Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Friday, May 1, 2009
Proposal Photos
I've been really lax about getting things posted... I guess stress or just no inspiration... But I am now going to post some pictures of when Chris proposed to me on our trip to Italy. It was in front of the Trevi Fountain, and it was unbelievable! I can't believe I get to marry the most amazing man! I'm one lucky girl!
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
The 90% Myth by my friend Davis Woudwyk
The 90% Myth
Not that the current administration would ever burden themselves with facts, but still, getting the truth should be necessary before attempting to restrict a fundamental freedom declared by the constitution. We face an incredible danger of having many fundamental rights and liberties curtailed through "creative accounting" such as this. In this case, the contention that 90% of the guns used in Mexico come from the US is absurd on it's face. Most of the guns used in Mexico for crimes are fully automatic assault rifles, which are not available from the local American gun shop. Of course, once again, reality is no preventative when there is a political point to be made. The 90% myth makes for excellent propaganda for those who would see the fundamental right to bear arms curtailed, such as the Brady Campaign and other groups that would see law abiding citizens stripped of the right to bear arms. (the Brady campaign is notorious for using creative accounting in its statistics). In truth, in an article on foxnews.com, it is reported that 90% of the guns which can be tracked originate in the United States. But the percentage of guns which can actually be tracked make up a tiny percentage of the actual guns found. In fact, only 17% of the guns recovered can be traced to the United States. Most come from Mexico's southern border, many others are stolen from the Mexican government itself.
These types of false statistics, taken with other current events, are part of a deeper phenomenon that goes beyond gun control. Dr. Saxe characterized it as a loss of will to survive. I call it American guilt. The current fad is to assume that no one is wrong except America. Guns in Mexico? Cartels waging war? Must be our fault. Global warming? Our bad. That Europe feels animosity towards us? Must be something we did. 9/11? Perhaps it was our lack of understanding and compassion that caused it. Recently there was a story on Slate.com about how some people with jobs feel shame that they are employed, while others aren't. A certain level of compassion is a wonderful thing, but to feel shame at doing exactly what you should be doing, shame at having a job, is indicative of compassion run amok. So too is the expectation that fairness should dictate all. No more bonuses to those that exceed expectations. Bonuses are not fair. Merit based appointments to jobs and colleges? Why that's not fair either. This country was founded on a very basic principle of risk and reward. Our greatness was built on the backs of those willing to risk it all in the pursuit of a reward. By removing that, we consign ourselves to mediocrity. Why risk anything when there is no reward? Without risk, there is no advancement. And that is bad for everybody, worldwide, not just us here. We are to blame for that.
I can not explain why I think this is happening, why we insist on blaming ourselves for all the worlds troubles. Maybe it goes back to how we raise kids anymore, instilling in them that everyone is valuable to the team, that right and wrong are nothing more than judgments made by individuals, valid no further than to the individual. We are so caught up in assuring everyone in our own micro-social world that they are valuable and important, that their decisions are not wrong, that we make the same jump in the macro-social world. The sad truth is that we are not all valuable to the team. Some people are faster, others smarter, some are beautiful, others aren't. And right and wrong are concrete principles, not flexible propositions to be applied as we see fit. I for one refuse to feel guilt for things that I believe to be right. I am proud of my country, I wouldn't live anywhere else. I know that America is not perfect, but I refuse to make apology to countries that have been bailed out by American lives and generosity. I guess if that makes me an arrogant American, I'm guilty as charged. But I won't apologize for it.
Not that the current administration would ever burden themselves with facts, but still, getting the truth should be necessary before attempting to restrict a fundamental freedom declared by the constitution. We face an incredible danger of having many fundamental rights and liberties curtailed through "creative accounting" such as this. In this case, the contention that 90% of the guns used in Mexico come from the US is absurd on it's face. Most of the guns used in Mexico for crimes are fully automatic assault rifles, which are not available from the local American gun shop. Of course, once again, reality is no preventative when there is a political point to be made. The 90% myth makes for excellent propaganda for those who would see the fundamental right to bear arms curtailed, such as the Brady Campaign and other groups that would see law abiding citizens stripped of the right to bear arms. (the Brady campaign is notorious for using creative accounting in its statistics). In truth, in an article on foxnews.com, it is reported that 90% of the guns which can be tracked originate in the United States. But the percentage of guns which can actually be tracked make up a tiny percentage of the actual guns found. In fact, only 17% of the guns recovered can be traced to the United States. Most come from Mexico's southern border, many others are stolen from the Mexican government itself.
These types of false statistics, taken with other current events, are part of a deeper phenomenon that goes beyond gun control. Dr. Saxe characterized it as a loss of will to survive. I call it American guilt. The current fad is to assume that no one is wrong except America. Guns in Mexico? Cartels waging war? Must be our fault. Global warming? Our bad. That Europe feels animosity towards us? Must be something we did. 9/11? Perhaps it was our lack of understanding and compassion that caused it. Recently there was a story on Slate.com about how some people with jobs feel shame that they are employed, while others aren't. A certain level of compassion is a wonderful thing, but to feel shame at doing exactly what you should be doing, shame at having a job, is indicative of compassion run amok. So too is the expectation that fairness should dictate all. No more bonuses to those that exceed expectations. Bonuses are not fair. Merit based appointments to jobs and colleges? Why that's not fair either. This country was founded on a very basic principle of risk and reward. Our greatness was built on the backs of those willing to risk it all in the pursuit of a reward. By removing that, we consign ourselves to mediocrity. Why risk anything when there is no reward? Without risk, there is no advancement. And that is bad for everybody, worldwide, not just us here. We are to blame for that.
I can not explain why I think this is happening, why we insist on blaming ourselves for all the worlds troubles. Maybe it goes back to how we raise kids anymore, instilling in them that everyone is valuable to the team, that right and wrong are nothing more than judgments made by individuals, valid no further than to the individual. We are so caught up in assuring everyone in our own micro-social world that they are valuable and important, that their decisions are not wrong, that we make the same jump in the macro-social world. The sad truth is that we are not all valuable to the team. Some people are faster, others smarter, some are beautiful, others aren't. And right and wrong are concrete principles, not flexible propositions to be applied as we see fit. I for one refuse to feel guilt for things that I believe to be right. I am proud of my country, I wouldn't live anywhere else. I know that America is not perfect, but I refuse to make apology to countries that have been bailed out by American lives and generosity. I guess if that makes me an arrogant American, I'm guilty as charged. But I won't apologize for it.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
THE BIGGEST SCAM IN HISTORY!
http://www.wtv-zone.com/Mary/BIGGESTSCAMINHISTORY.HTML
The Federal Reserve Building in Washington DC
Just in case you didn't know the Federal Reserve is a private company of bankers with twelve branch banks that confiscate our money and they have been doing this for almost a hundred years,--- this time! They are not part of the United States Government. Yet today they collect hundreds of billions of dollars from American taxpayers every year.
Pay attention now, you're about to read about the biggest and most successful scam in History.
Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1743-1812)
"Let me issue and control a nation's money, and I care not who writes its laws" ---Mayer Amschel Rothschild
A Little History Lesson
Alexander Hamilton
It was Alexander Hamilton who lobbied for the first private Federal Bank, and in 1789 Congress chartered the bank.
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was adamantly opposed to the idea of a privately owned federal bank and said " I sincerely believe the banking institutions having the issuing power of money are more dangerous to liberty than standing armies".
In 1811, under President James Madison, Vice President George Clinton broke the tied vote in congress to cast the bankers out refusing to renew the charter for the bankers. Unfortunatly it was President Madison who proposed a second United States privately owned Central bank and it came into existence in 1816
Andrew Jackson
However, in 1836 President Jackson, overriding Congress, closed it commenting, "The bold effort the present bank had made to control the government are but premonitions of the fate that await the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it." (we now have another one like it)
Andrew Jackson also said, when speaking to the bankers: "You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God I will rout you out."
Martin Van Buren
When speaking to his closest friend, Martin Van Buren, Jackson said, "The bank, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it!" (and he did)
The first two Federal Reserve Systems lasted about 20 years each and we are now almost a hundred years into the third one.
Woodrow Wilson
The year is now 1913, the year after Woodrow Wilson was elected president of the United States. Prior to his election he needed financial support to pay for his campaign, so he reluctantly agreed, that if elected, he would sign the Federal Reserve Act, in return for that financial support.
In December 1913 while many members of Congress were home for Christmas, the Federal Reserve Act was rammed through Congress and was later signed by President Wilson. At a later date, Wilson admitted with remorse, when referring to the Fed."I have unwittingly ruined my country".
Now Comes the Income Tax! !!!
We didn't have nor did we need an income tax until we got the bankers back. The income tax was only needed to pay interest to the bankers for our money that they loan to our government. Yes, you read that right, the Fed, mostly on paper and computer, creates money or pays the treasury a small printing fee for currency, and then loans this money to our government. Our taxes pay them interest on this loan that cost the FEDS virtually nothing to make, what a sweetheart of a deal they have going for them.
As of March 6, 2006, the national debt stands at 8.2 trillion dollars. The American taxpayers have paid the FED banking system $173,875,979,369.66 in interest on that debt in just five short months, from October, 2005, through February, 2006. Since this article was written a couple of years ago the national debt has now risen to 10.7 trillion dollars, and since the economic meltdown that figure has risen dramatically and will continue to rise. The United States will never even be able to pay the interest on the loan,let alone the principle. So in actuality the Federal Reserve owns the United Statses and our elected officials are beholden to the bankers, not the American people. The Feds are the unseen "shadow government" , they are the ones who are governing our once great Republic. They control both houses of Congress and also the President, and no-one dare oppose them. they are all powerful because they control the money supply. No con artist or group of con artists in history has ever perpetrated a scam that even approaches the scope of this one.
According to the two volume work by Bill Benson and Red Beckman , "The Law That Never Was" the 16th amendment, which created the IRS, was never properly ratified, not even by one state! These gentlemen traveled the then 48 states to verify that fact. So in a very real sense the income tax isn't legal, as many have proclaimed, but try not paying it and see how far you get before the Feds come after you and confiscate everything you own.
HENRY FORD
Henry Ford once said "It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning".
Federal Reserve Bank, Minneapolis,Minnesota
In the nearly 100 years of the existence of the Fed, it has NEVER been audited and they don't pay income tax on the billions of dollars they take from us.
According to Congressional record the U.S. Government can buy back the FED at any time for $450 million. That's about half the amount of money we pay them daily.
Do we have the most stupid and/or the most corrupt leaders in the world, or what? It seems their # 1 concern is getting re-elected, they seem to think nothing of shirking their responsibilities to the people who elected them to their powerful prestigous high paying jobs.
Congress likes the Fed because they can spend all they want with no restraints, they just put our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren into debt.
A Federal Reserve note is just what it looks like, it's just a piece of paper with no backing whatsoever. This is why Congress hates gold and silver backed money, it forces them to live within their means. Of course they also get other perks from the Fed. perks far too numerous to mention here.
Article 1, section 8, of the Constitution reads:
The Congress shall have the Power.....To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof,....
Nowhere in that document does it give Congress the authority to delegate this responsibility to anyone, much less a bunch of private bankers.
It may be that you were never a big fan of John F. Kennedy, but you may see him in a different light after you learn how he took on the FEDS. He had the foresight to see what a bad deal had been struck in the creation of the Federal Reserve. He also had the courage to do something about it.which unfortunately, may have cost him his life.
On June 4, 1963, President Kennedy signed a Presidential decree, Executive Order 11110. This order virtually stripped the Federal Reserve Bank of its power to loan money to the United States Government at interest. President Kennedy declared the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank would soon be out of business. This order gave the Treasury Department the authority to issue silver certificates against any silver in the treasury. This executive order still stands today. In less than five months after signing that executive order President Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963.
Photo taken about 2 minutes before JFK was assassinated
The United States Notes (silver certificates) he had issued were taken out of circulation immediately. Federal Reserve Notes continued to serve as the legal currency of this nation. It is estimated that 99% of all U.S. paper currency circulating in 1999 are Federal Reserve Notes.
Lincoln also took on the bankers and that brave bold step may also have cost him his life.
During the Civil War (from 1861-1865), President Lincoln needed money to finance the War for the North. The Bankers were going to charge him 24% to 36% interest. Lincoln was horrified and greatly distressed, and he would not think of plunging his beloved country into a debt that the country would find impossible to pay back.
So Lincoln advised Congress to pass a law authorizing the printing of full legal tender Treasury notes to pay for the War effort. Lincoln recognized the great benefits of this issue. At one point he wrote: "... (we) gave the people of this Republic the greatest blessing they have ever had - their own paper money to pay their own debts..."
The Treasury notes were printed with green ink on the back, so the people called them "Greenbacks". Lincoln had printed 400 million dollars worth of Greenbacks (the exact amount being $449,338,902), money that he delegated to be created, a debt-free and interest-free money to finance the War. It served as legal tender for all debts, public and private. He printed it, paid it to the soldiers, to the U.S. Civil Service empoyees, and bought supplies for the war.
Lincoln was assassinated shortly after the war and Congress revoked the Greenback Law and enacted, in its place, the National Banking Act. The national banks were to be privately owned and the national bank notes they issued were to be interest-bearing. The Act also provided that the Greenbacks should be retired from circulation as soon as they came back to the Treasury in payment of taxes.
Follow The Money!!!
When you follow the money you find there was no-one in the world who had a better reason to kill these two Presidents than the bankers. It seems inconceivable that anyone could still think there was no conspiracy in the assassination of JFK, especially when you consider the many people that were murdered or had suspicious deaths and who were associated in some way with Kennedy's assassination.
Is this proof?
NO
Is this strong circumstantial evidence?
YOU DECIDE
Concern Without Action Is A Waste Of Time!! The Federal Reserve, United Nations, Council of Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, the Illuminati, the Bilderbergers and other elites of the hidden government are leading us into The New World Order and they are leading us fast. You are not going to like it when we get all the way there, and we are over half way there now.
Only we can save this Republic!!!
This article was written by my friend Norman Chenoweth. He graciously consented to allow me to edit it down to a more appropriate size for making into a web page. He also allowed me to add a few words of my own throughout the article. I can only hope that everyone I send this web page to will read it and share it with others, the American people deserve to know these facts about the FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM.
Norman has written some other articles that I hope you will take the time to read as they are about things every American should know but sadly most don't. He also has a wonderful free gift for you, be sure to check to see what it is, you won't be sorry, believe me I know!
The Federal Reserve Building in Washington DC
Just in case you didn't know the Federal Reserve is a private company of bankers with twelve branch banks that confiscate our money and they have been doing this for almost a hundred years,--- this time! They are not part of the United States Government. Yet today they collect hundreds of billions of dollars from American taxpayers every year.
Pay attention now, you're about to read about the biggest and most successful scam in History.
Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1743-1812)
"Let me issue and control a nation's money, and I care not who writes its laws" ---Mayer Amschel Rothschild
A Little History Lesson
Alexander Hamilton
It was Alexander Hamilton who lobbied for the first private Federal Bank, and in 1789 Congress chartered the bank.
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was adamantly opposed to the idea of a privately owned federal bank and said " I sincerely believe the banking institutions having the issuing power of money are more dangerous to liberty than standing armies".
In 1811, under President James Madison, Vice President George Clinton broke the tied vote in congress to cast the bankers out refusing to renew the charter for the bankers. Unfortunatly it was President Madison who proposed a second United States privately owned Central bank and it came into existence in 1816
Andrew Jackson
However, in 1836 President Jackson, overriding Congress, closed it commenting, "The bold effort the present bank had made to control the government are but premonitions of the fate that await the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it." (we now have another one like it)
Andrew Jackson also said, when speaking to the bankers: "You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God I will rout you out."
Martin Van Buren
When speaking to his closest friend, Martin Van Buren, Jackson said, "The bank, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it!" (and he did)
The first two Federal Reserve Systems lasted about 20 years each and we are now almost a hundred years into the third one.
Woodrow Wilson
The year is now 1913, the year after Woodrow Wilson was elected president of the United States. Prior to his election he needed financial support to pay for his campaign, so he reluctantly agreed, that if elected, he would sign the Federal Reserve Act, in return for that financial support.
In December 1913 while many members of Congress were home for Christmas, the Federal Reserve Act was rammed through Congress and was later signed by President Wilson. At a later date, Wilson admitted with remorse, when referring to the Fed."I have unwittingly ruined my country".
Now Comes the Income Tax! !!!
We didn't have nor did we need an income tax until we got the bankers back. The income tax was only needed to pay interest to the bankers for our money that they loan to our government. Yes, you read that right, the Fed, mostly on paper and computer, creates money or pays the treasury a small printing fee for currency, and then loans this money to our government. Our taxes pay them interest on this loan that cost the FEDS virtually nothing to make, what a sweetheart of a deal they have going for them.
As of March 6, 2006, the national debt stands at 8.2 trillion dollars. The American taxpayers have paid the FED banking system $173,875,979,369.66 in interest on that debt in just five short months, from October, 2005, through February, 2006. Since this article was written a couple of years ago the national debt has now risen to 10.7 trillion dollars, and since the economic meltdown that figure has risen dramatically and will continue to rise. The United States will never even be able to pay the interest on the loan,let alone the principle. So in actuality the Federal Reserve owns the United Statses and our elected officials are beholden to the bankers, not the American people. The Feds are the unseen "shadow government" , they are the ones who are governing our once great Republic. They control both houses of Congress and also the President, and no-one dare oppose them. they are all powerful because they control the money supply. No con artist or group of con artists in history has ever perpetrated a scam that even approaches the scope of this one.
According to the two volume work by Bill Benson and Red Beckman , "The Law That Never Was" the 16th amendment, which created the IRS, was never properly ratified, not even by one state! These gentlemen traveled the then 48 states to verify that fact. So in a very real sense the income tax isn't legal, as many have proclaimed, but try not paying it and see how far you get before the Feds come after you and confiscate everything you own.
HENRY FORD
Henry Ford once said "It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning".
Federal Reserve Bank, Minneapolis,Minnesota
In the nearly 100 years of the existence of the Fed, it has NEVER been audited and they don't pay income tax on the billions of dollars they take from us.
According to Congressional record the U.S. Government can buy back the FED at any time for $450 million. That's about half the amount of money we pay them daily.
Do we have the most stupid and/or the most corrupt leaders in the world, or what? It seems their # 1 concern is getting re-elected, they seem to think nothing of shirking their responsibilities to the people who elected them to their powerful prestigous high paying jobs.
Congress likes the Fed because they can spend all they want with no restraints, they just put our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren into debt.
A Federal Reserve note is just what it looks like, it's just a piece of paper with no backing whatsoever. This is why Congress hates gold and silver backed money, it forces them to live within their means. Of course they also get other perks from the Fed. perks far too numerous to mention here.
Article 1, section 8, of the Constitution reads:
The Congress shall have the Power.....To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof,....
Nowhere in that document does it give Congress the authority to delegate this responsibility to anyone, much less a bunch of private bankers.
It may be that you were never a big fan of John F. Kennedy, but you may see him in a different light after you learn how he took on the FEDS. He had the foresight to see what a bad deal had been struck in the creation of the Federal Reserve. He also had the courage to do something about it.which unfortunately, may have cost him his life.
On June 4, 1963, President Kennedy signed a Presidential decree, Executive Order 11110. This order virtually stripped the Federal Reserve Bank of its power to loan money to the United States Government at interest. President Kennedy declared the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank would soon be out of business. This order gave the Treasury Department the authority to issue silver certificates against any silver in the treasury. This executive order still stands today. In less than five months after signing that executive order President Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963.
Photo taken about 2 minutes before JFK was assassinated
The United States Notes (silver certificates) he had issued were taken out of circulation immediately. Federal Reserve Notes continued to serve as the legal currency of this nation. It is estimated that 99% of all U.S. paper currency circulating in 1999 are Federal Reserve Notes.
Lincoln also took on the bankers and that brave bold step may also have cost him his life.
During the Civil War (from 1861-1865), President Lincoln needed money to finance the War for the North. The Bankers were going to charge him 24% to 36% interest. Lincoln was horrified and greatly distressed, and he would not think of plunging his beloved country into a debt that the country would find impossible to pay back.
So Lincoln advised Congress to pass a law authorizing the printing of full legal tender Treasury notes to pay for the War effort. Lincoln recognized the great benefits of this issue. At one point he wrote: "... (we) gave the people of this Republic the greatest blessing they have ever had - their own paper money to pay their own debts..."
The Treasury notes were printed with green ink on the back, so the people called them "Greenbacks". Lincoln had printed 400 million dollars worth of Greenbacks (the exact amount being $449,338,902), money that he delegated to be created, a debt-free and interest-free money to finance the War. It served as legal tender for all debts, public and private. He printed it, paid it to the soldiers, to the U.S. Civil Service empoyees, and bought supplies for the war.
Lincoln was assassinated shortly after the war and Congress revoked the Greenback Law and enacted, in its place, the National Banking Act. The national banks were to be privately owned and the national bank notes they issued were to be interest-bearing. The Act also provided that the Greenbacks should be retired from circulation as soon as they came back to the Treasury in payment of taxes.
Follow The Money!!!
When you follow the money you find there was no-one in the world who had a better reason to kill these two Presidents than the bankers. It seems inconceivable that anyone could still think there was no conspiracy in the assassination of JFK, especially when you consider the many people that were murdered or had suspicious deaths and who were associated in some way with Kennedy's assassination.
Is this proof?
NO
Is this strong circumstantial evidence?
YOU DECIDE
Concern Without Action Is A Waste Of Time!! The Federal Reserve, United Nations, Council of Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, the Illuminati, the Bilderbergers and other elites of the hidden government are leading us into The New World Order and they are leading us fast. You are not going to like it when we get all the way there, and we are over half way there now.
Only we can save this Republic!!!
This article was written by my friend Norman Chenoweth. He graciously consented to allow me to edit it down to a more appropriate size for making into a web page. He also allowed me to add a few words of my own throughout the article. I can only hope that everyone I send this web page to will read it and share it with others, the American people deserve to know these facts about the FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM.
Norman has written some other articles that I hope you will take the time to read as they are about things every American should know but sadly most don't. He also has a wonderful free gift for you, be sure to check to see what it is, you won't be sorry, believe me I know!
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