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The US Army Is The Most Sensitive! Proof!

I am not sure what to make of this, appartently solders were made to wear fake pregancy suits in order to understand how being pregnant felt. 

Stars and Stripes explains it this way:

This week, 14 noncommissioned officers at Camp Zama took turns wearing the “pregnancy simulators” as they stretched, twisted and exercised during a three-day class that teaches them to serve as fitness instructors for pregnant soldiers and new mothers.

Jewish Satanic Illuminati New Age Banksters: Am I A Kook?

I could be, but I doubt it. But then again, I would be the last to know. 

I just read a website where Ron Paul was criticized for reading books by Jewish economists. Another site suggested that the solution to all our problems was to pay off the national debt by printing money. That way we did not have to pay interest to the Jews. I think this kind of thing is crazy. 

How then do I use the term "powers that be”? In my view such powers do exist, but they do not have secret club meetings to send out their orders. 

I first became aware of how this worked by listening to Noam Chomsky. (Yes I know…) He was asked by a hostile interviewer about the supposed conspiracy of the elites. His answer made a lot of sense. To paraphrase  Chomsky, he asked why we should be surprised if people who are of the same class, went to the same schools, have the same economic self-interests, read the same books, watch the same TV shows, and in the political sphere drink in the same bars—end up with the same views. This is why good people who are sent to Washington end up corrupted. They never see it. Conservative or liberal, it does not matter. 

For some reason the Patty Duke theme song is running though my head as I type this. Patty Duke played identical twin cousins. 

Still, they're cousins, 
Identical cousins and you'll find, 
They laugh alike, they walk alike, 
At times they even talk alike --  

You can lose your mind, 
When cousins are two of a kind.  

What we end up with is "When politicians are all of one kind." (What is really scary is Patty Duke just turned 65 and was hired by the Social Security Administration to promote Social Security! If Patty Duke is 65, then that would mean I would be in my 50's! Oh. Wait. I AM in my fifties. Never mind…) 

Our culture is powerful in our minds and hearts, yet no one creates it. I suppose each of us creates a little bit of it,  but the percentage is so minuscule that I might as well say we as individuals do not create it. But it does make us. Even an icon like Madonna, who affects culture far more than any of us do, is still formed by the culture in which she lives. This is why a book entitled "Hollywood Conservatives" would be very short. 

As a Christian this may be the singularly most difficult thing we have to overcome. As Jesus said at the Passover (the anniversary of that meal is coming up), be in the world, but not of the world.

How do we do this? One way I am doing it is cutting the cable. We do not have cable TV, nor do we have over-the-air-reception. We have not cut ourselves off entirely. We still have Netflix. We use Hulu. I buy season passes for some series on iTunes. A little mindless entertainment is a good thing, but do we need 4 hours a day? That is the American average.  My wife does stream Russian TV, but that is about it. (A word of warning, do not buy Game of Thrones unless you like soft core porn.) 

This was a super Bowl Ad. Hulu Plus needs better ads. I think the biggest problem is the commercials. My consumption of ads is quite small. But I swear if I see that Hulu commercial one more time where the young man marries bacon I will go insane. Each of us in our own way needs to learn to opt out—to leave Babylon the Great described in Revelation 18. 

But no there is no secret cabal with secret handshakes and magic decoder rings. It is just people corrupted by the system. Leave before you too become corrupted. 

And yes, here is the entire theme song from the Patty Duke Show. 

Meet Cathy, who's lived most everywhere, 
From Zanzibar to Barclay Square. 
But Patty's only seen the sights 
A girl can see from Brooklyn Heights -- 
What a crazy pair! 

But they're cousins, 
Identical cousins all the way. 
One pair of matching bookends, 
Different as night and day. 

Where Cathy adores a minuet, 
The Ballet Russes, and crepe suzette, 
Our Patty loves to rock and roll, 
A hot dog makes her lose control -- 
What a wild duet! 

Still, they're cousins, 
Identical cousins and you'll find, 
They laugh alike, they walk alike, 
At times they even talk alike -- 

You can lose your mind, 
When cousins are two of a kind. 

source: http://www.lyricsondemand.com/tvthemes/thepattydukeshowlyrics.html

Happy Rainbow Unicorns and the Ryan Budget

My daughter is 8 years old, and even though we have never celebrated Christmas she tells me that she believes in Santa. I think she is teasing me. I hope she is teasing me. My other children know I love to tease. It seems only fair that I get teased back. 

But even my daughter does not believe in happy rainbow unicorns. Looking over Congressman Ryan's proposed budget I have to conclude that he believes in happy rainbow unicorns. Republican president nominee Romney (I speak only slightly prematurely as it is Romney's turn) has worked closely with Ryan. This is his budget now. I guess Romney believes in happy rainbow unicorns too—or is willing to pretend he does until election day. 

I am supposed to take heart from the fact that Obama's budget believes in flying happy rainbow unicorns—but I just get depressed. There are no cuts. The economic assumptions are absurd. Obama's projection is that spending will increase 5% yearly over the next 10 years. Ryan is proposing that the spending will grow 4% over the next ten years. Neither approach can be sustained.

You don't believe me that the Ryan budget had few cuts? Look at this chart shamelessly stolen from Veronique de Rugy at National Review's The Corner. 

 

Yes he does cut a little here and there, mostly from abolishing ObamaCare.  But actually, in toto, the Ryan budget has no cuts. Spending just grows slightly more slowly.  

I was hoping for a Romney Unicorn picture too. He deserves one just as much as Obama. Ryan has promised a tax cut. But due to the way the Congressional Budget Office calculates things this is actually a 2 trillion dollar tax increase as a 4 trillion dollar tax increase is already baked into CBO's figure for the next ten years. Welcome to Republican Math. 

Obama's version of this is a 3 trillion dollar tax cut that is actually a 1 trillion dollar tax increase. Welcome to Democratic Math.

I would actually favor a rather large tax increase if spending could be cut in exchange. I must believe in happy rainbow unicorns too. 

Of course the immediate result was an outcry. Ryan is cruel to seniors. Ryan is cruel to the poor. Ryan favors the rich. Maybe all these things are true. Consider for a moment what will happen when investors realize that the whole federal budget is a house of cards that is crashing down. Bond sales will stop. Then either the budget gets cut 50% right then, or we print money and head toward hyperinflation. Large cuts now are better than draconian cuts later. 

In the interests of safety I have included this picture of Unicorn droppings for easy identification if it drops from the sky!If Ryan's modest cuts reduction in spending increases result in this much outrage, will the streets be quiet when the real cuts come? 

My advice to you is that you get out your shovel. To paraphrase a recent Rick Santorum rant, this is unicorn ****. There is going to be a lot of manure to clean up. Be Careful! Obama's unicorns fly.