Hurricane Ian is pounding the State of Florida as we speak. Yes, we can talk about sleeping when the wind blows from a Mother Nature Storm. But what are some other storms in our lives that we need to be prepared for so we can sleep?
Right now, we have the storms of Chaos, Division, Fear, Hatred, and Violence.
I have an important 60th anniversary taking
place. On September 24, 1962, I earned
my Eagle Scout Award. I grew up in
Scouting since my dad help start Troop 183 in 1951 and served as Scoutmaster
until 1969. I had the honor to serve as
an adult leader in the Scouting Program, even as a Scoutmaster. My dad was a great example of dedication and
leadership to my brother and myself. And
many more Scouts in his troop.
Because of current circumstances with the National Boy
Scout Organization, Troop 183 was retired after 68 years in 2019.
It was an invaluable honor to have grown up in the
Scouting Movement and served as an adulty to carry it forward as long as I was
physically able. The life lessons
learned, the friendships that developed, and the outdoor experiences served to
help me with life and family.
I was able to serve on our local Scout Council in many
different levels of leadership. The last
position was over the Council Adult Training Program. Training and teaching being one of my
passions. I also served on several
national committees.
I would like to take some time and review and remind
myself and you, the listeners, of many of the reasons the Scouting Movement
still means so much to me.
Let's start with the Scout Oath and Scout Law.
Activists and experts have long claimed that climate change will bring about an increasingly unstable atmosphere, one that is prone to ever-more-extreme weather events including more severe storms, hurricanes, tornadoes and droughts, among other phenomena.
In a paper titled "A critical assessment of extreme events trends in times of global warming" published earlier this year at the European Physical Journal Plus, four Italian researchers claim that "on the basis of observational data, the climate crisis that, according to many sources, we are experiencing today, is not evident yet."
The researchers in the paper argue that "global trends in heatwave intensity are not significant," while "daily precipitation intensity and extreme precipitation frequency are stationary in the main part of the weather stations."
"Trend analysis of the time series of tropical cyclones show a substantial temporal invariance and the same is true for tornadoes in the USA," they continue, while noting that "the impact of warming on surface wind speed remains unclear."
When assessing "natural disasters, floods, droughts, ecosystem productivity and yields of the four main crops (maize, rice, soybean and wheat)," the researchers said they found "none of these response indicators show a clear positive trend of extreme events."
The writers stress that it is "nevertheless extremely important to define mitigation and adaptation strategies that take into account current trends."
"[W]e should work to minimize our impact on the planet and to minimize air and water pollution," they argue.
None Dare Call It Conspiracy
Most of us have had the experience, either as parents or youngsters, of trying to discover the "hidden picture" within another picture in a children's magazine. Usually, you are shown a landscape with trees, bushes, flowers and other bits of nature. The caption reads something like this: "Concealed somewhere in this picture is a donkey pulling a cart with a boy in it. Can you find them?" Try as you might, usually you could not find the hidden picture until you turned to a page farther back in the magazine which would reveal how cleverly the artist had hidden it from us. If we study the landscape, we realize that the whole picture was painted in such a way as to conceal the real picture within, and once we see the "real picture," it stands out like the proverbial painful digit.
We believe the picture painters of the mass media are artfully creating landscapes for us which deliberately hide the real picture.
Millions of Americans are concerned and frustrated over mis-happenings in our nation. They feel that something is wrong, drastically wrong, but because of the picture painters they can't quite put their fingers on it.
We keep electing new Presidents who seemingly promise faithfully to halt the worldwide Communist advance, put the blocks to extravagant government spending, douse the tea of inflation, put the economy on an even keel, reverse the trend which is turning the country into a moral sewer, and toss the criminals into the hoosegow where they belong.
Republican or Democrat, continues the same basic policies of the previous administration which it had so thoroughly denounced during the election campaign.
FDR once said "In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way."
If we were merely dealing with the law of averages, half of the events affecting our nation's well-being should be good for America. If we were dealing with mere incompetence, our leaders should occasionally make a mistake in our favor.
Those who believe that major world events result from planning are laughed at for believing in the "conspiracy theory of history." Of course, no one in this modern day and age really believes in the conspiracy theory of history - except those who have taken the time to study the subject.
Otherwise, why does every recent administration make the same mistakes as the previous ones? Why do they repeat the errors of the past which produce inflation, depressions and war? Why does our State Department "stumble" from one Communist-aiding "blunder" to another?
Primarily, most scholars follow the crowd in the
academic world just as most women follow fashions. To buck the tide means
social and professional ostracism. The same is true of the mass media.
Secondly, these people have over the years acquired a strong vested emotional interest in their own errors. Their intellects and egos are totally committed to the accidental theory.
Politicians and "intellectuals" are attracted to the concept that events are propelled by some mysterious tide of history or happen by accident.
Most intellectuals, pseudo and otherwise, deal with the conspiratorial theory of history simply by ignoring it. They never attempt to refute the evidence. It can't be refuted. If and when the silent treatment doesn't work, these "objective" scholars and mass media opinion molders resort to personal attacks, ridicule, and satire. The personal attacks tend to divert attention from the facts which an author or speaker is trying to expose. The idea is to force the person exposing the conspiracy to stop the exposure and spend his time and effort defending himself.
However, the most effective weapons used against the conspiratorial theory of history are ridicule and satire.
The "accidentalists" would have us believe that ascribing any of our problems to planning is "simplistic" and all our problems are caused by Poverty, Ignorance and Disease - hereinafter abbreviated as PID. They ignore the fact that organized conspirators use PID, real and imagined, as an excuse to build a jail for us all. Most of the world has been in PID since time immemorial and it takes incredibly superficial thinking to ascribe the ricocheting of the United States government from one disaster to another over the past thirty years to PID. "Accidentalists" ignore the fact that some of the more advanced nations in the world have been captured by Communists. Czechoslovakia was one of the world's most modern industrial nations and Cuba had the second highest per capita income of any nation in Central and South America.
It is not true, however, to state that there are no
members of the intellectual elite who subscribe to the conspiratorial theory of
history. For example, there is Professor Carroll Quigley of the Foreign Service
School at Georgetown University.
He also makes it clear that it is only the network's secrecy and not their goals to which he objects. Professor Quigley discloses: "I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for twenty years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960's, to examine its papers and secret records. I HAVE NO AVERSION TO IT OR TO MOST OF ITS AIMS AND HAVE, FOR MUCH OF MY LIFE, BEEN CLOSE TO IT AND TO MANY OF ITS INSTRUMENTS. I have objected, both in the past and recently, to a few of its policies…but in general my chief difference of opinion is that IT WISHES TO REMAIN UNKNOWN, and I believe its role in history is significant enough to be known." (Emphasis added)
As Professor Quigley observes: "… his [the individual's] freedom and choice will be controlled within very narrow alternatives by the fact that he will be numbered from birth and followed, as a number, through his educational training, his required military or other public service, his tax contributions, his health and medical requirements, and his final retirement and death benefits."
There are also religious leaders who are aware of the existence of this conspiracy. In a UPI story dated December 27, 1965, Father Pedro Arrupe, head of the Jesuit Order of the Roman Catholic Church, made the following charges during his remarks to the Ecumenical Council:
"This…Godless society operates in an extremely efficient manner at least in its higher levels of leadership. It makes use of every possible means at its disposal, be they scientific, technical, social or economic. It follows a perfectly mapped-out strategy. It holds almost complete sway in international organizations, in financial circles, in the field of mass communications; press, cinema, radio and television."
Psychological problems are also involved in inducing
people to look at the evidence concerning
the Insiders. People are usually comfortable with their old beliefs and conceptions. When Columbus told people the world was a ball and not a pancake, they were highly upset. They were being asked to reject their way of thinking of a lifetime and adopt a whole new outlook. The "intellectuals" of the day scoffed at Columbus and people were afraid they would lose social prestige if they listened to him. Many others just did not want to believe the world was round. It complicated too many things.
And typical flat-earthers had such a vested interest involving their own egos, that they heaped abuse on Columbus for challenging their view of the universe. “Don't confuse us with facts; our minds are made up," they said. These same factors apply today. Because the Establishment controls the media, anyone exposing the Insiders will be the recipient of a continuous fusillade of invective from newspapers, magazines, TV and radio. In this manner one is threatened with loss of "social respectability" if he dares broach the idea that there is organization behind any of the problems currently wracking America. Unfortunately, for many people social status comes before intellectual honesty. Although they would never admit it social position is more important to many people than is the survival of freedom in America.
These same factors apply today. Because the Establishment controls the media, anyone exposing the Insiders will be the recipient of a continuous fusillade of invective from newspapers, magazines, TV and radio. In this manner one is threatened with loss of "social respectability" if he dares broach the idea that there is organization behind any of the problems currently wracking America. Unfortunately, for many people social status comes before intellectual honesty. Although they would never admit it social position is more important to many people than is the survival of freedom in America.
If you ask these people which is more important - social respectability or saving their children from slavery - they will tell you the latter, of course. But their actions (or lack of same) speak so much louder than their words.
They believe that most business and professional men are too shallow and decadent, too status conscious, too tied up in the problems of their jobs and businesses to worry about what is going on in politics. These men are told that it might be bad for business or jeopardize their government contracts if they take a stand. They have been bribed into silence with their own tax monies!
We are hoping that the conspirators have
underestimated the courage and patriotism remaining in the American people. We
feel there are a sufficient number of you who are not mesmerized by the
television set, who put God, family and country above social status, who will
band together to expose and destroy the conspiracy of the Insiders.
The philosopher Diogenes scoured the length and breadth of ancient Greece searching for an honest man. We are scouring the length and breadth of America in search of hundreds of thousands of intellectually honest men and women who are willing to investigate facts and come to logical conclusions - no matter how unpleasant those conclusions may be.
Allen,
Gary; Abraham, Larry. None Dare Call It Conspiracy (p. 3). Dauphin
Publications. Kindle Edition.
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The phrase speak with a forked tongue is considered to be an American idiom, but it is older than that. We will examine the definition of the phrase speak with a forked tongue, where it probably came from and some examples of its use in sentences.
To speak with a forked tongue means to tell lies, to not be truthful, to be deceptive. To speak with a forked tongue may be interpreted as saying one thing but meaning another. It is an insult to tell someone that he is speaking with a forked tongue, as it is the same as calling someone a liar. Almost all authorities believe that the metaphor of a forked tongue refers to the forked tongue of a snake. A snake’s forked tongue is also called a bifurcated tongue. The snake uses his tongue to activate his vomeronasal system or his sense of smell. The bifurcation allows the snake to have a three-dimensional experience of smell. The origins of the idea of the forked tongue meaning to tell lies is at least five hundred years old, and is probably derived from the image of Satan as a snake, as depicted in the Adam and Eve story in the Old Testament. In the story, Satan appears to Eve as a snake and talks her into sinning or going against the will of God. He does this by telling her lies and appealing to her curiosity and hubris. The expression forked tongue meaning speaking deceptively or lying is first seen in the early 1500s, predating the first English settlement in America by about one hundred years. The term speak with a forked tongue became more popular in the 1700s, at which time it was ascribed to a translation of a Native American idiom. It is possible that such an idiom existed in some Native American languages, though it is just as likely that it was the English speakers who gave the term to the Native Americans. For a culture that does not revile the snake, the term speak with a forked tongue may be interpreted as to speak with two tongues, which could indicate to say one thing and mean another. Related phrases are speaks with a forked tongue, spoke with a forked tongue, speaking with a forked tongue. Sometimes the phrase is rendered without the article a, as in speak with forked tongue. This is a reference to a stereotypical depiction of how a Native American spoke, especially in Western novels and films, and is generally considered offensive.
A month ago, Joe Biden stood in front of America and
said we have “Zero Inflation”. He said inflation was done and there would not be a
Recession. He continued to tell
Americans that the policies implemented by his administration were working and
we have a stronger economy that ever before.
He also said the Southern Border is closed and secure. Furthermore, more Americans than ever were
working. He spoke with a forked tongue.
The Propaganda Media over the last three or four weeks
have been telling us since gas prices are down that inflation will be going
down and all is right with the world.
Even after the horrific inflation numbers reported yesterday, the media is
still trying to get you to think inflation went down.
The Elephant in the room has reared its ugly head and
shows us that the administration and the media have their heads in the clouds
and will not recognize the truth when it slaps them upside the head.
And yesterday’s inflation report and numbers were a
big slap in the head to America. The
administration, the Democratic Socialists, the media, many in the GOP, and Wall
Street believed, wishfully, that all is right with the world.
But that is not so.
The
numbers tell the story.
CPI: 8.3%; still a 40 year high; last 3 months
inflation is up 6.5%.
PPI: 8.7% YOY; core rate up 7.3% (MOM minus food and
energy); .04% MOM;
Gas has gone down but still up over 25%. But that was the only item that went
down. Everything else has increased in
price. And the American consumer knows
it. But watch this, the predictions are
for prices to increase again.
Food costs: up 12.2% in the last 3 months
Restaurant costs: up 13.5% in last 3 months
Rent cost: up 6.5 % in last 3 months
Healthcare costs: up 4%
New and Used cars: up 10% and 13% respectively
Electricity is up 13%
Home fuel oil will go up significantly this winter.
The real
kicker for Americans is the decline in real wages. They have gone down now for
the 17th month in a row. That
means that inflation is eating up your money.
The
agency said real median household income last year was down about $400, making
it "not statistically different than 2020."
From 2020
to 2021, inflation rose 4.7%, marking the largest cost-of-living increase since
1990, data shows.
2 yr bond rate: 3.82%
10 yr bond rate: 3.425%; 30 yr bond rate: 3.52%
Mortgage rates are up to 6.5%. Homebuyer demand falls 29% from last year. The housing sector is already in a recession.
The Federal Reserve will raise the Fed Funds rate
either 75 or 100 basis points next week.
With those rates going up, the increase to the interest
payments on Federal Debt will go up $300 Billion per year. And more as rates continue to rise over the
next year or two years.
Joe Biden, his administration, and the propaganda media were out yesterday celebrating and pushing a false narrative about the inflation situation. And celebrating the passing of the Inflation Reduction Act. Americans know it will do just the opposite of what its name implies. Just the spending alone in the bill will drive up costs and inflation. In the bill, taxes will go up on businesses and investment. Energy companies’ taxes are going up under this bill. All these increases flow to the consumer. Small businesses will get hit the hardest.
Corporate earnings have already been hit hard. Third quarter earnings reports will not be too pretty. Right now, the report is showing by take energy companies out of the report, overall earnings are down 1%. Retail sales are slowing. People are buying, but very selective in their purchases. Food and necessities are taking the priority right now.
Other
inflationary moves coming:
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Study reveals strong link between parenthood and social conservatism
It turns out that even the notion of having skin in the game, in this case taken to mean having, raising, and sending children off into the world, prompts people to become more socially conservative. That was the conclusion reached in a scientific investigation published on September 7 in the biological journal "Proceedings of the Royal Society B," published by the Royal Society of the United Kingdom.
Dr. Nicholas Kerry, a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, and a team of over twenty other academics conducted four studies and surveys involving 2,610 adults.
Conservatism was defined for the purposes of this research as "a tendency to prefer safer, more traditional behaviours, social organizations and sources of moral guidance, alongside cultural ingroup preference and resistance to cultural change."
In the first of the studies undertaken, one group of participants was shown 12 pictures of cute young children. Each participant was then asked about what they imagined their own future child might look like. They were told to assign the imagined child a name and then describe a series of experiences they might have together.
While praising California’s decision to ban the sale of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035, Governor Gavin Newsom declared that this will require “100% of new car sales in California to be zero-emission vehicles” like “electric cars.” In reality, electric cars emit substantial amounts of pollutants and may be more harmful to the environment than conventional cars.
Toxic Pollution
The notion that electric vehicles are “zero-emission” is rooted in a deceptive narrative that ignores all pollutants which don’t come out of a tailpipe. Assessing the environmental impacts of energy technologies requires measuring all forms of pollution they emit over their entire lives, not a narrow slice of them. To do this, researchers perform “life cycle assessments” or LCAs. As explained by the Environmental Protection Agency, LCAs allow for:
The Biden administration signed an agreement Tuesday night to stop oil drilling that had been authorized under 113 permits in three Western states, Fox Business reported.
Remember that when President Joe Biden and his team say it’s the corrupt old oil companies that drag their feet on oil production because they want their profits and stuff and that means there’s not enough oil and that’s why gas costs so much and it’s not our fault and …
There is something ghostly and ghastly about the resurrection of British author George Orwell in contemporary politics, especially in the reaction to the disruption and transformation of public policy now taking place.
Orwell was a mid-20th century journalist, essayist and novelist who was an early anti-fascist of the far left until the Spanish civil war of 1936-39 in which he fought on the anti-Franco side. During that period, living side by side with the defenders of the democratic Spanish republic, many of whom were radical anarchists and Stalinist communists, Orwell got to see the brutality of the far left up close, and so his passionate anti-fascism was augmented by growing anti-communist views as well.
During and after World War II, Orwell increasingly was alarmed by totalitarian Marxism, and wrote two iconic satiric novels depicting the consequences of Stalinist totalitarianism, 1984 and Animal Farm. Their themes of dictatorship and imposed political conformity were meant to expose Marxism in allegory, although the international far Left attempted to defuse the satire by trying to interpret 1984 in particular as a condemnation merely of modern technology.
The Miami-Dade School Board overwhelming decided against recognizing October as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History month which included a measure to teach 12th graders about two Supreme Court cases affecting the LGBTQ community.
Parents, teachers and students spoke for more than three hours Wednesday, with one group citing indoctrination of students and the other speaking about how Nazis ostracized gays and lesbians with a pink triangle. The board then voted 8-1 against the measure, which was proffered by board member Lucia Baez Geller.
Outside the school board's headquarters, where people waited to speak during the meeting, a group of Proud Boys got into a loud argument with someone hoisting a trans flag, the Miami Herald reported.
n his first day as president, Joe Biden, flanked by a portrait of Ben Franklin, called on the federal government to “advance environmental justice” and “be guided by the best science.”
In many ways, Biden’s words came as no surprise.
Throughout the 2020 campaign and after, Biden had often repeated the phrases “listen to the science” and “I believe in science,” presumably to contrast himself with his opponent.
Biden didn’t stop there, however. He included the mantra in one of the first executive orders he signed, noting that it would be his administration’s official policy to “listen to the science.”
The phrase seems harmless enough. The scientific method is highly trusted, and for good reason. It has been a boon to humanity and helped bring about many of the marvels of our modern world.
Yet distinguished thinkers new and old have warned us to proceed with caution when confronted with pleas to “listen to the science.”
Theodore Roosevelt delivered the speech entitled “Citizenship in a Republic” at the Sorbonne in Paris on April 23, 1910. The speech is popularly known as “The Man in the Arena.” His statements at the Sorbonne were part of a larger trip to Europe that also included visits to Vienna, Budapest, and Oslo. On May 5, 1910, he gave his Nobel Prize speech. This trip came in the midst of Roosevelt's frustration with the Taft administration and followed his African safari with Kermit. After completing his tour of Europe, Roosevelt would make a triumphant return to the U.S.
Strange and impressive associations rise in the mind of a man from the New World who speaks before this august body in this ancient institution of learning. Before his eyes pass the shadows of mighty kings and war-like nobles, of great masters of law and theology; through the shining dust of the dead centuries he sees crowded figures that tell of the power and learning and splendor of times gone by; and he sees also the innumerable host of humble students to whom clerkship meant emancipation, to whom it was well-nigh the only outlet from the dark thralldom of the Middle Ages.
This was the most famous university of medieval Europe at a time when no one dreamed that there was a New World to discover. Its services to the cause of human knowledge already stretched far back into the remote past at the time when my forefathers, three centuries ago, were among the sparse bands of traders, ploughmen, wood-choppers, and fisher folk who, in hard struggle with the iron unfriendliness of the Indian-haunted land, were laying the foundations of what has now become the giant republic of the West. To conquer a continent, to tame the shaggy roughness of wild nature, means grim warfare; and the generations engaged in it cannot keep, still less add to, the stores of garnered wisdom which were once theirs, and which are still in the hands of their brethren who dwell in the old land. To conquer the wilderness means to wrest victory from the same hostile forces with which mankind struggled in the immemorial infancy of our race. The primeval conditions must be met by the primeval qualities which are incompatible with the retention of much that has been painfully acquired by humanity as through the ages it has striven upward toward civilization. In conditions so primitive there can be but a primitive culture. At first only the rudest school can be established, for no others would meet the needs of the hard-driven, sinewy folk who thrust forward the frontier in the teeth of savage men and savage nature; and many years elapse before any of these schools can develop into seats of higher learning and broader culture.
