best Around

Try to be best
cause your only a man
and a mans gotta learn to take it
try to belive though the going get rough
that you gotta hang tough to make it
history repeats itself
try and you succed
never doubt that youre the one
and you can have your dream

you're the best, around
nothings gonna ever keep you down, your the best, around
nothings gonna ever keep you down, your the best, around
nothings gonna ever keep you down

fight till the end cause your life will depend
on the strenght you have inside you
oh, gotta be proud, stand and out on the cloud
and you all to the game by you
try your best to win them all
and one day time will tell
when your the one that standing there
you've reached the final bell

you're the best, around
nothings gonna ever keep you down, your the best, around
nothings gonna ever keep you down, your the best, around
nothings gonna ever keep you down

you're the best, around
nothings gonna ever keep you down, your the best, around
nothings gonna ever keep you down, your the best, around
nothings gonna ever keep you down

fight till you drop
you never stop
cant give up untill you reach the top
(fight) your the best in town (fight)
listen to that sound
a little bit of all you got could never bring you down

you're the best, around
nothings gonna ever keep you down, your the best, around
nothings gonna ever keep you down, your the best, around
nothings gonna ever keep you down

you're the best, around
nothings gonna ever keep you down, your the best, around
nothings gonna ever keep you down, your the best, around
nothings gonna ever keep you down

Obama's credibility crisis

The most valuable tool in a president's political arsenal is slipping away from Barack Obama. Once people believe a leader is a liar, it is very hard for that person to be effective in his role.


The credibility crisis that is starting to engulf Barack Obama has many roots. Certainly, his many broken political promises (no higher taxes on anyone who earns under 200k, for instance) are working against him. But politicians routinely break promises. Nothing that new, although George H.W. Bush's experience with "read my lips: no new taxes" bodes ill for Obama 2012.


Far more serious is the growing perception that Obama is, in the favorite word of Holden Caufield, a "phony" -- someone who makes stuff up in order to fool people about who he really is.

It is one thing to try to bamboozle the American public on politics. Voters expect pols to have a loose relationship to the truth. But sports is all about authenticity, the truth expressed in a moment of action on the field, court, or rink. There are more sports fans than political junkies in America. Whatever teams they may root for, the one team they all root against is the Washington Phonies.


The sand is rapidly draining from the hourglass containing Obama's ability to command respect and allegiance. His partisans, living in their social and media bubble, do not notice. But everybody else in America does.

Tea Partiers and the New Party Leaders

The goals driving the tea party movement will not be realized without a new generation of party leadership, something the GOP establishment understandably is loath to admit. Karl Rove's April 1 Wall Street Journal column, "Where the Tea Partiers Should Go From Here," had some good advice for Tea Partiers. It was, however, what you would expect from a Washington-establishment Republican leader. By that I mean that nothing Rove said would challenge the Republican Party's leaders, whether in Washington, D.C. or state capitols.


Tea Partiers know and remember that the Republicans lost control of Congress in 2006 and the White House in 2008 not because of Pelosi, Reid, and Obama, but because Republican leaders at the national and state levels broke their promise to govern as conservatives.


It was the disastrous big-government, bribe-the-voters, run-up-the-deficit policies of George Bush, Karl Rove, Tom DeLay, Denny Hastert, Bill Frist, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, etc., etc. that turned Americans against the Republican Party.


So what are Tea Partiers to do?


There is nothing wrong with following Rove's advice, such as:


1. Educate yourself and friends on key issues;


2. See where politicians stand on key issues (my comment: remember, though, that politicians will tell you what you want to hear);


3. Be sure to register and vote on November 2;


4. Get ten to twenty-five other people involved; and



5. Make sure that the ten to twenty-five are registered and vote.


Of course, none of these five recommendations threatens the ruling GOP establishment leaders or their continuing domination of the Republican Party. Tea Partiers, on the other hand, are about the business of changing America by restoring our constitutional republic. That requires changing both the Republican and Democratic parties that have contributed to, if not caused, our government's shift away from our founding principles.


Here are my five recommendations to Tea Partiers as to how to change both major political parties:


1. To paraphrase Bill Clinton advisor James Carville, "It's the primaries, Stupid." Tea Partiers should focus only on primaries now, and not focus on the upcoming November elections just yet. In the primaries, challenge every establishment, big-government incumbent. Conservatives winning in primaries will make the November elections a more significant chance for meaningful, long-term change. Over half of the filing deadlines have not yet passed.


2. Support candidates who will vote to fire their party leaders.


3. Withhold support from all Republican or Democratic national committees, and give your donations directly to principled conservative candidates.


4. In addition to running and supporting candidates for public office, run for every possible party office. The best way to get a political party to change is to take it over.


5. Rove said that Tea Partiers need to study key issues. Quite frankly, Tea Partiers already know the issues. Despite the fact that many are new to organized politics, they are savvy and wise about the direction the country needs to take. They do, however, need to read and study more than the Constitution, the Federalist Papers, and other writings of the Founders, although those are, of course, the essential foundations. They should read and study the writings of great but more recent conservative thinker-activists such as Mark Levin, Bill Buckley, Russell Kirk, Barry Goldwater (The Conscience of a Conservative), and others. Tea Partiers will then better know who they are politically, will better understand what they believe, and will possess even better clarity about why they believe it. By reading conservative thinker-activist writings from the past half-century, Tea Partiers will be better able to educate, enlist, convert, and successfully debate others.


As a postscript to these five recommendations, I would add that Tea Parties should support only candidates who will pledge to repeal many of the laws, regulations, programs, and policies of recent big-government politicians -- and by that I mean both Republicans and Democrats. Also, any candidate who does not identify upholding the Constitution as one of his or her top five priorities should be suspect.


As a multi-decade veteran of the conservative movement, I can say that two of its biggest mistakes have been to become too attached to big-government Republican Party leaders and to fail to make inroads into the Democratic Party. The Tea Party can change that.


Tea Partiers need to remember that you are the leaders you've been waiting for. We all need to get out of our comfort zones and provide leadership to take back America -- and that starts with changing the Republican and Democratic Party leaders.

Daily Horoscope: Capricorn 4-7-10

Generally, you come up with the perfect, witty answer one day too late. Impulse and intuition take a back seat to your excellent self-control. The day ahead presents one opportunity to let go of the inhibition that sometimes stymies you. Yield to your instincts a little and see what happens. A little more socializing wouldn't hurt, either. You're certainly entitled to some fun now and then!

Daily overview 4-7-10

The Moon is active today as it sextiles Uranus and then moves into the quirky sign of Aquarius. You may feel a deep desire to express your unique nature now, letting the world know exactly who you are as an individual. This is a good time to move forward with new ideas.

Quote of The day

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
Frank Howard Clark