Am I missing something again? Has anyone even THOUGHT of being BRAVE by standing his ground to appeal even ONE of these FACIST takeovers of corporations, banks, brokerage houses, etc. to the U. S. Supreme Court? None of us voted for this! Who says the guy in The White House can fire the CEO of General Motors? If any worker on GM's assembly line had dropped his tools, gone up to Rick Wagoner's office and "fired" him, Wagoner would have had the worker fired and escorted out by guards. Yet, another man who has no more authority over Wagoner than that worker caused Wagoner to turn chicken, dutifully obey, and abandon his job! Do we have ONLY weenie-wooses and girlie-men heading our major companies? If there had been ONE man of courage, we should have seen ONE case on The Court's docket. If ALL CEO's and boards just give in to this EVIL, then the country will truly be OVER. And we had better see SOME decision soon by The Court about this RAPE OF AMERICA while The Court is still mostly conservative. Justice Souter just announced that he will step down in June. The Republicans have ONLY this last chance to save the country by blocking Obama's nominees! If they WIMP-OUT as they did in 1993 by almost unanimously allowing Ginsburg on The Court, then not only the country but also the whole world will be FINISHED. Communism and Islam will have WON. Then they will settle with each other in some final war for domination while whatever few christians and conservatives who may happen to still be alive will weep in horror from their hideouts! Is it better to fear God or to fear men? Happy May Day! You may have to get used to them!

The Anti-Capitalist Mentality by Ludwig von Mises, D. Van Nostrand Co., 1956

Hating Whitey -- and Other Progressive Causes by David Horowitz, Spence Publ., 1999

The Politics Of Bad Faith by David Horowitz, Free Press, 2000

The New Thought Police by Tammy Bruce, Prima Publishing, 2001

Useful Idiots by Mona Charon, Regnery, 2003

Do-Gooders by Mona Charon, Sentinel, 2004

Hating America by John Gibson, Regan Books (Harper Collins), 2004

The New American Revolution by Tammy Bruce, William Morrow, 2005

The Professors -- The 100 Most Dangerous Academics In America by David Horowitz, Regnery, 2006

Indoctrination U -- The Left's War Against Academic Freedom by David Horowitz, Encounter Books, 2007

The Litigation Explosion by Walter K. Olson, Plume (Penguin), 1991

Fast Lawyers And Fading Justice by Cabaniss & Waldrop, Vantage Press, 1992

The Death Of Common Sense -- How Law Is Suffocating America by Philip K. Howard, Random House, 1994

Kill All The Lawyers -- Shakespeare's Legal Appeal by Daniel J. Kornstein, Princeton Univ. Press, 1994

The Tempting Of America by Robert H. Bork, Free Press, 1990

The Framers And Fundamental Rights edited by Robert A. Licht, AEI Press, 1991

The South Was Right ! by James and Walter Kennedy, Pelican Publ. Co., 1994

Why Government Doesm't Work by Harry Browne, St. Martin's Press, 1995

The End Of Democracy by Richard John Neuhaus, Spence Publ., Co., 1997

Bias  by Bernard Goldberg, Regnery, 2002

Arrogance  by Bernard Goldberg, Regnery, 2003

Partners In Power -- The Clintons . . .  by Roger Morris, Henry Holt & Co., 1996

A Mandate For Terror by H. O. Schoenberg, Shapolsky Books, 1989

Scottish singing sensation Susan Boyle launched a huge new career for herself last week when she stunned that audience in Glasgow with her performance of "I Dreamed A Dream" from the play Les Miserables. Within 3 seconds of her first note, she had turned around a mocking crowd and owned the house! It was the perfect voice, the perfect song, and, yes, the perfect timing.

How do we explain the magic effect that continues to grow here in America? It was not just her perfect VOICE, though that will make her a star. That it was the perfect SONG is the heart of my message here. Most of us have never really heard and "experienced" that song because it hasn't seen much airtime on our FREE radio stations. Until Susan's night, that song usually had to be BOUGHT on CD or PAID for via a concert or Broadway play ticket. I would guess that 99% of British and American people never paid for that song. That song is now being played tens of millions of times on U-Tube. Yes, we play it over and over BOTH because of her voice and because it is new to us. That song has been around since 1985 waiting for us to discover it -- just as Susan Boyle has been singing for decades in church and at charities waiting for us to discover her. Now, God has brought these two together for us all and at this perfect TIMING.

Why the TIMING? Because we in America are losing our freedoms to liberals who want to shut down OUR voices. They want to stifle talk radio and FOX News. They don't "hear" our voices. They think we conservatives are just UGLY and should have no opportunity to perform on the world stage. The conservative voices really began to blossom on radio after 1987 with the repeal of the old "Fairness Doctrine". Now, liberals want to bring it back so as to shut us up. Can it be just a coincidence that Susan's performance was last Saturday in Britain -- just before our Tax Tea Party Day here in America? I don't think so! Her voice -- and ours -- cannot now be stopped!

The conservative voice is not new. It has always been and always will be. But it had been bottled up, shut up, and silenced in this country since 1865 when Northern Liberals finally put down the Conservative South here. The Declaration of Southern Independence was anathema to Northern Liberals. This same dichotomy between North and South still exists. Look at electoral maps! Most Northern States vote liberal and are blue. Most Southern and Western States vote conservative and are red. The causes of that separation 148 years ago were, I now see, much deeper at root than any of our establishment historians have ever seen. It wasn't just about States Rights or slavery. Those reasons were actually numbers two and three. The most fundamental reason for the separation was the conflict between Conservatism and Liberalism. This is the SAME ongoing conflict we still see today.

Northern Liberals have always been this way: they want freedom for themselves and will allow rights to Conservatives only on Liberal's terms. Geraldo Rivera last night (Saturday April 18th) reviled Texas Governor Rick Perry for noting that the Texas Constitution contains the specifically-spelled-out wording that Texas CAN secede from The Union if it ever so desired. Texas is the ONLY State that was admitted to The Union BY TREATY between TWO NATIONS. That means that the United States Senate RATIFIED that treaty in 1845 and, so, Texas' right to secede became LAW OF THE LAND according to the U. S. Constitution, Geraldo. Texas LAWFULLY exercised that right in 1861 and then ratified The Constitution of The Confederate States of America. The eleven CSA States were FORCED back into The Union after a war waged on them by Northern Liberals.

Now, because of a simple noting of the secession clause in the midst of a speech in which The Governor also noted that 34 other States (more Northern ones than Southern Ones, Geraldo) have taken up bills that invoke the Tenth Amendment and State sovereignty, Geraldo says that Perry is speaking treason! But, Geraldo doesn't understand the difference between treason and yearning to be free. Treason exists when a man sells military secrets to an enemy for cash. A separation movement is NOT treason! Was it treason for our 13 colonies to separate from Britain in 1776, Geraldo? Was it treason for Eastern European Block countries to separate from The Soviet Union in 1990, Geraldo? Liberals support separation movements all over the world. But if any movement of Conservatives to separate HERE from THEM threatens THEIR need for elitist control, THEY stamp it out! THEY call it "treason" and send in police or troops.

All this is why Susan Boyle's Big Night was so important. Cinderella was held down for so long by her three ugly sisters and the local society could not see her true beauty. Likewise, Conservatism is held down by big UGLY sisters of Liberalism. Cinderella busted out Saturday night. She had her moment at The Ball and Conservatism will too.

When Susan's first CD album comes out, I will claw my way to the front of the line to buy it. I'm sure Geraldo will buy a copy too. But he won't understand it's significance. He will just enjoy the emotional experience. We don't hate you Geraldo. Conservatives don't hate. Liberals mistake righteous anger for hate. What we do is feel sorry for you liberals because your minds have been blinded by the "god of this world" who himself can never dream a righteous dream.

I find myself wanting to know ALL the words to "The Song". I yearn to hear the full version of it by Susan. That night, British people heard it FREE on their TVs. But Susan's performance might not have come to America (where it is needed most) had she not been ugly. Her looks and the irony of it all were the reason "The Song" came here. She was held back because of prejudice. "The Song" was held back because it wasn't free. We Conservatives are held back by Liberal domination. But, Susan will be beautiful in the next life. "The Song" will last forever. And Liberalism will be put in it's place. This is FOR US now because we get to hear "The Song" and it's hidden message of Freedom.

--Ray Curtis, Sunday April 19, 2009

Is it just me or did I miss something? Mr. Obama's European Tour ran from March 31st till April 5th. He visited London, France, Germany, and The Czech Republic. He then visited Istanbul, Turkey. Finally, he made a surprise visit to Baghdad where he met our troops. I don't see anywhere on that itenerary that he visited Israel -- our main ally in the MidEast and the only democracy in the MidEast. He could so EASILY have visited Tel Aviv coming back from Baghdad. He had plenty of time to visit islamic mosques in each of those cities, yet he had no time for Jewish leaders! Why does this reinforce my STRONG suspicion that he is NOT a Christian, but rather is an islamic who is, behind our backs, aiding and abetting Israel's and the USA's islamic enemies' designs on our lands? He also, I'm told, did not visit our WWII memorials and cemeteries in England and France as did President Reagan. It saddened me to see so many of our troops in Baghdad cheering and clapping for him. I thought that our military personnel were, by majority, conservative. A collectivist "world mind" is beginning to affect us all!

--Ray Curtis, Wednesday April 08, 2009

The Death Of Money, by Joel Kurtzman, Simon and Schuster, 1993, 241pp.

I read this book in 1996 and it frightened me even then! It is ESPECIALLY appropriate reading today as we have seen worldwide economic meltdown! You will understand WHAT HAPPENED and WHY. We have allowed a group of "smarty-pants" economists to invent a NEW KIND of money never before seen. It is MEGABYTE money and exists only as blips in computers all over the world.

THE MEGABYTE ECONOMY is now scores of times larger than THE REAL ECONOMY. Money now has no tangible backing and exists of itself as a commodity to be traded. We see the rise of "The Transacting Economy" where money is made by whipping the megabytes around in a speculative frenzy of trading to exploit the tiniest descrepancies between currency and other commodity values. Today, the derivatives market totals over 62 trillion dollars -- more than the total GDP of the whole World! It has gotten so way out of control recently because, now, every home computer futures and options trader CREATES more NEW fake money each time they hit the "Go" button! This is WRONG!

Mass quantities of this CREATED money had to be loaned out. But bankers struggled to find borrowers. In the late 70s and early 80s, those were Central and South American countries and Nigeria. The loans went sour as those countries couldn't make payments. The world system teetered on the brink then. Today, it teeters again -- this time from bad mortgage loans which were just the tiny pin that burst the whole speculative bubble.

There are too many quotes in this book to list even a good sample. So, I have included the Table of Contents to give an overall feel for the material. The last 5 chapters discuss social impacts of all this economic insanity.

My favorite quote is on page 126 of Chapter 10: "The global economy, where real or imagined facts move markets, functions like a mystic or an individual on LSD. Attention, pure and uninhibited, is drawn not to what is true or important, but to everything equally. As a consequence, anything that catches the market's attention can move it."

--RPC, Thursday February 19, 2009

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Ch.1 MEGABYTE MONEY: How vast networks of computers linked together have created a new global form of highly volatile money and displaced governments in importance.

Ch. 2 THE QUANT FACTOR: How mathematicians and rocket scientists have replaced stock pickers and traders in the world's money markets and shortened the time frame for investing.

Ch. 3 THE ROOTS OF MEGABYTE MONEY: How Reuters Holdings invented the new electronic economy a century ago -- and continues to exploit it.

Ch. 4 A WEIGHTLESS DOLLAR: How President Nixon, choosing expediency over good judgment, inadvertently created megabyte money.

Ch. 5 STORING VALUE: Why megabyte money behaves differently from gold-backed money, and why economists fail to recognize that fact.

Ch. 6 CREATING MONEY: How The Fed was set up to avoid banking failures and issue money but ended up losing power and influence to the private sector.

Ch. 7 THE GLOBAL MONEY-MAKING MACHINE: When money making goes International outside the control of governments.

Ch. 8 THE ELECTRONIC ECONOMY GOES HAYWIRE: When an information overload caused the single world market to collapse with trillions in losses but few people hurt.

Ch. 9 ADVENTURES IN CYBERSPACE: Why the crash of October 19, 1987 was different from anything that preceded it.

Ch. 10 ELECTRONIC LOSSES: Why so few investors were hurt in the largest collapse in history.

Ch. 11 THE MONEY EQUATIONS: How a handful of computer "nerds", mathematicians, and Nobel prize winners propelled Wall Street away from trading products and into a realm of pure abstraction.

Ch. 12 MAKE WAY FOR THE PROGRAMS: How computer Programs were developed to hedge risk and manage money.

Ch. 13 COMPUTERS RUN THE SHOW: The invention of portfolio insurance and how it contributed to the debacle on Wall Street.

Ch. 14: OPPOSING FORCES: How the electronic economy is adding to instability not just in the economic sphere but in the social sphere as well.

Ch. 15 COMPLEXITY AND THE MARKETS: How even the most exquisitely complex and sophisticated systems are also fragile.

Ch. 16 THE CENTERLESS WHOLE: How the global electronic market is fueled by fads and fed by rumors to create shorter time horizons and more volatility.

Ch. 17 THE SOCIAL COSTS: When the economic unit is the Globe, where do people fit in?

Ch. 18 STABILIZING AN UNSTABLE WORLD: How volatility can be buffered to prevent widening chaos and upheaval.