http://www.opednews.com/articles/Secret-Wars-of-CIA-Have-Co-by-Sherwood-Ross-110605-267.html

Secret wars and money!

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Republicans-propose-anothe-by-Brent-Budowsky-110604-569.html

More evil deeds from the GOP!

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Making-the-US-Economy-Scr-by-Robert-Parry-110604-730.html

Scream!!!

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Living-beyond-our-means--by-Kent-Welton-110604-535.html

Screwed again!!!

This is part two of five sections.

When a man stops believing in God, he loses his common sense. Faith will help us recover our common sense. We are not guaranteed whether or not we will win battles. We still must fight for what is right and just. Humility is very important in life. Being a moral human being is hard work. Religion gives us meaning and purpose. We have a responsibility to pass along truth. Democracy and common sense must go together.

What is wrong with the world? CHRISTIAN IDEAL IS NOT IN PRACTICE!

Democracy requires people to think for themselves. Enjoy yourself! Give money to the poor! Preach against pride! Conflicts begin when a person feels superior to another person. Man must have a vision. What kind of picture will you paint? We must choose our light!

Wealthy people do not worry about ordinary people. To worry about someone or something you need to be interested in someone or something. Wealthy people are not interested in ordinary people.

Injustice must be resolved before we have true democracy. Family and religion matter! Wage salary deters democracy. The servile state destroys the family and democracy. The sharing of property is the positive form of democracy. Skills have decreased and services have increased. The family is paramount over the factory and wages. (With the loss of manufacturing jobs we are also losing our skilled trade workers and our middle class.)

CONSERVATIVES PREVENT CORRECTING MISTAKES! PROGRESSIVES KEEP MAKING MISTAKES! CAPITALISM AND BIG GOVERNMENT ARE THE SAME!

This is part three of five sections.

Government and commerce should not grow too large because the people will not control government and commerce. They will control us. You cannot have a moral government from an immoral government.

Industrialism is too crooked and complex. The voice of God is important in a democracy. Enemies of the family are the enemies of democracy. For democracy to work we must value the family. (Do you sense that there are politicians and corporations who care very little about families in our country?) Democracy is from the bottom up and not top down. Freedom is independence. Self-denial is the test of self-government. Self-government is thinking for your self. We must do things for ourselves. Big business and big government are bad for democracy. When you lose a common heritage, you lose common sense. We live by the wage. Wage slavery is still slavery. The servile state is inconsistent with democracy.

Property is a form of democracy. Distributiveness is necessary for democracy. Human happiness should be our end in a democracy. A small salary is eternal slavery. (Today, we are seeing eternal slavery in the USA with small salaries and the loss of the middle class.) Democracy is difficult. Democracy must be concerned with justice. For a democracy to work we must love God and we must love our neighbor.

This is part four of five sections.

People are divided up into two groups. Capitalists and socialists are alike. Puritans and pagans are alike. Both lack the balance in common sense. Christmas and Easter changed paganism forever. Modern pagans worship something but God. God is not worshipped. Paganism leads to nowhere. Without God we are doomed. Puritanism was a mistake. They looked at the physical world as evil. Puritanism is revival of righteousness. Their Christianity was narrow. They worship by thinking. Christianity worships by dancing and drinking. Modern Puritans worship health and fitness. Modern Puritans are intolerant. Their morals are upside down.

Chesterton defends wine and beer. You drink because you are happy and because you are depressed. Puritanism and paganism miss the point of pleasure and incarnation.

Good should lead us to the Incarnation – spirit and flesh. There needs to be a balance in our life.

Quotes from G.K. Chesterton

Jesus speaks sanity to a world of lunatics.

It’s not that Christianity has been tried and failed. It’s that Christianity has never been tried.

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies even if they become fashionable.

Take away the supernatural and what remains is the unnatural.

There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But, the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.

The most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

Here is one of my favorite quotes from Mahatma Gandhi.

I like your Jesus. It’s your Christians I do not like.

Here is truly a great quote.

Every time I hear that the United States is a Christian nation I have a torrential puke. – Gerald Socha

THE GREATEST STUMBLING BLOCS FOR CATHOLICISM ARE CATHOLICS.

Does anyone really believe Reagan that government is the problem. Our government can be very helpful but our government today is an oppressive government that is enslaving and impoverishing the poor and working classes of Americans. Our government can pinpoint our secrets, such as to what time we take a fart or when we pick our nose. Our government through satellite surveillances can tell what time we made love with our wife. Yes, in certain ways our government is the problem. A socialistic government would benefit at least ninety percent of our citizens with safety net programs.

God, our Anti-Christ nation needs you now more than ever.

"That government is best which governs least" Henry David Thoreau in Civil Disobedience

"Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem" Ronald Regan

Do you see the similarties?

A True Hero

I have shared with you my belief of Pope John Paul II as he lived and I have not changed my view of him now that he is with our Creator. The physical Pope has died but his life and his words will never die.

The Catholic News Service has written many articles on Pope John Paul II. We keep hearing that the world and America need heroes. The world and America are suffering in a malaise of leadership. Let me say that with the world in general and with America more specifically looking for heroes we have only to look to Rome for such a person. His name was Pope John Paul II. The Pope’s entire life had been one of heroism. At great risk to his mother’s health she gave birth to Pope John Paul II. He survived Nazism and he lived through Communism. At great risk to himself he studied to be a priest.

Pope John Paul II was a man of courage and compassion. He stood fast against the war in Iraq. Even though the Catholic media ran away from him by justifying the war, Pope John Paul II said that the war was “wrong and immoral” and that the preventive war theory was “gravely immoral.” He had stressed that war does not resolve conflicts among countries.

The Pope continued to be a champion for our need to experience a “culture of Pentecost” and that we are to work to build a “civilization of love.” Pope John Paul II was truly a hero. I want to personally adopt him as a real American hero. He was a man whom we should strive to emulate in our actions, behaviors, and words. With Pope John Paul II as our model the world would be a better place for all human beings.

Next Sunday is Pentecost Sunsay. Let us use June 12, 2011 as a day to focus on a "CIVILIZATION OF LOVE."

@2950-10K, I am not an economist. Our eldest son was visiting us for the Memorial Day weekend. He showed my wife and me an article that said in the past ten years raises were only 4.2%. With 3% cost of living increases in goods and services Americans fell behind 25.8% in buying power that would have helped to generate our economy. With price manipulations in wages, salaries, stocks and bonds, food, oil and energy Americans are really living in a banana republic and a third world country. The American rich and American transnational corporations want Americans to be cannon fodder (to be killed and maimed in endless wars), mushrooms (keep them in the dark and feed them shit), and turnips (by sucking all the blood from them). WE NEED SOCIALISM IN OUR HELL-HOLE, RAT-HOLE, AND SHIT-HOLE ANTI-CHRIST COUNTRY.

I would like to finish my #44 comment with another reason economic recovery has stalled out, and any good economist will back me up on this. In many states, governors continue to slash programs and spending rather than opt to get the rich to pay their fair share of taxes. This wrongheaded approach is motivated by the right wings desire to break unions and privatize for the enrichment of a few. This not only stalls out economic recovery and kills jobs, it also nullifys the federal stimulus program designed to kickstart the economy. This is the time to borrow and spend if we truly want to end this working class depression.

Even in the state of N.Y. Cuomo has bought into the lie that taxing the super rich is job killing, or maybe he's smarter than that and really just fears the same billionaires "banksters" that ruined Spitzer.

Are these guys all sniffing Palin exhaust? The repubs in the house of rep surely are, they may get what their wishing for by August!

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@2950-10K, Elioflight agrees and I say your comment hits a home run!!! Socialism is a word, an institution, and a way of living that needs to be cherished like a bottle of fine wine. Socialism is the answer in resolving many of the world's problems that we face today!!!!! LONG LIVE SOCIALISM!!!!!

2950-10K:

Well said--and true.

If you really THINK, then you realize that Reagan was our first corporate President since the Depression..

Under "his" (corporate, he was already suffering dementia) administration he started the mess that we are now in. His "Union busting" left a legacy of no rights in the workplace and a steadily declining Union membership, mainly because he "eased" the process of allowing collective bargaining (Unions) to form. Every since then, we have had "stagnating wages" in the workplace. I am 50 y.o. and I made more money as a teenager than most people earn today and the value of the dollar is probably half of what it was then.

One of the most despicable accomplishments of his Presidency was to have the FAIRNESS DOCTRINE rescinded by his FCC. Now, by court precedence, media "news" is not required to be honest. This is (IMO) why Americans do not revolt. They are fed a steady diet of propaganda by the MSM. MOST Americans still believe (vehemently), that if it is "reported" on tee vee news, it is the truth. My brother, an apolitical Progressive (who exists below the poverty line and has no health insurance,just like my Sister who has cancer) says, when we have watched tee vee together, that "if it is on the news, it HAS to be true." I have asked many people, they believe that. They, like me, were raised during the FCC rule that did regulate and enforce the Fairness Doctrine, they just do not realize that it no longer exists. Goebels realized and utilized propaganda as a way to control Germany during Hitlers reign and Reagan"s masters realized how effective it is.

Reagan also cut the taxes on the wealthy and started the "trickle down" theory. This has proven itself many times, to be a false theory. Yet, "we" still operate on that principle. That is why we have the worst income distribution in the world. It is only getting worse.

When America led the rebuilding of the axis nations (the Marshall plan) that were destroyed during WWII, FDR made sure that those countries had some type of Universal Health Care and a strong Union system. Like Mitch Daniels (IN governor), Hitlers first official act was to "suspend" Germany's Unions. He realized that a populace that was too busy trying to financially survive, would not notice his treacherous designs. America, IMO, is much like Germany under Hitler's rule. We may not have mass genocide (yet, except on the Muslim nations) but we have the merger of corporations and government that Mussolini perfected. We have most people trying to survive on little pay. We have a SCOTUS that is not answerable to the citizens or held responsible for their criminal activity, much like our politicians, who know that as long as corporations are "people(?)", they only have to please their corporate constituency to get elected. The ordinary person (living, breathing, underpaid) cannot pay the million$ required these days, to get the politicians elected. We need a Bernie Sanders in the White House. He embodies the "people first" spirit of FDR.