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February 25, 2014
Thanks for the additional details and showing that one side had self-respect and respect for others.
Just like this guy:
February 24, 2014
Yup, they can't wait for a Rand Paul presidency, since he runs on eliminating the EPA...
Let the 'free market' decide who will live and die. De-population by any other name is the same thing. Toss that bleeding heart liberal Jesus portrait into the dumpster!
February 24, 2014
Photo: A little girl carrying her pink Crickett on her back AP photo
Do children need pink and blue guns?
May 2, 2013
...The story itself is heartbreaking. A five-year-old Kentucky boy accidently shot his two-year-old sister to death with a .22 caliber rifle he had received as a birthday present last year. It was a Crickett rifle, especially made for kids.
The county coroner Gary White told the local paper that the gun was kept in the corner of a room and the family didn’t realize there was a bullet in it. The toddler died from a single gunshot wound to her chest. The mother was outside on the front porch at the time of the shooting.
The Crickett is marketed as “My First Rifle,” coming in a variety of colors, including blue and pink and even a camouflage pink. It is manufactured by Keystone Sporting Arms LLC, based in Milton, Pa.
The rifle is touted on the company’s website as “just the right size for my 5- and 7- year-olds. They are awesome and couldn’t be happier.” The company brags it sold 60,000 Cricketts and its cousin the Chipmunk in 2008, the last year sales figures are listed...
http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/ad-lib/2013/may/2/do-children-need-pink-and-blue-guns/
Why specify 18-20 as minors when people are giving rifles to much younger minors?
Photo: A little girl carrying her pink Crickett on her back AP photo
Do children need pink and blue guns?
May 2, 2013
...The story itself is heartbreaking. A five-year-old Kentucky boy accidently shot his two-year-old sister to death with a .22 caliber rifle he had received as a birthday present last year. It was a Crickett rifle, especially made for kids.
The county coroner Gary White told the local paper that the gun was kept in the corner of a room and the family didn’t realize there was a bullet in it. The toddler died from a single gunshot wound to her chest. The mother was outside on the front porch at the time of the shooting.
The Crickett is marketed as “My First Rifle,” coming in a variety of colors, including blue and pink and even a camouflage pink. It is manufactured by Keystone Sporting Arms LLC, based in Milton, Pa.
The rifle is touted on the company’s website as “just the right size for my 5- and 7- year-olds. They are awesome and couldn’t be happier.” The company brags it sold 60,000 Cricketts and its cousin the Chipmunk in 2008, the last year sales figures are listed...
http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/ad-lib/2013/may/2/do-children-need-pink-and-blue-guns/
February 23, 2014
Welch founded the John Birch Society (JBS) in December 1958. Its original membership consisted of only eleven men but Welch's wealth allowed the organization to have a wide impact and sponsor a number of publications. At its height, the organization claimed it had approximately 100,000 members, but its political views limited its ability to form alliances with other groups (even other anti-Communists like Richard Nixon and, to a lesser extent, Ronald Reagan, were denounced by the Society as being too liberal)[citation needed] and diminished its real impact...
Welch was the editor and publisher of the monthly magazine American Opinion and the weekly "The Review of the News". He also wrote The Road to Salesmanship (1941), May God Forgive Us (1951), "The Politician" (about Eisenhower) and The Life of John Birch (1954). A collection of his essays were also edited into a book "The New Americanism".
In the 1960s, Welch began to believe that even the Communists were not the top level of his perceived conspiracy and began saying that Communism was just a front for a Master Conspiracy, which had roots in the Illuminati; the essay "The Truth in Time" is an example [1]. He referred to the Conspirators as "The Insiders," seeing them mainly in internationalist financial and business families such as the Rothschilds and Rockefellers, and organizations such as the Bilderbergers, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Trilateral Commission. He did avoid the antisemitism, anti-Freemasonry, and anti-Catholicism of other Conspiracy theorists, saying that such prejudices would "neutralize" anti-Communist, anti-Conspiracy efforts...
"Wherever he looked, Welch saw Communist forces manipulating American economic and foreign policy on behalf of totalitarianism. But within the United States, he believed, the subversion had actually begun years before the Bolshevik Revolution. Conflating modern liberalism and totalitarianism, Welch described government as 'always and inevitably an enemy of individual freedom.' Consequently, he charged, the Progressive era, which expanded the federal government's role in curbing social and economic ills, was a dire period in our history, and Woodrow Wilson 'more than any other one man started this nation on its present road to totalitarianism' ... In the 1960's, Welch became convinced that even the Communist movement was but 'a tool of the total conspiracy.' This master conspiracy, he said, had forerunners in ancient Sparta, and sprang fully to life in the 18th century, in the 'uniformly Satanic creed and program' of the Bavarian Illuminati. Run by those he called 'the Insiders,' the conspiracy resided chiefly in international families of financiers, such as the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers, government agencies like the Federal Reserve System and the Internal Revenue Service, and nongovernmental organizations like the Bilderberg Group, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Trilateral Commission."
— Sean Wilentz, Princeton University historian, October 2010 [3]
Welch accused Presidents Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower of being communist sympathizers and possibly Soviet agents of influence. He alleged that President Eisenhower was a "conscious, dedicated agent of the communist conspiracy",[16] and that Eisenhower's brother Milton was the President's superior in the communist apparatus. President Eisenhower never responded publicly to Welch's claims...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Welch,_Jr.
A youtube search of the title below shows when Jones had the president of the JBS on his show:
Alex Jones welcomes John Birch Society President John McManus
Uploaded on May 17, 2009
I was still listening trying to figure these guys out and heard this the online podcast. So she knew exactly what she was doing, she went on the show that supports her views. Jones is no stranger to these groups. He was still shilling for Ron Paul through 2012. And against the IRS saying the Amendment that created the Income Tax as a European banker plot and warning people of black helicopters in the late nineties.
Now he takes people out the country to practice shooting down drones. His films are part of a new mythology. He harps on the PoliceState© and false flag operations, etc. He's anti-vaccine and anti-abortion and has encouraged those who listen to pass laws against the latter and refuse the former, as he says that's when they inject you with microchips or viruses that will give you cancer or make you sterile or gay.
Thus his Libertarian statement about being a 'creator' like the job creator vs. parasites reference there. That's straight Ayn Rand terminology, and it is the guide for many GOP and the Tea Party. They see the UN and New Deal and social safety net as communism.
Jones is against gays, unions, feminists, public workers, the post office, immigrants, gun control and all government. He incites fear against Mexicans and Asians as he terms them invading armies who intend to slaughter white people. He's also into the World Zionist Banksters and anti-Israel stuff.
But, he's 'not racist,' you know. He spoke highly of Putin and has a following in several other countries.
Rand Paul grew up with this. People that follow this CT don't want to believe how regressive these guys are but they will eventually swallow the entire poison pill. They get excited about the Truth© amd think it's something 'new.'
The JBS put up Wanted For Treason billboards against Justice Earl Warren of the USSC for his decision on Brown vs. the Board of Education to desegregate schools, and they put up Wanted For Treason posters in Dallas the weeks before John F. Kennedy was killed.
Scratch the surface of the conspiracy crowd and they hate Democrats, FDR, liberals, 'statists' and Obama because they follow some form of this, but most don't even know it.
Triana has posted a lot on this, and these people have not gone away. Hartmann linked the Koch Family as co-founder of the JBS and details their multi-generational propaganda organization. It's here at DU:
Thom Hartmann: Conservative Millennials, Boomers & Libertarians all being Conned.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1017&pid=44227
You may know all of this, just answering your question there.
They are both Birchers, and follow all the tenants of the founder of the JBS:
Robert Henry Winborne Welch Jr.Welch founded the John Birch Society (JBS) in December 1958. Its original membership consisted of only eleven men but Welch's wealth allowed the organization to have a wide impact and sponsor a number of publications. At its height, the organization claimed it had approximately 100,000 members, but its political views limited its ability to form alliances with other groups (even other anti-Communists like Richard Nixon and, to a lesser extent, Ronald Reagan, were denounced by the Society as being too liberal)[citation needed] and diminished its real impact...
Welch was the editor and publisher of the monthly magazine American Opinion and the weekly "The Review of the News". He also wrote The Road to Salesmanship (1941), May God Forgive Us (1951), "The Politician" (about Eisenhower) and The Life of John Birch (1954). A collection of his essays were also edited into a book "The New Americanism".
In the 1960s, Welch began to believe that even the Communists were not the top level of his perceived conspiracy and began saying that Communism was just a front for a Master Conspiracy, which had roots in the Illuminati; the essay "The Truth in Time" is an example [1]. He referred to the Conspirators as "The Insiders," seeing them mainly in internationalist financial and business families such as the Rothschilds and Rockefellers, and organizations such as the Bilderbergers, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Trilateral Commission. He did avoid the antisemitism, anti-Freemasonry, and anti-Catholicism of other Conspiracy theorists, saying that such prejudices would "neutralize" anti-Communist, anti-Conspiracy efforts...
"Wherever he looked, Welch saw Communist forces manipulating American economic and foreign policy on behalf of totalitarianism. But within the United States, he believed, the subversion had actually begun years before the Bolshevik Revolution. Conflating modern liberalism and totalitarianism, Welch described government as 'always and inevitably an enemy of individual freedom.' Consequently, he charged, the Progressive era, which expanded the federal government's role in curbing social and economic ills, was a dire period in our history, and Woodrow Wilson 'more than any other one man started this nation on its present road to totalitarianism' ... In the 1960's, Welch became convinced that even the Communist movement was but 'a tool of the total conspiracy.' This master conspiracy, he said, had forerunners in ancient Sparta, and sprang fully to life in the 18th century, in the 'uniformly Satanic creed and program' of the Bavarian Illuminati. Run by those he called 'the Insiders,' the conspiracy resided chiefly in international families of financiers, such as the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers, government agencies like the Federal Reserve System and the Internal Revenue Service, and nongovernmental organizations like the Bilderberg Group, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Trilateral Commission."
— Sean Wilentz, Princeton University historian, October 2010 [3]
Welch accused Presidents Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower of being communist sympathizers and possibly Soviet agents of influence. He alleged that President Eisenhower was a "conscious, dedicated agent of the communist conspiracy",[16] and that Eisenhower's brother Milton was the President's superior in the communist apparatus. President Eisenhower never responded publicly to Welch's claims...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Welch,_Jr.
A youtube search of the title below shows when Jones had the president of the JBS on his show:
Alex Jones welcomes John Birch Society President John McManus
Uploaded on May 17, 2009
I was still listening trying to figure these guys out and heard this the online podcast. So she knew exactly what she was doing, she went on the show that supports her views. Jones is no stranger to these groups. He was still shilling for Ron Paul through 2012. And against the IRS saying the Amendment that created the Income Tax as a European banker plot and warning people of black helicopters in the late nineties.
Now he takes people out the country to practice shooting down drones. His films are part of a new mythology. He harps on the PoliceState© and false flag operations, etc. He's anti-vaccine and anti-abortion and has encouraged those who listen to pass laws against the latter and refuse the former, as he says that's when they inject you with microchips or viruses that will give you cancer or make you sterile or gay.
Thus his Libertarian statement about being a 'creator' like the job creator vs. parasites reference there. That's straight Ayn Rand terminology, and it is the guide for many GOP and the Tea Party. They see the UN and New Deal and social safety net as communism.
Jones is against gays, unions, feminists, public workers, the post office, immigrants, gun control and all government. He incites fear against Mexicans and Asians as he terms them invading armies who intend to slaughter white people. He's also into the World Zionist Banksters and anti-Israel stuff.
But, he's 'not racist,' you know. He spoke highly of Putin and has a following in several other countries.
Rand Paul grew up with this. People that follow this CT don't want to believe how regressive these guys are but they will eventually swallow the entire poison pill. They get excited about the Truth© amd think it's something 'new.'
The JBS put up Wanted For Treason billboards against Justice Earl Warren of the USSC for his decision on Brown vs. the Board of Education to desegregate schools, and they put up Wanted For Treason posters in Dallas the weeks before John F. Kennedy was killed.
Scratch the surface of the conspiracy crowd and they hate Democrats, FDR, liberals, 'statists' and Obama because they follow some form of this, but most don't even know it.
Triana has posted a lot on this, and these people have not gone away. Hartmann linked the Koch Family as co-founder of the JBS and details their multi-generational propaganda organization. It's here at DU:
Thom Hartmann: Conservative Millennials, Boomers & Libertarians all being Conned.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1017&pid=44227
You may know all of this, just answering your question there.
February 23, 2014
Transcription is on this picture:
Here it is written out:
Seriously though, we've heard a lot about extremism recently, a nastier harsher atmosphere everywhere, more abuse and bother-boy behavior, less friendliness and tolerance and respect for opponents.
Alright, but what we never hear about extremism is it's advantages!
Well. The biggest advantage of extremism is that it makes you feel GOOD because it provides you with enemies.
Let me explain. The great thing about having enemies is that you can pretend that all the badness in the whole world is in your enemies, and all the goodness in the whole world is in YOU. Attractive, isn't it?
So, if you have a lot of anger and resentment in you anyway and you therefore enjoy abusing people, then you can pretend that you're only doing it because these enemies of yours are such very bad persons! And if it wasn't for them, you'd actually be good natured, and courteous, and rational all the time. So, if you want to FEEL GOOD, become an extremist
You can strut around, abusing people, and telling them you could eat them for breakfast and still think of yourself as a champion of the truth. A fighter for the greater good. And not the rather sad paranoid schizoid that you really are.
Sums up it well, with a 'centrist' or 'pragmatist' taking the role of 'moderate.' Since they will 'compromise' to get anything of benefit done, and it is not 'perfect,' they are the most hated of all. Better that blood, of both the innocent and guilty, should roll down the street in a cleansing tide to make way for 'utopia.'
B&W thinking feels great! Here's an example posted on DU:
Transcription is on this picture:
Here it is written out:
Seriously though, we've heard a lot about extremism recently, a nastier harsher atmosphere everywhere, more abuse and bother-boy behavior, less friendliness and tolerance and respect for opponents.
Alright, but what we never hear about extremism is it's advantages!
Well. The biggest advantage of extremism is that it makes you feel GOOD because it provides you with enemies.
Let me explain. The great thing about having enemies is that you can pretend that all the badness in the whole world is in your enemies, and all the goodness in the whole world is in YOU. Attractive, isn't it?
So, if you have a lot of anger and resentment in you anyway and you therefore enjoy abusing people, then you can pretend that you're only doing it because these enemies of yours are such very bad persons! And if it wasn't for them, you'd actually be good natured, and courteous, and rational all the time. So, if you want to FEEL GOOD, become an extremist
You can strut around, abusing people, and telling them you could eat them for breakfast and still think of yourself as a champion of the truth. A fighter for the greater good. And not the rather sad paranoid schizoid that you really are.
Sums up it well, with a 'centrist' or 'pragmatist' taking the role of 'moderate.' Since they will 'compromise' to get anything of benefit done, and it is not 'perfect,' they are the most hated of all. Better that blood, of both the innocent and guilty, should roll down the street in a cleansing tide to make way for 'utopia.'
February 23, 2014
namaste interj. literally, "I humbly bow to you"; also used as a greeting or acknowledgement of the equality of all, and pays honor to the sacredness of all.
n. the traditional greeting when saying the word namaste with folded hands and a slight bow:
http://www.carolhansengrey.com/Quotes/Native_Quotes.html
More at the link and a video:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/110217606
Keeping His Promises to the Poor and Vulnerable: Thank You, President Obama!
More at link:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/11028481
Remember this post?
namaste interj. literally, "I humbly bow to you"; also used as a greeting or acknowledgement of the equality of all, and pays honor to the sacredness of all.
n. the traditional greeting when saying the word namaste with folded hands and a slight bow:
http://www.carolhansengrey.com/Quotes/Native_Quotes.html
More at the link and a video:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/110217606
Keeping His Promises to the Poor and Vulnerable: Thank You, President Obama!
More at link:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/11028481
February 23, 2014
Sans the circle in the middle. Also called the Irish or cloverleaf cross. May give you more names to extrapolate from.
The curves remind me of a Celtic cross:
Sans the circle in the middle. Also called the Irish or cloverleaf cross. May give you more names to extrapolate from.
February 23, 2014
And Alex, the only thing you 'create' with your show is a profit for you and yours. You don't give a damn who's hurt by your BS.
JBS shill Alex shows his true colors more every day. Hey, Phyllis! About those emigrants:
And Alex, the only thing you 'create' with your show is a profit for you and yours. You don't give a damn who's hurt by your BS.
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