My Thoughts on Paul Ryan

It is official. Mitt Romney has chosen Paul Ryan as his Vice President candidate. The announcement was inevitable to some and suprising to others. The Republican ticket is now complete. Mitt Romney made the announcement in downtown Norfolk, Virginia. Romney was in Nauticus, which is a famous place in Norfolk near Waterside and the MacArthur Mall. I've been to Nauticus before when I was a child years ago back in the summer of 1996. Mitt Romney is in an unique space. He trails the President by 7 points. Many want to see his tax return tax returns for multiple zero tax years. Romney had issues with his foreign policy talk when he spoke in London, Jerusalem (of lying to say that Providence allowed the Israelis to have a standard of living than the Palestinian people), and Poland. Folks want to know his business record and Bain Capital. The Republican National Convention will come into Tampa, Florida. Florida is of course a crucial battleground state. Paul Ryan is a Republican House member from Wisconsin's 1st district. Paul represents the corporate and plutocratic financial interests in America. Ryan's economic views are similar to Mitt Romney's views. Ryan represents Kenosah, Racine, Muskego, and Janesville, Wisconsin. He was born in 1970, so he is part of Generation X. He is famous for his Catholic views and upbringing. He loves to hunt in various locations. Now, he worked or the Oscar Mayer Wiener Company (Ryan advacned Oscar Mayer's meats and corporate interests). He majored in Economics and Political Science. He is part of the Delta Tau Delta Fraternity too. Now, he is famous for promoting austerity in the world. Empower America (or a Republican think tank) was in his life. He served there as a volunteer speechwriter for Congressman Jack Kemp and two former Reagan officials: UN Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick who defended the rape, torture and murder of three Catholic nuns by the government of El Salvador and Education Secretary William Bennett. Bill Bennett would be publicly defiled as a gambling addict and racial profiler when he said on his talk show that the abortion of all African-American babies would cause the crime-rate to go down. Ryan first ran for Congress in 1998. He loves Ayn Rand. Rand promoted Objectivism or a selfish philosophy where an individual promotes his own interest without the consideration of other people. Ayn Rand was a notorious Christ-hater and she claimed to abhor government intervention (although, she took federal government services). That is why Ryan is part of the Atlas Society. Paul Ryan recently rejected the views of Ayn Rand. Ryan in 1999 voted for the repeal of Glass Steagall Act (that some document as being one of the reasons why the recession occurred in the first place. Glass Steagall prevented large scale financial speculation and limited financial activities between commercial banks and security firms). He has worked on the federal government. The reactionary tax reform agenda is Paul Ryan's bread and butter. Ryan wants a top U.S. tax rate of 25%. He wants a VAT tax of 8.5 percent and a voucher system for Medicare (that would make beneficiaries to buy their own insurance from 2021 leaving them partially uninsured). He promoted a long term deficit reduction that would lower tax rates while eliminating income tax on capital gains, dividends, and interest. He wants to eliminate the corporate income tax and the estate tax. Like some Tea Party people, he wanted the privatization of Social Security and Medicare. Private corporations shouldn't control all of these programs at all. Even Princeton economist Paul Krugman said that Ryan's proposals would cause losses of revenues while increasing the taxes on the 95 percent of the U.S. taxpayers on the bottom of the economic ladder (while reducing them for the 5 percent at the top). Romney was endorsed by the Roman Catholic Lech Walesa in Poland (this person worked openly with Opus Dei for decades). Ryan is trying to get Roman Catholics and others to vote for Mitt Romney. Ryan is a member of St. John Vianney Catholic Church, named for a person who was venerated for miracles performed in his priestly life including supernatural knowledge of the past and future and healing sick children. Some extremists say that Paul Ryan isn't conservative enough. Ryan voted for the Patriot Act and agrees with the warrant less wiretapping system of the TSA. He voted for the National Defense Authorization Act. This gives the President the power to arrest suspected terrorists under certain circumstances. So, Ryan is not for real civil liberty promotion. Ryan is a man who believes in the old thinking that nothing that the federal government can do can help society fundamentally. They are clear in their hatred of New Deal reforms (of believing in the deception that eliminating regulations on corporations and maintaining tax breaks for the super wealthy can result in massive economic growth among the poor and middle class). I am clear about my dissent with Ryan's viewpoints.

Single payer health care is in the state of Vermont. Universal health care is a pristine part of the human rights movement. Nations globally possess it and we don't. A civilization must have concern to help its citizenry via concern for its youth, concern for the people's health, and concern for the elderly as well. Still, private insurance companies want that policy to be changed or completely eliminated in Vermont. The health insurers couldn't stop the state's drive last year to enact a single payer health care system. Governor Peter Shumlin expressed great pride in the accomplished. “We gather here today to launch the first single payer system in America, to do in Vermont what has taken too long—to have a health care (system) that is the best in the world, that treats health care as a right and not a privilege, where health care follows the individual, not the employer,” Shumlin said. So, health care should be part of the patient's well being not controlled by the private employer completely. It will fully implemented in a couple of years. The federal health care reform bans states from taking more far reaching reforms until 2017 unless waivers come about. So, Vermont's Congressional delegation is trying to get a waiver. The health care industry spends a lot of money to claim that singer payer is a dirty word when it is not. The private insurance companies will get third party folks in order to bash any single payer health care proposal. Also, some insurers want high deductible policies. The higher the deductible, the less insurers and employers have to pay for our care. This collaboration between insurers and employers have increased the amount of American families filling for bankruptcy. Dermatologist Dan McCauliffe (in Vermont) was one of several doctors there who suggested that patients needed to pay more — not less — out of their own pocket for care. Ironically, this skin doctor joined other physician specialists in arguing that health care costs would never stabilize until patients had “more skin in the game,” a term my former colleagues used frequently as we tried to spin the “advantages” of high-deductible plans. According to statistics from the American Medical Association, dermatologists are among the highest paid specialists, making on average more than $230,000. See, Vermont is a small state with little most for profit insurers active. The insurers don't want a single state to go single payer. Even in California, single payer policies fell in just a few votes of getting a bill to the floor of the Senate for a vote. If Vermont wins, California could get more votes in order for the state to give its people more comprehensive health care. Health insurers make an enormous amount of money off of us. They can't do this in other countries like Canada. Last year, the four largest insurers (of United, WellPoint, Aetna, and CIGNS) reported earnings of a combined $11 billion on nearly $220 billion in revenues last year. They want to make more money and a single payer system won't allow them to make the profits that they desire. There are new threats from the young man Paul Ryan seeking to turn a lot of Medicare into a voucher system (he wants the age of eligibility of individuals recieving Medicare to increase to the year of 67 by 2033) and eliminate a great deal of Medicaid. Seventy percent of those who identified themselves as supporters of the fiscally conservative movement in a new McClatchy-Marist poll oppose cuts to Medicaid and Medicare to solve the country’s deficit woes. Since 2007, about 45,000 Americans die each and every year simply because they lacked access to health care. In a single payer system, all medically necessary care is covered throughout the life of the patient. People can pay into the system based on their ability to pay. The status quo isn't working and we must do what as the late President John F. Kennedy said. JFK said that we must have have universal health care preserved like other industrialized nations have been doing. Therefore, it is morally right and succintly honorable for us to promtoe universal health care for every man, woman, and child in America. Heath care is a human right that should be accessible to all people not a product that being sold.

The ending of all forms of discrimination and the creation of radical economic reforms are needed in order for our standard of living to be substantially improved. The Democrats and the Republicans seem to be fighting like little children at all. Except on some issues, they are more akin in their philosophical views. Both parties have leaders that expressed war mongering, pro-austerity, anti-immigrant, and anti-civil liberty policies. Even Bill Clinton made a bipartisan deal with Newt Gingrich on welfare reform (which exploited poor mothers of small children in forcing them to get low wage jobs. These jobs hardly revolutionize our economic system). Our middle class is shrinking. Our poor are still struggling within demented, harsh conditions in our land. This shouldn't be our new normal at all. The status quo won't even get our unemployment rate down into 5 percent. Americans having access to decent, good paying jobs is a good prescription among all of us. One progressive economist named Robert Pollin has some interesting ideas on how to achieve this just goal. Pollin believes that full employment or near full employment is possible without harming the economy. Sweden used a macro-policy to decrease the unemployment rate in less than 4 percent and keep inflation under control (as too much inflation is bad for the economy). So, the labor unions in Sweden used labor market interventions in getting the unemployment rate down. Job training, transportation, childcare, etc. were activated in Sweden in order for that nation to improved its country. Pollin wants the taking a portion of money spent to be sent into labor, hiring people, etc. Investments in green technology and education is great as well. Our public infrastructure in America ought to be modernized as well. Unions should be strengthened and the minimum wage can be higher as a means to help people receive true economic benefits. Even the Congressional Progressive Caucus created their reasonable plan in lowering the deficits and debt better than the Paul Ryan budget plan. The Congressional Progressive Caucus plan includes many things like a public works plan, allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire, having a transaction and a big bank tax on the banks, ends emergency war finding in 2014, eliminates the payroll tax cap, and other policies. This plan doesn't gut important safety net programs like food stamps or Pell Grants. It focuses on job creation and economic stimulus in the short-term. It is also important to end a militaristic foreign policy that denies justice to people overseas and deprive our country the necessary resources to achieve justice in America. A broader distribution of wealth and a national guaranteed minimum income for all Americans are superior than monopoly capitalism. At least Occupy Wall Street in my opinion wants no corporate sponsorship while the Tea Party (in some places) have been infiltrated by FOX News and other corporate sponsors. I am learning about issues in my life. Forever, I will reject imperialism and the prison industrial complex. I will oppose the corporatization of all Government services.

The Cremation of Care ceremony in the Bohemian Grove has been explained for years. The ceremony relates to the burning of the Dull care in order for the people to leave their worries behind. The effigy of a human is burned near a ca. 40 ft. statue of an owl (outlining the image of wisdom or the old Goddess archetype. The God and the Goddess motiff is one big part of the Mystery School tradition). The Lamp of Fellowship is found near the owl shrine. There are priests in the rituals that say words and some songs are presented during the proceedings. The High Priest criticize the Dull Care as an enemy of beauty. The Dull Care yells before he dies within the forest of the flame. The owl represents wisdom to the Bohemians and the other followers of esoteric tradition. The Cremation of Care ritual is a mega ritual of the elite. People sit down near the river to celebrate this strange, esoteric occasion. So, that ritual (and others) wanted to psychologically eliminate all of the stress, sins, and boredom of the previous year. The effigy is found in the owl shrine. The owl statue represents an owl deity of that organization. The rituals according to some causes a calm emotion by the classical and an heightened sense of emotion via the final burning of the human effigy. The burning of the Dull Care is similar to the ancient dying god mythos or archetype that is found in the Ancient Mysteries plus the Western occult tradition. The participants of the Grove perform revelry and sex with prostitutes from across the world. The most power camp in the Bohemian Grove is Camp Mandalay. This camp includes international leaders and members of intelligence agencies. Famous past members of this camp include Richard M. Nixon (he has ties to Le Cercle and the Pilgrims), John G. McLean, George Schultz, Paul Volcker, and others. Many of the Grovers claim to be conservative Christians, but they promote mock human sacrifice, greed, the pollution of the environment (via certain policies), adultery basically, etc. The Dionysiacs and Bacchanalians influenced the rituals of the Bohemian Grove in many ways. According to the Ph.D dissertation (from 1994) of the Grover attendant Peter Martin Philips, he wrote that the Dull Care wants Bacchus from the grave. The Roman Bacchus is the same as the Greek god of Dionysus is the god of wine, sexual and ecstatic freedom, fertility, and celebration. So, the Bohemian Grove want to relieve worries and enact their occult ceremonies. Ancient Roman poet Horace (who lived from 65 to 8 B.C.) wrote about the dull care. The Dull Care is like a being or a mocking spirit that needs to be banished from the Grove. The Sumerians even talked about the elimination of unwelcome spirits from the land. There is even the 1687 play 'Begone, Dull Care' of [John] Playford: Musical Companion, located in England. The words from old literature  that described the concept of the Dull Care spread into the minds of the poets and the writers in America. Some of them came into the San Francisco area to develop the infrastructure of the Bohemian Grove secret Society in general.


2012 is here. 2013 is upon us in the future. The Glory of Africa is still exquisite and it shines greatly. The truth is not lukewarm, but it will go out to shine the light of resistance of injustice plus the love. You don't need compromise to rise to the summit of freedom, but strength and compassion will do the job. Compassion doesn't mean we promote evil strife within our people. Regardless of a person's physical appearance or background, all human beings are created equal deserving of love, dignity, respect, and justice. Our accomplishments as black people can line up libraries, museums, and huge buildings. Worldwide, people understand the heroic contributions of Frederick Douglas, Kamala Harris, Kwame Nkrumah, Marian Anderson, and Miriam Makeba. Still, one essence of our people is that we (who are of black African descent) harbor a kind respect for our relatives and our ancestors. Everything isn't golden in the world and we shouldn't express naivety about our issues. In other words, we should continue to oppose materialism, we should fight against the negative stereotypes about our people in the entertainment indstry, we should oppose militarism, and we ought to harbor the love of black liberation (via activism. Activism doesn't just mean sending money to a Foundation. It means that we ought to march, to speak out, help people face to face, communicate a reasonable message, and be willing to suffer the consquences of  performing righteous. Being conscious is one of the most fullfiling, exiquisite characteristics of a progressive human being). Yet, one thing is clear though. We should never express apathy. Apathy is about defeat or assuming a sick acceptance of the horrible conditions that plague our world. Instead of loving apathy, I will love resilience, truth, honor, and overcoming obstacles. I overcome obstacles every single day of life. There are black brothers and black sisters now working, helping the poor, fighting against HIV/AIDS, performing almsgiving, working in programs to assist their fellow human beings, and being blessed in other endeavors of their lives. Their contributions ought to be respected. Therefore, we should be a blessing to our people. One of the most important things that we can achieve is to unite with like minded brothers and sisters in our communities to form some solutions and adhere to Black Power. If one individual can make a difference, we collectively can make the world much better. There is nothing wrong with respecting or acquiring Power if it is harnessed in a correct direction. It is certainly excellent for us to form non-profits, real businesses, better institutions, and a kind heart that have a  love for black people (especially those living in poor communities. One of the many signs of how much a human loves humanity is their love for the poor or suffering in life's road). Expressing fashion, soul, engineering, legal parameters, politics, music, and dance are great definitions of black culture. We are a creative people. Righteous creativity never can hurt anybody. Maintaining a sense of morality is a critical part of black culture too. So, we should be active in fighting against crime in our own communities. Frankly, no one can effectively solve the problems of crime and other similar topics of our people like we can. For real strength deals with being a peacemaker and rejecting unjust violence at every turn. Inspiration is something that I like to display. Inspiration can build a soul up in an extraordinary fashion. A peep talk or gracious words can go a long way in allowing folks to fulfill goals and to experience happiness. I respect the brothers doing the right thing and I love the sisters (as the black sisters are the most beautiful women in the face of Earth and a joy to be around) performing righteous acts as well. Black Power is more than a slogan. It's a way of life. Black Power definitely is a phrase that the development of black families (It is truly a blessing when a black man and a black women have black children. Children are always a blessing in the eyes of the Creator. Also, even if a black person isn't married, that black person is equal too and have huge value in the world), and the growth of the black collective consciousness (as the late Brother Kwame Ture mentioned so many years ago). Now, in our life, we go through ups and downs. What have I learned is that we should continue to treat our neighbors as ourselves no matter what. We definitely ought to fight oppression, we can still institute programs to help our people, and we can still express creativity. It's just that we can't mistreat people. The reason is that if we mistreat a fellow human being, we will enact the same policies as our oppressors did. We are victors not oppressors. We are Africans and we are one. There are people of black African descent living in Mexico, in Ecuador, in Guyana, in Suriname, in Uruguary, in Puerto Rico, in the Dominican Republic, in Haiti, in the rest of the Caribbean, in Asia, in  Colombia (in a commerical, I saw Afro-Colombians running around to have a joyful time), in Venezula, in Peru, in Panama, in Africa, and throughout the world. No matter what land we live in currently, we are still Africans, we are still Black, and we are all beautiful point blank period. We fought and struggle for liberation. So, we have every God-given right to promote justice and liberation wherever we exist in the globe. That's the truth. I will always love my black people.

By Timothy