tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post4496432356357118953..comments2023-10-17T08:19:58.196-04:00Comments on FreeThinke: FreeThinkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-8981972572503996562015-07-27T17:45:13.340-04:002015-07-27T17:45:13.340-04:00That being my first tour of Mount Vernon, virtual ...That being my first tour of Mount Vernon, virtual or real, I think it's an excellent look into the home of a truly great and historic American.<br /><br />Not to detract from that, as you note above, many people today have some strong opinions about the Free Masons. George Washington was a high level Free Mason and there are many symbols in Washington that confirm this association. Many of those men that signed the Declaration of Independence were also Free Masons. I'm not sure if that, in itself is a good thing or a bad thing. I'm not into "secret societies", so in that regard I probably lean more toward wondering what so many highly regarded men in history would belong to a secret cultish type of social club, and what do they gain from pretending that they have access to certain "secrets" that are to be held from the rest of the population.<br /><br />Apparently there is much more to the association than meets the eye of the superficial observer. The highest honor to which the member of the masonic lodge can aspire is to be elevated to the highest levels of the masonic temple and graduate from the Masons to the Shriners ... and that association is much more than funny little men having a good time dressed up as pseudo-Arabic clowns with a fez and tassel projecting the image of the domesticated genteel North American successful businessman "networking" and having fun.<br /><br />Not that I find Louis Farrakhan and the NOI a normal source of good info, but he has some significant insights the workings of the upper levels of Free Masonry and their association with the Shriners, seemingly because he implies that he's in on their little secrets even to the point of wielding the racial sword against members of the clan.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=466NeRHc9a0" rel="nofollow">"Did you know that at least 9 of the 56 signatures on the Declaration of Independence were Freemasons? The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan reveals the true meaning behind the symbols of Freemasonry and exposes the #1 secret that the world rulers didn't want you to know ..."</a>Waylonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08533895509055020394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-32323529780609365402015-07-27T06:30:42.770-04:002015-07-27T06:30:42.770-04:00WE DELETE IRRELEVANT COMMENTS.<b>WE DELETE IRRELEVANT COMMENTS.</b>FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-34364634944271786572015-07-26T20:01:30.242-04:002015-07-26T20:01:30.242-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Guess Whonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-47651968467270251482015-07-26T19:59:27.544-04:002015-07-26T19:59:27.544-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Octopusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-56412744906022890772015-07-26T18:13:33.190-04:002015-07-26T18:13:33.190-04:00Thank you, Katharine.
Your good opinion always m...Thank you, Katharine. <br /><br />Your good opinion always means a great deal to me.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-897975093792885222015-07-26T14:26:51.885-04:002015-07-26T14:26:51.885-04:00Your current "captain" and his "fir...Your current "captain" and his "first mate" are drunks who have already grounded the ship once (2007). Let's hope a new pilot boards, who will cut the crew's rum rations and set a new course.-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-14007751682685157732015-07-26T14:24:52.208-04:002015-07-26T14:24:52.208-04:00What I'm begining to sound suspiciosly like is...What I'm begining to sound suspiciosly like is a PLATONIST. When a social contract no longer works and/or benefits the vast majority of a Republic's citizens, it's time to revise the contract.<br /><br />It doesn't take a Solomon to know that if you live in Baltimore's <a href="http://politicaltealeaves.blogspot.com/2015/07/symptoms-of-broken-economy.html" rel="nofollow">"Sand Hill neighborhood</a>", you're part of a "disposable" segment of our society.<br /><br />How many Sand Hills would you advise the nation to suffer, before you would tell Warren Buffett to pay a "dividend" on a $200,000 share of Berkshire Hathaway instead of using the money to buy another 10% of WalMart?<br /><br />Solomon has already decreed that Warren can go on being stupid without limit... even if he admits that he has no use at all for all the money he "makes" and now gives most of it away. -FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-60560549809817221232015-07-26T13:48:02.431-04:002015-07-26T13:48:02.431-04:00Gotta give ol' Hildabeest one thing. Her girl...Gotta give ol' Hildabeest one thing. Her girlfriend sure is sexy.Biff Slamkowskinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-59118362523624703132015-07-26T13:33:11.758-04:002015-07-26T13:33:11.758-04:00And then, whom could we trust to decide what is an...And then, whom could we trust to decide what is and is not "excessive" in the pursuit of property?<br /><br />Is there a Solomon among us fit for the task?<br /><br />Sorry to be the one to say it, but you are beginning to sound suspiciously like a (GASP!) }}}}}}}}}}}} PROGRESSIVE {{{{{{{{{{{{FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-59800963791967437842015-07-26T13:23:03.142-04:002015-07-26T13:23:03.142-04:00If crewmen kill the Captain,
___ the Boatswain an...<i><b>If crewmen kill the Captain, <br />___ the Boatswain and First Mate, <br />Who'd be left to guide and save them <br />___ from a dreadful fate?<br /> Who would know how to pursue <br />___ their proper, urgent goals? <br />Who'd prevent the ship from breaking up <br />___ out on the shoals?</b></i><br /><br />~ FreeThinke FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-67609631892984327362015-07-26T13:04:34.912-04:002015-07-26T13:04:34.912-04:00If you say so, dear.
Mala ProppeIf you say so, dear.<br /><br />Mala ProppeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-25614237818951802892015-07-26T12:54:47.947-04:002015-07-26T12:54:47.947-04:00Stop "advantaging" "artificial pers...Stop "advantaging" "artificial persons over REAL ones. End corporate privileges.-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-5934498054065938082015-07-26T12:52:49.751-04:002015-07-26T12:52:49.751-04:00George Washington initially declared that he was h...<i>George Washington initially declared that he was hesitant to sign the "bank bill" into law. Washington asked for the written advice and supporting reasons from all his cabinet members—most particularly from Hamilton. Attorney General Edmund Randolph from Virginia felt that the bill was unconstitutional. Jefferson, also from Virginia, agreed that Hamilton's proposal was against both the spirit and letter of the Constitution. Hamilton, who, unlike his fellow cabinet members, came from New York, quickly responded to those who claimed incorporation of the bank unconstitutional. While Hamilton's rebuttals were many and varied, chief among them were these two:<br /><br />What the government could do for a person (incorporate), it could not refuse to do for an "artificial person", a business. And the First Bank of the United States, being privately owned and not a government agency, was a business. "Thus...unquestionably incident to sovereign power to erect corporations to that of the United States, in relation to the objects entrusted to the management of the government."<br /><br />Any government by its very nature was sovereign "and includes by force of the term a right to attainment of the ends...which are not precluded by restrictions & exceptions specified in the constitution...[<br /></i><br /><br />And so the curse of "corporatism", like "slavery", corrupted the Constitutional project at it's very inception.-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-82052890913486316012015-07-26T12:49:28.247-04:002015-07-26T12:49:28.247-04:00Look, flouting the Constitution began almost immed...Look, flouting the Constitution began almost immediately, when Hamilton/Washington circumvented it and founded the First National Bank.-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-39198095468904645452015-07-26T12:38:31.339-04:002015-07-26T12:38:31.339-04:00Well, IMO its' the excessive pursuit of PROPER...Well, IMO its' the excessive pursuit of PROPERTY that most immediately and directly results in the exploitation and maltreatment of others. Especially when those "others" pursuing it coincide with the "governing" class (aka oligarchy/plutocracy).-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-220822346058828062015-07-26T11:30:27.120-04:002015-07-26T11:30:27.120-04:00FreeThinke, the vast majority of Americans are not...FreeThinke, the vast majority of Americans are not "conservative." They never were. There's no such a thing as "Cultural Marxism." There's no "war on whiteness." You're just not being realistic. And glowing over superficiality is just f'n stupid.<br /><br />JMJJersey McJoneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15426560061830038806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-53716294858995221832015-07-26T11:12:57.399-04:002015-07-26T11:12:57.399-04:00FT said.
"I've chosen to focus on the mo...FT said.<br /><br />"I've chosen to focus on the more wonderful, and beautiful aspects of Mount Vernon, –– and by extension the thinking and system of values that informed and motivated most of our Founders ––, because I believe we are in desperate need of regaining the positive view of these remarkable individuals that once enabled us to look up to them as Ideal Role Models."<br /><br />I can't think of a better reason to take good long look at the best parts of how we started and who we hoped to become, FT. If we have no idea of the high quality our early leaders were able to carve out of the wilderness –– literally –– all the fighting we've done in the past, the sacrifices made by our ancestors, and the ridiculous, ritual exchange of insults we indulge in today have no meaning at all.<br /><br />Thanks for what you keep trying to do, FT.<br /><br /><br />--------------------> Katharine Heartburn<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-24662486294846822932015-07-26T11:03:45.289-04:002015-07-26T11:03:45.289-04:00That all depends on what the term "happiness&...That all depends on what the term "happiness" might mean to you, personally, FJ.<br /><br />There are probably as many different ways of interpreting the concept as there are individuals.<br /><br />I believe –– most fervently –– that <b>we are meant to be a nation of INDIVIDUALS each pursuing his or her idea of "happiness" whatever it might mean, <i>unless it means satisfaction derived from the EXPLOITATION or MALTREATMENT of others</i>.</b> <br /><br />I, personally, prefer the world "fulfillment," because I think it may come closer to the true meaning of what the funders had in mind.<br /><br />The pursuit of fulfillment, however would probably not have caught fire with the majority, because few ever think of the meaning of life in such terms, if at all.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-23635814074719990652015-07-26T10:55:34.863-04:002015-07-26T10:55:34.863-04:00Good morning, SilverFiddle.
Glad to see you here...Good morning, SilverFiddle. <br /><br />Glad to see you here today! Naturally, I agree with your evaluation of another Clinton presidency.<br /><br />However, I've chosen to focus on the more wonderful, and beautiful aspects of Mount Vernon, –– and by extension the thinking and system of values that informed and motivated most of our Founders ––, because I believe we are in desperate need of regaining the positive view of these remarkable individuals that once enabled us to look up to them as Ideal Role Models.<br /><br />No human being past, present or future could properly be deemed flawless, but to focus PRIMARILY on <i>FLAWS</i> while ignoring the great plenitude of VIRTUES these people embodied and by which they lived has given our young people a tragically warped, dispiriting, utterly false view of our history and what our still-young nation has meant –– and WAS ALWAYS MEANT to MEAN –– to the entire world.<br /><br />The sick, twisted, demented-but-hideously-SEDUCTIVE ideas of Cultural Marxism with which we've been infected have caused us virtually to abandon our identity as a people and impugn our heritage as a nation. <br /><br />If we don't learn understand that, and work very hard to restore our proper sense of selfhood, the government of by and for the people Abraham Lincoln sarcastically referenced at the site of massive carnage for which <i>his</i> willfulness and obduracy were largely responsible, that Sacred Ideal really WILL "perish from the earth." <br /><br />Mount Vernon is not merely a PLACE filled with beautiful furniture commanding lovely views of the Potomac, it is a SYMBOL of the magnificent ideals of Beauty, Grace, Refinement, Integrity and great Courage towards which all of us should strive to the best of our ability. FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-64287477066068477432015-07-26T10:30:07.259-04:002015-07-26T10:30:07.259-04:00Jersey, I don't believe you are stupid, but yo...Jersey, I don't believe you are stupid, but you certainly ACT that way much of the time. What is your POINT in making such absurd, baseless assertions all the time? Do you REALLY believe what you are saying? <br /><br />The VAST majority of Americans have always been what-you-choose-to-call "conservative," Jersey. IF the major issues were subject to the results of a simple REFERENDUM or PLEBISCITE, the results might not be to your liking –– or mine –– but at least they would be an HONEST reflection of the WILL of the MAJORITY, instead of the stinking morass of unsatisfactory, heavily manipulated public policy we are forced to live with thanks to the bullying of Intellectual Aggressors who took over the Universities, the Courts, the Public Schools, the Realm of Popular Entertainment, the Publishing Industry, and the dissemination of what-regrettably-passes-for News and Information –– and even some of he CHURCHES, if you look at what-passes-for-preaching in the Episcopal, and Methodist churches today, and then look at the current "Prisoner of the Vatican," who is, of course, no such thing. Instead, he's now an International Celebrity and The Darling of the Atheistic Left, who is making a Holy Show of his MARXIAN views. <br /><br />The article entitled CULTURAL MARXISM outlined the sickening process of what has overtaken us clearly and succinctly. <br /><br />If it were not fr the 1965 Immigration Act, which was deliberately crafted to make SURE the USA would soon be overwhelmed and virtually obliterated by a contrived NON-WHITE MAJORITY, your point of view wouldn't stand a chance.<br /><br />What we've been living through for the past sixty years or more has been a no-holds-barred WAR on WHITENESS.<br /><br /><b>As one of our Jewish friends said to my very conservative father as far back as 1950, "Negroes, –– and those who promote their interests for the acquisition of political power and personal profit ––, WILL gain control of this country for one primary reason: <i>The white race may be able to OUTTHINK 'em, but they'll never be able to OUTFUCK 'em."</i></b><br /><br />That's a direct quote, except he didn't say "Negroes."<br /><br />I was nine years old at the time, and even then something in his voice shocked me, and I've never been able to forget the derisive, subtly threatening tone of his words. No one in OUR family would ever have thought-let-alone-said anything quite like that. In fact this whole Class-Warfare-Race-Card thing was completely foreign to me and the kids in our neighborhood.<br /><br />Little did we know that the volcano on which we had been so innocently and comfortably nurtured all our lives would erupt in less than five years and turn our whole world into the maelstrom of ill will and dissension we've been forced live with to his very day.<br /><br />When I was a child, we were encouraged to "dream big," and hope that one day we too could live as beautifully as George and Martha Washington did at Mount Vernon, and Thomas Jefferson lived at Monticello. In many ways my parents, some of my relatives –- and later I, myself, –– were able to attain much of that ideal. I've always been more than grateful for that.<br /><br />I bitterly resent, however, the current pseudo-ethos that tells me daily in a thousand different ways that I ought to feel ASHAMED of the frankly splendid heritage bequeathed to me.<br /><br />I'll leave you with this statement from one of our most notable Founders, a succinct, clearly stated point of view that has done a great deal to inform and guide my life:<br /><br /><br /><b><i>"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain."</i></b><br /><br />. ~ John Adams (1735-1826)<br /><br />THINK about that. THINK.<br />FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-82878101471305896042015-07-26T10:01:36.081-04:002015-07-26T10:01:36.081-04:00Think of how the Clinton Crime Syndicate could cas...Think of how the Clinton Crime Syndicate could cash in with Hellary in the White House. They could make billions on selling access and international influence peddling.<br /><br />They'd make that deal selling our uranium rights to Russia (while publicly excoriating Putin *snicker*) look like peanuts.<br /><br />Hellary Rotten Clinton's inevitable front-runner status stands as a totem to the DemonCrap party's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.Silverfiddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-88269721154468901502015-07-26T09:33:09.751-04:002015-07-26T09:33:09.751-04:00ONCE AGAIN:
WE DO NOT ACCEPT IDIOCY, SPITE and W...ONCE AGAIN: <br /><br /><b>WE DO NOT ACCEPT IDIOCY, SPITE and WITLESS MALICE at THIS BLOG.</b>FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-33552719750401424162015-07-26T09:30:45.407-04:002015-07-26T09:30:45.407-04:00Most of the dictionaries give a two-pronged defini...Most of the dictionaries give a two-pronged definition for the word "TIMOCRACY," FJ. I don't believe "Property" was EQUATED with "Honor" in any of them. Each definition is one of two entirely different criteria in deciding who should and should not have access to political power.<br /><br />I happen to be a great believer in the benefit of taking stewardship of property. I say "stewardship," because in truth one never really OWNS property, because there are always forces marshalling themselves to militate against that claim. They used to be barbarian invaders from abroad, bullying outlaws, or bands of roving, piratical ruffians, then they became jealous, acquisitive neighbors with bigger guns, then finally the ever-growng threat of government intervention and take over. <br /><br />Today, GOVERNMENT at all levels –– local, county, state, and federal –– stands ready to confiscate your house and land to use for purpose of GOVERNMENT'S devising.<br /><br />Even if you faithfully meet your "obligation" to pay the Annual Tribute to GOVERNMENT in the form of ever-increasng Property Taxes, you are STILL subject to the Law of Eminent Domain, and beyond that you are always vulnerable to GOVERNMENT forces who may decide to billet Soldiers ––or Rescue Workers from FEMA in YOUR house, as GOVERNMENT sees fit.<br /><br />This says nothing about the tyranny some Homeowner's Associations may choose to visit upon you for failing to maintain your property according to Community Standards.<br /><br />From birth to death each individual is subject to relentless GOVERNMENT COERCION at every conceivable level. It appears to be inescapable, so NO, neither you nor I "OWN" much of anything, except the shirt on our backs.<br /><br />Isn't it ironic that from earliest days GOVERNMENT was formed to PROTECT us from Foreign Invasion, bullying outlaws and roving bands of ruffians, but as we grew more and more DEPENDENT in that "protection" GOVERNMENT has transformed itself into a BULLY and a THIEF far stronger and more threatenng than the piratical types of eld?<br /><br />This is what happens when the INDIVIDUAL cedes more and more of his power to the COLLECTIVE.<br /><br />Is that a vicious cycle, or something even worse? I admit to being flummoxed as to how the deadly pattern might be avoided.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-41125582987734420432015-07-26T09:03:42.426-04:002015-07-26T09:03:42.426-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-44019139784503391872015-07-26T07:31:01.705-04:002015-07-26T07:31:01.705-04:00Of course, "happiness" is not honour, ei...Of course, "happiness" is not honour, either. And it is "Happiness", not honour or property, that was written into the Declaration of Independence.-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.com