Time 2 Escape WIFLI for Friday, Feb 3, 2012

Let's start out with some great wisdom for you to ponder over this weekend. It's a great way to end the week for me, as it coincides perfectly with some life lessons I had this week:

The fulfillment you seek is something you must create as a result of your own responsibility, commitment, discipline and efforts. Get focused, get busy and experience the outstanding joy of living life on your own terms.

— Ralph Marston, from "On your own terms"

I only wish some of the GOP Presidential Pretenders, I mean contenders, would have taken the above advice. It seems that the other two candidates (Newt and Mitt) do not quite get it quite as well as do Ron Paul and Rick Santorum, who I give credit to for their commitment to their beliefs.  I'm just sayin'...

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The News Stories:

Another good reason for homeschooling, even here in Iowa:

Is This Iowa High School Teaching Students Communism Is Better Than Capitalism? See the Flyer
From THEBLAZE.com ~ Posted on Feb 3, 2012 at 9:25 a.m. by Mike Opelka

This curious flyer was handed out to students studying the history of the Cold War at Roosevelt High School in Des Moines, Iowa.

What do you think the lesson was supposed to be?

From a flyer discovered by a parent of a student at Roosevelt High School in Des Moines, Iowa

The CAPITALISM side of the flyer shows workers in tattered clothing, chained to a machine that delivers all of the money produced to a cigar-smoking man who is also much better dressed.

Over on the COMMUNISM side, there is no boss and the smiling workers are better dressed, don’t have chains on their legs and the money goes back to them.

This gem was discovered by Simon Conway of Iowa’s Who Radio. A listener who is a parent of a student at the high school, sent the hand out to the radio host.

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EDITOR'S Note: If you are a parent, and you find out that your children are the lucky recipients of hand outs such as the one spoken of above, they have been exposed; immediate inoculation is necessary: You should immediately sit your children down and have them watch the following cartoon. Make sure that they are aware of the real differences between capitalism and communism.

Watch it now!



I was able to find this cartoon in my Time 2 Escape blog archive in the following post:
Cruising toward destruction ~ By Patrice Lewis
From WND Commentary ~ By Patrice Lewis ~ Published: Sep 25, 2010 at 1:00 AM 

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Catching you up on the current state of affairs with Iran:

Iran Vows Support to Anyone Confronting ‘Cancerous’ Israel
From THEBLAZE.com ~ Posted on February 3, 2012 at 12:32pm by Buck Sexton

(AP) — Iran will help any nation or group that confronts the “cancer” Israel, the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Friday.

The Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
(Supreme Dictator of Iran!)

He also said in remarks delivered to worshippers at prayers in Tehran and broadcast on state TV that the country would continue its controversial nuclear program, and warned that any military strike by the U.S. would only make Iran stronger.

Khamenei also warned that Tehran would reveal a letter that it says U.S. President Barack Obama sent the Iranian leadership in an attempt to end the nuclear stand-off. He said it shows that the Americans cannot be trusted. The White House has denied that such a letter exists.

Iranian officials have consistently reacted defiantly to indications by the U.S. and Israel that they might at some point take military action against Iranian nuclear facilities.

(Related: Defense Sec. Panetta says Israel could strike Iran within months)

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Iran warns world of coming great event
Says 'evil hegemony' soon will be defeated by power of Allah
From WND.com ~ By Reza Kahlili ~ Published Thursday, Feb 2, 2012

Reza Kahlili is a pseudonym for a former CIA operative in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and the author of the award winning book, A Time to Betray. He is a senior Fellow with EMPact America and teaches at the U.S. Department of Defense’s Joint Counterintelligence Training Academy (JCITA).

Amid crippling sanctions over its nuclear weapons program, Iran is continuing to prepare itself for war against the West, and now is warning of a coming great event.

“In light of the realization of the divine promise by almighty God, the Zionists and the Great Satan (America) will soon be defeated,” Ayatollah Khamenei, the Iranian supreme leader, is warning.

Khamenei, speaking to hundreds of youths from more than 70 countries attending a world conference on the Arab Spring just days ago, told a cheering crowd in Tehran that “Allah’s promises will be delivered and Islam will be victorious.”

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Columnists and Their Commentaries:

Ron Paul: Ahead of his time
Pat Buchanan agrees that foreign 'freeloaders' should defend themselves for a change
From WND Commentary ~ By Patrick Buchanan ~ Published Feb 2, 2012

Patrick Buchanan

After his fourth-place showing in Florida, Ron Paul, by then in Nevada, told supporters he had been advised by friends that he would do better if only he dumped his foreign policy views, which have been derided as isolationism.

Not going to do it, said Dr. Paul to cheers. And why should he?

Rep Ron Paul (R-TX)

Observing developments in U.S. foreign and defense policy, Paul’s views seem as far out in front of where America is heading as John McCain’s seem to belong to yesterday’s Bush-era bellicosity.

Consider. In December, the last U.S. troops left Iraq. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta now says that all U.S. combat operations in Afghanistan will end in 18 months.

The strategic outposts of empire are being abandoned.


Uploaded by ThePartysOverParty on Feb 1, 2012

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From the Blogs:

On your own terms
From The Daily Motivator ~ By Ralph Marston ~ Published Feb 3, 2012

It’s your life, so be willing to be fully responsible for it. Take charge of your own destiny.

Don’t sit around hoping somebody will give you a break. Get busy and do the work that will enable you to live life fully on your own terms.

Avoid falling into the trap of blaming others for your situation. For when you assign blame to others, you are putting yourself under their control.

Instead, put yourself and your life under your own control. You know what’s best for you, so do what is necessary to make that happen.

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Don't be afraid!

WE the PEOPLE

are the MOB
ONE NATION UNDER GOD

YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
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The myth of the supercriminal ~ By Phil Elmore

And meanwhile, in a related story, an 89-year old granny in Des Moines, Iowa, used technology in the form of a 22 cal pistol to deter a would-be burglar from robbing her. Obviously, the robber want-to-be was NOT a supercriminal. He may be bigger and stronger than Granny, but Granny had the tool that was needed to establish control in the situation.   The story proves the point that Phil makes in this outstanding column today.

But Phil's column is not just about stopping "supercriminals" mugging people on the street, or trying to break down your door in a home invasion.  As you will find out, there is another type of criminal that we must have the ability to stop if necessary.  It happens to be the same criminal organization that doesn't want you to have guns.  Just sayin'...

Whether with hardware or as software, it's a fact that criminals do train, and train each other, in certain ways. The myth of the supercriminal, however, is just that – a myth propagated by defeatists on both the left and the right who seek to create an artificial division between you, the free citizen, and elevated "elite" classes, such as law-enforcement personnel and military operatives. Those on the left hold such personnel in sneering contempt unless they're being used to the leftists' own ends (battering down a door and pointing a submachine gun at Elian Gonzales was OK as long it was done to ship a little boy back to the prison state that is Cuba, for example). Regardless, glorifying the technology of the criminal while denigrating the private citizen as unworthy, unable, or simply incapable of defending himself, his family and his home is done for a single purpose: The establishment of a subjugated class of private citizens who have no power and no recourse in the grip of an increasingly totalitarian, increasingly socialist, increasing invasive government.

By Phil Elmore

Posted: May 13, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2010

What is the technology of crime?

Since the first primitive man picked up a rock and used it to crack open the skull of his fellow human being, humanity has been making use of both hardware and a kind of software to hurt and kill each other. When primitive peoples figured out that a blow could be ducked or blocked, that a club swung could be intercepted by another club, that a chipped stone knife could be used to keep a similarly armed human at bay, they began to understand the technology of violence ... and everything that entails. The first ancient martial arts were the application of knowledge to the empty hand and to the hand grasping a weapon. Just as the lever amplifies human effort, the knife, the club and the gun are all force multipliers – technology that magnifies human effort. These tools, and the knowledge to use them (which, as "software," is itself a form of technology), have been with us for as long as there has been an "us."

A few years ago, USA Today reported that a 5,300-year-old Neolithic man nicknamed "Otzi" (who was discovered in 1991) was "murdered." Extensive study of the body revealed many of the dead man's secrets. He was naturally mummified and found in a thawing glacier by Austrian mountain climbers. Found with him were several artifacts, including a copper-blade ax, a quiver of arrows and a knife. The knife was, in fact, clenched in "Otzi's" right hand. There was an arrowhead embedded in his shoulder; the man had apparently been struck from behind and was able to break off the shaft. Researchers subsequently found evidence of knife wounds and bruises to the torso. The consensus seems to be that the doomed man died wounded and on the run from his assailants. Thousands of years later, "Otzi" would lie as mute evidence of ancient humans' use of technology to do violence to each other – both initiated and in self-defense.

We have no way of knowing whether "Otzi" was the aggressor or the defender. Was he criminal or victim? Was he pursued by Neolithic brigands bent on outnumbering him and killing him – or was he pursued by righteously indignant tribesmen bent on bringing him to justice? Did he fight for his life because others sought to take it from him wrongly – or did he fight to escape the consequences of his own violence? Whatever the truth, in the intervening millennia, society evolved. An unfortunate outgrowth of that evolution has been the glorification of the criminal and his technology.

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