We have a new God

When God is declared a non operative entity, the Sate always, always tries to take his place. This is a book review from Mises

The Lies are Sacred, Blessed by Government
by Doug French

New president Barack Obama's $3.55 trillion budget serves notice that if you thought government couldn't get any bigger or more intrusive, think again. The budget "represents real and dramatic change," according to the President. But really the Obama plan is just more of the same, with the federal government expanding its role in education, foreign policy, energy policy, health care, and environmental policy.

"The eyes of all people in all nations are once again upon us — watching to see what we do with this moment; waiting for us to lead," Obama told the assembled and adoring senators and congressmen. "Those of us gathered here tonight have been called to govern in extraordinary times." The new president believes government can fix the economy and anything else it sets its collective mind to, after all, "we aren't quitters," repeated the president.

But as Paul Cleveland explains, what Obama believes is a lie — a sacred lie. "The first, and biggest lie, is the notion that the institution of government is capable of successfully and adequately addressing all human problems,"...

Give all the power to us and no one gets hurt.

Mark Stein has captured the essence of what our government is doing right now. It is not fixing anything but grabbing power over everything. From NRO.

Obama’s False Choice By Mark Steyn

Writing in the Chicago Tribune last week, President Obama fell back on one of his favorite rhetorical tics: “But I also know,” he wrote, “that we need not choose between a chaotic and unforgiving capitalism and an oppressive government-run economy.

That is a false choice that will not serve our people or any people.”Really? For the moment, it’s a “false choice” mainly in the sense that he’s not offering it: “a chaotic and unforgiving capitalism” is not on the menu, which leaves “an oppressive government-run economy” as pretty much the only game in town....

...If you listen to the principal spokesmen for U.S. economic policy — Obama and Geithner — they grow daily ever more explicitly hostile to the private sector and ever more comfortable with the language of micro-managed government-approved capitalism — which, of course, isn’t capitalism at all...

...In their first two months, Obama and Geithner have done nothing but vaporize your wealth, and your children’s future. What began as an economic crisis is now principally a political usurpation...

Who is this king of glory?

This is a most amazing book. Rushdoony's "The Institutes of Biblical Law" I couldve used a roller highlighter. It is hard to read because I feel compelled to keep stopping and mark another sentence with the highlighter for future reference. This has happened with some articles by Otto Scott in the past but never with chunks of a book.

Another reason it is taking alot of time to advance through the book is, not because it is too cerebral or deep, but rather his comments make scripture snap out in 3D to where you see how things fit inside, a much larger context, then my usual Americana compartmentalized view allows.

I am at around page 123 and he is still working with a biblcal understanding of the 3rd commandment,using Gods name in vain. How it is the basis of oaths, promises,truth,the foundation of a society. Blasphemy.

I think this is a key. Rushdoony steps outside what my mind thinks the bible says, and instead keeps coming back to the Word and letting it, the word, define even the manner in which you examine the Word. Taking your presuppositions captive to the word of God.

I am not used to this. Things that seemed ecclectic in the Word are starting to flow with, and fit alongside the rest of the Word. Now what is ecclectic, is way too many of my former understandings that I used to have about scripture, or Christianity.

The Psalmist asks...who is this king of glory?

God say's... you thought I was all together like you:....psalm 50:21

This morning I read acts 5 Annanias and Sapphira and at v9 where Annanias is already dead and
Sapphira come in and Peter after letting her lie about the money says... "look the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door and they will carry you out" V10 then immediately she fell down dead....

For the first time, I realized that Peter fortelling her death, announcing it, just doesnt seem like a Christiany, Jesusy, New Testament attitude as I have understood it.

Who is this king of glory?

The $ Emperor has no clothes.

Two, good, you tubes. One of Ron Paul trying to get a little common sense from our Treasury secretary and one of a British lawmaker speaking truth to power in England. But we need to have it said here.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/026039.html

http://www.chalcedon.edu/blog/2009/03/oh-that-we-could-speak-this-way-in.php

Some more Romans 13...

Douglas Wilson hits another one out of the park...

Black MarketsTopic: Obama Nation Building

He who names, wins. And one of the things that statists, tyrants and bullies like to do, when their regulations have shut virtually every productive thing down, is call the small remaining enclaves of free transactions "black markets." Black markets, aye.

And of course, there is a certain kind of Christian who, when Congress (in one of their periodic righteous frenzies) repeals the law of gravity, will wag a censorious finger under your nose and chide you for disobeying Romans 13. "They expressly repealed that law. And here you are, still sticking to the ground."....

Who else lives on our block?

I have lived such a sheltered life as a mainstream christian. Clueless on what has been the other parts of modern christianity. I didnt even know their were other parts. I thought Catholics were the only relatives and those as like a shirt tale cousin or something.

This Chalcedon blog was interesting....

TIME Magazine Recognizes the New Calvinism by Chris Ortiz

....I personally find Piper to be the best representative of the New Calvinism of which TIME Magazine speaks. Piper is a pietist, and although there is a strand of that in puritan theology, it is in no way representative of the theocratic thesis found in Calvin. Ironically, Rushdoony wrote about Piper's kind of Calvinism and compared to what he referred to as "early Calvinism":

Early Calvinism was a vigorous and socially determinative force; today, Calvinism, or those who bear the name, is a quietistic, pietistic, and retreatist movement which is irrelevant to our world.

It's a Race....

So Obama with his budget proposals is in a race with the Fed (the central bank) over who can spend the most, the fastest. The fed has the inside track as they dont need congressional approval or a presidents signature. Only they can magically make money appear out of nowhere and cast it into the economy. This process mostly benefits the banks. The Fed is their fairy Godmother of Godmothers.

Last week as a result the dollar lost more value and this week china among others wants to make a new reserve currency. Who can blame them? Obama and Bernanke have telegraphed to the whole world that we will deliberately be torpedoing the value of the doallar for as far as the eye can see. So sorry.

This is theft on Americas part, we are making our silver dross and our wine into water,on purpose and in front of all America. But most dont understand....

From Lew Rockwell
Falsehoods (13) and Myths (4) of National Economic Policy
by Michael S. Rozeff

Robbery Writ Monumental
by David Calderwoodby David Calderwood

The Mother of All Bells
by Peter Schiff

The State need's our permission...

Thank you to all who planned and put on the prayer advance. Thanks to Jason and Rob for their extra work of bringing us the messages. Time well spent.
Late last night, some Pharasee's, Sadducee's, Scribes and lawyers ( you know who you are, coffee breath and some lebanese guy..., I was innocently cleaning a gun in my tent) were kicking around some things by the light of the campfire and the issue of the lying midwives and people like Corrie Tenboom came up.

I just now read an article which also lumped in, "the 3 wise men" who threw Herrod off the trail of Jesus.

Now there are tons of bunny trails that can be explored and examined here by the light of scripture. But this column was trying to make people aware that with the jury system, Leviathen can be jammed up. In the days to come we will need to be wise as serpants and innocent as doves. We must understand that just because something is "legal", it is not the same thing as being right. As in morally right. Something moral, will line up with Gods word. Something legal might be diametrically opposed to God and His definition of morality.

We can see it when it comes to abortion. But because of an incredible run of Biblical mal practice, thing's get fuzzy, real fast. How about the right of a Judge to force a family to send their kids to Caeser's academy? Prosecuting a pastor for teaching the ten commandments? Praise God we see we need to work at these things.

Check out this article, for those of us at Legacy it might make for good lunchtime conversation Sunday. Test afterwards.


..... The jury system is the government coming before you asking for permission. In that sense we are not "tainting ourselves by participating in the system" as some would have us believe. Rather it is "The System" coming before us seeking acquiescence and we need not cater to their wishes...

...The power elites still have to come before the common man to obtain 1.) an indictment via a Grand Jury, and 2.) a conviction via a common jury. A righteous soul on a Grand Jury can shield his fellow man from the rigors, expense and capricious risk of a criminal trial. Just one person of conscience on a regular jury can prevent an evil outcome...

The juror is a judge of the facts (he didn’t pay his taxes, he had a gun, he protested outside the designated "free speech zone") and he is also a judge of the laws forbidding such actions. Mid-nineteenth-century jurors often refused to convict those who were charged with violating the Fugitive Slave Act. If just a few jurors refused to convict in tax cases the whole phoney mess could be defanged. This power is so great because that way we don’t need 51%, we only need one out of twelve and they are powerless to overcome us....

The facts are that the government still must come before the people (juries) in order to convict. You have unreviewable power once you cast your vote as a juror. Resist the temptation to give the judge a civics lesson. Don't wrangle with evil men. Assume that such a judge, by virtue of his holding that office, is likely an evil man....

A Look at the Jury System and Our Participation in It
by Graham Dugas

Thankyou for your prayers, David
...For this is the love of God,that we keep his commandments...1john 5:2

Great visual for the Credit Crisis

Saw this linked from Chalcedon. Helps to see what happened.

But it doenst drive home strong enough that it couldnt happen without a central bank. The same people who enabled the mess, are in charge of fixing the mess. Their cure always involves borrowing more money.

The Crisis of Credit Visualized

What does one trillion dollars look like?

Ht to Doug Wilson. I found this Illustration helpful...


What does one TRILLION dollars look like?

All this talk about "stimulus packages" and "bailouts"...
A billion dollars...
A hundred billion dollars...
Eight hundred billion dollars...
One TRILLION dollars...

What does that look like? I mean, these various numbers are tossed around like so many doggie treats, so I thought I'd take Google Sketchup out for a test drive and try to get a sense of what exactly a trillion dollars looks like.....

We are numb to these numbers....

Budget sets sustainable path, Geithner says
By Rex Nutting, MarketWatch
Less than a week after proposing a record $1.75 trillion budget deficit, President Barack Obama's top budget officials told Congress on Tuesday that Washington can't keep spending more than it takes in.....

Gary North defends his father in law and slaps David Bahnsen

Here is a freebie from Gary North via Lew Rockwell.

A Lesson in Austrian School Economics for a Morgan Stanley V.P.
by Gary North

....There is no Friedmanian 3% per annum constant growth in the money supply. There was a 100% increase in the monetary base in the last three months of 2008 -- the highest and fastest in history.

Second, the performance of the American stock market since October 2007 offers evidence that the Austrian School economists, myself included, who predicted this recession in 2006, had the story right. No other school of economics did.

I advised my GaryNorth.com subscribers to sell all stocks and short the S&P 500 on November 5, 2007. It closed at 1502. Those who took my advice have done quite well. You and your firm did not offer similar advice to your clients.

I suggest that the problem you had in understanding what was about to overwhelm your clients was your hostility to Austrian School economics, which blames booms and busts on central bank policy...

I sense that you had a particular target in mind: someone who promotes Austrian School economics and Christian Reconstructionism. But since you mentioned no names, I will do the same....

....By most economic standards, the sky is now falling, all over the world.

You were writing an anti-gold polemic in the magazine started in 1965 by R. J. Rushdoony, my father-in-law. He had died the year before. He was a gold standard advocate, and from 1965 on encouraged his followers to buy legal gold coins. He wrote a booklet on this, Preparation for the Future. Yet you were saying, loud and clear, that such advice was ill-founded.....