Real Hope and Change in 2013

So. Yeah. With this new year I've begun to feel very differently about things. I don't think I'm any less than I was, or that I've decided to hug trees and wear Birkenstock sandals and smoke weed. Sorry, not my scene. But I realized I'm also not opposed to people who do. I'm not opposed to gay marriage, or abortion in some respects. I have disagreements with people over the function and usage of these ideals, but not the basic premise.

All people should have the right to be in a civil union and have the same rights. But I believe that the "sacrament of holy matrimony" or marriage as defined by the church is a valid religious concern and should not be subject to scrutiny by the gay community. I also feel that the Christians need to separate themselves from the secular definition of marriage as defined by the states.

In regards to abortion, I will not deny a woman's right to choose, I do however have a strong disagreement as to why we need abortion and what it is currently used primarily for. only about 1% of all abortions are because of rape, incest, or medical necessity, that leaves 99% of abortions as elective for numerous mundane reasons. This means that in general abortion is being used as a violent form of birth control. As a father of two very unique daughters, and one unique son I know that the moment of their conception is what made them who they are, and it was those unique circumstances that brought them into my life.

Conception can only lead to a human being, and therefore, regardless of whether or not a brain is formed, or the fetus feels pain in those early stages, it is still a human being, and you have chosen to bring it into the world through accident, or carelessness; and have now decided to end it's existence without just as much carelessness. Congratulations you hold the power of life and death over a pea sized pre-born human being who didn't ask to be created, and also has no say in his untimely demise.

So now that you understand my objections to the two most heated topics of the day, let me get back to the reason for this post. A lot of my earlier posts were tinged with a lot of hate and righteous indignation. Since the inception of this blog my mood has been tempered by many factors, and because of this I've decided to make a few changes.

The most significant change will be the general intention of this blog. I no longer support the majority of conservative representatives in office today. I also oppose most liberal congressmen as well. I've decided that to change the system we need a totally new system; and to do that we need a new way of thinking. We need to bring people together to think about how we can live with the maximum amount of freedom, with the least government intrusion, and the most balanced form of government regulation necessary to protect people from large corporate entities that are unscrupulous and whose practices pose a threat the the health of the citizenry.

I will be focusing on human issues, and how the government is either helping or hindering those human issues. I will be looking at ways to effectively change government from without, and arm the people with knowledge to keep them safe from government intrusion. I will not be posting articles specifically on how to keep the cops from finding your weed stash hidden in your car. While I think pot should be legal, right now it isn't so your on your own brothers and sisters. I will however tell you facts related to law and how to best defend yourself against bad doobies in the government and police department.

This will be a big task for me, separating the facts in the law books, from the convoluted nonsense of the 'sovereign' citizen and the 4th amendment card holders who are well intentioned, but sometimes woefully misinformed. I am not a lawyer or a constitutional scholar, but I hope over the coming months I will become as near to both to be able to serve you well and arm you with correct and accurate information.

I have been running this blog for nearly three and a half years now and regardless of where life takes me, I will continue to write in it even if it it only to satisfy my own needs when the rest of the world has stopped reading or caring. This is one of my favorite outlets, and I'm so glad that I have started this particular journey.

I am trying to reconcile my minds deepest conflict, the one where half of my mind is telling me that we are all one energy and can live in harmony with the universe, and the other that tells me that, you can spout all the consciousness you want, but if you try that shit in Iran you'll probably get strung up from a lamppost, and that's not a joke, it's reality. So I'm going to focus on the folks who want to hear a positive message, even if some of them are convinced that they can radiate enough love to make psychopathic dictators give up their evil ways and embrace sustainable farming.

We are all unique and beautiful, but some of us are stupid. My only hope is that I can make a few of you less stupid. Sorry if you think that's harsh, but I was born without a properly working filter in my brain so you will hear only the truth and the world as I see it. It might not be pretty, but we're really living in it, so you should see it for what is while still trying to focus on the beauty of it as well.

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Union Terrorists Destroy Quaker Meetinghouse

Excerpted from Reason: Police say union workers “almost certainly” torched an under-construction Quaker meetinghouse in northwest Philadelphia four days before Christmas. The Chestnut Hill Friends had hired non-union labor for the project, which discommoded several construction unions.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer:

Vandals with an acetylene torch crept onto the project’s muddy construction site in the middle of the night. Working out of view in the meetinghouse’s freshly cemented basement, they sliced off dozens of bolts securing the bare steel columns and set fire to the building crane, causing $500,000 in damage.

Police detectives deemed the attack arson because of a series of confrontational visits from union officials days before the incident. They say the torch could only have been operated by a trained professional, and believe it was almost certainly the work of disgruntled union members. The city has assigned extra investigators to the case and is working with federal forensic experts to track down the vandals, said Michael Resnick, the city’s public safety commissioner.


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Excerpted from Philly.com: It was probably back in 1997, though some think it might have been even earlier, when the Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting concluded that it had outgrown its space and that it was high time to erect a new building. But because it is not the Quaker way to rush into things, the group spent a few more years reflecting on whether it should buy land on Mermaid Lane for the new meetinghouse.

Even after the group sealed the deal in 2003, there was still plenty more talking and thinking and praying to be done about the undertaking. There was a “dialogue session” to articulate the group’s “touchstone values,” then, a year later, a workshop with a facilitator, and, finally – just to be certain – a retreat for members.

As agonizing as the process was, the result is a trim little design, faced in traditional Wissahickon schist, that will visibly reflect the ideals Quakers hold dear, from respect for the environment to plain old good neighborliness. And yet, in one crucial way,  

the $5.8 million project now under construction is also a frank acknowledgment of real-world conditions: To afford Philadelphia’s first new Quaker meetinghouse in 80 years, the Chestnut Hill Friends felt their only option was to employ a nonunion contractor.
And now they are paying the price.

Four days before Christmas, the Friends’ world was rocked by the sort of violence they have devoted their lives to stamping out.

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Alleged Occupy Organizer and His Pregnant Girlfriend Arrested for Possesion of Bomb Making Materials, Terrorist Books, and Guns

Happy New Year everyone. The good folks at Occupy decided to ring in the New Year by trying to blow some mother fuckers up with bombs and guns and shit. Wow. I love how sensitive they are. 27 year old Morgan Gliedman, is the daughter of a prominent NYC doctor, and her boyfriend Aaron Green, 31-were arrected today after it was discovered they had guns, bomb making materials and a book entitled the Terrorists Encyclopedia in their Greenwich Village apartment. Aaron Green is an Occupy organizer.

The police went to the couples apartment for Gliedman was was wanted on credit card theft charges. it was then they discovered a substance known as HMTD, which is highly explosive and highly unstable. After her arrest, Gliedman went into labor and was rushed to the hospital. I don't know why this couple had the things they had in their possession, and I certainly don't understand how this girl could sanction explosives and terror manuals in her home when she is 9 months pregnant. Honestly, for the childs sake I hope her boyfriend was hiding this from her and she was not a part of it. That child doesn't deserve to grow up without it's parents. Sad, and no new years eve too.

I do hope, however that they can link this guy to a major Occupy terrorist cell so I can have an awesome laugh at their expense.

Read more at NBC News and at the DailyMail and also the Huffington Post, where they fail to mention even once Aaron Green's ties to Occupy Wall Street. Occupy spokespeople are denying any knowledge of this person and claim that the movement is too large to know everyone, and that it is impossible to say this is related to OWS in any way.

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Fiscal Cliff a Repeat of 1937 Roosevelt Economy ?

With the fiscal cliff looming, and only a few short days to come up with a fix, you would think that congress and the senate would be desperate to let go of the mutual animosity and try and come up with a constructive fix, and fast. I guess Harry Reid never got the memo. He went after John Boehner and congress with a vicious personal attack that really underscores the inhuman demeanor that Democratic party has taken on in the last four years. While Reid and the President are back in Washington, the house doesn't reconvene until Sunday.

Reid couldn't wait that long, and in a fit of brutally insensitive fury unleashed this gem of soulless dribble at the members of the House of Representatives:

"We are here in Washington working while the members of the House of Representatives are out watching movies and watching their kids play soccer and basketball and doing all kinds of things. They should be here," Reid said. "I can't imagine their consciences."

Yes, God forbid they spend some time with their families during Christmas. They should be in Washington sitting on their thumbs, hopelessly waiting on the Democrats to stop trying to suck our wallets dry and tank the economy yet again and come up with a plan that will put America back on the right track. probably not going to happen.

It's good to know that history is totally lost on Barack Obama and his cohorts as they try to ram through the same kind of nonsense that helped the economy nose-dive back in 1937 when Roosevelt decided that a higher tax burden was just what a struggling US economy needed. Despite cutting spending, the revenue brought in from the new taxes only had a temporary effect and as the economy sank, diminishing returns was what they were left with.

New Years is here and still no deal. I wonder if it will all be blamed on the Republicans.

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