Writings
revised July 8, 2007

The following pages contain a variety of material that I have written along with some material by other people -- mostly unknown.  The central theme of all the writings is to get the reader to think. I will be adding more categories and writings as time permits.

Commentaries Included here are: A brief Sermon on Education, The Quality of Students Today, Are Conservatives and Liberals Mixed-up?, Election of 2000, Collapsing the Conspiracy Myths about the World Trade Center Collapse

Articles  Included here are: Dealing with Debt Collectors seeking the Wrong Person

Stories  Included here are: A Lesson in Socialism, An Education in Tax Cuts, How I Teach Socialism,  Socialism Applied to Sports, The Ant and the Grasshopper, The Compassionate Squirrels, The Modern Little Red Hen

Taxes  Included here are: "Unfair" Taxation in Alabama

Words of Wisdom   Included here are many hundreds of phases of wisdom -- I plan to reorganize the list someday as it has become huge.  I have over one hundred additions to post when I have time.
Anti socialism

Unlike advocates for socialism who present all kinds of wonderful things to support their hidden agenda but rarely mention socialism by name, let me fully disclose that I am very opposed to socialism and very much in favor of free enterprise. I do not need to hide behind any clever definition of the word, "is." My purpose in the following pages is to expose the lies used to dupe people into socialism. I am a proud member of "the vast right-wing conspiracy" against socialism. I disagree with the socialist concept that "it takes a village to raise a child." One of the concepts America was founded on was that the family, not the village (i.e. socialist bureaucracy) should raise the child (for those not familiar with the preceding quotes, they are from President Clinton and his socialist wife, Hillary).

Books on learning how to think If you are going to be successful then you should read these books. If you want to avoid being duped by socialism then you really need to learn how to think for yourself so you can resist being conditioned to think or not think a particular way.

  Good news / Bad news The same news story presented in two different ways.

(coming soon) Alabama Awaken to the deceptions of Alabama Arise. This advocacy group for the poor in Alabama has a reputation of putting out very dramatic stories about how the poor are badly mistreated one way or another. I intend to point out the tricks used in the presentations and provide balance. On some issues they are right and I will point that out too but their proposed solution is misguided - so I agree but disagree. I am concerned that many people have been duped by their cleverly incomplete information (a.k.a. propaganda) often published in The Birmingham News along with considerable editorial support. The information put out is shocking and calls for action to correct injustices - except for a few problems - the victims may be imaginary people, incomplete arithmetic is used to compute tax burdens, and sad stories are missing the complete truth. The real issue is not about people who have real needs, but the shameful capitalization of the general ignorance and gullibility of the masses to achieve political gain. There is a big difference between being compassionate and being bamboozled. It is a classic example of why you should check out the Books on learning how to think page.

Another group with a nice sounding name, Citizens for Tax Justice, also puts out "facts" taken out of context and with clever juxtaposition (again, propaganda) to paint a picture that the complete facts do not support. If you let others think for you then they will control your mind. Yet another organization, The Alabama Poverty Project, also uses clever manipulation of facts to paint a very distorted picture. You should be very wary of carefully crafted sob stories. If one has to lie to represent a cause then one does not have a cause.

How the Poor Really Live (coming soon). This article provides instructions for becoming poor if you are not, staying poor if you are, or escaping to the middle class and beyond. You will find no politically correct fluff here. I only deal with the unpleasant truth. The plans I give are not hypothetical - real people have followed the various plans discussed and achieved stated end result. Whichever plan you choose to follow, the success rate is very high.