Yes, that heading is just a teaser—wishful thinking—but it just might happen by the end of the year. If both Houses of Congress lose their Democratic majorities (to the Republicans <shudder>), Obozo may see the rest of his term as being quite irrelevant, and rightfully so. Given all the scandal surrounding his secret past and sure ineligibility, he may take this opportunity to bow out before he is brought up on charges of treason. » read more »

The end is near. Are you ready? Will you be found in obedience when the Master returns? Are you holy, set apart from the ways of the world? Does the whole of your life belong the Lord alone? Will ישוע (Jesus) the King recognize you as His servant? Time is short. Now is the time to make your chosen allegiance clear for all time.

Obama has illegally ordered the Border Patrol to withdraw from the border, cease capturing illegals and/or release them, and all but stopped fines and raids of employers also aiding and abetting foreign invaders. Just how much longer will lawful Americans permit this traitorous usurper to continue betraying our nation?

I just added a new quotation to TC's rotation.

A man's mind is no place for a woman.

It's a well known joke among men, though women interpret it wrongly every time. Don't ever ask a man what he's thinking. Explaining this as nicely as possible, avoiding the harsh light of full revelation, the brutality of men's thoughts offends the sensibilities of women. » read more »

A modicum of justice occurs, here in GA, as a matter of fact.

CANTON, Ga. - Ron Tripodo has lived in Canton's Bridgemill subdivision for two years. For most of that time he has been involved in a flagpole fight. The 16-foot tall fixture hasn't flown well with the Bridgemill Homeowners Association.

"I got a letter saying, 'Take your flag down. You can put it in your backyard' and I just refused to do it," Tripodo. » read more »

Mexican police patrolling NYC:

In a series of events which has caused wide notice and a storm of protests, the government of Mexico, through its consulate in New York in the United Nations, has announced it will begin patrolling the New York City borough of Staten Island to “safeguard” its nationals there. » read more »

How can parents say they love their children when they do this to them?

We're at his classroom. We're supposed to leave right away. They told us that in Parents' Orientation. They said hanging around only makes it worse. It couldn't be any worse. Robby is fighting panic, asking questions, stalling to keep us there, tears running quietly down his cheeks.

"How many hours will it be?" he asks. » read more »

On a thread about politically paid bloggers*, one commenter noted:

It is near [sic] impossible to change people's political ideologies, and it is completely impossible to change the ideology of people when you insult them.

Au contraire. » read more »

Surprise, surprise. Evidence is showing the sun is affecting radioactive decay rates, long thought to be immutable constants. If decay rates can vary, then the foundation for all ancient dating methods is bogus. Along with other, mounting evidence against an old earth, this suggests young-earthers may be right*. » read more »

TuscanyCircle is undergoing some aesthetic changes today. Enjoy the show.

Update: The changes are mostly done now. I expect to fix some minor issues as I encounter them. Feel free to let me know of problems you see. For the most part, though, the new look is now in place. You may have to reload/refresh the page or possibly purge your browser's cache to see the new look intact.

Nealz Nuze explores what's in store for our nation's future.

PrezBo is officially vacationing in Martha's Vineyard. So a local paper sent an intern out to the streets to ask teenagers around Martha's Vineyard what they would ask Barack Obama if they ran into him. Here we go with some of the responses ..

Taylor, 13, Rhode Island » read more »

These people are definitely not terrorists by any stretch of the imagination. They may be thieves, but they're definitely not terrorists. It's even arguable that the RICO Act does not apply to them, if there's no actual racketeering or organized crime (the unconstitutionality of the RICO Act notwithstanding). » read more »

Google is celebrating a very sad anniversary today:

Celebrating 90 years since the ratification of the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote

The 19th is just another abomination significantly responsible for the decline and imminent demise of our civilization. Yeah, let's celebrate that.

Please pray for Kathy, as she has just been diagnosed with cancer. The prognosis seems grim...to the world. Her perfect health can be restored with a new body, if this is what the Lord has in mind for her, or He may see fit to restore her mortal body. Pray for her healing, be it worldly or heavenly, temporary and limited to this life or eternal and perfect. Pray for the Lord's will and for all concerned to see Him and His work in her. And pray for her husband and [grown] kids, that they may find God's peace through all of this.

In my first transaction with Wicked Lasers (aka Energy Technology Development Limited), I bought a new product of theirs. They extracted the funds from my credit card immediately, contrary to the ethical and typical practice of taking the funds only upon shipment of the product(s). They then went incommunicado for weeks, even ignoring requests for information. They proceeded to provide one excuse after another for why they hadn't shipped the product, worded to suggest this was common to all customers of this particular product, but I have no good way of verifying that. » read more »

Almost unanimously, economists express great fear of a deflationary scenario, yet they're all wrong. This is not surprising since their economic worldviews are all wrong. Frank Shostak does a great job proving Bernanke an idiot, albeit much more kindly than I would. » read more »

Stephen Hawking has always been a bit of an idiot, despite his undeserved reputation otherwise. Granted, his Hawking Radiation was a good theory (even if vain), but his contributions otherwise have been abysmal. For example, in his famous book, A Brief History of Time, he utterly failed to recognize the consequences of basic spacetime curvature near his mythical Big Bang, to say nothing of completely missing the signs of geocentric expansion (and rotation) and the relativistic implications thereof. » read more »

Unlike most so-called conservatives—I'm either not really a conservative, or else this term has been usurped—I do not praise Arizona's governor, Jan Brewer. In some sense, she is standing up to the federal government, but she is doing it as a slave, not as a member of a free state. SB1070 is a state matter, and the federal government, shackled by the Constitution, has no authority over immigration*. » read more »

Oddly, we never received a visit from the census man this year. Or maybe we did, he saw our postings, and wisely fled still unannounced. It's a small victory, to be sure (very small), but against an evil behemoth like the fedgov, I'll take it. » read more »

Looks like the court has finally ruled in favor of Rifqa—a first for her from any court. The young Christian need not return to her murderous parents, fundamental adherents to Islam. Now she just needs to find a way to stay in the country legally, since her parents are illegal aliens and smuggled their kids in when they were young. I should think refugee status would apply, since her home country is Islamic and wants her dead, too, but this truth will guarantee the fedgov denies her refugee status.

(HT Kat) » read more »

Please pray for Dan, my friend and brother in the Lord. He suffers from Multiple Sclerosis, and he recently experienced the worst attack of his life. It has had some severe effects that greatly affect the quality of his life and that of his family. The doctors have said that there is little to nothing that they can do at this point, but we do not place our faith in doctors. Please pray for the Lord to intervene and restore Dan to full strength. If you know any other prayer warriors or groups, please pass this request along to them. Praise God for the healing He is working in Dan's life!

It's easily proved how much journalists, including entire news networks, hate Israel. They distort truth, outright lie, and refuse to do any actual investigating (or even basic fact-checking) when composing their anti-Israel fiction. » read more »

I was recently accused of being pro-corporation because I work in that world. Let's set the record straight. I am anti-corporation. I work for corporations because, in my profession, I have no legal choice. Corporations are not merely groups of people coming together for a common purpose. Corporations exist by the power of government, a huge, red flag that they are a violation of natural law. » read more »

Gwinnett's fascist trash service has been implemented for a month now. Service is declining, of course. The trash company is very hard to reach (I had to raise a stink with my county commissioners). They leave bins in the middle of the roads. They block traffic and run out into traffic without looking. The best part, though, is the recycling. » read more »

A federal judge, a woman wanting to make a name for herself, issued an injunction against several elements of Arizona's anti-illegal-alien law that goes into effect today. ALIPAC is urging the people to remain calm in the face of this obviously unconstitutional and immoral ruling. I appreciate ALIPAC's response, but just when will the people be called to arms against this runaway fedgov? How bad will the tyranny have to be before it's bad enough to warrant an armed, defensive response? » read more »

In a recent incident, two men got into a fist fight due to road rage on an I-75 off ramp. Two other men, both of whom were armed with hand guns, stopped (independently) with the intention of defusing the situation. While these were certainly good intentions, and while I am pleased to see that the D.A. » read more »

There is no such thing as intellectual property (I encourage you to read the entire, linked essay). » read more »

Anthony Graber faces up to sixteen years in prison for videotaping a policeman draw his gun during a traffic stop. Do the masses recognize this kind of reaction, which is increasingly common, as a hallmark of tyranny? I've said it before: rule-of-law is dead. The Republic is dead. It's now accurate to say that government employees, LEOs, and politicians may be reasonably assumed to be criminals unless proven otherwise—abuse of power is now the norm, not the exception.

Gwinnett County commissioner Bannister escapes justice again, this time saved by Judge Andy Fuller. Gwinnett's government is irredeemably corrupt. It does not represent the people at all but serves its own interests. » read more »

A common interpretation of the Biblical description of the end of this age includes a common, worldwide religion foisted upon everyone. This sets the stage for the False Prophet to emerge and force everyone to worship the Antichrist as the god of this false religion. » read more »

A study conducted by UCLA's Department of Psychiatry has revealed that the kind of face a woman finds attractive on a man can differ depending on where she is in her menstrual cycle. For example: if she is ovulating, she is attracted to men with rugged and masculine features. » read more »

This is too horrifying not to reprint entirely.

A lawsuit against Augusta State University in Georgia alleges school officials essentially gave a graduate student in counseling the choice of giving up her Christian beliefs or being expelled from the graduate program. » read more »

From http://www.kfire.us/Law/FED_Imm_and_Nat_Act.h... ...

Disclaimer for this page: These are excerpts from the U.S. legal code referring to hiring illegal aliens and some of the statements within this document are interpretations of the law and not actual quotes of the law. For exact wording of the law see: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/ and look for Title 8
http://www.mnforsustain.org/immigration_hirin...

Federal Immigration and Nationality Act
Contents
Section 8 USC 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv)(b)(iii)
Recruitment and Employment of Illegal Aliens » read more »

AT&T's cellular network in the Atlanta area, at least here in Gwinnett, had been intermittently down for over a half-hour. Completely down—no data, no voice. No word from AT&T, of course.

UPDATE: Outage reports from stranded customers are coming in from all over Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee, and D.C.

Saw this today:

It’s a progressive era, based on the faith in government experts and their ability to use social science analysis to manage complex systems.

» read more »

Due to an increased number of spammers and hackers, I'm afraid I'm increasing security on TuscanyCircle's front door. When logging in, you'll need to pass a CAPTCHA. Should be straightforward. If you don't like the selection, you can request another via CAPTCHA form, and you can even choose an audio version. To make up for this annoyance, I've also extended the login time (how long you stay logged in). Visit the site at least monthly, and your login session should remain active, on any given terminal, for over 3 years. » read more »

This is an excellent exploration of our ruling class. Overall, the essay is a very good one, and I encourage you to read it all. Here, I've taken just a few of the author's assertions and commented on them.

Thus does our ruling class stunt itself through negative selection. But the more it has dumbed itself down, the more it has defined itself by the presumption of intellectual superiority. ... Its attitude is key to understanding our bipartisan ruling class. Its first tenet is that "we" are the best and brightest while the rest of Americans are retrograde, racist, and dysfunctional unless properly constrained. How did this replace the Founding generation's paradigm that "all men are created equal"?

Simple: evil. Our ruling class is evil. » read more »

When TuscanyCircle goes offline, I am in the habit of updating Twitter about its status. If TuscanyCircle is ever usurped or shut down by government enemies (to America, to liberty, to truth), I will update one or more of Twitter, Google Buzz, Blogger, or Bambuser (live video)*. » read more »

Want to know what will end the world? Stupidity.

New research suggests that misinformed people rarely change their minds when presented with the facts -- and often become even more attached to their beliefs.

Why, then, should TuscanyCircle continue? For those very, very rare few who are earnest truth-seekers, I suppose. The rest of you can (and will) go to hell.

Some anti-depressants may be statistically indistinguishable from placebos in humans, but fluoxetine (e.g., Prozac), one of the four from the same-as-placebo study, actually induces suicidal behavior in shrimp. » read more »

Holdren wants us to surrender.

White House science czar John Holdren has called for the U.S. to surrender sovereignty to a "planetary regime" armed with military power to enforce population limits upon nations and prevent perceived dangers from global eco-disasters, Jerome Corsi's Red Alert reports. » read more »

BrightGuy sells flashlights, but this is really an understatement. Of specific interest to me, BrightGuy sells Streamlight products at great prices. Better still, BrightGuy's service has been wonderful. » read more »

With this level of stupidity, there is no serious hope of another revolution to restore liberty. Best case, there will be regional rebellions which will be crushed by the retards with badges.

As grills across America fire up this weekend some Americans may want to crack open a history book instead of a cold beer. A Marist poll finds that 26 percent of Americans dont know whom the United States declared its independence from. [Abysmal grammar and spelling are in the original.] » read more »

Photojournalists test a metrorail's "no photos" policy (identifying info redacted temporarily): » read more »

Reason suggests the actions of an evil worldview would cause a backlash against that worldview. The Islamic attacks of 9/11 should have created an immediate and powerful bias against Islam. Why, then, have our government (both Bush and Obama) and so many Americans embraced this religion of mass murder? Joel Richardson says it's nothing more than Stockholm Syndrome, and I concur. » read more »

Interesting info on the so-called "poor" in America: » read more »

One CEO, after years of observing the obvious, exhibits a modicum of intelligence. Too bad his peers can't do the same.

Based on a few years of observation, we noticed that there was little or no correlation between academic performance, as measured by grades & the type of college a person attended, and their real on-the-job performance. » read more »

A small newspaper is under attack for allegedly publishing "hate speech" (whatever the hell that is!) in an op-ed. (hat tip Katrina) » read more »

LEOs warn us:

Festive and traditional as they may seem, bottle rockets, cherry bombs, Roman candles, firecrackers and their dazzling brethren are simply illegal to ignite or sell in the Peach State.

<bleep> you, tyrants. Come Sunday, while coasting in neutral in my car, on my way to dispose of my trash where I damn well please, I'm going to drink, text, shoot bottle rockets and fire my shotgun out the sunroof (all illegal activities here). » read more »

Hillary Clinton rewrites the First Amendment, substituting "worship" for "religion".

In a speech at Georgetown University, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered a speech on human rights. Not only did she talk about the right "to love in the way you choose," (an obvious attempt at making protecting gay rights a top priority for the U.S. government), she also talked about "freedom of worship."

But she never mentioned freedom of religion. Only freedom of worship. This is a big change. » read more »