We're Not Gonna Take It

"We're Not Gonna Take It" by Twisted Sister is the song that explains basically how I feel right now. I've been threatened with eviction because I can't afford to have the grass cut... again. Landlord screamed at me when I asked the neighbor for help.

Oh We're Not Gonna Take It
no, We Ain't Gonna Take It
oh We're Not Gonna Take It Anymore

we've Got The Right To Choose And
...there Ain't No Way We'll Lose It
this Is Our Life, This Is Our Song
we'll Fight The Powers That Be Just
don't Pick Our Destiny 'cause
you Don't Know Us, You Don't Belong

oh We're Not Gonna Take It
no, We Ain't Gonna Take It
oh We're Not Gonna Take It Anymore

oh You're So Condescending
your Gall Is Never Ending
we Don't Want Nothin', Not A Thing From You
your Life Is Trite And Jaded
boring And Confiscated
if That's Your Best, Your Best Won't Do

oh.....................
oh.....................
we're Right/yeah
we're Free/yeah
we'll Fight/yeah
you'll See/yeah

oh We're Not Gonna Take It
no, We Ain't Gonna Take It
oh We're Not Gonna Take It Anymore

oh We're Not Gonna Take It
no, We Ain't Gonna Take It
oh We're Not Gonna Take It Anymore
no Way!

oh.....................
oh.....................
we're Right/yeah
we're Free/yeah
we'll Fight/yeah
you'll See/yeah

we're Not Gonna Take It
no, We Ain't Gonna Take It
we're Not Gonna Take It Anymore

we're Not Gonna Take It, No!
no, We Ain't Gonna Take It
we're Not Gonna Take It Anymore

just You Try And Make Us
we're Not Gonna Take It
come On
no, We Ain't Gonna Take It
you're All Worthless And Weak
we're Not Gonna Take It Anymore
now Drop And Give Me Twenty
we're Not Gonna Take It
oh Crinch Pin
no, We Ain't Gonna Take It
oh You And Your Uniform
we're Not Gonna Take It Anymore

Doujin (part 1)

Dōjin (同人, dōjin), often romanized as doujin, is a general Japanese term for a group of people or friends who share an interest, activity, hobbies, or achievement. The word is sometimes translated into English as clique, coterie, society, or circle (e.g., a "sewing circle").

In Japan the term is used to refer to amateur self-published works, including but not limited to manga, novels, fan guides, art collections, music and video games. Some professional artists participate as a way to publish material outside the regular publishing industry.

Annual research by the research agency Media Create indicated that of the 1.65 billion USD of the Otaku industry in 2007, doujin sales made up 48% (792 million dollars).[1]

I actually write a doujinshi (My Circle is 十万弾丸), but that's not the point of this post. Today, I'm focusing on the Touhou Project.

The Touhou Project (東方Project, Tōhō Purojekuto?), also known as Toho Project or Project Shrine Maiden, is a Japanese dōjin game series focused on bullet hell shooters made by the one-man developer Team Shanghai Alice, whose sole member, known as ZUN, is responsible for all the graphics, music, and programming for the most part.[1] The Touhou Project began in 1996 with the release of the first game, Highly Responsive to Prayers, developed by the group Amusement Makers for the Japanese NEC PC-9801 series of computers. The next four Touhou games released between August 1997 and December 1998 also were released on the NEC PC-9801. The Touhou Project was inactive for the next three and half years until the first Microsoft Windows Touhou game, The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, was released in August 2002 solely by ZUN after he split from Amusement Makers and started Team Shanghai Alice. Touhou Project became a media franchise spanning a steadily increasing number of official games, in addition to commercial fan books, light novels, and manga.

The reason I bring this up is because I have been playing two of the games recently, Imperishable Night (8th game) and Scarlet Weather Rhapsody (game 10.5). Needless to say, they both totally ROCK!

Imperishable Night is very much like Space Invaders. Scarlet Weather Rhapsody is very much like Street Fighter. The classic arcade genres of game bring back fond memories of having my fifth birthday at Chuck-E-Cheese's when I was 5 years old. At the same time, seeing a drunken Oni (Suika) sway and stumble across the screen before she kicks the crap out of you in SWR is downright hilarious, not to mention a little Moe. When you use Marissa, the conversation between her and Keine in IN on level 3 is also quite funny. I LOLed for prolly 10 minutes+/-.

Declaring Freedom

Below is a guest article by Matt Sims. But before you read it, I'd like to say that I stand behind it 100%. No one represents me either.

It really isn't an enigma. You have to twist words right out of their meanings to imagine what you are saying.
I don't vote. I don't sanction the system where people can take my stuff and tell me what I can and can't do.
In your system, by definition, you get to tell people what they can and can't do and take their stuff. You get to kill women and children by proxy. And you are allowed to evade the fact that that is what you are doing. But I will never let you get away with that evasion. And I make public statements about it and you can't deny what it is I am saying when I use words that actually maintain their meanings throughout. Meanings that you can look up in a dictionary. Many times I actually include the meaning, so there is no mistake what I am saying.
Please deny this in public with words that maintain their meanings throughout.
Since you claim allegiance to a representative government, whether you want to call it a democracy, a republic, a mobocracy. etc., it is in fact a representative government, then someone represents you.
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Before I make my statement, I'd like to ask this question (or two). If you choose to vote in the elections, do you consent to be represented by the winner of the election?
Only if you answer yes to that, (if you answer no to that I'd like to hear your reason why?) then answer this, please. If you consent to be represented by another person, is every official act he makes made as your proxy?
If not, why not? And who gets to decide which are and are not acts as your proxy?
Can someone acting as your proxy commit an act you could not commit on your own?
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You claim that I am represented even if I take two actions, which I take and claim publicly whenever I get the chance.
First, I do not vote. I do not vote, because I can see with my own two eyes and feel in my very heart that people who would claim to act as my proxy if they won the election will engage in acts I would not be able to commit if acting on my own. And there is absolutely nothing I can do to stop it.
So the second act I take is to publicly claim often that no one represents me. No one who tells other people to go to other countries and kill and maim and starve and torture their men, women and children is acting as my proxy. Ever. I renounce those acts as acts of my proxy. Are there any words in there I am mincing, misusing or misdefining? Is my meaning clear? I HAVE NO PROXY!!! No one murders for ME. No one steals for ME. No one tells other people how they can run their business for ME. No one tells others they can't carry a firearm or smoke a joint acting as my proxy. NO ONE!!!!
No one imprisons another person for a crime with no victim acting as my proxy. NO ONE!!!
Do I make myself clear? Is my position sufficiently understood?

Here:
{Main Entry: proxy
Pronunciation: \'präk-se\
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural prox·ies
Etymology: Middle English proxi, procucie, contraction of procuracie, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin procuratia, alteration of Latin procuratio procuration
Date: 15th century

1 : the agency, function, or office of a deputy who acts as a substitute for another
2 a : authority or power to act for another b : a document giving such authority; specifically : a power of attorney authorizing a specified person to vote corporate stock
3 : a person authorized to act for another : procurator}

See what that says? NO ONE commits acts I would not be able to commit on my own as my proxy.

How many people are willing to publicly make that statement?

(oh, and I just noticed 2.b. -
there is no document authorizing anyone to commit acts as my proxy that I would not be able to commit acting as a sole agent of myself. If someone can present one to me, I would be happy to renounce it on the spot. I do not remember signing any such document. If I did, I didn't understand what I was signing and therefore repeat, I renounce it.)

Let me phrase it this way. Anyone who claims to act as my proxy is, in fact, as of this writing a liar.

Are there any other words I need to define to make myself more clear?

If so, please let me know or look them up yourself.

Okay, so now that I am clear on my position (I hope).

Are people acting as your proxy to murder innocent men, women and children in Iraq and Afghanistan? Can you deny that without using made up excuses like "collateral damage" or "we've got to fight them there so we don't have to fight them here"? I asked a while ago in a few places for people to explain how to tell which ones to kill when you are killing them there (attacking other people in their own country) rather than killing them here (defending yourself). No one can tell me how they know. I guess it's telepathy or something. But I don't know a court in the world that would find a not guilty verdict on the testimony of telepathy.
So they are attacking and murdering them. In your name.

Somehow you have made the claim more than once that they represent me even if I choose not to vote. How can that be? They would only be able to do that by coercing my consent, and you would certainly know when they decide to do that. And I don't think you can call it consent if coercion is involved.

Do people, acting as your proxy, take property from others against their will for carrying a firearm or smoking a joint? Do people, acting as your proxy, accost, kidnap and hold for ransom other people because they carry a firearm or smoke a joint?
They don't in my name. I publicly make that claim.

You know, the internet is a pretty big place. You keep telling me I need to do something rather than sit on my butt and complain. What you take for complaining is me stating my claim. So, I guess you could say I'm claiming. You tell me I should be working for change. I cannot work for change within a system based on force and violence to achieve an end, since what I am working toward is a society where force and violence play no part.

Please don't take that to mean that I am aloof and don't understand that people will still want to initiate violence against me. I realize that. I just don't want them to have the sanction of proxy. I don't want them to be in an exalted position by process of acting as a government agent. I don't want to be prohibited by a show of virtually unlimited force from defending myself or assisting my neighbor to defend himself from someone who would attempt to initiate force against me or him to gain an end that he could not gain without said show of force.

I claim this is something I can do:
I can ask how many other people in the world can claim that no one acts as their proxy when engaging in acts that he would not be able to take acting on his own.

As of the time of this posting, the estimated population is:
U.S. 310,060,127
World 6,864,089,393
I can' t imagine I am 1 in 6,864,089,393, but it is entirely possible.

If enough people, in enough different countries, made the claim that no one has permission to act as their proxy to commit an act that they could not commit acting on their own, then all the wars and taxes would be seen for what they are.

Whadda ya say, Dustin? Do people commit those acts as your proxy?

{Main Entry: be·half
Pronunciation: \bi-'haf, -'häf, be-\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from by + half half, side
Date: 14th century

: interest, benefit; also : support, defense

— on behalf of or in behalf of : in the interest of; also : as a representative of}

Do they act in your behalf?
They don't act in my behalf. And I am willingly stating that claim.

Innocents Betrayed

You can watch this here for free, but you may also purchase a copy here:
http://shop.jpfo.org/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=8

Harry's War... The best American Movie Ever Made

Above is the greatest movie to come out in this country in a very long time. It came out in 1981 and was only run for 2 weeks at the theaters. The IRS was responsible for pulling it. If you ask me, that is an indication of just how accurate it is at portraying the Infernal Robbery Service. Although this story and these characters are fictional, the problems are real. If you didn't know, people have resisted unjust government fees in the past. Times where they were obviously set up or had no chance of a fair hearing. The Ruby Ridge Massacre was one such event. Randy Weaver was set up and then blackmailed by fed'ral agents. For transferring a short shotgun and failing to pay the $200 tax on said and failure to have a liscence to do same, his family was murdered in a siege on his home. He had skipped Tax court because he knew he could not get a fair hearing. There are many similarities between this movie and that day of infamy with the exception that in the movie, everyone lives and the good guy wins.

I've always wondered what flavor of eejit it takes to make a tax man. This movie shows rather clearly, the fact that it takes an unwise, power hungry, statist, busybody with either very large balls or very small brains, or possibly a combination thereof. Dislike for tax collectors is nothing new.

Zacchaeus (Greek Ζακχαῖος, "Zakchaios" Hebrew זכי, which means pure [1]), according to chapter 19 of the gospel of Luke, was a superintendent of customs; a chief tax-gatherer (Latin: publicanus) at Jericho (Luke 19:1-10). Tax collectors were hated by many of their fellow Jews, who saw them as traitors for working for the Roman Empire.

Because the lucrative production and export of balsam was centered in Jericho, his position would have carried both importance and wealth[2][3]. In the account, he arrived before the crowd who were later to meet with Jesus, who was passing through Jericho on his way to Jerusalem. Described as a short man, the Zacchaeus climbed up a sycamore fig tree so that he might be able to see Jesus. When Jesus reached the spot he looked up into the branches, addressed Zacchaeus by name, and told him to come down, for he intended to visit his house. The crowd was shocked that Christ would sully himself by being a guest of a tax collector.

From Wikipedia

Fast-forward to the treatment of British tax collectors in the colonies just prior to the Revolution. They were tarred, feathered, had scalding tea forced down their throats, and were occasionally string up like a piñata.

Then there was the Whiskey Rebellion in which part of western Pennsylvania seceded in protest to a new tax on distilled spirits. Washington Illegally sent federal troops to quash the rebellion.

The War Between the States was fought partly for tax reasons. It was very complex so I'll explain it in detail some other time.

I'm going to skip a ton of stuff and just come up right-straight to the New Millennium. Recently there has been a massive outpouring of anger and frustration aimed at tax collectors specifically and government in general, whether from the IRS or another alphabet soup agency. I helped organize the first Tax Day Tea Party in my area before the republicans hijacked the movement. Where these guys are standing is significant. Slaves were once sold there and criminals were also hung there. It seems so appropriate. LOL

http://www.constitutionpartync.com/images/events/FayettevilleTeaParty3.jpg

Then there's this guy in Bozeman, MT who is reported on here, it is rather funny: http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/article_d0276c58-4914-11df-8d91-001cc4c002e0.html

Then there was an incident this year. Joe Stack flew his private plane into a building housing an IRS office. For some odd reason, few people felt bad for the armed robbers.... er... agents who were hurt or the one that died. (Sarcasm)

Then there is the music... "Taxes Are Stealing" by Corporate Avenger
(WARNING Contains insanely vulgar content.)

Listen you fuckers you screw heads here's a man that would not take it anymore a man who stood up against the scum, the cunts, the dogs, the filth, the shit here is some one who stood up.

Taxes are strong-armed robbery the collectors of taxes funnel the majority of funds to police and intuitions counter productive to spiritual advancement.

Well taxes are stealing and I get the feeling that were gettin fucked in the ass
They take what they want to whenever they want to
And our needs they always come last.

They lie, they cheat, they steal from you and me.
They lie, they cheat, they steal from you and me.

Their hands are in our pockets, they're bleeding us to death
They fuckin keep on takin till there's nothing fuckin left.

It's a federal invention, they set the goddamned rate
It's a little paper portrait with a legacy of hate.
They're numbing all our senses with their bullshit and their lies.
It's no goddamned secret it's done right before our eyes.
And if you don't cooperate they'll lock your ass away
With the very fucking money that they fucking took away.

Well taxes are stealing and I get the feeling that were gettin fucked in the ass
They take what they want to whenever they want to
And our needs they always come last.

They lie, they cheat, they steal from you and me.
They lie, they cheat, they steal from you and me.

The IRS was not there the other day when I was unloading truck after truck into that hot fucking warehouse
The IRS was not there the other day when I was pulling weeds in the fucking hot sun
The IRS was not there when I needed money to pay my bills, but they sure as fuck were there on Friday to take almost half my pay again and again and again and again!

Your constitution, the laws that they've made say that they can tax your income so they do it every day.
The IRS policemen they take and take and take, we've got free Masonic symbols in a free Masonic state.
Lest you forget about your cozy little home, the very place were you live in but you never fuckin own
It's the craft of the creator, we act out their design
A society of secrets with the television mind.

Well taxes are stealing and I get the feeling that were gettin fucked in the ass
They take what they want to whenever they want to
And our needs they always come last.

They lie, they cheat, they steal from you and me
They lie, they cheat, they steal from you and me.

"REDISTRIBUTION OF THEFT" by Right Arm of Wyoming

CHORUS:
REDISTRIBUTION OF THEFT
WATCH YOUR COUNTRY DIE!
REDISTRIBUTION IS THEFT
WHILE YOU JUST STAND BY!

POST CHORUS:
Stop stealing from me!
Stop stealing from me!

They start you with the pennies
For the U.N. starving children
When you're only just a kid yourself.

Beggin' from your neighbors for
those folks you'll never meet
with a healthy dose of mashed potatoes
and guilt with your meat

Then you cannot eat in class
unless you bring a lot
Socialist indoctrination
for the happy tots.

Then they've got the soccer
Where everybody wins
No more competition
for American kids

CHORUS.

Branding normal talk
as hate speech
stealing more of our rights
out from our reach

California: failed social experiment.
They give your money to the bums
Who'll never ever earn a cent.

Yet the federal powers that be
ignore the 8th grade math
And wanna take that global

Make it all equal
But for some more so than others
Giving our money to
career welfare mothers.


CHORUS.

(spoken):
I propose two-term limits
First one in office, the second in jail!

Forced student volunteers
build us labor camps when they
think that they're building schools

Pissed at your neighbor?
Don't bother to fret
e-mail the White House
'bought that right-wing threat

They'll brand the true Americans
with chips in our arm.
I'll bet the Nazis wished
they'd had that little secret charm.
(As they march us off to the camps)


CHORUS:
REDISTRIBUTION OF THEFT
WATCH YOUR FAMILY DIE!
REDISTRIBUTION IS THEFT
WHILE YOU JUST STAND BY! And cry.

REDISTRIBUTION OF THEFT
WATCH YOUR COUNTRY DIE!
REDISTRIBUTION IS THEFT
WILL YOU JUST STAND BY?

Well, geez, I got carried away again, but as you can see, everybody hates the IRS, and tax collectors are universally despised throughout the ages, so them trying to hide this video was moot.

American Idiot episode 1

So, Lemme show you all what an ignorant, mannerless, asshole looks like:





Rather than try to prove his point through logic, he just shouted down the opposing viewpoint. Asshole. And he is wrong BTW. If a side had to be terrorists, it would be the Union. The Confederate army did not burn down homes, kill the livestock, burn the crops, and rape the women. The Union army did though.

Furthermore, The civil war* had very little to do with slavery, yet he acts as though it was the only motivator. When confronted with facts which differ from his perspective and opinions, he shouts them down. He does this because he would lose a battle of wits and logic. If he thinks I'm wrong, he is welcome to try me. I'll be right here waiting.

This video reminds me of a certain song by Green Day:

American Idiot

Don't wanna be an American idiot
Don't want a nation under the new media
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind-fuck America

Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alien nation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay

Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue

Well maybe I'm the faggot America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
Now everybody do the propaganda
And sing along to the age of paranoia

Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alien nation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay

Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue

Don't want to be an American idiot
One nation controlled by the media
Information age of hysteria
It's going out to idiot America

Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alien nation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay

Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue

Emphasis Added


*It was a civil war in name only. A civil war is one in which factions fight for complete control of an entire area. The American civil war was more of a war of Northern Aggression and Southern Secession than anything else. It was a lot like the Revolution.

I'm considering something odd...

I want to try eating grasshoppers...

This site has some good looking recipes I might try:
http://www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu/~cbader/ghprecwithinsects.html

Problem seems to be finding bugs to eat. I'm going to check with my local Asian Market because a 1hr search online got me diddly.