Arrow, Guns and Arrogance: what is wrong with the American Dream?

Arrow, Guns and Arrogance: what is wrong with the American Dream?

Arrow Guns and Arrogance: what is wrong with the American Dream?

In the Gulf War (2001-03) the US 7th Cavalry were supported by helicopters named for North American Indian tribes. It is a symbolism meant to unify the nation and it did. Saddam Hussein (1932-2009) was projected as the bad guy by the cowboys and the indians won. Much like the Washington Redskins defeating the Dallas Cowboys in the Super Bowl. Noone minds who despatches the villain as long as the good guys win. Good is an important notion here. God is good and the best team always wins because they are the greatest good. However, it is important to remember that the North American indian tribes under the leadership of Sitting Bull defeated the US 7th Cavalry with arrows while the 7th had rifles. Superior numbers won.

 

 The leader of the Sioux nation and the combined might of the other Indian nations crushed the 7th at the battle of the Little Big Horn (June 25-6 1876). Saddam Hussein was annhihilated by superior might and, though we may not think of him as General George C. Custer (1839-76), the principle is the same. He was projected as the bad guy and the indians won. The Americans created him and his army, much in the fashion that they created the military strength of Iran when they supported Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the Shah (1919-80) until his dethronement in 1979. Saddam was, therefore, a cowboy who was beaten by our indians. His weapons were good but not good enough, and so were his army. Our indians, of course, were highly efficient with oodles of technology, and Saddam had arrows (scuds) in comparison with the USS New Jersey`s cruise missiles. But it was Saddam`s Little Big Horn and he was defended by his troops to the last. Paradoxically, then, he had the George C. role, and the US Army had the role of the North American Indian Nations with George W. as Sitting Bull.

 

 The North American Indians have a tradition of the Spirit of the Great White Buffalo, which is the Spirit of God within the land and its people.1 In curious fashion, therefore, the Spirit of America has triumphed in the Gulf War and the indian nations have again emerged victorious. The prevailing view, naturally, is that Saddam was just another indian that the cowboys dealt with: `A good injun is a dead injun.`2 This is arrogance, and neglects to perceive the difference between the arrow and the gun, that is, arrogance is based on the arrow-guns conceptualization in which arrows are necessarily inferior to guns. The battle of Little Big Horn disprove this for all time. Superiority won. The Little Big Horn is an American mythical event, which transposes into legend and partakes of what is called the American Dream and Manifest Destiny. God is good and God is great and God goes on forever. It represents the victory of the Americans; not the European settlers who arrived with Columbus in 1492, but Sitting Bull and the indians.

 

 Paradoxically, the defeat of the cowboy Saddam is the American Dream. Cowboys only existed for a brief period of history in the 1800s. The dream of the New Frontier – and its infinite expansion – comes from the settlers` desire to move ever Westwards into the continent, that is, from the East Coast, New York, to the virgin territory of the West Coast, California. The dream gathers epic propesity in, for example, Star Trek (1965-), Babylon 5 (1993-99), Stargate (1994-) and Dune (1965) that is, science fiction extravaganzas that partake of the sweeping grandeur of the vision that is Manifest Destiny, which is innocent progress and development in God without the threat that the gunslingers represent. That is why Saddam is a cowboy, because arrows are only for hunting animals and so are guns.

 

The USA is about readiness to do battle on behalf of freedom, which is the basis of the American Dream: `life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness`.3 But it accepts that innocence is threatened, which is why it maintains defensive/offensive capability. Without a threat, there is no need to maintain a defense, and the American Dream is therefore the Will of God and Manifest Destiny, that is, recognition that God is not determined but that God has the power because God is omnipotent. Egoism is about the will, and God does not have a will to power, but is power and is omnipotent power for good, that is, innocence without poisonous evil in the shape of bullies such as Saddam that would seek to burn our farms, rape our women, and murder us. That is why Saddam was a cowboy, because he was a gunslinger, and was defeated by indians with arrows (cruise missiles).

 

 Tomahawks are not primitive weapons. The USA declared war on terrorism with the symbol of the `warhammer`, an indian weapon. Saddam was hammered by the tomahawk cruise missiles. The tomahawk, as the hammer of God, therefore represents, not God`s determination or will, but God`s power.This is translatable as the Shall of God because God has the power. It is the American Dream, together with their belief and faith, that God`s power shall be their Manifest Destiny as the vehicles of God`s Shall. The symbol of the 7th Cavalry are Spears and the Spear of Destiny is that with which the Roman soldier Longinus pierced Jesus` side at the crucifixion (Matt: 27.54. Jesus is Custer from an indians` point of view; a brave man who fought to the last. The name of God in Hebrew is Eloah, in Aramaic Elah, and in Arabic Ilah (Allah), whereas the tetragrammaton, the secret name of God in Hebrew, YHWH is pronounceable as yellow, which corresponds to the name, Yellow Hair, by which the indians `christened` Custer. In other words, Custer, recognized by the indians as having the spirit of God in him, was their Jesus, and the spirit of God in the Will of the American People prevailed in the Gulf War when Satan was defeated by George W. as the representation of George C. Jesus.

  The Glory of God is the Shekinah in the Bible, as described in the Song of Songs: `A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.` (Song: 4.12) and she corresponds to the Holy Spirit of Christianity, which is the Paraclete or `teacher` sent to Earth after Jesus` Ascension (1 John: 2.1) to further those who accept Jesus` teachings and safeguard their redemption; which is the knowledge that they are saved and therefore their path to God is certain. Those who deny the Holy Spirit are doomed to unendurable eternal pain, which is the hell the Christians are to fear; as it is written and as it is to be revealed – according to the Bible. In iconographical terms, Yellow Hair (YHWH), that is, General George C. Custer, represnts the Holy Spirit as the Shekinah (Ps: 37.3), which is the Glory of God, and that is the reason the flag of the United States is known as Old Glory because she is Custer. She is also Eve, who was born from the side of Adam (Gen: 2. 21-2), and that which the Roman soldier was looking to see if he could dislodge from the side of Christ when he penetrated it with his spear. The Woman that is by the side of Adamic Man and can never be taken from there because she was given by God.

 

 In the Book of The Revelation of Saint John The Divine, `the woman clothed with the sun and with the moon at her feet` (Rev: 12. 1-18) gives birth to a child that will `rule the nations with an iron rod` and whose birth is threatened with devourment by the serpent. She is depicted as hiding upon the Earth while her child is ruling, which suggests that there is a problem in the way in which Woman is perceived upon the Earth because she is both Custer and Jesus. Figures who represent a `last stand` and victimization, that is, sadism. This is the basic difficulty for Christianity. Jesus is perceptivally distinguished as a masochist and his tormentors are sadists. Custer, on the other hand, is a hero, but a Christ-like figure in the sense that he is equatable with `the blood of the lamb` (Rev: 12.11) or redemption through heroism on the part of God. This burgeoning of the Church Military, is fulfilled, as it were, in the Gulf War against Saddam (sadism) who is neither Jesus nor Custer. His `last stand` and execution are therefore a part of the victory of God over Satan.

 

 The `blue bird of happiness` appears in the movie the Song of the South (1946) and `life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness` are intrinsic to the American Dream. Sad Dam is therefore interpretable as the dam of sadness, that is, Saddam would have brought sadness to the world – and sadism – but his dam was breached and `life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness`, together with the fulfilment of the American Dream, shall progress and develop in unthreatened innocence, which is the Manifest Destiny of the USA. The danger arises when Woman is equated with Custer and Jesus, because from a sadist`s point of view, those who died in the Gulf War – all of them – died for them. Woman shouldn`t want to. But because Jesus, Custer, and even Saddam represent the victory of the sadist, Woman is the target.

 

 `I`m Miss American Dream since I was seventeen.` Britney Spears (1982-) sings in Piece of Me (2007), and this `yellow hair` is bravely challenging her enemies: `You want a piece of me?` She is the Shekinah, in everything but name, that is, she represents Custer`s `last stand` and Jesus` victimization by the sadists who want to keep her from happiness and feed like vampires upon her sadnesses, her video – as another Shekinah blonde Lady Gaga (1986-) also depicts her enemies – as paparazzi. It is about image and ideal. It is superstition that, to have one`s image stolen (by photographer, for example), is to lose one`s soul. Jesus` and Custer`s soul are clearly the Shekinah. Jesus` because God says so, and Custer because the indians, naming him Eloah or YHWH (yellow hair) say so. Britney Spears is, therefore, the image of the Shekinah, which is an ideal. If one`s image is poisoned, as occurred when the serpent persuaded Eve to eat of the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil (i.e., Evil; because all of the other fruit in the Garden of Eden was good), then one`s ideal is also threatened, which is a threat to the American Dream and Manifest Destiny. Not only that, but it indicates that 21st Century culture is based on the principle that Woman, whose soul is taken everywhere, is to be a victim of a `last stand` against – sadism. This is what it says in Revelation: `

 

 `They were seared by the intense heat and they cursed the name of God, who had control over these plagues, but they refused to repent and glorify him.` (Rev: 16.8)

 

 It could be argued that these are masochists; but Jesus and Custer – our heroes – are not. One represents Betrothal to God or the Shekinah as Eros (love), and the other represents Logos taught by the Shekinah as Holy Spirit, or the Word of God as Sword. Masochism represents the danger of identifying oneself with the sadism of the sadist, that is, accepting one`s determined status as victim, which is what Woman has been trained to do. The sadist, moreover, with the knowledge that the Shekinah is God`s Glory, that is, the Holy Spirit, and that she is Woman, will seek to torture her both within and without, that is, within themselves (Man and Woman are created as One Creature in God in Eden and are therefore indivisibly united), and in the person of Woman who is the image of the ideal which is the Shekinah.

 

The Book of Revelation therefore presents the folly of accepting sadism, because Woman was not created as a plaything of sadists and is not a masochist. That is why it is important to descry the parallels between Jesus and Custer. Neither are masochists and both were great. Nor were they sadists. Nor, as the indians are saying in their destruction of Saddam, were they sadists. But those who tortured were; the Romans, the Pharisees, Pontius Pilate, and Saddam. These are also cowards. Custer and Jesus fought to the last. Saddam hid behind his army, and so did Longinus. The indians and Britney Spears therefore represent the 7th Cavalry and the Spears of God. She, because she is Destiny as the Shekinah and Everywoman, which is the Holy Spirit that teaches us neither to give in to sadism nor to accept masochism as our lot.

 

 The lines from the song Piece of Me `I`m Miss American Dream since I was seventeen,` and the not-to-be-intimidated `You want a piece of me?` rhetoric are words sung in the defense of Woman, the American Dream and the Spears of Destiny, and are not to be trivialized. The image of Woman is what the paparazzi and photographers everywhere seek to steal and remake in their own image, which amounts to BDSM (bondage, dominance, sadism and masochism). It is not the ideal, which is the Shekinah as the Shall of God that partakes of God`s omniscience in the sense that Saddam`s downfall was `planned`, for example, by Sitting Bull at the battle of the Little Big Horn. Britney Spears represents the Spears of God as the Shalt, which is the command form of God`s powerful omnipotence. We must protect the image of Woman because she represents the ideal, which is the Glory of God.

 

 This does not mean that she is prissy. Woman is sexual but sado-masochism is not about sex, except and insofar as Woman is the victimized. Sadism is about sadness and the loss of innocence; innocence which is necessary for the fulfillment of the American Dream because it represents unthreatened progress and development in accordance with the Will of God. Sadists would have us confuse love with shock; horror at the sight of nudity for example: love-making represented as hateful and hate-filling when viewed or participated in. Woman`s imprisonment in video, magazine and cinema is a 21st century starting point. She hasn`t progressed, in significant media terms, since the silent film stars of the 1900s such as Theda Bara (1885-1955). Her image is still being tormented and abused while she accepts her role as the victim of the sadist who wants her to play the role of masochist to his psychic vampirism of elation at suffering others: this is Satan and Satanism.

 

 The aim of the sadist who is a Satanist is to torture God, and they do this by having you understand that Man and Woman are One Creature in God, that is, Man is God and Woman is God and both are One Creature in God. Sadists torture because they understand this. They are like child abusers returning to those they have abused when the abused think they are free of them, and then they remind you of their role as sadists and have created you in the image they want of you, which is the masochist. In other words, masochism is created by sadists and is not a perversion but a corruption. Masochists are corrupted in order to accept their role whereas sadists want to torture God as the `lamb of God`, as it were, who is meek, mild and humble as a young bride seeking to be faithful. Jesus and Custer, although they can be represented by sadism as victims, are not masochists, and Saddam Hussein is gone, which means that sadists (like Saddam) can be exterminated. It is the role of Jesus and Custer to represent what it is to refuse sadism, while demonstrating that what is done to them is what sadists do and – our heroes warn – DO NOT ACCEPT MASOCHISM!

 

 `Men gnawed their tongues in agony and cursed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, but they refused to repent of what they had done.` (Rev: 16.10)

 

 `We believe in God and you have to accept [the role of] Jesus.` is how evil sadistic parents fool their children into becoming masochists, and if they accept their domination, the promise that, having been submissive acceptably, they can be sadistic towards others. I am always reminded of Jesus` words in the Bible: `Suffer little children to come unto me.` (Luke: 18-16) which was often interpreted for me when I was a child as `children must suffer for Jesus`, which is bullshit. `Allow the children to be with me,` is what Jesus is saying. Michael Jackson (1958-2009) was similarly vilified for saying what amounted to the same thing and was crucified in media terms for it, being labeled as a pedophile and a pederast, which again is what sadists do; they attempt to create in their own image – as a means of torturing another human being – what they themselves want that person to be perceived as (and are sometimes successful at it). It is called `criminalization`, and `demonization`, to use Christian terminology: or photography and film-making.

 

 Stars are intelligent though, and like Jesus and Custer are able to present material that is educative. Lady Gaga in Bad Romance (2009) presents herself beringed my men who are clearly evil and concerned to do her harm. It is the sadists and she`s the non-masochist which they are determined shall be a masochist victim. She puts herself in the Custer and Jesus position and it is a dangerous thing to do. She is being the Shekinah, a Paracletian Guide to the `resistance movement`. But the danger is that young Woman will take such a stance as a recipe for behaviour and it is folly to posture tauntingly before men who are sadists. It is presenting young Woman with a masochist pose as a role model, which is what sadism wants. Woman is a reproductive vessel and wants to be penetrated in order to receive the Holy Spirit of the Shekinah and produce more Glory of God, as it were. But evil men are sadists. That is what Satan and Satanism is. Woman is a vessel for them only insofar as she produces more innocent flesh for them to torture. More flesh, and flesh that is more innocent, that is.

 

 In Sophie`s Choice (1982), Meryl Streep (1949-) has to decide which of her children, the boy or the girl, she`ll keep when the Nazis offer her a choice at the gates of the concentration camp. Naturally she keeps the girl; because men are sadists. Sophie is being as good as she can be, but innocence has different problems. Innocence is good whereas people who encounter it find theselves being good with it, because it is unthreatened and non-threatening. They then find themselves in the position of not being innocent and good, but representing the threat because they are used to the poison within them working itself out – like a computer virus – as a threat. Feeling the menace in them, they become a threat to the innocent, because the virus is threatening. Education then consists in making the innocent be good rather than good, which is what Lady Gaga is doing in the Bad Romance video. She isn`t innocent, so she is being good and is representing herself as threatened innocence and good, which is true visually – and helpful because she, like Jesus and Custer, faces the problem; the evil men who would torment her and make her the focus of their sadism.

 

 Sadism is dependant upon the psychological mechanism of Woman. According to Carl Jung (1875-1961) every woman has an animus, which exists as an opinion-making component of the psyche that is her spirit. Taught that men are for her to choose from, she observes them all carefully like Scarlet O`Hara in Gone With The Wind (1939) surrounded by a supposedly admiring throng, but she is also taught that she will be asked, that is, she does not do the choosing but exists to be chosen: like Jesus or Custer. Jung posits the animus as perceiving itself at the centre of the arrangements with men around it, which is what Jesus and Custer are. They are victims, but paradoxically also heroes; or so we are taught to perceive them. The sadists do not, but view them as taught masochists and, therefore, useful as images to promulgate amongst what they conceptualize as further victims. They are assisted in this by the animus of woman which is concerned with creating a circle of `viewers`; like a television actress with an act to perform. The action goes on around the woman until she is chosen; like Jesus or Custer. The sadists turn upon her and she is doomed: it is what her animus is for – according to the sadists.

 

 In actuality, the animus is for creating what the Christians call Agape (1 Cor: 13. 1-8), which is an interlacing network of relationships that are not exclusively familial and are based on love. Unfortunately, large circles provide greater possibilities for sadists. That is why pop stars such as Lady Gaga seem preoccupied with looking good and being viewed. On the one hand, they are assured they are loved and, on the other hand, they are perceived as successfully created masochists by the sadists who think of the entire construct – the Jesus and Custer `system`, as it were – as their `operation`. Woman believes – or is taught – that love is important.

 

 Britney Spears` Hold It Against Me (2011) is an old chat up line: `If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me?` But it`s also an appeal from the animus, which doesn`t want the woman to be attacked because she believes in love: `Don`t hold it against me.` Love is only important from the sadists angle, however, if it affords them more opportunity to inflict pain. A sharp sword held against the heart is what the animus can be construed, as Jung describes it, as a woman`s cutting power, that is, she has the illusion of discriminating between suitors whereas she actually has one chosen for her – by the sadists.

 It is their swords that she finds placed against her heart because they correspond to what the Bible calls faggots (Ps: 141.7); the dead wood that is destined by God for the fires of hell: a euphemism for the eternal unendurable pain that shall prevail as the Will of God for the evil throughout all eternity. Faggots that are already aflame we might think of as a virus that needs to be kept away from the faggots that aren`t yet ablaze, which is the woman`s animus recognition that she has to keep the faggots that surround her as sweet as she can or they will spontaneously combust and begin spreading their contagion like wildfire. This is faggotry.and, if we read the Bible correctly, it begins in Genesis, when the faggot in the tree, the serpent, suggests that it has poison and that the generations of Adam and Eve shall result in enmity (Gen: 3.15) between its seed (the boy-son`s) and hers, that is, the faggots will try to harm her and hers.

 

 Interestingly, the woman has seed, which suggests that she has a penis, and therefore her sword is real but not visible to men. In short, Woman is surrounded by faggots and doesn`t need them because she has a penis of her own, and it is this that they seek to conceal from her while they prepare their sadisms. She attempts to deploy love as a protective screen, but it becomes a device of the sadistic faggots who understand it. Woman is defenceless unless she can escape the evil enemies of God who are the homosexual faggots that represent hellfire and damnation for themselves and any they can train as masochists. Bible training then becomes the inculcation of the belief that, one day in the distant future, masochists – who are created by sadists (Jesus and Custer) will have power over sadists. But, in sadism, heroes do not exist: it is their agitprop, that is, they see the Bible as propaganda.and they are agitating against it.

 

 The woman`s animus would be her `prop`, that is, her agitating propaganda. According to Jung, a woman`s animus represents her `poison of illusion`,4 which it does from the point of view of men`s psyche because her faggots are the poisonous (boy-son-us) relations she and her animus are perforce required by the sadists to delude themselves with. The problem for Woman is that, without knowledge provided by her own penis (sword of logic or discrimination), that is, understanding of her own penis and its existence – which is real – she will always see men as the centre of her world even though they surround her, which is how Britney Spears as Custer would have felt at Little Big Horn. She is attacked by these men (the Sioux and the combined nations of the original inhabitants of North America) but these other men that surround her are her men (the 7th Cavalry), whereas in fact they are all against her. Because they were not successful in the defence of YHWH, that is, yellow, which would be the opinion of the Shekinah as the Glory of God who is Eternal omnipresent Woman.

 

 `Cowardy cowardy custard,` is an English playground song which derives essentially from the notion that cowards are `yellow` because Custer had `yellow hair`, whereas yellow (YHWH) actually means God and the Glory of God that is the Shekinah. The perception is that Custer is Woman and she is a coward. Much as the English football terraces `anthem` goes: `Jesus Christ superstar, walks like a woman and he wears a bra.` Jesus and Custer are a part of the sadist syndrome. Jesus and Custer (JC) is the Woman`s animus, that is, the Shekinah is Old Glory because the animus of God is prepared to draw its sword in defence of Woman. Custer and Jesus are in the unique position of knowing what it means to be surrounded at the last by enemies and having only God. It is the position of Woman who sees her sword as the men about her; but in fact she suffers under the poison of their illusion: that she is protected.

 Jesus and Custer experience the same delusion: `My God! My God! Why hast thou forsaken me?` (Matt: 27-46) They have been placed in the position of the woman to understand that Satan is a sadist. Woman`s problem is that she continues to do this. Jodie Foster (1962-) was lauded and applauded for acting the part of a rape victim in The Accused (1988). It is the role the animus keeps choosing for Woman because it has something to communicate. Either she accepts her role as a trained masochist – which is the poisonous illusion, because sadists create them in their own image and they are not created so by God – or she changes. Woman`s sword is hidden; or has been so: by men. The sword of men is well known; it is their penis extension: their ICBMs and their B1s.

 

 Woman`s sword exists and would make men extinct because they are sadists and woman does not want to be a masochist. That is what Jesus and Custer are indicating. The Glory of God, the Shekinah that is the Eternal omnipresent aspect of God that is the Holy Spirit in each of us, prefers God and Woman and so does God and Woman. Men are for torture, murder and rape; so the cutting edge of woman`s sword of discrimination is preparing to cut them out of the equation and remove from them the possibility of continuing with their sadistic `game` in order to replace them with a more viable alternative.

 

 Men have shown that they court sterility. The A-bomb is nothing if not a sterility exercise. AIDS is a sterile`s disease passed from one monkey to another by means of shit, blood, urine and semen, because they`d rather put their penis in each other`s anus than reproduce with a woman. God has therefore, in God`s omniscience and omnibenevolence, prepared Woman as a producer of God`s good only. Her relationships shall never be sterile but always fruitful and she shall leave sadism behind with men. She shall never cast a glance backwards and never accept masochism because it is for men and Satan – and God does not want it. Sadists are Satan. It is what is represented by the image of Satan being cast out of Heaven by God and the angels (Rev: 12. 7-12). The angels with Satan are depicted as `fallen` but not in hell, which is the place God prepares for men who accept Satan. This is the place of unendurable eternal pain prepared by God for those who accept the sadism of Satan and all his angels, and also for Satan and all his angels.

 

 Because sadism is what Satanism is, Satanists seek victims and the Satanists are Satan to them. They want their victims to become evil in order that they also shall experience unendurable eternal pain. But they are sadists and their victims are not masochists; even though they may become embroiled in sadism. Satanists have more knowledge of what they are doing and masochists are created by them from the meekness, mildness and humility that is loved by God and connotes faithfulness to God in marital obedience.

 

 That is why the Christian Church is called the `bride of God` and Jesus is the `bridegroom` (Rev: 21. 1-2). Masochism is a marriage with Satan as sadistic Satanists who, although they may embroil you in sadism, are unable to put you in the place of unendurable eternal pain because their expertise precludes you from being aware of your part in their scheme. If you knew your role entire, you would be a sadist and they do not want you; you are their masochist: they have created you. If you had their power, you would be in a position to stop their sadism. Therefore you are always their victim because power for you is illusory. They are Satan and a victim is a victim; in whatever clever disguise they may appear to trap you.

 

Jesus and Custer are not cowards; sadists are because they want to be the ones who have you helpless rather than the ones who are helpless. Consequently, paedophiles and pederasts are also sadists; because you are helpless to begin with. Only if you were able to take care of yourself as an infant would the sadists be unable to harm you. Evil parents who are paedophiles therefore posits God and God`s angels as the protectors; as is the case with the birth of Jesus Christ (Luke: 2. 1-20). In other words, God is the infant`s defense. Sadists, however, perceive that they have no defensive capability, and therefore infants are prized so they want more to be produced.

 

 Consequently, immortality is something that they hate; because a knowledgeable immortal would be able to take care of themselves. In the Bible Methuselah (Gen: 7.4) is old by 21st century standards (969) when he dies – and was wise presumably. But immortals measure wisdom in terms of development and progress, whereas sadists are interested only in inflicting pain, which is the end of development and progress in the shape of an A-bomb, for example. For sadists a life span of three score and ten is therefore acceptable, as is a retirement age of around sixty five; because it affords them enough opportuntity to torture and deceive the ephemeral innocents.

 

 Immortality is, then, something they don`t want for others. So they have developed a system that the Buddhists call karma, that is, `the cycle of death and rebirth` in which people have to repeat their lives. This is an opportunity for sadists to torture the reborn. In the Christian church one can be born in the spirit, and washed clean of karma, which is the promise of immortality in God. Consequently, Christians who are `born in the spirit from the water` are attractive to sadistic Satanists because they are immortal and saved. If they have been bound to the `karmic wheel` over many lifetimes, this would mean that what is saved is all of those lives and Satanists would have much to torture as sadists if they were able to.

 

Born as One Creature renewed in God is the goal of redemption. E Pluribus Unum is the motto on the Great Seal of the United States of America, which means `the many and the one`. God is one and we are many in one. Similarly, to be `born in the spirit from the waters` is to save `the many and the one`, which is the saving of all those we have been, and saving them in God as `the many and the one`.

 

 It is the responsibility of the Shekinah or Holy Spirit as the Glory of God that is the omnipresent Eternal Feminine in each of us to effect this birth because men are evil enemies of God and Woman does not want to be one, and neither does Man. Men are definable as sadistic homosexuals who seek sterility rather than reproduction (which includes art, literature, music, and love) and immortal good with God. Therefore men shall be excluded from God and Woman shall be eternal with God.

 

 It is the fulfilment of the Virgin`s Assumption by God in which, after the sending of the Shekinah as the Spirit of Eternal Woman to be the Paraclete or `teacher` of Man and Woman in the path of the Glory of God (which she is), Woman is Assumed by God to be eternally redeemed from the beginning of Creation as the Daughter of God.5 Man as Adam was created in the image of God, but image is not ideal. God appears from the side of Adam and says that Eve is his wife. She is Adam`s ideal, because she is God. Consequently, God and Man are Woman because Adam and Eve are One Creature in God. The promise is the reappearance of Man with Woman in the shape of Woman as Man, which shall be eternal and God forever.

 

 The role of the Shekinah is, therefore, to engineer a redemption from the poison of the serpent and she teaches as the Holy Spirit what that is to be. That is why stars like Lady Gaga and Britney Spears (Do Somethin` [2005] for example) agitprop in their music and videos (Britney declared herself Antichrist after shaving her head to `improve` her image, but she clearly meant to agitprop for her ideal).6 Consequently, although Woman appears in a plethora of multiplicity in the media that are available, this suggests that man does not want men; or be them either. It is the absence of men from God – who refuse to change and prefer the karmic `wheel of torture` – in recognition of which the 21st century begins. The solution is Above and the `final solution` is below. The unendurable eternal pain that is awaiting the evil for making the penis taboo and, thereby, making Woman`s own invisible and unattainable to her, is real – and justifiable.

 

1 http://www.powersource.com/gallery/whiteb.html

 

2 Cavanaugh, J. M. Congressional Globe, 28 May, 2638, 1868.

 

3 Continental Congress The United States Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776

 

4 Jung, C.G. Aion, Collected Works, Vol. 9, Part II, P.338.30.

 

 5 Pope Pius XII Apostolic Constitution Munificentissimus Deus, November 1, 1950.

 

6 Spears, B.J. Promises Clinic, Malibu, California The Daily Telegraph, London, March 5, 2007, 12.00am.

Received a Ph.D in English in 1993 from the University of Kingston-Upon-Hull, England, for research thesis titled ‘Jungian Archetypes in the work of [science fiction writer] Robert A. Heinlein’. Most recently published non-fiction in June 2008′s Humanizing Language Teaching online journal with an article based on English language teaching experiences in Khartoum, Sudan, West Africa, titled ‘Bitchin’ English’, in December 2009`s HLT with `Our Old Man In Oman`, April 2010`s `The Further Adventures of Dr Usher`, and June`s `Putting One`s Feet Up Without Permission`. First published article ‘Robert A. Heinlein: Theologist?’ in the British journal of science fiction Foundation (54). Pedagogic article ‘Learning to Study’ in the Hungarian Institute for Educational Research’s journal Educatio (3) in 1995. Also a writer of science fiction; stories published include: ‘Out of this World’ (1994) and ‘Ride!’ she said’ (1997) for the UK’s Desire magazine. Stories published in Hungary; ‘Sas’ in Oszirisz Országa [‘Special Angel Service' in Land of Osiris]. Cherubion Press, Debrecen, Hungary, 1996, pp.184-91, `Bevezetés a Valhallába’ in Universzum Örokösei [‘Valhalla for Starters' in Inheritors of the Universe], Cherubion Press, 1996, pp. 143-7, ‘Fegyverforgatás Mestere’ in Galaxisz A Gászara [`Master Arms Practitioner' in Emperor of the Galaxy], Cherubion Press, 1997, pp.281-6. Most recently; ‘Well, it was like this doc…’ at Ruthie’s Club < http://www.ruthiesclub.com > March 2009, and ‘All For Naught Orphan Ufonaut’ in Shelter of Daylight, Sam’s Dot Publishing, October 2010. Taught English language and literature in Hungary, Poland, Russia, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Oman. Currently working at Al-Jazeera International Academy, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.


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Show Your American Spirit With A Captain America Costume This Halloween

Show Your American Spirit With A Captain America Costume This Halloween

Captain America is a superhero who was featured in Marvel Comics. He is actually Steve Rogers, who was a sickly young man who was found to be unfit for military service. He volunteered for a top secret project and an experimental serum helped his body attain physical perfection. As a result, he began to help in the United States war effort and he wore a costume that was based on the American flag. He had an indestructible shield that doubled as a weapon.

This superhero was often shown fighting the Axis powers during the Second World War and was very popular during that time. However, when the war ended he soon disappeared but was revived from suspended animation by the Avengers superhero team. After that, he has been seen leading the team and he has also been featured in his own series. Steve Rogers was reportedly killed in 2007 but his former sidekick, Bucky, has assumed the role of Captain America. There are rumors that Rogers will soon return to life.

One example of a Captain America costume is the Infant Captain American Costume. It resembles the costume worn by the superhero and is made up of a headpiece, shirt, pants, and red shoes. For children, one example is the Child Captain America Costume. It is composed of a character hood with wings and a bodysuit. A variation of the Child Captain America costume includes a muscular torso. To complete the costume, an accessory that could be added is the famous shield.

The Adult Captain America Costume is made up of an inflatable jumpsuit. This allows the user to display a seemingly muscular physique. It comes with a fabric hood and a battery-powered fan for inflating the costume. The Super Deluxe version of the Adult Captain America Costume is composed of a fabric hood, a jumpsuit with muscular legs and torso, boot covers, gauntlets, and belt. Once again, the shield is not included but can be purchased separately.

There are also Captain America costumes for women. One example is the Womens edition of the Adult Captain America Costume. Instead of the usual jumpsuit, a dress featuring the Captain America motif is provided. An eye mask is also provided with the dress. The shield and red boots are not included but can be bought separately. Another example is the Adult Female Sassy Captain America Costume. It is made up of a dress with gloves, eye mask, and boot covers.

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Evidence Points To BP Oil Spill False Flag Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones www.prisonplanet.com www.infowars.com www.infowars.net Tuesday, Jun 8th, 2010 – Sales of shares and stocks in days and weeks beforehand – Halliburton link, acquisition of cleanup company days before explosion – BP report cites undocumented tampering with well sealing equipment – Government uses disaster to push for Carbon Tax, Nationalization talk Troubling evidence surrounding the Deepwater Horizon explosion on April 20th suggests that the incident could have been manufactured. On April 12th, just over one week before the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, Halliburton, the world’s second largest oilfield services corporation, surprised some by acquiring Boots & Coots, a relatively small but vastly experienced oil well control companies. The company deals with fires and blowouts on oil rigs and oil wells. It was responsible for putting out roughly one third of the more than 700 oil well fires set in Kuwait by retreating Iraqi soldiers during the Gulf War. The deal itself is still under scrutiny with Boots and Coots facing an ongoing investigation into “possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of state law” Where this information gets really interesting is with the fact that Halliburton is named in the majority of some two dozen lawsuits filed since the explosion by Gulf Coast people and businesses who claim that the company is to blame for the disaster. Halliburton was forced to admit
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Adidas drapes golf shoes in American flag

Adidas drapes golf shoes in American flag

You may have noticed that adidas has been on a roll lately. A bevy of pros have worn the company’s golf shoes while marching to victory in recent months, including Tim Clarke (The Players), Justin Rose (The Memorial), Tom Lehman (Senior PGA Championship), Jason Day (HP Byron Nelson) and Se Ri Pak (Bell Micro Classic).

The venerable brand isn’t resting on its laurels, though. This week, adidas made two announcements it hopes will boost its profile and profits.

First off, the company unveiled a limited edition of its TOUR360 4.0 shoe in a “USA Flag” design, which will be worn by its stable of American pro golfers at the 110th U.S. Open – June 17-20 at Pebble Beach Golf Links – and the 2010 Ryder Cup in Wales.

The shoe features a red, white and blue color scheme and an American flag on the rear quarter. Only 3,500 pairs will be available for retail purchase at a manufacturer’s suggested retail price (MSRP) of 0.

Players scheduled to debut the TOUR360 4.0 USA Flag shoe at the U.S. Open include Sean O’Hair, Kenny Perry, Dustin Johnson, Jim Furyk, Fred Funk and Matt Bettencourt. All Yanks, of course.

“Our team of designers and engineers wanted to make a bold statement and showcase to the world the style and innovation that exists behind every adidas golf shoe,” said Dave Ortley, Senior Director of Global Footwear.

“Thanks to tremendous tour validation, the adidas golf TOUR360 4.0 is already revered as one of the most successful golf shoes in the industry and we believe this limited edition version will help to build the legendary franchise even more.”

Adidas calls the TOUR360 4.0 “the lowest shoe in golf” thanks to its THiNTech cleat and attachment system. The company says this technology is 32% lower than conventional systems, improving stability, balance, power, footwork and feedback.

In addition, adidas has expanded its adiPURE line of apparel and footwear to include women’s items. For now, the offerings are limited to shirts, pants, skorts and sweaters. No word yet if and when adiPURE golf shoes for women will be added to the mix.

At Comfortable Golf Shoes, we’re committed to helping you find the best golf shoes on the market by giving you a wide range to choose from.

We offer high-quality, stylish, waterproof, turf-gripping and, most of all, comfortable golf shoes from the best brands in the business, including FootJoy, Nike, ECCO and adidas.

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How Nascar Became a Major American “sport”

How Nascar Became a Major American “sport”

NASCAR, or the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, is known as the largest motorsports sanctioning body in the United States. The three series under the auspices of NASCAR include the Craftsman Truck Series, the Nationwide Series and the Sprint Cup. Some local races such as the Whelen Modified Tour and the All-American Series from Whelen are overseen by NASCAR. Overall, 1500 races at 100 tracks are considered NASCAR races.

Originally, NASCAR was viewed as a regional sport coming from the Southeastern United States, but today it ranks second only to football in television rating in the U.S. In addition to broadcasts in the United States, races by NASCAR drivers are shown in 150 countries globally. Fans show support of the sport by purchasing licensed products in the amount of billion annually. Fortune 500 companies recognize the power of NASCAR fans and sponsor the sports more than any other sponsorship role.

The headquarters of NASCAR is at Daytona Beach, Florida. There are four local offices in North Carolina and regional offices in Arkansas, New York City and Los Angeles. Mexico City and Toronto Canada also have NASCAR offices. Additionally, most NASCAR teams consider North Carolina home.

Originally, Daytona Beach was the location where world land speed records were set with eight consecutive records between 1927 and 1935. The Daytona Beach road course was the site of fifteen speed records before 1935. As the location for land speed records moved to Bonneville Salt Flats, Daytona Beach was already synonymous with fast cars both on the beach and on the coastal highway A1A.

The years of Prohibition followed by the repeal in 1933 made use of fast cars with modified capacity driven at high speeds either to evade the police or later the revenuers. Much of this activity occurred near Wilkes County region of North Carolina, but also in other parts of the Southeastern United States. Races of the modified cars increased in numbers and popularity during those years.

Three people were primary in the creation of the NASCAR governing body in 1948: William France, Sr., Erwin ‘Cannonball’ Baker, and Bob ‘Barky’ Barkhimer. William France wanted to protect the drivers from unscrupulous promoters who collected gate receipts and did not award winning to the drivers. The first intent was to race Roadsters, Modified, and Stock cars. Only the Modified division raced during the first year. The first season had 52 Modified dirt track races. By 1949, the Strictly Stock division made its debut

Originally, the cars raced had to be virtually factory models, but beginning in 1950 it was recognized that modifications for safety and performance were desirable and the Division was named ‘Grand National’. By the mid 1960s, the races were run with race cars and a stock body.

Only one of the original season race tracks is still on the circuit today-Martinsville Speedway. The Darlington Raceway and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway are both recognized world wide for their famous events in the world of NASCAR racing. Originally, the race tracks were oval and measured 0.5 to 1 miles per lap. Darlington was 1.366 miles and known as a Superspeedway following its construction in 1950. The track was wider and faster than other locales. In 1959 the Daytona International Speedway at 2.5 miles became the sport icon.

During the early 1970′s new sponsorship was found for the sport in the RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company. The name of the series was changed from Grand National to the Winston Cup. The series today is known as the Sprint Cup. Prizes were increased significantly and a new points system was developed. The series dropped from 48 races during the season to 31 races. Busch Beer took on the sponsorship of the next competitive level of racers, known as the Late Model Sportsman.

ABC Sports began covering some of the Grand National races but abandoned the effort as not exciting enough for ratings. In 1979, the Daytona 500 race was picked up from flag to flag by CBS. During the final lap, the two leaders wrecked on the backstretch and the third place car driven by Richard Petty won the race. The two wrecked car drivers and a family member proceeded to add to the drama on national television by engaging in a fistfight. Fans that had been kept indoors by a major snowstorm on the U.S. eastern seaboard were introduced to the excitement and drama of the sport.

Changes in the point structure awarded to drivers and teams has also helped to maintain the excitement of the series ever since.

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Continuing the American Dream: Texas Today

Continuing the American Dream: Texas Today

The history of the United States has been a short but highly eventful one. And it could be said, perhaps, that the rapid growth of the United States was and is down to the fact that it is a nation built on dreams. From Manifest Destiny to Martin Luther King, dreams have always been important to the American way of life.

A great place to see the realization of the American dream is the south-eastern state of Texas. Although having not always been part of the US (it’s famously been governed under the flags of six separate countries), Texas has always been part of the American dream. The original colonial belief in Manifest Destiny was based on the idea that it was the fate of the new land to stretch united from west coast to east, and reach down to the natural border with Mexico – the Rio Grande River in Texas.

Even before it became part of the US, Texas played a key role in American history. And since 1845, when it officially became one of the United States, is has become somewhat of a tradition for Texas to embody the ideals of America – so from its economic boom in the early 1900s (due to the discovery of vast oil fields – the largest in the country) to its moon-race winning NASA control centre in Houston, Texas has played an integral part in its nation’s history.

As well as being an important place in American history, Texas is also an area of outstanding natural beauty, which includes forested mountains, canyons, deserts and rivers; which are dotted with old battlefields and colonial missions, and are home to wildlife such as black bears, mountains lions, roadrunners, and an array of carnivorous plants!

As well as three of the nation’s largest cities (Houston, Austin and San Antonio), Texas is home to a number of smaller cities, which quite often offer a good base for those looking to explore the natural and cultural history of the State.

One such example is Corpus Christi, or as it is nicknamed, ‘the Sparkling City by the Sea’, situated in close proximity to Palo Alto Battlefield – site of the first major battle of the US-Mexican War, the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, and is itself located on the coast opposite the Padre Island National Seashore, a teeming wilderness of sand dunes, grassland and ocean, inhabited by creatures ranging from black-tailed jackrabbits to sharks and dolphins.

Corpus Christi beach itself is also a great place to relax once you’ve seen some of the natural sights and cultural interests that Texas has to offer, and the city provides a fantastic array of seafood restaurants and a number of shopping malls. However for those who prefer home comforts when catching up on their beauty sleep there are also plenty of hotels in Corpus Christi available to those who’d rather not fall asleep on the beach!

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The American Character

The American Character

When an American travels overseas he becomes an ambassador of our country, whether he is aware of it or not. This became apparent to me when I started visiting foreign clients. Just about everyone I have met overseas wants to know about American interests, the mood of the country, and our politics. In general, there is contempt for our government and genuine concern for the spirit and well-being of the American people. However, it strikes me the character of the country overall is undergoing a transformation. Years ago, if you were to ask people abroad to describe our country, you might hear something like, “The land of opportunity” or “The land of the free and home of the brave”; that we possess a pioneering spirit and “can do” mentality; that we are the land of plenty, the world’s breadbasket, an economic engine, the chief exporter, a melting pot, and leaders of the free world. All of these descriptors are generally regarded as complimentary, something we are all rather proud of and yet the cause of envy and scorn to our detractors.

Consider some of our more inspirational icons for a moment. Do the presidential figures carved on Mt. Rushmore truly depict the current sense of our national strength, wisdom and vision? Does the Statue of Liberty embody our current policies of immigration and hope? Do we still enjoy the same freedoms and independence as represented by the Liberty Bell? Are we still as united as the American Flag is supposed to represent? Not by a long shot. Our character has quietly changed over the years.

Character is typically defined by such things as pride, integrity, honor, spirit and resolve. It is shaped by socioeconomic conditions, leadership, and management. Unfortunately, the 21st century is off to a bad start, plus we have elected lawyers to lead us and allowed the media to guide us, and when it comes to management, is anyone truly happy with the state of our government? It is no small wonder the character of the country has changed.

I think we all know deep-down we are an imperfect society and have our own unique set of problems. Regrettably, people, both internally and externally, no longer see America in the same light as before. Now we are characterized as greedy and self-centered. We are also recognized as the world’s policeman, a burden we assumed following World War II, a position previously held by other civilizations, such as ancient Rome and Great Britain. In addition, America is regarded as the land of civil rights and political correctness. Unfortunately, we are perceived as the land of facade as opposed to substance. For example, we are now better known for the glamour and glitz of Hollywood as opposed to being captains of industry. Our credibility has been decimated by such things as the near collapse of our banking and auto industries, an eroding infrastructure, and our transportation systems which seem archaic when compared to their counterparts elsewhere in the world.

More disturbing, America is now seen as a battleground for class warfare between the have’s and have-not’s, thereby being forced to make an ideological choice between socialism and capitalism. Consequently, the government suffers from polarization and gridlock due to political wrangling, and the demeanor of the citizens, in turn, grows impatient.

Finally, America is perceived as a Godless and immoral country being strangled by too many rights and laws. Do we really need to legislate everything? When we have to put labels on packs of hot dogs to warn people they might cause choking, maybe we have gone too far. I, for one, am tired of the dumbing down of America.

Perhaps the best adjective to describe America today is “enigma” -

* On the one hand, when havoc strikes in a foreign land, the first country they call on for help is America. Yet, the USA seems to have trouble accommodating the needs of its own citizens. It seems rather odd America can rebuild roads and bridges in Iraq and Haiti faster than within its own borders.

* When hostilities arise between countries, America is summoned to quell the problem either through diplomacy or military intervention. Regardless of the outcome though, we are criticized by the world community for either doing too little or too much. Our enemies understand with perfect clarity that we are restrained by our rights and laws and plays the game accordingly. Consequently, America has to always fight with one hand tied behind its back.

* Regardless of our politics, America is still the place people want to come to, not run away from. Interestingly, we allow people to abuse the system even if they enter the country illegally.

I am always encouraged when I listen to some of our younger people, particularly those in uniform who have been abroad, and understand how great America once was and could be again, but they are also aware of its frailties. They adamantly do not want to see it fail during their watch, yet are at a loss as to how to prevent it.

Years ago, Laurence M. Gould, the President Emeritus of Carleton College said in a commencement address, “I do not believe the greatest threat to our future is from bombs or guided missiles. I don’t think our civilization will die that way. I think it will die when we no longer care. Arnold Toynbee has pointed out that 19 of 21 civilizations have died from within and not from without. There were no bands playing and flags waving when these civilizations decayed. It happened slowly, in the quiet and the dark when no one was aware.”

America gives the impression of being as confused as a punch-drunk fighter staggering around the ring, bobbing and ducking at shadows, swinging at things that do not exist, tired and confused. It hardly looks like the fresh boxer who entered the ring over 200 years ago. It’s either time for some smelling salts and attitude readjustment, or face the consequences.

I, for one, would like to believe we can do better.

Keep the Faith!

Tim Bryce is a writer and management consultant located in Palm Harbor, Florida. http://www.phmainstreet.com/timbryce.htm

He can be contacted at: timb001@phmainstreet.com

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American flag laptop skins – where to buy them

American flag laptop skins – where to buy them

The 4th of July is when everyone thinks of what it means to be an American. We watch fireworks together, listen to patriotic music and enjoy the company of friends and family. We take time to remember the sacrifices made by American troops past and present.  We remember the foundation of America, and how the founders fought a revolutionary war to make us a free and independent country.  We celebrate the qualities we all share, and are proud of the ideals and standards that makes the USA the great country it is.  We have hope for the future, and want to make this country a better place for our children and grandchildren.

Our World Cup soccer team showed the world that Americans thrive on striving, even though the odds are against us.  We always want to improve, and each year our national team gets better and better.  Team USA thrives on our support, too.  It was inspirational to see the widespread interest, and hear the chant, “USA! USA! USA!”.

You can show you are proud to be an American all year round by adding one of our great images to a laptop, Xbox 360 or Wii. We have American flags to fit your iPad, DS or DS Lite, even your Guitar Hero guitars!   Protect and decorate your devices, and show American pride at the same time.

We are proud to say our products are “Made in the USA”.  None of our products are made elsewhere and then imported here. Using the highest quality materials available, we manufacture every skin we sell.  You choose the image, then we digitally print it, laminate, and computer cut for a perfect fit.  We then package it and ship direct to your door.  The whole process takes place right here in the USA.

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Causes of the American Civil War: Federal Versus State Power and Abolition

Causes of the American Civil War: Federal Versus State Power and Abolition

For most American students, some of the best days of elementary school are the ones leading up to Thanksgiving. We make handprint turkeys from construction paper, learn about corn, beans, and squash, and hear all about the idyllically symbiotic early interactions between Europeans and Native Americans. Life is good.

A few years down the road, the picture changes somewhat. We hear tell of fighting and betrayal – or even death. It was all just a big misunderstanding, we’re told. We move on. But every so often, we get an additional glimpse of the horror surrounding early European involvement in the New World so that, by the time we’re adults, we can better handle the fact that a fifth of the planet’s population (guess which fifth) died as a result of Columbus sailing the ocean blue.

This baby-steps process of learning about the Columbian Exchange is more or less the American template for dealing with bad history. Just think back on the early days of school you spent tackling the Civil War. The lessons probably consisted of making stove-pipe hats and fake Lincoln beards – and joyfully hearing about how the war eradicated slavery.

As early teens, we start reading about things like how Lincoln, dictator-style, not only gave speeches declaring that he would support slavery if it meant saving the Union, but also suspended the writ of habeas corpus. Regardless of whether we’d even heard of habeas corpus up until this point, the moment feels like a bad breakup. As time goes on, a new piece is added to the puzzle. Although Lincoln remained publicly neutral toward slavery, he condemned it privately. This leads to another epiphany: politicians can be misleading. By the time we’re in college, we’ve basically lost any footing we thought we had in the argument.

People throw a lot of names around whenever they talk about the causes of the Civil War – John Brown, Dred Scott, the Mason-Dixon Line… Lincoln comes up every now and again – but something that doesn’t often get its fair share of the attention is federal versus state power. No, it’s not as catchy as some of the other topics, nor can it easily be characterized via macaroni and construction paper, but the fact that it’s basically the longest running argument in US history ought to give us some pause for thought.

After all, this is the stuff our founding fathers saw fit to duel each other over. When Aaron Burr was busy shooting Alexander Hamilton, the US was less than half the size it was during Lincoln’s inauguration. Suffice it to say that the issue of central control gets even trickier after your country has stretched all the way across the continent.

Secessionists believed that the US government should ideally be a loose pact between states and that the federal government should have no power beyond what is explicitly outlined by the Constitution. Unionists, on the other hand, tended toward stronger central powers and a looser interpretation of the Constitution. They resented the idea a slave could be taken into a free state with no consequences from the federal government simply because somewhere, a slaveholding state said it was a-okay.

Secessionists have since been accused of using the states’ rights argument to defend slavery… just like unionists have been accused of using abolition to disguise an interest in increasing federal power. Either way, all the political, racial, financial, and moral grounds for fighting touched on the same old issue. And if you think that the Civil War was the final word on federal versus state power, just check out the Alaskan Independence party, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Confederate flag, the hard liquor smuggled into Utah, or the legitimacy of a same-sex marriage license in a state like Arkansas.

Shmoop is an online study guide for the Columbian Exchange, causes of the Civil War and many more. Its content is written by Ph.D. and Masters students from top universities, like Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard, and Yale who have also taught at the high school and college levels. Teachers and students should feel confident to cite Shmoop.


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10 Fast Ways to Alter Your Fireplace-less Fireside from a African american Hole to a Worthy Focal Point

10 Fast Ways to Alter Your Fireplace-less Fireside from a African american Hole to a Worthy Focal Point

Most folks enjoy a fireplace aglow having a roaring fireplace or flickering embers. But your fire need to have not be a gaping empty gap–as becoming a picture frame with no picture—-those occasions you not have a fire.

As you review these ideas, you’ll also recognize any in which will have to be modified if you’ve small children or pets with access to the fire.

• Ivy Holder: A lovely basket filled having a thriving ivy place adds a touch of dynamics to your location. Let the ivy trail onto your fireplace to keep the fashion informal.

• Autumn Fruit and vegetables: Within the tumble, produce an agreement of pumpkins, gourds, Indian corn, and silk leaves within autumn colors. Set some of your own greens on upturned wooden bowls to differ their heights.

• Pine Cones: An set up of pinecones of varying sizes, exhibited in a large basket, wood pan, firewood basket, or perhaps an old washtub works well for a causal country style. Scatter some of the pinecones around the pot, too.

• Pottery Container & Dried Crops: For another country autumn look, display a large ceramic jug in your fireplace place, and around the idea make a reduce arrangement of connected, dried grapevine. Associate some other clusters of dried crops into the grapevine. Dried baby’s breath, for example, continues the look open up and airy.

• Poinsettias: Blooming poinsettias, particularly ones so major they practically fill the fireplace, seem stunning during the winter months. Depending on your living space, the white kinds may be more dramatic than the reddish ones. Put smaller potted poinsettias around the fireside.

• Tropical Vignette: Let your hearth provide the frame for a sultry retreat vignette while summer rolls around. Together having a piece of driftwood, display large seashells and colorful cup fishing balls—some perched on the driftwood or on bright candle holders to offer them height.

The actual truly venturesome may set these different goodies on a starting of rippling white sand.

• Party Balloons: Bash time? Inflate balloons in keeping with your party’s color scheme. Load the fire full of the balloons (not helium ones!), using the hearth screen or wine glass doors to hold your balloons in place.

Link the ribbons of three helium balloons to a weighty object, such as a wrapped brick wrapped as a “present,” at either side from the fire.

• New Year’s Vignette: When it’s time to ring in New Calendar year, first tape two taut strings within your fire, above where they will be seen. Run each one from a front corner for the opposite back nook, so the guitar strings form an A.

Unroll one*fourth inch extensive white, silver, along with black party streamers and drape all of them over the strings so they hang down at different lengths into the fire. Next, unroll much more streamers and all they wanted spread a serious pile onto the particular fire floor.
Currently add the appropriate props: champagne bottles and glasses, party hats and horns, a large clock set with almost midnight, or even metallic numerals from the New Year. To boost some object, established them on bins hidden under the streamers.

• Fresh Flowers: There’s not any time of year when a large bouquet involving fresh flowers set in your fireplace probably will not look great. Forget the silk ones, however. Let’s not small one ourselves that our company will continue to presume that they are actual when they’ve witnessed them time and again.

• Fireplace Candelabra: But, when you are like many of us whom feel that a fire just needs your flicker of hearth to look the best, consider a fireplace candelabra, a candlestick holder designed specially for your hearth. You can have a fireplace aglow with light without a solitary stick of firewood in sight or expense of petrol logs.

Some fireplace location candelabras are trim enough to fit facing your existing andirons and grate while some are make in order to fill your unfilled fire. Select candle for your hearth location candelabra in shades that accent any room or set a new holiday’s or person’s color scheme.

As well as, you can even match the hearth candles’ scents to the period or event! Believe, for example, pumpkin and spice pertaining to Thanksgiving, vanilla or apple spice in order to elicit a “homey” feel, and ” lemon ” for a sharp summer scent.

Consequently, your fire-less fire don’t ought to be a Black Opening after all! You can create your hearth, the particular natural focal point of the room, worth considering even when there won’t be any burning logs.

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Eagles are part of traditional Native American imagery as well as modern American iconograpy

Eagles are part of traditional Native American imagery as well as modern American iconograpy

Many Native American tribes see the bald eagle as a sacred bird, and the animals often play a large role in many of their spiritual customs and religions.  Although it varies from tribe to tribe, the bald eagle is often regarded as a spiritual messenger between humans and gods.

In modern America, the bald eagle is the United State’s national bird, giving a tip of the hat to the Imperial Roman Republic, where eagle imagery was prominently featured.    

Although bald eagles start out life with their heads covered with downy feathers that later turn brown, they eventually develop their striking white tail and head feathers as they age.  Eagles can fly up to forty-three miles per hour, taking advantage of thermal convection currents, and they eat fish as a primary source of food.  While you may or may not live in an area of the country that is home to bald eagle populations, you can enjoy them anytime you like when you buy eagle figurines for your home.  Eagle sculpture is available in several appealing looks from which you may select your favorites.  

Eagle sculptures will vary in design based upon the individual artist’s sensitivities to the subject matter.  Several of the eagle statues available in the marketplace today feature realistic-looking bases that depict mountainsides with rocks and streams or waterfalls, reminiscent of the habitat in which the bald eagle resides in the United States and Canada.   

Some artists combine delicate glass artwork in with the ceramic design of the eagle statues.  Since the bald eagle is seen as a patriotic symbol in the United States, the eagle designs will often center around delicate glass work that might depict an American flag in bright red, white and blue, perhaps combined with another American icon of freedom, the Statue of Liberty.  These can be seen, in certain eagle sculpture examples, on the wings of the eagle, so that when you place them in a window where light shines on them, the colors in the glass become a dazzling reminder of all that the eagle symbolizes.    

The best way to discover what is available in terms of eagle figurines is to visit a figurine merchant online.  In the comfort of your home, you can take your time to look at each figurine, read about it in detail, and compare prices, in order to find the ones that particularly appeal to you.

Wayne Hemrick writes about–eagle sculptures


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