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[Hatshepsut]

 

[RogerB]

What We Can Learn From...
''...Perils of Revolution''
by Mary Miller, Director of Issachar Studies and IDB
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By the time this article is published, the 2010 elections in the United States will be one day away. It is therefore with much interest that we study the compelling case made by Angelo M. Codevilla in “America’s Ruling Class And the Perils of Revolution”—the contest is truly not between the political par-ties of Republicans and Democrats. The struggle for power is between the “ruling class” and the “country class.”

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President Woodrow Wilson openly disparaged America’s Founding Fathers for depriving the federal government of the power to reshape American society. Thus, he perpetuated the move to nullify the Constitutional precepts and to blame the “backward” American people for all of the failures to enlighten an “educated class” of society.

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The Battle

As Dr. Chuck Missler so aptly points out, “The election of 2008 was an I.Q. test for America.” While so many are aghast at the speed with which the administration’s agenda is progressing, the “ruling class” simply believes they have finally been given the mantle to impose the society they have envisioned for generations.

To the “country class” it is unconscionable to believe laws are passed without being read. In truth, reading is not required because the backroom deals are already in place. Government officials know “modern laws are primarily grants of discretion; all anybody has to know about them is whom they empower.”

Unlike the simplicity of the Constitution, the incredible lengths of these new regulations are required to specify how people will be treated unequally. This is exemplified in the health care bill of 2010. Its more than 2,700 pages, that Congress admittedly did not read, codified bargains between government and various elements of the health care industry, state governments, large employers, public employee unions, and auto workers.

The critical point of all new regulatory legislation is that both Democratic and Republican administrations and Congresses are empowering “countless boards and commissions to arbitrarily protect some persons and companies, while ruining others.” While not being able to completely nullify the Constitution and its “country class,” the “ruling class” has chosen to break its back with the weight of endless bureaucracy.

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This article was originally published in the
November 2010 Personal Update NewsJournal.
For a FREE 1-Year Subscription, click here.

Nice Hats!

This speaks to point of the thread I started on "Government Stealth" that got shouted down by the "intellectualizers" on the board, who shouted their justifications of why the system is they way it is and accepted by them.

Our elected representatives are unconscionably derelict in their duty to actually pay attention to what is being generated as "ideas" and propositions that get "voted" on. They simply go with the flow of the system and pass stupid shit even without a true vote and, as cited above, without reading and knowing what it is they have passed into law.

R

 

[Ted]

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What We Can Learn From...
''...Perils of Revolution''
by Mary Miller, Director of Issachar Studies and IDB
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
By the time this article is published, the 2010 elections in the United States will be one day away. It is therefore with much interest that we study the compelling case made by Angelo M. Codevilla in “America’s Ruling Class And the Perils of Revolution”—the contest is truly not between the political par-ties of Republicans and Democrats. The struggle for power is between the “ruling class” and the “country class.”

The Ruling Class

While many would broadly characterize the “ruling class” as the Progressive Movement tied significantly with the Democratic Party, it actually transcends both political parties. Its roots were developed in connection with the ever-growing government and by a certain “attitude.”

Inclusion in the “ruling class” requires much more than professional prominence or position, it requires social harmony. This includes sharing the same manners and same tastes, supporting the interests of the class, giving lip service to its ideals and slogans, and being willing to accommodate the interests of its senior members.

In other words, the “ruling class” recruits and renews itself “not through meritocracy, but rather by taking into itself people whose most prominent feature is their commitment to fit in.” Ironically, the more the thought process is dumbed down by this negative selection, the more demanding their presumption of intellectual superiority and control of all things considered “science.” One cannot help but ponder the full impact of Romans 1:22: “Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.”

The Attitude

Codevilla succinctly describes the attitude of this bipartisan “ruling class.” By hijacking and removing the Founding generation’s belief that “all men are created equal,” the concept of two distinct classes have been ingrained in their hearts and minds. The “ruling class” believes they “are the best and brightest while the rest of Americans are retrograde, racist, and dysfunctional unless properly constrained.”

President Woodrow Wilson openly disparaged America’s Founding Fathers for depriving the federal government of the power to reshape American society. Thus, he perpetuated the move to nullify the Constitutional precepts and to blame the “backward” American people for all of the failures to enlighten an “educated class” of society.

The Country Class

Unfortunately, education in terms of the “ruling class” actually means indoctrination into the precepts of their acceptability. This is a foreign concept to members of the “country class.” That is why it is difficult to actually define the members of the “country class.” The most defining principles upon which to unite this heterogeneous group are the foundations of marriage, children, and religious practice. But even within these foundations, the beliefs are varied and focus squarely upon individual rights.

The concept of unity appears difficult for the “country class.” Unity of purpose is usually derived from joining in the fight against the ideas and proclivities of the “ruling class”; e.g., approval of abortion, higher taxes and bigger government, social engineering, and subsidized social agendas. While the “country class” is waking up, many are asking if while they have been focused on “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” the endgame has been taken out of their reach. As Codevilla explains:

In general, the country class includes all those in stations high and low who are aghast at how relatively little honest work yields, by comparison with what just a little connection with the right bureaucracy can get you. The country class is convinced that big business, big government, and big finance are linked as never before and that ordinary people are more unequal than ever. [emphasis mine]

The Battle

As Dr. Chuck Missler so aptly points out, “The election of 2008 was an I.Q. test for America.” While so many are aghast at the speed with which the administration’s agenda is progressing, the “ruling class” simply believes they have finally been given the mantle to impose the society they have envisioned for generations.

To the “country class” it is unconscionable to believe laws are passed without being read. In truth, reading is not required because the backroom deals are already in place. Government officials know “modern laws are primarily grants of discretion; all anybody has to know about them is whom they empower.”

Unlike the simplicity of the Constitution, the incredible lengths of these new regulations are required to specify how people will be treated unequally. This is exemplified in the health care bill of 2010. Its more than 2,700 pages, that Congress admittedly did not read, codified bargains between government and various elements of the health care industry, state governments, large employers, public employee unions, and auto workers.

The critical point of all new regulatory legislation is that both Democratic and Republican administrations and Congresses are empowering “countless boards and commissions to arbitrarily protect some persons and companies, while ruining others.” While not being able to completely nullify the Constitution and its “country class,” the “ruling class” has chosen to break its back with the weight of endless bureaucracy.

The Future

The disdain of America that permeates the current administration has long roots. The cultural divide between what Codevilla calls the “ruling class” and the “country class” crystallized in the period between the two World Wars. Like a malignant growth, the lies of the adversary began choking out the Biblical truths that brought life to this country.

In fact, the battle to establish the “ruling class” has had a deep impact in the spirit of the Christian mindset. Many are no longer engaging in the public forum or debate for the rights and responsibilities assigned to the American citizenry by the U.S. Constitution. Many are convinced that Scriptures such as Romans 13 admonish us to refrain from the selection of our representative government because we are not to interfere with those whom God has chosen to put in charge. So complete is the indoctrination of the American mindset that we have an elite “ruling class” that we forget that “We the People” were given the assignment of power.

In their book “Who Killed the Constitution?...,” Thomas E. Woods Jr. and Kevin R.C. Gutzman also make an interesting observation of the issue of power in America today:

We hasten to note that this is not fundamentally a Left-Right is-sue…. As the great Virginian John Taylor of Caroline noted, the problem is not the character of members of one party or the other, one section of the country or the other, but the effect of power on the human ego, regardless of party or section. People in power exercise all the power they can get, even after they have howled in the wilderness against legislating judges, imperial presidents, and the death of states’ rights. That is why Taylor’s friend Jefferson believed the Constitution must act as a set of chains to bind down the federal government. [emphasis mine]

The struggle for power, the love of money, and the division of men have plagued societies from the earliest times of history. However, Paul’s words to Timothy in 2 Timothy 3 deserve special attention and reflection as Americans of both “classes” war through this particular stage in American history.

While greater in number, the “country class” has felt the loss of influence. Whether it is called revival, restoration, or revolution, “change” is in the wind. As Codevilla reflects in closing:

Suffice it to say that the ruling class’s greatest difficulty—aside from being outnumbered—will be to argue, against the grain of reality, that the revolution it continues to press upon America is sustainable. For its part, the country class’s greatest difficulty will be to enable a revolution to take place without imposing it. America has been imposed on enough.

Indeed, America and its “country class” has been imposed on enough. So what remains is the question Scripture does not answer: Is America not mentioned in the prophetic end times passages because we allow the “ruling class” to meld us into the global conglomerate; or does the “country class” exist as that ever present thorn in the flesh of the world until His re-turn?

* * *
This article was originally published in the
November 2010 Personal Update NewsJournal.
For a FREE 1-Year Subscription, click here.

Makes sense to me.

Thanks for the posting.

 

[RogerB]

For you techies . . .

I posted a new thread that I almost called "Roger's Journal" . . . that to honor a promise made to some friends here, but instead, since it is a techies thing, I called it, "Corrections and Advances in More Workable Tech."
Here:
http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?t=20627

Rog

 

[FoTi]

We gotta get a bigger bed​

FoTi
I get these from e-mails sent to me by my brother. I'm sorry I did not get back with you. It wasn't clear when I started posting pics of the James Bond boats that I was sharing pics like Carmelo which I'd gotten in my gmails.

Beautiful photos. So...where does your brother get these beautiful photos?

 

[FoTi]

Aww....I'm saving some of these pics that you put up. Thanks for posting them. Hope you have more. Where do they come from?

 

[purple haze]

hey cats, let's play whilst the mice are away!

Gary and I checked out DUE DATE...spent last night nearly rolling on the theater floor with gut wrenching laughter, along with everyone else with as weird a sense of humor as I have.

 

[FoTi]

For you techies . . .

I posted a new thread that I almost called "Roger's Journal" . . . that to honor a promise made to some friends here, but instead, since it is a techies thing, I called it, "Corrections and Advances in More Workable Tech."
Here:
http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?t=20627

Rog

Thanks, Roger.

 

[purple haze]

aka Candy Swanson extraordinary auditor et cetera

If you want to have some fun, if Emma allows, check out my Facebook page: Candy Swanson

 

[Ted]

For you techies . . .

I posted a new thread that I almost called "Roger's Journal" . . . that to honor a promise made to some friends here, but instead, since it is a techies thing, I called it, "Corrections and Advances in More Workable Tech."
Here:
http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?t=20627

Rog

Okay, Rog. I will be following along.

 

[Ted]

Gary and I checked out DUE DATE...spent last night nearly rolling on the theater floor with gut wrenching laughter, along with everyone else with as weird a sense of humor as I have.

I trust your opinion on this. It looks like one of those situations where it is prudent to go opposite of what the critics say.

I will check out Due Date as I am always up for rolling in the isle with laughter.



Critics are saying Hereafter isn't so good so I am expecting it to be very good. I will be reporting on that soon.

 

[RogerB]

If you want to have some fun, if Emma allows, check out my Facebook page: Candy Swanson

Hey, Candy, luvved the pics!

You're an elegant piece of ladyhood!

Saw some familiar faces from old. Wally Burgess my old mate from on staff in Melbourne in the early '60's. Looks like you had really charmed him there in that pic

And, err, umm, was that a very young looking Neville C I saw there? Now that takes me back 30-40 years!

And of course some versions of our Alan W . . . .

Rog

 

[lkwdblds]

A spontaneous trip to a bite to eat and a movie!

Gary and I checked out DUE DATE...spent last night nearly rolling on the theater floor with gut wrenching laughter, along with everyone else with as weird a sense of humor as I have.

Last night I had nothing planned, which is rare nowadays. Candy called to shoot the bull and one thing led to another and within 25 minutes I was on the road to her part of Southen Cal, some 35 miles away. All the weekend traffic was going opposite to me so I was able average 60 mph for the trip and got there around 7:00. We grabbed a "FlameBroiler" chicken and brown rice bowl and made our movie in time to see the previews and then saw the hilarious comedy "Due Date". There is some very raunchy humor in that movie but it sure resonated with Candy and me. We were both in side splitting positions, nearly on the floor, several times. The movie is not going to win any academy awards but for a good escape type comedy it is terrific.

Tonight, it is video movies at Lorinda's house with Edey and Lorinda attending along with me, Lorinda's friend David and Edey's friend Mike. Candy is going to attempt to be there, probably late, because we want to go dancing after the movie is over and if you want Candy around, just mention "dancing" and chances are good that she will show up.
Lakey

 

[EP - Ethics Particle]

Like this?!

Last night I had nothing planned, which is rare nowadays. Candy called to shoot the bull and one thing led to another...

snip...

... and if you want Candy around, just mention "dancing" and chances are good that she will show up.
Lakey

This is the way I envision it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJARebkhSBI

Were I not so old, I'd be on the next plane!

EP

 

[purple haze]

I trust your opinion on this. It looks like one of those situations where it is prudent to go opposite of what the critics say.

I will check out Due Date as I am always up for rolling in the isle with laughter.



Critics are saying Hereafter isn't so good so I am expecting it to be very good. I will be reporting on that soon.

sublime, Ted, going back for seconds tonight on DUE DATE, and I never see any pic the second time! I need to see the HEREAFTER a second time; most of it went below me, but I did pick up between the lines =altogether a good movie, headed in a risky direction.: coolwink:

 

[lkwdblds]

Handling a terrible migraine with massage only!

Movie comments on "Hereafter":
I saw it with the Edey, Kadriya crowd. I was expecting big things and was very disappointed and thought it stunk. The next day, I talked to Candy who had also seen it the same night which I did. She was disappointed but she saw a lot of things in the movie which I had missed. She explained them to me and my estimation of the movie rose quite a bit. I would like to see it one more time now, with the added incites which Candy provided me. Probably I will rent it when it comes out on DVD.

HUGE PROBLEMS HANDLING A MIGRAINE HEADACHE WITH MASSAGE ALONE!I had occassion today to give a massage session to a woman who must remain anonymous. She was gang raped repeatedly at the age of 6 by her Father, her Uncle and at least two other men while her Mother was too intimidated to even try to stop these "men".

The woman had a severe migraine and I assurred her I could handle it with an accupressure massage. Just passing my hand over her head, I located several nasty energy fields and a lot of masses. I went in and did the "usual", massaging her neck and shoulders and then went on her head to press the various pressure points and release electric charge.

After doing this, there was some abatement of pain from the head area but now there was a new sense of her being nauseous and feeling like she had to throw up, coming from her solar plexus. I worked on her with everything I had for over a half hour more. The masses which came up felt ugly and tended to stick on me rather than run out into the floor. Finally, I found an area near the crown of her head about 5" in diameter which was just loaded with charge and pictures. She mentioned the rapes at this juncture, and then I saw that all of this enormous massy area was residual charge relating back to the various times when she was raped as a 6 year old. Not only was her vagina violated but her "father" and "uncle" also violated her rectum as well. I had been briefed by her about those things earlier.

I kept going for maybe 20 more minutes massaging the crown area but much of the mass was sticking in my space. In essence, I was feeling what it felt like for a 6 year old girl to be raped by her father and uncle. We decided to move her session outside so I could be better grounded and also hold on to trees in my effort to have the masses which I had picked up from her run out of me into the ground, often through a tree trunk. I had her grab hold of trees as well. Her pain started to dissipate and we decided to walk around the block. Shortly, some visitors came by and we began chatting with them, moving back into her apartment. During a lull in the conversation, I asked her how she was doing and she smiled widely and said the migraine was totally gone. I noticed all the mass of hers which I had picked up was now also gone.

These various rapes which she had are not erased by any means although I got an enormous amount of charge to flow out of them. They are still there in her psyche and most likely, the migraines will return. Anyway, the accupressure massage tech can do a lot to give a person relief but somethings as heavy as what she is sitting in will not be erased by it.
Lakey

 

[Ted]

Pubic Service Announcement

Laptop Computers Cook A Man's Junk

(NaturalNews) Is something burning, or are you just computing again? New research published in the medial journal Fertility and Sterility (Nov 2010) reveals that laptop computers can roast a man's testicles to the point where sperm production (and quality) starts to drop.

To conduct the study, researchers placed temperature sensors on the scrotums of 29 men (a procedure that no doubt required some finesse and hopefully did not involve TSA agents), then asked those men to use laptop computers on their laps. It didn't take long before scrotum temperatures rose to levels known to damage sperm production -- just 10 to 15 minutes of computing time.

Staying cool means staying fertile

Testicles are supposed to stay cool. And I don't mean "wow, that's cool" but rather that they are supposed to remain a degree or two below body temperature in order to maximize sperm production. When the testes get too hot -- even with as little as a one degree Centigrade rise in temperature -- sperm production starts to fall. Using a laptop computer on your lap can cause temperatures to rise by 2.5 C in one hour, according to this research.

And the men in the study didn't even notice the rise in temperature, by the way. Probably because they were too busy updating their Facebook pages with comments like, "Check it out, I'm actually getting paid to roast my nuts for the advancement of science!"

In the world of temperature-sensitive sperm production, 2.5 C is equivalent to a scrotum barbeque cook-off. And all it takes is a little laptop computing to send temperatures soaring.

Cooling pads didn't help

Surprisingly, even using a laptop cooling pad didn't help, researchers reported. Scrotum temperatures still rose just the same.

Reuters reported that Belkin International, Inc., makers of laptop computer cooling pads, "...did not wish to comment on the new findings." (http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS...)

No surprise there. This is dangerous territory for marketers. After all, there's really no way to spin this story in a positive direction. Even if Belkin unleashed ads such as, "Feeling the heat? We keep your scrotum cool," they would be hit with complaints about lewd marketing tactics.

It turns out the biggest determining factor of whether a laptop computer heats up your testicles is your leg position while computing. I'm not making this up: Researchers found the best position was to spread your legs wide while computing in order to dissipate heat and cool your man-crotch.

Just what we need in the airports, huh? First you get felt up by the TSA with their high-security crotch sweeps (http://www.naturalnews.com/030100_n...), and then you have to walk past a bunch of health-conscious compu-geeks sitting spread-eagle in the passenger waiting area because they're hoping to remain fertile in case they ever actually meet a girl in the real world and not just in adult chat rooms.

We need to all get together and blame somebody for this mess, of course. It's the American way. And I say we should all blame Intel because obviously it's the CPU that's generating most of the heat in a typical laptop. The harder you push the CPU, the more heat your computer dumps out. In our litigious society, I'm sure it's only a matter of time before somebody tries to sue Intel for their infertility problems.

Stay cool, dude

The bottom line in all this, guys, is that when it comes to your testes, hot is bad, cool is good. Keep things "breezy" down there, in other words, and you just might have children one day.

And for all the women reading this who have men you're trying to conceive with, you might explain to them that in addition to fried foods and pharmaceuticals damaging sperm quality, now they have to worry about where they're holding their laptop computers, too. If you catch your man with a computer on his lap, shove some ice packs down the front of his shorts until he gets the message. I guarantee you this will get his attention.

Because men who can't keep their junk cool are actually practicing a form of laptop birth control. Although the drop in sperm quality from laptop heat isn't considered permanent, it's technically a form of short-term sperm suppression. Sort of like soaking your sack in a hot tub for twenty minutes (hopefully with the rest of your body along with it).

All this makes me wonder, by the way, if laptop manufacturers might start engineering their computers to offer better scrotum protection for their male customers. "Now with Windows 7, Norton Anti-Virus, and Scrotum Protector Plus!"

Or maybe there will be a new, downloadable edition of Windows that uses fewer CPU cycles and will be branded "Windows 7 Ultimate Scrotum Pro for Men" and bundled with a new macho face shaver sporting not four, not five, but NINE rotating blades powered by a 200-amp car battery.

Quick, somebody register CrotchCooler.com and invent heat-conducting copper underwear that can dissipate crotch heat out the sides of your pants. Or roll out a new line of water-cooled "Bro shorts" featuring hot male models sporting ripped six-packs. "I'm cool," the ad says. "And so is my scrotum."

There's a fortune just waiting to be made here somewhere, I'm certain, for anyone willing to get past the laughter and create a workable solution. The U.S. Patent Office is ready and waiting…

naturalnews.com

 

[Hatshepsut]

Aww....I'm saving some of these pics that you put up. Thanks for posting them. Hope you have more. Where do they come from?

My brother belongs to a support group for men over 40 at his local church. They social network via e-mails and picnics etc. The photos keep coming to him from his fellow Calgary associates.
:confused2:

 

[CarmeloOrchards]

My brother belongs to a support group for men over 40 at his local church. They social network via e-mails and picnics etc. The photos keep coming to him from his fellow Calgary associates.
:confused2:

they don't look at all like the photos I get from my friends

 

[CarmeloOrchards]

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What We Can Learn From...
''...Perils of Revolution''
by Mary Miller, Director of Issachar Studies and IDB
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The Attitude

Codevilla succinctly describes the attitude of this bipartisan “ruling class.” By hijacking and removing the Founding generation’s belief that “all men are created equal,” the concept of two distinct classes have been ingrained in their hearts and minds. The “ruling class” believes they “are the best and brightest while the rest of Americans are retrograde, racist, and dysfunctional unless properly constrained.”



In fact, the battle to establish the “ruling class” has had a deep impact in the spirit of the Christian mindset. Many are no longer engaging in the public forum or debate for the rights and responsibilities assigned to the American citizenry by the U.S. Constitution. Many are convinced that Scriptures such as Romans 13 admonish us to refrain from the selection of our representative government because we are not to interfere with those whom God has chosen to put in charge. So complete is the indoctrination of the American mindset that we have an elite “ruling class” that we forget that “We the People” were given the assignment of power.

In their book “Who Killed the Constitution?...,” Thomas E. Woods Jr. and Kevin R.C. Gutzman also make an interesting observation of the issue of power in America today:

We hasten to note that this is not fundamentally a Left-Right is-sue…. As the great Virginian John Taylor of Caroline noted, the problem is not the character of members of one party or the other, one section of the country or the other, but the effect of power on the human ego, regardless of party or section. People in power exercise all the power they can get, even after they have howled in the wilderness against legislating judges, imperial presidents, and the death of states’ rights. That is why Taylor’s friend Jefferson believed the Constitution must act as a set of chains to bind down the federal government. [emphasis mine]



Indeed, America and its “country class” has been imposed on enough. So what remains is the question Scripture does not answer: Is America not mentioned in the prophetic end times passages because we allow the “ruling class” to meld us into the global conglomerate; or does the “country class” exist as that ever present thorn in the flesh of the world until His re-turn?

I thought this article was a terrific mish mash of folksy Fundamental Christian feel good babble, some truth, and some just plain damn lies.

Let's start with the Constitution of the US, written by slaveholders, FREE WHITE HONKY MEN ONLY, hardly a broad country class. These were the elite. Elite tend to want to preserve their own status.

For some writer to tell me that the country class is so educated as to even know that bills are not read before voted on defies my sense of reality. Has anyone ever seen "Jay Walking" on Jay Leno's "Tonight Show"?

How many country cousins even know if congress is in session, who the vice president is, or if the Supreme Court is or isn't a tennis club?