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We CAN make up for the wrongs committed in this year's election cycle. It is also possible to effectively bypass those notoriously corruptible electronic machines. Citizens for Honest Voting (CFVH) is launching a plan to Win Iowa and Maine, as well as New Hampshire, with write-in votes. Details and methods for this campaign will be found onWriteInRon2012.com, which is under construction.
A group of voting rights activists, including the people behind libertyusapac.org andwatchthevote2012.com have decided on a powerful course: to unite all liberty-minded people in one direction. Vote your conscience in all other states, but in Iowa, Maine, and New Hampshire please write-in Ron Paul. This is to achieve actual wins, notably in smaller circumscribed states, where write-ins are allowed. It is also to achieve redress, since the winners in these states are legitimately disputed.
The Website (under construction) offers tools to confirm the vote, like the affidavit and pre-vote pledge. The pre-voting form available to fill out on the Website will solicit voter information, which is greatly needed in advance in order to prove the count, while preventing fraud.
The objective is to protest against the various forms of rigging which have corrupted the voting process, especially the secret voting process done at each Board of Elections. With a written vote that is documented, this secrecy is reversed. It is also to protest the unconstitutional use of the various voting machines, which allow for a secret, votes devoid of all documentation.
This is a legitimate protest against the establishment's secretive system. Anyone can join this, whether Republican, Democrat, Independent, Libertarian, or other. All can and should join this simple, practical plan to resist tyranny and eliminate secret voting.
The numbers prove that Paul can win these states. For instance, in Iowa, 2008, Paul had 11,800-plus votes—or about 10% of the vote—while in 2012 he had over 26,000 votes, a 121% increase. In contrast, interest in Romney in this state collapsed over the same period, with a -0% increase, from 30,021 to 30,015 votes. In New Hampshire Paul's rise was even more dramatic, going from only about 8% in 2008 to nearly 23% in 2012, a 210% rise, while Romney's rise was a mere 29%. Maine was so corrupted by rigging that the numbers aren't completed, but the rise for Paul was meteoric. This proves the voters' preference—and that preference cannot be denied or repressed.
We CAN win Iowa and Maine's, as well as New Hampshire's, general election to correct the wrongs of 2012. This serves numerous purposes, as follows:
- it shows our strength, that we ARE the true new "Swing Vote"
- it proves that Ron Paul really won the primaries in Iowa and Maine (with a very strong second in New Hampshire)
- it demonstrates that had the GOP not play their dirty tricks in unison with the media pitted against the seekers of liberty, along with, of course, electronic election fraud, Ron Paul would have been the winner
- it proves that We the People can fully monitor our own state elections and prove the real counts with pre-vote affidavits, full poll watching, manual counts, exit interviews, and statistical analysis.
- it demonstrates that through the unified efforts of citizens we can take responsible for our inalienable rights on our own by getting the whole country together to win 2 or more states
- it proves that the people themselves can mount a united response, whether Democrat, Republican, Independent, or Libertarian, against unconstitutional, illicit secret vote counts
- it proves that people can have real, legitimate alternatives to the limited, undesirable voting options imposed upon them by those in power
This is exclusively a We the People election. We and we alone, not the media or other powerful elements, decides who wins in Iowa, Maine, and New Hampshire. Keep in mind that this year in Palm Beach County, FL, an entire election was reversed because of corruption of the machines, the loser been called the winner after a hand-count. Noted Palm Beach Supervisor of Elections, Susan Bucher, "The hand-count was 100%. We weren't missing a ballot. Frankly, without paper ballots and without audits, we would have let the wrong winners serve." Then, she said something that is truly incredible, "I have a feeling that this isn't the first time, but we never noticed." The question surely arises, "How many other winners were suppressed as losers, because of the inadequacy and corruptibility of these machines?" Moreover, how many people have been harmed and how many freedoms lost, all because of malicious rigging, which non one "caught."
Regardless, this is proof that paper ballots DO work and that they are more accurate and reliable than machine counted votes. It is also proof that machine counts are no guarantee of accuracy and, rather, give reason to suspect great faults. Other examples the power of paper include former highly regarded Senator Strom Thurmond, who in 1954 won in a write-in campaign as well as more recently Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski, who in 2010 mounted and won impressively in write-in campaign after losing in the Republican primary, the first write-in victory in Alaska in 50 years.
This is return to written ballots is the most crucial effort ever made to prevent tyranny in our Republic. Join this Write-In effort to prevent the further erosion of our freedoms.
For interviews or other information contact: 1-847-875-6164 (Dr. K. Khaleel), or 1-229-393-2912 (David Calliihan). Also, 561-747-8496. Email: email@example.com and/or firstname.lastname@example.com
See also the Website: www.WriteInRon2012.com (under construction)
To donate to this effort go to: www.libertyusapac.org and donate to the election integrity button
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Oct 23, 2012 - By Kasie Hunt and Ken Thomas, The Associated PressBOCA RATON, Fla. -- Voters watching the final presidential debate at home may have missed what happened before and after President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney took the stage on Monday.
Here's what viewers missed:
Call it a "good luck" meal: Before the debate, aides said Obama and first lady Michelle Obama dined on steak and potatoes, the same meal they shared before the second presidential debate. The president also spent some downtime with two longtime friends: Mike Ramos and Marty Nesbitt.
For lunch, Romney had a veggie burger, Cajun-spiced fries and a vanilla milkshake from a nearby Burger Fi restaurant.
Romney and his family were staying at a beachfront Marriott hotel, where his sons and five of his 18 grandkids mingled with staff ahead of the debate. Members of Romney's family rode in the motorcade to the debate, in vans labeled "Family 1" and "Family 2." They spilled out of the vans into the darkened parking lot and walked into the hall together.
Before the two candidates took the stage, Romney watched his grandchildren play Jenga, now something of a pre-debate tradition.
In the moments before the debate, moderator Bob Schieffer of CBS News asked the audience to be "quiet as mice" so the debate would be "worthy of the presidency of the greatest country in the world." Schieffer carried a purple binder to the desk and sat in silence before the candidates joined him on stage at Lynn University.
When he entered the hall, Romney cordially greeted his rival. "Good to see you again," Romney said, with a broad smile.
The sounds
As Obama, his voice rising, sought to discredit Romney on whether there should still be troops in Iraq, the shutter clicks of cameras echoed throughout the hall. Romney got a few snickers from members of the audience when he said he wouldn't give Russian President Vladimir Putin "more flexibility" after the election.
When Romney and Obama quarreled over military spending and the budget, Obama interjected -- "I'm going to answer the first question" -- and drew some more chuckles from the audience.
The audience again laughed when Obama dug into Romney's criticism about the size of the Navy in nearly a century, telling his Republican challenger that back then "we also had horses and bayonets."
Schieffer drew laughs when he said they could all agree that they "love teachers."
And during Obama's closing statement, the audience chuckled quietly when Obama said there have been "way too many TV commercials" during the campaign.
There was no audible laughter in the hall when the president made his earlier joke about the 1980s wanting their foreign policy back.
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I'm a huge fan of Gracy Bonney, not only because she writes the beautiful and inspiring blog Design*Sponge, but also because she is a true animal lover. And today Grace did a wonderful thing by rescuing a tiny, underweight kitten from the alley behind her house. This little girl was found in freezing cold temperatures and she tested FIV+, which Grace points out is definitely not a death sentence, so there was absolutely no reason to give up hope on little kitty. Gracy brought this cutie home and posted her photos on the blog, and today little girl has a wonderful new home!
Read all about this wonderful rescue over on Design*Sponge, where there are links to more info about FIV in cats. FIV can be transmitted to other cats, but only through deep bite wounds, so if you have docile cats that won't fight, you CAN integrate FIV+ cats into your home. My own Theo is FIV positive, and he's a big teddy bear who fits into the family beautiful.
Thank you, Grace, for caring so much!


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MATT Fox has lived in Swindon for only a little over half a decade, but he praises it with a fervour worthy of the most loyal local.
He is especially keen to tear town cliches about culture and our supposed lack of it, and has a ready answer for anybody who complains there's not much going on.
"We have a lot of people who are professionals in the industry," he said, listing Swindon performers with credits everywhere form the West End to Opera North.
"In terms of the training we've got, there are some excellent music schools, drama schools and dance schools.
"There's absolutely no reason why Swindon should be seen as a cultural backwater at all in terms of training. The real problem is there's almost this sense that people put themselves down, and don't think there's anything good.
"I think it's partly due to what's said in the media – people start to believe it – but I think it's also due to a lack of being able to see what's going on. A good example of this is Swindon Dance, which is perhaps one of the most important dance organisations in the country, but almost nobody knows it exists. But in London people know it's there.
"It's almost that nobody is talking about it, that nobody is showcasing this stuff."
Matt believes in encouraging as many people, especially young ones, to explore their potential as artists, but he's realistic about the reasons why this might be difficult.
"If you've got a choice between paying the mortgage and sending the kids to singing lessons, you're going to pay the mortgage. It's a real shame because talent isn't just something that middle class kids have, it's something that all kids have."
Matt is originally from Cornwall. His father is a driving instructor and his mother a teaching assistant. He has a 27-year-old brother, Sam, and a 22-year-old sister, Anna, both of whom work with people who have learning issues.
As a child and teenager, Matt lived within easy travelling distance of Plymouth, which he describes as having the most prolific theatre production schedule in the country. The 1,500 seater Theatre Royal and the much smaller Drum theatre co-operate, with the larger theatre helping to support the smaller one's encouragement of new talent and shows with a more limited market.
The arrangement shaped not only Matt's attitude to the arts but also his own career. "It involved doing a lot of workshops – writing, drama, music and a lot of performing.
"I was a member of a writers' group down there. That's where I got into writing. Me and a friend went along and that was the first writing I ever did."
Matt met his wife, Jessie, while studying at the University of London. The couple later lived in Cornwall while Matt completed a post-graduate degree but moved to Swindon, Jessie's home town, in 2006.
Jessie is the daughter of Janice Thompson, a major figure in music education locally. Swindon was chosen because the couple wanted to be close to at least one set of parents and because Swindon is rather more central than Cornwall.
After the triumph this summer of Swindon: The Opera, next year's theatre festival is a natural progression.
In the meantime Matt wants to drive home the message that there are plenty of interesting non-mainstream atttractions to be found here already.
"Look at places like The Vic, Swindon Dance," he said. "Look at places like The Furnace that had a piece of immersive theatre in it.
"It's all about looking past the obvious because if you only look at the obvious venues you're only going to see what they're putting on."


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Perth, Western Australia
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
— Mark Twain
Anna Hu is the director of information and learning technologies at both Presbyterian Ladies' College and Scotch College in Perth. She has worked in education for over 20 years in the areas of science, math, and computer education. She incorporates current technologies in her classrooms with the goal of empowering learners. Hu is driven by teaching and learning that is engaging, effective, and most importantly, fun.


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State Education Cuts Cause Bendle School Layoffs
Recent budget cuts in Michigan's education system have been met with many voices of disapproval. The new financial limitations have already started to hit close to home as Bendle's Board of Education is forced to make some unwanted changes regarding the size of their staff.
Monday night the members of the Board of Education for Bendle schools voted for the layoff of nine staff members; six teachers and three social workers. The reasoning behind the cuts were credited to the decline in the number of students (the district is down 117 students from February 2010) and the new budget cuts imposed by Governor Rick Snyder. Superintendent John Krolewski had this to say about the layoffs;
"All the teachers I spoke with and social workers…everyone has been special and done a great job…There's only one reason why we're having this conversation and that's because the governor is putting us in this place. You really can't plan a budget right because we don't have the information we need. The big thing used to be back when Engler was in office that schools should be run like a business. How do you set a budget when you don't know what you're getting in? It's a crap shoot."
Krolewski also warned that if there were more decreases in the districts student count that they would have no other options but to resort to more layoffs. It is possible that funds could be cut as much as $700 per student. Treasurer Janis Bubgee urged residents within the district to;
"Get your letters off to Lansing…We've got to let them (legislators) know how much it means to take away that money from students. The cuts and increased costs may create a more than $500,000 drop in aid to the district."
A number of radical moves by Snyder have caused a dip in his approval rating. The EMF bill caused problems with unions and the education cuts are also a very polarizing issue. Some believe Snyder's policies will fix our financial problems while others believe he is destroying our state. What is your take on the direction that Michigan is headed?


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Mixed day for Aussies at world rowing champs
Australia's lightweight women's double scull crew finished third in their heat at the world rowing championships in Bled, Slovenia.
Hannah Every-Hall and Alice McNamara will now have to contest the repechage on Wednesday if they are to have any hope of contesting the final.
Australia's lightweight women's quad scull squad of Ella Flecker, Maia Simmonds, Hannah Jansen and Alexandra Hayes finished second in their heat and will also compete in the repechage to stay in contention for the final.
Meanwhile, Australia's men's coxed pair of James Chapman and Will Lockwood, coxed by David Webster, won their heat with a time of 6:58.41 to move through to the final of the non-Olympic category event.
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text: I personally have not found a hat that I can pull off, but I see numerous women with curly hair who can. A hat is another easy way to add some color and style to your look without have to work for it. It's also a great way to cover anything up that might need covering up for the day. Now that fall is upon us and winter is on its way, find a great hat or two to go with you winter wardrobe that can also keep your curls warm.


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Mischaracterizing history
Regarding the letter about mischaracterization from Jim Ferlo (July 7), who is mischaracterizing whom?
Liberals don't know what freedom is. Freedom is a lack of constraints, restraints and control over people. Government is power and control. More freedom means less government.
The people who founded this nation knew that very well. The liberals' (or progressives') answer to any real or imagined problem is more government regulations and laws.
Talk about mischaracterizing!
Mr. Ferlo presents liberals as staunch defenders of freedom. He says they fought to preserve democracy against fascism in World War II.
He is in need of a history lesson. There was only one statesman on the entire planet trying to warn people about the evil of Naziism and fascism amassing and accumulating power. He was no liberal. He tried to warn his countrymen not to neglect their defenses. He was called a warmonger and scaremonger. He was alone and mocked. That was Winston Churchill.
FDR and his liberal allies turned a blind eye to Hitler and Mussolini. FDR almost totally neglected America's defenses. Thousands of Americans paid the ultimate price for that neglect. What FDR and liberals did in the 1930s are hardly criteria for being staunch defenders of liberty.
Also, regarding his reference to the McCarthy investigations of the '50s, I highly recommend that Ferlo read M. Stanton Evans' book about Joseph McCarthy, "Blacklisted by History." The FBI told the Roosevelt and Truman administrations about the penetration and infiltration of Communists into the U.S. government.
So, the mischaracterizing is all by Ferlo. Liberals are the ones destroying freedom in this country. To admit that about liberal ideology would be to destroy their "morally superior" narrative.
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The Other FBI12 delved into how faith-based initiatives threaten the doctrine of separation of church and state—a democratic maxim that incorporates two legal (and political) principles, secular government and religious freedom—in both the United States and Puerto Rico. Thomas Jefferson's referred to it in his renowned letter to the Danbury (Connecticut) Baptists.3 He believed the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution4 built a "wall of separation" between church and state. Section 3 of Article II of the Constitution of Puerto Rico5 leaves no doubt that this doctrine exists in Puerto Rico.
Worldly Power: Family6Style will be presented in two parts: One concerns the behind-the-scenes global prayer group movement and two covers the seemingly innocuous, but no less sordid, The National Prayer Breakfast and Its Offshoots. Apropos, the idea behind the prayer group movement emerged from hate7 for labor unions8 and communism.9 10 The two groups that typify this movement are prayer breakfasts and cells. They meet everywhere it is feasible.
In his best-selling book entitled The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power (Harper Perennial (2009) Jeff Sharlet unravels the prayer group movement that Abraham [a/k/a Abram] Vereide founded11 to attempt to change the world. Therefore, a condensed story of how this Norwegian immigrant preacher evolved into one of—perhaps the strange outlier among—the great twentieth century evangelists is indispensable. "Abram… [became] an exponent of a religion for the elite—the 'up and out,' as he called them—for the rest of his life. He termed the trickle down faith the Idea… In the one sense, it was nothing more than the status quo. It neither challenged power nor asked for anything from the powerful but their good intentions. In another, it was the most ambitious theocratic project of the American century, 'every Christian leader, every leader a Christian,' and this ruling class of Christ—committed men bound in a fellowship of the anointed, the chosen, key men in a voluntary dictatorship of the divine."12
The Idea pervades the GOP (Grand Old Party) a/k/a the Republican Party. Initially it was tempered by moderate Republican politicians who genuinely believed in the doctrine of separation of church and state and practiced bipartisanship. This started to change when right-wing Republican Ronald Reagan pioneered the use of wedge issues13 and favored the rarefied elite (big economic interests and the wealthy). For example, he campaigned as anti-: big government1415, welfare state,1617 abortion18 and civil rights;19 and pro-: tax cuts (for the super-rich)20, death penalty, states' rights21, unbridled militarism (our God-given right to win) and (total) war on drugs ("zero tolerance" [Ronald Reagan] and "just say no" [Nancy Reagan]) during his gubernatorial and/or presidential campaigns. Many were wedge issues that appealed not only to the GOP base, but also to enough conservative Democrats and independents for him to be elected Governor of California and President twice apiece. So much that has gone wrong in the United States and abroad—including the sub prime mortgage crisis and the meltdown of the financial sector—can be traced directly to Reaganomics. Reagan was an adherent of TDE [trickle-down economics], also referred to as Reaganomics and supply-side economics. His laissez-faire economic and tax-cut policies benefited the wealthy. Their bonanza never trickled down to the needy; these policies have been discredited by economists and at the polls. Neil MacBride, currently an Associate Attorney General under Secretary of Justice Eric Holder, aptly made the following analogy: "They [The Family] take the same approach to religion that Ronald Reagan took to economics… Reach the elite, and the blessings will trickle down to the underlings."22
The "such is life" administration of Governor Fortuño—who became involved in his youth in this quintessential Republican's campaign for President—is blatantly in sync with the Family's elite fundamentalist worldview that works to unify right-wing politics and Dominionist23 religion through the prayer group movement. Recently, the Puerto Rico Daily Sun (September 30, 2009, p.4) reported: "Former Governor Aníbal Acevedo Vilá on Tuesday [September 29, 2009] labeled the Fortuño administration as 'insensitive'… How one faces life's challenges in great part is [sic] predetermined by … your vision of the world… He said the Fortuño administration's vision of the world and government is Republican, which feels the government is a handicap and that salvation lies in the private sector… In Acevedo Vilá's judgment, the biggest economic problem is not that the government is too big, but that the private sector is too small." In 1985, Fortuño's mentor [Reagan] responded, when asked to opine about the Family: "I wish I could say more about it… but it's working precisely because it is private."24
Initially Abram formed breakfast groups to pray about dubious subversion in Seattle. The IWW (Industrial Workers of the World)25 and the socialists were his principal antagonists. The Family was ostensibly nonpartisan; it claimed to be "open" to everyone in Finding the Better Way (1942). This leaflet depicted a "typical meeting": It "consisted of prayers, 'comments', and personal testimonies by top executives from an array of regional and national corporations… Clearly, 'typical' meetings made for valuable campaign stops."26 Many politicians, but especially Republicans like President George W. Bush and Governor Luis Fortuño, traditionally attend a host of prayer breakfasts that are typically held in tandem with fundraisers.27
Abram's pamphlet asked capital and labor to build a foundation for mutual understanding. James Duncan, a reactionary officer of the International Association of Machinists, was the only union leader who attended Abram's prayer group meetings in Seattle. He had opposed integrating Boeing's workforce in spite of rank-and-file support. "Abram never himself made an explicitly racist remark…, but he practiced a paternalism that amounted to a quiet declaration of his views… Some of Abram's closest allies [later in Washington, DC] would be Dixiecrats28 such as South Carolina's Strom Thurmond...29 and Mississippi Senator John Stennis."3031
God's revelation to Abram was simple: "To the big man went strength, to the little man went need. Only the big man was capable of mending the world." At the age of 49 he realized that he would forget about the needy and dedicate himself to the spiritual affairs of the wealthy. Ten years later Abram dubbed his vision 'the new world order.' By then, he had gotten his act together, dressed stylishly, and moved to Washington, D.C., He was not wealthy, but he ingratiated himself with the wealthy. God simply provided: Abram pushed his prayer group movement worldwide while heads of state (including despots), legislators, ambassadors, business executives, and generals acquiesced. In 1953 he maneuvered President Eisenhower into attending the first annual National Prayer Breakfast. Since then, no president has dared to dismiss it. "He never achieved his dream—the United States is no more a theocracy32 today than it was in Charles Finney's33 lifetime [1792-1875]—but in his pursuit of it he stood at the vanguard of an elite fundamentalism34 that shaped the last half century of American and world politics in ways now only becoming visible."35
Abram praised Hitler's 'youth work,' in his Better Way pamphlet, but he considered Hitler's military adventurism to be crude and ultimately ineffective; however, he never renounced his fascist/authoritarian political leanings36 because "just as a minority can 'wreck a nation,' a 'righteous remnant' chosen by God can redeem it."37
In the aftermath of WW II, Abram visited Allied prisons in Germany looking for key men who were "ready to turn their allegiance from Hitler to Christ, and thus, in Abram's thinking, America... Abram… initiated the trip, writing to Undersecretary of State Major John H. Hildring that the men of the Senate and the House prayer groups had insisted that Abram carry 'the Idea' to defeated Germany… Everywhere, he met with the 'Christian forces of Germany'—those who saw Germany's suffering as penance for its embrace of the totalitarianism of a man rather than that of God."38 Abram recoiled from Hitler's militaristic pomp and war, but he acquiesced to his philosophy of conformity, behind-the-scenes planning and insistence on obedience.
Abram epitomizes what Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Christian clergyman who challenged Hitler publicly during WW II,—the Nazis hung him in 1945 just weeks before the Allies liberated the concentration camps—called "cheap grace/sacraments", which criticized the hollowness of Christianity during Hitler's implementation of "The Final Solution". "Cheap grace means grace sold on the market like a cheapjack's [a peddler's] wares. The sacraments, the forgiveness of sin, and the consolation of religion are thrown away at cut-rate prices… And the essence of grace… is that the account has been paid in advance; and, because it has been paid, everything can be had for nothing… In such a Church the world finds a cheap covering for its sins; no contrition is required, still less any real desire to be delivered from sin… Cheap grace means the justification of sin… Grace alone does everything… and so everything can remain as it was before."39
Since WW II American and Puerto Rican Christian fundamentalists have seen a "silver lining" even in the gloomiest events. They cherish their faith (read: tribal beliefs) and ready themselves with very little, if any, concern for the grave implications of the next impending disaster, for example, terrorism, war (conventional or nuclear) or a general strike. When something dreadful happens, they readily blame: the communists, feminists, Jews, Arabs, gays, immigrants, unions or whomever currently is their pet hate-object.
J. Edgar Hoover40, the first FBI [Federal Bureau of Investigations] director, "declare[d] that communist stealth operatives, 'schooled in atheistic perversity,' had made Christian pulpits a main objective—and tool—of their propaganda. A 'deadly radioactive cloud of Marxism-Leninism,' he preached, was flogging America's liberal houses of worship…" 41 He kept more than a hundred thousand dossiers on people and organizations that he suspected were subversive including, for example, the IWW [supra note [25], Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference, ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union), NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Eleanor Roosevelt, Playboy and the Puerto Rico Independence Movement. Abram admired Hoover; they were ideological soul mates. After World War II, fringe concepts like secretive prayer cells and domestic spying went mainstream in America and Puerto Rico. "In the 1950's, the soldiers of Christ didn't wear armor; they wore cufflinks." Abram, Billy Graham42 and Kenneth M. Crosby were photographed together at a Family convention. Crosby was the Family's "man in Havana… [who had] been a spy throughout Latin America during the war. Officially he retired at its end, he took over Merrill Lynch's Cuban operation in 1946 and stayed until 1959, when Fidel Castro drove out the dictator Fulgencio Batista, reporting all the while back to U.S. intelligence, a happy double posting which also allowed him time to set up prayer cells for Abram. His 'Havana Group' consisted of American embassy personnel, representatives from American banks and the United Fruit Company. Cuban cartels boasted openly in the Havana Post of the prayer cell's use as a lobbying tool… It was Crosby, briefing CIA director Allen Dulles, who laid the first bricks in the Cold War construction of the island nation as one of America's greatest enemies."43 44
Jeff Sharlet freely examined Collection 459, the Fellowship Foundation records,45 at the Billy Graham Center Archives in Wheaton, Illinois, but today these records are no longer available to the public. Only "those users with the written permission of the President of the Fellowship Foundation" can view them.46 Sealed at the present time to everyone including their members! What is the Family trying to hide? The Archives implemented this restriction "[in] November of 2003, after consultation with the board of the Fellowship Foundation…"47 Jeff Sharlet's article "Jesus plus nothing: Undercover among America's secret theocrats" was published in Harper's Magazine in the March 2003 edition;48 therefore, it is evident that the Family's board of directors' restriction was vindicatory rather than coincidental. Everyone should thank Mr. Sharlet for having the guts to investigate the Family and breaking the story about their more often than not hurtful behind-the-scenes maneuvers.
What should progressive and moderate citizens learn from this exposé? Hopefully, Worldly Power: Family Style will encourage Papel Mag's readers to be more cognizant of the dangers of mixing church and state. Voters cannot trust people of the Family's ilk! These neoconservatives, sometimes referred to pejoratively as crony capitalists, businessmen whose success depends on favoritism from government officials that far too often devolves into corruption, join prayer cells and attend prayer breakfasts for the elite. They also lead weekend worldview conferences49 and right-wing mass rallies50—political, religious and, more often than not, cri de coeur conflations of the two—to adroitly preach hate and fear (speaking-in-code); to appeal to poor and middle class wage earners' prejudice (by stereotyping) and loyalty (through chauvinistic sloganeering); to indoctrinate them into a simplistic, divisive credendum of life that fuses church and state, pretends to cover every aspect of creation (a/k/a "intelligent design")—Yes, Jesus plus nothing; scholarship and science including evolution are scrapped;—and to misinform the gullible masses in order to garner support for compromised right-wing political candidates who, once elected (or re-elected) to public office, support disadvantageous, elitist economic and social policies that widen the economic gap between the poor and the super-rich. Too many of these politicians that are members of the Family sell their votes to special interests in exchange for campaign contributions or "sweetheart" deals.
A few skeptics have privately suggested that I may read too much; my reply: Is that possible? Governor Fortuño, who dawdles with Rev. Raschke and collaborates with Rev. Heredia, "and his Labor Secretary have said that there are 6,000 jobs available [16,970 layoffs of public workers were announced recently to reduce the government deficit] through the Puerto Rico Works Program of the Occupational Development and Human Resources Council. Are they lying? ["Labor Department documents put the number of jobs at 122…"]51 The following adage that has been attributed to Abraham Lincoln is germane: "If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."
Perhaps, Worldly Power: Family Style will also animate the readers of Papel Mag to become independent voters, analyze party platforms52 and evaluate candidates before voting in 2012. On March 1, 2008 the now defunct San Juan Star (the "Star") featured The rise of the independent voter in Viewpoint. At that time Luis Fortuño was campaigning to win the PNP primary. I said: "Resident Commissioner Luis Fortuño isn't much better [comparing him to another candidate, former Gov. Pedro Rosselló]. He has spent three years being a yes-man who indiscriminately promotes George W. Bush's nefarious policies in Washington. Albeit he distances himself from Barack Obama's proposals, Fortuño hopes to piggyback on the Democratic candidate's populist message for change. We all know he is a fence sitting, diehard Republican that has sold himself out to the elite and big business interests in spite of his middle class Hispanic roots. Today, while emphasizing his "experience," former President George Bush pledged "full support" for his bid to become the island's next governor (Star, Feb. 28th). President George W. Bush's tax cuts mostly benefited the very wealthiest in the United States, and independents have scant expectation that, if elected, Fortuño will bring prosperity to the working and middle class in Puerto Rico."
My definitive evaluation of gubernatorial candidate Fortuño, Finding the vote, appeared in the March 20, 2008 edition of the Star (p. 36): "Few independents want Resident Commissioner Luis Fortuño to be our next governor. He easily won the NPP [New Progressive Party] primary, but back-stepped on "change" by immediately surrounding himself with Rosselló's has-been cohorts. He is a die-hard Republican who indiscriminately backed President Bush's nefarious policies in Washington. Everyone expects the Democrats to win the next presidential election. Fortuño's populist message for "change" is a hoax. It will stop resonating with the new generation (18 to 30 years old) as soon as they realize he is as old hat as Rosselló and Bush. Many who voted for Fortuño in the primary jumped off the bus when the rossellistas boarded. They will either turn to Rogelio Figueroa (Puerto Ricans for Puerto Rico), back the Puerto Rican Independence Party or vote for broad-minded PDP [Popular Democratic Party] and NPP candidates." I read Fortuño accurately, but he was able to deceive almost everyone including the new generation of voters. I miscalculated. Ironically, most of his supporters seem to agree with me today. The Broad Front for Solidarity and Struggle have joined activists, professional associations, community groups and even a few religious denominations to convoke a general strike for October 15th for the purpose of protesting the Law 7 layoffs [approximately 17,000 public workers to date]. It portends to be so massive that Fortuño's electoral mandate will be considered to be rescinded. He will no longer be able to credibly use this mandate as a justification to layoff additional government employees to pay the public debt. There are other alternatives, for example, tax hikes for the super-rich and collecting billions of dollars in delinquent taxes.
The leaders of All Puerto Rico for Puerto Rico Coalition announced that their protestors participating in the general strike will meet on Roosevelt Avenue in front of Plaza Las Americas. They hope the general strike will force the Fortuño administration to restitute the dismissed public employees' jobs and derail its plans to privatize government services and layoff even more public workers.53 The Broad Front for Solidarity and Struggle's spokesman Luis Pedraza Leduc said: "The government has demonstrated it does not want to inform the public and continues to keep its economic plan under wraps… It talks with banks and bondholders, but not with the people." He claimed the medium- and long-range plans for tax, labor and energy reforms, which Gov. Fortuño discussed with handpicked local economists54 last week, confirm the administration favors big economic interests. People now realize they were duped by a governor who campaigned pledging he would not fire anyone. Pedraza Leduc said that even NPP voters feel they have been had.55 The Broad Front for Solidarity and Struggle's protestors will congregate behind Plaza Las Americas near K-Mart, Office Max and Toys R Us. Their protest (that is separate from All Puerto Rico for Puerto Rico Coalition's) will attempt to paralyze economic activity at the shopping center and adjacent businesses.56
NPP Sen. Melinda Romero blasted the Fortuño administration for laying off 16, 970 public workers. She opined the governor has set back the advance for statehood for Puerto Rico. She remarked that Fortuño's decision was made in 'dark rooms' and that many of the 11,000 workers that Acevedo Vila's administration hired illegally still have jobs. During a radio show, Romero said she was going to oppose any more layoffs. The Fortuño administration has plans to consolidate or eliminate 40 governmental agencies.57 Will the Fortuño administration; its Republican big business base that includes the Chamber of Commerce, a bastion of pro-corporate politics with close Family connections, for example, former Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA); and its religious fundamentalist supporters break these unions? Hopefully history will not be repeated, but perhaps!
The San Francisco Dockers Union, once one of the toughest in the country, had been broken in 1919. They were forced into the "Blue Book" a/k/a Longshoremen's Association of San Francisco, a company owned enterprise. The CEO served as the union boss; for all practical purposes he negotiated with himself. "The bosses thought they were being kind. So did Abram. To him, such arrangements seemed like the 'reconciliation' promised by Christianity, the solution at last to the old problem of labor and capital. The laws of property obtained—was it not the company's right to hire and fire at will?—but were softened, in the minds of the Blue Book believers, by the company's voluntary decision to treat its employees not as hostile contractors but as children. That made sense to Abram, who divided the world between big [key/God's chosen] men and little [poor/God's forsaken] men [wage earners] and preferred the company of the former."58 The similarity is unmistakable: Fortuño's FBI's [Faith-based initiatives], PPA's [Public Private Alliances] and plans to reform (read: downsize) government are up-dated versions of the "Blue Book". The Obama administration's economic stimulus policy, which promotes the retention and creation of jobs in both sectors, public and private, favors little men (wage earners); the Fortuño administration's austerity policy (to cut government spending) increases unemployment in both sectors, which impacts the poorest segments of the Puerto Rican population (little men and women) while it spares the wealthiest from having to repay the public debt through tax increases. Yes, the Fortuño administration's economic policies always benefit big men and economic interests.59
William Tells is not alone. Sergio Marxuach60, director of policy development at the locally-based Center for the New Economy, said the "study—released Friday [September 25, 2009] by the Commonwealth Employees Administration, or AEELA, which funded the report—found that 14 states had a greater proportion of public workers compared to the population of Puerto Rico [Gov. Fortuño claims that the number of public employees here constitute 29.6 percent of totaled salaried employment, the highest in the United States] 'This confirms our finding in the [2006] Brookings Institute [sic] [The Brookings Institution, a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy think tank, was formerly known as the Institute for Government Research] Report that the problem of Puerto Rico is not so much that the government is big, but that the private sector is too small,' Marxuach said. The Brookings [Institution]/Center for the New Economy [a Puerto Rico-based think tank] study found a downward trend in the proportion of public workers since 1980 due to the privatization of state-owned enterprises…"61
Workers Federation leader José Rodríguez Baez says: "the top priority of labor on the island should be the development of strategies and mechanisms to change the vision of those now leading government and 'whose interests respond to those of the private investors and not the workers.'" Juan Eliza, the President of the General Workers Union acknowledges that some union leaders and members answer "more to their [political] party than to their labor syndicate. They have not been very active lately [because they were] confident that this situation would not affect them because they are [PNP] party members. But now they have admitted that we have been right since the beginning…"62
Jeff Sharlet summed up our frustrations: "Those of us who find ourselves suddenly (or so it seems) at the dried-out margins keep telling ourselves that this country is still a democracy, and that democracy still means 'moderation,' private religion and a public square safe for 'civil society.' The fundamentalist Christ is not… the real Christ. He's an imposter… recently perpetrated on the good-hearted but gullible American [and Puerto Rican] masses by cynical men, manipulators, profiteers, a cabal of televangelists… Fundamentalism is writing us [unbelievers and religious moderates] out of history… [We] must continue to revisit the history of American [and Puerto Rican] fundamentalism—which is to say, we must reconsider the story we speak of when we say 'America [and Puerto Rico].'63
The Star published Fundamentalists' influence disproportionate in its February 7, 2008 Viewpoint, p. 52. I brought the pitfalls of Fundamentalism to its readers' attention: "Fundamentalism breeds hate, divisiveness and discord. Suicide bombings, 9/11's, crusades, massacres, inquisitions, honor killings, ethnic (read: religious) cleansings, fleecing the gullible, sexism and most other suffered injustices have their roots in religious fundamentalism."
Former President Bill Clinton often stresses that common people can make a huge difference. "Ordinary citizens, not in government, not running big companies, if they stand together, have the chance to do more than ever before."64
Again, to recap: Populist fundamentalism publicly exacts an untenable leap-of-faith. Its thunderous creationist (Bible-based) message and salvation promised on-the-cheap accommodate all possibilities; however, it is void of any congruous explanation. Many evils, for example, miscegenation, slavery, torture, domestic spying, bigotry, gay bashing and the Holocaust, which were incidentally mentioned in Worldly Power: Family Style. Part One: The Prayer Group Movement, have in the past been and some in the present continue to be justified by evangelists and right-wing Christian fundamentalist politicians invoking biblical/religious mandates. The flip side, elite fundamentalism, is all about stealth, wealth, power [economic and military], prestige and empire. Its mission is to maintain the status quo for key men. In the next edition of Papel Mag, William Tells will delve deeper into elite fundamentalism when Worldly Power: Family Style. Part Two: The National Prayer Breakfast and Its Offshoots is featured.
1 Faith-Based Initiatives.
2 The Other FBI was published in Papel Mag's fall issue. My contributions appear in "William Tells" under the Queritics Section; Click this section. When you see the William Tells' hang-down, click again. Enjoy!
3 Jefferson's Letter to the Danbury Baptists [The Final Letter, as Sent on January 1, 1802]. (June 1998). The Library of Congress. Retrieved October 8, 2009, from………… http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9806/danpre.html
4 Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
5 No law shall be made respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. There shall be complete separation of church and state.
6 This moniker was concocted by "a seventy-year old self-described invisible network of followers of Christ in government, business, and the military… [that] call themselves the Family, or the Fellowship, and they consider themselves a core of men responsible for changing the world." Sharlet, Jeff. The Family The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, Harper Perennial (2009), p. 3.
7 "Donald C. Stone, director of administration for the Marshall Plan… one of the many authors of Europe's reconstruction who never made headlines… had come to believe that the West stood for Christ-like perfection while communism was 'hate' incarnate. Stone's ambition for the Marshall Plan was to conform the Western bloc 'politically, economically, psychologically, and spiritually, 'to a 'global offensive' of ideas. The idea, for Stone, was God. 'My main use,' he told Abram, 'is to try to get the Christian Spirit into [the Marshall Plan]. I have worked for that constantly. It is vital." Ibid. The Family, p. 151.
8 "The Taft-Hartley Act, known by even conservative unions as 'the slave labor law' for the ends to which it went to roll back the New Deal and replace strikes with employer-controlled 'conciliation,' a hallmark of Abram's vision for 'industrial peace.' The teachings for the 'Nazarene' for such politicians amounted to deregulation, the removal of government intervention from matters they thought firmly taken in hand by Jesus and His chosen representatives. They were not libertarians; they were authoritarians. 'Our people as a whole have become the most highly organized in the world,' declared Abram's Better Way pamphlet. All the vital activities of industry, commerce, and government are carried on by corporations and other formal organizations. Such bodies are continually growing in size, and hence the top leadership is continually growing in power and influence. We have entered into an era when the masses of the people are dependent upon a rapidly diminishing number of leaders for the determination of their pattern of life and the definition of their ultimate goals. It is the age of minority control."
Ibid. The Family, pp. 142-43.
9 "Cold War [was] the conflict between the Communist nations led by the Soviet Union and the democratic nations led by the United States. It [was] fought by all means—propaganda, economic war, diplomatic haggling and occasional military clashes. It [was] fought in all places—in neutral states, in newly independent nations in Africa, Asia and even in outer space. The historians have so far not reached any agreement on the time in which the Cold War began. It is, however, quite safe to say that since 1947 when President Truman of the United States declared an anti-communist policy, the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union ha[d] begun… There were deep-rooted ideological, economic and political differences between the United States and the Soviet Union before the Second World War. These differences were intensified as a result of their mutual suspicions immediately after the Second World War… The United States and the Soviet Union represent[ed] two opposing systems of government. In the United States, the government is elected by free elections. The people can form political parties to voice their political opinions. They also possess the right of assembly, of speech and of the press. In the Soviet Union, the government [was] formed by the Communist Party. The people [did] not have the right to form their own political parties. They [did] not enjoy the right of assembly, of speech and of the press… The United States wanted to encourage free trade throughout the world. The Soviet Union wanted to shield off her own sphere from international commerce. Russia feared that trade with the West would involve the risk of Russia being opened to western influences which would have eroded the strength of the totalitarian regime. These differences led to much ill feeling between the United States and the Soviet Union… After the Second World War, with the decline of Europe, power was largely shared between the Soviet Union and the United States. As one wanted to dominate the other, conflicts were inevitable." The Corner of the World. Cold War 1945-1960. HW Poon, 1979. Adapted by TK Chung. Retrieved September 28. 2009, from http://www.thecorner.org/hist/europe/coldwar.htm
10 "Throughout the 1980s, the Soviet Union fought an increasingly frustrating war in Afghanistan. At the same time, the Soviet economy faced the continuously escalating costs of the arms race. Dissent at home grew while the stagnant economy faltered under the combined burden. Attempted reforms at home left the Soviet Union unwilling to rebuff challenges to its control in Eastern Europe. During 1989 and 1990, the Berlin Wall came down, borders opened, and free elections ousted Communist regimes everywhere in eastern Europe. In late 1991 the Soviet Union itself dissolved into its component republics. With stunning speed, the Iron Curtain was lifted and the Cold War came to an end." "Cold War Timeline: National Museum of Natural History (2000). The End of the Cold War. Retrieved October 1, 2009, from………………………………………….. http://americanhistory.si.edu/subs/history/timeline/end/index.html
11 Abraham Vereide founded the prayer group movement in Seattle in 1935. He incorporated it in the state of Illinois in 1943 as the National Committee for Christian Leadership (NCCL) to provide minimal coordination for the prayer group movement. In 1944, the name was changed to International Christian Leadership (ICL), and in 1972, to the Fellowship Foundation, Inc. "Records of the Fellowship Foundation – Collection 459" [Historical Background]. (2007, November 7). Billy Graham Center Archives, Wheaton College, Retrieved September 23, 2009, from………………………………….. http://www.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/GUIDES/459.htm#3.
12 Ibid. The Family, p. 91.
13 More often than not he spoke-in-code, for instance: "welfare queens" (or "bums").
14 The so-called era of big government started with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's [the 32d/1933-45 (four terms)] New Deal institutions (whose central piece of legislation was the Social Security Act) that created and sustained a middle-class society.
15 He believed that "government was the problem"; therefore, he supported block grants, privatization and deregulation to reduce the size of government.
16 President Lyndon Baines Johnson's [the 36th/1963-69 (who served the remainder of President John F. Kennedy's term and one on his own right)] Great Society, his legislative agenda of national reform, created a safety-net (Medicaid, Medicare and welfare) and advanced human rights (the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act).
17 He championed "workfare" as Governor of California, cut back AFDC [Aid to Families with Dependant Children] and other targeted poverty programs, and turned his back on the homeless [whom he believed choose to be living in the streets].
18 He supported amending the Constitution to prohibit any and all abortions with the exception of those that are necessary to save the mother's life.
19 For example, he opposed the Voting Rights Act (1964), Civil Rights Act (1965) and in 1984 addressed the nation in support of restituting prayer in public schools.
20 He was the first movement conservative to be elected President. What's a movement conservative? It "is ultimately about rolling back policies that hurt a narrow, wealthy elite, it fundamentally antidemocratic… Movement conservatism has gone from fringe status to a central role in American politics because it has proved itself able to win elections." Krugman, Paul. The Conscience of a Liberal, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. [a Norton paperback] (2009), p. 11.
21 In 1980 Ronald Reagan insensitively endorsed "states' rights" at the Neshoba County Fair in Mississippi, close to the site of the ruthless 1964 murder of three civil rights workers. Reagan's election to the presidency that year hinged on bringing into the GOP fold several new groups—including the rank and file of white Southerners, the bulk of whom, for generations after the Civil War, refused to vote Republican on a national ballot. His endorsement, which was all about race and each state's sovereign right to control its laws, worked. Thereafter, the South, once "solidly" Democratic, has been almost solidly Republican. David Greenberg. Slate. "Dog-Whistling-Dixie" (November 20, 2007). Retrieved October 13, 2009, from http://www.slate.com/id/2178379.
22 Ibid. The Family, p. 43.
23 Dominionism is a broad movement that extends to most of the Christian right. They share the common belief that any and all spheres of public and private life should be governed exclusively by the inerrant mandates of God as set forth in the Bible, to the exclusion of civil law, a fundamentalist worldview that has been denominated theonomy.
24 Ibid. The Family, p. 19.
25 The Preamble to the Constitution of the IWW reads: "The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of the working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life. Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the means of production, abolish the wage system, and live in harmony with the Earth. We find that the centering of the management of industries into fewer and fewer hands makes the trade unions unable to cope with the ever growing power of the employing class. The trade unions foster a state of affairs which allows one set of workers to be pitted against another set of workers in the same industry, thereby helping defeat one another in wage wars. Moreover, the trade unions aid the employing class to mislead the workers into the belief that the working class have [sic] interests in common with their employers. These conditions can be changed and the interest of the working class upheld only by an organization formed in such a way that all its members in any one industry, or in all industries if necessary, cease work whenever a strike or lockout is on in any department thereof, thus making an injury to one an injury to all. Instead of the conservative motto, "A fair day's wage for a fair day's work," we must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword, "Abolition of the wage system." It is the historic mission of the working class to do away with capitalism. The army of production must be organized, not only for everyday struggle with capitalists, but also to carry on production when capitalism shall have been overthrown. By organizing industrially we are forming the structure of the new society within the shell of the old." IWW.org. Retrieved September 26, 2009, from http://www.iww.org/culture/official/preamble.shtml
26 Ibid. The Family, pp. 139-40.
27 The Free Republic (June 16, 2005). Bush [and Fortuño] Attends Hispanic Prayer Breakfast. Retrieved October 12, 2009, from http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1424286/posts
28 "The Dixiecrats were members of the States' Rights Democratic Party, which splintered from the Democratic Party in 1948. The faction consisted of malcontented southern delegates to the Democratic Party who protested the insertion of a civil rights plank in the party platform and U.S. president Harry S. Truman's advocacy of that plank. Before the convention southern delegates were dismayed by Truman's 1948 executive order to desegregate the armed forces… The Dixiecrats chose South Carolina's governor, Strom Thurmond, for president… On election day 1948, the Dixiecrats won Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina but failed to win any state in which Thurmond appeared as a third-party candidate… The Deep South states boasted the largest black populations, and white voters in those states were the most determined to preserve racial segregation and black disenfranchisement, and thus were more likely to vote for the Dixiecrat ticket… Although the Dixiecrats immediately dissolved after the 1948 election, their impact lasted much longer… Ultimately, the Dixiecrat movement paved the way for the rise of the modern Republican Party in the South. Many former Dixiecrat supporters eventually became Republicans, as was highlighted by Strom Thurmond's conversion in the 1960s." The New Georgia Encyclopedia. Dixiecrats.(July 7, 2004). Retrieved September 26, 2009, from……………………………....……………..
29"The affair between Strom Thurmond and Carrie Butler [his family's Black housekeeper] profoundly illustrates the contradictory world into which they were born, a world where not only was it illegal for Blacks and Whites to intermarry, but where justice was never administered evenhandedly. Although Mr. Thurmond did break his state's laws against miscegenation, the sexual union was evidently consensual – if one may ever regard sex in a situation so pregnant with inequities as consensual. Therefore Thurmond [then 22 years of age] did not commit rape under the laws of South Carolina at the time, because Miss Butler [then 16 years of age] was over the age of fourteen, the statutory age of consent in 1925. And once the pregnancy was known, had both Thurmond and Butler been White, probably Thurmond would have married her. Had Thurmond been Black and Butler White, Thurmond would probably have been summarily executed by lynching. But in the South of the early twentieth century, Miss Butler had few legal rights against a White person, especially the son of a judge. It is also profoundly ironic that a man with an African-American daughter [After Thurmond's death, Essie Mae Washington-Williams publicly revealed that she was his daughter on December 14, 2003; thereafter the Thurmond family publicly acknowledged her parentage.] should have been the greatest Senatorial defender of segregation—he set the Senate's filibuster record by speaking for twenty-four hours and eighteen minutes in a futile attempt to block the 1957 Civil Rights Act from becoming the law of the land—and the only presidential candidate of the Dixiecrat Party. It underscores that the real horror behind the anti-miscegenation laws was never simply about sex between the races. It was about keeping Black men away from White women. White men have had sex with Black women from the earliest days of slavery, sometimes raping them with impunity." Vincent, Robert (Bob), Sr. Strom Thurmond's Daughter. Excerpt taken from: Reflections on the benefits and curse of hypocrisy in a civil society. Written on December 22, 2003, Revised on December 13, 2004. Retrieved on September 27, 2009, from http://www.rbvincent.com/std.htm
30"John Stennis, one of twentieth century America's most admired white supremacists, whose legacy as a titan of the appropriations process is celebrated through such landmarks as the USS John C. Stennis [It is one of the Nimitz-class super-aircraft carriers, a line that has virtually the same amenities as any city in the United States with a comparable population; for example, it has a daily newspaper, radio and television stations, fire department, library, hospital, general store, laundry, two barbershops and even a post office with its own zip code.]… and the John C. Stennis Space Center [located in Hancock County, Mississippi, at the Mississippi/Louisiana border, is NASA's largest rocket engine test facility]... Stennis was, early in his career, ahead of his time as an advocate of torture: As a prosecutor, he sought the conviction and execution of three black men whose murder confessions had been extracted by torture. The convictions were overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in the landmark case of Brown v. Mississippi (1936) that banned the use of evidence obtained by torture. The transcript of the trial indicates Stennis was fully aware of the methods of interrogation, including flogging, used to gain confessions… Having gained a reputation in the 1930s as the kind of guy who didn't mind torturing confessions out of black defendants…, Stennis … signed the Southern Manifesto in support of school segregation, opposed the civil rights legislation of the 1950s, opposed the Civil Rights Act, opposed the Voting Rights Act, and broke with the Democratic Party in 1964 to support Barry Goldwater... "Yglesias, Mathew. The Atlantic.com. The White Supremacist Caucus (2007, November 26). Retrieved September 27, 2009, from………………………………………………………………….. http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/11/the_white_supremacist_caucus.php
31 Ibid. The Family, pp. 89—91
32 Etymology: Gr theokratia: see theos, god & kratia, rule. Webster's New World College Dictionary. Wiley Publishing, Inc. (2005). Retrieved September 28, 2009, from http://www.yourdictionary.com/theocracy
33 Until October 7, 1821 Charles (Grandison) Finney "had little use for and less belief in the Lord. Long set in the pride of his own intellect, he was past the usual age of such inquiries… he became a schoolteacher and now he was a lawyer, and many believed that soon he'd be a politician, perhaps a senator one day. If that was to come to pass, he decided, he'd better get his inner life in order… Then, one day, he bought a Bible… Now, it became a secret companion… But no one could convert Finney. 'I had not much regard for opinions of others,' he'd confessed. As he sought God from Sunday night through Monday and Tuesday. It seemed his heart grew harder… On Tuesday night, terror struck him. He thought he would die… There was only one sentence among his thoughts… [that] seemed to come from elsewhere… Will. You. Accept. It. Now. Today? … he'd later say, Jesus Christ himself stood in the office, 'face to face,' awaiting his deposition. Into the darkness came then the Holy Spirit. 'Like a wave of electricity, going through and through me. Indeed it seemed to come in waves, and waves of liquid love.' Finney roared out loud, his shame dissolved in his fear and ecstasy… the idea-that-is-not-an-idea that he would take as his text for what would become the greatest revival…: before God, you are nothing… Finney's was the faith of the industrial age… American Christendom was changing fast. Finney's epiphany contained in it the summation of two developing ideas of the times, ideas that would vastly expand Christ's jurisdiction over America in the minds of believers: the radical notion that to perceive the divine is to accept divine authority, without question; and the mechanistic understanding of faith as instantaneous for all who want it. Sign here, and you're a soldier in the army of God, ready for battle." Ibid. The Family, pp. 74-78.
34 "Abram perfected a feel-good fundamentalism that was every bit as militant and aggressive as today's populist front [American fundamentalism in the twenty-first century… has two great strands—the populist, pulpit pounding tradition of its masses and the mannered evasions of its elite—[that] are coming together, intertwining to become the mutant DNA of men such as [Senator] Sam Brownback [R-KS], the next generation of spiritual warriors.] but incapable of uttering a harsh word. It was country club fundamentalism, for men who believed in their own goodness and proved it to themselves and to each other by commending Christ and… following His example. They followed the law of kindergarten: if you have nothing nice to say about someone, say nothing at all. Or put in terms of abstraction…: One might talk about the 'Red Menace', but good Christians did not discuss what they deemed Roosevelt's communistic tendencies: One might bemoan moral decay, but it would not do to mention the name of a fellow businessman [or a congressman (for a current example, Sen. John Ensign (R-NV), or a governor (for an even more recent example, Gov. Mark Sanford (R-SC)] who kept ladies on the side…" Ibid. The Family, pp. 98-9, 262.
35 Ibid. The Family, pp. 139--40.
36 "Not only was Vereide pro-Hitler, he was the only Norwegian of note, who was not officially a Nazi, who never condemned Norwegian Nazi leader Vidkun Quisling, a… traitor and who was executed in 1945. Vereide and Quisling were almost the same age… [and] both shared a link with the clergy, Vereide was a Methodist minister and Quisling was the son of a Lutheran minister. The Norwegian link to the Fellowship continues to this day… Another pro-Nazi Christian fundamentalist group that arose in the pre-Second World War years was the Moral Rearmament Movement [a/k/a Buchmanism that, after WWII, had evolved into an umbrella organization for anyone of any faith who hated Bolshevism]. Its leader was Frank Buchman, a Lutheran minister from Philadelphia. Buchman was a pacifist, but not just any pacifist. He and his colleagues in the United States, Britain, Norway, and South Africa reasoned that war could be avoided if the world would just accept the rise of Hitler and National Socialism and concentrate on stamping out Communism and Socialism. Buchman coordinated his activities with Vereide and his Prayer Breakfast Movement, which, by 1940, had spread its anti-left manifesto and agenda throughout the Pacific Northwest. Buchman was effusive in his praise for Hitler. He was quoted by William A. H. Birnie of the New York World Telegram, 'I thank Heaven for a man like Adolf Hitler, who built a front line of defense against the anti-Christ of Communism.'" Wayne Madsen. EXPOSÉ: THE "CHRISTIAN" MAFIA (Where Those Who Now Run the U.S. Government Came From and Where They Are Taking Us). Retrieved September 29, 2009, from http://www.insider-magazine.com/ChristianMafia.htm
37 Ibid. The Family, pp. 143.
38 Ibid. The Family, pp. 157-58.
39 Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Excerpts from: The Cost of Discipleship [that survived the Nazi book burnings]. Macmillan Publishing Co. (1963). [that Simon Schuster reprinted in paperback (1995).] Retrieved September 16, 2009, from………………………………….. http://www.liberalslikechrist.org/about/cheapgrace.html
40 "J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI chief, and his longtime companion, Clyde Tolson, were an ambiguously gay crime-fighting duo. Inseparable for 44 years, 1928-1972, the two top G-men vacationed together, often dressed similarly and continue their cohabitation even after death. They're buried alongside one another. Such facts have garnered Hoover and his handsome right-hand henchman praise as homosexual role models… Do Hoover and Tolson really belong on this list? No one has unearthed documentation that the two men had blazing hot sex together. Couldn't they have just been platonic pals? Evidence of physical intimacy is merely circumstantial, although suspicions about J. Edgar and Clyde ran rampant through Washington political circles. Richard Nixon's obscene comment upon hearing of Hoover's death ("Jesus Christ, that old cocksucker!") perhaps describes the opinion of inside observers, but no letters, photos, diaries or reliable witnesses can carnally tie the two men together. The best "proof" comes from the wife of Hoover's psychiatrist; she claims that Hoover admitted his homosexuality to her husband during a confidential session." Hyena, Hank. Salon.com. (January 5, 2000). J. Edgar Hoover: Gay marriage role model? Retrieved September 28, 2009, from http://archive.salon.com/health/sex/urge/world/2000/01/05/hoover/
41 The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico also kept "dossiers, also know in Spanish as carpetas, [which] contain[ed] documents spanning a period from 1948 to March 1987, representing almost 40 years of illegal surveillance of the PIP [Puerto Rico Independence Party], its organizations and leaders by the police. The so-called carpeteo—the act of investigating a citizen because of his/her political affiliations, i.e. blacklisting—prevailed in Puerto Rico for over 40 years and was sanctioned by the Popular Democratic and New Progressive parties." Juan A. Hernandez. Puerto Rico Daily Sun. September 10, 2009, p. 7.
42 "Unlike most of the famous American TV evangelists, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association has always opened its accounting to public scrutiny. Graham has never been caught with a hooker [male (Rev. Ted Haggard) or female ( Rev. Jimmy Swaggart)], does not lead a lavish life [Rev. Jim and Tammy Bakker/PTL (Praise The Lord) Network], and he never built an amusement park for the Lord [The Bakker's Heritage USA]. Graham's revival meetings were among the first public functions in the South where seating was not segregated by race. Graham's "big break" came in the 1940s, when publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst got wind of Graham's then-recurring theme that the Cold War was a showdown between good and evil, and that communists were Satan-worshippers. 'Either communism must die or Christianity must die,' Graham famously preached, and Hearst sent a memo to all of his papers' editors, ordering them to "puff Graham". Prior to that, Graham had been just another traveling evangelist, holding meetings in half-empty tents. After that and for the rest of his life, he has been America's most prominent [non-covert] Christian leader. At the height of the blacklists and American red scare of the 1950s, Graham said of his friend, Senator Joseph McCarthy [Republican Senator from Wisconsin (1947-1957) who used communism to promote himself/McCarthyism], 'While nobody likes a watchdog, and for that reason many investigation committees are unpopular, I thank God for men who, in the face of public denouncement and ridicule, go loyally on in their work of exposing the pinks [feminists], the lavenders [gays], and the reds [communists] who have sought refuge beneath the wings of the American eagle and from that vantage point try in every subtle, undercover way to bring comfort, aid and help to the greatest enemy we have ever known—communism.' "NNDB tracking the entire world. Billy Graham. Soylent Communications (2009). Retrieved September 29, 2009, from…………………………………………….. http://www.nndb.com/people/561/000022495/
43 Ibid. The Family, pp. 183-184.
44 Progressives had hoped that President Obama and the robust Democratic majority in Congress would initiate structural changes promised while campaigning and/or outlined in its party platform; instead they promoted a centrist change-of-heart agenda from day one. In The Other FBI, some disappointments were highlighted: (1) The Democratic Senate took single-payer health care off the table before negotiating health reform with the GOP minority; (2) DDAT (Don't Ask Don't Tell) and the federal DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act) have not been repealed or attenuated; (3) The Bush administration's White House Office of Faith Based Initiatives was not eliminated (with its funding transferred to government social service agencies); in place thereof it was revamped as the White House's Office of Faith Based & Neighborhood Partnerships (whose purported focus is no longer blatant evangelism, imposition of religious dogma and rampant employment discrimination). Now, as a substitute for direct higher-level talks to end the trade embargo and formalize diplomatic relations between Cuba and the U.S., Bisa Williams, the U.S. deputy secretary of state for Western Hemisphere, "held unannounced, high level talks in Havana with the Cuban government [Deputy Foreign Minister Dagoberto Rodriguez]… raising hopes of a thaw in long-icy relations [since Cuban leader Fidel Castro marched into Havana on New Year's Day 1959]… [including] the possibility of restarting direct mail service between the countries, suspended since 1963." Puerto Rico Daily Sun. September 30, 2009, p.11.
45 Boxes 176-266 contain international correspondence that "are arranged by country or region and are concerned largely with either contacts between members of the prayer breakfast fellowship in Washington and those leaders of the indigenous movement in a particular country or with trips to various Christian communities or individuals in a particular country or with suggested people of a particular country to invite to the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington or some similar event or with the activities of the prayer fellowships of a particular country. Up until 1970, there is a good deal of information relating to the work of the International Council of Christian Leadership in various folders… The Puerto Rico and Virgin Island files are here, as are files on Latin America, South America, the Middle East, South Pacific, West Africa, Southwest Africa and similar regions…" [emphasis mine] Ibid. Billy Graham Center Archives, htm#701.
46 Ibid. Billy Graham Center Archives, htm##1-3.
47 Ibid, Billy Graham Center Archives, htm#2.
48 Sharlet, J. (March 2003). Jesus plus nothing: Undercover among America's secret theocrats. Harper's Magazine, 1-24. Retrieved September 16, 2009, from http://www.harpers.org/archive/2003/03/007925?pg=1
49 Michelle Goldberg, Kingdom Coming, (W.W. Norton & Company paperback (2007), pp.40.
50 "Gov. Fortuño… [and his wife] accompanie[d] Rev. Jorge Raschke at the "Clamor de Díos" activity at the Capitol on Monday [September 7, 2009]. The Fortuño administration is expanding its office and adding to the public payroll, official employment and budget figures indicate." [caption below the photo of this thunderously pious trio] "While the OMB (Office of Management and Budget Web site) attributes the increase in the size of the Governor's Office to the integration of La Fortaleza's [the official residence of the governor of Puerto Rico] chief of staff and secretary of public affairs offices, the latter was actually created in January and the Gov. appointed Alejandro Figueroa to head it. Figueroa was one of the two aides the governor banned from handling Health Reform issues after reports that they were lobbying in favor of certain insurance companies in the bid for program contracts [Mini-Ouch! Why a mere slap on the wrist for closed-door deal-making? He deserved dismissal;—subsequently, on October 2, 2009, he resigned according to the Associated Press' Rebecca Banuchi's article that appeared on page 4 of the October 6, 2009 edition of the Puerto Rico Daily Sun; the underlying investigation concerning undue pressure that he placed on ASES (The Health Insurance Administration) so Health Reform contracts would be awarded to COSVI (Life Insurance Cooperative of Puerto Rico) continues.] Also within the Governor's Office is the newly created Office of Community Initiatives and Faith-based Organizations, headed by the Rev. Aníbal Heredia, who said in July that his agency was opening offices throughout the island [Yep—spreading like the plague!]. Fortuño had said earlier this year that La Fortaleza would be the first to implement austerity measures…" Puerto Rico Daily Sun's (brackets mine) José Alvarado Vega. Puerto Rico Daily Sun. September 8, 2009, p. 5.
51 Puerto Rico Daily Sun. September 30, 2009, p. 8.
52 Gloria Rivera Centeno, the president of the School of Social Workers, recently "recalled when the organization evaluated Gov. Fortuño's campaign platform in October 2008 and highlighted the frequent use of authoritarian verbs to implement policies without the participation of the affected groups." Juan A. Hernández. Puerto Rico Daily Sun. October 10, 2009, p. 5.
53 Manuel Ernesto Rivera (Associated Press). Puerto Rico Daily Sun. October 13, 2009, p.5.
54 The Puerto Rico Association of Economists was not invited. Its President Martha Quiñones had come out earlier against the dismissal of public employees. She called it bad policy especially at this time of recession. Puerto Rico Daily Sun. October 1, 2009, p.4.
55 José Alvarado Vega. Puerto Rico Daily Sun. September 8, 2009, p.7.
56 Manuel Ernesto Rivera (Associated Press). Puerto Rico Daily Sun. October 13, 2009, p.5.
57 Eva Llorens Velez. Puerto Rico Daily Sun. October 1, 2009, p. 5.
58 Ibid. The Family, pp. 98-100, 102-3.
59 Fortuño ran on a "no layoffs" platform. After his landslide victory he dismissed nearly 17,000 public workers to solve the government's fiscal crisis and improve the economy. Albeit he said he has "no doubt that the actions… taken to restore our fiscal situation will improve the economy… Nevertheless, Fortuño ended his message calling on God's will 'so it will be so.'" Juan A. Hernández. Puerto Rico Daily Sun. September 26, 2009, p.5.
60 In his Commentary entitled "Social tolerance and economic growth", Mr. Marxuach said: "In 2005, Washington state considered enacting a bill to ban discrimination against gays and lesbians. Microsoft, one of the largest employers in that state [who had recently announced a significant expansion of its operations in Puerto Rico], caved-in to pressure from conservative groups and initially decided to support the measure. However, when faced with an intense backlash from his own employees, Bill Gates and CEO Steve Balmer… were forced to publicly reiterate the company's support for gay rights… You need… highly creative people such as scientists, engineers, computer programmers, designers, architects and other knowledge-based professionals to think about… new ideas. Professor Richard Clark [in his book, The Rise of the Creative Class (Basic Books, 2004) collectively calls these people the "Creative Class."… Members of the Creative Class… prefer to live in areas with high degree of openness and tolerance." The San Juan Star. March 18, 2008, p. 18.
61 Puerto Rico Daily Sun. September 28, 2009, p. P3.
62 Juan A. Hernández. Puerto Daily Sun. September 27, 2009, p. P3.
63 Ibid. The Family, pp. 338-9, 369.
64 Johnstone, Bruce. Saskatchewan News Network; Regina Leader-Post (September 9, 2009). The StarPhoenix. Ordinary citizens hold power: Clinton. Retrieved October 3, 2009, from………………………………………………………………………………….. http://www.thestarphoenix.com/technology/Ordinary+citizens+hold+power+Clinton/1974417/story.html
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'Community' Season 3, Episode 21 Recap - 'The First Chang Dynasty'
Totally called this one: the gang has to rescue the Dean from Chang's iron grip, and I said last week that it would be a great opportunity for a genre homage episode. Sure enough, here we are, with the gang "Ocean's Eleven"-ing Chang. As Jeff puts it: "Elaborate heist? Elaborate heist."
It all falls into place roughly the same way that "Ocean's Eleven" does: we see the planning phases explaining the action, as the Greendale 7 carefully infiltrates the school during Chang's "25th birthday" Changstravaganza. That involves Shirley dressing up as the chef, Annie posing as a teenage boy, Troy and Abed coming in as a couple of fast-talking plumbers, and Jeff and Britta posing as rock and roll magician Ricky Nightshade and his very goth assistant. Britta also seduces a teenager via Facebook. Creepy.
Everything goes according to plan, even the part where the plan falls apart on purpose (thanks to Pierce) in order to trick Chang into thinking that the plan is falling apart when in fact it's all according to plan! OCEAN'S 11!
Things do eventually go wrong, though, and Troy has to make a decision: he signs himself over to the A/C school, in exchange for them helping them out of the basement. They successfully break the Dean out and expose Chang to the school board, but at what cost? Now Troy will have to live in A/C school housing, and won't be allowed to be with his friends anymore.
That leads to a typical movie goodbye scene, as Troy goes to each member of the group.
To Shirley: "Never change. Or change if you want to, I'm not your boss."
From Pierce: "Never use a rubber."
From Jeff: "Never listen to Pierce."
From Britta: "This is a lock of my hair." "Creepy."
And, adorable as ever, Troy whispers something to Abed and the two share one last awesome secret high five. "What did he say to you?" they ask. "He said I know you hate it when people do this in movies. Sorry for getting so emotional," replies Abed.
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- Deanleganger/DoppelDeaner/DeanleChanger
- "Love is not admissible evidence" and the whole exchange following. "Wait. Copera!"
- "They're like telephones for your eyes."
- "Wherever there is air, we have eyes."
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Disney Wonder Repositioning Cruise: Disney Wonder Cruise Review by Lord Duck
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Destination: USA
Embarkation: Vancouver
We got a concierge cabin, since we wanted room for scooters (my partner uses one also on board)and the one bedroom we got was very adequate and quite comfortable, with a nice accessible bathroom, which neither of us really need, but which we appreciated for the room it provided.
The staff was amazing. They easily match the staff on any cruise we have ever taken.
The food was excellent, not only at Palo, but in every restaurant we went to. The rotational dining room assignments with the same service staff following you is a great idea. The only place we did not visit was the buffet, since the other venues had such good food and we did not want to stand in line. The food was obviously prepared so younger palates would like it also, so the seasoning was generally less that other places I have More eaten. But, as I said, it was still quite good.
Disney get extra points on accessibility. The ship has many accessible bathrooms and neither of us had any problems getting around on our scooters. The only exception was the Walt Disney Theater, which is just marginal at best for scooters (and prams, too).
The shows and activities were good and well run. I appreciated that Disney also showed the stage shows on our room tv so I did not have to put up with the noise. My partner also ended up watching the last stage show on the tv since the noise bothered her, too. There was also a wide selection of Disney and other movies available all the time.
Really, the only negative thing I have to report is the noise level almost everywhere. The dining rooms, except Palo, are very loud, as was the theater often. The lounge entertainment at the Promenade Lounge was deafening. I was prepared for noise since it more or less goes with a place with a lot of younger kids. No excuse for the Lounge, though.
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Two bathrooms with showers, both accessible. Bed is adjustable for various heights. Large balcony. Lots of sitting room.
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Stills from the movie Raju Awara starring Akash Dasnayak & Arpita. The movie was released on 2 March all over Orissa. The movie sees a comeback by Akash, who had taken a long break from silver screen, post marriage. "I took a few months' break after marriage. Then I was busy with a Bengali film. However, I was missing work and am looking forward to the shoot. The film has a very interesting script and I'm lucky to have got a chance to play such a different role," said Akash.
Akash plays the role of Raju the protagonist, a naive village lad, who reaches the city and gets entangled in a murder plot. Arpita plays the role of a blind girl, Raju's lady love. "I'm really excited to play such a challenging role. My character Ragini is a soft-hearted and good-natured girl who may be visually impaired but is very hard working. Now that the non-stop shooting has begun, I will try to give my best. However, the sweltering heat adds to the challenges" said Arpita.
The movie is said run along the lines of erstwhile Bollywood hit Sunayna, starring Naseeruddin Shah and Rameswari. The plot differs with key focus on impact of urban lifestyle on unsuspecting village folk.
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When discussing his kitchen's culinary techniques with reporters from Community Impact Newspaper, David Reyes explained, "The difference here is we are not just laboring—we are putting our feelings in the ingredients." By honoring his family's recipes in everything from salsa to mole, Reyes nurtures a passion for his native country's cuisine. The staff echoes this feeling in the care and attention they put into each dish. They marinate pork in a savory blend of achiote, orange, and garlic before slow-roasting it for their signature cochinita pibil. They fire-roast poblano peppers and grill tender beef for tampiqueña plates. And they spend hours on the mole sauce, which, in accordance with Reyes' grandmother's recipe, has 25 separate ingredients.
Out in the dining room of both restaurants, guests sip fresh-fruit licuados and aguas frescas or indulge in BYOB amid walls of blue and yellow, and strings of colorful paper flags stretch across the ceiling. At the Fonda Santa Rosa location, Mexican paintings, ceramics, and framed copies of Reyes family recipes speckle walls with a touch of history.