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Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
The Freedom Oppressors
If you haven't noticed I am not a fan of the Freedom Foundation/House of God cult. I really didn't know anything about them at first except that Selma originally welcomed them for moving close to 50 people here and buying up some old houses in the historic district. In hindsight, maybe we should have questioned the fact of such a large group of people quiting their jobs and moving away from their families like a flock of Canadian Geese, but most of us didn't pay it much attention. Some were leery of them, but I didn't hear any of that talk prior to meeting Mark Duke personally, but when I did meet him, I must say that the discernment meter God gave me started going off saying "red flag alert, red flag alert, red flag alert" like never before in my entire life. Seriously. It was only after sensing the most evil fraud of my entire life was standing in my mist that I started researching the group and the man behind the curtain. This research lead me to a forum online composed of former members and estranged family members who were frustrated, lost, venting, searching for answers and trying to fill a great void or the embarrassment of being lied to and manipulated. I am so glad that most of Selma "woke up" concerning their real motives, but but it seems they tend to go after the weaker ones and are heavily targeting our youth who are much less discerning.
This investigation led me also to cult expert Allan McConnell and other cult experts all of which were saying the same thing "there's no doubt, this is a cult". Without getting into too many specifics (you can see and hear more at Allan McConnell's website www.wewillfindthetruth.com or simply http://freefromthehouseofgod.blogspot.com/ ) about a prophet who gets his feet rubbed during prayer meetings by different women with low self esteem or how he uses cheap magic tricks to inspire people, I must say that after reading a few articles lately of how the first african-american mayor of Selma has totally embarrassed his city and his race by subscribing to this cult, I have gotten a wee bit discouraged.
This is America however and Perkin's free to do what he wants. We all know there will be fundraisers involved when he goes to Colorado and is "displayed" in front of a bunch of whites who will undoubtedly raise money for him and the third world city he so graciously flown in from; at least, that is how they (the Freedom Foundation and Mr. Perkins) are presenting us to be. I just don't agree with them.
In the following article speaking of this spectacular event http://open.salon.com/blog/rogerc/2011/02/02/ex-selma_mayor_praises_colorado_groups_civil_rights_work , perkins is no doubt pledging his allegiance to the cult. It is truly to bad that the United States doesn't have laws distinguishing between a religion and a cult such as France who sued the Scientologists for their scams, but we don't, so to some degree we can just fret about it and reason with whoever will listen to us.
So, quoting the article we see:
"He [Perkins] was a recent visitor to the Front Range, invited to be the keynote speaker at a fund raising banquet for the Freedom Foundation, a group created by Anglos from Colorado whose work Perkins holds in high regard."
This investigation led me also to cult expert Allan McConnell and other cult experts all of which were saying the same thing "there's no doubt, this is a cult". Without getting into too many specifics (you can see and hear more at Allan McConnell's website www.wewillfindthetruth.com or simply http://freefromthehouseofgod.blogspot.com/ ) about a prophet who gets his feet rubbed during prayer meetings by different women with low self esteem or how he uses cheap magic tricks to inspire people, I must say that after reading a few articles lately of how the first african-american mayor of Selma has totally embarrassed his city and his race by subscribing to this cult, I have gotten a wee bit discouraged.
This is America however and Perkin's free to do what he wants. We all know there will be fundraisers involved when he goes to Colorado and is "displayed" in front of a bunch of whites who will undoubtedly raise money for him and the third world city he so graciously flown in from; at least, that is how they (the Freedom Foundation and Mr. Perkins) are presenting us to be. I just don't agree with them.
In the following article speaking of this spectacular event http://open.salon.com/blog/rogerc/2011/02/02/ex-selma_mayor_praises_colorado_groups_civil_rights_work , perkins is no doubt pledging his allegiance to the cult. It is truly to bad that the United States doesn't have laws distinguishing between a religion and a cult such as France who sued the Scientologists for their scams, but we don't, so to some degree we can just fret about it and reason with whoever will listen to us.
So, quoting the article we see:
"He [Perkins] was a recent visitor to the Front Range, invited to be the keynote speaker at a fund raising banquet for the Freedom Foundation, a group created by Anglos from Colorado whose work Perkins holds in high regard."
“I’ve been watching their work versus listening to what other folks have been saying, and their work is phenomenal,” Perkins told me in an interview at his hotel here. “They’ve earned my support and I’m here to support them.”
It's bad enough that a good friend of Gwen Brown, president of the Freedom Foundation and vice-president of the local SCLC, who's ex-wife is the president of "In a Mother's Arms" (the Denver non-profit mentioned in the article that co-sponsored the fundraiser) called me and left multiple messages using the "N" word repeatedly and later after I never returned his calls started txting me obscenities, threats and eventually txting me even a death threat. This is the same guy who they had doing a couple of football camps with the inglorious Gwen Brown and some black boys here from Selma. So yes, it truly hurts my feelings to see the first African-mayor of Selma supporting an organization that supports oppression and uses divide and conquer techniques, chastisement and various types threats, both visually and "read between the lines". I am not the first person in town to receive threats and I'm sure I won't be the last. It isn't right that this group can use mafia style bullying tactics and especially "pretend" to be Christian. I am not happy about any of it.
It seems there have been a good many airplanes flying back and forth between Selma and Colorado in the last few months, and people have been spreading lies about this city. It pains me to see this to no end. It also pains me for the first African American mayor of Selma to backslide and embarrass this wonderful city, and his race (cults are true oppressors, the slave traders of weak minded people) but not only this city and his race, but also embarrassing Christianity as well. No, it wouldn't be an embarrassment to Christianity if Perkins was an atheist, but he's not; Perkins is an ordained minister, yet the rif-raf he's hanging out with are pulling people left and right into a separatist, Jesus "isn't" God cult which stated they have the only religion going to Heaven and all other religions to hell. They call it the "Spiritual Rights Movement". As far as Heaven and Hell goes, Mark Duke has been recorded as stating in the past that he was going to run for mayor [of Selma] because God told him to and if he didn't [run for mayor], he wouldn't go to Heaven. I guess since he didn't run for mayor in the last election but decided to support Perkins instead, he is either going to Hell (because he didn't run for mayor as God told him to) or a carbon copy [Perkins] will run.
Jim Jones of the People's Temple cult was made chairman of the housing commission after he used his followers to campaign and help George Moscone get elected as mayor of San Francisco. I wonder what the trade off will be for Mark Duke if Perkins gets re-elected as mayor? City jobs at city hall? Time will tell, but I'm sure there will be some sort of trade off.
Don't get me started. I am signing off [for now] in a very bad mood.
If you have a different opinion than me, visit http://dewayne-allday.blogspot.com/2011/02/imho.html
edited and added the following 2/17/2011: As you can see above, I was a little upset when I wrote this article. I hate to see the manipulation of individuals. I dislike bullies. In my mind, there is enough information available about "cults" for people to be informed, but I am often reminded of quotations from people who left some of the most famous cults in history such as the People's Temple, who made statements such as "No one wants to believe that they are in a cult" or "we all thought we were to smart to be manipulated and be a part of a destructive cult", but in truth, there have been (and are) doctors, lawyers and many educated people who fall victim to cults for various reasons, many of those reasons are the same reasons people join gangs.
If you know James Perkins personally and on a close basis, I urge you to try and talk some sense into him now. This sort of behavior is not helping him. They are using him, and in a sense he probably trusts them and thinks they will get him some votes, but in truth, he is on a destructive path and those "true" friends and family need to circle around him in this latter phase of his life because if they don't, the cult family will praise him, circle around him, stroke his ego, find his weaknesses and he'll be stuck in a very awkward situation. In the short term, he'll feel like he has "family and love", but it's only a front.
That's the side of me that wants him to get some "help" from his "real" family and friends. I must make note however that if he is fully aware that it's a cult and he actually likes the manipulation, power hungry, destructive nature of this beast called the Freedom Foundation, then I hope he just stays in Colorado with his new "cult" family and never comes back to Selma. Just my humble opinion.
If you have a different opinion than me, visit http://dewayne-allday.blogspot.com/2011/02/imho.html
edited and added the following 2/17/2011: As you can see above, I was a little upset when I wrote this article. I hate to see the manipulation of individuals. I dislike bullies. In my mind, there is enough information available about "cults" for people to be informed, but I am often reminded of quotations from people who left some of the most famous cults in history such as the People's Temple, who made statements such as "No one wants to believe that they are in a cult" or "we all thought we were to smart to be manipulated and be a part of a destructive cult", but in truth, there have been (and are) doctors, lawyers and many educated people who fall victim to cults for various reasons, many of those reasons are the same reasons people join gangs.
If you know James Perkins personally and on a close basis, I urge you to try and talk some sense into him now. This sort of behavior is not helping him. They are using him, and in a sense he probably trusts them and thinks they will get him some votes, but in truth, he is on a destructive path and those "true" friends and family need to circle around him in this latter phase of his life because if they don't, the cult family will praise him, circle around him, stroke his ego, find his weaknesses and he'll be stuck in a very awkward situation. In the short term, he'll feel like he has "family and love", but it's only a front.
That's the side of me that wants him to get some "help" from his "real" family and friends. I must make note however that if he is fully aware that it's a cult and he actually likes the manipulation, power hungry, destructive nature of this beast called the Freedom Foundation, then I hope he just stays in Colorado with his new "cult" family and never comes back to Selma. Just my humble opinion.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Qualitative and Quantitative Economics
The most profound idea I have read in a very long time was Ludwig Von Mises thoughts on Qualitative and Quantitative economics". Two books by Mises, one about socialism and the other about economics, I have just started absorbing recently, but really haven't given them the attention that they deserve.
Let me interject something here. It has always been my philosophy that no individual is perfect, but there are thoughts and ideas that are perfect, but with the person relaying those ideas may come some things that we don't necessarily believe are agree with. I believe we can learn something from every person, whether Christian or not, but we have to have the discernment to distinguish truth from fiction. There are laws of the universe that have to be reckoned with just like there are "distractions" and a lot of reckless ideas that can lead us all astray. Long story short, if you throw away the intelligence of a gifted individual just because you don't see eye to eye with them on other subjects, then you could be missing out on something very important.
Quantitative Economics:
I have an uncle who was the VP of a bank for over 30 years. He told me on different occasions during my youth that governments make money round because it is made to roll, but Mises seems to differ with this, and to a certain large extent, I agree also. One thing that comes to mind is gambling casinos. There is a great quantity of money that goes into this system, and yes, it could create jobs, but is it good for our economy? I believe definitely not. It's no more good for our economy that the quantitative economics of selling drugs. Yes, we can sugar coat it, and say it's for education, but what are we really doing? The real question here is "are casinos productive"? My answer is no. Are we making a sustainable product? No. Are we selling a sustainable product? No. Is the money that casinos make helping our economy? Maybe a little, but it's causing more damage than good.
Another item that comes to mind is our stock market. More than ever before in history people are "blindly" giving their money to companies and investing in the stock market. I say blindly because retirement brokers have really been promoting mutual fund retirement accounts over the last 15 or so years. People get advice from the brokers and $100 or even $500 or more a month automatically goes into those funds, and those brokers and fund managers get a 2 to 5% cut off the top no matter whether the fund does good or not. There have been "several" occasions through the years where the government has passed laws making it easier for small businesses to allow employees to contribute to these funds, through traditional or roth iras. All of a sudden people started plugging a whole bunch of money into the system. What happened? CEO's flying jets and driving expensive cars and getting enormous bonuses? Companies like Enron and others "cook the books" and market their companies so that people and brokers may take notice and turn their 15$ stock into 40$ stock in a matter of weeks. What does that mean to us? Well, if it was a responsible company, they would take the money and re-invest and grow, but what if there was no growth for the company? What if there was not enough market? Well, then we have an excess. We have corporate splurges, and big bonuses. We get a company who may turn their heads away from quality and growth and make some bad decisions.
What goes up in a hot air balloon might come down with a big crash when that bubble is popped or when it runs out of gas.
Qualitative Economics:
When we think of qualitative economics we think of quality don't we? How about good stewardship and work ethics? How about wisely reinvesting in our companies and protecting it from all dangers. Production? Making money, but not being cocky and arrogant about it? How about quality and ethical employees with integrity and purpose? How about building up the quality of our nation and it's citizens and balance imports so that if you have a U.S. made product on a shelf and a China made product on the shelf you see comparable quality for the same price? Why you ask? Because through ignorance and bad form, the people in charge of imports and exports in this county have been destroying our American businesses for years now by allowing slave labor imports to infiltrate our society. Don't blame it on Americans not buying american because the big picture for those of us who know better is that those in charge know people automatically go for the cheaper price. Free trade? We are cutting our own throats. Our government states that we buy Chinese products and they buy ours, but if you use your brains, and just a little common sense, you realize that labor is ridiculously cheap over there and labor is higher here, so what is an average Chinese worker going to buy from us? How many American ductile iron companies are in existence today? Do you research. Most ductile iron is imported from China at such a reduced rate that almost every single American ductile iron manufacturer is out of business now. It's no wonder that what federal politicians used to call the evil empire, modern day politicians call "our partner", and it's no wonder they do because the communist country China owns almost 25% of our 14 trillion dollar deficit. This sort of backs us in the corner doesn't it? How did the powers that be in this country allow this to happen? That's another subject for another day.
When I think of quantitative and qualitative economics it makes me think of the parables in the bible that speak of building on the sand (quantitative economics) and building on the rock (quantitative economics). Also, another analogy is the story of the three pigs building a house of brick (rock - qualitative economics) or a house of sticks (quantitative economics) or a house of straw (poor quality quantitative). When the big bad wolf came, we all remember which house was still standing, and it's my hopes that before that day, this country wakes up and begins a long term plan to build american small businesses back up using qualitative approach instead of the quantitative approach that we seem to be subscribing to.
Gold and silver hasn't backed up our currency in a very long time, only faith in a house built on straw. I don't know how or who, but I do know we need to start building with bricks again.
Let me interject something here. It has always been my philosophy that no individual is perfect, but there are thoughts and ideas that are perfect, but with the person relaying those ideas may come some things that we don't necessarily believe are agree with. I believe we can learn something from every person, whether Christian or not, but we have to have the discernment to distinguish truth from fiction. There are laws of the universe that have to be reckoned with just like there are "distractions" and a lot of reckless ideas that can lead us all astray. Long story short, if you throw away the intelligence of a gifted individual just because you don't see eye to eye with them on other subjects, then you could be missing out on something very important.
Quantitative Economics:
I have an uncle who was the VP of a bank for over 30 years. He told me on different occasions during my youth that governments make money round because it is made to roll, but Mises seems to differ with this, and to a certain large extent, I agree also. One thing that comes to mind is gambling casinos. There is a great quantity of money that goes into this system, and yes, it could create jobs, but is it good for our economy? I believe definitely not. It's no more good for our economy that the quantitative economics of selling drugs. Yes, we can sugar coat it, and say it's for education, but what are we really doing? The real question here is "are casinos productive"? My answer is no. Are we making a sustainable product? No. Are we selling a sustainable product? No. Is the money that casinos make helping our economy? Maybe a little, but it's causing more damage than good.
Another item that comes to mind is our stock market. More than ever before in history people are "blindly" giving their money to companies and investing in the stock market. I say blindly because retirement brokers have really been promoting mutual fund retirement accounts over the last 15 or so years. People get advice from the brokers and $100 or even $500 or more a month automatically goes into those funds, and those brokers and fund managers get a 2 to 5% cut off the top no matter whether the fund does good or not. There have been "several" occasions through the years where the government has passed laws making it easier for small businesses to allow employees to contribute to these funds, through traditional or roth iras. All of a sudden people started plugging a whole bunch of money into the system. What happened? CEO's flying jets and driving expensive cars and getting enormous bonuses? Companies like Enron and others "cook the books" and market their companies so that people and brokers may take notice and turn their 15$ stock into 40$ stock in a matter of weeks. What does that mean to us? Well, if it was a responsible company, they would take the money and re-invest and grow, but what if there was no growth for the company? What if there was not enough market? Well, then we have an excess. We have corporate splurges, and big bonuses. We get a company who may turn their heads away from quality and growth and make some bad decisions.
What goes up in a hot air balloon might come down with a big crash when that bubble is popped or when it runs out of gas.
Qualitative Economics:
When we think of qualitative economics we think of quality don't we? How about good stewardship and work ethics? How about wisely reinvesting in our companies and protecting it from all dangers. Production? Making money, but not being cocky and arrogant about it? How about quality and ethical employees with integrity and purpose? How about building up the quality of our nation and it's citizens and balance imports so that if you have a U.S. made product on a shelf and a China made product on the shelf you see comparable quality for the same price? Why you ask? Because through ignorance and bad form, the people in charge of imports and exports in this county have been destroying our American businesses for years now by allowing slave labor imports to infiltrate our society. Don't blame it on Americans not buying american because the big picture for those of us who know better is that those in charge know people automatically go for the cheaper price. Free trade? We are cutting our own throats. Our government states that we buy Chinese products and they buy ours, but if you use your brains, and just a little common sense, you realize that labor is ridiculously cheap over there and labor is higher here, so what is an average Chinese worker going to buy from us? How many American ductile iron companies are in existence today? Do you research. Most ductile iron is imported from China at such a reduced rate that almost every single American ductile iron manufacturer is out of business now. It's no wonder that what federal politicians used to call the evil empire, modern day politicians call "our partner", and it's no wonder they do because the communist country China owns almost 25% of our 14 trillion dollar deficit. This sort of backs us in the corner doesn't it? How did the powers that be in this country allow this to happen? That's another subject for another day.
When I think of quantitative and qualitative economics it makes me think of the parables in the bible that speak of building on the sand (quantitative economics) and building on the rock (quantitative economics). Also, another analogy is the story of the three pigs building a house of brick (rock - qualitative economics) or a house of sticks (quantitative economics) or a house of straw (poor quality quantitative). When the big bad wolf came, we all remember which house was still standing, and it's my hopes that before that day, this country wakes up and begins a long term plan to build american small businesses back up using qualitative approach instead of the quantitative approach that we seem to be subscribing to.
Gold and silver hasn't backed up our currency in a very long time, only faith in a house built on straw. I don't know how or who, but I do know we need to start building with bricks again.
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