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I am used to taking irrational and mean-spirited barbs from crooked stock brokers and other thieves that happen to find their way into my crosshairs. However, the poisoned-tipped arrows that everyone and anyone involved with the April 15th TEA Parties (Taxed enough Already) have taken are borderline insane. A quick example of the unhinged would be the conduct and coverage by my friends in the mainstream media.
These media elites, as we mere peasants should know already; are always are morally superior. Their opinions, policy preferences are beyond reproach. They are without question, virtuous beyond debate. Therefore this entitles them to be hateful to anyone who differs with their holier-than-thou views. One quick example is the appearance of actress/activist Jeanine Garofalo on the MSNBC program with ratings lower than the underside of the rock, which its host Keith Olberman crawls out from under daily.
Concerning the April 15th TEA parties…"Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up. That is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks. And there is no way around that. And you know, you can tell these type of right wingers anything and they'll believe it, except the truth. You tell them the truth and they become, it's like showing Frankenstein's monster fire. They become confused, and angry and highly volatile. That guy causing them feelings they don't know, because their limbic brain, we've discussed this before, the limbic brain inside a right-winger or Republican or conservative or your average white power activist, the limbic brain is much larger in their head space than in a reasonable person, and it's pushing against the frontal lobe. So their synapses are misfiring."
I was honored to be one of the featured speakers at the TEA party is Sarasota, Fl and a video of my speech is available on our website for anyone who wants to hear me rant. If you listen, my speech along with the many others that I heard from all over the country had nothing to do with Democrats or Republicans. In fact politicians were not allowed or invited to them. Michael Steele Chairman of the Republican National Committee begged to speak at one of the TEA parties and was rebuffed. I stated very clearly at the event that, I am not angry with Democrats, at least they are honest, they do, and are doing what they said they would. My problem is with Republicans who spend, earmark and trample on the Constitution and then ask us for their support.
One of my all-time favorite episodes of Seinfeld dealt with a made up holiday called Festivas: The Holiday For the Rest of Us. One of the cannons of Festivas is the "Airing of Grievances" where family members do exactly that. The TEA parties were "Protests for the Rest of Us"…for the people who believe in the Constitution, capitalism, personal responsibility, and the power of the individual.
The rest of us protested on April 15th by taking breaks from our careers and families, not from bong hits or the coffee shop. The rest of us do not result to violence, destroy private property and attack the police when exercising our first amendment rights. The rest of us understand that in order to have the opportunity to build create and succeed you must also have the ability to fail. The rest of us believe we should always help the downtrodden; however we believe rather than "giving individuals fish from now until eternity, we should teach them and help these people to learn how to fish."
Some other Grievances…
Another New Deal
There is this unfortunate urban myth promulgated by the advocates of big government that FDR's New Deal ended the Great Depression. This myth has been used as evidence to convince the public that another New Deal or stimulus package is imperative to shorten our current downturn. The principal goal of the New Deal was to get Americans back to work. The fact was that there was less work on average during the New Deal than before FDR took office. Total hours worked per adult, including government employees, were 18% below their 1929 level between 1930-32, but were 23% lower on average during the New Deal 33-39. Private hours worked were even lower after FDR took office, averaging 27% below their 1929 level, compared to18% lower between 1930-32.
Why did the economy flounder, when the economy should have bounced back in a robust fashion?
Dr. Harold Cole from University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Lee Ohanian from UCLA state in a Wall Street Journal piece state that it was the plethora of government actions that staved off a true recovery. Some policies they state benefitted the economy by establishing a basic social safety net through Social Security and unemployment benefits, and by stabilizing the financial sector through the FDIC and the SEC. Others violated the most basic economic principles by suppressing competition, and setting prices and wages in many sectors above their normal levels. The plethora of anti-market policies choked off powerful recovery forces that would have returned the economy back to trend by the mid 1930's.
The New Deal sales pitch was used in getting everyone on board for the recently passed stimulus package, which in my opinion is an oxymoron in of itself; and a $3.5 trillion budget. These two shiny brand new monuments to big government we will be paying, for many generations to come. These programs sound and look great when they are launched, think "Green Jobs"; but they end up being a cancer on our country over the long-haul. A great example of a government program that is mismanaged, financially and economically untenable and politically untouchable is the New Deal cornerstone Social Security. I have written extensively on this program and believe it is really nothing more than a $40 trillion ponzi-scheme. I stated on my radio show that if I was Bernie Madoff's lawyer, I would use the Social Security defense, "If the government can run a ponzi-scheme why can't my client."
Making Homes Affordable
"I want to be very clear about what this plan will not do: It will not rescue the unscrupulous or irresponsible by throwing good taxpayer money after bad loans…And it will not reward folks who bought homes they knew from the beginning they would never be able to afford."
President Barack Obama
It certainly sounds really nice. However, it has absolutely no basis in reality. Sure some struggling homeowners will most certainly be helped, but by subsidizing and propping up failure and not allowing economic nature to take its course will inevitably prolong the downturn, make purchasing and financing a home more difficult in the future. The plan will not do anything to end the downturn in home prices.
Individuals with mortgages owned or guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be able to refinance to lower rates if his mortgage is between 80% and 105% of the value of the home. Individuals who didn't buy a home, saved their money for a large down payment and rented are not eligible for this deal, but their taxes will subsidize it. Existing borrowers who may not qualify for refinancing can still receive loan modifications that move their payments down to 31% of monthly income. In either case, no effort will be made to verify that recipients of aid were truthful on their original mortgage applications. Given that mortgage fraud skyrocketed during the housing boom, and that the Obama administration intends to assist nine million troubled borrowers, I most certainly would contend that the unscrupulous will be rescued. All new modifications will forgo any extensive underwriting. The government feels that all that unnecessary and cumbersome paperwork can be skipped as long as that mortgage-debt-to-income ratio can be moved down to 31%.
The government will pay loan servicers $1,000 for each mortgage modified, share the cost of lowering the payments and pay other subsidies to lenders and borrowers adding up to $75 billion in taxpayer assistance for modifications. The government will then spend another $10 billion compensating lenders if the housing market continues to decline and some of these loans go bad again. We believe that $10 billion will not be enough. Using recent history as a guide, mortgage modifications have been a failure. According to the Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision, "The number of loans modified in the first quarter that were 30 or more days delinquent was 37% after three months and 55% after six months".
I have also received several phone calls and emails from people who work in commission based businesses such as real estate, travel and auto industry that took significant hits last year in their incomes. These people are financially secure, they were well prepared for inevitable downturns and saved accordingly. They, like many others including myself, want to take advantage of the low interest rate environment and refinance their homes. These individuals found out that because their incomes dropped they were now eligible for the Making Homes Affordable government program to get interest rates that I could only dream of; I am talking about 2% 30 year fixed low.
Another two things that are absent from the housing plan is that it doesn't include adequate property appraisals or a risk management of the reworked loans. Therefore declining values in homes will inevitably waste taxpayer money by putting people back in over-valued homes with no equity and not enough cash to maintain the home.
My solution to the housing problem which I suggested well over a year ago, was to invest in bulldozers and wrecking balls! Housing is also a function of supply and demand, and we have too many empty units and not enough people to live in them. This past month on CNBC real estate magnate Richard Lefrak stated there is probably an excess of 2 million units currently in the United States. I was pleasantly surprised to see the city of Flint, Michigan take up my advice. The New York Times reported that instead of waiting for houses to become abandoned and then pulling them down, local leaders are talking about demolishing entire blocks and even whole neighborhoods, basically saving a city by shrinking it. This is a model that is not popular with many municipalities because it messes with their tax base. When a lot is zoned residential or commercial it is a future source of revenue for local politicians, many of which are as money hungry as the goons in Washington D.C.
More Prosciutto
I have written and opined extensively on the issue of government waste or "pork." Lately it has been all the rage by our fearless leaders in Washington that they are doing everything to help stop the earmarks and pork barrel spending. The following are two examples of how full of bull-excrement these politicos are…
The earmark computer in the Appropriations Committee which is the database system that members use to request pork-barrel spending broke this past month. The software couldn't handle the excess. This happened a year after the entire system was revamped after last year's overwhelming earmarking.
The John Murtha Airport has an $18 million runway made of reinforced concrete that's big enough to land any airplane in North America. It has a $7 million air traffic control tower, a $14 million hanger and an $8 million radar. The only thing that is missing from this airport are passengers and airplanes. An average of 20 people a day flew out of the Murtha Airport last year. Yet despite this monument to big government/incumbent power stupidity the airport was just awarded another $800,000 from the stimulus package. John Murtha D-PA has used his power to steer/waste $150 million in taxpayer dollars to the ghostport. Nauseous yet? It gets worse…The federal government provides a subsidy for every flight into the Murtha Airport of about $100 per passenger.
Antoinette Santopadre was expecting a $250 stimulus check. But when her son finally opened it they saw that the check was made out to her father, Romolo Romonini who died in Italy 34 years ago. He'd been a U.S. citizen when he left for Italy in 1933, but only returned to the United States for a seven-month visit in 1969. Think this is an isolated case? Think again, so far they have found over 10,000 checks totaling millions going out to dead people. I guess it makes sense considering ACORN gets these dead people to the polls on Election Day.
AIG and Fake Outrage
One of my more entertaining forays into the world of the mainstream media was an appearance I made on CNN when I was pitted against University of Maryland professor Peter Morici. I railed against all the ridiculous hoopla and populism being stirred up about the AIG bonuses and how disingenuous all these politicians were being with their self-righteous indignation. The funniest thing about the whole interview was Morici defending Chris Dodd, and the upstanding public servant he was that he knew personally. In that very segment CNN had breaking news that Chris Dodd knowingly lied about putting in the provision for the AIG bonuses to proceed.
Dodd isn't the only two-faced liar in D.C. Any politician in the house that voted to use the tax-code as a weapon and tax AIG employees at 90% should be voted out next year. They broke their oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States and must go. My representative Vern Buchanan R-FL will not get my support; for he too, like many other weak kneed politicians bowed to the populist winds of the day and broke his oath. 328 House members voted for a bill that would slap a 90% tax on bonuses. This was sold as a tax on the people who caused the financial crisis! Grab your torches and pitchforks everyone! In reality it affected everyone who received a bonus including the janitorial and cafeteria staff. Most workers on Wall Street receive low level salaries and rely on bonuses for their pay, much like waiters or bartenders do on tips. Certainly some individuals received bonuses they probably did not deserve, but these bonuses were not performance related, they were contractually obligated. The government has no right breaking contract law that we base our system on that is laid out quite succinctly in the Magana Carta.
Watching these empty-headed Washington elites scramble to the podium to express their outrage at the pay scandal made my stomach turn. It was political theater; the bill is now dead now that the press is not paying attention to that story. My challenge to our readers and listeners is to not vote for anyone who voted for this bill. Did a single politician agree to give back any campaign cash they received from any company getting TARP funds?
I didn't think so! For the record Chris Dodd was the number one recipient of money from AIG. Obama was two, Hillary Clinton was three, John McCain four and Joe Biden was five. Money well spent. In an email sent to colleagues at AIG, Joseph Cassano AIG Financial Products chief executive stated: Mr. Dodd was "next in line" to be chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, which oversees the insurance industry, and would "have the opportunity to set the committee's agenda on issues critical to the financial services industry."
Government Motors
Last November I appeared on CNN to discuss the auto-crisis and I was pitted against an industry expert who said that if we didn't fork over the cash to Chrysler and General Motors they would go bankrupt and the ground would open up and swallow the nation whole. So…George Bush defied the rules of the TARP, we forked over the cash and surprise, surprise…Chrysler went bankrupt, and GM states that they will file by June. More money well spent!
What is truly amazing is that a government who doesn't do anything efficiently, is partnering up with the United Auto Workers and going to run two car companies. I said on CNN that I feared that we would be driving around in 2011 Pelosi's and it looks like that will be the case. Did you happen to see that GM/Segway albatross? It looks like a rickshaw being powered by a ghost. Imagine being Ford…your competition is not only the other teams, but also the referee. Ford has made the number one selling car in the United States for 27 straight years the F-150. With the government being the competition and referee it can force Ford to make the F-150 to get 40 miles to the gallon, thus destroying Ford. This is very frightening stuff that would make Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez proud, in fact I think we are giving him new ideas
Also, how are those contract negotiations going to work between the government and the United Auto Workers? The UAW put the current crop in office. It's like one of those dysfunctional Hollywood families with the rich child actors, think Britney Spears or Lindsey Lohan. The parents were unable to exercise any control when the kids have all the cash.
Another bit of info that nobody is reporting on is the fact that the UAW is selling their entire stake of Chrysler to their Health Care Trust.
Why would they do that?
The UAW knows that the new stock is an enormous gamble; they also know that the current administration is pushing major government control over health care. If the stock does what I think it will do and be eventually worthless, the government (taxpayer) steps in and takes over the bill. Thank you sir may I have another! One last point, why does an Italian auto maker (Chrysler) with cars made in Detroit get warranty and loan guarantees by the taxpayer and a Japanese auto company with cars made in Kentucky do not…Just asking?
Does Luca Brasi have a cabinet position? From the Godfather…
Michael: Well, when Johnny was first starting out, he was signed to this personal service contract with a big band leader. And as his career got better and better, he wanted to get out of it. Now, Johnny is my father's godson. And my father went to see this band leader, and he offered him $10,000 to let Johnny go. But the band leader said no. So the next day, my father went to see him, only this time with Luca Brasi. And within an hour, he signed a release, for a certified check for $1,000.
Kay: How'd he do that?
Michael: My father made him an offer he couldn't refuse.
Kay: What was that?
Michael: Luca Brasi held a gun to his head, and my father assured him that either his brains – or his signature – would be on the contract…That's a true story…That's my family, Kay. It's not me.
When President Barack Obama stepped up to the podium this past month to announce the Chrysler bankruptcy he channeled his inner Don Corleone. In another life imitating art moment our President called out the evil "speculators" who refused to accept his offer, which would usurp contract law and hurt their clients. These secured lenders were asked to take major haircuts which they had no legal obligation to do so. In fact, I would suggest that if they did take the administrations offer they would be acting in an unethical and illegal manner by breaking their fiduciary duty to their clients.
We learned this past month, much like Johnny Fontane's former boss, what happens when you cross the Obama administration. Thomas Lauria, the leading bankruptcy attorney representing hedge funds and money managers told ABC News that Steve Rattner, the head of the Obama administration's Auto Industry Task Force, threatened one of the firms, an investment bank, that if it continued to oppose the administration's Chrysler bankruptcy, the White House would use the White House press corps to destroy its reputation.
Another random thought…Luca Brasi sought an audience with Don Corleone at his daughter's wedding to thank him for being invited and to show a sign of respect. He told the Don that he "Hoped their first child, would be a masculine child." President Barack Obama made the statement that he hoped that if we had to buy a car we "would buy an American car." Holman Jenkins makes the point in a Wall Street Journal piece that he meant to say, "When you buy a car, I hope it will be a Democratic car." Apparently cars built in red states with American labor with names like Honda, Nissan, Hyundai or BMW are less American than ones built in Detroit, Mexico, or Canada or cars being built in Detroit with a new Italian owner.
Sometimes Dead is Better
I read the Stephen King classic Pet Sematary back in the early 80's. In this frightening tale there exists a cursed "Sematary" where when the dead are buried they come back to life. But when they come back they are quite different. I won't reveal anymore because I don't wish to be a spoiler, plus Stephen King lives down here for part of the year and I don't want to have a curse put on me. There is a great line in the film delivered by one of the main characters that I would like to share, "Sometimes dead is better." That bit of wisdom should be applied to businesses here in America, otherwise now known as bailout nation.
We have a bankruptcy code that has served this nation quite well that we have now kicked to the curb for short-term political reasons. For example: the politically powerful United Auto Workers Union wants no part of a traditional bankruptcy knowing that their contracts could be voided. Our bankruptcy rules were born out of the railroad boom and bust of the late 1800's were creditors threatened to tear up the tracks and sell for scrap to be made whole. They realized that negotiating with railroads would be a much better route. When we start bending contract law and accepted principals of business, we can literally destroy any chance of recovery due to policy risk. Players like to play a game were all rules are known and applied evenly to all participants. When politics and populism are dictating, the players go home.
Mainstream Media
There was a fantastic Oscar award winning film entitled Almost Famous. It was a story of a high school aged boy that was tasked to follow around and write a story about an up and coming rock band in 1973. The mentor of the young writer warns the newbie that the band would try to win favorable copy by plying him with booze, woman, drugs and fame. Later in the movie the young writer proclaims triumphantly to the band he is covering that, "I am the enemy!" He would not be bought. It's too bad our mainstream is completely unable to demonstrate the same integrity. The job of the press is to hold truth to power, no matter what political party is in office. The slobbering love affair, as Bernard Goldberg calls it in his latest tome, between the press and the administration is not just obvious and pathetic; it is dangerous.
John Kerry D-MA is pushing for TARP funds to bailout newspapers. In a recent Congressional hearing advocates for the newspaper industry warned of political corruption run amok if more regional papers continue to go down. I found this statement quite comical considering for what I perceive a complete lack of integrity. Leave out the fact that the immeasurable arrogance of the newspapers in their complete inability to adjust their business model in the digital age or their obvious political leanings, many regional papers have become nothing more than marketing rags for their advertisers. "Spend money in our paper, and receive positive editorial spin." People are not stupid, eventually they see right through the bias and spin and the paper loses all credibility and then their subscribers.
Slush Fund from Hell
No, it's not the latest slasher film, but it most certainly is horrific. As I predicted last year in my article Hedge Fund USA, the TARP has become a politicians dream; a $700 billion vote-buying slush fund that will never end. My biggest concern in regards to the TARP funds was that it would end up becoming a tool for politicians to garner votes in the future. The TARP has no expiration date.
The public was sold a bill-of-goods by the press who probably had little to no understanding of how the program worked. We did not cut blank checks to the banks we bought preferred stock paying up to 9%, with warrants to purchase common in the future. Now the banks want out of the TARP, but rather than return the money to the treasury or God forbid cut the tax payers a dividend check on our investment, the government will keep the TARP alive to bailout any industry they feel can help them get re-elected. It started with the autos and is now moving possibly to newspapers, ethanol, and other losers, and unlike the investments made in the bank's the government is literally cutting checks. Take for instance that $15 plus billion handed to the auto makers; that will not be coming back. This type of anti-capitalist behavior is a malignant cancer on the natural process of creative destruction, stifling off motivation and innovation.
Wimpy for Treasury Secretary
I know it's a bit dated, but do you remember Wimpy from the old Popeye cartoons?
Wimpy was a bit of glutton who constantly shoved hamburgers into his mouth that he never could pay for. His famous line was, "I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today."
Do you see where I am going with this? Does Wimpy remind you of a certain Republic made up of fifty states, with a flag colored in red, white and blue?
Our current budget debacle needs absolutely zero commentary from me these are the facts:
The current White House figures point to deepening budget deficits, with the government borrowing almost 50 cents for every dollar it spends this year. The deficit for the current budget will rise by $89 billion to above $1.8 trillion which is four times the record set just last year. Another point to put things into perspective, our entire federal budget ten years ago was $1.73 trillion.
When the White House Budget Director Peter Orszag was asked about these very numbers he hinted that it was not the current administrations fault, "President Obama inherited" the problems. Granted, President Obama inherited a budget deficit, however I fail to understand how making it four times as large helps to fix the problem. When stuck in a hole, it might be wise to stop digging. Unfortunately many people fail to realize that this deficit needs to be paid back. We are borrowing the money, and we are doing it on our children's and grandchildren's backs. If you were watching an episode of the always annoying Dr. Phil and he did a bit on parents who took out credit in their kid's names and destroyed them financially, the audience would moan, groan and serve up all sorts of self-righteous indignation, yet we allow our fearless leaders to do the exactly the same thing, and we continue to vote them into office.
Simply pathetic.
95% of Americans will be getting a tax cut under my plan says President Obama. He is not the only one that pulls that ruse. Republicans and Democrats alike are guilty of giving income tax cuts, only to tax the public somewhere else where they are not looking. Try this exercise for one day; keep track of all the taxes you pay over the course of a 24 hour period. Not just income taxes from withholding or FICA, look at your phone bill, cell bill, cable bill, utilities, property taxes, fuel taxes beer and alcohol tax, tobacco tax and sales taxes just to name a few. Also, most importantly look at your corporate tax bill.
You say you don't pay corporate tax?
I say you do.
23% of every item you buy is the imbedded corporate tax that you the consumer pay. Corporations are nothing more than tax identification numbers and a logo. They generate all their revenue from their clients and customers. You pay the corporate tax! Think about that the next time some idiot politician tries whipping up some stupid populist frenzy and institute a windfall profits tax like they tried with the oil companies. It does nothing more than raise the price for the consumer.
We are in a perpetual state of paying taxes and its going to get worse. They are looking in to taxing soda, television, radio, ice-cream, fattening foods, and many other items that will pitched to the public as "sin" taxes. If the government is going to provide health-care they feel should be able to tax couch potatoes.
And coming soon to a theater near you…
The latest tax being considered is a VAT (value added tax). This is basically a national sales tax that is common in Europe. It is a tax on the transfer of goods and services that is borne by the consumer. It would increase the cost of everything, from groceries to your accounting bill. The Washington Post reported that at a White House conference earlier this past year on budget problems, a roomful of tax experts pleaded with Treasury Secretary Geithner to consider a VAT. A recent mass of books and papers on the subject is gaining much traction with many members of Congress. "There is a growing awareness of the need for fundamental tax reform. I think a VAT and a high-end income tax have got to be on the table." Sen. Kent Conrad D-ND.
Don't you know it's in the public's best interest!
George Will recently wrote about Alexis de Tocquevilles's Democracy in America written 174 years ago, but quite relevant today. Tocqueville anticipated people being governed by "An immense tutelary power" determined to take "sole charge of assuring their enjoyment and of watching over their fate." It would be a power "absolute, attentive to detail, regular, provident and gentle," aiming for our happiness but wanting "to be the only agent and sole arbiter of that happiness." It would, Tocqueville said, provide people security, anticipate their needs, direct their industries and divide their inheritances. It would envelop society in "a network of petty regulations, complicated minute and uniform."
But softly: "It does not break wills; it softens them, bends them, and directs them" until people resemble "a herd of timid and industrious animals of which the government is the shepherd."
The late Jack Kemp's motto of, "Work, Save, Invest." Is very similar to ours at Markowski Investments, "Everything in life that has meaning, value and worth, involves work time and effort."
These undeniable bits of peasant wisdom have been under attack by both sides of the political aisle for some time and seemingly getting worse. Comedian Jeff Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy have done quite well for themselves with their Blue Collar Comedy Tour and their infamous; "You might be a redneck" shtick…The media, and many of our country's self-proclaimed best and brightest have usurped this routine whereas:
You might be a redneck if…
You feel that it is prudent to live within ones means. You realize that whenever the high priests from the church of unintended consequences get involved in the private sector they make matters much worse. If you think that thousands of years of precedent set in contract law should be followed. Think Social Security is a ponzi-scheme. A person should be judged based on the content of his character, rather than color of his or her skin. Think that driving 2012 Pelosi will suck. Think Al Gore is the second coming of Dr. No. Think that the United States Constitution should be followed rather than ignored.
We TEA party participants are not cold-hearted Scrooges. We believe that government safety nets are important and love to aid or fellow man. There is a serious difference however between help and reward. The TEA party participants were homeowners who did not walk away from their mortgages or spec homes; small business owners who never get the desired tax breaks, nor the unwanted corporate welfare. Professor Arthur Brooks states that the TEA party participants, "The people who were doing the important things right and who are now watching elected politicians reward those who did the important things wrong."
We TEA party participants understand that the true systemic risk for our economy is government. Our road-map to economic growth cannot be driven by Washington, but rather the simple peasant wisdom of living within ones means, hard-work, and patience. Just as there are no short-cuts to financial independence and success, the short-cuts that the government is offering will fail. Politicians make decisions based upon short-sighted polls. They are in the business of being popular, getting votes. Focusing on the short-term or the next election cycle is most certainly not conducive to running neither a business nor an economy. President Ronald Reagan, whose ideas the media has deemed irrelevant, stated in his first inaugural address…
"Government is not the solution to our problem, it is our problem."
I guess Reagan was redneck, and if he was, I certainly want to be one too.
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1. Plans to fill a nuclear landmine with chickens to regulate its temperature were considered during the Cold War. Officials at the National Archives say it is coincidence the secret plan was revealed on 1 April.
2. By the time it's finished in 2008, the upgraded West Coast main line will have cost £10bn - £3bn more than it will take for Nasa to put another man on the moon, the Guardian reports.
3. A Viagra-for-votes scandal has forced a member of the Brazilian Congress out of office. The anti-impotency drug was handed out to "buy" voters' loyalty by a doctor working on the candidate's behalf at a political rally.
4. Student chiefs at Hull University have reportedly threatened to ban a student Christian Union because it doesn't admit non-believers such as atheists. Opponents say the move is political correctness gone mad.
6. Forget about using a pen to sign a credit card slip. In the future, you could authorise payments by simply moving your finger over your flexible friend in a unique "gesture", a leading professor at MIT says.
7. Serbo-Bradfordian and Afro-Bristolian are apparently two dialects under discussion at a UK conference on the explosion in new forms of speech. Delegates will also discuss the spread of phrases like "bigging up".
8. Pop queen Kylie Minogue has an unlikely passion for housework. "I do like a good dust. I get my Marigolds on and have a fantastic frenzy," she tells Elle magazine.
9. Germany's surprise win in the 1954 football World Cup is claimed to have been a fix. A new book and TV documentary says the side was given performance-boosting drugs. But furious players have denied cheating, and a team doctor says the injections administered were vitamin C.
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Melissa Rudd: One Norwich City era ends - as Leitner ensure another continues
PUBLISHED: 17:00 06 September 2018
Paul Chesterton
There would have been a cruel irony if Russell Martin's departure last week had preceded a first derby loss since before he joined the club.
As the last remaining stalwart of the golden Paul Lambert era, the man who captained us to a Wembley win in the most lucrative, high-pressured game in English football, Martin's career in yellow and green had unfortunately begun to mirror that of City's fortunes on the pitch.
That his last appearance was a 4-0 mauling at Millwall made for a sad ending to a nine-year stint that included the kind of success City's current crop can at the moment only dream of. Given the Scot's contract had only been extended through to 2019 less than two months before that afternoon at The Den last August, it was strange Daniel Farke gave him the cold shoulder quite so quickly. That performance was truly shocking all round, but Martin took the full force of the fallout.
For me, Martin was at his best when making marauding runs from right-back and sniffing out the danger in that wide berth. His consistent performances there made the 'Norfolk Cafu' a pivotal figure in both of Lambert's promotion-winning seasons and an impressive 12th-placed Premier League finish.
You'd struggle to find many games where the Brazilian Cafu played at centre-half, and Martin's strengths never seemed to fit the central role, despite admitting it was his favoured position.
Whatever you thought of his performances on the pitch, the attitude Martin showed, especially in recent months, is a rare quality in his profession. Out of favour and training with the Under 23s, he was happily posting pictures with his young son at St Andrew's last month as he cheered on his team-mates from the terraces. A model professional, once his playing days are over it would be lovely to see him back at the club in another capacity.
As one era ended, though, another one was preserved as Moritz Leitner's second-half equaliser extended Norwich's unbeaten run over Ipswich to 11 games. There have been some memorable matches during that streak. This was not one of them.
Norwich certainly had the better of the first half, but losing Timm Klose to injury seemed to unsettle a defence that had barely been troubled. The midfield sat deeper, invited Town to pile on pressure and when Gwion Edwards' strike was diverted away from Tim Krul by a wicked deflection it felt like City's luck in this fixture may just have run its course.
In the 14-minute period that Ipswich fans were able to enjoy their lead, the atmosphere took a distinct turn in the away end at Portman Road. Shouts of 'Farke, sort it out' rung round the Cobbold Stand Upper and there was audible booing when Emi Buendia was substituted.
Leitner's acute finish put an end to that negativity and Norwich deserved credit for quickly finding a way back into a game that Ipswich were so desperate to see out, but it was a taster of just how badly a defeat to the rock bottom side would have gone down.
The young defence did well to stay resilient and preserve a point, with Ben Godfrey having to deputise for Klose and Max Aarons earning his first league start at right-back. There has been a distinct lack of opportunities for young players in previous years, but the one positive to transfer funds drying up has been the increased chances of Academy graduates breaking through into the first team. Hopefully, Todd Cantwell and others will follow in the footsteps of Aarons, Godfrey and Jamal Lewis in challenging for a place on the team sheet.
Most onlookers would agree that Sunday's derby showcased two poor teams in the bottom eight of the Championship, and neither did enough to warrant a win. The contrast to the same fixture three and a half years ago when the two sides battled it out for a place in the play-off final is becoming more stark. It may be early days, but by the next one at Carrow Road in February we will have a much better idea of whether either team would have changed what end of the table they are challenging at.
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FLINT, Michigan – The Ruth Mott Foundation Board of Trustees in June 2019 approved $1,365,370 in grant awards that support the revitalization of north Flint. The 22 awards are: Evergreen Community Development Initiative. $150,000 for operating the Flint Development Center, a north Flint neighborhood hub offering a variety of educational, recreation, and youth services to […]Read Full Story


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|J. G. Jarell letter to Julius Caesar LeHardy
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Dr. Julius Caesar Le Hardy (born Julius-Caesar Louis Victor Le Hardy de Beaulieu on October 21, 1831 in Belgium), was a Savannah physician who pioneered studies of yellow fever and other swamp diseases and revised methods of quarantine and treatment of epidemic situations. He spent much time investigating coastal Georgia diseases and wrote a number of scholarly woks on the various maladies of the area.
A letter to Dr. Le Hardy, dated May 20, 1899, from J.G. Jarrell, a fellow physician, who mentions "five new cases of variola" and his need to "visit the Rest Home this afternoon."
J. G. Jarell letter to Julius Caesar LeHardy, ms1397. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.
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For many Americans with kidney disease, even just moderate amounts of protein in the diet can worsen the condition. One of the kidneys' jobs is to filter certain breakdown products of protein out of the blood and into the urine; thus, the more protein eaten, the heavier the burden on an already-faltering filtration system.
Some doctors put kidney patients on protein-restricted diets to lighten the kidneys' load. But that only exacerbates the muscle wasting that's part and parcel of kidney disease. People with kidney problems don't absorb nutrients, including protein, as well as others do, so they're already often at a protein deficit and therefore not able to sustain their muscle size and strength. Decrease their protein consumption, and there's even less protein available to maintain muscle mass.
How to balance the needs of the compromised kidneys with the need to maintain the body's muscle tissue? Tufts researcher Carmen Castaneda Sceppa, MD, PhD, may have found the answer: a moderately protein-restricted diet in combination with strength training. Strength training, she reasoned, increases muscle mass. And that creates a greater "reservoir" for the protein that's eaten--it goes straight into the bigger muscles rather than getting broken down and excreted in the urine. That, in turn, leaves the kidneys less taxed.
To test her hypothesis, Dr. Sceppa asked a group of people with kidney disease to follow a diet with less protein than usual and conduct about 45 minutes of strength training three times a week (chest presses, knee extensions, and the like), comparing them to a similar group who restricted their protein to the same degree but who did not strength train. All of the subjects had moderate kidney disease, which meant that they were not on dialysis but were already weak, needing some assistance to perform
For 12 weeks, the volunteers ate an average of 24 percent less protein than they typically did and, in order to maintain their calorie levels, more in the way of carbohydrate-containing foods such as fruits and vegetables. It was not always easy. "One man of Greek descent," relates Dr. Sceppa, "was used to eating 4 to 5 ounces of lamb a day and had to cut back to 1 1/2 ounces" in order to accommodate other foods. "Even pasta has some protein," she points out.
But when the 12 weeks had passed, those who had been participating in the strength-training routine retained more of the protein they had been eating than the non-exercisers, as evidenced by various blood and urine tests. They increased their muscle fiber as well, a crucial component of lean muscle tissue. At the same time, their kidneys were functioning better, with less stress. The best part: The exercisers felt better, were stronger, and were better able than the non-exercising protein restricters to perform day-to-day activities such as walking. "Their quality of life improved significantly,"
Dr. Sceppa says. They experienced more hunger for their food, too--a good thing, since people with kidney disease often eat too little because of a decrease in appetite. Presumably, the hunger was the result of the energy used during exercise coupled with the enlarged muscles needing more calories to sustain themselves. Dr. Sceppa notes that you cannot reverse kidney disease with a protein restriction/strength training regimen, but you can potentially slow its progression and also live more independently. She hopes future studies that last longer and include people in more advanced stages of kidney disease will confirm her findings as well as offer help to those who are even sicker than the ones she studied.
PHOTO (BLACK & WHITE): Tufts researcher Carmen Castaneda Sceppa, MD, PhD, found that strength training in combination with moderate protein restriction improves quality of life "significantly" for people with kidney disease.


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Constipation is a very common problem for children with limited mobility.For most children, constipation means passing hard poo (faeces, stools or motions), with difficulty, less often than normal. For children with reduced mobility constipation can be a constant problem. This is due to a number of reasons, lack of mobility. Muscle dysfunction, low fibre diet and negative side effects from medicines such as Anticholinergics and Opiates – which can have a severe effect on mobility. This became a big problem for our son and we soon realised that if he was constipated it impacted on everything else, his seizures became worse, his food digested more slowly so now we ensure that he goes daily and it really has made a big difference. Listed below are the three primary treatments we use, and they usually work hand-in-hand:
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- Tummy Massage. This is simply the use of gentle massage on the tummy area in a clockwise motion it works like peristalsis and helps move stools around and down to where they should be, it will also relieve trapped wind. See the following article for more guidance, Abdominal Massage for Constipation. and this 'Does Abdominal Massage Relieve Constipation" to view a study of its effectiveness,
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I was so curious to read it after a sample in the English Literature text that I bought it in english.
I had some problems with some jokes but it was a great experience!
Only 4 years after I fuond an italian version and it was not the same ^_^
I really enjoyed Tristram !
It was a several months ago I decided to read this book, understanding that it would be a funny, interesting read. Before I give you this review however, I feel I should tell you a little about where I'm coming from.
I do not like to give up on books, as I feel one cannot get an honest opinion of the subject matter until one has all the information available to them. I finished Moby Dick, even though it is a reference book on ships rather than the advertised hunt for a deadly whale, just so I could say wholeheartedly that it never lets up in its endless preachy dictation.
When it comes to Tristram however, I read the first three volumes, and laughed the same number of times. Sorry, chuckled. On that subject, how does one define a type of laughter? There are so many to choose from, giggling, chuckling, laughing, cackling, chortling, snickering, tittering, guffawing, sniggering. How does one define a particular kind of laugh, know which one to use and how to describe each one accurately?
Anyway, I left you wondering what I thought of the 3 volumes I did read, and I shall tell you in the next paragraph after this. I can see how something can be brave and different at the time, but after some time has passed,it becomes a history lesson, merely relating to the reader what it was like when it was new, but without the context to make it seem so now.
Whilst I can appreciate what it did and how it did it, I can't enjoy it on the level it was intended, and to continue reading it, even though I am not enjoying it, is not what it deserves. I can say I didn't like it, but not that it is a bad book, and for me to finish it and say otherwise is unjust. Either way, it has had some effect on me, as you may have guessed from the (rather shoddy) similar style of deviation used in this review....Continua


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I can't say that I disagree, that's for certain. Food for thought...
Alex Jones - How The Elite Control Politics:
He is correct that we let the two parties box in the issues and deflect what's going on in our economy and money system and how the money elite FUND and MANIPULATE the entire thing.
If your ideology falls outside of that box, you are branded. Well, if I were doing the branding I would say that the central bankers need to be removed from having any influence on the political system whatsoever. In fact, the central banks belong to the people, not private individuals.
Corporations should likewise have much less influence. Corporations should be separated from State just as religion is. But that's just me.
Label that thinking out there if you will, but I say "take the red pill" and pull your mind out of the collective!
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LONDON - Latin America is about to witness a massive breakthrough in terms of MVAS encouraged by technology adoption and a rise in demand. Penetration of smartphones and LTE, emergence of FMC networks and adoption of MVAS platforms are some of main factors set to spur the growth of MVAS sector in the region. However, market players will face a number of challenges, such as a shortage of qualified personnel and complexity related to selling to multiple individual business units, among others.
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An imperative and significantly domineering briefing on the critical analysis of the Munich State Court's recent verdict on 51-years-old Sylvia Stolz's case, has been set-documented in "free-speech" notion's perspectives by SAARC region's Post-doc assessor, Prof. Qadhi Aurangzeb Al Hafi. The Former German Attorney's case requires and essentially calls for a fair and firm 'merit baseline' to out-wit and prevaricate the 'twin-face dual-criterions' of the western judicial-values canon.
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- (ReleaseWire) -- 03/09/2015 --The recent verdict by the Munich State Court has triggered-up critical thorny questions on the west, its stance position's fourth-estates, the entire opinion outlook and above all the judiciary.
51-year-old former German attorney, Sylvia Stolz's case has presaged the entire world's sense of rationality exasperated and portended for what manifested starkly, in quite strange as well as sad way. Former German Attorney Sylvia Stolz has been convicted of Holocaust denial last week. According to the AP sources from Berlin, Munich state court spokeswoman Andrea Titz said, Sylvia Stolz was convicted of denying the Holocaust in a 2012 speech, reportedly. (Court's ruling reported by Associated Press in Berlin, The Olympian, and New York Times).
It's noteworthy that, nevertheless 51-year-old Sylvia Stolz argued during her trial that she was exercising her right to 'free speech', the state court, however, made strong rejections, abjurations and renunciations on her 'free-speech right' account.
'Freedom of Speech' is the narrative that is vastly and quite pretentiously used by the west to not only validate, but justifiably vindicate the blasphemies. The notion of an 'absolute free speech' serves as the basic 'construct-version of interpretation' for the nefarious motives behind blasphemous acts. However, the same narrative doesn't qualify and never comes to be corroborated for validation, when it comes to certain sensitively 'lodged issues', like Holocaust denial---or even undercounting to the genocidal figures.
Judiciously viewed, the instance-case of Munich Court's last week verdict of sentencing Sylvia Stolz, is imperatively critical-enough on the face of free-speech's limitations. The ruling essentially pleads the global community, on rational grounds, to have a prudent sense-impression of the Munich court verdict's base-line on the subject-matter under focus i.e. "one's right to free speech".
The court's verdict, not only sets a lucidly clear international precedency for necessitating the limits to free speech, but also by accepting the very baseline, strongly endorses the prevention of the dogma's practice, and clearly describes that up to what realms the 'baseline' implies for ---- by any means----in any sense,---through any mode----and, by any measure.
On the contrary, there exist no limits to 'free speech', when it tremors the sentiments, frissons the minds, and gravely injures the feelings of communities---across the continents, by blasphemous acts---for instance the repetitive recurrences of immoral profanities and dissolute violence by certain disparaged blasphemous quarters like Charlie Hebdo, who are licensed in the world to express overt hatred flagrantly and blatantly express in whatsoever way they like; there are no moral, nor ethical neither judicial, or even no humanistic limits that they are bound to be within.
The worst case scenario ingrained by Charlie Hebdo--perhaps the nastiest amidst the modern civilization's archives, has planted the seeds of severe and deep-rooted cross-ethnic conflicts, that can never be counteracted to be offset by any measure.
It is, strange as well as sad to see that western courts didn't bother to disqualify and prohibit the 'same occurrences' on the 'same accounts' as demonstrated in 51-year-old Sylvia Stolz's case.
This twin-face attitude is a strong, vibrant and lucidly-clear reflection, as well as a direct measure of the moral decline behind all this.
In the circumstantiality of such a wretched grief-strickings, the dual-criterion for 'free speech' notion is, nothing but an awkwardly disgraceful enough modality of ridiculous manifestation of deflated societies, having no acclimatization of moral perspectives.
On account of the communal attitude manifested thereupon, the western judiciary has sadly and dismally lost its moral authority and institutional integrity as an institution. All this is not, but the stark indexing of a complete judicial as well as moral decline.
Some Critical Questions on the Verdict's Base-line:
Apparently, the 'tender-keepers' of free speech, along with their necessarily biased and completely discriminatory partisan mass-means, while advocating their tarnished-hatred, present certain unprincipled arguments in wrapped logical-fallacies,---- but are these argument-indexes actually so, as they are opinionated and dogmatized to appear…? Do these jargons and verbiages certainly provide some justifiable grounds for a 'free speech' without any limits ..? Does the free speech notion hold an absolute value anywhere…?---even in the western culture…? Can 'freedom of expression' be meant for over-riding the ethico-moral deeds…? And above all,----is it practicable when it comes to the sensitivities based sentiments…??? These are some thorny questions posed over to the minds that hold a conscience within---or have some sense of righteousness. Exercising the free speech, that may hurt or emotionally injure a certain ethnicity, is criminalized, whereas the blasphemies crossing all the limits of ethics, moral codes and even humanity-based values, are tolerable and permissible to damage multiethnic peace of the global communities by planting the seeds of tarnished hatred blasphemies.…??? These are the morality-probes, impersonated from the least of a rational mind,--- a considerate mind that can hold to the state of affairs, when it come to humane, moral and judicial convictions. The questions are serious-enough in their nature and henceforth, are to be dealt with great trepidations.
In fact, the crux of this verdict and other precedencies like the present one, is simply that, there exists nowhere in the world where the licenses are granted that one can flagrantly say and blatantly express whatever he likes; there are certain limits that one is supposed to be within.
However, pretty conversely, the kind of moral trait-outlook manifested by the west, on the face of 'free speech', would never be pardonable,--- nor on judicial, neither on the least of humanitarian accounts.!!!
Fabled adversarial multi-disciplinary methodological arch-analyst, Professor Qadhi Aurangzeb Al Hafi unswervingly denounces the shameful appalling of the twin-face defiance by the west.
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Tara Air passenger plane crashes in mountainous Myagdi area, west of Kathmandu, killing all 23 people on board.
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Aviation Minister Ananda Prasad Pokharel said the Twin Otter turboprop aircraft had been found in the western district of Myagdi on Wednesday and bodies could be seen scattered around it.
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Hail unto thee who art Khephra in Thy hiding;
even unto thee who art Khephra in Thy silence;
who travellest over the heavens in Thy bark
at the Midnight Hour of the Sun.
Tahuti standeth in His splendour at the prow,
and Ra-Hoor abideth at the helm.
Hail unto thee from the abodes of Evening!
Aleister Crowley, Liber Resh vel Helios
Here's a quote from the Cultural Etymology Digest article on Beetles as Religious Symbols:
The capital of the solar religion was the city of On, which Greeks called Heliopolis ("the City of the Sun"). It was probably at On that Khepri, a scarab god of the sun, appeared in the predynastic epoch. Khepri might have been associated with the brilliant Kheper aegyptiorum, (whose name was coined by André Janssens, in 1940) or to the black Scarabaeus sacer, which was more often figured later. Nowadays, only the latter occurs in this region; the former being a more southern species probably due to significant climactic changes since Egyptian civilization. The name Khepri (or Kheperi, or Khepera) means "The Being, The Extant." The name Khepri is related to other words of the same root, e.g. kheper "to exist, to come to existence" and khepru "transformations, metamorphoses." Originally, Khepri represented the sun from sunrise to sunset, although the oldest texts describe him setting in the western horizon at dusk. He quickly lost some importance, and became confined to the associative role with the rising sun, which he maintained throughout the entire Egyptian civilization. He is represented as a man with a scarab topping or replacing his head (Figure 1). Khepri lost his association with the "dying" evening sun, to the god Atum, who is often figured with a ram head. For this reason, the ram-headed scarab represents the sun in the double aspects of rising/setting, or birth/death. To Khepri and Atum is often added Re, "The Sun," who subsumes them.
In Khepri's role as "sunset-to-sunrise" keeper of the sun, he represents the hidden, literally the occult. The Twelfth House represents hidden things and secrets, and while my religion is (obviously) no secret, it has hidden aspects, and is part of the larger scheme of things termed by some as "The Occult" (woo woo).
My religion is not only what most folks would call a religion, it isn't even what I myself would think of as a religion. It's more of a discipline (though I'm none too disciplined in the practice thereof; Uncle Al wouldn't've put up with me for ten seconds), in the sense that word has of "way of life". It's not really a eupraxophy, since I do believe in transcendent intelligences, though I don't necessarily believe that they're external to us. Until I find out otherwise, my Holy Guardian Angel is The God That Is Me.
So, in case you hadn't figured it out by now, I'm not a Christian. In fact, I'm not any one of the Big Three.
Who calls us Thelemites will do no wrong, if he look but close into the word. For there are therein Three Grades, the Hermit, and the Lover, and the man of Earth. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Liber AL, I:40
Who calls me a Thelemite won't get much of an argument from me, since I am a member of O.T.O. However, what I do isn't really limitable to general O.T.O. practice. Maybe it's best to start at the beginning.
Actually, I was a twenty-something Pagan, but that's not as catchy a header. I was first introduced to the idea that there were people out there attempting to reproduce or recover or recreate the religion of my northern European ancestors when I got connected with a local group here called the Institute for Celtic Studies. It was basically a bunch of people with Celtic ancestors (mostly Irish, some Welsh) who got together to have dinners and talk about books they'd read or to take beginning Gaelic classes with Jim Duran. And once a year, we'd all do a camp-out in some nice woodsy area (I remember "Madrakara" being the name of one such place) and do folk plays and play music and so forth. It was in watching the group do a recreation of the Padstow MayDay hobby horse that I suddenly realized, "Hey, for these guys it isn't a recreation, it's Real!"
(Many years later, I put together a 'Obby 'Oss ritual for NROOGD, and built them a 'Oss. There isn't a whole lot of that original 'Oss left, except the mask, but the ritual has gone on to have a life of its own, independant of me, and there are pictures to prove it.)
About the same time as all this was going on, I was taking mountain dulcimer lessons from Holly Tannen, and through her these two things happened:
So I went to the ritual, my very first one, sponsored by the New Reformed Orthodox Order of the Golden Dawn (which group Robert Anton Wilson has mentioned in passing a few times in Cosmic Trigger) (which by then was no longer new, was neither reformed nor orthodox, and had about as much to do with the Order of the Golden Dawn as an apple has to do with a socket wrench...). It was March, 1983. I was 21. It was the greatest thing I'd ever seen, short of High Easter Mass at Grace Cathedral.
I got off on this Pagan stuff bigtime. I stayed with it for better than thirteen years, writing dozens of ritual dramas, including at least two full sets for each of the eight great seasonal festivals (called Sabbats). I became a member of the Covenant of the Goddess, eventually being elected to the Board of Directors of that organization as its newsletter editor and recording secretary. J. Gordon Melton was heard to call me "One of the great Pagan liturgists of our time." I went to a conference on religious studies and talked about the need for ritual drama; I appeared on local TV news to talk about Beltaine; I answered a godzillion questions, some of which I turned into a Wiccan FAQ which CoG still uses. I created a Wiccan Curriculum and taught it to a group of people who became Black Oak coven, one of the (if not THE) strongest ritual teams in Northern California.
A good question, that. The answer is, I changed. I didn't want just to invoke the Gods and then eat. I wanted to DO stuff. I wanted, as my friend Tom put it (in his most dramatic possible tones) SORCEROUS POWER!!! Ahem. And, by and large, the composition of Black Oak had changed over time to consist primarily of people who wanted to do theurgy (worship) rather than thaumaturgy (magic). So, rather than keep pulling against them, I let go. I led them on one last ritual, a journey out of the World, through a Judgement to a choice at the Wheel (by way of all the cards in between), and so to the end, where I put my tools in my bag, hung it on a stick, and walked away from them.
We're both happier now.
Update! I recently discovered that a pretty amazing thing has happened since I left NROOGD: a group of people, all of whom come from the (extremely amusingly-named, to me, at least) "Oak Line" of NROOGD have hared off on their own and created the Magical Acts Ritual Theater, performing ritual dramas of diversity and power, actually achieving non-profit status for this work. They have some really exciting plans afoot, and I'd heard about them (and applied to join them) well before I discovered that they are, in some sense, my spiritual grandchildren. I think it's all pretty damn funny; but I also think it's an interesting proof that the energy which one throws off into the pattern towards some specific end may not necessarily disappear once one ceases paying attention to it. ;) Anyway, back to the story.
So here I was, at a loose end, having literally stepped off into the Abyss. What to do? My bro Havoc23 was talking about having become a Mason, and I said to him, "No fair! You get to do the secret handshake number and all those cool initiations just cuz YOU have outdoor plumbing." He said to me, "Hell, if that's all you want, why not join the OTO?" So I did.
Well, it was a little more complicated than that. But that's the essence of it. I'm a ritual junkie and a peak-bagger (which is to say, I go for the peak experience). Transformative experiences are like a drug to me, and I wasn't getting them any more in Wicca. I'm getting a few more of them in OTO, but still not enough. So slowly, slowly, I'm building my own system, as I told the Black Oak folks I was planning to do when I left them. It's going to have a little Wicca and a little Thelema and a little of this and a little of that.
In months to come, I may put a little of what I discover up on this site. In the meantime, how about some...
Many of the rituals online at Monsalvat were also written by me.
Finally, I just had to throw in this AWESOME picture of my
personal Thelemic Saint, Leila Waddell:
I got it at Ikon Thelema.


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