The may be a few people who might experience just a bit a Cognitive Dissonance with all the Opposites. On the other-other hand, I think most Americans are so steeped in the Narrative and Orwellian Double-Speak that they can just accept this a perfectly normal and still believe all the opposite things they are being told all the time, no problem.
What currently floats the whole lie is the inability of arrogant people, who think they know something because they heard in on television and they know more than you, to admit that they may have made a misjudgment. They liked their ego-stroking convoluted explanations, but could never admit they never understood what they were fighting for. I was called out in a restaurant in san francisco by a bunch of such people, and what did they say? "Of course, he's from LA. He's a Republican." Well, I wasn't a republican then, but I am now very much in favor of Government getting the F out of my life and being small enough to drown in a bathtub. It is possible to learn, if you can get your ego out of the way. I still think these people are scum.
"Variability is the characteristic of the climate of Pennsylvania. It has changed by the clearing of lands, and the diminution of waters, which formerly abounded in this part of America. Many creeks, and even rivers, have disappeared by degrees; and this is to be expected in a country where forests give place to cultivated fields."
--J. P. Brissot - New Travels in the United States of America, Performed in M,DCC,LXXXVIII [1788]. London: J. S. Jordan, 1794, pages 292-293
I was puzzled at how often you are referred to on the Internet as "Al Arm-and-Hammer Gore." The only association that I had to "Arm and Hammer" was to "Arm & Hammer" brand baking soda, and the connection between you and baking soda was not apparent.
And so I did a little research and came up with the following explanation, whose accuracy I invite you to comment upon.
The Arm & Hammer Baking Soda logo, to begin, gives the impression of being irrelevant (though it will prove not to be so entirely) to the question of the origin and meaning of the appellation "Al Arm-and-Hammer Gore." The logo is owned by Church & Dwight Co., Inc., which explains it as follows:
THE HISTORY OF THE ARM AND HAMMER® TRADEMARK
The ARM & HAMMER symbol was first used in the early 1860’s by James A. Church, the son of Dr. Austin Church, one of the founders of our business. James A. Church operated a spice and mustard business known as the Vulcan Spice Mills. In Roman mythology, Vulcan, the god of fire, was especially skilled in fashioning ornaments and arms for the gods and heroes. The ARM & HAMMER symbol, therefore, represented the arm of Vulcan with hammer in hand about to descend on an anvil. Church & Dwight, Company Information, History of the Logo, www.churchdwight.com/company/company_information.htm
As the above does not appear helpful, we pass on to the observation that the Arm and Hammer symbol does not originate with the Church family business, but rather has been widely used by others for other purposes. Traditionally, the Arm and Hammer image symbolizes manufacturing or industry, as for example on Wisconsin's Coat of Arms and State Flag:
In Lewisburg, Ohio in 1932, an Arm and Hammer rubber stamp was used to cancel postage ( www.stuartkatz.com/fancycovers3.htm ), the symbol presumably employed here in its reference to manufacturing or industry.
To approach closer to the point, the symbol was also adopted by the American Socialist Labor Party, a precursor of the American Communist Party. Why should Socialists or Communists have been drawn to the arm and hammer? One imagines primarily because of its association with labor; however, the image may also carry a suggestion of militancy, of a powerful arm able to smash opposition.
Evidence of the arm and hammer symbol in this former Socialist-Communist use can be found today in a granite medallion over the entrance to the Old Labor Hall in Barre, Vermont, along with the acronym SLP standing for the Socialist Labor Party (alluded to at www.central-vt.com/visit/walktour/barrewlk/barrewlk.htm). A photograph of this Old Labor Hall can be found at www.uvm.edu/~histpres/HPJ/NR/barrelabor/statement.html, but in that photo, the arm and hammer medallion is too small to make out.
We do find unmistakable confirmation, however, in the New York newspaper, Weekly People, whose 10-Apr-1937 issue sported the following masthead
and whose second page was headed by
Lest we be misled by its name into believing that the Socialist Labor Party was Socialist rather than Communist, let us note that:
on the pages of the Weekly People writers call each other "Comrade" rather than "Mr,"
they admit to singing the International at their meetings,
they tie their program to their logo by depicting the overcoming of opposition with the words "Only by the hammer-stroke of proletarian revolution can that wall be laid low" (p. 3),
they pepper their writing with such galvanizing slogans as "CAPITALISM MUST BE DESTROYED!" (p.2),
they disclose that their Party's "propaganda is not alone to educate, it is to organize the working class for the conquest of power, for the complete overthrow of capitalism," and
to the left of their masthead they emblazon this quotation:
The workers ought to inscribe on their banner the revolutionary watchword, "Abolition of the wage system!"
—MARX.
So far, then, the thread that we are following has taken us from the Arm and Hammer symbol to Communism. Below, the thread will lead us on to a famous individual.
Armand Hammer
And that famous individual is Armand Hammer.
External link to Russian-language web site on Armand Hammer
Àðìàíä Õàììåð
What's in a name?
How is Armand Hammer related to the image of the Arm and Hammer? Most simply — believe it or not — that the name "Armand Hammer" was chosen by his father, Dr Julius Hammer, because it is a contraction of "Arm and Hammer": Dr Julius Hammer
Dr Julius Hammer
On May 21, 1898, Julius's first son was born, and he proudly named him Armand Hammer. He told friends that he had named him after the symbol of the Socialist Labor Party (and decades later, Armand would use the arm-and-hammer insignia as the flag on his yacht). Edward Jay Epstein, Dossier: The secret history of Armand Hammer, Random House, New York, 1996, p. 35.
Julius Hammer's manner of choosing his name for his son is made credible by the recognition that Julius was not merely a believer in Communism, he was a dedicated Bolshevik aparatchik. A Ukrainian Jew born in Odessa in 1874, he did not emigrate to the United States until the age of sixteen. Biographer Epstein portrays his meeting Lenin at the Seventh Congress of the Second International in Stuttgart, Germany in 1907 as a seminal experience, though Julius's enthusiasm for Communism can be traced back to at least 1892 when he joined the Socialist Labor Party at the age of 18.
The may be a few people who might experience just a bit a Cognitive Dissonance with all the Opposites. On the other-other hand, I think most Americans are so steeped in the Narrative and Orwellian Double-Speak that they can just accept this a perfectly normal and still believe all the opposite things they are being told all the time, no problem.
this is a great explication, expose, fundamental truth.
What currently floats the whole lie is the inability of arrogant people, who think they know something because they heard in on television and they know more than you, to admit that they may have made a misjudgment. They liked their ego-stroking convoluted explanations, but could never admit they never understood what they were fighting for. I was called out in a restaurant in san francisco by a bunch of such people, and what did they say? "Of course, he's from LA. He's a Republican." Well, I wasn't a republican then, but I am now very much in favor of Government getting the F out of my life and being small enough to drown in a bathtub. It is possible to learn, if you can get your ego out of the way. I still think these people are scum.
"Variability is the characteristic of the climate of Pennsylvania. It has changed by the clearing of lands, and the diminution of waters, which formerly abounded in this part of America. Many creeks, and even rivers, have disappeared by degrees; and this is to be expected in a country where forests give place to cultivated fields."
--J. P. Brissot - New Travels in the United States of America, Performed in M,DCC,LXXXVIII [1788]. London: J. S. Jordan, 1794, pages 292-293
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I was puzzled at how often you are referred to on the Internet as "Al Arm-and-Hammer Gore." The only association that I had to "Arm and Hammer" was to "Arm & Hammer" brand baking soda, and the connection between you and baking soda was not apparent.
And so I did a little research and came up with the following explanation, whose accuracy I invite you to comment upon.
The Arm & Hammer Baking Soda logo, to begin, gives the impression of being irrelevant (though it will prove not to be so entirely) to the question of the origin and meaning of the appellation "Al Arm-and-Hammer Gore." The logo is owned by Church & Dwight Co., Inc., which explains it as follows:
THE HISTORY OF THE ARM AND HAMMER® TRADEMARK
The ARM & HAMMER symbol was first used in the early 1860’s by James A. Church, the son of Dr. Austin Church, one of the founders of our business. James A. Church operated a spice and mustard business known as the Vulcan Spice Mills. In Roman mythology, Vulcan, the god of fire, was especially skilled in fashioning ornaments and arms for the gods and heroes. The ARM & HAMMER symbol, therefore, represented the arm of Vulcan with hammer in hand about to descend on an anvil. Church & Dwight, Company Information, History of the Logo, www.churchdwight.com/company/company_information.htm
As the above does not appear helpful, we pass on to the observation that the Arm and Hammer symbol does not originate with the Church family business, but rather has been widely used by others for other purposes. Traditionally, the Arm and Hammer image symbolizes manufacturing or industry, as for example on Wisconsin's Coat of Arms and State Flag:
In Lewisburg, Ohio in 1932, an Arm and Hammer rubber stamp was used to cancel postage ( www.stuartkatz.com/fancycovers3.htm ), the symbol presumably employed here in its reference to manufacturing or industry.
To approach closer to the point, the symbol was also adopted by the American Socialist Labor Party, a precursor of the American Communist Party. Why should Socialists or Communists have been drawn to the arm and hammer? One imagines primarily because of its association with labor; however, the image may also carry a suggestion of militancy, of a powerful arm able to smash opposition.
Evidence of the arm and hammer symbol in this former Socialist-Communist use can be found today in a granite medallion over the entrance to the Old Labor Hall in Barre, Vermont, along with the acronym SLP standing for the Socialist Labor Party (alluded to at www.central-vt.com/visit/walktour/barrewlk/barrewlk.htm). A photograph of this Old Labor Hall can be found at www.uvm.edu/~histpres/HPJ/NR/barrelabor/statement.html, but in that photo, the arm and hammer medallion is too small to make out.
We do find unmistakable confirmation, however, in the New York newspaper, Weekly People, whose 10-Apr-1937 issue sported the following masthead
and whose second page was headed by
Lest we be misled by its name into believing that the Socialist Labor Party was Socialist rather than Communist, let us note that:
on the pages of the Weekly People writers call each other "Comrade" rather than "Mr,"
they admit to singing the International at their meetings,
they tie their program to their logo by depicting the overcoming of opposition with the words "Only by the hammer-stroke of proletarian revolution can that wall be laid low" (p. 3),
they pepper their writing with such galvanizing slogans as "CAPITALISM MUST BE DESTROYED!" (p.2),
they disclose that their Party's "propaganda is not alone to educate, it is to organize the working class for the conquest of power, for the complete overthrow of capitalism," and
to the left of their masthead they emblazon this quotation:
The workers ought to inscribe on their banner the revolutionary watchword, "Abolition of the wage system!"
—MARX.
So far, then, the thread that we are following has taken us from the Arm and Hammer symbol to Communism. Below, the thread will lead us on to a famous individual.
Armand Hammer
And that famous individual is Armand Hammer.
External link to Russian-language web site on Armand Hammer
Àðìàíä Õàììåð
What's in a name?
How is Armand Hammer related to the image of the Arm and Hammer? Most simply — believe it or not — that the name "Armand Hammer" was chosen by his father, Dr Julius Hammer, because it is a contraction of "Arm and Hammer": Dr Julius Hammer
Dr Julius Hammer
On May 21, 1898, Julius's first son was born, and he proudly named him Armand Hammer. He told friends that he had named him after the symbol of the Socialist Labor Party (and decades later, Armand would use the arm-and-hammer insignia as the flag on his yacht). Edward Jay Epstein, Dossier: The secret history of Armand Hammer, Random House, New York, 1996, p. 35.
Julius Hammer's manner of choosing his name for his son is made credible by the recognition that Julius was not merely a believer in Communism, he was a dedicated Bolshevik aparatchik. A Ukrainian Jew born in Odessa in 1874, he did not emigrate to the United States until the age of sixteen. Biographer Epstein portrays his meeting Lenin at the Seventh Congress of the Second International in Stuttgart, Germany in 1907 as a seminal experience, though Julius's enthusiasm for Communism can be traced back to at least 1892 when he joined the Socialist Labor Party at the age of 18.
etc etc