EDUCATION vs. INDOCTRINATION - PROP. 8

To educate means: 1. to provide schooling, 2. to develop mentally or morally, esp. by instruction. A synonym is “to teach.” Our Founding Fathers recognized the importance of education to preserve the democratic nature of our country.

To indoctrinate means: 1. to instruct, especially in fundamentals or rudiments: Teach, 2. to imbue with a usually partisan or sectarian opinion, point of view, or principle. Nazi Germany indoctrinated its people to further the cause (or curse) of Nazism through militarism, hatred of the “other,” and strict conformity to the dictates of its Dictator, Adolph Hitler.

In May of 2008, the California Supreme Court struck down a 2000 law that restricted same sex couples from marriage denying to them rights under the equal protection clause of the California Constitution that is similar to the equal protection clause in the United States Constitution.

CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE 1 DECLARATION OF RIGHTS

SECTION 1. All people are by nature free and independent and have
inalienable rights. Among these are enjoying and defending life and
liberty, acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and pursuing
and obtaining safety, happiness, and privacy.

Proposition 8 amends the California Constitution to eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry within the state. It defines marriage as only between one man and one
woman.

Proposition 8 would deny constitutional rights and protections to homosexuals. The selling point of those who propose and sanction this proposition is that their children may be educated to the fact that homosexuals have the same rights as heterosexuals.

And for the citizens of our state who support the proposition in the wildly uneducated but strongly indoctrinated belief that homosexuality can be taught to their children in school and by use of books about gay marriage, they believe passing such an amendment will protect their children from the “evils” of education and provide them rather with the benefits of indoctrination to prejudice and intolerance, regardless of the facts of life.

Also, in the sad and harmful belief that they are acting morally by supporting Proposition 8, they are sadly harming a significant number of people in the State of California by their immoral act.

Vote NO on proposition 8!

REDUCE HEALTH CARE COSTS THE EASY WAY

Jesus, where are you when we need you?

The cost of health care in the United States is twice as much per capita as the cost in any other westernized country in the world. The quality of health care ranks 24th in quality and availability when compared with those other countries. This amazing state of affairs has brought tragedy to many Americans and shock, dismay, and poor health care to a large number of insured people, mostly the working lower and middle classes. In addition, because of the high cost of health care insurance, many Americans are forced into frightening situation of not being able to obtain any health care outside of government or charitable offerings.

The reason for this situation is that a substantial amount of money that goes into the health care system, goes to companies that do not deliver any form of health care, namely, the insurance companies. Most of that money goes into profits, executive officer compensation at extremely high levels, and into the reserve pot of money from which actual payment for delivery of health care is drawn.

That "pot of money" is invested by the insurance companies for profit making purposes and that profit does not get injected back into the pot but instead goes into the coffers of the insurance companies for their own uses, namely, distribution of dividends to shareholders.

The easy way to reduce heath care costs is to remove all insurance companies from the health care field. The only costs that will continue are the costs of clerical workers (who are trained to deny health care to insureds under an enormous variety of pretexts) and other necessary costs such as office supplies, rent, and usual and customary costs of any legitimate business.

Then the "pot of money" can be invested in the same way the insurance companies invest it and the profits returned for delivery of health care.

This is comparable to Jesus chasing money-lenders from the temple.

AMENDMENTS FOR ALL AMERICANS

The County Clerk gets anywhere from $10 to $25 to issue a state approved marriage license. Pastor Priest Mullah gets as much as possible to guarantee God approved Holy Matrimony. RELIGION HAS INFILTRATED GOVERNMENT - NO? Fortunately, the population has a choice about most aspects of marriage.

You are not allowed to masturbate. Black and white may not marry. You can be arrested and fined for having or giving oral sex. No matter how lonely a cowboy is, he may not have sex with a cow. It’s OK for a teacher to talk about war and killing and bloodshed to the kids in her class. It should be a federal offense to say that two women or two men can get married.

I would like to see constitutional amendments for some very important values in my eyes. Making dictionary definitions into law or changing dictionary definitions into law, does not get me excited. Like “Marriage must be between a man and a woman,” does not strike me as warranting a change to the foundational laws of the United States. Now, if it were to be changed to, “Marriage must be between a man and a woman of the same color,” that would get me excited. Or, “Masturbation, oral sex, and bestial sodomy, not leading to human conception, are against the interests of the United States,” would be a good constitutional amendment. Or how about,”Showing pictures of war and bloodshed on television is OK, but showing a bare breast, by shocking the under-eighteen year old population, is forbidden.” I know that Pastor Priest Mullah would like such constitutional amendments.

How about a constitutional amendment that states, “No person in the United States may be denied health care due to “Insufficient Funds.” Or, “No establishment shall make a profit by controlling the distribution of health care if that establishment does not provide health care.”

How about, “There shall be a single national standard for driver education and testing in the United States.”

I like amendments that are not faith-based and that have wide beneficial impact on the people of the United States. How do you feel about that?

BELIEF, TRUTH, AND REALITY

Belief requires no proof of any kind. Reality requires proof.

There is a real reality and a fake - or many fake - realities. Reality is what is. Proof of reality requires acceptance of scientific method. First, there is a theory. Then there is the gathering of data and information. Then, if theory and data agree, you have a fact. That is reality.

Creating fake reality is like creating magic. You convince the viewer that what he sees is real. The more realistic it looks or the harder it is to see the mechanisms whereby the magic is performed, the closer you get to fake reality. You do not prove that magic is real or reality. Watching it sends the viewer away with the question, "How did he do it?"

If you do not agree with this analysis, please tell me. If you agree with this analysis, I'll go to a couple of the fake realities of the day and show you how the magic was performed.

BTW, I am not trying to prove or disprove the existence of God. But I truly believe that God is not real nor a reality. He is a fake reality conjured up for good and evil by manipulators of mankind for good and nefarious ends.

Truth is what you believe to be true. Figure that one out.

MARRIAGE IS A CONTRACT BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE

Marriage is a contract, generally between two people of the opposite sex, the same religious persuasion, the male being the elder and larger of the couple, the same ethnic background and the same color. But that is only “generally,” and it is generally the situation in the United States. IT COULD BE VERY DIFFERENT!

In other countries, other restrictions or conditions “generally” apply, such as, payment of money, goods, or livestock by one party or the party’s family to the other party or party’s family, or permission by one of the party’s fathers or parents for a marriage to take place after investigation into various requirements or prohibitions such as class, tribal affiliation, relative wealth, or other conditions common to the culture of the marrying people. When all the issues are settled, as in civil contract law that requires an Offer, an Acceptance, and Consideration, that is, an exchange of something of value between the parties, the contract is then affirmed.

Religious officialdom has imposed rules and regulations on marriage that are as varied as the religions themselves and the representatives of those religions who have been given the right by a higher-up to pronounce the marriages “OK.” All religions call for their particular God to bless the contract and make it holy, or whatever “holy” means to them. But contracts are between people, and judging from the rate of divorce, and despite the “holy matrimony,” contracts can be broken – and sometimes should be broken.

The United States, by virtue of its laws, its diversity, and the intelligence and way of life of the American people, has legally done away with such conditions and requirements. In most marriage license-providing government offices, the only requirement is a blood test assuring the couple and the state that neither of them have a sexually transmitted disease, presumably for the health and safety of each member of the couple and their potential offspring. With license in hand, the couple is married in the eyes of the law. But they must be of the opposite sex except in three states, where a couple can be of the same sex and obtain a marriage license.

What the Framers of the constitution of the United States put asunder, Church and State, God has joined together. Joan of Arc can now be burned at the stake and the Spanish Inquisition’s Torquemada can pull people apart on the wheel because they are destroying the sanctity of the state’s Gods. The religionists of America have united to assure that only THEIR Gods can determine the validity of the contract between two people who love, honor, and cherish each other until death do they part.

California’s passage of Proposition 8 will prohibit the state from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. And America moves a little closer to its own destruction as a free country.

ORGANIZED CRIME

The American people have been subjected to theft, rape, and murder by extraordinarily successful gangsters in very expensive suits smoking very expensive cigars living in very expensive mansions. How? By theft of savings and retirement plans’ investments; rape of unwitting home-owners being screwed out of their deposits and the accumulated principals paid by them, however small or screwed out of health care by the "health coverage" crowd; and murder of jobs and murder of the futures of the masses of unemployed and murder of their children’s futures. That’s how!

This criminal activity was exponentially enhanced by the large number of mobs in cahoots with each other to perpetrate their crimes. The “mobs” were not Mafia or Columbian drug dealers. They were – and are – the bankers, the stock brokers, the insurance companies, the real estate conglomerates, and other entities that controlled, and still control, the amassed savings of millions of the lower and middle classes, and a small portion of the upper class of Americans. And, they were and currently are, aided and abetted in their criminal activity by lawless lawmakers in the three branches of government of the United States; the “de-regulators.”

The so-called “bailout” of these criminals and their companies is simply the further raiding of taxpayer dollars to assure the survival of this systematic pillaging and its morphing into a new and perhaps less obvious deadly form.

Short of a revolution, a legal armed rebellion against the wealthy perpetrators and their replacement by a strictly imposed law-and-order anti-capitalist culture of humanist ethical leaders, there is simply no way to overcome the power elite who have conducted this organized crime wave against the American people. These criminals belong in jail as do all members of organized crime - policed by ethical guardians of ethical laws, and not by their criminal pals.

EXPLAINING OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM

A little boy goes to his dad and asks, 'What is Politics?'

Dad says, 'Well son, let me try to explain it this way:

I am the head of the family, so call me The President.

Your mother is the administrator of the money, so we call her the Government.

We are here to take care of your needs, so we will call you the People.

The nanny, we will consider her the Working Class.

And your baby brother, we will call him the Future.

Now think about that and see if it makes sense..'

So the little boy goes off to bed thinking about what Dad has said.

Later that night, he hears his baby brother crying, so he gets up to check on him . He finds that the baby has severely soiled his diaper. So the little boy goes to his parent's room and finds his mother asleep. Not wanting to wake her, he goes to the nanny's room. Finding the door locked, he peeks in the keyhole and sees his father in bed with the nanny.

He gives up and goes back to bed .


The next morning, the little boy says to his father, 'Dad, I think I understand the concept of politics now. '

The father says, 'Good, son, tell me in your own words what you think politics is all about.'

The little boy replies, 'The President is screwing the Working Class while the Government is sound asleep. The People are being ignored and the future is in deep shit.


THANK YOU CORKY BORDELAY

GOD'S PLAN FOR JOHN McCAIN & SARAH PALIN

Sarah Palin, John McCain's running mate in the United States presidential election campaign of 2008, prays that the national leadership perform their tasks at the request of God. God's plans, according to Palin's belief system, are for the good of mankind.

I agree to that idea, only with a rather narrow focus; that God planned that John McCain choose Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential nominee in his election capaign, for the good of the American people.

God figured that the American people, having voted George W. Bush into office TWICE with Dick Cheney as vice-president, could not have been very astute. After all, His goal in those elections was that the people would choose better leaders for themselves by having such obvious choices between GOOD; intelligence. experience, knowledge, truthfulnrss, and honorability and EVIL; what the rapaciousness degradation the Bush Cheney ticket provided for them over eight years.

"I DIDN'T DO SUCH A GOOD JOB," said God, to no one in particular. "I'D BETTER MAKE IT CLEARER THIS TIME."

So He in His wisdom chose Sarah Palin to be John McCain's running mate, depending upon the American people's intelligence, even so low on the I.Q. scale, to figure out that Ms. Palin was clearly, substantially, signigicantly, majorly, etc. incapable and actually dangerous as a V.P. and potentially, were she to (Myself forbid, said God,) become president, be a major tragedy for America and the world, and would so scarify the people at the thought of it, they would vote Barak Obama into office on that single issue alone.

Let's hope God got it right this time. (If there is a God.)

THE POWER OF RELIGION - PART ONE

THE BIRTH OF BELIEF AND RELIGION

No other force in the history of human development has so entered the minds of the peoples of the earth as belief in a higher power, in God. In the ongoing attempt to segregate “nature” and “nurture” to determine behavior, no single attribute comes closer to nature’s DNA than nurture’s inculcation of belief.

The ideological attempt to conquer this phenomenon by communist countries’ pursuit of Marxian dogma has failed to eliminate the almost universal acceptance of god as real and active. Russia and its separated states have seen the return of the churches and the churchmen into the minds, hearts, and pockets of the people. In the China of today, where religion has been renounced for decades and is opposed by the State, a resurgence of religious belief and affiliation is surreptitiously taking place. In Turkey, when the Ottoman Empire was overthrown after World War I, church and state were separated firmly by law. Yet in the beginning of the 21st century, religionists were elected to power despite constitutional prohibitions. And the Arab world is beset with ignorance of almost everything except guns and religion.

How has this powerful force been created and why has it continued through the ages to a time when communist countries created laws that prohibited observance of the belief in god and the United States, the first nation that separated church and state by law, now allows laws on the books of various states mandating the belief in god. (One cannot serve on a jury in some states if one is a declared atheist.) Atheism as “anathema” has spread over the entire globe. How this has happened and how it continues to happen is easier to explain, easier to find the mechanisms for the expansion of religion, than why it continues to penetrate the minds of the masses with their acquiescence in view of its strong negative results in money and blood.


HOW RELIGION AND THE BELIEF IN GOD HAS BEEN INCULCATED IN ALL PEOPLES THROUGHOUT HUMAN HISTORY

Is belief in the un-provable, unknowable and un-seeable a “natural” phenomenon? Is belief a survival tactic in the Darwinian sense, passed down through the ages by the fittest of Homo sapiens? Does Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, also called “ritual,” a common denominator in all religions, primitive and modern, provide power to overcome the ills to which mankind has been and is subjected; ills like poverty, disease, and war? (Note that two of these three are man-made.)

Is the corrosiveness of fear of the unknown dissipated by religion and its minions providing believers un-provable and often absurd answers about the nature of the “Unknown.” Pre-civilization belief in higher powers grew from awe in unexplainable natural events, some of which were life giving and others of which were life-threatening or life-taking. Sun, rain, lightening and thunder, flood and earthquake were inexplicable events. Forests, lakes, rivers, oceans, mountains, and all of natures’ living creatures provided man’s food, clothing, and shelter and his growing brain with food for thought. Birth, but more so, death, operated to create personal unknowns and fears.

Pantheistic gods were created and passed down from generation to generation with embellishments based on existential experience with the forces and laws of nature. As mankind spread over the face of the earth, similar gods and natural religions in all societies grew out of similar experiences.

Such originally natural religions were co-opted and creatively expanded and manipulated by smart and charismatic shamans who created “priesthoods” and exploited mankind’s fears and the inexplicable nature of those natural phenomena to provide money and produce power for themselves. They created the trade of selling belief as relief and made-up “answers” to the mysterious unknowable events in the lives of the gullible. They built “religion” with all of its obeisance to edifices, costumes, numerology, ritual, absurd beliefs and mumbo-jumbo.

Religious leaders are “ordained.” They have been provided with “authority” to deal in the answers about the unknown and the un-provable. They can explain the inexplicable. And they do so with the authority that higher-ups in the religious hierarchy have given them. They are the passageways to the unknown and the inexplicable. They are also the passageways for believers’ money and loyalty. Through them, the congregations provide the monetary where-withal for the spread of religion and the soldiers’ bodies for loyalty to the nations in which they reside.

Rituals and ritualistic behavior are building blocks in the religious edifice that occupies the minds of believers. From the seven days of the Creation to the Ten Commandments to biblical numerology, the magic and power in numbers in religious observance is incredible. Every religion has numbers as potent totems of power. There are days when you must do and days when you are prohibited from doing. You must bow or not bow. The sun, the moon, and the stars may command you. So too with foods, the times of eating and the times of fasting, the acceptability of certain foods and the prohibitions on others, permeate all religions. Clothing that is worn at all times or on certain days. Caps and shawls, fringes and coat lengths, white caparison for the dead in China and the living in the western world. From childhood to deathbed, religion provides the vehicle for belief and relief.

The general answer to the “How?” religion became entrenched is that belief provides relief. But first, people must be taught to be in awe, to be afraid, to believe in belief as the answer to problems and pain, to the end of history or the end of the world. Belief must provide “salvation” and forgiveness for sins. And the more complicated the beliefs and the rituals, the more saleable they become to the common people.

THE DAY OF REPENTANCE FOR SINS

First sin of 5769 - no time to be like Jonah!

This is a copy of an email by David Meyers to his list. David is a son of mine and what he writes is a clear indictment of John McCain and Sarah Palin for dangerous and "sinful" behavior.

As we conclude our annual soul-searching, we are hearing dangerous noises that are all to familiar. In its effort to win at all costs, the McCain-Palin campaign is fostering incitement against Barack Obama, whipping up their followers at rallies to a frenzy of hatred and loathing that is spine-chilling. A skin-headed, uniformed sheriff emphasizes Obama's middle name, "Hussein", to cries of "traitor" and "kill him." Palin herself barely stops short of calling Obama a "terrorist." Where does this lead? We know where this leads. If someone is a "traitor" or a "terrorist", what do we do? We seek them out and kill them, like we would Benedict Arnold or Osama bin Laden. There is no middle ground, no respectful disagreement, only a mandate to eliminate the threat.

Rewind to 1995, anti-Oslo rallies in Israel, effigies of Prime Minister Rabin in gestapo uniform being burned, shouts of "traitor." A clear mandate to kill - and if not Yigal Amir, someone else would have taken up the weapon. Because you have to kill traitors, not debate them and, if necessary, accept democratic defeat with honor and grace. Instead of one politician's ascendancy or continuation in power being undesirable, it becomes unacceptable and that is where democracy crumbles.

Despite his reprehensible role in whipping up anti-Rabin sentiments, at least Benjamin Netanyahu had some moral compass, backed by a knowledge of history, unlike Sarah Palin. When demonstrators at a rally shouted "Rabin is a traitor", he is seen saying "No, no, no. Rabin is not a traitor. He is mistaken and mistaken in a big way but he is not a traitor." No such compass or knowledge or conscience exist in Palin and she stands there doe-eyed, letting the frenzy take on its own life. Her running mate, with much more knowledge but perhaps having left his compass behind when he ejected from the cockpit, does nothing to dissuade his supporters from going down this path. As soon as this is allowed to happen, the implications are clear. People are not asked any more to compare the two patriotic records - fighting Communism in Vietnam (whether you agreed with that or not) and building democracy in Chicago by registering voters, or to compare the policies or the judgment of two men who want to do their best for the country. Instead, they are asked to define one of them an "enemy," and once you designate someone an enemy "all options are on the table." Is that the America that we want?

For many reasons that I have discussed on my blog - http://israeliamericansforobama.blogspot.com - we must elect Obama/Biden and not McCain/Palin and this is just one more example of the character of the two tickets. But, if you really must support McCain-Palin (can a Jew really believe that Palin can be President?)..but if you really have to support that ticket, then at least speak out to those whom you support. Tell them that you support their views but will not stand for incitement, demonization and demagoguery. Tell them that our people know where this leads. Educate Sarah Palin on the holocaust that she says we can't repeat but of which she has no understanding and of the difference between the democratic process and civil war (and, while you're at it, point out that the Constitution has no extra powers for her to assert). Tell them that this is unacceptable. Tell them that our democracy is more important than their victory and that your support requires them to accept that notion.

Let's not be like Jonah in the story that we heard today who ran from his responsibility to speak difficult truths. There is no time to get on the ship to Tarshish and there are not 40 days for Ninveh - or the United States - to repent.

Let's not start 5769 with the sin of silence. Speak out before this ugliness turns into tragedy.

Shana Tova and Gmar Chatima Tova, (
Have a good year and may you be written for the good in God's yearly journal.)

David

p.s. after finishing this, I heard audio from a McCain event where a questioner referred to "Obama, Pelosi and the rest of the hooligans" and McCain not only did not object but concurred. To those who talk about Iran as threatening a second holocaust, it should be pointed out that what started the holocaust was not threats against another nation but the deligitimization and demonization of fellow countrymen as the Nazis did to Jews in Germany. This is a much more dangerous and insidious threat than any external one.


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JOHN McCAIN and the POWER ELITE

"A Man is Known by the Companies He Keeps"

It has become obvious that George W. Bush was chosen to be president and Richard "Dick" Cheney was chosen to be his running mate by powerful (huge financial) entities who engineered his election all the way through the United States Supreme Court. The who and the which companies can be tolled from the pages of the New York Times over the past eight years. Not all of them appear there by any means. But by reading about who got what from their minions in the federal government, a picture has emerged that would scare an educated population. Unfortunately, thanks to government spending, we do not have an educated population.

Here is one example of a "minor" major industry that has benefited from its connection in, to, with, and how to the "elected" members of the government and the choices made by the higher echelons of that government that have always benefited the Power Elite of this country

On the editorial page of the December 12, 2008, edition of the paper under the title, "Anything Goes, Apparently," the following verifiable information was provided the reader as the factual basis of the editorial:

1. Edward Devaney, Inspector General of the Department of the Interior, provided this information to multiple House of Congress investigation committees.

2. As a result, Gale Norton, chosen by the Bush Administration to be Secretary of the Interior, was forced out of her position in 2006 as a result of mismanagement and conflicts of interest.

3. Officials at the Mineral Management Service of D.O.I., granted off-shore oil drilling leases and did not collect royalties due the U.S. Treasury, steered contracts and engaged in drugs and sex with oil company employees as part of a culture of substance abuse and promiscuity.

This inquiry provides the reader with a picture of how government is the servant of powerful money forces. Now we can look at the powers behind John McCain and his presidential election bid.

Let's start the inquiry with what got Sarah Palin into the vice-presidential slot on the Republican ticket. Because Palin is such a far-out choice, so eminently unsuited for the role of vice-president and, hush your mouth, the role of president were McCain to succumb to his illness, her selection must have been the fruit of careful manipulation of the decision-makers by very heavy hitters. This was callously performed without serious vetting of the lady and without sufficient logistical and strategic support from veteran political operatives. The calamity befalling the republican ticket as of this date is evidence of the huge gap between the brains and experience of the power elites and the playing experience of the rooks, knights, and bishops on the political chessboard.

With one month to Election Day, smart money is on Barack Obama to win the match. But - and this is a serious but - never underestimate your opponent, especially where wealth and power is concerned.

INSURANCE COMPANIES WIELD ENORMOUS POWER

From where and from whom are the presidential candidates getting so much money to pay for their campaigns. Try this as a small example..

On a day to day basis, insurance companies (ins cos) have a greater influence on the American people's lives than any other entity after government and God. From birth to death, insurance company power gives and takes - but mostly takes - in ways that are so hidden yet so numerous, so complex, so interwoven with all aspects of daily life, that it is almost impossible to weigh the impact they have on each and every individual.

As with all power elites, ins cos control enormous amounts of money that provides them with the clout they possess.

In no particular order, here is a list of some of the clear and overt ways ins cos accumulate wealth:
Life Insurance
Health Care Insurance
Fire, Flood, Earthquake and other Natural Disaster Insurance
Automobile coverage
Theft and other crime
Business liability, failure, theft and loss coverage
Workers Compensation insurance
Maritime insurance
Travel insurance
Acts of God

The cost of performing almost any human activity includes payment to ins cos.

The nominal basis for ins cos' existence is called, "Spreading the Risk." Whether an event will happen for sure, like death, or may or may not happen, like being struck by lightning, ins cos have accumulated experience ratings for the occurrence or non-occurrence of almost every event imaginable, it's timing, its frequency, its severity, its repair-ability, and any other ramification that will affect whether or not to insure against it, and, if to insure against it, how much to charge for the insurance and how much to pay the insured in the event of its occurrence.

The real basis for ins cos' existence is to accumulate wealth. Take in more than you pay out, use the accumulated capital to invest in more lucrative business endeavors than insurance, deny payment for an insured event whenever possible and for any possible reason, pay as little as possible when an insured event occurs, attempt to shift the burdens of payment to others, whatever works to protect your wealth - do it!

This leads insurance companies to spread their risk by re-insuring with other, larger ins cos and passing the cost of that additional coverage to the consumer who purchased the insurance policy.

The impact of ins cos power and functioning on the masses immediately becomes clear. They generally get screwed unless they have a history of paying insurers more than they receive from insurers. That's simple.

Loss of health care coverage is the crying example of how the American people are being robbed. What are ins cos doing in health care at all? What is "coverage?" The people mistakenly think they are paying for health care when in fact they are simply paying insurance companies to make a lot of money. And they have been indoctrinated to believe that if government took over the delivery of health care, they would suffer more than they are presently. That is such proof of the level of intelligence and gullibility of the American people, it defies belief.

What is hidden from the people is the impact of that enormous accumulation of wealth on government in all its functions. Laws are passed by legislators and signed by presidents that favor the ins cos. Those laws are upheld against legal attacks by the court system whose justices have been chosen by legislators put into power by ins cos and other power elites using their wealth to assure their future ability to acquire even greater wealth.

REVERSE PERISTALSIS - SARAH PALIN

Webster's Unabridged Dictionary defines peristalsis as successive waves of involuntary contraction passing along the walls of the intestine or other hollow muscular structure and forcing the contents onward.

Usually, what the mouths of most animals - including humans - take in, passes through the intestines, a hollow muscular structure, forced onward and outward through the anus. In Sarah Palin's case, the process appears to be working in reverse. The Republican Party tactical political geniuses who have been pumping words through Ms. Palin have been using an enema bag filled with excreta about presidential candidate Barack Obama. This results in reverse peristaltic discharges of aromatically and foul-tasting material through her hollow muscular structure, her mouth.

By allowing and enabling this process, Ms. Palin has revealed an extraordinary shallow capacity for thinking and an extraordinarily gargantuan capacity for malicious stupidity, unless she actually enjoys eating her own excreta. And her smiles, winks, and head-tossing do seem to indicate that she is pleasuring herself by her vocal ejaculations.

Sadly, substantial portions of the American electorate seem to be pleasuring themselves vicariously as they watch and listen to this ventriloquist's dummy getting her rocks off on candidate Obama.

ATHEISTS DO NOT MAKE HISTORY

Atheists do not make history. That's a fact. Can you think of any historical event that was made by Atheists? As a simplistic answer to the unasked question, "Why don't Atheists make history?" it is because there is no money to be made in atheism. Money means power. Power means war. Huge amounts of money are made by going to war, even if it is war against Indians or Spaniards. And whoever wins the war makes the history. Does that make sense?

God-believers make history. We study the Crusades. Now THAT's history. Christians against Moslems. The Moslems had it. The Christians wanted it. War. Money out and money in. Let's look at Columbus and the "discovery" of the "New World." In 1492Columbus sailed the ocean blue in ships bought and paid for by their Catholic majesties, Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand. He did not fall over the edge of the world. He sailed around until he bumped into America. Indians lived there because Columbus was sailing to India. The Indians had gold and no God. Columbus had no gold and had God. They made an exchange. Columbus gave the Indians God and the Indians gave Columbus gold. Now that's history. No Atheists were involved.

In World War II, we were told that there were no Atheists in fox-holes. Everyone who was shooting at anyone, was not an Atheist. Not the Nazis, not the Fascisti of Italy nor Hirohito's Japanese warriors, not the Communist Russians, and certainly not the other good guys, the Allies, were Atheists. Nope. They all believed in God and God was on THEIR side. Oh boy! A lot of history was made in World War II. But not by Atheists.

So I wonder, if Atheists don't believe in God, does that mean they don't believe in war? Or do they simply not believe in making history?