morning40oz~mad as hell

• New Orleans, LA, US

I am an American.

Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
Robert A. Heinlein

It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at truth, and fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country. Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings. ... Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things, which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it. Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves. ... Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
Patrick Henry



"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all. - "Thomas Jefferson to Francis Hopkinson, 1789."




"None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe we are free."--Goethe





"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." -Samuel Adams



“Freedom is lost gradually from an uninterested, uninformed, and uninvolved people.” Thomas Jefferson







“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.” Thomas Jefferson




“To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”
Thomas Jefferson






Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
Thomas Jefferson


"Voting for the lesser of evils endorses the evils, and guarantees you have nothing but evils to choose from."
Harry Brown

“Freedom is lost gradually from an uninterested, uninformed, and uninvolved people.” Thomas Jefferson


"The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage."
Thucydides


“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.” Thomas Jefferson



A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
Thomas Paine


The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.
Samuel Adams


An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
Thomas Paine





















Advertisements contain the only truth to be relied upon in a newspaper.
--Thomas Jefferson


“To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”
Thomas Jefferson



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Chuck Baldwin, to both shake his hand AND give him a hug and to thank him for having the strength to preach the gospel as it was intended, without fear of rebuke or reprisal, and for his encouragement to keep up the fight and maintain hope for this country and ourselves.

Last, but not least, Jesus Christ, if he will have me.

Who's got the money or the time? If I had either, it would be music festivals, fishing, bowling, shooting pool and throwing darts.

live music, football, baseball, horseracing, fishing, motorcycle riding(not that i own my own, yet), big trucks, cowboys, mustangs(the horses), crawfish boils, B-B-Qin' with friends; dark humor; british television; dive bars, vintage cars, and Martin guitars.

Marvin Gaye; Johnny Guitar Watson; George, Merle,and all of the Hanks; the Cramps; Shane MacGowan and the Pogues; Bill Monroe; Zachary Richard; Pink Floyd; The Waterboys; Walter"Wolfman"Washington; Rage Against The Machine; Larry Sparks;Social Distortion; Ween; Maximus Dan; Syrup;Take 6; Bill Sprague; Misfits; Jimmy Cousins; Coldplay; Bill Withers; Dropkick Murphys; Ian Dury and The Blockheads; Stiff Little Fingers; Ray Charles; The Legendary Shack Shakers; Ozzy Osbourne; Flogging Molly; Link Wray; Kila; Morphine; Throwrag; Bob Marley; Del McCoury; Tony Joe White; Radiohead; Al Green; Tom Waits; Tchaikovsky; Dvorak; Johnny Taylor; Tyrone Davis; Archie Bell and The Drells; Red Hot Chili Peppers; The ZydePunks; Hank Snow; Iris May Tango; Morning Forty Federation; New World Funk Ensemble; Alice In Chains; Betty Wright; Peggy Scott Adams; Mel Waiters....and so on and so on.



THE POGUES--DIRTY OLD TOWN



My friend, JIMMY COUSINS--HERE COME HERKY JERKY



REBIRTH BRASS BAND--DO WHATCHA WANNA



SONNY LANDRETH--CONGO SQUARE



THE WATERBOYS--FISHERMAN'S BLUES



DEL McCOURY--BLUEST MAN IN TOWN



BLUERUNNERS--I CAN'T HELP YOU



My friends, THE ZYDEPUNKS--BOUDREAUX CROSSES THE DANUBE



My dear friend, ANDERS OSBORNE--KATRINA




MORNING 40 FEDERATION


IRIS MAY TANGO--STUCK LIKE CHUCK



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My old drinking buddies who inspired my call name some years ago.

Though, I don't actually watch TV anymore( I buy or rent DVDs, and the library is great!), there are a few shows I like to catch on the web--Jericho, The Walking Dead, and LOST reruns, PBS Masterpiece Mystery and Classics, Haven and American Horror Story are kind of fun. I also love BBC series, dramas, and comedies--The Forsyte Saga, Bleak House, House of Cards, Black Adder, Jeeves and Wooster, Blood On The Wire, Waking the Dead. I love my Netflix and Hulu, talk about freedom of choice.

snatch; lock, stock, and two smoking barrels; boondock saints; pulp fiction; fight club; braveheart; the matchmaker; the usual suspects; king of masks; oh brother, where art thou?; shaun of the dead; buena vista social club; marx brothers; abbot & costello; just about anything with cary grant; and yes, i am a total lord of the rings geek.

Holy Bible, Lord Of The Rings, Atlas Shrugged, Huckleberry Finn, To Kill A Mockingbird, War Is A Racket, None Dare Call It Treason, and the Harry Potter series is a guilty pleasure of mine too.

When the President signs this act, the invisible government by the money power will be legalized. - Congressman Charles Lindbergh, Sr. to Congress after the vote on The Federal Reserve Act

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
Aristotle

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell



Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
Milton Friedman

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. Thomas Jefferson





I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past. --Patrick Henry


In most communities it is illegal to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
Dwight D. Eisenhower





It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.
Stephen Leacock

The country is broken because the system is fixed.












When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money? - H.D. Thoreau
I ... place economy among the first and most important of republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared... And to preserve (our) independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. - Thomas Jefferson, from a letter to Governor Plumer, July 21, 1816.



The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
Barry Goldwater



Don't steal. The government hates competition.



If Patrick Henry thought that taxation without representation was bad, he should see it with representation. - The Farmer's Almanac







“Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.”--James Garfield, two weeks before he was assassinated.

The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented. Banking was conceived in inequity and born in sin... Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them but leave them the power to create money, and, with a flick of a pen, they will create enough money to buy it back again... Take this great power away from them, or if you want to continue to be the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit. - Sir Joseph Stamp, former president of the Bank of England.

Jesus.









"The world can therefore seize the opportunity [Persian Gulf crisis] to fulfill the long-held promise of a New World Order where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind."

George Herbert Walker Bush



"In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all."

Strobe Talbot, President Clinton's Deputy Secretary of State, as quoted in Time, July 20th, l992.





"For a long time I felt that FDR had developed many thoughts and ideas that were his own to benefit this country, the United States. But, he didn't. Most of his thoughts, his political ammunition, as it were, were carefully manufactured for him in advanced by the Council on Foreign Relations-One World Money group. Brilliantly, with great gusto, like a fine piece of artillery, he exploded that prepared "ammunition" in the middle of an unsuspecting target, the American people, and thus paid off and returned his internationalist political support.

"The UN is but a long-range, international banking apparatus clearly set up for financial and economic profit by a small group of powerful One-World revolutionaries, hungry for profit and power.

"The depression was the calculated 'shearing' of the public by the World Money powers, triggered by the planned sudden shortage of supply of call money in the New York money market....The One World Government leaders and their ever close bankers have now acquired full control of the money and credit machinery of the U.S. via the creation of the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank."

Curtis Dall, FDR's son-in-law as quoted in his book, My Exploited Father-in-Law



"The case for government by elites is irrefutable"

Senator William Fulbright, Former chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, stated at a 1963 symposium entitled: The Elite and the Electorate - Is Government by the People Possible?



"The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements, arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was the Bank for International Settlements in Basle, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the worlds' central banks which were themselves private corporations. The growth of financial capitalism made possible a centralization of world economic control and use of this power for the direct benefit of financiers and the indirect injury of all other economic groups."

Tragedy and Hope: A History of The World in Our Time (Macmillan Company, 1966,) Professor Carroll Quigley of Georgetown University, highly esteemed by his former student, William Jefferson Blythe Clinton.



"The Council on Foreign Relations is "the establishment." Not only does it have influence and power in key decision-making positions at the highest levels of government to apply pressure from above, but it also announces and uses individuals and groups to bring pressure from below, to justify the high level decisions for converting the U.S. from a sovereign Constitutional Republic into a servile member state of a one-world dictatorship."

Former Congressman John Rarick 1971







"2009 is also the first year of global governance, with the establishment of the G20 in the middle of the financial crisis. The climate conference in Copenhagen is another step towards the global management of our planet." Herman von Rompuy








Hillary Clinton, at the CFR on July 15, 2009.
"We get a lot of advice from the Council, so this will mean I won't have as far to go to be told what we should be doing and how we should think about the future."