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"In case you haven't recognized the trend: it proceeds action, dissent, speech." ~ davidly, on how wars get done
"...What sort of meager, unerotic existence must a man live to find himself moved to such ecstatic heights by the mundane sniping of a congressional budget fight. The fate of human existence does not hang in the balance. The gods are not arrayed on either side. Poseiden, earth-shaker, has regrettably set his sights on the poor fishermen of northern Japan and not on Washington, D.C. where his ire might do some good--I can think of no better spot for a little wetland reclamation project, if you know what I mean. The fight is neither revolution nor apocalypse; it is hardly even a fight. A lot of apparatchiks are moving a lot of phony numbers with more zeros than a century of soccer scores around, weaving a brittle chrysalis around a gross worm that, some time hence, will emerge, untransformed, still a worm." ~ IOZ
Sep 16, 2011
Just This
Which doesn't mean they ought to be killed. It's just that, if the universe were just and fair and actually coded to promote human happiness (which it is not, natch), those people would die. Or at the very least, suffer from debilitating vertigo and glossolalia. They could have every possible desire to rape, kill, enslave, govern, rule, torture and generally be the sort of dick who gets off doing all that shit. But they'd be too permanently dizzy and creepily off-putting to ever be able to pull it off.
And as a back-up, they'd also have to suffer from chronic, stinky, highly audible meteorism. At the least. At the very least.
It might not be a perfect cosmos - because: asteroids, and planet frying quasar pulses, and viruses, and stuff - but claims to categorically imperative justice would have merit. They don't, obviously. Because the universe is unjust. Or, more to the point, because "justice" is at once a conceptual imposition on a universe which is neither just, or unjust, and it is the bloody hand of power.
As in, criminal justice.
Which happens when shitclowns who like to tell other people what to do, and generally make living between the two poles of darkness a miserable affair, devote a portion of their ill gotten gains towards the enduring project of caging, poisoning, abusing, raping and otherwise dehumanizing people who break their rules. Sometimes the rule breakers are also shitclowns, as in the cases of rapists, child molesters, wife killers, slavers and fuckwits who get wasted and then operate motor vehicles.
When shitclowns punish fuckwits for being too obviously fuckwitted to put on a suit, get elected to office or appointed to position and then do miserable things to other people for a profit within the sanction of the law, nobody actually wins but the shitclowns in suits.
It's incidental, if you catch my meaning. The coppers aren't locking up the rapers because the President, or the governor, or the mayor has a personal loathing for rape. Maybe he does personally loathe rape. It doesn't really matter. The cops aren't locking up rapists because rape is one of the worst things you can do to someone short of killing her or him, or as is often the case, because rape is a violation of a person so devastating that it can and does prove to be worse than murder. The cops are locking up rapists because their bosses have to repeatedly demonstrate that their protection racket is a net benefit to their client populations.
Client populations, you get?
That doesn't necessarily mean you. Or any of us. It might, if you have the right certificates. Or breeding. Or daddy. Or it might not, if you have the wrong concentration of melanin per square inch, place of origin, or religion. Universal justice and equality before the law are chimeras. And not the poetic variety, which transform a futile gesture into a memorable adventure.
Universal justice is a fool's dream. A deliberately cultivated one.
Don't believe me?
It's all good. Let's take a break. You get your hands on a civics, American history, law, ethics or philosophy textbook. We can wait while you flip through their pages.
Drinkers, now's the time to quaff another draught. Smokers, you dirty smelly fuckers, light another one. Ronpaulians, I believe this is your cue to break out the hookah, the pipe or the bowl. Smackers, shoot one on the house. I don't judge. Whatever gets you through the night, right?
Here's a song, for the rest of us, while we wait:
There we go.*
That was a nice break, no? If you haven't had the delight of an introduction to the music of Lhasa before, it was my honest pleasure to acquaint you.
But, I'm also an asshole, n'est-ce pas?
So, the textbooks...
You see all those paragraphs wherein the text repeats, over and fucking over again, that law and justice are universal, or at least ought to be? See where the fancy ones discuss isonomy and the dumbed down ones go on and about "rights and responsibilities"? Go on, take a moment. Note how often these planned and designed study guides mention democracy, human rights, equality before the law, one man one vote, et cetera. It's like a catechism, or a sales pitch, or a call to be washed in the blood of the Lamb, or some shit.
If you care to spare another minute or two, flip back and forth to all those sections which make mention of struggle for equality, democracy, rights, and universal human behavior. Even the whitewashed versions which get the imprimatur and the nihil obstat of the mandate schoolmarmers end up contradicting the claim to universality, don't they? I mean, if history is the record of people with power resisting giving it up or losing it - and it is, this royal history we're still learning in the age of Democracy™ - then you almost have to wonder why these same rulers insist on mandatory schools in which the opposite is also taught.
If they have to teach it, and if it takes them ten or twelve years to get children to believe it - it really isn't so universal, is it?. That shit is indoctrination. And a sales pitch. Like a Budweiser commercial for childhood expectations, where after ten years of relentless campaigning, the target demographic finally begins to associate coded terminology with a set of unrealizable assumptions about what it is the bosses and owners do with all their horded loot. Budweiser invests in getting twenty something fuckwits with jobs to associate a swilly alcoholic "beverage" with boobs and vomit-free, project-managed Ken-doll camaraderie. The text books aim a wee bit higher. Or lower. It's all a matter of perspective. They want the little ones who will become consuming big ones to believe that every one gets a fair shake.
Because - and I hope I don't have to point out how obvious this it - almost no one gets a fair shake. Let's be frank: almost the only people living fully human lives are also exactly the same people who can afford to earmark a share of their stolen treasure towards persuading everyone else, and especially the children, that the evidence available to them everywhere and free of charge by way of some really nifty senses - well, that it is false. Hell, they know it. And they know you know it. When the teevee phase shifts from a formulaic girl-as-prize "comedy" to a 30 second spot introduced by Starving African Child Music, the ad agencies for the lords of all creation are playing it up.
The point of the indoctrination, and the sales pitch, isn't to elide all sensory input and feedback. That's not possible. Sargon's first ever anointed priest had already figured that shit out, thousands of years before universal public education, ad campaigns and manufactured consent. Mother Church has already conceded the point, to the chagrin of Cathars and Bogomils. The host is a piece of bread. Or a stale cracker. The blood tastes like wine...because it is wine.
The investment in indoctrination doesn't pay back its investors by erasing the evidence of the senses, or by overcoming the thorny and nearly indestructible human capacity to observe events with relative capacity and then communicate those observations to others in a shared tongue. Its return - and this stock splits with predictable regularity - comes from defacing them.
Which is how we end up back at justice, perhaps one of the more lasting and damaging defacements of sense, and sensibility. Justice obscures, because it insists on a universality which cannot be demonstrated, and which must be believed, right at the intersection between real pain and loss and the application of power.
Justice is a false proof...
...with real consequences, as Duane Buck and Troy Davis may soon discover. (And as Cameron Willingham found out.) That is, right before someone poisons them to death in the name of that false proof.
And you know how we can tell rather quickly?
Because without some dude in a black robe, neither man would be isolated in near-solitary confinement, awaiting a poisoning to death. And without the intervention of a dude or two in black robes, neither man will escape that poisoning to death.
But Barack Obama, who has admitted in public to ordering the murders of people he has never met, will close out the year with a salary in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, and all the pretty people for his friends. Because dudes in black robes say it's okay for him to do so.
Maybe Messrs. Davis and Buck murdered other people. Perhaps they did not. The case against Mr. Davis is certainly far shakier than the one against Mr. Obama. Mr. Davis maintains his innocence and the cops and prosecutors who made the case against him are lying abusive bullies who intimidated witnesses, appear to have falsified evidence, and generally embody a perfected douchebaggery. Mr. Obama - also a perfectly embodied douchebag, and proudly so - signed a confession. In public. Without coercion. And to waves of applause.
One week from now, Troy Davis will likely be dead. Barack Obama will have raised another million or so dollars in his attempt to recapture the most powerful office on the planet.
Because there is no justice. Because the law does not apply to everyone equally. Because, in fact, the very ideas of justice and punishment are themselves colonizations of our memories, scripted and refined over the last five thousand years in order to get us to police ourselves in expectation of reward. Because the law doesn't exist, anywhere or when, without force or the threat of force.
Because, most significantly, while some people perhaps ought to suffer or die for their unending forays into pillage, depredation, rape and murder, the ones doing the bulk of the suffering and dying are their victims.
I don't know exactly how that can be changed so that everyone has it easy, and the number of people who want to boss up and make others suffers reaches an all time low.
But a good place to start, I imagine, is with a challenge to the indoctrinated belief in a universal and equalizing justice.
Actual existing justice is anything but...
...which is a bummer, in the short term. And for that reason, it's a damned good thing there was ever a Lhasa de Sela:
* - here's more evidence that "justice" is false: Lhasa de Sela died of breast cancer last year, but - Angela Merkel is the Chancellor of Germany...
22 comments:
- Rhys Ap Thomas said...
Justice is a concept. Things that are conceptualized aren't real, they're constructs of the human imagination. They are what we make them.
That the justice you and I observe isn't what we would really call justice is evidence that many of our fellow humans lack the ability to imagine something better. They accept the concept of justice as handed down to them. I'd like to think someday the human race will have a better imagination.
I have no idea if they ever will.
Nice post though.
- September 16, 2011 at 1:48 AM
- Unknown said...
Because - and I hope I don't have to point out how obvious this it - almost no one gets a fair shake. Damn fucking skippy dude.
Rape is not about sex..its about power and humiliation over another...the ugliest type of humiliation possible. That's why dumbass countries run by Muslim religious nutjobs don't prosecute rape crimes...the woman always did "something" to piss the guy off so she deserved it..fucking bags of ignorant shit that they are.
I feel rage rising up inside of me..time to take my leave.
- September 16, 2011 at 3:34 AM
No wait, Jack, I'm not sure I can fully agree with this.
I do not believe that the _notion_ of justice is to be discarded. The notion is useful at least so that we can say, "there is no justice."
Those who want us to discard the notion of justice are like people who want us abandon the *notion* of property. No, the *notion* of property is extremely useful, because it enables us to point out that some people *have* more than others.
Vanguardists who believe too much that all ideas are generated from the top-down suggest, preposterously, that slaves in Haiti revolted because they discovered a "notion" of freedom and justice from French Revolution. Whereas I would argue that slaves didn't need to learn the "notions" of freedom and justice in order to embody, in their whole being, the reality that it is degrading, unfree, and unjust to be treated like a slave. In fact freedom and justice in those cases are not really "ideas" at all.
What I'm getting at is that freedom, justice, and other such "notions," if we must call them that, are not generated by the elites. They are exploited by the elites. Moreover, the belief that it is a task of any urgency to deconstruct notions of freedom, rather than to point out that the notion is not living up (and sure: has never lived up) to the reality, strikes me as a kind of idealism, leading dangerously close to the old Marx joke about believing people are drowned in water because they are possessed with the "idea of gravity."
It's just like with popular culture: the elites don't generate that culture. The people generate it, but the elites _exploit_ it. As with labor or anything else, they steal grassroots culture, re-package it, and re-sell it.
Why would notions like "freedom" and "justice" be different? It's quite likely that the elites have, once again, stolen a set of grass-roots notions and exploited, and re-packaged them for their own purposes.
But if we relinquish the idea of "justice" just because it has been exploited by the elites, again, we don't even have the capacity to point out that the elites are "unjust."
Our goal is not to relinquish the notions but to point out that the notions have always been exploited and co-opted. Otherwise what kind of vocabulary are we left with but a kind of technocratic functionalism? e.g. "the system happens to function for one group of people. But we must fight to have it function for another, and more populous, group of people!" No, we must say, "the system is unjust. And we must fight to make it just!"
- September 16, 2011 at 12:41 PM
- Justin said...
Nice post. Your point about the cumulative colonization of our minds over thousands of years is one that is perhaps the most subtle and, in my view, the most foundation shaking. The defacement of the senses is exactly right. This is the process by which normative or returns to some prior era of honor or better times takes root. We see shit around us is fucked, but we think we remember it being either much better at some other point in time from our education. Since we all have roughly the same education, we all have roughly the same memories of how things were.
When you stop and consider the often inverted relationship that our modern history has to reality, and this in the context of a time when much more consideration and thought is given to perspectives somewhat below the king's than in the past, if you are feeling thoughtful, also consider the inverted relationship to reality that most of our history likely has.
I'd bet that most people, outside of a few power brokers and sociopaths, thought the collapse of Rome was a good thing. I'd guess that Nero fiddling while Rome burned was probably only offensive to the courtiers and other hanger-ons who most benefited materially and psychologically from being a ruler of empire.
Currently reading Seeing Like a State, highly recommended to you, my friend. It documents that much of what we take for granted as being the way it must be, or has always been, or of human nature, are very recent impositions of state perspective, and only recent because until recently, state perspective lacked the administrative legibility to see or act at the scale it/they can today.
Your point about justice is exactly to this point, our laws are as deterministic (or absolute) as can be precisely because the amount of variability and context dependent information about the circumstances behind and action that could warrant legal sanction would be illegible to the state. This is most egregious at the federal level, where sentencing guidelines are a checkbox list of yes/no facts that tally up points and turn out a sentence.
Anyway, enough.
- September 16, 2011 at 11:49 PM
- Jack Crow said...
Hot damn, great replies.
I've promised my wife I'd be a house boy this morning, so I brief responses for now:
Pundit, Slim Charles
I wonder if the very idea of justice is a trap, because it's never really been separate form the king's vengeance. I try to conceive of justice as an act recompense, but every image and thought is already colored by the fact that, for as long as men have been recording their deeds, justice has been the province of power. I'm sympathetic to the idea that justice is a popular creation which was appropriated, like labor or culture, but I don't know if it actually holds true. It seems to me, instead, that it is definitely a ruling class moral commodity, and probably always has been. When a people or portions of a populace rise up or revolt, and enact justice, I don't think they're reclaiming a concept so much as acting out the familiar; especially, because it has been imposed on them "from above" for so long. Which is why, perhaps, attacks on power so often reconstitute themselves as power, later on. The need to secure a blood price, or a list of punishments which match deeds (as Justin notes) is not the same thing as the more primate and horizontal sense of fair play which does approach something of a universal condition. As a matter of tendencies, the lack of fairness often sees people withdrawing themselves, but the need to satisfy justice has them engaging and enforcing.
I think we might disagree a bit on the Muslim countries aspect of your reply. More generally, rape is not a priority for most states, regardless of the majority religion, because women are not a priority for those states. Making women a priority won't really change the nature of states, all the same - as is demonstrated by Sweden and Iceland.
You expressed my images and intentions better than I. I think you're on to something, with regard to homogenization. The idea of a universality of reward, punishment, sentiment, perspective owes more to a training than it does to "native" similarity. I think a study of cultures and societies would show that claims about universal conduct are more common where universalizing religions, states or cultures are the dominant community of force.
- September 17, 2011 at 8:09 AM
- Unknown said...
I was talking more about Muslim countries that have non-secularist govt's. If a husband feels he was 'wronged' in some way by his wife, he can pretty much do what he wants to punish her. Those govt's have condoned stoning women for offenses in those countries as well. You don't get much more barbaric than that Jack.
When you have time later, I would hope you could give me examples of where you think I am wrong. Thanks!
- September 17, 2011 at 9:56 AM
- Unknown said...
Oh and Justin's comment, which would make a really great post btw, was spot-on.
To Justin - you have a few blogs sir, which is your primary one? I really would like to follow you. ;-)
- September 17, 2011 at 9:58 AM
At risk of changing the subject, to the subject of debt which is entwined with the idea of justice, in experiments; I know bear with me,
"primatologist Frans de Waal, who found in a series of experiments that capuchin monkeys that had been trained to trade pebbles for slices of cucumber threw their pebbles out of the cage and refused any further cooperation with the experimenters when one monkey was given the more valuable prize of a grape in return for a pebble."
This says something about justice I believe. Imperfectly but still anyone knows that even the smallest children have a keen sense justice. While tangential, or less, to the subject of criminal justice, no matter how badly justice is applied or apportioned, I believe seeking justice is intrinsic.
- September 17, 2011 at 10:19 AM
- Jack Crow said...
That "universal...fair play" to which I alluded was drawing upon de Waal's experiments. Sorry I wasn't explicit.
But, I think it's possible to distinguish between fair play (which involves mutuality) and justice (which requires the sanction of power).
Turkey comes to mind.
Otherwise, I think there's a tendency to Other-ize Muslim countries as especially anti-women because we have been raised to believe that our legal "progress" is also social. Rape is significantly likelier to occur in the US than it is in Indonesia or Pakistan, all the same.
The rapes per one hundred thousand number for Turkey is 1.4. Syria, at .7; Morocco at 3.6; .1 and so on.
It's 28.6 for the US.
That's obviously not the whole picture, because standards for reporting aren't, well, standardized.
But, it does provide a thumbnail.
Curiously, Sweden (which has some of the toughest anti-rape laws in the world) has one of the highest numbers, at 54 per 100,000. Whether or not that a function of prosecutorial consistency and a broad definition of rape is not entirely clear.
- September 17, 2011 at 10:37 AM
- Unknown said...
Jack, Turkey has a secular govt, so I would expect them to have more respect for women.
As to the stats, I think they prove how fucked up American law is w/regard to prosecuting rape.
But I had no idea about Sweden. Thank you for enlightening me. ;-)
- September 17, 2011 at 10:48 AM
- Jack Crow said...
Turkey is ruled by an Islamist party, Dusty. It's "mild," in the language of empire, but it is a religious party all the same.
As to "secular governments": I humbly submit that there are none. Not one. A state is a religious organization which depends upon sanctification and mystification for the exercise of its power.
- September 17, 2011 at 10:53 AM
- Unknown said...
Their constitution is secular in nature and the govt is largely secular but like ours, they get the religious nutters in there as well.
- September 17, 2011 at 11:12 AM
- Unknown said...
This quote sums it up quite well JackCrow:
Turkey's mix of economic growth and secular democracy under an Islamist government has fascinated Arab countries eager for a new model.
- September 17, 2011 at 11:20 AM
- Jack Crow said...
I think the word "secular" is a distraction from what it is States are, and do, Dusty.
Just because a State does not actively promote an official faith (and that assertion is itself subject to challenge) does not alter the fact that the State is largely a religious construct.
Even officially atheist states, such as currently governs China.
- September 17, 2011 at 12:40 PM
- Unknown said...
I get what you are saying and agree somewhat...but Turkey is still a helluva lot better place for women than other Muslim led nations.
The whole 'headdress banning' argument there was a doozy btw, and that had religious heads spinning as it was directly aimed at a religious belief.
- September 17, 2011 at 12:44 PM
- Jack Crow said...
I'm not trying to suggest that a woman would do better to live in Saudi Arabia than Turkey, Dusty. It just has little to do with the State, conceptually and historically. If a massive earthquake collapsed the Turkish economy and if this event was followed by the rise of a Salafi movement which captured the Turkish state, the structure of the Turkish state would not present much of a barrier to the imposition of repressive "reforms." In fact, it might happen with less resistance, because it would have the sanction of "democracy."
What makes Turkey different from Saudi Arabia is history. Without the rarity that is Ataturk, Turkey might still have a degraded Caliphate.
The secular/religious lens isn't unique to the US, but we seem to use it more than our counterparts elsewhere, when seeing and discussing States, perhaps because we've been successfully indoctrinated into accepting the premises of exceptionalism.
The US is also a deliberately and officially secular state. That hasn't really meant much of a difference, when it comes to the history of that State's interaction with women, or the treatment of women and, specifically rape, by its constituent parts.
- September 17, 2011 at 12:56 PM
- Jack Crow said...
- September 17, 2011 at 12:59 PM
- Unknown said...
Great points Jack, and I was aware of the Ataturk, which is one of the reasons I mentioned Turkey to begin with.
I will be back later and try to address this topic on a different level since I seem to be missing your point. ;-)
- September 17, 2011 at 1:08 PM
- ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...
First thing we do is kill all the Yale grads.
*hides diploma*
- September 17, 2011 at 2:04 PM
- Justin said...
It's senselessly complicated.
I used to have a single blog,
I retired it because I didn't find writing about our newscycle to be for me anymore.
Then I started an art blog
I kept writing about political issues though, but in a more focused way. I started organizing these into a separate project that was intended to be an online book/blog hybrid.
Then I started a similar project with the theme of anarchism
I have separate blogs for different subjects because I intend to write pieces for them that relate to one another specifically and only to one another. So any random posts about cats or paintings I am working on go on Shotwell. The Big Dada project is probably about done. I have a few more pieces in mind for the Boutique Revolution.
- September 18, 2011 at 10:21 AM
- Jack Crow said...
I don't think we're missing each other's points. We've each just got a different emphasis.
As you as you're ashamed of it...
- September 18, 2011 at 10:30 AM
That's a thoughtful and eloquent response, thanks.
I mean, of course, we disagree on this point, but I certainly see the reasons for that kind of "genealogy of morality," even if I'm no longer aligned with it...
- September 18, 2011 at 2:10 PM


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Māngere murder: 'Senseless act' leaves newborn without a dad
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- NZ Herald,
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- Thu, 14 Mar 2019, 3:57PM
Māngere murder: 'Senseless act' leaves newborn without a dad
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- NZ Herald,
- Publish Date
- Thu, 14 Mar 2019, 3:57PM
Arthur Brown was shot twice after three offenders approached him in Māngere early on Sunday, police say.
Counties Manukau CIB Detective Inspector Tofilau Faa Va'aelua said this afternoon that police investigators are continuing to appeal for public assistance.
Faa Va'aelua said three offenders approached Brown, shot him twice before running away from the scene.
He called the act "senseless act of violence that's left a newborn baby without a father."
Brown, 26, was fatally shot outside a group of shops on Vine St in Māngere just before 1am.
"Police are supporting Mr Brown's family but they are absolutely devastated", Faa Va'aelua said.
"If you have any information about what happened please contact the police."
Faa Va'aelua said those responsible for the death need to "man up" for their actions.
Brown was shot between the neck and collarbone on his left and another shot on his right shoulder.
Brown was linked to a street gang, Faa Va'aelua said, however they are not sure if a gang is linked to the incident.
Police enquiries at the scene have identified there were three offenders at least who attacked Brown, approaching him on foot.
Faa Va'aelua said there was always a concern when incidents of violence like this take part in the community and they are not sure whether the incident was a random attack or not.
He said Brown has come to the attention of police in the past, however, it was back in 2011.
He is survived by pregnant wife Atiliai Brown, who was due to give birth to their first child this week.
Arthur Brown's cousin, Geoff Brown, said told the Herald on Tuesday that the child was "holding a lot of people together" while they mourned a man described as "loving and generous" and "very caring and family oriented".
Brown said Arthur's death had hit the family hard and they were all finding strength in different ways.
"It is something you don't prepare for really," he said.
"It has hit us hard, all of us - we have family in Australia, America and Samoa - and this has affected not just us but our churches and our communities. Everyone is hurting."
Brown said Arthur and Atiliai had married in recent months and he'd never seen his cousin so happy.

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America's violence equates to militant depravity and an obscene refusal to see the real results of their warring ways.
(SALEM) - Perhaps the image to the right is offensive, but could anything be better stated? Americans have been under a militant spell for the last twenty or so years, and the attitude and deeds that spin out from that have transformed the U.S. into a tyrant nation.
Claiming to battle and war against "terrorists"- the American forces invaded and destroyed Iraq. The supposed quest for bin Laden was a farce for so many years. It is all political positioning with the help of the media; be it Obama or Bush, the only term that applies is "warmonger".
They want war, they plot war, and they fail as individuals to fight the system that specifically profit from war. The United States is the farthest thing from a Christian nation possible and no Biblical teachings are considered or incorporated in national policy; only in word, which is ineffective.
The shimmer has faded from this sham for the final time. It used to be the "Ugly American" and now it is the age of the "Deadly American", some progression that was. People all over the world today dislike and distrust Americans. With rare exceptions and for good reason, we are the most feared and hated people in the world.
As the accompanying video shows, death from above has become the image of the west with the U.S. in front position most of the time, and now we hover around the notion of attacking Iran? America has no shame, it is just a damned death dealer and a building chorus is saying no to its mission.
How the bad karma whiplash has stayed at bay this long, defies me.
My children, your children; all have a dark future if they have one at all, and it is because of America's will and desire to drain tax dollars to wage war. When military hardware becomes the staple of a country's economy, the end is near.
When the lethal assault on Libya began, French, British, U.S. and Canadian forces fought their deadly war for the sake of political and business conquest, at the clear expense of humanity. They funded ruthless thugs and fired from afar, killing so many civilians... tearing babies apart, all in the name of democracy, what terrible people the politicians who vote for this, all are.
Many Americans were swindled into believing the attack on the nation of Libya was a good idea. I too, initially thought this "backing of the rebels" could have merit, but that lasted about a day.
A good result is never earned from unprovoked military attacks, and the Libya war was just one more conflict that allows the western countries to dig their claws, along with the World Bank and all of the related monetary corporate business interests, into one more African nation; the last one in fact; of Africa's 57 nations, that took a stand and had not allowed a U.S. military presence on its soil.
So watch the video and if you have what it takes, watch it it a second time. Send the link to this page to everyone you know and ensure that they understand the severity of America's violence equates to militant depravity and an obscene refusal to see the real results of their warring ways.
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Anonymous January 13, 2012 11:35 am (Pacific time)
to anon 8:43. I was just trying to add to the article in regards to the other things these same people do, to give an example of their sociopath, power and to wake people up to more of their atrocities. Tim already did a great job writing about drones. Did you look at the sky this morning like I asked? Probably not. I am an avid Ron Paul supporter who would actually work hard to stop the wars and drones. Anon 8:43..the best thing to do now in regards to your concerns is to support Ron Paul.
Anonymous January 12, 2012 8:43 pm (Pacific time)
It seems the current comments do not address the "wars" or the "drones" which kill, and have killed thousant civilians. This country cannot exist anymore without wars in progress for more status.
Anonymous January 12, 2012 2:40 pm (Pacific time)
Toni...you should be worried. Yes, the great strides groups such as the oathkeepers, Ron Paul, and other entities that are fighting the status quo are gaining steam. But those in power now? They will NOT give up that power easily. The mainstream media, who bread and butter come from their lies, are shaking in their boots. Best scenario? If freedom, liberty, Constitution, Bill of Rights does win? They wont win without the fight of the entire 20th century. I have been telling people to prepare for this for almost a decade. I was laughed at for many of those years, but I am not being laughed at anymore. The weather tomorrow is forecast as clear..so, watch the sky in the morning, and check on it frequently. I dont need to send a link or a youtube video..Just go outside and LOOK UP! :-) For those who say it is "condensation trails" contrails etc...fine. Even tho u r totally wrong, I will agree for sake of argument. BUT, look at the sky, the few solar panels I have only work at 65% when the planes do whatever they do..And my farm needs sun for food to grow!! Whether chemtrails, or contrails, why is nobody bringing this up? Screw my solar panels I suppose, but what about the FOOD that wont grow?
Anonymous January 12, 2012 2:25 pm (Pacific time)
sorry, off topic a bit, but I called Marion County Sheriff to get his views on NDAA. I left a message on Monday, it's Thursday and no return call yet, but if I do get one I will share the info. I will call again on Monday if I do not get a return call by then. If you do your homework, it is the sheriff that should be making the decisions, not the federal government. But then again, this country has no rule of law anymore, unless it is against the peasants. Ron Paul 2012.
Anonymous January 12, 2012 10:52 am (Pacific time)
Speaking of things in the sky, the chemtrails are MASSIVE today. You should check it out, or better yet, try to check it tomorrow at sunrise and frequently view thru out the morning..You will be shocked. And, why are so many F31's flying over?? I have friends all the way in southern Oregon seeing them too! Oh, and dont fool yourself, the drones will expand all over the country, watch and see, guaranteed...I told people long ago, that TSA would expand out from the airports, and few believed me, now they are all over the place. Its amazing whats in the sky when ya actually look up...People are too distracted with tv, sports, fast food etc...
Toni January 12, 2012 4:10 am (Pacific time)
Tim, I couldn't sleep. I wandered over to Salem-news.com to see what your online paper had published Regarding Bradley Manning and then read this article. Has the world gone crazy? I cannot believe my eyes and ears. What can be done about this from a civilian's perpective? I heard from a friend, an Oath-keeper and he said not to worry. But I am worried.[Return to Top]
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Sweet Spot Re-released! #lesbian #erotica #romance #sports
Hi everyone,
Just a quick note to let you know that some of my books are being re-released. First up is my F/F erotic sports romance, Sweet Spot, which is part of the Raw Talent series. And don't you just love the gorgeous new cover?
Here's the skinny:
Virginia Miller is an up-and-coming tennis star. She's gone from a ratty tennis court in a park in south London, England, to the world's top training facility—Los Carlos Tennis Academy in California. In awe of the talent around her, Virginia is all the more determined to make the most of the opportunity and show that she's worthy of her place there. Her mentor, Nadia Gorlando, has every faith in her.
But Virginia finds herself distracted—Nadia, as well as being a top-notch tennis player, is seriously sexy, and Virginia's mind keeps wandering where it shouldn't. Will her crush get in the way of her career, or can she find a way to push the other woman out of her mind before it's too late?
Please note, it hasn't changed from the original version, so if you've read that, it is essentially the same book, repackaged. It's currently available from Amazon, All Romance eBooks and Smashwords, and I'm waiting for it to start filtering out to all the other retailers. The links are all available on the book's page, and will be updated as and when I have more.
It also got this amazing five star review on Smashwords: "I really enjoyed this book, the first one of Lucy's that I've read. It is sweet, engrossing and also hot! I'm looking forward to reading more."
Happy Reading!
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We've stayed in Radissons many times, and it was great looking back through my photos to this particular stay and seeing how tiny the boys were. I had JUST given birth to Charlie two months earlier so it's just so neat to see how much has changed. And this weekend really sticks out in my mind- it was the first time Charlie had stayed away from home and it was just a great family weekend. I've always really enjoyed stayed at their properties, and their Club Carlson benefits really seal the deal. Earning free rooms as you stay, extra perks...awesome.
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Sony Pictures has given Silver Linings Playbook director David O. Russell's next film a prime awards season release date later this year. The untitled project (formerly known as American Bullshit) will hit theaters in limited release on December 13th before going wide on Christmas Day. The pic is based on a real-life undercover sting operation called Abscam, which was set up in the 1980s by a con artist working for the FBI who rooted out corruption in Congress.
The cast reads like a "Best Of" from Russell's filmography, as Bradley Cooper and Christian Bale are set in the leads with Amy Adams, Jennifer Lawrence, Louis C.K., Jeremy Renner, and Alessandro Nivola (Face/Off) rounding out the ensemble. Hit the jump for more.
Russell's Abscam project will undoubtedly be a player in this year's awards race, and marks one of two Cooper/Lawrence films slated for release in 2013 alongside the period pic Serena. Sony also has their hands full with 2013 awards contenders as they're also set to release George Clooney's star-studded WWII film The Monuments Men, the Tom Hanks-fronted true story Captain Phillips, and Moneyball director Bennett Miller's drama Foxcatcher with Steve Carell and Mark Ruffalo.
On Christmas Day, the untitled Russell film will face off against the Keanu Reeves samurai pic 47 Ronin, the Chris Pine actioner Jack Ryan, and Ben Stiller's comedy remake The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, which also stars Kristen Wiig.


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For God has not given us a spirit of fear,
but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
~2 Timothy 1:7
For me the spiritual path has always been learning how to die. That involves not just death at the end of this particular life, but all the falling apart that happens continually. The fear of death— which is also the fear of groundlessness, of insecurity, of not having it all together—seems to be the most fundamental thing that we have to work with… We have so much fear of not being in control, of not being able to hold on to things. Yet the true nature of things is that you're never in control. You're never in control. You can never hold on to anything. That's the nature of how things are… So my own path has been training to relax with groundlessness and the panic that accompanies it….training to die continually.
~Pema Chodron
Buddhist Nun
I've always known I wasn't an adventurous person. I was too concerned with being safe, with being in control. I spent years powering through my life, manipulating my experiences to get that desired outcome. I was good at it too. You have to be when you're that scared. Of course at the time I didn't know I was afraid. It took me years of living with my fear outright before I could see how it had always been there, just beyond my conscious mind. In that hidden part of who I was, the wolves were always at the door…
When the unthinkable happened, and I became ill, the fear surfaced at last, and I found myself in an almost constant state of anxiety. Control had finally proven itself to be the grand illusion all the great scholars said it was. Life had suddenly become precarious and changeable, and I found myself drowning in uncertainty. What Pema Chodron calls groundlessness. I love that word because it so aptly describes that sense of free-fall that comes with truly not knowing.
I've spent the last several years now coming to terms with my fear. Through meditation and prayer, I'm learning to trust in something larger than myself, and to relax and just be with whatever comes next. Lately I've been turning this phrase over and over in my mind: I Did Not Give You a Heart of Fear. It's been playing in my head like a melody or a song you suddenly find you can't stop humming. And I wonder – Is this what all this has been about? Is that what all this has been for, to teach me this one simple truth?
Some days it still comes for me, still unsettles me and shakes me to my core, wanting to know have I learned my lesson? Do I know who I am, and from where I come? And I can answer now with a hard-earned, deep understanding: I come from a place of love and light and I was not given a heart of fear…


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I'm not certain about this, but I am ready to bet that the phrase "the War on Christmas" was coined by Fox News' enfant terrible Bill O'Reilly, who, along with his simpering, platinum-haired cohort John Gibson, have made a new Christmas tradition (as well as, in Gibson's case, a fair amount of money) out of complaining that Christmas is "under attack."
By who? Well, liberals, of course. Liberals, one is led to believe, are taking over the country in what is ostensibly a renewed effort to force homosexuality, Leninism (that's code for universal health care), and godlessness into the impressionable and as-yet-pudding-like brains of your children. Yes, they're out there, those damn Reds... and they're battling as we speak to take the Christ out of Christmas.
This, of course, is utter nonsense -- and I am of course not the first one to point this out. But let's examine the American tradition of Christmas, now as in decades past, and find out exactly how much of the Baby Jesus is apparent in the way we, as a society, have celebrated the Savior's birth.
First, there are the old traditions. There's the timing, of course -- December 25, eerily close to the druidic celebration of the Winter Solstice (December 21), which is the shortest day of the year. According to Christianity Today, December 25 was settled on around A.D. 273 after a long controversy over whether to even celebrate the Nativity at all, and was eventually chosen to coincide with two pagan holidays: the natalis solis invicti (birth of the unconqered sun) and the identified birthday of Mithras, an Iranian god considered the "Sun of Righteousness." Both gods were popularly worshipped by Roman soldiers. Church fathers, apparently eager to make the transition to Christianity (which had recently been elevated to the status of "official religion of the Roman empire") as smooth as possible, decided to pick a feast day that already was being used as one by the people.
So, in terms of timing, we've already departed from the scriptural account (which lacks any mention of a specific date anyway). How about the Christmas tree?
Well, according to the hivemind responsible for Wikipedia, the Christmas tree is most likely a derivative of a Germanic pagan tradition linked with the Festival of Lights, celebrated on the Winter Solstice. The Wikipedia entry claims further that the practice of decorating evergreen trees as part of the Christian festival was initially decried as a pagan practice when it arrived in the United States in the 19th century... but apparently, the novelty caught on and its origins in the pagan wilds of medieval Germany were forgotten, replaced with new metaphors -- the evergreen tree, rather than representing the cycle of seasons, now represents Christ's triumph over death. Fair enough -- symbols are only as good as the notions they evoke in their viewers.
On to more recent additions. In a memorable Saturday Night Live skit, Dana Carvey's "Church Lady" decries Santa Claus, pointing out (to great comic effect) that there's only a transposition of letters separating the names "Santa" and "Satan." That aside, it's with the adoption of Santa Claus that the less-benign elements of the American tradition of Christmas begin to creep into the picture.
Saint Nicholas was traditionally honored on the anniversary of his death, which is recorded as having occured December 6, A.D. 346. He was a bishop who lived in Lycia, which is now Turkey, and had a "reputation for secret gift-giving," as well as having been a miracle-worker. Older traditions of Saint Nicholas Day involved placing small gifts in the shoes that children left out overnight on December 6. Other than being a Christian saint, Nicholas (in his own Greek, Agios Nikolaos), had nothing to do with the birth of Jesus.
Christmas gift-giving ostensibly has something to do with the visit of the Magi, who are said to have brought gold, frankincense and myrrh to the Holy Family shortly after Christ's birth (their visit is traditionally celebrated January 6, on the feast of the epiphany). But Nikolaos of Lycia somehow got dragged into the mix, and this eventually was mutated into the decidedly non-Christian notion of a "kindly elf" who lives at the North Pole flying around the world distributing gifts to children who have been good all year.
Other cultures have interpreted the myth in different ways. But America's version of Saint Nick -- the plump, jolly, bearded grandfatherly-figure in red and white who works all year in his magical toy shop -- dates back only to the late 19th century (much like the Christmas tree), and was given his place in popular culture not by any church or faith, but by Coca-Cola (the company has since switched its holiday advertising mascot, and now uses polar bears).
It would no doubt be possible to make an exhaustive list of "Christmas Traditions" that have no roots whatsoever in the birth of Christ -- but hopefully, these few examples have made my point. There's very little of Christ to "take out" of Christmas in the first place, and to the extent that Jesus is remembered during the holiday, he is certainly not under any kind of real attack. The only place the story is actually celebrated is in churches, pageant plays, and in homes -- and there's nothing even resembling a credible threat to any of that (perhaps with the exception of school pageant plays, but really, how horrible would it be if those were to go away?).
What is under threat, however, is the assumption that everyone in the country celebrates Christmas in the way that Christians do. Jews, for example, who constitute a sizable minority among Americans, understandably want little to do with Christmas, and instead celebrate Hanukkah, their own festival of lights (which also has been corrupted over the centuries and now has its own cultural over-emphasis on gifts).
Simply saying, "Merry Christmas" to some stranger during the holiday shopping season -- and shopping really is what the season is about -- does little or nothing to recall the birth of Jesus, and the rest of the Christmas traditions have nothing to do with Christ anyway. Substantively, what changes if Wal-Mart or Target clerks politely call out, "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas"?
Lots, if you're troglodyte like John Gibson or Bill O'Reilly. Apparently, it's phrases uttered by store clerks that inspire the bright-eyed, rosy-cheeked, Norman-Rockwell-esque youths populating our country to ask their parents questions like, "Mommy, who was this Baby Jesus guy?" Clearly, Toys-'R'-Us employees have a crucial role to play in the catechesis of the young. In all seriousness, though, why should anyone rely on the rest of society to instill religious curiosity in children? If faith is important enough that store employees remind kids of the importance of a particular holiday, shouldn't the subject have been brought up in the home by the time a child is old enough to start asking theological questions? Or are we to believe that parents, by and large, are mute on the subject of Christ until their offspring broach the subject?
On reflection, it might even be possible to understand if this indeed were the case. Christmas, as celebrated in the U.S., runs from the "Black Friday" (which, this year, resulted in at least three shopping-related deaths) to December 24, and has much more to do with bargain-hunting than Savior-celebrating. The cherished traditions have decidedly un-Christian heritages, and Jesus has indeed been relegated to an afterthought -- but not by any nefarious liberal scheme. Indignation over the new, alleged "War on Christmas" is sheer lunacy, because it is based on a notion as fundamentally fictional as Santa's eight tiny reindeer.
Sunday, December 21, 2008
A new holiday tradition
I'm not certain about this, but I am ready to bet that the phrase "the War on Christmas" was coined by Fox News' enfant terrible Bill O'Reilly, who, along with his simpering, platinum-haired cohort John Gibson, have made a new Christmas tradition (as well as, in Gibson's case, a fair amount of money) out of complaining that Christmas is "under attack."
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Monday, December 15, 2008
What did we learn?
Well, it appears (so far) that I've survived my first semester of graduate school. Now, I suppose, would be as good a time as any to look back and figure out exactly what it is that I've learned.
The first thing I learned was what political science isn't -- it is not comparative history, it isn't advanced civics, and it isn't about rhetoric. This may come as a surprise to no one other than me, but apparently, political science is actually science -- sort of.
Even practitioners of the "social sciences" (sociology and political science, for example) are careful to note the distinction between their field and the so-called "hard sciences," such as physics and chemistry. While the "hard sciences" study the interactions of physical bodies and particles and predict their behavior, doing the same thing to human societies is a little fuzzier... humans, as it turns out, are somewhat less predictable than hydrogen atoms.
Enter statistics, which I got a great introduction to this semester. Skipping over the boring, number-y parts, the value to using things like "normal distributions" and large sample sizes is so that you can get a reasonably good predictor of behavior to a certain level of probability. There are also handy ideas like "rational choice theory," which makes it possible to do a little hand-waving ("Okay, let's just say everyone's going to act in his own perceived best interest when making choices") and aggregate behavior over a whole system. To the extent that it works, it's a useful idea.
Deeper than that, however, is the issue of a philosophy of science. What exactly is "scientific method," and what is it meant to accomplish? Are we adding to the growing pile of human knowledge, or are we merely filling out the latest paradigm by which we understand the world? That still seems to be an open question, so I don't have an answer. But it's an interesting line of thought to follow down the old rabbit hole.
I've had at least one friend suggest that these courses aren't doing me any good -- that this field of study is encouraging my left-leaning tendencies. I don't really blame her for coming to that conclusion, but it isn't the case. My professors haven't made their personal political beliefs particularly secret, but the course material is almost completely sterile of normative political rhetoric or propaganda. Instead, our readings and discussions have focused entirely on theories of political phenomena -- given X circumstances, why does Y happen? That kind of thing. The suggested answers normally involve complicated algebraic formulas, and they tend to treat the workings of political entities like parts of a car... avoiding pronouncements about what is right and wrong.
So I haven't drawn my political views from the coursework -- although I do feel as though I have a better understanding of how things work, and that understanding has helped to reinforce notions I already had.
I'm looking forward to next semester. Now that the initial shock has passed, I think it'll be easier to keep my head above water.
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Oftentimes getting a personal trainer turns out to be a worthwhile expense -- but until you see (and feel!) concrete results from hiring an exercise expert, is there a way to know whether you've got a good trainer on your hands?
Absolutely, says Women's Health fitness expert Rachel Cosgrove. She explains to the magazine how anyone can protect themselves from shoddy body sculptors. If your trainer tries to talk you into of these things, it may be time to move on:
Sitting at a weight machine. You should be standing on your feet, using your core, working multiple muscles at a time, in order to burn maximum calories and injury-proof your body, said Cosgrove.
More than 15 to 20 reps of a core exercise. If you can do any more than that, you should be adding weight or switching up the exercise (for example, to crunches on a Swiss ball).
Sticking to one body part a day. A full-body routine that works your muscles in a variety of ways is more efficient for achieving a lean body, says Cosgrove.
Keeping your knees behind your toes during quates. "When you're working out solo, it can help you maintain your center of gravity. But with a trainer spotting you -- and making sure you don't lean too far forward and put excess pressure on your knees -- it's okay to go as low as possible and, as a result, let your knees jut out a bit past your tootsies."
More than three days of cardio a week. Assuming you're eating smart, 30 minutes of cardio three times a week is plenty for weight loss and cardiovascular health, Cosgrove says.


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Each day Complex scours the music blogs for 5 fresh songs that you should listen to in our 5 O'Clock Shuffle post. Instead of going crazy trying to keep up with your RSS feeds everyday, just head over to Complex.com to stay up-to-date on important leaks and releases.
We have the biggest leaks in the Hip-Hop and R&B scene for you today. First up, Yo Gotti snatches Wale, J. Cole and Wiz Khalifa for the official remix to "Look In The Mirror." 50 Cent and Jeremih collaborate once again with "5 Senses." Lil Wayne teams up with his Young Money gunners for the "YM Banger." Kevin Cossom gives us his first offering off his debut album and snags the likes of Fabolous and Diddy for it. And Sleigh Bells drop off the revamped version of "Holly." Excited to hear all this great new music? Stream and download and share your thoughts with us after the jump...
SONG: "Look In The Mirror (Remix)"
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• Yo Gotti, Wale, J. Cole and Wiz Khalifa all on the same track and it sounds dope.
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ARTIST: 50 Cent & Jeremih
• 50 touches yet another one of Jeremih's All About You cuts.
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ARTIST: Kevin Cossom f/ Fabolous & Diddy
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When "Ultimate Fighter" season 8 winner Efrain Escudero got home from his fight against Charles Oliveira, he may have expected a call from UFC matchmaker Joe Silva, but not for the reason the phone started ringing that day.
A late change in opponents had Escudero facing Oliveira instead of John Gunderson as originally scheduled. The Arizona native put up a tough fight, but ended up being submitted by the Brazilian upstart in the third round of their bout at UFC Fight Night in September.
The defeat put Escudero's record at 3-2 in the UFC, having flip-flopped between wins and losses over his last 4 fights. Still, when Escudero answered the phone and Joe Silva was on the other line, the shock washed over him like a tidal wave.
"It was that Monday after my fight and I came back home from my parent's and stuff, and first of all I was disappointed in my performance in the fight. I was kind of like sleeping, I had other things in my head instead of worrying about fighting. I'll give it to (Charles) Oliveira, he capitalized on that little mistake and he came to fight, but I don't know where I was at," Escudero told MMAWeekly Radio.
"Joe Silva was just like 'we're releasing you' and at first I was like 'whoa', I didn't know what to say, I was speechless. They know what they're doing and for me it was weird because I don't have consecutive losses. Yes, I lost to (Evan) Dunham, but Dunham's one of the top guys right now, and I also lost to Oliveira, which are the only two losses in my whole career."
While Escudero didn't exactly go through the five stages of grief, he still hasn't really swallowed the pill that he is no longer in the UFC.
"Still to this day, it doesn't make sense," Escudero said.
A major point in the final decision may have been Escudero's mistake of missing weight for his last fight. He admits that throughout his past as a wrestler cutting weight has become a science, but on that day and for that fight for some reason his body just shut down and wouldn't let him cut the addition few pounds needed.
Whatever the ultimate reason was for Escudero's prompt exit from the UFC, he doesn't want to be known as only the second reality show winner to ever be cut from the promotion. He wants the chance to prove himself and that his victory on season 8 of the "Ultimate Fighter" was no fluke.
"I will be back in the UFC, I do not know when," Escudero stated. "I want to get back to the UFC and give Dana White what he originally hired me to do and beat up people."
Until that day comes, Escudero is staying busy and already has another fight on his plate to help erase the memories of the last time he stepped in the cage. Escudero will next fight in former WEC featherweight Chance Farrar's Desert Rage promotion in Yuma, Ariz.
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Switzerland should accept its responsibility as the world's leading commodity trading hub and pass regulation that requires Swiss companies producing or trading in natural resources to disclose all payments made to governments and state-owned companies, including payments associated with trading activities. In a 25 June 2014 report, the Swiss federal government indicated a preference to exclude trading-related payments from future regulation of this kind. If that position holds, the payments described in this report would remain secret.
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Quick Start Guide
This Quick Start Guide is a brief overview of how to form an LLC in Pennsylvania.
Detailed Lessons:
1. Name Search
2. Registered Agent
3. Filing Forms
4. Operating Agreement
5. Tax ID Number (EIN) ← you are here
6. Decennial Report
7. Licenses and Permits
8. Taxes
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Northwest ($39 + state fee) or LegalZoom ($149 + state fee)
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What is an EIN Number?
An EIN Number stands for Employer Identification Number and it will be issued by the IRS to your Pennsylvania LLC.
An EIN is to your Pennsylvania LLC what a Social Security Number is to a person. It helps the IRS identify your business for tax and filing purposes.
Having an EIN for your Pennsylvania LLC allows you to open a separate bank account under the LLC's name, apply for certain licenses and permits, and handle employee payroll (if applicable).
Even though it's called an Employer Identification Number, it doesn't mean that you have to have employees. The EIN is just a type of Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) that identifies your Pennsylvania LLC with the IRS.
EIN Synonyms
Your Pennsylvania LLC's EIN may be called different names. They all mean the same thing though.
Similar terms for an EIN include:
- EIN Number
- Employer ID Number
- Employer Identification Number
- Federal Employer ID Number
- Federal Employer Identification Number
- Federal Tax Number
- Federal Tax ID Number
- Federal Tax Identification Number
Benefits of having an EIN for your Pennsylvania LLC
Having an EIN for your Pennsylvania LLC enables you to do the following:
- Open an LLC business bank account
- File taxes at the federal, state, and local level
- Handle employee payroll (if applicable)
- Obtain business lines of credit or business loans
- Get a business credit card for your LLC
- Apply for business licenses
Wait for your Pennsylvania LLC to be approved
Wait for your Pennsylvania LLC to be approved by the Department of State before applying for your EIN. Otherwise, if your LLC filing is rejected, you'll have an EIN attached to a non-existent LLC.
However, if this does happen, you can always cancel your EIN and then apply for a new one. And you don't have to wait for your cancellation to go through before applying for a new EIN.
Applying for an EIN for your LLC is free ($0)
Applying for an EIN for your Pennsylvania LLC is completely free.
The IRS doesn't charge anything for applying for an EIN.
Don't have an SSN or ITIN?
If you're a foreigner who formed a Pennsylvania LLC, you can still get an EIN without having an SSN or ITIN.
You just can't get your EIN online. Instead, you need to mail or fax Form SS-4 to the IRS.
We have instructions here: How to apply for EIN without an SSN or ITIN.
(related article: How to apply for an ITIN)
EIN Phone Application
You may have read that you can apply for an EIN by phone. This is no longer the case. The IRS has discontinued this service.
The only businesses that can get an EIN by phone are Exempt Organizations (like non-profits) and Foreign Companies (companies formed outside of the United States).
If you're a foreigner and you formed an LLC in Pennsylvania, we have instructions below on how to apply for your EIN.
EIN Responsible Party
The EIN Responsible Party is a person that goes on file with the IRS when you apply for an EIN for your Pennsylvania LLC.
Think of the Responsible Party as the LLC's "contact person". The IRS will send your LLC's mail and correspondence to this person.
If you have a Single-Member Pennsylvania LLC:
Then you will be the EIN Responsible Party.
If you have a Multi-Member Pennsylvania LLC:
One of the LLC Members will be the EIN Responsible Party.
The IRS just wants one person as the EIN Responsible Party. They don't want all the Pennsylvania LLC Members' information. The IRS gets the other Members' information when you file your 1065 Partnership return and issue K-1s each year.
Although any LLC Member can be listed, you should list the LLC Member that will take on the responsibility of making sure the LLC's taxes are handled properly.
If your Pennsylvania LLC is owned by another company:
The IRS made changes in 2018 that no longer allow an EIN Responsible Party to be a company. The EIN Responsible Party must be an individual person. So it's best to list one of the individual owners of the parent company.
Note: If you have a Pennsylvania LLC that is owned by another company and you try to get an EIN online, you'll just get an error message (EIN reference number) at the end of the application.
Learn more:
To learn more about who can be the EIN Responsible Party for your Pennsylvania LLC, please see EIN Responsible Party for LLC.
How is a Pennsylvania LLC taxed?
By default, a Pennsylvania LLC is taxed based on the number of Members (owners).
Meaning, an LLC is just taxed in the default status set by the IRS and the LLC doesn't elect to be taxed as a Corporation (either a C-Corporation or an S-Corporation).
(related article: how are LLCs taxed)
The default tax status for a Pennsylvania Single-Member LLC is a Disregarded Entity, meaning if the LLC is owned by an individual, the LLC is taxed like a Sole Proprietorship. If the LLC is owned by a company, it is taxed as a branch/division of the parent company.
The default tax status for a Pennsylvania Multi-Member LLC is Partnership, meaning the IRS taxes the LLC like a Partnership.
If instead, you want your Pennsylvania LLC taxed as a C-Corp, you'll first apply for an EIN and then later file Form 8832. If you want your LLC taxed as an S-Corp, you'll first apply for an EIN and then later file Form 2553.
If you choose to have your Pennsylvania LLC taxed as a Corporation, make sure you speak with an accountant as there are a lot of details you need to consider. Having an LLC taxed as an S-Corporation is a much more popular choice than having an LLC taxed as a C-Corporation. S-Corporation taxation usually makes sense once an LLC generates about $70,000 in net income per year.
How to apply for an EIN for your Pennsylvania LLC
Below you will find 3 different sets of instructions:
1. If you have an SSN or ITIN, use the EIN online application
We recommend applying for an EIN online for your Pennsylvania LLC if you have an SSN or ITIN.
This is the easiest filing method and it has the fastest approval time.
We have instructions here:
How to apply for an EIN online
2. If you apply online, but you get an error message
If you have an SSN or ITIN, apply for an EIN online, but you get an error message (called an EIN reference number) at the end, you will need to mail or fax Form SS-4 to the IRS instead.
We have instructions here:
Apply for EIN for LLC with Form SS-4
3. If you don't have an SSN or ITIN
If you don't have an SSN or ITIN, you can still get an EIN for your Pennsylvania LLC. You just can't apply for an EIN online.
You will need to mail or fax Form SS-4 to the IRS instead and you must fill the form out in a certain way.
We have instructions here:
How to get an EIN without an SSN or ITIN
EIN Confirmation Letter (EIN Approval)
Once the IRS issues an EIN for your Pennsylvania LLC you will receive your official approval, known as an EIN Confirmation Letter (CP 575).
The method you used to apply for an EIN will determine how you receive your EIN Confirmation Letter.
If you applied for an EIN online:
You'll be able to download a PDF copy of your EIN Confirmation Letter at the end of the online application. There is no waiting time. The IRS will also send you a duplicate copy in the mail in about 4 to 5 weeks.
If you sent Form SS-4 by fax:
The IRS will fax you back your EIN Confirmation Letter within 4 to 7 business days.
If you sent Form SS-4 by mail:
The IRS will mail your EIN Confirmation Letter within 4 to 8 weeks.
Here is what the EIN Confirmation Letter for an LLC looks like:
How to Cancel an EIN?
If there was a mistake with your first EIN application or you need to cancel your EIN Number for any reason, you just need to mail a cancellation letter to the IRS.
We have instructions here: how to cancel an EIN.
You don't have to wait for your EIN cancellation to be finalized before getting a new EIN for your Pennsylvania LLC.
LLC Business Bank Account
After getting your EIN, you can then open a separate business bank account for your Pennsylvania LLC.
Banks usually ask for the following documents to open a Pennsylvania LLC business bank account:
- EIN Confirmation Letter
- LLC Approval (stamped and approved Certificate of Organization)
- LLC Operating Agreement
- Driver's License and/or Passport
Aside from the above, banks may also require other paperwork (like proof of address), so we recommend calling a few banks in Pennsylvania ahead of time before visiting them in person. It's also a good idea to ask if they have monthly fees on their "basic" business checking accounts since there are a number of banks that don't have any monthly fees.
If you're a non-US resident (foreigner), you will need to show 2 forms of identification, such as your foreign passport and your foreign driver's license. There are additional things to keep in mind when opening a U.S. bank account for your Pennsylvania LLC that we have listed here: Non-US resident opening U.S. bank account for an LLC
Note: You will need to open a bank account in Pennsylvania since that is where you formed your LLC.
IRS Contact Information
If you have any questions, you can call the IRS at 1-800-829-4933. Their office hours are 7am – 7pm, Monday through Friday.
We recommend that you call the IRS early to avoid long holding times.
Next Step
Once the IRS has issued an EIN for your Pennsylvania LLC, you can then proceed to the next lesson: Pennsylvania LLC Decennial Report.
Related Articles
How are LLCs taxed
How to cancel an EIN
How to apply for an ITIN
What is Disregarded Entity LLC
How to open an LLC bank account
How to get a credit card for my LLC
How to find an accountant for your LLC
Should I get an EIN before forming my LLC
When should an LLC be taxed as a C-Corp
When should an LLC be taxed as an S-Corp
What do these EIN Reference Numbers mean
What are IRS Taxpayer Identification Numbers
Form 5472 requirement for foreign-owned LLC
Who should be the EIN Responsible Party for my LLC
What's the difference between tax-reporting and tax-paying
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- February 8, 2018
I would like to apply business name LLC . Can you please help me what form I need to fill out, thanks
- March 20, 2018
Hello I'm in a LLC with a partner who no longer is in it. What steps or forms do I need to do to take to take their name off company?
- May 30, 2018
I absolutely love your site. So easy to follow! No scams or fees. Excellent step-by-step with hyperlinks! You just saved me $300 and it was sooooo easy! Thank you so much!
It is refreshing to have people invest in local businesses and provide free services or instruction to empower new/local/small businesses. Kudos!
- February 14, 2019
Hi Matt. You have an extremely useful site here…thank you! I recently established an LLC through Northwest Registered Agent and began to file for an EIN with Pennsylvania. The application asks for a physical address and a mailing address. May I use the address of Northwest Registered Agent, or do I have to list the actual business address? Same question goes for the mailing address. Thanks for your reply.
- February 28, 2019
Thankyou Matt, you should feel extremely proud of this well put together and invaluable service. I am amazed at how much this is helping me. After reviewing all the online sites (legalzoom, northwest, incfile) and reviewing your diy layout, i feel pretty confident i can do this myself. What would be the 1 or 2 major pieces of advice you would give to someone doing so that avoid costly mistakes?
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