In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. ~Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935

For those that matter, perhaps it’s when the strongest possibility exists that you’ll be licked before you begin;  but you begin anyway,  and you see it through, no matter what.   Others, who afford no value to consequence, may point to times you rarely won;  but then again, rarely is a gift you left behind, because sometimes you do.    – Sundance

Of course they do…..
WASHINGTON – Democrats say that the angry, anti-austerity elections this week that saw voters throw out reform-minded French and Greek leaders could be good news for them, a signal that their plan to spend billions more than the Republicans is a vote winner.

Those elections “confirm the position that many of us have taken, which is the most important thing right now is to sustain and nurture the very fragile economy,” said Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., the ranking member of the House Budget Committee. (more…)

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

See Ya….  Dick

(Indy Star) — Sen. Richard Lugar’s 36-year Senate career is now history.  The Associated Press called the race for Mourdock about 7:45 p.m.  Lugar was defeated in today’s Republican primary election by Treasurer Richard Mourdock, ending his bid for a seventh term in the U.S. Senate.

Mourdock will face Democrat U.S. Rep. Joe Donnelly and Libertarian Andy Horning in the November election.
Lugar is an Indiana icon who has influenced everything from the political makeup of Indianapolis to global nuclear proliferation. As mayor of Indianapolis, he led the effort to create Unigov, combining city and county government. And as the GOP leader in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee he’s played a lead role in combatting the spread of nuclear weapons from the former Soviet Union. (more…)

Jackass

I’m taking issue with the Ryan budget, which either way is contrary to the social doctrine that you teach and the social doctrine my church teaches. – VP Joe Biden

Really Joe?   Really?    What version of Christian Catholicism do you follow exactly? ……where abortion is condoned, healthcare mandates override religion, and gay marriage is supported……  where are these “social catholic doctrines taught”?
Do tell

<— Continued from Update #17

From the outset of the Trayvon Martin shooting the “Racist Narrative” has been the toxic media poison placed at the tip of the media spear, to create a “better” story.

5/8/12 7:30 pm
In this update we share not only how the racist poison was created, but who created it, blended it to just the right level of toxicity, and who dipped, and continues to dip, their spear into it.
To say the Orlando Sentinel has less than an objective review of this case would be the understatement of the month.   The Orlando Sentinel has repeatedly sold a specific and intentional narrative aimed at supporting the Trayvon Family version of all things Skittled.
The primary seller of the Trayvon Trail Of Tears has been their reporting by Jeff Weiner (pictured here).    But Jeff Weiner is not investigating any events per se’, instead he is regurgitating a specific narrative, including specific wording, presented to him for publication by the Trayvon Family media consultant Ryan Julison, of Orlando based Julison Communications.
We have outlined the who’s, how’s and why’s of Ryan Julison’s involvement at length.   It became a matter of significant interest when we identified the damage being done because of the false and intentionally seeded racist narrative.    Update on Julison Here.

We also outlined how, once exposed to the disinfecting sunlight of scrutiny, Ryan Julison began scrubbing his trail amid the discovery.   Indeed he deleted his company website, scrubbed his company FaceBook page of the self-indulgent bragging, and began to realize that real people around the country were being physically hurt because of his media pitch.
We called Julison out on that.  It was obvious.   It struck a nerve.  Not a nerve of humble regret, but a nerve of litigious fear.
All of a sudden, as expected, he became worried about being held financially and morally accountable for the false narrative he sold and took credit for selling.
Julison then took the same action all manipulators do when caught, he began to scrub his tracks and try to make his involvement disappear. (more…)

Some politically incorrect humor that I received via e-mail:
The Money Shot & How I Did It – The Killing of Osama Bin Laden


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Yikes, talk about telling lies that not only bite you, the truth bites back even harder.   A real trail of tears indeed.
Apparently Elizabeth Warren’s story about being 1/32 Native American Indian in order to participate in minority-abled affirmative action benefits, is not only false but the genology tracers show her great great great Grandpappy, Johnathan Crawford,  was an Indian Hunter in Chattanooga 1837.   Oh, the irony….

Prof. Jacobson – Since confirming this genealogical information was outside my comfort zone, I forwarded the information to author and genealogist Michael Patrick Leahy, who already had written about and investigated Warren’s genealogy. (more…)

First the notes.   The events surrounding the night of February 26th are complex only insofar as investigative evidence has not yet fully been made public.   The various leaks, accounts, media stories, witness statements etc. have been reviewed and essentially led up to the collection of information in Update #9.
Since March 12th, when investigators determined that no credible evidence existed to arrest or prosecute George Zimmerman, nor did anything surface to dispute his account of the nights events leading up to the shooting of Trayvon Martin, nothing has changed.
Everything beyond that official police investigation position has been speculation, media spin and manufactured media-evidence designed to stir public opinion and emotion.

Again we repeat, “media evidence” sold by lawyers and Media Image Consultants does not need to be real, it only needs the appearance of reality.   Much like planting seeds of doubt it is created to appeal to, and stir, emotion;  to overwhelm logical thought, to sway public opinion and ultimately force politically minded public officials to engage in activity they would otherwise stay away from. (more…)