Observe & Retort

When our country was founded the framers of its structure did not put into place term limits, but left it open for future legislators to do so if deemed appropriate. Initially our President didn't have term limits, in fact FDR was elected to a 4th term! The 22nd Amendment changed all of that on March 24th 1947 following our 32nd president's 4th electoral win in 1944, and ratified in 1951. Thirty-two president's before term limits! Something I bet most are unaware of. Some of our nations founders were okay with life-appointments for the office of president while others, such as George Mason, denounced such ideas as establishing an 'elected monarchy'. I think Mason was right and I think I can prove it. Have you ever wondered why it is that our members of congress are not subject to term limits? While I was discussing the topic with my wife, she quickly looked up the current Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. She has been serving in the House since 1987 starting h...

Recently I was watching a docu-series on cults and extreme religions in America and I was watching the sixth episode, which is documenting the Twelve Tribes (Est ~1977) it dawned on me that there is the potential that these extreme off-shoots of mainstream religion might point us to the inevitability that all religions are founded in similar circumstance, and are as a result, complete malarkey. We could propose a couple of things that I think would be difficult for anyone to refute. The first is, like I said above, a small group of individuals within a culture took the premise of their tribes spiritual mythology to a fundamentalist extreme. This likely happened many times, but one particular iteration possessed the right recipe to endure long enough for elders of that society to realize that the religious sect in question possessed the tools that could effectively govern a population with rules rooted in morality. The second proposal is that the resurfacing of fundamentalist sects thr...