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All European Life Died in Auschwitz

By Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez

I walked down the street in Barcelona , and suddenly discovered a terrible truth - Europe died in Auschwitz ... We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims. In Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity, talent. We destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people who changed the world.

The contribution of this people is felt in all areas of life: science, art, international trade, and above all, as the conscience of the world. These are the people we burned.

And under the pretense of tolerance, and because we wanted to prove to ourselves that we were cured of the disease of racism, we opened our gates to 20 million Muslims, who brought us stupidity and ignorance, religious extremism and lack of tolerance, crime and poverty, due to an unwillingness to work and support their families with pride.

They have blown up our trains and turned our beautiful Spanish cities into the third world, drowning in filth and crime. Shut up in the apartments they receive free from the government, they plan the murder and destruction of their naive hosts. And thus, in our misery, we have exchanged culture for fanatical hatred, creative skill for destructive skill, intelligence for backwardness and superstition.

We have exchanged the pursuit of peace of the Jews of Europe and their talent for a better future for their children, their determined clinging to life because life is holy, for those who pursue death, for people consumed by the desire for death for themselves and others, for our children and theirs.

What a terrible mistake was made by miserable Europe. 

The Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000; that is ONE BILLION TWO HUNDRED MILLION or 20% of the world's population. They have received the following Nobel Prizes:

Literature:
1988 - Najib Mahfooz

Peace:
1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat
1990 - Elias James Corey
1994 - Yaser Arafat:
1999 - Ahmed Zewai

Economics:
(zero)

Physics:
(zero)

Medicine:
1960 - Peter Brian Medawar
1998 - Ferid Mourad

TOTAL: 7 SEVEN

The Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000; that is FOURTEEN MILLION or about 0.02% of the world ' s population. They have received the following Nobel Prizes:

Literature:
1910 - Paul Heyse
1927 - Henri Bergson
1958 - Boris Pasternak
1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1966 - Nelly Sachs
1976 - Saul Bellow
1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer
1981 - Elias Canetti
1987 - Jo seph Brodsky
1991 - Nadine Gordimer World

Peace:
1911 - Alfred Fried
1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser
1968 - Rene Cassin
1973 - Henry Kissinger
1978 - Menachem Begin
1986 - Elie Wiesel
1994 - Shimon Peres
1994 - Yitzhak Rabin

Physics:
1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer
1906 - Henri Moissan
1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson
1908 - Gabriel Lippmann
1910 - Otto Wallach
1915 - Richard Willstaetter
1918 - Fritz Haber
1921 - Albert Einstein
1922 - Niels Bohr
1925 - James Franck
1925 - Gustav Hertz
1943 - Gustav Stern
1943 - George Charles de Hevesy
1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi
1952 - Felix Bloch
1954 - Max Born
1958 - Igor Tamm
1959 - Emilio Segre
1960 - Donald A. Glaser
1961 - Robert Hofstadter
1961 - Melvin Calvin
1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau
1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz
1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman
1965 - Julian Schwinger
1969 - Murray Gell-Mann
1971 - Dennis Gabor
1972 - William Howard Stein
1973 - Brian David Jo sephson
1975 - Benjamin Mottleson
1976 - Burton Richter
1977 - Ilya Prigogine
1978 - Arno Allan Penzias
1978 - Peter L Kapitza
1979 - Stephen Weinberg
1979 - Sheldon Glashow
1979 - Herbert Charles Brown
1980 - Paul Berg
1980 - Walter Gilbert
1981 - Roald Hoffmann
1982 - Aaron Klug
1985 - Albert A. Hauptman
1985 - Jerome Karle
1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach
1988 - Robert Huber
1988 - Leon Lederman
1988 - Melvin Schwartz
1988 - Jack Steinberger
1989 - Sidney Altman
1990 - Jerome Friedman
1992 - Rudolph Marcus
1995 - Martin Perl
2000 - Alan J. Heeger

Economics:
1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson
1971 - Simon Kuznets
1972 - Kenneth Jo seph Arrow
1975 - Leonid Kantorovich
1976 - Milton Friedman
1978 - Herbert A. Simon
1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein
1985 - Franco Modigliani
1987 - Robert M. Solow
1990 - Harry Markowitz
1990 - Merton Miller
1992 - Gary Becker
1993 - Robert Fogel

Medicine:
1908 - Elie Metchnikoff
1908 - Paul Erlich
1914 - Robert Barany
1922 - Otto Meyerhof
1930 - Karl Landsteiner
1931 - Otto Warburg
1936 - Otto Loewi
1944 - Jo seph Erlanger
1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser
1945 - Ernst Boris Chain
1946 - Hermann Jo seph Muller
1950 - Tadeus Reichstein
1952 - Selman Abraham Waksman
1953 - Hans Krebs
1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann
1958 - Jo shua Lederberg
1959 - Arthur Kornberg
1964 - Konrad Bloch
1965 - Francois Jacob
1965 - Andre Lwoff
1967 - George Wald
1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg
1969 - Salvador Luria
1970 - Julius Axelrod
1970 - Sir Bernard Katz
1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman
1975 - Howard Martin Temin
1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg
1977 - Roselyn Sussman Yalow
1978 - Daniel Nathans
1980 - Baruj Benacerraf
1984 - Cesar Milstein
1985 - Michael Stuart Brown
1985 - Jo seph L. Goldstein
1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini]
1988 - Gertrude Elion
1989 - Harold Varmus
1991 - Erwin Neher
1991 - Bert Sakmann
1993 - Richard J. Roberts
1993 - Phillip Sharp
1994 - Alfred Gilman
1995 - Edward B. Lewis
1996- Lu RoseIacovino
TOTAL: 129!

The Jews are NOT promoting brain washing children in military training camps, teaching them how to blow themselves up and cause maximum deaths of Jews and other non Muslims. The Jews don't hijack planes, nor kill athletes at the Olympics, or blow themselves up in German restaurants. There is NOT one single Jew who has destroyed a church. There is NOT a single Jew who protests by killing people.

The Jews don't traffic slaves, nor have leaders calling for Jihad and death to all the Infidels. Perhaps the world's Muslims should consider investing more in standard education and less in blaming the Jews for all their problems. Muslims must ask 'what can they do for humankind' before they demand that humankind respects them.

Regardless of your feelings about the crisis between Israel and the Palestinians and Arab neighbors, even if you believe there is more culpability on Israel's part, the following two sentences really say it all:

"If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel."                                           Benjamin Netanyahu

General Eisenhower Warned Us. It is a matter of history that when the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Dwight Eisenhower, found the victims of the death camps he ordered all possible photographs to be taken, and for the German people from surrounding villages to be ushered through the camps and even made to bury the dead.

He did this because he said, in effect:

'Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses - because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.'

Recently, the UK debated whether to remove The Holocaust from its school curriculum because it ' offends ' the Muslim population which claims it never occurred. It is not removed as yet. However, this is a frightening portent of the fear that is gripping the world and how easily each country is giving into it.

It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended. This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the, 6 million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians, and 1,900 Catholic priests who were ' murdered, raped, burned, starved, beaten, experimented on and humiliated ' while the German people looked the other way.

Now, more than ever, with Iran , among others, claiming the Holocaust to be  'a myth', it is imperative to make sure the world never forgets. How many years will it be before the attack on the World Trade Center  'NEVER HAPPENED' because it offends some Muslim in the United States?

All our hearts' are with you!

 

Prayers for our dear Hikergal:

As she travels for the last time on this earth to see her mother, let her know that this is not the last time she will see her--they will be together always, as G*d intended.

Hikergal has given her mother a wonderful, large successful family--the bedrock of her world will be the bedrock of her heaven.

Though you will miss her corporeal being on earth, she will still be here; just hike the lovely trails you hike and you will find her everywhere.

Talk to her. She is there already! ;-)

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Hello friends. I guess everyone will have to post here if they wish to talk to me; Gerty, EscapedCommieNY and Yottyhere etc. flagged enough of my perfectly decent posts, so I can't post at Lucianne anymore. Please pray for them...and anyone else they got to join in. I suggest anyone on the Connection be very careful in posting to these gals; if they decide to mind what you say, they will conspire to have you removed--and it will happen. I'd love to be able to tell them that they made the last days of my life absolutely terrible--and so many more ugly things... for Sissy, too... I don't have much time left.

Please tell Magdalene, Jen, Nu, Charzi/Mrs. Cow that I wish to include them in my thoughts and prayers, but they'll need to come over here to share in them.

If you have trouble posting here, as I did yesterday, myself!, you may need to enable 3rd party cookies. Write me and I'll find out what you need to do to fix that, if I can.

I have lost most of my ability to walk, so I need other places to post to keep in touch with the outside world--2-3 hrs. a day with an exhausted sister is not enough; I send her to bed as soon as I can... 22 hrs. a day alone feels like I'm already dead. Any suggestion for sites that are nice and easy to use, let me know. We are not doing well, and I have nowhere to go--mentally or physically. I'm sorry for that. I really just can't do this anymore..

Love, Froggy

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Obama’s Premeditated Murder of America

By Judi LcLeod

Why is no one stepping forward to halt the murder of America? As surely as the Bolsheviks murdered the Romanov family at Ekateringburg on July 17, 1918, Barack Obama and his handlers are murdering America. Why is no elected official stepping forward to halt the murder of America; the assassination of 300 million lifestyles, not even counting the untold millions of freedom lovers who depend on the USA worldwide? It is now crystal clear that Obama is pushing America into the certainty of a socialist state.

Pretending it isn’t happening is not doing anything to stop the greatest nation ever paid for in blood and sacrifice from disappearing forever from a predator weary world. It is patently clear that Obama is as much “your agent of change” as Raila Odinga, the despot he actively campaigned for one year before he ran for his own presidential election in 2008. This Nobody in any kind of worthwhile stature is deliberately trying to scrub America’s noble history from the books; is erasing in big swipes off the chalkboard,  American exceptionalism that for centuries made life better for so many in other corners of the world.

Even dreamers know that a Ronald Reagan only come along once in a lifetime, but where are the statesmen of the day decrying loudly against the deliberate decline of America? Did striving to save America from the political front die off in 2007 with Congressman Henry Hyde? Sen. Hyde, who served in the Navy during WW 11, where he served in combat in the Philippines, was the congressman known for his leadership role in managing the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton. Did the dream of a better day die with the passionate pleas of Martin Luther King?

The American Space Race that kindled the imaginations of youngsters everywhere   ended with the grounding of the Space Shuttle.  The Space Shuttle didn’t die a natural death but was willfully killed off by Obama in July,  2011.  The Constitution is in tatters;  American patriots are shunned by a regime-complicit mainstream media and are held back from the fight to save their country by a president whose minions, many of them appointed and not elected, get to smear them as “terrorists”.

Even as this is being written, Obama’s barbarians at the gate, being fed on site three square meals a day, while out in the streets calling for anarchy at the expanding Wall Street protests. Obama can choose from any one of his running dog alphabet networks to grab headlines,  as he did again only today demanding the passage of a “jobs bill” which is, in reality,  just another tax bill.

The screams are already renting the air with House Speaker John Boehner concluding “We’re legislating.  He’s campaigning.  It’s very disappointing.” What Obama is doing to America transcends disappointment, Mr. Boehner.  It’s premeditated murder. And most tragic of all, the life is being squeezed from America with no elected voice—not even one—calling out loudly to save her.

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/41048

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My Thoughts On Amanda Knox:

By John Hinderaker

Several years ago, when Britney Spears’ meltdown was at its peak and couldn’t be avoided in the news, I did the shortest post in the history of the blogosphere. I titled it “My Thoughts On Britney Spears,” and the body of the post was blank.

Surprisingly, perhaps, I do have some thoughts on today’s verdict in Perugia acquitting Amanda Knox and her “boyfriend” of less than a week, Raffaele Sollecito. The story was simply irresistible, especially to a lawyer. I started reading up on it and, as it happens, I do have a strong opinion on the case. So here goes.

I think the conviction of Knox and Sollecito was an outrageous miscarriage of justice, driven by preoccupations on the part of the prosecutor, and maybe some policemen, that can only be described as medieval. There was no meaningful evidence against them. None. And–this is a fact that is often lost sight of–we actually know who killed Meredith Kercher. It was Rudy Guede.

Let me amend that. We know for sure that Guede raped Kercher, based on DNA evidence that, as far as I know, is undisputed. Beyond that, Guede’s DNA was all over the room where Kercher was killed, whereas DNA from both Knox and Sollecito was conspicuously absent. Now, it is possible that Guede raped Kercher, then vacated the premises, and someone else came along and killed her. But let’s apply Occam’s razor: it is virtually certain that whoever raped Kercher also killed her. So, where lies the mystery? The murderer has been identified. Moreover, Guede fled to Germany after the murder and called a friend, whom he told, among other things, that Knox was not in the house on the night of the killing. The evidence against Guede evidently was conclusive, and he was long ago tried, found guilty and sentenced.

This is where it gets medieval. Someone–I think the prosecutor–spun what can only be described as a fantasy. Not satisfied with Guede as the murderer, he imagined that Amanda Knox may have inspired the crime. He pictured a “sex game gone wrong,” featuring Guede, Sollecito, Knox and Kercher. Pause on that for a moment: Knox had known Sollecito for a mere six days at the time of the murder, and barely was acquainted with Guede. Sollecito had never met Guede. If you think it likely that that trio would have engaged in a “sex game” that turned into a murder, you move in circles very different from mine. Of course, the prosecutor speculated that the sex game was “drug fueled.” What was the evidence of drugs? The same as the evidence for group sex: zero. The prosecutor made it up.

The most bizarre aspect of this miscarriage of justice, perhaps, was that Guede’s sentence was reduced to 16 years, while Knox was sentenced to 26 years and Sollecito–the forgotten man of the story, who must wonder more than anyone what he did to be trapped in such a nightmare–got 25 years. How on earth did the prosecution justify this focus on Knox and Sollecito, in preference to the man whose DNA showed that he (and he alone) had raped Kercher? Simple: Knox was a “she devil,” whereas Guede was merely her tool–seriously! The evidence for this claim? There wasn’t any. This kind of fantasy is inconceivable in a modern court.

There were two types of evidence against Knox and Sollecito. The key evidence in the original trial was a knife that belonged to Sollecito. That knife had Knox’s DNA on the handle–no surprise there–and, allegedly, Kercher’s DNA on the blade. This and the bra clasp discussed below were the only things that ostensibly tied Sollecito to the crime. But there were huge technical issues with the tiny amount of DNA allegedly found on the blade, and the knife didn’t match either the bloody outline of a knife on Kercher’s bedspread or the wounds in Kercher’s neck.

Then there was the claim that a minute amount of Sollecito’s DNA was found on a clasp from Kercher’s bra. Unfortunately, the clasp wasn’t discovered until six weeks after the murder, lying on the floor of Kercher’s bedroom. The technical handling of all of this evidence by the Perugia police was appalling, and independent, court-appointed experts blew away the supposed DNA evidence in the appellate trial that was just concluded.

The second type of evidence against Knox–it didn’t really apply to Sollecito–had to do with her statements and behavior after the murder. Knox first drew the suspicion of Perugia’s police force when she turned cartwheels while waiting to be questioned after the murder was discovered. Kercher’s other friends were in tears, but Knox was turning cartwheels–the police found this suspicious, but some would say that while such behavior may be inappropriate, it is more consistent with knowledge of innocence than guilt. And does this remind anyone else of The Stranger, where the focus of the prosecution is not on what the defendant did, but on the odd way in which he reacted to his own mother’s death?

Knox made several odd statements to Perugia’s finest; she implicated a bar owner named Lumumba (no relation to Patrice, I assume) and talked about being in the house and hearing Kercher scream. But all of this was after 56 hours of questioning by the Italian police, with no lawyer present and only a dubious translator (at this time, Knox’s Italian was not as fluent as it is now, after four years in prison in Perugia.) 56 hours of non-stop questioning? That would never happen at Guantanamo Bay, and Knox was a 20 year old girl in a foreign country. I’ve heard it said that these musings were in response to a policeman’s asking Knox to imagine how the crime might have happened, but I haven’t seen a transcript (if one exists) to verify whether that is correct. In any event, Knox and Sollecito have consistently maintained their innocence. Is anything that Knox said sufficient to convict her, or anyone else, of murder? Certainly not.

In the end, the prosecution of Knox and Sollecito seems to tell us more about the prosecutor’s twisted psyche than about those defendants. The fact that Italian authorities were willing to let off the one man who they knew committed the crime more easily than the two fantasy defendants shows how twisted the criminal process became. Injustice can happen anywhere, but it is hard to imagine Knox and Sollecito, represented by competent defense counsel, being convicted in any American court. So I was happy to see them exonerated.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/10/my-thoughts-on-amanda-knox.php

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Obama Seeks Debt Collector Proposal

 

By David Espo

 

To the dismay of consumer groups and the discomfort of Democrats, President Barack Obama wants Congress to make it easier for private debt collectors to call the cellphones of consumers delinquent on student loans and other billions owed the federal government.

 

The change "is expected to provide substantial increases in collections, particularly as an increasing share of households no longer have landlines and rely instead on cellphones," the administration wrote recently. The little-noticed recommendation would apply only to cases in which money is owed the government, and is tucked into the mammoth $3 trillion deficit-reduction plan the president submitted to Congress.

 

Despite the claim, the administration has not yet developed an estimate of how much the government would collect, and critics reject the logic behind the recommendation.

 

"Enabling robo-calls (to cellphones) is just going to lead to more harassment and abuse, and it's not going to help the government collect more money," said Lauren Saunders of the Boston-based National Consumer Law Center. "People aren't paying their student loans because they can't find a job."...

 

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBAMA_DEBT_COLLECTORS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-10-04-06-36-08

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Occupy Wall Street Protesters Call For Totalitarian Government, Re-Election Of Obama

By Paul Joseph Watson


Despite their honest intentions, many of the Occupy Wall Street protesters are being suckered into a trap and calling for the very “solutions” that are part of the financial elite’s agenda to torpedo the American middle class – higher taxes and more big government.

Watch the clip below in which journalist Adam Kokesh talks to Occupy Wall Street protesters:

 
The ignorance displayed in these interviews knows no bounds. The protesters just don’t get it. They are calling for the government to use force to impose their ideas, all in the name of bringing down corporations who they don’t realize have completely bought off government regulators. Corporations and government enjoy a mutually beneficial relationship – getting one to regulate the other is asinine and only hurts smaller businesses who are legitimately trying to compete in a free market economy that barely exists.

The zeal for totalitarian government amongst some of the “protesters” is shocking. One sign being carried around read, “A government is an entity which holds the monopolistic right to initiate force,” which seems a little ironic when protesters complain about being physically assaulted by police in the same breath.

One woman interviewed by Kokesh also announces her intention to help Obama to capture a second term. How can a self-proclaimed Occupy Wall Street protester simultaneously support the man whose 2008 campaign was bankrolled by Wall Street, whose 2012 campaign is reliant on Wall Street to an even greater extent, and whose cabinet was filled with Wall Street operatives?

Something is very wrong with this picture.

The usual suspects, mega-rich foundations and elitists, behind the young radicals have also started to emerge – George Soros, The Ruckus Society, the Tides Foundation and the Ford Foundation.

“The belated crusade against Wall Street is even more pathetic as it is coordinated by groups who wouldn’t exist without men like Soros, who made their money from deals that make the Street look sparkling clean. It’s class warfare as a cynical jab at the populist center, the people who mutter to themselves that the Street is full of crooks and so is Congress,” writes Daniel Greenfield.

The thousands of Americans currently expressing their disgust at Wall Street and the bankers who have ruined the economy to the detriment of the poor and middle class should be commended for getting off their hind ends and doing something, unlike the millions who will continue to watch American Idol, drink beer and laugh in ignorance as the country is flushed down the toilet. It should also be added that there is a sprinkling of “End the Fed” demonstrators who truly understand the root cause of the problem.

However, the fact that the majority of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators are advocating “solutions” which the very elite they claim to be protesting against also want should set alarm bells ringing.

The official Occupy Wall Street website vehemently supports Obama’s tax agenda, again in the deluded belief that Obama, the ultimate Wall Street puppet, genuinely wants to go after big corporations who use loopholes to avoid paying income tax.

In calling for higher taxes on the middle class, the protesters are mimicking the likes of billionaire Warren Buffet. The top corporations pay virtually zero income tax because of loopholes that they have crafted in league with bought off government regulators. Obama’s tax hikes will only impact genuine middle class businesses and middle class Americans earning over $200,000 – with the rate of inflation as it is this can hardly be described as the “super rich”.

As Anthony Wile writes, the protesters are being completely misdirected by their socialist/communist leaders. The real center of financial control is the Federal Reserve and the city of London, and yet ideologue Michael Moore said earlier this week that “ending capitalism” was more important than dealing with the Fed.

Wile notes that the protesters seem obsessed with those who conduct financial transactions, not those who actually run global central banks, the real string pullers.

“To get at the root of the problem, one should be protesting, say, in London’s City where central banking originated. Or protesting in front of the Federal Reserve in Washington DC. These are real seats of power. But the shadowy and excessively powerful and wealthy individuals who have created the modern economic system are quite satisfied no doubt to have Wall Street take the blame. It suits their purposes,” writes Wile.

“It is too bad that the Occupy Wall Street movement seems to be obscuring the larger issues by apparently blaming the private (transactional) sector in entirety for what has occurred in the past few years.”

http://www.infowars.com/occupy-wall-street-protesters-call-totalitarian-government-re-election-of-obama/

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What stupid, dizzy young adults! 'Wall Street' is not 'Big Corporate' (whatever that is and what they think it has done... the word 'franchise' will mess up their whole world...) 'Wall Street' is simply (and as elementary as I can make it) the marketplace where all stores are offered, bought, sold, and speculated upon--a giant 'store of stores', if you will. A Walmart full of businesses rather than Rubbermaid products, cheap clothing, and post-it notes.

It's where businesses fall into competition with others like them, products are naturally compared and culled by the marketplace, confidence in the market is expressed (or not, as in the present), futures are bought and sold, and prices are set. It is the ultimate capitalist 'store of stores'--and it will make a difference in something as small as if you can buy a dish drainer in the style and color that you want, conveniently, at a fair price, and whether or not your husband is needed to work the night shift for a bit more salary.

'Wall Street' is not a corporation--anymore than Walmart is a plastics factory--but you can find Walmart there, like you can find Rubbermaid products in Walmart... and you can't 'take it down' without affecting every single business that is traded there, destroying competition, blowing up pricing, making goods unavailable, unstable, or flat-out unable to be marketed, produced, and distributed.

I can't imagine the devastation... but, then, destroying capitalism has been the Marxist dream, in the end, hasn't it? That's their aim!

What? Do these protestors think people will manufacture coffee pots, iPods, paper to write on, tennis shoes, sandwich bread, canned tuna, nuclear submarine parts, oxygen cannulas, orange juice (how do they suppose people in Montana get it in January?), electric rails, bus on-and-off bells, glass eyes, cement sidewalks, eyeshadow makeup, toothbrushes, L.L. Bean jackets, ice cream, toilet sanitizer, wheelchairs, and egg cartons simply because they are nice people and want to do the world a good turn?

People are supposed to use their time, energy, capital, and lifespan on creating things for other people to use with no greater incentive then feeling like a dandy person at the end of the day? For their whole lives, no greater reward than that?

How good would inventing a toilet brush make you feel? How much time would you want to spend hand-carving the mold, calling 'round until you rustled up enough plastic to pour into it, and inventing a handle, with a few chaps willing to spend their life's time whittling it? How much time is that going to take? Is that going to get that toilet brush to the other side of the world? How fulfilling IS it?

Or pick making batteries, inventing drywall, pouring plastic until you get the best milk strainer, developing the lightest sewer-grate cover to really make some bloke's day easier... You're supposed to spend your lifeblood--all your time on earth--on that? And you're supposed to live in the same house, with the same things, at the same standard standard-of-living as every single other standard person around you... for the rest of your life... like that?

And it really doesn't matter if you're pouring Angry Birds into a plasma tv (I just know that's what makes it go!),  or plugging in the components of some fantastic memory board, or flying jets off the USS Ronald Reagan, or doing digital paste-up for the few remaining articles of Time magazine, or scribbling out the scores for contestants on American Idol--nobody wants to do it for the same house, same goods, and same life as everyone else.

It all goes back to the toilet brush; somebody's gotta make the damn thing--it doesn't just spout up out of the weeds. Someone has to take the time and energy to invent it, marshall the materials, draw the plans, get the workers, make it attractive to a client/the public, and put it on the market. No one is going to do it for free. No one is going to do it simply to feel like a swell person. No one's life should be constituted of such a mundane, empty thing.

Yes, we know we have to work for a living; no one doubts that. We have to provide for our basic needs of food, shelter, and medical care, at the very least--and those things require effort. Other things we may immediately desire--like self-defense, education, cleanliness etc.--require further effort. That effort results in energy expended and something created--something to eat, a drink of water, a safe place to lay your head, a fishing line, water bucket, a food storage device, a wound dressing, information and goods and more goods.

If someone wants to make something, if you want them to do it the best way, the cheapest, fastest, most desirable way--if you want it to benefit as many people as possible as quickly as possible--than you pay a profit for someone to make it--and pay a salary so that the workers can amass enough money to spend it on something they want to spend it on! And you make it and market it the best way possible to allow them the time to do something else with that money, period! How simple is that?

NOBODY should have to spend 90% of their life on subsistence living!
NOBODY should have to work twice as hard for no better than anyone else has! 
NOBODY should have to spend 8-12 hrs. a day, 5-6 days a week making kleenex, or door handles, or scotch-tape, or soap and have that be their whole life!

Communism IS subsistence living!

Not allowing people to profit how they will, according to their own values, effort, and desires, is Communism!

Taking what someone else has worked for against their will is thievery!

Not allowing people to spend their own profits from their own labor on what they desire is slavery!

NOBODY OWNS A PIECE OF ME!

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Hihihi! gang! Hee hee--I posted some things while you were asleep! (Yes, I've been up most of the night yesIamgonnagotobedPhoo! sooner or later...) You all have a great start to your week!

Hey, who has the cat/flag avatar?  Paget? ThenI thought that was Hooly... who am I missing ?(it must be somebody I nickname...) Surfie! Gram, why aren't you on my list up there--your friends miss you! And can't we get someone to fill out the row? I like things nice and even... I want 10 squares...

Pollywog looks a little vicious as CHOMP the News Gator... I'd better make her hop...

CAN I GET A GOOD MORNING HERE? WHO'S GOING TO GO FIRST?

See you tomorrow!

The Obama-Holder 'problem with guns':

Despite Denials, Map Proves Deliberate Illegal Gun Trafficking by ATF to Mexico

By Katie Pavlich

This map, revealed in the White House document dump I reported about earlier today, shows the path of guns sent by ATF into Mexico from Arizona. Former Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix Field Office has said over and over again under oath, that at no point didn't ATF allow guns to be trafficked into Mexico.

July 26, 2011:

“At no time in our strategy was it to allow guns to be taken to Mexico,” Newell said, adding that at no time did his agency allow guns to walk.

This map, proves otherwise and shows the deliberate trafficking of high powered weapons, including AK-47s and .50 caliber sniper rifles, into the hands of the most violent criminals in North America.

http://tinyurl.com/6gz2o8t

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Interesting typo/misspeak/Freudian slip with 'didn't'...

More than 100 turn out for anti-corporate protest in Seattle:

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This was going on about 8-10 blocks from us yesterday... And, no, we have no idea what it was about! Pollywog says she bets you could could ask any of them what 'Wall St.' is and they wouldn't have any idea what you're talking about!

Good Morning!