Faith Grows

What is the difference between faith and belief?  Can anyone just think or say that Jesus is the Son of God and all is done?

First of all He taught us how to behave, how to act and program our thoughts before we act in a very compact sermon located in Matthew 5 through Matthew 7.  It is simple to understand.  It is not as easy to do every moment of your life.  That is what this life is for, to master our soul and be perfect as he commanded us to be.

Jesus did say that straight is the gate and narrow is the way that leads to eternal life and broad is the way that leads to destruction.

Faith is an action word.  Grace is the Saviors act of forgiveness after we have repented or changed, not before.  If we are still in the habit of not following Christ’s instructions as listed in His gospel noted above, we have not repented yet and the grace of God cannot take hold in our life.

I have had friends in the past who have been convinced that once you say you believe in Jesus and accept Him as your Savior, it’s all good.  That’s NEVER what Jesus said.  As a matter of fact, I have taken the time to pull out the words of Jesus recorded in the New Testament regarding what Jesus said about the subject.  You can look up all the references and read the before and after context.  Anyone who cares to learn what Jesus wants for us will not have to rely on any dogma filtered through the agenda of anyone. Basically Jesus tells us that words are important but if they are not backed up by our actions, talk is cheap.

Matthew 5: 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.  48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

Jesus then spends more time and effort teaching us what to say and do in chapters 6 and 7 and then says:

Matthew 7: 16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. 20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. 21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:

Matthew 11:50 For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

Matthew 22:37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Matthew 25: 23 His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.  (Versus)  30 And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 25: 45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.

Mark 3: 35 For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.

Mark 4:24 And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given.

Mark 7:6  …this people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.  Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. For laying aside the commandment of God…

Luke 6:46 And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? 49 But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth…

Luke 10:25 … Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? 26 He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou? 27 And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself. 28 And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.

Luke 13:26 Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets. 27 But he (The Lord) shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.

John 3:5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

John 5:28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, 29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.

John 8:11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.

John 8:31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; 32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

John 10: My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:

John 10:37 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. 38 But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.

John 13:17 If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.

John 13:35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.

John 15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

John 15:8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

John 15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.

John 15:14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

So, there you have it.  That is what Jesus said about doing what He instructed us.  The world will be a very wonderful place when we all love God and each other as we have been instructed to.  He is our Father and we are all His children.

If I paid attention to all the things others people would like me to be fearful about, I could be in a constant state of panic.

I must follow a few rules to prevent or eliminate fear.  From my experience, when making decisions based on fear, serious miscalculations are often the result.  If I conquer fear, I can conquer my surroundings.

Rule 1. Be still.  What I have found to be the most profound is to be still.  I find that meditating and prayer in the morning first thing will pave the way for a productively peaceful day.  When I am able to be still and have a personal distillation process take place within my mind, body and soul, a foundation is laid for the day.  At the end of the day before I go into the rest and repair mode of sleep, I am able to let go of the accumulated stresses and strains by being still.  Turn it off.  Sometimes we can be TOO turned on to others thoughts and ideas and have our own valuable thoughts and impressions pushed aside. There is a scripture that says: “Be still and know that I am God.”  There are several ways to read that passage.  Inflection and emphasis on the word ‘know’ implies that we cannot know God without being still.

Rule 2.  Love.  I must truly love myself so that I may have a softened heart to be able to love others.  I’m not talking about the warped emotional sickness of narcissism or selfishness that is the result of an emotional void being filled in perpetually un-fulfilling ways.  I’m talking about being able to tell myself and deeply feel care and concern for my soul now, in the past, and myself that is to be. As feeling grows, it is impossible to contain.  Radiation is a natural consequence of being filled.  Light naturally fills and expands as does love.  As I bask and contemplate, realizations and insights happen.

3. Gratitude.  There is a scripture that says we must “Thank the Lord thy God in all things.”  If something I perceive to be bad happens, it is not naturally logical to be grateful for that bad thing.  Miracles happen when that practice is instituted.  Sometimes I must be reminded to be thankful in all things.  It is then important to be surrounded by those with our best interests at heart and remind to thank God for ALL things.

Finally, when I am in a state of confident contemplation, I can then make the best decisions and take the best actions.  I have seen the contrast.  This really works.

My wife says I’m crazy.  I know I am.  I’m going to be a crazy radical gardener and more.

I remember when I was 4 years old working in the backyard garden with my family in New Zealand.

My parents didn’t know a thing about gardening and I wanted to help.  I grabbed a shovel and started digging.

At one point, I wanted to go deeper into the soil but didn’t have a body large enough to jump onto the shovel like my dad.  I wanted to go really deep into the dirt so I lifted the shovel up as high as I could and brought it down onto my right big toe.

My parents rushed me to a doctor to make sure there was no long-term damage.  The toe was fine after a few weeks.

My mother tells me I would always go out and ride on the tractor with the agricultural missionaries and play in the mud and dirt at every moment.

Before we left New Zealand, I planted some apple seeds.  I was about 5 years old and didn’t realize we were leaving the country soon so I didn’t get a chance to see the fruits of my labors.

In Arizona my father tried to grow a garden and didn’t know anything about growing in a harsh environment and stuck to trees and grass.

I had my biggest success in Oregon.  On the side of a hill I had a terraced strawberry patch, a traditional garden and some old fruit trees in the orchard.  Love fresh Bing cherries right off the tree.  In the summer we got a large salad bowl of strawberries every day.

I now live in Texas, north of Dallas.  Not the easiest growing environment.  It could be worse.  I have the bug to grow and produce as much as possible on our property.

Watch this video below and tell me if you would like to do something like what is on the video.  I plan on incorporating fish and ocean water into the mix at my place.  This is truly radical environmentalism.

Are you surprised and shocked at the S&P downgrade?   Tim Geitner and Barak Obama are.

In the words of Good Ol Gomer Pile – “Surprise, Surprise, Surprise!”

Is Obama really surprised?

The Obama Emperor Administration and their surrogates are screaming that S&P made a big mistake.  Tim Geitner a little while ago said that there was no possible chance that the U.S. credit would be downgraded.

At this point it is simply perpetual self delusion or flat out lies. Are they that stupid or that dishonest?  Perhaps it’s a mixture of both.

The general population has known for years that we can’t keep living beyond our means.

Geitner also said he wouldn’t be firing up the printing presses before Quantitative Easing 1&2.  He pulled the surprise on us and printed as if in a counterfeiters fantasy.  Trying to print your way out of a recession with unparalleled debt is just plain stupid.  Stupid is as stupid does.

We should have know that a Treasury Secretary who didn’t pay his taxes is either incompetent, immoral or perhaps both.  Obama, what were you thinking?

It has been evident for a long time that  ……  The emperor has no credit. They’ve been caught with their financial pants down, messing with the fundamentals of the country.  Get your filthy hands off our fundamentals.

Here’s the problem.  The U.S. government income (taxes and fees) is much less than the U.S. expenses.

That’s all there is to it.

Countries and companies are have been losing faith in the U.S. governments ability to balance the budget and pay down the debt or stay solvent for some time.  S&P just confirmed reality.

Let’s do a family household comparison.

Let’s say that a family of four has roughly an annual income of $46,000.

This household also has had expenses of almost $80,000.   They also have not stayed within their means or spent less than they brought in for a long time.

This family has also racked up a debt on their revolving line of credit of $300,000 and is borrowing to make the monthly payments on that debt.  They offer no collateral or assets on the loan but are offering a simple full faith and credit of the family household.  They ask for you to just trust them.

Question.  Would you loan $35,000 loan to this family?  Do you trust that this family will someday learn to live within their means and pay down their debts?

This family household example is a rough estimate of the ratios that the U.S. Federal Government is operating under and what the Standard and Poor’s rating agency took into account to find the U.S. government lacking.

S&P would be foolish to continue giving the U.S. a best rating.  The argument could be made that they have been derelict in their duty in waiting so long to downgrade the U.S.

There seems to be no shortage or morons out there that blame the wrong source of the problem.

Michael Moore, the inflammatory and distorting entertainer has done just that. He says that Obama should arrest the CEO of S&P.  That’s like arresting a bank for denying a loan to someone about to go bankrupt.

One of the congressmen directly responsible for the mortgage debacle, Barney Frank, says that it’s the military’s fault that S&P downgraded.  As David Letterman says, “WHAT?!!!”

Other morons like David Assholerod and Coward Dean are blaming the Tea Party for the downgrade. That’s like suing someone for the loss of a leg when all they tried to do was stop the bleeding after the leg was already chopped off.

Congress is simply addicted to buying votes.  They don’t want to tell the American public that the gravy train and free lunch is over.

For years, warnings have been raised and ignored.

The idot Congressman Pete Stark of California is a perfect example.  See this warning that was raised more than a decade ago and see the treatment the interviewer got from the foolish Pete Stark.  Believe it or not, the megalomaniac Congressman is still in office making just as idiotic decisions as ever.

Also today, S&P downgraded the associated Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac,
Depository Trust Co., National Securities Clearing Corp., Fixed Income Clearing Corp. and the Options Clearing Corp.

That means that the pseudo or quasi governmental companies or those backed by the full faith and credit of the United States have less backing.  That’s a little like your bodyguard getting his had busted in a fist fight.

There are intelligent solutions to the problem but they are not easily done.  It’s tough to undo sausage once it’s made.

There is a reckoning coming.  Hell’s a coming unless …………

Unfortunately, sometimes they die, rob you blind or kill someone. That’s Congress right now.

Watch this to see intelligent men discuss the potentials.  Rick Santelli says it as it is!

Click on this image to see the debate.

Has Congress Hit Rock Bottom?

The national deficit and debt are astronomical.  Unemployment is high.  The economy is sluggish with large and small businesses gun-shy with a potential double dip recession looming.  Real estate foreclosures are not letting up and could increase.  Commodity prices are not coming down.  Uncertainty perpetuates a lack of investment.

As Ronald Regan said, “Government isn’t the solution to the problem, Government IS the problem!”

Until our government spending is under control and the national debt stops growing, the dollar will continue to suffer internationally which helps keep the price of oil and other goods higher.  Domestic energy production has been and is being hampered.  Inflation is real and the cost of borrowing may be going up.

According to CNS News China has now divested itself of 97 percent of its short-term US Treasury Bonds.  The next step for China is to cease buying any long-term Treasury Bonds and stop buying any new long term bonds.  Who wants to be left holding the bag if the US defaults?  Think it can’t happen?

Besides the bond problems with Greece, Portugal, Spain, Iceland and Ireland, here is a list of countries that have defaulted recently on their bond obligations:

Venezuela, July 1998

Russia, August 1998

Ukraine, September 1998

Pakistan, July 1999

Ecuador, August 1999

Ukraine, January 2000

Peru, September 2000

Argentina, November 2001

Moldova, June 2002

Uruguay, May 2003

Dominican Republic, April 2005

Belize, December 2006

Ecuador, December 2008

Some of the situations were cleared up or restructured quickly and others were not.

Is the US too big to fail?  What caused this potential failure?

The big ideas in the US Constitution of limited and separated powers have been altered or ignored.  The beginning of the end was when the Supreme Court allowed Congress to spend on anything is wants for “the general welfare” of the country instead of following Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution.

The tipping point is soon approaching where the US will not have the luxury of honoring all the obligations it has made to taxpayers and bond holders.  The interest rates of the bonds will be going up drastically when the buyers dry up which will further cut into Congressional ability to balance a budget.

If Congressional spending were under control, the lack of bond buyers would not be an issue.  They could simply retire the debt.

Congress and the Executive seem still to have little or no will to do the hard thing.  Both branches fear being voted out of office for making hard choices that will be bitter medicine for the voters to swallow.  Honesty in politics hasn’t been the policy for some time.  Is honesty really the best policy to get re-elected?  The general population has been seduced with unrealistic promises for so long that they are not prepared for what is about to hit them.

What are the solutions?  Cut spending.  Phase out all welfare programs and any activity not listed in Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution.  Keep taxes basically where they are until the debt is substantially reduced.  Make it favorable for corporations to stay and move to the US.  Foster pro-business policy and regulation in general.   Easy to say.  Tough to do.

Maxine Waters, the self proclaimed Liberal (aka Socialist or Progressive) accidentally spoke her truth and tried to cover it up.  See her long uncomfortable pause while trying to rephrase her real intent into something more palatable to the American public was pathetic.  After realizing that there was no realistic way to re-phase her comments without looking more foolish, she continued on her train of thought of her Socialistic dream to take over the oil companies.

Are you shocked?  I am shocked that she felt politically safe enough that when she slipped up she eventually spoke her mind.  What a terrible job we have done at educating our Americans that would allow such a person to be and stay in office.

Maxine Waters and her friends planned and succeeded to take over the mortgage industry to provide loans to those who didn’t deserve it.   She helped perpetuate the corruption before the housing bubble burst.  Let’s look at Maxine Waters and friends wisdom in the housing crisis.  This video is from 2004 was long before the housing bubble burst.  There were certain regulators that saw what was going on and tried to raise the alarm and make corrections.  See what crooks are running our country still.

Will she get kicked out of Congress for her pending ethics violations investigations?

There are plenty of her types in the federal government right now so she may get a pass.

Do you really want Socialists running the company you work for or if you own your own business?  There has been no successful model of Socialism EVER!  If you want to see the model she prefers, look no further than Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.  Contracts and property rights are not well respected.  Government spending is on the rise. The government has taken over many private enterprises. Private investment has decreased drastically.

Yes, Venezuela’s gasoline is artificially cheap but not for long.  Despite cheap gas, their economy is dwindling.

Maxine’s still trying to wreak havoc this month.  Maxine reintroduced H.R. 1567, the Foreclosure Prevention and Sound Mortgage Servicing Act of 2011.  Hasn’t she done enough already?  She said in April, “This bill is the first in a series of legislative proposals that I plan to introduce to further regulate the servicing industry and to protect homeowners.”

She’s done such a fine job already in housing and she wants to take over the oil industry too?  Who keeps voting these clowns into office?

These are some of the items at stake in the USA: home values and the ability to buy and sell, credit card interest rates, business loans, pension or 401k values, checking or savings account values, life insurance long term values, annuities, college savings …. and so on and so on.

Ok, here’s the big news.  The Obama Administration and the folks in Congress are not stupid (well, most of them).  They are just political cowards or are intent on destroying the United States fundamental economy.  President Obama has said he wanted to fundamentally change the USA and is doing an effective job.

If anyone in Congress says what needs to be said, they are attacked as executioners of senior citizens and pre-school children.  Everyone wants the other guys golden egg.

On my previous post in 2009, I noted that the famous Julian Robertson’s words in 2008 that inflation could hit 15-20%.  Things have not improved since then and have gotten worse.

Depending on who’s doing the math, the US spent more than $400 billion in interest on the approximately $13 Trillion debt in 2010.  The  deficit spending was and still is out of control.  The interest rates paid are at historic lows.  The average interest rate paid on the debt was around 3%.  Most of that debt is short term treasury bills and those historic rates will not last.

Here is what will most likely happen. If the bond rating of US treasuries are downgraded by  Standard and Poor’s 6 months to 2 years from now, interest rates on new Treasury bills or bonds will skyrocket to around 8-12% within 3 months, no matter what Moody’s says.  The overnight bank to bank interest rate will skyrocket.  Rates on loans to businesses will shoot through the roof.  Loans to home purchasers will go sky high causing real estate prices to crash.  The ability of people to move or transfer will be severely hampered.  Those who are upside down on their homes will default and foreclosures will rise again.  The speed of all financial transactions will slow down as will economic growth.  Unemployment rates will go up and either hyper inflation or deflation will kick in full gear.  We could have another round of deflay-inflation, where real estate crashes and commodities prices inflate.

The ability of the USA to pay it’s bond obligations will not be able to be met.  Over a 4 year period the interest on the national debt will average 6-8%, depending on how high the downgrade interest rate on new bonds will be.

By that time, the national debt will be $20 Trillion at least.  But lets say for whatever reason, that the deficit gets reigned by January 2012  and caps out at $16 Trillion (very unlikely before a new election cycle).  If the average interest rate on the debt is 6% instead of 3% in 2010, the interest payment on the debt would be just $40 billion shy of $1 Trillion dollars per year.

Current folks in power are talking of slowing the growth of the debt over 10 years.  Six months to 2 years doesn’t allow for that luxury.  The solution is to radically cut or eliminate spending on all welfare programs including Medicaid/Medicare and Social Security.  The nation is not taking this seriously

Hang on for a wild ride because we are sitting on a time bomb.  The golden goose egg has been replaced with a rotten one about to explode.

We Only Have A Few Seconds To Live

We only have a few seconds to live!

We really, truly, only live a few seconds every day.  In the presence or our present we consciously deal with what is in front of us, anticipate the next moment of life, and subconsciously process and react to what just occurred.  The change is constant.

Thoughts trigger emotions which ripple through our bodies.  Our bodies generate actions and reactions.

Scientists and philosophers contemplate and test how much control individuals truly have over their destiny.  Do we have choice or free will?  Are we producers or simply products?  Are we creators or creation?  Do we matter or are we simply of matter? Are we genetic soup or master chefs?  Is our inner intelligence intelligent or is it meaningless mental echo sloshing around in the tides of environment?

The answer is….yes.  Is the riddle solved?  It is within each individual.  Our ability is to be the master or the slave, the victim or the victor, the action or reaction, the live or the living dead.  Our future is determined by the accumulation of our collective now moments.  To Be or Not To Be.  I am not.  Perhaps I am.  I am.  The past, present and future melt into one as we chose to live.

Whenever we make the choice to capture the moment and make a choice instead of reacting out of environmental conditions or habit, we influence ourselves drastically.  When captured enough, an explosion of permanence takes hold.  Consistent choice cements character.

There are those in science and academia who state as revival gospel truth that we are victims of our ancestors and can’t do a thing about it.  On the contrary, some experimenters have discovered and are uncovering details that what we think and do affects our DNA directly and indirectly.

A young poet, William Earnest Henley in 1875 wrote his famous words titled Invictus. He penned this short poem in his hospital bed after having his leg amputated.

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

Am I the Captain?  I am!

Which Way From Here?

As currently structured, the Teachers Unions should be banned from America.

I don’t like being upset.  I don’t like yelling at people but I feel like yelling right now.

There is no collective public good coming from these unions unless you think a fat, lazy and stupid American public is good.

I just watched the documentary, “Waiting For Superman.”

You must watch it and get mad enough to demand the Teacher Unions be reformed or banished for all time from a freedom loving society.  Have everyone you know watch the movie and get busy!

In a nutshell, we are being robbed by the teachers unions of America – the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT).  They promote tenure which has no business in a productive society.  My father was a teacher and a member of the NEA and discouraged me from becoming a teacher with the current state of teaching in America.  Bad teachers cannot be fired after they get tenure.  Watch the movie and you’ll see

This movie shows very clearly that the teachers unions are the most powerful political force in America.  The are responsible for the dumbing down of America and its possible demise.

The Superman in the documentary is KIPP! – Knowledge Is Power Program – Charter Schools.  They are only serving 27,000 students currently.  The number needs to be 55 million.

If you want America to succeed, get every child you can to get into this Program to privately destroy the evil, greedy, lazy, unproductive, selfish lock the teachers unions have over our parents and children.

If you are a true philanthropist, donate to these schools, generate scholarship programs, fight to allow these charter schools to compete openly and honestly for our America’s educational funds.

The KIPP movement was established in 1994 and has been getting phenomenal results.  The teachers unions are threatened and are pushing KIPP and other effective programs around and sadly making inroads into what must become a national emergency priority.

Bill Gates is  in the documentary and says that if something isn’t done quickly, the USA will be lost.

Here is the movie trailer:

Ya Think?

Today’s big news is that after years of reluctant study and semi-serious contemplation and probably millions or billions of  tax payer dollars, the FDA is going to hold a panel to decide if they will restrict artificial dyes in food.  I like to think of them as artificial stains.  (UPDATE April 3rd, just after April Fools Day – The FDA said nevermind.  They don’t think they should ban or restrict anything regarding artificial stains – Psych – the vote was 8 to 6.)

Multiple studies have shown that kids get ADHD symptoms when they ingest the laboratory goodies.

My simple study could have saved billions.

My small study proved that artificial dyes need to be killed off.  Whenever my kids would eat artificial colors in things like Fake Fruit Rollups, Fake Fruit Loops, Fake Candy, Fake You Name It, they would get all wound up and act NUTTIER THAN SQUIRREL POOP!  It’s like watching Sponge Bob on acid.  Whenever they would eat healthy colors in real food they acted, well, healthy.

Apparently the heat is building against putting artificial dyes in food.  All I can say is, “What Is Taking So Long!?”  There is so much crap that the FDA ‘approves’ as safe in food.  How about the drugs that only cause only an acceptable percentage of the people taking it to consider blowing their brains out?  Many are later recalled after years of presure.  They say it was ‘discovered’ as damaging.

It is our responsibility to Read The Labels.  The problem is that many modern food companies have made figuring out what’s REALLY in their food more complicated than doing a Rubix Cube blindfolded with mittens on.  It seems some days that “Natural Flavoring” could include arsenic, strychnine and uranium and still be approved.

It seems sometimes that the only criteria for approval is if there is a sufficient reward path for those in charge of approving.  It’s OK as long as there is big enough a profit motive.

IT”S INSANE – A stain in the membrane.  Warning, this video may include performers who have consumed artificial colors and flavors causing them to render lyrics you may not understand and may be offensive.  J.K. Cypress Hill

Who you tryin to get crazy with Ese?
Don’t you know I’m loco…..?

To da one on da flamboyant tip
I’ll just toss that ham in the fryin pan like spam,
get done when I come and slam
D—, I feel like the Son of Sam
Don’t make me wreck s—, hectic
Next get the chair got me goin like General Electric Annnd,
the lights are blinkin I’m thinkin
It’s all over when I go out drinkin
Ohh, makin my mind slow
That’s why I don’t f— with the big four-oh
Bro, I got ta’ maintain Cause a n—- like me is goin insane

Insane in da membrane.. insane in da brain!
Insane in da membrane.. insane in da brain!
Insane in da membrane.. crazy insane, got no brain!
Insane in da membrane.. insane in da brain!

Do my s— undercover now it’s time for the blubbablabber,
to watch that belly get fatter
Fat boy on a diet, don’t try it
I’ll jack yo’ a– like a looter in a riot
My s—’s fat, like a sumo, slammin dat a–
Leavin yo’ face in the grass
Cause you know, I don’t take a duro, lightly
Punks just jealous cause they can’t out write me
or kick that style, wicked, wild
Happy face n—- never seen me smile
Rip dat main frame I’ll explain
A n—- like me is goin insane

Insane in da membrane.. insane in da brain!
Insane in da membrane.. insane in da brain!
Insane in da membrane.. crazy insane, got no brain!
Insane in da membrane.. insane in da brain!

Like Louie Armstrong, played the trumpet
I’ll hit that bong and break ya off somethin soon
I got ta get my props
Cops, come and try to snatch my crops
These pigs wanna blow my house down
Head underground, to the next town
They get mad when they come to raid my pad
and I’m out in the nine-deuce Cad
Yes I’m the pirate, pilot of this ship
if I get with the ultraviolet dream
Hide from the red light beam
Now do you believe in the unseen?
Look, but don’t make you eyes strain
A n—- like me is goin insane

Insane in da membrane.. insane in da brain!
Insane in da membrane.. insane in da brain!
Insane in da membrane.. crazy insane, got no brain!
Insane in da membrane.. insane in da brain!

This is serious folks.

This is ultimate insider trading.

When the ship is sinking, our leaders are punching holes in the boat instead of plugging and bailing.

This needs a full investigation and a cease and desist order NOW.

The Indymac FDIC is criminal!

It is amazing to me that not more research has made major headlines.

The true job of agriculture, agronomy and animal husbandry is to gather and deliver the most complete and rich set of minerals in every crop, product or byproduct to the consumer.  Anything less is like building a structure with no foundation.

I am in the middle of compiling my research.   I have discovered some truly shocking and amazing secrets and hidden treasures.  They must not be secrets any longer and I am working to shine the light.

Mineral Secrets

Stay Tuned.

Could it be said any simpler?

• Perfection is defined by pure intelligence.
• The physical realm follows eternal laws perfectly.
• Discovering truth through pure intelligence and implementing it is our role as mortals.
• We have been placed into time and space for eternal purpose.

The goal of perfection is now possible.  Let me state it a little differently.  The goal of perfection is possible now.

Now is the only time forever.  Now is our present, future, and past. As we become eternal, time becomes a thing of the past. It will be the ultimate merger.  We will in a non-linear dimension.

That is why it is critical to enlighten, clean up the past, make amends, or repent.

The question of the ancients has always been, “What manner of man should I be?”  The answer from Pure Intelligence, “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”  After His resurrection Christ added, “Therefore, what manner of men ought ye to be? Verily I say unto you, even as I am.”  Individually and collectively we must be intelligent, pure, perfect.

There are amazing discoveries, revelations and technologies that are already discovered that will not be revealed until we are ready.  There are more that will be developed as more of us refine and purify.  They will be rolling out only when we are ready.  We will reflect and see this time as a sort of dark age in comparison.

God, Christ, Nature, Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Geology, and Biology will be revealed to be a concert of incredible beauty, intelligence, majesty, brilliance and radiant harmony. The blinders are coming off.

The Future Is Now.  Can you see it?

The national debt ceiling is currently $14.3 Trillion.  In my humble opinion, it is Treason to raise the debt ceiling.  We are ready to implode and collapse as a country.  Take a look at Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Portugal and Spain.

It is Treason to raise the debt ceiling!

Those burying us in debt are traitors.  It does not matter what the political excuse is.  To put us collectively into slavery is treasonous and should be punishable by removal of office.  That goes for any Congressman, Executive, politician or bureaucrat perpetuating and growing the debt.  It should be zero.

The debt should be reduced by 3% compounded every year by statute.

Over 70 welfare programs including Medicare/Medicaid and Social Security are bleeding us to death.  We’re wiping out the sacrifice that patriots fought and died for.  Our freedom is being swallowed as we voluntarily surrender to slavery.  The current deal about to go down is another glut of spending by the Democrats and Republicans.

The Gross National Product is $14.4 Trillion per year currently.  If the debt goes above the GNP, serious implications will follow.  If we continue down the road of fiscal foolishness, our AAA national credit rating will be in jeopardy.  At this rate it will be in 2012 to 2016 that our treasury bonds will be less useful than toilet paper.

It is insanity to try to save people from the black hole of poverty when it will impoverish the whole nation.  Freedom is the only salvation from poverty.  Freedom is not free but the cost is much lower than collective slavery.

Where has individual independence gone?  Are we to become a nation of slaves and serfs?

Are we as a Nation going to climb the cliff or jump off?

I am thankful for the many blessings offered by The Almighty in preserving my life and providing a Land Of The Free where I am truly free to choose. I am Thankful for all facets of what Jesus Christ was, is, and is to be in our lives.

An exercise our family has done in the past is to go around the Thanksgiving table while each person has a chance to say one thing we are grateful for and keep going around.  The first time we did it I thought the young children would run out of things as we went round and round the table, but time after time I was surprised at the level of their thankfulness or gratitude.  They were very thankful for simple little things that most adults take for granted.  It really is the simple little things that make a difference.

I read a scripture that changed the way I think about everything.  The Lord is quoted as saying, “Thou shalt thank the Lord thy God in all things.”

The day after I emphatically shared this with my family, a disaster struck.  Panic started to spread through my mind and heart like a plague until my amazing wife kindly reminded me of the words of the Lord, “Thou shalt thank the Lord thy God in all things.”

I immediately said a prayer in my mind and heart thanking God for this event that on the surface was not good.  Over the next two weeks, it turned out to be a blessing instead of a curse.  It doesn’t matter what the disaster was because they happen all the time, small and large.  The technique God has commanded us to use works every time.  Guaranteed or your money back.  No need to go to some expensive guru that may end up killing you in a sweat lodge either.  God’s commands are free and work every time.

I have to work today on this Thanksgiving and cannot spend the whole day with my family.  Rather than be bitter and resentful, I am thankful that I must work.  Miracles happen through thankfulness and gratitude.

I am grateful to have a job that helps me provide for goods and services to others that I may provide for my family, especially in this time when many are suffering from unemployment or underemployment.

I am thankful that the greater percentages of Americans are employed.

I am Thankful for or that I can:

• Think grand visions with the hope of achieving them.  How many billion people cannot?
• Do as I wish according to my thoughts.  How many billion people cannot?
• Speak my mind and desires plainly and publicly.  How many billion people cannot?
• Worship, serve and thank The Almighty God and seek truth as I feel.  How many billion people cannot?
• Seek happiness in whatever way seems best to me.  How many billion people cannot?
• Choose my friends, associations, employment, recreation, pastimes, and education as I would like.  How many billion people cannot?
• Choose and influence my governmental leaders to represent my interests and concerns.  How many billion people cannot?
• Travel without restriction.  How many billion people cannot?
• Learn what I would like in the most amazing ways I had never imagined.  How many billion people cannot?
• Create and share my creations worldwide.  How many billion people cannot?
• Laugh, love and play in an infinite number of ways.  How many billion people cannot?
• Freedom for my wife that she is allowed to be and do what she wants to.  How many billion women cannot?
• Food to eat.
• A place to live.
• Many charitable people and organizations to help the less fortunate.
• This goes on and on …..

The United States of America is the greatest land of freedom in the world.  Not all of our people have been educated to, believed in, and acted according to the Divine Founding Principles that many take for granted.  How many billion people are yearning for what many Americans don’t realize?

I am thankful for the founding fathers and mothers.  I thank George Washington for instituting the day as Holy in his Thanksgiving Declaration in 1789. I thank Abraham Lincoln for making this day an official Holy Day for the United States in 1863 at the height of the Civil War.

What makes my life truly worthwhile is my family.  I have an amazing wife, wonderful children, good parents and brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews.  I am thankful for all things.

If you have not read CHARTER 08, please do so.  Click on this link.

In 2008, Liu Xiaobo and about 350 Chinese citizens signed Charter 08.  It seeks reforms in China to foster freedom and cease deadly repression.  For his efforts he was arrested along with other signers.  He is serving an 11 year term.  He was awarded and deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.  His wife has been under house arrest since his arrest.  His family has been questioned and is closely monitored.  The Communist Party is seeking to kill all knowledge of Charter 08.

Where do you think he and the brave 350 who signed this document got the ideas.  He was willing to sacrifice his life in the hopes that freedom breaks out.  What are we doing as a country about this travesty of justice and freedom, shopping at Walmart?

What would you do if you knew you may be arrested or killed if you signed a document like this.  Here are the main principles of Charter 08.  Does it look familiar to you?

Charter 08

Thus, in the spirit of responsible and constructive citizens, we put forth the following specific positions regarding various aspects of state administration, citizens’ rights and interests, and social development:

1. Constitutional Amendment: Based on the aforementioned values and concepts, amend the Constitution, deleting clauses in the current Constitution that are not in conformity with the principle that sovereignty resides in the people, so that the Constitution can truly become a document that guarantees human rights and allows for the exercise of public power, and become the enforceable supreme law that no individual, group, or party can violate, establishing the foundation of the legal authority for democratizing China.

2. Separation of Powers and Checks and Balances: Construct a modern government that separates powers and maintains checks and balances among them, that guarantees the separation of legislative, judicial, and executive powers. Establish the principle of statutory administration and responsible government to prevent excessive expansion of executive power; government should be responsible to taxpayers; establish the system of separation of powers and checks and balances between the central and local governments; the central power must be clearly defined and mandated by the Constitution, and
the localities must exercise full autonomy.

3. Legislative Democracy: Legislative bodies at all levels should be created through direct elections; maintain the principle of fairness and justice in making law; and implement legislative democracy.

4. Judicial Independence: The judiciary should transcend partisanship, be free from any interference, exercise judicial independence, and guarantee judicial fairness; it should establish a constitutional court and a system to investigate violations of the Constitution, and uphold the authority of the Constitution. Abolish as soon as possible the Party’s Committees of Political and Legislative Affairs at all levels that seriously endanger the country’s rule of law. Prevent private use of public instruments.

5. Public Use of Public Instruments: Bring the armed forces under state control. Military personnel should render loyalty to the Constitution and to the country. Political party organizations should withdraw from the armed forces; raise the professional standards of the armed forces. All public employees including the police should maintain political neutrality. Abolish discrimination in hiring of public employees based on party affiliation; there should be equality in hiring regardless of party affiliation.

6. Human Rights Guarantees: Guarantee human rights in earnest; protect human dignity. Set up a Commission on Human Rights, responsible to the highest organ of popular will, to prevent government abuse of public authority and violations of human rights, and, especially, to guarantee the personal freedom of citizens. No one shall suffer illegal arrest, detention, subpoena, interrogation, or punishment. Abolish the Reeducation-Through-Labor system.

7. Election of Public Officials: Fully implement the system of democratic elections to realize equal voting rights based on “one person, one vote.” Systematically and gradually implement direct elections of administrative heads at all levels. Regular elections based on free competition and citizen participation in elections for legal public office are inalienable basic human rights.

8. Urban-Rural Equality: Abolish the current urban-rural two-tier household registration system to realize the constitutional right of equality before the law for all citizens and guarantee the citizens’ right to move freely.

9. Freedom of Association: Guarantee citizens’ right to freedom of association. Change the current system of registration upon approval for community groups to a system of record-keeping. Lift the ban on political parties. Regulate party activities according to the Constitution and law; abolish the privilege of one-party monopoly on power; establish the principles of freedom of activities of political parties and fair competition for political parties; normalize and legally regulate party politics.

10. Freedom of Assembly: Freedoms to peacefully assemble, march, demonstrate, and express [opinions] are citizens’ fundamental freedoms stipulated by the Constitution; they should not be subject to illegal interference and unconstitutional restrictions by the ruling party and the government.

11. Freedom of Expression: Realize the freedom of speech, freedom to publish, and academic freedom; guarantee the citizens’ right to know and right to supervise [public institutions]. Enact a “News Law” and a “Publishing Law,” lift the ban on reporting, repeal the “crime of inciting subversion of state power” clause in the current Criminal Law, and put an end to punishing speech as a crime.

12. Freedom of Religion: Guarantee freedom of religion and freedom of belief, and implement separation of religion and state so that activities involving religion and faith are not subjected to government interference. Examine and repeal administrative statutes, administrative rules, and local statutes that restrict or deprive citizens of religious freedom; ban management of religious activities by administrative legislation. Abolish the system that requires that religious groups (and including places of worship) obtain prior approval of their legal status in order to register, and replace it with a system of record-keeping that requires no scrutiny.

13. Civic Education: Abolish political education and political examinations that are heavy on ideology and serve the one-party rule. Popularize civic education based on universal values and civil rights, establish civic consciousness, and advocate civic virtues that serve society.

14. Property Protection: Establish and protect private property rights, and implement a system based on a free and open market economy; guarantee entrepreneurial freedom, and eliminate administrative monopolies; set up a Committee for the Management of State-Owned Property, responsible to the highest organ of popular will; launch reform of property rights in a legal and orderly fashion, and clarify the ownership of property rights and those responsible; launch a new land movement, advance land privatization, and guarantee in earnest the land property rights of citizens, particularly the farmers.

15. Fiscal Reform: Democratize public finances and guarantee taxpayers’ rights. Set up the structure and operational mechanism of a public finance system with clearly defined authority and responsibilities, and establish a rational and effective system of decentralized financial authority among various levels of government; carry out a major reform of the tax system, so as to reduce tax rates, simplify the tax system, and equalize the tax burden. Administrative departments may not increase taxes or create new taxes at will without sanction by society obtained through a public elective process and resolution by organs of popular will. Pass property rights reform to diversify and introduce competition mechanisms into the market; lower the threshold for entry into the financial field and create conditions for the development of privately-owned financial enterprises, and fully energize the financial system.

16. Social Security: Establish a social security system that covers all citizens and provides them with basic security in education, medical care, care for the elderly, and employment.

17. Environmental Protection: Protect the ecological environment, promote sustainable development, and take responsibility for future generations and all humanity; clarify and impose the appropriate responsibilities that state and government officials at all levels must take to this end; promote participation and oversight by civil society groups in environmental protection.

18. Federal Republic: Take part in maintaining regional peace and development with an attitude of equality and fairness, and create an image of a responsible great power. Protect the free systems of Hong Kong and Macau .On the premise of freedom and democracy, seek a reconciliation plan for the mainland and Taiwan through equal negotiations and cooperative interaction. Wisely explore possible paths and institutional blueprints for the common prosperity of all ethnic groups, and establish the Federal Republic of China under the framework of a democractic and constitutional government.

19. Transitional Justice: Restore the reputation of and give state compensation to individuals, as well as their families, who suffered political persecution during past political movements; release all political prisoners and prisoners of conscience; release all people convicted for their beliefs; establish a Commission for Truth Investigation to find the truth of historical events, determine responsibility, and uphold justice; seek social reconciliation on this foundation.

IV. Conclusion

China, as a great nation of the world, one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, and a member of the Human Rights Council, ought to make its own contribution to peace for humankind and progress in human rights. Regrettably, however, of all the great nations of the world today, China alone still clings to an authoritarian way of life and has, as a result, created an unbroken nchain of human rights disasters and social crises, held back the development of the Chinese people, and hindered the progress of human civilization. This situation must change! We cannot put off political democratization reforms any longer. Therefore, in the civic spirit of daring to take action, we are issuing Charter 08. We hope that all Chinese citizens who share this sense of crisis, responsibility, and mission, whether officials or common people and regardless of social background, will put aside our differences to seek common ground and come to take an active part in this citizens’ movement, to promote the great transformation of Chinese society together, so that we can soon establish a free, democratic, and constitutional nation, fulfilling the aspirations and dreams that our countrymen have been pursuing tirelessly for more than a hundred years.

Below is more of the document.

Charter 08

This video is made so simple that you’ll want to laugh then cry.

Why would Ben Bernake and Tim Geitner BOTH lie and say they would never do this?

When I lived in Anchorage Alaska almost 20 years ago, I took my two little kids to Campbell Creek park, a quaint little playground with a creek running through it.  It was beautiful and my kids had fun.  We stood on the little wooden bridge and gazed into the flowing water.  I was surprised to see King salmon that had swam all the way up and spawned in Campbell Creek.  I had never seen a wild salmon until then.

My friend Rick caught a big king salmon and shared it with my family. A lot has changed since then.

Here’s the current problem that didn’t exist back then.

• Farmed salmon is actually bad for us, REALLY BAD in many ways!
• The farmed salmon is fed poorly and pumped full of antibiotics and all sorts of cheap garbage food.
• Sea lice attach the weaker fish and are the lice attack to wild run salmon that swim by.
• Genetic modifications done to the farm stock escape and are mixing and altering the wild run salmon.
• The fish farmers feed the diseased and altered farmed fish fed fish dye that stains the meat pink to fool you.
• Most wholesale and retail outlets do not label the salmon as farmed or wild caught.
• Most legislators don’t know or care about the issue.

It used to be that eating salmon was a no brainer.  Now, it depends on the salmon.  You can’t just go to a restaurant or grocery store and know if you’re getting healthy salmon these days.  There is a lawsuit going right now that is suing large chains for fictitiously selling farmed salmon as healthy salmon.

Come to find out, salmon is naturally pink because of what they eat.  There are certain krill and other ocean critters that contain very beneficial compounds and those compounds turn the salmon’s flesh pink.

Farmed salmon is not pink.   It’s gray.  The artificial fish growers feed them a dye to stain the fish pink.  I had no idea the deception was that great.  The results of several studies show that eating farmed salmon are high in toxins and pesticides of all kinds, high in Omega-6 and low in Omega-3 fatty acids (unhealthy balance) and can be harmful instead of beneficial.

I have been fooled.  When I went to my favorite restaurant recently and ordered salmon, I thought I was doing the healthy thing.

Now, I speak to the manager, write down their name and ask if it is wild or farmed salmon.  If they are not 100% sure, I don’t order the salmon. It’s all about accountability.

Most wild ocean run canned salmon is better for you than fresh pesticized, antibioticized, genetically modified farmed salmon.  There is a problems here also.

Liars in the marketplace?  http://www.chathamjournal.com/weekly/living/food/cr-salmon-wild-60705.shtml

Greenpeace Salmon Retailers Report,http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/Global/usa/report/2010/5/carting-away-the-oceans.pdf

More reading problems http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_farming#Issues