From the Summit of the Moral High Ground

HANDICAPPING THE COLLAPSE Scattered diverse and almost uniformly unfavorable and dangerous events are unfolding, as the global economy and financial structure undergoes the equivalent of endless earthquakes and bombardment of solar emissions. Reporting is difficult, since information is distorted toward the sunny side. Events are moving fast, as quickly as the danger level is rising. As conditions worsen, the hype and spin has risen almost out of control. The political machine, tied at the hip to the banking apparatus, has ramped up the growth story even as the strain on the information spin has become more visible and subject to heavy criticism. A re-election year is always fraught with risk of unmasked falsehoods making headlines . For some reason the Mayans have been lifted in prominence despite their cultural vanishing act. Like calling the dodo bird the epitome of future evolution in the aviary world of ornithology. Nonetheless, the list of acts on stage is replete with s...

The plans to legalise gay 'marriage' as opposed to 'civil partnership' outlined by the Conservative Party of all people has left me somewhat nonplussed. Add caption It is similar to me campaigning to have the right to bare children, even though I do not have a womb in which the foetus can gestate nor the requisite biology to ever utilize that right which a change in law may give. Stonewall has become a pressure group which is increasingly out of touch with reality, homosexuality will never be the norm (unless you believe the conspiracy theory that they are flooding the water with female hormones to achieve exactly this of course), homosexuals will always be different. The challenge is not to make other people think you are the same, but to accept it and celebrate the difference. People for some reason attempt to gain acceptance from other people, instead of simply accepting themselves. I remember when Daren O'Toole first showed me the proposition for Civi...

This week’s Republican primaries certainly taught us one thing: Virginians love Ron Paul, and they’re pretty fond of Mitt Romney, too. Paul captured roughly 40 percent of the Virginia primary vote, by far his best non-caucus showing of the entire campaign. Romney won the remaining 60 percent. That’s good, but it was not even Romney’s best performance of the night on Super Tuesday. By the way, Romney and Paul were the only GOP contenders on the Virginia ballot. Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich failed to file the necessary paperwork, so voters could not choose them. Did that affect the results? Of course it did. How? That’s harder to say. Answering that question forces us to consider the framing effect , a human tendency to answer questions differently depending on how the options are presented to us, even when the options are identical . Strictly speaking, the framing effect was not at work in Virginia, since the choices presented to voters there were not identical to the cho...

Randy Reudrich GOP Alaska Chairman The Latest Facing Accusations of Electoral Impropriety It has been another strange week in world politics, first the Russian Presidential elections took place and I and anyone else who cared to log in could watch the ballots as they were cast anywhere in the world. The C-Span network and Fox News streamed live from webcams set up around Russia in what is unprecedented transparency during an election. The Western Press has of course held that the election was fixed, that there was no real alternative to Vladimir Putin, that the media coverage was biased, and so on and so forth. Of course those exact same criticisms were levelled in Jersey at the last election. I don't think they are necessarily unfair criticisms but it seems the same standards must apply to all elections anywhere around the world. And then there is the good old USA where the question on everyone's lips is 'How did Ron Paul lose Alaska?' Paul's ardent sup...

For Judge Death all life is crime Does our Government feel the same way? So with Neptune ploughing on into Pisces, I find my awareness shifting even further from its already loose connection with the mundane world, ( if you are not of the Pisces tribe then it is hard for you to understand but think of how closely attuned our much beloved Bailhache, P. is to reality and you will get the drift ). It is hard to care whether the electoral commission is independent or not. It is irrelevant, as is its membership, as will be its findings, as indeed is the entire States of Jersey. Getting caught up in it all is getting distracted from what is important. King Alfred is the King who gave the Common Law to the people, he is also the King who bought the ten commandments into Common Law. Looking to the New Testament, Jesus refines them as follows -  To love Him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is ...

A lien is a possession taken in security in respect of the completion of a contractual obligation, generally financial (such as securing your mortgage on your house) but it can also apply to the provision of a service. Commercial Lien Strategy (CLS) is a method through which common citizens, without the aid of lawyers or the courts, can induce government officials to actually obey the laws they have sworn to uphold. When government officials take an Oath of Office, they enter into a specific performance contract. By virtue of their Oath of Office, government officials assume a contractual duty or obligation to obey the law. If a government official who has sworn (i.e. contracted) to obey the law, breaks or ignores any law he's sworn to "uphold", common citizens can file a Commercial Lien on his property that will paralyze his ability to buy, sell, or lease any property and ruin his credit rating until he corrects his breach of contract and once again obeys the ...

Personhood and when it commences is a hot topic in law and philosophy not because of the free man movement but because of abortion. Hansard is a wonderful tool and there are records back for nearly 200 years if you just know  where to search . Now in my opinion and that of Hypocrates (of Hypocratic oath fame) life begins at conception but this article is not going to address any issues relating to abortion and for the purposes of this post you will need to proceed on the basis that this is fact, it is irrelevant either way as no absolute proof can be offered to confirm either side of this particular argument. Is the murder of a pregnant woman two murders or one? Do the Courts look upon such acts with greater condemnation than they would the murder of a man or woman who is not pregnant? I would hope that they would. It will however extend the argument that if the legal protections of personhood do not apply from the moment of conception, when do they apply. If the legal ...