The Tragedy That Never Ends

    The tragedy of Newtown Connecticutt is a milestone in the history of gun violence in America. The entire argument has changed where the right to bear arms is concerned. Regardless of what side you are on or what ideology you possess it will not matter. This is a monumental event and nothing will ever be the same again.

    Whoever the PR person was who convinced NRA president Wayne Lapierre to make a public statement so soon should be fired. It is apparent this person knows nothing about public relations. Where were his media people? What the hell was that guy talking about anyway? I am never disappointed when (supposedly) educated people in positions of power and importance say and do the stupidest things.
    Possibly the only partially sane thing that came from that press experience was the idea of retirees guarding our schools. This idea was tossed out along with the rest of Lapierre's bathwater rhetoric.
    It may warrant a second look.
    I mean, God forbid individuals from individual communities come up with THEIR own plan for THEIR own neighborhood school!...After all, what would the government have left to do?
    Service people serve for a basic reason. It is a calling to defend your country and serve your community. Now, we are not talking about hiring crippled old codgers to hobble around the schools with revolvers but this is the image that the LSM will have you believe.
    Considering the average age of retirement for police and fire is around 45-50 (thank you Unions!). It is entirely possible to have perfectly physically able bodied people to perform this task. I would suggest we make it a requirement for their pensions since they will last another 20-30-40 years. But, since when do people think these things through in situations like this?

    The scary thing is how the general public is actually considering rounding up all the guns as the government knee jerks it's way around this crisis management. Fascism is like a thief in the night. It creeps up on you and you do not realize it until it is too late. If we take all the guns away we will not be able to defend ourselves against either the thief of the fascists.
    Jean Jacques Rouseau summed it up best how government capitalizes on a crisis.
    "For the rulers well know that the general will is always on the side which is most favorable to the public interest."
    Jonah Goldberg defines the quote made famous by Rahm Emmanuel "never let a crisis go to waste."
    "The utility of terror...its chief benefits was its tendency to maintain a permanent sense of crisis. Crisis is identified as a core mechanism of fascism...it short circuits debate and democratic deliberations. Hence all fascistic movements commit considerable energy to prolonging a heightened state of emergency."
    The Newtown shooting will be one of many catalysts that propel the growing second American Revolution. The first casualty will be the truth. It will pit gun rights advocates against weeping mothers. It will not be about the restoration of our Constitutional rights. It will be about the photographs of departed children at a funeral.

    "Crime is not an organizational function, " said Alan Dershowitz, " it is the act of an individual and should be dealt with individually." It is an undeniable fact that guns do not kill people until a gun is in the hands of the wrong person.
    So, how about we start there. How about we start with the individual. Who are these people? Who was that nutty kid and his nutty mother? Why didn't anyone do something about them? Where were the mental health authorities? Where was DSS?
    Who was that NY shooter? How did a parolee with a history of mental disorders, who beat his grandmother to death, get hold of a gun? Where was his parole officer? I also want to know how these people can afford these weapons. If the Newtown mother was single, struggling, etc, etc. How did she afford so many guns? ... Do you know how much a Bushmaster costs?
    The Mafia does not commit crimes. It is the Capo who orders the hit and the Soldier who carries out the order. This is another function of fascism; to target the group and label it dangerous, racist or seditious. The state can easily round up 'groups' of people but is utterly, mechanically unable to deal with anything upon an individual basis.
    No matter how this debate unfolds guns are not going away anytime soon. Senator Feinstein can postulate all she wants in front of a table full of weapons. The only thing that will succeed from all this new legislation will be the higher costs to consumers. It will mean more fees and more taxes. It is what is happening with gasoline prices. Jack them up so high that people are forced to buy the product presented to them by those in charge. This is another function of fascism. The only criminals that that will be caught up in this wide net of legislation will be the innocents. It will be the old man whose permit lapses and the cops kick in his door. It will the two ten year old kids with a BB gun in the woods who will now have a criminal record for life. The truly insane and determined criminal will still be a danger to society no matter what the laws..It'll just cost him more to do so.
    Besides restrictions on gun ownership go hand in hand with virtually every other law we are subjected to. Do you owe back taxes? Can't own a gun. Pass a bad check over $1000? Can't own a gun. Did your ex accuse you of hitting her? Can't own a gun. Arrested for narcotics? Can't own a gun. It is not my intention to belittle these laws (ok,yes it is). I am simply illustrating how the government never lets a crisis go to waste.

    The day after Christmas Mark Stein sat in for Rush Limbaugh on his show. He remarked how the elite, the wealthy, the actors, senators, etc will still be well armed. They will be guarded, protected and be above the fray of legislation, It will be us poor slobs who are left vulnerable and defenseless.
    So do not worry about your guns America. Worry about your Liberty. The government does not need to come after your guns just yet. They are not finished with taking away all our Liberties.
    Once that job is complete, rounding up the guns will be a piece of cake..

....And That Is The Diatribe....

Blueprint for Engagement

    I wonder if the reluctance of the various Tea Party groups to saddle themselves with a chosen candidate is due (in part) to the simple fact that few of the candidates understand the simple principles we as a group represent. The three principles I am about to address are usually absent from any dialogue during the election process and are DOA once the elected get seated. They are not universally understood by any of them if, at all.
    Michelle Bachman may claim the mantle of the Tea Party Caucus in Congress but she certainly does not represent the principles we profess as is evident from her voting record. Therefore it is imperative that these principles become steadfast and immovable. It is also imperative that our decisions are guided by these principles as we seek to influence politics and the course of this nation.

The three principles are as follows:

1; Limited Government
2; Unapologetic American sovereignty
3; Constitutional Originalism

    Principle 1. Limited Government

    The Constitution is very specific on the idea of limited goverbnment. It is the entire basis of the document itself. That government is allowed only so much to prevent tryanny. Today it is anything but limited. It is pervasive into every aspect of our daily lives. Congress passes laws based on knee-jerk politics and constituents who Sen Rand Paul calls "the beseechers"; always asking for an expansion, always demanding their cause is the most important, always that some one else is the bad guy. When Congress passes these laws they are vague in language and are usually passed off to some newly created agency to enforce the law. It is here that the tyranny gets implimented. It is here that the government grows in scope and reach. These agencies get to make up their own rules. We must hold Congress accountable to it's Constitutional obligations and not allow them to abdicate that responsibility to some unelected entity.

    In 1819 Chief Justice John Marshall expressed four points when deciding on a bill. These four points are a sort of 'checklist' for Congress to adhere to to act upon something.
    The first point is: Is the Bill legitimate?
    Is it politics deciding this vote? Is it some nagging activist group demanding this bill? Does this bill address a specific need for the nation?
    The second point is: Is the Bill Constitutional?
    Does the bill meet the enumerated powers of the Congress? Does Congress have the right (not authority) to discuss such a Bill? Should this be left to the States and/or the people?
    The third point is: The means employed by the Congress to carry out the language of the Bill must be Constitutional and plainly adapted to carry out that end.
    Bills become political footballs today, deals are made, laws are broken. Self imposed Congressional rules often squash debate on a Bill, back room deals and money exchanges hands routinely. This is not Constitutional.
    The fourth point is: The means chosen must also comply with the Constitution.
    Should there come a day when Congress actually decides to do it's job the end result must meet all the requirements of the Articles, Clauses and Amendments to the Constitution and in order to carry out the new law said new law must not violate anyone's civil rights as a means to an end.

    Congress has become lax in it's enumerated powers. Most Bills are not even read. Officials take money from activists and lobbyists. Senators and Congressmen alike from both sides even buy and sell stock based on the inside knowledge of a particular Bill they are trying to pass. You and I would get arrested, but Congress has benn able to pass it's own rule granting themselves immunity in this area. Congress then turns this legislation over to an agency that operates as a 'fiat' and have employed draconian measures to enforce the laws. These agencies are a defacto law enforcement agency. Why else would the EPA or USDA need armed SWAT to conduct inspections and raids?

    Principle 2. Unapologetic American Sovereignty

    Only Congress can ratify a treaty. Deals that were made with other nations during the first one hundred years of this nation were done this way. They were alliances, trade, purchases, sea and land rights and they all had to be voted on. They were outside the pervue of the Constitution and were not to impose upon the rights of Americans. Today, with our friends at the UN treaties are devised and signed with the expressed intent of undermining our liberties within the borders of the United States.
    There are UN mandates ranging from war to gun control to the environment that affect our daily lives. All of them designed to trump the Constitution. Many criminal and questions of rights cases have been decided by the Supreme Court using models from the UN and/or other nations as a way to butress a decision. There should be no other litmus used other than our own Constitution.
    The push of the myth that we can do something to stop climate change by imposing taxes, caps, regulations on nations is a prime example of this breach of sovereignty. One tactic of Agenda 21 is to get in on the community level and have the communities adopt the language of the treaty therefore bypassing any vote from Congress.
    The nation now looks towards any military action from a UN view point. If the UN says no, then any nation defending itself (even pre-emptively) is an aggressor nation and must be sanctioned. The United States must be allowed to act unilaterally any time it is threatened.
   
    Principle 3. Constitutional Originalism

    Liberals think that this concept is an attempt to turn back the clock on social progress. They fail to see how important the Constitution is in all it original form. Said mistakes have been repaired through the Amendment Process.
    The Founders made this prcess difficult for a reason. They did not want some future society legislating willy-nilly at every historical bump in the road (oops, too late).
    Even the mistakes in the Constitution must (at least) be revered for it is a marker of where we once were and how far we have come in our attempt to "create a more perfect union". As the Tea Party debates and decides how best to apply itself politically we must be mindful to always stick to the tenets of the Constitution. We must be careful not to bend to political winds and vote on something because it is the 'right thing to do'. We must vote based on the three principles and the four points expressed by Justice Marshall.
    The Tenth Amendment may enumerate powers to the State and local level but even here State, city councils and town halls have no problem trampling on Constitutional liberties. A prime example would be how the Mass Gay Right Coalition ignored a public referendum shooting down gay marraige so they pulled an end run and sent it to the State Supreme Court where it was decided legal based on feel good politics, not what the people voted on. Even California's Proposition 8 (despite being voted down twice) somehow has found it's way to the national Supreme Court.

    I believe these three principles should be explored and debated thoroughly and should be part of a blueprint for engagement as we begin the process of speaking to the power of truth about where this country has been heading and how the Tea Party should galvanize itself into a true political party.


....And That Is The Diatribe....

I wish to thank Elizabeth Price Foley for her book, The Tea Party, Three Principles

The Traveler's Guide To BizarroWorld: Conclusion or, How To Get Home

Leaving BizarroWorld


    .....You can't. You live in it. It is all around you. It is beamed into your livingrooms on a 24/7 basis. It is in the mindless comments you hear your stupid co-workers make. It is in the customer who cannot formulate a sentence in English or provide proper ID to prove who they are when they hand you a stolen credit card. It is in your neighbor who constantly complains about your yard, your stereo, your dog. It is in the stupid cops who keep showing up to answer the complaint instead of telling your neighbor to stop calling them about stupid crap.
    You cannot leave because once you drop out of warp back into your own universe you are hit with a shocking realization that this place is no different than the one you just left. And you are correct. Truth in BizarroWorld is like truth here. It has no bearing on anything whatsoever and you will be chastised for speaking it. No one likes truth. It tends to reveal ugly things. The Eagles' song Hotel California sums it all up appropriately; "...you can check out anytime you like but you can never leave..."
    BizarroWorld is run by corruption, big money from every corner of life, and fear. It is populated more and more by the lowest common denominator. The electorate has more knowledge on how to buy a refrigerator than they do electing someone. Placating to some one's fear wins every time. The more outrageous the more convincing.

    Laws are passed daily preventing the population from functioning in any way that may benefit them yet the leaders can break every law and there is no retribution from justice. Leaders lie to our face and when we call them on it they grin and admit it then, lie again. Then we elect them again. Christianity is called dangerous and Islam is called friendly. Guns are taken away from law abiding citizens while law enforcement is armed to the teeth. Jobs no longer exist like they used to in this country. The ones that are available are low pay, short hours and degrading.
    More young people are encouraged to get on State Aid of some sort, get pregnant and place your government sponsored offspring into government managed day-care so they can raise the next generation of government dependencies. Failed citizenship is the largest gross national product. It produces in the millions per year and shows little sign of being affected by the constant cycle of recession.
    These laws are specifically written to keep the elected class immune. They cannot be held accountable for any of the same crimes you and I would be imprisoned for. The legislation is purposely written this way and the elected make money from the inside information they obtain while writing said legislation. Principled government has been dead for decades.

The OObi


    I want to be sure to make a mention of a strange phenomenon that has gripped the American sector of BizarroWorld. The American sector is headed up by a cult of personality figure named Barack Hussien Obama. He is a Muslim, but has managed to fool the nation into thinking he is Christian. He wasn't born in the United States but that didn't mean anything because as the Globalist he professes to be, the American Constitution and it's rules are mere obstacles to be brushed aside.
    His tactic for success was to pander to race, class, culture and his sense of Globalism (ie: environment, the UN, etc). He is, in fact, racist himself but, he has managed to convince the very race he offends that he is their saviour. In reality he has done absolutely nothing.
    Oddly enough race in the American sector is a non issue. The Liberals who rule there have a track record of constantly digging up the race issue and making the racial classes believe they are still tragically oppressed. What is even stranger is that despite reality to the contrary, the racial classes absorb this idea as truth... Well, it is BizarroWorld.
    There are several other elitists who use the race issue to their advantage. The sad thing is that they are black and/or hispanic. Some are elected officials, some have media outlets at their disposal, some are self proclaimed "Reverands". Here is where another example of BizarroWorld comes into light.
    All white male Conservatives who are outspoken are racists. Any female white Conservative is a racist, Any black/hispanic male/female Conservative is a traitor and will be treated worse than the fornerly listed by these elitists. These are important elements to remember when travelling in BizarroWorld. It is imperative that you remain silent and keep your opinions to yourself.

.... But then again, this is part of the plan. This is why you can check out anytime you like but, you can never leave.

    I hope you have an enjoyable trip.

An Indivisible Destiny?

   
    American spiritualism is alive and well. Religion is alive and well. The current numbers hover just under 100 million of people who consider themselves "religious" in The United States. I will not include Islam in this number, I am not talking about that. The percentage is under 3% anyhow. What is disconcerting is the attempts by the minority religions and the minority secularists to remove the importance of (Christian) religion in America. It has been a long standing acceptance that America needs to become more politically tolerant of other points of view. I have never seen this "intolerance" myself anywhere in my forty-nine years. I see America always bending over backwards (to her own expense) to placate some one some where. The only intolerance I find is towards those who are Christian.
    In Alexandra Pelosi's documentary "Friends of God" she travels America to see what the hype is about concerning the rise of Evangelicals. You cannot miss the tone of her narrative. What she fails to come to terms with is the strength of these people's convictions. Liberalism was never about standing up for something and having a belief system anyways. She cannot reconcile her narrow mindedness to something as Constitutionally fundamental as the Liberty of practicing faith and finding solace within that simple truth. She, literally makes fun of these people thinking she is speaking to a larger American audience. She just makes herself look like the fool.
    The removal of religious symbols in the public arena is an attempt to socialize the nation. We have no problem stating that a country is of this faith, or that faith. We do this all the time with The Middle East. However, pose the argument that The United States is Judeo-Christian nation and all hell breaks loose. The idea strikes terror in the hearts of Liberals convinced that the Moral Majority will take over the nation. That is and always has been an absurd position and is catagorically inaccurate. The never ending attempts to remove any vestige of faith from every facet of our Republic is more than just an attack on Christianity in America. It is an attack on our very freedom, a central pillar to our Constitution.
    Our ability to worship freely, openly and (yes) publicly is not just a religious act it is a civil act. If it is curtailed and/or opposed then, denied, we are no longer a free society. The Founders were very secular, yet keenly aware of a nation devoid of Providence and His guidance. Christians and Catholics learned the hard way by resisting each other for centuries. They even tried to sanction each other here in the colonies. What they could not have envisioned is a secularist movement in the 20th century that would put the two adversaries square in the sites of Socialism.
    Virtually, the entire fabric of our nation is spun on the idea of freedom of religion and it's influence in our daily lives. It matters more than the guns and the press for without our ability to openly proclaim our faith, we cannot have the others. Faith is freedom. It is the proclaimation of the individual of his/ her relationship to God. The State is summarily cut out at the soul level.
    That freedom translates into our economy, our foriegn policy, our environmental policy, every policy. Without religion, we are no longer free, without freedom, free economics is not possible, an awareness of the importance of helping each other, fending off the enemy, none of it..Possible. In the book "Indivisible" by Jay W. Richards and James Robison economic value is described as something a person is freely willing to give up to obtain something. The power of the purse. Socialist and Communist societies do not function this way. The people are coerced or, forced to accept something substandard. Even policy is forced upon them. Many policies are now forced upon us here in America. It was while reading this book I came to an epiphany.
    We keep seeing attacks on our Republic as various rots that we (as Conservatives) can combat and curtail. I think we are missing the larger picture here. We must come to the defense of religion and openly return it to our daily lives. I am not talking about a Reformation of sorts, nor am I calling for us all to go back to church but if we loose the ability to be who we want in our religion, we loose the whole she-bang.
    Perhaps the other attacks are just distractions, even some Liberal Christians think keeping to oneself religiously is a good idea, maybe some forms of secularism is just "the right thing to do". Hitler marched the informers into the ovens first my friends. Look at how far we have come in the last decade alone. There is no mention of God allowed at all in any public meeting. No prayer, no Pastor overseeing the congregation of delegates. Probably explains why so many city meetings are rife with bully politics. Could be why we had Obamacare so easily shoved down our throats. There was no one there to remind the Legislators they have to answer to a higher authority in the end and to cast their votes wisely.
    By proclaiming your individuality with your relationship to God the State can never have control over you at all. This is utterly unacceptable to Progressives. It completely changes your outlook on your place and role in society. Issues are no longer pro and con, but entirely re-thought out.

    There is a frightening idea floating around that we should pass anti-defimation laws on behalf of religion. Mostly it is Islamics and the Progressives calling for this. Be careful with this one. The baby crying the loudest gets the bottle first. The laws are mostly to insulate Islam from every form of questioning. Great Britain and large parts of France are under intense pressure to adopt laws creating enclaves of Islam within their borders with Sharia (not Democratic) laws. Meanwhile, it is Western Religion that gets the hammer, Western Religion (already) recieves the majority of persecution and you barely hear a word from the Christians or Catholics. Perhaps that will change.
     It is interesting to note here that the years of open and purposeful disrespct for Christianity has not produced one iota of terrorism in retaliation during my entire lifetime. I will not get into the same when it comes to Islam, we have to only view recent history to see how that one worked out. I grew up wacthing terrorism from Islam, so did you!
    The difference is that Christians are comfortable with who they are as Christians and do not feel the need to retaliate. I would surmise this is not true of Islam. Perhaps the reason they flip out every time a Koran gets wrinkled is because they are NOT comfortable with who they are as Muslims. Mapplethorpe put a crucifix in piss and people flocked to his exhibit. No one blew the place up. Hell, the Muslims I know are so damn serious and hard to deal with. I always feel like I should be careful, lest I offend them somehow. All the Christians I know are happy (personally), a little too intense with how happy they are.
    Conversely, it has always puzzled me when people talk about the years of abuse suffered by Muslims at the hands of Americans and Ron Paul's  "blowback". Are we talking about the time we abused Muslims during that peackeeping mission to stop the fighting in Lebanon and our Marines were murdered by a terrorist? Or, are we talking about the time we terrorized a Muslim country called Kuwait from another crazy Muslim, then fed two warring factions in Iraq and protected them for the next decade from that same crazy Muslim? Didn't he set the desert on fire or something?
    I know, it was that time we were so heartless to the starving nation of Somalia that was being starved by other (you guessed it) Muslims. Eighteen Marines were killed trying to arrest the leader of that circus act. One was dragged through the streets. Maybe it was the time we bombed Serbia in our attempt to stop the genocide of....Muslims..
    Wow, America really does suck doesn't it? What a selfish thing to do to free over 50 million people between 2001 and today in Iraq and Afghanistan.

    I was walking the streets of Boston one night after the Rush concert last October. I could not but help notice the amount of homeless sleeping in the streets. The inability of "faith based" charities to be seen as a viable solution to large government entitlement programs is a failure on our part of insisting upon the rights we have as Christians. We have allowed government to take over our job and they suck at it! Poverty grows yearly despite decades of entitlements. The problem stems from the idea that a large entity thousands of miles away can handle a problem better than a local organization within a neighborhood, on the front lines. This is Statism at its most basic. Catholic Charities has been forced out of the charity business due to rulings concerning the abortion funding and adoption rules that run counter to their beliefs.
     Here is where it gets nuts.
    If any other religious group (Islamic) put up resistance the Left would bend over backwards to respect "multi-culturalism" and backtrack should they offend. But the resistance of Catholics was seen only as bigotry, sexism and homophobia. This brings me back to the basic premise I made about Western religion being at the core of the Left's attack. If they can undermine it and relegate it to the margins they can replace it with the State. The whole purpose of using another religion as a hedge is that Islam is the enemy of Christianity. Socialists will give Islam only enough rope to hang itself.

    We must understand that our Religious Liberty goes hand in hand with our Constitutional Liberty. The first few words in the Constitution are "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness". The Left's penchant with abortion rights runs counter to that openning phrase. If the Left is so eager to sanctify taking the life of an unborn child (53 million since the law was upheld) how can we expect them to uphold the remainder of that phrase. The answer is simple, they won't. With the passage of Roe they set their sights on Liberty. Thus began the systematic removal of every reference to anything Judeo-Christian within our culture. It followed with gun laws, taxation, prohibition, drug laws. As this winds down we now see the removal of "the pursuit of Happiness" in the form of redistribution of wealth. Those who have pursued goals, businesses, enterprises are now the targets of the Left who feel that the wealthy have some how deprived the rest of the world of something. Basic economic freedom is pure and grows a larger pie. The Left is consumed with the one size pie theory. They use it all the time to justify their re-distributive theories. What Christianity calls for is the opportunity to grow a larger pie that lifts all of us out of poverty.
    Economic freedom does not come from how much is left in the world to exploit it comes from the ideas of man. In 1991 after the fall of the Soviet Union Pope John Paul II wrote " man's principle resource is man himself". The idea that one person can have an idea that changes the world is basically true.
    Are you crazy? No wonder the Left wants all forms of Western Religion removed from our nation. The idea of one person in charge of his/her own destiny? Some call Social Services!

    We are constantly told a new definition of American Values every election. The idea is recycled to fit whatever political cause is the flavor of the year. Multi -Culturalism is one of those flavors. It is another attempt to fit a square peg into a round hole. We would not demand Multi-Culturalism on say, China. That nation is inherently Chinese. The same applies to Islamic nations, African nations even some South American nations. Why then this desire to do so in The United States?
    Let me pose a question. If you were to emmigrate to another nation, would you just up and move or, would you do some research in order to learn about where you are going to live? I know when I moved to Worcester I set out to learn all about the city. I had been here many times before, just never knew that much about it. This doesn't exist in a Multi-Cultural Society. The whole enphasis is on your ethnicity rather than your country of residency. This is why we have entire segments of our population unable to speak, read or write English despite being here for a number of years. There is no incentive to do otherwise because of the forced multi-lingual laws imposed on Americans. People who speak other languages treat me with contempt if I do not understand what they are saying. It would be suicide if I demanded they speak English. I would be accused of racism.
    My 90 year old mother offend told the story of the Polish neighbors she grew up with. The children were all expected to learn English for one simple reason.... They were in America.
    It had nothing to do with forgetting where they came from or, who they are or, their religion and customs. It was the simple idea of a chance to make a new life in this great nation. To do so meant you learned the language. Studies have concluded unanymously that immigrants who learn the language gain economically better than those who do not. Many of these immigrants are not immigrants at all but illegals. This creates a whole new set of circumstances. Why learn about a nation or, its language when you are so carefree about breaking one of it's most fundamental laws (legal residency). We now have another entire segment of the population completely ignorant of the history of this nation and what it means to be an American. Oh sure, they will say how much they want to be an American (if it wasn't for those pesky border patrol agents). Many of them from countries whose own governments are pure Socialism and or Marxist or worse. The sad thing is that the truly educated, affluent ones who emmigrate do so legally and are few. The majority of illegals are not so well off in that department and so we tend to have an influx of a lower common denominator from other societies. You don't believe me? Just look around you.

    Every Liberal trots out the Constitution when it suits their purpose. The rest of the time they are hell bent of subverting it. Another of the catch phrases is "bi-partisanship" or "consensus".  This has devistated the checks and balances system of our government.  Authors James Robison and Jay Richards spoke about the Left's desire to supplant  God and The Constitution with the State in their book "Indivisible". They wrote: "We must support policies and candidates committed to restoring constitutional wisdom to our political institutions." They even go so far as to call for the removal of unsustainable government programs. It was never the intent of our Constitution to provide these programs but the Progressives of the early 20th Century were very good at tugging at our heartstrings and getting these programs rammed through Congress.
    Well, now we find ourselves mired in the swamp of government programs that are on the verge of collapse. We can already see what the Larouche Democrats spoke of during my interviews with them on my radio show in 2010: Austerity. What the government giveth, the government can taketh away. Spain is experiencing a terrible by product of austerity. In a recent NY Times article Madrid has hundreds of thousands of homeless people who have been forced from their homes due to cutbacks in subsidies and a coma of an economy. This would not be half as bad if the country had the private services that the United States has to help these people. They do not. There are no private or, faith based organizations there. Socialism has done away with them all.
    Bi-partisanship means nothing more than the controlling party telling the minority party what the score is and to play ball or be left in the dugout. In my interviews with the 2010 Independent candidate Patrick Barron he spoke of  how bi-partisanship is a euphemism designed for the public's digestion. It (simply) means nothing. If bi-partisanship was a workable thing then we would have no need for political parties trying to push an agenda. Everyone would just agree what was best for the country..(laugh) Fat chance!
    Here-in lies the conundrum. We have to allow the Socialist to speak and gather and promote. It is in the Constitution. The problem is..They won, now we have a problem. It is the same thing as when we all applauded the Arab Spring and the voting in Palistine only to wake up the next day and find out they all voted for Shariah and terrorism. It was all carefully orchestrated and the public swallowed it hook, line and sinker. The same thing happened here in 2008 and now again in 2012.
    What is equally disturbing is the idea that telling the truth about the conditions we face is tantamount to slitting ones own political throat. Gov. Bobby Jindal shoots back at Romney for telling us all what we already know? Obama did play the race card. He did promise the sun and moon to minorities. Look at that leaked video of him cutting a deal with Medvedev, why is this such a hard thing to comprehend?

    The last thing I want to discuss is this idea that the Republican Party must come more to the middle to connect with the Latino and Black voters. Really? Come more to the middle? If the Republicans come more to the middle we might as well just all be Liberals. What we need to do is define the party for what it "used" to be. The party of THE REPUBLIC. We must use the weapon that is most valuable to ourselves and the future of this nation. The truth, the facts and evidence that supports them both. We cannot get hung up on what the media does to pigeonhole a comment, a statement or an action. What we say and do must be based on hard evidence and demand that the media fact check. Then, we toss it back to them as they attempt to discredit our good name with more facts. Many writers and pundents are asking what went wrong, unfortunately they are concluding the wrong answer. It is not to become more like the other party, that is nothing more than surrender. We must use the tactics they use. If they want to trot out the race card, then so be it. We destroy them with facts. They want to say we are the party of big business, so be it. We point out how they are beholden to the Unions and Communists. We carefully look at every policy that went bad and disassociate ourselves with it. Anti gay? We point out our belief in the rights of the individual. Anti environment? We point out the complicity of the Democrats in selling out our mineral rights to foreigners.
    In short, we hit the books America, we reconnect with our faith, our freedom and our destiny as the last great place on Earth where the power of man, who was endowed by the Creator with certain unalienable rights, to create the most amazing experiment ever in the history of the world.

....And That Is The Diatribe....

   
   
   
   

A Traveler's Guide To BizarroWorld Part III

  Places To Avoid

    There are some places on the planet you should be mindful to avoid. These areas are considered hostile to just about everyone including BizarroWorlders themselves. The only problem is the BizarroWorlders seem to think if they keep apologizing that these areas will suddenly like them again. One such area is the Middle Eastern section of the planet. Avoid this at all costs. Just fly over it on your way to the Far Eastern side of the planet. Even that area is tricky at times. Do not consider sailing anywhere near the area either unless a hostage scenario is in your itinerary. The waters are filled with pirates. There is a military presense there but they are under strict UN orders to do nothing about the problem (except the Russians, they don't give a shit in any way). See the website: military.com/shock and awe for a great clip of Russians blowing the crap out of a pirate boat..It is awesome!
    Avoid the African Continent, especially if you have children. They could be kidnapped and turned into guerilla militia and turned against you with an AK47. Many of the incurable diseases in BizarroWorld come from there. The intelligent ones who reside there are coming to the Western part of the planet to escape that living hell. The rest are too poor or indoctrinated in a Junta of some sort.
    There are still some amazing animals that manage to avoid poaching but that is soon to fade away since no one there cares about the future of their own environment. Many Western BizarroWorlders pore money to various "no profits" to help the people and the animals of this section but it is a lost cause. The money is squandered, stolen and what gets through is barely enough to fuel a truck. Do not get taken in by any of these causes while there.
    The Polar regions are rumored to be melting but as of this publishing the author has found no credible evidence to support such a notion. It is as frikken, freezing cold as all get out!
    Avoid various regions of the southern Western Hemisphere. Some nut named Chaves owns one area and his people are totally indocrinated Socialists. Do not go there. Another area is controlled by revolutionaries financed by cocaine. It is called Columbia. You will become a hostage . There is one area that holds a semblance of  Democracy called Brazil. but they are busy burning down the Rainforest and polluting the main river there with run off from gold mining. They and the Chinese currently drill out all our oil along the east coast. America is not allowed to. That place will be a waste land in a hundred years anyways.. The central Western Hemisphere (Mexico) is overun with drug gangs who ship human cargo across the American border as cheap labor. The present day government in America is headed up by a quasi-prophet named The OObi. He and his minions are perfectly happy with this scenario and will do little to protect you if you dare to wander this region. The inhabitants of this region are regularly killed, raped, robbed and terrorized with only themselves to blame (according to government documents and testimonies). Residents who stand up and defend their property are considered racist, right wing, gun toting nutcases.
    There is a strange place known as The Korean Peninsula. This is a place where polar opposites exist. In the southern part there is commerce, trade, hot chicks and cheap TV's. The northern part is barren, dark at night (no electricity) and the people are starving to death. The only commercial enterprise there seems to be nuclear weapons and other military equipment. Do not go there, you will be arrested and sent to a concentration camp along with 90% of the rest of that regions inhabitants. Everyone there bows to a Messiah (of sorts) known as "The Great Leader".
   

Places To Visit

    The northern Western Hemisphere (for the most part) is quite nice. The European enclave titled The Euro-Zone is quite nice. Be cautious here though, there are some financial problems going on there and riots can spark at a moments notice. Bring  a gas mask, tear gas is often used to diperse crowds and if you are caught up in this you can be affected by the gas. Again, just as was stated before, stay 100-200 feet away from these events and observe them from afar. Things tend to get destroyed including the demonstrators themselves. Be careful when taking photographs of these events, the law enforcement may think you are journalists and will club you like a Canadien baby seal in springtime.

    NOTE: Speaking of getting clubbed; be very wary of law enforcement on BizarroWorld. They tend to use their batons with impunity wherever they gather. Reports have surfaced that a married couple was clubbed in Washington on their honeymoon because they danced at the Jefferson Memorial. A separate report surfaced that a homeless man was clubbed at a homeless shelter (imagine that). In most mass gatherings you can be sure the riot police will show up to start the clubbing. Again, stay far away from these events and view them from afar.

    An awe inspiring place to visit is Alaska. A wonderful woman lives there who tried to wake America up when she ran as a VP candidate. The BizarroWorlders crucified her for being an American, for being a Republican and for being a woman. This is a great example of the mindset of BizarroWorlders. For decades the female species of this planet complained about being discriminated against. Decades later they crucify any woman who shows any sense of independence, purpose and self determination. Especially if it is counter to a dictated party line.
    The woman's name is Sarah, if you manage to get to this beautiful land, pay her a visit.
    Visit the Gulf Coast area, great fish and great music. A catagory 5 hurricane hit this area followed by a huge oil spill years later. Some how the people there have just kept going. This is probably one of the small examples of perseverance that still exists in BizarroWorld. The Admins in charge of this area blame some past President for all the troubles there. It makes no difference that disasters like this have happened before, it was still the fault of the past President. Hey, it's BizarroWorld!
    Visit the Northeast in the autumn, great colors, Visit the Eastern shore during the college "spring-break". Lots of drunk chicks shedding their tops. Visit the Ohio Valley where most of the corn comes from. Kids still can be seen learning a work ethic as they tend to farm chores, go to school, work a part time job and then..Go back to the farm for more chores and more homework. Currently the BizarroWorlders are working to to end this time honored tradition. It violates Child Labor laws, Social Workers are everywhere in this region, be wary and hide your kids.

    As of this publication, the events on BizarroWorld change daily. There may be more places to avoid and/or visit. It all depends on what happens next. Trust me, it is that fluid. The BizarroWorlders are constantly changing the names, places, descriptions to fit whatever new definition they make up at any point in time....Yeah, it is that messed up. So stay posted for the next installment of "The Traveller's Guide to BizarroWorld"...
  

A Traveler's Guide To BizarroWorld Part II

What Is BizarroWorld?

    BizarroWorld is a parallel universe. It is as simple as that. A parallel universe is a universe where all that is and was as truth here doesn't exist there. For instance, in a parallel universe Hitler and the Japanese win WWII, McArthy was right, Kennedy was never assasinated and Tom Cruise and Oprah Winfrey are NOT extraterrestrials.
    You get it? This is BizarroWorld in a nutshell.
   
    Having any political convictions based on facts and historical context carry no weight on this planet. It is all about how you "feel" concerning an issue. This concept can swing wildly into the unknown and the traveler must be aware of this at all times. Those "feelings" are rooted in a mindset known on this planet as "Political Correctness". It dominates the culture. The overwhelming majority of inhabitants of BizarroWorld are known as Liberals and this mentality pervades all facets of their society. In point of fact, the Liberals have collectively declared their planet a Democracy. This works well for them considering that Liberals  are the largest political ethnicity there. They essentially, rule everything.
    In the normal space/time continuem, Liberalism is considered a mental disorder by people who excersise common sense. In BizarroWorld it is the law of the land. I am hesitant to apply any sort of medical diagnosis on this idea because I have no medical evidence to back up such a claim. However, in the author's opinion, Liberalism is a form of mental pathology.
    That's my story and I'm sticking to it....Oh, and never repeat that once your ship arrives.


How Did BizarroWorld Evolve?

    That is a good question Virginia, let me try to explain it this way.
    There is a debate going on between scientists and theologians about the existence of God. Scientist argue that their discoveries disclaim such a notion, while the theologians argue that scientists just come up with more questions once they discover something new, thus claiming the mystery of God. A second school of thought exists between more rational minded scientists and theologians that the mear fact that 95% of all people on Earth believe in a Creator and the fact that billions of other worlds possibly exist (with their idea of a Creator), that sentient life has "willed" God and Heaven into existence. Basically, with trillions and trillions of minds steeped in the idea of a diety, that diety has somehow metaphysically become real.
    Sounds sketchy, I know. Until you arrive on BizarroWorld.
    You see, BizarroWorld exists due to that same idea. The Liberals "willed" themselves into believing their own hogwash for so long and have indocrinated so many others for so long that the planet has metaphysically formed out of (literally) nothing. Gene Roddenberry couldn't have thought this up!

  It is here I must emphasize that you are entering a totally alien world. It may look, smell and sound like Earth but it is not. Be vigilant, always, ever vigilant.


Negotiating The Locals

    This can vary from region to region. We will cover areas to avoid in the next segment but, for now, lets concentrate on when you arrive and how to negotiate the local area upon landing.
    The central area formally known as The United States is still relatively sane, mostly farms, wilderness, very old communities. The rest of the place is a disaster, especially the sea coast areas. These regions are solid Lib controlled. Poverty and unemployment are rampant in these regions. Be sure to keep all valuables  at home in the real world. Carry your cash and credit cards inside of your body (ladies, time to take one for the team).
    Most locals can be bribed with large sums of cash. The local municipal drones will accept any type of bribe. You will see this in action if you witness a demonstration put on by one of the Union groups. People will be bribed and bussed in for these evnets. For your own safety stay at least 100-200 feet from these events. These groups tend to destroy everything around them including each other. Vast areas where past events have taken place are heavily damaged.
    Credit is very important. If you have a low score, do not go to BizarroWorld. You could be dying of thirst in the desert but if a local banker sees your FICO is low, he will let you die rather than take a drink. Credit does not work amongst the poor, they work in cash only. Be wary though, theft is rampant in the poor areas although most of it takes place on a governmental level.
    The worst thing you will encounter are "fees". There are fees for everything. There are fees for the fees and taxes to be paid on top of those fees. You cannot spit without a permit, cops are everwhere and they enforce the rules. Neighbors tell on neighbors and everyone is in everyone else's business. Again, large sums of cash will cure most of these meddlesome inconveniences. Besides, all the cash is fake in BizarroWorld. The government prints it out of thin air so spend all you want. All products in BizarroWorld come from China because American businesses hurt the environment and trample on the little people so they are strictly outlawed.


    So, be safe once you arrive and I will see you in the next segment where we explore the planetary regions that should be avoided.
   

A Traveler's Guide to BizarroWorld

    Welcome to the Traveler's Guide to BizarroWorld. In this pamphlet you will find many interesting subjects and sites to ponder. It has been my pleasure to piece together such a valuable companion to the Common Sense Individual as he/she navigates this amazingly interesting planet. I wish to address a few crucial points as you embark on your journey. This is purely for your safety and (partly) as my way of saying "I told you so.."

Introduction
    BizarroWorld is incredibly dangerous. Only the strong of conviction and politically educated should attempt the more remote areas of the planet. Be prepared to lose everything you stand for and be told you are insane, racist, homophobic and/or a Right Wing Nutbag. Be sure if you plan on running for office you are willing to be crucified for what you believe in. This is a particularly dangerous part of the planet. The bodies are everywhere.
    Nothing here makes any sense whatsoever. Alcohol helps for it is the only way for an educated person to understand the BizarroWorlders. Lies are the truth in BizzarroWorld. Deception is key to the power of the hegemony that dominates this planet and extends to others worlds within the system. For instance, at one time the leaders dared the inhabitants to reach for space. They attained quite a level of sofistication until the whole thing fell apart thanks to the emergence of The OObi (more on him later).
    The inhabitants are controlled by their own fear and inability to broaden their sense of self determination due to decades of largesse from the ruling elite. That largesse comes in various forms and there is a segment about that in this companion. This control creates suspicion amongst the dwellers so be careful how you proceed with statements that make total sense in the real world. This is BizarroWorld!
    The America you have departed from no longer exists here. It is not the exceptional nation built upon freedom, liberty and justice. It has morphed into some amalgamate of a planetary government called The UN. What rules apply in other areas of the planet apply here. However, long standing priciples of Government of a Republic do not apply to those areas..Nor do they here. In some areas lawlessness is rampant and supported politically, financially and morally by this UN. There is a palpable hatred amongst the majority of the inhabitants of these principles. Those who still cling to it have gone underground and formed movements in an attempt to restore the American Republic. Many of these groups are the same ones you will see targeted as you journey through this land. Be mindful: do not attempt contact unless you can live up to the standards and consequences listed above. You will be viewed as "one of them". Do not aid or comfort or you will never see your Homeworld again. You could be killed.

    With that covered, lets talk about what you will need for survival equipment on this desolate orb. The first thing you will need is a very thick skin. Preferably the texture and thickness of Bison works well here. (Note: If you accidentally manage an unfortunate confrontation with a BizarroWorlder, just say you are a Bison. They will immediately want to protect you from everything, including yourself. Claiming you are an "old growth" forest has worked for other travelers).
    Weapons are banned here. Only law enforcement and government are allowed to have them. Again, be careful if you choose to carry one. Keep it hidden and if you are forced to use it, HIDE THE BODY!!
    This brings me to the next piece of equipment. You will need a shovel. One reason, to bury any bodies you acumulate and to clear away the immense debris fields known a bullshit. BizarroWorld makes so much of it it is piled up from horizon to horizon somewhere around the neck level. This explains the brown rings around the inhabitant's necks. It has nothing to do with the sphincter.
    Feel free to bring any electronic texting/phone device you wish. 99.9% of all BizarroWorlders are transfixed on theirs. This can be useful due to the fact that they pay no attention to anything else except those things. Car accidents are frequent so be carefull walking or driving, no one is paying attention.The only exception is if you say, text, post or print something that one of them deems 'offensive". The possibility of all out war can turn on a phrase, a photo, a drawing, so be very careful in this regard. You could be arrested or killed.
    Dress accordingly for the weather (ladies no innapropriate shoes or revealing clothes if you vist the Middle Eastern side of the planet). Wear nothing with a political emblem on it. Hide any example of military service unless you are actively in the service and on deployement. This has been found to intimidate BizarroWorlders and can be very effective during unfortunate confrontations. In more recent cases however, such military personnel have been asked  to remove such uniforms.
    Bring medicine. Get all your shots. Learn First-Aid before coming here and bring a kit with you!. A medical emergency could send you into the labyrinth of their government run medical facilities. To date, millions are presumed still lost and wandering in there as a result of an unintended injury while visiting. Most are presumed dead. Don't be one of them.
    Finally bring losts of cash but be sure to keep it hidden and close to your body. Theft is a very real possibility although most of it takes place on a governmental level. Most of these people however, can be bribed with large amounts of cash. You will see this if you attend a protest put on by any of the Unions that dominate the landscape. Please view these from afar for they tend to get out of hand and result and violence and property damage.

    With that I hope you enjoy the next chapters that will be published in the days ahead as you prepare for your trip into...BizarroWorld

Mitt Romney Meets The Bizarro-Worlders

    Once again the religion of peace demonstrates it's purpose of being. Once again the Lame Stream Media demonstrates it's purpose of being and Obama has lost all touch with reality.
    The stunning performance of Gov. Mitt Romney at his recent press conference shows the balls this country needs so as to remind the rest of the world that you do not screw with the United States. I could care less about the media fallout from this. The media is wrong and any prudent observer immediately recognizes this every time some anchor-celeb opens his/her maw.
    Romney wasn't just stunning  because of the  campaign angle of his address, he was stunning because everything he said was totally correct. Romney is (what I call) a polymorph. He is skilled at educating himself about anything he wishes to engage in. He did this as Governor when he tackled the Big Dig scandal, Mass Healthcare, his careful ballet with The Beacon Hill crime syndicate, never mind his private and business pursuits. This is a busy guy and he has his shit wired.

    He is probably the only guy in politics today who is going to tell it straight to the American People about what actually needs to be said and done to successfully prosecute this war.
   
    The Liberals and their Goebbels-esque media propaganda machine have labelled this "The Arab Spring." What a bunch of morons.

    This region of the world isn't exactly brimming with contributions to the world's roster of historical achievements. Quite the opposite. The wind changes direction and these idiots have another reason to jihad. At least the internal conflicts in black Africa stay internal, you don't see a car bombing in England from the Nagumbu Liberation Front of Uganda on the evening news. But not these other guys, they are mindless savages and they want to kill us all. Many Middle Eastern States are failed states and more are failing as I write. How's that Arab Spring workin' for ya now?
    The apology thing didn't work Mr. O. This war is an after thought for him, it always has been. The recent losses to our side these past three years is a direct result of the scaling back of our words, our deeds and our intentions from the highest office. It wasn't a political slap on the part of Romney. It became a political slap when Obama said Romney "..shoots from the hip..". It became political when the state department made, then backtracked on their comments about some Coptic Christian film. At least we sent in 50 Marines..Yeah, good luck to those guys.

    I know this is going to come as a shock to most Americans (so I put out cookies and milk). Romney has every right to say what he wants about his convictions. I like that. One of the cool things about what Romney did is that this guy has the dough to make it happen. I am talking full court press here! Then he does it again when he refused to take back his statements. The media exposed themselves as the hobbled, pathetic nincumpoops they are. So, naturally he was publicly excoriated for excersizing his First Amendment Rights by the First Amendent Rights complaining Liberal Media..Welcome to Bizarro-World Governor.

    The film in question has taken a back seat. It is another example of media chewing on it's own leg. We placate to the sensitivities of our enemies to the extent that we are willing to silence the voice of opposition in a nation where that opposition is Constitutionally guaranteed that right to voice it's opposition. I don't remember seeing any Coptic Christians blowing shit up around the world. But make a film about how you view a situation and you are intolerant and fomenting hate. The world is replete with nations denouncing everything that is American, but we are the intolerant ones.

    Did you know that virtually all of the Christians living in the Arab world (why they stay there is beyond me) either know some one or is related to some one who has been killed, raped, kidnapped, had his/her business/home attacked and destroyed or who has otherwise been fucked with some Islamic Fruitcake Extremist group. They can't even get justice in a court of law over there, that is, if these cases ever go to court to begin with. Historically, Christians and Jews have always been targeted and persecuted in the Arab World.. Kill a Jew get a free coffee at the drive-thru. Behead a Westerner and you win a color TV.

    Equating a film or a statement and critiques of foreign policy as religiously insensitive is indicative of the weakness in our attempt to understand just what we are dealing with here. The Islamic radicals see this and exploit it as a weapon. In fact, our constant second guessing how our enemies may react is one reason they are winning this war. They will hit us hard with no second thought and we will rub our hands in apology and ask ourselves what we did wrong. Daubing everything with a Muslim litmus test strip will not balance the Ph of the water. Each time we do it all we will discover is that the water is getting worse. By worrying over making matters worse by our actions we certainly have not made anything better.

....And That Is The Diatribe....

The Pathology of Power

    "To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he is doing is good...Ideology-thats what gives evildoing it's long sought justification.... Alexander Solzhenitsyn

    It is eleven pm, do you know where your children are? If you are one of the millions of parents whose children are in the care and custody of the state child protective services, chances are you do not know where they are.  You do not know if they are hungry, cold, mistreated, incarcerated or at the mercy of a predator. Additionally, the chances of justice for such an outrage is equally as unknowable.

     The ability of the state to confiscate property goes beyond what you 'own', it extends to our most valued of endearments, our children. The most powerful of these is The Department of Social Services. It has been quoted by one anonymous DSS worker that they "are more powerful than the IRS". The aim is to deny parents their natural rights of parenting by replacing the family unit with a humanist centric agency.

    Mandates within the new Obamacare law will extend this power. State agencies and law enforcement are on the front lines. They will be given greater authority to decide what's in "the best interest of the child" and this starts at the public schools. Already children are barred from school if the parents do not provide up to date health records and immunizations.The extended powers will make it a criminal act if a parent decides to not have the child examined at all. Many times have I been told by a school nurse that my children will have to undergo a physical before starting the next grade level. This extension of powers will ensure compliance or families could face the loss of custody of their children and/or criminal prosecution.

    In 1986 parental rights advocate Mary Pride wrote a shocking book titled "The Child Abuse Industry". She spoke of many states creating stricter laws for parents to follow, more mandates for schools to enforce, legislators and courts manipulating the laws to provide more flexibility for Social Services to operate. One of the most important tools used is the notion of "erring on the side of the child". Mary writes:

    "Social workers are given immunity in the laws; it is almost impossible to win a lawsuit when a child is removed in error..."

    Legalized kidnapping of your child is protected within the language. Never mind that this is shockingly un-Constitutional, that has no bearing what-so-ever. Even scarier is that when challenged in various State Supreme Courts, the courts ruled in favor of the language..It is in the best interest of the child.

    But, they are wrong, they are dead wrong. In fact they are clinically insane. This is insanity. This is a usurpation of one of our most hallowed creeds. The sanctity of the family. What normal, rational person would agree that this is a good idea? Are all the courts corrupt? Are all the legislators power hungry? Why has there not been more attention paid to what is taking place? Because it involves children and no one wants to see a child hurt. Social Services (literally) would rather have one thousand children wrongfully put into state hands than allow one child to suffer at the hands of an abuser.

    Do you remember the openning of the 2012 Olympics? One of the venues was put on by the Health and Human Services. Music played, lights flashed as happy little children bounced on hospital beds with attentive government nurses attending to them. I went to shed, got my twelve gauge and shot my television. I was stunned. I felt as if Aldous Huxley had reached out from the grave.

    "Believing oneself to be perfect is usually the sign of a delusional mind.." Data, Star Trek, First Contact

    There is an institutional policy that parents and parenting is inherantly dangerous to children and that a system designed by health professionals and child psychologists can provide a better environment for them. Mary Pride points out that they want to create a "perfect" child.
   
    Perfect specimens of Nazi Germany excersized on movie reels for the German public. Happy children bounced on beds in a HHS skit for the Olympics. The young are targetted for the reason of promoting a positive face on government control over our lives. In the documentary film "Generation Rx" by Kevin P Miller drug companies and the FDA are complicit in the drugging of our children with powerful psychotropes. With the help of Social Services, HHS and the public school system over 130 million children are on ADHD drugs today. They are creating that "perfect" child and parents are powerless to intervene.

    In 1991 FDA officials (many execs from BigPharma) heard testimony from adults who suffered side effects of these drugs. Many side effects included attempted suicide. The FDA, after hours of testimony by over five hundred people determined that there was not enough evidence to warrant any kind of warning. A panel of doctors from the National Health Institute in 1998 were tasked to define the symptoms and causes of ADHD. After a three day press filled forum they failed to define ADHD. A reporter from NPR asked the panel for a specific definition. They failed to provide one. Dr. Mark Vonnegut is on camera stammering through a botched attempt to narrow down the parameters of the disease.

    The scary thing is that it will not be your private family doctor who examines, tests, and diagnoses your child with ADHD. It will be reported to a state agency by a school administrator using a very thin litmus test to determine the diagnosis. Using the new mandates, recommendations are made and compliance becomes mandatory. Most children in foster care today are required by the state to undergo some form of medicating for ADHD. Over the past twelve years over three quarters of the school shootings were perpetrated by children long subjected to psychotropic serotonin inhibitors for ADHD.

    Our children's lives are over-run with counselors, therapists, specialists. Their goal is is to ensure that there is a steady stream of new patients. The definition of "normal" is marginalized in order to show that the number of "abnormal" people is growing, thus demanding more laws, more money and more power. These new definitions are soon to arrive at a school near you.

     From the Worcester Public Schools Handbook:

    "The school based health care center provides services to promote the physical and emotional well being of the students. These centers provide a host of services from physical, immunizations, counseling, screenings and nutrition."..Well, isn't that special? A government nurse poking and prodding your kid.

    Now, a person might think this is all well and good. After all, there are neglectful parents and abusive parents. No one wants to see a child harmed. But it is difficult to explain ti the very same person the dangers of what we have allowed to transpire. It has come to my attention several times while researching this story that even parents themselves are perfectly willing to fork over their kids to government control. Legislators who have challenged the Constitutionality of these mandates have been labelled as anti child, anti mother, anti woman. Just look at the vitriol from the left over abortion and birth control. Every feminist group and "concerned citizen" group will will back any candidate who trumpets more protections for women and children. It's a cash cow that keeps on milking. The more we promote single motherhood, marginalize fathers, grow the welfare roles, brand more children as "at risk", the more money you get for your agency.

    A meeting last August of the 15th District of Worcester candidates centered around the idea of an income tax increase to be specifically aimed for Social Services. I thought, I woke up into another dimension. The discussion fell along party lines (as usual) with the Democrats accusing the Republicans of not caring about women and children. Few numbers were given to justify the tax increase but, the discussion underscores how important this issue is to the agencies themselves and themselves only. We have entered Bizzarro-World now where we actually discuss the funding of corruption in public forums and no one blinks an eye.

    Finally, the Family Court System, tasked with the legalities of child abuse. Unlike a criminal case the state is not required to prove itself "beyond a reasonable doubt". Here is where the courts and Social Services have joined forces to create a wholly separate and independent court complete with their own rules. The burden of proof is shifted to the accused. A Social Worker doesn't have to testify, you never face your accuser, the decisions are made before you enter the court room and every one for the state is granted immunity (not that any one would purposely lie). Should the accused be exonerated there will be no recompence for their troubles. If the child has been removed it will still take months for the family to be reunited. The emotional scars will be deep and everlasting.

    Our rights are granted by God but, our laws are written by men and are subject to error. Historically, the evolution of government has always lead to tyranny. Without careful consideration of our desire for protection and what that entails: Historically, it will be the people who allow tryanny to foment..

....And That Is The Diatribe....
   

   

Defining The Machine

Patrick Barron
Christopher Maider

“This isn’t about campaign finance reform. This is about people doing something that is wrong.”

Patrick Barron
2010 Independent
Congressional Candidate


In 2010 America elected a new breed of Congressional and Senatorial Representatives. The idea and the hope was that they would bring back accountability to the legislative process. They would be accountable to the people who elected them. The ‘Tea Party’ moniker that was attached to all these candidates lent an air of fiscal accountability and representation for the people to this new breed. It would help to propel them into office. What the Tea Party did not know, what most of the candidates didn’t know and what none of the media reported on is the enormous money machine which overshadows the entire legislative process after some one gets elected into office.

We are not talking about campaign finance reform, that is a totally separate argument. Rather, we are talking about an ongoing assembly line of party dues and party fundraising that begins in the chambers of Congress. In effect it is a ‘pay to play’ system of government. To claim that the system is ‘rigged’ does not even begin to scratch the surface. This includes how members rise through the ranks to obtain senior or “leadership” positions as they’re termed. This involves how committee assignments are rewarded, how becoming a ranking committee member is decided, how one can attach their name to bills which may aid in their re-election, to moving or stalling pieces of legislation.

When a candidate is seated he/she is immediately put onto a treadmill of constantly raising money. The demand is so paramount that two representatives, Pete Sessions (R Tx.) and Mike Fitzpatrick (R Pa) missed their swearing in ceremony because they were busy in the capital hosting celebration parties at the capital visitor center which many deemed to be fundraisers. Incidentally fundraising anywhere within the Capital building is not allowed.

Mike Fitzpatrick, a newly elected 1st term congressman missed his swearing in ceremony to host a fundraiser. To those who elected him this is a bad sign. To party leadership like Pete Sessions who also is the head of the Republican National Congressional Committee, they sit back and smile thinking this Fitzpatrick kid has a future in Washington.

Within the RNC and DNC just across the parking lot of Congressional offices and Capital Hill special “call centers” are set up for this very purpose. The list of donors to both parties are some of the most prominent companies in the United States today.

Failure to raise the designated money or failure to partake in the process altogether will result in being tossed under the bus come next election cycle. Your proposed Bills will die before the ink is dry, no committee seats for you Congressman, and no invites to those special luncheons either. The official is simply cut from the herd and is cast into a political no man’s land of obscurity to serve out their short and ineffectual one and only term.

However, compliance and/or raising more than your share of funds propels you into that special club of the game players. You get on that committee if not the chairmanship itself. You get all the CNN and FOX interviews you can handle, fully equipped staff, free parking and day passes at Sandals.

Lt. Col. Allen West is one of these special people in that special club. Part of his job is to strong arm other Reps for money. That is why he gets all the television time, sits on committees and ensures party support come November 2012.

The amount of time raising money is substantial. Every member of the house says they dislike this task yet most are not willing to give specifics to it. Most estimates have it between 30 and 70% of their time is raising money. Committee hearings are scheduled around fundraisers. Votes have been scheduled around fundraisers. They say they’re so busy which creates midnight and weekend votes. Imagine if they didn’t fundraise! They could vote between 9-5 Monday through Friday! The Parties won’t allow it.

What is more concerning is 30 to 70% of what a member of congress fundraises is given away! The money is transferred directly back to the parties or given to other members to buy influence which may be beneficial to their election, move or stall legislation and buying committee assignments.

All members entering congress are immediately in debt. They are automatically assigned what is called “party dues”. This is an annually assigned amount each member must pay or transfer from their campaign accounts to the Party coffers. The amounts are astronomical. For Party leadership Nancy Pelosi must raise 25 million dollars for the party. Minority whip Steny Hoyer is set to hand over 800,000 from his campaign account and raise another 2.5 million for the party, assistant leader and leader of the congressional black caucus James Clyburn will transfer 600,000. and raise another 1.5 million for the party. This is not optional if they want to be in leadership and stay in leadership. This is how they obtain leadership.

As reported in Politico the Democrats 2011 dues ranges from 75,000 for freshmen with no standing to 250,000 for ranking members of committees (which is what Jim McGovern D MA. pays). Sub-committees upwards of 500,000 for DCCC council leaders and deputy whips.

There is staff provided (or hired) specifically charged with the task of navigating this Niagra Falls of a financial rafting trip! There is a person who runs the call centers in both the RNC and DNC. Aids also participate in the process.

Ethics rules forbid the use of Congressional/Senatorial offices to raise campaign funds. So, with bi-partisan support as a show of political unity convenient offices were set up just across the parking lot of Capitol Hill.

But the Ethics rules are broad in scope. However, there has never been a rule or law that a politician hasn’t found a loophole to jump through. In fact, the Code of Ethics isn’t a ‘law’ or ‘rule’ in the strict sense of the word but rather “....a concurrent resolution expressing the ’sense of Congress’ rather than a statute (and)... represent continuing traditional standards of ethical conduct to be observed....” (House Ethics Manual).

A politician cannot (from his/her office) make campaign calls, send a letter to a contributor, even take or leave a message to a contributor. That’s what the RNC and DNC offices across the parking lot are for!

Unless, said contributions come from other members for party dues. Not only does this money pass freely but this ‘machine’ is running full throttle almost 24/7 during the entire politician’s term in office.

In a 2/25/09 article for Roll Call, Jackie Kucinich brought to light how the RNC secures party dues. “....if they do not pony up their dues, they will get no help for their re-election campaigns....” Michigan Rep. Mike Rogers (R) told lawmakers in one of those secret, closed door meetings “.... if you do not participate, you do not get help....” He then passed around a contract for all those present to sign or get left behind.

In 2010, The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) demanded an average $50,000 dollar hike in party dues. Former DCCC Chair Rahm Emmanuel was known to threaten Democratic lawmakers to be banned from DCCC offices (across the parking lot) until they kicked in the 50K. (Aaron Blake, The Hill).

Appointments to positions are now based on how much that politician has contributed; not their experience or knowledge. This facilitates party ideology and political polarization. Bi-partisan used to mean a meeting in the middle. Today it means whichever party is in the minority has to succumb to the party in the majority and to procedural strategies employed by that majority.

During the 2010 Congressional campaign in the 3rd District. Sitting Congressman Jim McGovern was hammered in a debate about why he raised over 2 million dollars in two past campaigns where he ran unopposed. He darted around the question a few times until he finally answered, “..because I can...”. And he was right. So can’t others. The party will tell you who to call, how many times, send in another list after you finish the first one and set the amounts to raise. In fact, the longer you serve and pay to play the better the money gets. That’s why Congressman McGovern “can”.

Curiously, the media pays no attention to this. The emphasis is on “campaign finance reform”, an appropriate, yet deceptive way of keeping the public’s attention elsewhere. The process simply promotes the one person who can benefit the party and the donors. With the media split down Left and Right there is little incentive to report this practice and expose it for what it is.

What would it matter anyways? What does either side gain from exposing the other side to a practice they both partake in? Sure, a few disgruntled voters this year and a few political sacrificial lambs to the media then business as usual after the election. It is a process that has gone on for decades and may take decades to remove. We must hold leaders accountable, find the ones who will not be part of the machine and work diligently to help them get re-elected (since the party won’t). Perhaps these are the people we are looking for.





Patrick Barron is creator of http://definingthemachine.com/ and was the 2010 Ind. Candidate for Congress in the 3rd Dist. Mass. Patrick works for the Mass. Dept. of Mental Health.



Christopher Maider is the writer of The Lexington Green at

http://thelexingtongreen.blogspot.com/ and producer of The Meat and Potatoes 2012 Youtube Channel at

http://www.youtube.com/user/MeatandPotatoes2012?feature=mhee

Deciple Deval

    Deciple Deval has unleashed his fiscal 2013 budget at a merry 5.something billion dollars. Of course, the legislators want to tweek his recommendations a little. The largest chunk of pie is consumed by Health care. Gotta love that Romenycare!. Hey, didn't he say something about repealing another form of penalizing legislation? I digress.

    The best part of the State budget has to do with EBT cards. I just found out that you can buy porn, booze and strippers with your EBT card. Or, you used to be able to, at least. Seems the legislators want to limit the use of them in these types of joints, but Deciple Deval wants to just prohibit the use of them entirely. Either plan is fine by me. What perplexes me is: You mean I could have bought porn, booze and strippers with my EBT card? I miss all the fun stuff! The fact that this thing existed and now they are agueing over the details of the repeal is ridiculous. Who is doing this? What wife lets her man go to the titty bar with the family food budget?

    I can just see alot of nights on the couch if I came home with  peanut butter and jelly and a stack of Hustlers and a quart of Jim Bean instaed of food for the family. She would cut off my head and no judge in the world would convict her for it.

    The other thorn in my side is the looming 51% of the budget instantly tasked for Healthcare. Am I the only one who finds this diturbing? Every one against Government run Healthcare have pushed the same aguements over the ballooning costs and the proponents have gafawed it away. Well, surprise, surprise, surprise, the portion has grown from the projections of a few million to over 51%.. DeLeo, that corpulent crook, blasts something about "political grandstanding.." It is political granstanding you ape!

    Reality is right before our eyes Massachusetts. The roads suck, the job market sucks but teachers and hospitals get all the gravy. That may take care of your patrons Mr. Speaker and Mr. P. but try being an average citizen here and need to see a doctor on your blessed Mass Healthcare. All the money thrown at this monster still does not resolve the problem of its lumbering and inability to live up to the standards we were promised.


....And That Is The Diatribe....

Conservative Talk and Awesome Rock Part II

Memoirs II




The winter of 2008-2009 was where I learned the art of radio broadcasting. It isn’t as difficult as one would think. My show was live, no preproduction save for the writing of the show to guide me through time slot. PJ would open the show and I would do a couple of segments with music, news or an interview. This is where I met Chris Damico of Great Blue.

It is never what you know, it is who you know.

Chris had this great band called The Great Blue. He also ran a recording company called Rivet Productions and was close friends with my sons. He and his band appeared on the show several times to play. In return I got to cut some promotional cd’s for the show. It took two hours to make a thirty second bit. Anyone who does recording knows what I mean.

This is also where I began to run into the drunken obnoxiousness of the guy on before us. I told you about those characters. PJ noticed it also and would get testy about getting on air on time. It rarely happened. I was in no position to say anything about it while there but I would easily lend my opinion to PJ after they left.

Hey, I like to partake but business is business and as much as I would have something of my own, I was gearing up for the show and always had my material in order. It was all fun and games while ramping up to the moment, but then we would stand there for the last five minutes while the clock ticked down and we had not been given the chance to seat ourselves and get our show uploaded. It drove PJ nuts!

You have to picture in your mind how this was. Imagine you have taken all your music collection and tossed it onto a table and just spread it out. Now open all those cases and toss that around. That’s what the console looked like. Fine, that’s his style. However, it was still lying around there as we were going live. We had to clear a ‘spot’ just for ourselves.

Oh, but it gets better (or, worse): Then as we are live, he would be shuffling around in the studio getting his act together snapping cases and packing in the backround. This continued well into my tenure and would grow in scope and become downright unprofessional.



Things were about to get worse for Captain PJ. He would enter a spate of bad luck I would not wish on anyone.



During one of our shows in Jan of 09 PJ asked me to take the music and our bags to the car and get it started. The show was wrapping down to its last ten minutes and it was cold out. I agreed, good idea.

So I go outside and walk around to the driver’s side door. The car is parallel parked along the curb right at the studio frontdoor. The streets are deserted except for one car coming down Main Street my way. I got the key into the door and looked down the road one more time to see if I could get into the car fast enough before this guy was passing me. Good thing I did. The first thing I noticed was that he was speeding up and veering slowly into a direct line to me. I let go of the key and looked the other way. Don’t want to get hit trying to avoid getting hit. I step back with the bags and now I can see that this idiot is going to crash into PJ’s car. I got about to the middle of the road right over the double yellow line when..WHAM!!!

Bits of plastic and glass mushroomed right in front of me. Good thing I wear glasses. I got peppered. The two cars heaved forward from the front door across an intersection a distance of over sixty feet. They both stopped with PJ’s car fish tailing into the street kitty-corner and the two idiots hitting the stop sign at the intersection. A guy had been coming the other way and was now stopped opposite the scene.

“Did you see that?!” I said.

“ I saw that, don’t look good.”

I walked over to the opposite curb and put down the bags.

“Dude, you got a phone? Can you call 911?” I said.

“Already on it. You OK?” I looked towards him and nodded then headed slowly towards the wreckage.

I really thought these guys were dead. They had to hit going at least fifty. I looked into the car and could see two bloody heads buried in now deflating airbags. In the distance I could hear sirens from the city. I suddenly thought of PJ. He had not come out. He was unaware of this whole thing and was going to lose his shit when he comes out.

Emergency vehicles were everywhere, lights, sound, Jaws of Life, onlookers, the whole nine yards. All we were missing was a news chopper. The idiots were (actually) OK, just wasted. One of them was using his cell phone to tell some one that “..yeah, yeah, we’re on our way..” The other one was accusing me of cutting him off. It was an amazing moment. The cops placed them all under arrest right on the scene.

Then PJ came out of the studio.



“My caaa! My fucking caa! (his thick Mass accent). “What the fuck happened to my fucking caa!”

What could I do? The cops were great and helped calm him down. I felt really bad and kind of blamed myself. I have horrible luck and most things go in a generally bad direction for me. This was not the first time I’ve had experiences like this.

All we could do was sit there and watch. The cops took our statements and in under an hour the streets were quiet again. Although we were fine there was one unresolved issue. We were now without transportation, we were both broke and it was three am. I soon learned how comfortable a desk chair can be for sleeping and the reviews are not good.

We ended up going home around seven with the Latin Christian DJ who did a religious show. He lived in our town and would be going that way anyhow. He was amazed over the story. Needless to say nothing got done that day.

For a couple of weeks my wife and I drove PJ to and from work. I was feeling really bad the whole time. I also drove to the station even though I had a revoked license. We even took a trip tot the junkyard to sawsall his trunk open to get his clothes and tools.



One day in February I get a phone call from his sister. PJ was in the hospital with pneumonia and diabetes. That week’s show was cancelled as well as the next. I went to visit him over this time. He looked like hell but was responding and alert, so I felt happy for him and told him so. I was given instructions on what to do and he told me that I was taking over that slot. He was going to be in the hospital for weeks and he told me that it was time to take over.

In February of 2009 The Meat and Potatoes Show went full on air.

"Nazis, I hate those guys!" Indiana Jones

There are few regimes, periods of history that are most reviled, most studied and, yet, referred to and portrayed in many movies than the Nazis. Japanese war movies do not share the same billing due to the sensitivities surrounding the internment of Japanese Americans. That specter haunts every military engagement we undertake with Government going to great lengths to ensure racial harmony with the particular ethnicity we are currently at war with. The current tendency towards placating Muslims may be misguided, though, considering the foremost tenet of Islam which is the destruction of anyone and anything non-Islamic. While open persecution of any race and religion is abhorrent, we must look closely at any group that openly professes hatred towards the United States and treat that group differently according to their actions. We do not tolerate the KKK or the Aryan Brotherhood with political correctness therefore, we must neither tolerate terrorist organizations and the religious arm that supports it with that arm hiding under Constitutional immunity.


Nazism is a form of Socialism. The Third Reich controlled all the media, all the daily operations of Germany and the German Economy. Like the Czars that now dominate the President’s Cabinet, the Ministers under Hitler were each assigned specific authority over various sectors of Government. One of the most notable figures was Albert Speer.

Albert Speer was the central planner, designer and chief ombudsman for Hitler’s plan to rebuild Germany. His desire to create a magnificent, modern Berlin was an obsession and Speer used his architectural training and experience to bring this obsession of Hitler’s to fruition. Speer had remarked in his memoirs about the Fuhrer’s accuracy in designs and ended up using many of the sketches with little changes.

The concept of Central Planning is nothing new. Rome did it, Greece did it, China is doing it and all over the world agencies are tasked with creating laws to regulate and secure construction standards. Free societies have the luxury of open competition and the ability to create art with the development of Real Estate. There is no Government office that controls content. This was done away with during the Third Reich. Hitler and Speer controlled the entire visual experience for the public. The underlying rule was “make everything grand and appear to last forever.” It had to be, considering Hitler planned on a thousand year reign. The Chancellery Building had a huge dome and the entryway was massive. The stadium where the great speeches were given was ringed with giant spotlights that pointed straight up as if to carry the message of Hitler’s power to God himself. Sir Neville Henderson referred to the Nuremburg Party Rally event as “.. a cathedral of ice.”

Another important factor in all of Speer’s designs was to create something uniquely German. Both Hitler and Speer detested the worn out, old look of Berlin and thought nothing as they razed structures and forced out residents and businesses. Although many aspects of Greco-Roman architecture were employed there was a desire to stay away from an international look. One of Speer’s earlier professors (Tessenow) had stated that there was no such thing as an international culture and that style was from the people native to their nation.



I will state here and now (and the reader can debate me later) that Nationalism is intrinsic to Americans. Nationalism is not necessarily a bad thing. It is love of country. It can be taken to extremes and part of our history has experienced Nationalism under the concept of Manifest Destiny. Xenophobia is another extreme of Nationalism and we will explore this further in this chapter.

Many of the movies we are exploring in this book are full of national pride. That pride is displayed in scenes, words, actions, ideas, sets, panoramas, wide shots, pull backs and basic story lines. The daily struggles of the poor are symbols of national pride; their resilience, sense of hope and overcoming odds. War movies are symbols of national pride, even the movies that portray negative events. Movies about inventors, doctors, race relations, old westerns, science fiction all reflect a form of Nationalism.

My wife and I love to watch old movies. I love to see the scenes of city streets from the 40’s, the old cars, the hand held phones, how everyone smokes and drinks, the suits, industry, bucolic towns. I am amazed, every time, when a modern ‘time period’ piece is made where research and accuracy create realism. Entire industries have been developed to reproduce items specific to a certain era just for film. This is Capitalism and is counter to the Liberal, Socialist ideas spouted by many daft actors and actresses and Capitalism is an example of national pride, or, Nationalism.

The Nazis could never attain the level of production that the United States had during WWII. Their sense of national pride existed only in the minds of those in power and was expansionist in nature. For sure the Germans loved their country but they were caught up in a revolution orchestrated by a few elitists. It is not unlike the wave of Socialism that runs through America today. It is orchestrated by a few elitists using the dictums of equality and fair distribution to promote an agenda. The Nazi concept of production quotas was just that, a production quota, and entry in a ledger somewhere in the Reichstag. American production is based on profit, efficiency and market domination. Workers are paid a fair wage and are allotted vacation time, healthcare, retirement and are free to leave a job in pursuit of another. Socialist regimes dictate work, pay and seldom allow for diversity or advancement. In a Capitalist society a person can buy stock in a company, save money in a bank, secure a loan, patent an idea and work for themselves. Not so in a Socialist society. Speer’s designs may have been his own but they were the sole property of the Third Reich.





Aside from the great building boom that spread across Germany the Nazis second largest industry was munitions and the development of a modern army. This is where production quotas held their highest importance and were expected to grow exponentially. Hitler’s violation of the Treaty of Versailles may have alarmed the League of Nations but, like the UN today, they were either unable or unwilling to do anything about it. I was amazed during Operation Iraqi Freedom at the debate over the invasion. The UN was feckless and wrote angry letter after angry letter to Saddam Hussein to no avail. Eventually the President formed a coalition and did something about it and the Left complained. I guess the axiom of history teaching us nothing is true.

Hitler’s invasion of Poland was the debut performance for the Third Reich’s modern arsenal and the West was alarmed. The German Nationalist movement had created a monster in the Wermach and Luftwaffe. Some guy named Werner was stuffing Hydrazine into a two story tube and touching it off with an electrical signal. Meanwhile, America’s version of Roosevelt Socialism was barely able to crawl out of the Great Depression by building a dam in the desert and a giant bridge across San Francisco Bay. Our planes were still made of wood and cloth and much of our infantry still rode horses. Hitler’s concept of a fast moving, totally overwhelming invasion force, known as ‘blitzkreig’ (lightning force) was unstoppable. America, still, wouldn’t give blacks weapons but they could dig all the latrines they wanted too. The Fuhrer’s megalomania and xenophobia would result in the worst atrocity unrivalled until Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo and Rwanda combined. Again, here in America the KKK would unleash a rampage across the South against the least armed, most vulnerable and poorest segment of our society. Nationalism, on both sides of the Atlantic had reached a tipping point resulting in some of the most horrific and unforgivable moments in history.