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June 14, 2013
Why Saying There Is No “I” in Team is Stupid: The real power of “team sports”
As I was working in the garage trying to fix a broken pool pump, I was listening to some sports radio commentary. I have been listening to The Blaze Radio continuously of late, but decided to turn on the old AM radio to see what was going on in the world of local sports when I heard the commentator state about a former star player’s fall from grace that, “he thought he was bigger than the team.” Upon hearing this I tossed my wrench aside and turned up the radio and the commentator said it again, “the player fell from grace because he thought he was bigger than ‘the team.’” I turned off the radio and turned The Blaze back on as I heard the words of Buck Sexton come over the airwaves talking about things that actually matter.
One of the largest misunderstandings that modern society has is this ridiculous notion that a “team” is greater than any individual, and that individuals should “sacrifice” themselves for the good of it. This is the menace that is being taught by high school sports all across the county, and the belief is re-enforced by idiots, beer drinkers, and drunk scallywags everywhere who contemplate why some sports teams are better than others between belches and greasy chicken wings. Knowing a thing or two about the management of people, I can report that the best way to get a team to do what a couch or manager wishes to accomplish is to get a group of individuals to aim their focus in the direction the leader establishes. But to do this, a leader must not crush the individuality of the “team members.” The leader must know that the individual attributes are much more important to the “team” than the collective sacrifice of a player to a cause “bigger than themselves.” Such an idea of sacrifice is hogwash.
In sports, all individuals are bigger than the team concept, for if any individual fails, the team will be weaker. All individuals must do their jobs to their highest ability, and as independently from one another as possible. For a team to be good, it needs a group of strong individuals who all do their jobs uniquely well to succeed, and the self-assurance to understand that they are the best at what they do, and not worried about being replaced by another because they are so good at their job.
In the case of the radio commentator, the star player in question had become a show-boater and was eventually ejected out of professional sports. But he was not ejected for being a show-boater, but because it was realized too late, that he was playing above his actual skill level. The player used his show-boating ability to cover his incompetence, which was eventually exposed. The way this lack of skill went undetected is that the management of the “team” this player played for was unable to evaluate individual attributes as their focus was on “the team.” This show-boating player uplifted the entire team with his antics, which made the coaching staff believe falsely that their team was better than it really was, because they assimilated the value of the show-boating in the same way that the player used to hide his incompetency. This failure was the fault of the “team concept.”
When some idiot says that there is no “I” in team, they are speaking of their vast ignorance on the matter. When a radio commentator says foolishly that “no player is bigger than the team,” they are speaking with a mind that is greatly deficient. All players are more important than a “team.” A team is only great if the individuals on it are superior to other individual players. A team is just a collection of individual wills and nothing more. A leader’s job is to direct those wills toward a tactical goal they set without crushing the individualism of the participants.
The lazy leader attempts to crush the individual will of each player to consider the self-sacrifice of the collective unit. The fool will allow the personal identities of individuals to be destroyed through hazing rituals, and other group assimilation hoping that by putting the “team concept” above individual ego, that success will follow…………….but it never does. Many sports players when they give interviews repeat blindly the whole team first concept, but if they are great players, they have never accepted it. They have learned to simply utter the lie to the press so to create good public relations for their teams, but they know that it is the extra hours they practice beyond the “team practice,” the extra work they do as individuals to become better than their competition that makes the difference between success and failure.
Team sports are never about the “team” but the individuals who make up the team. The leader’s job on teams is to align individual behavior with the team needs, but never to crush individual contribution as a kind of sacrifice for the collective whole. Such an idea is completely foolish which is why it shocked me to hear a sports commentator speak such an idea so openly. A lot of people say such things mindlessly because they have been taught incorrectly to think in such ways, but they are wrong. And for a sports commentator who spends their entire life thinking about sports, it would be assumed that they’d understand such an elementary concept. But this particular commentator was quite serious when he stated the error of a star player believing that they were “greater than the team.” Individuals are ALWAYS greater than a team. ALWAYS!
As I heard the statement I thought of all the dads all across the country who were also in their garages working on something similar who heard the same thing I did and thought……….yeah………he’s right. They tell their kids who play for some high school sports team the same thing, and the coaches of those teams also utter the same nonsense—then they are all confused why their teams are always mediocre. It is because their philosophy on the matter is wrong. Their understanding of the values needed to be a winner is incorrect, and they are teaching the young student athlete to grow up not to be successful contributors to all the future teams they will play on from sports to business, but only mediocre sacrificial lambs ready to throw themselves upon whatever alter the foolish coach tells them to. That same student athlete will then grow up to be mediocre, to raise mediocre children, live a mediocre life with vacations that are mediocre at best. They’ll cheat on their spouses with mediocre replacements and have mediocre friendships that are as deep as a dry river bed in a scorching desert and they’ll wonder why they are failures at life. It will be because they allowed in their mind the ridiculous, preposterous, nonsensical notion that no individual is greater than the “team” when the truth of the matter is the exact opposite.
Rich Hoffman
“If they attack first………..blast em’!”
June 13, 2013
Why Good Men Must Wear a Mask: The case of Deric Lostutter
In the fictional world of vigilantes like the Dark Knight from the Batman films and the upcoming Lone Ranger, the heroes wear masks to protect those they love from the revenge imposed by statist regimes who control the law as the protagonist imposes justice where needed. One of my favorite fictional vigilante characters of all time is Zorro, who wore a mask to protect his identity from the tyranny of government oppressors while he worked as the politician Don Diego pretending to be “one of them” all the while seeking justice from behind a mask. The need for these types of stories by the masses is innate, meaning the mind requires them to bring relation to the world it witnesses as justice is often abused by anti-conceptual reality. This internal psychological struggle plays out in acts of fiction, but reflects our internal despair in reality. The crisis is in the realization that those who control the law—the political class of the modern age—can make life very difficult for those who disagree with their desired social impositions. This kind of tyrannical behavior has recently been seen on a large-scale during the IRS scandal, the Benghazi debacle, and the NSA data collecting violations that have been splattered across the news of late. But most statist abuses by corrupt governments are done on a very small-scale creating the need for heroes to literally grab a mask not just in the story telling experience, but when opposing government in reality. This is why young Deric Lostutter of Winchester, Kentucky put on a mask and worked to instill justice when a crime in the small town of Steubenville, Ohio took place robbing the innocence of a young girl with a police cover-up to protect the very popular high school football team. I covered the controversy here at Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom back when it happened, CLICK TO REVIEW.
If Deric did not put on the mask and take up the torch of justice by going against the law, as the character KYAnonymous, the town of Stuebenville would have been able to successfully cover up the tragic rape that happened to an intoxicated young girl. Because of Deric two of those guilty star football players are doing time in a juvenile detention center and justice has been brought to the town. If Deric did not put on the mask and become KYAnonymous in a heroic effort to pursue justice as law enforcement attempted to use the law to hide the crime, the girl who was raped would have witnessed no justice and the boys who did the crime would have went free and believed that such behavior was socially correct, and the entire town would have continued to be complicit in a crime against the individual sanctity of a young girl.
The need for the mask comes after the justice is done of course as the statist government has the weapon of laws—they create—in their tool box of options to inflict suffering on those who stand against them. Deric Lostutter learned this first-hand when in mid April 2012 the F.B.I. had investigated his computer I.P. address extensively and learned where the masked justice seeker KYAnonymous lived. According to Lostutter a truck disguised as a delivery vehicle was parked in his driveway when there was a knock at the door. Deric expected a delivery so when he went to open the door 12 special forces operatives screaming profane names at him, cuffed him with M-16 assault rifles pointed at his head and detained him while the troops cleared out his home of the evidence they came to steal. Lostutter witnessed the S.W.A.T – like troops along with a couple of F.B.I. agents from Columbus, Ohio and the local sheriff securing his property. Once he was under cuffed control the troops lightened up and were less threatening actually joking with Deric telling him they had been watching him for a long time, and that he was a good guy. They even joked around a bit about the good things he had done, like exposing the rape in Stuebenville. All this was going on while they confiscated evidence for a case against him related to his work as KYAnonymous. The troopers left Deric’s belongings on the floor, his dogs shocked with teasers, his family handcuffed and nervous, his garage door battered open with a ram even though Deric told them he had a key, and the RV camper window outside broken open for entry even though Deric told them all they had to do was pull hard on the door.
Later it became known to Deric when he was unable to get his belongings back from the F.B.I. that they intended to indict him for a federal offense, most likely a felony and two misdemeanors. He was being charged with hacking into computers to steal the concealed pictures displaying the rape and putting the case into national headlines. After a year of a terrible ordeal Deric told his story on his website seen below written on June 6, 2013.
I have a lot of problems with the way the anarchic Anonymous freedom fighters conduct their business, as Deric is just one of them. I do not approve of their references to “WE” or the “HIVE” but I am willing to overlook those collectivist references knowing that all these kids are right out of public schools where they have been indoctrinated into hive-like mentality their entire lives. That aside, the work they are doing often is good, and their threat is real to the power brokers of control such as law enforcement agencies, corrupt politicians, and all statist regimes who wish to inflict force upon others to gain victory over their minds. What Deric Lostutter did may or may not have broken the law, but one thing is clear, if Deric didn’t do what he did, Stuebenville would have been able to cover up a crime against innocence sacrificing a naive girl to save the town the insult of harming its sacred football program.
The exact same reluctance by the authority in charge occurred at Penn State under Jerry Sandusky. Everyone knew Jerry was abusing young boys sexually, but nobody stuck up for the kids, because it was the sacred football team that was in trouble. Football, especially college programs like Penn State bring to academia funding opportunities a school can get no other way. Nobody wanted to jeopardize that funding, so the entire school covered up the decadent exploits of the famed coach of the Penn State defense. For those poor molested kids, there was no Deric Lostutter. There was no Anonymous freedom fighter to expose the crimes and come to their rescue. There were only cowards on a mass scale which ran all the way into the television networks who all knew that Jerry Sandusky was a pervert who loved to sexually abuse boys. This is the case most of the time when atrocities are seen by all. Very rare are there heroes who will stand without a mask and call a crime a crime. People like that are EXTREMELY rare, because such an act takes courage, and that trait is being breed out of the human race. Almost as rare are those who will put on a mask, as Deric Lostutter did to find justice where the law is used to hide crimes. Unfortunately, many millions of victims will find that there is no hero who has the courage to act on their behalf. The world is filled with oceans of individual souls who look from their right and to their left awaiting for somebody to have the courage to speak out for the innocent. But nobody ever steps forward. However, in Stuebenville, Ohio one young man did, and his name is Dric Lostutter. Once the authorities discovered who he was, they went after him to punish him to the furthest extent of their made up authority. For all those who think of fighting for freedom, take note of the lesson………now you know why such people wear a mask. Sometimes the pursuit of justice requires it—because the absence of such heroic people means oppression and sorrow will reign over planet earth so long as tribal human beings inhabit the globe and run their political system by the nonsensical diatribes of anti-conceptual rule.
Sometimes good men must wear a mask!
Rich Hoffman
“If they attack first………..blast em’!”
June 12, 2013
How Public Schools Cause Alcholics and Drug Addicts: The need for healthy epistemology
Many of the failures experienced in modern society are the improper understanding of how to create a proper epistemology for the philosophy of their lives. By epistemology it is meant to know what sort of things we can know and how we know it. Most people these days are so uncertain of themselves, lacking self-confidence that they are unable to properly think and this is due to the notion that they have been taught by their public education institutions that nobody can know anything unless a professional tells them first what to think and how to think it. This is why government schools are so terrible for our present society. It is because they are providing generations of people an epistemology that is wrong, deliberately not teaching people how to think, but instead regulating their thought to “professionals” who can provide those epistemologies for the masses as centralized leaders of collective sacrifice.
This is a big problem. Human beings in the year of 2013 seek with mind numbing tenacity to continue a destructive practice of mental evasion. For instance, when it is asked what a particular person is going to do over the weekend, and the person responds, “I’m going to get ‘shit-faced’ drunk,” the person is really saying that not thinking is more preferred over a “thinking” exercise. They wish to get drunk so that they can escape the process of thought. This mentality was given to them by public education laying a foundation of philosophic epistemology that dictates surrendering thought to government employees who know better. The conflict in the individual who wishes to get drunk comes from the persistent thoughts which come to their mind telling them that the world is different from the one they are living. So for them, to get “drunk” so that they can be eased of the burden of thinking it is a vacation from their conflict which is highly desired.
Identifying this failure in epistemology can than explain why so many teenagers drink so heavily as part of their assimilation to the adult population. It is expected that young people will between the ages of 15 to 22 drink themselves into mindless bliss, and this is a direct result of the public education system providing a philosophic epistemology that states thinking should be done by “the experts” and not individual citizens. The result is that culturally, society must develop a method to turn off their minds to escape thought—because their minds tell them that what they are learning is wrong. So drunkenness is their only escape.
Public schools do not preach drunkenness, but it is the result of their failed epistemology which creates the problem in the same way that public schools do not preach sexual deviance, but it is the direct result of their teaching as the epistemology is created by a curriculum designed to place no responsibility on individual behavior. Such a system was designed by statist governments to advance programs for the working poor, welfare recipients, and down-trodden who are secretly desired to remain in such a state forever, for the benefit of the state. In a state-run school, a public education curriculum cannot make the people it wishes to target for state supplied services feel bad for their bad decisions in life, so the goal of school curriculums is to make all right thinking people think like the bad ones and preach that sex has no consequences, and is not the responsibility of the participants. The epistemology that is taught is a kind of Kantian remoteness, which sex just happens biologically without the thinking participants having any say. The epistemology that is given to the students in public school then has the unintended consequences of sexual promiscuity that lasts their entire lives. The teachers did not teach children to have reckless sex in their teenage years, but were socially unable to condemn the behavior that is conducted routinely in poor communities so that food stamp qualifications can be enhanced. So the teachers instruct an epistemology that destroys the lives of all students in every community because their instruction does not teach that personal responsibility is the key to life success, planned families, and a healthy existence.
A proper epistemology is the key to living a successful life and if the education system creates an improper philosophy, then failure is imminent. Government workers, political theorist–particularly those who wish to believe that communism is viable to the human mind, believe that any kind of politics can work so long as a society believes something. This is simply not true. That “something” must be good, and goodness is determined by a proper epistemology. If the epistemology is bad, then the philosophy of a person and thus the society will also be bad. There is no way to avoid the catastrophe of a bad epistemology. In this way, public education institutions are bad for the human race not because their intentions are not good—they often are, but the epistemology of what they teach is terribly insufficient which makes them detriments to the human condition. Methods of philosophy cannot be changed in and out of a person’s life like socks on the feet of a human being each morning before they are placed in one’s shoes. A personal philosophy is the most important part of anyone’s life, for if one does not believe in anything, they will fall for everything. But due to the catastrophe of a thinking mind being in drastic contrast to the types of epistemology that have been taught to it by institutions of modern learning, drunkenness is pursued to escape from the duality of the thinking mind being required to not think in order to survive the political stresses of the day which inform the world of an epistemology that is faulty.
When one considers what makes a person become an alcoholic, or a drug abuser this duality is always at the core. A weak mind is the first step to not surviving the duality of an improper epistemology that is in conflict with one the thinking mind wishes to live by. The weaker the mind, the easier it is to surrender mental evasion to alcoholism and other forms of intoxication. This is the product of our modern institutions and why many consider drunkenness to be a vacation worthy of pursuit in their leisure time, because they wish to be free of the epistemological conflict given to them by a society which seeks to impose on the mind a system of thought that is not productive to individual welfare.
Solving the problem of individual epistemology is the key to solving many of the social ills our society currently suffers from. Identifying a proper epistemology is the first step to solving all social problems. Problems do not happen to people’s lives like some mystical voodoo card of chance happening. Everything starts from a source and like simple addition and subtraction, one thought leads to another, then another. If a person has a bad life, if they are poor, if they are jobless, if they are alcoholics, drug abusers, bad parents, bad people, the failure comes from their poor epistemology. The fault is theirs for not living their lives with values that their minds agree with. Surrendering their thoughts to others who create their epistemology for them will not improve their life. “Getting drunk” will only exasperate the situation further and cause failures in life instead of giving the relief a mind in conflict with itself has from an epistemology that is imposed upon it from sources that are not from one’s own mind. Until individual people realize that the source of their failures are their trend to not take responsibility for their own thoughts, then misery will continue to riddle their life with duality. No individual can make the society happy with their collective desire, and yet make themselves happy. When the decision to make society happy supersedes the individual then a crushed, suppressed and miserable life ensues. And to date, it is public schools that most create the epistemology of the greatest number of people, and for that, they are in drastic fault.
Rich Hoffman
“If they attack first………..blast em’!”
June 11, 2013
Doc Thompson Hosts Glenn Beck’s Television Show: Explaining the “gang of eight” scenerio regarding illegal immigration
“There are 11 million reasons to pass common-sense immigration reform that mends our broken system — 11 million stories of heartbreak and suffering that should motivate Congress to act,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said
In reference to the millions of immigrants currently in the country illegally, President Obama said, “Yes, they broke the rules; they didn’t wait their turn. They shouldn’t be let off easy. They shouldn’t be allowed to game the system.” Doc Thompson covered this complicated issue at the video below, with more detail at the following link:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/06/11/u-s-senate-advances-gang-of-eight-immigration-bill/
Doc did a great job with the show. He has come a long way from the work he did as a local radio personality in Cincinnati. And I am very proud of him!
Rich Hoffman
“If they attack first………..blast em’!”
Superman: Man of Steel–already in line for the movie
I have went on at some length about how much I love Superman. CLICK HERE for a review. Well, the time is near. I am ready to see this movie. Below is the fourth and final preview of the film that I think this world desperately needs.
I may see this movie six times before Monday!
Here are the other videos related to the film to satisfy the intense appetite that is emerging for this latest, and possibly most dramatic rendition of Superman.
Rich Hoffman
“If they attack first………..blast em’!”
John Boehner Agrees with his Golf Buddy Obama: The NSA snooping is good for American Security
Of course John Boehner supports President Obama’s extreme NSA surveillance program of all American citizens under the supposed umbrella of “safety.” Boehner is one of the big government types who have been in Washington too long and helped create the present day infrastructure of a political class that is too intrusive, too big, and full of out-of-touch goof balls whose idea of management is figuring out who their caddy is going to be on a golf outing. In fact Boehner is a golf buddy of Obama and they think a lot more alike than the average America. Boehner voted in favor of the NDAA Act, and he voted to support the NSA snooping that has been going on for a long time, accelerated under the Obama White House, but has been active since the 9/11 debacle in 2001. So it should come as no surprise that Boehner supports Obama’s latest scandal, because he was a part of building it and revealed as much in an interview with George Stephanopoulos seen below.
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Speaker, thank you for doin’ this. Let’s talk first about these– revelations about the National Security Agency. Edward Snowden has come forward, said he brought the documents into the public eye. His supporters say he’s– a whistle-blowing patriot. His critics say he’s betrayed the country, broken the law. Where do you stand?
JOHN BOEHNER: He’s a traitor. The president outlined last week that these were important national security programs to help keep Americans safe, and give us tools– to fight the terrorist threat th– that we face. The president also outlined that there are appropriate safeguards in place– to make sure that– there’s– there’s no– snooping, if you will– on Americans– here at home. But– the disclosure of this information– puts Americans at risk. It shows– our adversaries what our capabilities are. And– it’s a giant violation of the law.
STEPHANOPOULOS: As you point out, the president has said these programs are effective. They’re fully constitutional, fully approved by Congress, and limited. Do you agree with all that?
BOEHNER: I do. I’ve been briefed on all of these programs. Remember, this is all past– and– and broad bipartisan majorities in both the House and Senate. And– and when you look at these programs, there are clear safeguards. There’s no American who’s gonna be snooped on in any way– unless they’re in contact– with some terrorists somewhere around the world.
STEPHANOPOULOS: So even though all of these phone records, not phone calls, but all these phone records are being scooped up– you believe that Americans’ privacy is still protected?
BOEHNER: Absolutely. And every time– that I’ve been in a briefing, nine of the ten people in a room are lawyers– there to protect– the privacy of the American people. George, throughout our history we’ve had this– we’ve had this tug– between our principle responsibility as the government to– to keep Americans safe– and at the same time, protect their privacy.
And so there’s this balancing act– that goes on. And I believe– that when you look at this program and what it does– we– you’ll find– that we protect the privacy of the American people– while at the same time, giving us tools– to keep Americans safe and to go after the terrorist.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Senator John McCain– I think he agrees with you in large measure. But he said that there should be an open hearing so the American public can be reassured about the program. Senator Feinstein, chair of the Intelligence Committee also says she’s open to that. Do you think that’s a good idea?
BOEHNER: Well, I’ll let– the– the chairs of the Intelligence Committees– make that decision. But there is heavy oversight of this program– by the House Intelligence Committee on a bipartisan basis and the Senate Intelligence Committee. And that’s why I feel comfortable– that– that we can operate this program and protect the privacy rights of– of our citizens
The real issue with the NSA, the TSA, the Department of Homeland Security and every other government expansion program that was created in the wake of 9/11 is that the terrorist attack created by Osama Bin Laden against the World Trade Center was allowed because government did not do its job to begin with. It failed to recognize that radical Muslims are dangerous, it failed to teach people that they should over-take an airplane hijacked by terrorists carrying only box cutters, and it allowed the training of those terrorists to learn to fly an airplane when they showed no interest in landing. The FBI and CIA were aware of these terrorists from the start, and no amount of national security gathered by snooping can overcome incompetence, which is what happened during 9/11. It was incompetence that allowed the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and nothing more. Many alarms were raised and nobody acted on them.
The same alarm flags were raised when the participants of the Boston Bombings of 2013 participated in radical Islamic rhetoric which migrated to the level radicalism in killing and maiming hundreds of Americans during the Boston Marathon, yet nobody acted on the information. Without question the NSA, the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, the CIA all had hundreds if not thousands of emails, phone calls and other surveillance information indicating that the Boston Bombers were a threat to national security. Yet all those agencies because of the presence of political correctness were unable to call evil, evil for the sake of safety and act on their hunches, because they were paralyzed by the Muslim faith’s radical behavior and fearful of being targeted by their aggression. So nobody acted on the information gathered.
Because the government is incompetent they have decided in the wake of 9/11 to over-react and throw endless amounts of government jobs at every possible terrorist threat so that nobody in the public can ever accuse them of not doing everything they can. However, the issue of government failing to do their jobs time and time again to begin with is never brought up, so Boehner is as guilty as Obama for being an incompetent fool who has spent too many years in government and needs a private sector job to calibrate his rationale. Conspiracy theorists who appear more right than wrong will add that all this NSA nonsense has been established for years under the New World Order strategies that were outlined in the Jim Marrs book, Rule by Secrecy. Those same conspiracy theorists will say that the government has always had these plans in mind and simply were waiting for a good excuse to capitalize on the next terrorist attempt for which to launch the full NSA surveillance program that had been long-planned.
In the interview between John Boehner and George Stephanopoulos it is clear that what separates John Boehner the Republican from socialist (Democrat/Progressive) Barack Obama is very little. They both support an over-reaching government that snoops on every aspect of our lives so that they can never be held accountable for not doing everything possible to protect America from evil. That is everything except name evil by its proper name and hold people who are terrorists and breed terror accountable for their actions. For bureaucrats like Boehner and his golf buddy Obama, it is easier to just spy on everyone and hope that it serves as a deterrent for terrorism which the Boston Bombings proved false. Unable to act, or name evil by a proper name, all government can do is infringe on everyone so that nobody dare step out of line—thus keeping their incompetent political class out of the hot-seat, and in office long enough to become rich by looting the American tax payer, while never having to do anything substantial to earn the money.
Rich Hoffman
“If they attack first………..blast em’!”
June 10, 2013
Home Schooling Jumps 75%: Colleges recruit homeschooled kids to boost their academic success
If you’ve ever had to deal with a government school employee, be it a principal, teacher, or even a simple secretary, you surely know by now that they are typically arrogant, presumptuous, bastions of mundane complacency that act as though they are perpetually doing you a favor by giving you the time of day when forced to speak with them. Occasionally, there is a sincere teacher who is quite good, but the systems they work within handcuff them to an institution that relishes poor performance the way middle management executives relish the Golf Channel. Public school employees are generally horrendous at customer service, because they work for institutions that do not have to compete with anyone else for your business. They know that if a parent owns a home in their school district, then the parent has no choice but to send their child to that particular school or suffer prosecution by law. Public school employees really don’t care if they make their customers happy, or satisfied. They are able to put on a good show for the parent teacher conferences, or other meet and greet events so long as the parent doesn’t attempt to get too involved in their kid’s life at school, but this quickly erodes once the business of teaching migrates beyond formality. Then the real teeth of the wolves show as the not so subtle ownership of the children’s lives becomes clear. Public education employees believe that they are co-parents with the real parents, and they treat those real parents as an incompetent spouse that has eyes on an affair finding fault with everything the real parents do. The education professional believes their teaching methods are superior to that of parents, and they are not shy to make it known. That is why it brings my heart great delight to see that some parents are fighting back. Since they have no choice but to send their child to the public school of their home real estate, and typically cannot afford private instruction for their child, more and more parents are home-schooling their children at a rate that is justifiably alarming.
A little known fact since home schooled children represent only 4% of all school aged children is that home schooling enrollment has increased by 75% since 1999. Homeschooling has become increasingly popular as common myths that have long been associated with the practice have been debunked. Any concerns parents had about the quality of education children receive at home can be put to rest by the consistently high placement of homeschooled students on standardized assessment exams. Data demonstrates that those who are independently educated generally score between the 65th and 89th percentile on these measures, while those in traditional academic settings average at around the 50th percentile. In addition, achievement gaps between sexes, income levels, or ethnicity—all of which have plagued public schools around the country—do not exist in homeschooling environments. If you want to meet a smart child no matter what their background, you will almost 100% of the time notice that a parent is active in their life, and the best students come from homes where the parent does all the instruction, and does not send their child to a concentration camp called public school out of convenience in needing a tax payer funded baby sitter.
Recent studies laud homeschoolers’ academic success, noting their significantly higher ACT-Composite scores as high school aged students and higher grade point averages as college students. Yet surprisingly, the average expenditure for the education of a homeschooled child, per year, is $500 to $600, compared to an average expenditure of $10,000 per child, per year, for public school students. This is because the parent is invested in their child in a way that is biologically compatible. The public school attempts to defy the way human beings naturally learn with an artificial instruction that is rooted in radical labor unions that are too expensive not just monetarily, but mentally. In real dollars it costs ten times more to teach a child in a public school getting mediocre results at best, than the same child taught at home getting superior results.
The high achievement level of homeschoolers is readily recognized by recruiters from some of the best colleges in the nation. Home-educated children matriculate in colleges and attain a four-year degree at much higher rates than their counterparts from both public and private schools. Schools such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard, Stanford, and Duke Universities all actively recruit homeschoolers. They do this so they can bring their averages up in academic accountability and artificially show superior education results compensating for all the lack-luster students they are supplied with coming from public schools.
Similarly, the common myth that homeschoolers “miss out” on so-called “socialization opportunities,” often thought to be vital aspects of traditional academic settings, has proven to be false. According to the National Home Education Research Institute survey, homeschoolers tend to be more socially engaged than their peers and demonstrate “healthy social, psychological, and emotional development, and success into adulthood.” A home schooled child is more likely to be the leader of their “pack” than just a blind participant as their egos have not been crushed into mashed potatoes in public school for social assimilation into a collective.
Based on recent data, researchers such as Dr. Brian Ray (NHERI.org) “expect to observe a notable surge in the number of children being homeschooled in the next 5 to 10 years. The rise would be in terms of both absolute numbers and percentage of the K to 12 student population. This increase would be in part because…[1] a large number of those individuals who were being home educated in the 1990’s may begin to homeschool their own school-age children and [2] the continued successes of home-educated students.”
I have said it more than once, if a parent sends their child to public school, they must not care much for the child. Public schools are government schools, and they are not healthy places to raise children. Parents should never completely surrender their children to a public school and the employees who work in them, as the customer service is terrible, and the social implication is quite destructive. Based on the results, all parents should make it their number one objective in raising their children to instruct those children at home under their care, and to forego the public education entirely.
When parents look at their 16-year-old child and wonder what happened to the sweet little youngster they gave birth to, most of the fault can be placed at the feet of the public school which has sought to reshape children’s minds into some Frankenstein social experiment designed to make good citizens as unlike their parents as possible as viewed by the government. The rest of the fault rests on the parent who was too lazy, self-centered, or too stupid to instruct their own children, denying them an opportunity to be the best human beings they could possibly be. Years ago when I was deep in fighting Lakota schools which is in my local district I was told by the arrogant teachers and PTA Kool-Aid drinkers that if I thought teaching was so easy then I’d come and teach their classes. Well, on national radio, in the newspapers, and on television, even to members of the school faculty, I said I’d be happy to teach not just one class, but four at the same time. When I gave an interview to the Lakota East Spark Magazine, I told the young lady who interviewed me that I would be happy to teach all their classes at the school if anyone wanted to take me up on it. Ironically, that article never made it to print.
There are times when I truly do wish that I could home school everyone’s children, and teach them real knowledge, not the crap they get in public school. The public school employees and their followers thought they stumped me when they challenged me to teach their classes. They thought I would decline out of fear that I couldn’t match their “massive” intellects. Please…………….they think this way because they have no competition and do not know, or care to know that most people functioning in the world successfully know a whole lot more than they do. And thankfully for 4% of all school aged children, they have parents who understand that they are better qualified to instruct their own children than some arrogant government employee who is trying to use children to cash in on a cushy job. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, if you love your children, you’ll take them out of public schools, and teach them yourself. If you want to raise a social malcontent, a diabolical menace to society, a pot smoking, future alcoholic, a liar, a cheater, and unstable social bully, then send them to be instructed in public schools where those are the skills of the instructors. If you want a smart young adult who is kind, thoughtful and reliable to their future spouse and the children that come from that union……………..then teach them yourself!
Rich Hoffman
“If they attack first………..blast em’!”
June 9, 2013
The PRISM Program: How government hopes to “PURGE” the world of challengers to statism
Dear reader, I hate to say I told you so, but…………………..I told you so. I stated many, many months ago that the government was watching everything you were doing, and that America was headed down a direction of the dystopian novel, Brave New World, and 1984. CLICK TO REVIEW. Now it is obvious to all that the government led by the NSA and many other organizations have been looking at phone records, email accounts, video conferencing between businesses and virtually every aspect of life of all Americans under The Patriot Act for the thinly disguised notion of bringing safety to the nation. But like the IRS, the Justice Department, and virtually every government agency including the local teacher at your children’s school they are filled with incompetent employees operating with faulty minds. The NSA is spying on the nude pictures of our children that are recklessly sent to their budding relationships, not for the protection of the nation, but for their own pleasure. The NSA enjoys knowing the social connections of every adult of the American population because such knowledge is power and can be used against targets at their discretion. Read all about the PRISM data collection scandal at the following link:
Maybe now skeptics won’t question what has been reported about Common Core education, Obamacare, Agenda 21, Muslim penetration of our government, global consensus effort to collapse the American dollar, communist influence of labor unions, a socialist take-over of American government, and many other controversial topics that have been regulated to conspiracy theory. “They” are watching and “they” have their fingers in virtually every aspect of your life dear reader, and you let them do it.
For further proof of their vast network of manipulation and influence, let me draw your attention to the film released this weekend previous called The Purge. I can personally attest that there are thousands of wonderful projects on the desks of Warner Brothers, Paramount, 20th Century Fox and Disney right now yet Hollywood is in lock step with government statism for the same reason that the PRISM program has companies like Google, Yahoo, and MSN under their thumb, because of the power and reach of the Justice Department and tyranny of the IRS to make life miserable for large profitable companies. It is easier for such companies to bow at the feet of their destroyer to preserve themselves and their small fortunes than to fight them toe-to-toe on idealistic premises. Extremely creative filmmakers like Christopher Nolen have been able to rebel against the system while at the same time appearing to adhere to the rules, like Batman who plays Bruce Wayne in public, but becomes Batman at night. But most Hollywood types regulate themselves to ass-kissing the statist regime of present government in the same ways that Mayan priests sacrificed prisoners of war to the god of feathered serpents. In The Purge the movie is set in the year 2022 and the United States is governed by a group of multinational corporations called “the New Founding Fathers of America.” Because the nation is overwhelmed with crime and prisoners, the society allows an annual 12-hour period where all crimes are legal: theft, violence, murder, anything goes. During the so-called “purge,” all emergency services are suspended and the only rule in place is that harming high-ranking government officials using “Class 4″ weaponry is not allowed. The film is an obvious attempt to demonize the Tea Party and the arguments against small government by displaying a nightmare scenario illuminating what government services do for society. For confirmation on the film’s intentions, examine what the director James DeMonaco said about his motivations.
“I layered in these New Founding Fathers, this regime that we voted into power at some point, some kind of NRA-thing that took over the country…But I kind of left that to the audience. I think sometimes in my writing I try to spoon feed too much, it’s better to let the audience make their own decisions on things.”
DeMonaco knows that as a “B” movie director if he wants his projects funded, he must adhere to the rules. Those rules dictate that statist oriented stories should be told in Hollywood. CLICK HERE TO READ AYN RAND’S WARNING ABOUT THIS ALONG WITH WALT DISNEY AND JOHN WAYNE. Clearly the criteria is not one of quality, as nobody in their right mind would ever declare that DeMonaco’s The Purge has more box office potential over my own Tail of the Dragon. The difference is DeMonaco wrote a story against Tea Party ideas where I wrote a story in favor of them. Through the labor unions of Hollywood, the statist network is already put in place and works lock step with the aims of the federal government. Further, investors in such projects know that they are being watched, so they give their money to projects like The Purge over projects like Tail of the Dragon hoping that the IRS will not audit them for their other business dealings, and that the NSA will not reveal to the media the affair they are having with a Las Vegas showgirl. Should such investors give their money to a project like Tail of the Dragon, suddenly their private emails from years ago would be passed along to their wife, their tax records blasted into the media, and harassment from federal agents would cost them many times more their investment in progressive films through the legal fees incurred. That is why the PRISM program by the federal government is so dangerous and why crappy movies like The Purge get made while better, and more conservative projects sit on the shelf in Hollywood.
The Purge sucks by the way, it’s a horrible film which hopes that millions of dim-witted teenagers will grow up and vote for more government into their lives so that they won’t have to suffer through the grim reality of The Purge. It is unbelievable that this title actually got a summer release! It belongs in the first week of February, or around the third week of October, a terrible decision that only demonstrates to what effect Hollywood is willing to sacrifice for the gods of statism. What is most disconcerting is that such a terrible film could be made, and that statist government has penetrated the blank philosophies of America’s story tellers to such a reckless extent. Filmmakers like DeMonaco have learned to shape their personal beliefs around those of statism because they lack personal philosophic principles. They have weak epistemologies that are shaped by where the money for their projects comes from. That money is influenced by programs like project PRISM who linger behind all of our lives threatening to reveal our secrets if extortion proves faulty. In this way statism has taken control of many industries under the guise of personal liberty. But the choices are really between suffering and living, and such choices are not those of free people, but of existing slaves, of which filmmakers like DeMonaco are a part.
You have been told dear reader how the world works, and now you are beginning to have proof that these things I have stated are not conspiracy. So what are you going to do about it? Will you continue to be an empty vessel of a mind seeking to defer your thoughts to the popularity which has been shaped by your friendly neighborhood statist government who has the reach to enter entertainment with an obvious film attempting to incite fear toward Tea Party causes? Or will you fill your head with your own thoughts and fight for the right to have them against a statist regime that uses safety and security as excuses to look at your sexual habits, and personal interests for the sheer aim of gaining a tactical advantage over your very soul?
Is the decision so difficult? Is it so scary? Or are you just too lazy to care? If so, take another drink, get “shit faced” at the local sports bar, and enjoy the fact that some pin headed geek at the NSA has nude pictures of your children and spouses pinned to their cubical, and they are enjoying their anonymity from your wrath.
Rich Hoffman
“If they attack first………..blast em’!”
June 8, 2013
1421: ‘The Year China Discovered the World’ book review–Columbus did not reach America first
Your only choice is whether you define your philosophy by a conscious, rational, disciplined process of thought and scrupulously logical deliberation—or let your subconscious accumulate a junk heap of unwarranted conclusions, false generalizations, undefined contradictions, undigested slogans, unidentified wishes, doubts and fears, thrown together by chance, but integrated by your subconscious into a kind of mongrel philosophy and fused into a single, solid weight: self-doubt, like a ball and chain in the place where your mind’s wings should have grown.
Ayn Rand — Speech to the United States Military Academy at West Point on March 6th 1974.
That was the first thought I had upon closing the book to Gavin Menzies masterpiece, 1421: The Year China Discovered the World or more specifically, discovered America. I had put the Menzies book on my “to read” list a long time ago, and recently found a window to give it the kind of attention I wanted. The birth of the desire to read Menzies book was sent my way when a strategy game my family enjoyed playing released a very rare constructible 10-Masted Jade Rebellion Treasure Ship called the Baochuan with Admiral Zheng He as the crew. The game was called Pirates: The Constructible Strategy Game. The objective was to buy cards at a local Wal-Mart or Target in the gaming section, take them home and build the ships that were in the packs of cards, then use those ships to wage war on other gamers by turning every kitchen table available into a roaring sea of treasure hunting, naval warfare, and epic drama, CLICK HERE TO REVIEW. My wife presented me with the valuable ship as a father’s day present in 2006 and to this day it is one of my most treasured possessions, as it can be seen from the picture below. The gift was more than a miniature card cut-out that gave me a dramatically tactical advantage in that game, but it was the first exposure I had ever had to the gigantic treasure fleets of Zheng He constructed by 3rd Emperor of the Ming Dynasty Zhu Di. The gigantic ships were over 400 feet long, half the size of the Titanic and were able to cross the oceans with sustainable living conditions which were absolutely unheard of with any sea fairing fleet anywhere in the world at that time. The treasure ship my wife gave me as a simple game piece placed upon my mind countless answers to questions I had been trying to piece together my entire life, so the gift was magnificent not for the material value, but for the adventure it carried my mind on as the wings of my imagination grew even larger than they had been previously.
The Wiz Kids gaming company had read Menzies book, and incorporated his theories into the overall mythology of the popular role-playing pirate game, which went to great lengths to unify sea fairing folklore with actual history. It took me some time to accept the reality of the giant Chinese ships because they made the European counterparts of the Portuguese and Spanish fleets look like child’s toys in comparison. So I did not run out and buy the Menzies book right away as I had a lot on my plate at the time professionally and such a concept of Chinese superiority that Menzies was making, would have long-range ramifications on world history, which would require special time to explore the concept. So for over six years now, I have looked at my model of the Boachuan and wondered about the giant Chinese junks which explored the entire world while all of Europe and the occupants of the Mediterranean Sea were paddling around comparatively in canoes. Finally, after many years, I had a window to read the Menzies book, and I took it.
The results were astonishing. One of the apprehensions I had about Menzies was that most of his statements in the book were based on educated conjecture formulated by his unique life. Once I started reading, the conjecture with which Menzies assembled his theories was no different from the failures of scholarship revealed so wonderfully in the great book Forbidden Archeology or the Leakey theories of mankind’s origin in Africa. Menzies as a retired British submarine lieutenant commander and author had already traveled every corner of the world prior to his multi-year research which went into 1421: The Year China Discovered the World but he did it again as a researcher plotting with great accuracy detailed analysis of the navigation maps which were generated well before Columbus ever set sail from Spain. Reading 1421 was like taking a trip around the world. I feel I know the currents and wind directions of the world’s distant oceans and understand how to navigate ships by the star Polaris. In the book, Menzies takes the reader on a journey at approximately 4 to 6 knots across the entire globe, from China to India, then to the coasts of Africa. The fleet of Zheng He which numbered in the hundreds, if not thousands divided up their efforts and traveled in many different directions from there. Some returned to China, some rounded Africa and moved up into the Atlantic splitting up once again near the Caribbean Sea. Some of the Chinese went on to North America, some went to South America. The fleet in South America split up once again to explore Antarctica traveling back to the East toward Australia. The remainder traveled around the tip of South America then proceeded to Australia to split up once again, some heading back out into the Pacific and circling around by Canada and the west coast of North America interacting with land and indigenous people the entire distance. Back to the journey of the east coast of North America, I learned of the Menzies theory off North Bimini Island which has long-held that the strange remains there are left over from Atlantis. Menzies using the same conjecture that he constructed the entire book with logic, evidence, and a vast knowledge of how life at sea works, provided the best explanation I have ever heard of those strange remains which I contemplate heavily every time I visit Florida and look off to the east across the choppy ocean at the ruins that are a day’s boat ride from our family condo.
The text of Menzies book contains castrations, gallivants with concubines, dangerous naval warfare, journeys to exotic lands, political intrigue, betrayal, cannibalism, and correspondence with the supernatural. It also deeply dives into the history of cultures ranging from the Chinese all the way to Yucatan Peninsula and Mississippi trade societies. In fact while reading 1421 I had written an article about the ancient culture of Cahokia deep upriver along the Mississippi—a culture with obvious Mayan influence. CLICK HERE FOR REVIEW. After completing the Menzies book, I did further investigation into the archeology of Cahokia and learned that as of 2010 A.D., it has been discovered at the base of the Pyramid of the Sun, that the inhabitants of that mysterious city were mining for copper, which is consistent with Menzies claims elsewhere. Once the Chinese had dislodged their giant junks off the North Bimini Islands with large stones to repair their hulls, they proceeded to explore and settle North America even building settlements in modern-day Boston. They lingered on up the coast exploring Greenland at a time of global warming which allowed them the unique opportunity to sail around the north tip of the island normally covered with ice. During this period of 1421 the average ocean depth was one fathom (6 feet) lower than it is presently which can be explained away in diminished ice caps in the polar regions. During these journeys all along the way, the Chinese left behind settlers to inhabit the furthest reaches of the earth leaving only a fraction of the original fleet to return home to China in 1423. It is obvious that the Chinese had a major impact on shaping the Mayan culture and many of the “Native Americans” have turned out to not be so “native.” For instance, one proposal provided by 1421: The Year China Discovered the World is that the Shawnee tribe which came out of Florida to inhabit the Ohio region was a shipwrecked crew of a Chinese junk. These Shawnee proclaimed at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in northern Ohio that they were not “native,” to America. Modern historians assumed this meant the “Indians” were aware of their crossing of the land bridge between Russia and Alaska many millenniums earlier. But the origin of the Shawnee was much more recent, as in just a few generations. There is an old Shawnee legend just outside present day Xenia, Ohio where silver was minded along the shores of the Little Miami. When the Shawnee were driven from the area by General George Rogers Clark they hid their vast treasures of silver in the boggy marsh just behind their city of Old Chillicothe. I have personally looked for this treasure and not yet found it. It could theoretically be anywhere from the Clifton Gorge area to the birth place of Tecumseh, but what has always been curious to me about the legend is why the Shawnee were so interested in silver to begin with. Many of these events were discussed in the wonderful book by Allen Eckert called The Frontiersman. After reading Menzies book, the silver and copper mining makes a lot more sense, as do a number of other strange mysteries involving Native American lore.
Without question, Christopher Columbus did NOT discover America. Rather, he and his brother ripped off maps from the Portuguese government who had acquired charts of the world during trade with the Chinese in Calicut which were made during the Zheng He voyages. The Chinese at the time under Emperor Zhu Di wished to show their world domination of the arts, which at the time had no rival. After the Occident lost its power and influence during the terrible loss of the Library in Alexandria, which I have written about also, then lost Rome to the barbarians soon after, Europe and most of the northern Africa was plunged into the Dark Ages. If not for the Muslims, the works of Greek philosophers might never have seen the light of day again. China did not experience such an intellectual set-back, and instead progressed on only experiencing an invasion by the Mongolians that did not have the same effect as the European Dark Ages. The culture of China was not destroyed in the same way and once the Mongolians were defeated in rebellion, the Ming Dynasty took over and re-instated themselves as the dominate culture in the world. Emperor Zhu Di rebuilt the Great Wall of China, and constructed the Forbidden City. With the same zeal he built the largest fleet of ships ever constructed and the largest ever built prior to that time with only one exception, the tessarakonteres of Greek legend in the second century A.D. In doing so the Emperor nearly bankrupted China of its resources leaving his successors to erase the far-reaching scope of the heart-broken Emperor who lost his favorite concubine in a fire started during a lightning strike igniting the Forbidden City in flame. Upon the Emperor’s death, the records of the great treasure fleets of Zheng He were purged so that the taint of foreign cultures could not rot China as it had during Zhu Di’s reign. The mandarin overseers destroyed all evidence except for a few personal diaries of the mammoth voyages to put the walls up against the world which had shown itself to be backward, and lost to ignorance. This was a period where China would experience to a much less degree the loss of culture that the Occident experienced after the destruction of the Library at Alexandria. This was the great purge of the Orient.
Under Zhu Di, he had wished to show the world how powerful China was by trading with every country his fleets could reach using a tribute system to keep every nation on earth in debt to the glory of China. The Chinese would routinely give fine porcelain to villages along the African coastline and get in return jewelry of sea shells, which were worthless in comparison. But the Chinese didn’t care, because the debt between the values kept the African countries in perpetual obligation to the Emperor. It was this policy that the mandarins later would resent, and cause future Emperors to not duplicate the errors of Zhu Di by draining China of its wealth just to prove its superiority to the barbarian nations of the world who couldn’t even figure out how to use gunpowder.
The key to these wondrous voyages were the massive ships, the extremely large treasure ships half the size of the Titanic. But with those gigantic vessels were hundreds of support ships, most of which would still dwarf any European ship in the early 1400s. Most of the support junks were anywhere from 100 to 300 feet in length. For comparison, the Victoria, which Magellan used to circumnavigate the world was only 70 feet long. The treasure ships provided fresh water in gigantic tanks which actually housed sea lions which were used to herd fish into their nets at sea. The treasure ships held horses which consumed roughly 3 gallons of water each every day along with other animals from all over the world. The Chinese had the ability to desalinate their water while in transit keeping fresh water in plentiful supply. On the decks of the big ships were vast gardens so that fresh vegetables could be constantly grown to provide a balanced diet while months at sea between landfalls. If hostile nations attempted to attack the ships, the treasure fleets easily eradicated their opponents as these ships were the first to have cannons. A confrontation with the treasure fleet would spell doom to anyone who tried to stand in their way. With such ships 50 to 60 foot waves were much more manageable than the typical European vessel that would find themselves tossed about like toys. The key to accepting the voyages of Zheng He who clearly mapped the world while Europe was still in the Dark Ages is in understanding that the Chinese had the ability to build such large ships, which have been denied as an impossibility by traditional scholars. Yet the evidence is apparent, and even though the ships have long decayed, historians who have built vast careers on the myth that Christopher Columbus discovered America, or are willing to grudgingly concede that the Vikings entered North America as a bunch of barbarian hoards raping and pillaging wherever they went, the idea that the Chinese were trading goods and services all over the world well before the Europeans learned to put a sail to the wind on the open sea is not a pleasant one.
The reason I thought of the Ayn Rand quote stated at the beginning of this article after reading 1421 is because the evidence that Menzies provided convinced me beyond a shred of doubt that the Chinese were far superior to Europe during the same time, and had in fact most likely settled North America not just through migration across the Bering Strait tens of thousands of years ago, but were trading with the Mayans, and forming tribes in America that would later be called “Native Americans” such as the Shawnee, the Navajo, and the ancient Cahokians. Modern academia found the Menzies information “inconvenient” and an attack on their world view, so they have rejected him. Of Menzies 2002 release of 1421 historian Robert Finlay said in 2004 that “Unfortunately, this reckless manner of dealing with evidence is typical of 1421, vitiating all its extraordinary claims: the voyages it describes never took place, Chinese information never reached Prince Henry and Columbus, and there is no evidence of the Ming fleets in newly discovered lands.” The comments of Robert Finlay and many other academics that attacked Menzies for his extremely educated conjecture epitomize the quote stated at the start from Ayn Rand illuminating their fragmented minds built upon years of academic denials unable to accept that their own conjectures were incomplete upon their utterances and the new evidence provided by further research destroyed their previous theories. Columbus did not discover America!
Menzies to my mind has accomplished a level of expertise that many of the academic critics of his work are desperately lacking. Gavin Menzies as a British submarine lieutenant commander had a unique perspective shaped by years at sea. Then in his retirement under the finance of his wife, he spent years and years skipping around the globe gathering up evidence, reading maps and charts in a way that only an old submarine commander could, and touched the far corners of the world by following in the footsteps of Zheng He the way a blood hound catches the scent of a target they cannot see or touch but can smell. Academics and political progressives who wish to cover their faulty minds, their junk heap of unwarranted conclusions, false generalizations, undefined contradictions, undigested slogans, unidentified wishes, doubts and fears, thrown together by chance, have no choice but to slander the great work of Menzies from the comfort of their academic offices where the chill of the outside air gives them goose bumps. They are all too willing to abandon logic for belief, and they wish to continue believing that Christopher Columbus discovered America. To admit anything less is to change the way they see European history, and they might have to go to all the trouble of removing Columbus Day from their calendars which usually means a day off for government workers in the United States. Nobody wants to give up a free holiday, so it is much easier to attack Gavin Menzies for a theory that will change the way human history sees itself.
For me the journey started with the little model junk that my wife gave me for Father’s Day, which provided me a new idea taking me to Menzies book six years later. I have seen countless examples of modern academia standing in the way of science and the Menzies case is no different. Academic arguments are not built upon logic, reason, or even a strict adherence to scientific validation. Menzies has provided in his books the exact locations of several ship wrecks that are most likely the junks from Zheng He’s fleet, yet governments operate the waters of these wrecks, and governments work with academics to hold together the acceptable parameters of human thought. There is no desire to dive those wrecks by established science and governments to prove Menzies correct even though the evidence is right under the water and is known to all. Rather, governments and academics would rather drag their feet so to maintain plausible deniability of any truth that is contrary to their continued belief that it was the Europeans who settled North America not ships from half a world away. Menzies developed a rare ability in all his years traveling the world’s oceans and putting into exotic ports even in the most remote portions of the globe–he developed wings for his mind where imagination meets reason to logically conjecture the evidence which has been destroyed to hide truths from a public who are to look to academics and politicians with the grace of royalty. Those wings which the average academic lacks, takes Menzies to places where most historians can’t even dream to go, and upon reading 1421: The Year China Discovered the World the reader of that fine book has no choice but to grow wings of their own and follow on a journey that is epic in scope, and history altering in its implication. It is a book of writing that is the best of the best in every category for which the written word was ever intended to paint a picture with imagination that will change the way those with wings upon their own minds see the world forever. It is an epically brilliant book that is now one of my all-time favorites.
Now, please do watch the above documentaries so that the picture of this book’s importance can be placed in perspective. Then read the book! Out of ten stars, I give 1421: The Year China Discovered the World a perfect TWENTY!
You can get the book from Gavin’s website and follow all the latest discoveries which he continues to unravel each and every day.
http://www.gavinmenzies.net/china/about/
Rich Hoffman
“If they attack first………..blast em’!”
RUSH LIMBAUGH: There’s A Coup D’etat Taking Place In The United States, Being Done By The Obama Administration
Reflecting on the administration’s recently-discovered massive domestic surveillance programs, Rush Limbaugh argued on his radio show that there is a “coup” taking place to subvert the kind of country the United States has always been. Listen for yourself.
Welcome to the party Rush. Many have been right where you are now for a long time. But there is room on the bench for new faces who are just now coming to understand how sinister the Obama administration truly has been all along. Pass along to a friend.
Rich Hoffman
“If they attack first………..blast em’!”
