How can we completely ignore article 1 of the constitution?

While the senate may make suggestions, the bill has to originate in the house. Does that not imply that the next step for any bill that raises revenue, and the health care bill certainly does that, must be the senate? It is immaterial to the constitution that the senate has already passed a piece of legislation that looks a lot like what is being considered in the house. Whatever the house passes must then go to the senate, even though that senate has had a change in its membership (Brown of Mass.).

How is this being justified? For that matter IS it even being justified?

More generally: If Republicans win the House, and if compelling evidence surfaces that the Democrats in the House (with or without White House connivance) conspired to violate the US Constitution to the standard of “High Crimes and Misdemeanors” should they not be impeached forthwith, and tried? If impeachment does not apply to Members or Senators who are no longer in office, are there any remedies in law, such as conspiring to knowingly defraud US taxpayers? And if the Congress and the White House were able to apply a blatant ex post facto law to executive salary caps, why should a new Congress not pass a similar ex post facto law to criminalize what is plainly a violation of the US Constitution, Article 1, Section A?

... just wondering ...

Thank you!

Jim Lewis

As a budding student eager to dive into the world of Constitutional Law, I was wondering what some good texts would be to get a better understanding of the history of the Supreme Court, major cases, etc.

Also, where are some of the top sites you go to to get up to date information concerning the never ending world of legal news (other than Volokh.com, of course)?

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If it’s any help, I searched for “jury nullification” in your search box and then the trouble started. I could neither print nor open any other window or tab, and I couldn’t even reload.

I hope you can get this fixed. There were several articles I wanted to print out for our high school debaters.

Thanks.

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Looking for a legal scholar following the UBS — Swiss tax haven issue, particularly how the USG has handled this case.

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Hello:

I recently published an article concerning the constitutionality of the health insurance mandate (see tax professor blog below). I am not sure if you have any interest in discussing such on your site, but if so, that would be great. Thank you. –Rodney

Mock & Tolin: The Constitutionality of the Health Insurance Tax

Rodney P. Mock & Jeffrey Tolin (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo — Orfalea College of Business) have posted Purchase or Else: The Health Insurance “Tax”, 126 Tax Notes 224 (Jan. 11, 2010), on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

With the Affordable Health Care for America Act, H.R. 3962, passed by the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate’s version of a health care bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act, H.R. 3590, recently passed, this article reviews the particulars of each Act’s respective tax or penalty imposed on individual taxpayers who fail to purchase acceptable health care coverage, and questions whether or not such constitutes a “tax” at all, and if such does, whether or not it is an unconstitutional regulatory tax, indirectly regulating that which Congress cannot under the “Commerce Clause” of the U.S. Constitution; namely, non-participating taxpayers who merely “fail to purchase.”

My name is Barbara O’ Brien and my blogging at The Mahablog, Crooks and Liars, AlterNet, and elsewhere on the progressive political and health blogophere has earned me the notoriety of being a panelist at the Yearly Kos Convention and a featured guest blogger at the Take Back America Conference in Washington, DC.

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And if it is illegal gambling, couldn’t they recover the amount they “forfeited” by losing because they continued to play? This would be an interesting class action for every contestant that ever missed the “big prize,” no?

Also, what is your opinion about the soon to be filed Quo Warranto challenging Obama’s eligibility in the DC District Court by these same lawyers and plaintiffs?

Moderator, for your convenience, rest of post reads:-
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“Trick” means the standard 30 minutes of time that a sailor must stand holding the steering wheel of a ship, whether Royal Navy or Merchant Navy

“Trick” also means the standard 10 minutes of time that a sailor is allowed by a street common prostitute to congress/copulate with her.

With the latest version of Firefox (a couple of weeks old), I have noticed that the tail end of long comment threads does not display. This is only cured by a “refresh” while the browser is showing the blank space at the end of the comment thread. I have seen this one two different machines.

I don’t know if others are reporting this. It appears to be a FF bug, but I’ve only experienced it on VC.

Tks

NOTE: Please do NOT read the following e-mail if you want to remain a believer in Christianity or the Christmas Holiday. I do not want to upset people who are totally happy and content with their religion and how religion has affected the world.

Here is the true story of Jesus Christ:

Some people think it’s bad that Christmas has become so commercial. But the truth behind Christmas is so shocking that it makes the traditions of giving too many presents to friends and family while eating too much rich food seem like not such a bad way to spend a day in late December.

Many people have heard about how the Christian holidays were placed on the same dates as pagan holidays as a way of converting pagans to the new religion of Christianity. When a normal person looks around and sees the dominance of Christianity on the Earth, it seems obvious that those old-fashioned pagans were successfully converted to the new religion.

There is another logical reason, however, for Christian holidays being on the same dates and having some of the same customs as pagan holidays. The so-called pagans invented Christianity and the story of Jesus as a way to weaken most people while keeping the powerful occult secrets to themselves. The word ‘pagan’ originally meant ‘of a country, or connected people’. ‘Occult’ simply meant ‘completely hidden’. Thus, Christianity is a belief system or form of spirituality that is put out in the open, for anyone from any country to give up much of their personal power to, while people of one ‘country’ keep their true beliefs completely hidden.

Jesus was actually a Roman named Lucius (pronounced LOO-shus). His mother was Julia the Elder, the daughter of Augustus Caesar (the king of Rome) and Scribonia. Lucius’ father was a relative of King Herod. Both the Caesars and King Herod’s family, the Agrippas, were members of the one ruling family of Rome. Yet, King Herod’s father had been a high-ranking official for the Jewish king. The Agrippas were Greek, not Jewish, but had merely converted to Judaism in order to gain power within the Jewish royal family. King Herod became ‘King of the Jews’ by a Roman proclamation, then had the real Jewish king’s nephew executed. Herod even managed to marry the Jewish king’s niece to make himself seem more like the rightful ruler of Israel. But he was still a Greek relative of the Roman rulers, and later even founded the city of Caesarea!

The Romans were trying hard to gain control over the Jews, because the origin of the Jewish people was a secret the Romans wanted to keep well hidden. The Romans didn’t dare try to kill all the Jews, because they were afraid of the magical powers they believed the Jews to have. It was as if the Jews were protected by a powerful force no one could entirely defeat. (The close relationship between the Jewish high priests and the Roman rulers is not easy to understand or accept, but it helps explain a lot.) A weakness of the Jews was that they believed in ancient prophesy. In 600 BC, they had been taken to Babylon and held captive. The same family ruling Babylon went on to rule Greece, Rome, and Egypt at the time of Jesus’ birth. (They would later move to Byzantium, in Turkey, then to the palaces of Europe, and now control the governments of every country in the world.) When the Jews were first taken captive, they spoke Hebrew and had no written language or books. When they left Babylon more than fifty years later, they spoke and read the language of the Babylonians, called Aramaic, and had a written ‘history’, called the ‘Torah’, or law (or the Old Testament). Were the Babylonians just being helpful? No. The same ruling family was playing a terrible trick on the Jews, all in an effort to keep them powerless, distracted, and unaware of their true origin. With a little planning, it is not that difficult to predict something will happen in the future, and then make it happen. The prophesies in the Old Testament foretelling the future savior of the Jewish people were easily fulfilled by Jesus because his family knew what they had predicted 600 years earlier!

The story of the Jews’ origin is written in the book of Genesis in the Bible. But the beginning of Genesis is actually describing something opposite to what so many people have believed. It is NOT the story of how the Creator made the Earth, but of how one group of people began a new ‘world’ for themselves by stealing land from the original occupants. These criminals were the ruling family of Atlantis before it sank completely 10,000 years ago, after being damaged 20,000 years before. The story of Noah’s Ark is not about an old man gathering pairs of every kind of animal from around the entire Earth, but of the king of Atlantis gathering enough mating pairs of PEOPLE from Atlantis to populate their new land once they’d stolen it. The Mediterranean region was certainly flooded and the sky around the world turned stormy for forty days and forty nights, but it was due to the massive explosions and tidal waves caused when the Creator destroyed the wicked continent of Atlantis. This is why cultures around the world tell a similar ancient tale, and why the Atlanteans truly fear the Creator. In the Bible are many stories of wicked, greedy kings who are frightened by one truly spiritual person with armies of non-physical beings protecting them. The Atlanteans understand that they have only been allowed to get rich and powerful under the condition that they spread religion in many forms around the Earth, even falsified religions, so that people everywhere have a chance to think about the Creator, and to find the truth within their own mind, body, and soul. In this way, we will only be able to do away with the wickedness of the Atlantean descendants when kind, innocent people are ready to give up their own desire for greed and revenge, and work together to let the truth be as it is, with no strings attached.

Atlantis might seem like a fairytale, but to understand the REAL history of human existence, it’s important to have your mind open to how well these people have hidden the truth of what they’ve done, while bragging about it! They have used fake languages (Greek, Latin, English) made out of the languages of the other original races (the white Nordic people, the brown Mirian people, Africans, and Asians) to hide in code the story of their lost continent and fallen glory. As the Atlanteans’ skin was reddish-brown in color, they use RED as a proud symbol. They also flaunt their genes for a large, arching nose, now mixed with the brown hair of the Mirians and the white skin of the Nordics. Many celebrated ‘beauties’ in the world have large noses or red hair, as proof that they are Atlantean. Even the names of angels, pixies, elves, and fairies are referring to the Nordics whose own northwestern European homeland was taken over by driving them back into the wilderness where they had to hide for fear of being killed or raped — their names originate from the ‘Angles’ and ‘Picts’ people; the latin for white, ‘albus’; and ‘fair’, for very light-skinned. European history is full of attacks by ‘brutes’ or ‘barbarians’. Brutus was an Atlantean who landed in Britain, i.e., the land of the Brutans, about 3000 years ago, after the royal Atlanteans left or got kicked out of Troy, rightfully the Tur people’s city. (London’s first name was ‘Trinovantium’. That’s latin for ‘New Troy City’. London itself comes from ‘Ludinium’, meaning ‘Lud’s City’, a later name.) ‘Barbarian’ meant ‘foreigner’. The hidden truth is that the Nordics were simply fighting back to try to defend and regain their homeland from the Greek/Roman/Egyptian invaders who went on to write the history books! To complicate matters, the western coast of Nordica had long been used by the Atlanteans as a place to get slaves and steal resources, leaving behind a trail of red-haired, freckled offspring with large noses. In fact, they’d been doing that all over the Earth for hundreds of thousands of years, which is why they don’t want their modern European descendants, including Americans and Canadians, to understand that human history goes back that far. The Bible was an attempt to convince the ‘new’ race of Europeans that the Earth was only created after the selfish Atlanteans had finished Part One of their master plan. The entire genealogy of the bible, and the Greek myths, are alternative versions of the Atlantean family tree. Noah and Cronus are the same forefather, Japeth is Jupiter or Zeus, Shem meant ‘seed’ or ‘semen’, Ham meant ‘together’, and so on.

The justification for the Atlanteans stealing two continents is a poor-me tale that explains why they were so hated by all the Earth’s people. The Earth’s true Creator smashed apart their original homeland in a series of catastrophes, from 30,000 to 10,000 BC, because they would not stop aggressively attacking and attempting to dominate everyone in every land! They adored their luxurious, indulgent lifestyle, and thought they were clever for figuring out how to get slaves to do all of their chores for them. The Mirians, on the other hand, had lived simply and peacefully on their beautiful Pacific continent, enjoying the honest pleasures of loving one another while tending to the plants and animals that gave them food and the materials for shelter, until their continent slipped under the ocean when the magnetic poles shifted location around 40,000 years ago. This, it can be judged from the end result, forced them to seek refuge in many corners of the world, thus spreading their humble spirituality in the same way the Atlanteans spread their wickedness and greed. The Mirians were so spiritually aware that they had received plenty of warning that a shift would occur, and were able to transport their written history, plants, and domesticated animals when they left. Many of these records are hidden in high mountainous regions around the world, although the modern Mirian descendants don’t have much reason to share what they know as long as Atlanteans are ruling the world. If you look in an English dictionary under ‘mir-’ or ‘mer-’, virtually every word is connected to the Mirian people: their warm, fertile, low-lying (therefore damp and marshy) continent; their true mastery of peaceful spirituality, agriculture, and the keeping of sheep and goats; their brown skin, gently rounded faces with piercing dark eyes and dark hair; and their disappearance into the sea.

It’s said that this polar shift caused Atlantis to become much hotter than the comfortably warm climate the Atlanteans were used to. This is why they grew even more aggressive against other lands, and more cranky, in the ten thousand years between the shift that sunk the Pacific continent and the first partial destruction of Atlantis around 30,000 years ago. Even if they blew themselves up trying to fire through the center of the Earth in a bizarre attempt to attack Asia, as some believe they did, it’s hard to do a better job than your brain will let you do. Many of us carry the Atlantean genetics within us, so it is only through our SOUL that we will possibly do any better than them at working together and giving up our selfish greed.

By the time of the final destruction of Atlantis around 20,000 years later, the Atlantean rulers had had lots of time to conspire. The humiliation of being reduced from an unstoppably dominant culture to wanderers with no home was the fuel to put in place a manipulative scheme they are still devoted to today. Like a child, resentful of being punished rather than changing their ways and becoming kinder, gentler, or less demanding that others do their work for them, they dug in their heals, vowing revenge.

Yet, who were they getting revenge on? The Creator, for stopping them from ruining the balance and harmony of the four other original races? Or themselves? The obvious answer was to declare themselves to be gods, slander the Earth as a violent, temperamental woman who distrusted her brutal husband, and the Earth’s people as disobedient children who didn’t give their Father-God enough respect. The easiest way to begin cracking their codes is to look for any word meaning ‘red’ or ‘father’ or ‘sun’ or ‘house’ or ‘world’, because they see their red-skinned ancestors from the sunny homeland of Atlantis as a father who made the whole world into a house for his family. The words ‘God’, ‘gods’, ‘goddesses’, and ‘Lord’ are their favorite names for themselves, which is why Christianity is a bully demanding total subservience and unquestioning belief. They also love to retell the story of how they disguised themselves and murdered people to acquire ‘golden fleece’ (blond hair), finally becoming ‘the fairest of them all’. They name everything after their ancestors, including children, cities, planets, constellations, days of the week, entire countries, and oceans. It doesn’t leave much, does it? They represent themselves with a big ram (a aggressive male sheep whose children are innocent white lambs), their personal god as a bull or ox (silent, brooding, and more powerful than all others), and the Creator as a goat (I don’t even want to explain this one).

Myths and legends aside, they were still a hated people. Their uniquely reddish-brown skin, black hair, and hawk-like noses made them instantly recognizable. And by now, every continent on the Earth was expecting them to launch a violent attack. But without a homeland, they lacked the resources to invade anyone effectively, especially now that many groups were working together to stop them. Their only refuge was in areas of the Mediterranean which had been cleared of inhabitants by the widespread tsunamis and flooding that occurred when Atlantis was destroyed, and in northern Africa where pre-Egyptian Atlantean colonies had previously forced the original African people out. (‘Egyptian’, ‘Roman’, and ‘Greek’ all mean ‘wanderers’, through anagrams of the Mirian-Nordic ‘Tur’ language. Ancient murals and artifacts found in the Mediterranean region clearly show people with reddish skin and large noses involved in trade, rituals, and a wealthy, indulgent, hedonistic, royalty-obsessed lifestyle.)

Thus, they chose to disguise themselves through breeding with as many white-skinned and brown-skinned people as necessary to hide their true identity (except in Egypt and neighboring regions of Africa), and also by constructing new cultures and languages. The legend of Zeus and Europa is a metaphor for the Atlantean royalty raping a blond-haired, blue-eyed Nordic princess to create a new ‘race’ of Europeans, and the bible story of the Tower of Babel is a metaphor for their ongoing success at stopping Earth’s people from working together to make a ‘world’ better than theirs.

It is easy to spot the Atlanteans’ most successful conspiracies: all best-selling books, blockbuster movies, anyone who is a billionaire, all world leaders, and all the major religions. They poisoned the Jewish religion, originally based on the brown-skinned Mirian people’s loving knowledge of one Creator, harmony with nature, and simple living, by mixing it with the greed, terror, and ritual sacrifice of Atlantis. Because they are BOTH descended from a mixture of the same three original races, the Atlantean Europeans and the Jews look virtually the same. The bible story of Esau and Jacob describes the cruel Atlantean practise of ‘sorting’ the children they had with the blond-haired, blue-eyed Nordics they abducted, and the brown-skinned Mirian tribes they liked to enslave. They made ‘gods’ of the children who had the lightest coloring, were athletic, clever, and manipulative, were willing to be bloodthirsty in war but remain loyal to their family, and who retained the prominent Atlantean nose. They made armies and slaves of the rest, cursing them to a life of suffering. In truth, they were all genetically equal. (Ever heard the one about the Atlantean royals living in Russia who suddenly converted to Judaism, headed for the bible lands, and blended right in? How about the more logical alternative that Moses was actually BORN to that Egyptian princess, along with his older brother, Aaron? Kind of makes sense then why the ‘cohen’, the NEW high priests, demanded their followers bring them gold and their best young animals to be sacrificed only on the steps of the temple, where Mr. Cohen conveniently lived, rather than at their own homes in the country. As for circumcision being demanded by God, well, let’s just say I wouldn’t want to be an Atlantean on the day the male Jewish population figures out that it was actually demanded by their royal cousins for the shockingly petty purpose of lessening the sexual pleasure of Jewish males, which, along with stern rules to avoid all other things that lead to enlightenment, kept them from discovering the Atlantean ‘secret’ of using sexuality as a method of increasing the body’s capacity for expressing the powerful and creative energy of the human soul. At least no one will mind finding out they weren’t forced to drink daily cups of fresh goats’ blood.)

Now, Christianity is, at its darkest, about producing a passive population who go to work, do what they’re told, and don’t let themselves get angry enough to rebel or take revenge on those who have trespassed on their homeland and then taken it over altogether. (The story of Jesus, however, is a remarkable tale of someone standing up to the evil they were born into and trying with all their strength to free people from the oppression they’ve also been trapped into.) Islam, unfortunately, was also invented by these people, for one of the worst reasons possible. The Catholics wanted a standing army that would invade Jerusalem when told to, in order to get back control of it from the Jews. The Atlantean royalty, hiding in the RED costumes of the Catholic church, knew that the truth of their identity was buried in underground vaults in Jerusalem. That was the very reason the city had been founded, to hide the Atlanteans’ scrolls, books, and other documents smuggled out of all parts of the Earth. The massive library at Alexandria, in Egypt, had been built under the guise of sharing knowledge with foreign scholars, but in truth it was a device to collect as many texts and books as possible, so that the Atlanteans could erase or hide away any remaining records of life on Earth before 10,000 BC. Also, every ship docking in the harbor at Alexandria was searched for books. Any book found was taken and a COPY returned to the owner! Did I mention that Egypt was under the rule of Alexander the Great’s family, the Greek Ptolemy dynasty, at the time? Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Babylonian, British. An Atlantean ruler by any other name still smells the same. For the 300 years from founder Alexander to his Greek descendent, Cleopatra, records of humankind’s knowledge were collected, censored copies returned to the original owners, and the whole lot sorted. In an act of preparing for the invention of the modern world, knowledge was taken apart so that no one other than the Atlantean rulers could learn the whole truth of the five original races, the physical Earth, the non-physical spiritual realm, and everything in between. The important documents were hidden in vaults beneath the Atlanteans’ monuments to themselves. Then Julius Caesar, while hanging out with his girlfriend, Cleopatra, ‘accidentally’ set fire to the library by intentionally setting fire to several of his ships as they sat in the harbor. (The Atlanteans have a habit of building things for the sake of filling them up with records they want to destroy. The World Trade Center Towers were built to be demolished, taking records of trade and international finance with them. The nearby Building 7 that mysteriously fell perfectly down was a warehouse for secret documents. In 1666, a bit of a suspicious date, the Great Fire of London destroyed homes, St. Paul’s cathedral, a castle, a prison, the Royal Exchange, and the Justice House.) Jerusalem was originally ‘Rusal-ium’. ‘Rusal’ means ‘red’, easily confused with ‘rosi’, as in Rosicrucians, or the Rosy Cross, which means ‘dew’, a euphemism for semen. The cross, I hesitate to admit, is the shape made when an erect phallus is laid on the belly and admired by its owner. The testicles form the crossbar, and the root of the phallus is the top section. Also, the cross is a representation of the man himself, with his arms out-stretched, as well as a symbol of the ‘little man’ contained in the semen. This is the true meaning of the Catholic-created Trinity: the father is the man himself, his phallus is the son (it also resembles a man with his arms at his sides), and the ejected semen is the ‘Holy Spirit’ (which made Mary pregnant, of course). Just because the sex-obsessed Atlanteans put all this sexual symbolism into Christianity, including building cathedrals and churches that each resemble a phallus ejecting a crucifix of semen drops, doesn’t mean that good, kind, innocent people have been wrong to go to church on Sunday (which literally means ‘sun god’). Ignorance is bliss. If any religion has helped anyone to be more loving, forgiving, and grateful for all the earthly creations of our Creator, that’s a good thing. Sometimes it’s just time to wake up and open our eyes, so we can start making better choices for how we really want to live our lives.

Buried documents don’t need to be found to prove that disguised and evil rulers from Atlantis have successfully screwed-up the Earth for their own supposed glory. They brag about it all the time. William Shakespeare was the offspring of the teenaged Elizabeth I and the occult De Vere family, both of Atlantean royal descent. (Elizabeth, known as the ‘virgin’ queen as she was unmarried her entire life, had many children, including, possibly, twins William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby, and Sir Francis Bacon; the writer Christopher Marlowe, who was conveniently the same age as the fictitious Shakespeare and may have pretended to be him while his brother, Edward, did the actual writing; a girl named after her mother’s sister, Mary; and twins John Donne and Ben Johnson.) So, when ‘Shakespeare’ was writing about King Lear, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet (Roman histories contain a member of the Caesar family, i.e., Romeo, and a Julia the Younger, i.e., Juliet, marrying as teenagers in 0 BC), Hamlet, and so many others, he was writing about his family to ensure people would applaud them, celebrate them, and emulate them for centuries to come. We’re so used to every famous story having the same themes that we can’t even see how similar they are anymore. Now that people are beginning to realize that all the major religions use the very same details as many, many other religions, perhaps the people of the Earth will start to wise-up and realize that it’s good to love your neighbor, but maybe not so good to let him get away with stealing your house, raping your wife, and throwing his pollution in your backyard. Actually, an Atlantean is far more likely to frame someone else into appearing to have done those things, while he dresses up as a policeman and pretends to come to your rescue. Then he locks up your innocent neighbor, tortures him in a jail cell, comes back to your house, seduces your wife, adopts your children and forces them to participate in frightening rituals so they’ll be scared enough to do anything he tells them to do, and then he takes over the whole town as his Worshipful Lord of Everything, all just for the sport of it.

Every major event of the Christmas story is based on something real, but they did not all happen to Jesus, nor did they happen exactly as they’re described. Some details are coded, so that the people who wrote it can brag about things that would otherwise spoil the story for normal people.

The Three Kings, or Three Wise Men, visiting with expensive gifts for the baby Jesus, are a clue that he was born into a royal family; relatives had high expectations for what he might accomplish. The Star of David is a metaphor for what they hoped Lucius would be, a star-performer who’d ‘fool’ the royal descendants of David into proclaiming him their special king. The barn and manger are forceful ways of hiding that it was a royal birth, ‘establishing’ that Jesus was very Mirian in character rather than a rich Atlantean prince, though by later taking him to India to study, a land populated by Mirian immigrants, he became, hopefully, a genuinely nicer person. (At this stage, I’ll settle for the guy developing a conscience.) The farm animals are a convenient way for the Atlanteans to keep pounding in the message that sheep are great, shepherds are geniuses, goats don’t exist, and oxen stay out of the way whenever you need them to.

The character of Mary is based on Herod Agrippa’s wife, Maryam. She was only thirteen when Herod took her as a wife in order to win more Jewish votes, as she was the niece of the Jewish king. King Herod loved his virgin bride, and she gave birth to several sons. But he was so paranoid and nuts that he feared his sons would kill him in order to inherit the throne from him, so he killed them, and Maryam, when the sons were grown. This is why the Christmas story has Mary and her husband taking the baby Jesus to Egypt to hide from Herod. When he finds out, he orders all the infant boys to be killed. This is a metaphor for what he did to his own sons, and a reminder of the gruesome and manipulative story of the first Passover.

The Caesars were just as paranoid as Herod. Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar are said to have produced no sons of their own. It’s more likely that they killed any infant sons to avoid being overthrown by a natural heir. They preferred to let their sisters or daughters have sons, then they could choose, say, a nephew and adopt him as a son, to insure a loyal and capable heir. This is why Mary is said to have been visited by an angel telling her that Jesus wasn’t Joseph’s baby. Augustus Caesar’s only child, Julia, was told by her father, when her second son, Lucius, was born, that he was adopting her two small sons, even though they had a father, her husband, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa. That was the real importance of Jesus’ birth. Augustus Caesar finally chose his successors, Gaius and Lucius, his grandsons, and in his mind, Gaius would become the Roman king after Augustus died, his younger brother would sneak his way in as King of the Jews, and together they would establish a religion that would succeed at oppressing every non-royal in Europe. The Christmas story, and naming the year of Lucius’ birth as ‘Year One’ (even though the dates of all these events have been garbled and manipulated wildly) is therefore truly important to the Atlanteans (even though things didn’t go quite as planned). As the Caesars thought they were gods (better than everyone else due to their talent for being vicious bullies), or at least descended from gods (their Atlantean forefathers), Lucius, fictionalized as Jesus in story and song, was naturally proclaimed to be the son of God. Or rather, the son of Augustus Caesar. (Or, possibly, it all happened years before when Julius Caesar, Augustus’ great uncle/adoptive father, got his new girlfriend, Cleopatra, pregnant. Her son, Caesarian, disappears from the history books around 21, just like Gaius and Lucius. The argument for Lucius is a bit stronger, however, as his name sounds like Lucifer, the name of the Antichrist, which really just means anyone who’s opposed to the behavior or presence of the royally-anointed Atlanteans. Because, if you read the bible from a slightly different perspective, Jesus himself is a bit anti-Christ-ian by the end of the whole charade. Yes, he lets some woman cover his head in oil. But he doesn’t sound happy about it.) (By the way, ‘satan’ is a Jewish word for ‘an enemy who plots against’ you.)

Julia the Elder, the real mother of Jesus, is not storybook material. She had already had two childless marriages, with husbands who were executed, by the time of her marriage to Jesus’ father. In later years, she was kicked out of Rome and sent to live on an island with her mother because she liked to party so much and had so many lovers that there was a growing fear an outsider would manage to create an heir within the Caesar family.

When Herod was about to die, he had been acting crazy for so long and had executed so many of his family members, that he knew he wouldn’t be missed. So he ordered his henchmen to murder numerous great and beloved men the moment he died, so that there would be an outpouring of grief timed to his own death. He is said to have truly loved his young Jewish bride, Maryam, (his third wife was named Maryam II), even though he executed her himself in later years. So, naturally, she was substituted for Julia the Elder as the sweet, docile, Jewish, virginal Mary. (‘Maryamne’ means ‘rebellion’, which matched the character of the Jewish people at the time, but is similar to a word meaning ‘prostitute’, which is why Jewish texts say Jesus was the son of a Roman soldier and a whore.) As Jesus was both a Caesar and an Agrippa, to this day his close relative, King Herod, is getting the last laugh as millions of Catholics worship the wonderfulness of his beloved murdered wife.

Jesus is called the ‘Savior’ because the Atlanteans were hoping he’d save them from being discovered for who they were and what they’d done. The name ‘Christ’ arises from the Atlanteans’ refusal to let the dead body of their king rot into dirt like everyone else. To prevent the decaying process from beginning, they poured strong plant-based chemicals over the skin of the king while he was still alive. When the king died, bacteria couldn’t feed off the dead tissue because it was soaked with such strong chemical substances. They cut the king open, removed his organs and soaked them too, soaked the inside of his body, removed his brains by pulling them out of his nose with a hook, soaked them in jars, repacked the organs into his body, and sewed the king back up. The pyramid is an amazing shape that somehow prevents things from rotting, so by burying their chemical-soaked king in a pyramid-shaped tomb, the Atlanteans were stopping themselves from having to face the fact that even a king is just a monkey with a creative soul, made of dirt and meant to rot back into dirt. The entire process of using substances to stop a body from rotting is called anointing, from the same root word as ‘ointment’. ‘Christ’ comes from the Greek word meaning ‘anointed one’; therefore, the one chosen to be king. Jesus, when he knows he is going to be crucified, has his head soaked by a woman (raised in the royal family also) much to the horror of his friends, who are seemingly unaware of the meaning of anointing. They just think it’s very expensive stuff that should be sold to raise money to help the poor. What Jesus says in return, about the poor always being with us, gives away that he, or the man writing the dialogue, grew up wealthy. (There is a theory that the New Testament was written, in whole or in part, by a member of the Piso family, Atlantean descendants living in Rome, a few hundred years later, which would have, in the least, been upsetting for the people following spiritual philosophies based on his teachings. As there are so many similarities between versions, it’s likely that the writer would’ve had an easier time if he had access to firsthand accounts. In the conventional Roman history, Augustus Caesar was once so ill that he thought he was about to die. He summoned two men. To one, whose last name was Piso, he handed over a complete accounting of the holdings of the Roman Empire. He didn’t die, and I realize it doesn’t prove anything, but then again, what truly can be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt?)

When they’re in their early twenties, Lucius and his older brother, Gaius, are said to have died. Was Lucius taken to India by secret members of the royal Caesar family, so ‘Jesus’ could acquire learning and abilities that would later make him seem superhuman and wise? (And was Gaius taken elsewhere?) When he returned to the Mediterranean at thirty, he had been renamed as Yesho, after the name of a pottery ‘magic bowl’ common in Jewish society at the time, the Bowl of Vitality. This is also the meaning of the Holy Grail symbolism. The magic bowls were yet another thing they acquired from the Babylonians, along with a belief in evil spirits and awful demons, which the bowls were used to catch or keep away. Some bowls were said to get rid of sickness and disease, to keep marriages happy, etc. The Bowl of Vitality suited the Roman’s purposes because it was the simplest idea of all: the physical body is a container in which the soul resides. The recent explanations of the Holy Grail as the royal bloodline descending from Jesus is only a partial truth, meant to distract or satisfy people who are likely to finally become suspicious that the Earth is being controlled by a terrible group. The most important lie being maintained, while a few nasty secrets of the Catholic Church are offered up, is that Jesus was a person who had some special quality that normal humans do not. That is the same lie that the Greek myths and Hollywood continue to push on us — that there is a big difference between humans and ‘gods’. In many cases, gods are the members of the Atlantean royalty (movie stars, too), while mankind is anyone on the outside. The myth of Prometheus and the story of the Garden of Eden are both telling the same tale. There was a disagreement between the Atlantean rulers as to how they should go about disguising themselves. As it had to involve having kids with people outside of their own race, they chose the ‘best’ ruling families of other cultures to remain as royal as possible. The biggest threat, however, was if the Atlantean men shared with their new wives how to use sex to increase personal power. This could lead to the wife and her relatives starting to become as powerful as the Atlanteans, who ultimately did not have any special powers; they were just greedy enough to hide away the truth if it would give them an advantage somehow, and vicious enough to kill anyone who seemed to have discovered their own strength and inner wisdom. The biggest enemy to someone trying to take over everyone is people who can think for themselves, and who aren’t scared to push the pause button on personal comfort for a moment to search for the truth.

There are certainly many accounts in the Bible, and in all religions, of the true Creator and the powerful nature of the human soul as an immortal source of acceptance and love. But if a religion contained nothing but the truth, it wouldn’t be called a religion, it would be called the truth. There is a constant flow in the Bible between true spirituality, which helps people to learn the lessons their soul desires from their lifetime on Earth, and the false worship of ‘gods’, or the Atlantean rulers. It can be hard for honest, kind people to face the idea of such a terrible deception. But looking at it from the Atlantean point of view, they were just feeling whatever terrible people feel when their Creator destroys their home. Just as a child who is punished by a parent might turn around and hit a sibling out of anger and shame, rather than learning his lesson and trying to be a better person in the future, the Atlanteans turned around and wrote religion after religion, demanding other groups do what they said or the Creator would punish them. They were bitter, resentful bullies in denial that they had ever done anything wrong. If the whole world hates you, either someone’s launched a long-term campaign to mislead the world into hating you, or you ARE a terrible person who takes what you want with no regard for how it causes others to suffer. Yes, the Atlanteans suffered the loss of their homeland. Yes, they’d been making others suffer for millions of years. (That’s right, millions.) And yes, they worked hard for thousands of years to execute a plan to take control of every continent so they could never be punished in such an obvious and effective way again. And yes, kind, honest, innocent people have fallen for many of their tricks. Their downfall, however, is written all over the entire planet. They’ve been bragging, in code, about their clever accomplishments ever since. They’ll never be able to hide all the evidence against them once people learn to read their myths, legends, books, bibles, religions, histories, theories, philosophies, newspapers, magazines, web sites, song lyrics, and fiction for what they are.

The story of the Tower of Babel, as I mentioned, describes one Atlantean way of stopping humans from working together: force people who share a common language to start speaking different languages, kill anyone who doesn’t obey, and within a few generations the original language will be forgotten. Along with it will disappear the stories of history. The idea that the history of human civilization extends back only 10,000 years is a pure Atlantean invention, honoring the beginning of their evil plan to reinvent themselves as New Europeans, to live in the New World, and so on. Guess what? There was an old world. Africans, Asians, Nordics, and the brown-skinned Mirian people, who scattered around the world when their own continent was flooded about 40,000 years ago, all hold records of the truth, if the Atlantean royal descendants haven’t snuck into their record rooms and destroyed them or stolen them already. The Creator made the human species about four million years ago, as an advanced primate body that would be capable of housing a creatively-willed soul. Before that, the so-called Entity Souls or Creative Souls had lived on Earth in androgynous bodies that were more energy than flesh, for about three million years. Up until seven million years ago, the story goes, Entity Souls were floating around Earth both in a joyful way and a meddlesome way. The Entity Souls themselves had been created around the time of Earth beginning to fill with simple life forms. Earth was not the only planet the Creator had made or put into motion. Entity Souls, begun as a trillion sparks of the Creator’s being, are free to explore and interact with all aspects of the universe, and can live physical lives in any of the Entity Soul Vehicles designed by the creator to let us live and learn, feel and fail, until we are satisfied that the soul will always suffer due to the nature of separation and isolation from our source, the Creator.

The birth of Jesus is celebrated by goodhearted Christians today because they feel that Jesus helped the people of the Earth to be more loving unto one another, which feels good to the human soul, a being made of the energy of accepting and appreciating all things, as our true Creator does and is.

Unfortunately, in this one sentence I’ve just written — ‘The birth of Jesus is celebrated by goodhearted Christians today because they feel that Jesus helped the people of the Earth to be more loving unto one another, which feels good to the human soul, a being made of the energy of accepting and appreciating all things, as our true Creator does and is.’ — there are many code words that make the Atlanteans feel they control the Earth and are worshiped for it.

‘the birth of Jesus’ — when Augustus Caesar, after likely murdering all of his own infant sons, decided to proclaim the heirs to his royal throne by adopting his grandsons, Gaius and Lucius, at the time of Lucius’ birth

‘celebrated’ — this means we show our approval of the Atlantean ‘stars’, their ‘celebrities’, who often have blond hair, a sign of their success in breeding with the true owners of Europe, the Nordic people, and the large arching nose they have kept as their one cherished piece of proof that they still have Atlantean genes, after having to hide, disguise, or eliminate their reddish-brown skin color, their native Atlantean language, and their culture and rituals

‘goodhearted’ — we use expressions like this without realizing that the word ‘good’ is giving approval for the ‘gods’ of Atlantis, and the concept of love being shown as a heart is a reference to the Atlantean ritual of removing the heart from a living being and eating it (the true ‘color’ of love, as represented by the heart chakra of the human soul, is green)

‘Christians’ — every time this word is used, an Atlantean hears the public approval of the mummified kings of Atlantis and their fondness for being dipped in chemicals so they can ‘keep’ their body in the afterlife, instead of fertilizing the soil like normal people; a Christian is, unfortunately, an ‘Anoint-ian’, someone who agrees with the Atlanteans’ self-proclaimed right to rule people by whatever sick, unnatural methods they choose

‘today’ — the days of the week and the months of the year have kept the names of ancient myths, rituals, rulers, and numbers because the ancient people who came up with them are still in charge of how we spend our days and even of how we think of time (you can tell you’ve been brain-washed by Atlanteans if you feel powerless as a person, especially if you feel powerless to decide for yourself how to live your life, and powerless to fight back in order to protect yourself and those you care about)

‘Jesus’ — the name Lucius Caesar was forced to use, Yesho, when he was pushed by his conspiring Roman family to enter into Jewish culture and to pretend to fulfill the prophesy about a Messiah, meant ‘Bowl of Life’ in the culture of Jewish magic, thus the search for the Holy Grail is the search to attain a human body capable of performing magic/‘natural’ miracles such as healing illness, communicating with the dead, possessing inner truth and wisdom, and thus ‘getting’ fame, wealth, power, and a lasting legacy

note: It also is a play on words, signifying what Jesus’ and Christianity’s roles would be in the Atlanteans’ scheme. ‘Yah’ was the Egyptian name for the Moon God, which represented the feminine energy, originally. ‘Shua’ was a Babylonian name for the Sky God, which was the Mirian (and later the ancient Turkish) idea of the Creator as having the sky for its face, and the sun and the moon as its eyes. Therefore, ‘Yesho’ being altered into Yahshua was a statement that he would be used as an alternative to the aggressively male energy of the sun-worshiping Romans. Christianity is feminine (passive, nurturing, and receptive) with a large helping of the original Mirian spiritual understandings. Because of this, Christianity can be a wonderfully healing source of wisdom and truth. The name Jesus was further altered through Greek, Latin, and finally English. Interestingly, its final form is made by alternating sounds from ‘Julius’ and ‘Caesar’, i.e., J + aes (eez) +us = Jesus.

‘loving’ — the true translation of the English word ‘love’ is ‘the Great Work of the Father-God of the (Royal) House (of Atlantis)’, from the concept of the egg containing all of life, a metaphor for the life’s work of a great person; altered after ‘Jove’, which is short for Jove-pater or Jupiter, meaning God-Father; combined with the Nordic word for ‘roof’, as in, the Atlanteans covered themselves with white skin to shelter themselves from everyone’s hatred, and instead became the beloved rulers of Europe

As shocking as it may be for any previously unaware person to begin to grasp the massive impact the Atlanteans have had on the modern world, it’s important to keep in mind that there is a limit to their power. Every time a baby is born, the truth of its human nature and the nature of its soul is contained within it. The Atlanteans may try to poison it, scare it, fool it, damage it, or destroy it, but they can’t take human nature out of humans. Every human has the ability to do one amazingly powerful thing: Be silent. It’s that simple. Just for a moment, when you’re in a quiet place. If a person simply becomes still, then breathes slowly and deeply, an odd thing will happen. They will calm down, be able to know without thinking, and feel something that can’t be described with words but is so wonderful and limitless and pure: the human soul.

As all Entity Souls come from the same original energy within the Creator, there is no difference in the ‘substance’ of the kindest person’s soul and the cruelest person’s soul. We are here to become trapped in lives that fool us into learning all sorts of difficult lessons we would have avoided otherwise (as souls floating around in the cosmic cosmos of benevolence) and to see if, before we die, we can find our way back to the truth!

In the words of Jesus, we may not be hearing God or a god or even a great person speaking. But if we listen with our souls, we might just hear that however his life was used when he was alive and has been used since his physical death, he was a human struggling to do the right thing in a world that made that very difficult indeed. How many rich people give away all their money because they choose to live simply, in touch with the Earth? How many beautiful celebrities set down their make-up and hairspray and luxurious clothing, because they want to live honestly as they truly are?

When Jesus is asked by the Jews if they should pay the taxes Caesar is demanding, which goes completely against the rules of their religion, or refuse to pay in protest and risk their own destruction, Jesus answers that they should give what is Caesar’s (a coin with Caesar’s picture stamped on it) to Caesar, and give to God what is God’s.

This statement quickly led the Jewish leaders to declare him a fraud and demand for him to be sentenced to death as a political criminal, because they were assuming the Messiah would have a better answer than ‘Don’t worry, be happy.’ Whether he actually died on a cross, or was just put up by his fellow Romans for show, then taken down while still alive and sent off to a distant land once he’d healed, the important fact is that his being on the cross was a sign of his refusal to incite a war for the sake of being successful as a impostor Messiah. The reason why the Catholic church has kept Lucius Caesar up on that cross all these years, starving, naked, and bleeding, is because he really, really disappointed them. All he had to do was say, Refuse to pay! Your religion is worth dying for! Declare war!

Instead he said quietly, You know what? Money doesn’t matter. It’s just a stupid illusion. A piece of metal with a picture, a name, and a number. It’s as pretend as this stupid religion. Nothing is worth killing for. Nothing is even worth telling one lie for. I’m done. The Creator knows what’s real. The soul knows what’s real. Done is done.

He was stressed-out and tired of living a lie, throwing up his hands in painful exasperation at the crushing conflict in genuinely wanting to help people find spiritual truth while having to hide the truth of who he really was: Lucius Caesar, the second-born grandson of Augustus, forced by his family, by an entire lost continent of folks who don’t know when to quit, to con his way onto a throne that didn’t belong to him.

An interesting thing happened after the crucifiction. Gaius and Lucius got themselves written into ‘The History of the British Kings’ as, you guessed it, British kings. Ludus and Cassivalaunus were living in a castle with their wives and families when, years later, Julius Caesar showed up to invade Britain. The timing of this isn’t quite right, of course, as Julius Caesar was Augustus Caesar’s great-uncle (though Julius made Augustus his chosen successor by adopting him as his son). But let’s guess that the man who owns the printing press can change a date or two in the history books.

Cassivalaunus or Cass (Gaius) is the elder and Ludus or Lud (Lucius) is the younger. They are both in their forties, and are either far away from Rome through their choosing or because they have been assigned to rule over Britain. Either way, what follows is understandable as a basic family drama that might occur years after a father or grandfather forced his sons to go into the crooked family business, with terrible results. Lud refuses to see him. Cass wants to kill him. Lud’s teenaged son, perhaps bored of living on a damp and dreary island, overhears his father and uncle talking, and races to warn his grandfather (or great-grandfather) that Cass is going to kill him. Caesar prepares himself, and when a furious Cass attacks him, it’s Caesar’s guards who fight him off, injuring but not killing him. Cass manages to take Caesar’s gold sword, according to legend, but dies of his wounds within a week or two. Caesar gives up trying to talk to his bitter sons and heads for home, Lud’s son joining him, apparently tempted by the power and wealth waiting for yet another generation of Atlanteans to seize and enjoy.

And that’s what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown.

Dear Readers, Writers, Bloggers,

In May of this year we announced that we would start awarding four prizes every year for the best blog writing in the areas of science, philosophy, politics, and arts & literature. We awarded the science prizes, judged by Steven Pinker, on June 21st, and then announced the winners of the philosophy prizes, judged by Daniel C. Dennett, on September 22. We have decided to do the prize in politics next, and here’s how it will work: we are now accepting nominations for the best blog post in politics. After the nominating period is over, there will be a round of voting by our readers which will narrow down the entries to the top twenty semi-finalists. After this period, we will take these top twenty voted-for nominees, and the four main daily editors of 3 Quarks Daily (Abbas Raza, Robin Varghese, Morgan Meis, and Azra Raza) will select six finalists from these, plus they may also add up to three wildcard entries of their choosing. The three winners will be chosen from these by renowned political author and intellectual Tariq Ali, who, we are very pleased, has agreed to be the final judge. He will also write a short comment on each of the winning entries.

The first place award, called the “Top Quark,” will include a cash prize of one thousand dollars; the second place prize, the “Strange Quark,” will include a cash prize of three hundred dollars; and the third place winner will get the honor of winning the “Charm Quark,” along with a two hundred dollar prize.

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December 7, 2009

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December 21, 2009

* The winners are announced.

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For each of our contests, I have asked designer friends of mine to produce “trophy” logos that the winners of that prize can display on their own blogs. You can see three from the science prize here, and three more from the philosophy prize here. I am now running out of designer friends, so here is an offer: send me your design for a logo for the winners of the politics prize (it must contain the same info as in the examples I have linked to, and the size is 160 X 350 pixels), and if I use it, I’ll send you $50. Try. It’ll be fun. Deadline: December 10, 2009.

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If you have a blog or website, please help us spread the word about our prizes by linking to this post. Otherwise, just email your friends and tell them about it! I really look forward to reading some very good material, and think this should be a lot of fun for all of us.

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http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local_state/story/189205.html

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Meetings with Mr. Bowden over the last several months have failed to resolve the sign issue,” the town statement said. “And the town continues to receive complaints from residents about the situation.”

Bowden, who says his house was damaged by runoff caused by town road construction, refuses to budge. The slogan is a free speech issue, he says, a stance that has the backing of the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina.

“They [are] still trying to violate my constitutional rights,” Bowden said Thursday. “I’ll have the young lady from the ACLU explain it to them. I’m not going to do it.”

Cary officials cited Bowden for a zoning violation on July 31, saying the sign violated the town’s strict appearance ordinances. But the town didn’t initiate fines, which start at $100 and escalate to $500 per day, as it tried to mediate the dispute.

Several of our Representatives and Senators have been asked about the Constitutional basis for Government mandating that citizens be required to purchase health insurance. To date, the answers have been pretty much everything from “Im no scholar on the Constitution” to
rolled eyes and “are you serious”.

Have you or any of your esteemed associates addressed this issue? If so, could you point me in that direction?

Thank you very much.

Paul

Gerry, back again.

There are MANY ways to accomplish that, but ALL must pass muster with the residents of the fifty states, and NONE depend in any way on the opinions of we DC residents. (If that isn’t close to slavery, I don’t know what IS.

But here’s a suggestion anyway.

Since expatriate Americans are allowed to vote in the State of their last residence, why not create a similar allowance for (expatriate) DC residents? Allow them to “affiliate” with one of the states and vote there. After all, it does say “people “of” the several states”, not people “residing in” the several states. I could have moved from my home state to anywhere else in the WORLD (except Washington, DC) and continued voting for the last thirty-five years. And the people of DC are clearly “of” the several states, as opposed to being the people “of” the Asian steppes, or “of” the African savannah, or “of” the Argentinian pampas, or “of” the (Ant)Arctic tundra.

Look up the definition of the word “of”.

And if you want to alleviate or mitigate an even wider disparity, allow them to affiliate only with the –smaller– states; Wyoming has two Senators for only about half a million people, whereas California has only two Senators for over 25 million, a fifty to one disparity.

That solution, along with a more restrictive limit on the local power of the Congress over DC (for example, make them pass exclusive legislation over DC “in all cases whatsoever” by a super-majority of both houses, if it is for such compelling national interest!), would resolve most if not all of the objections to the present situation.

Power corrupts, and Absolute Power, “in all cases whatsoever”, corrupts absolutely.