Indian Wanting Coffee:

An Indian walks into a cafe with a shotgun
In one hand pulling a male buffalo with the other.
He says to the waiter:

“Want coffee.”

The waiter says, “Sure, Chief. Coming right up.”

He gets the Indian a tall mug of coffee…..
The Indian drinks the coffee down in one gulp,
Turns and blasts the buffalo with the shotgun,
Causing parts of the animal to splatter everywhere and then just walks out.

The next morning the Indian returns.
He has his shotgun in one hand, pulling
Another male buffalo with the other.
He walks up to the counter and says to
The waiter:

“Want coffee.”

The waiter says, “Whoa, Tonto!
We’re still cleaning up your mess from yesterday.
What was all that about, anyway?”

The Indian smiles and proudly says,

“Training for position in United States Congress:
Come in, drink coffee, shoot the bull,
Leave mess for others to clean up,
Disappear for rest of day.”

VOTE ‘EM ALL OUT!

If the next election were held today, would the general population go Republican or Democrat?
Would the evangelicals go Republican or Democrat?
Here are the results of a survey from the Barna Research Group: http://bit.ly/ckZb01

The founding of America was heavily influenced by the Protestant Reformation years earlier. The early settlements in America failed, for two major reasons:

• They lost their spiritual moorings. Columbus started with a mission to bring Christ to heathen lands, but soon got more interested in getting gold. Same thing with many of the next settlements. (1)
• The settlements could not build any level of community in a hostile land.

These early Americans were not necessarily Christians, but they did share the values of the Protestant Reformation and were willing to die for the values they had lost in England. These are commonly expressed in our Bill of Rights. They, like the Puritans, used the Bible as a reference point for their government.

The Puritans, however, came over and landed in 1630. They were different. Although they weren’t the first group to come over escaping religious persecution, they were the first to be able to make their settlement work. Their mission was an attempt to escape the persecution in England and Holland and to plant a New Israel in America. They were the cutting edge of the Protestant Reformation. They wanted to see a community committed to God. Their law book was the Bible. Unlike the stories of strict justice frequently told us about them, they really demonstrated a lot of compassion in their communities and they were ready to forgive if the sinner repented. They had a strange settling strategy: In a given area, the Puritans would first covenant together and build a church, and then the town would form around the church.

There is a common teaching today that the American Revolution was birthed from objections to taxation without representation and primarily a political issue. This statement is not wrong, but it is incomplete. With the large evangelical base emerging from the first awakening, people where tired of a king with a dying religious institution in England telling them what to believe and how to worship. Many men and women who converted during the awakening had defied various religious authorities to uphold their new convictions.

By the 1760s, Americans were getting more than angry with their relationship with England, with the Revolutionary War beginning in 1775. In 1776, it was Thomas Paine who used a press to print a series of articles called Common Sense that rallied the colonists of America to throw off their yoke of slavery and be free:

These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
From The Crisis, by Thomas Paine

Just as Luther did more than two centuries earlier, Paine’s publishing created a “swarm” that rallied the demoralized American colonists and led to a free nation.

Paine was not a Christian—in fact, he was against religion and Christianity. Yet he used an almost spiritual language in his writing that the evangelicals could relate to as being able to mobilize the colonies to a political awakening that many evangelicals saw as a holy war against a sinful and corrupt Britain. Unfortunately, this man who moved the nation lost his followers and friends due to his strong anti-religious views and eventually died in New York, lonely and abandoned.

These early Americans were not necessarily Christians, but they did share the values of the Protestant Reformation and were willing to die for the values they had lost in England. These are commonly expressed in our Bill of Rights. They, like the Puritans, used the Bible as a reference point for their government.

The warning that God gave the Israelites applies to America today:

Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I command you today, lest—when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them; and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold are multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied; when your heart is lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;…
Deuteronomy 8:11-14

The Lord also told them the consequences.

Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse: the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you today; and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.
Deuteronomy 11:26-29

This judgment has already started in America today.

We need to elect leaders this who can take the lead in repairing our economic system. The ones there now certainly aren’t doing it and seem to be owned by Wall Street. President Obama seems to think the group that he appointed to explore directions on resolving the national debt will give him answers in December. They won’t. Congress and the President keep digging the hole they are digging even deeper.

Signs of Economic Disaster Within a Few Blocks of My House - 8/16/2020

In April, over a year ago, this blog predicted that this recession would be long, long. The reason is simple. Washington is trying to mend a system that was broken in the first place. You don’t mend it, you end it. Pretty long recession, isn’t it?

Let’s go back and look at the American Constitution. The government is supposed to follow that. Right?

“No State shall enter any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant letters of Marque and Reprisal, coin Money, emit Bills of Credit, make anything but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.”
Article 1, Section 10

ONLY gold and silver coins? How long has it been since you’ve seen one of those? FDR removed the Gold Standard, requiring citizens to sell their gold to the government in return for valueless coins – the first step toward virtual money. If you had $5 in 1913, you could get about ¼ oz. of gold for that in 1913, with gold selling at $23/oz. Today that same 1/4 oz. is worth about $300. That is called inflation, and inflation is a hidden tax. That $600 Model T Touring car in 1913? That’s 29 oz. of gold at that time. Today, that same gold is worth $34,286 in today’s dollars. In other words, you are saving with money and being paid for your work with money that continues to be worth less. Yet prices keep going up. That’s inflation – a hidden tax.

“Raising the denomination of the coin [is] a measure which has be disapproved by the wisest men in the nations in which it has been practiced, and condemned by the rest of the world. To declare that a less weight of gold or silver shall pass for the same sum, which before represent a greater weight shall pass for a greater sum, are things substantially of one nature. The consequence of either of them is to degrade the money unit; obliging the creditors to receive less than their just dues, and depreciating property of every kind. …The quantity of gold or silver in the natural coins, corresponding with a given sum, cannot be made less than heretofore without disturbing the balance of intrinsic value, and making every acre of land, as well as every bushel of wheat, of less actual worth than in time past.”
Alexander Hamilton, Report on the Subject of a Mint, 28 January, 1791

Was Hamilton wrong? I don’t think so. He was a smart cookie.

“You shall do no injustice in judgment, in measurement of length, weight, or volume. You shall have honest scales, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin: I am the LORD your God… “
Lev 19:35-36a NKJV

The virtual money concept has been expanded today. A paper dollar isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.

DOLLARS or UNITS – each to be the value of a Spanish milled dollar as the same is now current, and to contain three hundred and seventy one grains and four sixteenth parts [371 ¼] of a grain of pure, or four hundred and sixteen grains of standard silver.”
Excerpts from the Coinage Act of 1792, Chapter XVI

A troy oz. is 480 g, so a dollar is about .7734 oz. of silver or worth $13.14 today at $18/oz. of silver.

If I have a paper dollar, I should be able to go into the bank and get the gold that is behind that dollar. Unfortunately, that doesn’t exist. I can’t do that. The derivatives on Wall Street are another form of this virtual money. The bank reform was not reform. The Senators that led that should be home and in jail.

It can be fixed. Constantine I had to initiate monetary reforms after he experienced runaway inflation and the use of fiat (virtual) money to pay public expenses. He returned his empire to a gold standard. Initially the rich benefited the most from the stability of his gold piece while the poor had to cope with the worthless fiat money. Later emperors imaged themselves as advocates for the poor and insisted on a just minting of a copper currency,

At the present time the current economic system holds us as slaves. How much of the year, for example, are you actually working for the federal or state government? Check it out. Remember to add in these expenses that you worked for:

School Tax (to schools that teach humanism)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Tax
Excise Taxes
Property Tax
Cigarette Tax
Medicare Tax
Inventory Tax
Real Estate Tax
Well Permit Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Inheritance Tax
Road Usage Tax
CDL license Tax
Dog and Cat License Tax
State Income Tax
Food License Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Gross Receipts Tax
Social Security Tax
Service Charge Tax
Fishing License Tax
Federal Income Tax
Building Permit Tax
IRS Interest Charges
Hunting License Tax
Marriage License Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Personal Property Tax
Accounts Receivable Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax
Workers Compensation Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
Gasoline Tax (currently 44.75 cents per gallon)
Utility Taxes
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Taxes
Telephone Recurring and Nonrecurring Charges Tax

This is only the short form of the list. Some of these are justifiable (such as the gas tax, cigarette tax), but others are not. Many taxes are not managed well. If from Oregon I drive to California, I pay 10% for my gas there and (unlike Oregon) I have to pump it myself. So why are the California roads a disaster to drive on? Where does the money for the gas tax in California go? Into somebody’s pocket.

Time to vote these people holding us prisoners home. In some cases they should be sent to jail. Give us a stable economic system based on just weights.

Note: Some people (yes, many politicians and judges) actively embrace what is referred to as a Living Constitution. That means they want to twist the Constitution around to support what they believe. There is nothing “living” about that concept.The only “living” one is the one the founders wrote. Also, some of the founders didn’t necessarily live an exemplary life. Don’t look at their character, look only at what they wrote.

Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Ronald Reagan

What is your opinion?

(This paper is not copyrighted copy and you can circulate (with the picture)at your own risk. )

Ready to move ahead?

My personal paradigm is the Christian worldview. How does that relate to all this? Or is there only one Christian worldview? Even the early founders had different perspectives on that.

George Washington was believed to be a Christian. Many of the others were Deists. They believed in God, but not necessarily a personal God that loved them and acted in our world. Some had poor ethical and moral frameworks. Thomas Paine wrote the famous paper that mobilized the people when things were at their darkest; yet Paine himself was anti-Christian. Yet they all had a common concern to birth a nation where each person had the right to be really free.

The early founders were angry at England for imposing a heavy tax burden on the colonists. In addition, from a spiritual perspective, they were heavily influenced by the Protestant Reformation and didn’t want any Church of England telling them how to worship. As taxes climbed higher (shades of 2010) they rebelled to extent of putting their lives on the line to get their freedom.
What form of government? If you look at the Bible, you won’t see any scriptures that give any commands on this. The Israelites started with a Theocracy, but wanted a King like their neighbors. This eventually gave way to the Israelites choosing a government form of Federalism. This type can be defined as a system of national government in which power is divided between a central authority and a number of regions with limited self-governing authority. This is about the most effective type of government humans can choose.

The Israelites were a federation of twelve tribes, each with its own identity. Moses appointed elders to serve the people, and Moses with the elders were the Executive and Judicial branch of their government. There was no Legislative branch. The elders and Moses were not paid for their services. When a King was elected, it had to be the approval of all the tribes.

After Solomon died, Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, came to Shechem to be anointed King. The people voted with their feet.

“And from all their territories the priests and the Levites who were in all Israel took their stand with him. For the Levites left their common-lands and their possessions and came to Judah and Jerusalem, for Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them from serving as priests to the LORD. Then he appointed for himself priests for the high places, for the demons, and the calf idols which he had made. And after the Levites left, those from all the tribes of Israel, such as set their heart to seek the LORD God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the LORD God of their fathers. So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong for three years, because they walked in the way of David and Solomon for three years. “

2 Chron 11:13-17 NKJV

Jeroboam had fled to Egypt.

For three years the Israelites and their King honored the Lord and all went fine. Now Jeroboam returns and, with the elders, approaches Rehoboam and speaks for the people to Rehoboam to reduce the heavy tax burden that Solomon had imposed on them.

“And they spoke to him, saying, “If you will be a servant to these people today, and serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.”
|1 Kings 12:7 NKJV

The King is supposed to serve the people, not the other way around. Rehoboam consults his own “yes men” who advise him to increase taxes and he will be more famous than his father.

”…and he spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scourges!” So the king did not listen to the people; for the turn of events was from God, that the LORD might fulfill His word, which He had spoken by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.”
2 Chron 10:14-15 NKJV

The people voted with their feet.

“ Now when all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, saying:
‘What share have we in David?
We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse.
Every man to your tents, O Israel!
Now see to your own house, O David!’
So all Israel departed to their tents.”
2 Chron 10:16 NKJV

The Kingdom is split, and Jeroboam goes off as King with the ten Northern tribes. The people voted with their feet.

Like Rehoboam, in America the political leaders have lost their following today. Our leaders have become geldings only following money and the noise of the crowd.

Why go political in this blog? With the November election only three months away, we are seeing a lot of danger flags to the freedoms we prize so much and that our forefathers have fought for and often died to give us. I don’t want to drown people with political messages, yet there is a real sense of urgency to wake up to protect these freedoms. Some people think many of these are are lost already and it’s too late.

From an overview of George Barna’s The Seven Faith Tribes (emphasis added):

Our country’s history shows that to have a strong nation, everyone need not have a similar worldview: for more than 200 years we have been a place where disparate religious and moral perspectives have flourished side by side. But to facilitate a healthy nation there must be sufficiently widespread agreement on a set of core values that enable us to live in harmony with each other, despite some deeply-held opposing convictions and dreams. Our agreement on those shared values then empower us, as a group of independent, but cooperating individuals, to embody those common values in ways that produce a viable communal experience.

What happens when you don’t stand up for your shared values? Look at this comment from a comment in Amber Weiberg’s blog post on Morality in Web Development -Your Thoughts? It’s from “Rohan”, a man in Iran and dated July 28, 2010.

I live in Iran. As all of you know, we had an election last year. At least 75 percent of us voted for a candidate who wanted to show the world how peaceful this country’s people are, who wanted to turn our country into a friend of everybody. We did vote for him, and he never got elected. So we started protesting, We wanted to tell the world that we’re not who they think we are! We are not atomic bomb, we are not terrorism, we are not hijab, we are just people. We wanted to tell them that all that’s going wrong in this country is because of our government. A government that we never voted for. And all we got back was bullets, rapes, murders, prisons, …

We knew what was happening to us, and we were decisive to put an end to it. But the one thing that stopped us from doing it, was our media. The people in the media, they knew what was happening. They knew about all the rapes and murders, but they didn’t really care. They don’t care whose side they are choosing, all they care about is their money. You give em money, and they’ll even promote Osama in their programs!!

They had the power to put and end to all of this. With a move of their tongue, all the torture of their own people, all the terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan and Lebanon, and all the world’s fear about the country’s nuclear weapons would come to an end. But all they did was taking the side of the terrorist, taking the side of the one who ordered(orders) all these killings.

The fate of more than a hundred million people was in their hands and all they thought about was who pays em more.

That’s what happens when you don’t care which cause you are helping.

I’m a web designer. And I had lots of offers for jobs from the government organizations. Lots of money was offered, I never took em, never will. Cause I have seen with my eyes how much blood is spilled just because a few hundred people don’t care what cause they are working for.

Does this sound like America? The primary difference is that we still have some level of freedom in speaking what we believe. We should speak up, or we will lose that.

Following the suggestions here will be VERY time-consuming. But also VERY important for knowing how to vote in November. And you only have three months! Your freedom is at stake!

We will be sending a series of political postings. In each case we’ll try to show objective data on what’s wrong and try to give some real answers. Feel free to comment. The political postings – like most of the stuff here – is not copyrighted. Copy them to your own web site.

The word “worldview” is important here. I’ll be posting many things here that relate to worldview. People operate and make decisions against their worldview. What is your worldview?

Now move on to Preparing for the November Political Election #2

Here’s a great article in the New York Times about how how oil industry owns Washington:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/business/04bptax.html?_r=1

If you want a quick abstract, you can get it here:
http://holykaw.alltop.com/oil-companies-among-the-most-subsidized-recei

Time to send a lot of Congress home this fall?

“Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.” Benjamin Franklin

“Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people” Abraham Lincoln

“Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.”

“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.” John F. Kennedy

“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.” Albert Einstein

“Free at last; free at last; thank God Almighty we are free at last.” Martin Luther King

“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” Martin Luther King

“The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.” Woodrow Wilson

“He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.” Thomas Paine

“My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!” Thomas Jefferson

The BEST thing you can do for the Fourth of July if you live in America is to
1. Register to vote July 5th if you have not registered.
2. Study the candidates for November’s election. Vote for the ones that support YOU – not Wall Street, BP, the health industries, or their personal agenda.

The introduction of a new Senate bill, S.3480, dubbed the “Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010,” is sparking concerns about a massive power grab over the Internet under the guise of “national security.”

The bill, proposed by Sen. Joe Lieberman (I – CT) claims the entire Internet, the whole global computer network and everything on it, as a “national asset” of the United States, and seeks to give President Obama the power to seize control over broad swaths of it with no oversight during a “National Cyber Emergency,” which would itself be something the president would be able to declare at any time.

But easily the most controversial aspect of the nearly 200 page bill is what is being called a “kill switch,” granting the president the power to shut down the entire Internet across the planet for national security reasons. Sen. Collins (R – ME), a supporter of the bill, claimed it was necessary to prevent a “cyber 9/11.”

For more, see: http://news.antiwar.com/2010/06/18/senate-bill-would-give-obama-power-to-shut-down-internet/

NARAL and Planned Parenthood in Maryland and managed to get to laws in place in an attempt to shut down the Crisis Pregnancy Centers there.

http://www.breakpoint.org/bpcommentaries/entry/13/14704

Where is the freedom in this country once promised by the Constitution? I think the CPC should put up an extra sign as well, telling people what they do offer that the Planned Parenthood does not offer.