That $4,500 rebate you will (or did) get for your new car is theft. It is more of the typical government theft of money from one group (taxpayers) that is given to others. So, that makes government the human-sanctioned arbitor of violation of one of The Ten Commandments -- "You shall not steal." It is not justified for you to participate in it because "everyone else is doing it." It is LONG PAST TIME for our preachers to warn the nation of our sins. What would Jeremiah say if he were here today? Israel in his time was in essentially the same state we are in today. God said to him, "Tell My people their sins." Among others, theft is a pretty bad one! And government has become practically a theft industry over the last half century. To accept welfare or a rebate from Washington is to fall into a carefully woven web of deceit. Politicians BUY your continuous support with these handouts as they carry out their 'makeover' of our society much as a controlling wife carries out a 'makeover' of her perceivedly deficient husband. God told Jeremuah to not go to their parties and to not go to their funerals. He wanted steel-faced obedience from Jeremiah as He sent the prophet to warn. Our political pundits are exposing WHAT is happening, but can't explain WHY it is. And, our preachers are equally clueless. Sin is not something that leftists believe exists, and our preachers are too chicken to call them on that. So, the religion of socialism (led by Communists) keeps winning. What will be the next cash handout? Cash For Refrigerators? Coupons For HDTVs? Oh wait, they already did that one. The socialists have been working long and hard to separate Christianity and State. When will we ever wake up and separate their socialist religion from State?

GLENN BECK: (Pat Gray hosting)

Pat mentioned that there are now 37 czars in this administration. So, I say . . . WOW!

JERRY DOYLE:

In the 3rd hour, Jerry read a summary of Mussolini's "Business Model" and showed how similar it was to Obama's model today. So, I say . . . if Obama is another such fascist dictator, where is our impeachment (if not, then Civil War?) to oust him?

RUSH LIMBAUGH:

In hr2, Rush read a summary of orders from Congress to insurance companies to submit information on salaries, internal affairs, etc. to government bureaucrats. But government is here once again (surprise!) outside powers granted to it under The Constitution. So, I say . . . that makes these ILLEGAL ORDERS. Soldiers in our Army are given the instruction that they do not have to obey an illegal order such as the murder of civilians. When will our corporations stand up to Congress and start disobeying ILLEGAL ORDERS? You DO NOT HAVE TO OBEY AN ILLEGAL ORDER!

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I have long had an interest in The American Civil War (should really be called The War For Southern Independence), though I never really knew why. I had hundreds of the Airfix 1" soldiers in blue and gray when I was in junior high school. Remember guys? Do you remember the box with cannons, caissons, and horses? Anyway, I poured over picture books and National Geographics and studied the battle maps with their beautiful colored bars that represented Corps and Divisions along with movement arrows. It was all glorious to a young kid (with his head all full of mush as Rush would say) as long as the 640,000 dead and 1.5 million maimed were kept out of mind.

Today, I learn the politics of that era and realize that the current liberal vs. Conservative War Between The Hates actually began by around the 1820s and erupted into shooting in 1861. It did NOT start with Teddy Roosevelt's progressivism as Glenn Beck has been learning. Hey Glenn, the stuff you've been learning is all true. BUT, that was only Satan's Phase 2 of his relentless assault on this nation of Israel. See my book review in the companion blog about who and where Israelites are today. Phase 3 picked up with FDRs socialism and continued through LBJs Great Society. We are now in Satan's Phase 4 -- an alliance between New World Order communists and Islam (read David Horowitz' book Unholy Alliance).

The typical 19th century response to tyranny and/or oppression was to take up arms and go to war. But in the latter half of the 20th century, we have seen a new and maybe more powerful kind of resistance. I like to call it "People Power". This is not the kind of "Mob Power" that stormed The Bastille in 1789. That mob freed France from it's King, but that mob was stirred up by socialists. That mob carried clubs, swords, and guns. That mob resulted in what was really the world's first communist government over a major country. The Reign Of Terror lasted 10 years until Napoleon stopped it. Russia 1917 was merely a repeat of France 1789. The Bolsheviks however learned from the previous French mistake of leaving Generals alive.

People Power is unarmed, massive, passive resistance. It was started (as far as I know) by Mahatma Gandhi in India in the late 1940s. It resulted in freedom from British rule. The Second People Power took place in 1960s America led by Martin Luther King. He openly said that he borrowed the tactics from Gandi. The Third People Power movement happened in The Philippines in 1986 led by Cory Aquino. All three succeeded with massive social change and freedom. Could The Fourth People Power be forming now here in America? Again, an unarmed, massive, passive resistance is forming against our oppressors -- our ELITISTS in government. I think yes -- BUT -- notice that each of the previous movements coalesced around a central figure. These were SPECIFIC INDIVIDUALS not groups, ideals, or locations. As I have said before, the human species acts en mass similar to sheep herds. This is why the Bible keeps referring to us as sheep. Sheep need a shepherd to LEAD them! Sheep without a shepherd run off in all directions. They CANNOT lead themselves from within the flock! Such a disorganized flock is what forms Bastille mobs and Red Brigades. I sense that today's People Power movement may be coalescing around Glenn Beck, though he doesn't know it and would probably not want to admit it. I just hear so many people discussing what was on his TV show the day before. His ratings on TV have gone to the moon. He just may be a man MADE for this time! Remember Jesus' words -- "Do not be overcome by evil. But overcome evil with Good." Today, we must overcome evil not with guns, but with sit-ins. Because the consequences of Civil Wars with modern technology are just unthinkable.

How does all this relate to our Constitution? Well, Amendments can ONLY be drawn up and submitted to the States by Congress. All WE THE PEOPLE can do is petition them to "please" (like Oliver Twist begging for more gruel) consider one. So, if this current People Power pressure succeeds in stopping the communist takeover of our medical system, maybe a MASS movement of People Power in each State to "persuade" Legislatures to "persuade" Congress to introduce an Amendment that would impose TERM LIMITS on all Congrssmen and Senators could be next. Do ya think? You betcha!

--Ray Curtis, Houston, Wed. August 19,2009

The last proposal of the previous article came to my mind when I saw in recent years a couple of cases in which a Supreme Court Justice recused himself due to some personal connection with a party before The Court. Those decisions were then made by a majority of liberals! Why? Because ONLY Conservatives would ever have the decency to think that they need to recuse themselves. Liberals on The Supreme Court would and will NEVER recuse themselves. They would and do jump at the opportunity to advance the liberal agenda. When a Supreme Court Justice recuses himself, who can fill in for him? All lower courts allow for a replacement judge to fill in. But S. Ct. liberal Justices probably marvel at the golden opportunities handed to them on silver platters whenever a Conservative Justice weenies out on them and leaves the battlefield to the enemy.

The question of whether a Justice can be impeached and removed has never been completely clear and defined. Yes, they serve as long as they want "on good behaviour". But what does "good behaviour" mean? Politically correct ideology maybe? Could a situation someday exist where The White House, House, and Senate are so fanatically controlled by one party that they impeach and remove all Justices who have an opposing ideology because their ideology is not "good behaviour" and not good for America? Maybe they would only need to remove ONE such Justice, enough to tip the balance in their favor. Maybe they could impeach him on trumped up charges. Maybe somebody could wright a really cool novel along those lines.

As socialism began to rise in our country since the 1930s, socialists (aka liberals) have recognized the Achilles heel that our Supreme Court poses. It is like a major hole in the enemy lines (us) that a decisive socialist general can run his army through. And speaking of The American Civil War (as I was with that last analogy) The Confedeate Constitution attempted to remedy weaknesses (in the U.S. Const.) that were already glaringly obvious by 1861. It was basically an adoption of the Federal one, but with a few changes. The document said almost nothing about a Supreme Court except to leave it open for creation at a later date. The lack of a Court reveals that the Southern leaders had no answer yet for it's problems, but agreed that the Federal one had been weak and problematic. If the Federal Court had ruled one way or another on the issue of whether a state could secede, war might have been avoided. The case was appealed to The Court more than once, but the Justices dropped the ball and chickened out. The Southern politicians argued and tabled each attempt to set up a Court over the next four years. And so, they never had a Supreme Court.

The Southern Constitution did have one change that I wish ours had -- it added more ways to amend the document. Our Constitution allows ONLY the House and Senate to introduce amendments and submit them to the States. If Congressmen get so entrenched in their cushy jobs as ours now are, WE THE PEOPLE have no real way to root them out via term limits. We need to "drain the swamp" as Jerry Doyle says. The Confederate Constitution had the same method, but added that any State Legislature could also draw up Amendments to be submitted to all the other States for consideration. This allowed for at least SOME greater innovation since new, fresh ideas could come from 24 origins ( 11 States with 2 houses each plus the central House and Senate) rather than from just 2. By the way, The Confederate Constitution had term limits built in for all in national office. President Jefferson Davis was limited to ONE 6-year term, for example.

--Ray Curtis, Houston, TX, Tuesday August 18, 2009

REFERENCES:

The South Was Right, Kennedy & Kennedy, Pelican, 1994

Dixie Betrayed, David Eicher, Little Brown, 2006

The Senate confirmation hearings over the nomination of Judge Sotomayor are yet another clear clear display for all to see of the weaknesses of our Supreme Court setup.

The Constitution actually said very little about The Supreme Court and cracks began to appear almost immediately in our young country. Since the Court's jurisdiction was so vaguely spelled out, Chief Justice John Marshall (in 1802) usurped by fiat that The Court has the authority to decide the constitutionality of all laws. Now, in modern times, The Court MAKES new laws and CREATES new rights from it's bench!

We talk of "checks and balances" between the three branches of The Federal government, but I believe that The Supreme Court, for all practical purposes, has NO check or balance on it. Why? Because any REAL check or balance must have some kind of enforcement. That would mean that the possibility of limitation, punishment, or removal be in play. None of these exist for The Supreme Court. The Senate confirmation hearings are supposedly THE check and balance for The Court. Yet these can easily be sidestepped by any candidate who is a master of legalese-deception-talk and mean nothing if senators are lax at this job. Why would we appoint ANYONE to ANY government position FOR LIFE? The framers thought that that should keep Justices out of the fray of politics. They were WRONG! We now know that ALL humans are political. We are a political species. The political cannot be separated from our genes. What is it the feminists say? The personal is political, and the political is personal. We (and Court Justices too) are fallen, sinful creatures in need of the regeneration of The Saviour. And, until that World of The Kingdom of God here on Earth, we ALL need controls on our various proclivities. So, I propose that we amend The Constitution to:

1) spell out the REAL jurisdiction(s) of The Supreme Court.

2) change the term of a Justice to one four year non-consecutive at a time.

3) allow confirmation by BOTH House and Senate.

4) no Justice can recuse himself from a case unless an Appeals Court Judge can be sworn in by temporary, case-specific appointment (again by House/ Senate approval).

--Ray Curtis, Friday August 14, 2009

Part 2 on Monday -- The Southern Confederacy's attempt to correct Supreme Ct. holes,

Part 3 on Tuesday -- The spiritual evil behind the step-by-step erosion of our counrty.

Sorry. I've been largely absent from the two blogs for 6 or 7 weeks. I've been moving some stuff into storage, hassling with car repairs, and just generally bemoaning my fate (it's from Shakespeare -- read a book!). It's been hard to write long articles because of time constraints. It's hard anyway to write stuff because I listen to so many pundits every weekday. These include Rush, Rusty Humphries, Jason Lewis, Jerry Doyle, Glenn Beck, and Michael Savage. I also catch the TV pundit shows O'Reilly, Hannity, Greta, and Beck. And The 700 Club has some good 7 to 10 minute video clips 3 or 4 times per week. On weekends, I listen to Wayne Allyn Root's 1 hr. show from Las Vegas, and also listen to my favorite pastor/preacher Ron Dart. And, I never miss Professor Michio Kaku's 3-hr show on Saturdays, Science Fantasic.

Since I must put SOMETHING up everyday to avoid losing regular readers, and since I'm listening to all these pundits anyway, I've decided to start a new regular segment which I will call "Nitpicking The Pundits". Here is the first NTP:

It seems to me that the conservative pundits fall into two main groups --

GROUP A

Those that believe we can pull ourselves out of our current political doldrums if we can just revive and restore The Republican Party. Get it back to it's Reagan roots.

These are all (or most?) of the FOX news people - O'Reilly, Hannity, Cavuto, Shep Smith, etc. and include Rush Limbaugh and many others on radio.

GROUP B

Those that seem to lean to some third party effort such as The Libertarian Party. They call themselves "Independent". They seem to believe that the Republican Party is hopelessly compromised and unrecoverable (kinda like when your hardrive gets that Blue Screen Of Death and makes clicking and grinding sounds).

They include Jerry Doyle, Rusty Humphries, Michael Savage, Jason Lewis, Neil Boortz, and Glenn Beck. All except Beck never appear on FOX News TV shows.

--Ray Curtis, Wednesday, August 12, 2009

The Obama people and all other Liberals need to go back and watch the first Rocky movie. Remember the scene where Apollo's trainer was watching a TV reporter babe interview Rocky at the meat packing plant where he worked? As Rocky proceeded to PULVERIZE a slab of hanging meat, the trainer called back to Apollo that, maybe he should come see this. But Apollo ignored the warning, reasoning that Rocky was just a NOBODY. That is what the Libs are thinking of the MASSIVE grass roots rising anger about the growing socialist/communist/islamic tentacles that are taking over the USA. Beware Libs. Your arrogance has awakened The Sleeping Giant. The Giant awoke on December 7, 1941 and again on September 11, 2001. Those slabs of meat didn't last very long, did they?

--RPC, Friday August 7, 2009

CONSERVATIVE:

You Can Lead a Politician To Water But You Can't Make Him Think, Kinky Friedman, Simon & Schuster, 2007

Weapons Of Mass Distortion, Brent Bozell, Crown Forum, 2004

100 People Who Are Screwing Up America, Bernard Goldberg, Harper Collins, 2005

Where The Right Went Wrong, Pat Buchanan, St. Martin's Press, 2004

The Great Betrayal, Pat Buchanan, Little, Brown and Co., 1998

Dead Right, David Frum, Basic Books, 1994

Give Me a Break, John Stossel, Harper Collins, 2004

Margaret Thatcher - The Downing Street Years, Margaret Thatcher, Harper Collins, 1993

The Wordsworth Dictionary Of British History, 1994

The Mammoth Book Of Eyewitness Naval Battles, Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2003

The Hidden Hitler, Lothar Machtan, Perseus Press, 2001

The Civil War Almanac, ed. Bowman, Gallery Books, 1983

Dixie Betrayed, David J. Eicher, Little Brown & Co., 2006

Morgan And His Raiders, Cecil Fletcher Holland, Macmillan, 1943

LEFTIST:

War And Anti-War, Alvin & Heidi Toffler, Little, Brown and Co., 1993

The Politics Of Meaning, Michael Lerner, Perseus Books, 1996

The Left Hand Of God, Michael Lerner, Harper San Francisco, 2006

Part 3 -- The Political Stage

Imagine that you are sitting in an auditorium looking up at a stage. On the stage are three chairs -- one to the left side, one in the center, and one to the right side.  A guy sits in each chair. This setup represents the THREE POSITIONS that viable political parties can occupy in a one-day election system. The guys in the chairs represent different parties. They can and do move around to sit in different chairs.

Democrats
(communists, fascists, libs.)
Liberal Left Chair

(imagine the above three groups as the three chairs and spread them out horizontally. I couldn't use any real graphics picture on this blog page)

--Ray Curtis, Monday, June 8, 2009

end of 3

Part 2 -- Where Should We Go?

Christians and conservatives must move from The Republican Party into The Libertarian Party. This must be done IMMEDIATELY because time is a factor in party building, fund-raising, advertising, etc. Why this Party? Conservatives have long had problems with some platform items of The Libertarian Party. That said, three key points must be realized:

1) The Libertarian Party is the ONLY FULLY VIABLE national party that can be considered on par with the two main establishment parties. Of all the several alternative parties, it is the ONLY one that was on ALL 50 state ballots in this last election. The quickest route to having a replacement party in a 2-party-one-day-election system is to energize an existing viable one rather than to attempt to build a new one from scratch.

2) The original Founding Fathers were a mix of what we today would call conservatives and libertarians. Before they split into actual parties in 1800, these men, working together, wrote The Constitution, Bill of Rights, and The Federalist Papers. They fought a war together and built a country together. Today, we must recreate those same bonds in order to save the country they started. Wayne Allyn Root, who ran as the Vice Presidential candidate on the Libertarian ticket last November, calls himself a mix of conservative, libertarian, and just common sense views. More and more Libertarians are coming around to accepting the pragmatism and necessity of certain conservative ideas. So, an amalgam of ideologies will form the Party platform.

3) To the best of my knowledge, The Insiders, that is, the elitists, super bankers, and the all-around New World Orderists have not taken over The Libertarian Party as they have the two establishment parties. They have smuggly overlooked The Libertarian Party as unimportant and unworthy of their attention while they concentrated on controlling the two main parties. They have also kept their news media and "culture shapers" reinforcing in us the magnanimous virtue of "The Two Party System".

The Libertarian Party had it's best performance ever last November scoring about 6% nationwide. Norm Coleman (Republican) and Al Franken (Democrat) nearly tied at 42% each in Minnesota's Senate race. Where went the other 16% ? That went to the Libertarian candidate! That's pretty close to HALF of what the (eventual) winner got.

I hear more callers to the conservative talk shows begin to catch on to this sentiment and say that they will move over. But, sadly, a whole group of conservatives still hangs on to the belief that they can rebuild and reestablish the Republican Party. Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity seem to form the core of that group. I admire them both, but they don't yet see that the horse has four broken legs. You don't try to glue it's legs back together; It's ready to be turned INTO glue! You just have to shoot it and move on!

Ronald Reagan said, "I didn't leave The Democrat Party. The Democrat Party left me." He meant that The Party moved too far left and that he came to realize that he had been a conservative all along. Still, he actually DID have to get up and MOVE! So do we and for the same reasons!

--Ray Curtis, Friday, June 5, 2009

Tomorrow: Part 3 -- The Political Stage