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Hi, I'm Telloth and this is my first ever guide. So be nice! :)
I decided to make this guide because I feel like the way in which I play Udyr works quite well for me, and wanted to share it with others.
When I was learning Udyr I read ScienceXReason's guide, and it helped me immensely to understand the mechanics of Udyr, so I feel like I must definitely credit this guy for making a superb guide. You can find his guide here: http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/build/sxrs-in-depth-look-to-udyr-updated-june-29-2011-56684
Now I am not claiming to have a better guide than SxR, I merely found a way to build Udyr that better suited my playstyle and wanted to share it. Which is why I'm linking his guide as well, so you can perhaps try both my build and his and see which one works for your playing style. There are so many ways to play Udyr, and that is one of the reasons I'm making this guide.
A Bit About Udyr
Udyr is a Norwegian word that means 'beast'. That is a perfect description of Udyr
When someone is pushed quite far up a lane, and they hear the roar of a bear, and then see an enemy Udyr come tearing out of the grass, blocking off the escape to their tower, they will shake with fear. Udyr is a very intimidating champion.
Udyr, as a champion, is very different from the rest, but a huge threat when played well. That is the best way to describe him, in my opinion.
For starters, he doesn't have an ultimate. Straight away this causes people to turn their heads in the other direction, but what he lacks in a big scary epic skill, he makes up for in having four very solid stances that are essentially like different tools in a toolbox.
Udyr is also what you would call a bruiser, which means that in team fights his role is to be tanky enough to withstand a fair amount of damage but also to have enough damage to not be ignored. He can be played purely tank, but I think that's inefficient and really only making full use of two of his stances (Bear and Turtle). This guide builds towards a bruiser Udyr, but in the second slot you will see the way I would build a more tanky Udyr (although he is still not fully tank).
This guide will focus solely on jungle Udyr. Quite simply, this is because I haven't played Udyr in lane, for a couple of reasons. Firstly, while I have heard positive things about Lanedyr (Udyr in lane :P), the majority seem to think that he is so much stronger in the jungle that it's pointless to lane with him. Secondly, I started with Udyr in the jungle, and it has worked for me so well that I don't really want to try Lanedyr. And thirdly, his turtle stance was nerfed recently (which I will get into below) which I imagine would affect his sustainability in lane quite substantially.
Another thing to note is that this guide focuses on a Phoenix Udyr, with a bit of Tiger added in. I build him as an AD/AP hybrid. Phoenix Udyr jungles faster than Tiger Udyr, and while many argue that Tiger is better for ganking (which is true to an extent), I put a level in Tiger early on to utilise the damage from both stances.
Note: There are two other builds at the top of this guide, each with different runes, masteries and items. One of them is a tanky build, and the other is an attack speed build. For the sections where the other two builds are different (runes, masteries, items), I have included notes at the bottom about them.
So, without further ado, lets get on with the guide!
The Abilities of Udyr
Monkey's Agility (Passive)
Entering a stance grants Udyr 10% attack speed and 3% dodge for 5 seconds. This effect stacks 3 times, which caps at 30% attack speed and 9% dodge.
This passive is a nice one, especially late game, where in a team fight you will be switching in between stances usually once every 3 seconds on average. Also you will rarely find that you are running out of mana due to switching too much, so changing stance all the time will not be a problem.
Tiger Stance
Cost: 55/50/45/40/35 Mana
Activation: For up to 5 seconds after Tiger Stance's activation, Udyr's next attack will deal 150% attack damage, and additionally will deal 30/80/130/180/230 as magic damage over 2 seconds. Also, Udyr will gain 15/20/25/30/35% attack speed for the next 5 seconds.
Persistant Effect: Udyr's attack speed is increased by 20/25/30/35/40%.
You might be surprised that I level it up so early (level 5), considering most people wait for at least level 7 or 8. I do this because I find it really helps do that extra damage when I'm ganking, I'll explain more in the ganking section below.
The reason I level this up only once until level 17 is because the 170% does not go higher when you level the stance. It's only the magic damage and attack speed that increase, and because Phoenix stance does more magic damage, and the attack speed isn't enough to level it up over other stances, it stays at 1.
I activate Tiger Stance for the extra damage, it's as simple as that. The only reason you will be using this is for the activation effect, not for the persistant effect, because by the time those 5 seconds are over, you will have already switched into another stance, maybe even 2, and the extra attack speed that you gain really isn't worth sticking in the stance for when you have Phoenix and Bear Stance to switch into.
Another thing to note is that this skill is essentially your AD skill. It does do magic damage, but the main magic damage that you deal will be from Phoenix. The main damage from this will be the 150% attack and the attacks following it, before you switch into a different stance.
Oh and one last thing. When you are attacking turrets, activate this. You will destroy them with Tiger Stance.
Turtle Stance
Cost: 55/50/45/40/35 Mana
Activation: Udyr gains a temporary shield that absorbs 60/100/140/180/220 (plus 50% of AP) damage.
Persistant Effect: Udyr's attacks cannot crit, however he restores 10/12/14/16/18% of his damage as health and 5/6/7/8/9% of his damage as mana.
This stance has been nerfed quite substantially in the Talon patch. The shield didn't get a nerf but the health return is 2% less each level than it used to be, and the mana is much lower. At level 5 you used to return 15% and it's now at 9%, which is what you used to get at level 1. This has affected his jungling quite a bit, as I found that with this build there is only one way to jungle otherwise you have to recall one time more. I will explain this further below.
Because of this nerf, I haven't leveled it up as much as I used to, putting a point in it at level 2 and then leaving it until level 12. The reason for this is purely because I deem the other stances more important. Turtle is very useful late game if you're low on hp but out of your base, cause you can just go into the jungle and activate turtle and your health will come right back as you hit creeps.
In battle the shield can be useful but I prefer to destroy my enemies quickly rather than waste time in activating it. I would usually only use turtle when I'm being chased and am low on health and in danger of dying from a hit or two. The shield is a very good tool for helping to reduce the damage of certain abilities, like Karthus' Requiem .
Bear Stance
Cost: 55/50/45/40/35 Mana
Activation: Udyr's movement speed is increased by 15/18/21/24/27% for 2/2.5/3/3.5/4 seconds.
Persistant Effect: Udyr mauls his target with such force that they are stunned for one second. This effect cannot occur on the same target for 6 seconds.
This stance is amazing. That's the first thing I have to say about it. It has so many uses, from chasing a fleeing enemy, to running around and stunning every enemy in a team fight so your carrys can bash them to bits.
I level this up as second priority, after Phoenix. The extra speed that each level gives you is great for both chasing, and running. And the stun is great for ganks and stunning enemies that you are chasing so that they are caught by you and the team.
I take a level in this as early as 4 because of how good it is for ganking, and it is about level 4 that you will start ganking. The extra speed it gives you for catching up to enemies is awesome, and then the stun obviously speaks for itself.
Phoenix Stance
Cost: 55/50/45/40/35 Mana
Activation: Udyr emits waves of fire that deal 15/25/35/45/55 (plus 25% of AP) magic damage to nearby enemies every second for 5 seconds.
Persistant Effect: Udyr's ability power is increased by 16/24/32/40/48 and his attack damage is increased by 8/12/16/20/24. On every third attack that Udyr makes, he will engulf enemies in front of him in flame, which deals 50/90/130/170/210 (plus 25% of AP) magic damage.
Now we come to Phoenix Stance. This is your main stance, and it is absolutely awesome. This will allow you to jungle faster than 80-90% of junglers out there, it will give you great damage in late game when combined with Tiger, and when you farm, it will clear out minion waves quicker than you can say "BURN BABY BURN!"
So, you level this up first, and max it first. I'll talk about how to use it well with Tiger later, but for now all I'll say is that staying in this stance when fighting is usually a good idea. Tiger gives you some great AD, but if you want magic damage, this is what you turn to.
For Masteries, I go for 21/0/9. I make sure I have a point in the smite and ghost masteries, and also a point in the monster buff extension.
Udyr can just as easily have masteries of 9/0/21, or some defensive masteries too. My other two builds do this. This main build can conceivably work well with any of the masteries. My advice would be to play him a couple of times with my masteries and see what type of player you are with him. If you find you are dying more often because you throw yourself into fights too much, take defensive masteries.
There is some sort of glitch with the masteries, so that the offensive ones are only showing there to be 18 slots filled, when there are 21 if you count them.
Note: The other two builds have completely different masteries than the main build.
The second build is a tanky one, with 1/21/8. It takes the smite and ghost masteries but goes for 21 in the defensive. As you are going to be playing tanky, these will be very useful.
The third build, the attack speed one, goes with 21/8/1. It takes the Ghost mastery, and focuses in the offense masteries, with some 8 points in defensive masteries.
The runes that I use for this build of Udyr are as follows:
9 Greater Mark of Insight
9 Greater Seal of Resilience
9 Greater Glyph of Force
3 Greater Quintessence of Fortitude
Note: For the tanky build, I chose Magic Pen Marks, Armor Seals, Magic Resist per level Glyphs, and Flat HP Quints. And for the attack speed build I chose Attack Speed Marks, Dodge Seals, Magic Resist per level Glyphs and Movement Speed Quints.
I am going to outline the main way in which I build Udyr, and then list some items I think are also viable for him.
Early GameWhen you start, buy a Long Sword and a Health Potion.
This is the beginning of your build towards a Phage. The Health Potion will allow you to stay out in the jungle long enough to come back and buy your next item, Boots of Speed.
These, combined with Bear Stance and Ghost, will allow you to gank with relative ease. When you have enough gold (570 to be exact), go back and buy Berserker's Greaves. The extra attack speed is very good for Udyr when in Phoenix, considering every third attack of his deals a lot of damage.
The next item you will buy is a Vampiric Scepter. This will give you more sustainability in the jungle so you can stay out longer. Eventually you'll build this into a Hextech Gunblade .
Afterwards, you're going for a Phage, which will cost you 900 gold. This is where you start to build into a Trinity Force.
Mid GameNext, go for Sheen, and then Zeal. A Sheen is 1260 gold and a Zeal is 1195 gold.
These two items will build into a Trinity Force, at 300 gold. Trinity Force is a great item for Udyr. It gives you both AP for Phoenix Stance and AD for Tiger Stance, it gives you extra movement speed for Bear Stance which is amazing when you're chasing people. And then the extra health works for your 'bruiser' role, giving you better survivability. The slow is good for chasing people too, though it's no Frozen Mallet (which I will talk about below). And who doesn't like extra chance of crits?
After Trinity Force I buy a Giant's Belt. This gives you the survivability to be extremely useful to your team in a team fight. This will be built into Warmog's later.
Late GameAfter the Giant's Belt, you will build a Phantom Dancer. This item will give you even more attack speed so that going into Tiger Stance and then activating Phoenix Stance will cause you to just rip enemies apart. The speed boost will make sure that you will chase people down so quickly that they will be terrified of you. And you'll be critical hitting like crazy.
Warmog's Armor is next (1890 gold), and this will give you more survivability, which I almost always find I want/need in late game.
Lastly you will build a Hextech Gunblade. It will cost 3175 gold. You will only get to this item if you have been fed, or if the game goes on for very long. But it's definitely worth getting, it gives you a lot of additional ability power and attack damage to make you a killing machine. You've also got life steal and spell vamp, and a very nice active.
Other Viable Items for Udyr
Frozen MalletThis is a great item for Udyr. I build this quite often, as it gives you a lot of survivability and then of course there is the passive. Physical attacks reduce the movement speed of your target by 40% for 2.5 seconds? That essentially means that if you are chasing after someone and then catch them up, they are dead. Build this straight after Phage to replace Giant's Belt, and ultimately Warmog's. If you think you will need the health that Warmog's gives, then build Warmog's instead of Hextech Gunblade.
What it replaces: Giant's Belt, Warmog's
Nashor's ToothThis is a good alternative to either Trinity Force or Phantom Dancer. It'll be for if you need more AP, and don't necessarily need the extra movement speed that Trinity Force and Phantom Dancer give. Nashor's Tooth works very well with Phoenix. I build it fairly often. You have to start with a dagger instead of a longsword and then build a Stinger, finishing with Nashor's Tooth.
What it replaces: Trinity Force or Phantom Dancer
Mercury's TreadsBuy these when you want to be more tanky, simple as that!
What it replaces: Berserker's Greaves
HexdrinkerThe passive on this is really nice, and then you've got good attack damage and magic resistance. If you're being focused a bit too much in fights by their AP chars, but still want some attack damage, buy this.
What it replaces: Phantom Dancer.
Guinsoo's RagebladeA good replacement for the Phantom Dancer. I personally prefer the extra movement and attack speed that Phantom Dancer gives, but if you just want more raw power, go for this. It gives more AP and AD.
What it replaces: Phantom Dancer.
Force of NatureThis is obviously for if you are going to be going more tanky, and if there's a scary AP char on the enemy team. Someone like a Karthus who is getting loads of kills through Requiem(though I would go for Banshee's Veil - another good magic resist item with the extra HP, although you won't really need the extra mana), or a very fed Fiddlesticks.
What it replaces: Either Trinity Force or Phantom Dancer, whichever you feel is best.
ThornmailGot an enemy Trynd who is tearing you up? Xin Zhao knocking you around too many times? If the enemy team has a fed AD carry, then build this, and laugh as they destroy themselves when they start hitting you!
What it replaces: Warmog's Armour or Hextech Gunblade (if you feel like you need the extra health and still want to be tanky)
Lich BaneAbility power, movement speed, magic resist, what's not to love? The mana isn't really needed, but it's a good replacement for Trinity Force if you need the magic resistance.
What it replaces: Trinity Force, build a Sheen instead of Phage, and then build that into a Lich Bane
Stark's FervorStark's Fervor is an amazing item just because of the aura it gives. Build this instead of Hextech Gunblade if your team is struggling in team fights and needs that extra edge.
What it replaces: Hextech Gunblade
Wriggle's LanternI'm not a huge fan of Wriggle's, but it can work well. If the enemy team is more focused on AD, and you feel like having a stronger presence and even better sustainability in the jungle (but less influence later on), you should go for this. It's nice to have early on, but I feel like it isn't great once you leave the jungle. The active is great, by the way, but you have to remember to use it.
What it replaces: Build it instead of the Phantom Dancer, but go the route of Longsword>Mardreds>Vampiric Scepter>Wriggle's. You may decide to replace it with a Hextech later on if the game gets that far.
Madred's BloodrazorFor if you have too much AP on your team and want to go for more AD. This requires a bit of a changed play style too, as you'll want to be activating Tiger more often, but still using Phoenix to deal some magic damage that you will get from your Trinity Force. This is right at the end of the list because it is more of a Tiger-based Udyr item, and that's not what this guide is about.
What it replaces: Phantom Dancer. You should build Madred's Razors from the Longsword, then build a Phage and then onto a Trinity Force as usual. Then afterwards build the Bloodrazor.
Note: Below I list the items that are included in the other two builds.
The second build is a tanky build, with Mercury's Treads, a Frozen Mallet and then either Force of Nature or Thornmail depending on what you need, finishing with a Hexdrinker (you'll want this more if you bought a Thornmail) and finally a Hextech Gunblade. This gives you a very tanky base, but a good bit of damage too so that you aren't just completely ignored.
The third build is a nice little attack speed based build that works great with Phoenix. You start with a Dagger, then build Berserker's Greaves, then Nashor's Tooth, followed by a Phantom Dancer and a Frozen Mallet, finishing off with Stark's Fervor. You'll basically have insane attack speed and be a very formidable foe.
Summoner Spells
Now for Summoner Spells.
For this build I always choose Smite and Ghost, which I will talk about in a second. I will also outline below the spells that I think are also viable for Udyr, and the ones I think are not.
Good Summoner Spells
This is a must if you are jungling with Udyr. It will allow you to jungle faster, and plus without Smite you will struggle against the Blue Golem and Red Lizard until level 5 or 6. Considering you need to be starting with Blue, and Red at level 3, this is a must have.
The second spell that I take is always Ghost. The reason I do this is because it works so well with the activation of Bear Stance. For example, when you are ganking early on, you hit Ghost and Bear Stance and no one can run from you. With the stun and a team mate that is ready to do some damage, it's almost a guaranteed kill. It is true that Ghost loses its maximum effectiveness later on in the game (when you max Bear) due to the cap, but it's still great.
Flash is great, I take it for about 80% of the champions I play because of its ability to get you out of tight situations. Flashing over walls if you are ganked in the jungle is very useful as Udyr. For this reason, Flash is a pretty viable choice.
A good spell, which can be used on Udyr, although Flash and Ghost are better for him, and considering the fact that Smite is a must have, you should only take this if you are more comfortable using it than you are with Flash and Ghost.
I wasn't sure whether to put this in the Good list or the Bad list. In the end I put it at the bottom of the good. It can have its uses but in my opinion Ghost and Flash are much better, so like Ignite, unless you are more comfortable with using it then stick with Ghost or Flash.
Bad Summoner Spells
It's good, but Ghost is better than it in every way in Udyr's case. With Ghost activated, you can catch up to two fleeing enemies, and run away from numerous enemies. But with exhaust, you can only slow one enemy that you are chasing, or one enemy that is chasing you. Pick Ghost instead, trust me.
Now I don't hate heal like a lot of people seem to. But you won't need this. Early on in the jungle, when you are going to be needing heal, you will be going back anyways to shop. Later on, you'll have turtle as a temporary shield to save you from death and also regen your health from creeps.
There is probably never going to be a point until late game when you have to teleport to the other side of the map to clear a minion stack or help an ally, and even then it won't happen much at all. It will be a wasted spell slot if you pick it.
Udyr doesn't need this, he's never short for mana in mid and late game, and in early game you'll have blue buff a lot of the time.
You aren't going to be at a tower for a good chunk of the game so you won't need this.
Not as Udyr, please :)
Since the Talon patch, Turtle Stance has been nerfed so that there is really only one way to do jungle as Phoenix Udyr. I used to start at wraiths and then work to Blue (with no pull), but now you really have to start at Blue and have someone pull it. The jungle path is below.
Blue Golem (need pull) > Wolves > Wraiths > Mini Golems > Recall > Red Lizard > Wolves > Wraiths > Mini Golems > Recall
First start with Blue Golem and make sure to get someone to pull it for you otherwise you WILL die. Use your health potion after it has attacked you a couple of times, and smite to kill it. You'll have no trouble clearing out the wolves, wraiths and mini golems. You can use smite to kill one of the mini golems.
When you recall, buy boots and go and do red, smite will be back to finish it.
You should hit level 4 after doing wolves for the second time, which means you will get Bear Stance. This is the point at which you can start ganking, although you might want to wait for level 5 when you get Tiger. Ganking is outlined in the chapter below.
At level 7 you can solo dragon, providing you have Blue buff, Smite and full health. Do it whenever it feels safe enough.
Note: With my third build, the attack speed one, you will be starting with a dagger, instead of a longsword. This is just a note to let you know that the jungle route is exactly the same for that build as it is if you start with a longsword.
I decided to make a separate chapter for ganking just to keep it apart from the jungling chapter for organisation.
So, as I said above, you can start ganking when you get Bear Stance at level 4. This will give you the extra speed (combined with Ghost) to catch up to your enemies and also the stun so that your allies can hit them too.
It is good to wait for Tiger Stance at level 5 to gank. Wait in the bushes (check with your ally in the lane if they think there might be a ward first), start Bear Stance and Ghost if you need it, and go to stun the squishy in the lane. Make sure to co-ordinate with your team mate before you gank. Once you have stunned the enemy, activate Phoenix Stance, and immediately afterwards go into Tiger Stance. And then switch back into Phoenix. The activation of these two should do some nice damage, and probably get you a kill if it was a good gank. The reason I say activate Phoenix first is because at this stage in the game your damage will come more from AD, as opposed to AP, so you need to finish on your AD stance while still utilising the activation effect of Phoenix Stance.
Make sure you always are aware of how far each lane is being pushed while you are jungling. You can't wait for your allies to request help before you gank. Always keep watch on who is in trouble and who isn't. If someone needs to recall, specifically the two that are solo laning, go there and ask them to go back. It's a good idea to help solo top a lot, especially if they are against 2 enemies. Udyr is a great pusher because of his ability to clear out minion waves with phoenix.
A very important thing to keep in mind is not to force a gank. Don't think that as soon as you reach level 4 or 5 you have to gank. It's not a rule, so if there isn't a lane that is pushed up far and there is no ganking opportunity, just continue to jungle.
Just a short note on farming. In mid to late game, you will be absolutely excellent at it with this build. All you have to do is activate Phoenix Stance and run into the middle of the minions and start hitting them. You will clear 10-15 minions in 5 seconds, with the AoE from the activation of the stance. If you have an even bigger stack to clear, activate it more than once. You don't even have to worry about last hitting.
Always be wary of a gank while farming, but bear in mind that if you have Ghost up, you are going to be practically be impossible to catch. Even without Ghost, you'll probably be outrunning every enemy. So you should have an easy escape if you are ganked, as long as you are wary, keep an eye on who is missing from the mini map, and position yourself well.
Team Play as Udyr
As I stated above, Udyr's typical role is that of the bruiser. This means that in a team fight, he has the job of having enough survivability to take a good amount of the hits, but deal enough damage to cause the enemy problems. You are essentially an off-tank, one that has the potential to deal very large amounts of damage.
One great thing to do in a team fight is to run around stunning everyone with Bear form. If you wait for the initiation of the fight, and then run in and stun the tank followed by the big damage dealers, you can then choose one of those damage dealers to nuke down. Hopefully you will have enough survivability to withstand any damage that was directed your way.
As Udyr you have the perfect rescuing tool in the form of Bear Stance. If you see an ally who is in trouble, and running away from the enemy, run towards them and stun any enemies that get close, being careful not to get caught yourself. There have been countless times where I have saved team mates this way, or even saved myself by just turning around and stunning my pursuers. Always remember this, as you could save team mates countless times in the game.
Pros / Cons
Pros-Very strong jungler. One of the quickest.
-Great chase and escape ability with Bear Stance.
-Naturally quite tanky.
-Can be played in so many ways.
-Amazing at farming minions, can clear waves in seconds.
Cons-Requires a lot of practise to master.
-No team fight winning ultimate ability.
-Zero range, which is only a minor con because you can close that gap quickly.
To summarize, this is the way I play Udyr; it is not necessarily going to work for you, because Udyr is the kind of champion that can change a lot depending on who is playing him. Also, you really have to adapt your items to the type of enemies you are going to be facing.
I really encourage you to try variations of my item builds, perhaps replacing some items with ones on my list of other viable Udyr items. Give different builds a go and see how they work for you; you never really know how well they will work until you try them in the game.
Finally, thank you very much for reading my first League of Legends guide. Give it a rating and leave me a comment to let me know what you think. I would really appreciate any suggestions you might have on how to make the guide better.
Anyways, good luck, have fun, and happy hunting with Udyr! :)


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EPL: Mauricio Pochettino defends Tottenham Hotspur players after stormy draw with Chelsea
London: Tottenham Hotspur manager Mauricio Pochettino refused to criticise his players after an ill-tempered draw with Chelsea ended their dream of winning the English Premier League (EPL).
Players clash after a foul during the EPL match between Chelsea and Tottenham at Stamford Bridge in London Monday
Tottenham players picked up nine yellow cards in the 2-2 draw.
Harry Kane and Heung-Min Son handed Tottenham a 2-0 lead by half-time. But Chelsea struck back in the second half, through Gary Cahill and Eden Hazard to snatch a draw. The result saw Leicester City being confirmed as the new EPL champions.
The game was marred by a series of clashes between the two sets of players.
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"We were all involved. When you play for a title and play a big team like Chelsea, they want to win and we are the same.
There were emotion. Fighting on the pitch is not a good example for both teams, but it is hard. In football, we all want to win and sometimes happens a situation like tonight. But for me, it is a good lesson for us that we need to take and improve.
It is a fantastic night for us because it shows we are strong in our mentality and that we fight together."
Pochettino refused to criticise his players for their behavior. "I didn't see (Mousa Dembele), but I heard about it. We will see what happens. I need to see the video, we are on the touchlines, it is very difficult to see the situations."


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Having heard the Christmas story told and retold more times than we can count, it is easy to view Mary and Joseph as nothing more than paper people whom we encounter every year on the Christmas cards that crowd our mantle. In Road to Bethlehem, a prelude to his popular Seeds of Christianity Series, E. G. Lewis rounds out this flat, two-dimensional view of Mary and Joseph. In his hands they become real flesh and blood people who live, love and interact with the world around them. Relying upon meticulous research and masterful storytelling, he has crafted a wonderfully entertaining, thought-provoking, and deeply informative novel. Through careful attention to detail he immerses the listener into the daily life of the new carpenter in Nazareth and a young woman named Mary who has caught his eye. There's a beautiful innocence to Mary and her thoughts. The author has a gentle way with words, explaining just enough to intrigue, leading enough to entice. Wise lessons are threaded into the tale...the power of forgiveness, the gift of mercy, and the healing capacity of love. The God of these words is ever-present in the characters' lives, but never intrusive. You'll come away from this novel with a deep understanding and newfound respect for both Mary and Joseph. Like all of his Seeds of Christianity books, Road to Bethlehem is both historically and biblically accurate.
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Found on a foray sponsored by the Los Angeles Mycological Society. Identification by sight and smell corroborated by Paul Harding.
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I wouldn't not call the margin of the cap 'fairly bright yellow', but these were certainly not mature so I'm still a bit torn. I also remember that these were unusally small based on my experience in northern California. The caps were about an inch across. I'm going up to the San Bernardinos in a few weeks so I'll keep an eye out for more specimens.
Using Smith, Smith & Weber this photo seems to key to Floccularia pitkinensis by default. "How to know the Gilled Mushrooms" states the margin is ivory yellow [30A2] and the disc is avellaneous [7B3] which are good matches in Methuen Handbook of Colour.
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Monza, Italy - 15 April 2012: The Marc VDS Racing Team took a sensational win in the first round of the Blancpain Endurance Series today, at the Monza circuit in Italy. The BMW Z4 GT3, driven by Markus Palttala, Bas Leinders and Maxime Martin, won in torrential rain, despite starting from 18th on the grid. The result was backed up by a seventh place Pro class finish for car #4 - a strong team result.
The race began in frustrating fashion for both cars. After a disappointing qualifying, with #3 starting in 18th position and #4 52nd on the grid, starting drivers Palttala in #3 and Henri Moser in #4 needed as much time as possible to make progress.
However, the race began behind safety car because of the terrible conditions, and racing did not get under way for nearly 40 minutes. When the eventual green flag came, both drivers worked hard to gain places, with Palttala making six places to 12th and Moser passing 24 cars in just 20 minutes to hand over in 28th position overall.
Both pitstops were faultless, with Belgians Leinders and Bert Longin taking #3 and #4 respectively. Leinders was soon on the move forwards, using the wet conditions to his advantage and passing more cars, rising as high as fourth place. With conditions fluctuating, he dropped to eighth as the car came in for its second and final stop.
Martin took the car over and was soon the fastest man on track, passing cars as they made their stops and eventually outbraking the leading Porsche into the first chicane to take the lead of the race. From that point on, he was able to extend the gap to take the victory by a margin of 17.574s.
After a consistent stint, Longin was able to bring the car to Mike Hezemans in 18th place. Hezemans also made progress in his stint to bring the car to a seventh place Pro class finish. The car gained 41 places in the course of the race.
The result is a very strong foundation on which to build for the drivers' and teams' titles, and the team now carry great motivation to the next round, which takes place at Silverstone on June 3rd.
Bas Leinders: Car #3
"The result is amazing, and a little bit unexpected - the BMW was never going to be the fastest car for Monza. But the rain was like a gift from God, and the team did a perfect job to take advantage of that gift. The preparation, strategy and pitwork were all perfect, absolutely no mistakes - the pitstops were incredible. All the guys with car #4 did a great job too, and they took a great result after a tough qualifying session. It was a big team effort, first place and seventh place is a great start to the teams' championship. I have to say a big, big thank you to Marc van der Straten and all the members of the team - this is reward for them after a very difficult winter."
Maxime Martin: Car #3
"This is fantastic for the team. We worked so hard all winter, and it paid off because in the first race we take a win. The team did a perfect job - I can't praise them enough. The pitstops were superb, and that gave me the chance to use the car - which was really good in these conditions. If it hadn't rained, we would have struggled a lot more, but I am happy that it did! I am only a little surprised. I knew that if it rained, we stood a chance of a good result, and so it showed. I am very, very happy."
Henri Moser: Car #4
"It was so frustrating to be sat behind the safety car for so long. I knew that we needed as much time as possible to gain places and you cannot pass behind the safety car! The car was good throughout the stint, though, so I could concentrate fully on making places. It was really, really slippery on track, and it was a challenge using the wet line to be fast. I wanted to stay out of trouble and make as many positions as I could, which is very difficult with all the spray and so little visibility - but I think I succeeded in that respect. Towards the end of my stint it actually was less wet than the start, which I think shows how wet it was when we started!"


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Life on the streets: Research project gives Pittsfield native insight into homelessness
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PITTSFIELD — When Union College senior Lindsey Hunt wanted to learn about the lives of homeless people, she didn't just surf through the research of others; she immersed herself in that life last winter in her hometown of Pittsfield.
Now a 22-year-old graduate who works at the Brien Center, Hunt received a bachelor's degree in anthropology in June after completing a year-long thesis project on homelessness. That included four months last fall and winter of hitting the streets in downtown Pittsfield, meeting homeless people and asking them to talk about their daily lives.
"I have always been swayed by wanting to give voice to those who aren't given one," she said. "And I wanted to target a specific vulnerable population."
Dressing simply, leaving her winter coat at home and riding the bus every day rather than driving a car, Hunt said she began by visiting the former Pearl Street Day Center, where she began to meet and get to know the city's homeless.
"I would walk with them, go to dinners, kind of network my way," she said. "I spent Thanksgiving with them, Christmas with them, New Year's Day."
At one point in her 153-page report, Hunt describes a long day for a homeless person that begins with leaving the Barton's Crossing shelter in frigid early morning temperatures. She asks the reader to imagine walking along Route 7 for more than a mile to downtown Pittsfield, stopping at the Intermodal Transportation Center on North Street, and later going to the former Pearl Street Day Center on Fenn Street, near City Hall.
In the afternoon, the homeless person might go with others to the Berkshire Athenaeum on Wendell Avenue, might be confronted by a staff member or patron, before making their way back to the transportation terminal in time to catch a bus back to Barton's Crossing, if they have money for the fare.
With each entry to the emergency winter overnight section of Barton's transitional shelter, Hunt said homeless people must go through a processing that might include a search or being turned away if they have been drinking or using drugs.
Then she describes how in frigid temperatures homeless people sometimes go to the Berkshire Medical Center emergency room, faking an illness or injury or an addiction issue requiring treatment several days; or they try to get picked up by police or find a porch, vacant structure or other space to huddle through the night.
Hunt also interviewed those who interact with the homeless population at various levels, such as social workers at shelters, nurses, doctors and security guards at Berkshire Medical Center, as well as police officers. In her field work, she said, she benefited from connections through her father, a probation officer at Juvenile Court, other close relatives who are police officers and an acquaintance who works at the BMC emergency room.
As the weeks passed, she said, "I got to experience just what they go through every day."
Yet, despite their homelessness, "it is not scary as most people would think," she adds. "There are great conversations; you experience their emotions, learn pretty much what is meaningful in their everyday lives."
Hunt said she interviewed about 20 homeless people and got to know about 10 well — also learning of many others through the stories told by those she talked with.
"They are all ages, all backgrounds, pretty much everything," Hunt said. "But they all ended up homeless."
She heard of different circumstances in each case, "but it was often from the deterioration of relationships that they became homeless. ... They just kind of lost the supports that otherwise kept them stable. I was able to recognize what everyone takes for granted every day."
The breakup of a relationship, the loss of a loved one or severed family ties were common threads, she said, often coupled with prescription drug or alcohol addiction issues.
"But it was interesting that when they did become homeless, they learned from it," she said, "and none of them took becoming homeless as a bad experience. They learned from it, learned morals that they would otherwise never have recognized, that they could use and benefit from for the rest of their lives."
In developing her thesis conclusions, "I finally realized that your sense of self-worth is related to relationships," she said. "You find your personhood through relationships and recognition.
"Nostalgic memories of relationships divert and act as comfort," she said, "but also bring back painful memories of what was lost." That was especially true around the holiday season, she said, as homeless people walked past the bright holiday decorations at Park Square and along North Street in the downtown.
"Nearly every homeless individual in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, who confided in me never anticipated becoming homeless," Hunt wrote in her report. "Yet now, they are either couch surfing, sleeping in an unwelcoming shelter, or left alone to the streets. All the while, I heard heart-wrenching accounts of helplessness, vulnerability and unhappiness. I heard reflections of anguish, grief and loneliness. Through the countless different circumstances of becoming homeless, the desire for interdependency, support and stability pervaded the emotional narratives of these individuals."
For these reasons, Hunt said she came to view an ongoing stable and supportive environment that slowly brings a homeless person back into society as the best way to provide assistance.
She said the programs for homeless veterans at the Soldier On transitional housing facility on West Housatonic Street seemed to have those positive effects.
"Some of the most powerful interviews I had were at Soldier On," she said. "They are actually given stable shelter. Soldier On empowers them, gives them a sense of meaning. They live and do things every day. Everyone was so happy; they learned from it."
A key component, she said, seemed to be the peer mentoring of new residents at the facility by those who have been there longer. "It gives them purpose, becoming a mentor to others who recently became homeless," she said. "You could tell the dynamics were just so different compared to the homeless [services] in the rest of the county. I wish they had those same services in more applicable domains."
Hunt said she believes veterans make up about a third of the local homeless population.
She also learned that most homeless people in the county apparently stay in the area rather than travel with the change of seasons. "But no one likes winter," she said, which is when homeless people look to the emergency overnight beds made available during winter at the Barton's shelter, or seek couch-surfing arrangements with people they know or other indoor spaces.
In the warmer months many homeless people seem comfortable living outdoors, Hunt said, often in tents set up in city parks or wooded or secluded locations. "There are a select few people that want to remain homeless," she said, eschewing the pressures and also the restraints of society's expectations. "They just don't desire a two-story house," Hunt said.
Some homeless people "[live in] a lot of places, actually, and they are pretty proud of what they are able to do," she said of those who live outdoors and get by on minimal resources, sometimes fishing to supplement their diet.
Most appear to have little income and few resources, she said, and usually rely heavily on food stamps.
"They are not necessarily trying to gyp the system, which a lot of people would think," she said. Some simply enjoy the freedom their lifestyle allows, Hunt said, "which shouldn't be frowned upon."
Frowned upon they routinely are, however, she said, and often disparaged.
"I witnessed many incidents of degradation," she said, in which "members of the community are keeping them away from public spaces that otherwise, if you weren't homeless, you could access. It was definitely stigmatized, and you could definitely see that they were targeted."
Homeless people "don't have the support [of relationships], as it is," she said, "and the community isn't helping."
Addiction to prescription drugs or alcohol, which she found is typically "used to numb their pain," seems prevalent among the homeless, she said, and is another area where easier access to recovery services is essential to addressing the problem.
"They all warned me about it," she said of heroin, "even if they were not involved in drugs. Every single person just wanted to warn me: 'Stay away from the heroin.' It is so easy to access, I had no idea."
Her many hours spent among the homeless population also resulted in "some sticky situations," Hunt said, including an encounter with a mentally unstable man. "One person was just so upset," she said, "but I just let him speak it out and he stepped back. He later apologized."
People "shouldn't be quick to judge [such incidents] when they don't know what they've been through," she said. "But it is hard to understand and people would be terrified of him."
Hunt, the daughter of James and Cheryl Hunt, grew up in Pittsfield along with her two brothers (she is a triplet and the only one of the three who did not become an engineer), as well as two younger sisters.
She now works with city youth at the Brien Center for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, which provides services for children, adolescents, adults and families who suffer from serious and persistent behavioral health disorders, according to its website.
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Christmas Cheese Ball
Time just gets away from you in December, doesn't it? I have absolutely no idea how it's already the middle of the month and only a week and a half until Christmas. Somewhere amongst all those cookie swaps and holiday get-togethers I have completely lost track of how fast this month can move.
Thanks goodness for make ahead appetizers that are easy and you can take anywhere. This is my go-to thing to make and take almost anywhere I'm invited during the month of December. It only takes a few minutes to put together and it can be made a day or two in advance. The only tricky part is to remember to get it back out of the fridge when it's time to leave.
Christmas Cheese Ball
1 pkg. (8 oz.) cream cheese, softened
2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
3 green onions chopped (green tops only)
1 jar (2 oz.) diced pimientos, drained
2 tablespoons butter, melted
2 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
In a mixing bowl, beat cream cheese until fluffy. Beat in cheddar, onions, pimientos, butter and Worcestershire sauce.
Shape into a ball. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate until ready to serve, at least a couple of hours.
Serve with your favorite crackers.
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EoP ADR Updates:
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[CU: Date] = Update of content of prior posting.
- EoP ADR: 02 Aug 2017
- Correspondence: 08 Mar 2017 | CU: 25 Jan 2017
- Documents: 31 Dec 2016
- Conflict of Cultures: 12 Dec 2016
- Ego & Ecological Literacy: 12 Jul 2017
- EoP RH Culture Info: 02 Aug 2017
- Password Protected Pages: 12 Dec 2016
Content Updates:
- 19 Jan: EoP MILED Clerk: Notice of Nullification of 19/06/13 MILINT Earth Day EoP Walk Your Footprint Talk to Support the Troops Oath, effective 11:59 hrs on 20 Jan 2017. [CU: 25 Jan 2017]
"I am humble enough not to think that God busies himself with the ins and outs of my life" – Jeremy Gauntlett SC
'Howard Law School became a living laboratory where civil-rights law was invented by teamwork. The school worked because of the driving purposefulness of one man: Charlie Houston. He kept hammering at us all those years that, as lawyers, we had to be social engineers or else we were parasites. The whole atmosphere of action-oriented learning under Houston was heady, and every scholar was eager to relate classroom work to social action. We all worked on real briefs and real cases and accompanied Houston and other faculty members to court to learn procedure and tactics. Charlie Houston set out to teach us the difference between what the laws said and meant and how they were applied. His avowed aim was to eliminate that difference. He made it clear to us that when we were done, we were expected to gout and do something with our lives. He was a man you either liked intensely or hated.' – Former Howard Law School student.
Charlie Houston and Howard Law School's top graduate of 1933, Thurgood Marshall, later to become a US Supreme Court Justice, demonstrated another knack that would enhance his career: he listened. It was not simply that he was deferential; rather, he never thought he knew all the answers. His way to wisdom was to hear out others who might or might not know any more than he did and then to sift it all through his own mental strainer. He never tried to score points as an original or especially creative thinker; his skill was in figuring out who made the most sense – or what parts of other people's ideas to sieze upon and fuse into a prudent plan of action. "He'll take ideas from a chimneysweep if they sound right to him," said a former associate.
— Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education, the epochal Supreme Court decision that outlawed segregation, and of Black America's struggle for equality, by Richard Kluger, 1975.
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there–on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
— Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994
"…an organization cannot have a conservation policy without having a population policy….the sanity test — in which the candidate, confronted with an overflowing sink, is classified according to whether he reaches for the faucet or the mop." — Daniel B. Luten; as quoted by William Milton Cooper in Behold a Pale Horse.
— EoP v WiP NWO Negotiations: 02 Aug: The White House: Memo to America from President Obama: Re Our Planet; 24 Sep: JCS Gen Martin Dempsey .. Karen Russell Hicks.
Summary of Difference between EoP and WiP Effective Strategists & Policy Formulators, Problem Solvers:
Masonic War is Peace is about consciously or unconsciously identifying the root cause of the problem, and applying STRATINT to deliberately perpetuate the problem indefinitely so as to socio-politically and financially parastically profit of the misery resulting from the problem. The tap has been left on, the bath is overflowing. Masonic War is Peace profiteers argue about what colour mops to use; who is mopping; who is hiring chinks or japs or coolies to do the mopping, blah blah.
Ecology of Peace identifies the root cause of any problem and applies STRATINT skills to eliminate the root cause of the problem. EoP considers 'the right to breed and consume with total disregard for ecological carrying capacity limits clauses' – aka policy — of the Masonic War is Peace international law social contract; as the root cause of the majority of socio-economic and political problems resulting from resource depletion and resource wars: including among others: climate change, food shortages, food inflation, cost of living increases, urban sprawl, traffic jams, toxic waste, pollution, peak oil, peak water, peak food, peak population, species extinction, loss of biodiversity, peak resources, climate change, terrorism, feminism, nazism, Islamism, capitalism, communism, militarization of police, etc. Ecology of Peace STRATINT advisors simply point out the tap is causing the bath to overflow; and find out who is willing to cooperate to turn off the tap.
— EoP v WiP NWO Neg: 20 Sep: Eeben Barlow's Military and Security Blog: The Dangers of Ignoring Strategic Intelligence; 23 Oct: South China Morning Post .. Pentacon; 24 Oct: Homer Lea Research Center, Homer Lea Site.
Ecology of Peace Radical Honoursty Factual Reality:
- Earth is not flat.
- Resources are finite.
- When humans breed or consume above ecological carrying capacity limits, it results in ecological overshoot, resource depletion and resource conflict.
- Some of the socio-cultural and psycho-political consequences of overpopulation & consumption collision with declining resources include: poverty, slavery, unemployment, food shortages, food inflation, cost of living increases, urban sprawl, traffic jams, toxic waste, pollution, peak oil, peak water, peak food, peak population, species extinction, loss of biodiversity, peak resources, racial, religious, class, gender resource war conflict, militarized police, psycho-social and cultural conformity pressures on free speech, etc; inter-cultural conflict; legal, political and corporate corruption, etc.
- The root cause of humans breeding and consuming above ecological carrying capacity limits is the 'right to breed and consume with total disregard for ecological carrying capacity limits' clauses of the Masonic War is Peace international law social contract.
- If individuals, families, tribes, races, religions, political parties, corporations and/or nations sincerely – aka egological literacy – want to (a) sustainably protect natural resources for future generations; and/or (b) reduce class, racial and/or religious local, national and international resource war conflict; and/or (c) enable honourable, transparent and humane international cooperative de-industrialization and depopulation of the planet to return to living in accordance to ecological carrying capacity limits; they should (d) cooperate to nullify the 'right to breed and consume with total disregard for ecological carrying capacity limits' clauses and replace them with Ecology of Peace clauses that restricts all the worlds citizens to breed and consume below ecological carrying capacity limits; or be humanely eliminated from the planetary genepool.
– Excerpt: Ecology of Peace Radical Honoursty Factual Reality.


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So the United States officially has a national debt of twenty trillion dollars. Forbes recently did the math and, based on the estimate that Taylor Swift earned $80 million last year, Taylor Swift would have to do one concert every single day for three years just to pay one day of interest on the national debt. That's right–such a figure wouldn't even cut into the principal. It would simply pay one day of interest. After three years of daily performances, one of the most successful singers in the world would be able to pay one day of the interest on the national debt.
This is not a problem that people take very seriously, because it's so out there, it's so… intangible. We have no idea how the national debt is a force crushing our necks. We know that the economy sucks, and we all sense that something is wrong, but it's so hard to connect it to the national debt, especially when humans are naturally poorly skilled at connecting events over long periods of time. That's not a shot at my fellow species, but a statement of fact. After all, it has taken us decades to realize that the direct correlation in the increase in high fructose corn syrup and the increase in the rates of diabetes and obesity probably aren't coincidental. Our species is short-sighted. We simply are.
Looking backward in time and connecting Event Z to Event Y to Event X… all the way back to Event A is exceedingly difficult, and it's even more difficult when we're talking about the economy, when most people's eyes glaze over and they start hearing Taylor Swift songs in their heads while the guy from the old Clear Eyes commercials drones on about aggregates and derivatives. However, I'm hear to tell you that none of that crap actually matters. The national debt, its increase, its effect on the size of the state, and its impact on inflation aren't that complex, and it's hopefully something I can convey simply.
First, with something like the leading paragraph being true, it must be obvious to you that American taxpayers are not footing that bill–at least not directly. According to this Bloomberg article, the income tax debt of 2014 was $1.4 trillion. Divided across roughly 300,000,000 people, that's only $4.66 per person. Something seems off about that, but I don't know what. Oh. Yeah, I do. It's that the government spent $3.77 trillion. It's also that only people who earned $50,000 or more paid in anything at all, which only makes about about 40% of the population–at best.
The difference, though, between "how much the government steals through taxation" and "how much the government" spends isn't really of that much significance, although it's worth pointing out that if we cut the defense budget completely then the $677 billion deficit from 2014 would almost completely evaporate. How interesting that our deficit each year is so very close to the "defense" spending. None of this is really important, though.
What's important to know is this: the government spends a lot more money than it gets through taxation.
Fuck, I knew those numbers were way off, but I'm going to fix it here instead of amending it above to make a point. The actual figure is $4,666.67 per American citizen, at 300,000,000. I was dropping three zeroes accidentally. So if every man, woman, other, and child paid $4,666.67 in taxes, we could have fairly met the IRS's tax demands. Of course, that wouldn't have satisfied them, since the government spent $3.56 trillion that year, so we'd still have only had about half of what they needed. See? It's really not that complicated.
So every man, woman, and child would need to pay $9332~, if I'm just looking at the figure and doing a very rough doubling, to come up with about what the IRS needed. Nearly $10,000 for every man, woman, and child to run the government for one year. Mostly. It would still have to cut about 2-3% of its spending.
Of course, there's that whole stupid idea that the rich aren't paying their fair share, but that's such a ridiculous statement, compounding an absurd way of viewing the world. Taxes as a percentage are useless. When you go to Wal-Mart and fill your basket with enough food to feed your family for a week, they don't ask for 30% of your paycheck, do they? We don't live in a world where each paycheck we spend:
- 7% on gasoline.
- 12% on various types of insurance.
- 35% on rent/mortgage and utilities.
- 25% on groceries/food.
- 15% on taxes.
- 6% to go out once a month.
That's not the world we live in. And thank whatever deity you believe in that we don't live in that world, because it's impossible to move forward in that world–no matter how wealthy you become, no matter how successful you become, you will never be able to move ahead, to generate savings, to earn a profit against life. That's an appalling world, and none of us would want to live in it. So be thankful that when you go to Wal-Mart, they don't crack open your paycheck and say, "Hm, you earned $1,000 this week, which amounts to 25% of your check–give us $250." No, we live in a world where you can cut out coupons, buy generic brands, and all sorts of crap to save money–to cut your food costs to 15% rather than 25%.
But in this one area, we forget that and start talking about tax liabilities as percentages as though it makes any more sense. It doesn't. It's still just as ridiculous. I went into the folly of this type of thinking a bit in this video, but I'll briefly go over once again.
This is always used to suggest that "the rich" aren't paying their "fair share" in taxes, when the reality is that either a. the rich are paying their fair share and we are not, or b. the rich are paying well and above their fair share.
Evidently it takes between $2 million and $3 million to pave one mile of a new 2-lane, undivided highway. Let's assume the lower end of that–two million dollars. Let's assume that this new highway is going to be packed with taxpayers–one thousand of them on this one mile of highway. We can already see that this is not actually "rural" and would have to be extremely urban, while this estimate deals with rural highways, but let's go with it.
It will cost each of those taxpayers $2,000 to pave that highway. Holy crap, right? Each and every one of those one thousand people has to scrimp and save and come up with their share of the $2,000. That is what's fair. Of course, in reality, if those people actually had to pay for that road, this is what they would do:
- Most of them would volunteer their own off-hours to help construct the road.
- They would shop around and find the cheapest deal, and would probably get the figure cut down drastically.
- Between doing a lot of the work themselves and shopping around, they'd probably get the amount of payment required down to $200,000 or so.
- They would probably petition local business owners, granting them some sort of special access to the road, or special properties on the road, in exchange for larger payments. "If you pay $10,000 of it, we'll make sure your employees are never ticketed on it, and we'll make sure that you can open a new office along this stretch of highway."
It's hard for us to even imagine such things, but it would happen. No one is more cautious with their money than the person that money belongs to. I proved it today, when my colleague told me to buy some crap with his credit card. I splurged a bit and bought some things I'd never buy if I was spending my own money. It only cost him $6, of course, but that's still $6 I would never, ever have spent if it was my money. But I didn't have to pay for it, so I basically wasted it–I enjoyed it, of course, and he knew I would waste it, so it's not like I did anything messed up. The point is–people aren't careful with other people's money, and the government definitely isn't.
But there's this idea that taxes are a percentage thing, and that everyone should be charged 10% to pay for the road. This means Jack the burger flipper pays $75 for the road, while Eric the millionaire business owner pays $225,000. This, the leftist says, might mean that the millionaire paid his fair share. More likely, the leftist isn't happy and thinks the millionaire should have had to pay more. And if we lived in a world where Wal-Mart charged you a flat 25% of all your money when you checked out, the leftist would have a point. But in a world where Wal-Mart charges you an actual dollar figure based on what you're actually buying, they don't. Is Eric going to use the road 3,000 times more than Jack is?
No. In reality, Eric is paying far more than his "fair share" so that Jack doesn't have to pay his fair share. Obviously. They're going to use the road about the same; they need the road to the same degree. Yet Eric is paying three thousand times what Jack is paying, for exactly the same product. If the millionaire bought one week of food at Wal-Mart and paid $14,500 while Jack bought one week at Wal-Mart and paid $14.50, we wouldn't have a hard time seeing how the millionaire was clearly being gouged by Wal-Mart, and that Wal-Mart was doing it simply because they knew that Eric had that much money and could afford it.
It's so messed up it's not worth more discussion. Taxes as a percentage is a grotesque and greedy notion. The only "fair share" of taxes that could be paid–if we forget, for the moment, that taxation is theft–is an actual dollar figure. Taxes as a percentage means that some people are paying their fair share, some people (the poor) are not paying their fair share, and some people (the rich) are paying far beyond their fair share. I know it bothers the leftist to be told that, but this is the truth; this is reality. This is how fairness as a concept actually works. You can't price gouge the millionaire simply because he has the money and then proclaim that it's fair. It's not–it's price gouging the millionaire. There's nothing "fair" about it.
Anyway, taxation is theft.
That preamble is critical to this discussion, because it's important for us to recognize that it's not fair to look at the Taylor Swifts, Metallicas, Marilyn Mansons, Bill Gateses, and expect them to pay huge chunks of money so that we don't have to. Under the statist propaganda and mindset, the "fair share" of the national debt is a dollar figure doled out among each and every American citizen, not some of them proportional to how much money they made. As I amply demonstrated above, there is nothing fair, just, or moral about that; everything about it is unfair, unjust, and immoral.
As it stands with a twenty trillion dollar national debt, that's a bill being sent to every American citizen for $66,666.67.
One has to squint at all those sixes.
But even if every single American paid the government every single dollar they had, do you know what would happen?
We would still be in debt.
This is because of a couple of things–primarily, that most Americans are in debt personally to banks for credit cards, houses, and vehicles. That's the nature of a debt-based currency, and the USD is a debt-based currency, through and through. If every single dollar that everyone owed was paid back, we would still be in debt, and Interest is the reason why. The entire currency is a game of musical chairs–there are never enough chairs, and someone always gets left standing. This threatens to divert into a related topic, though, so I'm going to get back to the national debt.
So how is the government to pay for its stuff, if it can't tax everyone to pay for it? Why, that's simple. It borrows the money.
Imagine if you borrowed $1,000 to do the stuff you wanted to do, which, with 1% interest, means you have to pay back $1,010. You manage to make about $300 doing that, but you want to continue doing the stuff you want to do. So you borrow $2,000 and pay back the $1,010 from the first loan, and then have $1290 to do what you want to do. A year later, you have to pay back $2020, but you only made $320 from your endeavor. So you borrow $3,000. You now make only $230, but a year later have to pay back $3030. To keep your operating expenses where they were, you actually have to borrow $4100 this time, to pay back the $3030 and make up for the $100 you didn't make back in the last year. Each year, your debt increases.
With the intricacies of a national economy, taxation, and all that, it's not that cut and dry, but that is the gist of what's going on. After more than a century of doing this, the United States Government has worked its way up to a twenty trillion dollar debt–a debt that we can't possibly pay off, and a debt that we the American People shouldn't even be worried about paying off. The government did that, not us.
The United States GDP for 2013 was just over seventeen trillion dollars. The data for 2015 shows that we nearly reached $18 trillion. For 2016 thus far is about $18.5 trillion. Now, if I know anything about figuring out which number is bigger than the other number, this means that the national debt actually exceeds the GDP of the United States.
In literal terms, this means that allllll the productivity of alllllll the American people is exceeded by the amount of money that people in Washington, D.C. are spending. This means that a relatively small number of people have managed to spend more than the entire freaking country produces. This means that all the industriousness, productivity, creativity, ingenuity, and excellence of the American People has been matched and exceeded by government spending.
These ticks have managed to engorge themselves to the point that they are consuming more blood than the dog even has.
You don't have to be a veterinarian to realize that tick is gonna kill that dog–and sooner, rather than later.


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Ladybird Learners: Things That Go Board book
This fun board book from Ladybird introduces young children to essential first concepts and key themes.
A great introduction to cars, trucks, boats and many more things that go, little ones will love finding and naming all the different vehicles.
There is lots of opportunity to extend your child's vocabulary by talking about all the things they see.
This colourful board book is packed with big learning ideas for curious little minds.Look out for other titles in the series: My First Animals: Ladybird Learners, My First ABC: Ladybird Learners; My First Colours: Ladybird Learners, At Home: Ladybird Learners.
- Format: Board book
- Pages: 16 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date: 29/02/2016
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These New Mothers Have Had A Tough Time, But A Special Surprise Makes It All Worthwhile
Because all mums deserve to know they are loved and appreciated
As any mother will know, baby's first birthday is also the day you remember the pain- and happiness- of bringing a new life into the world. But with all the focus on the little bundle of joy, it's easy to forget the sacrifices a mother makes during the first year of a baby's life. The sleepless nights, the worry and stress, the feeling you're doing it all wrong, the lack of support, the feeling of being overwhelmed by such a huge responsibility.
In this moving video (a Japanese advertisement for Pampers), mothers who take their babies for their 12-month check up are given a wonderful surprise by their partners to say thank you for everything they do. Share this with a mother you know to show your respect and appreciation for the most difficult and rewarding job in the world!