Not Bad

music for a Campaign for Liberty type. (See below) I read a story today about a Ron Paul singles website and one couple that actually got married a few hours after first meeting at the Las Vegas CFL event. Anyway, the guy that got married sounded familiar in that story, so I googled him. His website had this song...

The Good Life: Live Free from Chris Kopack on Vimeo.

Watch Out for the Econ Prof with a Gun

This has become routine for the government. Thankfully, this man defended our freedoms.

Unbiased Journalism from Newsweek Reporter

SHOCK! Fed Inspector General Does Not Inspect Fed

This is just embarrassing. Listen carefully to the numbers being tossed around.

Silver!

Wow, apparently silver had the biggest up month in 23 years... not a bad investment! Still seems undervalued... as long as the dollar is getting slammed. How long until the dollar collapse??

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/jenkins2.html

Autotune the News!

The End is Near!

...for California. Here's an addition by Gary North to our continuing series on California. From the link:

"The economy is in recession. The tax base is falling. Revenues are falling. State expenditures are rising because of unemployment insurance expenses. When the voters get through with five of the six propositions, California's yes-vote legislators will find that their yes votes not only did them no good, they exposed the state's government to a crisis. They will have to pay for "vital services" with revenues generated in a recession.

The state's deficit will move up like a rocket. There will be no way to raise added money through taxes. The state will have to borrow. It will find that it must pay much higher interest to secure the loans.

All eyes will turn to Washington and Mrs. Pelosi. Like Mecca to Muslims is Washington to state politicians. Politicians do not bow in prayer facing Washington five times a day, but they surely make phone calls to Congressmen and Senators."

Read the article to find out what's going to happen on the 20th and the following weeks after that.

Obama Budget Visualized

Obama Watched the Verizon Video

So he knew people would think that his budget was a great deal! (Here's the Government School Fail link)

Okay Obama, I can find $17 dollars in spending cuts when you give me my $3,550 a year raise. It will be very difficult to find a way to cut out those 17 bucks this year. After switching to gourmet food, I'll suffer having to cut out a couple days of fast food. It will be difficult though. And who knows, I might only find about $10 to cut after all... that's okay isn't it?

Taking over the public school system has really paid off for the federal government. They now know and control exactly how ignorant the American public really is! Still, this move by Obama is really brash. I'm a little shocked by the abuse of rhetoric.

Will he get away with it? I probably shouldn't ask.

-Joel

I Called My Congressman and the California Collapse

Well that was easy. I just contacted my Congressman's office to get him to support HR 1207, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act. I hope you do the same. The bill is continuing to gain support. We're up to 79 co-sponsors. The last time a bill like this was debated was in the 1990's when the Democrats pushed for it. The Republicans balked at the idea. In fact, when Ron Paul had the seniority to lead the Monetary Policy committee, the Republicans actually just got rid of the committee instead of letting him lead it. However, the times have changed and apparently the Republicans have decided to agree with Ron Paul on monetary policy. The majority of the co-sponsors on HR 1207 are Republicans. However, this should be a bill that everyone can agree on. Who would say that we should keep where we send newly printed money a big secret? All our politicians would probably like to keep it a secret, but they can't hardly tell their constituents that. So I hope you call or write!

Also, to continue the saga on what's going on in the broke state of California, you should be interested in reading this article. Remember, since California is out ahead of the rest of us, this is the type of things you might watch out for in a couple of years.

-Joel

Pirates and Emperors

Indeed, that was an apt and true reply which was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride, What you mean by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, while you who does it with a great fleet are styled emperor.

Visiting History

(No, my husband is not the sole proprietor of this blog.)

I recently inherited a very interesting little book from a lady in our congregation. Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt-book, was published in 1852 and dedicated to the Ordinary American Housewife. It has been such an interesting/highly amusing/occasionally helpful book I’d like to share some of my favorite excerpts with you. There are so many that I can only begin tonight. So stay tuned, there is plenty more to come.

Miss Beecher explains in the Preface her reasons for compiling this book…

“…Third, to express every receipt in language which is short, simple, and perspicuous, and yet to give all directions so minutely as that the book can be kept in the kitchen, and be used by any domestic who can read, as a guide in every one of her employments in the kitchen….

…Sixth. in the work on Domestic Economy, together with this to which it is a Supplement, the writer has attempted to secure in a cheap and popular form, for American housekeepers, a work similar to an English work which she has examined, entitled the Encyclopedia of Domestic Economy, by Thomas Webster and Mrs. Parkes, containing over twelve hundred-octavo pages of closely-printed matter treating on every department of Domestic Economy; a work which will be found much more useful to English women, who have plenty of money and well-trained servants, than to American housekeepers. It is believed that most, in that work which would be found of any practical use to American housekeepers, will be found in this work and the Domestic Economy.

Lastly, the writer has aimed to avoid the defects complained of by most housekeepers in regard to works of this description, issued in this country, or sent from England, such as that, in some cases, the receipts are so rich as to be both expensive and unhealthful; in others, that they are so vaguely expressed as to be very imperfect guides; in others, that the processes are so elaborate and fussing as to make double the work that is needful; and in others, that the topics are so limited that some departments are entirely omitted, and all are incomplete.

In accomplishing these objects the writer has received contributions of the pen, and verbal communications, from some of the most judicious and practical housekeepers, in almost every section of this country.”

Being written before the War of Northern Aggression (or the Civil War as some like to call it) the challenges housekeepers had to face were quite different than those we face today. …Granted this book assumes the Lady of the House has a domestic help; being at the least a Cook and a Chambermaid, and likely Waiters as well. They too would have presented problems themselves so you will find chapters entailing the day by day duties of Domestics; Suggestions on how to treat them, and a chapter entitled Friendly Counsels for Domestics.

Krugman on 9/11

These aftershocks need not be major. Ghastly as it may seem to say this, the terror attack -- like the original day of infamy, which brought an end to the Great Depression -- could even do some economic good. -Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman

So, you have to wonder if Krugman would think that a nuke on New York City would lift our entire economy...

Please Help!

Even if you don't care about or understand what the Federal Reserve does, please take the time to follow this link and fill out the petition: http://www.campaignforliberty.com/campaigns/auditthefed.php

The bill is actually picking up support and has 42 co-sponsors and also there is similar bill in the Senate. It's a no-brainer that the Fed should have to report on what it is doing to Congress. The Congress needs to regulate government agencies as much as possible. If people could see clearly what the Fed is doing, they would have to act in a more responsible manner. Thanks for your time!

-Joel

Where Do You See Jesus?

Caution: This video may or may not contain images of God incarnate.



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