The Bible was cobbled together in the fourth century under the direction of the world-famous hedonist, Constantine, emperor of Rome
The early Christians, in a deal that was actually quite contrary to the teachings of The Master ("render unto Caesar what is Caesar's"), entered into what was essentially a power-sharing agreement with Rome.
As part of that "New World Order," a book of rules was needed.
Voila!
The Bible!
1300 years later, King James put his own spin on it.
And every single day, some simpleton lets some evil individual tell him those politically-motivated words are the ABSOLUTE WORD OF GOD! (Amen.)
Good Lord.
But, that is not to say that God is a myth.
Nor His son.
I am not sure I could prove the existence of God to anyone else's satisfaction, but I have witnessed too many "coincidences" to believe otherwise.
And yes, I am educated as a scientist.
But do I believe the Bible as the "Word of God?"
Well . . . . . . . . .
If you talk about what God has to say, wouldn't that mean what His Son, Jesus, has to say? How about we just read the Gospels?
"The authors of the books of the Bible were all inspired by God."
Uh-huh.
So, you think that politicians--guys like Barack Obama and George Bush--when they were having their little committee meetings to decide which writings would be included in their Bible, chose ONLY those books that were inspired by God? And this was because they knew for certain that, say, Isaiah was inspired and Thomas the Apostle was not?
Wow! These were really prescient politicians! So different than the ones we have now.

Seriously, though.
The most important thing anyone needs from the Bible is Matthew, chapters five through seven.
If one is too busy persecuting another to sit down and read three chapters, one can save time by remembering this one line that comes from them:
"Do unto others as you would have it done unto you."
I challenge anyone who claims to be a Christian to say how there is anything more to being a Christian than abiding by that simple dictate.

I am not suggesting that we could run a worldwide economy without charging people interest. But, until the 1920s, America was pretty much a cash-and-carry society.
Why?
Christian values were part of it! Usury--interest--was a sin!
Of course, in 1913, congress violated the Constitution and created the Federal Reserve. The resulting need for more money for the bankers created a massive PR drive to borrow, borrow, borrow! To indebt yourself to the bank. To indebt your children to the bank.
For years, California had the nation's lowest interest rates--12%. When I first started voting in the 70s, every damned election, there was a proposition to end California's "antiquated" laws regarding usury. It finally passed, of course. Why people voted to short themselves was beyond me then, but I see it often enough now. After all, by not calling for an end to the Federal Reserve, we still short ourselves.

For centuries, interest has led to the downfall of civilizations.
The Federal Reserve system is leading to the downfall of the United States.
It is time we took that threat seriously.

The protest was meant to fail.

I can explain easier by illustrating a similar political move.
Many years ago, here in California, there were no less than five competing initiative measures regarding auto insurance on the ballot. The most practical proposal; the one that would have saved Californians the most money—no-fault insurance—went down in flames.
Why?
It was sponsored by the Auto Insurance industry.
You see, for years, the industry has fought no-fault insurance. They—and the trial lawyers—make less money. (But ask anyone who lives in one of the twelve states where they have it how much they love it.) Well, one year they finally got smart. When it looked like California was going to adopt no-fault, they had their toadies in the legislature introduce a couple of measures and they introduced their own measure as well. As I said, there were five measures on the ballot.
Pretty damned confusing.
I worked hard for that measure.
Do you have any idea how hard it was to convince people to vote for the “enemy’s” idea??!!
Looking back, I have to give props for the brilliant political move it truly was. Evil, but brilliant.

I saw the most amazing things today.
I saw several people, who have been drawing social security for decades, carryings signs denouncing socialism!
I talked to an otherwise normal young man—about my sons age—who said an argument could be made that Saddam had WMDs because of the “Tons of yellowcake” found. I asked if he knew how many (none) WMDs could be made from “All that yellowcake.” He did not know. I asked why Hannity didn’t tell him.
I was telling one fellow about my tax plan—it’s a simple seven-and-a-half percent sales tax that is STRICTLY OPTIONAL, yet it raises more than our current system does—for details click HERE. He told me, “Yeah, well, taxes ain’t the problem, SPENDING is.”
Oh.
The eleven thousand billion dollars that we didn’t have but were spent by Ronny Raygun and Bushies I & II don’t matter.
Our REAL problem is the 870 billion dollars of Obama’s stimulus plan.
Oh.
You see, in the eighty-five days of Obama’s presidency it has all-of-a-sudden become the number-one problem facing America.
Oh.
The crowd was chanting “THROW THEM ALL OUT,” but when a guy who has been a politician for the last twenty-seven years gets up to exhort the crowd, they cheer and go wild!!!
FOX news was handing out tea bags for the event. Not one person saw the dichotomy in a news organization promoting a protest against an incumbent president—which is EXACTLY what it was.
Why?
WHY would people act with such clear disregard for common sense?
OK, they’re scared. They ought to be. I’m a little scared, too.
But they are being led by evil people.
They do not realize they are being made to look like fools.
What FOX news does realize is how much they would lose if a fair tax actually became law! They would actually have to start paying taxes—it could cost Rupert Murdoch serious money.
So, like the Auto Insurance folks before them, they finally got smart.
What started as a grass-roots movement got taken over by the FOX News Corporation.
Now, when the average American looks in to see what happened they will see a bunch of folks who swear loyalty to a minor-league network—with lower ratings than Congress—acting like . . . . . . .
Kooks!,
Guess what happens to tax reform?

Sorry, I had to pause for a laughing fit!

OK
The so-called conservatives are going to call themselves the loyal opposition in exile or some such nonsense. But as I said earlier, they don’t have any alternatives.
In the Wall Street Journal, I read of an alternative stimulus plan authored by none other than the king of BS, Rush Limbaugh. Rush reminds us that Bush’s tax cuts stimulated the economy. True to his style, Rush leaves out the fact that we have borrowed two TRILLION dollars from Social Security to cover the losses from those cuts.
Sorry kids, borrowing yourself into a hole is NOT a conservative value!
Indeed, what ARE conservative values?
I would love for any of the so-called conservatives out there to enlighten me on what it is they want.
Foreign entanglements?
Fiat money?
Usury?
Abandonment of Christian principles?
I look forward to the day when the so-called conservatives can explain themselves without making me laugh.

As I have written here before, the same team that gave us George H. W. Bush brought Obama to you. He is a package.
An incredibly well-produced package that the majority of voters bought into.
Plus, coming up through Chicago politics practically defines him as a gangster.
But you can’t tell that to m’honey! You can’t tell that to many people. We have a rock star for a president.
I told my girlfriend that Obama is going to reveal his true colors ere long.
Today I read a story that might give us a peek sooner rather than later.
It seems that an offshore wind farm—with the potential to power hundreds of thousands of homes--has been planned within sight of the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. Ted Kennedy does not want this spoiling his view. It has been planned for a long time, but with Bush as president, any plans to take profits away from energy companies were not actively pursued.
Now the calculus has changed.
Here comes President Obama, talking big about alternative energy.
Here is his big chance to prove it.
Will he walk the walk?