Dear America,

Toothpaste

and

The Bible

That's what they asked for first.

Yes, the Chileans...still fixated on them, and can't seem to get off the subject, but I will, watch me:

So now that got me thinking; in America, the request would sit for awhile weighted under a slight delay -- as the ACLU wrestles for the civil rights of an activist miner amongst them; the case for the lone atheist in the bunch -- who simply can't bare the idea of being in such a confined space with one -- for fear it might begin to permeate into his mind and burn a hole through everything he struggles to cling to disbelieve.

And we're not talking about the toothpaste (but oh to be the fly on the wall for that discussion, as to which brand name goes down...mother may I)

What? It could happen.  These kinds of scenarios are creeping up all over America -- initially falling under the radar within the confines of local interests of the community, but the times are changing; we are connected in lightning speed all over the world, the pesky little perversions of our unalienable rights are becoming a collective newsflash on a count of about every 24 hours -- give or take emergency broadcast interruptions, alerting us by the long, annoying tones beeping in our ear at two second intervals.

I just don't get it really, are conservatives, the GOP, the right, the only one's these days who have a problem with the control freaks in Washington?  Everything we do is being masterminded and manipulated and restricted and regulated -- as if they've been given free reign to do with us what they please.

And I believe it all started with the little lowly peanut -- that, or the can of beer, it's a close call.

It was the peanut, after all, who one day, out of the blue, grew to become the evil villain, the arch rival, the fire breathing dragon who swooped in to the cafeteria of our schools, declaring what some might consider a holy jihad against us; it was bad, it was a menace, it was a terror, and it wreaked havoc upon our children no less.

It must be stopped; we must rise up against the evil peanut and may the best side win.

Are you going nuts, G?  What the pecan are you talking about?

Well, consider this, there was a day when every child had a right to bring to school whatever their little mama packed them for lunch -- fast forward to school board 2.0 today, no PBandJ, no way.  This is a warning, if you bring that PBandJ to school another day, you will be suspended, we have rules about that now.  Don't you know, some children are deathly allergic to the stuff, so if there is one, we must penalize the all, end of story.  Go to the chalkboard and write 'I will not bring a PBandJ to school' a hundred times, in cursive.  What? you don't know how to write cursive? Then print...go on now...time's a wastin'.

What?  you don't have a school that restricts the right to PBandJ, and anything nutty yummy from entering school grounds?  Oh, sit tight, heads up, you will.

yes, maybe I am hitting a walnut's end to the political correctness of everything under the sun -- maybe a purple hazelnut is fogging my sensibilities -- but don't you think there comes a time when we just got to say enough already?  Of course there are valid concerns in the mix, and all precautions should be taken to protect our children from harm, but when peanut butter becomes public enemy number one, we've got issues.

and then there is this,

It all started on the little lowly inlet of Mission Bay here in my neck of the woods, when the next evil perpetrator started with a Bud -- as in Bud -Wise - Er, remember that campaign? The frogs croaking out the sales pitch, how funny was that... ah the good old days...daydreaming here as a coconut boinks me on the head...snap out of it and continue,

Well, no can do nowadays; most beaches and bays are restricted areas for alcohol.  There is no romantic sunset with a bottle of Two Buck Chuck at the water's edge; there is no Fourth of July popping a few cold one's watching the kids build sandcastles in the sun; there is no popping the question with a bottle of bubbly for that matter...all of that is gone with the ebb and flow. 

 Like a message in the bottle we will never live those days again, for they have been swept away with the growing tide of the belief that one bad apple spoils it for the whole, one depravity requires collective redistribution for all -- and ironically depriving the rest of us of our common sense, collective duty, personal responsibility for the common man to decide and master; it has all been drowned in a sea of stupidity all the way around.

And truth is, I blame this one on the kids -- if it weren't for a few bad spirits from the local college whooping it up just a wee bit too much, we wouldn't be having this conversation; if they were able to handle their liquor(idiots), be respectful of others, and behave themselves, we wouldn't be in this sticky mess -- being collectively pulverized and punished.

Every party has a pooper and the pooper is you -- you stupid kids today -- while this corruption of humanity seems to be conjoined at the hip now, with the latest cure all for civic duty and responsibility under the administration of their very own King of Beers and Prince of Peace (and a Nobel Prize to boot)  -- creating a new restriction, a new law, a new regulation near beer every minute of the day.  Yeah, how do you like that kind of cool, huh?  huh?  Can you hear me now?

I'm stocking up on coke this weekend -- as the way things are going, this administration seems to think they are entitled to outlaw soda pop altogether, for it's for our own good you know -- at least from certain inauspicious places, pop policy for schools today, the world tomorrow... a little nudge here, a little nudge there...

I guess, Glenn Beck has done quite a bit of research on the subject, having collected himself a whole slew of things swiped from the 'can do' list to 'no can do' over the last couple of years...no swing sets in West Virginia, no chocolate milk in Fairfax, no Bake Sales in New York --- what?  no bake sales?  you've got to be kidding me.  I'm no longer a little nuts, I am now in full blown cuckoo stage.

How in the world will the band make it to Boise on time? 

How will we pay for the uniforms? 

How will we teach our kids to really work for it, to go the extra mile for what they need? 

How will we teach them too many sweets makes too many cavities, which leads to a little tooth pain, which may even lead to a root canal, that might even require excavating the whole darn thing altogether?  Not even toothpaste could fix that... perhaps the Bible, but more than likely, God would sit that one out too...doing the right thing my child is solely up to you, have you ever heard of free will?

It's called personal responsibility; it's something that used to be freely and overtly protected in this country, AND TAUGHT -- but now, we grow weary, weak, showing signs of possible extinction of the principles that made us great everyday.

The new wave of social justice, engineering the redistribution of a little game we like to call, follow-the-leader, we know better than you, stop thinking for yourself, just do what I say not say as I do, it's for your own good, you know, I'm with the government and I'm here to help is trying to muscle their way into a brand new system of thinking for us, not with us. 

They, the establishment, the man, those in charge now, think we are just too stupid to think for ourselves -- whether it being what to eat or where we can drink -- while what the kid next to us can eat, in the olden days, used to be so simple that the kid said, no, I don't want to trade, I can't eat that anyway, it makes my skin look funny and after awhile I can't breathe, but thank you anyway.

And I gotta say, to you twenty somethings out there, just who is "the man" now?  Is this the hope and change you had in mind, restricting salt, sugar, swing sets and soda, oh my?   We are headed for an era where the local malt shop on the corner is committing a crime, and you're okay with it? 

Yeah Yeah, you just laugh ...this is no exaggeration, do a little research on how the little nudge works, and you might get it sooner or later (what? you don't know where to begin, what?  what's research?  I can't hear you, blah blah blah blahblah... I never thought I would be missing the days of Mama Cass so much, when what we get in return is a Cass "who's your daddy" Sunstein.

So Glenn's quote for the hour yesterday was simply this:

"Teach a man correct principles and let him govern himself."

Joseph Smith

It's not from the Bible, but it works; a natural law is a natural law is a natural law. 

How the law works, or the belief in that law, or subscribing to the law, or being respectful of the law, or the ignorance to the law is purely subjective and entirely up to the individual man to make the connection, or not; but a law that restricts, as if from a heavy handed God who is just out to make our lives miserable following commandments and rules and regulations, hardly, it couldn't be further from the truth.  Way to be so negative, oh my gawd...

In such a natural law of cause and effect -- and it's no matter if you agree with it, align with it, play with it, or not -- It still does no matter where we stand.  It is free for the taking and understanding -- while if put to good use, it does good things.  When allowed to live free amongst us, the effects can be truly great when our intentions our pure, when we live with honor, integrity and grace. (and when we don't, oopsy daisy, fall down and go boom)  

This law doesn't say, well, if one doesn't understand how to use me properly, I'm going to take it away from everyone...yeah yeah, that's the ticket...and with an evil laugh sneering all the way home...no.

We may be on our own -- but the Law is on our side. 

Government, not so much -- no matter who is in charge.

So tell you what I'm going to do today, first, I'm going to get out of my pj's, gonna take a shower and throw on some clothes that say dressed for success; I'm then going to send the Chamber of Commerce a small donation with simply a note saying 'merci bouquoi', then I'm going to pick up a few things at TARGET ...

...things like coca cola, my favorite Trail Mix with the m&m's and mixed nuts, maybe even pick up that new book "Pinheads and Patriots" and then I'm going to mosey on down to Powerhouse Park in Del Mar and pop a squat on the swing -- and just read my book, eat my nuts, and sip my soda, without hurting anyone, oooh sooo bad... all of which could be considered illegal activity in the near future, you never know these days.  Gotta get it all in when the getting is good, you know what I'm sayin'. 

I'd bring a bottle of red in a brown bag if I could, but can't risk the possibility of arrest -- I might stand out and scare the illegals, I mean, nannies -- while the most important pick up of my day is in just a couple of hours, and really, noon is a wee bit early to hit the nip, if you know what I mean. 

Good thing I got this all off my chest; hate to have my girl think her mama hit the bottle and the funny farm all on the same day.

Make it a Good Day...and if you can't be good, be careful, G

Dear America,

You know that feeling that when one thing starts to go wrong, everything else seems follow suit; whether it is some kind of Murphy's Law or my own little G space gone berserk, once one thing goes, so goes the rest of the day, or week, and so on.

Whether it is for good or for bad, our thoughts have a way of wrecking havoc on us, and most of the time, we don't even know it -- or can begin to understand why does this keep happening to me?

This is my last couple of days.

Without going into detail, everything has turned absolutely mad, and not in an angry way, just batty, crazy, stupid, nuts; it started with technical difficulties -- then, before you knew it, my whole world was a mess.

I think, in part, this has something to do with the creepy side show we've got swirling around the world of politics -- the liberal bias in main stream media, that now we've reached an age, that no matter what happens, they MSM don't think, they just follow, and while they are at it, they continue this march against just regular folk, making unjust correlations, making rabid character assassinations, making two people out of hundreds of thousands the point man, when in fact, they have nothing to do with the attitudes and beliefs and level of integrity of the whole -- but they throw everything in, and like a chain reaction, they continue to build up the assault.  Those incapable of keeping an iron will or backbone of steal, may fall prey and think -- ooh, maybe that is me, maybe that is my group, maybe that is who I am associating with, and after a few steps out of place, we actually come to believe it.

NOT!

But boy, if people actually paid attention to the left, the mad science of following along with what other people say, and the snowballing effect of a flawed theory to begin with, it would surely take us all down...one by one, if not by entire tea party gatherings at a time.

But a funny thing happens when we gather under the message that makes sense, common sense; when we come together for sound reasons, with a will to change things, united in power and presence, in keeping with a foundation that has withstood the test of time (more or less) something happens -- we transform ourselves and become something better, bigger -- far reaching in scope and experience -- and we begin to see for ourselves how organizing together for a common cause, with a firm conviction, can build something anew, reform a mindset and make change.

Whether negative or positive, for good or bad, it all works in the same way.

Sarah Palin has been under attack from the left since the moment she stepped onto the stage with John McCain.  Truth is, in that moment in time, it didn't even matter what she said.  She had US at the princess wave waltzing upon center stage along with her happy shiny lipstick dominating the jumbo-tron.  It didn't matter what she said, because in an instant, she was a breath of fresh air to an otherwise dying campaign, suffocating on it's own worn out rhetoric and promises.  McCain had a snowballs chance in he** before a Sarah came in on a wing and prayer; we all knew it, felt it through and through -- how could we keep up with the good fight against an opponent so brilliant, so refreshing, something so unmistakably progressive and enlightening -- America had never witnessed anything like this before in a potential president!

The feelings that stirred within us, as a country, were of hope and change of all things! Everything we perceived as good and proper and timely and transparent was to come our way if we entrusted this new man, this new age of a President, it was a level of assurance and abilities that went way beyond the color of his skin; a majority of white, middle class Americans -- Independents, Democrats and even some Republicans -- voted for him because everyone was thinking the same thing.  Everyone thought he was the real deal and in for the long haul with the right tools and experiences to fix US.

We all thought about it, all together, and came to the same conclusions as a whole -- we said we wanted Barack Hussein Obama as the President of the United States.

Now, perhaps there were African-Americas who voted for him because he was simply, an African-American -- it didn't matter what he said to them.  For the rest of us, it did matter; so low and behold, we voted for him because of what he said, the substance back behind the man. WE, as a whole, voted for the substance -- not the first African-American -- we voted for the whole package (and what a yummy package, indeed -- just get a load of the media fanning and flaunting over his Hawaiian hard body even before he became the Leader of the Free World -- McCain, not so much)

But this constant insistence from the media to redirect America's attention to the bigotry and racial prejudice in America, apparently all coming from the right and not a smidgen from the left, is, in a word -- ignorant; oh, and in another, stupidity (one of Big O's fave's); oh, and another (typical liberal) hypocrisy; and another, irresponsible (inciting further anger and misguided emotion on both sides)...it simply doesn't help in the least bit.Things like...

"I know how the 'tea party' people feel, the anger, venom and bile that many of them showed during the recent House vote on health-care reform. I know because I want to spit on them, take one of their 'Obama Plan White Slavery' signs and knock every racist and homophobic tooth out of their Cro-Magnon heads." --Washington Post columnist Courtland Milloy

or,

"just what are the tea partiers really angry about? Health care reform or the fact that it was an African-American president and a woman Speaker of the House who pushed through major change?" --MSNBC host Chris Matthews

Just where is the acceptance of both sides of the debate?  This used to be the mainstay of media everywhere -- presenting solid arguments, making observations of both sides, being truthful and righteous in separating the facts from the fiction -- even going so far as supporting, more often than not, the case of the underdog.

But no, what we get now, are the same sound bites processed and repackaged for the MSM to resell to the masses under some kind of preferred, fancy label, only regurgitating the truth into merely something less than inspiring, and more than shock value, only giving us tidbits of what they want you to see, along with the left-brain dialogue to support it's contents and deeper message hidden under the personal attacks, you know, the kind of attacks that project even more evil, and even more disdain, and even more intolerance.  It really is quite clever.

Perhaps we could turn to the "Thirteenth Rule", found within the chapter on TACTICS, as provided by S'Linskey, in Rules for Radicals:

"Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it."

Oh my goodness, maybe Sarah is putting S'linskey rules in play.

Anyone from the left should be quite proud; perhaps she is merely taking aim and making claims from the master himself...how could they not find this heartwarming and send a tingle up their leg, putting into practice tactics from the "pragmatic primer" itself?

Of course, Sarah could be using the fourth rule,

"Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules."

oooh, or even the one after that,

"Ridicule is man's most potent weapon."

ooh, or the one after that,

"A good tactic is one that your people enjoy."

The thing is, sometimes we are "organized"; and then again, sometimes, we're not! Some, like a Sarah, can be organized for the good and in sink with the whole; but some, we must all agree, are clearly not.

The actions of one man do not always reflect that of an entire group, otherwise, we would have to assume the same premise when evaluating the consequences of wrongful actions everywhere -- whether it comes in the offensive manipulations of one teacher over a student, a corrupt police officer taking bribes, a politician with a penchant for young aides who will do anything for a fellow countryman/career, or IF, while one person in protest screams (or can't seem to say it without spraying it) something inappropriate or entirely wrong in every which way to Sunday -- for in every situation like these, the actions do not speak for the group. And to think of anything otherwise, you would have to be buried in ignorant bliss, and there is no hope for you (or for that matter, I don't see a'change coming too soon either -- at least, in any kind of change we can believe in, anyway).

This country was made from the seed of self reliance -- being true to ourselves while taking responsibility for what we say, who we associate with, how we live and work and play while keeping in harmony with each other, and ultimately creating a life, a family, a living out of the goodness that is inside each and every one of us.  We the people of this great nation, grew from the seeds of freedom and justice and liberty for all -- and most of us, still believe it to this day...you would just never know it if you paid any attention to the MSM.

The MSM has lost it's way, but for the most of US -- we haven't; we know what we are made of, we are made of resolute principles and an array of values we hold near and dear; and we believe, that as a people, as a whole, we truly can come together, for the good of all -- not made of campaign rhetoric, but a way of life -- a living of our religion, our convictions, our love of country tried and true... 

There is a side to America that still believes in unity, not through tearing each other apart, or through targeting the differences -- but through organizing for the return of an America we know and love -- the one that is just waiting to burst forth from the salt of the earth.  Some of us can even taste it.

Sarah has set her sights on this for America, targeting her own personal power to make it so and to attract those who believe the same to come together, organized and resolute, calmly but with inner strength, for change; she has the focus on it, she's made it her mission, she embodies the seed from which all good comes -- a strong, fertile America, ripe with freedom, liberty and prosperity for all. 

What the MSM seems to be missing is the thought back behind her targets, what she thinks about comes from a higher place; and it is precisely that which the Tea Party Organization is all about, too -- and to think of anything else would not only be an error of judgment, but an outright devious and diabolical thought, and the shame would be on you.

"Man [or substitute America] is made or unmade by himself; in the armoury of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself; he also fashions tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.  By the right choice and true application of thought, man ascends to the Divine Perfection; by the abuse and wrong application of thought, he descends below the level of the beast. Between these two extremes are all the grades of character, and man [or America] is their maker and master."  From James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

Make it a Good Day, G

there has always been reason I remind us all -- and mostly myself -- to MAKE it a good day.