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State vs. Defense

March 31, 2006 Posted by John at 11:19 AM

Blog of the Week Big Lizards describes the two real branches of government, and distinguishes Presidencies based on whether they are State or Defense administrations:

Just forget everything. Forget everything They ever taught you -- it's garbage anyway.

Yeah, yeah, I know what you learned; I learned it too. There are three branches of federal government, not two:

1. Excutive
2. Legislative
3. Dictatorial

But those are just the branches of the temporary government, the elected/appointed wing. There is another wing of the government... the permanent government. And that comprises only two branches:

* The State branch
* The Defense branch

Read it all. Dafydd is, I think, one of the most interesting and provocative bloggers on the web.