It's an Election by Intimidation or Conscience Thing

Dear America,

how low can we go, 

how low can we go.

so my girl is in south america these days....eating her way through a semester abroad. everything is about the food... the choripan, the dulce de leche, the malbec, the nights that don't end until the sun comes up...oh to be young and free and bright eyed and bushy tailed about the future!

cough

As a Libra, she's pretty realistic.   And given her natural inclination of assessing a situation, adapting, and balancing the pros and cons on the end of a pin, she sees the end of the tunnel...and it just ends.  It doesn't help that the girl is being bombarded with comments about this election, left and right -- oh and here's the shocker, it's all negative.  wow, color me surprised.

But let me assure you, it isn't all a Trump dump, either.  With the margin of error maybe two points, it's dead even:  both candidates suck and the world thinks we are all nuts....even according to women.

Okay, Pharrell?

 

Here ya go -- let me fill in the blanks; it's all about fixing the election outcome, according to someone who sings for a living --  Pharrell says:

If all the women in this nation decided to vote and support the first female candidate, there’d be nothing to worry about,” Williams said in an interview at Variety‘s Inclusion summit at the Montage Hotel in Beverly Hills. “It’s that easy.”

“Has she been dishonest about things? Sure. Have you?” Williams said of Clinton, before insisting that “she don’t lie no more than any other politician does.”

To the first point...Yes.  Pharrell,  Maybe it would be just that easy, IF by virtue of all women having one thing in common -- the lady parts -- we didn't think for ourselves and somehow all thought alike.   

BUT WE DON'T!

To the second point...Do two wrongs make a right?   

But besides that argument dropping to the bottom of the barrel, Pharrell, can you tell me which candidate is NOT the career politician?   And further, if "she don't lie no more than any other politician," could it also be a reflection of our culture as a whole?    Where do politicians come from in the first place?   Does the macro and the micro match?

Back to the first point:   How far have we all sunk if we cannot accept the realization that each and every one of us is unique?  

And taking that a thought further, our rugged individualism tells us we are not only born unique, but raised, in experiences and environment, also distinctly uncommon (even within the same family, as siblings).   

But here's Pharrell.  He is calling upon women to vote by gender and gender alone; how shameful, how shocking, how sad.   If I were to make the giant leap to say, this explains how the black demographic has been so easily swayed and bamboozled by the Democratic party for all this time -- would it be considered insensitive, narrow-minded, racist, or all of the above, to make that observation?  

 

In an effort to make a more perfect union, wouldn't it be better to believe:

 

All white people don't think alike,

All black people don't think alike.  

All women don't think alike. 

All men don't think like.

And so on

And so on

Just what is going on here?  

Is it Pharrell's left thinking brain, his black thinking brain, or his masculinity shaping his narrow-minded perception of how to win this election for Hillary Clinton (...the liar liar pantsuit on fire abomination that she really is)?   

As a conservative girl who dresses like a hippie half the time  -- it's been long, long apparent just how rare it is NOT to be hastily judged upon first sight as a card-carrrying member of the Left.   Unless in a crowd sharing a known conservative belief, goal, or purpose....say, for example, a tea party rally, or perhaps a church committee meeting, or most definitely a Republican Women's Club  -- there is not a doubt in my mind that most people see me and assume things about me totally untrue; wanton assumptions are made and mostly leaning to believe that I proudly support Hillary, abortion, global warming, sanctuary cities, free college tuition, free healthcare, big government, heavy regulation....just bring on the nanny state and make it snappy...and all the while, live on tofu and kale. (that last bit is only half true; tofu sucks...tee hee)  

Shirley, the notion for  all women to cast a vote for Hillary, based purely upon Hillary being the first and only woman in the race, must have to equally alarm not only the women on the Left, but the entire effing LEFT!  Right?  It's like, how many wrongs is actually tied up into that knot?

Ugh

But not in all my life has the absurd been any more absurd then after listening to President Obama just yesterday...In a pathetic display of desperation, the Left goes low, and lower still.    

“If you accept the support 

of Klan sympathizers 

— the Klan — 

and hesitate when asked 

about that support,

 then you’ll tolerate 

that support when 

you’re in office,”

 President Obama

Hey Barack,

the sixties called, and they want their democratic party back to it's racist roots.  Look into the American Mirror...top five most racist presidents in history.  That link will surprise you, if you read all the way to the end.  See also, more on the  Bill Clinton/Robert Byrd history.   And if we go all in, we might as well take a look at the president who took the country to a Civil War to right a serious wrong....Abraham Lincoln, a REPUBLICAN!

Historically speaking, the left and the democratic party loses this argument.  bigly.

How shameful, Mr.  President.  How utterly shameful.

I can only imagine how scared the left must be, if the president resorts to going this low.

Guess what, Mr. President?  The world is watching.  And they have an opinion, right, wrong, or indifferent.   But really, as the leader of the free world, where are your scruples?  Where is your UNcommon sense that would tell you to walk away from Hillary, walk away as fast as you can?  Is party that important to you that you would support a total fraud?  What has she really done successfully in public office?  Feel free to pick whichever office you want to start.

But here's you, “You know, there’s a reason we haven’t had a woman president before.”

“I want every man out there who’s voting to kinda look inside yourself and ask yourself, if you’re having problems with this stuff, how much of it is that we’re just not used to it?” he said. “When a guy is ambitious and out in the public arena and working hard, well that’s okay. But when a woman suddenly does it, suddenly you’re all like, well, why’s she doing that?”

wow. Is there like any room to believe that Hillary is just the WRONG woman???

How wrong is that?

How wrong is that!

Just wondering about now where did this guy go ---  

....It's what allows us to pursue our individual dreams, yet still come together as a single American family: "E pluribus unum," out of many, one.
Now even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters and negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes.
Well, I say to them tonight, there's not a liberal America and a conservative America; there's the United States of America

(APPLAUSE)

There's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America.

(APPLAUSE)

The pundits, the pundits like to slice and dice our country into red states and blue States: red states for Republicans, blue States for Democrats. But I've got news for them, too. We worship an awesome God in the blue states, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the red states.
We coach little league in the blue states and, yes, we've got some gay friends in the red states.

(APPLAUSE)

There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq, and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq.
We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

It was circa 2004, when a young Illinois candidate for State Senate gave a memorable Democratic Convention speech on behalf of John Kerry.   But in my humble opinion, the tone and tenor of this speech was long gone by the time Obama would come full circle, becoming the first African-American president of the United States of America.  

 [The speech also lays out the narrative that would ultimately become part and parcel of the sales pitch to America during his first campaign.  Obama's background was carefully crafted, masterminding a masterpiece, never to be questioned or vetted along the way -- especially by the mainstream media.  The progressive media already beginning it's descent into full, unapologetic bias for Leftist policies and candidates.]

The thing is...

MAINSTREAM MEDIA sure thinks alike!   

And they have made their choice this election cycle, for shame, for shame.  

how low can we go.  how low can we go.

There seems to be no separation of the leftist church and state and the propaganda it produces;  the little minions think the same things, say the same things, write the same things...

And at the end of the day, all I can say, I dare you ALL to think for yourself.

Who knows -- it might just be refreshing...liberating; you might even like it.  Or is your allegiance to progressive change in America so great, casting a truly independent thought -- one that just might go against the stream --  totally unimaginable?

I guess time will tell on Tuesday.  

Tuesday will tell us just how many of us actually have an independent thought left to speak of...  

And after careful consideration, after long and arduous mental debate, after assessing the situation, after balancing the pros and cons on the head of a pin, the truth will separate from the lies, and the seas will part, and we will vote our conscience -- a conscience unique and beautiful.  And it will be done even in spite of the variety of intrepid intimidation taking the main stage day in and day out.

  

May God bless the United States of America.

Make it a Good Day, G

It's With a Certain Hand-picked Emphasis Added Thing

Dear America,

"Coincidence is God's way of staying anonymous."

Albert Einstein

so, on a good day -- being a girl of faith --

this somewhat nerve-wracking, accidental sequence of events -- as if the country is simply stringing it along coincidence after coincidence -- is, for all intents and purposes, just a part of the plan.

And it's like, oh, wonderful -- we can all be rest assured; God's got this.  No need to fret.

Oh but what to do with myself.

The foundation is shaking, my mind is trembling, my spirit seems broken.

Here I am, now reaching for my White Eagle handbook,  as I naturally search -- as in, to seek and to find exactly what this moment merits:

GOD WILL NOT FAIL YOU

When in doubt, do nothing.  

Be still, have patience and wait.  

Learn to be still, my children, 

to be calm and still and wait for God; 

God will not fail you."

Which suddenly brings to mind something from Sunday...Joel Osteen's message.  Osteen was like, notice how we don't have to teach our children impatience, how to throw tantrums, to give in to the rather organic, carnal nature bubbling up from the depths of our soul.  It just comes up and out, no holds barred.  Boom. 

 I'm three and I want              now.

From three, we eventually make it to kindergarten, get past grade school and if we are lucky, continue to grow and expand our horizons and develop a hard earned character that obviously makes us better humans.  It takes awhile; for some, it may even take a lifetime; for others, it may never come.

But the thing is, nobody had to show us how to be at our worst; that part of ourselves seems to come about naturally, without thinking, and certainly without thinking like God.

And when we individually, then collectively, begin to show this side of ourselves, having clearly drifted far, far away from the things that Divine Providence divined in us, how in the world can any one of us be surprised when it comes to the results?

Coincidences collide.  Consequences arrive right on cue.   

And next thing you know, it's the end of the story.  End of an era.  The end times come marching in with aplomb -- and don't look now, but look at how that ego of ours just eats it up... madly, deeply, unapologetic-ally, and without ceasing.

Yes.

Indeed.

Perhaps I am being a wee bit too melodramatic.

Now recently, my good fortune allowed for me to break for spring with my girl, home from school.  It was, coincidentally, perfect timing; for this girl, yours truly, was well on her way to committing some kind of high crime or misdemeanor, for sure, given the state of absurdity in this republican primary.  Let's just say, my patience was not wearing thin, it was gone.  The forced pause from my world ultimately gave way to being fully unplugged for over a week!  And what a God-send! Who knew?  (tee hee)

[There are no accidents.]

But there are plenty of ironies right about now...

Take for example how some of The Right have taken to Trump just as some of The Left flocked behind Obama back in the day; it's like, what weaknesses, right?    What do you mean, suspect associations?   What do you mean, narcissistic tendencies, with a penchant for throwing tantrums, name calling, and acting like he is twelve?  So we solve this problem masterminded by the political elitists by electing a populist elitist who has more money than God? Really; God doesn't need cash or credit, bullion or billions.

The biggest question that seems to continually make my head spin seems to stem from the position of character:  is this really the best we've got?   There are three hundred million of us and whether considering what's on the left or right --  this is it?   A Leftist/Socialist or some kind of right wing composite developed in a high rise in New York City like a picante sauce?  

And make no mistake, a quick study of the followers arrives at very much the same place, more or less.

Desperation made this.

House of Cards aside, Hollywood couldn't put this scenario together any better if they tried.  The conditions, the bureaucracy, the corruption, the wanton Congress, the usurpation of the law, the absence of our sovereign border protecting the very security of the nation, the demolition  of our military, the liberal re-write of our history and traditions, the growth of Washington's power grab - no matter which party is in charge, created THIS -- this natural escalation by tantrum.  Look for the perfume to come out soon...

It's not like we needed a lesson; it just happened...organically...

T  A  N  T  R   U  M  P

and continuing to repeat myself like a good politician....

On a good day, all of this might even feel like God has a plan, that God is still in charge.  That this tantrum is essential, part and parcel of things to come in order to rebuild and reform America -- an America so lost and all alone these days.  And then again, from the perspective of a rather warped world -- who needs any more of the Divine when we've got Trump? right?  

And sadly, it's not like any other possibilities are jumping up and down in tandem.

UGH.  It's so easy to feel overwhelmed.

My senses feel nothing but loss, a great sense of shame, as I struggle to take note and keep a diary of this day in the life of this American girl.  It's all a gosh darned shame thing.

The thing is, human nature is so easily ruled by our feelings; and people in power know this.  And when we can be swayed by how we feel, we not only limit ourselves, we create the future from a position of feeling depressed and oppressed at the same time.

Oh, the art of persuasion and the allure of temptation reigns high. Hmmmmm take a pill or do the work and walk off the extra weight all by myself?  America has been stuck on the quick fix for ages; we are constantly looking outside of ourselves for all the answers.

The manipulation -- whether it's from inside the Trump campaign, or the media, or the other campaigns fighting to stay alive -- is propaganda, at best.  And to be perfectly fair and forthright -- it's just the way the game is played.  This is politics.  And like Churchill once said, "when going through hell, keep going."

As God smiles down upon us and says something like...all of the answers come from within, my child.

So to end THIS day on the old G thing,
here's something GOOD from Marco Rubio, from last night, as he bowed out of the race with the grace of God:

.....That we find ourselves at this point is not surprising, for the warning signs have been here for close to a decade. In 2010, the tea party wave carried me and others into office because not enough was happening and that tea party wave gave Republicans a majority in the House, but nothing changed. In 2014, those same voters gave Republicans a majority in the Senate and, still, nothing changed. And I blame some of that on the conservative movement, a movement that is supposed to be about our principles and our ideas. But I blame most of it on our political establishment.

A political establishment that for far too long has looked down at conservatives, looked down at conservatives, as simple-minded people. Looked down at conservatives as simply bomb-throwers. A political establishment that for far too long has taken the votes of conservatives for granted, and a political establishment that has grown to confuse cronyism for capitalism, and big business for free enterprise. I endeavored over the last 11 months to bridge this divide within our party and within our country because I know that after eight years of Barack Obama this nation needs a vibrant and growing conservative movement and it needs a strong Republican Party to change the direction now of this country or many of the things that are going wrong in America will become permanent, and many of the things makes us a special country will be gone. America needs a vibrant conservative movement, but one that’s built on principles and ideas, not on fear, not on anger, not on preying on people’s frustrations.

A conservative movement that believes in the principles of our Constitution, that protects our rights and limits the power of government. A conservative movement committed to the cause of free enterprise, the only economic model where everyone can climb without anyone falling. A conservative movement that believes in a strong national defense and a conservative movement that believes in the strong Judeo-Christian values that are the formation of our nation...

...But after tonight it is clear that while we are on the right side, this year, we will not be on the winning side. I take great comfort in the ancient words which teaches us that in their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps. And so yet, while this may not have been the year for a hopeful and optimistic message about our future, I still remain hopeful and optimistic about America...

...I ask the American people: Do not give in to the fear. Do not give in to the frustration. We can disagree about public policy, we can disagree about it vibrantly, passionately. But we are a hopeful people, and we have every right to be hopeful. For we in this nation are the descendants of go-getters. In our veins runs the blood of people who gave it all up so we would have the chances they never did. We are all the descendants of someone who made our future the purpose of their lives. We are the descendants of pilgrims. We are the descendants of settlers. We are the descendants of men and women that headed westward in the Great Plains not knowing what awaited them. We are the descendants of slaves who overcame that horrible institution to stake their claim in the American Dream. We are the descendants of immigrants and exiles who knew and believed that they were destined for more, and that there was only one place on earth where that was possible. This is who we are, and let us fight to ensure that this is who we remain. For if we lose that about our country, we will still be rich and we will still be powerful, but we will no longer be special.

...And I want you to know that I will continue every single day to search for ways for me to repay some of this extraordinary debt that I owe this great country. And I want to leave with an expression of gratitude to God in whose hands all things lie. He has a plan for every one of our lives. Everything that comes from God is good. God is perfect. God makes no mistakes. And he has things planned for all of us. And we await eagerly to see what lies ahead. And so I leave tonight with one final prayer, and I use the words of King David because I remain grateful to God:

“Yours O Lord is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, indeed everything that is in the heavens and the earth. Yours is the dominion, O Lord, and you exalt yourself as head overall. Both riches and honor come from you and you rule over all. And in your hand is power and might and it lies in your hand to make great and to strengthen everyone.”

May God strengthen our people. May God strengthen our nation. May God strengthen the conservative movement. May God strengthen the Republican Party. May God strengthen our eventual nominee. And may God always bless and strengthen this great nation, the United States of America. Thank you and God bless you all. Thank you very much.

Magnificent, indeed.
The only thing to add is the hand-picked emphasis, above.


Make it  a Good Day, G

ps...if, at the end of the day, this girl is going to be forced to get behind Trump, make no mistake -- kicking and screaming will come first.  Just sayin'

It's Living in the Land of Make Believe Thing

Dear America,

"A lie stands on one leg, truth on two."

Benjamin Franklin

"...A Russian citizen could not publish a testament like the one I just offered. President Putin and his associates do not believe in these values. They don't respect your dignity or accept your authority over them. They punish dissent and imprison opponents. They rig your elections. They control your media. They harass, threaten, and banish organizations that defend your right to self-governance. To perpetuate their power they foster rampant corruption in your courts and your economy and terrorize and even assassinate journalists who try to expose their corruption."

John McCain, Mr. Op-ed Take Down Extraordinaire, courtesy of Pravda.ru...and if you actually speak Russian, go here.

The comparison is ridiculously ripe with irony, inconsistency and hypocrisy -- if, the fine gentleman from Arizona were to find himself courageous enough to look at the real world in America, now fully under the spell of the Obama regime, alongside a dueling, incompetent, misguided,  bevy of elitist ruling congress and adversely affecting the Rule of Law and good self-government from the top down.  It's like, John, have you any idea what's going on here at home?

I just love the tally of tweets in the margin, suspiciously holding at a healthy round number of nothing but nyet.


Not to mention the titles of "popular stories" -- see the bullet points just a wee bit further right of McCain's mug...Here's a taste:

• Barack Obama: the worst President in the history of the USA
• The "Indispensable Nation" threatens another war against children
• Too many years of lies
• Return the Nobel Peace Prize Obama! UN Inspectors: we are watching you
• Putin works Obama shirks
• Obama has decided to buy congress than go it alone

But for another good spot in the op:

 

"President Putin claims his purpose is to restore Russia to greatness at home and among the nations of the world. But by what measure has he restored your greatness? He has given you an economy that is based almost entirely on a few natural resources that will rise and fall with those commodities. Its riches will not last. And, while they do, they will be mostly in the possession of the corrupt and powerful few. Capital is fleeing Russia, which - lacking rule of law and a broad-based economy - is considered too risky for investment and entrepreneurism. He has given you a political system that is sustained by corruption and repression and isn't strong enough to tolerate dissent."

 

 

just love the last line there...so much so, it's worthy of repeating: 

 

"He has given you a political system that is sustained by corruption and repression and isn't strong enough to tolerate dissent."

 

Hello?  And welcome to America.

 

 

As America shifts its entire economic system based on lies!  Obamacare, check, and for the discount double check; the total destruction of our oil, natural gas and coal production, only to regulate every segment of our transportation and energy policy to force feed green upon us, based solely on lies -- thanks to "man-made global warming" and for good measure, check out the gross exaggeration here.

 

And let's add some presidential propaganda to the pile --

 

beginning with the "most tasteless presidential moment ever" ....happening live, on Monday morning:

 

"Health care costs are growing at the slowest rate in 50 years"....Huh?  Really now?

 

"The problem is -- at the moment, Republicans in Congress don’t seem to be focused on how to growth economy and build the middle class. I say, at the moment, because I am still hoping that a light bulb goes off here..."

 

"...After all the progress that we’ve made over these past four-and- a-half years, the idea of reversing that progress because of an unwillingness to compromise or because of some ideological agenda is the height of irresponsibility. It’s not what the American people need right now."

 

"...Having said that, I cannot remember a time when one faction of one party promises economic chaos if it can’t get 100 percent of what it wants. That’s never happened before. But that’s what’s happening right now."

 

"...A lot of the, you know, horror stories that were predicted about how this was going to shoot rates way up and there were going to be death panels and all that stuff, none of that stuff’s happened."

 

"...But in case there’s any confusion, I will not negotiate over whether or not America keeps its word and meets its obligations. I will not negotiate over the full faith and credit of the United States. This country has worked too hard for too long to dig out of a crisis just to see their elected representatives here in Washington purposely cause another crisis.

 

Let’s stop the threats. Let’s stop the political posturing, Let’s keep our government open. Let’s pay our bills on time. Let’s pass a budget. Let’s work together to do what the American people sent us here to do: Create jobs; grow our economy; expand opportunity."

"...I’ve run my last election. My only interest at this point is making sure that the economy is moving the way it needs to so we’ve got the kind of broad based growth that has always been the hallmark of this country."


All in all and with props standing upright behind him, and then in unison, nodding their heads at just the right moment and applauding....oh, the applause.


For the full transcript, with all things being said and done and put into proper context, having happened immediately after the shooting at the Navy Yard -- go here.

OR, you can also go back to remarks made on January 14, 2013 -- when the president was doing the very same thing...you know, attacking the GOP, and doing so while spewing violent imagery to boot... because the GOP is holding "a gun to the head of the American people", yeah, yeah, that's the ticket..."they will not collect a ransom in exchange for not crashing the American economy." 

And you know, how absurd, anyway -- it's not like the raising of our debt ceiling raises the debt, right?  Funny stuff.  Read more @ CNSnews, here.

Let's "stop the political posturing;" how 'bout we give that a try?

And that's just another idiotic thing to say.

We are always, in all ways, posturing ourselves with political, ideological leanings.  Some of us, so much so, we find ourselves totally bent over and up our own ass, like a certain John McCain, or like a Barack Obama, or like a Vladimir Putin.   Naturally, at some point, we get lost in the realm of manufacturing our own bull.

Even the latest brouhaha over Warren Buffet's comments on Obamacare is something of a rouse.  His comments came in 2010!   It's only because a place called Money Morning highlighted the remarks when addressing concerns on what is on the economic, market savvy, horizon -- which, lo and behold, is now three years later and looking like the fraudulent "affordable" care act is about to become lock, stock and barrel, the law.   But if you want to rehash the old news, here's a good cog in the blogs to log.

Yeah, cuz scraping Obamacare and starting over is just crazy talk...

'but thanks for your all support, Buffy, now sit back and watch the prophet of profiting upon propaganda do his thing...'

Indeed, still going strong and moving forward and going on five years now.

Well maybe our leaders have forgotten the secret back behind the excellence and exceptionalism of America's wealth --  both in sickness and in health -- but our citizenry have not.  A yahoo! survey just the other day asked this question:  "What's better for society?  --  If wealthy give money to charity, to help create business, or to pay more taxes?"   The tally at the time showed a 10% going with charity, 27% to paying more in taxes, and a whopping 63% to the creation of new business!

We believe in the value of people creating their own happiness and wealth with less government and more private ownership, accountability, freedom and liberty.   At our very core, we believe in the government getting out of the way, still.

'What we have now

is untenable over time,'

 said Buffett,

 an early supporter of President Obama.

 'That kind of a cost

compared to the rest of the world

is really like a tapeworm eating,

you know, at our economic body.'  

just to quote The Weekly Standard

quoting Buffet

"Untenable," he says. Like a tapeworm eating at the economic body...

Not defendable.

Not suitable for occupation.

And most likely not covered under Obamacare.

So forward march to the organic, sarin, newly remodeled, solar infused, gas chambers we go -- speaking ironically, of course. [see here for a little lesson on sarin, from HuffPo; and thank you Nazis circa 1938]

Now, as many of my regular readers know, my personal life has hit a serious rough patch these days, and with good reason; but whining about it ad nauseam isn't going to help.  Even I know, to deny reality is to deny creating a life outside of a living a lie. 

In order to move forward, I must first live with two feet upon a sound foundation: the truth.

Only then can I make true steps forward, revealing the next level in God's plan.  If I get stuck gnawing on all the things that are not working, running incongruent to my overall health and general welfare, like a tapeworm eating away at my soul,  how does that feed my spirit?  How does that serve me, my family, in high hopes of fulfilling my dreams and life's purpose, large and small?

The truth shall set me free.

And let this be a lesson for all of us, America.

We are living in a land of lies -- false truths that sound good --  make believe of all kinds, and tragically demanding us to make a choice between two sides when neither of which seem to be beholden to the real, genuine truth.  We seem so confused as to which leg to stand on these days, we all fall down.

And yet, this president has the audacity to call the opposition -- those of us reading the tea leaves, the writing on the wall, back to the future and back again, and just about anyone and everyone who have the courage to stand on a soap box to sharply disagree -- the extremists!?    Unbelievable.

I am so unnerved, sarin must be to blame.

It's no exaggeration when I say I think this president is snuffing the life out of all of us.

And believe I'll just leave it at that.

Make it a Good Day, G

You want some truth today -- go to Mark Alexander's column at The Patriot Post, HERE!

It's Excelling At Telling a Little Lie or Two Thing

Dear America,

age of reason, edge of reason, tomayto, tomahto.

happy Monday.

Considering my head is about to explode -- as there is simply way to much to opine upon for one day -- let me begin here, by diverting your attention away from the gruesome brain fragments about to plaster the page, and take you to the comments made by one of California's very own, Darrell Issa:

"We understand — these are in real time.  And the administration is still — their paid liar, their spokesperson, pictured behind, he’s still making up things about what happens in calling this [a] ‘local rogue.’  There’s no indication — the reason the Lois Lerner tried to take the Fifth [Amendment] is not because there is a rogue in Cincinnati. It’s because this is a problem that was coordinated in all likelihood right out of Washington headquarters and we’re getting to proving it. We have 18 more transcribed interviews to do...The president’s spokesperson is saying whatever is convenient at the time and the story changes..."
 

For more, go to The Daily Caller, here.


Ouch. The truth hurts.

If given the chance to piece together the barrage of responses from Jay Carney, specifically concentrating on the last year -- a twelve year old could figure out something is quite amiss.

In action, in reality, in living color, in broad statements, in swift and on the fly parsing of words, in stylistic changes --  taking full creative license to the max,  in obstinate disdain, in an aloof display of superiority....Jay Carney prides himself of his very ability to distract, interfere, misrepresent, the whole truth.    And honestly, Issa's observance is courageous and spot on, for Carney is being paid to do it:  to Lie.

Carney's job is all about buying enough time on the backend of a scandal -- using whatever skills and untruths he can muster from his arsenal -- to allow for the people to forget all about it, to move on, and otherwise manage to scoff off magnificent assaults of the rule of law as if what we all know to be true, with evidence to show for it, is just a bunch of malarkey.

The truth is, it doesn't get any easier telling the truth -- either to ourselves, our spouses, our children, our society and specifically within the village we live -- even as adults.  Thou shall not bear false testimony against thy neighbor isn't up for debate; it's not even open to conversation, let alone a question worthy of a truthful response.

It's kinda funny, considering truthfulness was a large enough issue in biblical times to count it among the Top Ten Things (for the good of humanity)  per God, almost as if God saw this coming. 

Human nature has a real hard time with telling the truth; while some might even say, being a wee bit deceitful is in our DNA, and will continue to be, until the end of time. [oooh, speaking of DNA]

One of the first things we should do is stop teaching the importance of telling the truth in our schools; yeah, let's stop all moral teachings and from whence it comes full stop. yeah, yeah, that's sounds sound; that sounds real good.

[happy snarky Monday to me.]

Have you watched any of the American Greed shows on CNBC?   It's an hour snapshot on some really bad dude who takes advantage of one, and usually more, trusting souls who end up handing over their life's savings for a sure thing and super bad investment.   The story is as old as time, right?  Snake oil and fool's gold and swamp land and easy, sleazy, huge returns on investment with other people's money.    Turns out -- the bevy of liars, cheaters, schemers and dreamers are well supported by an equal bevy of believers and dreamers who trust they are telling the truth.

At first blush, isn't it nice to know we are still so trusting, confident that the good in man as a rule, rules?

And yet how sad. 

How sad that we still make people who unabashedly, unapologetically,  see how far they can go ripping good people off and living the highlife on lies. 

Leaders of corrupt countries do it by the billions [see current news on Equatorial Guinea, here and here.]

And how about really larger than life lies that we tell ourselves to rationalize behavior?

The spark between Erick Erickson and his comments arriving from the data of a recent Pew Research study showing that in 'four out of ten households,' the woman is the sole or primary breadwinner, and concluding:  "having mom as the primary bread winner is bad for kids and bad for marriage, and reality shows us that's the truth."

The whole truth on this one kicks us in the gut, doesn't it.

The growing dysfunction in families -- with the proliferation of prescription drugs (both adults and children), increase of school drop outs, high divorce rates, the perfectly acceptable and common occurrence of unwed mothers, latch-key kid syndrome in both rich and poor neighborhoods, gang membership growing more attractive to the lost teen, the uprising trajectory raising the simply spoiled and rotten, shall I go on? -- society proves just how detrimental the loss of mom home after school truly is.

Sure -- some according to Megyn Kelly  and Greta Van Susteren -- manage to pull it off; your fellow contributor's on the Fox News Channel might just be Neanderthals.   But as a whole --  as the collective meanders through this maze of misdirection, attempting to meet up the challenges with conscious solutions that satisfy the tremendous responsibility of good parenting and the security that comes with, and sheltering both our children and our ambitions in equal portion -- let's face the facts!  We have some serious issues going on, seen and unseen.  Not all of us do parenting well and effectively; and we would be lying to ourselves -- individually and collectively -- to say that we do.

And Erick Erickson, from www.redstate.com, gives us some serious rebuttal, too.   Read THIS: The Truth May Hurt, But Is Not Mean.

Complimentary roles are at play when it comes to the working family in order to fulfill the direct and many needs of the child (first).

The truth is, to have a single parent working full time, something's gotta give.

The truth is, to have both parents in a household working full time -- no matter who the breadwinner, something's gotta give.

What we have allowed to let go is the responsibility of childrearing, through the most formative years, to other people -- be it schools, household staff, grandparents, or no one at all.

This has been a conscious change, evolving since the sixties, coming out of the think tanks of the progressive, liberal, intellectually superior Left that has allowed for the traditional family to take a back seat (while today, looking more like being frowned upon). 

Oh sure, disguised under the rights of women to have their careers and family too, no one wants to discuss the repercussions now.   No one wants to discuss the issues we seem to be having with this openly and honestly; but no bother, pretty sure there is a pill to take for it anyway.

Do you think are kids are fairing well?  Really?

Personally -- I think it's great news that 40% of our households are led by a female breadwinner. Halleluiah!   That should nip tuck the whole conversation on the inequality in the workplace and at home, at the very least, right?  Next.

Erickson pointed out another stat from the same survey, noting:  "Three-fourths of those surveyed say these mothers make raising children harder, and half worry that it’s bad for marriages. About half of those surveyed felt it was better if mothers stayed home with young children. In contrast, 8 percent thought it was better if fathers did."

So 75% of those surveyed admit the difficulty of raising children, and "half worry that it's bad for marriages."  And still half believe moms staying home with younger children is best.   Real people reveal there is a real toll and recognize the whole truth.   We give up a little something in the end.

Is it worth it?  Is what we give up better for society and families in general, in the specific?  [It's just a question.  Don't hate.]

More from Erickson (although, easy does it, for some of you, it just might make your head explode):

"Life is terribly unfair. Sometimes a parent dies. Sometimes a parent is an abusive ass. There are unfortunate exceptions. But we should not kid ourselves or scream so loudly in politically correct outrage to drown the truth — kids most likely will do best in households where they have a mom at home nurturing them while dad is out bringing home the bacon."

yeah, something like this might as well be coming out of the dark ages...there is that; and then again, there is also the truth.   And somewhere in between are some answers; answers that carry the potential to truly hit home and make the future bright.

But the truth is -- at the end of this day -- we seem to be excelling at the art of telling a little lie or two.

Make it a Good Day, G

 

It's Truth, Trains and Ordinary Time Thing

Dear America,


old gthing is beginning to power down for a well earned vacation; it's been a hectic week, one totally empowered by a furious charge of rational self-interest to the max.  The hope is that the crazy days leading up to the leave will be totally worth it -- for the incentive to get it done is greater than leaving things undone for upon my return.

Speaking of which, it is the rational self-interest drive that systematically fuels our capitalist society -- no, scratch that, make that a virtuous capitalist society.

Moreover, it the the rational self-interest of learned men and those who make it their mission to break down the principles and teachings of economics and society, growth and stagnation, and just exactly how the intangible qualities of life become oh so tangible, easily enough for all the rest of us to understand, becomes essentially priceless -- priced right out of the market even.    The wealth of knowledge that ordinary people can acquire and share and express and make abundant and bear fruit becomes utterly limitless.  AND if we remain good people -- enriched in spirit, in soul, in compassion, in love -- the greater good becomes that much greater.

The chatter of the last couple of days has included the celebration of life and works of such -- a remarkable American really -- Milton Friedman.   He would have turned one hundred years old on July 31st... if we were just so lucky to have him on this earth still.

I first want to link to a great article for you to read on the man -- by Donald J. Boudreaux, for a little 'centennial celebration.'   go on now.... g can wait....


super good huh.  love that whole pencil thing.

and for a few words from the man himself, let me switch gears to a wee bit of GTV:



so true! 

"imaginative packaging and deceptive labeling"  -- how simple.

That is how all big bad government grows.

I can only imagine how Milton must be thinking of the unconscionable packaging of the "Affordable Care Act."

The thing is -- and what most people seem to no longer recognize -- is that the beauty of capitalism works for us without us even thinking about it; while the things we seem to think need fixed  -- by more regulation, taxation and control --  ultimately tie us down.

Right now, just a few days out from a very long train ride, I am beginning to get excited. For I can go on vacation without a care in the world because  ---

• I have someone taking care of my baby Boo; 
• I have someone making sure the electricity still keeps my fridge cold, saving that pound of bacon for when I come home; 
• I can do my banking from anywhere, giving me pocket change for trinkets and cocktails anywhere, anytime; 
• I can entrust my travels to the pilot, the conductor, and all who came into the making of that fine plane and train; 
• I can organize my work schedule for time off from my day's labor, reaping the instant benefits of not owing my own business and being able to walk away at any time;
• I can choose to go anywhere I want, anyway I want;
• I can choose to fine dine or find the nearest food truck;
• I can sleep on someone's couch or lay up in a swanky hotel;
• I can leave for a humanitarian project or just slip away purely for my own self-interest;
• I can take a giant leap from a life ORDINARY to extraordinary in a day;
• and I could go on and on...you get my drifter dribble

Anywho, as you are my witness, on this day, I make a pact with my rational self-interest self.

When I come home, I pledge to listen to more Milton and less Real Housewives.  I will soak up more Ayn Rand and less Jack Daniels.  I will become a student of all things Adam Smith and less anything to the contrary.

Sure, call me narrow-minded, I don't mind.  I know what I like.

I like the truth.

I like plain and simple talk explaining the truth.

So, if you'll excuse me, I need to gather my reading material for a grand total of 48 hours of uninterrupted peace and quiet.to and fro.  yippie skippy to me

Make it a Good Day, G

and now talk about all things celebratory...next blog is a very big day for gthing....but don't hold your breath, for I come and go as I please.

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

Dear America,

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

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

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

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

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

"you may be feeling pretty sassy, 

but try to keep your mouth 

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

so true.

if only.

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

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

...but maybe it's just me.

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

make it a GOOD day, G

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

It's a Faux Religion-In-Chief Thing

Dear America,

just a note to self and continuing on a theme from last week...

not only were we asked not to pay any attention to it, but if we tried to talk about it (you know, in public), we were immediately labeled and ridiculed as being a bunch of right wing loons, fundamental extremists, and even...racists, if in the moment it fit.

The mainstream media all but ignored it; while even if they gave it a minute of their time or priceless print space, it was clearly, decidedly, dismissed as being a point of interest as if there was nothing to see here, move along dot org.

Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright, who?
Black Liberation Theology, what?

We couldn't talk about any of it.

Even the words coming out of his own mouth had to make us wonder -- you know, in the months, if not years, preparing him... molding him... attaching the strings on and the like... I mean, leading the charge of support for the totally vetted, overly qualified, highly educated, super smart,  future president of the United States of America..... roars of thunder goes the crowd....

From his book, Dreams FROM My Father:

"I ceased to advertise 

my mother's race by the age of 12 or 13, 

when I began to suspect 

that by doing so 

I was ingratiating myself to whites."

"I never emulate white men 

and brown men 

whose fates didn't speak to my own. 

It was into my father's image,  

the black man, son of Africa, 

that I'd packed all my attributes 

that I sought in myself: 

the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, 

DuBois and Mandela."

From the Audacity of Hope:

"I will stand 

with the Muslims 

should the political winds shift 

in an ugly direction."

Oh and there's more...GO HERE and even more HERE


Nope.  We were not even allowed to question it...

We were asked to take him at his word, at face value; we were told to ignore the signs, the questionable associations, the sketchy details of a life trying it's darnedest to look homogenous with the whole of America.

Context is everything; the books cited above, written by a President -In-Waiting, could seamlessly morph into case studies of How To Reach a Target Audience and Win...(for it was circa a life time ago, during a time mainly focused on winning the future in Chicago and subsequently the state of Illinois)  He needed "his people" to come out in droves and vote; and they did.

Nope. But here we are, now 2011, now with three years under his belt, and we still can't touch him (you know, when it comes to understanding the man behind the teleprompter).  We have no idea who he really is.

Of course, it doesn't help him to further his no-need-for-concern-cause with all the video streaming and circulating in free market abandon...




I think that for most people, we can pretty much agree on something -- we just want to know the truth..

Addressing the 2012 Nominees for the next POTUS:

• We want to know how you think, specifically, with regard to your beliefs, your religion, your faith -- because naturally, this gives us an immediate gauge of understanding and, in an instant, we are able to glean a sense of who you really are on the inside..  
• We want to know what it is you stand for --  especially when up against unrelenting political winds, unimaginable tests of spirit, being the nation's chief caretaker and community leader, peacekeeper and Commander-In-Chief, at home and abroad. 
• We want to know what grounds you (and to the Atheists out there, even if that which grounds you is only your big, bad, Self) -- because the nation's trust is in your hands; while the position, itself, comes with it's own lightning rod, with the inherent power to create feats of cataclysmic change through electrifying, scorching, fundamental transformation.

Our overall disconcerting mood -- as an electorate -- is the direct result of the mainstream media protecting President Barack Hussein Obama from being properly vetted, be it his beliefs, his Muslim ties, his twenty year history attending the church of his mentor, Rev..Dr. Jeremiah Wright, his free spirited associations -- and basically, masking his very all and everything that attributes to the core of his being --  his mind, his thoughts, his true ideology, his emotional baggage, his insecurities, his narcissism, all the things that together define the character of a man; a man whom we clearly DO NOT KNOW. Can you say run on, girl, with that big bad run-on sentence?  holy toledo, thank God it's just a blog.

I think that our interest in the religion factor of a certain Rick Perry, or the Mormon in Mitt Romney, conveys a deeper meaning and motive; we've been burned by Obama.   Whether it be wrestling with what on earth we thought he stood for or what in heaven's name is his God be true, we have no idea who he is, or on what faith he stands.

And more than that, we believe that even Obama is dazed and confused.  Because by all evidence over the last three years, his words, his actions -- and especially his in-action's -- show a president who seems to be at the mercy of some kind of nor'easter coming through; God only knows which way and why, nor when or where, come rain or shine.

"A tyrant must

put on the appearance 

of uncommon devotion to religion.  

Subjects are less apprehensive 

of illegal treatment 

from a ruler 

whom they consider God-fearing and pious."

Aristotle

Which leaves me thinking this: just maybe the Obama we know is all for show.

And just where is the unbridled and unbiased balanced journalism recording his every flaw?  just where is the groundswell of uncommon outrage after being hoodwinked and bedazzled by a total fraud?

let's just say they, --his shepherds and followers and fishers of (wo)men-- are experiencing a few technical difficulties.  And if you still got it in you, read this for more on that.

over and out,
and better still...

Make it a Good Day, G

a great song is just a click away on "It's a Faux Religion-In-Chief Thing."

It's a Twitter Twit Thing

Dear America,

so how many times in the last twenty four hours are you reminded of a running GEICO commercial?

..."do people use Smart Phones to do Dumb Things?"
happens every day, doesn't it.

what started out as "a joke" according to Weiner, turned into ten days of withholding the truth and nothing but the untruth, so help me God.  What began as a little white lie and a hack job upon the Twitter account of a member of our fine House of Representatives, morphed into "I've done things I deeply regret"..."It was me doing a dumb thing and lying about it"...."I hope people can see it for what it really is, a deeply regrettable mistake"..."I haven't told the truth"... one after another, the not so fine gentleman from New York bared all (no pun to the no-longer-alleged crime intended).

And what did we learn in the end (at least, in the immediate hour after the nearly full hour press conference):  that it is perfectly alright to tell a lie in Washington -- and here's the ba-dump-ba -- when you are embarrassed.  Apparently, even the oath of office covers you under such dire circumstances.  And!  No longer shall you be expected to immediately resign (like everyone else caught with his pants down).


And when does the indecent exposure congressman cling to keeping his character intact?  when faced with addressing a crowd of journalists with inquiring minds -- When asked how he would explain the salacious communications between the women (admitting to having 6 online "relationships" over the last three years), he said he wasn't comfortable "characterizing our exchanges" out of respect for the bevy of six of one, half dozen of another, lot.

Even though just about a week ago he "emphatically" denied the charges against him when sitting down with Bret Baier (taking time out of his busy day to meet with the media from inside his congressional office, by the way)  -- yesterday he most emphatically declared, "I haven't told the truth" and "I am not resigning" in the same breath.

I give him a week.

nuff said.

No -- scratch that -- it's not enough.  Let's go to something Juan Williams said in responding to Weinergate last night: "he took a terrible beating today" ... as if, that is enough -- standing before a firing line of journalists is enough of a beating -- according to Juan -- to hold him perfectly accountable... in taking full responsibility for his actions; and totally caving upon any notion that he should resign over this (like Juan has said in the past)....


Interesting to note this exchange that took place just a few months ago (including an eery premonition by Noelle).

I should mention, this was found on MediaMatters -- the uber-leftist outfit, who upon this day back in February, wanted to use Juan's skewering of Sean Hannity for their "gotcha" moment of the day.   What do you have to say now, Juan?  Mister "I was going to skewer you, Sean...if this had been a democrat,  this would have been you're lead story..." with a few yuckity yucks in between... And then to have Noelle chime in with a warning to Juan just seconds later, "don't gloat in it...never know what is coming down the pipe a couple of months from now [um Juan]..."

I would bet my life Juan received a call from Noelle yesterday -- all she would really have to do is send a picture message: via her 4G, of course, just a picture of a pipe, with the caption, "you are here."

Now, nuff said.

Nope.   Hold up.  I do believe I have one more drop stuck in the pipe that needs to get out...can anyone say double standard?  hypocrites?  or how about this, just what is up with the water in New York?  They say it is the reason for the best bagels on earth, but really, this is the third man down in, what, a year?  And sure, coming from the opposite coast line, and only a couple weeks out from another scandalous political fall from grace (if the Governator ever really had any), I am not one to talk.

And you know what else...coming fresh off of an evening watching a real life scum bag in motion on The Bachelorette last night -- me thinks I am falling back into another episode of  'jaded G' right quick (you would only get that if you read me last week).

Can you even believe that Bentley?  Ew.  Ew.  Ew. and more EW.

But then, I look at Ashley and think, oh my goodness -- she is just so naive and stupid; falling for the one guy that came in with all the warning lights on full blast...even after getting a text message (from a "well meaning" friend) suggesting any reciprocation from him would be insincere... and after coming complete with enough red, white and blue flags to ward off the British even -- but nooooooooooo, she didn't pay no mind to any of it... all logic and common sense went right out the door as soon as he flashed his baby blues...

she just went right on believing everyone else is wrong about him...
and just look at him anyway...
he is just so cute...
he is saying all the right things...
how in the world could he do me wrong... 
I told myself to be open this time around....
this time I promised myself to let myself go...
I think I can do this...
I think he is sincere...
but ooooh, I don't really know for sure....
oh what to do, what to do....
aw, I'm going to let myself fall...
I love him so much already...
when it feels so right, how could I be wrong about him...

or something like that.  how am I to really know what went on inside her head.

And now -- in the weird, wild way that only a G spin can turnabout -- only in America does this seem to lend good reason for our reason to being here in the first place.

America became the shining beacon on the hill because we managed to find a way to capture all the lessons of the fallen man and roll it into one Republic; our founders recognized certain truths, and created an entire government revolving around good character, sound principles proven over the ages, and tried and true universal values.  America would not work, and be blessed, any other way.

The day we stop growing the good, is the day we die as a society, as a leader in the free world, as the one and only purveyor of freedom, liberty and justice for all.

There was a good reason being good became so vitally important at our birth.  and yesterday, highlights merely one aspect.

sure.  as people, as humans, we are far from perfection.  Which is why, our founders directed us down a path making our Creator (call it whatever you want, even Big Bang, or BB for short, if that is what rocks your world) our king; humanity would always fail us.  The intentions were clear right from the start -- if our rights and freedoms were to come from a place Not of This World, we would revere That, centering ourselves around That and not man.

Because why?
Because men fail.

We would not become a place that places all of our hopes and dreams upon the good graces of those in power, of privilege, those who claim to have the kind of character and inclination to lend us some kind of temporal salvation while here on earth and follow like a herd of sheep; for all our hopes and dreams would rest upon Something Greater than ourselves.

For most, that would mean Eternal Salvation takes precedence over the temporal -- the so called collective salvation, is replaced by one's own personal relationship with God; and building a life from our own connection to That which we call by many names, and honor It by just as many different ways, we create a life from self-reliance -- shown the way by the likes of Emerson, for one.  We create a life, doing the works of good -- shown the way by the Bible, for another.  We try to master being as good at being human as we possibly can and are forgiven when we fail (that is, if you believe in That sort of Thing). And then, most important, we gather ourselves together to build a government with cornerstones built solely upon the steadfast principles, the universal values, and the unalienable rights ENDOWED by our CREATOR, and having been proven over all time.

we certainly cannot accomplish this (Good Government) when divided by special interests, or discriminating agendas.

we certainly cannot accomplish this (Good Government) when we desert our One Nation Under God foundation.

we certainly cannot accomplish this (Good Government) when we put our trust in man over Truth.

we certainly cannot accomplish this (Good Government) skewering opposition, instead of melting into One.

we certainly cannot accomplish this (Good Government) when losing our scruples, marbles, and all credibility in a nano second, losing any sense and sensibility in a twitter-twit minute.

Speaking of which, Scott Rasmussen, a political pollster for decades, lays out the political environment like this:"the American people don't want to be governed from the left, the right, or the center. They want to govern themselves."  Good Government under Good Self-Rule (under your God of choice) is the way America was intended to be.

and we're back to  'do people use Smart Phones to do Dumb Things'...

Whatever happened to telling the truth and living by the Truth? for that might be the one thing that if we all tried to do a wee bit better at doing, might save us...myself very much included in that.

Insert Footnote here: One more thing you can always count on, when G points fingers, she is always looking in the mirror asking the question 'how you doin?' (and if you say it like a new yawker it is more fun)  Even though I consider myself "pretty good" when character standards get exchanged -- truth is, none of us are perfect creatures, right.

So it is a crying shame what had to happen yesterday. a crying shame for us all.


nuff said.


Make it a Good Day, G

don't forget to click on DEAR AMERICA  above, for your song!  One of G's favorites by Robert Palmer...oh mercy mercy me...things aren't what they used to be...


Last Word (really): how about this tidbit of twitter twit trivia -- Bill Clinton officiated over Weiner's wedding...does that not say it all, or what? funny stuff.

Dear America,

Oh my goodness, oh my goodness.

there is way too much going on in this world -- unprecedented turmoil all around; while I haven't even had my coffee for three days... talk about don't talk to me...talk about sinking into despair and Lifetime TV movies and letting it all out sequestered under my blankie with my BooBoo by my side...

the world is just not that funny.


But then, no stopping our dear President making a a few jokes at the Correspondents Association Dinner, huh.  And good for him; that's the way to let out a little steam. 

Seriously, it is.

It's just funny listening to what he thinks is funny.

And he was funny, have to give him that.

He is so comfortable in the accompaniment of his people -- even though, he tries to pull off the idea that the mainstream media have been all over him, saying "even though the mainstream press gives me a  pretty hard time (really?)...I hear that I'm still pretty big on Twitter, and Facebook, or as Sarah Palin likes to call it 'the socialized media." hardy har har

All too funny, given he then turned around to diss the prevalence of ipods, ipads, and xboxes, oh my, all in one fell swoop during a commencement speech just a few days later at Hampton U...and he was being totally serious to boot.  go figure.. coming from the prince of peace wagering on every techno widget and gadget known to man when campaigning to get out the vote. 

"...coming of age in a 24/7 media environment, some of which don't rank high in the truth meter...ipods and ipads and xboxes and playstations, none of which I know how to work... Information becomes a distraction, a diversion; a form of entertainment rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than a means of emancipation..."

Say what?

For it was in the days of his campaign, he used McCain's lack of techno wizardry as a talking point...poking fun at his all but non-existent experience with the keyboard and his inability to evolve beyond snail mail (oh the irony, now that he's in charge of the post office, bet he's wishing we all showed more love to that crumbling monument of government's failure to understand business).

Oh he loves to make fun of McCain, and by all means his home state -- while yucking it up at the dinner, he started out riding McCain just a bit, noting he never gave personal claim to his  nickname "Maverick",  brilliantly spinning it into a serendipitous dig on Arizona's new immigration law, saying "we all know what happens in Arizona when you don't have I.D...adios amigos..."

Well, it's just another perfect example of how things can spin around the world at lightening speed these days, even a President can be misguided by the rhetoric and political correctness of a moment in history.  Good thing we have a place to go to...places like the world wide web await us.. to lift us up and bring us back from the brink...that is what he meant when he said this at Hampton U, no?

"so many voices clamoring for attention on blogs, and on cable, and talk radio.  It can be difficult at times to sift through -- to know what to believe -- who's telling the truth and who is not."

Are you talkin' to me? Say it like Joey, on the streets of Chicago.

Ah yes, to be perfectly clear, true emancipation doesn't come from the hand of government, nor out of the hearts and minds and mouths of Presidents.

To be fair and balanced, America has equally shared the spotlight with both political parties; none of which may take credit for carrying the common man out of poverty and suffering.

Why? because as our founders cautiously but emphatically outlined for us, the politics of party line cannot accomplish what must inherently come from the INDIVIDUAL.  This country was designed in all seriousness to let the common man be, do and have whatever the common man can.  It was not predicated on a government, everywhere and larger than life itself, to do for man what man must do for himself.

With all things being equal, this is what makes all men equal -- this is what made an Oprah, a Bill Gates, a Hollywood, a Silicone Valley -- this is what takes us from the first automobile to an industry in under sixty seconds in relation to the rest of the  world -- this is what makes a Wall Street and a Main Street, both the highs and the lows -- this is what makes an "L.T.", only sharply contrasted by the differences between a Tomlinson and a Taylor -- this is what makes a President of mixed race deliver a few funnies, whether it be a correspondents dinner or college commencement, with such ease and eloquence, you would be led to believe he was the perfect candidate for the task at hand, being the American President who came from nothing to become a very big something that he is.

What's funny is how this government wishes to solve the world's inequities by taking away from those who simply HAVE -- those who have "made it" by figuring things out on their own -- including those who may have needed some help, perhaps relied on the wisdom of those who have came before us -- like our founders; or perhaps, more closer to home, find themselves indebted to the undying love and support of a parent or grandparent, and maybe a guardian angel or two.

There is only one thing that keeps us from reaching our highest and our very best every day -- and it is the value we place on ourselves to becoming everything we ever dreamed. This begins with the first family we ever come to know; the environment in which we are raised and the mentoring from none other than our mamas and our papas, and perhaps a few teachers down the road, shape us into who we ultimately become.

For richer or poorer, all families come from this place we call home; and all families have the ability to transcend circumstances and make something of themselves, whether you accept it as truth, or not -- it was laid out before us a very long time ago, five thousand years ago to be exact.

Whether we come from a good family or not, our inherent rights, passed on from generation to generation, come from a higher place; nothing but our individual connection to this Life Force, along with our recognition of our ability to rise above challenges and hindrances we think are beyond repair -- can keep us apart from receiving the Kingdom, for nothing is impossible in the eyes of God.  America begins and ends at the kitchen table and good night kisses; let us return to making good families, as if our future depends upon it, because it does -- and that's the truth.

For even with all the modern conveniences like ipods and xboxes, Obama is right to some degree; for we have seen time and time again, money and things can ruin a child just as easily as the lack thereof.  (Did you happen to catch that story on Warren Buffet's son?) 

It always seems to get down to the values we teach our children from the moment they are born, how we foster them into becoming the young adults on the precipice of entering the new world, so that they may become the journalists or the bloggers or the cable news dudes or the talk radio renegades or like anyone else from the mainstream media who simply fall to their knees in the presence of the great articulator-in-chief...mindlessly enthralled by everything he says or does.

"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.  If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.  If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind.  It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.  It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.  Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.  It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails...and now these three remain: faith, hope and love.  But the greatest of these is love." 1 Corinthians, Chapter 13

It is a wacky world out there, no kidding; some things we read are true, some things are not, while some things totally contradict what was previously widely accepted... but the greatest of these is love; we must embrace it all -- for whatever it's worth, for whatever value we gain -- for censoring any of it would be un-American, and may very well take away the amusement, the empowerment, the distractions, the education, and the opportunity to grow tolerance, have faith in our fellow man, and hope for a better future -- and in so doing be able to reach our highest pinnacle,  true emancipation for us all.  What a wonderful world that would be.

Then we have this,

"is not general incivility the essence of love?" 

Jane Austen

Keeping it real -- even if that means we endure snippets in time when we laugh at ourselves and each other -- is one of the greatest man-made distractions we've got left.   And if anyone is keeping score, who really has the last laugh anyway?

But there is a funny thing about truth; the truth shall set us free...

in joy, or in sorrow, right on cue and according to our belief, every time.

I never proclaim all the answers, amused mostly by lots of questions.  But maybe if we get back to teaching our children a little self-reliance, empowering them with words of common sense respective of liberty and freedom to build from all schools of thought, our kids might be better prepared for the whole world; instead we have a president going around saying read this and not that; this is funny, but not that; this is news, but not that -- selectively censoring all the world has to offer, woefully ignorant of supporting the open and lively debate from which a young mind truly grows; as civilized as it may appear, a world like this would look a lot like tyranny.

Make it a Good Day, G