Mon
Mar
22
2010
Evil under the sun
Unparalleled detriment too depressing and tedious to contemplate with the systematic plundering of the productive states by the unproductive federal bureaucracy.
This is a back breaker. I can’t even put words together to describe the enmity I have towards these cowards. Just as cowardice as members under Bush leadership who feigned strength only out of ignorance as it belied their true character.
And now I’ll be the first to not only predict him as a candidate but also eventual winner of the next presidential election in the U.S. in 2012. I also intimated during the 2008 campaigns that we are in for a series of one term presidents due mainly to a degrading economy and a dissatisfied public. I’m aware of Cheney’s recent “bold” prediction of Obama being a one term president but he is unaware of the cause. It won’t stop with Obama.
The American people spoke decisively against a big government, high tax, Washington knows best, pro trial lawyer centralized bureaucratic health system
No, they didn’t speak decisively, Gingrich. They spoke, at best, decisively in 2008 against Bush more than for Obama which simply invited only more big government after the precedent landmarks achieved during eight years of the Bush administration and only to be bested by the next 4 years of Obama. So the folly of big government continues until it fails on all sides.
Until that failure no matter which party rules Washington the American people will always be the losers.
Following the letter of the law but not the spirit is also a tactic used by oppressive governments such as the modern United States through a looser interpretation of the Constitution.
This “rules lawyering”, currently by the Obama administration and the majority in Congress is only the latest in a sequence of a long line of abrogation of the intent of the Constitution itself. Therefore, it is the document itself that is the problem. It was an unnecessary aberration in another wise magnanimous historical time during the late 1700’s.
However, here we are today with nitwits regardless of party affiliation that rule the day. Why anyone still considers differentiating people by political party affiliation as if that makes the person different in any useful manner is simply dumb.
I’m not a professional economist, a lawyer, a doctor, a military general, or a politician. But I have known people that have chosen to dedicate their entire life in pursuit of a career in either of these fields and none of them, “friends” or “associates” have ever demonstrated an appreciation of the principles of a limited government but rather have more or less melded into one of two sides of a political coin. While successful in their respective life long endeavors they also like most people think they are “smarter than average” when in fact they are only average, thats what most people are, just average, and therefore why it is called average. Even so, smart people make dumb decisions all the time. Moreover, it is not unreasonable to say that only a small segment of people currently understand and appreciate the merits of a limited government. May be we aren’t any smarter. But I feel we were smart enough to know the gargantuan mistakes being made in each major case of outlandish federal government action better than any lawyer, economist, doctor, politician, or military member I’ve ever known.
Here is the justification for some of the most outlandish Statist decisions in the last 10 years.
Bush on bailout “the right thing to do”.
Bush on Iraq war “the right thing to do”.
Cheney on Iraq war “the right thing to do”.
Obama on health care “the right thing to do”.
Pelosi on health care “the right thing to do”.
When these people are engaged in a “lively debate” on the respective topic they all ultimately retort, when pushed for justification, by saying “well…wasn’t it the right thing to do?” Instead of exercising restraint morally and ethically they, like most average people, refuse to acknowledge the inconsistencies of a beatnik political philosophy and become sophist. Committing egregious blunders without ever really owning up to a their dumb decision.
What we have is a continuation of the pathology of the normal or let us say average and with it a more salient angle noted here:
…the idea that what seems normal can actually be pathological, and the psychologist Abraham Maslow, who said that healthy individuation requires resisting unhealthy enculturation. We are swimming in unhealthy enculturation at the moment…
One problem is not only congressional representatives and the executive branch support universal health care but rather a large portion of the public supports it. Not only have elected leaders ignored or flubbed the constitution but a large segment of the American public are actually encouraged by it. That to me is a especially worrisome.
But the same symbolic narrative that “led” the duplicitous public to support malfeasance and Constitutional misdeeds in the last administration is employed yet again to lead this nation into the abyss. Tea parties be damned, many people are enticed and invite this type of largess the Democrats are enacting.
More people are getting sicker and older and need increasing medical care so therefore these people, mostly of the baby boom generation, first and second generation immigrants, who are comfortable with a large central government role think the notions of an allegedly free society and highly coupled federal authority are compatible. However, the way of life that led people to leave their native land in pursuit of happiness here in America could not have existed with such a large central governing body that dictates just about everything. It has only lasted until this moment in spite of an ever growing federalization.
Clearly if America’s own home grown population doesn’t understand the guiding principles that contributed to America being known as the land of the free certainly foreigners won’t understand it either. Or if they do, tacitly reject it anyway for what they know, central control and authority, just as many destitute Russians are living today, pining for a return of Lenin. Better to have lived in darkness than die in the light. Russia today
The constitutional underpinning such as it exists in form in the U.S. is unique compared to other contemporaries. Remember other nation-states started with dictators and draconian rule or some type of large central authority and morphed to adopt some constitutional document post Napolean and incorporated voting at some point that merley serves as window dressing by substituting one form of central authority for another.
The U.S. instead started with less, far less of a central authority that became what is known today in attribution to the outcome of the civil war and Lincoln himself. And has ever since grown into the behemoth that we can now observe, far exceeding its original authority and even surpassing that of its contemporaries. No more is such uniqueness as it once existed.
We instead have killed off “Americanism”.
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
A lamp, just a lamp was offered and a chance. A chance that existed like no where else on earth. It was never a guarantee but at least a chance was offered for you to differentiate yourself from being ‘average’ against fewer predilections and bigotry that seemed to belong viscerally in other nations but not here.
For some reason by guaranteeing health care for all no matter how you lead your life of debauchery and ill-repute, by guaranteeing an education no matter how stupid you are, Obama declares anyone anywhere has a chance. But this ‘chance’ existed before Obama was president. The burden was simply your own not everyone else’s. Obama didn’t discover it or create it.
The government was created simply to preserve that a ‘chance’ continued for all. Defining success and achieving it was left up to its inhabitants and not the central state.
Mon
Mar
15
2010
Social Security to start cashing Uncle Sam's IOUs
I suppose the timing of this doesn’t really matter.
“Those bonds are protected by the full faith and credit of the United States of America,” said Barbara Kennelly, a former Democratic congresswoman from Connecticut who is now president of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare.
While Congress must shore up the program, action is unlikely this year, said Rep. Earl Pomeroy, D-N.D., who just took over last week as chairman of the House subcommittee that oversees Social Security.
“The issues required to address the long-term solvency needs of Social Security can be done in a careful, thoughtful and orderly way and they don’t need to be done in the next few months,” Pomeroy said.
Really? But it seems like more of a current problem than health care so why not the same calm assiduous approach?
Redefining social security is not as glamorous as health care “for all” so that matter will be avoided for now while poisoning the American public with new health care legislation will be trumpeted as the historical haymaker that puts Pelosi and other Dems in the books.
There really is no way to frame a redo of social security in a way that is attractive to anyone since its all ready universal and a problem so they avoid it.
The bums. All of them. Some one needs to fire the first shot. Another revolution is the only redress. Voting is simply not enough anymore and people need to realize that. Yet, such an early prognostication of revolution in America will meet mostly detractors from all colors. This is a shame but even if Thomas Jefferson could be made “fresh” and “alive” today to where he would also advocate revolt as the only viable course of action he would also meet the same fate as anyone else. Which is also a shame because pundits, politicians and sycophants all claim to have him in part as their inspiration yet none know him so well at all.
It is absolute and utter ignorance for people today to say that anyone from the founding generation would NOT support a revolution today. Its non sense because they are talking about the very people that started the only revolution in our history and to think they wouldn’t have the nerve to do it again is to be believed only by a stupid person.
It is long over due. Off with Pelosi, Reid, and Obama’s diplomatic heads!
When its time, and the time is in fact very near, I’ll do my part.
Mon
Mar
08
2010
Can I get a witness: The Hurt Locker
These types of war movies are morally repugnant and abhorrent. It received numerous awards for what?
Phillips, 30, from Fayetteville, North Carolina, called the movie’s portrayal of a bomb expert “grossly exaggerated and not appropriate.”
“While it was sexed up quite a bit, I really enjoyed it,” said Tech Sgt. William Adomeit, 31
They have to sex it up. No one will watch it or win awards otherwise. All these movies do besides win awards is make young kids wanna be “macho” as it was portrayed in this fiction.
If the reality could somehow be made into a movie, the likelihood of most pernicious and unjust wars would decrease precipitously.
However, a real enduring problem is quoted here
But one thing the movie got down pat, the experts in Iraq say, is a bomb disposal expert’s love for the adrenaline rush of a job well done. Now, with improved security across Iraq, their missions are rare.
In all the history of the human condition you’ll find no equal to impart on the soul of a man such as that as the tides of war.
Thu
Jan
14
2010
May be unbelievable
Why Palin? Better than the many cannibals that haunt Congress. Take your pick venality or vanity?
John Ziegler, a Palin ally, said Schmidt “is trying to justify an incredibly, poorly run campaign on his part. His career has been greatly damaged in Republican circles. Why would anyone hire Steve Schmidt? He’s tried to torpedo the most popular Republican that there is after running a horrendous presidential campaign.”
Sure, I agree that Schmidt ran a poor campain and it is likely he torpedo’d his own career strikingly similar to Matlin in the aftermath of Bush’s ’92 campaign. But if this is true it really makes little sense for Schmidt to lie about these particular details. Remembering the Couric interview and other embarrassing moments for Palin last year the statements from Scmidt are entirely believable.
To me Palin speaks rather oddly, not sounding stupid like Bush in terms of pronunciation but more like rambling on. Her sentences fit together grammatically but its as if she puts it together just in time to make the whole sentence proper, barely appropriate, and, ahem, believable with the last string of words. Its an odd skill.
However, “[S]he still didn’t really understand why there was a North Korea and a South Korea, Heilemann told the program’s Anderson Cooper. She was still regularly saying that Saddam Hussein had been behind 9/11.”
It’s harder to believe that Schmidt would fabricate these items.
Schmidt continues by saying, “I believe, had she not been on the ticket, our margin of defeat would’ve been greater than it would’ve been otherwise.”
Dumb but true statement by Schmidt but again he is merely telling his own opinion no doubt with the interviewer. But really, any Republican can’t lose by much more than McCain no matter how awful the campaign. However, if McCain would have picked Leiberman as I assumed, the campaign would have appeared a little more deliberate and avoid the embarrassing flaps the camp endured not exhausting so much energy and resources in getting Palin fit for prime-time in terms of image.
Now conservatives must be confusing her general population curiousity with real voter muscle. Conservatives seem to be expecting that they will be able to cash in not only dollars but votes with Palin. I doubt this will happen as time goes by and near the next major national elections as it did in 2008.
But the conservative support is still baffling. Is Sarah Palin really the best thing for the conservatives or Republican party?
Her ascendacy is a bit surreal and reminds of a movie called Idiocracy where an Army experiment gone wrong left the most average Joe in the world frozen for 500 years only to awaken to a world of idiots. He was considered a genius by the masses. It was silly but reminds of Palin who is painfully average in every way. Yet Republicans are acting extremely thrilled. I suspect there is some sexuality involved due to various comments that have surfaced from time to time but there is little motivation for such widespread support among conservatives on that basis alone.
It may be unbelievable but it happened just that way…therefore I nominate the Sleepy Rebels song for Palin and conservatives who are joined together in a most peculiar way. Good luck in 2012!
