I think that Bob L. is correct. It is time that we either stand up and be counted for the things we claim to believe in, or continue to hide in the shadows like frightened children. If we are afraid to have our names in print for the things we believe, then we really must not believe those things deeply enough.
There comes a point in every persons life when we must say,”This is what I believe and this is where I make stand”.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of ‘crackpot’ than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.
Chauncey Depew

….i may give you my name, but not for publication…..besides if you can segregate for names why can’t you segregate for content or syntax or grammar……your non assertive assertions is like the anti war dorx……” i hate war!”……yes i hate war and hemorroids and old guys who die before their granddaughters grow up….free speech only if you out yerseff…….

Mr. Livingston,

I own a game store and through the many years that I have been open, I have tried some ideas out that has worked, modified other ideas over time and done away with other ideas that just didn’t work out the way they were planned to. I expect this idea of yours may need to morph alittle bit in order to stay alive & thrive.

This idea you have is a good one. It will allow some of the very intelligent people who post here a chance to make an article about what they feel is important to bring a spot light on. Just as you already have said yourself and you can already guess what my articles would be about…

However, as these commentors are individuals amongst the public & with today’s modern age of technology with the ablility to track down people or intercept data using various security breakers like packet sniffing, etc…I’m finding it hard to justify printing the real identity of the submitter. Also, you amongst all people should be very much aware that there is the real threat of big brother/the all seeing eye…taking a keener look at what people say & who they are…and over time this seems to become more & more true. Especially if it’s anti-government/Obama or whatever.

Why can you not use the User Name that we currently have been using instead of posting the real name of the writer? You know if it’s coming from the same IP address and can verify if it’s the actual user. Most of us who have been posting here for sometime have struck up friendships and are well known by these user names.

Does it make me paranoid if I know they are watching? <— LoL. Still, you must give credence to the simple fact that there are some really savy computer people out there who are not our friends and who work for "Them".

God Bless your work Sir.

P.S. I think this idea of yours needs some more consideration about the security risks of posting personal identification of your users.

The battle between good and evil goes on at all levels, not just economic or social. Some will scoff, but Jehovah God is good, and the devil is evil. That has always caused the battle, and men align themselves with one or the other, no matter what they think about the subject. It is impossible to be neutral in this war, so we need to realize that it is time for all of us who stand for righteousness to be bold.

My screen name is my real name. Do you need all three names?

Was it John Hancock who signed his name large so that the King of England could read it easily?

Kicking the Can…

Oh!, were it so that the lame stream media would examine and dissect the perfidies and crimes conducted in the name of national politics with the same fervor and detail as ESPN did on Tony Roma’s last two minutes in the Dallas Cowboy’s losing contest with the New York Jets. If they did we might not be faced with the serious problems that confront us today.

Our government is composed of a pod of fools (and criminals) who, like children playing in the street kicking the can down the road, continue the process until the can is so battered as to be unrecognizable as an original can. Sometimes they will even whack it with a stick! And, therein lies the problem. When we speak of kicking the can down the road, using it as a metaphor for not solving our problem (obscene government spending) but passing the problem forward for another group of witless politicians to solve, we totally lose site of the fact that the problem was the “can”.

I want to quote my good friend and sometime contributor, Jerry D. once again who copied me these words he sent to our national politicians:

“What disturbs me most about the spineless legislative eunuchs that represent us is not their inability to stand as Statesmen in the defense of their country, but rather their inability to even stand as MEN in defense of their families.
How will they face their grandchildren when they ask, “Gramps, why did you just sit there, mute as a stone, when MY future was being stolen?”
I don’t believe that Grandpa Saxby’s tale that he was once a signatory on a stern letter addressed to Harry Reid, is gonna cut it.”

So, we have had no budget from the Democrats for over 800 days, yet we see them whining and blaming Republicans wanting to nix more taxes in the Continuing Resolutions to fund government, for a failure to compromise, thus threatening the shut down of government. Oh, the humanity! And now our President fans the fires of envy against those who produce work for Americans with the apparent goal in mind of pompously proclaiming “rioting in the streets” and declaring that American is out of control and the people (the losers) can only be safe if he, in his infinite wisdom, declares marshal law. The beatings will not stop until moral improves! He is down to 38% approval rating in the popularity polls portending no hope of re-election, so his only plan is to create a civil war.I would have never believed I could utter such a thing but with this enemy of America occupying the Executive, obeying no laws and ignoring the Constitution, then I can now easily believe it. This man lies about the wealthy, lies about Green Energy, lies about our foreign commitments and doubtless lies about his golf score.

We are now in a monumental clash between good and evil; between Capitalism, from which everyone can profit if they work for it, and Socialism by which everyone is provided for by the government, cradle to the grave. Of course, since the tax base of the producers will have dissolved under the failed socialist plan of wealth redistribution, then the freebies that government doles out will be only to the favored. All the rest of us will live as equals in rationed poverty, misery, hunger and early death. We will watch as our children and grandchildren dissolve into pliant boot lickers suitable only for refilling the ranks of previous, witless politicians who learned their craft at the knees of imbeciles.

Bob, based on the comments posted here, you will not find many people who are willing to write an article without insults.

I routinely send eMails to local members of Congress and the Senate as well as the Whitehouse. I always include my name, address, and phone number. I can’t say that I get a satisfactory answer but I also don’t get bombarded with requests for donations and requests to sign petitions like I do with “comment” pages.

I think that government agencies should change how they spend their money. If, at the end of the fiscal year, they have money left, it should go back into the general fund AND their next years budget is not cut. What they do now is spend any left over money so they get the same or more in the next year. In order to inspire saving money, they should have some incentive. this incentive could be that the department gets to split the savings with the taxpayers, say 10% for them and the rest to us. Now in order to keep them from balloning their budget in order to get bigger bonuses, they actually have to justify their budget. If there are signs of greed creeping in, they get canned – the entire group.

I’ve got more things to do in my life than this.

The media and both sides of the political aisle are totally out of touch with real working Americans and with the real working Americans that are out of work.

Warren Buffett, in a recent interview with CNBC, offers one of the best quotes about the debt ceiling: “I could end the deficit in 5 minutes,” he told CNBC. “You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress [I would add of any elected body – at National and State levels] are ineligible for re-election.
_*Congressional Reform Act of 2011*_

1. No Tenure / No Pension. A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no
pay when they are out of office.

2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security.

All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the
Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into
the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the
American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.

3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.

4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise.
Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.

5. Congress loses their current health care system and
participates in the same health care system as the American people.

6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.

7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void
effective 1/1/12. The American people did not make this
contract with Congressmen.

Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in
Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers
envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their
term(s), then go home and back to work.

I like it even when I don’t like what I say….

Great move Bob. It gives a chance for us to express our views while acknowledging who we are. For those who want to post with pseudonyms and hide, the comment section is always open.

I like the idea, though as someone who has been effectively blackballed in a public interest law firm that I vigorously represented for several years because I did not climb on the Obama Train or subscribe to the “gay agenda”, I am well aware of how dangerous the Thought Police can be. John Stossel can take what he can take, but those of whose livelihoods may be on the line (unlike John, who will not lose his forums) have to be a little more wary. So much as I like the idea and assuming that you would give my posts consideration, I’ll have to take it under submission (so to speak).

I will say this sounds like a good idea, whether I ever post to it or not. It will give some of the commenters here a place to say more than they normally would in the comments area immediately following an article. Thanks.

I believe that if we continue to allow these other “most important” issues to command our attention away from what should be the only issue with which we should concern ourselves, we shortly will allow to come about the most total and complete slavery the world has ever seen.

WE MUST BRING a JUST punishment upon THE CRIMINALS BEHIND 9/11. INCLUDING BUSH, CHENEY, RUMSFELD, DEAD DUCK Mayor, Rudy_Giuliani, and Kisssinger for whatever high crimes and misdemeaners come up in their trails for murder and treason. plus OBAMA AND ALL HIS CABINET FOR PROTECTING THE GUILTY (refusing to have a real investigation of 9/11). AIDING AND ABETTING(and whatever else comes up in their trails including Obama’s knowlewge and “leadership” in the most resent BATF operation of selling guns to Mexican drug gangs).

WHEN, we get to the bottom of whoever is really behind this, It would not surprised me to find that they be among the “ones”, “too big to fail”!!!!!!!

750 words you say? Pasted below is the 350 word (one page) introduction to a 5122 word article posted in numerous revisions all over the net. A posting at http://www.scribd.com/doc/49040689 was updated yesterday. Is it anything you would be interested in handling ??

Olde Reb
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RIP-OFF BY THE FEDERAL RESERVE
Revised 10/2011
SUMMARY: This mathematical analysis shows how:

1. The economic scheme in the U.S. of creating fiat book-entry money via T-securities in the amount of the principal of the security with a promise to repay the principal PLUS the interest (i.e., deficit spending), is impossible. The interest is never created. The debt must continually be increased to pay interest on earlier securities or the economy will collapse from de-leveraging.

2. The National Debt can never be paid off. Contracts that cannot be culminated are acts of fraud and are void from their inception.

3. The $8.4 trillion from 2010 Treasury security auctions is received in the accounts of the FRBNY; its destination is undocumented and a minimum of $1.4 trillion is profit for the Fed. A maximum of $8.4 trillion is profit.

4. The Fed eventually receives the value of all national debt as profit; every dollar of inflation is undeclared profit by the Fed. The expense of maturing securities is not included in government records.

5. Congress has temporary benefit of ($1.4 trillion) deficit spending until maturity of the securities (the collateral). At maturity, the government must repay the value (of the loan) to the security holder BUT THE VALUE OF THE REDEEMED SECURITY IS NOT REDUCED FROM THE FEDERAL DEBT.

6. Fiscal social obligations of the nation will be restricted while debt will escalate exponentially. Imposed social austerity and higher taxes merely postpones the inevitable.

7. The future explosion of interest (currently suppressed to “stimulate” the economy) and escalating debt will eventually consume the entire wealth of the nation and the future earnings of posterity for the benefit of “financiers.”

8. The operation is, as with any Ponzi scheme, predestined for inherent national bankruptcy when buyers to roll over the increasing debt cannot be found.

9. As the scheme becomes visibly precarious and the Fed becomes desperate, the interest rate will sky-rocket and accelerate the collapse.

10. The touted concept that the public directly funds deficit spending is an illusion. Such funding can never produce inflation.

11. Concealment of funds due the government violates several federal criminal laws.

[the article normally follows]

Bob,

Your article on earning money brought to mind how I used to get movie money. Where we lived the company had a storeroom where the employees would purchase cold drinks. Hoever there was one catch. The coke machine change area caused the change to roll out ++++++++++++and fall through the cracks of the floor and go to the ground underneath. We then on Frdaay or Saturday morning would crawl under the foor on the fround ans collect our movie money money. Also we has to hithhike to townto go to the movie. Thank goodness for the old days. This was back in the 1950 s.

If I keep it under 750 you will read it??????Someone will read what I post????How many will you read ….5 a week too much???

Hey Bob, I think your requirements for submission are fine. Besides, anyone who thinks they can go online and remain anonymous using a pseudonym is fooling theirself.

[Dear Scott, I have changed your login name back to the one you post under the most. It is bad manners to impersonate other commenters. I hope it was an error rather than deliberate.--Bob]

Neat idea,Bob. Some of us haven’t the time , discipline,or inclination
to put together a blog-site to express what might be a unique approach
or solution to a subject….sometimes we just have a question that needs
asking that Google just can’t handle like the conservative think tank and community that Personal Liberty .com has become. I ,and all of the voices in my head that make my writing style so rambling ,look forward to the experiment

Airship America is on it’s final, Captain and Crew are Holding a Dead Stick, Control Tower to Airship America; you are 500′ low and off Center of runway 500′, do you read me???Repeated calls go unanswered…

Airship America is clipping off Trees and load noise of Metal being
Ripped Away and pandemonium taking place in Cabin…

Airship America is now CFIT and is no more, as Flames commence to incinerate any and all combustibles, and all that is left is smoke and silence…….

I missed Ben Crystal’s latest “Occupy This!” video. Why? It was broadcasted with only half of the sound track: the background audience track. Please be sure both tracks are sent. Thanks.

Re: Free trade agreements
I believe it was under Clinton that we gave favored nation trade statis to China. One question, “How is that working for you?” Do we have a balance of trade with China? Has it created jobs? Has it made our nation rich so that we can loan money to other nations?

Bob, you’re starting the Sound Off idea with a built-in glitch. That is, I call myself s c. If you expect me to furnish my full name, then the Sound Off concept is dead in the water, as far as I’m concerned.
I think your Sound Off is a great idea, BUT too many sites want too much info as it is, and I’m not in any info-donating mood.
I just happen to have some timely suggestions for you, but . . .