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Comment by donp on October 18, 2011 at 9:32am

Phil, you might find something appropriate here, and you won't receive a statement for services either.

 

God is on the the side of the big battalions.

Political necessities sometimes turn out to be political mistakes.

Any public committee man who tries to pack the moral cards in the interest of his own notions is guilty of corruption and impertinence.

The business of a public library is not to supply the public with the books the committee thinks good for the public, but to supply the public with the books the public wants. …

 

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.

But as the ratepayer is mostly a coward and a fool in these difficult matters, and the committee is quite sure that it can succeed where the Roman Catholic Church has made its index expurgatorius the laughing-stock of the world, censorship will rage until it reduces itself to absurdity; and even then the best books will be in danger still.

 

Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it… 

 

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity. 

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.

My specialty is being right when other people are wrong. 

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

 

Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

To understand a saint, you must hear the devil's advocate; and the same is true of the artist.

Comment by Phillip J. Barker on October 17, 2011 at 11:42pm

I don't know, Don.  You got my attention with "I define the 100 percent American as 99 percent idiot." Ya kinda lost me after that until you got to the "sex part".

Comment by donp on October 17, 2011 at 8:48pm

A review of George Bernard Shaw's pithy, albeit accurate reflections, may spruce up your attitude.  I looked for years to relocate this gem.  "I define the 100 percent American as 99 percent idiot." 

• New York Times (19 December 1930) remarks on Sinclair Lewis receiving the Nobel Prize

• One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
  • The Apple Cart (1928), Act I

• It is far more likely that by the time nationalization has become the rule, and private enterprise the exception, Socialism (which is really rather a bad name for the business) will be spoken of, if at all, as a crazy religion held by a fanatical sect in that darkest of dark ages, the nineteenth century. Already, indeed, I am told that Socialism has had its day, and that the sooner we stop talking nonsense about it and set to work, like the practical people we are, to nationalize the coal mines and complete a national electrification scheme, the better. And I, who said forty years ago that we should have had Socialism already but for the Socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing. What I meant by my jibe at the Socialists of the eighteen-eighties was that nothing is ever done, and much is prevented, by people who do not realize that they cannot do everything at once.
  • The Intelligent Woman's Guide To Socialism, Capitalism, Sovietism, and Fascism (1928)

• No public man in these islands ever believes that the . . . [Constitution] means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.
  • Our Theatres In The Nineties (1930)

• An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country.
  • Speech at New York (11 April 1933)

• You in America should trust to that volcanic political instinct which I have divined in you.
  • Speech at New York (11 April 1933)

• The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation.
  • letter, 24 June 1930, to Frank Harris "To Frank Harris on Sex in Biography" Sixteen Self Sketches (1949)

Comment by Phillip J. Barker on October 17, 2011 at 8:24pm

I am not "into" a fight until "hell freezes over", but I am increasingly interested in getting off the radar because "hell freezing over" is beyond my vision for justice and liberty to ever come into existence.  I am no longer willing to feed the "war on wealth" appititie of this country.  I have been poor, and know how to live contentedly.  I am done trying to create wealth for others to suck up.  I will find a way to downgrade, and join the 50% who pay nothing for the privilage to be called an American.

Comment by donp on October 17, 2011 at 5:24pm

Okay, Michael and Phil, It's good to learn that you'll fight them 'till hell freezes over.  But, that's not the end of the struggle.  As founder of the Universal Life Church, Kirby Hensley, explained, "When hell freezes over, I'll fight the ice!"  The IRS functionaries have more aggressively gleaned whatever they can dig up  from the hapless citizens for the last ten years.  They file those Notices of Federal Lien, which lien thin air, until they find something in our name.  My prime objection to them arose from their consistent refusal to restrain themselves within their own written procedural rules. 

 

The 13k blood suckers, as this low quality human are affectionately known in Japan, have a bounden duty to support the upcoming Obum-care for the couch potatoes and reproductive machines who can't seem to keep healthy despite their unnatural diet.  Human beings are frugatarians (fruit eaters) by virtue of their GI tract's design.  Yet, many model their diet after mongrel dogs and can't wait to crowd into a free medical clinic for some palliative pills.  We wonder how many bright kids have decided against studying medicine.

 

It seems strange that unemployed and unemployable Americans believe they have a right to a working person's pay.  That must thrill the bankers and the other blood suckers who enjoy the war on poverty and its partner, the war on the wealthy. 

 

 

Comment by Phillip J. Barker on October 17, 2011 at 3:58pm

I do, Michael.  

In this calculated economic decline, when fewer people are employed, and the tax base is shrinking, the government hires 13,000 new IRS agents.  Who are they going after?  Anybody that they discover has a dime to their name!!!  And still, people are on the street yelling "TAX 'EM; TAX 'EM ALL!"

In this period of economic decline, and shrinking purchasing power (in spite of trillions of new dollars floating around the ionosphere) there are fewer dollars in the pockets of American citizens), and this promotes class, ethnic, religious, and ideological warfare as every "group" tries to fight for a piece of the shrinking pie.  Throw in the total destruction of any "core values" that would define what an American stands for, and we are ending up with an internal war of self destruction......national suicide.  Who will scrape up the pieces, and dominate the restoration of something resembling a nation, although controlled tightly from the top down, birth to death? The globalist bankers who themselves promoted the suicide of the nation.

Comment by Phillip J. Barker on October 17, 2011 at 12:01pm

"Hence, the only reasonable (mentally healthy) viewpoint says that your expenses represent your business "overhead" and the luxury of living in and pledging allegiance to the country of your birth". 

Ha!  Not much consolation, but it is what it is...until "we the people" awaken sufficiently to change it (probably when "hell freezes over").

 

Comment by donp on October 17, 2011 at 11:07am

Phil, I am sorry you had such a reversal by the IRS. Not sure anyone can offer much solace to a fellow tax target. Like you, I employed the best professional advice I could and invested in some real estate deal 45 years ago. Shortly thereafter, the IRS decided it violated their code. Bottom line, it took about ten years, and quarterly payments to an "expert" tax attorney group to manage it. All in all, the IRS denied me any benefit and cost way too much. That ended reliance on experts. If you want lots of amusement, allow some of these "patriotic" fraudulent experts manage your affairs. See attorney Larry Becraft’s web site (Becraft briefs) for examples.

When the government comes down on pot growers, you know what destruction results. Also, the grower, if caught, get a federal vacation. But, these folks have a philosophy that all this doing "time" merely represents a part of the business overhead.

If you have real estate, motor vehicles, RVs, bank accounts, brokerage accounts and so forth, you can kiss them adieu if these folks begin their assessment procedures. Let’s not forget the real reason they molested you—intimidation of others through "sending a message." They expend enormous funds putting someone away just to "send a message" of intimidation.

Hence, the only reasonable (mentally healthy) viewpoint says that your expenses represent your business "overhead" and the luxury of living in and pledging allegiance to the country of your birth.

　

　

Comment by Steve's Worldview on October 17, 2011 at 1:19am

Phillip and Michael, please note the conclusion of Judge Andrew Napolitano that both the Tea Party and the Occupy Movement should endorse the following goals: 1) end fed, 2) end the wars, 3) end the income tax. Ron Paul concurs.

An Open Letter To The Occupy Wall Movement
Added by Rally Sally on October 16, 2011 at 4:38pm
http://24hourpatriots.com/video/an-open-letter-to-the-occupy-wall-m...

End the Income Tax, Abolish the IRS
http://www.ronpaul.com/2009-04-15/end-the-income-tax-abolish-the-irs/

"Ron Paul supports the elimination of the income tax and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). He asserts that Congress had no power to impose a direct income tax and has called for the repeal of the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, which was ratified on February 3, 1913.

An income tax is the most degrading and totalitarian of all possible taxes. Its implementation wrongly suggests that the government owns the lives and labor of the citizens it is supposed to represent. Tellingly, “a heavy progressive or graduated income tax” is Plank #2 of the Communist Manifesto, which was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and first published in 1848.

To provide funding for the federal government, Ron Paul supports excise taxes, non-protectionist tariffs, massive cuts in spending. ...."

Comment by Phillip J. Barker on October 16, 2011 at 5:07pm

I have nothing to offer on a radio program that would be of any use to anyone except the awareness that we are increasingly enslaved, and the unconstitutional income tax, the tax code, and the thugs that collect for our government, represent a major link in our chains. I am not a tax code strategist...I hired a very expensive tax attorney to get the tax liability as low as I did.  All in all, I am about $85,000, including the payment to the Treasury Dept., into the fight.  

It was not easy for me to earn the money.  I worked years, traveled away from my family, took risks, and starved in the early years of my business venture to try and secure something for me and and my family into my elder years.  Then, when in good faith I advise the IRS what I am doing, and they allow it to go on for 10 years, they sudddenly need to revisit and change the game....interest and penalties, my friends....interest and penalties.

I feel like I don't have a country any longer.  There is nothing here, other than a few like minded friends, and my family that I have any respect for. At the moment, I am of the mind set that my kids and grandkids are going to have to figure it out for themselves.  I've given them the education they need to understand much, but I can't fix the problems; I don't think they are fixable.

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