Feb 17, 2021

THE ORIGINAL PROPONENT OF THE POLITICS OF LIES


RUSH LIMBAUGH BECAME THE FACE OF THE GOP MAKING WAY FOR DJT BY DEMONSTRATING THAT LIES DO NOT MATTER IN POLITICS - 
AS LONG AS YOU NEVER APOLOGIZE OR RECANT 




The Rush Limbaugh Show is like VIDEODROME or The RING once you are exposed enough there is a point of no return. Like a bad trip on LSD - you believe in your paranoid delusion that you have come down and re-entered reality, while in fact you are sitting in a padded room in a straight jacket. 
It is a pathological state of mass psychosis.* This leads to the question: HOW DO I KNOW IF I HAVE BEEN LIMBAUGHTOMIZED

There is this simple test: You may be a LIMBAUGHTOMIZED LUNATIC if: 
 1) You believe you found WMDs instead of British artillery balloon trailers. 
2) You believe more tax cuts for the rich will restore a robust economy. 
 3) You believe Nation Building is not the job of US troops when you are Governor candidate Bush and you believe nation building is the job of the US troops when you are Resident Bush. 
4) You believe lying about sex is worse that lying about the reasons for war but nobody died in a stained blue dress. 
5) You believe Halliburton & KBR have the nations best interest at heart instead of VP. Cheney’s best interest at heart. 
6) You believe that W had no ‘insider’ knowledge before he dumped his Harken Energy stock 
7) You believe W was a great businessman who made money in the oil business. 
8) You believe there are liberal fans** of the Rush Limbaugh Show 
9) You believe you are safer now than during the Clinton administration 
10) You believe you are financially better off now (and you make less than $140,000 a year) than you were during the Clinton Administration. 
11) You believe the economy is better with a 5 Trillion Dollar deficit. 
12) You believe in Right to Life from conception to birth AND the DEATH penalty. 

If you answered yes to any 7 of the 12 beliefs above You have entered the Bushie Twilight Zone a dimension where there is only a Right wing and right turns and right to life and rightwingnuts. 

**"Liberal fans of the Rush Limbaugh show" LMAO And I thought compassionate conservative was the best oxymoron. 
  
FAQ SECTION: If you cannot find the answer you seek below please join the discussion on the RTB Forum 
QUESTION: “Am I Limbaughtomized since I don't listen to the show?” 
ANSWER: Although it is extremely rare there have been recognized cases of Limbaughtomy by proxy. These cases occur when the victim is in close contact with Limbaughtomy sufferers who carry the airborne infection and pass it on by word of mouth. This is sometimes known as Contact Limbaughtomy. 
QUESTION: How frustrated do Democrats get because they can't figure out how Rush's show is so successful. 
ANSWER: Einstein is credited with the following gem of wisdom: “Only two things in my experience are infinite: 1) is the Universe 2) is human stupidity. And sometimes I am not sure about the universe.” 
P T. Barnam once opined that “ Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American Public. 
TEST: Take one of the many I Q Tests available on the web (if you can locate one ) and see if you can beat Forest Gump at a score of 42. 
QUESTION: No matter how hard they try or how much money they throw at it, they can't duplicate it or make it go away. Poor little Algore is rumored to be trying to counter it now, I'm sure he'll fail miserably too. Do you disagree? 
ANSWER: Beginning with part 2, Former Vice-President Al Gore who garnered 550,000 more votes in the Presidential election than the current Resident is said to be advocating the creation of a Liberal News Network on Television to counter the influence of CNN (the Conservative News Network) FOX ( the Fascist News Notwork) and MSNBC (Mindless Sycophant News By Conservatives) Al Gores comments have nothing to do with Radio. The answer to part one is: I know of nobody who is spending a dime to make Rush Limbaughtomy go away. Rush Limbaughtomy is a valued tool of the liberal left. There is no clearer indication of Rightwingnut status than those who listen to the Limbaughtomy. Know thine enemy. Gore Reportedly Has Set Sights on Creation of a Cable Network 
QUESTION: So now any of us on the right who have an opinion are obviously "limbaughtomized" because everybody knows we're too stupid to come up with our ideas on our own, right? 
ANSWER: How would one know if they were “able to come up with” the same twisted dumb “answers on their own?” RIGHT? Of course you are RIGHT that is what this is about. QUESTION: Aren’t there are many, many diehard liberal fans of Rush? I work for some. I know many others. And they're all as vehemently liberal as many of you. 
ANSWER Let us agree on one thing . You decide who the conservatives are since it takes one to know one. And We will decide who passes muster as a liberal. 
A few clues: Just because you 
1) Favor life in a hellhole prison over the death penalty it does not make you a liberal 
2) Favor the right of a woman to choose in cases of rape or incest it does not make you a liberal 
3) Favor the simple registration of assault weapons or handguns – it does not make you a liberal. 
4) Know a conservative that thinks you are a liberal it does not make you a liberal. 
5) Make the statement that “some of my best friends or employers are liberal” and you are a Limbaughtomized Rightwingnut it does not make them liberals. 

QUESTION: So, I can't know a liberal when I see one, but you can know a conservative when you see one? 
 ANSWER: In using the pejorative form of sarcasm it is often found that the user emulates the untenable aspects of the opponents’ line of reasoning (or lack thereof). Hence the sarcasm involved in my use of “all of my conservative friends” --- 
QUESTION: Sheesh, Barry B, I sure wish I had your towering intellect, so I could learn to insult liberals with such gusto as your crazed insults of those of us on the right, and so I could learn to properly distinguish liberals from conservatives. 
ANSWER: Personally I think you do an adequate job of insulting liberals and I wish you could learn to properly distinguish as well. 
QUESTION: Do you realize with your rants you sound just like a liberal version of Rush, except not as entertaining or as humourous (sic)? 
ANSWER: Why thank you. I will take the “liberal version of Rush comment” as a compliment since that is exactly what I was shooting for. As to you feeling that I am not as entertaining or humorous – I will say that I would not expect you to be entertained or humored. My aim is to anger and outrage because that is what Rush does to liberals. 
  
NOTE TO MY READERS: In case you are suffering from the same problem that some of those who take exception to my remarks let me make this abundantly clear. 
THE PURPOSE OF RUSH LIMBAUGHTOMY (my blogspot and nom de plume) is to poke fun at Crush Slimeball and his listeners. I believe them to be mindless sycophants and intellectual dullards who have the moral conscience of gutter dwellers and pond scum hence the name Rush Limbaughtomy – get it. 
I would not cross the street to excrete bodily fluids on Rush if he were on fire. I think Rush is doing and has done irreparable harm to the political environment in America and I believe him to be a menace to society and to America. I enjoy writing these replies just like Al Franken enjoyed writing Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot. And all of my conservative friends and employers agree with me that Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot. And many Conservatives who are disgusted by the lies and vituperation of Rush Limbaugh have written to me in support of my efforts to take the debate to his level and meet the Limbaughtomized on their own terms. I hope you enjoy it because it is meant to be enjoyed. and not taken literally. Barry Bozeman is the author of Rush Limbaughtomy and solely responsible for it’s content. Thanks and a tip of the hat to Bjorn Again for the questions in the FAQ *Visit Emphasis Added for a beautifully intellectual view of "the pathological state of mass psychosis this country finds itself in following 9/11, including a devastating analysis of the appeal of Bush’s simplicity, sentimentality, and boundless capacity for self-delusion."

Oct 18, 2020

HEAVEN or PARADISE - WHAT IS HEAVEN TO YOU?

 IMAGINING HEAVEN  

THE PEARLY GATES OF HEAVEN

                                           THE PEARLY GATES TO HEAVEN 

In this world of spacetime in 2020, 170,000 people die every 24hours. That makes it small wonder that the processing at what some would call “the Pearly Gates” appears to the recently departed as impossibly chaotic. Despite the constant increase in entities processing the deceased, each ‘soul’ has less than 5 minutes to make a decision concerning their immortality. When you find yourself up against an infinity of existence when in a state of shock for many if not most, the questions are inevitable – so whomever designed the system simply eliminated any easy possibility for those questions.   

Do you really have some concept of what Heaven or Paradise would be for you? The physical descriptions of Heaven in The Bible are either absurd or woefully inadequate. To wit

Dwelling with Jesus in Mansions - John 14:2-3 “In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also” (John 14:2-3).

Heaven Will Be A City Built for Worship - Hebrews 12:22-23 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect (Hebrews 12:22-23).

All Nations and People Will Worship Jesus - Revelation 7:9-10 “After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, saying, ‘Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!’” (Revelation 7:9-10)

Heaven Will Be Filled with Peace, Joy, and Praise - Revelation 7:15-17 “Therefore they are before the throne of God and serve Him day and night in His temple. And He who sits on the throne will dwell among them. They shall neither hunger anymore nor thirst anymore; the sun shall not strike them, nor any heat; for the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to living fountains of waters. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes” (Revelation 7:15-17).

. A Great Storm in Heaven & The Ark of the Covenant - Revelation 11:19 “Then the temple of God was opened in heaven, and the ark of His covenant was seen in His temple. And there were lightnings, noises, thunderings, an earthquake, and great hail” (Revelation 11:19).

Jesus Leads Armies Clothed in White on White Horses 19:11-14 “Now I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war. His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns. He had a name written that no one knew except Himself. He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God. And the armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed Him on white horses” (Revelation 19:11-14).

Precious Gemstones will Adorn Heaven - Revelation 21:9-11 “‘Come, I will show you the bride, the Lamb’s wife.’ And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, clear as crystal” (Revelation 21:9-11).

Heaven Will Have Pearl Gates & Streets of Gold - Revelation 21:21 “The twelve gates were twelve pearls: each individual gate was of one pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass” (Revelation 21:21).

The Tree of Life in Heaven - Revelation 22:2 “In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations” (Revelation 22:2).

The Light of God in Heaven - Revelation 22:4-5 “They shall see His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads. There shall be no night there: They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever” (Revelation 22:4-5).


               DONNY DEMENTED IN HIS GOLDEN TRUMP TOWER RESIDENCE 

When I read these descriptions of “Heaven”, I cannot help but think of Donald Trump’s apartment in Trump Tower. Who thinks streets of gold and jewel encrusted gates and walls with white robed citizens on white horses has some kind of universal appeal? 

It sounds tacky, garish, way too bright, yet incredibly boring to me. I can dig the Peace and Joy – harmony and lack of war, suffering and disease but everyone in white robes constantly at worship? I cannot imagine taking a vacation there, much less spending eternity.  

Think about it. Did you genuinely believe there is some “Heaven” that would accommodate the likes of Jerry Falwell, Paula White, and Franklin Graham and any true Christian you know? It always seemed to me that any place those people go would be a place I would consider Hell even if they do not. So how does it really work? Wouldn’t we all like to know?

Well guess what people – I have an answer for you.

After passing through that bright white tunnel the soul is housed in what appears to you and those around you as your optimum self-image. What amounts to the you self-identified as your best? Almost everyone going through processing looks like the incredibly appealing individual at something like 18 to 22 years of age.

When you meet your afterlife advisor you are stunned by the fact that you are there, and then stunned again when you appear as the most perfect you. Then you find yourself moving in a mass of near perfect individuals toward a line of stations where an angelic presence asks you: Where would you like to go from here?

Most former living people now deceased say one of the following things – listed here by choice popularity:

1 Heaven Christians 31%

2) Paradise: Muslim 24%

3) Bhuva Loka or Swarga Loka, Hindu 15%

4) Reincarnation as a higher being   Buddhist 7%

5) Where my loved ones are 15%

6) Urantia’s upwardly mobile next. 3%

7) Permanent Termination – an end to all mental activity. 3%

This leaves a mere 2% who insist on asking questions that lead to the opportunity to choose an eternity crafted prior to their passing.

Believe it or not almost nobody asks to go to hell and perhaps more amazing only a tiny fraction of the dead even ask about options. I imagine the confusion leads to being stunned into choosing to utter the optimum destination described by their religion the choice of over 75% including most of those who claim to be irreligious or atheist. It is not like there is any time to consider and it is easy overhear others in the queue who give that most popular and obvious answer according to whatever religion they know best or the default “where my loved ones have gone”.

This is how the moderators of the hereafter can deal with the 170,000 dead every 24 hours. There is no benefit for them if they notify everyone that they are obligated to provide for any conceivable choice, and the idea of an ill formed eternity is too dangerous to contemplate. Recall the idea of one who asked for eternal life but failed to mention aging.

Something like 110 BILLION human beings have lived on Earth since homo sapiens first appeared some 50,000 years ago. Let's round that down to 100 Billion to eliminate those who appeared and died prior to the advent of religion  

Writing dates back 5,220 years and monotheism as a concept dates to the 6th century BCE when Judaism began so 2,800 years ago - so maybe we can subtract those with no idea of an afterlife. Estimates of 4 to 5 million human beings in 600 BCE to 7.8 to 8 billion at present mean the 1968 estimate of 30 "ghosts" to every living human (105 billion) made by Arthur C. Clark in the 2001 novel made film by Stanley Kubrick are accurate. That's a lot of population to provide for in an afterlife of any type. 

If we consider the many worlds theory of Quantum Mechanics, the space required for 110 billion eternal humans is not a problem. Given the vastness of space with more 200 billion galaxies we have more than one galaxy for every human who ever existed without any need for a quantum realm. Every human can have a planet or multiple planets for their eternity. I like that idea. 

Or even better within the Quantum realm each human can inhabit a duplicate  Earth circa any year they choose and live again with the knowledge of their past life as an immortal with the power to shape the world into their own personal heaven.  


Feb 21, 2019

WE ARE NOT MOVING FAST ENOUGH t


Two frightening and enlightening new books

Jeff Goodell tells his story of accompanying Barack Obama on the first trip by an American President to the Arctic for Rolling Stone.  Obama candidly expresses his fears in a private conversation speaking of his concern for Sasha and Malia as the two of them walk the shoreline in Arctic Alaska. He spoke of recently having read THE SIXTH EXTINCTION by Elizabeth Kolbert and the effect that was having on his thinking.
 “Climate change is no longer some far-off problem; it is happening here, it is happening now,” Obama said. In perhaps the starkest language he has ever used in public, Obama warned that unless more was done to reduce carbon pollution, “we will condemn our children to a planet beyond their capacity to repair: submerged countries, abandoned cities, fields no longer growing.” His impatience was obvious: “We’re not moving fast enough,” he repeated four times in a 24-minute speech (an aide later told me this repetition was ad-libbed).
Goodell takes the Rolling Stone article as part of his detailed study of the implications of sea-level rise across the planet. The IPCC’s estimated some 3.2 feet of sea level rise by 2100 in it’s 2013 report climate scientists admit was extremely conservative. The latest report doubled the estimates but many well-known climatologists believe that estimate to be well below what will come as early as 2050 and the sea level rise will reach between 5 and 9 meters or 16 to 29 feet.  see Mar 22 2016 report to Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 

Goodell’s look at the future is frightening but his focus on sea level alone is tame compared to THE UNINHABITABLE EARTH Life After Warming by David Wallace Wells discussed in Feb 16, 2019’s New York Times opinion piece “TIME TO PANIC”. Wallace Wells believes the relatively slow moving threat of rising seas lulls us into a false complacency when it’s really the other effects of increasing heat that pose the greater threat to all life on Earth.
FEAR MAY BE THE ONLY THING THAT SAVES US.
We have gone from an intelligent well read leader who worked to get the Paris accords and who thought daily about the effect of warming for his children, to a moron who reads nothing but tweets and who declares the greatest crisis in the history of humanity “A CHINESE HOAX”.
Perhaps the only silver lining in this disaster of an administration is the fear we all should feel and communicate to get our families and friends into action.
addendum:
An interesting development has been Bill Gates TERRA POWER. A wave reactor that eats spent nuclear fuel solving one of the worst problems with nuclear power plants in the past. Terra Power entered into an agreement in China in 2015 and began construction of their first plant to help stop the proliferation of coal-fired plants going up in China by the dozens.  Read Bill Gates's Experimental Nuclear Power Plant Halts Construction in China  Gates cites the Trump Administration's aggressive stance for having to pull out.
After Trump halted the effort in China to please his coal and oil supporters this happened: Top Trump appointees promoted selling nuclear power plants to Saudi Arabia over objections from national security officials
Despite misgivings about nuclear power, a smaller safer wave reactor that eats the problematic spent fuel rods while replacing coal burning plants seems like a win-win. 

Dec 20, 2017

SCIENTOLOGY and 1984 - a simple meme for What is Scientology

WHAT IS SCIENTOLOGY? 

SCIENTOLOGY: A 1984 NEWSPEAK MIND CONTROL CULT - Big Brother snitch culture where War is Peace, Ignorance is Strength, and Freedom is Slavery 

My Project to identify a meme and method to focus on an action to destroy the ability of DAVID MISCAVIGE to entice and keep members.

Most baby boomer high school students were exposed to Brave New World, Animal Farm, Citizen Kane, and 1984 as required reading in the fevered anti-Communist furor of the McCarthy era. That is why APPLE Inc through Steve Jobs chose the 1984 meme for the MAC advertisement that cast IBM as Big Brother. The universal acceptance of 1984 as a common experience was fundamental. The thought behind 1984's NEWSPEAK - Ignorance is Strength, War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery and Big Brother is Watching You was almost universally known.  



Since 1984 was written in 1949 it can be assumed that LRH was very familiar with the ideas proposed in that book. In matter of fact the parallels between Scientology & 1984 have been raised on
Clambake http://www.xenu.net/archive/1984/  circa 1993-2000

In 1982 the original tapes from LRH given on 6 December 1952 on:

“Therefore, we really do have the remedy before the assault weapon is produced. Did you ever read poor old George Orwell’s 1984? Yes, yes, that’s wonderful. That would be — could be the palest imagined shadow of what a world would be like under the rule of the secret use of Scientology with no remedy in existence. 
“It’s a very simple remedy. And that’s just make sure that the remedy is passed along. That’s all. Don’t hoard it and don’t hold it. And if you ever do use any Black Dianetics, use it on the guy who pulled Scientology out of sight and made it so it wasn’t available. Because he’s the boy who would be electing himself ‘The New Order.’ And we don’t need any more new orders. All those orders, as far as I am concerned, have been filled.”

However, note that all of the words in italics have been seamlessly deleted from the current “Golden Age of Knowledge” version of the lecture and accompanying transcript. This was done by David Miscavige and anything that can possibly promote the rift between Miscavige and LRH purists is a good thing. 

The parallels between Newspeak and the confused insanity of those who have been trapped by their zeal to 'save humanity and the planet' are just too accurate to be ignored. An example of IASpeak like Newspeak:
Two Scientologists meet on the street. “How're you doing?” one asks the other. 
“Well, to tell you the truth, I've been a bit out ruds because of a PTP with my second dynamic because of some bypassed charge having to do with my MEST at her apartment. When I moved in I gave her an R-factor and I thought we were in ARC about it, but lately, she seems to have gone a bit PTS so I recommended she see the MAA at the AO to blow some charge and get her ethics in. He gave her a review to F/N and VGIs but she did a roller coaster, so I think there's an SP somewhere on her lines. I tried to audit her myself but she had a dirty needle and BIs and was acting really 1.1 so I finally sent her to Qual to spot the entheta on her lines. Other than that, everything's fine…”



Chris Shelton - The Critical Thinker and ex-Scientologist used this parallel in a YouTube presentation from back in June of 2016. SCIENTOLOGY IN RUSSIA - It's 1984 all over again  



The responses to this YouTube entry were very positive for you and some 6,800 views later this has been quite effective. But has there been any follow up to this meme?  

It is quite easy to use the Soviets totalitarian ideals now obviously a part of the new Russia as an example of Big Brother. The problem arises when people focus on Russia as if it were unique. Here in the USA the revelations of Edward Snowden - now ironically trapped in Moscow - show that Big Brother is not limited to Russia or the old USSR.

Here's my take on the situation and the idea to focus on the 1984 memes to distill the evil of Scientology to a hard-hitting focused meme that can promote action. The Brainwashing idea is fraught with problems - misunderstood and difficult to prove. 

But the idea of Newspeak is quite accurate since Scientology does have a unique language that can be easily seen, and the key elements of 1984 mind control are all perfect examples of real Scientology in fact as well as effect.
IGNORANCE is STRENGTH: - obvious since members of the organization are effectively prohibited from even viewing or reading anything not approved by the RTC or IAS.
FREEDOM is SLAVERY:  this is almost too perfect when those who work for SEA ORG and on staff are required to put in 80 to 100 hours a week for nominal compensation. - Bad food, sub-par accommodations, and some 10 to 50 cents an hour in pay
WAR is PEACE: the Fair Game approach to the destruction of enemies can easily be seen as a form of all-out war against detractors.
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU; clearly, the RTC and IAS through the machinations of DM have become a perfected exercise in far more than surveillance. The E-meter lie detection coupled with the KR's of the snitch culture is an open well-documented fact of life for members 

David Miscavige is BIG BROTHER 

 I continue to favor the idea that creative people can possibly come up with a very direct simple relatable meme that should be an effective tool for rallying support and saving potential victims from the criminal David Miscavige. 

Perhaps you might run this thought past your supporters in the ex-Scientologist community - particularly someone like Jeff Hawkins and Paul Haggis. 

I would be moved to donate to a fund with the specific goal of creating a video scripted by Paul Haggis and designed by Jeff Hawkins that is somewhat related to the famous APPLE vs IBM ad 

Scientology = 1984 mind control - that's quite obvious to me so I think it would be easy to get across to a vast cross-section of the public. 

As the answer to WHAT IS SCIENTOLOGY, this is a key concept. Once you or any of your fellow critics begin to explain the complicated reality of Scientology you find yourselves producing 100's of YouTube videos, 2 hour long GOING CLEAR documentaries with 40 hours of AFTERMATH programming and 50 books of hundreds of pages each. 

Most of these are wonderful testimonials to the damage done to good people whose only sin was a desire to make the world a better place. I do not denigrate those efforts in any way shape or form. 

But taking the next step to capitalize on the current negative perception brought about by all this effort requires something different. An easy to comprehend meme that sticks in the consciousness of a public with a 60 second 140 Twitter character attention span. 

WHAT IS SCIENTOLOGY?  All quite easy to prove and compare using the language and practices of the cult - all in 112 characters below: 

SCIENTOLOGY: A 1984 NEWSPEAK MIND CONTROL CULT - Big Brother snitch culture where War is Peace, Ignorance is Strength, & Freedom is Slavery 

That's my thought for the time being for your consideration. I see a possibility that more creative minds than mine might find a way to promote this meme - and I firmly believe that something like this could become a rallying point where many in the public would get behind a well-laid plan to make this widely known.  

This will be impossible for the Scientologists to combat since they are willfully ignorant slaves without the freedom to refuse to war against family and friends they have been required to label SP or PTS. 

Feb 7, 2017

EVIL TWISTED AMWAY WORLD OF BETSY DEVOS


AMWAY EDUCATION SECRETARY? BETSY DEVOS WORLD A TRUE STORY
In the Winter of 1980, John Lennon dies while I'm on a ratty bus with Sammy Hall on 'tour' to sell Mountain Sound’s old Charlie Daniels sound system. My Mountain Sound company toured with the CDB and Marshall Tucker Bands and was gearing up to do all the systems for the 1982 World’s Fair in Knoxville, TN. 



Hall is an AMWAY "artist" from Sevier Co. Tn. who performs AMWAY songs and butchers an Elvis set. He's frankly terrible, but I need to make this sale so I agree to join his tour for 10 days to train his staff on the use of the system. Hall lives in a mansion with a disco and guitar shaped pool with a hot tub tuning head off Dolly Parton Parkway paid for by AMWAY proceeds and his Diamond status. From the look of the place, you would think he ranked up there with Lee Greenwood or at least Ted Nugent. The forlorn dilapidated mobile homes clustered near the edge of his property house his band and crew in a mud-caked area prone to flood.
Sammy Hall in 1980 is the most famous of Amway entertainers. He wrote, “Don’t Let Anyone Steal Your Dream” and “Circles” based on Amway slogans. He sells his albums and tapes along with posters of the image above, T-shirts, and his biography that claims he was drug addicted biker saved on the way to hell. Band members claim this is all a sham. 



The Amway shows have been full on this tour of hotel ballrooms in Minneapolis, Chicago & now D.C. They consist mainly of Diamond Amway distributors parading on stage in furs and jewels before a slide show of mansions, Bentley’s, and vacation homes on ski slopes and beaches. They preach ostentatious materialism and greed to salivating “wanna-bees” who will never reach the pinnacle of the pyramid held by the DeVos, Britt, and Yager families.   
The final gig of the "tour" is at the D.C. Hilton where Reagan was shot. It's Sunday, the last day of a miserable 3 stop 7 AMWAY show 9 days and this Sunday morning Sammy Hall Ministries is doing a service of hymns and gospel in order to qualify as tax-exempt.  At the mixing desk in the main ballroom of the Hilton filled with AMWAY faithful and recruits I join the sound guy for the final Q&A.
Then I hear Sammy say to the AMWAY audience - "Our bus has broken down so I need to ask for donations to repair the bus in order to continue our ministry" - “WHAT”? I cried, “This can’t be happening I have to get back to Knoxville.”  
"Don't worry," says Sammy's sound guy says as the KFC buckets roll in stuffed with $100 & $50 bills. "The bus is fine. Sammy does this routine every Sunday".
I would not have been surprised if the bus on which I was forced to travel had broken down. Hall rode in style all by himself in a fairly new Prevost worth maybe $500,000 to a million. The 12 members of the band and crew suffered in a 20-year-old converted Greyhound that leaked diesel exhaust into the cabin and had the suspension of a tank. I had caught a cold early shared with most of the indentured servants. 
But this is just too much! A Sunday morning service used to bilk Amway newbies out of their money with a bald-faced lie about an unneeded bus repair from a guy worth millions who is using “ministry” to claim tax exempt status? Perhaps “a funny thing happened on the way to hell” isn’t such a joke. How does a believer and "minister" lie to his congregation for money? This is how. It's not new or unique but being this close and involved is new for me. I think there must be a special reseverd circle in the depths for this kind of duplicity.  
I learned that Lennon had been killed the first night out when I went to a motel bar for a drink while the crew was fueling up and eating at the nearby truck stop. They were barred from drinking by Hall who I later learned had never stopped his addiction. When I informed Hall of Lennon’s death he was caustic about Lennon's politics and songs. I knew I was in for a bad trip — I had no idea how bad. 



This is the AMWAY way. Sammy Hall Ministries Sunday 'services' qualify him as tax-exempt but will there be some exemption for lying about his ministry?  It's another AMWAY ripoff and I had been indoctrinated by the AMWAY religious fervor - a tour of events key to signing up new fish to feed the greed of the DeVos family. 
Later in my career, I spent a year working for American Multimedia in Burlington NC. with Richard Clark. Owned by AMWAY's DeVos and Britt, this is where all the Amway materials are printed, recorded and duplicated. Clark was a genius and his innovations made him the leading authority in tape duplication. Clark also became a famous face at car audio shows where he won the national competition so often they forced his retirement and made him a judge for the competition. AMI was the largest duplicator of cassette tapes in the world and both Clark and Hall were made Diamond Level distributors as part of their compensation packages from Devos and Britt. 
This is a bizarre world of insane wealth for the few at the top of the pyramid and near poverty for the entry level workers.  This is the world of Betsy DeVos — you already know how unqualified this woman is for the Education post, now you know the evil and twisted world she inhabits 

Jan 28, 2017

BRIEF HISTORY OF THE USA SINCE 1980 -

The least educated voters in the USA have given us Donny TURNIP as leader. By that I mean this:
Of the bottom 20 states in terms of education (by a set of valid metrics that include education level and quality) only 2 went blue vs 18 red. All of the Top 11 are Blue States
The Darker the Better

Mass. NY, NJ, VT, CONN., MD, DEL, RI., NH, CO & MINN. all voted Blue
WVa gave the TURNIP the biggest margin of victory - That's arguably the dumbest state in the US
KY, MS, LA, AL, OK, AK, AZ, and TX  round out the Idiot Nine Red for TURNIP with only NV rounding out the Bottom Ten as the 1 Blue.
The next group on the Low End include: ID, MT, WY, ND, SD, IN, TN, NC, and SC 9 more Red States with NM, as the lone Blue  So of the 20 low end education states 18 elected the TURNIP.

Given that lack of education, it would behoove us to simplify in order to edify. The least educated and informed Americans are typically the most negatively impacted by Republicans and assholes like the TURNIP.

REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH 

AMAZING CORRELATION OF EDUCATION & TURNIP VOTERS

EXPANDING ON THE "CAN'T FIX STUPID" THEME 
Here's how a fraud & liar gets the Electoral Votes to be President. 

LIST OF STATES BY % VOTE FOR THE TURNIP 

West Virginia  68.63%   W.VA.-dead last in education quality & level #1 TURNIP margin
Wyoming        67.40%      Underlined states are bottom 20 in Ed Metrics
Oklahoma        65.32%
North Dakota  62.96%
Kentucky        62.52%
Alabama          62.08%
South Dakota  61.53%
Tennessee        60.72%
Arkansas         60.57%
Idaho               59.26%
Louisiana         58.09%
Indiana             56.82%
Mississippi       57.94%
Missouri          56.77%
Kansas             56.65%
Nebraska, 1st  56.18%
Montana          56.17%
So Carolina     54.94%
Texas               52.23%
Ohio                51.69%
Alaska             51.28%
Maine, 2nd      51.26%
Iowa                51.15%
Georgia           50.77%
No Carolina     49.83%           
Florida             49.02%
Arizona           48.67%
Pennsylvania   48.58%
Michigan         47.50%           Libertarian & Green Candidates - more votes than margin. 
Wisconsin        47.22%           States where 3rd party votes made the difference in GREEN 
New Hamp      46.61%
Utah                45.54%
Nevada            45.50%
Minnesota       44.92%
Virginia           44.43%
Colorado         43.25%          BOLD states are TOP 10 in Education Metrics 
Delaware         41.79%
New Jersey      41.00%
New Mexico   40.04%
Connecticut     40.93%
Maine, 1st       39.15%
Oregon            39.09%
Rhode Island  38.90%
Illinois             38.76%
Washington     38.07%
New York       36.15%
Maryland         33.91%
Massachusetts 32.81%
California        31.62%
Vermont          29.76%           
Hawaii             29.44%

EDUCATION METRICS LIST - LEVEL & QUALITY OF EDUCATION

Oct 27, 2016

THE SPIRIT RAP - A REVERIE FROM A MUSE

For My  Mother who used to do this well. 
The Planet Earth Our Home 
and Hillary who I hope lives up to the faith we place in her. 



THE SPIRIT RAP
WE ARE ALL ONE

AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL

Across great plains of waving grain
O're endless burning desert sands,
A hot wind sings through canyon lands
Then howls up ridges
Rides the rain
And dies in quiet beneath deep snows
On lofty peaks above the trees.
Where rivers flow to foaming seas
Beneath white sails full blown cool breeze,
High hums the rigging taut and strong
And keel to rudder rides huge waves
Of pounding surf in fog-drenched haze.

Thunder rolls up asphalt trails
Eight lanes of freeway
Silver rails of speeding trains
Fly streaking planes
crescendo swells
Of blaring horns, hot squealing tires
the raucous sounds from concrete caves
Rise between vast gleaming spires of glass and steel
To pierce the smog of smoke filled skies.

Above thin canopies of clouds
Shine countless stars
Vast galaxies of gas and light
And coming soon bad rising moon
Will kiss the colors of the sky
As sinking sun sets in the gloom

Down beneath skyscrapers high
The nightlife springs and prowls the scene
In syncopated rhythmic dance
Our bodies spin, hearts beat alive
Minds seek connection in a trance
Of sparkling eyes, inviting smiles a human touch
The ancient ritual erupts
And all our focus is aligned
To sing love's song in space and time.

In poetry of words and wit
Is life expressed?
The real surreal
This thing is
IT

He roars with rage all spite and fear
What beast is this that mauls and tears 
Time tested fabric of our strength?
A selfish instinct that belief
Who dares assault the tried and true 
To sing divide and conquer blues?
The center holds until we fail 
We cannot falter or this tale
Of human decency won’t last 
Our future grows from honored past 

Sep 20, 2016

LIAR DENIERS - HOW WE WILL DESTROY THEM WHEN ARMED WITH THE POWER OF KNOWLEDGE AND TRUTH

 LIAR DENIERS THINK YOU ARE TOO STUPID TO SEE WHAT THEY DO

 We really do not require this consensus of Climate Scientists. We can determine the truth for ourselves. We too can look at the data - the massive store of measurements of CO2 in our atmosphere and of rising temperatures across the globe. 

Charles Keeling put his CO2 measurement devices on Mauna Loa in Hawaii around 1958, We have had access to this record of CO2 in our atmosphere in the Keeling Curve and many other measurement sites that have duplicated this result across the planet. 


KEELING CO2 LEVELS 1958 - 2016

This information is quite easy to understand. The number 401.10 is the current parts per million of CO2 in the atmosphere at the Mauna Loa Observatory. Since 1958 the amount of CO2 has steadily increased from 315 to 401ppm. Everything you could possibly care to understand about this measurement is available here on THE KEELING CURVE WEBSITE including links to a number of additional measurement sites around the world that verify this is not an anomaly. 

Even the LIAR DENIERS cannot attack these measurements. Instead, they try to claim the CO2 comes from volcanoes or other natural sources. 
But this is what they fail to comprehend. We are smarter than they think. We understand there is a natural carbon cycle that has been operating on Earth for millennia . We understand that some CO2 is produced by natural processes like breathing. We know it enters the atmosphere and is absorbed by the ocean, released into the air again and absorbed in our forests where green leafy trees use photosynthesis to make CO2 into oxygen. 
How do our Climate Scientists know about the natural balance of the carbon cycle in the past? We know because the ice is a massive storage facility for ancient data on the atmosphere. 

We know the oceans and forests are carbon dioxide sinks that store CO2, first on the ocean surface until currents carry it into the ocean depths. This process was in balance for millennia. We know this because our scientists have learned that they can drill into the ice in glaciers on the high mountains and in Greenland or Antarctica and recover a record of CO2 that now goes back 800,000 years. This record now covers hundreds of core drilling sites and thousands of samples and clearly shows we have not approached 401ppm over all that time. 

In order to better understand and communicate in conflicts with deniers and doubters on Climate Change, I entered the DENIAL 101X course on EDX. This course is nearing completion but you can get involved and gain the information on your own time as I have since last week. The course consists of short video ‘lectures’ of 6 minutes average, with pdf ‘handouts’. This is very well done and beautifully organized. I encourage each of you to at least visit the site and perhaps enroll for the Climate Science course that begins on Nov 1, 2016.

This video by Dr. Lonnie Thompson from Ohio State University is very entertaining and informative. Dr. Thompson invented the process that allows scientists to use a solar powered drill to take core samples in the high mountains of the Andes, Alps,Himalayas and even Kilimanjaro and New Guinea. This involves drilling at 20,000 feet in areas inaccessible to even helicopters. Scientists use yaks to pack out the cores from the high elevations. 


  

The way we know that CO2 is now out of balance with the natural carbon cycle comes from the measurements of CO2 at places like Mauna Loa and from analysis of the ice cores drilled by scientists like Dr. Thompson on high mountain glaciers and by many other Climate Scientists who have drilled deep in Greenland and Antarctica. Scientists depend on a wide array of cores from all across the planet to confirm that results are not isolated phenomena. The cores are shared with scientists in many different countries at many different institutions. The analysis of the trapped air in facilities in many countries ensures results are not 'doctored'.
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