It's a Shot into the Soul of America Thing

Dear America,

"Our faith comes in moments; 

our vice is habitual."

Emerson

and it's always darkest before the dawn.

There is a time for compromising and then there is a time for compromising and then there is a time for really, really compromising -- not to be confused with totally losing all scruples.

It's another happy monday and my mind has turned to mush; the over-soul is working overtime.

What is with us these days?  Dare I say, the fixation on doing the wrong thing is winning.  And when I say 'winning' we might as well be letting Charlie Sheen tell it.

Ooooh do tell, just how many jokes have been penned off the title of the book alone? 

"ALL IN."  Really?  really? 

But here we are, about three days into the stunning news surrounding a general and his mistress ...or is it two... when the timing couldn't be better, right?  The old dog was set to meet before congress on Benghazi and answer a few pertinent questions on the decision process, the security issues in the region, etc., etc. and lo and behold, poof.

Slowly, but Shirley, all prime time witnesses to the security breach, and ultimate loss of four Americans, are leaving all countrymen behind -- Clinton, Ham, Petraeus...Here's some plenty good,  good and plenty commentary from Political Outcast and Tad Cronn.

Rumor has it, the president knew about the infidelity months ago, but delayed action until after the election.

Cover up is ALL this administration really knows how to do -- either by way of hardcore and direct action or killing us softly through clandestine meetings, propagandized speeches, overthrows, and  otherwise promoting deviant American policy beginning with the "apology tour" and muscling through the "Arab Spring".... all while dismissing  homegrown terrorism at Fort Hood..... to the evolution of leaving Israel behind.... to Benghazi -- and lest we forget all the green energy loan fraud, Fast & Furious gun running, and the Secret Service simply tying one on....oooooh scandalous...

All in all, America's weakness as a whole has become the new compromise, the new cool; while American foreign policy is now a story of compromise compounded by more compromise.   Does anyone even know what our mission over-there is anymore?

Considering it is Veteran's Day Weekend, after all, gone are the days when we were all equally effected by wartime -- giving up our nylons, going to work in factories while the men went off to battle, making do without for the benefit of the whole.  Gone are the days we felt the war no matter how many hundreds of miles away.

Fast forward to the naked eye of a typical countryman today, it all looks the same, doesn't it; life hasn't changed all that much in the day to day even though we are at war, abroad...  And besides, whether we pull the lever for an Obama presidency or a Romney, what does it really matter, right -- especially to all of you who were 'on the fence' along with the libertarians and those too principled to a fault?

TO everything turn, turn, turn to mush.

One might think we all have our spy-cams up and operating.  It's been fast times for furious sake, sensing the all night stake-out with a donut and a cup of coffee is no longer a thing of the few and the far between; we might as well get used to this; whatever it takes in the call of duty for heat-seekers and truth keepers.   The FBI investigates the CIA who investigates the FBI who investigates the CIA; and in and around it all we look to the Department of Justice -- and not to be outdone or out-sourced, we get to Congressional Hearings laying it all out with reputations on the line and everything.......oooooh..... As America watches it all on live feed, on daytime TV, on Sunday morning talk shows, on cable news, on-line, twenty four seven. 

Of course we are going to get to the bottom of it!

But let's not dwell on this thought for long; heaven help us if the jaded G-nie gets out of her bottle already; the week has only just begun.

You know what I want for Christmas?  I want us to be ALL IN for America, that's what I want.

Enough with the compromise, enough with the gray area, enough with walking the fine line between good and evil, and ending up just making excuses for not doing the right thing in the first place.  Enough.

Here's a newsflash: doing the right is hard today just as much as it was hard yesterday; while surprise! in the 'to be expected' category, it will be every bit as hard tomorrow.  

And now back to my main squeeze on the day, Emerson:

"The Supreme Critic on all the errors of the past and the present, and the only prophet of that which must be, is that great nature in which we rest as the earth lies in the soft arms of the atmosphere; that Unity, that Over soul, within which every man's particular being is contained and made one with all other; that common heart of which all sincere conversation is the worship, to which all right action is submission; that overpowering reality which confutes our tricks and talents, and constrains every one to pass for what he is, and to speak from his character and not from his tongue, and which evermore tends to pass into our thought and hand and become wisdom and virtue and power and beauty.  We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles.  Meanwhile, within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal One."

Let's make an abrupt about-face, shall we, and go to the great one and Compromiser-in-Chief:

"I want to be clear: I’m not wedded to every detail of my plan. I’m open to compromise. I’m open to new ideas. I’m committed to solving our fiscal challenges. But I refuse to accept any approach that isn’t balanced." President Obama, full text here.

I am open, and yet, REFUSE to accept ANY approach that isn't "balanced."

I am open, and yet, my idea of a balanced approach supersedes yours.

We hear a fair and balanced compromise, and yet he will veto any approach that doesn't 'balance' TAX increases for every one making $250,000, or more, into the mix.  [um, last I checked, 250k isn't even close to a million dollars....but that's the president's magic number.. and the election, oh it gave him the mandate of the people to go for it...yeah, he's kinda cool like that....so let's go...]

I am open to new ideas, only if those ideas mirror mine.

I am open to compromise, as long as it's the other side doing the compromising.

Yes, you do sound open; you are like ALL IN, aren't you, Mr. President.

You are so open we can see right through you; just the picture of transparency, justice, openness, and light -- doing the right thing for the betterment of the whole is like your middle name.

"Of this pure nature, 

every man is at some time sensible."  

Emerson

Yes. You're probably right, Mr. President; let's raise taxes in a recession, indeed and jolly good.   Business owners, large and small, will just pass it on to the consumers; risk takers will just hold off putting up the risk; government will reign once again over the weaknesses of humanity; everybody wins! oh happy days are here again.

This girl's got news for you -- it isn't about 'to tax or not to tax'....even with someone out of the republican peanut gallery leading the charge [and that's just a nod to you, Bill Kristol].

The Grand Bargain beget The Grand Compromise beget The Grand Fraud --or is it, The Grand Bankruptcy -- either way, you beget my drift.

We have compromised on each and every American fundamental --

• we have compromised on the "free market"; 
• we have compromised on the freedom to pursue one's own happiness for all the marbles; 
• we have compromised on our cultural, political, business and personal morals; 
• we have compromised on what is right and what is wrong [sure, it's the same thing, just seeing if you are paying attention]; 
• we have compromised on our Unfunded Liabilities;
• we have compromised on how we define "transparency" and  "cover-up"; "tyranny" and "socialism";
• we have compromised on our agreement to keep a smaller, limited government; 
• we have compromised on the Rule of Law, our Constitution; 
• we have compromised on our National Debt;
• we have compromised on holding our children to a higher standard of excellence in education;
• we have compromised on keeping the faith in Divine Providence.

Why not taxes, right? Never mind that a revolution was the result beginning back on December 16, 1773.

Compromise -- by definition, in the worst sense of the word, and in action according to real life -- has put us into this mess, this mush.

America's position in the world -- within and without --  is so compromised, why stop now? [There she is! Welcome to the party my jaded little G-nie]

Maybe we can't stop. We are only human, you know.

Maybe it's like juggling a wife and kids with a mistress or two -- eventually the charade takes far more energy than is reasonable, sensible.  Slowly, but Shirley, somethings gotta give.  [Not to mention, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.]

It's something that can happen to any one of us.  It's merely the natural progression whenever we compromise on the merits, the principle, the integrity of our life; we bend and twist and turn, pushing it to the limits, all in and over time and perhaps with countless bottles of wine, when the over-soul says stop --enough -- and breaks into multiple shards and pieces all over the place. 

Boom.

it's like a shot heard round the world if not right into the soul of America.

Make it a Good Day, G

It's the Corner of Too Much Bull and Broad Thing

Dear America,

Business is Great

People are Terrific

Life is Wonderful

this is the kind of attitude all of us should have, all the time.

It was plastered to a bumper...and I thought to myself, whoa. I wanted to jump out of my car and meet them right then and there.  I wanted to see it, touch it, affirm it; I thought to myself, let's redistribute more of THAT!

You know the Gallup poll has a new number for the unemployed at 7.3% [whatever...]; while the underemployed number is holding at about 16.3%.   And I thought to myself, that's 23.6% of the faithful primarily unhappy in their daily purpose to create income.

Business is Great...

“As many of you know venture capital and private equity is one of the key mechanisms by which we finance new businesses in the state of Illinois,” state Sen. Obama said in a speech before the Illinois Senate on May 30, 2003.  “For a variety of reasons, Illinois has been lagging behind some of our competitor states in the formation of venture capital and its deployment in terms of seeding and funding new companies.”

This little tidbit is per ABC news, snapped from a post @ the Washington Free Beacon, titled "Obama Was For Venture Capital Before He Was Against It."

The article continues, saying:

Obama proposed a private equity task force in a resolution, in which he said that private equity “offers the best opportunity for long-term economic vitality, for the expansion of jobs, for the improvement of productivity and a quality standard of living, and for providing the greatest number of citizens with genuine opportunity.”

"[Private equity]offers the best opportunity for long-term economic vitality, for the expansion of jobs, for the improvement of productivity and a quality standard of living, and for providing the greatest number of citizens with genuine opportunity."  and yes -- it was worth repeating.

Just what has changed for you, Mr. President?

And if you believed it then, how come you despise it now?  Some might begin to think you are running that  Chevy Volt* dream car of yours all over the map, with that stark raving hypocrisy of yours riding shotgun. [*He really did say he wanted one]

And if what you said way back in 2003 is true -- which I, for one, would have to whole-heartedly agree with you  -- then wouldn't the mind and experience of a venture capitalist in the Oval Office be just the ticket?

Just imagine it!  Having a guy sitting in the Oval Office coming with 25 years Venture Capital experience -- creating the environment for the making of jobs, expanding companies, starting new businesses, changing lives, and creating wonderful.

And yet, we can't dwell on that thought for very long, as I couldn't help but notice another article at the same place, which began going something like this:

"The Washington Free Beacon has obtained a report soon to be released by the United Nations that calls for an international campaign of legal attacks and economic warfare on a group of American companies that do business in Israel, including Hewlett-Packard, Caterpillar Inc., and Motorola Solutions Inc."

and continues with:

"The Human Rights Council (HRC), a body dominated by Islamic countries and known for its hostility to, and heavy focus on, the Jewish State, issued the report. The George W. Bush administration refused to participate in the HRC, but President Barack Obama joined it soon after taking office. Members of the HRC include infamous human rights abusers such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, Libya, China, and Cuba.

 The Obama-approved body maintains a “Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories [sic].” The current rapporteur is American college professor Richard Falk, a 9/11 “truther” who once posted an anti-Semitic cartoon on his personal blog."

If so inclined, you can continue Reading HERE.

People are Terrific...

But allow me to get back to this business -- where is the president on this shocker?  Mr. " I'm all about Jobs, American Jobs, American Companies, American Competitiveness, American Stock" -- what are you planning on doing about this?  Holy Toledo.

And speaking of Toledo --  the two candidates are tied up in Ohio at 48%.  BUT -- did you hear?  Apparently, Chrysler is thinking about shipping the making of 'ALL or SOME' of it's JEEP line to CHINA.  I would hold up on that early vote until you find out more....you can start HERE.

Just think, Obama was out there on the campaign trail just yesterday and didn't say a word about it. huh.

Paul Bedard, of the Washington Examiner, mentions the president, the auto-bailout, a number of times, including this highlight:

"Obama is such a fan of Jeep that he included a picture of himself speaking at the Toledo plant in his newly released second term agenda binder. In his address to the plant in 2011, Obama said, 'I just took a short tour of the plant and watched some of you putting the finishing touches on the Wrangler. Now, as somebody reminded, I need to call it the 'iconic' Wrangler. And that's appropriate because when you think about what Wrangler has always symbolized. It symbolized freedom, adventure, hitting the open road, never looking back.'"

Well now -- looking back to that comment and Chrysler's new reality -- is that irony smacking the president right in the face with a few bumps in the road?   So prophetic, isn't it?   "I need to call it 'iconic' Wrangler" -- ya got that right given that Jeep is as good as gone baby gone in another year.  

But hey, the President keeps saying he is a 'man we can trust' so he must be trustworthy because he also says he 'always says what he means, and means what he says, and trust matters'.  [...that is just the G crib notes of every speech made since the last debate]  

...And only then does the same president spend the rest of his speech ridiculing his opponent about frivolous things that are either not true, misunderstood, exaggerated, or ridiculous.  He can't really talk about his message, or his policies, or his record, because nothing  has worked.  Scratch that -- it's worked -- but only on paper. It sounds good, anyway.

Speaking of things askew -- the polls are a fine example.  Up until now, most polls were dramatically pulling in Obama's favor across the board, mostly because they over-polled the democrats, and under-polled the independents and republicans.  Which is so strange...  I wonder if the operative being a liberal college or think tank has anything to do with it?

But notice how, as the election gets closer, the polling has made dramatic shifts and swings in Romney's favor.  What's happening?  A little thing called long-term investment:  the numbers need to be accurate, otherwise, the pollster loses all credibility.  If bias warps the reality, nobody would pay any attention to them next time around.

For example:  Consider the polling of the so-called and so-contrived "women's gap;" this hypothesis never had a chance.  The reality is we live in a wonderful world AND we, the people,  lean just right of center -- that being on most things political and economical and cultural [it's roughly a 60-40 split].  This means, when you get down to business, there are slightly more women who lean right.  The early numbers just didn't add up right from the start.   And on a personal note: Poll me! I've been voting all my life and have yet to get the call.

AND Obama refers to Romney as the big "bullsh&^%ter"....yeah right.  okay.

Oh Wait!  That reminds me of something fun to read.   Looking for a giggle?   Go to The Daily Caller HERE for The top five reasons Politico is garbage, in their own words, by Christopher Bedford. good stuff...

What I find troublesome, is the realization that this president -- in the natural, when he's confident in his surroundings -- really thinks Romney is a bullsh&*ter and is not afraid to say so.  He looks upon the guy's business experience with contempt; he thinks his ideas for economic change are simply too broad, not specific, and that must mean he's got nothing and he's just full of bull.   

Piecing together the last few months of this presidency, the more disenchanted and disappointed I get.  I think to myself, just how in the world did this happen?   

President Obama reveals "little to none" in the firm reliance department of understanding America's true corporate identity; for the words of our founders crafted exceptionalism and enterprise into our foundation with broad, magnificent, strokes, even though every word was carefully selected and meaningful to the core.
 

Life is Wonderful...

Now, I've got something really good to share from one of my favorite essays in the world, Compensation; it's timeless, thoughtful, and terrific -- and comes from the incredibly, creative spirit that is Ralph Waldo Emerson. [And I've quoted this passage before...circa March 2012...but it's so good, the repeat is totally worthy]  Here you go:

"All things are double, one against another. — Tit for tat; an eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth; blood for blood; measure for measure; love for love. — Give and it shall be given you. — He that watereth shall be watered himself. — What will you have? quoth God; pay for it and take it. — Nothing venture, nothing have. — Thou shalt be paid exactly for what thou hast done, no more, no less. — Who doth not work shall not eat. — Harm watch, harm catch. — Curses always recoil on the head of him who imprecates them. — If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own. — Bad counsel confounds the adviser. — The Devil is an ass.

It is thus written, because it is thus in life. Our action is overmastered and characterized above our will by the law of nature. We aim at a petty end quite aside from the public good, but our act arranges itself by irresistible magnetism in a line with the poles of the world.

 A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will, or against his will, he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word. Every opinion reacts on him who utters it. It is a thread-ball thrown at a mark, but the other end remains in the thrower's bag. Or, rather, it is a harpoon hurled at the whale, unwinding, as it flies, a coil of cord in the boat, and if the harpoon is not good, or not well thrown, it will go nigh to cut the steersman in twain, or to sink the boat."

GO HERE to EMERSON CENTRAL For the full dose.


I play a game with myself when I read Emerson -- depending upon what is going on in my life, something different jumps out...even if I am reading the same passage, pausing at the same paragraph, with the same words in front of me.

Today, that thing is this: "He that watereth, shall be watered himself."  

Our Declaration of Independence is perhaps the most beautiful thing in the world!  For look what it made!  And yet, to read it, it doesn't come with any specifics...It  just 'watereth.'

Now isn't that something..remember how we started...how an itty bitty bumper sticker can lead to.... incorporation.... which can lead to capitalization ....which can lead to expansion.... which can lead to Emerson ....which can lead to the contagion to start a new day.  In idea form, it's called free enterprising -- as it's all about action and attitude hitting the open road.

Business is Great

People are Terrific

Life is Wonderful

In a free market, we call it just the beginning to something called compensation. Evidently, for our president, it stops at the corner of  'too much bull and broad' to fully comprehend, let alone DO without a bad attitude (or is it bad intentions? bwahahahahah)
 

Now carry on -- sprinkle -- and spread the word.

Make it a Good Day, G 

Just a few foot notes...

For a real kick in the behind, go here:   READ this from The Heritage Foundation.

And welcome to the new world in California -- it's called Boot to the Neck governing, courtesy of Brown. You know what he says now - - in order to get his Prop 30 passed?  It's a choice between his tax hike or the kids get released from school THREE WEEKS early!  As if there is nothing else that they can cut instead...unbelievable.  

This is called Left foot, wrong direction...step into liquid here. 

It's About Nothing More, Nothing Less.......It's a Pretty Big Thing

Dear America,

when I first heard the news, I first thought it was a media stunt -- as this guy was kinda big like that.

But sadly, I was wrong.  We have lost a loudmouth, brash, courageous, conservative crusader this morning; Andrew Breitbart, creator of BigGovernment.com and many other conservative web hangouts, has died at the age of 43.

A little something I gained from Breitbart's footprint left upon the world, was that sometimes the provocative is true...of course, sometimes it is not; but clearly, the inherent duty of the citizenry is to decipher the message more completely --  weighing in both context and something I call 'processing', actually doing the investigative discovery in search of the whole truth before reacting.

Anymore, as the world wide web proves every day -- not everything we read or hear is true; sometimes, part of the story is true, and part of the story is sensationalized; sometimes, what is written as 'fact' is false.

which brings me to the rich advise I got this morning on astrology.com via yahoo! horoscopes:

"you may be feeling pretty sassy, 

but try to keep your mouth 

on a five-second delay if you can help it."

so true.

if only.

after nearly fifty years of being me, you have no idea how difficult putting a lid on it truly is...

...but oh how quickly we feel the pain when our words come back to bite us, right?

...but maybe it's just me.

Me thinks there were moments in Breitbart's short life when he wished he kept his big mouth shut; for he was quite bold about it, and certainly on a mission, wasn't he; he didn't just play provocateur around the dinner table, or within his circle of friends and associates -- he used the biggest stage on earth, totally unafraid and seemingly unaffected on the outside.

Surely, considering the news this morning, he was affected.  Deeply.  So much so, it might have managed to get the best of him long before he thought he was done. 

God bless you, Andrew; and whether you are one who can see the good in him, or not, let us hope to find agreement in the gift of hindsight -- be your own investigative journalist.  Find the truth and see if it matches with your own truth before speaking; give yourself a 'five-second' delay; speak with conviction and integrity or don't speak at all.  Be honest with the world and more importantly, yourself.  And always do your very best.


If you know me, little G, then you know I love, love, love Emerson.  I go to him often.  And here's what he told me today:

"All things are double, one against another. -- Tit for tat; eye for an eye;  a tooth for a tooth; blood for blood; measure for measure; love for love.  -- Give, and it shall be given you.  -- He that watereth shall be watered himself. -- What will you have?  quoth God; pay for it and take it.  -- Nothing venture, nothing have. -- Thou shalt be paid exactly for what thou hast done, no more, no less. -- Who does not work shall not eat. -- Harm watch, harm catch.  -- Curses always recoil on the head of him who imprecates them. -- If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own. -- Bad counsel confounds the advisor.  -- The devil is an ass.

It is thus written, because it is thus in life. Our action is overmastered and characterized above our will by the law of nature.  We aim at a petty end quite aside from the public good, but our act arranges itself by irresistible magnetism in a line with the poles of the world.

A man cannot speak but he judges himself...Every opinion reacts on him who utters it...You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong."

the law of nature is a force that cannot be denied or dismissed, even if only out of ignorance.
 

Of course, maybe when we are done sending the world a message, maybe we are just done.  our time on earth is just finished, nothing more, nothing less.

oh but the gift of learning about life as we live it is just so precious!

we are alive! to do GOOD! things in this world, not bad.

what is wrong with us, that these days we just don't get that?

or if we do... you know, "get it"...
how is it that we just no longer tap into the tools available to all of us to truly master it anymore?  The greater good surrounding us lives in our history and in our future, only if we are courageous enough to live from a better core.   Just as garbage in, garbage out works at the speed of light in the real world -- so does good in, good out (and sometimes even remarkably faster).

regarding all the things that are wrong with us...it's affects are seen by how we choose to live, separately and collectively. Our heart and soul and mind is healthy enough to fix all things, for that is how we are made.

and believe it or not, it's the truth.  long proven over the winds of time.

make it a GOOD day, G

in other news, some lingering fumes on the latest news on gas prices -- our local talk radio guy, Mike Slater, reported a direct link of gas prices to the local economy like this:  for every 10 cents/gallon increase, eight to ten million dollars/month gets evaporated from the local market.  poof!  [Gas is up like 26 cents since January]  I listen to Slater daily, and from my experience listening to him regularly, I trust him and this information   -- but as always, feel free to investigate.

It's Sudden Death; and It's So Quiet We Can Hear Our Heartbeat Thing

Dear America,

wow.  we are in one sticky wicket, aren't we?

as the rhetoric ramping up the arguments against the so-called "establishment" versus real tea party conservatives continues...and strangely enough...the loudest cries coming from the well-established GOP candidates.


It's been happening for weeks now -- Gingrich, Santorum, Paul -- all raising concerns against one guy, the favorite, the one who looks as if he's got it all tied up right now.

funny.

anyone see the Farmer's Insurance Torrey Pines golf tournament?


truth is, I only watch this kind of stuff at the tail end...tuning in somewhere around the 17th hole on the last day.  How anyone can watch golf for three days straight [especially on T.V.] is beyond me; but hey, to each his own, right?  But it would behoove me to mention, I could have just moved myself off the couch and showed up personally to watch the sights, as this Taylor-made extravaganza happens to go on right in my own backyard.

and let me tell you...it has been beautiful for the event this year; it's not always the case...for some reason the universe sends in the clouds and drizzle year in and year out.  But this year....OH   MY   GOODNESS.  it was simply gorgeous. the great pacific was glistening. the torrey pines were smiling.  the egrets were wondering why their favorite watering hole was so crowded.  but I digress.


anyway...Brandt Snedeker was packing up his nine iron when something crazy occurred.  Kyle Stanley choked on the eighteenth hole.  Snedeker was called back to play a sudden death.

They tied it up in the first go round; then, playing the second hole in sudden death [at the 16th hole, i think] it appeared like it was all over for Snedeker for a second time, as he landed somewhere in the rough, down an embankment, and more or less, might as well consider it over the river and through the woods.

but noooooo.
that wasn't the way the universe was gonna let it go down.

long story short, Stanley met his match [even if only in his own mind].

Snedeker came back in sudden death to win the whole thing.

to watch it all unfold right before your eyes, unbelievable.  but what do I know, right?

But back to the politics of pulling bogeys and birdies on the campaign trail --

you know what makes this girl crazy?  listening to a candidate who one day calls the favorite 'a lying, capitalist pig...  who did nothing to warrant his 21 million dollar payday last year' [or something like that...and maybe not all in the same breath] -- to the same guy saying something like, 'I'll endorse him if I have to.'

That's just it.
Americans who truly love this country will come around, even in sudden death, and endorse whichever GOP candidate remains...BECAUSE we all know the country is toast if Obama gets re-elected. 

[and even in spite of people like Sarah Palin calling on Floridians to vote for Newt just to 'annoy a liberal'...which is normally not a good enough reason to vote for anybody...just sayin']

all I want to ask Sarah is how can you, of all people, endorse a Newt after he has spent weeks bashing capitalism and the very free market that made Romney --  the business man and millionaire, and most likely, a damn good golfer -- who he is today?

Just where is her critical, eagle eye picking Newt's pot shots apart, fair and balanced?  And how in the world does Newt get a pass from being considered part of 'the establishment'?   For goodness sakes, he has made a career of what, forty or fifty years, in government, working steadfastly for the republican party!   He's like the poster boy of the GOP establishment, much like Tiger is to GOlf (well, maybe not so much now).

but it's not just her -- it seems like every time we turn around, we are tripping over another conservative pundit popping their head up to be the next Newt caddy. 

The reality is, every single one of them (of those remaining in the GOP lineup) are established politicians of the republican kind. they are kinda all the same, but different.

Stanley or Snedeker; Gingrich or Romney; does it really matter?

honestly...

Sure, for Snedeker it matters -- but for the rest of the golf world, not so much; it goes into the history books as 'it wasn't me.'  But more than that, GOLF, in the macro, goes on just the same as it ever was.

The thing is, according to me, G, America is in sudden death.  And we can't afford going on in the same way, same as it ever was.

Against the well-established Obama administration -- a guy who, according to a CNN article from way back in 2010 'plays more [golf] than Bush'...a guy who, as of LAST summer, totaled 75 [golf] outings   -- ANY one of the foursome remaining will do just fine. [key word there is FOURSOME. isn't it crazy that the media has decided to stop talking about the other two?  it's not over, till it's over]

Which one is the very best for changing the status quo?

It's early.  We still have the back nine to play out.

It is the media, who would have us believe that Obama has got this thing all tied up [but that discussion must be saved for another day].


a thought to leave you with.......

"every secret is told, 

every crime is punished, 

every virtue rewarded, 

every wrong redressed, 

in silence and certainty.'  

Ralph Waldo Emerson

'Compensation'

so quiet, you can hear your heart beat at the eighteenth hole

Make it a Good Day, G

READ THIS from The Patriot Post, featuring THOMAS SOWELL here, 'Is Anybody Serious?'

It's To Where America We Belong Thing

"Every opinion reacts on him who utters it." 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dear America,

“President Obama, this is your army...

 We are ready to march. 

Let’s take these sons of bitches out 

and take America back 

to an America where we belong."  

Jimmy Hoffa Jr.

And isn't it just peachy that Jimmy Sr. had a son.  And, by the way, that is precisely what he said ..."this is your army...ready to march...let's take these sons of bitches out...to take America back to an America where we belong."  Making clear that "working people" like "a good fight" -- he said.


Hoffa Jr. was the warm up band (of one) before Obama spoke before a delegation of Detroit workers, laborers, countrymen.  And when Obama got up to speak, he said he was awfully proud...appreciating the kind, thoughtful words from every single one of them:

"The president of the Metropolitan Detroit Central Labor Council, our host, Saundra Williams.  (Applause.)  AFL-CIO president, Rich Trumka.  (Applause.)  President of the Michigan AFL-CIO, Mark Gaffney.  (Applause.)  And some proud sons and daughters of Michigan representing working people here and across the country -- SEIU President Mary Kay Henry, Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa, UAW President Bob King, Utility Workers President Mike Langford.  (Applause.)  We are proud of them and we're proud of your congressional delegation who are working every single day with your state and local elected officials to create jobs and economic growth and prosperity here in Michigan and all across the country." 

...just a little something something pulled from a post by Kerry Picket, Blogger around the Washington Times Water Cooler (the bold face, above, was all Picket).

So, like I said, he was awfully proud because He Said he was proud. -- over and over again.

Are we not all laborers?


What is so special about these laborers?

Is it their dues?  Is it the filling of the coffers to fuel the perpetuation of a lie?  Is it all about the army against the "sons of bitches" that they make? 

But what about the language in and of itself? Isn't somebody going to say something about this?
 
What about what Emerson gives us, that little something proudly highlighted at the top?

Emerson, in his essay simply titled Compensation, sets it all up:

"Human labor, through all of its forms, from the sharpening of a stake to the construction of a city or an epic, is one immense illustration of the perfect compensation of the universe.  Everywhere and always this law is sublime.  The absolute balance of Give and Take, the doctrine that every thing has its price, and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained, and that it is impossible to get anything without its price, is not less sublime in the columns of a ledger than in the budgets of states, in the laws of light and darkness, in all action and reaction of nature."

It may be age old.  It may be old-fashioned. It may be so yesterday; but the truth is, we reap what we sow, people.

In both word and deed, we reap; our every opinion, our every right or wrong action, whatever it is that we do or say comes right back upon us like a boomerang.  It is according to a higher, natural law that no man can put asunder. bam. it is done. just like that. and now, it comes back even faster...thanks to high speed internet.

Our president had a chance to be every man's president, but he didn't take it did he?

Nope.

He chose to be a president for the workers of the world -- not all workers, laborers, countrymen and women of 'America we belong,' mind you -- just a few, the union label proud.  Or like our own vice president reiterated in another Labor Day appearance [addressing the AFL-CIO in Ohio], and evidently perfectly mindful of the workers who carry a certain natural magnificence over and above the rest...

"You are the only folks keeping the barbarians from the gates. You are the only non-governmental power. The only one who has the power and capacity to stop this onslaught."

 ...you know, against the sons of bitches in the Tea Party.
...now you see how we are all connected?

For more on that, you can go here.

"We" are the sons of bitches and barbarians now; "they" are all perfect ladies and gentlemen, by example.

Hoffa says we are at war; Biden says he is dead serious, that this is not a joke; while President Obama is just  plain proud of anybody and everybody who is on his side.  The only thing the rest of us need to do now is bend over and take it -- according to the liberal use of the Law of Compensation, that is.

Me thinks the Left has forgotten how America, the story of us that we belong, was made.

A revolution arose from certain injustices; we labored for each and every one of us to be free.  A fair and balanced course correction within the Law of Compensation grew from our individual self-reliance, a recognition and affirmation of our connectedness to the whole to do our share, to play our part, to labor and reap what we sow through honest-to-goodness work.

Equal Opportunity does not always equate to equal outcome.  While to continue to maneuver and to labor under such a fraud, in high hopes of manipulating such outcome -- including the out-put and out-take, outward and onward --  is the real tragedy.  And it is not the America we belong.

Good thing the Tea Party has grown resilient to the tirades of free radicals.  As a matter of fact, the Tea Party comes with an inherent ability of being prepared for it, and naturally, have learned to profit from scalding hot attacks filled to the brim.  Some might even say we revel in it -- we remarkably have the insane mobility to float, steep, eat, pray, love in such an environment.  For deep down, we appreciate the notion that 'every opinion reacts on him who utters it.'

peace be with you Hoffa, Biden, Obama, and any laborer who seems akin to easily align.

Make it a Good Day, G
really, do it.  this is not a joke.  this is not a joke. this is not an applause line...make it a good day.

It's an Allegiance to Simple Obedience Thing

"The great man knew not that he was great.  

It took a century or two 

for the fact to appear. 

What he did, he did because he must:  

he used no election : 

it was the most natural thing in the world, 

and grew out of the circumstances of the moment."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

  
Dear America,

happy thursday.

it is the Day After Opening Day at the races, marking my two year anniversary and, in total, celebrating 382 thoughtful blog posts on the state of the nation... as according to a day in the life of this American girl.

My morning ritual, usually begins with just making coffee; outside of the lazy hazy days of summer, the day demands a more stringent attention to time...making breakfast for my girl and whisking her off to school.  Aside from the natural conformity to domestic bliss, the next hour is usually catching up on emails, reading the news, spanning the headlines, and reaching into my library for inspiration; and oh, lest we forget, reading the horoscope for kicks and giggles gets squeezed in somewhere between news and headlines...

It is merely a regiment, a routine, a method of submission to what is yet to come; it allows me to take simple steps forward in hopes of BEGINNING SOMETHING that is yet to appear, even within my own mind.

It takes time to build up the momentum of my thoughts on the day; while sometimes, even after I diligently followed up on the details of the morning, I can still find myself going hmmmm, wondering just where should we go today?

But the thing is, for this day, feeling rather high on the notion that I am still showing up, two years hence and with the creation of 382 somethings out of nothings -- my heart is overfloweth. The obedience to the work makes me smile; it gives me a sense of accomplishment; it wraps the arms of the universe around me and tells me, good job girl. [besides, it's my blog and I can toot my own horn if I want to]

But it is in the spirit of this obedience that demands my humble attention in this brand new day.

I suspect that all of us awake each morning doing whatever it is we do -- whether it is with great thought or very little thought at all; whether we are fully conscious, or completely dazed and confused, or somewhere in between, we respond to the world and the world responds right back to us.  It is perfect in and of itself, because it simply is.

"Every man sees that he is that middle point whereof every thing may be affirmed and denied with equal reason.  He is old, he is young, he is very wise, he is altogether ignorant....There is no permanent wise man except in the figment of stoics."  Emerson

We constantly evolve; while life, itself, is never static. And with the ever abundant material of life in which we are surrounded, we make choices -- with the truth and consequences immediately to follow, assuredly as the moon follows the sun (or vice versa).

The consciousness of chaos within the Debt Ceiling/Deficit/Balanced Budget debate, happening right now in Washington, gives us an idea as to how far we have fallen from mastering our obedience.  From one day to the next, every time we veer from keeping up with our daily tasks -- through the reprehensible actions of those in charge of America's fundamental regiment --  we chip away at the things that bind us together.  Whatever we thought was whole and sufficiently supplied day after day, simply is not.

"A man's genius, the quality that differences him from every other, the susceptibility to one class of influences, the selection of what is fit for  him, the rejection of what is unfit, determines for him the character of the universe.  As a man thinketh so is he, and as a man chooseth so is he and so is nature.  A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him wherever he goes. He takes only his own out of the multiplicity that sweeps and circles round him...

...Human character does evermore publish itself.  It will not be concealed.  It hates darkness -- it rushes into light.  The most fugitive deed and word, the mere air of doing a thing, the intimated purpose, expresses character.  If you act you show character; if you sit still you show it; if you sleep you show it. You think because you have spoken nothing when others spoke, and have given no opinion on the times, on the church, on slavery, on the college, on parties and persons, that your verdict is still expected with curiosity as a reserved wisdom.  Far otherwise; your silence answers very loud." 

just a whole lot more of Emerson (isn't he simply the coolest!)

Silence speaks volumes, just as, in equal portion, those who choose the courage to speak.  The daily method of congress -- as according to the daily method of each man or woman in congress, as according to the daily method of nature -- both human nature and mother nature combined -- "out of the multiplicity that sweeps and circles round" -- prevails, one way or another.

The obedience, and humble attention, to this nation's debt has been long gone -- lost over decades, in various effects.  Following the "susceptibility of one class of influences" after another,  we find ourselves exhibiting the character of a nation.

It does not fit, does it?

We are at odds within ourselves, and against each other, over the natural tendencies and fundamentals this nation was made.  The routine has gone awry.  We have no idea which way is right or wrong, up or down -- we only see the chaos in between persons, while the order underneath it all is trampled upon, discredited, ridiculed, and left for dead.

My life, and your life, is left in the hands of people who continue to test character on whims of servitude, wings of desperation, flights of fancy, and feats of political posturing -- when in fact, all they really have to do, is the right thing.  And keep doing it -- one foot after the other -- as if the very universe relied.

The left makes fun of the right all the live long day, most commonly against the simplicity of our original pact (made altogether, by the way) resting upon the ideals built upon one's Common Sense; carrying with it, in equal portion, our duty and responsibility and allegiance to it, resting upon the ideals built upon one's Self-Reliance and Independence.

Seems to me, on this day, the trouble with free choice -- free will -- is that sometimes people do not choose to do the right thing; be it in the macro or the micro; be it in the individual or the collective.

We have a choice right now, as a nation, to do the right thing -- and for some odd reason, a great many in Washington either do not recognize it, or they would rather fall back to sleep.  It would seem, by the evidence left for us upon the light of day, they would rather face the truth another time; for the character required is simply not in them.

This lack of obedience is nothing new to Washington, it is just that We, the People, have only just now caught up to it.

"Our eyes are holden 

that we cannot see things 

that stare us in the face, 

until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened, 

-- then we behold them, 

and the time when we saw them not is like a dream."

and, once again... thank you, Emerson

America's success relies upon each of us to do our due diligence, to be obedient to the day and to the tasks at hand, in ways large and small, whether we wish to go there freely, easily, without dragging our feet out of bed, or not.

until right now, "when the hour arrives when the mind is ripened," this blog was nowhere to be seen or heard.


...of course, it only came after obedient, deliberate action....after the coffee, after the news, after the headlines, after the inspiration hit me upside the face and back down again...and, lest we forget, after the horoscope -- which, I kid you not -- began with this:

"It will be up to you to take action today..."(Aries, yahoo! horoscopes)

Make it a Good Day, G

Dear America,

So the Free Market used to be something we valued, cherished, and more or less, became the very thing synonymous with the word AMERICA.

The whole idea of collective bargaining itself, really began with the mandate enacted by our founders:

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."  Preamble of the Constitution...

With John Adams chiming in to make it very personal:

 "to see rising in America an empire of Liberty, 

and the prospect of two or three hundred 

millions of freemen, 

without one noble 

or one king 

among them."

So being quick to point out the obvious, we got to the 300 mil part --  oops-y-daisy, how about that, and we're back to being run by the power elite... the powers that be within the institutions of banking, governing, regulation and trade...a.k.a. those far nobler and wiser than I.


Can we be honest, the day things truly went belly up was the day the Central Banking System began babysitting our money  (let alone creating the methlab back behind the garage, fabricating the real stuff into a street drug of choice, attracting buyers from all over the world...it looks like money, acts like money, it must be money).

But of all things to do...leaving it, our money, and thereby us, in the hands of basically strangers like that...

...ever since then, the seeds for planting even the slightest indiscretion, to leaving room for salacious falls of human nature, give rise to what we see happening today...the pointing of fingers, the hiding of the paraphernalia, the ability to look back and rationalize what we have done, just plum opening the door to bad influences... on what otherwise is something chock full of good character,  and then, just when we realize we know we're in trouble, only begin to entertain thoughts that  make our hole even bigger -- tell another lie -- let's just make more of it -- making things only worse.

America was never intended to operate under any other regulation other than good, sound, principles and values -- beginning with the integrity of each and every person; the "collective" was each one of us individually standing for freedom and liberty for all of us.

As always, one of my favorite places to hide out, to figure out what's up, down, backwards and sideways, is via The Daily Bell and this morning is no exception; a fascinating conversation is going on right now, combining elements of terrorism, the power elites, espionage, hush money, play money, inside job, outside influences, sub-prime characters and big time pushers -- you name it, it's the reason for it -- all to describe the "2008 Crash..."

Central Banking was, and is, the worst idea ever to step foot in this house -- and it shouldn't be invited back -- along with the host of ill advised characters hangs around with it; while this gets back to our thoughts of yesterday, and the day before, who do we let our children hang with; what do we let them to listen to, where do they go all day long, and just who is keeping them in their safe care?

okay...so it's a roundabout way of bringing the conversation closer to home...whateverrrrr...

How about this news you can use, and coming to you by way of ASaMOM.org:  "instead of teaching the Preamble and Constitution as it is written, schools from coast to coast are indoctrinating children to Socialism thanks to a company called Teacher Created Materials."

The featured article "as a mom" instinctively redirects us to, is currently being unleashed on  THE BLAZE.com; and...all of a sudden, still feeling a little woozy...

...with wounds fresh from the culprits and shenanigans of central banking running amuck, within and around our house of reasonable calm and order,  principle and honor...as if that weren't enough...

...I think I need to sit down...

[after taking a moment for a few long, sweeping  breaths]

things seem to be getting clearer; I get it now;  we're no longer in Kansas anymore, booboo; for not only do we have to worry about the roof over our head, but the very foundation laid to rest -- no longer safely nestled in our bosom, for it's in the arms of total strangers near and far.

Our children are being used to create a new america, by indoctrination;  going so far as changing the meaning back behind the words of our very own Constitution, adulterating the preamble with the tinge of social justice reforms; is nothing sacred anymore?

Long gone down the road, the utterances of transcendentalists, like Emerson, elevating individualism to a life force far beyond it's measure in gold -- who in good turn,  leave their mark, a lasting impression, upon the hearts and minds and futures of a budding generation; no, our children never get a chance to understand the deeper thought, the truer, richer, collective meaning behind a preamble such as ours, with enough strength and conviction to build a nation, if we truly let it rip for even so much as a minute.

That 'general welfare' now includes "all basic needs" (housing, transportation, health care... and labor laws...)  That THIS is being TAUGHT to our babies... is just enough for G to totally OD for one day.
 
If it's not the outside, it's the inside, wreaking havoc upon the lifespan of America; will we ever be able to get ourselves clean in time?

"For every thing that is given something is taken...

Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts"

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Make it a Good Day, G

Dear America,

"WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Sales at U.S. retailers posted their largest gain in five months in August on strong receipts at gasoline stations and clothing outlets, further assuaging fears of a double-dip recession."

1)  re: gasoline reciepts:  congress was on vacation; congressmen and women and staffers were traveling the world, and maybe even returning home to their districts, upon their private jets -- the quintessential gas guzzlers of them all.

2) re: clothing outlets:  the little people were preparing to send their children back to school (and maybe driving over the hill and through the woods to grandmas house -- but that's just speculation-- national parks and recreation were in full swing, too)  either way, it was a swell time to be a kid; and equally noteworthy, is the use of a particular key word, that would  be "outlet"-- for it's not like the majority of us were going to Nordstroms; our smart money was on volume, and no doubt we made a bee line to outlet malls and discount chains from sea to shining sea.

 So really, what this "news" is telling us then, is simply that the economic indicators are in sync with the season; nothing extraordinary is going on -- and should be of no surprise to any of us who survived the month of August...we have used more gas and we have bought more clothes in what's commonly known in the business as enjoying the seasonal fluctuation.  The habits of the homosapien are right on cue.

Let's just go out on a limb and predict, pumpkin sales is trending up as we speak -- along with bags of chocolate, candy corn and cavities; six months from now, we should also expect to see an rise in dental work and toothbrush sales, that is over and above the incremental rush in annual toothbrush projections, standard issue in the bottom of our Christmas stockings in about ninety days from now. Woohoo, and what a boon that will be. Yes, good times are swiftly coming our way.

I guess they, journalists in general and reuters in particular, feel a need to inject optimism and pump us up; looky-here! we are buying clothes, sucking up gas, and eating red velvet cupcakes, happy days are here again... the recession must be over... long live the king.

Here's a news flash:

The weak rise in sales has nothing to do with "our fears being over;" the reality is, it's quite the contrary.  We spent money because we had to, and what we did spend was not much.  Real consumer confidence and reasonable economic security remains at an all time low.

The thing is, we are still stuck; and in order to further evolve and grow and sustain life here on earth, it relies on our ability to steer clear of the tar pits, somehow find comfort in the makeshift home on the side of this slippery slope we live, and wait the storm out in the short term -- but in the long term, counts on all of us to use our intelligence and stamina and innovation to reinvent the wheel that is falling off fast and furious, and upon all cylinders.

To make way for the next generation, permanent consumer confidence calls upon us to return to the principles that made this country great and good, gracious and grounded -- and nothing else will really do; gallivanting around town in that trade in from cash for clunkers, buying petrol, while donning brand new bonnets and pantaloons is simply feeding into the consumer nation infatuation; the sustenance of common sense must be self evident and be found at the heart and soul of whatever we do, wherever we go -- for as the age old wisdom of alchemists and neanderthals alike agree,  wherever you go, there you are.


Compensation and consumption in life comes with the greater understanding of the law of dual realities at play at all times; the polarity factor of everything under the sun falls under simple truths of action and reaction, lightness and darkness, the measure of yin and the yang accordingly, to all things, lives in every moment, in every facet and capacity.

From Ralph Waldo Emerson:

"...because of the dual constitution of things, in labor as in life there can be no cheating. The thief steals from himself,  The swindler swindles from himself. For the real price of labor is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs.  These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they represent, namely, knowledge and virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen.  These ends of labor cannot be answered but by real exertions of the mind, and in obedience of pure motives.  The cheat, the defaulter, the gambler, cannot extort the benefit, cannot extort the knowledge of material and moral nature which his honest care and pains yield to the operative.  The law of nature is, DO the thing, and you shall have the power; but they who do not the thing have not the power...

On the other hand the law holds with equal sureness for all right action.  Love, and you shall be loved.  All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.  The good man has absolute good, which like fire turns every thing to its own nature, so that you cannot do him any harm...

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.  As no man thoroughly understands a truth until first he has contended against it, so no man has a thorough acquaintance with the hindrance or talent of men until he has suffered from the one and seen the triumph of the other over his own want of the same."

Isn't that just sublime.

If only;

if only, just before we closed our eyes at night, or at first sight of the morning sun, we read to our children from the master of self reliance himself, as if plugging into the source of all right action, elevating the new hybrid human being into another realm of living and creating, illuminating our personal power in the moment, while protecting our very future -- by doing the right thing, actualizing right thought, right from the start.

Things were all so simple then, when we hadn't a wheel or a gigabyte to our name; and likewise, as with any advancement, greater responsibility and mindfulness is absolutely required for long lasting prosperity and for broadband benefits to sustain. Cogs and controversy, corruption and cannibalism can wreak havoc upon an otherwise vibrant and growing civil society and community.

We are way beyond the rush to summer's end -- flying and dining, hunting for fresh fig leafs and roadkill to throw on ; the greater concern should be, what is it about the humble wheel that truly works?  What does the little round disk that moves things, move us to do -- by way of lesson or contention? 

How has the abuse of the doers and the shakers and the candlestick makers all but obliterated the simple life and the humble man -- with the loss of sound virtue and proven principles paving the way -- driven us into this bureaucratic ditch of despair and despotism? No matter who rules -- a ruler is a ruler is a ruler; if it rolls, if it has wheels, then wherever you go, there you are...

Man was made in the image of God, born in this nation under God, to rule ourselves; to do for ourselves; the more we have fallen away from respecting this duality of natural law, in existence since the beginning of all time, the greater the chance for the mechanisms at play to falter. Call it Darwinian, if you must; but truth cuts both ways, and is equal to all under the rule of law -- while the only common denominator is who?

YOU.

so -- puleeze --
if you are going to make one,
make it a good, G

Truth is, this isn't about re-inventing the wheel at all; for the wheel works just fine.

After further review -- and according to the aero-dynamics back behind running basically every thing --
thank you for waiting;
operator error seems to be more the root cause. 

Somebody should get to the bottom of it some time real soon,

your patience is appreciated.
beep.

Dear America,

I didn't vote for him.


I saw the writing on the wall. I saw where he came from and read all about the family who brought him into this world. I heard where he went to church for the last twenty years, through which was personally mentored, and that was enough. And in retrospect, I could never understand how people were all so googly eyed over him. The View thought he was sexy. America couldn't get enough of him vacationing in Hawaii. Ellen and Oprah just adored his every move and hung on every word.

Socialism. Marxism. Anti-establishment, radical dispositions and Chicago style
politics surrounded him and nobody seemed to care because by golly he was the symbol of hope.


Still, every President prior had the American dream, American ideals, and American faith fully embodied and emboldened from within. There was never a day we doubted that even for one second, even if we all didn't agree with the political party at the helm. We were sure that we stood as "ONE NATION" under God, indivisible, and justice for all. NOT G8 or G20 or Global America Under God, it specifically, and with due diligence says ONE.



Where is our self-reliance as a NATION?


"Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is
composed does not. The same particle does not rise from the valley to the ridge.
Its unity is only phenomenal. The persons who make up a nation today,next year
die, and their experience with them." Emerson

I would love to know what Emerson would be saying right about now. I mean, if he was the
town crier way back when for getting the individual to wake-up and take responsibility for their
personal duty to make their own way and find their own happiness, then how desperate he must think we are in these revealing times as a nation.

We are eating the words of our new government as if its candy. We are entrusting our future, and our children's future, to a government so big that our debt will devour us from the inside out as the socialistic recovery plans take root. History proves these methods do not work and that we will have dire consequences as a result. More importantly, everything that we seem to be doing now is so outside the lines of our Constitution its not even funny.

Could it be our clear lack of individual self-reliance that may be to blame? And if so, then really we need to look no further than ourselves to fix it. But then again, if its true when they say that we are as strong as our weakest link, then God help us.


"He who knows that power is inborn, that he is weak because he has
looked for good out of him and elsewhere, and so perceiving, throws himself
unhesitatingly on his thought, instantly rights himself, stands in the erect
position, commands his limbs, works miracles; just as a man who stands on his
feet is stronger than a man who stands on his
head." Emerson

Such power emanates from these words and yet most Americans will never in their life read them. How can you not respond with high hopes and visualize big dreams and begin taking steps forward to make it so! Emerson's final words begging for action saying, "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles."

I tell you, if statesmen actually spoke like this I have to believe our fine nation wouldn't be fumbling by looking outside of herself for commendation, negotiation, in apology or in peace. We would only pay attention to what America can do all by herself. Taking this a step further I "ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country" as in the words of the infamous Kennedy Inaugural Address in January of 1961. Interestingly enough, six months before Obama was even born.

And if I may point out, it is interesting, being pretty much a conservative across the board, that I have referenced JFK twice now in the last two days! Fascinating...

Wake up people. Our nation owes other countries a lot of money (namely China) Our nation relies on other countries for basic necessities (namely Saudi Arabia). Our nation is seemingly finding it easier and easier to sell her soul in each new day.

It really can't continue like this for much longer unless you all want to sit on the proverbial couch -- made in China, of course, and quite possibly located in the Sahara --with not only an identity crisis like we last spoke, but now clearly overwhelmed with a serious case of denial. I don't think our health care plan will cover it, however I think there is a pill we can take...

Make it a good day, G