Want to see where our permissive and amoral society is heading? America take a look at your next demented generation! Not only do most of them admit to being liars and cheats they think that they can be thieves, liars and cheats and still be people of good character and ethics. It also reminds me of another article I recently read that says that 20 percent of the people in the U.S. have a mental disorder and over one half are using drugs. Over one quarter of the people who took the survey said they even cheated on this survey. Meaning the figures are even higher. So someone tell me how this nation can survive the next “demented generation” when it cannot even survive our present “me generation”?

American teens lie, steal, cheat at ‘alarming’ rates: study

American teenagers lie, steal and cheat more
at “alarming rates,” a study of nearly 30,000 high school students
concluded Monday.

“Despite these high levels of dishonesty, these same kids have a high self-image when it comes to ethics.”

Some 93 percent of students indicated satisfaction with their own character and ethics, with 77 percent saying that “when it comes to doing what is right, I am better than most people I know.”

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The bailouts going on are unconstitutional they have subverted our system of government and in the end they will totally destroy this nation. All government representatives that had any part in this have broken their oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States. They have made the citizens of the United States financial hostages of a world banking cartel. All involved in this coup should be charged with treason. Our system of government was set up with checks and balances to prevent just what is happening today. But the globalists, the cowards and the morally demented in the Legislative and Executive Branch of our government have given the government our founders set up away.

The Bitter Fruit of an Unconstitutional Bailout « FOX Forum « FOXNews.com

But history will be angry at them and their colleagues for betraying the Constitution. Their attitude underscores the reasons that the Constitution does not repose in the Congress the power to bail out individuals or private industry: Bailouts violate the Equal Protection doctrine because the Congress can’t fairly pick and choose who to bail out and who to let expire; they violate the General Welfare Clause because they benefit only a small group and not the general public; they violate the Due Process Clause because they interfere with contracts already entered into; and they turn the public treasury into a public trough. Worse still, Congress lacks the power to let someone else decide how to spend the peoples’ money.

As objectionable as the secretary’s change of mind has proven to be, as destabilizing as it was to the markets, as frustrating as it has been to the politicians who authorized it, it is not inconsistent with the statute that created the bailout because the Congress gave the Secretary the power to change his mind. It gave him, figuratively and literally, a blank check. In effect, the Congress delegated to the Secretary of the Treasury some of the power the Constitution has delegated to the Congress: The power to decide when, how, for whose benefit, and in what amounts taxpayer dollars should be spent.

This delegation of power to the secretary directly violates a basic principle of constitutional law: Delegated powers cannot be delegated away.

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President Bush, Obama and McCain and most of the Congress and the Senate all sang the Hank Paulson blues to America. The 700 Billion figure was just a figure pulled out of thin air because they did not think they could sell over a trillion dollars to the American people. At first they did not have the votes but then they added $150 billion in pork to buy the votes they needed. Now Paulson is taking the money and doing the exact oppose that he said he was going to do with it. Much of the money was given to a few bank who did not need it but had no choice but to take it. On the one hand they are telling these banks that they forced to take money to tighten up there lending requirements and on the other hand they are saying they need to lend out more money. The 46 Billion loan to AIG is now up to $150 Billion. The Fanny May Freddie Mac bailout is going to cost much more than they ever let on.

There will be hundreds of hands out for the remaining piece of the money pie. Taxpayers will be given the choice to make more money pies or lose their jobs. The bill to the taxpayers in any case will probably exceed two trillions dollars and that will not include the cost of falling government revenues in a recession. Then the government thinks they can finance trillions of dollars in additional debt to world suckers at less than the world inflation rate? More likely the government will be forced to just print additional dollars to pay the debt which will make the dollar crash like a rock bringing the U.S. a much greater financial disaster.

This is what happens when Americans let government morons try to manage things like they actually know what they are doing. If these people had any brains to start with they would not be working for the government. Now Americans will put a President in place who wants the government to manage just about everything ranging from health care, to energy, to climate. It seems to me the American people deserve the Demented Delusional or Dumb Club Award for knowing nothing, being the most gullible people on earth and trusting their own future to these morons running the Federal government.

Hank Paulson, naked emperor (OneNewsNow.com)

The White House says: “We’ll just trust our treasury secretary to implement the program.” President Bush insists “government’s role will be limited and temporary.” Meanwhile, Democratic Rep. Barney Frank is shrugging off the lack of bailout disclosure by both the Federal Reserve and Treasury. But as I reminded readers before this latest bait-and-switch admission, Hank Paulson is not to be trusted. I repeat:

This is the man who proclaimed the subprime crisis “largely contained” in April 2007; “near the bottom” in May 2007; and “largely contained” again in August 2007. This is the man who pledged that he had “no interest in bailing out lenders or property speculators” in October 2007 and couldn’t “think of any situation where the backdrop of the global economy was as healthy as it is today.”

This is the man who patted himself on the back for refusing to “put taxpayer money on the line” to rescue Lehman Brothers on Sept. 15 — and then turned around the next day and engineered the $85 billion taxpayer-funded bailout of AIG. This is the man who vowed he had “no plans to insert money” into Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — and then turned around and committed $200 billion in capital and credit lines to those corrupt, bloated, crumbling institutions.

This is the man who declared that “the worst is likely to be behind us” in May 2008.

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From the list below you should see that if we were to go into a severe economic downturn it would not be like it was in the 1930’s when most people remained law abiding. Today it would either be Mad Max complete anarchy or total Martial law.

I do disagree in this list that most families had one car. Most families had no car and I do not believe there was any insurance or registration requirements in those days.

Christian Worldview Network - Brannon Howse - Letter Re: The Depression of the 1930s–Why No Societal Collapse

Consider the Attributes of America in the 1930s :

A largely agrarian and self-sufficient society. (Now, just 1% of the population operating farms and ranches feed the other 99%.)

Not heavily dependent on computing and communications, technology, grid power, and petroleum-based fuels.

Shorter chains of supply. Most food was grown within 100 miles of where people lived.

A very small underclass that was dependent on charity or public welfare.

Lower property tax rates and lower (or nonexistent) license fees, vehicle registration fees, et cetera.

The majority of workers lived near their work.

Most displaced workers were willing to accept lower-paying jobs–even doing hard physical labor.

The entire nation was economically self-sufficient and could carry on without many imports.

Far greater self-sufficiency at the household level (domestic water wells, windmills, wood burning stoves, home vegetable gardens, home canning, and so forth)

A much lower level of indebtedness (public and private). At the outset of the Depression most families had cash savings. (We are now a nation of debtors.)

A sound currency, still backed by specie. (Although FDR’s administration seized most privately-held gold in 1933, the currency was at least still fully redeemable in silver coinage until 1964.)

Lower percentage of corporate employment–so there were less risk of huge layoffs that would devastate communities

A significantly more moral society that still had compunctions and a prevalently law-abiding attitude.

A homogeneous population that largely shared common Judeo-Christian values. A much larger portion of society attended church regularly

A simpler, less extravagant lifestyle, with tastes in cooking and entertainment that did not require large outlays of cash.

Most families owned only one car (with proportionately lower registration and insurance costs), and they lived in smaller homes that were less expensive to heat.

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Every major police force in the U.S. is now being militarized. Part of the reason is the drug gangs and the terrorist threat but that also gave police forces the excuse and the money they needed to create their own army. In third world nations warlords have that type of power. Here it is drug gangs and police gangs and the attitude of both is it is us against them. When the “them” becomes the citizens you already have a local police state. That is now true in some areas of the U.S. but not in most rural areas. Nevertheless, there is no doubt that if the trend continues a police state is in our future.

With one word from the federal government based on some perceived threat all these heavily armed local police forces will become nationalized and there arises the official big police state. Right now all the big police forces are in training for their future police state role that everyone but the sheeple knows is inevitable.

Much can be determined about your own police force by how they treat the citizens. If they treat you as if you are guilty until proven innocent, If you get thrown on the ground instead of questioned. if they just break down your doors when they could have knocked (with some exceptions), if a gun is pointed at you and you are unarmed, if they have road check points looking for anything they can find, if they pull you over for a minor infraction and then ask to search your vehicle, If they want to search your vehicle and the only option you are given to refuse is a vehicle impoundment, if they travel in packs like a gang, if they look like storm troopers when on routine patrol, etc. Then there is a good chance that you are already living in a police state.

American Chronicle | Americans Are Living (And Dying) In A Militarized Police State

Today, police departments across the United States more closely resemble an occupying army than they do public servants responding to calls for help. Police officers can now be seen wearing helmets and body armor and carrying AR-15’s, just to deliver simple warrants. The militarization of our police departments not only gives the appearance of a military dictatorship but places the public at great risk.

Many municipalities are using Homeland Security grants to even purchase large armored vehicles. The Pittsburgh Police Department now uses their 20-ton armored truck complete with rotating turret and gun ports to deliver many of their warrants. Pittsburgh Police Sgt. Barry Budd recently told the Associate Press: “We live on being prepared for ‘what if’.”

Our police departments now regularly receive free surplus equipment from the U.S. military, which they readily accept. The training being given at many police academies appears to be the type of tactics one would use in Baghdad, rather than Baltimore. It would seem that our police officers are being readied for war, with the American public as the enemy. In the last several years, there has been a transformation from community policing to pre-emptive assaults

SWAT teams were designed to deal with very violent individuals who represent a clear and present threat to the public. However, they are now being used to execute warrants on non-violent offenders and even those who have no prior criminal history at all. Turning our neighborhood cops into shock troops will do nothing but erode public confidence in the police and endanger the lives of innocent Americans.

Recently, Boston´s new police commissioner William Fitchet announced that the department´s Street Crimes Unit will begin wearing military-style black uniforms, to instill a sense of “fear.” At last week´s city council meeting, police Sgt. John Delaney told council members that the black uniforms would send the message that officers were serious.

Did someone declare martial law?

This article is certainly worth the read and I agree with about 90 percent of what Jim Schwiesow says in this article. But America cannot fulfill Revelation 18:7-8.

He is correct that there is no remedy for the downfall of the U.S. Because the majority of people in this nation simply wish to believe the demented lies of the amoral ungodly who have taken over the realms of power in this nation.

People in this nation will get what they want and what they deserve. Maybe they will come back to their senses one day after their human savior fails them and they find themselves on a sinking ship in dire straits. But then again I would not bet on American’s repenting and I think that all the kings men will not be able to put Humpty-Dumpty back together again.

The demise of America is inevitable unless there is some divine intervention that shakes this nation to its core.

Jim R. Schwiesow — Scarlet is Our Color

Time is fleeting and every second, minute, hour and day hurtles this nation closer to a time of retribution, a time so horrific that the mind cannot comprehend the magnitude of the fiery fury that will descend upon this nation and the people in it. The Eternal is moving against this country with purpose and terrible resolve, like small fingers of flame the preliminary pestilences signal a rapidly advancing holocaust.

The worst of heathen have come to possess the offices of our government, the halls of our institutions and the minds of our people. The land is in the terminal stages of a great spiritual disease. We are an adulterous people and a scarlet A has been emblazoned upon our land.

With regularity one hears it parroted that God’s blessings are upon this nation, those who give lip service only to the God of all creation continually wring their hands in despair over the removal of God from our coins, prayer from our schools and the Ten Commandments from our public institutions. One can only wonder where these same people were when sexual perversity and the teaching of social filthiness invaded our schools. Where were they when derelict and avaricious politicians and government agents incrementally and systematically dismantled the Constitution and destroyed the individual liberties of the people? Under what rock were they hiding when the killing of live babies was sanctioned and a host of soul killing perversions were institutionalized?

Why would a supposed God-fearing people allow such to come to pass? The truth is that the more than one-half of the people of this country who call themselves Christian, a great majority of which are ashamed to utter the name of Jesus Christ in public, have done more spiritual damage than the totality of the non-religious, the atheists and the agnostics who reside in the country.

The unrighteousness of our people, the moral degradation upon the nation, the rebellion against Almighty God and the rejection of His rule have brought us to the cusp of absolute destruction. Repent is not in our vocabulary and humility does not inhabit our soul, foolishness is forever on our lips and pride and arrogance mark our character.

The ignorance of our leaders and the delusion upon the people has made way for the institution of the elements of our own destruction.

Many have written to me and bewailed what they see as a failure by me and other columnists with NewsWithViews.com to provide solutions to the problems that we describe. They concede that we have accurately identified the degradation that it upon our nation, but they want someone to provide the answers that will deliver the nation from a seemingly imminent demise. The truth is that there are no secular solutions that will deliver this nation. No resolution other than a nationwide confession of sin and repentance thereof will save this nation.

This is what you can expect to happen when you let the control freaks run the funny farm.

What a load of rubbish!

A young, British mother is being forced to pay $524 because she impatiently placed her trash can at the curb a day early.

Zoe Watmough, 22, was hauled before judges and ordered to pay a hefty fine, reports the UK’s Daily Mail.

“I am flabbergasted,” Watmough said. “There are people committing all sorts of crimes and getting away with it. Yet I have left my bin out and have been fined the best part of £300.”

Officials from the Bolton Council in Greater Manchester detected her green recycling bin and gray garbage can on Wednesday – a full 24 hours before collection – but the council firmly dictates trash must not be taken out until after 7.30 a.m. on garbage day.

Government has created the cigarette smuggling problem. When government balances its budget on the backs of smokers because they are a minority and they can do it and still be reelected I would have no problem rationalizing buying smuggled cigarettes to keep these government bullies from robbing me (I am not a smoker). Government socialists who never seen a program they do not want to fund with our tax dollars and social engineer control freaks help create the crime syndicates through their tax polices and then they continually raise taxes to fight crime and warehouse the law breakers. Government has created a never ending spiral of more taxes and more crime.

Cigarette smuggling

While it’s politically popular to impose confiscatory taxes on America’s 40 million tobacco smokers, there are a number of consequences one might consider, but let’s start out with a quiz. If a carton of cigarettes sells for $160 in New York City, and $35 in North Carolina, what do you predict will happen? If you answered tons of cigarettes will be going up I-95 from North Carolina to New York City, go to the head of the class.

The easy solution to cigarette smuggling, and its attendant activities, is to eliminate the confiscatory taxes. Unfortunately, for politicians and do-gooders, the attack on smokers is a moral crusade that sees only benefits and costs are irrelevant. Or as novelist C.S. Lewis put it, “Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”

I do not know which is more demented, those who take part in a celebration of pot and rebellion or having laws that half of the nation have broken. Some people are doing hard time in prison as felons for use of marijuana in private while others openly flaunt it in public while law enforcement does nothing. You would think that society would get the message after fifty years of this. If you really want to control lusts of the flesh of sinful people you cannot have a free society. However, the world’s alternative brings repression and tyranny. The only solution for man is to put King Jesus on the throne.

CU’s 4/20 pot smoke-out draws crowd of 10,000 : CU News : Boulder Daily Camera

A crowd of about 10,000 people collectively began counting down on the University of Colorado’s Norlin Quadrangle just before 4:20 p.m. Sunday.

Yet the massive puff of pot smoke that hovers over CU’s Boulder campus every April 20 — the date of an annual, internationally recognized celebration of marijuana — began rising over the sea of heads earlier than normal this year.

Just the plain facts why it is not racism to fear black men. In spite of what Obama implied in his speech.

American Thinker: Typical White Fact-Based Reasoning

That is, the chance of just any person you see on the street murdering someone this year is about 5 of 100,000 (assuming you see a random sample of people). The same chance of a white person is 3.5 of 100,000. And the same chance for a black person is 19.7 of 100,000. That means a black person is 5.6 times more likely than a white person to be a murderer.It is totally rational for a any person (including Jesse Jackson and Barack Obama’s grandmother) to fear a black person more than a white one. In fact, you should fear them 5.6 times more.

There is no question that there is a minority segment of blacks in this nation who blame whites for everything just like Pastor Wright. I am sure his church attracted all in the area that wanted a pastor expressing their own hate. The real question is why would Americans elect to President someone who identifies with a racist hate Church and a hate pastor. To say this is the black culture is only true if you are part of that minority segment of the black culture. There is a larger black culture that does not hate so why not join with them? Why identify with the radicals unless you identify with them?

Even Obama’s agenda shows hate for the unborn. His Marxist like socialism shows his hate for the American system where people succeed through their effort and hard work and not by government preference programs and quotas.

Frankly, blacks today get preferences over whites in everything. If there is any anger coming from whites today against blacks it is not because of there skin shade. It is because many are handed opportunities that they never worked for or that are unavailable to whites. Other blacks have rejected civil society and they embrace a criminal counterculture that is destroying society. Still other blacks put in leadership positions those who are obviously racists.

Throw grandma under the bus

We treat blacks like children, constantly talking about their temper tantrums right in front of them with airy phrases about black anger. I will not pat blacks on the head and say, “Isn’t that cute?” As a post-racial American, I do not believe “the legacy of slavery” gives black people the right to be permanently ill-mannered.Obama tried to justify Wright’s deranged rants by explaining that “legalized discrimination” is the “reality in which Rev. Wright and other African-Americans of his generation grew up.” He said that a “lack of economic opportunity among black men, and the shame and frustration that came from not being able to provide for one’s family, contributed to the erosion of black families.”

That may accurately describe the libretto of “Porgy and Bess,” but it has no connection to reality.

I do not agree with everything Frosty writes but I do see the hypocrisy in our marijuana laws. The same people who are busting people for marijuana are just as likely to be using it themselves in their own recreation time.

The costs to the nation of trying to enforce something that is not enforceable is huge. After over forty years of the DEA’s war on marijuana still over half the population of this nation uses it on one or more occasions and a significant population uses it regularly.

Millions have been imprisoned for doing nothing more than using a herb that is not anymore dangerous then many other herbs and substances that are perfectly legal. Certain people go to prison because they got caught while many high government officials and the rich and famous admit to the use of marijuana and are winked at.

It is police actions like this that fosters paranoia toward government enforcement agencies. The lucrative money in marijuana establishes illegal networks and gang wars over turf that get many people killed. These same networks then bring in harder drugs.

Marijuana laws are illogical. States cannot even agree on its enforcement. In one state it is a slap on the wrist to be in position of Marijuana and in another state it is a felony with a prison term that will ruin a persons life forever. It makes no sense.

Frosty Wooldridge — Marijuana Prohibition and Public Safety

“Many experts agree that the first drug to become legal and regulated will be marijuana. As DEA law judge Francis Young concluded after an exhaustive study of cannabis: “Marijuana in its natural form is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man.” Its use has rarely been a public safety issue. One cannot overdose on it. Moreover, its legalization would be a tremendous boost to improve public safety. Why? Road officers spend million of hours searching cars for a baggie of pot. They could concentrate on the deadly DUI and reckless drivers. They would be re-directed to find and arrest the child predators on line looking for a 13 year old girl. Federal agents could completely focus on Al Qaeda and stop wasting time on medical marijuana gardens in California.”

Taxpayers are helping to fund rape of children because the government helps fund Planned Parenthood who will not report those who rape children as required by all state laws.

clipped from www.onenewsnow.com While speaking at the Blogs for Life Conference at the Family Research Council, Kline noted that Planned Parenthood admits in its own studies that it is servicing 13-year-old children — who have, on average, 22-year-old male sexual partners — who are predominantly in coercive sexual relationships. “[Planned Parenthood's] idea of treatment, of course, is to allow [that] relationship to continue,” explains Kline, “by either helping cover up the crime through an abortion, or providing birth control that will help conceal something later from revealing the crime.”

One mid level trader lost over $7 billion dollars for this bank!
The lack of oversight by this bank is criminal. All invested with this bank will pay for the loss. The leaders of this bank richly deserve my Demented Delusional or Dumb Club of the week award for their blind stupidity. Congradulations! You might wonder if the investments in your own bank really are safe.

clipped from www.msnbc.msn.com French bank Societe Generale said Thursday it has uncovered a $7.14 billion fraud — one of history’s biggest — by a single futures trader who orchestrated a series of bogus transactions. The fraud destabilized a major bank already exposed to the subprime crisis. France’s second largest bank by market value said it must seek 5.5 billion euros ($8.02 billion) in new capital

Hard-Core pornography is criminal and it should be treated that way by our law enforcement.

clipped from http://www.christianworldviewnetwork.com/article.php/2964/Matt_Barber In recent years, the U.S. Department of Justice has paid only lip service to the enforcement of federal obscenity laws. In some instances, DOJ has gone after child pornographers and — in a scant few cases — has prosecuted purveyors of the most obscene and graphic adult pornography. But unfortunately, the government has been largely AWOL when it comes to enforcing an entire section of U.S. law, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1460-1470,, which criminalizes much of the adult hard-core pornography that has saturated both the Internet and our communities. Although obscenity enforcement has not been a priority for the DOJ, it is a priority for most of the American people. A 2004 Wirthlin Worldwide opinion poll found that more than four out of five Americans want existing Internet obscenity laws vigorously enforced.