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Aug 23, 2010, 01:44 PM »
This is from a transcript of a new promo video by Congressman Alan Grayson. For anyone who doesn't know, Grayson is the most outspoken of all Democratic house members in standing up to the Republicans and calling them out using their own tactics.
I found the premise of his words very interesting from an EA perspective. I've written more below the quote.
There are two groups in this country right now. I call those groups Us, and Them.
We want more jobs, better schools, better health, better pensions, and we want to keep our homes. We want not just jobs but jobs that mean something, jobs that pay a decent wage. We want to live a good life.
And then there's them. They simply have one goal and one goal only. And that is to destroy the government. They're not conservatives. They're anarchists.
I don't know why they want anarchy. In fact, they don't know, either. Even they don't know what kind of inner darkness causes them to seek wars without end, to burn the planet, to welcome poverty for so many, to leave the old and the sick helpless, to cheer oil in the Gulf. I've spoken to enough of them to be able to tell you that they themselves don't know why.
But that's what they want. So, now we have to decide who is going to run this country. Is it Us, or is it Them? And what's at stake is the future. The future in a country that my five children will live in, that your children will live in, that you'll live in for the rest of your life.
Are we going to have a country with a decent middle class life for everyone-- jobs, health care, roads, schools? Or, are we going to have poverty, cheap labor, helplessness and hopelessness? The choice is yours.
"Even they don't know what kind of inner darkness causes them to...."
"I've spoken to enough of them to be able to tell you that they themselves don't know why."
Would like to start a discussion on these words. They are feeling an inner darkness that is compelling them to behave in ways that even they don't understand the reasons for. Yet they act from that place anyway. What could this be? What is this about? Why is this happening?
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Aug 23, 2010, 03:55 PM »
Hi Steve,
And while we ponder this let's remember that the natal Moon of the USA is conjunct it's natal Lucifer IN THE TENTH HOUSE. What are these 'dark forces' about, and why ? Who is behind those 'dark forces' in HUMAN FORM. What are the inner motivations, agendas, that manifest as these 'dark forces'.
God Bless, Rad
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Aug 23, 2010, 11:50 PM »
First, thanks, Steve, for introducing the topic on "Us and Them" and how Grayson approaches it, along with an invitation for our analysis. I hope this will create some excellent discussion.
I wish I could ask Grayson more about what he knows from speaking with these people in THIS paragraph in HIS article:
"I don't know why they want anarchy. In fact, they don't know, either. Even they don't know what kind of inner darkness causes them to seek wars without end, to burn the planet, to welcome poverty for so many, to leave the old and the sick helpless, to cheer oil in the Gulf. I've spoken to enough of them to be able to tell you that they themselves don't know why."
I think the people in power DO know why they're doing what they're doing - to maintain / get back their "position" - their power - and to "own" as much as possible - i.e., their greed. But, of COURSE, they're not going to SAY that out loud, and especially not to Grayson. I DO think he's right about SOME of them (those who have not yet made a contract with evil) not knowing "what kind of inner darkness" is driving them..... i.e., evil, but they DO know what they want and why..... they just haven't realized that all the power they seek - and their very souls - will soon belong to that "inner darkness." Then there's the other group that DOES know what's driving them to grab all they want - be it power, wealth in all its forms, etc - because the people in THIS group HAVE made the contract. What a sorry, disgusting, and distorted state of affairs!
Also.... In the US Chart, the natal n node of Lucifer is at 9 Pisces 18 Rx in the 10th, and the s node of Lucifer is at 11 Leo 01 conj the n node of the moon in the 3rd. And now here comes the TR of Lucifer, currently at 8 Leo, conj the US's lunar n node in the 3rd, AND the TR n node of Lucifer at 10 Aqu 53 Rx, conj the US lunar s node in Aqu in the 9th and opposing the n node and TR s node of Lucifer in the third, and so we've seen the ever more blatant and ubiquitous lies / propaganda. In addition, the TR s node of Lucifer is at 21 Leo 36 in the 4th, and it is opposing the US's natal moon/Lucifer conj in the 10th - using the collective (Aqu) to grab all they can, all the while assuring themselves that the end justifies the means (10th house) to accomplish that.
In spite of the fact that I think evil/Lucifer is more obvious than ever - and certainly more obvious than USUAL - in a SEEMING paradox it is also hiding behind God (see above correlations that are in the 9th house, and all the hoopla over the placement of a mosque near Ground Zero, the continuing babbling by the right wingers/tea partiers, the increasing number of US citizens who think Obama is a Muslim, the behind-the-scenes influence of "The Family" a "Christian" group that includes MANY repub congress people. In mundane astrology, the 10th house includes people in government, and the fourth house includes opposition forces to the government.... again, refer to the Lucifer (including nodes) transits above, and we can see why things are playing out the way they are.
There's a whole lot more, but I am really sleepy, so I have to 'fold' for the night. And Bradley posted while I was writing, so I'll have to read that in the morning.
God Bless Us All.
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Aug 23, 2010, 11:51 PM »
Bradley J,
Wow, I just want to say THANK YOU! --thank you for your integrity, your core splitting honesty, your sharing, your....
...well, your being what you are being~
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Aug 24, 2010, 07:15 AM »
Hello All,
I'd say they are "possessed" by an outer force that feeds on evil (fear, etc.) passed down through generations. To them it's the norm. Most folks don't understand the power of entity possession and have no clue about their energy bodies, thus they move along in life aligning with whatever they have been taught.
Quote from: Bradley J on Aug 23, 2010, 08:32 PM
I do not know what happened in the next one back,
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Aug 24, 2010, 11:42 AM »
Does anyone have Grayson's birth info? and could post the chart? Thanks!
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Aug 24, 2010, 12:22 PM »
Here is an article by the Nobel Award For Economists Paul Krugman that reflects the 'us' versus 'them' that is underway in the USA. I have put in bold the key paragraphy that reflects this reality.
Now That's Rich
By PAUL KRUGMAN
We need to pinch pennies these days. Don't you know we have a budget deficit? For months that has been the word from Republicans and conservative Democrats, who have rejected every suggestion that we do more to avoid deep cuts in public services and help the ailing economy. But these same politicians are eager to cut checks averaging $3 million each to the richest 120,000 people in the country.
What — you haven't heard about this proposal? Actually, you have: I'm talking about demands that we make all of the Bush tax cuts, not just those for the middle class, permanent.
Some background: Back in 2001, when the first set of Bush tax cuts was rammed through Congress, the legislation was written with a peculiar provision — namely, that the whole thing would expire, with tax rates reverting to 2000 levels, on the last day of 2010.
Why the cutoff date? In part, it was used to disguise the fiscal irresponsibility of the tax cuts: lopping off that last year reduced the headline cost of the cuts, because such costs are normally calculated over a 10-year period. It also allowed the Bush administration to pass the tax cuts using reconciliation — yes, the same procedure that Republicans denounced when it was used to enact health reform — while sidestepping rules designed to prevent the use of that procedure to increase long-run budget deficits.
Obviously, the idea was to go back at a later date and make those tax cuts permanent. But things didn't go according to plan. And now the witching hour is upon us.
So what's the choice now? The Obama administration wants to preserve those parts of the original tax cuts that mainly benefit the middle class — which is an expensive proposition in its own right — but to let those provisions benefiting only people with very high incomes expire on schedule. Republicans, with support from some conservative Democrats, want to keep the whole thing.
And there's a real chance that Republicans will get what they want. That's a demonstration, if anyone needed one, that our political culture has become not just dysfunctional but deeply corrupt.
What's at stake here? According to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, making all of the Bush tax cuts permanent, as opposed to following the Obama proposal, would cost the federal government $680 billion in revenue over the next 10 years. For the sake of comparison, it took months of hard negotiations to get Congressional approval for a mere $26 billion in desperately needed aid to state and local governments.
And where would this $680 billion go? Nearly all of it would go to the richest 1 percent of Americans, people with incomes of more than $500,000 a year. But that's the least of it: the policy center's estimates say that the majority of the tax cuts would go to the richest one-tenth of 1 percent. Take a group of 1,000 randomly selected Americans, and pick the one with the highest income; he's going to get the majority of that group's tax break. And the average tax break for those lucky few — the poorest members of the group have annual incomes of more than $2 million, and the average member makes more than $7 million a year — would be $3 million over the course of the next decade.
How can this kind of giveaway be justified at a time when politicians claim to care about budget deficits? Well, history is repeating itself. The original campaign for the Bush tax cuts relied on deception and dishonesty. In fact, my first suspicions that we were being misled into invading Iraq were based on the resemblance between the campaign for war and the campaign for tax cuts the previous year. And sure enough, that same trademark deception and dishonesty is being deployed on behalf of tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.
So, for example, we're told that it's all about helping small business; but only a tiny fraction of small-business owners would receive any tax break at all. And how many small-business owners do you know making several million a year?
Or we're told that it's about helping the economy recover. But it's hard to think of a less cost-effective way to help the economy than giving money to people who already have plenty, and aren't likely to spend a windfall.
No, this has nothing to do with sound economic policy. Instead, as I said, it's about a dysfunctional and corrupt political culture, in which Congress won't take action to revive the economy, pleads poverty when it comes to protecting the jobs of schoolteachers and firefighters, but declares cost no object when it comes to sparing the already wealthy even the slightest financial inconvenience.
So far, the Obama administration is standing firm against this outrage. Let's hope that it prevails in its fight. Otherwise, it will be hard not to lose all faith in America's future.
And here are some examples of the USA simply becoming it's own form of fascism.
* BP can write off 70 percent of the rent it paid to TransOcean for the oil rig "rental." - $225,000 per day
* TransOcean moves its offices to Switzerland and avoids paying $1.8 billion in U.S. taxes.
* Exxon Mobil raked in $19 billion in profit, but thanks to available subsidies, it got a $156-million tax refund.
God Bless, Rad
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Aug 24, 2010, 12:24 PM »
Sheryl, Grayson was born on March 13, 1958 in Bronx, New York. I couldnt find a time.
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Aug 24, 2010, 02:26 PM »
Thank you Dhyana!
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Aug 24, 2010, 05:59 PM »
Clearly we are dealing with the influence of evil. As we know the objective of evil is to create the opposite reality intended, and the survival of evil itself is dependent upon the maintenance of delusion..this is the bottom-line motive, agenda behind what we are seeing.
These forces--evil--are making a desperate push right now in order to maintain a reality in the US that is the opposite of what the US is originally intended to be, at all costs.
What the US is intended to be is a society that recognizes, honors, and protects the intrinsic equality that exists within all human beings as endowed by their Creator, and to celebrate this equality within the relativity/diversity of human nature. This country is intended to be society organized around the fundamental hope/ideal that all citizens, regardless of cultural or religious background, are entitled to "unalienable" rights, which are Life, Liberty, and the ability to pursue whatever path of Happiness one feels called to as a personal destiny. The diverse intertwining of lifestyles that these natural rights produce is meant to constitute the very structure/framework/order of US society, and the system itself is meant to function through a dynamic of integration/cooperation. If these intentions of the US were to be actualized as such, it would equal a human society living in relative alignment with natural law: giving, sharing, including. That is the focus of the evolutionary impulse operating in the context of this country...and what that means is that the focus of evil is to do everything it can to create the opposite reality of these original intentions.
With USA's transiting pluto moving closer toward its own natal return, and the ruler of that pluto, saturn, approaching its natal return in the next few months, this is clearly a critical period of time for evil to assert its in influence in order to undermine and prevent any empowered evolutionary change/mutation from occurring.
With natal lucifer in the 10th house conjunct the moon, we have an obvious symbol for evil using socially influential figures and leaders as instruments who can directly facilitate evil's influence in society. Through these instrumental figures, the influence of evil literally becomes built into the societal structure--it is literally woven into the fabric of society--materialized into laws, initiatives, protocols, taboos, norms, financial priorities, etc, which these figures are appling their social power/dominance/influence to create. In addition, these figures are serving as agents who actively reinforce delusions (delusions rooted in the distorted principles of self-interest/exclusion), through repetitive messages (uranus in gemini) that serve to condition and define the inner realities of the american people..remembering that the majority of american people are looking to such figures as authorities who are supposedly the protectors and advocators of their own inalienable rights. As the delusions of self-interest/exclusion are reinforced within the minds of the american people, the more the people become afraid of the evolutionary change that is upon them...this fear reverberates and broadcasts itself through the collective mind. This causes people to become progressively afraid and suspicious of the very principles they say they are for, and in many cases already envision themselves as reflecting: harmony/equality..belonging to a society that operates via a principled dynamic of fair play..a shared high quality of life..freedom to pursue, find, and know happiness through a self-determined lifestyle that reflects and supports one's unique sense of purpose for living and life itself. Through the distorted subtext contained in all of these repetitive messages, the very principles that are aspired to, become perceived in the minds and emotions of the general population as a direct THREAT to itself!--equality being perceived as a threat to itself..freedom being perceived as threat to itself...etc. And because of the nature of how these messages are being delivered, i.e. through repetition, causing these messages to take root as thought-forms in the subconscious mind, such messages end up influencing up to 80% of unconscious behavior in those who have internalized them. To me, this is a major factor in what we are seeing, in terms of people doing things without really knowing why..supporting things without really knowing why..etc etc..feeling intensely compelled to do so, and simply acting upon those compulsions without any need to square it with what is right or wrong, true or false, rational or irrational.
Beyond the tactic of subconscious repetitive suggestion, which the typical person could use as a tool of manipulation/control, we have to also consider the factor of leaders and other key sociological figures who have formed contracts with evil, including those involved in faustian circumstances. We obviously have Dick Cheney playing a major role from behind the scenes, along with other key figures who have been associated with him. But at this point it's useful to ask the question: why do people/souls form contract with evil? The reason souls form contracts with evil is to gain supernatural powers. And one of the hallmark examples of this kind of supernatural power is the ability to make someone think or believe something that they don't actually think or believe. An example I feel is relevant, in terms of demonstrating exactly this kind of power, is Sarah Palin (not sure if this has already been discussed in other threads). I really don't know if this soul has formed a full-on contract, but to me there seems to be more than enough evidence that would suggest at least a faustian situation. Consider the example of Palin's assertions from the health care reform debates on the issue of counseling services linked with 'living wills: 'this a secret plot by the government to "pull the plug on grandma"...'this is a secret agenda to form government-run "death panels"..blah blah blah.. AND PEOPLE BELIEVED IT. To me that is mind-blowing.
There are many, many other examples of these kinds of ridiculous statements that have directly translated into action/behavior of a surprising large number of people. (Within this is also the aquarian factor of behavioral contagion). Another example of Palin exercising an unusual power of influence, is through the endorsement of political candidates who represent extreme philosophies, intentions, and positions that would defeat the evolutionary steps needed to move this country toward its original intent/collective desire...one very clear example: Sharron Angle winning the nevada primary.
If we think back to the 2008 campaign, and remember the sheer incompetence that was plainly evident in Palin's interviews, we have to ask ourselves how this individual managed to suddenly come into the position of massive influence that we find her in today. The fact of literally abandoning her responsibilities as governor of Alaska in order to 'do her own thing', yet rapidly becoming regarded as one of the 'few legitimate figures' in politics today from the point of view of many americans, to me, is just more evidence of what has been suggested about the true nature and source of her power. I do want to put it out there that I could be wrong about Palin and the potential of a faustian deal as the basis of her overnight political/social power...but I feel fairly comfortable that is accurate. Everyone can observe and judge for themselves.
Anyway, some of my thoughts on the subject..
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Aug 24, 2010, 07:17 PM »
My feeling is that the great majority of the Republican legislators do not have contracts or faustian deals. They are more like sheep. Look at their words:
"Even they don't know what kind of inner darkness causes them to...."
"I've spoken to enough of them to be able to tell you that they themselves don't know why."
This is the language of someone who is under a spell. I'm not saying they are lovely kind but deluded people. Obviously they have tendencies that run along the lines of the behaviors they advocate.
But they are under the influence of something larger than what they realize, something nefarious. And the more they open to this, fall under the hypnotic spell, the more their auto-pilot state becomes ever more closely aligned with this. THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW WHY THEY ARE DOING IT is the giveaway phrase.
I think what Rad was referring to yesterday is there ARE those who DO KNOW why they are doing it, the ones Stacie mentioned and alluded to, who are the conscious agents of the unfolding dark forces. And some of them have high positions in the Republican party, or are powerful advisors and bank rollers of the Republican party. And because the robots have been taught that duty and allegiance are the qualities to develop, they find themselves following the influence of these conscious agents, and it pulls them ever more deeply into the pit they find themselves in, where they don't even know why they are acting as they do.
This to me is the manifest of what Stacie pointed out, the natal lucifer conj moon in 10th house - this is HOW this scenario is being able to work out, through the medium of power and influence. One of my sayings is "evil eats its own", which means the very nature of evil is it could care less how committed to it you are, how dedicated you have been. In the end it is a force of destruction, and in the end those who've committed themselves to it will be consumed by it anyway - its just how it works. Like Hitler at the end of the war bombing his own people because "they failed him, they didn't deserve his great leadership".
I don't know for certain but i'd expect that falling under the complete spell of these forces is a first step towards a potential faustian arrangement or full blown contract. Some who've moved in these directions will eventually snap out of it enough to realize where they are heading, a place they decide they don't want to go. Chuck Hagel, for example, a conservative yet mentally sane Republican former Senator (and Viet Nam vet), realizing the insanity his party is increasingly embracing, has come out supporting Sestak, a liberal Democrat, in the Pennsylvania Senate race, vs supporting the Republican Toomy who is a typical modern insane conservative. Here and there we will see people bucking their party and their own past natures/decisions to advocate for what they feel is right, even though their party will consider them traitors. This takes a lot of courage, because that party consists of people who value loyalty (conformity) above all else, and who have very long memories and can be quite vicious.
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Quote from: Steve on Aug 24, 2010, 07:17 PM
My feeling is that the great majority of the Republican legislators do not have contracts or faustian deals. They are more like sheep.
Yes, I agree with you on that Steve. The exception being Sarah Palin..in this case I do sense that something may be amiss, as I was saying earlier. Again--freely admit that I could be overstating reality, but at this point faustian deal is my instinct. As a side note, Palin's natal lucifer is conjunct a stellium that consists of Palin's sun, mars, and saturn..all in aquarius..which by synastry lands on USA's natal moon/lucifer. Interesting tidbit in my view. Admittedly, this could reflect a slightly less severe condition than a Faustian scenario, which would simply be the following: a condition of being influenced by evil in the context of conscious desires for political leadership, the nature of how those desires are gone about in being acheived, how that power becomes exercised once attained, and how it then influences the emotions and thoughts of the people who find the nature of her identity and personal story a basis of inspiration--and the impulses such inspiration promotes among the like-minded people who are drawn to Palin, and organize as followers of the philosophies she prescribes...carrying those philosophies out into coordinated group action, thereby generating an impact on society at large through the dynamics introduced by the group movement into the mainstream political atmosphere...leading to tangible results like those we are seeing, such as the Sharron Angle's of the world winning primary elections, and groups of common people becoming empowered to get together and go bezerk at town hall meetings that are otherwise intended for civil discussion.
I'm glad Steve spoke more directly to the mindset behind the behavior we are seeing in our actual legislators..that is the original basis for this discussion after all, which I neglected to say much about specifically...though the general dynamics I talked about also apply to legislators as much as they do the general population.
Steve I hope your right that more members of congress will find the courage to be and act as a group of one, for the sake of what is naturally right for this country, regardless of what the political ramifications upon their individual careers might be..
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Hi - I don't expect to see a substantial number of legislators bucking the trend. I think its all too ingrained and permeated.
I was using Hagel as an example of a principle. My point is, unless someone has done a contract, they still have free choice to change their minds, to change directions. However it takes a tremendous amount of courage for someone to do so at this point. But that is a path for a soul to evolve, to see its beliefs have been distorted and the consequences of those beliefs are getting out of hand. For the few such souls with the courage to look at themselves and change course, a lot of growth is possible.
I do feel as things move forward we will be seeing, in both directions, some people changing in ways we never imagined. That is, some people we felt were creeps will start to see more of the light of day, while some we thought were basically good guys will be showing other colors as they make up their minds which direction in the new reality they are heading. Everything is changing, starting right now and we will be seeing many things we never dreamed we would see, good and bad.
As far as Palin, this is a woman who literally can not tell the truth, and does not know the difference between truth and lies/make believe. She is the epitome of self-interest, a walking textbook example. I'd say there is a very good possibility she has direct connection with dark forces. I read a piece today that even some of the tea party people are starting to abandon her because they have finally realized all she is about is becoming famous and advancing herself. When the tea party people start to abandon someone who has beliefs like Palin you have to know where she is coming from is very extreme.
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All of this is really well-said. How I've missed sharing this kind of dialogue with you Steve...and that goes for all the rest of you beloved EA compadres..if I could I'd be lining all of you up right now for power hugs
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It's SOOO good to have you back on the forum, Stacie! Welcome "HOME!"
Love, Adina
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Formerly (How to Separate the Deified Jesus from the Jesus Within? (The Birth of Black Jesus)
There are a few people wondering why I advocate using the Lord's Prayer even though I consider myself to be a follower of the Kamitic philosophy. It is because as a shaman, I am concerned with what works because most of our ancestors were Christians and we come from a Christian background. But, due to misinterpretation, misrepresentation, and misunderstanding about the ideas our ancestors had about Jesus Christ. There is a lot of confusion circulating around. This has led a number of us to turn our back on spirituality or worse become an atheist, which is totally out of sync with our nature and a true slap in our ancestors' face. So, let's begin.
This discussion started when I was talking with my wife and at the time we were watching the film Red Tails, and noted that one of the pilots had a picture of Black Jesus. I am not sure if people got it but the director was trying to show how there were two depictions of Jesus that existed. To understand this, it has to be remembered that when the Africans were brought to North America, unlike the Africans in the Caribbean and South America. They were unable to practice their religious beliefs, which most of us already are aware of. Consequently, they had to adapt and modify their beliefs and practices in order to survive in the new hostile environment they found themselves in. Now, contrary to popular belief, the Africans brought to the North America were not forcefully converted to Christianity as some authors believe. There's a substantial amount of historic evidence that reveals that many of the people from the Kongo-Angolan region had converted to Christianity prior to the advent of the slave trade. This means that even though most of the Africans from this region weren't Christian, many of them had knowledge of this European faith.
During slavery, for almost hundred or more years, Protestant Euro-Americans were very leery about converting the Africans to Christianity for fear that baptism would give them "crazy ideas" that they were free from bondage. So they gave the early African Americans bits and pieces to make the people subservient, which allowed the early African Americans to fill in the voids with their own beliefs and practices. According to my research, most of these beliefs were influenced by the Kongo cosmogram. This went on for years until evangelical Baptist and Methodist preachers began traveling through the south during the Great Awakening. It was during this time a large number of early African Americans converted to the Christian faith and one of the big drawing points was water baptism. According to classic Kongo belief, it was a barrier of water that separated the land of the living from the land of the ancestors or spiritual realm. When one crossed over to the spiritual realm and returned back to the land of the living with a change of consciousness, it was believed they were reborn, a similar belief existed in Kamit (see the maa aankh). Prior to the early African American involvement in Christianity, you will not find this belief nor practice, because it is straight from Africa particularly the Kongo-Angolan region. In fact, there is no proof of people ever speaking in tongues, the sign of the Holy Ghost, until African Americans joined the church and people were struck by the Spirit at the Azuza Street Revival.
So, what this means is that for more than a hundred years, early African Americans even though they were not encouraged practiced their traditional beliefs did manage to blend their beliefs and practices with European religion, which became the foundation of what we call the Black Church Experience. It was from this spiritual legacy, that the Black Jesus was born.
Now, for those of us searching for spiritual answers and trying to find our way (our maa), we find this hard to accept. I know I did because we wonder why our people would willingly convert to the religion of our enemy. Why would they willingly convert to a religion that taught that they were meant to be beast of burden and the wretched of the earth based upon the so-called Hamitic myth? I know that if you are like me, you probably have ancestors that resisted this and you're probably torn up inside about the whole Jesus issue. Well, through a lot of souls searching and conversations with my ancestors I learned that early African Americans didn't really convert to Christianity. They actually created their own version of the religion, which began in the Kongo, this is where Black Jesus was born and why in the Caribbean Black Jesus is associated with Kongo spirituality.
Now when I say Black Jesus, I am not just talking about a painting of Jesus painted as an African man. I am speaking about the concept of a Black Jesus. That is an individual who suffered right alongside the slave in the field. An individual that was beaten and whipped by the oppressor, and then persecuted because of the color of his skin. Just think for a moment. Have you heard or read anything about Jesus? If you're like me, most likely you haven't. There is not much written about him, but you can identify with him because he exists in your racial consciousness. This is the Jesus that Negro spirituals and the first gospel songs were all about. I don't care what you claim to believe, even the staunchest black atheists today can't resist the power of Mahalia Jackson singing, "How I got over," because this is the Jesus that she is singing about. Black Jesus was birthed out of struggle.
The difference between Black Jesus and the Jesus that was taught in Sunday school is that Black Jesus is a powerful archetype that took on the characteristics of the Kongo nganga's (Kongo priests) and the Yoruba orishas. This is why if you read any books about the religion of the slaves, like the Slave Religion by Robert Robetau. You will find that early African Americans loved Jesus because he was a healer and a miracle worker like Moses. In fact, next to Moses he was considered to be the greatest healer or conjure man of the bible. Note that I said, next to Moses. Another difference was that Black Jesus wasn't worshipped like Jesus is nowadays, but was talked to like a familiar friend or a common ancestor, because he was about community and was associated with the superconscious. The interesting thing about this is that Jesus was viewed the same way in the Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Latin America, which means this could not be a coincidence.
The superconscious also called the higher consciousness, objective consciousness, divine consciousness, the Spirit also referred to as God. It is what connects us all together as one. It is the divine spark that dwells within each and every one of us regardless if we believe it exists or not. It is what gives us the divine potential to accomplish anything we put our minds to. Many non-Western cultures created spiritual cultures to cultivate peoples' higher spiritual abilities. For instance, we all have the ability to see into the future but in order to achieve such a goal requires us to learn how to listen to our higher consciousness or simply intuit. Spiritual cultures focused on developing these abilities in individuals so that they could greater contribution to the survival of the entire community; whereas non-spiritual cultures simply focused on the physical survival of the people by dominating and subjecting others to their physical rule.
Early African Americans (as well as others in the African diaspora) have known about the or superconscious for hundreds of years because they are descendants from African shamanic cultures. In shamanic traditions, the way to access the superconscious is through dancing, drumming, fasting, sensory deprivation, exposure to extremes of temperature, or the use of psychoactive drugs. Those familiar with the African American religious experience will note that besides the latter two, all of these practices can be found within the Black Church. These practices along with the latter two (exposure to extreme temperature and psychoactive drugs) are readily used within the Native American spiritual services, which should give you a general idea as to how the relationship between Native Americans and early African Americans evolved.
Anyway, the early African Americans danced, chanted, fasted and on occasion drummed (using handclaps, hand and body slaps – i.e. hambone since drums were officially outlawed) to go into trance and meet Black Jesus who gave them certain virtues like lucidity, patience, kindness, truthfulness, humility, and forgiveness towards one's fellow man, which is called Gifts of the Spirit or the Holy Ghost in some churches. These are all qualities that according to traditional spiritual teachings, one cannot obtain without ascending to the higher consciousness or meeting Black Jesus. Unfortunately, because many African American pastors refuse to research their own spiritual lineage. They fail to understand that this is the reason they feel they have to go to church. It though has nothing to do with the church itself but it is all about connecting to the Divine consciousness. Some of the other fruits of the Spirit are chastity, faithfulness, gentleness, generosity, goodness, love, modesty, self-control, strength, wisdom, counsel, and peace. So, you see, the bible simply conveyed what early African Americans already knew about the super consciousness, which the Kamitic people called the ba – the divine spark.
But somewhere along the way, things went awry in regards to the Black Spiritual Experience. Many have traced this great change back to around the Civil Rights and Cultural Movement of the 1970s. It is not known exactly what happened but it seems as if the Black Jesus fulfilled his purpose and people had no more use of him as they got more rights and freedoms. The reason is that people started accepting the Euro-American Protestant idea of Jesus who was more about individualism instead of community. It should be noted that around this same time, there was a sharp decline as conditions in the community across the country got worst. As people migrated out of the neighborhoods, more and more drugs became available. Isn't it interesting that most of the social ills that exist in our communities were not present prior to that time? The other interesting thing is that it wasn't that drugs, prostitution, etc. did not exist at all, but there was something preventing it from running rapidly as it exists today. The reason is that there was a change in consciousness. In a matter of time, the religious experience of African Americans moved from communal based spirituality to individualism.
This is why in the minds of many; Black Jesus is simply an image. He is not the Black Jesus of old, which is why no matter what color Jesus is. For many of us, it is hard to divorce ourselves from the myth versus the cruel reality associated with Christianity. When we hear the name Jesus what comes to mind are all of the atrocities that were done in Jesus' name, under the banner of a long blonde hair man looking to the heavens. Understand, I have nothing against Europeans and their descendants but it has to be understood the psychological and spiritual damage that was committed due to the idea of some and their so-called "master race." Although Hitler was the only individual to build a society that worked towards the annihilation of other ethnicities, he wasn't the only one that believed in such theories. These theories of white superiority had been circulating around Western civilization for centuries. It was these theories that later inspired Colonialism, which is why in the minds of many (especially those who know history) they are associated with Jesus.
So that we are clear about the confused state people are in regarding Jesus. Just think about the four little girls that were killed in a church bombing in Alabama by Jesus loving Klansmen of the KKK. Clearly, these individuals that committed this crime didn't know anything about the peaceful teaching of Jesus, but can you imagine still loving a God that would seem to condone such acts of violence? What about all of the lynchings of all the Black, Jewish, Native American and Hispanic men by so-called Christian men and women? Imagine if you were a Native American and you were told that Jesus didn't love you and you would not go to heaven because your entire way of life is uncivilized, along with the number of treaties supposedly made under God that was broken? Could you still love Jesus? This is why Jesus leaves a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths because of the actions and behaviors of foolish and ignorant people. Jesus taught about love but many of his stewards all around the world have done otherwise. And, they are doing the same thing today. This is why a lot of young people are not just turning away from him but turning away from spirituality altogether. And, it is not just minorities. Many Westerners are turning away from Jesus and to atheism because of the same negative history. I can't tell you how many atheists I have met that are so fond of talking about the various atrocities committed in the name of the savior. And, why is there all of this confusion? It is simply because some zealous men made Jesus and the God one and the same. It is hard to worship a God that oppresses you, but we can't exist without God, because being spiritual beings in a physical body. We need God just as much as God needs us. Without God, we have no access to the spiritual fruits that were spoken of earlier, but without us. God cannot physically implement His/Her plan in the world of the living.
So, how do we get rid of this evil concept so that we can grow spiritually? How do we erase the hundreds of misinterpreted, misrepresented, and just totally incorrect ideas about God and Jesus that have been told to us throughout the ages?
We just simply need to return to the old ways and see that Jesus is an archetype of who we are supposed to be. Jesus is not God, which is why he never talked to God by talking to himself. He talked to God like everyone else did by speaking with his superconscious or ba. Notice that when the disciples asked Jesus how they should speak to God, he said talk to the father by saying, "Our Father." Jesus gave an ancient recipe on how to connect with the ba. It is a similar recipe that the psalmist gave in the Book of Psalms, which is why was the most popular book in early African American and Jewish folk traditions. If you look far enough you will find this is the same way the Kamitic people spoke about God when they mentioned Osar.
When you really read about Jesus it makes sense why he clearly told his disciples not to worship him, because he knew it would confuse people. Jesus understood that the superconscious was the ba and he identified it with God. This is why saying the Lord's Prayer or Psalm 23 empowers you because it is poetic and it invokes the Spirit within our being. It is spiritual alchemy that the ancient Hebrews learned from guess who? That's right the Kamitic people, who people are beginning to recognize now were master shamans. So, to reprogram your lower consciousness and rid yourself of the old, dogmatic ideas of Jesus and your divinity, invoke your ba as Jesus did. Jesus referred to his ba as his Father. Early African Americans the following suit referred to their ba as God or Lord. This is why the Kamitic people understanding the nature of the ba called God Nebertcher (Ne-ba-tchar) – The Lord of All Things, which is why it is perfectly okay if you are trying to clean your spiritual slate to pray the Lord's Prayer.
I hope that helps.


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Taste of Chicago
July 11-15, 2012
Chicago, Illinois
This outdoor food festival, located in beautiful Grant Park, highlights the diversity of Chicago's cuisine. Each day will showcase a new group of restaurants, set up as pop-Up restaurants. Some of the restaurants participating include Beat Kitchen, Austrian Bakery, and West Town Tavern. By purchasing a $40 pre-paid ticket, participants will be invited to "Celebrity Chef du Jour", where a guest chef will prepare a three-course meal, and converse with the guests. If you're looking for entertainment, the festival will feature evening concerts with performers such as Jennifer Hudson, Death Cab for Cutie, and Chaka Khan. In case you want to run off some of that food, sign up for the 20th Annual Race to Taste 5k Run/2-Mile Walk, which will be held on Thursday, July 12. Maybe your kids want to get in on the action, and if they do, enter them in the Fleet Feet Sports Kid's Dash, taking place in Butler Field on Saturday, July 14th. Don't miss out on this "taste" of Chicago!
Slugburger Festival
July 12-14, 2012
Corinth, Mississippi
Located at the historic Train Depot in Corinth, Mississippi, the annual Slugburger Festival will be put on for the twenty-fifth year in a row this summer. Don't worry! This hometown treasure is not made from gastropod mollusks. The slugburger is a combination of beef and a breading extender, deep-fat fried, and topped with mustard, pickle, and a generous amount of onions. Back when slugburgers were first created, they sold for a nickel. A slang word for nickel was a slug, and therefore, the name "slugburger" was born. Lately, soybean meal has been used at the breading extender, adding protein to this delicious burger. Vegetable oil is usually used to fry thesm, making them a little bit healthier. So come on down and grab a slugburger, and be sure to catch the Slug Idol contest, back by popular demand. Contestants will compete for money, as well as the title of "Slug Idol". The top three winners will have the opportunity to open the Slugburger Festival Friday night. With good food and entertainment, this festival is sure to be a crowd pleaser!
Cheesemakers Festival
July 22, 2012
Shelburne Farms, Vermont
There is something rather charming about people gathering together to celebrate their passion for making and tasting cheese. Vermont is known for their plentiful number of cheesemakers, so therefore it should be no surprise that they have decided to create a whole festival around it. Patrons will be able to taste and buy cheese, along with sip some wine and beer to complement all the cheesy goodness. Even some experimental cheese flavors pop up--who would think to marry the flavors of chocolate or even lavender to cheese? Well, the cheesemakers at this festival seem to think so, and with all their experience, their skills are probably sharper than a bite of cheddar... if that wasn't too cheesy of a pun for this festival.
Gilroy Garlic Festival
July 27-29, 2012
Gilroy, California
For thirty-four years people have been flocking to Gilroy California to celebrate the four elements of life, food, beverages, arts and crafts, and entertainment. The Gilroy Garlic Festival's initial purpose was to share garlic-infused recipes with people from all over. There are also cook-offs, and recipe contests, as well as arts and crafts to keep people entertained and busy. Dishes like garlic fries, garlic chicken stir-fry, and garlic ice cream are only some of what you will see there. What is most intriguing about what goes on at Gilroy is the Gourmet Alley where patrons can enjoy food from a bunch of vendors. Such foods include steak tacos, fried garlic shrimp/chicken quesadillas, smoked beef brisket, calamari, and many more. Enjoy yourself but remember that food-gasming is socially unacceptable in public.
Maine Lobster Festival
August 1-5, 2012
Rockland's Harbor Park, Maine
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September 1-2, 2012
Coca-Cola Field Buffalo, New York
The concept for the festival was derived from the movie "Osmosis Jones." Bill Murray played a compulsive eater whose goal was to partake in the super bowl of junk food, The National Buffalo Wing Festival. Drew Cerza, also known as the Wing King, decided to make the fictional event into a reality. Cerza takes it one step further by donating a portion of the proceeds to local charities. Compete in a wing contest, enjoy the various entertainment acts, or make it a family event with Kidzone, this festival offers much more than just finger food.
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- 200g dark muscovado sugar
- 750g luxury mixed dried fruit (one that includes mixed peel and glacé cherries)
- finely grated zest and juice of 1 orange
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- finely grated zest of 1 lemon
Oval in shape with a pronouced bulge on one end, lemons are one of the most versatile…
- 100ml/3½ fl oz cherry brandy or brandy plus 4tbsp more
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- 85g macadamia nut
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Put the butter, sugar, fruit, zests, juice and 100ml/3½fl oz brandy in a large pan. Bring slowly to the boil, stirring until the butter has melted. Reduce the heat and bubble for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
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Spoon the mixture into the tin and smooth it down evenly - you will find this is easiest with the back of a metal spoon which has been dipped into boiling water.
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A couple of guys from Hawaii have taken daredevil surfing to a whole new level. Garrett McNamara and Kealii Mamala set out to surf a huge wave caused by a calving glacier in Cordova, Alaska. The duo waited for 20 hours a day over the course of a week for a 300-foot-tall glacier to create the icy wave. McNamara was on a surfboard and Mamala was on a personal watercraft, a practice known as tow-in surfing.
When a chunk of ice finally broke off the glacier and created the massive wave, it was tremendous. Forty-five-year-old McNamara said of the experience, "It's the heaviest thing I've ever done in my life! ... It's like the Empire State Building about to come down on top of you. ... It was the closest I've ever come to death."
The video of the pair's attempt to surf the wave was recorded by world-renowned surfing videographer Ryan Casey, who can be heard in the background yelling in disbelief at how massive the wave is. You can also hear Casey become anxious as he wonders if his friends are in danger, because for several moments it appears that the situation is extremely perilous, and McNamara looks as though he's being swallowed up by the wave. Casey says, "Oh, is he in there? Is he gonna come out?" For a while, Casey loses sight of McNamara and wonders where he is until he catches a glimpse of him surfing his way out of the enormous wave.
Casey inspired the duo to take on the glacier wave. McNamara is best known for beating the world record in 2011 for catching the largest wave, at about 78 feet high off the coast of Nazaré, Portugal.
The men have said that there's nothing that compares to the rush they felt after achieving such a feat, and they're not sure if there will ever be anything else that can compare.
The video was originally posted in 2007 and has been viewed more than 1.4 million times.
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London's city center takes up about two percent of the city. On the Tube map, it looks four times as big.
Over in New York City, Central Park—which is a skinny sliver, much longer than it is wide—was depicted in some 1960s and '70s IRT maps as a fat rectangle on its side.
So public transit maps are distorted, quite on purpose. All of them enlarge city centers. Many use a fixed distance between stations out in the boonies, even if, in reality, they're spaced wildly differently. Curvy lines are made straight. Transfers are coded with dots, lines, and everything in between.
According to Zhan Guo, an assistant professor of urban planning and transportation policy at NYU Wagner, certain cities allow for more flight of fancy than others. San Francisco and New York have a lot of geographic markers, so passengers will only accept so much map distortion. New York's grid system further discourages excessive futzing. In Chicago, the line is elevated, which leaves even less leeway. But in a place like London, with twisty streets, few geographical markers other than the Thames, and an underground system, you can pull a lot more over on people.
Not that transit map distortions are malicious. A lot of these simplifications are necessary for good design. If people could keep a geographically accurate map in their heads, we might use them more—but, as we've known for decades, we can only remember so many discrete bits of information at once (between five and nine, as per George Miller's seminal 1956 paper, "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two").
Schematic maps, by necessity, balance between detail and readability. "If you try to get everything in, it becomes meaningless, usually," says Lance Wyman, who designed D.C.'s Metro map more than 30 years ago and is redesigning it to incorporate the new Silver Line. When Wyman, who also designed the Mexico City Metro map (as well as the logo for the 1968 Mexico Olympic Games), sits down to convert a wily transit system into something people can understand, he aims not just to make it readable, but to enable each viewer to describe it to a friend. The stations need to be sequenced correctly, and their intersections must be clear. Color-coding helps—but be mindful of the colorblind. Keep the map legible—which includes simple station names. (D.C.'s had gotten rather long, which, Wyman says, "is always a struggle," though WMATA did agree to shorten more than half a dozen station names for an updated map unveiled this summer.) Finally, give the map some character: "A big part of my work has always been to integrate the essence of the community," Wyman says. "From my own experience, when it works, everyone kind of sees that it works."
So, to play to our cognitive capacities and honor all these principles, there's no choice but to distort maps. The thing is, we humans are always using heuristics to make decisions, public transit choices included. Everyone might know a map "works," but we don't necessarily know how it's working on us.
When we plan out a route, we consider tons of factors: distance, travel time, number of transfers, walking time, waiting time, direction, reliability, level of crowding, operating hours, cost, seat availability, aesthetics, and more. So what happens when we make decisions based on inaccurate maps?
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Zhan Guo has only one transit map displayed in his office, and it's lying on its back in his bookcase. It's surprising, perhaps, for a researcher who studies how we plot our travel routes. But it's nowhere near as surprising as his main finding: we trust transit maps even more than our own experience.
In an extensive study of the London Tube, published last year, Guo found that passengers tend to take routes that look shorter, even if they're actually longer. This is no small difference: the map depiction is about two times more influential than lived experience. Passengers who knew the system well were less likely to be duped than first-time riders, but even they still regularly fell under the Tube map's spell.
It makes intuitive that sense that we prefer transfers that look convenient, but convenience gets tricky when complicated transfers appear simpler than they actually are. In the London Underground, the Victoria and Oxford Circus stations are depicted as dots, while Baker St. and Bank/Monument are each two dots connected with lines. The first two involve relatively complex transfers, but by modeling the various alternatives a passenger on a given route must consider before making a transfer choice, Guo calculated that their codification on the map might attract 960 and 516 additional passengers, respectively, every workday. As for Baker St. and Bank/Monument? That dot-line-dot icon, which looks like it involves an underground trek, probably deters 216 and 147 respective passengers each day.
We scorn indirect routes, too. In a 2008 study of Santiago's Metro map, a group of researchers in Chile found that we are not likely to pick a route with portions that veer significantly from our destination. And University of Florida professor Hartwig Hochmair found, in a study of road maps, that we prefer to take a straight road and then go through a squiggly bit at the end of car trip than to squiggle first and drive straight later. We are picky travelers.
Picky, but often inaccurate. Based on Guo's findings, a New Yorker might think nothing of transferring at the map-dot that is Times Square—which involves winding up, down and around through an enormous station—but avoid at all costs the long line connecting the 14th St. 1/2/3 with the L. It's a long underground walk, to be sure, but worse than Times Square? Unlikely.
Individual decisions bloom into system-wide effects. Center enlargement—a necessity if you want all the names and transfers to be legible—has a dual effect on mass behavior, Guo surmises.
"Those last one or two stops are generally in an urban center, so they tend to congest the system," he says. If passengers got out at Park St. and walked instead of transferring for one stop, it would clear out a ton of human traffic underground. The flip side: the apparently short distance from the outskirts to downtown areas could make city hubs seem much more accessible to many people who live far away.
Which leads to Guo's big question: "Can we change the map in order to change people's behavior?" If we believe maps over our own knowledge, and we do, the answer is likely yes. In a new study of D.C.'s Metrorail system, Guo is measuring the difference. He's collaborated with Wyman to produce three variations on the Metro map, all of which increase the apparent length of the Blue and Orange Lines at the point that they cross the Potomac River. One increases to the west, one to the north, and one in both directions. Comparing reactions to these maps to the current one, and to a real geographic map, will help Guo better understand how both route length and directionality can factor into passengers' decisions.
Can Guo and Wyman encourage people, through design alone, to transfer to the Yellow Line over the river instead of staying on the Blue? This isn't just a matter of intellectual interest: The Rosslyn tunnel is overcrowded, so rerouting some human traffic would make a difference. "Even if you can switch one or two percent of passengers from the Blue to the Yellow Line, that's a big success, because the cost is zero," Guo says.
That is, altering infrastructure is expensive, and since many transit agencies, including WMATA, face big budget shortfalls, it's often difficult, if not impossible. But changing a map—making this crowded line look longer and less convenient, or replacing that complex-looking transfer with a dot—could change usage patterns practically for free. Mapmakers could nudge us to not only use less crowded lines, but also get out and walk, transfer at less trafficked stations, or even use alternate transit systems.
Unless passengers catch on. Though if Guo's work has any merit at all, it's not likely we will.
Jessica Gross is a writer based in New York City. She's contributed to The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review Daily, Scientific American Mind, and Tablet, among other places. All posts »


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1933 Model A Roadster - Built Fast
A Light Car With Big Power Is Fun!
Jim Clark lives in Hays, Kansas, a few miles from Ellis, the home of Mike Keller's shop, Big Creek Restoration (BCR). Jim and Keller have been friends ever since BCR built Jim's '66 Mustang several years ago. Jim still visits the shop from time to time to see what they're working on.
When he dropped by in December 2009, Keller showed him a '30 Model A roadster with an Olds 455 that he was rebuilding to drive to the L.A. Roadster Show in June. That visit changed Jim's life. "We went for a ride. Wow! A light car with big power is fun!"
On December 28, Jim was on the phone to Keller. "I told him I wanted to go to the L.A. Roadster Show too-could he build me a roadster in time? He said he'd think about it. The next day he called back. He could build it, but in order to get all the parts in time, it was going to have to happen fast."
By the end of the first week in January, Keller and Glyn Lindberg at BCR had compiled a parts list and finished most of the ordering. One of their first calls was to Steve's Auto Restoration (SAR) in Portland, Oregon, which builds Real Steel roadster bodies. SAR had a 1933 Model A roadster "on the shelf" and had it shipped to Kansas quick. Jim liked the version with a cowl vent and external door hinges for an authentic look, which has been completed by a pair of Bob Drake Reproductions stock door handles. Front fender aprons were extended to flow into the lower cowl sides. Rootlieb supplied the hood top and Rod Tops sent a cloth top. A pair of SO-CAL shorty mirrors were mounted on the windshield stanchions, and '33 commercial headlights and '37 taillights provide fore and aft illumination. Ernie Fink and Alan Stouffer at BCR did most of the bodywork and Kyle Kinderknecht did lots of fabrication, including all the brackets and pieces that make it all go together. Jim wanted the roadster painted deep blue and several shades were mixed before Fink finished the job with PPG's single-stage version of '30 Pierce Arrow Blue.
The tires are Michelin radials. Front skinnies are 145SR15 XZX blackwalls and the rears are 235/85R16 XPS Rib light truck tires. Painted Gennie steel rims from Wheel Vintiques are dressed up with '41 Ford caps and rings. The front brakes are 12-inch Buick 45-fin drums with Wilson Welding backing plates. Currie 11-inch drums are used in the rear.
Plenty of engines would have been cool in this roadster, but Mike hit the bulls eye with a '65 dual carb top oiler 427. LG Machine in Ellis took care of the machine and assembly work, balancing and blueprinting the 0.020-over Ford. Internals include 10:1 JE pistons, LeMans rods, and Clevite bearings. Heads and headers, valve covers, and an air cleaner are stock, as is the 2x4 intake manifold topped with 600-cfm Holleys. An MSD 6AL-2 and Mallory distributor wake up the 427, capable of 430 hp and 480 lb-ft of torque. A C4 Street Smart System automatic transmission from Performance Automotive delivers that torque to the rearend.
The interior is as classic and classy as a traditional sports car, starting with deep tan leather covering a Glide bench and BCR custom door panels, plus German square-weave covering the floor. Gasper Auto Trim in Victoria, Kansas, did a beautiful job on the upholstery. Distinctive '37 Nash gauges, restored and revived by Redline Gauge Works, were added to the modified Brookville dash. A LimeWorks banjo wheel and column, Bob Drake mirror, and Gennie 12-inch Ultra Shifter are other elements adding to the looks. A Custom Autosound Secretaudio system and Pyle speakers were installed by BCR.
Jim said the ride to California was one of the best of his life-visiting roadside attractions, stopping at the state signs for pictures, and eating sandwiches in gas station parking lots. "And the view from a roadster is so much different." Jim put 3,800 miles on the roadster last summer-with more planned for this year, including a trip from Hays to Washington State. More miles, state signs, gas station sandwiches, and tourist sites in a built-fast, built-to-drive, light car with big power.


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Rumor: 76ers looking to trade Elton Brand with Andre Iguodala?
There was talk about the Cavs trading for 76ers guard/forward Andre Iguodala. One source seems to indicate the Sixers might ask teams to take Elton brand off their hands, too, in such a deal.
HoopsVibe's Very Quick Call: From MVP candidate to grenade. This is the plight of power forward Elton Brand.
Not long ago, Brand was the straw that stirred the drink for a promising Los Angeles Clippers squad. Then he injured his Achilles. And, despite missing an entire season, managed to get a maximum contract from the Philadelphia 76ers.
From day one, this was a poor match. The 76ers like to run. Brand prefers a slower, half-court game.
There was little interest in a broken down Brand and his big ticket. So the cellar-dwelling 76ers have resorted to packaging him with the marketable Andrew Iguodala.
Bottom line: if a team wants 'Iggy' they have to take Brand.
There are two problems with this strategy. First, few teams have the cap space and resources to assume Brand and Iguodala's combined salary of $26 million. Those that do aren't interested.
Second, Brand and Iguodala's hefty price tag means the 76ers would surely have to take back a problem contract in a trade. The rebuilding 76ers need young assets, expiring contracts, and draft picks to pair with Evan Turner. They don't need a frustrated, overpaid veteran to lead the kids astray.
There's no easy way for the 76ers to free themselves of Brand.
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Cloud Cult
The debut of IBM's Open Cloud Manifesto has proven more pratfall than grand entrance. When the controversial "standards" document–which calls for the cloud, like the Internet itself, to be open–finally went live this morning, it did so without a number of important signatories. Among them: Amazon (AMZN), Google (GOOG) and Microsoft (MSFT)–the three largest providers of cloud computing services, and the Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum–a group that helped draft the document. Seems that in the end, the process through which the Open Cloud Manifesto was created was too closed even for some of its co-authors.
"When the Open Cloud Manifesto is officially released on Monday, March 30, the CCIF's name will not appear as a signatory," Reuven Cohen, a CCIF founder and co-author of the manifesto, said in a message to CCIF members last night. "This decision comes with great pain as we fully endorse the document's contents and its principals of a truly open cloud. However, this community has issued a mandate of openness and fair process, loudly and clearly, and so the CCIF can not in good faith endorse this document."
The CCIF's withdrawal of its endorsement comes a few days after Microsoft publicly trashed the manifesto as flawed. "We were admittedly disappointed by the lack of openness in the development of the Cloud Manifesto," Microsoft manager Steve Martin wrote in a post to a Microsoft blog. "What we heard was that there was no desire to discuss, much less implement, enhancements to the document despite the fact that we have learned through direct experience. Very recently we were privately shown a copy of the document, warned that it was a secret, and told that it must be signed 'as is,' without modifications or additional input. It appears to us that one company, or just a few companies, would prefer to control the evolution of cloud computing, as opposed to reaching a consensus across key stakeholders (including cloud users) through an 'open' process. An open Manifesto emerging from a closed process is at least mildly ironic."
Indeed, but perhaps to be expected given its leading proponent. IBM (IBM), after all, doesn't really have a cloud offering of its own. Which is why the company is so keen on pushing this standard–and controlling it. As ZDNet's Dana Blankenhorn aptly notes, "While [Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Salesforce.com] are selling cloud services, IBM is going into the business of building actual clouds. Open standards would benefit IBM, giving its customers assurances they are future-proof."
Those who can, do; those who can't, propose standards…


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Aquia Harbour is the premier gated community of Stafford County, Virginia. We are located approximately 45 miles south of Washington DC, 15 miles north of Fredericksburg and 70 miles north of Richmond. The historic Aquia Creek runs through our community providing a year-round navigable waterway leading to the Potomac River and on to the Chesapeake Bay. Beautiful woodlands surround our homes and give the community the feel of a delightful country setting. "The Harbour", as we often refer to our community, encompasses over 2,000 acres including 400 acres of protected wetlands. Wildlife abounds; you can watch osprey fish the creek and see deer feeding in the surrounding forest. We are far enough away from the city to see a myriad of stars light the evening skies but close enough to be visiting the sites of Washington, DC in under an hour.
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