One Man's Throne

Made my first meme....

2012-08-23T19:17:00.000-04:00

What do you think?

Dear Old People! Stop Blaming Us for Your Shit Society

2012-07-15T04:04:00.001-04:00

You know. I have been busy lately and unfortunately I haven't been able to write for this blog; however, after reading an article about how the Issues of today's society have been brought on by a spoiled youth who refuse to grow up.... a reply was needed.

This belief that the issues of today's modern society is due to today's youth is preposterous and ridiculous! yes, we do have surreal expectations for work...yes, we do expect to be nurtured and babied throughout our lives...But to blame these issues on the youth is unfair and down right a lie! In fact, the issues with today's society belong with the previous generation... our parents!

That's right! The generation before the iphone-wearing-latte-drinking-overeducated tool is to blame for the issues of today and I'll explain why?

They Wont Growup!

We are currently suffering from an epidemic that has not been reported by our media today! Today, 53% of people under 30 are unemployed. This number is extremely terrifying considering the fact that a high number of these unemployed are college and university graduates. The media argues that Today's youth is lazy and they refuse to work hard; however, what they fail to realize is that the issue is not with the youth trying to find jobs, it is with their parents giving them away. More and more seniors are continuing to work way past their parents age of retirement-failing to provide positions for the young. Not only are these seniors working longer, they are usually paid far more than the youth. With so many seniors refusing to retire, many business can not afford to hire new employees and our youth are forced to suffer.

They took our debt

Following the Second World War, the economy was booming. With all this wealth, our parents began demanded the government to fund for many services they believed were rights of a citizen. Even while the economy was slowing in the 70's, our parents continued to demanded services forcing the governemnt to fall into debt!
But while their protests were uprising and uplifting, our parents argue that the protests of today's youth are a sad example of a spoiled generation of cry babies. While they both argued for the same rights, the previous generation believes that their fight was righteous over the current one.

They are Far too proud

Oh Please, You know it is!

One thing that annoys me about the previous generation is how proud they are about their useless generational accomplishments! From Music to"war", our parents over praise their own history as if they are a talking Facebook timeline. Their music was decent at best and aside from a few Pacino movies, their film industry was a complete flop... But they really have nothing to truly be proud of! The wars,and social movements that actually mattered happened before (civil rights, women's suffrage) or following(gay marriage, Native rights) this generational gap! Yet even though they have nothing to fall on, many historians and writers still believe we are the forgotten generation.

The previous generation have a sense of importance that is undeserved! their social accomplishments were mediocre and overrated and their wars were non existent; however, many people believe that the issues with our world stem from our youth! Instead of criticizing our youth, the previous generation must take a stand and strive to get them on their feet! You wanna see half the youth mature? lower the 53% unemployment rate and you'll see how we can make you proud!

Typical metality of our parent's generation

Ron Paul Roundup

2012-04-01T22:56:00.003-04:00

For those of you who Don't know much about Ron Paul, here is a round up of videos for Ron Paul 101.

Ron Paul on Military Spending

Ron Paul on Gay Marriage

Ron Paul on Drug Legalization

Ron Paul on Iran

Ron Paul on Birth Control

Ron Paul on Kicking Ass

More to come

Ron Paul on Cuba

Ron Paul on Abortion

Ron Paul on Trade with China

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Check this out! Photoshop Troll

2012-03-27T00:54:00.000-04:00

Another Photoshop Troll gem. Keep it up good man!

The CDC must put limits on Dihydrogen Monoxide

2012-03-24T21:50:00.001-04:00

Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO) is a colourless, odorless chemical that is currently legal in our country. While the CDC does not label DHMO as a dangerous chemical or carcinogen, it is often found in many toxic substances and is the leading constitute of many environmental hazards and biological diseases.

Ironically enough, these all have DHMO!

Today, DHMO has become one of the most abundant chemicals on our planet. It can be found in many household cleaners, air-conditioners, cigarets, and other hazardous materials. DHMO was even used and released into the ocean during the meltdown of the Fukishima Power plant in Japan last year.

So why is this important? Well today, GIANT CORPORATIONS have begun to use DHMO in many of their products to lower their costs and increase their profits. Even though it is known that DHMO is found in some of the most dangerous chemicals on Earth, it is still legal for big business to use it on us for their profits. The use of DHMO has been so prevalent that our lakes and rivers are now been saturated with this chemical!

Other facts about DHMO:

often used as an industrial coolant
since the first nuclear power plant opened in America in 1959, DHMO has been increasingly been found in tumors
a major component of pesticides and herbicides
if taken on its own, it can improve the performance of athletes.
was found in the nazi death camps during WWII
is a major component of homemade bombs
is often found in schools, and community parks
found in shampoos and cough medicine

side effects include:

bloating
excessive sweating and urination
abnormal body temperature

It is crucial that the public learns about DHMO and takes charge to tell our government we have had enough. Giant corporations must not have the ability to use DHMO on us in order to increase the size of their wallets. Call your representative and ask them to ban DHMO!

For more information click this source: http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html

So what do you think? Leave a comment and vote for or against the banning of DHMO on our poll.

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Listen to this - Goyte - Somebody That I Used to Know

2012-03-18T22:19:00.000-04:00

I don't know about you, but this guy gives me a strange Sting vibe...great song though

Attention Kitchener-Waterloo Residents 2 - Cat Walk Video

2012-03-14T18:00:00.000-04:00

As previously mentioned, I am volunteering at a local humane society and we are hosting a fashion show on March 25th. Today, we released a video of the recent Top Dog Model Search. if you are interested in donating in coming or to donate a silent auction item please check out the Kitchener-Waterloo Humane Society's website at kwhumane.com.

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Humane Society | Kitchener Waterloo Region | Top Dog Model Search | Directed by Skylight for The Event Film from Nelson Dunk on Vimeo.

Your Tax Dollars at Work - Lottery Winners Still Accepting Public Assistance

2012-03-08T10:53:00.002-05:00

Source: (CNN)-- Amanda Clayton hit it big playing the Michigan Lottery. Like many winners, she used her $1 million prize to buy a new house. But the Lincoln Park, Michigan, resident is receiving money in another form -- $200 a month in state food assistance, according to CNN Detroit affiliate WDIV. "I thought that they would cut me off, but since they didn't, I thought, maybe, it was OK because I'm not working," Clayton, 24, told WDIV when it asked whether it was appropriate for her to receive the money. continue reading at CNN.com

This case is a perfect example of the issue surrounding Welfare and Public Assistance in our country. The main goal of welfare is to provide citizens with a safety net during periods of hard times and unemployment. Citizens who lost their jobs had the opportunity to receive welfare until they were able to regain their footing and get back to work.

In today's day and age, the view of welfare has change dramatically. The embarrassment of obtaining welfare has been replaced with the total reliance of it. Welfare is no longer is seen as a program of necessity, but rather it is seen as a program that is deserved. Many are no longer using welfare to sustain themselves until they find employment; but rather, they are using public assistance to maintain themselves, with no intention of leaving.

It is time for our nation to remind people that we must maintain ourselves and not rely on our government for our existence. Welfare is our safety net, and we should use it as so. This is important because the more an individual relies on their government, the less that individual will progress.

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update: Video of the news story. "she'll be back."...so true....so sad but true
update2: took out Abraham Lincoln quote. Apparently a fake. plus more videos!

I am Man - Hear Me Roar

2012-02-29T13:04:00.000-05:00

For the last 100 years, society has made a giant leap in eliminating the inequalities that had existed between men and women. Today, women are able to choose their profession, marry who they want, and have the liberty to be who they want to be. While much can be said about these achievements, little has been written about their costs. For the last 50 years, many of the struggles surrounding men have not only been forgotten, but they have been ignored. Society's strive to create a society free of any sexual bias has placed many barriers and restrictions on men, and put much emphasis towards women and their struggles. My issues surrounding society's inequalities towards men can be put in two categories: judicial and education.

Our judicial system has a strong sexual bias towards men in both criminal and civil courts. In criminal courts, men are more likely to be handed harsher sentences than their female counterparts. This bias can clearly be seen in cases of statutory rape - male offenders are seen as monsters, while female offenders are victims of psychological issues or abusive relationships.

This "poor victim" had sex with her student

Another example of sexual bias in criminal courts involves men accused of sexual harassment. Whether the male is accused of rape or workplace sexual harassment, he is placed in a position where he must prove his innocence not only to the courts, but also to society. Society's bias towards men can also be seen in divorce courts where females are far more likely than men to be awarded spousal support, and child custody.

My other issue surrounding society's bias towards men is through our education system. For the last 50 years, our education system has radically changed to allow females to succeed and have a post-secondary education. Due to these strives, women have outnumbered men in post education and post graduate courses. While women have surpassed men in education, our society continues to strive to eliminate any disparity men many have over women in certain subjects. An example of this is Math. Teachers have been instructed to include other subjects -such as English- in their Mathematics to allow their female students to score higher; however, educators have failed to add cross-curricular work in subjects that are often dominated by females.

In subjects such as English, children are encouraged to read books they like; however, the books that are popular and available are often written by women and geared towards them. Even books that are directed towards boys -such as Harry Potter Books - are often filled with pictures or written by women and fail to have the connection many banned books such as Crusoe and Huckleberry Finn may have. This is of grave concern to me because society is ignoring an important social issue. In many communities - such as African-Canadians and new immigrants - male high school graduation rates fall below 50%. It is crucial for us to recognize the problems that exists in our educations system and act on them rather than continuing down this path and ignoring this new plague that exists.

I told you! Edward was the vampire....bitch

In essence, our society's strive to create equality has forced us to ignore many of the issues surrounding men. It is crucial for organizations to bring these issues to light so that our society can recognize the disparities and act upon them.

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Most Absurd Obama Chart Ever?

2012-02-20T18:56:00.000-05:00

Attention All Kitchener-Waterloo Residents...

2012-02-09T13:40:00.000-05:00

Hello Everyone,
I am volunteering for the Kitchener-Waterloo humane society and we are hosting a fashion show event next month. I would really appreciate it if you could share this post so that more people know about this event and are able to either donate or participate.
Thank you!

Presents the Top Dog Model Search for the Kitchener - Waterloo Humane Society's 6th annual "On the Cat Walk" Fashion Show.

The top ten dogs chosen will win the opportunity to be in The Kitchener-Waterloo Humane Society’s 6th Annual “On The Cat Walk Fashion Show” presented by Rens’ Pets Depot.
For more information please contact:
pierre.lemieux@kwhumane.com
519-745-5615 x 226

$10 registration fee
Registration is limited

also presents the 6th annual "On the Cat Walk" fashion show on Sunday, March 25, 2012.

St. George Hall
665 King St. N
Waterloo

Doors Open at 12:30
Showtime at 2:00

Tickets $30
4 Tickets $100

Tickets can be purchased online www.kwhumane.com or at the K-W Humane Society. 250 Riverbend Dr. Kitchener

The afternoon will see fun loving Waterloo Region residents unite for one of the area’s most unique and entertaining events. The 6th Annual “On the Cat Walk” Fashion Show presented by Ren’s PETS Depot. The afternoon features, great food and professional models from Gemini Modeling, complimented by some of the most adorable canine pets from our community. You will also have the time to shop from our great retail partners or bid at the silent auction.
All proceeds support the orphaned animals of our community.

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"It was better under Margaret Thatcher"

2012-02-05T09:59:00.001-05:00

For all the oasis fans out there, Noel Gallagher shares his opinions on life, politics, and growing up.
Noel Gallagher: 'It was all better under Margaret Thatcher' | Mail Online

By SIMON LEWIS

He's cleaned up and straightened out, but remarkably, given his own wild past, he despairs of today’s feckless youth...

'Under (Margaret) Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod, great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very colourful and progressive,' said Noel Gallagher

'We were brought up under Thatcher,’ Noel Gallagher is saying.

‘There was a work ethic – if you were unemployed, the obsession was to find work.

'Now, these kids brought up under the Labour Party and whatever this Coalition thing is, it’s like, “Forget that, I’m not interested. I wanna be on TV.” It was a different mindset back then.’

We’re halfway through a wide-ranging conversation in a north London studio, and the man whose brawling band’s conspicuous drug use, bad language and swagger were irresistible to Tony Blair (you’ll recall the 1997 photo opportunity) is sipping a hot drink and telling me this country was better under Margaret Thatcher.

‘Under Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod,’ he says, ‘great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very colourful and progressive.

'Now, no one’s got anything to say. Write a song? No thanks, I’ll say it on Twitter. It’s a sad state when more people retweet than buy records.’

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'I gave up drinking for three years. My kids liked me more': Liam Gallagher on Oasis, style and changing his habits

Gallagher, who doesn’t tweet, has got a point. He may yet prove to be the last British rock star.

It’s hard to imagine another arising whose hold on the public imagination is so strong that the News At Ten reports when their single fails to hit No 1, as happened in August 1995 with the great Oasis v Blur clash.

‘I had a tendency to say horrible things about Blur,’ Gallagher says ruefully. ‘We were like two fighting cocks for the music press.

'But this is what Damon and I were saying when we saw each other recently: we were of the shared opinion that it was bloody great. And that it doesn’t happen any more. We were two great bands who had big egos. Me and him, and Liam. We wanted to be the best.’

So Gallagher has mended fences with Damon Albarn, having once wished he’d ‘catch Aids and die’.

Noel is entirely clean now, bar the odd beer or cigarette. He's in no doubt as to what turned him around. 'Meeting my wife (Sara MacDonald). She was the catalyst for everything,' he said

He hasn’t done the same with his younger brother, whose yobbish behaviour supplied the bulk of Oasis headlines when times were good. When times were bad, they couldn’t be in the same room. Liam’s behaviour drove Noel to walk out of tours in 1994 and 2000.

A backstage altercation in August 2009 saw Noel walk out for good, effectively ending Oasis.

Before this interview, I was told Noel wouldn’t be answering any questions about Liam.

‘I decided, now I’m not in Oasis, I don’t have to do that any more,’ Gallagher says when I ask him why.

‘Because all that needs to be said has been said. There’s no need any more. I just want to forget the personality wars.’

There’s more to it than that. Last August, Liam sued Noel for saying he’d pulled out of the 2009 V Festival because of a hangover.

In November, Noel lodged his response with the High Court: a writ accusing Liam of leaving abusive voicemail messages on his wife’s phone, attacking him with a guitar and ‘spiteful and childish’ behaviour on 12 occasions.

It’s not hard to deduce the ban on discussing Liam could be for legal reasons.

Since 2009 the Gallaghers have pursued rival careers; Liam with three Oasis bandmates under the name Beady Eye, Noel with session musicians as Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds. Noel’s album went to No 1 in October and a UK tour begins this month.

‘I still need a band on stage, because unfortunately I can’t play everything at once,’ he says. ‘But I’ll master it one day.’

Noel's album went to No 1 in October and a UK tour begins this month

He seems happy on his own. I wonder, if he hadn’t fallen out with Liam, might he have disbanded Oasis anyway?

‘I did find it difficult the longer Oasis went on,’ Gallagher agrees, ‘because no one out there was really interested in the next record.

'We rode out a few bad tours and bad albums, then got it back. But put it this way – three million people were coming to see us play live; we weren’t selling three million records.’

You’d become a nostalgia band?

‘In the same way that no one at a Rolling Stones gig cares about their next album. The more records you make, the more difficult it is to say new things.

'Anyway, in the end personal things had got so bad that it was best for everybody if we just called it a day.’

Two years on, and despite the court case, Gallagher hardly looks freighted with woes. Five feet eight inches tall, he’s wiry and alert, with a confidence £30 million in the bank will tend to give you.

He’s toned down his wolf-man eyebrows, too.

‘Grazia put me at the top of their Chart of Lust twice last year, so I must be doing something right,’ he says.

‘A woman of a similar age wouldn’t look as good. I feel sorry for girls in the music industry. They do have a very short shelf life. For instance, Duffy: who? Gone. She was massive. And I don’t doubt for a second that the same thing will happen to Adele.’

Although he’s bullish now, there was a time when Gallagher wasn’t so sure of himself. Oasis’s fortunes peaked in 1995 with the Knebworth gig attended by 375,000 over two nights. Then the troubles began.

‘We went through a period as a group from 1998 to 2000 where everyone was getting divorced,’ Gallagher says.

‘Creation (the record label) was going down the toilet. My daughter didn’t have two stable parents: her mother wasn’t a rock star, but unfortunately was behaving like one.

'I was trying to get off drugs, but I only swapped illegal drugs for prescription drugs. If you’re on private health care, they’re only too willing to dish them out. Ask Keith Richards.’

Gallagher is entirely clean now, bar the odd beer or cigarette. He’s in no doubt as to what turned him around.

‘Meeting my wife,’ he says. ‘She was the catalyst for everything.’

Noel met publicist Sara MacDonald in Ibiza in 2000 when still married to first wife Meg Mathews. She was cited in the 2001 divorce, although Gallagher later said he’d only claimed to have committed adultery to speed up the proceedings.

'I did find it difficult the longer Oasis went on, because no one out there was really interested in the next record,' said Noel (pictured: the band in 1999)

‘When I met her, I was in a circle of friends where the party from the Nineties was still raging,’ he says.

‘I’d sold my house in Primrose Hill to get away from it, but the party just moved out to the country with me. I’d done too much and my insides couldn’t take it any more. I decided I’d go straight for two weeks. Then two weeks became two months.

'Suddenly you think, “Hang on, these people are quite mad – I’m not sure I like any of them.” My entire life was 12 to 20 people and I walked away from them for good. It was the most difficult thing I’ve ever done. Then out of nowhere, I met Sara and the road to where I am now became apparent.’

The couple have been together 11 years and have two sons – Donovan, four, and Sonny, one. They married last June. Asked why he bothered after 11 years, he plays it down.

‘There comes a point where a 44-year-old man sounds stupid saying, “This is my girlfriend.” What am I, Rod Stewart?’

Nevertheless, marriage is an institution he didn’t need to enter. Could he finally be turning… conservative?

He bridles. Don’t use the c word. He never would have visited Number 10 if John Major had invited him, he says. But, it turns out, he will be sending his sons to private school.

‘I don’t want them coming home speaking like Ali G,’ he explains. ‘Anyone in my position, you owe it to your children to send them to a school where they don’t have to walk through a metal detector in the morning.

'There were riot police outside our local school the other morning. Turns out there’d been a stabbing. Rival gangs. We shouldn’t need riot police at schools. This is Maida Vale. This isn’t Handsworth or Tottenham, do you know what I mean? I don’t want my kids going to a school like that. I’d rather they were at a school with Russian oligarchs’ children.’

We talk about how his boys’ childhood is going to differ from his own. Gallagher’s mother walked out on his abusive father in the Eighties, taking Noel, Liam and their elder brother Paul with her. In a way, Gallagher says, it was the making of him.

'I found solace in music,’ he says. He doubts his own sons will have the same need for songs. There’s too much technology, too much Twitter. That’s when he says people were more ambitious under Margaret Thatcher.

‘Kids now watch America’s Hardest Prisons and want to be in a gang,’ he says. ‘They’ve no imagination. When I was 16 I’d watch The Godfather, but I didn’t think, “Right, I’m going to go down the barber’s and get some protection money off him.”

Noel and Sara have been together 11 years and have two sons - Donovan, four, and Sonny, one

'Our generation was more likely to go, “I wonder where the nearest acting school is? Who wrote that soundtrack? Who’s Francis Ford Coppola?” It’s the de-education of the masses.

‘Last August I was on tour in Europe and people were asking me about the riots. All over the world, Syria and Egypt, people were rioting for freedom. And these kids in England are rioting for tracksuits. It’s embarrassing.’

Gallagher was arrested in his early teens for petty crimes including stealing a milk float. He puts this down to a hatred of authority, a reaction against his abusive father.

One of the rioters arrested came from Burnage, where the brothers grew up – in fact, he stole £175 of clothes from Liam Gallagher’s Pretty Green shop. But Noel has no sympathy at all with the looters.

‘It would have been beautiful if, after the MPs’ expenses scandal and the bankers’ bonuses scandal, people took to the streets and smashed the living daylights out of the City of London,’ he says.

‘Instead, it started because a drug dealer was shot. He was carrying a gun, he was shot by a policeman, it’s all on Twitter and before you know it there’s a riot going on. It was a mass outbreak of robbery and I was embarrassed to be a Mancunian. I saw kids on the telly saying in their Ali G voices, “It’s payback for the po-lice.” What does that mean? “Cause they arrest yer for stupid things.” Like what – hopping on one leg? Doing a silly walk like John Cleese? Get home, you idiot.’

Gallagher is by now in his stride. He’s seldom been at a loss for an unkind word about his fellow man – and nowadays, the things he’s angry about are the same things The Mail on Sunday’s readers are angry about. And the things he cares about, we do too. Older, wiser and rid of his brother, it’s starting to look like Noel Gallagher’s one of us.

‘It’s a sign of the times that I used to get offered sex and drugs after gigs and now it’s free driving lessons,’ says Gallagher, who was offered lessons by a fan last year.

And his politics have been shifting recently.

‘Up until the last election, I voted Labour all my life,’ he says. ‘But I’ve lost all faith in the Labour Party. After the expenses scandal and what happened with the banks – that “There’s no money left” note and all that – I just look at them and think the Labour Party should really be ashamed of themselves for the way they let the country down. I voted for a pirate at the last election.’

Ah. Not quite the doughty burgher I’ve been trying to paint him as, then. Fair enough. As if to prove a point, he tells me about the psychedelic album he’s working on for release at the end of the year, which will alienate his more musically conservative fans.

Is the idea to show that he’s more than the crowd-pleasing rocker once taunted with the jibe ‘Oasis Quo’?

‘I don’t want to be “interesting”,’ Gallagher scoffs. ‘I don’t want critical acclaim. I don’t want my songs to be social commentary. Radiohead can have that. That’s why they’ve never done three nights at Wembley. I want the money. I want the jet, the holiday and the first-class lounge.’

But he’s already got all of that, in spades. He says he wishes his sons were old enough to come out on tour with him now – implying that by the time they are he’ll be retired. I suggest he could retire now and enjoy the fruits of his labours.

‘Paul McCartney’s still touring,’ he counters. ‘While you can still write songs, you should.’

With respect to McCartney, nobody wants to hear his new songs. They all want to hear Beatles songs. Which brings me to the inevitable question. Given that an Oasis reunion tour, once his feud with Liam is patched up, would be one of the biggest money-spinners in history, how long is he going to wait?

‘I don’t mean to straight-bat this,’ he says, ‘but what people want me to say is, “Yes, I’m bang up for the reunion.” They’re talking about 2014, the 20th anniversary of Definitely Maybe.

‘As it draws closer, yeah, the bandwagon will get rolling, the drums will beat louder – but let’s wait for then, eh? It’s years away.’

It’s two years away. If I were you, I’d book your seats at Wembley now.

Ron Paul Energetic Speech In Nevada After Florida voting

2012-02-01T11:39:00.001-05:00

You have to give this guy credit! He knows how to rally his troops! Spoken from a true Libertarian.

Add One Man's Throne to you Google+ Circle

2012-01-29T21:28:00.002-05:00

Hey all,

If you have - or plan on getting- Google+, add One Man's Throne. Click here and then me add me to your circle.

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Be Politically Correct, Call it a Christmas Tree

2011-12-03T12:45:00.000-05:00

Over the past few years, many issues have arisen concerning Christmas and the holidays. The corporations and governments choice to celebrate the "Holidays" has offended many christian groups who strongly believe that it is crucial for us to keep the Christ in Christmas. Personally, I always wish a Merry Christmas, and I understand these groups and their strive to protect their Christian traditions; however, I believe that corporations and our government have every right to include as many ethnic groups during this joyous occasion. Christians are not the only group celebrating an event and the government has an obligation to appease all citizens. Christmas itself was moved to December by Christians to model a Roman gift-giving holiday in the Church's beginnings.

While this issue may not bother me to an huge extent, an issue that does offend me during this time of season is the alteration or change of christian traditions to appease other groups. More specifically, the strive to change the Christmas Tree into the Holiday Tree.
Recently, Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee created controversy when he named the state's decorated spruce the "Holiday tree" - a name that brings great offence to me and should being great offence to other Christians. People may think that by allowing our government or other groups to alter the tree to appease other traditions, we are being more inclusive and less offensive - this however is not the case. The Christmas tree is filled with symbolism that is of great importance to Christians. - the star, the type of tree, the ornaments - all have symbolic meanings that not only reflect this holiday season, but more importantly to Christ. By renaming the spruce a holiday tree, Christians are losing the symbolism and meaning of this figure, and instead it has turned into a corporate image for consumption - the tree becomes a resting place for our presents, rather than a meaningful expression of our faith
I feel that people should always welcome other groups to experience and understand their traditions; however, to change your tradition to appease them is wrong and should not be tolerated.

We do not call the menorah a holiday candle, so why is it fine to change this?

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Fan mail - More Occupied Posters

2011-11-28T09:47:00.000-05:00

Occupy the Backseat

Occupy the Throne

Simply Occupied

New Occupy Posters

2011-11-27T14:08:00.000-05:00

Hey all, This is my first attempt at Photoshop... didn't come out too bad! Tell me what you think...

Occupy Christmas - Because the kids deserve it

Occupy iRony

If any of you want to send your own photoshop masterpiece, Send a comment, and ill make sure you can send it to my email.

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Update: You can send your pictures or comments directly to me at onemansthrone@gmail.com

BREAKING NEWS - Good Bye OWS - Toronto

2011-11-21T11:29:00.000-05:00

Dear Occupy Toronto, Fuck off! Love, Mayor Rob Ford

By: Colin Perkel

TORONTO - Allowing Occupy Toronto protesters to remain in a downtown park would amount to supporting anarchy, something Canadians have rejected, a judge ruled Monday in upholding the city's trespass bylaw.

There was no immediate word on when the demonstrators might be evicted or whether they would appeal the ruling.

But the city's mayor said he expected the protesters to get out of the park immediately.

"We've asked the protesters to leave as soon as possible," Mayor Rob Ford told a news conference.

"We'd appreciate their co-operation."

In a 54-page decision, Ontario Superior Court Justice David Brown upheld the city's trespass bylaw as a "reasonable" infringement on the demonstrators' freedom of expression.

"Anarchism has a long political history," Brown stated in his ruling. "But Canada has not chosen anarchism."

Some protesters in the park said they would defy any attempt to remove them, while others did not want to risk a confrontation with police.

Sakura Saunders, a volunteer with Occupy Toronto, said those who choose to stay will be "non-violently resisting" attempts to tear down their mini-village of tents and other shelters.

"That's simply us standing our ground," Saunders said.

"We do have charter rights to be here and it is the opinion of everyone here that our charter rights should ... be greater than the right of someone to walk their dog through this park."

Brown, however, disagreed.

"The tents and other shelters hog the park land, and non-protesters who seek to use the park face a chilly and somewhat intimidating reception," he said.

"The charter offers no justification for the protesters' act of appropriating to their own use — without asking their fellow citizens — a large portion of common public space for an indefinite period of time."

Members of the Occupy Toronto protest, who took over St. James Park in the city's downtown Oct. 15 as part of the global protest movement, went to court to block the trespass notice issued last Tuesday.

In its notice, the city said putting up tents or being in the park between midnight and 5 a.m. violated bylaws.

City Manager Joe Pennachetti said the city did not consider midnight to be a deadline for the protesters to be gone.

"We want to move quickly and hopefully beat that time frame," Pennachetti said.

Police said they were in discussions with the city, but would not speculate further.

Five protesters argued the occupation of the park, including tents, were an intrinsic part of their right to protest and hence their ability to assemble and express themselves.

Brown rejected the notion that the Occupy Toronto protesters were worthy of a special exemption.

"It would be a most curious constitutional exemption which would have the effect of excluding many members of the public from a park, while granting a small group exclusive possession of it," he wrote.

The judge, who heard a day of arguments on Friday, said the notice represented "minimal impairment" on the protesters' freedoms.

On agreement of the parties, Brown made no order as to costs given the "public importance" of the issues.

Across the continent, civic authorities have either evicted, or moved to evict, their Occupy protesters.

Most protest sites in Canada have already been dismantled but some remain.

A judge in Victoria has said the demonstrators have to go, but has not yet given the city the authority to evict them if they don't.

In Vancouver, a judge has given Occupy protesters until Monday afternoon to clear their camp in front of the downtown art gallery.

Montreal has taken no action against its downtown protesters.

Police have also cleaned out Manhattan's Zuccotti Park near Wall Street, where the Occupy movement began in mid-September.

While most of the protests have been peaceful, there have been violent clashes as police moved to evict the demonstrators in places such as Oakland, Calif., and mass arrests in New York City.

SOURCE: The Canadian Press

Why OWS Will Fail

2011-11-17T23:05:00.001-05:00

This past week, the Occupy movement has been dealt a massive blow with the destruction of their settlement in New York and others cities throughout the nation. While many supporters may try to spin these events in a positive manner, the truth of the matter is that this movement is collapsing and bound to fail for a number of reasons.

1. They are Exclusive

OWS protesters may reflect the public's displeasure with the status quo; however, their solution - or lack of solution - fails to appeal an be inclusive to the nation's general population. Also, many people who were once neutral towards the protesters now find them very confrontational and their patience has been tested. People do not want to be lectured, but they are willing to enlightened. Today's pompous protesters tend to speak down towards the general population in a manner that goes against their general beliefs.

2. They are too Divided

Similarly to the general public, the OWS protesters are solely united by their dislike for the status quo; however, they fail to share a common solution and are actually a very divided group. While they all argue that the system is corrupt and there must be change, each group has their own agenda and they are competing amongst themselves to obtain the spotlight and propose their form of solution to the media. We can see this division by their inability to define success. While the protests have been going on for over two months now, they have failed to propose any demands that they may consider a success because "success" to one division will be considered a failure to another. Without a uniformed solution or demands from this group, they can not propose anything to the public, and very little can be done to help their cause.

3. They have no Leader

We may further see the grand divisions amongst the OWS movement due to their lack of leadership or idolatry. Throughout history, every successful social movement has had a leader that organized the masses and kept them on track towards their goal. These leaders always related to the general population and was able to convey the movements message to the people in a manner that was enlightening and forceful. Without a leader, this movement has gone aimlessly and has failed to connect to the general population.

Should the group attempt to elect a leader, other issues will arise. Due to their divisions, no leader will be able to successfully appease all these groups and thus forcing many of them to break off, weakening the movement.

3. Too Many anti-American Entities

Finally, the last reason why i believe that the OWS protesters will ultimately fail is due to the huge number of anti-American entities in the movement. If you want to have a successful movement in your country, you must show the general public that you love the nation and you are fighting for it. While most protesters in this movement may love America, there is a large entity that is very anti-American and prefer to have the country and its economic system destroyed. These people tend to argue that the problem of the nation is America, and America must be changed.

In order for a movement to get the population to support and follow their cause, they must relate to the people and speak to them at their level. Where the civil rights and other movements succeeded was their ability to have Americans look at themselves and see how their actions or laws that were in place were unAmerican. These movements made people reflect amongst themselves so that they may see that the problem with nation lies with them, and America is the solution. This is the reason why these movements succeeded and why OWS will ultimately fail.

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Watch This: Bullshit

2011-11-15T12:26:00.000-05:00

Here is a video you may find interesting:

A wonderful show that every Libertarian should watch!

Part one:

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OWS Cartoon roundup

2011-11-14T11:07:00.000-05:00

Read this: Ocuppiers Right, Wrong

2011-11-13T22:21:00.002-05:00

Source: Toronto Sun

BY LORRIE GOLDSTEIN ,

Recently I’ve been writing about some of the views I share with Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York, Toronto and elsewhere.

Today I’m going to write about my disagreements.

To review, I agree with them financial fraud on Wall St. and political corruption in Washington are largely responsible for the global economic mess we’re in today.

I agree the public justifiably feels betrayed by how stock markets were manipulated and banks and investment houses bailed out with U.S. taxpayers’ money.

I agree key regulations governing stock markets were gutted by Wall St., which bribed politicians into stacking the rules in their favour, a phenomenon known as crony capitalism.

I agree public anger at corrupt Wall St. executives and their bought-and-paid for politicians — Republicans and Democrats — is justified.

But I disagree with the Occupiers’ view capitalism itself is the problem and wealth redistribution by the state is the answer.

Wherever this has been tried, the state becomes the ultimate crony capitalist and it does to the public exactly what Wall St. and Congress did to them starting in 2008, only on steroids.

The solution is not to replace capitalism but to fix it — by restoring laws for the proper regulation of the financial services sector that arose out of the stock market crash of 1929.

Things like keeping the activities of commercial and investment banks separate, so commercial banks that accept depositors’ money can’t use it to speculate in high-risk securities in the stock market.

Things like placing limits on “leveraging,” meaning buying investments using debt, which can result in huge financial losses.

Things like regulating the use of derivatives such as collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps.

These were the two weapons of mass destruction in the subprime mortgage securities scandal that wiped out trillions of dollars of people’s life savings and pensions world-wide, while costing tens of millions their jobs and homes.

But I disagree with the protesters who say they are against the bailout of Wall St. banks, but in favour of bailing out giant auto companies, which they’ve indicated by accepting the support of the Canadian Auto Workers.

That tells me these protesters aren’t really against the government picking economic winners and losers. They just want it to pick the winners and losers of which they approve.

I also disagree with the Occupiers’ failure to condemn the roles played by government entitlement programs and public sector greed in the ongoing global economic crisis.

Indeed, excessive entitlement programs and runaway public sector spending lie at the heart of the sovereign debt crisis in Europe, that could cause another global recession.

The problem with countries like Greece — as in much of Europe — is their economies were already basket cases before the contagion of toxic subprime mortgage securities spread around the world and sent their finances over a cliff.

As former Wall St. money trader Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, widely considered to be one of the best and most understandable accounts of the 2008 subprime mortgage securities scandal, explains in his latest book, Boomerang, Travels In The New Third World, the Greek economy was basically a giant Ponzi scheme before it imploded.

For example, the wage bill of Greece’s public sector has doubled in real terms in the past 12 years.

The average government job pays almost three times the salary of the average private sector one.

Greece’s state-owned railway has annual revenues of 100 million euros, against an annual wage bill of 400 million euros (average salary, 65,000 euros per worker), plus 300 million for other expenses.

Greece’s public school system, among the lowest ranked in Europe, has four times as many teachers per pupil as the highest ranked, in Finland.

The retirement age under Greece’s prohibitively expensive public pension system is as early as 55 for men and 50 for women for over 600 professions classified as “arduous,” including hairdressers, radio announcers, waiters and musicians.

Finally, bribery and corruption are widespread in the public sector.

To sum up, the Occupy movement is correct to condemn the greed, fraud and corruption on Wall St. that led to the global economic mess we’re in today.

But to ignore those same things in the public sector, and their contribution to the economic tsunami we’re now experiencing, is absurd and blatantly inconsistent.

Source:The Toronto Sun

SEIU Now Collecting Dues from Medicaid Payments Meant for Disabled Kids | The Weekly Standard

2011-11-13T16:29:00.000-05:00

I've always had an issue with Unions and their strive to obtain as much dues as possible, but this case is sickening!

SEIU Now Collecting Dues from Medicaid Payments Meant for Disabled Kids | The Weekly Standard

There are a number of bizarre schemes unions have used to coerce dues out of public funds. For a long time, I thought the most appalling example was a Michigan scheme where the United Auto Workers and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees held a sham vote-by-mail organizing election that "unionized" Michigan's home daycare providers largely against their will. This allowed them to collect union dues from state chid care subsidies.

However, it turns out there are even worse union scams happening in Michigan right now. Joel Gehrke at the Washington Examiner reports:

If you're a parent who accepts Medicaid payments from the State of Michigan to help support your mentally-disabled adult children, you qualify as a state employee for the purposes of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). They can now claim and receive a portion of your Medicaid in the form of union dues.

Robert and Patricia Haynes live in Michigan with their two adult children, who have cerebral palsy. The state government provides the family with insurance through Medicaid, but also treats them as caregivers. For the SEIU, this makes them public employees and thus members of the union, which receives $30 out of the family's monthly Medicaid subsidy. The Michigan Quality Community Care Council (MQC3) deducts union dues on behalf of SEIU.

The SEIU takes $6 million a year that would otherwise go to helping disabled children. Unions seem to wonder why they are under attack these days, but you read reports like this and it's not exactly a mystery why more and more Americans are fed up.

Source: http://www.weeklystandard.com

Read this - Why the West is losing out to the rest

2011-11-03T18:55:00.001-04:00

Why the West is losing out to the rest

It says it all when Europe turns to China for a bailout. That was what happened last week when the man in charge of the European Financial Stability Fund flew to Beijing to see if he could interest Chinese investors in propping up the finances of the eurozone.

How the mighty are fallen. Thirty-five years ago the average German was roughly 15 times richer than the average Chinese. Today the ratio is less than 3-to-1. Back in 1980 the Chinese economy accounted for just 2.2% of global economic output, one third the size of Germany's share. By 2016, according to the International Monetary Fund, the Chinese share will be 18%, six times larger than Germany's.

We are living through an extraordinary reversal of economic fortunes after 500 years when the big story was what historians call "the great divergence." Beginning in 1500, Europeans and European settlers in North America began to get richer than Asians (and everyone else, too). The gap between the "West and the Rest" widened at an accelerating rate until the later 1970s. But then -- on our watch -- that trend went into high-speed reverse.

So what has been going on?

The West first surged ahead of the rest thanks to a series of institutional innovations that I call the "killer applications":

1. Competition. Europe was politically fragmented into multiple monarchies and republics, which were in turn internally divided into competing corporate entities, among them the ancestors of modern business corporations.

2. The Scientific Revolution. All the major 17th-century breakthroughs in mathematics, astronomy, physics, chemistry and biology happened in Western Europe.

3. The rule of law and representative government.An optimal system of social and political order emerged in the English-speaking world, based on private-property rights and the representation of property owners in elected legislatures.

4. Modern medicine. Nearly all the major 19th- and 20th-century breakthroughs in health care were made by Western Europeans and North Americans.

5. The consumer society. The Industrial Revolution took place where there was both a supply of productivity-enhancing technologies and a demand for more, better and cheaper goods, beginning with cotton garments.

6. The work ethic. Westerners were the first people in the world to combine more extensive and intensive labor with higher savings rates, permitting sustained capital accumulation.

For hundreds of years, these killer apps were essentially monopolized by Europeans and their overseas cousins in North America and Australasia. Westerners not only grew richer than "Resterners." They grew taller, healthier and longer-lived. They also grew more powerful. By the early 20th century, just a dozen Western empires -- including the United States -- controlled 58% of the world's land surface and population, and a staggering 74% of the global economy.

Beginning with Japan, however, one non-Western society after another has worked out that these apps can be downloaded and installed in non-Western operating systems. That explains about half the catching up that we have witnessed in our lifetimes, especially since the onset of economic reforms in China in 1978. The other half is explained by our tendency to delete the secrets of our own success.

Ask yourself: Who's got the work ethic now? The average South Korean works about 39% more hours per week than the average American. The school year in South Korea is 220 days long, compared with 180 days here.

The consumer society? Did you know that 26 of the 30 biggest shopping malls in the world are now in emerging markets, mostly in Asia? Only three are in the United States.

Modern medicine? Well, we certainly outspend everyone else. But the results in terms of public health are pretty miserable.

The rule of law? For a real eye-opener, take a look at the latest World Economic Forum Executive Opinion Survey. On no fewer than 15 of 16 different issues relating to property rights and governance, the United States fares worse than Hong Kong.

What about science? Statistics from the World Intellectual Property Organization show that already more patents originate in Japan than in the United States, that South Korea overtook Germany to take third place in 2005, and that China is poised to overtake Germany, too.

Finally, there's competition, the original killer app that sent the fragmented West down a completely different path from monolithic imperial China. Well, the World Economic Forum has conducted a comprehensive global competitiveness survey every year since 1979. Since the current methodology was adopted in 2004, the U.S. average competitiveness score has fallen from 5.82 to 5.43, one of the steepest declines among developed economies. China's score, meanwhile, has leapt up from 4.29 to 4.9.

Hands up readers who thought the future would, like an iPhone, be designed in California and only assembled in China? You were wrong. Western predominance is ending on our watch. And it's ending not just because the rest of the world finally figured out how to download our killer apps. It's ending because we deleted them.

Source: CNN

Listen to this - Rihanna - We Found Love

2011-10-30T20:43:00.001-04:00

Here is Rihanna's new song....Actually like it! give it a whirl! Her prancing around in her undies is a plus

Rihanna - We Found Love