Guest Column: In Loving Memory of Harambe

Posted on May 30, 2016 by Brian Wright

The same child ‘saved’ by killing Harambe the gorilla will be systematically poisoned by clueless humans wielding toxic vaccines and cancer causing junk foods

by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

(NaturalNews) It’s important to point out the outrageous hypocrisy of the shameless murder of Harambe the gorilla, a conscious, aware, intelligent being who showed no intention of trying to harm the child that fell into his exhibit at the Cincinnati zoo. #JusticeForHarambe

The very same stupid, idiotic humans who carry out these murders to “save a child’s life” will turn right around and have their own children injected with brain damaging mercury in the form of vaccines. They’ll feed their children cancer causing chemicals like sodium nitrite in bacon, sausage and hot dogs. They’ll routinely commit chemical violence against their own children at every meal, yet when a gorilla is near some child, it’s so scary to ignorant humans that they haul off and murder the primate out of nothing but ignorant fear.

Humans are stupid. Harambe is no villain, and he didn’t deserve to die.
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Brian’s Column: The 2016 LP National Convention

Posted on May 29, 2016 by Brian Wright

Libertarians nominate presidential ticket Gary Johnson/William Weld,
now actually standing a chance of winning the 2016 election… IF…

… they continue to avoid shooting themselves in the foot (as was ever their wont) and rise to the challenge of The Truman Prophecy… by committing themselves to the Snowden-Manning political program. [In a phrase, the Libertarians “have to bring real truth and real justice to real people.”]

Note: From Shane Trejo’s column here, I realize that Weld, with some disturbing specifics to his background, could be a colossal mistake. But I don’t think so. As I try to point out in this column, what matters isn’t who our candidates are but the political program they will effect. And WE, the truth-justice-liberty warriors, will be—or certainly can be—the driver of what they do. They represent us; we have to insist they embrace the Snowden-Manning program, or else! ALL parties and ALL candidates.

It was a cliffhanger from what my Rose—watching CSPAN—was telling me with regular updates this afternoon. Gary Johnson won the presidential nod this morning on a second ballot, handily. But his preferred vice-presidential candidate, William Weld—another former two-term Republican governor in a largely Democratic state (Massachusetts 1991-1997)—had to duke it out with a handful of presumably fine individuals yet having the political notability of the dogcatcher in Enid, Oklahoma. Continue reading →

Book Review: Mother’s Stone (2013)

Posted on May 27, 2016 by Brian Wright

The end times and extraordinary life of Phyllis Joy
by Brian Wright (reviewed by the author)

The idea of this book stems from a series of columns I wrote as a diary of my mother’s ‘end times.’ She was victim to a genetic illness known as polycystic kidney disease (PKD). As a patient she traversed the modern medical bloodletting system, availing herself of the best technology health insurance covers… and survived it in style for three-plus glorious years. Moreover, the universal meaning of her life ‘as a whole’ transcends the short period of her end times and is what I have aimed to capture as a message from the sages: health lessons learned and freedom lessons shared.

I originally speculated that Mother’s Stone might serve as a focal point of national and international (and non-national) discussion on how to achieve ‘better outcomes’ in medicine—at least kidney surrogate technology. I feel the diaries of Part I do a fair job of showing how the system works (and doesn’t work) today. It’s not all bad and we can do a whole lot better. But in “Part II: The Life” I take off the gloves: the restoration/reconstruction of such a marvelous life as my mom’s offers not only inspiration but a healing balm. Continue reading →

Movie Review: Night at the Museum (2006)

Posted on May 25, 2016 by Brian Wright

Solid family fare that edifies, inspires, and entertains 7.5/10

Never a huge Ben Stiller fan, I was pleasantly surprised after picking Night at the Museum out of the Netflix mailer and firing it up on the DVD player. It’s a story about a fellah in a busted marriage just trying to get by in the Big Apple. Larry Daley (Stiller) has a creative, inventive orientation—he supposedly developed a light that turns on when you snap your fingers—but his inventions are always scooped, ahead of their time, or missing capital funding. Thus he’s always running low on rent money and his ex (Kim Raver) wonders if he’s a positive influence on their boy Nick (Jake Cherry).

In the beginning of the movie, Larry drops by the plush apartment of his ex and her new fiance Don (Paul Rudd)—a techno-business geek (emphasis-added) bond trader—with whom she and Nicky live. These opening scenes are easy to dismiss because many have seen the previews and are waiting for the dinosaurs to come alive and wreak havoc at the museum; but these instances of humanity are key to story. Stiller shows the kind-hearted angst of the aspiring father who, because of some bad breaks and naïveté, has been ejected from his son’s life and replaced by a cipher. Rudd is perfect, too, as the shallow, good-natured stepfather to be. Continue reading →

Guest Column: Important Petition on Common Core

Posted on May 23, 2016 by Brian Wright

Please sign this petition to support two repeal bills
by Shane Trejo

Friends,

The fight against Common Core continues. Right now, we are building pressure for the two bills to repeal Common Core that are currently active in Lansing. They are Senate Bill 826 and House Bill 5444.

We have to make sure that our public officials know that they must stop Common Core and replace it with a proven, student-centered alternative. That is exactly what these bills would accomplish!

The team at Stop Common Core in Michigan have started an important petition which can be accessed here: http://citizengo.org/en/signit/34651/view.
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Brian’s Column: Open Letter to the US Political System 2016

Posted on May 22, 2016 by Brian Wright

Embrace the Snowden-Manning 2016 10-Point Political Program…

… as if our lives depended on it… because they do. The SM16 political program consists of 10 steps for fulfilling the Truman Prophecy and bringing truth, justice, and liberty to the country we love.

Special Note to Libertarians at the Orlando 2016 National Convention

Whoever you select for the presidential ticket this year, the party MUST proceed with a radical (government-)crime fighting agenda—if there is to be any hope of our liberty and, actually, our physical survival. The rogue global-junta forces running the United States government are embarked on a program of full-spectrum dominance in a succession of high-crime assaults on the people.

Only the Snowden-Manning 10-Point Political Program will end these high-crime assaults. If you are a delegate to the LP national convention, please insist that every candidate read and commit to implement the SM16 program immediately. And for heaven sakes’ now is the time to spread the word everywhere with an attractive Snowden-Manning 2016 bumper sticker to adorn your wheels… or living room picture window. 🙂

To take the meme viral, simply go to the Snowden-Manning site, buy and post a bumper sticker or other signage, then bear witness further. The simplest and most powerful method is to enter a statement in replying to any of a number of comments in the social media… in the following form:

“It’s not the <candidates, budget, Party, etc.>, it’s the political program: http://snowden-manning.org.”

Here are the 10 points of the program (I’ll expand each in a later update): Continue reading →

Movie Review: That Hamilton Woman (1941)

Posted on May 18, 2016 by Brian Wright

Magic classic with unforgettable performances 8.5/10

They told us your splendid victories, but not of the price you paid. — Emma Hamilton

Whoever came up with the idea of Turner Classic Movies—well, it was Ted Turner with the help of Robert Osborne and Carrie Fisher, of course—should have a statue or a movie studio named after him. Readers may recall a couple of other occasions when my movie-of-the-week review hailed back to a simpler time when cinema was a more straightforward theatrical presentation and a bag of popcorn, even adjusted for inflation, cost somewhere around a nickel (with no refills). Follow the Fleet and Seven Men from Now are two such reviews that came on the heels of my presence at Mom’s while the dial was turned to TCM. In both cases I was pleasantly surprised an old flick could be so good without being Casablanca.

And that same sort of pleasant surprise just happened the other day with That Hamilton Woman, starring Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh—though for different reasons. In fact, the main attraction for me about this film is twofold: a) the magic of the actors and b) the unforced romanticism of the cinematic effort. Continue reading →