I could give you a load of excuses why things aren't going well for me right now, but that is not really why I am writing this series, is it? No! I'm here to cut the crap. So as valid as those excuses are, they do not belong here, in Cut the Crap, Episode 4.

The other evening when I was traveling home from work, I heard a recording of Black Sabbath's War Pigs on the radio. I was literally moved to tears. You must be thinking that I'm mental to cry over something that kicks ass as much as that song.

Two weeks ago Mr. Goldsmith and I discussed the possibility of the U.S. Government enforcing the United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances. Now it seems that the Prez will be signing a treaty restricting the right of American's to own and use firearms.  We briefly discussed Rand Paul's uppityness about the prospect of the Gov't of the U.S. enforcing such a treaty.  We'll dig into this a little more.  For more from my source, see this article from the Breitbart.

Source: Prairie Advocate, Lanark, Illinois

I read an article posted by Cathy Smith (the wife of Sci-fi writer L. Neil Smith) which posited that Obama will force Colorado and Washington states to comply with U.N. treaty.

I hope to discuss this with Gardner on Monday's Show, 2013-05-13.  I hope we get a chance to.

http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2013/04/23/red-alert-eu-wants-to-regulate...

Yeah I know this seems a bit far fetched, but I think this is something that warrants further discussion.  I'll be modifying this post as I prepare to discuss this with Gard.  

What follows is my entry into the 2011 edition of the Foundation for Economic Education's Eugene S. Thorpe Writing Competition.  

According to an e-mail I received on March 7, 2012

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The following was originally posted as a guest post on Heather's Harmony, a travel blog.  Go there for interesting insights into a person planning to escape from the United States.

Ceres is the most recent installment of the Ngu family saga.  The Ngu's were spawned by human Martian settlers, who clashed with United Nations forces sent from Earth to quash dissent.  The Ngu's went on to settle other worlds.  It helps a bit if you have a cursory knowledge of the solar system's geography, as Smith's creative universe extends from planet Earth, to the dwarf planets of Pallas and Ceres (in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter).

I've had an illuminating evening.  I've gone all over town with my children by myself (three different stores with some amazingly great kids who handled the excursion amazingly well).  We all work together to get what we want.  We even offered gold as payment (see interactive map)