It's a Flighty Fight That Keeps on Giving Thing

Dear America,

welcome back,

welcome back to the continuing saga, of the ever enlightening, ever changing, Diary of a Flighty Whitey American Girl.  It may not be in the "every day" per se, or by definition, but when I do...you know...show up --- it comes to you with a certain discriminating flare,  in multiple languages....English (duh), Sarcasm, Cliche, and my personal favorite -- however sparingly -- Profanity.  It's all about current events meeting up with the twists and turns and tumult inside the mind of me -- G.    

Your welcome.

And today, once again, as I gaze upon the political horizon of yet another election cycle in America -- this thing called Trump is whipping up some kind of fury; the opposition, with the Republican establishment surely included, continues to get it's little fanny handed to it, smacked down with no apologies, as The Donald keeps on giving.

For another possible explanation, let's hurry over to The Daily Bell, Nelson Hultberg, in a post from just this morning:

Why? Because Trump represents something untamed and untamable. He represents an outsider who refuses to play the game of "politics as usual" that the good ol' boys have been playing throughout the past 80 years. What the establishment fears about Trump is that he doesn't need to play the role of sycophant to their corporate-banking-bureaucratic combine that rules America. -    (or for that matter, to Univision's Jorge Ramos, either -- to which I say, 'WHATEVER'  LA Times...)

See more, at The Daily Bell, here.

Ramos didn't come into the presser like everybody else -- he spoke out of turn, crossing a border and out of line.  Boom, Get out, you community organizer/activist  masquerading as a journalist/antagonist.  You have a right to ask a question when you are called upon, so sit down and wait your turn.


Now do you get it?
Now do you see why I started with calling myself FLIGHTY right from the get go?

I'm for him before I was against and now finding myself for him all over again.  Stop the insanity.

But now, back to Hultberg's bullet point bucket list on Immigration, crafted from the intentions of a Trump Administration....

It Starts with this:
1. Build a wall and make Mexico pay for it. Until they do, the U.S. will impound all remittance payments derived from illegal wages, increase fees on millions of Mexican visas, and if necessary enact tariffs on all Mexican imports. 

And Ends with this:

8. Mandatory return of all criminal aliens to their home countries. 

 But now, you will just have to visit The Daily Bell for 2 through 7.



And now -- about those ANCHOR BABIES.

Let's scurry over to Ann Coulter.  Having written an entire book about the subject of ILLEGAL Immigration and all of it's absurdities, I find her commentary exceptional, witty, and thoroughly researched, bar none.

While if ever there was a need for a good explanation of the 14th Amendment and it's intentions-- mind you, of a post- CIVIL WAR America of the late 1800's! -- the need is NOW.

Here she is  --  the one, the only, Ann Coulter:

In response to O'Reilly's statement that "there is no question the Supreme Court decisions have upheld that portion of the 14th Amendment that says any person, any person born in the U.S.A. is entitled to citizenship ... for 150 years" -- Yoo concurred, claiming: "This has been the rule in American history since the founding of the republic." 

Yes, Americans fought at Valley Forge to ensure that any illegal alien who breaks into our country and drops a baby would have full citizenship for that child! Why, when Washington crossed the Delaware, he actually was taking Lupe, a Mexican illegal, to a birthing center in Trenton, N.J. 

Going back to how I began the day -- commenting upon my own flightiness -- Coulter is another one who sends me swirling in between a love her, love her not, love her, love her not soap opera of my own making.  Vigilance is such a daily curse, isn't it?  But no matter where you fall on Coulter, just gotta give her props for her consummate, unmitigated sarcasm used to perfection every time.

Needless to say,  CONTEXT and CRITICAL THINKING is becoming a lost art in America, kid you not.

Flighty is as flighty does, let's get on with it, shall we........

How did America get here?

yeah,

sit down,

That was rhetorical all the way.


The thing is, it may come down to just this -- the unimaginable loss of an educated electorate to crafty corruption left and right.  

The educated electorate is being undermined by a massive, organic, regenerating flow of illiterate,  uneducated, sorry lot, creating the ever expanding demographic of Americans fully dependent upon the welfare state to save them -- alongside the unconscionable, crony capitalist takeover of our elected body of "Public Servants," perverted and impaired by a penchant for corruption under the guise of social justice and equality and political correctness, masterminding a course correction for all the "imbalances"  of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."   It's all a progressive ruse for the ages.

"Adios America"

Thank you, Ann.

This is what's wrong with America today, the contrasts of mindsets among us -- of intellect, ambition, enlightenment, of a certain  pioneering spirit and self-reliance of the America, and specifically of the Americans,  intended -- and made real by law by our Declaration of Independence and Constitution!

Let's us return to Alexis de Tocueville, tying in remarks of a time gone by:

At the extreme borders of the confederated states, upon the confines of society and wilderness, a population of bold adventurers have taken up their abode, who pierce the solitudes of the American woods....As soon as the pioneer reaches the place which is to serve him for retreat, he fells a  few trees and builds a log house.  Nothing can offer a more miserable aspect than these isolated dwellings....Yet no sort of comparison can be drawn between the pioneer and the dwelling that shelters him.  Everything about him is primitive and wild, but he is himself the result of the labor and experience of eighteen centuries.  He wears the dress and speaks the language of cities; he is acquainted with the past, curious about the future, and ready for argument about the present; he is, in short, a highly civilized being, who penetrates into the wilds of the New World with the Bible, an axe, and some newspapers.  It is difficult to imagine the incredible rapidity with which thought circulates in the midst of these deserts[wilderness].   I do not think that so much intellectual activity exists  in the most enlightened and populous districts of France.  [The 5,000 Year Leap, pg, 253]

And yet, here we are.


Arguing on behalf of the real intentions of the 14th Amendment, written and clarified by numerous cases, as articulated in Coulter's post, summarizing for us in neat, sweet, little nuggets dripping in dulce de leche --

-- Supreme Court opinion in Elk v. Wilkins (1884): 

"The main object of the opening sentence of the 14th Amendment was ... to put it beyond doubt that all persons, white or black, and whether formerly slaves or not, born or naturalized in the United States, and owing no allegiance to any alien power, should be citizens of the United States ... The evident meaning of (the words, "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof") is, not merely subject in some respect or degree to the jurisdiction of the United States, but completely subject to their political jurisdiction, and owing them direct and immediate allegiance. ... Persons not thus subject to the jurisdiction of the United States at the time of birth cannot become so afterward, except by being naturalized ...

Here we are, America.

So --

One candidate really wants to "build a wall and make Mexico pay for it."

One candidate really wants the "mandatory return of all criminal aliens."

One candidate really wants to protect America's sovereignty and make America great again.

Now, there just may be a few things to roll our eyes upon -- even laced with a little attitude con diablo --  but what's not to love?  And just why is the GOP gaming to escort the guy out of the room?

Sure -- one day we love him, the next day we don't; one day he's presidential, the next day he's not.  

This campaign process is a flight of fancy, in a fight or flight kind of way but make no mistake -- America loves this stuff!  Debate is great!   Vigilance is a duty!    Critical thinking, with full context in mind, absolute and required!  This is the stuff Constitutions are written -- and written well!   This is the stuff nations are made or ruined!


Back to Coulter:

But it is a fact that the citizenship of illegal alien kids has never been argued, briefed or ruled on by the Supreme Court. [italicized in bold of my own unruly doing]

Perhaps, given the year 2015, a wee bit of clarification is needed.

But I think --  and speaking for all of us now --  I think we know the truth.

We know that back in 18...whatever...a fourteenth amendment was written for the "African-Americans"  -- formerly known as Negroes, blacks, and at one time in American history,  slaves, and even the children of slaves.   Come the year 2015,  illegal and pregnant South American and Mexican women --  choosing to not only have their baby!  yay! but break American Immigration Law -- crossing America's southern border and giving birth to their pequeño bebé had nothing to do with it.  The 14th Amendment was written for a different time and place (and how!).

It's a fact worthy to mitigate at any time, yet know this:  the facts support American sovereignty and a border that means something.
So ¡siéntese por favor! [Do sit down, please] 
OR better still, 
ponerse a la cola [get in line].

Oooh look at the time, gotta go.
Adios,
and until we meet again, adieu.


Make it a Good Day, G

It's About the RIGHT to CHOOSE Thing

Dear America,

• "The fingers and toes and beating hearts that we can see on an unborn child's ultrasound come with something that we cannot see: a soul," former U.S. President George W. Bush said Jan. 23, 2008, as thousands of people met on Capitol Hill in an anti-abortion rally.

The year was 1973, and little g was all of eleven when Roe v. Wade altered the landscape of America and made a moral exception for the nation based upon a woman's Constitutional right to choose. Abortion was immediately made legal with certain stipulations and under certain conditions, none of which included the other half, the other party intimately involved, mind you (just where is the evolution on that one?).

Even though abortion has been decidedly made perfectly legal since 1973, the religious conscience continues to voice not only opinion, but a confident opposition to the act.

In my personal experience, in the time since 1973, it has not been uncommon to come across women who have chosen abortion, and we can still have a conversation about abortion without myself agreeing with what she felt compelled to do for her own personal reasons, nor has this person ceased speaking to me.  It has become widely acceptable to agree to disagree, recognizing strong convictions exist among us and we leave it alone.

Religious Conscience is something inside us that tends to grow, much like a newborn baby, and to be forced to separate from this spirit, this soul, this feeling we know to be true for ourselves, is like having a sword swipe down the center of our body, splitting us in two.

The thing is, we are still having the conversation about abortion --whether right or wrong, left or right, liberal or conservative --  in America today, now 42 years later!  The Supremes may have written abortion into law, but it didn't change a thing with regard to personal convictions and beliefs and religious conscience....all the while the Catholic church may never come around, right.

Knowing the controversial aspects of the act of killing one's baby, all citizens are not only allowed to hold onto their personal beliefs, they are left alone to live according to those beliefs.  While according to state law (the state being the government), funds acquired through taxpayers are supposedly totally off limits (jury is still out on that one, right, Planned Parenthood?)  and are not to be allocated towards abortion, without exception (yeah, right, that's a good one).

Regarding gay marriage -- whether we stand with it wholeheartedly, or perhaps remain lukewarm about it, or even hold the stance of  'I couldn't care less'  -- the truth remains the same for each one of us, for the very same arguments holding to religious conscience and personal independence is what's at play.   And the conversation will continue -- and moreover has every RIGHT to continue -- until a brand spanking new generation decidedly gives it the grand nod across the fruited plains.  Or, then again, it may just never go away...

Please don't misconstrue the context of the conversation.  The domestic conflict is not intended to focus on the gay person at all.  It's entirely about the ACT about to take place:  this thing called same-sex marriage.

And just as abortion opposition doesn't make a person against all women, or even one woman, the liberty to not agree with abortion is fully left to the individual to decide for themselves, with no judgement; the argument against abortion becomes just about the act of killing the unborn baby.  And likewise, the argument against gay marriage is not against the gay person(s), but the act of gay marriage itself.

Capturing the groundbreaking right to liberty for all, allow me to hook you up to a piece on The Daily Caller that outlines the pending next big thing for the Supremes to mess up.  Whatever happens with the case from Jack Phillips, just know this --  every Jack, Jane, John and Jim or Joan and Jill Dough will be looking to the outcome of this nation's most sacred essential liberty with great hope.

How sad this day in America truly is, really.

That we have arrived at a day that calls upon the common man to make the case and fight for what is purely a religious conviction and conscience when it should be a given!

For something of another color to read today, go to The Daily Bell --  a libertarian love fest of a web site and easily a place little g finds herself fawning all over.  The Bell uses the Free Market argument to understand the changes afoot, and offers a fascinating look at the latest Supreme Court decision. Having said that, it is unfortunate the side of  religious conscience didn't enter into field of arguments; for what value can we give to religious liberty and the "free exercise thereof" if even the libertarians don't see it or even want to talk about it?  weird.

Now, the gay marriage community of supporters is hardly short on propaganda these days; it's really cool and quite common to trample upon religious liberty, rarely finding public outcry.  

 Enter Jimmy Carter.

"I believe Jesus would approve gay marriage."  But even Jimmy added he didn't believe churches should be forced to marry them. (And just because I respect Jimmy Carter so much, I wonder where he stands on the John Dough's who don't wish to bake the cake?)

Going back to The Daily Bell and our natural inclination as humans to discriminate in everything we do, we must accept the wide range of opinion on gay marriage to truly reign in order to save the day. And that calls for gays to accept the fact that some people may never come around; and to force those people to participate  in something that they cannot morally and fundamentally accept as their truth is simply wrong.   As well, it would make the gay community anti-religious bigots to judge them for it, and we can't have that, now can we.  

Discriminating as it all very well may be, we are all at liberty to choose, to decide for ourselves; and this liberty does not come from government, but from our Creator, under Nature's Law.

Gleefully, the bottom line is this: the gay community has won and it is done (well, sorta).  Gay Marriage is legally available to anyone and everyone AS OF TODAY! [With some exceptions, I guess.  See Kansas and how the litigation blow-back that has already begun.]  Oooh and make that as of June 26th, 2015; the decision is already a week old!  

Awwww isn't she sweet.

This historic event just so happens to share the calendar day with this little unknown wonder:  In the year 1870, "the Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States."  

Oh and then there's this --  in 1977, Elvis Presley sang what would become his final concert, in Indianapolis.  

And in 1989, the Supremes declared that 16 year old's can get the death penalty.  

In 1992, the Supremes decided that fund soliciting can be banned at airports.  

In 1993, "Late Night with David Letterman" aired for the first time -- and it just so happens to share the day in '93 with this:

The U.S. launches a cruise missile attack targeting Baghdad intelligence headquarters in retaliation for a thwarted assassination attempt against former President George H.W. Bush in April in Kuwait.

Wow.  How times change and yet oddly stay the same-same.

And now this is where I CHOOSE to end the day.  Don't hate, procreate,

and --

Make it a Good Day, G

It's the State of the Taking of a Major Step Backwards Thing

Dear America,

this girl is seriously looking forward to the State of the Taking of  a Major Step Backwards Speech tonight...for it rears it's ugly head everywhere we look.

given past performances, rest assured the president will leave half the nation gasping in applause, with the other, gasping for air.

and right on cue, methodically orchestrated leaks of what he will say has already lifted the hearts and minds of the masses -- the selectively uninformed, the gainfully underemployed/underachievers, and the bevy of low-information followers.  Those people AND the liberal elite, of course.

I fully intended to bounce in here this morning and begin picking apart a speech yet to be heard.

Having already learned of the president's intention to use Executive Order to increase the minimum wage of any brand spankin' new federal contractor, see here -- as predictable as the morning sun in southern California,  who are we kidding, it wasn't going to take much to get a rise out of me.

Some of this stuff just gets so old.

How may times do we have to go over this? 
A federally assured minimum wage across the board?
A cost of doing business reprehensibly manufactured from a stockpile of bureaucratic misfits, taking into effect from sea to shining sea, obtrusively indiscriminate of the subtleties of various industries or of the unintended consequences sure to follow?  I mean, c'mon, minimum wage usually equates to minimum effort, skill, or investment or all of the above!  And it's intended to simply be a starting point, not a career to raise a family.

But then, out of nowhere -- almost out of thin air -- came this sudden shift!   It was a stroke of genius, I tell you!  And brushing alongside my melancholy, like a prince lifting me up in his arms, my heart was rescued.  Sound the Gutenberg Press!

Yup.
Just like that.

And you, too, can get some of this action by going to my secret garden.

And on that note -- given it's length --  this girl will spare you of partaking in any other juggling of words, or slight of hand and heart from this woeful commoner.   No, true excellence in the free market exchange of conversation awaits somewhere else -- fully illuminated and enlightened -- it's somewhere way better than here.

Way.

Look at it as a redistribution of wealth of ideas!  Thy kingdom is yours for the taking.

So without further adieu, may your fingers waltz to the pages of The Daily Bell, and a post written by Richard Ebeling, in The State of the Union Address Obama Should Deliver.

It explains everything.
Not even kidding.

It explains everything. 
May I also recommend that you take your time...

But you, dear sir, Richard Ebeling, along with everyone @ The Bell, are brilliant; a knight in shining armor, and dare I say, should be crowned king.   [But what do I know; I'm just a girl --  usually plum exasperated by the day and the life in America --  venturing simply to keep up with it all and record it once in awhile, give or take what seems like a fortnight.] 

Enjoy.

Make it a Good Day, G
 

It's a Republic, IF You Can Keep It Thing

Dear America,

so come today... if you liked your crappy plan, you can go back to it -- for the king has commanded the insurance companies to take you back...for one more year...to save his and his fellow democrats political ass.

Finally.
Finally we get to the quintessential argument against the government doing anything other than support and uphold the oh so worthy, and proud, exceptional and unmatched, common defense. hoorah.  [As our hearts and minds are extended to the tragedy from our local Camp Pendleton, just yesterday.]

Of course, this resolution without the backbone of conventional wisdom or even the very ability to implement [with a nod to having NO business experience whatsoever to blame], comes on the heels of a smack down by President Clinton just a day or two ago...who said... Obama should "honor the commitment that the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they got."  That's a good one.

Does this president even comprehend what he is asking for?  He is now telling the insurance companies to disregard what the law says, and get these people covered, and in a year from now we'll give it another go.

Oh okay.

Does this president realize he is looking like a bumbling, teleprompting, stuttering -- making suggestions that are elusive and vague on the fly to create hope and change from thin air --  idiot?

Don't talk, Mr. President.

Finally we get to the core as to why this thing called Obamacare is wrong for America in every possible way -- and we get it with a performance to die for.

How about you guys honor the commitment --with a hand on the Lincoln Bible, no less -- to the Constitution?    Commanding to the American people to buy something....threatening religious liberty from sea to shining sea.... justifying the excessive, unconscionable use of Executive Orders as a  means to rewrite policy and change the law by dictate... destroying whatever trust the American people may have left through wanton cover ups and lies from Benghazi to the IRS to the NSA to the rollout of a bureaucratic behemoth that takes over one-sixth of this country's economy with a supremely reckless health care reform program that will seal America's fate in total ruin.

And don't you just love the timeline in hindsight:

Here's to Eric Cantor a long, long time ago who questioned the president about this very thing ...deeply concerned about the individual insurance policy holder's vulnerability back in 2010 -- to which the president replied this,

 

"The 8 to 9 million people that you refer to that might have to change their coverage — keep in mind out of the 300 million Americans that we’re talking about — would be folks who the CBO, Congressional Budget Office, estimates would find the deal in the exchange better."  With many thanks to The Daily Caller, here

.

The president was well aware of the issue just waiting in the wings, both east and west.

Finally.
Finally we get to the crux of the matter -- this is not about insurance; this is not about insuring the uninsured; this is not about fixing the health insurance industry by creating an atmosphere that strengthens services, supports competitive pricing, or reinforces the best health care system in the world.  It never was.

This is about the redistribution of wealth, subsidizing one person's misery and poor health with another person's good health and wealth.

This appearance of incompetence is deliberate.

And on that note, let me point you in the direction of something wonderful from The Daily Bell.  If it all goes as planned, this thing doesn't end well.  As The Daily Bell begins piggy backing on comments made by Larry Summers,

"Having succeeded after more than a century of failed efforts in achieving the progressive dream goal of legislating universal health insurance in America, it is tragic to be falling short on the mundane task of allowing Americans to actually enroll in the healthcare exchanges."

Read the whole thing, or not; it concludes going something like this:

"Call it the unseen hand, call it directed history. Or simply agree that a group, a cabal of top internationalists, are patiently guiding the world toward increased centralization one country and one continent at a time. Seen from this perspective, Obamacare is simply one more piece of the globalist puzzle."

Obama doesn't care about the uninsured; he doesn't even care about the INSURED.  There is simply a method to this madness and this president is nothing more than a piece of the puzzle -- and being more specific, a mouth piece.

He is all mouth and no substance. 

He is all make believe with no reality.

He lies to save his hide and protect the movement, the fundamental transformation of America.

Here's one more thing, thanks to an email from just a guy named 'Bill from Kentucky' to Bret Baier -- a post which immediately went viral:

“Putting things in perspective: March 21st 2010 to October 1 2013 is 3 years, 6 months, 10 days.  December 7, 1941 to May 8, 1945 is 3 years, 5 months, 1 day.  What this means is that in the time we were attacked at Pearl Harbor to the day Germany surrendered is not enough time for this progressive federal government to build a working webpage.  Mobilization of millions, building tens of thousands of tanks,  planes, jeeps, subs, cruisers, destroyers, torpedoes, millions upon millions of guns, bombs, ammo, etc. Turning the tide in North Africa,  Invading Italy, D-Day,  Battle of the Bulge, Race to Berlin – all while we were also fighting the Japanese in the Pacific!!  And in that amount of time – this administration can’t build a working webpage.”

It isn't about the website, is it.

No sir ree Bob, or Bill, or Tom, Dick and Harry.

It's about control.

It's about the redistribution of power and control on a global level.

It's about growing the base --  with voters totally dependent upon the government and the entitlement programs that come with, upon the backs of the those who somehow find a way to remain upright, working, and paying taxes; it's about growing the base of the low information voter, as Rush Limbaugh puts it, aligning with people who don't ask questions, they just want the goods.

FYI:  It's all just part and parcel of the new Common Core math, mandating such shifts in American ideals and self-reliance to rollout as early as kindergarten.

With expected results much like that of the unintended consequences coming out of the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Interior...with dueling stories to boot.  Like this one. And then there is  this one.  Did you catch that sticking point about midstream, stating  "Five million acres of land set aside for conservation — more than Yellowstone, Everglades and Yosemite National Parks combined — have vanished on Obama's watch"... all for the sake of ethanol.

Every action causes reaction.

Progressives not only know this, they thrive.

It's a brand new day in America; it's a Republic --  if you can keep it.  [right, Ben?]

Make it a Good Day, G




 

It's a Miss You Mean It kind of Thing

Dear America,

they ask, "will you miss her?" with an air of sarcasm and joy.

let's be real, Elisabeth Hasselbeck never stood a chance...not according to her fellow hosts, the audience the show attracts, or even the general public blinded by the political correctness of our time.

In the opening paragraph, the post reads, "Elisabeth Hasselbeck will go down in history as one of The View's most divisive co-hosts in the talk show's 16-year history. As exclusively reported by Us Weekly March 8, the conservative 35-year-old mother of three will not be returning for another season of the ABC daytime talk show."

As if the title of this post didn't tell us everything we needed to grasp in one little whisper.

will you even miss her, they ponder, as they virtually, wholly, believe they got this; believing this ripe for the picking perspective is totally covered with polls and opinion to match.

Well, for one thing -- who has the time to watch daytime TV, especially first thing in the morning?  Who's got the time to kill to watch women bicker, or get all googly-eyed over some handsome movie star or president?  Who's got the time to watch Whoopie (2 million), Sherry (1.25 million), Barbara (12 million, includes other projects), Joy (1.5 million) and Elisabeth (1.25 million) while the rest of the country is supposedly lamenting a 2.4 percent federal spending cut from the sequester?

[But for the record and to be perfectly clear, that would be a 2.4% drop in future growth of the federal government -- nobody should be missing out on anything right about now -- but I digress to impress]

So, besides imagining that any one of these fine ladies could sponsor a week's worth of White House Tours without thinking twice about it, can we just look at the money these women make -- all the while, it's the audience that suffers through commercials, puts up with the petty annoyances between hosts, and quickly grows disenchanted with the underlying agenda and one-sided views. 

"The View"  -- got that right; it's a liberal dose of half-cocked women ranting from a point of view - - dissenting views are seriously frowned upon, if not attacked and berated on national TV.  And about that ONE point of view -- that would be the view from the Left.   

And now, taking into account a poll happening in real time right here on the old G thang, it would appear that about half the country couldn't care less what these ladies say on any given day.   And will they miss Elisabeth?  you betcha -- it was always great entertainment to hear the dust up after Elisabeth freely spoke her mind, her point of view, and many times over the same point of view that could be shared by millions of conservative women world wide.  But guess no one's counting.

Aw but OMG! yahoo! got their message across, didn't they?  

Will you miss her? [sounds kinda catty, no?]    The Elisabeth that "will go down in history as one of The View's most divisive co-hosts in the talk show's 16-year history...."  according to who?   huh? OMG, yahoo, USweekly, or whoever it is responsible for this.  She's "one of the most divisive"  according to who -- one of the low-information, highly brain-washable, and thoroughly ignorant followers of yours? 


I've said this before and I'll say it again -- the Left loves to carry the torch for tolerance and acceptance.  The thing is, they typically and hypocritically and unapologetically draw the line at the conservative and the "right-wing" -- and while we're at it, might as well add, "extremists."  For the Left, the Bible believer, the pro-lifer, the upholder of the Constitution... can all be reduced to views the world could clearly live without.  All tolerance stops with a Lumineer-smile and without batting an eye.

 You know, it's sad really. 

If only these ladies discussed the likes of Adam Smith, and started a book club around The Wealth of Nations, or something; now wouldn't that be something to talk about.  Perhaps, they could take five minutes out to read excerpts from The Daily Bell, or the Patriot Post -- to gain a more current perspective of the life and times and the pocketbook of modern day America.  

Here's a link to a daytime fluff-piece to get the juices flowing -- it's old news in today's standards, and a post from March 1st -- appearing live on The Daily Bell; in short, it's really an analysis upon an analysis.  But needless to say, it's all good.  Sport a Joy Behar accent and read it aloud to yourself; it's just more fun.

So do we really have to dumb ourselves down and talk fashion do's and don'ts, listen to interviews of the latest heart-throb or political hack, and discover the egg isn't all that bad for us after all (in moderation, that is), when in fact, we are in the midst of destroying the dollar, our schools, our healthcare system, our whole entire country from head to toe?

Makes me wonder.

It's still the weekend, at least for another four hours, or so, so consider this a fluff piece by G.  This week will be wicked busy -- mani/pedi, highlights, lunch with the girls, shopping from noon to night...and of course, lots of time to just chat on the phone. ... what sky falling?  what's a sea quest her?  Where are my bon bons?   Who's Karzai and why doesn't he like us?  Is Elisabeth being replaced with Sarah Palin?

[By the way...everything ever after "wicked busy" was just venting with sarcasm and joy.]

Monday Morning wide eyed update:  Barbara Wawa says she's not going anywhere...who knew?

Make it a Good Day, G

AND HOW ABOUT THIS NEWS!

"Support for a five percent reduction in federal spending crosses party lines in this poll, produced for ABC by Langer Research Associates; it includes 57 percent of Democrats, six in 10 independents and three-quarters of Republicans. Shaving eight percent off the military budget, on the other hand, is opposed by 73 percent of Republicans and 63 percent of independents, with Democrats split down the middle."   Wow.  My country is showing up again.  For more, go here.   Let's talk about this next time on The View.

It's Holland to America Thing

Dear America,

okay so what I'm about to talk about has been building up for several days now...

my hope was to "spill it" directly on-line as a response to a recent post on The Daily Bell; unfortunately, their system  never confirmed my registration, which is quite funny all on its own...  But needless to say, after attempting to log in a number of times, I simply gave up -- of course, thinking to myself, who cares, I gotta blaaaaaaaaaahg -- so there! na na nana na na.

happy monday to me; it's so happy, it came early, considering it's only sunday.

So, in part, this is what set me off:

"There is no lesser of two evils when considering the two major political parties in the United States today. I consider non-voting, voting third party or even voting for the opposition to be justified now, considering how the GOP leadership treated the Ron Paul Campaign, the liberty movement and our primary voters."

The entire piece, Don't Cry for Us, Mitt Romney, can be read here; it is written by resident cry-baby, Ron Holland.

And just how grown-up is he, right?

In reality here -- on the great playground of life --- little old G has no idea where to begin.  It's not like his post was some kind of long-winded shellacking of Mitt, or even the Republican party in general; his post was all of five short paragraphs and a quote from the Bible.

Are you kidding me, Ronnie?

So what --  fess up....does Holland speak for all of you nut cases -- who when feeling deprived of a certain level of establishment respect, you just kiss common sense goodbye, taking your toys with you as you run wee, wee, wee, wee all the way home?  I think you left a ball or two on the black top.

But, seriously?  Is this how you wanna play it?

You know, speaking only for myself -- cuz, that's what I do best -- if Ron Paul managed to haul in the nomination I would not hesitate to vote for him with pride.  For starters, he is a far cry from the Chosen One, and for second, I whole-heartedly recognize his ambitions to return America to her proper, fundamental place.  No question about it.

But let's be realistic, shall we?

Ron Paul had an overwhelming yet slim-to-none chance of attracting ANY of Obama's supporters, let alone enough independents, simply because he comes off a wee bit kooky, while some might even say extreme in his Libertarian views. just sayin'

Just how could our country --  considered to have a majority of us vote just right of center on most things -- settle into a balancing act when roughly one-third of the populace is utterly hellbent on letting the Entitlement Dream live to see another four years with a candidate like Ron Paul running against Obama?

Sure, I like your idea, Mr. Holland, of offering Rand the job of the vice presidency; but reality bites, doesn't it?  He didn't get the nod.  And lest we overlook, this decision came down from the captain of the team;  ultimately, it was Mitt's decision --  not yours, not mine; and not the party's.

But how could you not love Paul Ryan?  For all intents and purposes, Ryan became a one-man dodge ball team while introducing his financial plan; he stuck his neck out there, virtually unafraid, and just took it.  Recess is brutal, isn't it?  But here's you, -- again, returning to some kind of bitter sportsmanship:

"In the November election the "chickens are coming home to roost" to both the Republican Party and the Mitt Romney Campaign for their mistakes and bad deeds. Therefore, don't cry for us to give Romney or the GOP candidates our support, as we sure will not cry for you."

Beginning with your rather poor choice in words -- comparing the infamous sermon on the Rev. Wright mount to this moment in nomination history; all I have to add is, you gotta be kidding me! Do you hate republicans that much?

What frightens me the most in this moment [hard to tell, really, as the mood keeps evolving, you know] is the level of ignorance on your part.   Have you not done your homework on the real Barack, the man himself and his history  -- including but not limited to, his radical mentors and his rather personal Marxist family roots?  Not to mention, how could a trusted site like The Daily Bell, give you the platform to make such a stunning smack-down of the Romney-Ryan ticket?  And with such a limited scope of grievances to boot?  I give you an "incomplete" on this assignment.

Oh right, he's not all things libertarian so waaaaaaaaah.

What a mistake.

What an anti-establishment embarrassment.

What a sad case of cry-baby-itus.

What a sore loser you are; and just listen to yourself  -- with not a care in the world of the real-life consequences whatsoever.

Just a girl to Mr. Holland's Opus, IF MITT loses this presidential race --  then surely we will kiss America goodbye; oh and it will be almost instantaneous.  That's how different Obama's America is.  And if we go there, we might as well hop scotch down that road and compile a long list of boo-boo's yet to come; a skinned knee's got nothing on the trajectory of sudden and life-altering ailments on the way. You want something to cry about?

You big weenie!  How could you even think it would be like even-steven between the two? Yeah, like Barack and Mitt are like last picks for team anti-establishment.  We get it.  BUT with all due disrespect, sir, you're an idiot to think they are ONE IN THE SAME!

Waaaaaaah  Waaaaaaah

So what, your favorite color didn't get picked,  but take a breath will ya?  Think about what you are saying here.  This logic of yours simply makes no sense; matter of fact, it is totally, unmistakably, ILLOGICAL, only to be tarnished further by your rather illegitimate, narrow-minded, ridiculous solution.  We might as well just leave our bikes out in the rain, for nothing really  matters at all.

Ronnie baby -- old G Thang here can understand your disappointment, but this opinion of yours is offensive in every way.   Get a grip and change your mind and write sixteen trillion times on the black board:  "ROMNEY-RYAN Believe in America."

Oh no matter.  Who am I to think I could change your mind?

I am merely hanging my hopes on the independents and libertarians far and wide to think for themselves and choose to ignore this sage advice of yours.  Even teachers can get things entirely wrong; even preachers are human.

But nice touch with the last word coming from the Book of Matthew.   Did you know, it's authorship is actually an anonymous soul.  It is projected to have been written by a Palestinian Jew -- having taken creative liberty with the Gospel of Mark, plus a Greek translation of Matthew's Aramaic "oracles."  The purpose of this gospel was to convince the Jews that Jesus was Christ, in fulfillment of  prophecy dating back to the Old Testament.[nod to The Bible Handbook, from Nelson's Pocket Reference Series, for a little help]

The thing is  --- to be a dedicated follower of anything we must not only feel strongly about something, but we must prevail, and carry our cross no  matter what it takes; the follow through, day in and day out, is what separates the faithful from the jaded,  from the spirit-less, those who just decide to give up.

Yes.  It's not easy.  It requires us to muster the faith and patience to carry on, even when conditions are not ideal.   Hell, it's the nudge by nudge philosophy of governing that ultimately creates the very conditions for diabolical change, the kind of fundamental transformation only one of the last of the two standing speaks so highly of -- and so audaciously and openly, at that.

So if I am hearing you correctly -- you see the two as being one in the same, insinuating Obama's Redistribution is tit for tat all things being equal to Mitt's intentions for Reformation of decades of bad government.

You might as well think Black Liberation Theology is the same as Christianity; you might as well think the color blue is the same as red; you might as well just move to Venezuela or Greece, if it's all the same to you.

Clearly, you are incapable of discriminating even the lesser of two evils with any semblance of real honest to goodness thought unique to the set of circumstances facing America.  For you, the minutia of all things monotonous and well established is enough to just burn the capture-the-flag altogether.  Even when the true differences are like black and white [and that is absolutely not to be taken literally];  but just like up and down or left and right, you just cave to clinging to your hard-line approach.  Ex-squeeze me? Red rover, red rover just how sophomoric and  juvenile are you?

OR...... just maybe...muster a little strength, and have a little faith and stick it out; Mitt might very well be our last great hope for any future "Ron Paul," or a Rand(i),  to have his [or her!] way with us the next time around.  It's what I like to call, baby steps.  But oh no, for you, it's all or nothing.

Oh just look at me.  Carrying on like there's no tomorrow.
Let's ring this bell and bring this one to a close, shall we? 

I just can't believe this stance of yours AT ALL, Mr. Holland -- so there!  You, sir, are an idiot. 

I said my peace; now maybe I can get some sleep tonight.
 
Make no mistake:  All in all, your attitude sucks;
and you know what they say...
sometimes it's the only difference between
an A and a B, of liberty or tyranny.

Make it a Good Day, G

It's an Ah-mazing Grace Thing

Dear America,

so I wanna drift into a conversation about the sanctity of life.  it is, after all, how we left things last week.

why?
because it is so much more than the complicated, twisted turns of ideology and opinion pitting feminists/leftists against tradition.

When a child -- of fifteen years -- writes in her journal:

"I just f killed someone. I strangled them and slit their throat and stabbed them now they're dead. I don't know how to feel atm. It was ahmazing. As soon as you get over the 'ohmygawd I can't do this' feeling, it's pretty enjoyable. I'm kinda nervous and shaky though right now. Kay, I gotta go to church now ... lol"

When a trusted teacher -- teaching at an elementary school in L.A. -- was recently discovered to have been forcing students to do unthinkable acts (with most of it captured on film) ....Only to have a second teacher, from the same school,  be arrested for virtually doing the very same thing....


When a lauded coach, with a winning record and a following teetering on religious idolatry  -- does next to nothing in reporting (and punishing) a colleague for [serious allegations of] acts of sexual abuse, and basically protecting a pedophile.


sure... it is a stretch in dialogue -- from 'it's not about contraception' to pedophilia.

BUT just look at our children  -- and the world in which they live in!  Just look at how they are turning out!  Just look at the broadband effect of abuses -- large and small -- upon the impressionable, vulnerable, young mind in America.

what are we doing?  how are we protecting them?  what are we teaching them?



Is Life, it's self -- in general and in the specific -- sacred anymore?  Is "it" protected, nurtured, and lovingly guided to grow up into responsible, thoughtful, lawful, compassionate, people?

Forgive me.  But just how in the world is this becoming so hard to do?

Oh I know why.
it's a rhetorical question.

It went awry when we ceased teaching a moral code.

When the intellectual, leftist response to modern life managed to gain a stronghold upon the halls of government -- driving a certain social justice agenda up against every tradition in America, including our hallowed Judeo-Christian beliefs and practices -- we stopped being the Nation under God.  It - Life under God, our Creator -  was replaced -- in thought, word and deed -- by man.

And guess what?  Man (or little girl, as this particular discussion includes), when left to his own moral code, confronting his very own devil inside, without a sense of belonging to a Spirit that is larger than life itself, falters.   For man, and even little girls, have a few flaws.

Making another huge leap, The Daily Bell featured an interview (with Dr. Yaron Brook) over the weekend that intrigued me (and in a round about way, his thoughts fit well):

"I think the world is pretty straightforward. The world is dominated by really, really bad ideas, by a lot of ignorance, a bad moral code and really bad ideas about politics, which drive people to do things that are not in their (or our) long-term self interest. I think central banks are an example of poor economic understanding and of a moral code that requires that government control as much of our lives as possible. I think this is fundamentally an ideological battle, a battle of ideas, a philosophical battle.

The destructive ideas dominating our culture are out in the open. They emanate from the universities. Their advocates are out in the open, blaring at us from lecture halls, pulpits, political rallies, editorial pages, TV and radio. What's devastating our world is the impact of intellectuals – professors, writers, economists, think-tankers – who advocate for Keynesianism, subjectivism, socialism, existentialism, post modernism, all these ideologies that are anti-capitalist, anti-individual rights, anti-freedom...

...What's unique about Atlas Shrugged is not only that it gives us answers, but it gives us solutions. It presents the philosophical explanation for what is going on today in terms of cause and effect, but it also gives us the solutions to these problems and a philosophy that completely turns upside down the statist regimes and the statist ideologies of today and presents us, for the first time in history, with a consistent philosophy that is pro-individual rights, pro-individualism."

The interview delves into nearly every facet of life in the modern world from the perspective of the Executive Director of the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights; for more, go here.

Now, granted, the focus for the interview was on capitalism, along with the war on terror; but the at the bare minimum, how can any of us expect for America to do well, to capitalize in today's world market, when we can't even "capitalize" upon our most basic natural resource, our people?  It's a good question.  We just aren't making them like we used to, you know?

Rational, long-term self-interest, aligning with pro-individual rights UNDER God...protecting freedom, liberty, and justice, for children and adults alike, is the cornerstone of America's way back.

America needs a heavy dose of tough love.  and I think that is exactly what we are witnessing right now.

I think our Father, our Creator, loves us so much right now -- Free Will, manifesting as good vs. evil,  is being allowed to take it's course, to play out, even if evil appears to be winning.  As individuals, we face it; as a country, we live it, turning it into the every day.


But everything we are taught these days stems from living In the Moment, not for the "long-term;" what we live for is selfish interests -- not rational, long-term self-interest built upon proven, age-less principles and values; what we want for ourselves is to live from one 'ahmazing' moment to the next, without care and thoughtful consideration of others, let alone leading a life of virtue just for the thrill of it.

We are teaching our children everything from life is fully disposable one minute, to taking the life of another is worth the rest of your life in jail.  We are snatching the innocence and beauty of life right out from under them, before they are even given a chance to know the difference.

We began the day citing the devastating actions of just four people -- a girl, two teachers and a coach; between them, hundreds of children have been irreparably damaged for life, if not killed outright; and they, in turn, will touch the lives of many others as they attempt to live with it.  How tragic.  How mind boggling really.

The cause and effect of the lives of just four people, out of 300 million of us living in America, can, and may, exponentially speaking, be very well a sign of the death of us.  For these kinds of stories are everywhere and often, aren't they.

America is truly sick.

And that's just it.

Raising good people requires rational, long-term self-interest for the betterment and livelihood and prosperity of the whole (the way our founders intended). Gone are the days of self-reliance; welcome to the era of self-destruction.

Leaving us to deal with the greatest responsibility and duty to Individualism, to it's highest degree. 

At this point, it might even require ten commandments, or something.

Make it a Good Day, G 

It's All About the 115 Trillion Ton Gorilla in the Room...It's a Pretty Big Thing

Dear America,

happy thursday.

to save time, let's just assume I know everything...

that's kinda funny, isn't it.  read it on a t-shirt once and stored it away with the apples of my cheeks just waiting for the right moment to insert a nugget of silly.

Considering the mood I'm in and from where I sit, me thinks the world could use a little silly.


Scratch that -- we have the world on fire in every which way to Sunday and what do we silly Americans do?  Escape -- as the top Google trends in recent days have included Demi Moore, Kim Kardashian, gift ideas and apple juice...

seriously people?

As if we don't have enough issues here at home with our own Central Bank "helping" us too much, now we have to be concerned with the entire world of central banking going gangbusters and global.  And the market is happy with this?  [see Wall Street's best day in years, just yesterday; right...but we hate Wall Street....I betcha even Alec was okay with what happened @Wall and Broad...tweet that, baldwin-boy]

If you have some time, here is an interesting overview, from The Atlantic. In a nutshell, here ya go:

"Don't be fooled by Wednesday's early stock-market rally: Hardly anyone believes that the central banks' actions are anything but scotch tape over the shattered window of the European economy."

got that right.

We, the people of silly Americans, are all aflutter from a five hundred point leap in the market, when we are in fact trillions in debt.  And we're not talking about the mere 15 Trillion it shows on record as our 'national debt.'  Hardly.  We're talking T  R  I  L  L I  O  N  S.  Honestly, it's an amount that will take multiple generations to pay back...if ever.  Collectively, we have stored in the apples of our cheeks not for the future, but for an onslaught of future unfunded financial liabilities, and all we keep doing is try to stuff in more.

From my favorite libertarian hang out, The Daily Bell, I bring you sustenance, including alternative perspective with plenty of back up [and may I recommend you take a basket with you...plan to camp out, take a picnic perhaps, for there is just way to much going on here].

Like most things, some of the most fascinating information comes underneath the article itself within the commentary back and forth.  The Daily Bell responds actively to questions posed by suspect minds, sharpening the original argument to it's finest pithy points.  Let me elaborate a wee bit....

From The Real Reason Bloomberg Sued to Open Up Fed Records:

"There have been a lot of reasons advanced as to why the New York Fed printed as much money as it did, but most of these elaborate justifications are just that ... justifications. What the elites of the day did during the "Roaring Twenties" (that they created) was to DELIBERATELY destabilize and undermine the system. It was probably done on purpose (in hindsight) to create a depression and perhaps a war that could then give birth to a new world order.

And in fact, this is exactly what happened. World War II gave way to a whole panoply of global institutions: the IMF, the UN, the World Bank, the World Health Organization, NATO and more recently, the International Criminal Court. We are expected to believe this was some sort of coincidence, a "reaction" to the second Great War. Was it really? Can we STILL be so sure in this era of the Internet?"

From The Daily Bell, in the comments section:

"The Fed, headed by Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, argued that revealing borrower details would create a stigma -- investors and counter-parties would shun firms that used the central bank as lender of last resort -- and that needy institutions would be reluctant to borrow in the next crisis. Clearing House Association fought Bloomberg’s lawsuit up to the U.S. Supreme Court, which declined to hear the banks’ appeal in March 2011.

$7.77 Trillion

The amount of money the central bank parceled out was surprising even to Gary H. Stern, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis from 1985 to 2009, who says he “wasn’t aware of the magnitude.” It dwarfed the Treasury Department’s better-known $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. Add up guarantees and lending limits, and the Fed had committed $7.77 trillion as of March 2009 to rescuing the financial system, more than half the value of everything produced in the U.S. that year.

----

The 7 trillion is only part of about US$16 trillion that was revealed by an audit initiated by Congressman Ron Paul ... We subtracted about US$3 trillion because ... "Of the $16.1 trillion loaned out, $3.08 trillion went to financial institutions in the U.K., Germany, Switzerland, France and Belgium, the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) analysis shows."

Our central bank has already loaned out $3.08 trillion to financial institutions in the U.K., Germany, Switzerland, France and Belgium ...according to our own GAO!  Who's paying for that?  I'm not paying for that.  Are you?

Oh, but lookie there, Paris Hilton just got a new 280k Ferrari...
and Demi and Ashton are splitting up...

and Kim Kardashian is divorcing her husband of 78 days...

and...

and...

and...

and we're trading dollars for euros on borrowed time.  everything should work out just fine.

Make it a Good Day, G

OWS should be storming the White House and The Federal Reserve Bank.

This might be a good time to sell.  But what do I  know, I'm just the 115 trillion ton gorilla in the room.

It's Fundamental Change Absent the Fundamentals Thing

Dear America,


happy wednesday.

returning home from my part time gig last night -- the one that feels like the more and more I show up for it, the more it feels like a full time gig (but we'll save that conversation for another day) -- I managed to catch the most fascinating five minutes with Greta Van Susteren I have seen in quite some time; she was interviewing a representative from California, Kevin McCarthy.

Basically, she was trying to get down to the bottom of the "problem with Congress."  Why isn't anything getting done?  Why does Congress insist on playing politics?  that sort of thing...

and let's just say I was stunned by the rather quiet storm of his response; not sure if it simply was his candidness in the moment, or the combined effect alongside his calm, balanced demeanor -- but he laid it all out there without skipping a beat or mincing words: the president never gets beyond the talking phase (and more than that, gives the impression that the organizer-in-chief may in fact prefer it...the bureaucratic stranglehold works).

GO HERE to read the transcript or watch the ten minute spot; however, I highly recommend that you watch it for the full effect -- if you get past the first two minutes, you're virtually home free, easily settling in until the very end.

"you never get to an agreement with him...he never finishes,"  

said of the president, per Kevin McCarthy.

well I'll be... color me surprised.

He never wants to get to a bi-partisan decision because it would not serve his purpose -- otherwise, the smartest president who ever lived would make it so.  The president is covertly resorting to Alinsky rules in everything he does -- making the making of chaos job one; making governing through the policy of 'divide and conquer' job two; making the overt use of ridicule, discrediting the opposition at the very core, job three.

Almost sounding like he is giving the president the benefit of the doubt, believing that the common ground we all share is still attainable --  Kevin McCarthy seems remarkably unable to recognize a deeper, more sinister problem:  the impure, unconscionable, root intention of the president's "fundamental transformation"  of this country.


Here is a splendid explanation [of the actions -- or better still, in-actions -- of a president] via Tibor Machan, featured in an interview from about thirty days ago on The Daily Bell [this guy is one of my favorite people in the whole world -- I could listen to what he has to say for forever and a day].   But be forewarned, this is a round-about explanation, so hold on tight:

Daily Bell: All good points, but let's back up. How has it come to this?
Tibor Machan: Those who are government activists don't proclaim it. They disguise what they're after. They have to do so in this country because traditionally American citizens have not been well disposed to government activism, even though there's quite a lot of it. And often they come to believe it is necessary, that their wisdom is supreme, just as did heads of state for centuries. So, in fact, the so-called progressives are utterly reactionary!
Daily Bell: You've referred to what they do as "nudging."
Tibor Machan: It's not my term. The influential pragmatist Professor Cass Sunstein, who is now President Obama's regulation czar, wrote a book called Nudge with Richard H. Thaler. The full title was Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Yale UP, 2004).
Daily Bell: Can you give us a little summary?
Tibor Machan: It has to do with the old chestnut of boiling the frog slowly. You find the same strategy advanced by the Fabian Society in Britain. The idea is that you don't want to use brute force to move people toward a society based on government activism. Instead, you want to nudge people, to move them in tiny increments so they do not find it worth their while to object, or at least not forcefully.
Nudging can take place in numerous ways but a lot of it has to do with creating social norms that people will feel they have to conform to. Recycling might be seen as part of this nudging. Regardless of how you feel about recycling and environmentalism in general, recycling is seen within the public dialogue as a general "good." Thus, people will conform to the demands of recycling because they see it as a "good citizen" thing to do. They won't complain or protest that they have been imposed upon. (Just last week the feds banned over-the-counter inhalers on these grounds!)

skipping down a wee bit,

Daily Bell: So to sum up, we're in a situation – in America and the West generally – where those who believe in governmental activism are gradually trumping those who are trying to wield private morality on behalf of non-governmental civil society. Is that a fair statement?
Tibor Machan: It is certainly fair to say this in an ongoing argument. Whether or not the "gradually trumping" part is correct, only time can tell.

Granted, the interview itself begins and ends more focused upon the aspect of weighing the objective reality and ability of deciding our own morality against the government making such declarations for us. But this 'nudging' thing seems to explain a lot of things; for it seems to be the go-to tool --  not only against 'we the people' as a whole, but also, with great calculation, against the proper balance and decision making process within Congress.

Not only that -- as we have grown to witness in the last couple of weeks -- the president has "decided" he won't wait for congress; he has "decided" in his own way; and moreover, he has "decided" that he will move ahead with making gains on his so-called jobs bill totally circumventing congress through the excessive use of regulations, executive order, and czars, blatantly crossing the soft but diabolical and tyrannical line.

Oh Kevin, and you think this guy can't make any decisions...did you hear the president?  

He said, referring to YOU, 'Congress',  "if they won't act, I will."

Before I move on too much further -- please read the entire interview with Tibor Machan.  Go HERE.

The thing is, there has been a great breakdown in communication around here -- in America.  Unbeknownst to most of us, we seem to have been knee deep in living a lie for nearly the last fifty years.  It can be explained by the Occupy Wall Street movement -- and can be further demonstrated and explained by the growing numbers of Tea Party activists who are choosing to fight back. [of course, not necessarily in that order] 

The government would have us believe that the root of the problem is capitalism; this is evidently what "the kids today"  have been learning all this time, anyway.  But honestly, it couldn't be any further from the truth.

and right on cue -- the way the universe works and all -- allow me to share a two minute video:




Thank you "Uncle Ted," and in turn, a place called "dauckster's posterous"

take that, Phil Donahue.

and finally, from James Madison:

"...It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself..."  Federalist Paper #51, read in it's entirety here.

So now to the big finish -- and I'll be real quick about it.
Much like our Congress in motion, wasn't G thing on some kind of vicious circle this morning...

Make it a Good Day, G

It's All About Bulls and Bears, Hawks and Rats, getting along in a Free Market Thing

Dear America,

just sorry I missed the take down.

wow G, way to start all cryptic for a monday morning...but go on...this ought to be good...carry on...

Well, before I get to some esplainin' to do, let me begin noting the explanations of a president when asked about the undeniable onset of his crown of grey hair:  ""My grandfather was grey by the time he was 29.... So I figured it was going to come. It just happened to coincide with the presidency..." a president's remarks in an interview with Jake Tapper for ABC.

hereditary.

alrighty then -- let's run with that -- hereditary, like as in the inherent bent to run Socialist and Marxist policy all willy nilly here, in America, of all places? is that the same thing?  it all just happened to coincide with the presidency?


is it just me?  but funny how a little narcissism can go a long, long way; even to the point of preventing himself from admitting the cold, hard truth -- grey hair is just what happens to a president (before and after pictures prove it so).

So, Mr.O, get over yourself.
As a matter of fact, how about you just consider yourself one of us; this whole grey thing....it's just what happens to most people.   And like the rest of us, stress contributes to speeding up the process every time...  end of story.

Or maybe, you could have just said something to the effect of, grey hair is just a fact of life -- even attributing to such stats and information from real science [because you like math and science a lot], like as in an article like the one I found on Slate, you can read for yourself here.

It's the same odds for everyone:  by the time 50% of all people reach the age of 50, they will be at least 50% grey...50-50-50 rule...


Or did he actually think this stretch of mother nature's will was going to reassure us in some kind of warped way? as if it sounded better that it wasn't the stress of the job, but merely the imperfection of something in his genes, was more to blame? Like, it wasn't his fault -- it's more like it was God's fault, for the way he was made...and how his father was made...and how his father was made...and so on.

right, Mr. President -- we get it.  nothing is too much for you to handle; how silly of us to think that the job itself could be at fault for the temple's grey you got going on these days.

I just can't help but notice though -- it is far easier for the president to admit, and define said genus of the inherent grey gene to fits of heredity, but when it comes to explaining the redistribution gene [none other than the one safely disguised and hidden in the sleepy hollows underneath] and, subsequently, linking it to the science of really bad Marxist policy far and wide, he will deny his ideological roots like the plague.  No, he can't even talk about it.

Now....talk about issues.

His entire family  -- both white and black -- is rooted in the power of the state to solve all ills; and we elected this man president?

But nooooooo, let's talk about his grey hair and get a good chuckle out of it, shall we?

just sorry I missed the take down

take two

What I really wanted to talk about today was the splendid magnificence of the free market; something that our young gun president with the grey hair coming right on cue knows either very little about -- or, understands just enough to make things worse [to lead people to just more government] -- or, understands it so well, he knows just what it will take to bring it all crashing down [to force people into more government whether we want to or not].

And speaking of greater clarity and distinction along these lines, The Daily Bell offered it's readers yesterday an interview with Jeffrey Berwick that seems well worth the twenty or thirty minutes it will require of you taking it all in.  But must warn you, however; some of it borders on rather extreme ideas, challenging beliefs many of us grew up with and all.

[While this may be a good time to remind everyone who comes my way that with regard to everything I bring to your attention, it is for you to decide what resonates with you and what does not ....Who am I, right?   I'm just a girl....what do I know...la di dah di dah]

But if you dare to venture there, click here.

just sorry I missed the take down

take three

okay. I promise you now...here it is...

so a couple of days ago, I became a first hand witness to the free market being alive and well. Some of you might insist on calling it Survival of the Fittest, given that the circumstances begin to look awfully familiar to the whims and fancies of the call of the wild, answering to the inherent need for food.  But don't fool yourselves; it is the free market at it's best and brightest and deadliest.

Months back you may remember the day I was telling you about the rat poison incident -- and my baby Boo who just so happened to have eaten a piece of the little blue chunk of it in the corner of my garage. Two weeks later -- after days of lethargy, no appetite, heavy Vitamin K therapy and enough prayer vigils to cure everything in a mile's radius -- Boo was fine.  

This was after two cars in the parking lot had a creature chew up it's insides, wreaking one car's alarm system in it's entirety, and knocking out enough hoses and electrical lines to prevent the other one from starting [thankfully, neither car mine...but we're all in this together, you know....ew, rats... seriously?].

Subsequent to the poisoning episode and property damage and a zillion calls to the property manager later, traps were laid out.  And we waited.

and waited.

and waited.

pesky little devils...

Well, just last Friday, Boo and I were walking along the same path we always go -- I let go of the leash for just a moment or two  to drop the garbage in the dumpster, and no sooner that I pick it up, this gorgeous bird flew across the driveway and caught my eye.  It was a hawk, with a wingspan of what looked like four feet.  Truly Gorgeous!   She took my breath away [and why I am calling her a girl, I have no idea]  But in that very same instant, I began to wonder, hmmm, what on earth is going on?  why are you here?  why now? ....as goosebumps quickly gave me a shiver.

And within seconds, Boo is on the hunt! Pulling me in a direction my arm did not want to go.  

And the next thing I knew, a rat and Boo were face to face, with Boo's fur beginning to stand up now, as if he were psyching himself up for a rumble (little dogs think they are all that, even when they know not what they do).  I, of course, screamed like a girl and jumped out of my skin and went running in the opposite direction...with the pooch in tow (like he had a choice, you know).

While the walk -- it was as good as over.

Flash forward about a half hour later, sitting at the living room window, watching the world go by,  when a movement down below catches my attention.  It's her; thinking to myself, 'so, we meet again' (only this time from a distance we can both enjoy.)  She is sitting atop a tuft of ice plant on the hillside, looking into the bushes; while I'm wondering, does she happen to have her sights on the rat-bastard from the walk?  It's kinda hard to tell what's going on, as all the stippled, muted shades of beige and brown and green run together with the naked eye.    Nature's mosaic wouldn't give anything away, if not for that every now and again something moves.

And all of a sudden she did; you know, move.

And Lo and Behold, she was already standing on the muthr futhr.

And a second later, she was pulling out a long red stringy thing from it's guts. You go girl...
and oh what a hunka munka she turned out to be. While thinking about it is making me squirm all over again...

But this brings me to where I came in -- just sorry I missed the take down; after all this time, manipulation and packaging -- the thing that worked was the free market left to it's own devices.

......without any manipulation from outside sources
......without money spent on a single job to lay the trap that was made in China to catch a rat in America
......without a regulation demanding habits be changed or taxes be levied to control the population (that goes for rat and people and birds of prey)

-- it was only in the natural that could get it done.

And really would have liked to have seen it.

Sure, it's an over-simplification of serious economic conditions based on truth and consequences, reaping what we sow, supply and demand, in boom or bust, success and failure, even if it hauntingly reminds us to call upon our Darwinian survival skills learned of in sixth grade; it's a free market thing.

Whether in Tech bubbles and Housing Bubbles...Internet booms and busts, in banking booms and busts, Wall Street booms and busts, Central Banking booms and busts -- it works the same way for all of us, large and small....from mom and pop to wall street...whether all by our self or in the collective -- the nature of the beast works all the same.

And it all begins with our individual freedom to choose everything; even if, sometimes, we run the risk of losing everything.  In a truly free market there are no guarantees (just ask that Jeffrey Berwick guy -- did you read all about it? -- or ask George Soros how he loves the free market, taking down currency in a single bound...or just ask Bill Gates how the free market has worked for him...or ask Micheal Moore how much he loves the free market people going to his free market movies...or when you get to heaven, just ask Steve Jobs how failure really worked out for him...IN THE FREE MARKET!...ahhh, you get my drift....)

We all play in the same realm; even though there are no guarantees, history proves that the best thing to do is allow nature, and natural law, to take its course. Haven't we learned anything by now?

The thing is -- what we choose to pass onto our children (including, but not limited to, ideology, good character...and yes, even a grey hair or two) becomes the very foundation of the next generation; naturally,  it becomes the stuff that makes America.  Of course, some things are more important than others. (A few greys by the age of fifty, who gives a rat's a$$, right? -- but what about the stuff we can't see from the outside?)

hmmmmm....now there's something to talk about.

Make it a Good Day, G

Epi-Blog

my apologies for the long winded G...

but you know,

it's a free market

in a free world

for at least another day

yea me!

It's a Massive Republic Take Down in the Park Thing

Dear America,

Happy Friday.
Our days of real, unadulterated freedom are numbered.

There is shocking propaganda circling the airwaves -- but before I get to that, let us review a quick review of the "Early Signs of Fascism;" it is posted right outside the door of my girl's World History classroom.

And just an idea, if you pretend this bucket list is being projected through a loud speaker echoing from the rooftops, it will be more fun. So ready, steady, let's begin:

Early Signs of Fascism

Powerful and Continuing Nationalism

Disdain for Human Rights

Identification of Enemies as a Uniform Cause

Supremacy of the Military

Rampant Sexism

Controlled Mass Media

Obsession with National Security

Religion and Government Intertwined

Corporate Power Protected

Labor Power Suppressed

Disdain for Intellectuals & the Arts

Obsession with Crime & Punishment

Rampant Cronyism & Corruption

Fraudulent Elections

whew.
getting queasy yet?

Hitler was considered a fascist, mobilizing his agenda under the National Socialist Party (aka Nazi's).

In the other extreme....we get to Socialism and Marxism...and basically applying much of the same but different tactics aiming to redistribute the wealth, destroy capitalism, and flip the continuum of power from the bourgeoisie to the working class using whatever it takes -- from 'peaceful' protests to inciting total violence and revolution.

It's a private park in NYC where the Occupy Wall Street is taking place; Bloomberg [with the boot to his neck]  backed off his request to the protestors to temporarily vacate in order to allow for the management company to clean it up [oh the irony of the environmentalists destroying the grass under their own feet, to the extent of pissing and defecating wherever they please].

But when it comes to crony-capitalism, we can sit a spell on a park bench and read all about it and the 168 Million dollar loan guarantee tied back to Zuccotti Park...Department of Energy chimes in again.

Why should we even allow the democratic process to go any further, right?
Check this out:





'just get it done' --  very dictator-esque, isn't it.  I'm just gonna do everything in MY power to circumvent the congressional power that's out to get me and obstruct my vision of fundamental transformation...


and he is being fully supported by some real winners, too:
just sit here for a spell.


wow.

Our founders were quick to recognize a certain truth about human nature and power -- it can get the best of even the best of men.  This kind of authoritarian power must be restrained through the power of Law to tether the lawlessness and corruption of man; while our Constitution was written to protect the very freedoms of little men, NOT big government.

"It would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights; that confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism; free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power; that our Constitution has accordingly fixed the limits to which, and no farther, our confidence may go...In questions of power, then, let no more be said of confidence in man, BUT BIND HIM DOWN FROM MISCHIEF BY THE CHAINS OF THE CONSTITUTION."  From The 5000 Year Leap, taken from The Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, Annals of America, 4:65-66; emphasis added when quoting the words of Thomas Jefferson.

Our freedom is hanging on our ability to hold certain truths dear, sacred even...untouchable.


I've gone to this next quote often.  From James Madison:

"I believe 

there are more instances 

of the abridgement of the freedom 

of the people by gradual 

and silent 

encroachments of those in power, 

than by violent 

and 

sudden 

usurpations."

And to tie in some straight talk from a bunch of true libertarians, seek refuge under the tree of life @The Daily Bell and read this take while eating that fried baloney sandwich.

it is the strangest thing, watching a REPUBLIC once so strong and so clear about it's responsibility to limit the power of government slip into quiet revolution turning our tried and true principles upside down and ass backwards, with a smelly park to prove it.

This class warfare &$%* has never ever never ever worked; while making money makes more freedom every single time.  capitalism is not the evil super power to blame -- big government is.

And nothing could be more true, or uttered with more passion, when we end this day with one last shining refrain: Power to the People!

Make it a Good Day, G

and have you noticed deeply embedded in the park that we are back to bashing Jews? since when is this okay in America?