Watching Romney and Perry go at it is like riding shotgun with a drunk driver. You bridle at every weave across the political center/double line and brace yourself for the near miss of a disastrous collision. The questions just continue to be juvenile: Purposely igniting fiery banter. There is no attempt to be serious in trying to find the one true leader in this Campbell's Soup of candidates. No Chicken and Stars here America, just boring Cream of Mushroom!
The rise and fall of poll numbers are nothing more than a tidal wave that ebbs and flows leaving the current "frontrunner' like a flopping fish on the sand trying to explain away his/ her latest gaffs. We need to toss out the baby with the bath water here folks and forget the push button issues. Start demanding that there be substance from Anderson Cooper's questions and some hairy big ones from these morons who claim they want the mantle. That goes for you too Michelle! I could care less about Herman Cain's stand on abortion (or, his non stand..whatever!). Could care less about Romney and his Masscare/Obamacare. Could care less about Perry and the death penalty or Ron Paul and his anti-Semitism. Just give me a leader who will speak to the issues at hand. I want a candidate who is going to bring America back to it's senses and get industry out of the dust pail. I want a candidate who will tell China to go F themselves and that we don't need their cheap shitty crap anymore!
This insistence upon defining how Conservative you are is anachronistic with such a diverse American population. The square peg will never fit into that round hole so stop the hammering! We must recognize that the simplicity of our American Constitutional foundation is the core of the apple of Liberty for all Americans. To create supposed tactics to define ones position tilts the political pendulum to an artificial political position and simply does not work anymore. The worn out arguments of pro-life/pro-choice are as old as Roe v Wade itself and I am getting too old and too tired to care anymore. I have heard this crap for years and years..Let it go already!!
The Liberals are just enjoying this football game. Every fumble is being recorded and (I, for one) cannot wait to see the adds this coming season. But the Libs too will trot out the standard dog and pony show of the black vote, immigration, the women's vote, civil rights, blah, blah, blah, blah..Again, I getting too old and too tired of this crap. I have heard it for years and years..Let it go already!!
It gets us no where, has nothing to do with terrorism, nothing to do with the economy and nothing to do with ME!! Selfish? You bet ch-ya! All politics is local after all and nothing is more local than oneself and one's family.
Now, while some readers may decide at this point to proclaim Conservative or Liberal (though I doubt many Libs read my blog). Think about what that entails. We must ask ourselves how that stalwart position will limit us and our ability to compromise and think and accept and grow as a nation. As a race of beings. We must come to some sort of common solution to complex problems that benefit us all. The Tree of Liberty must be able to bend against a storm of absolutism.
It is absolutism that has lead this world through some of history's darkest times. This is what a Partisan' is. I use the asterisk at the end of the word to invoke the French pronunciation. It implies a form of absolutism to one belief system or another (not to negate the brave men and women who fought during WWII in France). This is the horrible affect of being raised Liberal then finding one's Conservative values later in life..Parents? Don't do this to your kids, please..
My problem is, is that I have the ability to see and think four dimensionally. Every time some idiot says something I have twenty reasons to question what they said and then forty more to destroy their position. We must be open to a wider and more open society while still holding firm to the foundation of that document that gave birth to this nation. It is all 'talking points" now..Who gives a shit??. I have heard it for years and I am growing too old and too tired... Let it go already!!
Let go of the partisanship, let go of the bi-partisanship and start speaking in terms on commonality and Union...
....And That Is The Diatribe....
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Monday, October 17, 2011
The Dark Horses of Political Campaigns
What seems abundantly clear in this next round of Presidential elections is the ability of the politicians and their media lackeys to create political issues that do not need to be political issue in the first place. President Obama's desire to be the next Harry Truman fighting a "do nothing Congress" may backfire upon him if he, in fact, regains the Presidency. Truman, after all, ended up with Korea, Obama may end up with Iran.
The Republican debates have been the worst television I have watched in decades. The caliber of questioning has been sub par and lends itself to the lowest common denominator of political supporters. As this nation continues its Great Depression Part II slide into economic coma the push button debate questions center around ridiculous concerns such as the HPV vaccination and gay marriage. The score board is lit up with the 'zings' Romney and Perry toss at each other but nothing of substance from either of them. Policy and politics becomes nothing more than theater. Senator Brown and his challenger have already fallen into the category of pornography.
The sad thing is, no one seems to care. The media is happily lapping up every tidbit they can crunch into a thirty second soundbite and designing more stupid questions to keep the carnival ride turning and polarize the candidates and the general public. Even the candidates just regurgitate the canned talking points handed to them. The candidates who are speaking their minds are being ignored by the media or ridiculed on Saturday Night Live and John Stewart. However they are also generating the slow rise in poll numbers while the front runners are engaged in a tussle. The petty back and forth between Romney and Perry alongside Huntsman's blank stare are enough fodder for the masses to delude themselves upon. This myopia enforces and solidifies the polarization of Left and Right.
The emerging dark horse in this race is Herman Cain. His numbers are creeping slowly upwards like a slow rising river. The front runners dance around each other while the tide rises against them in the back round. The voters too are transfixed at the bright shiny objects on the television while the whistle of the Cain-Train grows louder in the distance.. The Left is on top of their game though. They have already begun the denigration campaign against a successful Conservative Black. Mr. Cain can now join the prestigious line that includes, Clarence Thomas, Condalezza Rice and Colin Powell. Between Socialist (and sometimes college professor) Cornel West and NPR's (theres a neutral media outlet for-ya!) Tavis Smiley; the Left is already tainting the waters of informed debate. It is a planned tactic and one I would have been on board of during my hippy, salad days.
Another phenomenon is the desire of some of the candidates to move the Primary dates forward. I can remember when the race didn't really start hopping until March of the election year. Now we have straw polls and caucus' the preceding autumn. Hell Romney wanted the first primary in December. Don't go messing with my holiday shopping Mitt, I have enough on my plate those thirty one days!
Eventually we will just see all the Primaries contained in one national primary. This would be unfortunate because it will cheapen the race and remove the weeding out process we see now through a year long race. This may be a tedious and nauseating process but it is necessary for the Republic and the people to have an equal chance to hear all sides and for all the candidates to get a fair shot at that ultimate prize.
The character assassinations are standard faire' for any election season and 2012 will be no different. 2008 brought out some of the worst this nation has seen and most of it from the Obama Campaign while the media ignored the glaring realities that surrounded this unknown Senator from Chicago. The recent wave of rioting around the world over economic justice could be the wave that rides the Anointed One back into the Presidency. This potential victory could mirror the rise of Socialism that swept the first two decades of the 20th Century. The same factors are in play today; joblessness, and elite class that could care less and the rise of an enigmatic figure who captures our attention.
The same forms of character assassination, class warfare and media manipulation are also in play. We see the complete rejection of capitalism, the perception (some real, some just a photo-op) of the jack boot authority maintaining the status quo, the always present rage and resultant property damage. It will all come into focus and into the race as we narrow the field of candidates and we draw closer to November 2012.
What always remains uncertain is how these factors play out and to what extent they will affect the outcome of the race.We cannot determine for sure what future will result from a Republican victory. We can, however, predict with great accuracy (if history, and the last three years are any indicator) what future will result from a Democratic victory.
....And That Is The Diatribe....
The Republican debates have been the worst television I have watched in decades. The caliber of questioning has been sub par and lends itself to the lowest common denominator of political supporters. As this nation continues its Great Depression Part II slide into economic coma the push button debate questions center around ridiculous concerns such as the HPV vaccination and gay marriage. The score board is lit up with the 'zings' Romney and Perry toss at each other but nothing of substance from either of them. Policy and politics becomes nothing more than theater. Senator Brown and his challenger have already fallen into the category of pornography.
The sad thing is, no one seems to care. The media is happily lapping up every tidbit they can crunch into a thirty second soundbite and designing more stupid questions to keep the carnival ride turning and polarize the candidates and the general public. Even the candidates just regurgitate the canned talking points handed to them. The candidates who are speaking their minds are being ignored by the media or ridiculed on Saturday Night Live and John Stewart. However they are also generating the slow rise in poll numbers while the front runners are engaged in a tussle. The petty back and forth between Romney and Perry alongside Huntsman's blank stare are enough fodder for the masses to delude themselves upon. This myopia enforces and solidifies the polarization of Left and Right.
The emerging dark horse in this race is Herman Cain. His numbers are creeping slowly upwards like a slow rising river. The front runners dance around each other while the tide rises against them in the back round. The voters too are transfixed at the bright shiny objects on the television while the whistle of the Cain-Train grows louder in the distance.. The Left is on top of their game though. They have already begun the denigration campaign against a successful Conservative Black. Mr. Cain can now join the prestigious line that includes, Clarence Thomas, Condalezza Rice and Colin Powell. Between Socialist (and sometimes college professor) Cornel West and NPR's (theres a neutral media outlet for-ya!) Tavis Smiley; the Left is already tainting the waters of informed debate. It is a planned tactic and one I would have been on board of during my hippy, salad days.
Another phenomenon is the desire of some of the candidates to move the Primary dates forward. I can remember when the race didn't really start hopping until March of the election year. Now we have straw polls and caucus' the preceding autumn. Hell Romney wanted the first primary in December. Don't go messing with my holiday shopping Mitt, I have enough on my plate those thirty one days!
Eventually we will just see all the Primaries contained in one national primary. This would be unfortunate because it will cheapen the race and remove the weeding out process we see now through a year long race. This may be a tedious and nauseating process but it is necessary for the Republic and the people to have an equal chance to hear all sides and for all the candidates to get a fair shot at that ultimate prize.
The character assassinations are standard faire' for any election season and 2012 will be no different. 2008 brought out some of the worst this nation has seen and most of it from the Obama Campaign while the media ignored the glaring realities that surrounded this unknown Senator from Chicago. The recent wave of rioting around the world over economic justice could be the wave that rides the Anointed One back into the Presidency. This potential victory could mirror the rise of Socialism that swept the first two decades of the 20th Century. The same factors are in play today; joblessness, and elite class that could care less and the rise of an enigmatic figure who captures our attention.
The same forms of character assassination, class warfare and media manipulation are also in play. We see the complete rejection of capitalism, the perception (some real, some just a photo-op) of the jack boot authority maintaining the status quo, the always present rage and resultant property damage. It will all come into focus and into the race as we narrow the field of candidates and we draw closer to November 2012.
What always remains uncertain is how these factors play out and to what extent they will affect the outcome of the race.We cannot determine for sure what future will result from a Republican victory. We can, however, predict with great accuracy (if history, and the last three years are any indicator) what future will result from a Democratic victory.
....And That Is The Diatribe....
Monday, September 5, 2011
Could Two Icons of the 21st Century Be Correct?
The President that was hated by the Left and was dismissed by the right, the arch enemy who was at the helm of this nation’s worst attack since 1941; George W Bush and Osama Bin Laden. Could two of the World’s icons have predicted and have been correct in both of their assumptions?
President Bush gave an historic speech after 9/11 in which he laid out the plan for America to combat terrorism. The press and future school books will just highlight the famous sentence, ”Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists”, and/or his “Axis of Evil” connotation. It goes much deeper than that. We were no longer to ‘react’ to an act of terrorism but confront it and defeat it before it could happen and to this day that policy has thwarted numerous potential attacks, some, in a nick of time.
Then, we have UBL. His plan was not just to attack America but to change the perception of terror and Islamic Jihad into a global conflict. This guy was wired tight and was hell bent on his ideas. He may have not had complete control over all his minions but they all took his ideas and ran with them. Today we have the ‘Arab Spring’, it is anything but. It is the demise of an already unstable part of the world into total anarchy lead by The Muslim Brotherhood.
It is here where the two come together. One act of a President and another from a devout terrorist has propelled the world into uncharted territory. Both spoke of changing the Middle East and both have opened a Pandora’s Box that will never close. It was inevitable anyways. This part of the world has always been a nightmare to negotiate regardless of your business being there. Blaming one (or the other) is fruitless, this was to be no matter how much we talked in the chambers of the UN.
It is no wonder that despite the rhetoric of Obama in 2008 to close GITMO, and reverse our policies on interrogation, some one in his staff opened up the TOP SECRET book entitled, “This is how fucked up the World is”. Obama had a “Things that make you go, hmmm” moment. This is why we carry those policies to this day. He had to.
In the mean time, the Middle East watched Obama on his ‘Apology’ tour and decided that it was high time to launch some rockets in Tunisia, Yemen, Egypt and Libya. The first three we did little to help. The last one? Well Moa mar had to go, had to erase that black stain of Lockerbie didn’t we? Plus that tool who got a “get out of jail free” card because he was sick, then hung around for a year..Is he dead yet? Then there is Syria, this place is an American Red Cross supply zone. These guys could just gather up the blood from the streets it is so thick.
There is a reason these nations were run by despots with an iron clad fist and jack boot on the throat. They had to be. Just read Leon Uris’s book The Hag and you get it. These people are nuts, totally out to lunch and they forgot the desert. Everything they wanted is now within their grasp. A total Caliphate from the Mediterranean to the borders of Vietnam! Hell they have foot soldiers in Indonesia for Christ’s sake!
So, the plan to defeat terrorism and the ideal to promote Jihad have gone hand in hand to create a global conflict that will span generations. Makes my head swim, I was just getting comfortable with the Soviets not pointing Nukes down my throat. Well it was nice while it lasted anyways. Now I have to worry about these backwards sand box aliens. Meanwhile we will send our troops and combat them around the globe. And so we should.
At least the Soviets loved their kids and did all they could to prevent war (well, except for a couple of times). These freaks teach their kids to hate and kill, and sometimes, they send them out for martyrdom.
....And That Is The Diatribe....
President Bush gave an historic speech after 9/11 in which he laid out the plan for America to combat terrorism. The press and future school books will just highlight the famous sentence, ”Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists”, and/or his “Axis of Evil” connotation. It goes much deeper than that. We were no longer to ‘react’ to an act of terrorism but confront it and defeat it before it could happen and to this day that policy has thwarted numerous potential attacks, some, in a nick of time.
Then, we have UBL. His plan was not just to attack America but to change the perception of terror and Islamic Jihad into a global conflict. This guy was wired tight and was hell bent on his ideas. He may have not had complete control over all his minions but they all took his ideas and ran with them. Today we have the ‘Arab Spring’, it is anything but. It is the demise of an already unstable part of the world into total anarchy lead by The Muslim Brotherhood.
It is here where the two come together. One act of a President and another from a devout terrorist has propelled the world into uncharted territory. Both spoke of changing the Middle East and both have opened a Pandora’s Box that will never close. It was inevitable anyways. This part of the world has always been a nightmare to negotiate regardless of your business being there. Blaming one (or the other) is fruitless, this was to be no matter how much we talked in the chambers of the UN.
It is no wonder that despite the rhetoric of Obama in 2008 to close GITMO, and reverse our policies on interrogation, some one in his staff opened up the TOP SECRET book entitled, “This is how fucked up the World is”. Obama had a “Things that make you go, hmmm” moment. This is why we carry those policies to this day. He had to.
In the mean time, the Middle East watched Obama on his ‘Apology’ tour and decided that it was high time to launch some rockets in Tunisia, Yemen, Egypt and Libya. The first three we did little to help. The last one? Well Moa mar had to go, had to erase that black stain of Lockerbie didn’t we? Plus that tool who got a “get out of jail free” card because he was sick, then hung around for a year..Is he dead yet? Then there is Syria, this place is an American Red Cross supply zone. These guys could just gather up the blood from the streets it is so thick.
There is a reason these nations were run by despots with an iron clad fist and jack boot on the throat. They had to be. Just read Leon Uris’s book The Hag and you get it. These people are nuts, totally out to lunch and they forgot the desert. Everything they wanted is now within their grasp. A total Caliphate from the Mediterranean to the borders of Vietnam! Hell they have foot soldiers in Indonesia for Christ’s sake!
So, the plan to defeat terrorism and the ideal to promote Jihad have gone hand in hand to create a global conflict that will span generations. Makes my head swim, I was just getting comfortable with the Soviets not pointing Nukes down my throat. Well it was nice while it lasted anyways. Now I have to worry about these backwards sand box aliens. Meanwhile we will send our troops and combat them around the globe. And so we should.
At least the Soviets loved their kids and did all they could to prevent war (well, except for a couple of times). These freaks teach their kids to hate and kill, and sometimes, they send them out for martyrdom.
....And That Is The Diatribe....
Monday, August 8, 2011
The Reality of the Inevitable
The penchant of politicians to blame every one, everything except their own misguided policies is a as rampant as can be in Washington. The rhetoric of blame and denial in the face of a financial credit downgrade is another symptom of a psychological malady known as politics where the politics make good policy as aopposed to good policy making good politics. The blame game is simply just a symptom of the modern Liberalism that has slowly infected every facet of our lives to date. A perfect example was John Kerry invoking blame on the Tea Party; "this is the downgrade of the Tea Party..."..What? Remember how Columbine was the fault of America owning too many guns, didn't some fat guy make a movie about that once? I guess our $14 trillion debt is the Tea Party's fault. Holy crap, did I drink 'that much' at the last rally?
I cannot understand why the President has remained silent on this recent S&P report. He usually has something to say about everything: Joe the Plumber, Cambridge police, that guy with ten kids who needs a large SUV, I have been trawling the internet and have not heard word one about this from the Chosen One. The trump card they always pull out (Bush's fault) goes unoticed by anyone any more. The stupified Liberals Pavlovianly wag their tails all the time anyway so who cares anymore? John Chambers of S&P gets down to brass tacks when he said that given our ratio of debt to growth, given that growth looks dismal, what choice did they have? These are facts, they are stubborn things and that is soooo imbarassing to this Administration!
I do not want to see Geithner resign from the Treasury. He is doing a fine job of reasurring an Obama defeat in 2012. Leave him right where he is! Leave Jeffery Imult as Jobs Czar. Hell, you think Bush and Haliburton were in bed together? These two probably have secret love tape hidden somewhere. As least bush and Haliburton provided jobs to AMERICAN CONTRACTORS! GE has just shipped 50,000 jobs to Mexico to make the old fashion incandescent light bulbs while simultaneously helping to pass legislation that outlaws them here in the US in favor of "green bulbs" made in China..By GE..
I want to hear more of Nanny McPhee Moochelle's consternations on America's growing waist line while the media prints pictures of her stuffing a cheeseburger in her maw during every vacation. I want to hear more of Harry Reid lies while his brother continues to get financial kickbacks thanks to the Senator. Let it continue, someday Reid will be out of office and an Attorney General who really understands the law will put those two in jail. Speaking of AG's, I want the terrorists tried in Civilian Courts so half of them can sue us, return home, come back and blow something else up. Why?
Because facts are stubborn things and Americans have forgotten the one fact that we are nation born from facts. We are Exceptional on everything we do and represent but have forgotten it. We have medicated ourselves with political correctness, whined about our mommies and daddies and our Bi-polar condition, sucked a check every month because we have vertigo, or, OCD, we have grown up under Liberal Agendas and Bi partisan bullshit for so long that we truly do need a tire iron swung at our skulls to wake us the hell up again! So let us go bankrupt, let the well run dry. The only thing that will happen then is more blame, some rioting but eventually, eventually the hard truth will come shining through and we will be forced to get off the couch, or wheelchair, or off the Adavan..whatever.
The reality is that this Administration is run by radicals. Radicals who have been educated in the "I hate America" axiom. None of them understand business, none of them have a business education from what I can gather. Most of them have an education in Social Awareness (Lefties). It is all well and good to say how you would like to teach the world to sing but what do you do when you realize it is not in perfect harmony with the tenor section determined to kill all of us?
The only hope for this country is the continued growth of the Tea Party as a national popular political movement. To galvanize the nation in the face of abhorrent obstacles is the hope of the Tea Party itself. Seeing the problems become more gargantuan is the only way for us to face the truth of our situation. So let it all happen because talking about it has yeilded nothing..
...Oh, and Mr President, stop invoking the words of Ronald Reagan. I remember Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan was my President. You Mr. President are no Ronald Reagan..
....And That Is The Diatribe...
I cannot understand why the President has remained silent on this recent S&P report. He usually has something to say about everything: Joe the Plumber, Cambridge police, that guy with ten kids who needs a large SUV, I have been trawling the internet and have not heard word one about this from the Chosen One. The trump card they always pull out (Bush's fault) goes unoticed by anyone any more. The stupified Liberals Pavlovianly wag their tails all the time anyway so who cares anymore? John Chambers of S&P gets down to brass tacks when he said that given our ratio of debt to growth, given that growth looks dismal, what choice did they have? These are facts, they are stubborn things and that is soooo imbarassing to this Administration!
I do not want to see Geithner resign from the Treasury. He is doing a fine job of reasurring an Obama defeat in 2012. Leave him right where he is! Leave Jeffery Imult as Jobs Czar. Hell, you think Bush and Haliburton were in bed together? These two probably have secret love tape hidden somewhere. As least bush and Haliburton provided jobs to AMERICAN CONTRACTORS! GE has just shipped 50,000 jobs to Mexico to make the old fashion incandescent light bulbs while simultaneously helping to pass legislation that outlaws them here in the US in favor of "green bulbs" made in China..By GE..
I want to hear more of Nanny McPhee Moochelle's consternations on America's growing waist line while the media prints pictures of her stuffing a cheeseburger in her maw during every vacation. I want to hear more of Harry Reid lies while his brother continues to get financial kickbacks thanks to the Senator. Let it continue, someday Reid will be out of office and an Attorney General who really understands the law will put those two in jail. Speaking of AG's, I want the terrorists tried in Civilian Courts so half of them can sue us, return home, come back and blow something else up. Why?
Because facts are stubborn things and Americans have forgotten the one fact that we are nation born from facts. We are Exceptional on everything we do and represent but have forgotten it. We have medicated ourselves with political correctness, whined about our mommies and daddies and our Bi-polar condition, sucked a check every month because we have vertigo, or, OCD, we have grown up under Liberal Agendas and Bi partisan bullshit for so long that we truly do need a tire iron swung at our skulls to wake us the hell up again! So let us go bankrupt, let the well run dry. The only thing that will happen then is more blame, some rioting but eventually, eventually the hard truth will come shining through and we will be forced to get off the couch, or wheelchair, or off the Adavan..whatever.
The reality is that this Administration is run by radicals. Radicals who have been educated in the "I hate America" axiom. None of them understand business, none of them have a business education from what I can gather. Most of them have an education in Social Awareness (Lefties). It is all well and good to say how you would like to teach the world to sing but what do you do when you realize it is not in perfect harmony with the tenor section determined to kill all of us?
The only hope for this country is the continued growth of the Tea Party as a national popular political movement. To galvanize the nation in the face of abhorrent obstacles is the hope of the Tea Party itself. Seeing the problems become more gargantuan is the only way for us to face the truth of our situation. So let it all happen because talking about it has yeilded nothing..
...Oh, and Mr President, stop invoking the words of Ronald Reagan. I remember Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan was my President. You Mr. President are no Ronald Reagan..
....And That Is The Diatribe...
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
One Bad Political Acid Trip , Man
I woke up this morning with a new sense of doom. Just as I was getting used to spending for hundred thousand years paying off the national debt, I now have to live another two hundred thousand years. I would go back to college with all that time I now have if the cost of it wasn't so astronomical. Maybe I could evolve into another form of my species over six hundred thousand years, finally grow that third arm. God knows it will come in handy for the five jobs I am going to have to work just to feed myself and my family. How much does the average American have to pony up to meet their fair share?
It was interesting to listen to the Liberals talk about cutting the debt on the backs of the poor, but lumping more debt on the backs of the children is perfectly fine in their minds. The logic is staggering to fathom. I wonder if there is an alien race watching this madness and just laughing their tiny gray asses off. If they do exist they figured it out a long time ago, thats why they visit M-class planets like ours for amusement. It truly must be entertaining to watch a species go right down the toilet while on the verge of of technological marvels.
"Oops, they almost made it Quarg-Nak, you owe me twenty, hey what say we tool on over to Orion, I hear a galactic war is about to open up. I am bored here anyway. These idiots still use fossil fuels."
There is a scientist on that Morgan Freeman show, Through the Wormhole (appropriate title) that claims we will someday technologically become so advanced that we will transcend time and spread our seed to another star system. I don't see any welcoming mats being rolled out on that space faring journey. I cannot get my three dimensional thinking around Achmed Al-Jihadi reaching out in friendship to a race of beings that may have actually met God.
Half of me was glued to C-SPAN as I watched Maxine Waters read the e-mail Move On. org sent her to read on the chamber floor. It was the usual drivel about the Tea Party. The speech was so canned I am beginning to think it actually exists as a product on the grocery shelves. The other half of me had to steal away so I could check on my hiding place for my money just to be sure it was still there. I had hoped that this situation would end in default. I think we need a huge punch in the face to knock some sense into our blank stare. Ok, so the checks don't come. Do we all just revert to animals and freak out or find a way to pick ourselves up?..Nahh, we just freak out.
Delusion is the answer. Man, all those drugs in the Sixties really did mess this nation up becuase we have been on a poltical acid trip since day one. Only now its turning wierd and a little scary. The cellophane flowers of yellow and green are about to gobble us up like the Purple People Eaters. Hell, even in my salad days, even I knew I had to shake it all off and get to work the next morning. This overdose of delusion, on the other hand, has no end in sight!
Just exactly how are we going to get out from under this now? The talk before has always been around what to do in the short term. I want to know how we are going to pay this thing off in the long term? I want to know what the plan from the banks of the Potomac is going to be to tackle this bank note? Is the plan always going to be to qibble over how much to raise it and how much to cut, then argue over the scraps? Because scraps are all thats left. The budget is just going to cease to exist as a funding mechanism for the host of pet projects we all know and love. Everything taken in from now on is debt servicing.
...And the Left worried about the checks not going out to Grandma and some poor black child? They aren't going out to anyone ever again! Smooth move there Ex-Lax! Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the most brilliant minds of the DNC.
I am always accused of perceiving these issues too simply. I hope I never stop. Imagine if our elected saw things the same way? Essentially,what has occured here is everything the Tea Party and Glenn Beck warned us about and what the Liberals lied to us about. It is the line in the old Rush song The Trees, about how the maples and the oaks argued over sunlight and who should get how much of it. So, "they passed a noble law, now the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, axe and saw.."
....And That Is The Diatribe....
It was interesting to listen to the Liberals talk about cutting the debt on the backs of the poor, but lumping more debt on the backs of the children is perfectly fine in their minds. The logic is staggering to fathom. I wonder if there is an alien race watching this madness and just laughing their tiny gray asses off. If they do exist they figured it out a long time ago, thats why they visit M-class planets like ours for amusement. It truly must be entertaining to watch a species go right down the toilet while on the verge of of technological marvels.
"Oops, they almost made it Quarg-Nak, you owe me twenty, hey what say we tool on over to Orion, I hear a galactic war is about to open up. I am bored here anyway. These idiots still use fossil fuels."
There is a scientist on that Morgan Freeman show, Through the Wormhole (appropriate title) that claims we will someday technologically become so advanced that we will transcend time and spread our seed to another star system. I don't see any welcoming mats being rolled out on that space faring journey. I cannot get my three dimensional thinking around Achmed Al-Jihadi reaching out in friendship to a race of beings that may have actually met God.
Half of me was glued to C-SPAN as I watched Maxine Waters read the e-mail Move On. org sent her to read on the chamber floor. It was the usual drivel about the Tea Party. The speech was so canned I am beginning to think it actually exists as a product on the grocery shelves. The other half of me had to steal away so I could check on my hiding place for my money just to be sure it was still there. I had hoped that this situation would end in default. I think we need a huge punch in the face to knock some sense into our blank stare. Ok, so the checks don't come. Do we all just revert to animals and freak out or find a way to pick ourselves up?..Nahh, we just freak out.
Delusion is the answer. Man, all those drugs in the Sixties really did mess this nation up becuase we have been on a poltical acid trip since day one. Only now its turning wierd and a little scary. The cellophane flowers of yellow and green are about to gobble us up like the Purple People Eaters. Hell, even in my salad days, even I knew I had to shake it all off and get to work the next morning. This overdose of delusion, on the other hand, has no end in sight!
Just exactly how are we going to get out from under this now? The talk before has always been around what to do in the short term. I want to know how we are going to pay this thing off in the long term? I want to know what the plan from the banks of the Potomac is going to be to tackle this bank note? Is the plan always going to be to qibble over how much to raise it and how much to cut, then argue over the scraps? Because scraps are all thats left. The budget is just going to cease to exist as a funding mechanism for the host of pet projects we all know and love. Everything taken in from now on is debt servicing.
...And the Left worried about the checks not going out to Grandma and some poor black child? They aren't going out to anyone ever again! Smooth move there Ex-Lax! Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the most brilliant minds of the DNC.
I am always accused of perceiving these issues too simply. I hope I never stop. Imagine if our elected saw things the same way? Essentially,what has occured here is everything the Tea Party and Glenn Beck warned us about and what the Liberals lied to us about. It is the line in the old Rush song The Trees, about how the maples and the oaks argued over sunlight and who should get how much of it. So, "they passed a noble law, now the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, axe and saw.."
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Never Sign Anything!
Many young Americans simply do not understand their Constitutional rights or the protections granted to them as they go about their everyday lives. A recent court decision on filming police during a bust (or otherwise) has been supported as a protected right. One area that has little attention is the signing of "write-ups" at the work place. These nebulous documents have existed for a long time in America's industries. Essentially, a person accused of some rub of the rules is "written up" by a supervisor and is required to sign it as a testament to their acknowledgment of said offense. In many cases if you do not sign it you are threatened with termination. My advice to all who have, or may, experience this is; never sign anything. If they fire you, get a lawyer!
These documents are nothing more than coersion. They are a way of forcing you to abdicate your 5th Amendment rights. Companies have teams of lawyers telling them it is perfectly lawfull but therin lies the problem. What is lawfull may not be Constitutional. The interpretation of law varies from State to State and the interpretation varies according to which judge upheld that law and his/her interpretation of the Constitutionality of it...I know, I am getting complicated here, bear with me.
As a strict Constitutionalist myself, I always use that great document as a benchmark. If anything you face in life does not meet any of the requirements of any of the clauses or Amendments then what you face is bogus and has no weight. You should throw it back into the face of the accusor and tell them to pound sand. I will part with many of my Conservative coleagues here, but Ron Paul is very correct in his interpretation of the Constitution. Much of what our Government, legal system and businesses do in so far as enforcement, spending, agencies, etc is Un- Constitutional.
I always hear the term "I have a right". No you don't. I remember one time when I was young and broke and had my electricity turned off. I chased the meter man off my lawn. He came back later with the police. I knew he would do this, what floored me was the cop telling me "he has a right to shut off your power"..No he doesn't Mr. Policman..He has the "Authority" to shut off my power and your backing to enforce it. People of all walks mis-interpret authority with rights. Just because a Government body mandates a decision still does not grant a right. Rights do not come from Government, Rights do not come from Laws, Rights do not come in the form of a contract, sentence, agreement or two thirds majority. They are "inalienable". They exist simply because they exist. Reams of books line the shelves of prestigiuos universities of law trying to undo that simple fact.
Roe Vs Wade is a great example, Defense of Marraige Act is another. None of these cases have any merit in law or Constitution because both are nobody's damn business. The laws written against these issues also have no merit. It is none of your business what I do in my private life. I cam marry who I want and I can abort if I need to. That decision is between my family, my doctor and God. The laws in place today preventing or upholding are hold overs from a generation that also mis-interpreted the Constitution. It is bogus on all fronts.
Never sign anything. It is a defacto admission of guilt and the 5th Amendment clearly defines that. The 4th Amendment can be called into play because a coerced signature is a violation of search and seizure. I love to watch these cop shows where the idiot suspect blabs away. You say nothing, you sit down and say nothing. It is not your job to offer anything to the police. It is there job to discover it. The Miranda Ruling is absurd. The right to remain silent should not have to be read to any one. Remaining silent is your duty to your sovereignty. Besides after you have blabbed to the cops, everything you have said will be put into a report wich will be used as evidence against you..This, before, they finally read you your Miranda Rights.
It is difficult for many to get around this concept. We are 200+ years after the Constitution's enacting and we have had a miriad of interpretations that define us as a nation today. The possiblity that we have gotten it all wrong all this time is alarmingly real.
The simplicity of the document is its strength. The millions of pages written in an attempt to undo it are a testament to that strength. Never sign anything..Never admit anything..
....And That Is The Diatribe....
These documents are nothing more than coersion. They are a way of forcing you to abdicate your 5th Amendment rights. Companies have teams of lawyers telling them it is perfectly lawfull but therin lies the problem. What is lawfull may not be Constitutional. The interpretation of law varies from State to State and the interpretation varies according to which judge upheld that law and his/her interpretation of the Constitutionality of it...I know, I am getting complicated here, bear with me.
As a strict Constitutionalist myself, I always use that great document as a benchmark. If anything you face in life does not meet any of the requirements of any of the clauses or Amendments then what you face is bogus and has no weight. You should throw it back into the face of the accusor and tell them to pound sand. I will part with many of my Conservative coleagues here, but Ron Paul is very correct in his interpretation of the Constitution. Much of what our Government, legal system and businesses do in so far as enforcement, spending, agencies, etc is Un- Constitutional.
I always hear the term "I have a right". No you don't. I remember one time when I was young and broke and had my electricity turned off. I chased the meter man off my lawn. He came back later with the police. I knew he would do this, what floored me was the cop telling me "he has a right to shut off your power"..No he doesn't Mr. Policman..He has the "Authority" to shut off my power and your backing to enforce it. People of all walks mis-interpret authority with rights. Just because a Government body mandates a decision still does not grant a right. Rights do not come from Government, Rights do not come from Laws, Rights do not come in the form of a contract, sentence, agreement or two thirds majority. They are "inalienable". They exist simply because they exist. Reams of books line the shelves of prestigiuos universities of law trying to undo that simple fact.
Roe Vs Wade is a great example, Defense of Marraige Act is another. None of these cases have any merit in law or Constitution because both are nobody's damn business. The laws written against these issues also have no merit. It is none of your business what I do in my private life. I cam marry who I want and I can abort if I need to. That decision is between my family, my doctor and God. The laws in place today preventing or upholding are hold overs from a generation that also mis-interpreted the Constitution. It is bogus on all fronts.
Never sign anything. It is a defacto admission of guilt and the 5th Amendment clearly defines that. The 4th Amendment can be called into play because a coerced signature is a violation of search and seizure. I love to watch these cop shows where the idiot suspect blabs away. You say nothing, you sit down and say nothing. It is not your job to offer anything to the police. It is there job to discover it. The Miranda Ruling is absurd. The right to remain silent should not have to be read to any one. Remaining silent is your duty to your sovereignty. Besides after you have blabbed to the cops, everything you have said will be put into a report wich will be used as evidence against you..This, before, they finally read you your Miranda Rights.
It is difficult for many to get around this concept. We are 200+ years after the Constitution's enacting and we have had a miriad of interpretations that define us as a nation today. The possiblity that we have gotten it all wrong all this time is alarmingly real.
The simplicity of the document is its strength. The millions of pages written in an attempt to undo it are a testament to that strength. Never sign anything..Never admit anything..
....And That Is The Diatribe....
Saturday, January 1, 2011
American Exceptionalism; Radical Approaches Part II, Economic Growth
How do we begin to return to the starting point where American Exceptionalism was the first thought in every American's mind? How do we turn back the tide of Socialist policy dominating our current Government expenditures to re-create an America under self reliance? Right now, over 1 Trillion dollars are spent, from the start, on Socialist Programs. That translates into over one third of all Americans depending on the Government for a check to come in the mail for a variety of reasons. For every two people who work and pay into Social Security there are ten people who collect a check from those taxes. The numbers grow larger daily. Add to this the expeditures on the Bailouts and all the cash for "whatever" and our Government has become a doting father who just throws money at the spoiled child who always gets himself into trouble.
This has to end. What fails must fail and let the chips fall as they may. From disaster comes an opportunity for a clean up crew to make some money. It is called capitalism. Even in failure comes growth. The bailout of GM was terrible for a start up company called Tesla. Tesla makes all electric, hand built American made cars. Built for the select few who can afford them, Tesla was poised to capture a niche in the automotive market had GM been allowed to fail. Tesla was ready to buy up portions of GM and their factories and begin to build wholly American Made cars that were cost effective and all electric. It was not to be.
How do we return from this bizarre-o world we have entered?
Dependence on our survival as a Capitalist Nation we must first return to the principles of the Free Market. We cannot use the arguments of past to detract us from this idea. The days of the Robber Barons are gone, the Carpet Baggers, even the Oil and Railroad Trusts have been broken and are historical footnotes of a nation that no longer exists. Where history spoke of breaking up monopolies we now face an Administration that is hell bent on bailing them out for their own, mutual self preservation (both the Admin and the Corporation). This is polar opposite of what the Free Market represents. Companies must be allowed to fail to allow other companies to absorb them and create new opportunities for growth and human ingenuity. Even if an industry dies, something always takes it's place. Nature, as Economics abhors a vacuum.
The lament is always heard: We don't make anything anymore. What if there was a way to re-create that incentive to bring home what is now made elsewhere? In a nation of "tinkers" there is a plethera of people with ideas that are stymied once they start the process of Copyrights, Investment Captital, and just getting a prototype out to the masses. Never mind the Insurance Leaches.
What if we offered to companies a tax free period where they were required to bring manufacturing back to the US? What if we offered an extended tax free incentive to any start up company that wanted to make Televisions, or DVD players, or anything that is intrinsically American Technology, but is made in China today. Tax free; no SS, no income tax for employees, no corporate taxes for a set time period, adding that these companies must hire Americans who are unemployed. All money eraned is poured back into that company for further expansion. Then we further extend those tax breaks by taxing them at 1/3'rd the current rate for another set period of time. Would you consider this option?
Lets consider an "Opt-Out" for paying into Social Security. It is, actually, that simple. Employees are given the choice of paying into the system as always or taking what they have payed thus far in a lump sum check. There is a catch: You cannot cash that check. It must be put into a CD, Mutual Fund, even a simple Savings Account at your local bank where it grows until age 65. If you die before hand, that money goes to your spouse, children or any one you deem in your Will with the same caviat; That this money stays until age 65. What we create here is wealth for Americans and a Trust left behind for the dependents of the deceased. The "Safety Net" would be that no worker can join this "Opt-Out" Program until they have worked and payed into Social Security for 10 years. This guarantees a minimal payment for workers who are struck down and cannot work anymore.
These are, truly, Radical Approaches. We must consider these approaches when we are faced with looming deficits from a Local to National scale. These are just a chip at the glaciation that has become Washington DC. There is Insurance Legislation that must be scrapped with no regard to the Lobby Group that represents them. Either you compete or move aside.
Tort Reform, long spoken of and as easily dismissed must become one of the pillars of this Radical Approach Theory I propose. Any one can sue any one else for anything they feel injured by. Job related injuries, Medical Malpractice must be decided by courts and the presumption of evidence alone and not by limits set by Legislation. By removing selections of past Legislation and allowing the Free Market of Litigants to pursue the case on the merits of that case alone we will drive down costs and allow those injured to have fewer hurdles to overcome in bringing such a case to the People.
This list can go on and on. There is that much bullshit clogging the drain. Get the Department of Education to shut down, regulate EPA rather than EPA regulating. The past years of preservation, conservation and awareness of the general public has brought this nation back from the brink of species extinction. It is time we step back and allow the new awareness to take it's place. With communications becoming open and worldwide it is time for the FCC to close up shop. You cannot regulate or impose Government will upon the free flow of ideas and communications. The decorum of the airwaves must be regulated by the standards of the radio,TV, station itself and not the FCC. If you broadcast offensive material, then no one will listen. Free Market in action. These are just a pity few ideas.
Freedom and Liberty are more than words. The documents we rest our nation's future upon are just paper and pen. We tend to look upon them as such. Those documents are a feeble attempt by man to exclaim the value and justification of the rights of human dignity granted by God. These ideas are greater than the ideas themselves and far greater than the authors of those ideas. They are a bridge between the spiritual notion that all are created equal and the evolutionary notion that the human race must pursue this course or forever perish as a thinking, inventing and learning species..
....And That Is The Diatribe....
This has to end. What fails must fail and let the chips fall as they may. From disaster comes an opportunity for a clean up crew to make some money. It is called capitalism. Even in failure comes growth. The bailout of GM was terrible for a start up company called Tesla. Tesla makes all electric, hand built American made cars. Built for the select few who can afford them, Tesla was poised to capture a niche in the automotive market had GM been allowed to fail. Tesla was ready to buy up portions of GM and their factories and begin to build wholly American Made cars that were cost effective and all electric. It was not to be.
How do we return from this bizarre-o world we have entered?
Dependence on our survival as a Capitalist Nation we must first return to the principles of the Free Market. We cannot use the arguments of past to detract us from this idea. The days of the Robber Barons are gone, the Carpet Baggers, even the Oil and Railroad Trusts have been broken and are historical footnotes of a nation that no longer exists. Where history spoke of breaking up monopolies we now face an Administration that is hell bent on bailing them out for their own, mutual self preservation (both the Admin and the Corporation). This is polar opposite of what the Free Market represents. Companies must be allowed to fail to allow other companies to absorb them and create new opportunities for growth and human ingenuity. Even if an industry dies, something always takes it's place. Nature, as Economics abhors a vacuum.
The lament is always heard: We don't make anything anymore. What if there was a way to re-create that incentive to bring home what is now made elsewhere? In a nation of "tinkers" there is a plethera of people with ideas that are stymied once they start the process of Copyrights, Investment Captital, and just getting a prototype out to the masses. Never mind the Insurance Leaches.
What if we offered to companies a tax free period where they were required to bring manufacturing back to the US? What if we offered an extended tax free incentive to any start up company that wanted to make Televisions, or DVD players, or anything that is intrinsically American Technology, but is made in China today. Tax free; no SS, no income tax for employees, no corporate taxes for a set time period, adding that these companies must hire Americans who are unemployed. All money eraned is poured back into that company for further expansion. Then we further extend those tax breaks by taxing them at 1/3'rd the current rate for another set period of time. Would you consider this option?
Lets consider an "Opt-Out" for paying into Social Security. It is, actually, that simple. Employees are given the choice of paying into the system as always or taking what they have payed thus far in a lump sum check. There is a catch: You cannot cash that check. It must be put into a CD, Mutual Fund, even a simple Savings Account at your local bank where it grows until age 65. If you die before hand, that money goes to your spouse, children or any one you deem in your Will with the same caviat; That this money stays until age 65. What we create here is wealth for Americans and a Trust left behind for the dependents of the deceased. The "Safety Net" would be that no worker can join this "Opt-Out" Program until they have worked and payed into Social Security for 10 years. This guarantees a minimal payment for workers who are struck down and cannot work anymore.
These are, truly, Radical Approaches. We must consider these approaches when we are faced with looming deficits from a Local to National scale. These are just a chip at the glaciation that has become Washington DC. There is Insurance Legislation that must be scrapped with no regard to the Lobby Group that represents them. Either you compete or move aside.
Tort Reform, long spoken of and as easily dismissed must become one of the pillars of this Radical Approach Theory I propose. Any one can sue any one else for anything they feel injured by. Job related injuries, Medical Malpractice must be decided by courts and the presumption of evidence alone and not by limits set by Legislation. By removing selections of past Legislation and allowing the Free Market of Litigants to pursue the case on the merits of that case alone we will drive down costs and allow those injured to have fewer hurdles to overcome in bringing such a case to the People.
This list can go on and on. There is that much bullshit clogging the drain. Get the Department of Education to shut down, regulate EPA rather than EPA regulating. The past years of preservation, conservation and awareness of the general public has brought this nation back from the brink of species extinction. It is time we step back and allow the new awareness to take it's place. With communications becoming open and worldwide it is time for the FCC to close up shop. You cannot regulate or impose Government will upon the free flow of ideas and communications. The decorum of the airwaves must be regulated by the standards of the radio,TV, station itself and not the FCC. If you broadcast offensive material, then no one will listen. Free Market in action. These are just a pity few ideas.
Freedom and Liberty are more than words. The documents we rest our nation's future upon are just paper and pen. We tend to look upon them as such. Those documents are a feeble attempt by man to exclaim the value and justification of the rights of human dignity granted by God. These ideas are greater than the ideas themselves and far greater than the authors of those ideas. They are a bridge between the spiritual notion that all are created equal and the evolutionary notion that the human race must pursue this course or forever perish as a thinking, inventing and learning species..
....And That Is The Diatribe....
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