Acid-Alkaline Balance
The chemical factory that is the body requires a precise equilibrium of 16 basic chemicals, and correct acid-alkaline balance plays a vital role this process. Foods, after digestion and absorption, leave either an acid or alkaline ash in the body depending on their composition. Normal body chemistry should be approximately 20 per cent acid and 80 per cent alkaline, thus the food intake should reflect this balance.
Taboo Subjects
The essential truths of life are almost always taboo subjects. This is why no school will teach any youngster how to balance his check book, or anything else that would actually be useful to the child. Such information is considered taboo subjects. One reason Christ had to die was that he taught the people many of these uncomfortable truths. There are hundreds of such taboo truths that people commonly suffer for want of knowing But why would this state of affairs be this way? (more...)
Taffy was a unique dog in all the world. She was a mutt and proud of it. Half Samoyed and half something else she was a sight to behold. Resplendent in her Taffy colored coat, she walked the earth like the Eurasian Princess that she was.
There are very good reasons to own a mutt other than some so-called “pure” bred. One thing is that dog-nappers will never steal a mixed dog. They may be a dumb and evil lot, but they know their business very well, and have a keen and educated eye for what dog has resale value.
Regular dogs, (mutts,) have unique personalities and a look that is theirs alone. Hence, owners have the satisfaction of knowing no one on earth has a dog just like theirs.
Then there is the added value that breeders know quite a bit about. It is called “hybrid vigor.” You get this special DNA mix when you cross two different breeds. The result is often hardier and more talented than either of their more “pure” parents. It is the effect we get in humans when a couple of plain and untalented people produce a child that is stunning in every way. The very kind they make movie stars out of.
This is not to say “pure” breeds do not have a place, they do, but just to say that we got those “pure” breeds by a lot of cross breeding of unalike dogs, mutts. All the breeds were originally mutts and mixing the mutts back and forth enabled us to produce the startling array of breeds we see today.
So Hurray for Mutts, and Hurray for Taffy, the greatest Mutt of them all.
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Let’s talk taxes:
Everyone agrees that taxes are too high (Republicans) and some complain revenues are not large enough to pay for all their big government boondoggles (Democrats), but regardless of which side you are on, a careful examination of the tax structure is useful. Here is a no-holds barred expose of this sickening crime called the Tax Codes.
First, let’s look at the total cost to the whole nation of preparing and complying with tax laws, including sending numberless people to jail every year for violating some part of the tax code, where we have to feed and care for these jailbirds at a lost of $70,000 a year per inmate, not to speak of caring for their families on welfare due to the breadwinner being in jail.
The cost to society of the IRS code is staggering. Not only that but this terrible oppressive Fascist-Communist tax code, Federal, State, and Local, is unfair from top to bottom.
Huge numbers of corporations pay NO TAXES because of cleverly rigged deductions.
And the multi-trillion dollar NON-PROFIT industry pays not one single penny in taxes, Local, State or Federal, and buys their stuff not even paying sales taxes. Talk about something on the backs of the people eating them out of house and home, the predatory NON-PROFIT Industry, or should we call it a RICO (Racketeer Influenced Conspiracy?) This parasitical “non-profit” industry spends hundreds of millions lobbying Congress for more and more tax benefits, and in addition to that they have the gall and nerve to lobby for hundreds of billions of government handout grants and other government money in addition. Not only to they evade all taxes but jump in to steal the taxes that other hard working people pay. I’ve never seen any of them do any good, though there may be some exception here or there.
So, very first thing we need to do is junk the tax code and create a simple and fair plan where EVERY SINGLE PERSON, AND EVERY SINGLE ORGANIZATION OF ANY TYPE OR SORT, PAYS SOME TAXES. If a person gets a welfare check they should pay taxes on it. If they get Unemployment checks, they should pay taxes on them. Absolutely everyone, and every single organization should pay taxes just like everyone else. If someone only received $10.00 for the year they need to pay tax on that $10.00.
This teaches everyone that there is no such thing as a free lunch, and that taxes hurt everyone, and that when you throw garbage on the street, it is going to cost YOU to have it picked up, not someone else.
On the other side there should be NO Deductions at all, for anything whatsoever. If the society wants to help someone or some organization it needs to come right out and mail them a check, and not dirty up and corrupt the tax system by creating a sleight of hand tax deduction or tax credit system. That way we know what we are spending, no ifs ands or buts. If you want to subsidize the rich, don’t give them a tax deduction for giving worthless art work to some museum, just mail them a check and avoid the museum gift scam. If society wants to help a museum, send them a check, don’t play games with bribing rich people to give worthless art to museums in a conspiracy to avoid taxes they rightfully owe.
The present system turns every American into a liar and a crook as we all struggle to “cheat” on our taxes. And don’t lie about it. If you don’t engage in this shady conduct you are being cheated by a system that rewards this unethical behavior.
And while we are at it, let’s look at the expense side of the ledger. Government pensions are eating this nation alive, and all of them should be totally eliminated. If people want to save for their retirement, let them, but the rest of use should not have to pay for it. In this country today there is hardly a single job that people cannot do till they are 90, so let them, if they want to eat. The Bible clearly says, if you do not work you should not be allowed to eat, and that includes everyone, no exceptions. If grandma is 90 and blind and in a wheelchair she can still work, and should do so, of course at something she is able to do. She needs the dignity of providing for herself and not being a parasite, and we need her help to do the work of this society. Retirement is condemned in the Bible in Luke 12, and it is an immoral act, and a tax and abuse of the young used to
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Term Limit Crazies
Yes, all the points people make about term limits are true, but it takes two to Tango, and the Democrats are not interested in dancing, so, until they are Republican should put a sock in it. Lots of things are true, but not of much use to make anything better.
What Term Limit Energizer Bunnies are saying is just a big load of “ain’t it awful, ain’t it awful,” bull, that contains no real understanding, or interest, of how things went wrong, in this country, nor do they have any practical plan to correct them. I do, and it can be read at www.ConservativeVictoryPlan.WordPress.Com
The cause of our myriad of problems is much deeper than such shallow thinkers remotely suspect, starting with a terrifying demographic winter we are now in the midst of, where we are not even having enough children to even replace ourselves The best and brightest of our young people are only reproducing at half of replacement.
Note: Any human group that reproduces at half of replacement, arithmetically becomes statistically extinct in less than 100 years. So as it stands now we are finished as a nation and as a people, and well into our last century on this earth. We are likely at, or past, the tipping point at which this holocaust could even be corrected.
In addition, constant bellyaching and whining about term limits, which no one wants, and are NOT going to happen in any case, is an exercise in destructive futility and a recipe for despair, and demoralization of what troops we have left.
It is suicidal and irresponsible to advocate term limits for OUR people, while the other side is smart enough not to bother with them, and thereby takes control of every committee in Congress and uses them to harm us.
Unilateral disarmament has never ever worked, throughout history, and never will, and anyone who advocates it for their side is a disloyal traitor.
So, let’s move on to some other items that might offer us some hope.
If anyone is interested I can suggest a dozen or so. FSCPLanning@Gmail.Com
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I’m thankful for such simple things
As butterflies with colored wings,
And every bird that sings,
For buttercups and daisies,
For clover sweet and violets blue,
For pearls of morning dew,
For cooling summer rain
That falls upon my windowpane,
And for grazing sheep and golden grain,
For every creature large or small,
For foliage in the fall,
For trees that stand so tall,
For children laughing as they play,
For every day,
For flowing brooks that run away,
For gentle words and kindly hands,
And faith to follow God’s commands,
And for friendships strong as iron bands.
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Thoughts for Every Day
Two thousand years before Adam Smith, Plato wrote in his “Republic”: “So if one man gives another what he has to give in exchange for what he can get, it is because each finds that to do so is for his own advantage.”Economic advantage can be achieved by people, locales, and nations by specializing in producing certain things and then trading with each other on that basis. While this concept is generally true and not to be ignored, there are also other truths and many downsides to “Free Trade.” (more…)
Tripoli Treaty of Peace 1796
Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the United States, and the Bey and Subjects of Tripoli of Barbary
[Authored by American diplomat Joel Barlow in 1796, the following treaty was sent to the floor of the Senate, June 7, 1797, where it passed. John Adams then signed it where it is recorded in the Annals of Congress, 5th Congress.]
Article 1. There is a firm and perpetual peace and friendship between the United States of America and the Bey and subjects of Tripoli, of Barbary, made by the free consent of both parties, and guarantied by the most potent Dey and Regency of Algiers.
Art. 2. If any goods belonging to any nation with which either of the parties is at war, shall be loaded on board of vessels belonging to the other party, they shall pass free, and no attempt shall be made to take or detain them.
Art. 3. If any citizens, subjects, or effects, belonging to either party, shall be found on board a prize vessel taken from an enemy by the other party, such citizens or subjects shall be set at liberty, and the effects restored to the owners.
Art. 4. Proper passports are to be given to all vessels of both parties, by which they are to be known. And considering the distance between the two countries, eighteen months from the date of this treaty, shall be allowed for procuring such passports. During this interval the other papers, belonging to such vessels, shall be sufficient for their protection.
Art. 5. A citizen or subject of either party having bought a prize vessel, condemned by the other party, or by any other nation, the certificates of condemnation and bill of sale shall be a sufficient passport for such vessel for one year; this being a reasonable time for her to procure a proper passport.
Art. 6. Vessels of either party, putting into the ports of the other, and having need of provisions or other supplies, they shall be furnished at the market price. And if any such vessel shall so put in, from a disaster at sea, and have occasion to repair, she shall be at liberty to land and re-embark her cargo without paying any duties. But in case shall she be compelled to the land her cargo.
Art. 7. Should a vessel of either party be cast on the shore of the other, all proper assistance shall be given to her and her people; no pillage shall be allowed; the property shall remain at the disposition of the owners; and the crew protected and succored till they can be sent to their country.
Art. 8. If a vessel of either party should be attacked by an enemy, within gun-shot of the forts of the other, she shall be defended as much as possible. If she be in port she shall not be seized on or attacked, when it is in the power of the other party to protect her. And when she proceeds to sea, no enemy shall be allowed to pursue her from the same port, within twenty-four hours after her departure.
Art. 9. The commerce between the United States and Tripoli; the protection to be given to merchants, masters of vessels, and seamen; the reciprocal right of the establishing Consuls in each country; and the privileges, immunities, and jurisdiction, to be on the same footing with those of the most favored nations respectively.
Art. 10. The money and presents demanded by the Bey of Tripoli, as a full and satisfactory consideration on his part, and on the part of his subjects, for this treaty of perpetual peace and friendship, are acknowledged to have been received by him previous to his signing the same, according to a receipt which is hereto annexed, except such as part as is promised, on the part of the United States, to be delivered and paid by them on the arrival of their Consul in Tripoli; of which part a note is likewise hereto annexed. And no pretense of any periodical tribute of further payments is ever to be made by either party.
Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.
Art. 12. In case of any dispute, arising from a violation of any of the articles of this treaty, no appeal shall be made to arms; nor shall war be declared on any pretext whatever. But if the Consul, residing at the place where the dispute shall happen, shall not be able to settle the same, an amicable reference shall be made to the mutual friend of the parties, the Dey of Algiers; the parties hereby engaging to abide by his decision. And he, by virtue of his signature to this treaty, engages for himself and successors to declare the justice of the case, according to the true interpretation of the treaty, and to use all the means in his power to enforce the observance of the same.
Signed and sealed at Tripoli of Barbary the 3d day of Junad in the year of the Hegira 1211- corresponding with the 4th day of November, 1796, by
JUSSOF BASHAW MAHOMET, Bey.
MAMET, Treasurer.
AMET, Minister of Marine.
SOLIMAN KAYA.
GALIL, General of the Troops.
MAHOMET, Commander of the City.
AMET, Chamberlain.
ALLY, Chief of the Divan.
MAMET, Secretary.
Signed and sealed at Algiers, the 4th day of Argill, 1211-corresponding with the 3d day of
January, 1797, by
HASSAN BASHAW, Dey,
And by the agent Plenipotentiary of the United States of America,
JOEL BARLOW.
Commentary: This treaty was one of the worst mistakes made by John Adams as President, and it, along with other mistakes, led to his losing the election of 1800, and not being reelected President. Thus, opening the door to Jefferson and the Democrats to take over the presidency.
This failure by Adams is in line with other mistakes American presidents have made, wherein they either over-react by being too forceful in pursuit of national purposes (Nixon for example) or under-react by being to timid in the face of enemies at home and abroad.
In this case Adams was guilty of the latter. He gave away too much to maintain the peace, and that kind of appeasement only leads to greater war later on. The Muslims misled by our seeming weakness, immediately renewed their attacks on our shipping and the shipping of other European powers, which led to war under Jefferson’s administration.
Other than serving as a warning against the temptations of appeasement, the treaty is often quoted by those who oppose religion generally as evidence that America is not, and was not, founded as a Christian nation. Clearly, the Muslims of Tripoli wanted that sort of disclaimer from the Adams administration, and Barlow, speaking for Adams showed himself so eager for peace that he agreed to almost anything, in exchange for nothing of substance.
The result of such a one-sided treaties is to bring on war, not prevent it, which it faithfully did a few years later. A war, by the way, which we then won and thereby settled the hash of the Barbary Pirates for good.
Despite this fatuous wording, America is, and was, founded as a Christian nation, whether secular Democrats, and the Muslims of North Africa like it or not. The treaty itself may be binding, but not every single word is binding.
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