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Grasping at vaporware.

It does not have the drama of the Inchon landing or the sweep of the Union comeback in the summer of 1864. But the turnabout of American fortunes in Iraq over the past several months is of equal moment -- a war seemingly lost, now winnable. The violence in Iraq has been dramatically reduced. Political allegiances have been radically reversed. The revival of ordinary life in many cities is palpable. Something important is happening.

And what is the reaction of the war critics? Nancy Pelosi stoutly maintains her state of denial, saying this about the war just two weeks ago: "This is not working. . . . We must reverse it." A euphemism for "abandon the field," which is what every Democratic presidential candidate is promising, with variations only in how precipitous to make the retreat.

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I'm guessing that Army readiness is somewhere around twenty-five percent. The United States no longer has an army. How is this considered winning?

When you invade a territory against the wishes of the armed inhabitants, you will lose. This is basic stuff. No need to attend a war college to divine this truth.

It has been accounted that the cost of this misadventure is around two trillion dollars. I suspect that years from now, when all the figures have been added up, the final cost will be closer to ten trillion.

"We spent ten trillion dollars fixing things we broke while bumbling around looking for slickly marketed non-threats. And we destroyed the moral authority of the United States in the process, causing it to lose political authority and, thus, causing it to destroy itself. Strike up the band; we won!"

The economics of technology make it ever more possible for rice farmers and hut dwellers to lay an army low.

You walked in there. That you have risen to your knees after being flat on your backs is not a victory.

I love war. I love battle. I love the spirit of the contest. This Iraqi Misadventure was launched by those who know absolutely nothing about warfare.

Get back in your stall.

Federal officials are routinely asking courts to order cellphone companies to furnish real-time tracking data so they can pinpoint the whereabouts of drug traffickers, fugitives and other criminal suspects, according to judges and industry lawyers.

In some cases, judges have granted the requests without requiring the government to demonstrate that there is probable cause to believe that a crime is taking place or that the inquiry will yield evidence of a crime. Privacy advocates fear such a practice may expose average Americans to a new level of government scrutiny of their daily lives.

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Some in my audience believe me on this point, others do not: The federal "government" acts wholly in and on behalf of moneyed interests. The government isn't for you. You have not had lawful government since at least 1913. (When organized monetary theft was legalized with the Federal Reserve Act.) The FBI, for example, acts for bankers who hate the Liberty Dollar because they cannot counterfeit it.

And this "fugitives and other criminal suspects" bit? That HR 1959 bill effectively makes political dissent illegal. That makes "criminals" out of any who would express political dissent like "maybe war isn't such a good idea." This cellphone tracking makes it possible to locate someone for easy snatching off the street.

The "government" can designate anyone a criminal.

"Drug traffickers! Baby eaters! Mother humpers and father rapers! ...And, uh, other criminal suspects, like, um... you."

The federal "government" operates exclusively in two modes:

1. As an instrument of coercion for the gain of an organized crime syndicate, while
2. Throwing a few bones to the people to make them think that it works for them.

Some would say, "Chris, you're silly. Aren't you being a little paranoid? You would allow your friends and family to track you by your cellphone... Why not the government? We're here to protect you... From the drugs. And the terriss."

Yeah, I've heard this argument before. Just a couple differences here: One, I can turn the tracking feature off and can also decide who among my circle may track me, and, two, my friends and family do not consider gang rape and waterboarding and (forced) cum eating to be appropriate behavior.

I am willing to give friends and family a key to my house. I would not extend the same privilege to the village troglodytes, who have demonstrated themselves unsuited for polite company.

Government employees have conducted themselves as animals. Let them stay in the barn. But do not EVER allow them into the house.

They're Demons!

An updated John Carpenter classic, "They Live."

They have substance eaters too, I guess.

British MEPs have reacted with outrage to a planned Euro-census which would demand details about every woman's sexual partners.

UK Independence Party MEP Derek Clark urged women to protest by claiming they are virgins or have 1,000 sexual partners if the proposal is approved.

The proposed new European Commission power to collect facts and figures on population and housing across the EU would go further than any national census, Mr Clark warned.

The information the Commission wants to be allowed to gather includes information on the "consensual unions" of all women in the EU.

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See, customers of those old-fashioned, uppity, fuddy-duddy "states" have to submit to all kinds of stupid stuff.

I'm looking over my agreement with USov. It says here:

"Should any United Sovereigns of America employee ever demand to know how many people you've fucked, you are within your rights to drive a fist right through their face. Then we'll fire that employee. Why do you have this right? Because we want your business. You could easily hire someone else in this new age of the absence of territorial jurisdiction. Thanks."

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Damien Rice

I just stumbled upon this guy the other day.

My first item for sale:

One white pair of jockey-style underwear, purchased as part of a 3-pak at the liquidation store. Yellow stain in front. Price: $10,000.

Please send a check to the PO box. I will sign the article upon request for an additional $5000.

I have seized upon a new revenue model.

I don't know why I didn't think of this before.

I will lovingly produce by my own hand physical objects that people can buy. People like to hold things in their hands and possess them and drain the very life force from them and trot them out at parties.

I will sign each work and it will come with a certificate of authenticity that reads:

THIS IS A CERTIFIED PIECE OF SHIT THAT CHRIS KING POP ICON PRODUCED. IT IS THE EQUIVALENT OF SELLING DRINKS TO PEOPLE WHO OTHERWISE WOULD ONLY EAT THE FREE PRETZELS AND FART.

PLEASE ENJOY YOUR NEW ACQUISITION.

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From on around 1984, if I remember correctly.

The ramshackle house and the junk in the yard reminds me of something I would see in Vermont. But it's beautiful in its way.

I would have been interested in this case five years ago.

But now it's moot.

The Supreme Court announced yesterday that it will determine whether the District of Columbia's strict firearms law violates the Constitution, a decision that will raise the politically and culturally divisive issue of gun control just in time for the 2008 elections.

The court's examination of the meaning of the Second Amendment for the first time in nearly 70 years carries broad implications for gun-control measures locally and across the country.

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Since there no longer is such a thing as territorial jurisdiction, any decision would apply only to members of the political unions in question. So you could have a member of PPU New York and PPU USov walking side-by-side down the street in any territory. The PPU New York member would be prohibited from carrying a sidearm whereas the USov member would have that right.

It's an interesting aspect of this New Political Landscape.

Some campaign slogans.

"There isn't a fluffy pen in Chris King Pop Icon's My Little Pony purse. Just another fist."

"My plan to get the Jews to shut the fuck up? Four words: Chris King Pop Icon."

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"There's no chin behind Chuck Norris' beard... only another fist."

The other Republican candidates may have more money and better poll numbers, but Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee isn’t worried about any of that. He is the only GOP contender who can claim support of the imposing force that is Chuck Norris.

In a new TV ad set to begin airing this week in Iowa, Huckabee appears alongside the action movie star and cult icon with a warning for voters.

“Chuck Norris doesn’t endorse. He tells America how it’s gonna be,” Huckabee says in the new ad.

After cleaning up the Lone Star state as “Walker: Texas Ranger,” and fighting terrorists in “Delta Force,” Norris is taking his roundhouse kicks to the campaign trail on Huckabee’s behalf. If Norris can turn Barry Gabrewski from bully victim to karate champion, he’s certainly a good “Sidekick” to have.

While Norris tells viewers Huckabee’s plans to “protect our 2nd Amendment rights” and “put the IRS out of business,” the candidate shares some insights about the movie star.

“My plan to secure the border? Two words: Chuck Norris,” Huckabee says.

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Come again? My robotic arms are too noisy for me to hear you.

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The U.S. Military is demanding that thousands of wounded service personnel give back signing bonuses because they are unable to serve out their commitments.

To get people to sign up, the military gives enlistment bonuses up to $30,000 in some cases.

Now men and women who have lost arms, legs, eyesight, hearing and can no longer serve are being ordered to pay some of that money back.

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I suggest that we enact a special Bat Mitzvah Tax. What's that? Say you want to put on a disgusting spectacle of excess for your precious daughter. (Preferably with ten million dollars of embezzled money.) If your disgusting spectacle costs more than $500, you pay ten percent to compensate the military for the signing bonuses of veterans who can't complete their terms due to their artificial limbs, glass eyes, and colostomy bags.

I certainly hope no veteran has paid Dime One back. If I were to receive a such a letter, I would regard it as so out of line that it must be a clerical error of some sort. I would throw it in the trash where it belongs.

I want to have spoken my final cross word about Jews.

But here's what angers me:

You come home to find your girlfriend beaten unconscious and raped.

Your best friend, who is forever lamenting that everyone hates him and he doesn't know why, fingers someone. So you go completely apeshit on that someone. Your buddy is egging you on the whole way.

Well... Come to find out... It was your alleged best friend who did it.

So you can see why I would go completely apeshit on Jews. Right about now, all I can do when I even see a Jew is to roll my eyes.

Thanks for completely fucking up my relationships with Jews.

And you knew who it was... You somehow knew... You had your suspicions... You heard the whispers. You knew what your troglodyte nation was all about.

Will you redeem yourselves? I doubt it. But if you wanted to, you could start by scaling back on that disgusting spectacle known as the bat mitzvah (paid for with 10 mill in embezzled money) and buy that veteran a new fake leg. Or that veteran with a scar-tissue face and that amorphous hole where his mouth used to be? Buy him a new face so he can find himself a girlfriend.

I don't like bad blood. So I will forgive you. But it's gonna take some effort on my part. Forgive me if I seem angry sometimes.

So if the very notion of territorial jurisdiction was extinguished,

what is the practical result for the states' Lovingly Compiled Compendia of Shit-Caked Pieces of Paper?

Let's take this as an example: The State of Vermont says that bars within its territory may not permit smoking. (The State cannot perform its most basic functions, so it busies itself with flashy crowd-pleasers like this.) This prohibition exists despite the fact that neither the proprietor of the bar nor the patrons may have a problem with it.

In the absence of territory, the law has no effect.

The State's agents will likely try to enforce the law. I would imagine that the bar owner's PPU security will be successful in convincing the State's agents to go home without causing a scene.

"Yeah, that's a silly law anyway."

"Not to mention that you no longer have jurisdiction. There is a cost associated with not performing your assigned function, you know. Your customer is now ours. Goodbye."

And in the absence of territory (a component of the definition of a "state") the states become merely PPU's, operating on a similar moral footing with any other PPU's within the territory.

Let's do a comparison, using the State of Vermont (for no particular antagonistic reason) and United Sovereigns of America:



PPU of Vermont's Customers:

• Require permission to work.
• Require permission to travel.
• Pay yearly fees equal to income, sales, and property taxes.
• May not smoke in bars.
• May not grow the wonder crop and wonder food known as hemp.
• Get finger-fucked on demand.

USA's Customers:

• Require no man's permission to work.
• Require no man's permission to travel.
• Pay $5000 per year in fees.
• Can smoke in bars, if the proprietor permits it.
• Are free to do what they please, assuming that such action does not run counter to USA's guidelines or its Interoperability Agreements with other PPU's.
• Are free to drive a .45 round into the face of any who would finger-fuck them.

As you can imagine, the PPU's will siphon away the customers of the states until the states' only customers are the welfare recipients. This will cause budgetary problems. Bye bye, states.

There is a cost associated with not performing your assigned function.

"Chris! This PPU scheme is unworkable! We'll have lawlessness!"

What do you think we have now?

It's a new world, everyone. Wake up, open your eyes, and move forward. Yesterday is gone.

It would be an interesting exercise--

--for some enterprising economics student to calculate the amount of wealth stolen each year through fractional reserve banking.

It would go something like this: The amount of cash and savings and checkings deposits in Cootersville is ten million dollars. (We exclude real estate and stocks and bonds and the like because, despite the value of the currency in which they are traded, they will still retain their value.) If the money supply is increased (inflated) by five percent in a year, then it would seem that five hundred thousand dollars were stolen from the people of Cootersville by the Penny Shiners and their conspirators in "government."

It is difficult to calculate the theft because the Penny Shiners have made the M3 figure a big secret.

Just imagine: It's like the Russkies in 1950 driving tanks down the street and stealing five percent of the savings of Americans at gunpoint each year. Would you be outraged? Fractional reserve banking is just an elegant scheme of thievery. And it's less detectable by the common man than anything those nasty, ol' Russkies could dream up.

What would Americans' standard of living be like today if some foreign power had not been stealing a certain percentage of your wealth each year?

Betcha they'd take LIberty Dollars.

The Taj Mahal may have been built as a testament to love but some hard-headed business decisions are now holding sway at India's most famous monument. First among them is that the US dollar is no longer welcome.

With parts of the American economy in turmoil and the dollar rapidly losing its long-held position as the currency of choice, Indian authorities have calculated they are losing considerable sums of money by allowing foreign tourists to pay using greenbacks.

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Now you see why the FBI wants them out of business.

Have you sold your interest in that pig currency yet?

Buying gold coins is easy: Pick one: American Eagles, Canadian Maple Leafs, Krugerrands, Pandas, or even the Liberty Dollar. The price you will pay will be somewhere around three percent above the "spot price" of gold. Go here to check out the prevailing prices: kitco.com

And eventually the US "government" will make owning and trading in gold coins illegal. They'll say that the Terriss use gold coins. But what they're really doing is forbidding the use of gold coins so that their penny-shining masters' pig currency will still have some value. They'll try to seize your gold coins, so DO NOT keep them in a safe-deposit box.

The US "government" will brand you a terriss for owning coins. The proper response at that point is, "Please fuck off immediately."

Everything except the bars.

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Well at least someone's got balls around here.

John McCain often says on the campaign trail that he wants to take on the system in Washington. Usually, he's talking about congressional spending and pork-barrel projects. But he also wants to challenge the system of protection that forces presidents to live life in a bubble.

"It's my intention, if we win this nomination, to reject Secret Service," he said during one of his many conversations with reporters on his Straight Talk Express this weekend. "Why do I need it?"

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OK. I've got the patch on now.

And there's no more alcohol allowed in the house.

I'm a new man. Ta da!

And this FBI raid on NORFED,

where our investigative finest seized Ron Paul coins, occurred because bankers don't like the competition. Why, for example, would I traffic in garbage money (that bankers are free to counterfeit through fractional reserve banking) when I could store my wealth in an easily recognizable, durable, attractive coin of real metal that cannot be counterfeited?

The bankers are using their playthings in the FBI to put their competitors out of business. The bankers want to force me to use a currency that they can counterfeit.

Bankers ABSOLUTELY HATE gold and silver coins because it is impossible to counterfeit them.

Here is a short primer on money.

The first "bankers" were goldsmiths. Why? Presumably because they had the vaults and the security to protect their own gold. Customers started asking them to hold their gold for them. The goldsmith would issue a note indicating that the customer had a certain amount of gold in the goldsmith's vault.

Well, customers soon realized that instead of needing to return to claim their gold when they wished to purchase something from a merchant, that merchant would simply accept the note. The merchant, after all, could present that note at the goldsmith and claim the gold.

Pretty soon, few people were claiming the gold --which they would have to carry around and perhaps risk losing. They just passed notes among themselves. There is nothing wrong with this system. Everyone is performing admirably and honorably.

Ten notes in circulation indicates ten pieces of gold in the vault. Ten units of money are in circulation, ten are out of circulation. The money supply is equal to ten units of money. (In this example, there are ten notes in circulation and zero coins in circulation.) Should someone redeem a note, that note is retired (taken out of circulation) and a piece of gold is taken out of the vault and given to the customer (put into circulation.) The money supply is still equal to ten units of money, comprised of nine notes and one coin. The money supply is stable. The value of the note is stable.

But of course there is always someone looking to steal.

The goldsmiths noticed that no one would find out if they issued the occasional extra note and then lent it to someone. "Hey: How about making me a low-cost loan? It won't cost you much since all you have to do is print up another note. It's not like you had to go dig up the gold or anything... Who's gonna know that I didn't deposit a coin with you?" So the goldsmith would put one additional note, one additional unit of money, into circulation.

So let's erase the blackboard and go back to the beginning and say that the money supply is ten units of money: Ten notes in circulation that represent ten coins out of circulation. Now the goldsmith issues one additional note, one additional unit of money. The money supply has been expanded by one unit of money. There are eleven notes in circulation and ten coins out of circulation. The money supply has been inflated. Who benefited? The banker (who makes interest for doing nothing) and the immediate borrower (who gets to borrow money at an interest rate that is lower than what it would cost him to borrow real money from a private person.)

Both parties receive real economic value from this act. But energy cannot be created or destroyed. Where did the energy come from? That energy comes from the legitimate notes, whose legitimacy this fake note has appropriated.

This additional note, unbacked by anything, travels among the other notes, pretending to be worth something. And no one can really tell since the goldsmith is not going to permit anyone to take an inventory of his vault. Would the value of the notes in circulation fall? Not immediately.

Now let's pretend that we're talking about the money supply of a town. Cootersville. There are a hundred people in this town. They all do business with one bank. The First National Bank of Cootersville. All the townspeople have deposited their gold coins in this bank and gotten notes. (Who wants to carry around all those heavy coins?) The money supply is equal to one million units of money.

The bank president realizes that people rarely redeem the notes for gold. He's got a buddy, a building contractor. He builds houses. He wants to borrow money from someone to build a housing complex, but people in the town are asking ten percent on their money. So the contractor asks his buddy at the bank if he could, you know, issue a few more notes. "Who's gonna know?"

The bank president prints up some more notes and issues them to the builder. The notes are in the amount of 100,000 units of money. They claim to represent 100, 000 pieces of gold. The banker charges an interest rate that is less than the market rate. Why? Because if he charged a rate equal to the market rate, then the builder would have no reason to borrow from the banker; he might as well borrow in the free market of the townspeople, who are charging ten percent on their money. So the banker charges something less: say, eight percent. Ding! Take note of this artificially altered price of credit; we'll come back to it. And note that the money supply has been inflated from one million units of money to 1.1 million units. Imposters now circulate among the real money.

Now the builder has his money. He spends it into circulation by buying building materials, paying workers, etc. The workers and the hardware store suddenly have lots of business. Everyone seems to have more money. And they do: they are the recipients of this new 100,000 units of money.

Now let's say I'm a farmer and I've got some cows to sell. I put an advertisement in the paper saying that I will have a livestock auction on Saturday. Ten people show up to bid on the cows. Typically, a cow will sell for about a hundred units of money. But now Jim Bob (who had always wanted a cow but could not afford one) has shown up at the auction. He's a drywall guy and has been doing some work for the builder. He now has money. Jimmy Joe (who typically comes to the auctions and buys cows sometimes because he is a dairy farmer) is now bidding against Jim Bob. Jim Bob has the money to buy a cow now. But Jimmy Joe, the dairy farmer, still needs that cow. So Jimmy Joe is forced to raise his bid by some amount.

That cow I just sold to Jimmie Joe cost him more than the cow I sold to Jimmie Joe last week. This is price inflation. It is a direct result of monetary inflation.

The elderly widow down the street --whose entire savings amount to ten thousand units of money-- must now pay more to buy the chickens from me because Jim Bob Drywall Guy also wants to buy chickens with his newfound "wealth." The value of the widow's money has decreased.

The "energy content" of the builder's fake money came from the widow's money. And from the dairy farmer's money. It was a transference of wealth from the widow and the dairy farmer and to the builder. (And also to the banker, as he is making some money by way of his interest.)

This fractional reserve banking scheme cooked up by the bank president is a theft of wealth from existing holders of money. The fruits of this theft are divided between the banker and those to whom he lends the fake money. This scheme of thievery always requires two conspirators: the banker and the initial borrower. (Who is likely the banker's buddy.)

Now. Back to that altered interest rate. To recap: The townspeople would charge ten percent on their money. Ten percent is the cost of credit in Cootersville. If the banker chooses to issue additional notes to the builder, he must charge a lesser rate than the prevailing rate, else why would the builder borrow money from the banker when he could just get it from the townspeople? The banker wants to lend this money. So he will charge less than the prevailing rate. That is, he will charge less than the market has decided that the price of credit is worth.

The banker has lowered the price of credit.

Let's say I'm an inventor. I invent everything from retrotemporal communications devices to battery-powered tie racks to nuclear-powered mouse traps.

The old style, spring-loaded mouse trap seems to work just fine. And it costs ninety-nine cents. I would never borrow money at ten percent to build a factory to manufacture nuclear-powered mouse traps. Why would anyone do such a thing when someone can buy a spring-loaded mouse trap for ninety-nine cents?

But let's say I've got my heart set on this cockamamie idea of a world improved by nuclear-powered mouse traps. In my financial calculus, a credit price of ten percent makes the idea unworkable. But what if the price of credit were only eight percent? Or five percent? Or one percent? In my financial calculus, my bright idea of building a factory to manufacture nuclear-powered mouse traps suddenly seems viable.

So I borrow the money from the banker at an artificially reduced price of five percent. And away I go and build my factory and buy stuff from the local uranium miner (who has to hire more people and dig up uranium and buy packaging material so that he can ship it to me and he prints up his special stationery so that he can bill me.) The uranium miner has created an entire business around providing me with uranium for my nuclear-powered mouse traps.

So opening day comes! ...And no one seems interested in a nuclear-powered mouse trap. So the economic energy that was stolen from the dairy farmer and the widow has been put to use in building a nuclear-powered mouse trap factory and in expanding the uranium miner's operation. I'm not selling mouse traps and the miner isn't selling any more uranium than he was before. So now the economy of Cootersville has an idle nuclear-powered mouse trap factory and lots of fancy stationery that aren't being used. This is an economic distortion. Such a thing would not have occurred if the credit were purchased at the prevailing rate.

An artificially low price of credit makes all sorts of cockamamie ideas seem economically viable. And we wind up with WebVan and Pets.com. ...And we're out a cure for cancer or an expanded cotton-growing operation or whatever else the credit might have been wisely applied to.

Fractional reserve banking has two effects, both of which are deleterious to an economy: It steals economic value from the dairy farmer and the widow, and it encourages unwise investment.

Fractional reserve banking is theft, plain and simple. It is the single worst thing that ever happened to Cootersville.

...But there is no shortage of sophists to argue in favor of it. Because they are very well paid. Fractional reserve banking is a VERY lucrative business.

I'm so not getting a TV show.

And you know what? I really don't care. The nature of the medium is probably such that I would be limited to doing meaningless material.

Dershowitz is a member of the Traveling Jewish Hucksters. They roam from society to society and ruin them. He's an ex-communist. He likes authoritarian systems of government.

And I think if you were to look closely, you would find that he's a satanist. Which means he's not actually Jewish.

Let's look at this impressive passage again:

"If you torture, then what separates you from -- the Nazis, or somebody else?" asked Brzezinski.

"Every government faced with a ticking bomb would, in fact, torture, and we would do it in order to get information to save lives," Dershowitz answered. "The essence of a democracy, if you're going to do something, you have to admit you're doing it and you have to have control over it and you have to have restrictions on when it can be done. ... If it's going to be done in a democracy, then you have to make everybody accountable for it."

"It's been found that torture doesn't cough up good information at all times," Brzezinski pointed out.

"That's just dead wrong," Dershowitz stammered. "It works sometimes."

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This is pure, meaningless sophistry. I didn't know that admitting you're doing something and then making everyone accountable for it if you're going to do something was the "essence of democracy."

The man sells garbage for a living. And should a society be so unfortunate as to buy it, that society gets destroyed. (Much like American society is now.)

Bill Kristol is another member of the Traveling Jewish Hucksters. All he can do is smile that creepy smile of his and spew forth lies.

Nearly every Jew I've seen on TV for the past six years is a member of the Traveling Jewish Hucksters. They defile the minds of their audiences merely by opening their mouths.

And the sad part here is that they're not even Jewish.

The Traveling Jewish Hucksters have some kind of communal psychic sickness. They despise themselves, they despise life, and they despise beautiful things. So it is their calling to spread poison.

And the Jews permit them to do business from their house.