The Wise Buddha-hahahaha

Oil Still Seeps From The U.S.S Arizona.

Sixty-eight years ago, my Uncle Harry T. Collins awoke to find the U.S. Fleet under attack at Pearl Harbor. He, like every other sailor there, went immediately to battle stations. He was on the destroyer USS Chew (DD-106). The Chew and all other ships received orders to get under way and to get out of Pearl Harbor and make for the open sea lest the entire fleet be destroyed.

Uncle Harry said it was utter chaos that day. Battleship Row was the central target and the Japanese torpedo bombers were concentrating on them. The ones in bold below were sunk.

US NAVY Battleships (BB) Pennsylvania (BB-38) (in drydock) Arizona (BB-39) Nevada (BB-36) Oklahoma(BB-37) Tennessee (BB-43) California (BB-44) Maryland (BB-46) West Virginia (BB-48)

Uncle Harry survived Pearl Harbor, after the war he returned to St. Louis and had a distinguised career with the St. Louis Police Department and later in his retirement years, he worked with Boys Town Of Missouri in St. James and here in St. Louis.

Every year he went to the Pearl Harbor Survivors Memorial Ceremony. In recent years, they tossed a Wreath Of Remembrance to honor their fallen comrades on the waters of the Misssissippi River below the Gateway Arch.

Sailors know that all waters flow to the sea and that all the seas connect to the oceans. And they know that on the final day, the seas and oceans will give up their dead.

Across the Pacific in the quiet waters of Pearl Harbor another ceremony will take place today on The Arizona Memorial. On this quiet white structure are listed the names of every sailor, Marine and soldier who died in the dreadful sneak attack on that "day that will live in infamy."

Below the Memorial, the USS Arizona and many of her brave crewmen still lie entombed.

Today, the name of every person listed on the walls of the Arizona Memorial will be read aloud and they will be remembered and honored.

We visited the Memorial many years ago and it is a very serene, reverent and holy place. When you look over the side you can see the USS Arizona below.

Oil still seeps from the USS Arizona. Her heart still bleeds for all the brave men and women who took the first blow against the United States in World War II.

Today, we all need to set aside some quiet time to remember what happened 68 years ago today. And, if you are lucky enough to have had a Pearl Harbor Survivor in your family, please hold them foremost in your thoughts today.

To my late Uncle Harry and to his cohorts, I'd just like to say that you will always have the thanks and honor of a grateful Nation. The oil that still seeps from the Arizona will not let us forget Sunday, December 7, 1941.

And let us not forget the men and women of the Armed Forces of the United States Of America who are protecting our lives and liberty at his very hour around the world.

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen Of The Republic

A Wonderful Story About Albert Einstein And The Reverend Billy Graham.

Dear Pals,

The following was sent to me by my old Pal J.B. from down in the Sunshine State. I thought you would enjoy it too.

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Billy Graham is now 90 years old with Parkinson's disease.

In January 2000, leaders in Charlotte , North Carolina, invited their favorite son, Billy Graham, to a luncheon in his honor.

Billy initially hesitated to accept the invitation because he struggles with Parkinson's disease. But the Charlotte leaders said, 'We don't expect a major address. Just  come and let us honor you.' So he agreed.

After wonderful things were said about him, Dr. Graham stepped to the rostrum, looked at the crowd, and said, 'I'm reminded today of Albert Einstein, the great physicist who this month has been honored by Time magazine as the Man of the Century.

Einstein was once traveling from Princeton on a train when the conductor came down the aisle, punching the tickets of every passenger. When he came to Einstein, Einstein reached in his vest pocket. He  couldn't find his ticket, so he reached in his trouser pockets.

It wasn't there, so he looked in his briefcase but couldn't find it. Then he looked in the seat beside him. He still couldn't find it.

The conductor said, 'Dr. Einstein, I know who you are.  We all know who you are. I'm sure you bought a ticket. Don't worry about it.' Einstein nodded appreciatively.

The conductor continued down the aisle punching tickets. As he was ready to move to the next car, he turned around and saw the great physicist down on his hands and knees looking under his seat for his ticket.

The conductor rushed back and said, 'Dr. Einstein, Dr. Einstein, don't worry, I know who you are. No problem. You don't need a ticket. I'm sure you bought one.'

Einstein looked at him and said, 'Young man, I too, know who I am.  What I don't know is where I'm going.''

Having said that Billy Graham continued, '"See the suit I'm wearing? It's a brand new suit. My children, and my grandchildren are telling me I've gotten a little slovenly in my old age. I used to be a bit more fastidious.

"So I went out and bought a new suit for this luncheon and one more occasion. You know what that occasion is? This is the suit in which I'll be buried. But when you hear I'm dead, I don't want  you to immediately remember the suit I'm wearing. I want you to remember this:  I not only know who I am .. I also know where I'm going."

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May your troubles be less, your blessings more, and may nothing but happiness, come through your door.  "Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil - it has no point"

Thanks J.B.

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen Of The Republic

PS: I often thought that if I ever needed to cast the Prime Minister of England, Ireland and Wales that I'd call Central Casting and ask, "Do you have anyone there with manly good looks as distinguished in style, grace and manner as J.B."

Inner Space. Outer Space. Explore Them Both Through One Door.

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Check The Archives: October 4, 2008.

It all begins in Egypt...and within you.

And, be sure to see the secret that is revealed on page 176 in Dan Brown's new book The Lost Symbol - Archives - June 7, 2009.

Let the adventure begin!

Divide And Conquer. Adam And Atom. Is It Man's Nature To Divide Things? Happy Thanksgiving! And Happy Thinksgiving!

Here's something to think about about on Thanksgiving when you complain that the mashed potatoes are lumpy...or your sister got more whipped cream than you did.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34109227/ns/health-more_health_news/?GT1=43001

It also makes an eloquent case for LIFE.

Dear Pals,

Here's the way it ALL works in my "alleged mind".

1. The Universe was created and continues to be created every second. (The BIG BANG was just the SOUND of the BIG THOUGHT being articulated by THE BIG THINKER.) We can argue about that and if you have a better explanation...I'm all ears.

2. We are all Human Beings

3. We are all a part of creation not apart from creation

That's the net, net of the net.

Now, enter the knowledge of good and evil and the next thing you know we human beings start dividing things.

It's true whether we're talking Adam or Atom

Let's divide by gender

Adam - Eve

Man - Woman

Boar - Sow

Buck - Doe

Hansel - Gretyl

Let's divide by sexual preferences

Hetero - Homo

Asexual - Bi

Plain - Kinky

Whipped cream - Body Butter

Milk Chocolate - Dark Chocolate

Mounds - Almond Joy (Almond Joy has nuts...Mounds has mounds)

French Maid - Sister Carolyn

Let's divide by color

Black - White -

Red - Yellow

Chartreuse - Magenta

Tan - Pale

Freckled - Tawny

Fair - Olive

Wan - Swarthy

Let's divide by hair color

Blondes - Brunettes

Redheads - Jet Black

Curly - Moe

Straight - Frizzy

Let's divide by weight

Thin - Fat

6-pack ABs - Beer Belly Kegger

Under 100 Lbs - Over 100 Lbs

Let's divide by clan or tribe or age or possessions

My family - Her family

My generation - Their Generation

Younger generation - Older generation

Her family traditions - My family traditions

My Towel - Her Towel

Her Money - Our Money

Let's divide by geography

East - West

North - South

LA - SFO

City - County

Blue state - Red state

Let's divide by universe concept

God - God Particle

Intelligent Design - Chaos

Gaia - YHWH

Darwin - Mendel

Rumi - Bishop Sheen

We humans like to slice and dice things down to pretty fine levels.

NOTE: In the case of VOLPI proscuitto thin-sliced with melon is a very very good thing. But when it comes to Kenrick Thuringer...KCE and I agree that it's thick does the trick!

This is true of many things.

Let's divide by attitude

Positive- Negative

Optimist - Pessimist

Happy - Depressed

Likes - Dislikes

Egg Lover - Egg Hater

National League - American League

Cards - Cubs

Red wine - White wine

French Champagne - California Champagne

Asti - Nasti

Lager - Pilsner

IPA - Stout

Lexus - BMW

Ford - Chivvy (Southside for Chevy)

Yin - Yang

Bob - Bing

Let's divide by earthly lot in life

Brain surgeon - homeless person

Clydesdale - dung beetle (it's a dirty job but without the dung beetle we'd be up to our eyeballs in Horse Puckey)

Land owner - peon

Rich - Poor

Haves - Have nots

Lottery Winner - Sorry Not A Winner

Let's divide by God-concept

Pick any God-concept you like.

Humans will divide it, label it and categorize it into a very specific belief system and get some other Human Beings to sign up to the TRUE creed...or else!

Southern Baptist- Northern Baptist (?)

Christian - Protestant

Moslem - Jew

Shia - Sunni

Reformed - Hassidic

Buddhist - Nudist

Taoist - Confuscionist

Episcopalian - Unitarian

Let's divide by moral ethos

Right - Wrong

We're Right - They're Wrong

Commandment - Suggestion

Reward - Punishment

Heaven - Hell

Purgatory - Limbo

Vice - Virtue

Pop Quiz for my Catholic buddies:

Is Eating Meat On Friday A Sin?

YES -NO- NOT ANYMORE - NOT IF YOU OWN FRANDEKA's or BOB's FISH STORE

FINAL EXAM TIME:

Where does all this Human DIVISIVENESS get us?

Answer: It gets us right to where we are today.

Please give me your personal perspective in an Essay Comment

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Here's one poor undereducated schmoo's perspective based on my own speculations, observations and life experiences IE: gallavants, romps, escapades, benders, excursions of the rails, travels, jobs and meditative inner journies.

I think the top line and the  bottom line comes full circle and ALL is ONE.

Adam and Atom are all part of the creative dance of the universe that whirls and twirls in the red-shifting stardust of the most distant galaxies and in the double helix of our own DNA.

As I learned at Catholic Confirmation and used to be reminded of on every Ash Wednesday: "Remember man that thou art dust and to dust thou shalt return."

For my physicist pals I'd like to amend that idea to be: "Remember man that thou art stardust and to stardust thou shalt return." 

In the subatomic parlance, you might be a Quark and I am reasonably certain that I am a Quirk in the Space Time Continuum.

But even Space is divided: Retail - Commercial. And there is a lot of empty space out in the universe and right here in St. Louis! Ask Larry and "Tom The Torch."

And, of course there are two vitally important Spaces to explore: Outer Space and Inner Space. It's good to look up and in at the same time. We are God Particles, you know.

When I stretch my romantic and scientific imagination I can even here the creative physicist Adam said to his lab assistant Eve, "Madam I'd love to spilt your atom!" or "Will you be my photon tonight?"

Maybe you could call that "ribbing her."

Which leads to the old joke...

Q. What came after the BIG BANG?

A. The BIG cigarette.

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On this Thanksgiving I'm thankful for having experienced all of God's creation.

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I'm thankful to have been instructed to Love the Lord Thy God with thy whole heart and soul.

And, love thy neighbor as thy self.

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The first part is easy for the grateful loving heart.

The second part is easy for a man if your neighbor is a promiscuous 23-year old Swedish bombshell exchange student named Ingrid or if you live nextdoor to Halle Berry, Jennifer Aniston, Whoopie Goldberg ( Hey, she's really funny) or Sandra Bullock.

The ladies have a different love thy neighbor A-list I'm sure. I'll bet Jon Hamm aka "Don Draper," Brad Pitt, Mick Jagger and Denzel Washington are on it...I don't think me, Steve Bushemi, Lewis Black. Wally Cox and Don Knotts made the girls' Fantasy Meatball team.

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So this Thanksgiving, I'm gonna love the ones I'm with. I hope you all will do the same. We're all ONE family you know.

Happy Thanksgiving is one day a year.

Happy Thinksgiving can be every day if you have a grateful heart.

Let's radiate and unleash the creative energy inside each of us!

Let's win the battle for the mind of man and for the heart and soul of civilization with LIFE, LOVE, TRUTH and UNITY.

It all begins within you.

If NOT you...who?

If NOT now...when?

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen of the Republic. A Mob Of One.

But, first and foremost...just be a human be-ing.

Just Be!

HERE'S A PARTING SHOT:

Here's a little joke, that's about being careful about anything that someone hands you.

A Rabbi sat down next to a blind man on a bench on Central Park South.

The Rabbi was going to enjoy his lunch when he noticed that the blind man had nothing to eat. So he reached into his rabbincal satchel and pulled forth a large square Matzoh cracker.

The Rabbi said, "My son...please take this."

The blind man took the Matzoh cracker and ran his hand over its surface. Then he turned toward the sound of the Rabbi's voice and asked, "Who writes this crap?"

Now there is food for thought...especially for all Senators and "Representatives," who are undoubtedly so very very very carefully reading the proposed Obamatocity Healthscare Bill over their LONG HOLIDAY.

SORRY PALS: My last blog for a few daze will be on November 28 - because I hit the Dusty Trail to Davenport on November 29/30 'til December 1, 2009.

Actually, I am going into the Cone Of Silence in The Fortress Of Liberty to await further instructions from Beldar, but if I said that out loud...some people might begin wonder about me.

Hahahahaha!

Hang in there and stick together or this could become The Divided States of America. And that would really be an obamination!

 

Art Bell Broadcasting From Manila: What Time Is It? What Is Time, It? What Is It, Time? Space-Time Continuum Continues To Puzzle Many On The Dusty Road Of Life. Birk Steps In To Clear It All Up.

Dear Pals,

There have been two really fascinating shows on Coast-To-Coast this week. The first was an interview with Joshua P. Warren. My old St. Louis Pal, C2C-host George Noory interviewed this author of The Secret Wisdom Of KUKLUKAN. (www.joshuapwarren.com)

The second show earlier today was with Starfire Tor the "Chief Brain" at an unnamed Think Tank.

The founding father of C2C the one and only Art Bell was broadcasting this interview from his home in Manila, The Phillipines. Starfire was fascinating as she discussed her theory of the Core Matrix and the origin and source of TIME itself (That's time as in TIME-dimensional and directional TIME, not the magazine founded by Luce) and a concept called Reality Shift Manifestation. (www.starfiretor.com)

IS THIS ALL A LOT OF NEW AGE MUMBO-JUMBO?

I have my own take on all this...

As the "Chief Brain" (Starfire has this cool title, think I should swipe it, huh?) at the ORCA Partnership Think Tank, let me ask you to participate in a little TIME experiment with me.

I hope Starfire Tor will come along too!

BIRK EXPLAINS TIME IF YOU HAVE THE TIME:

Step One: With a ruler, draw a straight line on an 11 x 17 sheet of paper. Call this line a unit of TIME measurement, it can be a minute, a second, nano-second or an eon

Step Two: Make the line 12" long and straight as an arrow

Step Three: Name the line, "The Arrow of TIME" - Stephen Hawking, will like that. He is the Lucasian Professor of Mathmatics and the world-renowned physicist who wrote extensively about TIME.

Step Four: Draw an arrow pointing to the RIGHT - according to Hawking The Arrow of Time is a one way direction from past to present and relentlessly on to the future.

Step Five: Get some string and cut off 7 - 12-inch lengths

Step Six: Lay one string down exactly along The Arrow of TIME line.

Step Seven: This represents TIME in one Universe. If you looked head-on at the string from the beginning or end (Alpha end Omega end), you would see a "point" - the entire line is made up of points in TIME.

Step Seven: Now, Einstein said that there was such a thing as the Space-Time Continuum. And he also believed that it was curved. So? Well, any line that is curved has an arc which means that if the arc is extended that it will eventually bend around to form a full circle.

Step Eight: Now, according to most physicists, THE BIG BANG - which created the universe in Space came from the explosion of a "singularity" - something or "no-thing" that was so infinitely small and dense that it contained all the matter in the universe.

Including the stuff in you and me.

Step Nine: But, according to the Bible it was GOD who created the universe and kicked it off with THE WORD...Let there be light!

I think the physicists and the advocates of creative intelligence (aka God) are both right.

Here's my notion that will make both camps equally unhappy.

My theory is: THE BIG BANG was the sound of the BIG THOUGHT being verbalized by THE BIG THINKER, the Creative force of the universe.

GOD or the singularity seem to be one-side of the same massless one-sided coin/point.

NOTES: Keep the following ideas in mind, but buckle up for a mind-bending ride on The Screaming Beagle...I named it after Snoopy, because I love to snoop around in the recesses of the Human-space-time-mind-brain-soul continuum.

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Light is both a WAVE and a particle (photon).

Sound (the voice of God or the explosion of the BIG BANG) is a sound Wave with a frequency of vibration(s)

All matter in the Univese vibrates - so it has a frequency that can be measured in a WAVE

My pal Dr. Arno Penzias won the Nobel Prize for Physics for discovering "The Echo of the Big Bang" which is the identical background vibration you find wherever you point your sensors in Space.

Einstein believed that the Space-Time continuum exists. And is curved.

Step Ten: Now, take another piece of string and lay it 2" above the first piece of string on your Arrow of Time line.

You have just created TIME in a parallel universe. Another dimension for TIME to travel in.

Step Eleven: Just for fun, let's allow The Arrow of TIME to be a two-way street in this Universe.

So TIME here can flow from future to present to past and past to present to past and future to present to future. H.G. Wells would like this highway for his Time Machine.

Look out future here we come...at the speed of light...or maybe even faster.

NOTE: These parallel Universes exist unbeknownst to each other, they don't intersect or interact.

Step Twelve: Now add a 3rd string 2" below your Arrow of TIME. In this universe, you can make The Arrow of TIME modulate from left to right or right to left back to a point that you select. Think of it as a "re-bound button" - every so often TIME automatically re-bounds itself...like in 2012 when the Mayan Calendar ends.

Oooogahboogah!

Step Thirteen: Now take a 4th piece of string and lay it over the first string and the second string above it in a WAVE pattern. BUT don't let the wave dip below your original Arrow of TIME.

Now you have an intersecting universe - lets have time flow both ways in this WAVY universe - that is interacting with the other two. Note the places where the WAVE line crosses the 2 parallel lines. Could these be time warps, worm holes or inter-dimensional portals??

Step Fourteen: Now take a 5th piece of string and lay it over the first string and the third string below it in a WAVE pattern. BUT don't let the wave dip above your original Arrow of TIME.

Now you have a 2nd intersecting universe - lets have time flow ONE WAY in this 2nd WAVY universe - that is interacting with the other two. Note the places where the WAVE line crosses the 2 parallel lines.

More potential "points of contact" - ingress and egress??

Step Fifteen: Now take the 6th piece of string and lay it in either a straight line or wave pattern at 90-degrees to all the other pieces of string.

Note the intersecting points. Michio Kaku Ph.D would like this...it's kinda like String Theory.

It's also a lot like the ancient Vedic concept called the Net Of Indra...wherein the universe was envisioned as a net stretching off in all directions.

At each intersecting point there was a perfectly-faceted diamond (a creation of God) called a human being that reflected the essence and light of every other human being in the universe or creature in the "multiverse."

Or, maybe the other dimensions in the multiverse are Jung's Collective Unconsciousness, Edgar Cayce's Hall of Records or Napoleon Hill's Subconscious Creative Mastermind.

Or perhaps it's Starfire Tor's "Core Matrix" - it could all be different ways of envisoning the world of Quantum Mechanics. That would make Niels Bohr smile and give Einstein indigestion.

We are all a part of ONE. Hmmm...

It looks like physics and intelligent design are both arcing in the Space Time Continuum to come full circle and connect with the idea that all human beings have God-DNA (made in his image and likeness)and the vibration and light of the Creative Force of the universe within each of us.

May the Force be with you!

TWO LAST THOUGHTS TO PONDER:

1) Imagine the string display before you in 3-dimensions instead of on a 2-dimensional plane. I think of it as The Wavy Gravy Universe...all connected and vibrating to God's tuning fork.

Wow...does that interconnected web look like the model for the Internet?

Are all the little diamonds on Facebook vibrating with the electro-magnetic waves called Tweets? I'll bet Nicola Tesla would smile at that notion.

2) Take the 7th piece of string and compress it in a WAVE pattern...see how high the wave goes and how low it goes? The more compression  -the higher the high and the lower the low of the WAVE.

Looks a lot like an emotional roller-coaster ride on The Screaming Beagle to me!

And if you compress it enough, the TIME WAVE of the future will compress on the present and the present will compress on the past. TIME will become ONE and it's THE BIG CRUNCH...or deja vu all over again.

It's kinda like the Great Depression of 1929-1933 meets the Great Repression of 2008-?

Or, if something flys in from a parallel universe - one of the other dimensions created by the Intelligent Designer, then we might have a paradigm shift.

Could be a Reality Shift Manifestation? The Return of the Jedi? The return of The Messiah? The Return of the 12th Planet Nibaru and the Anunaki? Will we hear Gabriel's trumpet blare? Is it Armageddon? The Rapture, Tribulation and Judgment Day?

Or an invitation to join our extended family?

Will our inspiring new President simply step up to the microphone and introduce us to Seti I and Osiris from Sirius and my cousin, Beldar Conehead from Epsilon Bhoatis in the Star System Alpha Centuri.

I'll bet that would make Agents Muldor and Scully smile. I know Willaim Shatner would yell out, "See, I told you StarTrek was real!"

But I wonder what effect the news would have on our little pals like the Sheiks of Oilaby and Mamoud Ahmadinejad and Kim Jong Il??

As James Taylor would sing, we might have to "shed a little light oh Lord" - on those chaps and their followers.

I know Pope Gregory is all set to be on board, the Vatican has 2 Observatories - one in Rome and one in Arizona. Cardinal Balducci was an open spokesmen for "our brothers and sisters in the Creation."

 And just a few weeks ago The Vatican convened an Astro-Biological Conference. Guess who's runnning the show?

The Jesuits. Gotta love those "black robes," the Church's resident free-thinkers.

Well that oughtta to be enough to chew on for one day...

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen Of The Republic. A Mob of One.

PS: I do believe that the light of our Creator is in all men. But each of us has to find it on his own. Don't look up or out for answers...it all begins within you.

Let your light shine!

Where one finds HATE. Stand up for LOVE.

Where one finds LIES. Stand up for TRUTH.

Where one finds DEATH. Stand up for LIFE.

Where one finds DIVISIVENESS. Stand up for UNITY.

If not you...who?

If not know...when?

The enlighted human being is the Capstone of Creation on the Earth. But maybe not in the multiverse.

www.capstonepyramid.com

Do you think mankind is ready to accept the the news that we are not alone?

Or will Spielberg have to make another movie!!

With a tip of the hat to Bill O'Reilly, "What say you?"

I know what my pal Col. Julius would say, "As above, so baloney."

How To Tell That Our Inspiring New President Is Not A Taoist. Have You Discovered wu wei? Hu Is Hu...But Who Is Obama?

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Chime in Amigos y Amigas!!

Dear Pals,

"A leader is best

When people barely know that he exists.

Of a good leader, who talks little,

When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,

They will say, 'We did this ourselves.' " - Tao Te Ching

Today, I'm going to go into The Cone Of Silence to consult with Beldar and to contemplate the gulf of difference between Pleasure and Happiness.

A wise man once wrote, "Pleasure left us no rewards and extracted a heavy toll as we sought our unrealized and unfulfilled dreams. Happiness comes from within, from being secure in the knowledge of God's love for us. And we may truly know happiness when we have lost sight of ourselves in the love for the Creative Force."

In the creative quietude of  wu wei I will seek alignment with the Creative Force today.

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen of the Republic. A Mob of One.

PS: wu wei is pronounced WhooooWheeeeee!

Which is that sound that is often heard when one is engaged in the very very very creative act of "making wu pei!"

Why Is Life So Weird? Or Is It Just Me? Pass The Chartreuse And Let The "Truth Serum" Flow!

Dear Pals,

First of all, Happy 234th. Anniversary to the U.S.M.C.!

Semper Fi!

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Does the world today seem completely upside down and/or off track to you?

Or is it just me? Maybe I'm just out of sync with the new reality. 

It seems like everyday I'm astounded by some new development in this "Giddy-up-Whoa!" world.

It's like the lyrics from the old songs, "First you say you do and then you don't. Then you say you will and then you won't," or "You say TOMato and I say toMAHto...let's call the whole thing off."

Am I the weird one?

Or, the wired one?

Could my life be just one big cosmic typo?

Did I step unawares through a time portal into a bizarre parallel universe?

Maybe World War Z isn't a novel after all.

Maybe Max Brooks is really onto something in his Oral History Of The Zombie War. 

Or, maybe it's just an odd feeling that Lady Sychronicity has pulled me down a bewildering rabbit hole and I've tumbled out into a Brave New American World where up is down, in is out and the inmates really are running the asylum.

Before I join the "American Boat People" who are rowing to Cuba for safety and escape from the walking dead...please feel free to weigh in on this topic.

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen of the Republic and a Mob of One

PS:  I think I hear the "High Lonesome" of the Wasatch calling me.

I'm beginning to understand the attraction of silence and solitude and why the Mountain Men of yore preferred the clean crisp air of the high Sierras to the confusing and confused company of citified men and women in flatland society.

As much as I love the romantic notion of following James Taylor's suggestion to "Slap leather and head for the line of trees," I'm not the Marlboro Man and I'd probably be The Big Birk on the McGrizzley menu by dark.

So is there another option to enduring the Le Monde Circque de Jour?

Hmmm...maybe I'll shave my head and join the Carthusian Monks near Grenoble and devote my remaining days to making Chartreuse and sampling it. Even I can gather and distill mountain herbs!

Chartreuse is truly something very special...especially the green variety. With a glass or two, I could take a mind-freeing trip to the outer fringes of the galaxy without ever leaving my cell in the monastery.

After all, if you're not free in your mind...where indeed are you free?

Now there's a question worth pondering.

Was The Ft. Hood "Alleged" Shooter Just A Quiet, Studious, Sensitive, Intelligent "Persecuted Victim" Trying To Get Along In The Evil Country Where He Was Born? Or Was He A Member Of "The Muslim Mafia" aka The Moslem Brotherhood?

Dear Pals,

If you do NOTHING else today go out and get the book The Muslim Mafia by Paul Sperry and P. Dave Gaubatz and learn about CAIR, the Council On American Islamic Relations and its NGOs (non-governmental organizations) that are front groups used to funnel millions of dollars from our little pals in Saudia Arabia right into the hands of terrorists inside the USA.

This isn't Islamaphobia...it's true and they can back it up.

Every American needs to get the facts: www.muslimmafia.com

When you discover who the authors of The Muslim Mafia are - you will be impressed by them, their credentials, top security clearances, service to our Nation and most of all by their personal courage!

You won't hear about this in the Lamestream media because it is politically incorrect.

The Muslim Mafia documents, in excruciating detail, the work of Special Ops Investigators, who infiltrated the ranks of CAIR and then collected extensive documentation on its plans to Islamisize America through a myriad of front groups and sleeper organizations.

As the author said in a recent radio interview, "The alarming CAIR revelations look like ACORN on steroids...but, with far direr consequences."

Read the Oath of the Muslim Brotherhood on the book's jacket and you'll understand the scope and scale to the threat posed by The Muslim Brotherhood to our Nation, our freedoms and our Judeo-Christian heritage.

Get the facts...think for yourself.

Then tell all your friends so they too can get educated on The Moslem Brotherhood's plans for you and me and all Americans.

I'm recommending this book without any compensation or remuneration whatsoever - just in case anyone in the White House office of Politically Correct Speech and Thinking was wondering about that.

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Now here's some spin on this "alleged" murderer from msnbc.

Get a barf bag before you read this:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33737596/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/?gt1=43001

What a sweet guy...he gave away broccolli and copies of the Quran/Koran before he went off and tried to kill 42 innocent people who were his own countrymen and fellow soldiers.

What's wrong with this picture? How stupid do they think we are?

Can you believe the headline and the appologist tripe and drivel that is being spun here??

"He gave away broccolli..."

Under a prior administration, that may have qualified as hate speech because former President George H.W. Bush hates broccolli

Here's the headline and subhead that should have been written.

U.S. born Moslem Army Major Murders 13. He reportedly fired over 100 rounds because was trying to kill 42...and he would have, if he had not been stopped by a brave civilian police officer, who happened to be a female, with real guts and firepower.

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WHY, oh why oh why did he do it? 

Come let us gather in a media circle and wring our "politically-correct-blame-America" hands.

"Alledgely" this native born U.S. citizen, physician (healer) was theologically-opposed to being sent overseas to participate in America's war in Afghanistan because that would mean he was helping to kill his fellow Moslems.

So the logical conclusion in his Moslem-belief system mind was to kill as many of his fellow American soldiers as possible. It all makes perfect sense from his self-concept and from The Moslem Brotherhood's worldview.

The next thing you know, he'll be being praised for "following his conscience" and not simply "following orders" like the Nazi doctors did in WWII.

Trust me, that analogy will be forthcoming.

Just watch and mark my words, Major Hasan will be painted as an altrusitic innocent and devout Moslem locked in an intractable moral and religious conflict with his own beloved homeland, the U.S.A., a.k.a. "The Great Satan."

As for his actions in killing 13 people and attempting to kill a total of 42...why, it was the only thing he could do? Going AWOL, desertion, getting a Section 8 or resignation of his commission on conscientious-objector grounds were not viable options for him.

Oh me! Oh my! Alas, alack and forsooth...can you imagine the anguish of this poor devout Moslem?

LOOK AMIGOS:

This guy is not an "isolated crazy."

He isn't some mentally-ill person who "just snapped"

He is not crazy at all.

He is a fully-indoctrinated lifelong devout Moslem...he's a true believer.

He is just like the well-educated and seemingly normal Moslem physicians in England, who lived and worked there for years and then one day got up and drove explosive-laden SUVs into a Scottish Airport.

He is just like the 911 terrorists, who were well-educated young Moslem men with advanced college degrees. He is just like the London bus bombers and the Madrid train bombers and the bombers who blew the PanAm plane up over Lockerbie.

And, yes dear friends, he is just like the murdering Moslems who killed the Israeli Olympic athletes in Munich and the other cowardly hooded-murderers who beheaded a Wall Street Journal reporter, tortured and mutilated captured US servicemen and even, in a moment of masked-Moslem bravado,threatened a defenseless captured American woman for the pleasure of Al-Jeezeerah's viewers.

If Major Hasan wasn't a card-carrying member in good standing of The Moslem Brotherhood, he certainly appears to have been a "mind-carrying member" of the principles that are so clearly stated in the Oath Of The Moslem Brotherhood.

His "religion" means "surrender to god" - parenthetically, that means - surrender to the Moslem version and vision of god or else you infidels will be put to the sword!

BUT AREN'T MILLIONS OF MOSLEMS GOOD PEOPLE? 

Aren't many Moslems currently honorably serving in the U.S. Military?

Those are excellent questions.

Can you answer them with certainty?

Without any reservations?

How many "Major Hasans" are there?

How about this little tidbit from the author of The Moslem Mafia?

Did you know that 11 out of 14 current Muslim Chaplins in the US Army were trained at the CAIR-funded school outside of Washington, D.C?

A school that teaches how to Islamisize America.

Hmmm...probably just a coincidence.

Right...

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TIME FOR MORE "MOSLEM VICTIM" SPIN!

The Major's own nephew and family MEDIA spokesman has been all over the Tube saying his uncle was a "good American."

But...here come's the BUT, the very big guilt-shifting politically correct BUT.

But, he was "harrassed just for being a devout Moslem."

To that I say: Bravo Sierra!

It looks more like this "alleged" murderer unashamedly used the U.S. Military system to suit his own personal ends.

And, I'll bet you a delicious, mouth-watering savory-roasted bacon-wrapped pork tenderloin from an "unclean swine" that Major Hasan's actions at Ft. Hood were just the culmination of a long and calculated process of his own personal brand of Moslem Brotherhood-style infiltration.

It is not uncommon for Moslems to move into a nation or community and Iive peacefully among the native infidels until they are strong enough to strike. It is their history and it also a well-documented tactic of The Muslim Brotherhood.

It is classic 5th Column work.

Think I'm kidding?

Ask the French, Germans, Dutch, Danes and English about how well Moslem infiltration works. Google: death of Van Gogh's descendant. Or, Google: Moslem death threats on Danish cartoonists...or call Salmon Rushdie.

Moslems actually use the religious tolerance of free Judeo-Christian nations against the host nation's culture and its educational, political and legal institutions.

To be a true Moslem means it's their way or the die way.

Read the Oath Of The Muslim Brotherhood.

The Islamization of Europe is almost fait accompli.

Charles Martel must be rolling in his grave.

If you want to learn about infiltration, intimidation, harrassment and persecution...read Moslem history. They are past masters of the art of infiltration, intimidation, harrassment and persecution of Jews, Christians, Hindus, Lebanese Christians and anyone else who doesn't "surrender."

Moslem history is one story of blood-soaked conquest and one ruthless murderous event after another. Read what happened to the 10,000 men of Medina when they laid down their arms and "surrendered to god."

Read Moslem history.

Get the facts!

AND then explain to me how anyone can be a good, peace-loving, freedom-loving, well-educated tolerant civilized person in the 21st Century and still subscribe to the beliefs of a"religion" that teaches that killing non-believers/infidels is okay with their god and that their god says it's okay to commit honor killings of girls and to treats women like chattel.

Do the women of the world like being perpetual second class citizens, unschooled and kept from having full and expressive lives?

Moslems even have their own complete constitution and legal system called Shariah Law. Trust me pals, it isn't based on The Magna Carta or The U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights either. Devout Moslems believe it supercedes ALL OTHER LAWS.

I think it's high time to fully engage all Moslems in a serious discussion of theological ideas, principles, logic, ethical morality and plain old common sense.

Let's have no more namby-pamby political correctness...it's time to confront and challenge the validity of their core beliefs head-on with rock solid arguments.

Make it into a TV series and air it on National GEO or the History Channel. Broadcast it 24-7-365 into the Moslem world. Put it on the Internet in streaming video for all to see.

Make it like Radio Free Europe and the Voice Of America...call it:

THE VOICE OF SANITY: THE ULTIMATE BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF HUMANITY AND CIVILIZATION!

It's the Torah, New Testament and Holy Bible vs The Koran/Quran and the supporting Moslem texts.

It's Judeo-Christianity's Almighty God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit vs Islam's Allah and the Prophet Mohammed and The Moslem Brotherhood.

It's "Love thy neighbor" vs. "Slay thy neighbor."

Let's shine the BRIGHT LIGHT of human knowledge and truth into the darkness.

Let's focus forceful debate and solid rational counterpoints on the teachings of the Koran/Quran and the other supporting Moslem texts.

Let's see how the Moslem worldview and the Judeo-Christian worldview compare.

I'd also include the Hindus and the followers of Buddha and the Tao in the process to fairly represent all the leading schools of religious, ethical and moral thought.

Let's see how Islam stands up to Truth and Logic and Reason and Love.

Personally, as a subscriber to the Judeo-Christian tradition, I'm putting my money on the Holy One of Isreal, the God of Abraham, Solomon and David and on Christianity's Holy Trinity.

Put me down on the side of LOVE THE LORD THY GOD with thy whole heart and soul and LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF.

Because on these two commandments, "hang all the laws and the prophets."

We cannot be cowed to silence by political correctness any longer. It's way past time for Judeo-Christian Americans to stand up for our one nation under God with liberty and justice for all. 

But, I have to admit that these days, it's really hard to forgive seventy-times seven and to turn the other cheek.

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citzen Of The Republic, A Mob Of One

PS: In the meantime, let's hope to be spared any more sappy broccoli-coated media stories on this "alleged" killer.

Say, I wonder if Osama bin Laden and the Iranian Muslim leader, Amabinijhad like broccolli too?

Personally, I'm swearing off broccolli until further information on its potential harmful side effects come in from the food police at the FDA. 

Broccolli...who knows, it may be one dangerous mind-altering murder-causing veggie.

What are the writers at msnbc smoking???

Pass the hashhish hookah willya?

 Ahhh...this is good shit, man.

Where'dya get it dude, California, Colorado or msnbc?

Here Is A Box Of DOTS That Will Blow Obama's Recession Recovery Sky High. Here Comes Dow 5000! Put On Your Depends And Read On, If You Dare.

Dear Pals,

I really do hope I'm wrong about all that I've written here.

Here are the DOTs in the sugar-coated box from The Candyman.

DOT ONE: The US Dollar is falling in value...wheeee!

DOT TWO: The 3.5% Q3 GDP growth is a highly manipulated number - it's totally bogus, because of Cash For Clunkers, cash for first time home buyers and a rise in exports due to the devalued dollar.

DOT THREE: The Fed closed 9 more banks on Friday - despite the influx of TARP funds, banks all across the USA are in disarray financially. There are more to come.

DOT FOUR: TARP funds will not be used by banks to lend to small businesses - instead these TARP funds are being used as "loan loss" reserves on bank balance sheets to cover the risky loans they made in the past, for which they did not reserve enough capital to cover, if the loan went bad. Bank stock values have dropped faster than a hooker's undies and are likely to stay down. ( There is some irony in that analogy! )

DOT FIVE: States are cutting back on staff - 700 state workers lost their jobs in Missouri just this Friday. Why? Declining tax revenues.

DOT SIX: States are slashing budgets, Missouri has to cut another $100 million - some of it out of heretofore sacred Medicare. What's next? The Governor's jet?

DOT SEVEN: Unemployment is currently stated at 10% - right...do you believe that?

DOT EIGHT: Underemployment is an uncountable number...are you fully-employed and getting paid what you're worth? I'm currently getting paid zero. Am I underemployed? Or, am I getting paid what I'm worth?

DOT NINE: Tax revenue is falling like a rock in state after state after state after state...

DOT TEN: State reserves and "rainy day" funds across the USA are gone or evaporating fast

DOT ELEVEN: Commercial real estate loans on bank books are extremely troubled as occupancy and rent revenues plummet. REITs ain't what they used to be. Just count the FOR LEASE signs as you drive around. Or ask my pal "Tom The Torch."

DOT TWELVE: Banks can't find capital to cover deposit liabilties and the FDIC had to do a capital call to have member banks send cash to replenish the FDIC funds used to cover consumer accounts in failing banks.

And when the FDIC says, "Send the dough." The banks bloody-well send it mucho pronto!

DOT THIRTEEN: Consumer confidence is plummeting - no sane person believes anything the politicians are peddling...the smoke and mirrors in the Congressional budgeting process ain't cutting it anymore.

DOT FOURTEEN: Consumer spending has slowed...Q4 "The Golden Quarter" of retailing is likely to be "The Bronze Quarter."

DOT FIFTEEN: Our USA debt is at an all-time high and heading higher...Zillions, Trillions, Billions, Millions...what's a few zeroes among friends. (Hmmmm...that sounds familiar.)

DOT SIXTEEN: Massive new "stimulus" and bailout spending has produced very little real and sustainable job growth outside the government sector.

DOT SEVENTEEN: The Healthcare debacle will add over a Trillion dollars in new "deficit neutral" spending - Look Mommy, there's a pony in the yard and it's free!

DOT EIGHTEEN: Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan continue to roll on as Generals in the field are second-guessed by Generals John Heinz Kerry and General Joltin' Joe Biden.

DOT NINETEEN: Q3 Auto sales robbed from Q4 will force further job reductions ala the just-announced Chrysler-FIAT cutback of 23,000 jobs through buyouts, retirement and attrition

DOT TWENTY: There is NO real economic growth in the USA - profit numbers are the result of severe cutbacks in employees, inventory, marketing spending and production and the implimentation of super-tight fiscal management...it's like wearing a XXXXX-Spandex jock strap...I'm talking super tight here!

DOT TWENTY-ONE: If President Obama signs the Copenhagen agreement, the USA will be subject to new taxes on international banking transactions, on energy use here and variety of other crazy levies so that we can pay our "Carbon Debt" to 3rd world countries.

Wait a minute, hasn't the good old USA already sent Trillions in Foreign Aid to these countries since 1945? I think they owe us a Humanitarian Debt!

DOT TWENTY-TWO: China is watching and wondering why they should continue to finance USA debt by buying our Treasury Bonds?  They don't have to call in the debt they already hold...all they have to do is stop buying new debt.

DOT TWENTY-THREE: Who else wants to buy new USA Debt? The Saudis? The Brits? The Canadians, The Aussies, The Sons of Nippon? Banzai! The OPEC-rich countries? Look around pals...I don't see any cavalry riding to the rescue...but there may be 4-Horsemen headed our way.

DOT TWENTY-FOUR: April 15, 2010 - Apocalypse Now!

Due to unemployment, under-employment, business losses, stock market portfolio losses, reduced capital gains and continued economic malaise or decline, and NEW SPENDING, the Federal Government will find its income revenue stream has turned into a puny trickle.

How many taxpayers are: A) off the tax rolls, B) owe less taxes or C) owe no taxes???

Now, connect all those DOTS and what do you get?  Dots on Dominos all lined up to fall one after the other and then go...

KABOOOOOOOOBAMA!

That's DOTS - or Debt-o-nation On Terrible Scale! 

It's the sound of the USA economy imploding from the weight of the debt. It's that lucky old Sun collapsing inwardly to become a dwarf star eclipsed by the Red Giant.

Guess what President Obama's solution will be?

First he'll tax the remaining working people, he'll tax air and your hair and your underwear and then he'll send Tim Geithner back to China to kow-tow to the Chinese economic ministers to get them to buy more debt to fund the US income tax-revenue shortfall.

What will the Chinese do?

Will they:

1) Buy more US debt backed by the "full faith and credit" of the USA? I think the USA's Chinese creditcard might be very close to being max-ed out.

2) Take a really close look at the profligate spending policies of the Spendocrat Congress and the financial manipulations of Obama-Geithner-Bernanke and say, "No thanks, we've had quite enough USA-debt, thank you."

3) Ask, "How much gold is in Ft. Knox? Please put it all on a fast boat to China. You have plenty of empty intermodal containers all over America. Just load 'em up with your strategic gold reserves and ship them to Long Beach, and we'll take it from there."

Remember the Chinese invented the abacus.

They know when things add up and when they don't. They can also look at the USA and see that our manufacturing base isn't there anymore. Actually, they can look out their windows and see it because in the relentless pursuit of next quarter's EPS, we shipped our manufacturing to China and "Indo" to lower the COGS.

Thank God we have an ace-in-the-hole!

We are in the Information Age!!

We don't make a lot of real products anymore, but boy are we connected and man do we know how to use information!! Ask Bernie Madoff or George Soros how fast you can shoot assets around the world.

So here's the plan...we all Tweet the Chinese on our really cool iPhones, and show them 456 pictures of our really cute kids and share our precious FaceBook life moments with them -- and then we can beg them not to make the US dollar worth doo-doo minus two.

The big question is, will we advance to the next level in the worldwide video game, Fiscal Insanity II or will the Chinese simply say, "Game Over."

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen of the Republic, A Mob of One

PS: I'll bet you a 6" Subway Sandwich that you'll never look at another box of DOTS brand candy the same way again.

Well, dots all the ideas I have for today.

See you in the Gulag!

I can't leave you on a gloomy note...

CHEER UP!!

We're all going to eat healthier, lose lots and lots of weight and go green, because we'll all be eating pickled grass, pond algae and stewed leaves!

The heavy rains in the Midwest and South have drastically affected the harvest of corn, soybeans and cotton.

The corn and bean crop is only 23% harvested. It should be 75% to 80% harvested by now, And the corn that is harvested is too wet to store for use in foodstuffs or for use to make ethonal - unless farmers pay 40-cents a bushel to dry it from 28% moisture down to 17%.

Look on the bright side, we'll all be eating a lot less evil chicken that's deep-fried in cotton seed or soybean oil, because chicken wings will be $123.00 a dozen and nuggets will be $13.45 each...unless the dollar drops more in value...in which case there will be a price adjustment passed on to consumers.

Oh oh...if the record corn, soybean and cotton crops don't come in as we had hoped...then we won't have grain to feed to our cattle, hogs and chickens and we won't have hundreds of millions of bushels of grain and soybeans to ship to places like China, India and Saudi Arabia.

Would that effect our balance of trade?

It looks like a Perfect Storm where will NOT reap the grain we have sowed on borrowed money. Sorry, your friendly community banker will have to take the farm, unless of course, you have lots of assets to collateralize.

GREAT FLYING ZORT!!

At least we won't have to worry about outliving our 410(k)s or being too fat!

Dow 5000!! Dow 3500? Dow 2000?

Ready or not, here we come!

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Mr. Have-It-Both-Ways, The Great Vacillator, The Dithering Equivocator Or The Prudent, Thoughtful Deliberate Genius: Who Is President Barack Obama?

Dear Pals,

No heavy levity today.

The world is moving at the speed of thought.

A UN guest house is savagely attacked in Pakistan to say, "Welcome" to Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton.

A marketplace full of women and children is blown to smithereens and is the scene of bloody carnage.

Gun battles rage in Kabal.

Iraqi ministry buildings are truck-bombed.

American troop deaths in Afghanistan rise to the highest this month.

Meanwhile our inspiring new President is still deliberating and carefully "examining" the strategic options.

QUESTIONS:
Will he send the 40,000 US troops that his own hand-picked General McChrystal requested over a month ago?

Will he follow the General's "hammer and anvil" strategy to smash the Taliban and Al Quiada between the Pakistani Army on one side and the US Army on the otherside of the Afghan border?

Or will he send just 20,000 troops?...because he's listening to General John Heinz Kerry, who out of one side of his mouth said, "We don't want to go to far too fast" and out of the otherside of his mouth said, "We have not had a new strategy this year, we've had the same strategy for one year, 8 times."

Which is it, Swifty?

The Democrats are NOT running America...they are ruining America. They continue to lay the blame on President George Bush while Obama dribbles on the basketball court, drools on solar panels, plays golf with NYT columnists to infulence their "reporting" and dithers on Afghanistan.

To her credit, Secretary of State Clinton showed some real courage and pardon the pun, real cahones, when she called out the terrorists for what they are, during her joint press conference with the Pakistani leader condemning the UN guest house attack by those cowardly murdering SOMs.

As I said, the world is moving at the speed of thought.

This is a time when America needs clear, strong and decisive leadership, not endless political calculating and dithering.

Obama said, "Afghanistan is a war of neccessity."

He promises to "not send our troops into harm's way without a clear strategy and to support them to the hilt" - if and when he does deploy them.

Then he goes off to his next PHOTO-OP!!

I wonder how that message is playing in Afghanistan where Barack the Omnipotent sent 10,000 troops after he took office.

Who are you Mr. President?

Who are you?

Are you really the President of the United States?

Or are you just an improvisational actor out of 2nd City who's ad-libbing the role?

President Obama's actions will be judged by the light of history.

I for one, hope that history judges the Democrats in 2010 and President Obama himself in 2012.

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen of the Republic, a Mob of One.

PS: I also believe that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will still resign as I predicted in my 2009 Fearless Forecast.

If Obama makes a weak-kneed "John Kerry-Joe Biden" style call on Afghanistan and does NOT deliver all the support General McChrystal asked for, that could be the rift that gives Hillary the impetus she needs to exit stage center/right and begin her plans to save the Democrat Party and America in 2012.

Hillary doesn't like having bombs going off when she hits town...it wrankles her from head to cahones to cankles.

My hat's off to Hillary!!