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The Black Flag of Assassin’s Creed: Why modern politics can be seen in naval ship battles

As I mentioned yesterday, Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed video game franchise is releasing a pirate version of their popular series to be launched prior to Halloween 2013 and it looks fantastic.  So I’m going to take a break from the usual serious matters dealt with at this site and expand a bit more about what I started to discuss regarding Assassin’s Creed as an instructive platform from which all people can learn history, by allowing players get to walk in the shoes of characters as history was made.  Shortly after I wrote the article previously mentioned, I managed to obtain my own ship while playing Assassin’s Creed III which takes place during the American Revolution and engage in the fantastic naval battles which is the new feature developed by Ubisoft.  The ship battle feature in the game is hands down one of the coolest uses of video game technology I have ever seen and it appears to be expanded upon dramatically in their upcoming pirate release, so it deserves mention and a metaphorical analysis in relation to real life.  The ship to ship battles in Assassin’s Creed III are simply breathtaking and deserve comment for the bench mark in history that they represent.  Justifiably so, I am very much looking forward to the release of Assassin’s Creed 4, The Black Flag coming this fall.  I will be one of the first to get it!  There are few places that you can live history from your living rooms and engage in the exhilaration that model ship builders have for years tried to capture when imagining grand galleons perched in combat with cannons firing on the choppy waters of a stormy sea.  But that is exactly what these recent Assassin Creed releases are offering for the first time anywhere and the results are simply stunning.   I’ve never seen anything like what I was able to play in Assassin’s Creed III with the ship to ship combat that alone makes the worth of the game more than justified for gamers who enjoy history.

Hanging in my home I have a painting of two ships firing canons at each other on Lake Erie during the War of 1812.  I have found that the old sea battles from the romantic era of naval combat reflects modern politics in many ways.  Like politics, wind speed is important as well as the direction from which it comes.  Politicians often allow themselves to blow where the winds of public opinion take them, so the metaphor is a proper one.  The old mast driven battleships were very much victims of circumstance, so maneuvering in position at a speed of 8 to 12 knots in order to fire upon an enemy was difficult.  Even then gaining a tactical advantage over an opponent meant that one ship would have to outlast another in broadside combat at close range, because that is often what it came to.  One ship would have to absorb the damage of another and hope that their ship wouldn’t sink to the oceans depths before their enemy.  I see in modern politics that Republicans have constantly been outmaneuvered by the pirate tactics of the Democrats who attack not just with one spectacular galleon, but many small ones.  Republicans often utilize such magnificent ships by displaying lots of guns and massive sails in a fashion that was typical of the British during their imperial rule.  The Democrats use smaller, faster vessels that can overtake larger ships with mass and dirty tricks to take down their superior foes—and such a metaphor describes modern politics clearly.

Many of the tactics seen in modern politics were long ago used on the high sea battles of early naval combat, before engines and modern firepower allowed technology to trump bravery.  In the picture I referred to of the 1812 conflict, I often think of the do or die nature of the ship crews who knew if they lost the fight, there would be no quarter given, no rescue from the enemy–there would be only death as their ship sank becoming their collective tombs.  So it is in this spirit that I love naval conflict from the period of world history where such things occurred, which is so wonderfully rendered in the Assassin games.

Personally I love the violent combat that is required in Assassin’s Creed III to even get to the naval battles.  Many game players over 35 years old might find themselves turned off at having to assassinate so many Redcoats to play through the story mode.  Some of my Tea Party friends who are history buffs and are inclined to spend their spare time building model trains and ships in bottles would love the naval combat graphics engine in the game, but they would find the brutality required to play the main character difficult to get their minds around.  That is the only weakness of the Assassin games.  The cost of the game is worth buying just for the ship battles, but that option should be available right out of the box to the advantage of the history buff—not the seasoned video gamer who loves the violent game play—like I do.

But that aside, it was bewildering to engage in combat with several schooner style ships in the choppy seas off the coast of North Carolina where the waves were 10 to 15 feet high and pitching my ship to and fro in a very violent manner.  I found that I had to time the cannon fire to these rough waters so that the cannons would reach their targets and not nose dive into the water short of their mark.  I have never seen such realism in a combat simulation of any kind, and it is just incredible to look at, let alone play.

The Assassin games are bringing history to life in a way I never thought was possible.  Needless to say, I am incredibly impressed.  As I write this the Horseshoe Casino has just opened in downtown Cincinnati and many adults my age converged upon its opening to spend $10 dollars per game on bets they are likely to never see a positive result.  The gaming that goes on in places like Vegas and casinos like The Horseshoe are consuming exercises that do little to give the players any kind of rewarding experience except for the occasional jackpot.  For my money, I would rather spend my gaming time on a $60 investment into a game like Assassin’s Creed III so at least the time spent playing can put the player into the seat of history and see and feel what it was like to stand on the docks of Boston in 1773 climbing aboard a ship to sail into the open sea blasting canons into the hull of an enemy in a rip-roaring wind attempting to turn ships over as sea water washes over the decks in a bubbling froth.  The ship battles are a heck of a lot more exciting than a casino slot machine that simply is designed to eat money from hopeful treasure hunters dressed to kill, but often losing the shirt right off their backs.  Games like Assassin’s Creed give back where a casino gaming experience can’t.

In such war simulations I tend to be a rammer when it comes to naval combat.  With all things being equal, the way to gain an advantage over an enemy is to be bolder in combat efforts so ramming into an opposing ship to cause them to hesitate before firing yields great results.  I do the same type of thing in actual politics.  Rather than dance around in never-ending stalemates, I tend to think like a pirate in being overly aggressive in achieving a victory.  (SEE THE LAKOTA LEVY FOR A SAMPLE)  I don’t have a lot of patience when it comes to politicians who insist on dancing with the enemy as less aggressive ship captains discover happens often in confrontations if they over-think their scenarios.  Playing games like Assassin’s Creed III can reveal these tendencies in a simulation before millions of wasted dollars go into political campaigns that only end up dancing around the enemy on the seas of life, (LIKE THE ROMNEY CAMPAIGN).  The people reading this who will insist that their strategy was formed from years of experience and that such a simplified answer to age-long questions cannot be found in a video game—they are the same people who have lost many campaigns and are not qualified to provide an opinion.  Players of such a game not only learn a lot about history, but they also learn a lot about themselves.

Regardless of the level of enjoyment, the Assassin Creed video games are unsurpassed in their naval war simulations.  I could play them endlessly, and I scratch my head at those who are my age and older who scamper off to a casino to throw their money away when there are games like Assassin’s Creed III that are much more beneficial to the human mind, and an understanding of the history of our species.  But just for the sheer enjoyment of blowing up a gigantic galleon after a long fought battle, Ubisoft has achieved a level of detail that has never before been achieved in a game or war simulation of any kind any where.  I simply shudder to consider how cool the new game Black Flag will be.  I think I will be taking another vacation come fall of 2013, similar to the one I took to play The Old Republic.  Because if Assassin’s Creed 4 has better ship combat than Assassin’s Creed III, then I may never leave my house again………….because they are a lot of fun, and filled with rich history that will make a modern novel envious.

How much does my family like pirates?  Well, here is my oldest daughter’s birthday where her husband turned their townhome into a pirate haven.  You be the judge.  Needless to say, when Black Flag comes out, there will be a party at my house!

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

Walking the Streets of Old Boston During the Revolutionary War: The new way to think about education

When people ask me what I think education should be, and how much money I think should be spent on it, my thoughts are not even in the same universe as the typical concerned parent.  In such discussions it quickly becomes realized that parents need a babysitting service for their child, and that is their primary concern when discussing education, so they aren’t even willing to discuss the quality of education itself.  I personally think the old top down teaching method is dead, and is obsolete entirely.  I favor one that has individual interaction with all the wonderful media tools available today and that will come to availability tomorrow over a teacher standing in front of a classroom like a dictator reeking with authority toward an uninterested class.  I touched on some of these changes coming to education in my article on School Choice which can be reviewed by Clicking Here.

I recently found myself inspired by playing an MMO video game called The Old Republic in how the power of gaming and story driven content provided a context to how the future of education might take advantage.  After spending roughly 300 hours playing the story portion of that game with my wife I am more convinced than ever that it is in that forum that education might best be stimulated.   Now, under my daughter’s guidance and continued coaxing, I am playing a game on Xbox called Assassin’s Creed III which I previewed here a bit, CLICK FOR REVIEW, and I am staggered by the results of that effort.  Assassin’s Creed III is a visually stimulating game that is a fictional story set during the Revolutionary War taking some liberties with the time period and involves a war between a group of Templers and Assassins that extends for millenniums of human history.  It has some science fiction elements, mystery, drama, action, and some sentimental romance that makes it a compelling story—but more than that I found it educationally thought-provoking.

I more heavily than ever support the Tea Party efforts of my friends in the Liberty Movement and there have been some intense discussions of late over beer, chicken wings, and flat screen televisions in dark corners of dank local pubs that have reminded me of how the Liberty Movement started in Boston during the years of 1750 to 1773.  I see the same thing happening once again in America in these dark corners under hushed voices.  Being a lover of Alan Eckert novels especially The Frontiersman, and Wilderness Empire which cover American development from 1720 through the early 1800’s from the East Coast to Illinois I have a love of information that covers that era.  To date only The Last of the Mohicans really jumped into this time period successfully as Walt Disney attempted on several occasions to tell stories from the period without coming out like stale bread.    The period of 1680 to about 1840 in America is one of the most violent, liberating, and exciting times in American history, yet it has been watered down by modern education to reflect through academic collectivism only the concerns of the Civil Rights debates of the 1850s to 1970s which were only the tail being wagged by the dog which began in the period of the First Great Awakening, roughly 1730 to 1770.  So it was with some excitement that I placed Assassin’s Creed III into my Xbox to play after looking at it on my book shelf for nearly 4 months unopened, as I had other tasks to attend to over that duration.

The game is fun, and it’s wonderful to cut the heads off bad guys and do all the usual video game antics that make them so popular with young people.  But Assassin’s Creed is more than just fun—it is deeply educational, and places the video game player in the sights, sounds, and politics of 1750 – 1773 America very accurately, much more than I anticipated.  Within the first 15 hours of game play I took a journey from England to American aboard a four masted galleon that took 73 days.  Life on the ship was brutally realistic, and even though I have read for years about such journeys, having the ability to walk around a ship, sleep, look-out across the water, talk to people working on the vessel and doing simple chores made the journey very real for me and gave me an appreciation for these boats and their tribulations that I have not received upon viewing actual replicas in port at Jamestown and other such places.  In Assassin’s Creed III I have had the opportunity to walk the streets of Boston as they might have looked at the time and engaged in meetings in those same dimly lit taverns which reminded me very much of my present reality.  I have met and interacted with Ben Franklin, William Johnston, George Washington, and Sam Adams just to name a few.  I have found myself just walking around the streets aimlessly looking at all the street vendors, the ship yards, and various businesses in amazement.  They have done in Assassin’s Creed what Walt Disney attempted to do with his Frontier Land in Disney World, which is recreate Old Boston with as much accuracy possible so that the essence of it would not be lost to time.

To get an idea of where Lexington is in relation to Boston and how the terrain outside of Old Boston might have looked to neighboring Native American tribes has been nothing short of stunning.  The Native Americans speak in their native language with subtitles needing to be read, and I found that after a little while I was starting to understand some of the words in context to the situations without reading the subtitles.  I could literally go on and on about the quality of Assassin’s Creed as a video game.  It is an example of exception that has set a new high bar for video game development.

Yet I could not stop thinking that more kids have probably learned more about American history after playing Assassin’s Creed for 40 or 50 hours than they have in all their years of public education history classes—which makes the video game far more superior as an education tool than a stagnant teacher standing in front of a class writing on a chalk board.  Assassin’s Creed would be a fun game if killing wasn’t even involved, but rather just interacting with the Founding Fathers and watching the slow gradual rebellion fester up against the English over a twenty year period.  It is one thing to read about the occupation of British troops in Boston in 1770, but it is another to watch them patrolling the city and shoving you out-of-the-way if you walk in front of their formation to exert their authority, like what happens in Assassin’s Creed.   I have caught myself saying ahhh, haaaa many times as things I’ve read in different books over the last thirty years came together for me in the video game where I suddenly had visual reference to tie it all together.  The detail is immaculate, even down to the mechanics of riding horses as they splash about on a muddy street from a recent rain.

For me the beauty of the game is in the ships.  Assassin’s Creed III allows me to climb aboard the kind of ships I have built and used in strategic combat CLICK TO REVIEW, and walk the decks, hoist the sails, and steer accurately on the open sea.  In reality those old ships were boring, but Assassin’s Creed makes them realistically boring to the level of excitement if that makes any sense.  The graphics engine for the ship to ship combat in Assassin’s Creed III is so deliciously good, with water looking photo realistic and the ships pitching to and fro so authentically that Assassin’s Creed 4 is going to expand on their ship development with a pirate adventure in the next edition—which for me is equitable to the most ecstatic experience imaginable.  Aside from the Revolutionary Period in America, the Golden Age of Pirates is among my favorites in history, and my daughter knew it when she obtained the leaked news from Ubisoft sending me a text, “DAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE NEW ASSASSIN’S CREED GAME IS CALLED THE BLACK FLAG!!!!!!!!!!!!  IT’S ABOUT PIRATES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Being a history buff, I love to interact with these three-dimensional environments that modern video games afford.  They complement my reading in a way that allows a very detailed picture to be painted in my mind, and connects many historical dots obtained from multiple sources.  The games are made for the purposes of entertainment, but it is staggering to consider how effective they could be if they took themselves seriously as educational tools.  As I examine the effectiveness of Assassin’s Creed III next to the stagnant education methods of even the best schools, it is obvious that public education is well down the wrong path, and they refuse to analyze their position in favor of something better.  Not being a gambler I would bet everything that most young people today know more about George Washington not because of the books by Glenn Beck, or the efforts of 12 years of public education, but because they played Assassin’s Creed III during the fall of 2012 and winter of 2013 and had to speak to him, go on missions that he sent them on, and watch history take place in a computer game instead of a solitary, bored individual standing at the front of a class spewing “teacher breath,” (a combination of coffee and teeth in the first stages of gingivitis) toward an uninterested class that has no context to apply any information  to.  Video games provide that context, and to date, none better than Assassin’s Creed III.  Not even the great Sid Meyer games did so well to place a player into the streets of history to interact with its authors as equals so that truth can be grappled with.   That is the power of a video game to become an opportunity to improve education effectiveness.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

Take Away 2 1/2 Fries from a Big Mac Meal: The real cost of federal sequestration

On the day after the sequestration implemented from the federal government on March 2nd Darryl Parks from 700 WLW covered the events that transpired in the aftermath as government officials calculated that society might come to an end because of the cuts.  Well, in his usual fashion Darryl brought some non-partisan, non emotional, non group affiliated analysis regarding the sequestration cuts to the light of reality.  As many might be afraid of the rhetoric coming out of Washington Darryl put into the context the extent of the cuts in a fashion that everyone can understand.  The ridiculous amounts that Darryl laid out in his broadcast, and that I break down below in written form are so small that they aren’t even worth discussing.  Yet all the news broadcasts on television cried like infants for over three weeks along with virtually every politician, especially Barack Obama about the costs of these cuts to the social fabric of American society.  So without further fanfare have a listen to Darryl’s broadcast as it was given on March 2nd at 9 AM in the morning.

Most people think that 44 billion sounds like a lot of money, but in regard to the sequestration cuts, it is only 1/80th of the total federal budget.  The federal budget is in fact so large, and deliberately made complicated by the same politicians who have been crying wolf, that most Americans cannot even wrap their mind around the numbers.  Nobody can envision a trillion dollars, and one billion is well out of touch from most people’s minds.  Yet American spending is in a deficit trend of over a trillion dollars per year from an income stream where only 1.35 million Americans at the very top of the income bracket pay as much as the bottom 95%.  In total roughly 130 million Americans pay taxes into the total federal budget minus some revenue generated from foreign trade and travel gathered in the form of sales taxes.  So when it is learned that most of the federal yearly budget supplied to the government is provided by only 130 million Americans—while almost as many more pay no taxes off payroll or other direct measures, the situation becomes incredibly frustrating, and daunting.  Like their counterparts in the government school system, federal bureaucrats make it a practice to deliberately deceive voters into protecting the empire of spending they have recklessly erected.  For more information check out the links below:

How much the Top 1% pays in taxes:

http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/12/top-1-of-american-taxpayers-pay-almost-as-much-in-taxes-as-bottom-95-and-half-of-that-group-paid-nothing-in-2010/

Federal budget by the numbers from the Heritage Foundation:

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/10/federal-spending-by-the-numbers-2012

Most people start to blank out when such large numbers are expressed so they cannot get their mind around such concepts.  Looting politicians like Barack Obama know this, and have successfully hidden the extremity of these federal numbers behind relatable faces, like children, National Park employees, government janitorial staff and so on—so that tax payers will be inclined to vote in favor of more tax increases to help out their fellow Americans.  The federal government essentially uses the same tactics that we have been fighting locally in the school levy debates—they clearly manipulate the numbers in hopes that nobody can wrap their mind around the truth.  However, Darryl Parks did better than President Obama in showing the hypocrisy of the federal diatribes by putting into a context that everyone can understand the amount of the sequestration cuts that prove just how small they really are—and how much politicians in Washington and the doomsday press blew out of proportion the extent of the damage—which proves that none of them can be trusted.

Darryl did the hard math and discovered that it was much easier to understand the 44 billion in cuts coming from the sequestration reductions that went into effect on March 1st by proportionally breaking it down against something that virtually everyone can relate to, a McDonalds Big Mac extra value meal.  Darryl took the known value of 1320 calories that are contained within a Big Mac extra value meal consisting of a Big Mac sandwich, a medium Coke and a large order of French fries that normally contain 87 individual fries within the container they come in and for sake of argument gave that value of 1320 an equal value to the federal budget.  Now we know that 44 billion in cuts is only 1/80th of the total federal budget, so if we apply the same reduction to the Big Mac value meal, we discover that we will only lose 2 ½ French fries from our feast

Most people eating such a meal would not notice a 2 ½ fry reduction, and in the society at large, particularly the 130 million Americans who pay nearly all the federal tax, they won’t notice any reductions at the federal level.  The only people who will notice the reductions are those who have built their careers in the flimsy existence of government and find themselves jobless in the sequestration cuts.  It will be discovered that many of those reduced jobs were not necessary to begin with just as many of the local schools who have had to reduce their staffs have found that they can still operate with fewer employees as they work to meet their budgets.  The impacted parties are those who work for government at wages that are too high for jobs that were created by government for government reasons.

Nobody in their right mind can argue that losing 2 ½ fries per Big Mac value meal will ever be noticed and will drive down the quality of the meal itself.  Just like the sequestration cuts don’t even come close to bringing our federal government into the light of reality when it comes to fiscal spending of those poor 130 million tax payers who are covering the whole bill.  Yet everyone who covered the sequestration in a negative way is guilty of openly misleading the American people with radical rhetoric that belongs in the basement of old hippie flower children engulfed in pot smoke as they watch reruns of Sesame Street and think themselves sophisticated contributors of society.  In reality, much, much, much more needs to be cut from our extra value meals if we wish as a nation to lose any weight and take measures to truly get our budget under control.  Taking away 2 ½ French fries out of 87 won’t do the job—and is not even worth the discussion which has transpired.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

Barack Obama is America’s Jeroboam: How History will treat the $17 trillion dollar deficit driving President

I wanted the opportunity to vote for Herman Cain in the 2012 election, so what I am about to say has nothing to do with Civil Rights advances, or even politics.  The game that is being played is clear in a society that ridiculed Herman Cain ruthlessly, yet celebrated Barack Obama even though they are both African-Americans.  The performance of President Obama during the last week of February 2013 before the sequester deadline, which was set by his administration two years prior, proves what many have all along feared about Obama, and I am convinced that history will remember the current presidency as not just an appalling failure, but a horrendous blip on the radar of American prosperity.  It will be revealed that all along, Obama was a domestic terrorist at war with The American Constitution with an aim at radical destruction of prosperity in The United States to redistribute the wealth of America to the rest of the world, only to destroy the global economy in the process.  There is no other explanation for the reckless campaigning Obama engaged in trying to evoke fear in federal workers ahead of the sequester deadline.  What he has failed to report in his campaigning to federal workers is that even with the sequester cuts The United States is still spending more this year than it did last year pushing our national debt on a path toward $17 trillion.  Obama is either a complete idiot, which is possible—or he is a domestic terrorist intentionally attempting to wreck the American economy forever.  There really isn’t any other option, and that makes the situation in Washington a perilous one that may be the greatest threat to our Republic since the War of 1812.

If Obama proves in historical context, once the emotions of the day have quelled, to have been the later of the feared motivations, it would not have been the first time such a thing occurred.  In Biblical history, Obama’s current path might most parallel the actions of Jeroboam who advanced his rule over Israel by means of perpetuating the division of the southern Kingdom of Judah.  Obama like Jeroboam has spent his reign doing nothing but perpetuating war so that in the division would defeat his enemies so they could not rise up against him directly.  Obama has no interest in controlling costs or leaving America better of a country than when he found it, and he seeks to destroy all opposition to him through the kind of antics that history has seen time and time again.  But these mechanisms are invisible to the modern television viewer who believes that Obama’s presidency is about proving America has overcome its follies in a post Civil War America.  But the strategic intent is much, much more sinister.

So who was Jeroboam?  Here is what Wikipedia offers:

Jeroboam pron.: /ˌdʒɛrəˈboʊ.əm/ (Hebrew: יָרָבְעָם yarobh`am, Greek: Ιεροβοάμ Hieroboam) was the first king of the northern Israelite Kingdom of Israel after the revolt of the ten northern Israelite tribes against Rehoboam that put an end to the United Monarchy.

Jeroboam reigned for 22 years. William F. Albright has dated his reign from 922 to 901 BC, while Edwin R. Thiele offers the dates 931 to 910 BC.[1]

Jeroboam was the son of Nebat (Douay-Rheims: Nabat), a member of the Tribe of Ephraim of Zereda. His mother[3], named Zeruah was a widow (and could have been leprous[citation needed], as her name translates; 1 Kings 11:26) He had at least two sons — Abijam[4] and Nadab, who succeeded him on the throne.

While still young, Jeroboam was promoted by Solomon to be chief superintendent of the “burnden”, i.e. the bands of forced laborers.[5]

Influenced by the words of the prophet Ahijah (1 Kings 11:29-39), he began to form conspiracies with the view of becoming king of the ten tribes; but these were discovered, and he fled to Egypt, where he remained under the protection of pharaoh Shishak until the death of Solomon.[6] On the death of Solomon, Rehoboam assumed the throne. However, the ten northern tribes revolted against his rule and invited Jeroboam to become their king. The conduct of Rehoboam favored the designs of Jeroboam, and he was accordingly proclaimed “king of Israel”.[7]

He rebuilt and fortified Shechem as the capital of his kingdom. He at once adopted means to perpetuate the division with the southern Kingdom of Judah. He erected at Dan and Bethel, the two extremities of his kingdom, “golden calves,” which he set up as symbols of God, enjoining the people not any more to go up to worship at Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem, but to bring their offerings to the shrines he had erected.

Thus he became distinguished as the man “who made Israel to sin.” This policy was followed by all the succeeding kings of Israel.

According to 1 Kings 13:1-6, while Jeroboam was engaged in offering incense at Bethel, a “man of God” warned him that “a son named Josiah will be born to the house of David” who would destroy the altar (referring to King Josiah of Judah who would rule approximately three hundred years later). Attempting to arrest the prophet for his bold words of defiance, Jeroboam’s hand was “dried up,” and the altar before which he stood was rent asunder. At his urgent entreaty his “hand was restored him again” (1 Kings 13:1-6, compare 2 Kings 23:13-16); but the miracle made no abiding impression on him. This “man of God” who warned Jeroboam has been equated with a seer named Iddo.[8]

He was in constant “war with the house of Judah”. While the southern kingdom made no serious effort to militarily regain power over the north, there was a long-lasting boundary dispute, fighting over which lasted during the reigns of several kings on both sides before being finally settled.

In the eighteenth year of Jeroboam’s reign, Abijah, Rehoboam’s son, became king of Judah.[9] During his short reign of three years, Abijah went to considerable lengths to bring the Kingdom of Israel back under his control. He waged a major battle against Jeroboam in the mountains of Ephraim. Biblical sources credit Abijah with having a force of 400,000 and Jeroboam having 800,000.[10] The Biblical sources mention that Abijah addressed the armies of Israel, urging them to submit and to let the Kingdom of Israel be whole again,[11] but his plea fell on deaf ears. Abijah then rallied his own troops with a phrase which has since become famous: “Jehovah (God) himself is with us for a captain (commander of the army).” As per the Bible His elite warriors fended off a pincer movement to rout Jeroboam’s troops — killing 500,000 of them.[12]

Jeroboam was crippled by this severe defeat to Abijah and posed little threat to the Kingdom of Judah for the rest of his reign.[13] He also lost the towns of Bethel, Jeshanah and Ephron, with their surrounding villages.[14] Bethel was an important centre for Jeroboam’s Golden Calf cult (which used non-Levites as priests),[15] located on Israel’s southern border, which had been allocated to the Tribe of Benjamin by Joshua, as was Ephron, which is believed to be the Ophrah that was allocated to the Tribe of Benjamin by Joshua.[16]

Jeroboam died soon after Abijam.

Bill O’Reilly as a journalist is someone I respect tremendously.  He attempts to call things as straight as he can, which is why he is one of the most trusted news sources around today.  I don’t always agree with him, but he really works to get to the truth of an issue.  O’Reilly recently tackled the view that history might take upon gazing at Obama’s Presidency, and it was very good.  O’Reilly covered the topic on one of his Talking Points Memos heard during the same week of Obama’s campaigning during February.  O’Reilly uses less colorful language than I do, but his essence is much the same and is worth reading for just the statistics alone.

How will history view President Obama:

By Bill O’Reilly

In just a few days automatic federal spending cuts might kick in. That is known as “the sequester”, a word we don’t like here at The Factor because it’s a word few understand and it’s largely meaningless.

The issue is very, very simple. President Obama does not want to cut federal spending without another tax increase. Republicans say no way, they are not going to continue to feed the federal spending colossus as can be seen clearly by the following quotes:

OBAMA: Most Americans — Democrats, Republicans and Independents — understand that we can’t just cut our way to prosperity.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE IN BUDGET HEARINGS: I want to disagree with those who say we have a spending problem.

REP. NANCY PELOSI: So it is almost a false argument to say we have a spending problem. We have a budget deficit problem that we have to address.

SEN. MARY LANDRIEU: I am not going to keep cutting the discretionary budget, which, by the way, is not out of control, despite what you hear on Fox News.

O’REILLY: Senator Landrieu and others are simply wrong. The federal spending is certainly out of control. The debt is approaching $17 trillion.

Here is how bad it is. In 2003 the U.S. spent just above $2 trillion. This year, the estimated spending will be $3.6 trillion, a 75 percent rise in spending in a 10-year period with no inflation.

And what do we have to show for all that spending? The economy is not much better. The poverty rate is about the same as it was 50 years ago. And salaries for working people are going down.

So why are we spending all the money? For what reason? I’ll tell you why. Take a look at this chart put out by the Pew Research Center. It says 48 percent of Americans want smaller government and fewer services. But among Hispanics, only 19 percent want smaller government and fewer services. A whopping 75 percent of Latinos surveyed approve of bigger government and more entitlements. That’s why President Obama is spending the money because he knows that a coalition of African-Americans, Hispanic Americans, organized labor, and committed liberals will overwhelm the Republican Party.

So in essence, the President is putting party politics above the good of the nation. History will record that and a few years from now when President Obama’s administration is evaluated historians will not care about his charisma, his co-opting of the press or his demeanor in general. No. History will look at the facts. And the facts are that the USA is on the road to bankruptcy. And when that happens, if it does, President Obama will be blamed.

Previous presidents like Van Buren, Harding, Coolidge and Hoover all got hammered because of perceived bad economic policies. The fact is that right now Barack Obama is in that historical category. And that’s a fact.

And that’s “The Memo.”

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Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/oreilly/2013/02/27/bill-oreilly-how-will-history-evaluate-president-obama#ixzz2M6Zihste

Obama’s forgetfulness of his sequestration deadline, which was set by The White House, reminds me most of the Popeye the Sailor character of Wimpy, who was famous for saying, “I’ll pay your Tuesday for a hamburger today.”   Well, Tuesday is here, and Obama doesn’t want to pay for his hamburgers.  Instead, he wants another loan for more hamburgers to be paid on many future Tuesdays, and it is hard to believe that anybody could be so stupid, unless they have deliberate intentions of collapsing the American economy.

Historically speaking, it appears that Obama will be viewed equally as Jeroboam, an intention divider of The United States for aims of power and wealth redistribution using Saul Alinsky tactics to execute the aims of Cloward and Piven.  Unlike the times of Jeroboam, armies are not on hand to fight in hand to hand combat as factions meet on the battlefield to keep people like Jeroboam in power.  These days’ armies are congregated in board rooms and banks.  The new arrows of combat are check books and debt.  The intent of battle and war in general is to force an opponent into concessions through violence, sanctions, or political manipulation.  Obama is not even trying to work with Republicans, instead, he is attacking, and attacking, and attacking at every opportunity while running up a tremendous debt with the recklessness of Wimpy, except he never seems to have a desire to even pay on Tuesday.  The intent appears to be complete fiscal collapse and that would be considered domestic terrorism which is something all Americans should guard against.  Trying to invoke fear into political opponents and the masses behind them can be termed in no other way, and in this case exceeds the parameters of normal political theater.  The level that Obama is attempting to carry the divisiveness of modern politics appears to have the same aim as Jeroboam, and will be remembered as such.  The evidence is clear, and cannot be ascertained in any other fashion, unless of course Obama is just a complete fool that is as reckless in his designs as an intoxicated gambler on a Saturday night.  Either way, history will not be kind to Barack Obama.  The only question is whether America survives such a parasite as sixteen years of progressive rule on top of another eight that have severed half the nation from the values they had always held before the election of 1992.  It is easy to see the demise in historical context over decades.  But not so easy to see in the immediacy of the moment, which is the strategy of war played in modern politics, and seems to be the motivation of Barack Obama, the modern version of Jeroboam.  The severed tribes of Obama are Hispanics, women, African-Americans, union leaders, the poor, the un-ambitious, and the government worker being paid extraordinary sums for a job the tax payer does for nearly half the same market value money.  It is war that Obama is conducting and in order to continue that war, he needs more irresponsible spending and a government that will grow by another 100% in the coming years till America is no better than Europe economically.  The slate of the world will then be wiped clean for Socialist International to step in and rule us all through the United Nations.  That appears to be the intentions of America’s modern version of Jeroboam.

Many enemies work behind a cloak of good intentions, but most of them have other ideas concealed deep in their social plots.  Evil is sometimes a point of view, and what might be evil for America might provoke sainthood among the advocates of global government.  A rival team might be considered evil if they score a touchdown beating the hometown favorite—but the actions behind Obama are much worse than these kinds of trivial competitions.  He is attacking every single American for seemingly ideological reasons, either through reckless stupidity or deliberate sabotage.  But History will grade Obama a failure either way and a menace to all of civilization as they attempt to dig out from underneath the years of Obama with more than shovels.  History will place Obama with the terrorists Jeroboam and the worst of the Roman Emperors.  Such a legacy will outlast the political whims of the modern age, and will forever be viewed with the same kind of sinister sentiment as our current times view Stalin, Mao, and every tyrant who has so far breathed and walked the Earth.  Obama will forever be just another brick in the road to tyranny that threatened the freedoms of every individual in the entire world with soul crushing debt recklessly applied to achieve a military victory long ago hatched in the living room of college Marxist professors in the glory days of being a “community organizer,” where the weak hearts of the great American enemy was discussed over mixed drinks and cigarettes to great effect and long-term strategy.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

Ahsoka Faces Her Greatest Challenge: Watch the end of Season 5 of ‘The Clone Wars’

As I have said on many occasions, I would recommend my readers here watch Star Wars: The Clone Wars on Saturday mornings at 9:30. They aren’t just for kids, and are great family entertainment.  But never more than this upcoming Saturday. The wonderful animated series will conclude in very dramatic fashion that many who read here often will find parallels my work here all to closely. Art is often the best representative of complex ideas, and when it comes to The Clone Wars, that has never been more true.

Ahsoka, one of the premier Jedi Knights who has defended the Old Republic valiantly has been set up by the mysterious unseen actions of a Sith Lord, which isn’t revealed fully until the actions in the feature film Revenge of the Sith, which was released by Lucasfilm into movie theaters in 2005.

The shocking finale to Season 5 of Star Wars: The Clone Wars has arrived, with major revelations that will leave characters forever changed. Ahsoka is wrongly accused for sedition and murder, and is to be prosecuted in the High Courts of the Galactic Republic by a zealous Admiral Tarkin. Seemingly abandoned, Ahsoka’s last hope lies in Anakin Skywalker, who hunts the Coruscant underworld for the real murderer in “The Wrong Jedi,” Saturday, March 2nd at 9:30am ET/PT on Cartoon Network.

This episode – the culmination of five years of development of Ahsoka Tano’s character and her relationship with Anakin – is personally helmed by Dave Filoni, who serves as episodic director in addition to being the supervising director for the series. Underscoring the significance of the finale, composer Kevin Kiner arranged an orchestral score for this episode to better resemble the full, classical score found in the Star Wars feature films.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

The Conservative Versus Libertarians: Looking for laws to create shared values

John Stossel and Ann Coulter had a wonderful debate recently in front of a group of college Libertarians in Washington D.C. over the nature of personal liberty.  During the debate Coulter told John and the audience that Libertarians were a bunch of pussies for pandering to liberals with a social message of drug use and gay marriage.  I normally agree with much of what Stossel, Judge Napolitano, and Glenn Beck who are all declared Libertarians state, but in this debate seen below, I am on the side of Ann Coulter 100%.  I personally deplore drug use of any kind, and that includes over-the-counter medicine.  I would never use marijuana as an ingested smoke into my lungs under any circumstance.  I resist even taking aspirin or drinking alcohol.  I think anyone who drinks alcohol to get drunk is an absolute fool.  I have ended long-standing friendships over drug use and even abuse of alcohol, so I have no tolerance for it among the general population.  Even in my teenage years where such behavior was expected, and I lived a life from 16 to 18 years old that would fill encyclopedia volumes with wild adventures, I had a sign in my car that indicated that no smoking was allowed.  And it wasn’t…………for anybody.  I have even thrown people out of my car for lighting up cigarette in the back seat while I was driving.  I have no tolerance for drug or alcohol abuse and I have always been that way.   So like Ann Coulter, my biggest problem with modern Libertarians is their permissiveness of drug use and the name of their movement, which is way too close to the word “liberal.”  So I do not identify myself as a Libertarian.  The barrier for me is their permissiveness of social debaucheries behind a flag of liberty.

The question that arises from Libertarians is how can government control what goes on in the bedroom of citizens, or dictate what an individual puts into their bodies?  For me, government can’t, and shouldn’t be in the business of social behavioral regulation.  That type of thing would normally be regulated to the spiritual pursuits of an individual which would create the goals people strive to live within.  This would work fine if people shared similar values, such as a majority of the population wished to live by Christen values or Buddhist ideas, but in the absence of such social conviction there is a kind of free-for-all mentality that causes some to impose their freedoms on others who don’t share their values.  So a law is necessary under those conditions, and a penalty for that law must be swift so it is respected by the public as a shared value.

For instance, if I’m in line at Kings Island, a popular amusement park in Southern Ohio and there is a guy in front of me smoking a marijuana cigarette, he is making a decision based on his personal liberty to impose upon me the expelled air from his lungs that contain within it chemicals I do not want in my body.  Currently the law protects him from me, because I cannot just go up and knock his face into another dimension as he imposed upon me the marijuana smoke from his lungs.  Because using drugs in public is illegal, the conflict is averted, where it wouldn’t be if marijuana use in public were legalized.  There is nothing more disgusting than such public displays where the careless use of intoxicants can be seen coming out of the mouth of an individual and the only way you can prevent yourself from ingesting it yourself is to hold your breath.  Such a thing is nearly as disgusting as seeing discarded cigarettes on the ground of a parking lot, or walkway that has been saturated with rain and are smashed flat.  When in a public place I am always cautious to avoid stepping on them because I don’t want to drag that trash into my car, or my home as the old cigarette might become lodged into the tread of my shoes to fall out within my property littering it.  I am just as cautious about looking for places in public that people have spit on the ground.  I do not want to step in the spittle of some other person and drag their chemical intoxicants into the carpet of my vehicle on the way home.  The rights of liberty from the person who spit on the sidewalk do not supersede my rights to maintain my property free of their discarded saliva, or cigarettes.

With liberty comes responsibility and if the social trends of the day leaned in the direction of social valor, then I might embrace the Libertarian designation a bit more amiably.  I have no desire to visit the city of Amsterdam because of their loose drug laws, and now that Colorado has passed legislation legalizing pot, I may never visit that state in the years to come.  The very idea of a body of people who collectively wish to participate in detrimental drug use is disgusting, and changes the way I view the entire state.  I find the tendency to use drugs even for bi-polar disorders to be deplorable.  I would like to see the human spirit overcome shortcomings and illnesses in the most self-reliant fashion possible—and I don’t see the Libertarian political movement going in that direction.  Instead, it appears to be a happy middle place between what the Republicans once stood for, and what the hippie liberals promote actively–human weakness.

I hate more laws, and encourage breaking unjust laws as the situations dictate.  The ultimate question is who decides what good and proper social behavior is—is it the Republicans, Democrats, or Libertarians?  The answer is in none of them.  Before the kind of freedom that Libertarians are striving for can ever occur the human race has to have a desire to behave with quality.  They have to want to live quality lives and to respect the quality of other peoples’ lives.  Without a firm definition of quality and what makes one thing better than another one persons freedom becomes another person’s hell.  Without a spiritual bonding agent that is shared between one group of people and another, freedoms will collide and impose on unwarranted victims the pursuits of less stable personalities and their flaws.

The argument between Ann and John above is the direction that I see America going.  As for the liberals, the Democrats, the communists and socialists of collectivism, I don’t even recognize them as having a seat at the table of tomorrow.  I see them as having the same kind of living quality as any other animal on Earth.  They live, eat and die in predictable fashions but are governed through their lives by animal instincts, the desire to have sex, consume food, and sleep.  Without a personal commitment to any higher thoughts or causes, they are no different to me than an average household pet—and they will lose their standing all together in the future of America between the pot-headed Libertarians and Republicans like Ann Coulter who are trying to return the party back to the ideas it was founded on.  As for me, no political party represents my thoughts best but the old Anti-Federalist Party of Thomas Jefferson.  All these new political variations are lacking an inherit wisdom that is governed by personal valor.  Without a human desire to be good, all the laws and political posturing of any collective group of individuals is a worthless pursuit that lacks sustainability.  So long as Libertarians embrace drug use of any kind, I will never have an “L” next to my name in any professional or casual reference.  I’ll stay with Independent—which is what the aim of all politics should be.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

Living the Creation of Ayn Rand’s ‘Anthem’: Fighting back against Duke Energy and the Cincinnati Streetcar

George Lang, trustee of West Chester Township has recently had to contend with a large financial settlement due to a controversial police beating, then he went on 700 WLW radio with Bill Cunningham to give a statement about the attempt from Duke Energy to pass the cost of the Cincinnati Street Car off on suburban residents since the city does not have the money to pay for the project they foolishly voted for.  Lang has been very busy, and has done a more than respectable job of handling the various management issues that have come his way.  The Duke Energy issue is very serious.  It is the result of a Cincinnati based company that is dedicated to progressive causes–especially with their participation in the Agenda 21 Smart Meter program–that is allowing the reckless costs of Mayor Mallory’s Street Car to be passed on for infrastructure construction to their wide base of customers.  The Street Car like the Smart Meters is an Agenda 21 strategy and it should come as no surprise that the Cincinnati Mayor is personal friends with Barack Obama and is fully committed to the Rio, Brazil Earth Summit agenda created in 1992.  CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT AGENDA 21. George Lang is fighting the idea of Duke Energy passing the cost of the Street Car onto residents of Butler and Warren County and he had a great interview with Cunningham which can be heard below.

When logic is used, nobody can figure out why Mallory is so committed to the Streetcar.  Like Lang said, the Streetcar makes no economic sense for Cincinnati and much less sense for the residents of Butler and Warren County.  It’s sluggish old technology that limits people geographically to an area that is less than desirable.  I know that Lang understands the real answer, but he can’t say it on WLW without sounding like a kook, because George knows that attacking these big problems with too much information that the public isn’t willing to learn will lessen his message—so he focused the discussion around economic viability, which is something people understand.  Yet the reality is that Mallory like his friend Obama are looking far into the future—beyond their own lifetimes with a commitment to social collectivism that can best be found in Ayn Rand’s great novel Anthem which I have been reading at least twice a week lately, because of its stirring accuracy.

http://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/streetcar/news/city-duke-energy-reach-streetcar-agreement/

I have been reading Anthem written first in 1937 which appeared to have had a tremendous impact on Walt Disney (CLICK HERE TO READ MY REVIEW) because out of all my books and attempts at explaining away modern behavior, it is the only one that makes sense.  It predicted the attempt by Socialist International to spread global communism through The United Nations nearly half a century before the 1992 Earth Summit meeting in Brazil.  Ayn Rand knew the signs and they were already happening in America during the days of the Red Decade, when Anthem was written.  Anthem was a warning about the dangers of communism from a woman who lived it first hand in Petrograd, Russia at the start of the 1917 Revolution.  In Anthem mankind has reverted back to almost a primal village where council members run everything and personal identity has been eradicated.  One man in the story re-discovers the light bulb from a long dead culture.  He brings the discovery to his ruling village council thinking they will be delighted.  Instead he is beaten and tortured for making the discovery to the point that he escapes into the wilderness to re-establish civilization and all the inventions of the past that have been suppressed by the ruling class.  The book is so powerful that I believe that Walt Disney built the Epcot Center in Orlando Florida to protect our society against such an eventuality.  You can see a dedication to Ayn Rand’s work in the American Heritage building at that famous park.  Only Walt or Roy, his brother, would ever be able to admit to such a thing today, so enjoy the dedication to Ayn Rand while it lasts.  Progressives hate Ayn Rand, and seek at every turn to remove her warnings from the eyes of human beings.  If you want to piss off a progressive, talk about Ayn Rand, which is why the dedication at The Epcot Center is remarkable.  Anthem’s hero is Equality 7-2521 and he lived in the dark ages of the distant future.  In a loveless world he dared to love the woman of his choice.  In an age that had lost all trace of science and civilization he had the courage to seek and find knowledge.  But these were not the crimes for which he would be hunted.  He was marked for death because he had committed the most unpardonable sin: he had stood forth from the mindless human herd.  He was a man alone………….a sin worse than murder in a society of collectivists.

The Overton Window in our current society has been pulled so far to the political left that even dedicated conservatives feel uncomfortable discussing novels like Anthem in public.  So Lang was smart to stay away from the topic on WLW because large media types like Cunningham have had the Overton Window pulled so far to the left during their lifetimes that they are not willing to examine ideas that may categorize them as “tin headed conspiracy theorists.” ( CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE OVERTON WINDOW.) Such thoughts do not belong so much on Channel 5 interviews and WLW talk shows as society is currently struggling with the current status of America.  The news reporters and producers of such shows are having a hard time grappling with these issues as they don’t want to be considered extreme, or kooky so they stay with the observable evidence that the public can most easily relate with.  The political left has captured the media and they have established the parameters which everyone in the business must follow.

I ran up against this issue with the education reform topics I used to cover so often with mainstream media.  I argued the cost of the school levies for a long time, but when nothing changed and the reasons were examined with facts the answers were much more sinister than even I thought.  Mainstream media isn’t prepared to deal with that reality at this time, just like they are not prepared to deal with the real reason for the Streetcar in Cincinnati, or the strategy behind the Smart Meters from Duke Energy.  Lang stuck to the cost and extreme imposition of Butler County being required to pay for the progressive Streetcar that was rammed down the throat of Cincinnati residents, and is now being pushed off into the suburbs for mysterious and illogical reasons.  The Streetcar intent seems illogical in relation to the known data that people like Cunningham and his producers at WLW are willing to deal with.  After all, Cunningham’s television show exploits the result of progressivism, so too much examination of progressive causes disturbs the apple cart of many people who make livings off them.  Mainstream media is left trying to explain only the tips of icebergs leaving much hidden below the surface.  It is in art that society must tackle the big issues so they can be seen fully, and not in the tid bits of news topics.  Artistic endeavors like this blog, paintings, movies or novels are where the bigger issues can be examined by individuals alone with their thoughts in the quiet of the night, and at their own command.

The intent of the Streetcar like all progressive causes is to eliminate suburbs and individual freedom in dedication to the foundation of collectivism.  Suburbs in Butler and Warren counties have been targeted by pretentious United Nations bureaucrats in far away cities like Rio during yearly Earth Summits to be eliminated through regulation.  County and city planners trained in colleges by Marxist professors do not even question their role in the scheme as they have been trained to be collectivists, by collectivists.  In virtually every company in the country there are now programs like Six Sigma and other consensus building efficiency measures that are rooted in global collectivism, not individual endeavor, which all are born from this trend perpetuated by liberal college professors instructed in the motivations of Earth Summit agenda points.  The intentions of collectivism as it is taught in virtually every public school and college, every company that embraces consensus building, and every public works project like the Street Car is to carry society toward the future of Anthem.  When all the elements are added up from what we see today, to what is coming in the future, the sum is what the novel Anthem is all about.

George Lang is fighting the good fight in standing up to the Duke Energy imposition of raising energy rates to cover their cost of building the Streetcar infrastructure.  But like Cunningham said, Duke will get it’s way in the end and Mayor Mallory knew it all along, just as Obama knew it when the Streetcar idea was invented in the first place as the hub of transportation in Cincinnati in the distant future when the suburbs are destroyed through taxation and all residents are forced back into the cities to preserve the green space of planet Earth.  The collectivists know they have every sector of public life covered from the media to the smallest business—that even die-hard conservatives feel uncomfortable discussing the origin and intention of progressivism outside of their own thoughts.  So what can people do, what measures can people take to strike back?

Well, since Duke Energy is at the center of two controversies, the Smart Meter program and the willingness of their company to pass off the cost of the Streetcar onto their customers who had nothing to do with voting for the stupid thing, there are options.  The best way to hit a company like Duke Energy is in their pocketbook.  Duke makes their money in two primary ways, off their infrastructure usage and off kilowatt-hours.  While we are all stuck through the monopoly power of Duke Energy in Cincinnati with their infrastructure, we do have options with how we buy the kilowatt-hours of power supplied to our homes.  Since it looks like Butler County will be forced to pay nearly $7 more on their monthly bills to cover the Streetcar that money could be returned to household income by buying kilowatt-hours of power from another company.  One such company is First Energy which can provide considerable savings to any family household.  If you own a business, you can save thousands of dollars in kilowatt usage through First Energy or companies like them.  To learn more, check them out at the link below.

https://www.firstenergycorp.com/fehome.html

Even if the savings on your electric bill is only $10 to $40 per month, it is still money that will not be going to Duke Energy and is an excellent way to use dollars to express unhappiness about Duke Energy’s willingness to pass off the cost of the Street Car to the suburbs of Ohio by caving into the whims of progressive politics without a fight.  And it will teach power companies a hard lesson that America does not get its mandates from The United Nations in Earth Summits at Rio.  Duke Energy has stated that they control the infrastructure that goes onto our homes so we have no say as to whether a Smart Meter goes on them or not, just like we have no choice but to pay the extra rates for the Streetcar in Cincinnati.  But we do have a choice of whether we purchase our kilowatt-hours from Duke Energy or First Energy.  It is in the power of choice that the degradation of political progressivism can best be defeated, and the eventual aim of taking society to the brink of the old novel Anthem—a society that has become inundated with soulless collectivism, can be averted.  Agenda 21 might sound like conspiracy theory skepticism, but it is quite real, and exists outside of the accepted realm of discussion like a cancer cell that slowly eats away a healthy body that is in denial of its presence.  It does no good to yell at Duke Energy and proclaim that they are agents of evil in direct service to The United Nations and progressive politicians who are using the green movement as the new red of communism.  But the money to feed some of these agents can be greatly reduced in retaliation for the Smart Meter program and the audacity to even consider spreading the wealth from rich suburbs to fund a streetcar in Cincinnati that is the dream of progressives.  The aim of those progressives can be seen in Ayn Rand’s novel Anthem and the path begins and ends with companies like Duke Energy who by choice or by design are guiding society in that tragic direction.

http://www.napervillesmartmeterawareness.org/

We can only be thankful that there are a few politicians like George Lang who can walk the tight rope of politics and still fight for what’s right.  And asking residents of Butler Country among others to pay for a Streetcar in Cincinnati is wrong in every meaning of the word, and deserves a recourse that will place in the mind of Duke Energy management great regret.  Give First Energy a call and start that process.  It might divide up a household electric bill into two bills one to Duke for the infrastructure and one from First Energy for the kilowatts, but half that bill won’t be going to Duke……….and that will really piss them off……..and teach them a hard lesson.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

The Danger of Agenda 21: Eating old people so the young can suffer

To understand what Agenda 21 is, the people who designed it for the United Nations with an aim of one world government, and what it will look like in the future implemented from cities like Hong Kong to Cincinnati, Ohio all you need to do is visit the birth place of it in Rio de Janeiro where the Earth Summit is routinely held.  Agenda 21 was created in the minds of European socialists while attending one of these Earth Summits as far back as 1992, but in reality percolated in the minds of collectivist oriented governments for decades, since the words of Karl Marx first touched their minds nearly a century and a half ago.  The Earth Summit has been routinely held in exotic cities like Rio and Cancun, Mexico to enamor the participants with familiar culture and high-minded thinking while topless women and string bikinis fill the sights and sounds of visitors with equatorial delight.  Both Rio and Cancun are examples of what the future of the world will look like if left to Agenda 21.  Both cities are filled with delightfully luxurious hotels and tourist accommodations while they are surrounded by extreme slums of people stacked upon each other in an inhumane fashion of compressed living and diabolical concessions to the human soul.  These cities are true glimpses of what the future of human civilization will look like under Agenda 21 globally.  Everything looks wonderful in the tourist areas, but for the workers who maintain the cities of Rio and Cancun—life sucks—big time.  Listening to Bob Silliman who is the coordinator of Ohio’s Agenda 21 awareness efforts I thought of a visit my wife and I made fairly recently to Cancun where the United Nations often holds their Climate Change Conferences and saw the future of my own community in the vision plans of local Agenda 21 planners.

At the end of Bob’s speech many in the audience contemplated what the end game was for Agenda 21, and why it was even being implemented.  Many speculated generally that it was power that was the intention—but as the young lady who stood up at the end declared, even if radical environmental leftists like George Soros wanted to use Agenda 21 to gain power over massive municipalities of people he would be long dead by the time Agenda 21 takes full hold in America—leaving the question mostly unanswered.  The menacing answer is much more severe and difficult to comprehend.  The people from the United Nations who fly in to participate in the Earth Summits and Climate Change Conferences in places like Cancun and Rio see the glitter of tourism and exotic locations and find themselves enchanted by the beauty of the Earth.  Often they don’t travel too far from their hotels so they don’t see the massive slums that the people who live and work in those exotic cities contend with.  For proof of these summit locations check the links below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Summit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conference

When my wife and I visited Cancun we were both astonished at the terrible living conditions of the residents just outside of the main strip in Cancun.  Even more shocking was the massive shopping mall like complex just down the road from the airport that held a multiplex of strip houses and sex shops.  The entire complex was one giant sex store that was reeking with human trafficking from young girls stolen from their families all over the world.  It made the sex store at Exit 141 in Tennessee just a few miles from Knoxville look small.  In the city of Cancun, Mexico if you head into the interior of the country within ten miles of the major hotels, once you pass the shopping mall of gentlemen clubs there is nothing for many dozens of miles, and for hundreds of miles in the Yucatan, there are only a few villages—many of them still containing thatched roofs the way a primitive might inhabit.  As my wife saw this for the first time after growing up in America and living all of her life in upper class conditions, she was absolutely aghast and wanted to help the poor Mexican people.  But the social conditions and politics of Mexico have imprisoned those poor residents of Cancun to be run by corrupt drug lords and the mobs who own all the hotels.  The government is run by the mobs, and this is what the United Nations is selling in Agenda 21.

In Mexico and Brazil the residents have been pushed through regulation and policy into the cities to live like rats under the command of central planners.  The living areas of these cities are terrible, and to call them slums would be a credit.  They are the result of the well intended global climate United Nations sympathizers who think they can contain the human spirit in a bottle to preserve the Earth from global warming.  Their intention of putting the human being in a bottle and holding them there so that green space thrives can be seen in Cancun.  Mexico has lots of green space…………..lots and lots………….and LOTS of it.  After traveling for a few days around the Yucatan Peninsula after being accustom to travel in America, my wife and I enjoyed a Big Mac at the McDonalds outside of our hotel like it was a feast at one of Chef Ramsey’s restaurants.   In fact, a Big Mac never tasted so good and my wife and I decided in that McDonalds in Cancun on Kukulcan Blvd that we would commit ourselves to saving America from United Nations global planners.  In America when we travel from Cincinnati to Louisville, or Cincinnati to Lexington, or Cincinnati to Columbus there is a lot of farm land that is being used productively, there is a lot of wonderful green space, and the Earth’s beauty is easy to see.  If there is one reason to go after Agenda 21 it is to preserve the Big Mac.  When I want a Big Mac, I can get one about every 20 miles no matter where I go in America—and that is a BEAUTIFUL thing.  Savor the moment—take a deep breath……………ahhhhhh…………capitalism.  Capitalism=Big Mac.  Two very wonderful ideas.

No place in the world has it so lucky as I do in The United States, and I would love to see places like Mexico, Brazil, and the entire continent of Africa have a life as good as I have it in Cincinnati, Ohio and that means a McDonalds every twenty miles and cell phone service uninterrupted for thousands of miles.  But they won’t get it with Agenda 21.  Instead, Agenda 21 and the United Nations architects wish to take from me these wonderful attributes of American culture and make Cincinnati more like Cancun and Rio.  The end game of Agenda 21 that is intended to take place over many generations is to destroy the infrastructure of suburbia and force residents back into the cities.   The sinister aims at work are not ones of direct power from people like George Soros in his generation, but the larger aim of surrender to global collectivism where the human body is but a cell in the body of the Earth, which is considered the highest form of existence.

In my community of Liberty Twp one of my favorite Trustees David Kern finds himself voting in favor of a massive apartment complex at the new Carriage Hill development because members of the Vision Committee years ago approved the development.  Developers are happy to make money off the Vision Committee’s idea, but what nobody knows is that the Vision Committee created their land use plan with a commitment to Agenda 21.  Since most people think only in terms of their generation and not the collective salvation of collectivists who attend the Earth Summit in Rio, they don’t know that the intent behind the luxury apartments at Carriage Hill are to be Section 8 housing 50 years from now, and as taxes push people out of their homes in the suburbs they will retreat to those Section 8 homes as they lose their homes.  Once they get used to that style of living they will crave the same kind of home centralized in Cincinnati near public transportation like what the Street Car is offering.  When Mayor Mallory used the Delphi Technique mentioned in the video above, to achieve passage of the Street Car even with all the opposition, it wasn’t because Mallory wanted to build a legacy for himself; it is because of his collective commitment to Agenda 21.  Fifty years from now when all the United Nations plans for the Twenty First Century are put in place, the suburbs of America will look like the green space outside of Cancun and all the residents will be stacked like insects in the apartment slums of Cincinnati not out of convenience to make life for the human being a good one, but out of a sacrifice to preserve Mother Earth.  When Liberty Township Zoning Administrator Jon West says to my good friend Cathy Dirr who is the loudest voice in Southern Ohio against Agenda 21 that “you can’t stop progress, Cathy,” he is saying that the progress of Agenda 21 and its commitment to Mother Earth is more important than the happiness and sovereignty of the individual citizens of Liberty Township.  By the time those new apartments being built at Carriage Hill–the Homearoma community in 2013–becomes Section 8 housing in 2040 the developers will long be dead and their children will have squandered all the money they made on the present real estate deals.  But Agenda 21 will just be kicking in and those same children will be pushed out of the suburbs and back into the city where the prying eyes of government can control and regulate their lives with the kind of imprisonment that one can see in present day Cancun.

In Cancun nobody is rich, but the organized crime organizations who own everything.  The same with Rio de Janeiro, but Hollywood has taken part in selling the Agenda 21 dream to the world with films like Blame it on Rio and the Mickey Roark film Wild Orchid.  To the soundtrack of Ofra Haza’s sexy Egyptian music, the sex in Rio during Wild Orchid was the fantasy of most men and women and the result has been a massive influx of spring breakers who have fled the control of their liberal college institutions in America for destinations abroad where commitment to Mother Earth takes priority over human lifetimes and morality.  Thousands of young people fill the hotels of Rio and Cancun as they have become the premier spring break destinations where they indulge in the loose rules of sexual conduct and make fools of themselves forever drowning their morality on the beaches of those resort cities.   As adults they will remember their shame and pour their redemption into collective salvation by sacrificing their lives for Mother Earth.  The plan of Agenda 21 is there in the financing of those particular films most recently exhibited in the Fast and Furious film titled the Fast Five, which featured street racing in Rio.

The pattern and commitment to Agenda 21 can best be seen in the 1973 film Soylent Green.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green  The investment of the culture into youth can be tragically seen and the result for the elderly who are killed and eaten by the youth once the reach the decided upon age for death is the end game for Agenda 21.  It may not be the intention during the Earth Summits, but it will be the result.  After all, that is what Soylent Green is, the chopped up bodies of the dead elderly of society who are fed to the youth as a sacrifice similar to the commitment of all collectivists into the surrendering of their lives to the benefit of Mother Earth.  Agenda 21 is so embedded in our culture that conservative trustees and country commissioners have been voting in favor of its implementation for decades without even knowing it.  Agenda 21 was there in the movie Soylent Green, it was there in Blame it on Rio, Wild Orchid, and The Fast Five.  It was there when travel agencies created the incentives to lure young people from American colleges to spend spring break in Cancun to have crazy sex on the beaches like they saw in movies under the watchful eyes of Mexicans with machine guns patrolling the beaches at night and watching in delight.  The bulge in their pants is not from the clips of .223 ammunition designated for their machine guns.

Part of the Agenda 21 strategy is to get people to finance their own demise.  Uncontrollable development will make a few developers wealthy such as in the Liberty Twp case of the Carriage Hill Apartments, but everyone else will suffer.  But in the far away land of Rio and Cancun the plans were created long ago to use the greed and short-sightedness of the average American to drive them like cattle to the slaughter-house of their own culture.  The end game is the city of Cancun and Rio where the tinsel looks impressive right off the airplane quickly degrades just under the blankets of society’s view.  While dining in an upscale Mexican restaurant in Cancun my wife and I spoke a bit with our waiter, a nice Mexican man who said yes senior and yes senorita at the end of every sentence in his dialogue with us.  At first site we thought he was just like us, that he lived in a decent home, had a decent family, had a decent car to drive—access to iPods and Xbox games and watched football on Sunday afternoons in the autumn.  But as we spoke to the man deeply, more than he was used to, he revealed after fifteen minutes of conversation that his brother had been recently killed by gang violence in the living quarters outside the tourist district.  He lived in a card board box.  His wife worked at the Sex Mall outside the airport and his children had all disappeared.  The epic peril of his story immediately alarmed us that he was using a typical tourist scam on us hoping for a good tip, but his body language and demeanor was one of honesty.  He was barely hanging onto life, and had little incentive to proceed from one day to the next.  Looking at him I thought of the movie Soylent Green where the elderly actually looked forward to their death because the toil of their lives would soon be over with pleasant music and comfortable settings not experienced in their day-to-day living.  In that man’s face I saw the result of Agenda 21 and the future of not only Cincinnati but every city in America.  If Agenda 21 is left unchecked the future of all our children can be seen in the lives of the current residents of Rio and Cancun.  The plans made by The United Nations are made in those cities for the results of the current inhabitants, and the results are not good for the human race.

Without question zoning administrators like Jon West in Liberty Twp will roll their eyes at the presentation shown above by Bob Silliman and regard them as the frightened antics of an elderly man.  Community administrators like West are so entrenched through the Delphi Technique to the practices of Agenda 21 that they are not able to see the big picture beyond the advancement of their own careers—and that is part of the United Nations strategy that is discussed at Earth Summits every year since 1992.  They count on human beings to be too short-sighted to see the whole picture, and in America people like Bob Silliman who are elderly and no longer concerned for their social advancement can finally see these schemes for what they are.  There is a clarity in old age that people like Bob Silliman have that people like Jon West do not yet possess—and the truth is in the words expressed in Silliman’s presentation.  Agenda 21 is a sinister aim for the human race, and wishes to end the American way of life.  The situation is made even worse when it is realized that The United Nations uses American tax dollars to fund its own existence which is the joke at all these events in Rio and Cancun.  Americans are funding their own end, and members of The United Nations are laughing about it as they gaze at the bronze bodies of topless women and string bikinis while sipping on their margaritas thinking of themselves as masters of the universe.  They might even think that their sacrifice of the human race to the goddess Mother Earth be equivalent to the Mayan who sacrificed many human beings to the god Kukulcan which is the name of the main road that runs the strip of Cancun.  The mind of these social collectivists and parasites to the human soul has the end game of the movie Soylent Green where future human beings will beg to be killed so their misery ends and they can become the food that feeds the human race and bring real value to their lives at last, as they spent a life time locked in an apartment living miserable lives of labor because of Agenda 21.

For a local example of organizations that most advance Agenda 21 in the Cincinnati area here is one:

http://www.citizensforcivicrenewal.org/index.html

They are the same group involved with the Street Car issue of Cincinnati and was hired by Lakota Schools to operate their “community conversations” which have not been cheap.  They specialize in The Delphi Technique which anyone who has attended the meetings with Jeffery Stec at Citizens for Civic Renewal has learned.  CLICK HERE to learn about The Delphi Technique and how it works.  It is the same technique mentioned in the video of Bob Silliman.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

The Tea Party is America’s Only Hope: A look into the future of politics

The political entities who claim that the Tea Party is a radical organization of dangerous individuals are speaking relative to their far left positions, and that includes people like Karl Rove—political strategist for the Republican Party.  In a very clarifying example shown below by Glenn Beck and Judge Napolitano it is displayed why Republicans and Democrats are emerging into a single party that we might at this time call “Republicrats” which is a combination of raw communism, progressivism, and soft socialism following the Overton Window of gradual progression toward big government.   To them, the position of the Tea Party does seem radical as it is their desire in both parties to move further and further toward big government until all personal freedoms are completely lost.  The video below should be watched in its entirety, because it is filled with information that is very useful in explaining the direction of politics today.  I personally consider Judge Napolitano to be one of the greatest human scholars of Constitutional understanding alive in America with the exception of Supreme Court Judge Scalia.  Scalia, Napolitano and other members of true American conservatives represent my beliefs and the thoughts of most Americans.  It is the big government radicals on the far left relative to the Tea Party position who consider such conservativism as radical.  It is they who have attempted to move millions of Americans toward an unmanaged government utopia with an end game of far left control.   It is people like Karl Rove who have split the Republican party by strategically taking the party toward the misfits of socialism instead of the direction of American liberty and it is not the task of Americans to buy into the collectivism of party rule—but rather to reject it in favor of Constitutional logic and freedom loving scholarship that paves the way toward self-initiated prosperity.  Watch the clip below carefully and take notes.  This one is very, very important.  The fate of America and each of our lives is described within it.

The failure of Republicans to unseat President Obama can be said to have rested upon the power of collectivism.  Democrats have long ago surrendered self-initiation and are happy to function as a blob of collectivism, so they do not have a philosophical struggle within their party.  They are all to some degree or another socialists.  Some Republicans have taken notice and have allowed themselves to be pulled in that direction for many years.  They have been weak in their convictions and have lost consistently to the radicals on the left.  The best and most recent example is that Mitt Romney felt he had to defend his wealth and success in his run for president, and the campaign became entirely about the bourgeois class against the proletariat which is a communist strategy from the far left.  Some conservatives like Rove, Governor Kasich, and Speaker Boehner have decided that they need to move from their conservative positions to meet the liberals halfway, but often get scammed when liberal politicians refuse to meet them at all creating a situation where the conservatives move to the left, but the left stays where they were.  Once the conservative is with the liberal, the liberal then moves further to the left, which is what has been happening during the Obama Presidency.  Karl Rove is urging conservatives to rally behind the party so they can defeat the mass of liberal collectivism aligned behind politicians like Obama, and the Clintons behaving like insects in an insect colony rallying to the urgings of the queen.  But reaction and compromise is the worse thing that can happen, because it is the strategy of far left radicals to propagate their scam using the Overton Window to continue a collective march to the left.  Rove says, “If you can’t beat them, join them.”  That is where the Tea Party has emerged to fill the void and provide representation to those not represented by the two-party system which is in essence just one leftist leaning party all dancing to the same music.

The successful formula for America is in The Constitution.  It has worked in the past and it can work again, because it was formed by people with a deep philosophical understanding of life and politics that transcends historic barriers or limitations.  The Constitution has most come under attack as Judge Napolitano pointed out in the video above during the Presidency of both Roosevelt’s and Woodrow Wilson.  The deal at the time was a basic disagreement over the style of collectivism that would be imposed on society.  Teddy Roosevelt deeply in love with European hierarchies openly began the process of bypassing The Constitution that is seen to this day by virtually every President which has gradually moved America further to the left as seen in the chart Glenn Beck displayed.  It is not the problem of me, or you dear reader that politicians like Roosevelt, Wilson, and Johnston imposed their personal views—and personal failings into politics and attempted to suppress The Constitution with their own princely influences.  It is not our job as a collective society to cover their follies with more mistakes.  It is our job and duty to return the country back toward the Constitution.

As Judge Napolitano stated, that process will be painful.  It is hoped that perhaps time will merge the two current parties together into some form or Republicrat and that people in the Tea Party will be represented by some sort of Freedom Party that is more representative of the original Anti-Federalists.  In the mean time America may become a three-party system as strategist have abandoned conservativism in favor of short term political victories.  But things will not continue to proceed to the political left without conflict.  I’m not going in that direction, and the people I know in the Tea Party aren’t going either.  It is not my job to follow Boehner or Kasich in a march to maintain party rule, it is the job of the Tea Party to return the nation to Constitutional principles and to chastise those who abandon it in favor of financial security under the covers of collectivism.  Napolitano also discussed the unfortunate end game if the political process fails, and that is that we have an obligation to return the nation back to The Constitution away from the hands of Obama, Kasich, and Boehner with force if needed, which is why we must have the Second Amendment.  That is not a negotiable Amendment, and history proves that politicians cannot be trusted with power.  So guns will always be needed.

In short, the Tea Party exists not as a radical organization hell-bent on old-fashioned ideas, but as a defender of The Constitution where the present political system has failed—immensely.  It is not the collective obligation of American citizens to continue to cover up the false interpretations and radicalism of European loving monarchs who would crown themselves king of America—if allowed.  They are not allowed, and presidents, speakers of the house, governors, congressman, senators, trustees, commissioners are all servants of the people—servants of the republic of America.  If they insist on anything else, they are wrong and it is the obligation of Constitutional protectors like the Tea Party to reset the correct political course through debate or conflict in the unbiased pursuit of justice.  The movement to the political left by both parties can no longer be advanced through name calling and extortion.  It is time to stop that progressive erosion of American value with a firm dedication to Constitutional adherence and not the loose interpretation of radicals who would seek to end The United States through the Overton Window.  CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE.

Click the link below to see how George Washington viewed government, which is what the Tea Party wishes to bring about again.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/02/18/its-george-washingtons-281st-birthday-here-are-his-5-most-important-warnings-to-congress/

Only an idiot would call the logic of Washington’s arguments “radical.”

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

The Scum Bags of Washington: Why so many politicians become “rich” in office

I am not a fan of Elizabeth Warren, and I fully support profitable endeavors, but I do not like it when politicians rally against the evils of Wall Street while they take bribes on K-Street. In my opinion the K-Street bribes are a far greater problem.  But I will give credit where credit is due, Warren asked recently the hard question as to why there has not been justice done on behalf of government when crimes are known to be openly committed, particularly in the financial sector.  When people are openly robbed by greedy crony capitalism, who is looking out for the victims?  Warren at least addressed the issue which Darryl Parks covered during his Saturday show on 700 WLW.  Darryl for a number of years has been asking how can congressman and senators who make a yearly salary of just over six figures become millionaires within a few years of taking office?  The answer is in corruption deals where they all put their hand in the bucket and take out as much money as they want—which is the standard practice in modern politics.    Have a listen, it’s well worth your time:

Warren obviously as a progressive does not like Wall Street or oil companies, so she will have a tendency to put them in the spotlight whenever possible to make her point—but in this case she was right.   I’m sure Warren has nothing to say about the recent Facebook announcement of paying zero taxes on over a billion dollars made during 2012.  She is picking winners and losers in business as notoriously as any politician, so she is no saint by any measure.  But as a new senator she knows that there are crooked deals, and she made a point to expose one in her opening days of office—which as Darryl pointed out, Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid will surely quickly get under control.  The other senators on Capitol Hill will not let Warren expose their easy cash gravy trains for long, so enjoy the bursts of honesty while it lasts.

If anyone thinks that Jessie Jackson Jr. is alone in his fall from grace, guess again.  Jackson is only the latest to get caught dipping is hand into campaign donations to buy Rolex watches and other tid-bits of pleasure while working in government.  Politicians who would otherwise be unsuccessful in business find they can become respected in public office, but they lack the mental aptitude to resist temptation making them for the most part scandalous bands of thieves always looking to partner up with a financial pirate or public con artist.  The Jackson case is fresh from the press and shows to what extent the trouble in government runs.  I would say that Jessie Jackson’s tendency to throw his wife under the bus in his plea deal to get reduced jail time says everything about the quality of person Jackson is and all politicians in general.  Read more about his case at the link below:

http://sandrarose.com/2013/02/jesse-jackson-jr-s-plea-deal-incriminates-his-wife/

The trouble with politicians is that they represent the low quality constituents that America has become.  Just the other day as I was listening to Bill Cunningham on the radio, he was rather animated over John Boehner’s long time position against earmarks in congressional bills.  Cunningham on the air stated that his golf buddy John should drop a few billion dollars worth of earmarks into some bill to pay for the new bridge that needs to replace the Brent Spence connecting I-75 in Cincinnati and Covington, Kentucky.  “Nobody would notice,” Cunningham said.  “Everyone else does it, so why doesn’t Boehner?”  That statement ladies and gentlemen is why we have so many scum bags in politics.  The more money that is thrown into the public treasury, there are far too many hands who wish to take it and use it for some pet project to satisfy the whims of any of the multiple lobbyists on K-Street.  Wall Street to hedge their bets and keep government looters out of their pockets is happy to include politicians in their scams to keep the law off their back.  Politicians like Jackson can’t resist the call of easy money, so they start taking it and buy themselves expensive watches, and real estate investments off money that isn’t technically theirs.  Boehner is a Washington insider who considers himself an honest politician compared to the rest because he has a long-term policy against putting earmarks in congressional bills, but at the same time his golf buddies who claim to be conservative hawks want him to take money out of the treasury to pay for pet projects in the Speaker’s district—which is just as corrupt as when some politician on the other side of the country does it.

The trouble is in the lack of personal responsibility, the disconnect between the value of money and the value of the people stealing it.  When people of little personal value have their hands on money of great value, the attraction is unfathomable.  When Jessie Jackson Jr. took money to buy lavish gifts for himself, he did it to fill a void in himself that lacks personal character.  When Bill Cunningham urges John Boehner to install earmarks in some meaningless congressional bill to raise the billions of dollars for a new bridge, he is making such statements from a lack of personal value.  The money is there to be taken, so somebody should take it and use it on something needed.  When Elizabeth Warren asks why there is a cozy relationship between Wall Street and politicians on Capitol Hill, she is really positioning herself for a candidacy in 2016 for President.  She doesn’t care about the corruption really, but rather sticking to the progressive party talking points that wants to destroy Wall Street while making waves that place her on the national scene.  Politics is all screwed up and is run by thieves and con artists because the values of our society are so bad that nobody sees such things as wrong any more.  Nobody wishes to uphold a moral order, so there is no consequence for actions.  That is unless, as in the case of Jessie Jackson Jr., he understates his income on his tax returns.  Then, justice is swift and true. Government must have its money to pay for all the bandits that hold office there, and wish to make sweet-heart deals with scum bags on K-Street.  When taxes aren’t paid, even Al Capone was sent to jail—because government is not about caring for people in a republic.  It’s about making politicians rich off the backs of extortion and shell games of injustice that makes Las Vegas look like a church on a Sunday morning.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com