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Don't Celebrate the 4th of July

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Posted by PunkJohnnyCash on Jul 3, 2010 in Anarchism | 6 comments

It is July 3rd. I went to get a haircut yesterday. The barber was a great guy. The small talk began. I mentioned my time in the Marines and it happened. The most awkward thing that always happens and I have no idea how to respond. He thanked me for “my service.” I just didn’t know how to respond. I was the oppressor. I was the part of the government whose job it is to commit mass murder around the world. Still, it could have been worse, I could have been a Pig.  The small talk continued on with everyone talking about the same general things. Family and friends at BBQ’s and fireworks or holiday plans was the general topic of the barber shop.

I was asked what I was planning on the 4th. I had no idea what to say so I simply said”I’m not really into that kind of thing.”  This is the dilemma I face often. The majority have never examined the system or even questioned outside of learning the apologetics of the left or the right. What was I to say? Your flag represents the largest criminal syndicate in the history of mankind. Your “Independence day” is a lie, there is no independence within a state. You will be extolling the virtue of mass murderers.

I passed on explaining. I knew the patriotism they had would only be offended, and I don’t really want to upset the community barber shop.  I really just want to get along and help them have a nice day. It upsets people if you speak against what they have been taught to believe.

So…

Tomorrow is July 4th. They call it Independence day, which could not be further from the truth. Some of you Anarchists will go to back yard BBQ’s and some will visit family. Most of us won’t make an upset because the people we love are enjoying the moment.  They are having fun with their food and fireworks.

But….

I plan on doing my celebration on the 5th. July 5th is my new day to celebrate. It won’t be too big, something little maybe some veggie burgers because the red blooded American would cringe at that. Maybe I will do something more elegant with wine, cheese and a fruit & veggie platter. That does sound really good and I would like my anarchist holiday to be a little more sophisticated than ground dead cow and Budweiser beer.The statist can celebrate the union of their states. I will celebrate ‘after the states rule. I will celebrate after the state when we will abolish the state. They will celebrate the birth of the unholy union of their states on the 4th of july. I will take the 5th of july to celebrate anarchy.

Join me on the 5th in your own celebration. Celebrate the 5th of July this will be the true “independence day”.

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Student Loans: Slashing Origination Fees Keeps Banks Competitive: Seeking a ‘total relationship’ with students.

Banking Wire October 13, 2005 | Brenner, Robert Many banks are starting to cover students’ origination fees for education loans. But geography will determine how far three percent gets them.

To better compete in the highly competitive market, more banks have begun paying the federal government’s three percent loan-origination fee, traditionally passed on to the borrower. It’s a bold move-one certain to make a bank more appealing to students. But whether this move is putting banks ahead of the game, in line with the competition or fortifying its defenses is a matter of geography.

Six years ago, the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency initiated the KeystoneBEST loan program, offering to underwrite one origination point on loans made to students attending college in the state and encouraging the originating bank to underwrite the other two. The move sent a ripple through the industry that is becoming a wave in this lending season. “Initially, it was an aggressive move to get a competitive advantage and now it just remains the norm to keep up with competition,” says Tom Lustig, director of marketing for PNC Bank’s education-loan center. The bank joined the program in 2001, but is expanding it this academic year. The bank has seen between 12 percent and 15 percent growth each year in business and expects up to an eight percent increase this year, owing to its additional underwriting. The bank expanded its partnerships in January to include lending organizations in eight other states. go to site citibank student loan

The top three loan originators under the Federal Family Education Loan Program for fiscal year 2004 were the Sallie Mae Corp., Bank One and the Citibank Student Loan Corporation, according to the Department of Education. From fiscal year 2003 to fiscal year 2004, these lenders’ portfolios increased 33 percent, 18 percent and 14 percent, to $4.2 billion, $3.9 billion and $3.4 billion, respectively.

On June 5, SunTrust Bank began underwriting all three origination points in Tennessee. Last year, it underwrote two; in 2003, it was only one. “We decided [it] would be a good move, because it was a key market for us,” says Marke A. Thomas, svp and business-line manager of SunTrust education loans. He concedes the move was primarily a defense mechanism. Thomas believes the movement toward zero-fee origination is fueled by the recent boom in the loan-consolidation market-a business SunTrust courted aggressively. “Maintaining that origination ability up front with school volume is critical to growing your consolidation effort,” he says. website citibank student loan

First Horizon National Corp. began offering zero-fee origination to students attending school in Tennessee through First Tennessee Bank on June 1. The decision was a reaction to larger regional banks’ attempts to move in on its territory, says Dondi Black, svp of consumer lending for First Horizon. While Black acknowledges the additional expense of underwriting will hurt the bank’s bottom line, the bank has its eye on the bigger picture. “We were looking at the opportunity for the total relationship,” she says. “Over the lifetime of the relationship, we feel comfortable this is a value proposition we can accept.” Officials were unable to quantify the program’s impact on revenue.

Congress is considering proposals to cut the three percent origination fee over the next five years, eliminating it by 2010. “There’s [the] thought that, by the end of the year, the president will sign it,” says PNC’s Lustig.

Brenner, Robert

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  • LeeMen

    Oppressor? How were you an oppressor? Being a piece of shit that couldn't make it in real life who joined the service to get "a hand up" who subsequently also failed in the service because of laziness and an arrogant attitude and lack of "ability" makes you an oppressor? How dare you try and justify your failings and being a plain old piece of shit by attacking the very thing that has given you the rights to do so. Being a kitchen helper and toilet swabby in the marines made you an oppressor? So you oppressed them potatoes and toilet bowls before they busted your ass for incompetent arrogance? What an obvious piece of shit you are…..and how typical….you were an arrogant entitled minority punk who was too lazy and untalented to make the grade at even the most basic things in life and now are pointing your gnarly gnome like pathetic little fingers to blame the world for your fuckups. Celebrate the fourth of July and honor the real men who died to gain our freedoms (not womenlike men such as yourself who do nothing but whine when they cant hang with the big boys) Freedoms that even someone as pathetic and despicable as you can enjoy. What other country in the world can someone like you who is a complete double failure, totally lacking in skills and intellect for creation, but prone to destruction still get to live high off the hog ?Happy independence day you pathetic little dependent loser and waste of life. God bless the USA and our ability to sniff out losers like you.

  • LeeMen

    Oppressor? How were you an oppressor? Being a piece of shit that couldn’t make it in real life who joined the service to get “a hand up” who subsequently also failed in the service because of laziness and an arrogant attitude and lack of “ability” makes you an oppressor?

    How dare you try and justify your failings and being a plain old piece of shit by attacking the very thing that has given you the rights to do so. Being a kitchen helper and toilet swabby in the marines made you an oppressor? So you oppressed them potatoes and toilet bowls before they busted your ass for incompetent arrogance? What an obvious piece of shit you are…..and how typical….you were an arrogant entitled minority punk who was too lazy and untalented to make the grade at even the most basic things in life and now are pointing your gnarly gnome like pathetic little fingers to blame the world for your fuckups.

    Celebrate the fourth of July and honor the real men who died to gain our freedoms (not womenlike men such as yourself who do nothing but whine when they cant hang with the big boys) Freedoms that even someone as pathetic and despicable as you can enjoy. What other country in the world can someone like you who is a complete double failure, totally lacking in skills and intellect for creation, but prone to destruction still get to live high off the hog ?

    Happy independence day you pathetic little dependent loser and waste of life. God bless the USA and our ability to sniff out losers like you.

    • http://twitter.com/miss1skywalker Christina Womacks

      Interesting comment LeeMen. So, according to your philosophy, human value is based on ones ability to comply/perform certain duties given by an authority figure(s). Per your comment about men with feminine qualities, I am also assuming that ones value and worth is bound up in being male and having certain masculine characteristics. I may suppose that, followed to its logical ends, this brings us to a naturalistic survival of the fittest worldview. Therefore, one would indeed be hard pressed to find a legit argument against an organization built to destroy and kill other people in order to ensure and perpetuate its own survival as well as that of its constituents and their particular ideals, values, etc. I am reminded of an old adage–”might makes right.”

    • Aristoddler

      I’m sure that wacky ad hominem squeal was just your way of getting loose. Now go ahead and expose the false ideas in the post. Can’t wait to read it.

  • http://twitter.com/miss1skywalker Christina Womacks

    Interesting comment LeeMen. So, according to your philosophy, human value is based on ones ability to comply/perform certain duties given by an authority figure(s). Per your comment about men with feminine qualities, I am also assuming that ones value and worth is bound up in being male and having certain masculine characteristics. I may suppose that, followed to its logical ends, this brings us to a naturalistic survival of the fittest worldview. Therefore, one would indeed be hard pressed to find a legit argument against an organization built to destroy and kill other people in order to ensure and perpetuate its own survival as well as that of its constituents and their particular ideals, values, etc. I am reminded of an old adage–"might makes right."

  • Aristoddler

    I'm sure that wacky ad hominem squeal was just your way of getting loose. Now go ahead and expose the false ideas in the post. Can't wait to read it.