As should be obvious to everyone, the state of our country is an indictment of our system. And the system is definitely set up to benefit those already on top and/or in charge.
This is obvious to anyone with a working brain.
We are apparently heading for a repeat of the Great Depression. With a few new wrinkles, such as Soviet style government intervention in the private sector.
Although, it is beyond the realm of imagination how anyone can possibly believe government, which is the epitome of incompetence and mismanagement could possibly do any better than actual business people.
The main difference being that government employees and/or politicos are generally immunized from any real world consequences of their actions. They have no real investment in the success of what they are doing.
There is no real incentive for performance. All they need to do is provide the appearance of progress or at least action. Make a show of "doing something." They risk nothing. They feel no need of exertion. Nor of performance.
Where an actual business person is laying it on the line. Professionally, financially and personally.. They are at risk.
Yet, virtually every day the Socialists (pronounced Democrats) tell us, via B.O., that they can do it better.
I am waiting for the official announcement of their new Five Year Plan a la the Soviet Union of the 30's 40's and 50's.
The very famously unsuccessful debacles vividly illustration the total incompetence of government to function in that capacity.
As any who could actually read history instead of swallowing whole the Socialist New Speak version of it would know.
This is something Socialists in the educational system discourage, reading real history, that is.
They don't do it, so there is no need for anyone to do it.
They appear to be so caught up in fantasy of wishful thinking.
The world where anything is possible if they just BELIEVE hard enough and long enough.
Where they are so convinced of the "rightness" of their beliefs and opinions that no sacrifice on the part of other people is to great in the service of the "common good".
Because they are sure those beliefs and opinions are so superior to those of the "common man" and will lead to a Brave New World.
A perfect world.
A world where everyone who matters agrees with them and those who don't agree don't matter.
Or they are terrorists, fanatics, criminals,... the list goes on.
Labels are handy when Mainstream Media toss them around in not-so-subtle attempts to discredit anyone who doesn't agree. To prove by clever labeling that those individuals or groups really don't matter, because, after all, they are (see above list).
The basic concept is the same as used in the early church. Heretic. Nonbeliever. Devil worshiper. And other epithets designed to elicit the most emotional reactions from their audience.
And this concept goes back to the Infidel Factor. They don't believe the same as us, therefore they don't matter, they are a hindrance that needs to be expunged. Or at least disarmed and disabled to prevent them from "creating problems".
Or, pointing out problems the powers that be don't want looked at too extensively.
Democracy vs. Republic. What IS the difference?
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Aristocracy, New, Arrogant
The arrogance of the aristocracy is one common thread throughout history.
Whether it is of the social structure of royalty, of castes, of economy, or, as in the case of the United States today, that of power.
Specifically, the political and/or economic power available and used by our political “aristocracy”.
The enormous power that is taken unto themselves with the mantle of public office or high corporate position along with the walls of immunity provided either by enormous wealth or high office also contributes to their feelings of omnipotence and complete “rightness”.
Their world narrows down to an insular game of move and countermove, interminable power ploys, chess moves and Old Boys Club One-up-manship as old as politics itself.
They exist in their insular world of the rich and powerful so far removed from the hoi polloi that they generally consider the rest of the population as little more than pieces to be moved where they will or cattle to be herded with no regard for the feelings or wishes of said cattle.
Witness the recent passage of the “Hellth Care Initiative”.
Even the polls of the Liberal Media stated clearly that no less than 70% of the people the this country did not want the thing to pass. Felt it is/was wrong for the country and disastrous for the health care industry.
And what happened?
They passed it anyway.
Why?
Because they feel themselves to be
A. Better informed than Joe Six Pack.
B. Smarter than just about anybody who has to work for a living.
C. Possessed of a divine right to rule over the masses.
D. Certain that the rest of the population is just not quite competent enough to wipe their own Noses without “aristocratic” help and guidance.
E. All of the above.
And why should they not feel this way.
Do we not allow them to continue this same pattern even after decades of this behavior and oppression of civil rights?
Do we not allow them to erect and hide behind legal walls of judicial immunity that protect them from any consequences of their own actions or programs?
The answer, my friend, Is blowing in the wind. Our trials and tribulations are SELF INFLICTED.
Even though we were unaware that we were doing this terrible thing to ourselves and our posterity, we, as a nation, did this to ourselves in the name of peace and security giving over control of our lives and properties to a government only too eager to take these controls from us and “ease the burden”.
First, allowing the government to take over the education of our children and their children.
We were obviously too busy to be bothered with it, but everybody knows kids have to get educated, so let the government provide the place and the personnel to do our job for us.
And now we reap the whirlwind of our own distraction and inattention.
More on this later.
Whether it is of the social structure of royalty, of castes, of economy, or, as in the case of the United States today, that of power.
Specifically, the political and/or economic power available and used by our political “aristocracy”.
The enormous power that is taken unto themselves with the mantle of public office or high corporate position along with the walls of immunity provided either by enormous wealth or high office also contributes to their feelings of omnipotence and complete “rightness”.
Their world narrows down to an insular game of move and countermove, interminable power ploys, chess moves and Old Boys Club One-up-manship as old as politics itself.
They exist in their insular world of the rich and powerful so far removed from the hoi polloi that they generally consider the rest of the population as little more than pieces to be moved where they will or cattle to be herded with no regard for the feelings or wishes of said cattle.
Witness the recent passage of the “Hellth Care Initiative”.
Even the polls of the Liberal Media stated clearly that no less than 70% of the people the this country did not want the thing to pass. Felt it is/was wrong for the country and disastrous for the health care industry.
And what happened?
They passed it anyway.
Why?
Because they feel themselves to be
A. Better informed than Joe Six Pack.
B. Smarter than just about anybody who has to work for a living.
C. Possessed of a divine right to rule over the masses.
D. Certain that the rest of the population is just not quite competent enough to wipe their own Noses without “aristocratic” help and guidance.
E. All of the above.
And why should they not feel this way.
Do we not allow them to continue this same pattern even after decades of this behavior and oppression of civil rights?
Do we not allow them to erect and hide behind legal walls of judicial immunity that protect them from any consequences of their own actions or programs?
The answer, my friend, Is blowing in the wind. Our trials and tribulations are SELF INFLICTED.
Even though we were unaware that we were doing this terrible thing to ourselves and our posterity, we, as a nation, did this to ourselves in the name of peace and security giving over control of our lives and properties to a government only too eager to take these controls from us and “ease the burden”.
First, allowing the government to take over the education of our children and their children.
We were obviously too busy to be bothered with it, but everybody knows kids have to get educated, so let the government provide the place and the personnel to do our job for us.
And now we reap the whirlwind of our own distraction and inattention.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
American Volunteerism
As things and events proceed with this administration, we are all beginning to see just exactly what the Liberals have been telling us all the time.
That they have every intention of tearing down and effectively destroying that American way of life. They are hard at work gutting American traditions and institutions, which, for better or worse, are at the bedrock of America..
Which is not to say “the United States”.
America and its citizens, despite the propaganda, are not the United States government. As anyone who has tangled with the IRS or any of the other alphabet agencies can tell you.
This government, for the past hundred plus years, has had very little concern about its citizens (read as subjects). It has stolen land, freedom, civil rights, lives with abundant disregard for either their own laws or the rights of its victims.
Americans, the actual people of this country, are the most giving and volunteering people on the face of the earth. This is evidenced virtually every day by their actions is response to emergencies and disasters all around the globe. And they continue to volunteer for Armed Forces and other volunteer organizations across the country in record numbers, only partly driven by the current economy.
In truth, Americans volunteer by the thousands regardless of the economic ebb and flow. They volunteer for disaster relief efforts around the world, not just their time and their safety, but cash and goods as well. Without seeking reward other than the feeling of doing good.
Where the government, in similar circumstances, is more inclined to look for the benefit to itself or its image. And, as proven by the response to Hurricane Katrina, fairly incompetent at the job at hand.
Riddled by programs run by incomptetents, bleeding graft, and overseen by preening politicians seeking publicity for themselves, the government has itself generated the oxymoron, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”
Our government “of the people, by the people and for the people,” has grown into a tyranny of bureaucracies. One after another, seeking to deprive supposed “citizens” of their money, property, and rights, these bureaucracies are operated by faceless, anonymous and therefore untouchable entities, protected by the courts and the weight of government muscle.
The alphabet agencies are dedicated to the virtual opposite of their mandates.
The ATF, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, make their daily bread by denying the American public all of the above, directly violating their own charters and the Constitution of the United States, through outright seizure, oppressive taxation and propaganda painting all opponents of their pogroms as drug dealers, terrorists, organized crime or child pornographers/molesters.
The I.R.S.(Internal Revenue Service) seems dedicated to bankrupting and/or destroying everyone who doesn’t have enough to pay for the high end CPA or tax lawyer.
The DEA, Drug Enforcement Agency, has apparently dedicated itself to ignoring the actual “drug lords” while rounding up literally millions of drug users. Jails in the United States are filled with people serving incredibly long sentences for possession and/or use of drugs. Street level dealers who are mostly doing nothing more than trying to support their own habits. Or make a few bucks on the side. And it IS comparatively a very few bucks, after looking at some of the money shipments accidentally found and confiscated by the actual good cops in the Coast Guard or Border Patrol.
It is not the individual officers, the rank and file, who are to blame, most are dedicated to the concept of “to protect and to serve, but the bureaucracies in which they find themselves entrenched and under the command of self-serving and disinterested politicians or other bureaucrats with agendas of their own.
And now, the Patriot Act, while virtually gutting what is left of the practical Constitution, has given us the Department of Homeland Defense. An Agency that is the Washington Bureaucrats dream, answering to no one outside of the White House, Above the Constitution, outside the jurisdiction of the courts, as if any judge would commit professional suicide by thwarting them.
They trample the rights of American citizens on a daily basis, under the guise of “fighting terrorism”, which even if they were serious about it, they can’t do now, because the Liberals are working in “Newspeak” to change the definitions of the very terms and language to make terrorists, real terrorists, into “victims” and victims into blind, faceless, nonhuman statistics
. This dehumanization of the victims of government actions is not new to this government or even this administration. It goes back hundreds of years.
The History Channel recently ran a program about genocides through recent history.
Communist Russia killed untold millions of their people under the Soviet Regime, from Lenin’s progroms to Stalin and later.
Communist China under Mao killed nearly 15 million of their own trying to get failing communist ideals to work in an agrarian society.
Laos, Cambodia, VietNam, several African nations engaging in tribal warfare, Bosnia and Croatia. It is a very long list of sitting governments and leaders, many of whom current Liberals idolize( including Obama) who had no problem either killing or allowing to die through neglect, millions and millions of THEIR OWN PEOPLE.
Do not fool yourselves into believing it could not happen here. It has already happened, though on a small scale. And, of course, the government got to put their own spin on such events when they happened.
A short list.
Agent Orange; radiation and chemical testing in New York subways and elsewhere; blind LSD tests w/out the knowledge of the participants; the syphilis test in Muskogee on AfricanAmericans; agent provocateurs in the civil unrest of the 60’s; marching soldiers into the desert in Nevada to test radiation exposure and its effects on healthy humans, who happened to be wearing uniforms.
There are many more incidents, the discovery of each was followed by complete denial in the face of damning evidence, or by abject apology and the promise of “Never again.”
All the while they move the projects to another location under a different name, and, possibly, different personnel, to give the appearance of compliance.
Do Not Fool Yourselves! It Can Happen Here. It has happened here. It is happening here.
Sunday, December 13, 2009
The Infidel Factor
Def: ” That level of perceived difference between one group of humans and another that allows either group to claim moral or ethical high ground in dealing with the other group, permitting varying latitudes and levels of guilt free response to actions and stimuli, real or perceived.”
Thousands of years ago, when people tried to come up with explanations of where they came from, who created the world, why things happened, etc. , they basically arrived at conclusions that fit with their own languages, which described themselves as “the people”.
The People. The only real people. The only ones that matter.
All others are or were NOT real people. Therefore they were not REAL. Therefore they didn’t matter at all.
Then, when they developed gods, naturally, their gods were the only real gods and too good for those OTHERS. So, they classified the Others as less than real, less than human.
And, following eternal human logic, if they are/were less than human, they are/were animals, to be dealt with as such.
Without compassion or compunction.
This was refined over time by various religions and regimes as infidels or heretics. Which terms have survived, along with a few others, over the centuries to modern day.
Now commonly used to denote differences that are cited as causes for war, terrorism, assaults, beatings, hate crimes, the list goes on.
Whites call other races all sorts of epithets, which basically translate down to “infidel” (not one of US). This justifies any actions they decide to take.
Christians, especially fundamentalists, use other terms as well, and other subtleties of language to describe those they classify as “less than ourselves”, or less than human.
Each separate group or ethnos develops their own terminology and lexicon to describe whatever group they hate this week.
Right now, we are all too familiar with certain Muslim groups and their opinions of infidels and, of course, what they would like to happen to all infidels. Research the term Al-Shariyah. Muslim law for everybody, whether they like it or not. This is the fundamentalist goal for that particular group.
Liberals, American, that is. Have developed their own lexicon for the infidel. Fundamentalist, Sects, Survivalist, Conservative, Home grown Terrorist, and the ever popular Drug Dealer.
More on this subject later. Rx
Def: ” That level of perceived difference between one group of humans and another that allows either group to claim moral or ethical high ground in dealing with the other group, permitting varying latitudes and levels of guilt free response to actions and stimuli, real or perceived.”
Thousands of years ago, when people tried to come up with explanations of where they came from, who created the world, why things happened, etc. , they basically arrived at conclusions that fit with their own languages, which described themselves as “the people”.
The People. The only real people. The only ones that matter.
All others are or were NOT real people. Therefore they were not REAL. Therefore they didn’t matter at all.
Then, when they developed gods, naturally, their gods were the only real gods and too good for those OTHERS. So, they classified the Others as less than real, less than human.
And, following eternal human logic, if they are/were less than human, they are/were animals, to be dealt with as such.
Without compassion or compunction.
This was refined over time by various religions and regimes as infidels or heretics. Which terms have survived, along with a few others, over the centuries to modern day.
Now commonly used to denote differences that are cited as causes for war, terrorism, assaults, beatings, hate crimes, the list goes on.
Whites call other races all sorts of epithets, which basically translate down to “infidel” (not one of US). This justifies any actions they decide to take.
Christians, especially fundamentalists, use other terms as well, and other subtleties of language to describe those they classify as “less than ourselves”, or less than human.
Each separate group or ethnos develops their own terminology and lexicon to describe whatever group they hate this week.
Right now, we are all too familiar with certain Muslim groups and their opinions of infidels and, of course, what they would like to happen to all infidels. Research the term Al-Shariyah. Muslim law for everybody, whether they like it or not. This is the fundamentalist goal for that particular group.
Liberals, American, that is. Have developed their own lexicon for the infidel. Fundamentalist, Sects, Survivalist, Conservative, Home grown Terrorist, and the ever popular Drug Dealer.
More on this subject later. Rx
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Americans vs. U.S.
Just touching base about my/our boys in the service.
Seems the Army Medic just found that he will probably be deployed to Afghanixtan after finishing his training.
Which is in line with what I was telling him.
The other boy/young man is a Marine. which means he will be deployed to Afghanistan after he finishes his training.
As I told them, our government, the U.S., does not now, nor has it for decades, feel ANY responsibility to or for our servicemen and women. They will gladly use them and throw them away without thought of duty or honor on THEIR part, while demanding same from our friends and family wearing the uniforms.
It is this history of pseudo-aristocratic insularity from consequences and or responsibility that has burst my bubble about our country.
Their is no people in the history of the world that has volunteered more, given up more, risked more for the greater good than the people of America. Americans! Not the U.S.
Whenever, whereever or whatever the emergency is, Americans will be there. Helping, volunteering, risking their lives and health.
Giving up their time, money, property. To help others in need. And it doesn't matter what country, season or direction. They are always our front when the call goes out for help and volunteers.
That is why I fly the flag, and salute it when it goes by. The people of this land are our strength and the source of our pride.
Not this greasy, graft ridden, grossly overpaid, golden parachuted, insulated from responsibility pseudo-aristocratic society of the haves that has landed in our government.
Salute the Real Americans, black, brown, red white, oriental who put themselves out there for their neighbors and others. No matter what their religion, color, origin these are the real America now.
Celebrate this. Rx
Seems the Army Medic just found that he will probably be deployed to Afghanixtan after finishing his training.
Which is in line with what I was telling him.
The other boy/young man is a Marine. which means he will be deployed to Afghanistan after he finishes his training.
As I told them, our government, the U.S., does not now, nor has it for decades, feel ANY responsibility to or for our servicemen and women. They will gladly use them and throw them away without thought of duty or honor on THEIR part, while demanding same from our friends and family wearing the uniforms.
It is this history of pseudo-aristocratic insularity from consequences and or responsibility that has burst my bubble about our country.
Their is no people in the history of the world that has volunteered more, given up more, risked more for the greater good than the people of America. Americans! Not the U.S.
Whenever, whereever or whatever the emergency is, Americans will be there. Helping, volunteering, risking their lives and health.
Giving up their time, money, property. To help others in need. And it doesn't matter what country, season or direction. They are always our front when the call goes out for help and volunteers.
That is why I fly the flag, and salute it when it goes by. The people of this land are our strength and the source of our pride.
Not this greasy, graft ridden, grossly overpaid, golden parachuted, insulated from responsibility pseudo-aristocratic society of the haves that has landed in our government.
Salute the Real Americans, black, brown, red white, oriental who put themselves out there for their neighbors and others. No matter what their religion, color, origin these are the real America now.
Celebrate this. Rx
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Tea Party Site, interesting info
Check out this site for citizen info and insight into government operations..
These are the boys. They have recently joined the armed forces of the United States. For better or worse, although they are adults and made up their own minds about the decisions.
I explained that the services are a great place to get training and experience. To experience the world and meet lots of different sorts of people, but I always threw in the proviso that "when the government decides to give a war, if you are wearing the uniform, they kinda expect you to show up."
Well, they did their research and made their decisions, separately as far as I know.
So we'll see. I am proud as Hell and worried at the same time. Just like every other parent that is counting on the "government" to take care of our loved ones.
Fat chance, Right? I have no concerns about the way these two young men will comport themselves while on duty.
I have many concerns with the way they will be treated by this government that seems to think that politicians and State Department suits are more qualified to run a military operation than the people with the training and experience, i.e. the military.
If I believed in God, this is where I would start praying...
Bless all the American children and parents in the Services. Keep them safe. And if you can't keep them safe, make sure the country and the American people take care of them when they get home. l
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