It's bizarre, how lawyers and so forth are blogging online, without mentioning Judge Joe Brown.
"The rapid Progress true Science now makes, occasions my Regretting sometimes that I was born so soon. It is impossible to imagine the Height to which may be carried in a 1000 Years the Power of Man over Matter. We may perhaps learn to deprive large Masses of their Gravity & give them absolute Levity, for the sake of easy Transport. Agriculture may diminish its Labour & double its Produce. All Diseases may by sure means be prevented or cured, not excepting even that of Old Age, and our Lives lengthened at pleasure even beyond the antediluvian Standard. O that moral Science were in as fair a Way of Improvement, that Men would cease to be Wolves to one another, and that human Beings would at length learn what they now improperly call Humanity,..."
“The sleep of reason brings forth monsters, and the past two decades have produced monsters galore. Some are manifestly sinister, others seem merely comical---harmless fun, as Nancy Reagan said of her husband’s reliance on astrology. Cumulatively, however, the proliferation of obscurantist bunkum and the assault on reason are a menace to civilization,..."
If you want to understand the blind alley NewAge leads you down, first you have to understand the landscape:
As Fleming reiterates about this period, “The mainstream of European thought was not materialist but sacramental. In the sacramental view, the material and visible world paralleled another that was immaterial and invisible.” Science, magic, religion — they are all attempts to understand what is hidden from us, and sometimes the three blur together. Isaac Newton, as is well known, left hundreds of pages of notes on alchemy and astrology. Benjamin Franklin was a member of an elite Freemason Lodge called “The Nine Sisters.”
“The basic premise of occult knowledge is that a search for hidden causes in nature may lead towards something higher than nature: absolute wisdom, supernatural power or the divine.” Naturally such an ambition can readily verge on the heterodox, not to say the diabolical, given its echo of the serpent’s insidious promise, “You shall be as gods.”
Which we've heard from Oprah, Shirley MacLain, J.Z. Knight, Rhonda Byrne - all of 'em. And while everyone's laughing, they're taking our money - and believing it. Oprah's ruling. Get it?
You will if you add a dose of this guy for seasoning,...
It's fascinating this would be described as a "shock":
According to a pair of recent polls, for the first time since the 9/11 terrorist hijackings, Americans are more fearful their government will abuse constitutional liberties than fail to keep its citizens safe.
Even in the wake of the April 15 Boston Marathon bombing – in which a pair of Islamic radicals are accused of planting explosives that took the lives of 3 and wounded over 280 – the polls suggest Americans are hesitant to give up any further freedoms in exchange for increased “security.”
Wait - was it Thomas Jefferson or Ben Franklin who first told Americans security-for-freedom was a really bad trade? And yet - 300 years later - these idiots are in "shock" Americans are aware of it? I swear, you've really got to hand it to these cultists:
They reveal who they are in the most obvious ways,...
"This fear is what's given us the reason to do this. Once I have stats and people saying they're scared, we can do this. It allows us to do what we're fixing to do."
-- Todd Stovall, Police Chief in Paragould, Arkansas, where SWAT cops will start asking for IDs from everyone town.
O.K. - considering there's all this gun control talk, from the president, going on as well - let's hear from someone familiar with what they're "fixing to do" anyway:
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."-- Ben Franklin
That seems pretty clear - but, Man, I've got to hand it to the NewAge Nazis this time:
Announce a Mayan apocalypse is coming and they're losing their collective mind faster than my friend degenerating in the hospital,...
At the end of the Continental Convention, on September 18, 1787, the not-yet American citizens asked Benjamin Franklin what he'd delivered to "we the people," and he replied, "A Republic, if you can keep it.” I don't know what to think, now that it's clear we are no longer capable of doing so:
There’s nothing constitutionally seemly about a Court decision that says this law is only legal because the people’s representatives flat-out lied to the people when they passed it,…
Only in America does “health” “care” “reform” begin with the hiring of 16,500 new IRS agents tasked with determining whether your insurance policy merits a fine.
SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - Troubled by issues ranging from polygamy to gay marriage, several dozen Mormons plan to resign this weekend from the church en masse in an unusual public show of defiance in Salt Lake City.
Organizers say participants in Saturday's mass resignation will gather in a public park to sign a "Declaration of Independence from Mormonism," followed by a hike up Ensign Peak, scaled in 1847 by then-church President Brigham Young to survey the spot where his Latter-day Saints would build a city.
No, I was laughing, partially, because Mr. Jump-The-Gun had used his "vapid dorkiness" to just previously declare Obama wasted four years on this NewAge dream. (Come on, healthcare? Don't tell me you never saw that coming,…) You'll have to excuse me, now, if I don't hold my breath waiting for our other lying Cultist-elect to admit he was wrong by saying, "I guess it was worth it after all,…"
And - while I can't get all Ann Barnhardt on you - I can agree with her that the likelihood Romney will repeal ObamaCare just became a lot less likely - despite what he says - starting with the fact ObamaCare is based on the plan Mormonism's "White Horse" has always been so damned proud of:
So now the flip-flopper agrees it's bad policy but the only way to get rid of it is elect him. Uh-huh. Every American conservative who falls for this line should change their middle name to "Gullible."
And who can forget Romney's own NewAge healthcare investments in the Joseph Smith-inspired Mormon industry of worthless/harmful supplements? That's GOT to do better under ObamaCare and ol' Mitt isn't going to hurt the "church," right? What would Jesus think when he "returns" to Missouri?
Yes, he's the best man to run a modern nation, The New World, and The Greatest Country On Earth.
Welcome to the clusterfuck of your own making. Not me - I warned you and warned you and warned you. I'll leave you with the (surprising) words of Ann Althouse, sounding like she's channelling me:
Everybody's always lying.
Now, grow up, pay attention, and don't get played.
Sheeeiiit. It's more-than-a-little late for all that now - and, knowing Ann, she, too, will be singing a different tune tomorrow (look at her quote again, folks) but - at least as I write this - I hear ya, kid,…
"Eight years ago, a Senate seat from the Banana State was won by the wife of a sitting president of the republic. That wife had never before resided in Banana State, but she bought a house there, campaigned with the aura and entourage accorded to a presidential spouse, and with one leap, winning her first elected office ever, she became a senator.
Riding a national political machine to re-election for a second term, that former first lady swiftly turned her Senate seat into a springboard for her own campaign for the presidency. She lost, but took a job in the new administration, leaving the governor of Banana State to appoint a replacement senator.
That governor was himself a replacement, due to the resignation of the elected governor, a crusading moralist caught in a prostitution scandal. As the replacement governor prepared to name a replacement senator, a former president’s daughter declared her interest in the Senate seat — which one of her uncles had won some 44 years earlier, and was using as a springboard for his own presidential run, after serving as attorney-general in his brother’s presidential administration. This former first daughter had recently worked on the campaign of the President-elect — an experience that awakened in her an appetite for politics – but she had reached the age of 51 with no direct experience of her own in public office. Nonetheless, another of her uncles, also a senator, was ready to endorse her for this leap to the Senate. So was the mayor of Big Plum (the biggest city in Banana State), who on his own turf had just succeeded in scrapping a two-term limit so he could run for a third term — which he justified as a way of offering people a broader choice (namely, himself).
That’s how it works in Banana Republics."
-- Claudia Rosett, describing something that's been bothering me - along with Oprah's role in all this - on Pajamas Media.
"At the close of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia on September 18, 1787, a Mrs. Powel anxiously awaited the results, and as Benjamin Franklin emerged from the long task now finished, asked him directly: 'Well Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?' 'A republic - if you can keep it' responded Franklin."
-- Ron Paul, on that other little thing that's been nagging me, at the website for the United States House of Representatives.
"[Ben Franklin],...lent his shoulder to the wheel of medical progress, allowing a royal commission to use his Passy residence for the blind experiments that disproved the theory of [hypnotism] and so proved its inventor and proponent, Franz Mesmer, to whom huge sums were paid by rich patients, a quack. In a letter to the physician La Sablière de la Condamine, Franklin ascribed Mesmer’s success to 'there being so many disorders which cure themselves and such a disposition in mankind to deceive themselves and one another on these occasions.' Which wasn’t to say that such quackery might not have its uses, Franklin said, for in every rich city there are a lot of hypochondriacs. If they stopped gulping medicines for the sake of being cured by the doctor’s finger or an iron rod, 'they may possibly find good effects though they mistake the cause.'"
-- Jerry Weinberger, giving us good reason to think idiots may be the only group capable of reincarnating, in New York's City Journal.
