OH and I DO applaud your choices!

A lollipop for anyone that can tell the significance of Friday the 13th?

Friday, October 13th, 1307 is attributed as the day King Philip IV ordered the Knights Templars arrested. Oddly, we had a Friday October 13th this year. Exactly 710 years after the destruction of the Templar Order. Some historians dispute the date. Of course, some historians would argue the Templars never existed. There is evidence of the Pope's (unsuccessful) attempts at merging two orders (Hospitallers ... who were the Pope's private army and the Templars who were not) approximately one year prior to the Templars arrest. The Hospitallers still exist today.

"God is not pleased. We have enemies of the faith in the kingdom."

The real "god" here was money. King Philip owed the Templars a lot of it.

You didn't give me time to answer! I was gonna say that is the day that the King of France, FEARING the Knights Templar, decided to make them NO LONGER a force to be reckoned with. In other words he ordered them Killed!

Now that my sensitive feelers have been hurt I am gonna go cry in a corner while I do my coloring book therapy.

I knew it was Friday the 13th, but NOT that it was Friday OCTOBER the 13th in 1307.

YUP, it appears that the KT were the first "Payday loan" business businesses to Governments. They were like today's Federal Reserve and China respectively, with the "Fed" actually owning more of America than the Chinese. AND "THE FED" being a NON governmental agency prints our Money! Sounds kinda stupid if you ask me, but I haven't really done any research into it.

And speaking of money, HOPEFULLY I will have my new VM2 IWB holster from Milt Sparks in the next 2 or three weeks.

I figured you knew, but I didn't to have to mail a lollipop to your sub-tropical paradise.

The KT started international banking.

They didn't just loan money to governments. They actually established "holding banks" along the pilgrimage trail to Jerusalem. In effect, they would issue a "certificate of deposit" when you left your valuables with them at Location A. This slip of paper looked worthless to bandits / thieves along the trail. When you arrived at Location B you redeemed your certificate for gold and silver...thus being able to travel without the fear of getting looted.

Of course, the KT, charged a percentage fee for this "service".

The Hapsburgs / Rothschilds took this idea, and grew it into what we know know as "banking". This is one of the cornerstones of hatred toward Jewish people.

The US Federal Reserve Act was hatched in November 1910, on Jekyll Island, by six men. Among them, Paul Warburg and Senator Nelson Aldrich.

Afterword, Aldrich promoted a banking plan that was ultimately rejected by congress. However, the plan was incorporated into a broader scheme that became the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.

Warburg was German born (also a member of a jewish banking dynasty), and went on to chair the federal reserve and counsel on foreign relations.

When Warburg died he was the chairman of the Manhattan Company and a director of the Bank of Manhattan Trust Company, Farmers Loan and Trust Company of New York, and First National Bank of Boston.




NOTE: I have absolutely nothing against God's chosen people. Just reciting history so people can have a better understanding of where the idiotic hate of jewish people originates. If history teaches us anything it is two fold: 1) don't make God mad; 2) don't mess with God's people.

I wouldn't care if the Federal Reserve had been started by Tibetan Sherpas or gorgeous redheaded 19 year old Irish gals or squids from the planet Blargone lead by Capt. PopTart ... I'd hate them for robbing the American people of their individual wealth (not their race, creed, gender identity, sexual orientation, favorite ice cream flavor, religious associations or political affiliation)

YEAH! What he said ^^! I am not making fun of what Gary said, just doing the "AMEN" to what he said. Only people with some kind of a problem would Blame an entire race of people (or religious group) for what only what some have done. Just Like Islam. I don't hate all Muslims, just the ones that are bent on causing those not like them harm just because they are not like them. I also don't like Kluckers, skinheads and others of their Demented brain dead thinking.