Beware
the Ides of March. These were the
famous opening words recorded by
William Shakespeare as advice to the
characters in Julius Caesar. The ides
of March are upon us at this time. The
lunar calendar and the Julian
calendar, are in coincidence in a very
strange way.
Reminding you that ignoramus asks the
questions, not answers them, consider
the following.
An airplane designated as a 777 and as
flight number 370 takes off from the
only other city on the globe with twin
towers reminiscent of the ones
destroyed 12 years ago and is
magically plucked from the sky without
any clues. Now imagine that the whole
world is puzzling over such an
incident and yet a great many people
on earth have anticipated the end of
days and the rapture when people will
be plucked from the Earth's and no one
can explain their whereabouts.
Whether or not that flight is ever
found, you have to ask yourself "how
do you people ever imagine that the
rapture will occur?"
There are those who are making
suggestions. I don't endorse them
specifically but there are some
numerical clues that give us cause
think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxT6vPW_5-4
The
world is waiting for the other shoe to
drop. What does it mean? Where as
flight 370? Does it make any
difference whether we find it or not?
Will we all be asleep when the rapture
happens? Does it validate, or
invalidate anything that religious
people have been talking about for
thousands of years?
If you had a chance to prepare
yourself for the end of times, what
would you do? Could you prepare
yourself? Would you allow yourself to
repent of anything that is pending
that would prevent you from
progressing to eternity? Would you
want to be with someone you cared for
under these circumstances? A lot of
questions, isn't it?
Supposing, nothing else strange
happens for a while. Are you home
free? Supposing nothing else strange
happens for a while? Do we just forget
about it? No matter what happens, I
would suggest that we take the
opportunity to examine ourselves and
determine if we are ready for the end
of time days. Is our house in order?
Would we finally decide to be kind to
one another? If we are convinced that
time has come to warn our friends and
our enemies, would we do it?
Consider
what the meanings of the destruction
of the twin towers were to the United
States 12 years ago. Consider that the
aircraft took off in Kuala Lumpur took
off from a location that had twin
towers equal in importance stature and
detail are the ones destroyed 12 years
ago. Consider the symbology that was
built into the construction of the
twin towers in Kuala Lumpur.There
are an incredible number of things
that have symbolic meaning at
this time. If you would only exercise
your mind to apply the symbols that
appear in the links of this web
hosting you may have an understanding
of what the possibilities are.
Consider for a moment the meaning of
the destruction of the twin towers in
New York City over 12 years ago.
Consider that the airplane disappeared
a few days ago left from a city that
has twin towers equivalent in size and
majesty to those that were destroyed a
dozen years ago consider the symbology
that has been architected into those
buildings and what they mean in the
bridge that connects the twin Towers
in Kuala Lumpur that are different
from the ones destroyed in New York
City.
Consider that the airplane
disappeared had just come to altitude
and apparently made a U-turn. Consider
that the glide path with the amount of
fuel is on board would produced an
incredible downward sloping flight in
which the plane would reach the
extreme limits of aircraft and can be
pointed at the twin towers in the city
it departed from.
Now, consider that the creator of the
universe did not want this second
destruction to take place. Consider
that the disappearance of this plane
in sight of the entire world was not
consistent with the will of God at
this time.
I did not tell you anything that was
incredible, untrue or impossible to
believe but the entire world is still
looking for the wreckage of that
plane. It makes no difference whether
we even find the wreckage of that
plane. Do not be concerned about the
fate of the people on that plane. My
guess is that they are in a better
place then you or I are at this time.
Beware the Ides of March, it may be a
part of the events that begin a new
phase in the history of man.
Stinger? What's that?
What was Benghazi all about
anyway?
6/1/2013
| As
some Ignoramus fans know, our name
comes from the Latin phrase "we
know nothing" Our style is to not quote facts, but to ask questions. Here is a list of questions for this news cycle. What is a stinger? hint Why did Hillary Clinton send stingers to Libya? hint Was it to take out Qaddafi on the cheap? Did the Syrian rebels actually shoot down a plane using a stinger on August 13, 2012? Why was the Turkish ambassador in the American ambassador's compound two hours before the attack on Benghazi? Why was the Turkish Prime Minister standing beside President Obama when he answered the questions about Benghazi affairs? What was on the Turkish transport ship from Benghazi to Syria transporting? Did Sen. McCain talk to the rebels in Syria and ask them whether the stingers had arrived? Did he report the results of this conversation to the American people? Did you know that two out of three of the Jihadi groups in Syria and Mali had either toppled a government, canceled an election, or assassinated an American ambassador? Which of these three groups are complicit in terrorist activities and North Africa: Ansar Al-Sharia, Sharia Maghrib, AQIM (Al Qaeda in Maghrib) or all three? All of these questions can be answered using an internet search engine. There is no need to go to secret classified information. If you think you know the answers to 80% of these questions you can consider yourself a conspiracy theorist. Congratulations, we need more of those today. I am including a picture of a stinger with the comments that there are about 13,000 of these devices still in inventory and are being used by many of our allies. They have been available in Turkey and Saudi Arabia and can be ordered from the Raytheon Corporation in the USA with permission, of course, from the United States government. They are often given away for free to freedom fighters throughout the world. They are capable of shooting down a commercial airliner anywhere in the flight path of an airport. Anyone near any airport in the world is capable of bringing down any jet or chopper within a five-mile range. They can be carried in a backpack or the trunk of a car. You can fire four of them from a rack in the back of a pickup truck. Stingers have been intercepted being smuggled into the USA. All this information and more is freely available on the internet. Merely use your search engine. Smoke  Smoke and smokescreens have always been an implement of war. The warrior's challenge is to be able to distinguish smoke from real weapons. So far we have seen all scandals and last nine months has all been smoke. The real scandal has not been exposed. The childhood game of button button who's got the button aptly describes the game we are playing now. To play the game you do not even have to know what the button looks like. Someone with the button between the palms of these hand appears to transfer that button to everybody in the group except one person who must guess where the button was deposited. The person who is it must guess who has the button and chooses somebody he believes to a received the button when he asked the person if they have the button they open their hands and show that they do not have the button the person who actually has the button is allowed to pass it to somebody else. As as originally stated, you do not even have to know how big the button is or what color it is only that you have the button and you're ready to pass it to others who must try to guess who and the group has the button In order to understand the scandal of Benghazi you have to start about six months before the event and see the timeline of what is happening. Let us start the timeline in February of 2012. It was the year of presidential elections and two of the candidates had a lot in common. One candidate was Mitt Romney with a degree from Brigham Young University and Harvard he represented a conservative business approach and worked outside the normal political groups. The other candidate was Yeah Samake, also a graduate of Brigham Young University with a degree in business and politics with conservative ideas about free elections and government. He was a candidate for president of Mali, a country in North African just south of Libya. The countries that line up across the northern rim of Africa. The southern southern shores of the Mediterranean are called the Maghrib. A group of Jihadies in North Africa called themselves Sharia Maghrib. They formed a raiding party and attacked the city of Timbuktu within Mali. Their modus operandi was to enter a village, beat the first woman not wearing a veil properly, and cut off the hand of a prominent man in order to demonstrate how sharia law was supposed to control the people. This is similar to what Roman centurion's did in a time of Caesar in order to terrorize a village into submission. The purpose of this action was to discredit the current president of Mali who was retiring after concluding a new election for the next leader. Sharia Maghreb succeeded in overthrowing the president in his last months of office and postponing the election indefinitely. The BYU trained candidate who was only 30 days from facing an election was put on the back burner and is still waiting for the next election which will be held after July 7 in 2013. The next timeline event occurs on August 15 when Syrian freedom fighters shoot down a government plane using a stinger missile. Stinger missiles were known to have been in the hands of Libyan freedom fighters, placed there by our Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The Libyan government possessed Russin SA-7 missiles similar in design to American FIM-92Cs. All we know is that 13,000 of these missiles exist in inventory for the United States. It is not known how many missiles were actually assigned for use of ground troops in Libya to oust Qadhafi. It is also not known how many of the missiles were used and how many of the missiles still remained in the hands of Libyan opposition forces. From this point the game of button button starts to be conducted using lethal antiaircraft missiles that can be fired by a single soldier hidden in the bushes. The next timeline event is when a state department officer turns in his regular resignation in the last week of August 2012. Resignations, as you might know are sometimes forced and are sometimes used for someone who wants to escape the responsibility of doing something he knows to be illegal. This resignation is probably what placed the ambassador in Benghazi instead of his State Department headquarters in Tripoli September 11 was a very busy anniversary date and significant of Jihadi activity. The US ambassador was out of his normal office and into Benghazi on this fateful day meeting with the Turkish ambassador on an issue of grave importance. We do know now that on the previous day security forces in Benghazi are assisting in the taking of photographs around the compound with other unknown people and suspicions were that there was a breach of security on September 10. When the Turkish ambassador had concluded his business on the 11th at about sunset he left the premises and everything was quiet, for about an hour. Then, alarms went off indicating that there were additional people on the premises of the State Department compound. Details at this point become confused mainly because most of the people who witnessed the attack have not been allowed to testify and the only witnesses are those who received telephone calls for help from inside the compound the witnesses that testified were outside the compound the details of the attack will have to be filled in by others who have not given testimony at this time as to what actually happened, but we do know this: the ambassador was captured and taken to another location and the compound was burned. There were two waves of attack and no one has stated whether each wave was conducted by the same group. We do not know exactly how the ambassador was killed, he was not shot. He either died from asphyxiation or from a self-administered security poison pill. His body was apparently retrieved from a hospital controlled by Sharia Maghrib an Al-Qaeda associated military unit. No American witness was present when he died. Although almost everybody in the State Department and the White House were made aware of the activities are taking place in the calls for help only one person chose to dismiss himself early in the evening to prepare himself for a fund-raising campaign trip the next day, and that was the President. At this point testimony is still being heard on why a lie was told to the American people and to the United Nations concerning the details of this event. The truth apparently was relayed to government authorities but scrubbed of all facts that wouldn't Criminally identify the President during the election cycle most people in the country bit on and accepted the lies as evidenced by the fact that the president was reelected in spite of what happened in Benghazi and the events before. Every attempt to expose Benghazi was flawed inasmuch as an assumption was made that Benghazi occurred in a flash and anything pertinent would have occurred after the Benghazi attack the obvious of flaw in all the questioning is that no one has ever asked the question why did the Benghazi attack occur in the first place? What was the business of the Turkish ambassador? And the last question does anybody know how many Stinger missiles are unaccounted for and still out there to harm America? Almost everything that is happened since Benghazi has been staged as a smokescreen along with the usual stuff like hurricane Sandy, Boston Marathon bombing, IRS suspicions and charges that newsmen have been suspected of espionage simply by trying to get the news.
If you have bought the smokescreen and never asked the question where are those Stinger missiles anyway, then the smokescreen really worked, didn't it it.? As a postscript thought, why on earth would Barack Obama conduct an outdoor news conference with the Turkish ambassador by his side if the ambassador was never asked to comment on their business. It appears that Pres. Obama was wanting to ensure the ambassador that he was going to continue to not deny the Turkish connection and keep his mouth shut. Did it work? What is Eric Holder's role in all the scandals that are being bandied about? Don't confuse the Borgias, Machiavelli and Piero de Medicia with plots to poison the Pope. These were food tasters, not sin eaters.
Bottom
line is: "Everything that is happened in the
news since September 2012 has been smoke and
mirrors. "If you don't know why Benghazi happened you don't know nothing." |
To see Kabuki - January 23, 2012
Finding
Mitt's Grandmother - July 4, 2012
On this
July 4, 2012, I report on my trip to the Idaho Republican
convention and in my quest to find Mitt Romney's grandma.
The convention was glorious. It was held in Twin Falls, Idaho,
a very beautiful anywhere in the USA type town having
all the qualities of rural Western America. The main assembly
hall was in the College of Southern Idaho arts center. The 44 counties of
Idaho had gathered with their Republican organizations to
elect new officers for the next two years and to select the
electoral college and the delegates they would be be will be
sending to Tampa Bay, Florida for the national Republican
Convention. Gov. Butch Otter and his wife, Lori were there as
well as Congressman Raul Labrador, Senator Jim Risch, and Tom
Luna, Idaho's Director of Education.
One other star on the horizon will be Lori
Otter, a professional teacher with her Masters of Education from Brigham Young
University and the young bride of the popular Butch Otter,
current governor of Idaho. Butch and Lori Otter will be
teaming up with Tom Luna to complete education reform by
enabling local educators with the best in technology to
provide total opportunity for all students to take any course
offered in the state, regardless of how large or small a
community they reside. Virtual courses can be taught in the
classroom or in the home, depending on the capabilities of the
school system to provide lab services. The job is already half
complete.
Obligations
to offer tenure for teachers has been eliminated, also "first
in last out" rules for dismissal are no longer in effect.
Three bonus tiers are available for teachers who teach beyond
the call of duty and excel in their teaching skills. Under
certain circumstances, some teachers will be able to make
$85,000 a year in bonuses beyond their normal salary. The next
step will be decided by voters under a proposition called Yes,
Yes, Yes for Students. It is a sweeping reform that will
change the way the teachers' union influence the education
system. Naturally, the teachers' union seems to be the chief
opponent to this plan.
Idaho's educational Internet to provide curriculum to
every student, whether at school or at home is already designed and installed. In the next few years,
computers will be available for students to use in school and
to take home. With my knowledge of what is to happen in the
society of computer users, it will not be necessary to buy a
computer for every student in the school system. The delivery
of education will be clearly available to the majority of
students and network services will be in general use
within the next few years. This means that anybody with a
network connected television either by cable or by other
network services will be able to participate at any time in
classroom activity or in homework or project assignments.
Within a very short time, the dreams of Philo T. Farnsworth
will be realized. His invention of television, demonstrated as
a high school project in Idaho many years ago will come to
fruition. He dreamed of his invention being used for the
universal education of mankind. I feel very good about that,
but there is more.
Many Idaho Republicans were worried when the 2012 caucus was
held in March this year. Many Ron Paul supporters were
admitting privately that they were under oath to continue to
hold their obligation to support Ron Paul until Ron Paul
himself released them from that obligation. It seemed like
there was not much difference between a libertarian and an
anarchist. The rules of the caucus were clear. Any candidate
that had 50% of the caucus votes +1 was declared
the winner of that caucus. Consequently, the same rules were
true of all the caucus groups in the state. The conclusion was
that all Republican delegates to the national convention would
support Mitt Romney on the first ballot. The militant nature
of Ron Paul enthusiasts was still a concern as we met recently
to organize the Republican Party for the next two years. Vocal
tea party activists had already thrown their support behind
Mitt Romney, enthusiastically. Many of the participants in the
Twin Falls convention were well known Ron Paul supporters. The
result of of the convention was very similar to the Three
Musketeers, "one for all, and all for one". A week before
convention Ron Paul had issued a policy statement to his
supporters to confirm to them that he appreciated their
continuing support through the convention. It should be noted
that Ron Paul and Mitt Romney have been very sweet and civil
to each other and have not caused any dissension at this
point, However, Ron Paul is still a candidate to be considered
at the Florida convention. All other candidates have resigned.
I made a private bet with a close friend of mine about the
results of the Florida convention. The bet will be, since we
are both Mormons, our families will have dinner together after
the convention. The payoff of the bet concerns whether Ron
Paul will be significantly involved in the choice of vice
president and the payoff will be: "Who pays for dinner?" Will
he, or his son Rand Paul be the vice president?
The Mystery of Mitt Romney's Grandma
After a brief photographic shoot of Shoshone Falls, it was off
to Montpelier, Idaho. It has been rumored that Mitt Romney's
roots, in addition to being in Mexico are also in Idaho. Mitt
is supposed to have had a grandmother in Montpelier, Idaho. We
went there, checked into a small motel that advertised Wi-Fi,
but in fact had none for all practical purposes. I could find
no one in town that knew anything about Mitt Romney's
grandmother. The next day we proceeded to Paris Idaho, the
county seat. I searched land and marriage records and asked
people but could find nothing. Nobody knew who Mitt's
grandmother was. Exercising serendipity, which is my favorite
vacation activity, I decided to go through Logan, Utah as an
alternate route back to Boise, Idaho.
My trip to
Paris had been to photograph the architecture of the historic
building called the Paris Tabernacle and it was a successful
shoot. The building, built in the late 1800s, was a
magnificent piece of architecture and guided tours are
available six days a week. A similar building built about the
same time was the Logan Tabernacle. After photographing the Logan Tabernacle, I wanted to go inside
but the front door was locked. Walking around to the back, I
found an open door. After thoroughly photographing the
interior of the building and getting very good pictures, I
wandered to the basement and saw the first human beings
inhabiting the building. It was actually about 50 people busy
at work in a library of genealogical books and records. I had
stumbled into the local Family History Center but there were
no signs to indicate that it even existed in the building.
After thinking for a moment that there are no such things as
coincidences in the Mormon way of thinking, I sought out a
couple of gentlemen talking near the Administrative office who
wore the familiar black badges of Latter Day Saint workers.
"I'm looking for Mitt Romney's grandmother." I said. "Can you
help me?"
"I don't think she's here."
I told him what I knew already, and they said, "Well, let's
look it up."
Within 10
minutes, one of them said, "Look, here it is, Alma Robison was born in
Montpelier, Idaho. Not only that, she came to Logan and
married, and became Alma LaFount. Her daughter, Lenore
LaFount was born right here in Logan, Utah. Lenore married
George Romney when she was a student at the University of Utah
in Salt Lake City."
My search for Mitt Romney's grandmother was a success and I
was very happy. How far was it from Logan, Utah to Boise,
Idaho? It was over 320 miles. We got home in Boise, Idaho at
10 PM after a hard five-hour drive.
It was a good trip in every way. I'd collected over 500
excellent photographs and found Mitt's Grandma, just where I
thought she was. It was curious that no one I talked to in
Idaho knew the facts of that until I accidentally stumbled
into the basement of the Logan Tabernacle on the way home.
Marriage
for Dummies - May 31, 2012
There is a great deal
of misunderstanding about just what marriage is in the
political world. Since I don't know whether you are a child or
a liberal, I will start with the fundamentals. Forgive me if
you do not recognize which group you may be in. I am an old
man and forget that my vocabulary may not seem appropriate to
you as an individual. Patience on your part would be
appreciated. You will undoubtedly recognize everything I say
as something you already know.
There will be some who want to look at this in a political way and some will consider the religious aspects. Others will want to consider the legal and constitutional aspects and I will discuss those as well.
Remember, if you can, your birth parents. One of them was a man and one was a woman. If this is your memory, you are definitely in the majority. We are the human beings amongst the living creatures. It takes two humans to create another human or as we sometimes call it: a baby. Babies generally come in two types, male and female. You may already know this, but I just wanted to make sure we are starting from the same place.
Why? If you are a religious person you might say, "Because God made it that way". If you are scientific person and prone to arguing you might say, "Yes, but not worms and amoebas". Stick with me on this. That doesn't count as a gotcha.
To clarify the concept, man +
woman = baby. Let us call this a birth event.
Marriage is not
required for this event to occur. In some populations it
happens more often than there are marriages. 
We discover in nature that when a
sperm cell from a male joins with an egg cell from a female a
new birth event is a possibility. As a general rule, this
possibility occurs for about four days out of every 28 days in
a woman's child-bearing years. This time is generally defined
as between nine and 50 years of age, but may vary from that.
The possibility of a birth event being triggered depends on
the health of the male and female involved. Approximately 40
weeks after that event a live baby may be produced by the
female. Several things may happen that could prevent a live
birth. 
Sometimes
the female is injured and the baby does not live. Sometimes
the baby does not form perfectly and dies before birth.
Sometimes the mother will decide to kill the baby before it is
born. Most people of religious persuasion find this
objectionable.
Directing sperm
to an ovum is called insemination. The joining of sperm and
egg is called impregnation. The emergence of a new human being
from the female is called birth. Termination of a human being
before birth is called abortion. Some religious people call
this murder. Not all people are in agreement with these terms.
The birth event happens because of a number of reasons. Starting from the least desirable, there is rape. Historically rape has been the reason for the birth event in times of war. Warriors overcome another nation and attempt to defile the nation by impregnating women to shame them and the nation which they represent. There is no desire to express affection for the female nor to care for the offspring which it produces. Rape often happens in civilized society where irresponsible males attempt to impregnate women for their own satisfaction.
There are a wide number of reasons why unintentional pregnancies occur and can be attributed both to male and female behavior. It is believed that males have a greater urge to consummate the act. Females have been trained by their parents to resist such activity and are convinced it is a good thing to do. It is no wonder that the use of alcohol and drugs which produce feel-good behavior sometimes create a birth event. Civilized society relies on religious belief and social training to regulate activities in this area. As a general rule a female carrying a child may be compromised in her ability to survive and gather food. In addition caring for other children and carrying a child is further compromised. As a survival procedure, it is best for a male who will not have to carry the child to take over the responsibilities in providing food and shelter.
Hopefully you have not been turned off by the discussion so far. Many people have decided that the birth event is the desired result. For those, they may be considering marriage or may have already done that.
Marriage is a popular subject in political circles at this time. In examining the history of the birth event, it will become obvious that no birth has ever existed where a male and a male have been combined or when a female and a female have been combined. Examination of family histories generally indicate that a male and a female are the only combination that produce birth.
In American society, rights and privileges are sometimes associated with the statute of marriage. Up until this time the United States Constitution has not qualified rights and privileges as being related to marriage, race, age, or sexual persuasion. Certain laws have suggested that certain activities such as home ownership or care and responsibility for disabled member of a relationship should be qualified by marriage. In order to justify constitutional rights, such laws must be changed to allow people who have economic or emotional connections of a committed nature to have survival rights or care and visitation rights for those whom they have selected to live. There is an objection by some to use the term marriage to describe this relationship. Marriage describes the relationship in which there is the possibility of producing a new human being and/or responsibility for another human being. Adoption is a process by which a dependent person can be included in a family responsible unit.
Business units enjoy the privilege of organizing a Corporation. Some states allow the privilege of creating a civil union. Currently there is an imposition in the case of marriage and civil union to limit the relationship to two individuals. Some civilizations allow that the marriage unit may be more than two people. In many cases, the male is the main component of the unit. Many places in the United States legislate against the concept of polygamy; which is generally described as one man and more than one woman. There may be as many as 50,000 polygamist marriages within the United States. There are millions of these marriages in the Islamic world. History records many polygamist marriages in the Scriptures. One person revered by most of the Judeo-Christian world is Abraham, who was a polygamist.
Entering into a marriage may or may not produce a new human being. Both monogamous or polygamist marriages can produce new offspring. One night stands and bars may also produce offspring but is not generally codified by the law.
This chapter only establishes the first premise of marriage. Marriage describes an agreement between one male and one female on the responsibilities of producing support and care for each other and any children produced by the union.
Pairing, Coupling or Incorporating, what is your choice? Chapter 2
Any two people may be coupled or paired. This has no qualifications for age or sex. Those who are LGBT may take note that we are talking to them as well as any others that fall into the category other than male and female breeding units.
As a start to creating nomenclature, consider partners, companions, lovers, and the collective term committed. The misuse of the term marriage is a hot button for the majority of people in our society. The desires for others to claim the title is an affront to their sensibilities. Those who do so in spite of the knowledge in this can be considered troublemakers. Of course if you fall outside the definition of married, you may not even realize what you are doing to the feelings of others. You have a full right to the protections and privileges under our law to enjoy the same benefits as married people, but for that, the search for a new term which is not inflammatory is useful. Help me if you will.
You can be assured that others are sympathetic to your needs but are protective of their own rights as well. I do not know that I am wise enough to come up with a solution on this, but will try to make suggestions.
In many cultures,
a man and woman will draw up a contract concerning their
relationship at the time they get married. My wife and I did
that in spite of the fact we were first married by civil
ceremony, and then years later in a religious ceremony. Our
contract took weeks to negotiate and codify. We outlined our
intentions, our hopes, and our declaration of commitment. It
stands as a framed document in a prominent place in our home.
We actually married ourselves, standing alone on a platform in
the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco under the great dome.
We prompted and repeated each line of our vows by memory
before witness holding the script and a clerk of the court for
San Francisco. There was no church or state authority, only
the clerk who witnessed the certificate filed in the state of
California. 
All our
friends and family were present and we enjoyed a magnificent
reception at the Century Club of California. This happened
exactly 27 years ago and the same could be conducted for any
persons wanting to celebrate their union.
In our current systems of laws a man must discard a wife in order to take another. It may be difficult for some people to understand, but the affection for the previous wife may still exist and legally the responsibility for caring for offspring from an earlier wife may still exist. That would be easy to understand if the previous wife were not there because of death. I have reflected on this thought and coined the term "the one and only true love syndrome". It brings to my mind the behavior of the praying mantis and the black widow spider. Human feelings do not always conform to that concept. In our society when a person takes another partner without the permission of his existing partner it is considered a breach. The religious concept is called adultery. The penalty for not abandoning the first wife and taking a second wife is called bigamy in many states. In certain societies adding additional spouses to a family unit is only permitted with the consent of the first in the relationship. Considering that some couples are still bound to each other by law and did not wish to be, they still have their options. Considering that other couples who do not want to disrupt existing families want to be together, there should be a way for them to work these things out.
Family Synergy is a term used in some communities in California to describe the incorporation of other family members in a unit larger than two. These are sometimes referred to as corporate families. I have known of several such instances. The concept of jealousy is not as clearly defined as most people would understand. A serious study of the classical corporate marriage of Abraham, Sarah and Hagar would indicate that there was mixed feelings that needed to be resolved. What started out to be a good and acceptable idea for Sarah turned out to be a source of jealousy which if it had been bridled would've produced a different world for us today. How often does this conflict exist in our society today?
I have in my family history several instances of polygamous marriages. The original incident was with Erastus Bingham. His first wife bore him children and four more wives he cared for in their old age. One of his sons, Nephi Bingham, took two wives who were sisters to each other and bore a total of 26 children. He maintained two homes in direct proximity with each other and there was peace and harmony in the entire family. Today, the Bingham family lists over 5,000 members.
The exact number is unknown but in the state of Utah alone there are between 10,000 and 100,000 polygamous families. They are prosperous and productive and have little conflict with the law for criminal activity. Some provide their own schooling and some attend public schools. One of the major movements westward occurred in the mid-1800s as a refuge from laws that did not permit polygamy. In spite of the fact that they had moved thousands of miles in adverse weather where some did not survive, they were pursued by the US government and many of their male leaders were imprisoned under laws that were enacted during the Exodus. The leader of the Mormon Church declared in 1884 that no more polygamous marriages would be consummated and those who already had established were directed to leave the country once again and establish nine new colonies in northern Mexico. Twenty eight years later, a Mexican Revolution caused the Mormon families to have to relocate back to the United States and dispersed throughout the country. Most had stopped engaging in polygamous marriages but some had continued the practice under dissident leaders who settled in outlying areas in border localities. They maintained a low profile 40 years. If any laws need to be changed concerning the rights of those who marry it would be for this religious minority that produced the candidate for the United States in the year 2012.
The original religious
institution that fostered these historic families describes
marriage as a union between one man and one woman. Every
married couple should have a contract that describes the
nature of their relationship. The question is, can one person
in the relationship enter into another relationship at the
same time or must they dissolve the current relationship
before doing so. An analysis of that proposition reveals that
it is a destructive choice to do so. It is more productive to
maintain the original obligations and requirements for care of
the offspring than the dissolve it. Is such a choice
reasonable?
People having
polygamous marriages have been waiting patiently for 160
years. LGBT community should consider when asking for
legislation to protect their groups that these people should
be included in the mix.
LGBT concerns
So, you fall into this category. You have found a compatible person and want to have a nice wedding like your parents had. Some states will permit that and others won't. In any case you do not have rights from one state to another unless there is some constitutional provision to give you universal rights. There are several areas that need to be worked on. Some corporate and civil agreements can be transferred from state to state. Marriage seems to fall in its own special category. It would be highly advantageous for LGBT persons to be able to have rights anywhere they choose to live. There are some areas of the country that will never be permitted and the likelihood of a constitutional amendment is very very slim. Enterprising attorneys will find it profitable to establish something like family trusts and personal corporations to solve the problem, but attempts to define such relationships under the umbrella of marriage is sure to meet with great resistance. There is nothing that prohibits you from having a wedding cake and dressing for a special occasion and even using recognized authorities within the community to verbally display your vows before your friends and loved ones. Medical institutions will have to recognize members of the trust as being responsible persons in case of emergencies in hospitalization situations. You can do something right now to assure your happiness.
Already some people, libertarians Mormons, Muslims and other minority faiths have complained that the federal government should not have control over marriage. Marriage is a significant holy communion to many. Only those with authority in their belief system should be permitted to conduct these marriages. Amongst Mormons there are significant times when a civil ceremony will be held within a state to create records and opportunities for members of the family who are not part of that religious belief to participate. Then the same marriage is conducted under religious circumstances under authority that they respect. This problem has been solved for those people but for others it is still an issue. A prominent example of this taking place is when Mitt Romney married his wife Anne civilly in one area before both families and then traveled to Salt Lake City to conduct the marriage that they believed was the significant ceremony in a Holy Temple dedicated for that purpose.
A little ingenuity and
the LGBT community can allow all to enjoy the benefits they
desire. Do not let this problem be a divisive issue used by
politicians to their own desires and ends.
To right all these wrongs at the federal level has the unintended consequences of putting all polygamist relationships along with gay and lesbian accommodations. Polygamists have been standing in line waiting for restitution for 150 years. Requests for gay and lesbian marriage has been very recent.
It's
déjà vu all over again - May 29, 2012
Attempts to paint Baines as the bad guy will
continue to blow up in his face. Companies such as Staples used
Baines in the beginning of their business growth to finance and
learn how to grow and prosper. I have this "easy"
button, which is a symbol used to describe the service Staples
provides its customers. Staples actually sells this button
as an office supply item.|
The source of the word ignoramus is from the common Latin dating before the Christian era. Its exact meaning is “We don’t know”. Earlier expressions of the meaning were probably associated with a quick raise of the shoulders and a roll of the eyes. Ignoramus is an elitist word dating from the
time King James ordered an English translation of the
Bible which at the time was only available in Latin.
Comedy clubs existed in King James time, but they called
it university theatre. Go here
to get a historic definition on the word, Ignoramus. In this politically correct world, it is hard to find appropriate pejorative words to describe stupid people in politics. I hope to be able to provide you with the proper tools for this endeavor. In political propaganda the excessive use of adjectives gives the plot away far in advance of the actual presentation of any issue. The vocabulary of the left wing ignoramus does little to conceal the ulterior motives of the wicked, satanic perpetrator. Whoops, see what I mean? Write an article or letter and we will add your thoughts to this site. |
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