Holy WARS - The Battle for the SOUL of the Conservative and Libertarian Republican

When Henry VIII was King of England, he found himself with a problem not unfamiliar to men today, but with very different ramifications for him and his dynasty.  He had a menopausal WIFE and no SON to succeed him on the throne, i.e. the family business.  Now for men today, this is no problem at all.  You file for DIVORCE, but back in Henry's day, divorce was not only FROWNED upon, but in the case of a KING, even the ATTEMPT could start a global WAR, especially when your WIFE was a blood relative to a King who had a lot more men under arms and the wealth of two continents, as well as the EAR of the POPE and the title of Holy Roman Emperor.

Such was Henry's dilemma when he met and fell in love with the vivacious Anne Boelyn, a first rate social climber complete with sycophantic family looking to get RICH and POWERFUL in the ONLY way open to them at that time, the FAVOR of the KING.  The Boelyn family had already pimped out ONE daughter to horny Hank, but he had his fun and left her, pregnant and DISGRACED, called "The Great Prostitute" by all the nobles and courtiers in England.  Sir Thomas Boelyn vowed his younger daughter, Anne, would NOT suffer the same fate and would be QUEEN of England.  To this end, he instructed his daughter to tempt and seduce the King at every opportunity, but to REFUSE his attentions until she got the ring and the crown.  Anne Boelyn, ever the dutiful daughter, and the headstrong social climber in her OWN right, dutifully obeyed and so Henry was a man with a wife he no longer desired and a mistress who would not comply.  It's enough to drive a monarch MAD.

The solution to BOTH Henry's problems was a simple one on the surface.  He would get RID of Catherine of Aaragon, his longsuffering WIFE, and marry Anne Boelyn, his younger and reputedly more FERTILE girlfriend, enabling him to have to the desired son and heir, as well as a lot more fun in the royal bedroom.  However, in the affairs of KINGS, nothing is EVER simple.  His wife, Catherine, REFUSED to go quietly, and appealed to both her powerful nephew, and the Pope for help.  The nephew, King Charles V of Spain, basically told Henry that any disrespect to his aunt could be conceived as an act of WAR, and Charles had the larger army and treasury.  Charles also drove the point home to the Pope by having a mercenary army invade Rome and the Vatican and take the Pope prisoner, just in case he was tempted to comply with the King's request for nullification of his marriage or an alternative divorce.  Undaunted, Henry convened an ecclesiastical court which he attempted to RIG, but the Pope sent his personal emissary to be part of the proceedings, which stymied and frustrated Henry's goals in EVERY way.

The solution seemed to avoid the King and his sexual and political frustrations increased.  Enter a LAWYER named Thomas Cromwell, a personal friend of and employee of Thomas Boelyn with some books by William Tyndale, a writer and avowed disciple of Martin Luther, the excommunicated catholic monk who believed that the Borgia Papacy had rendered the entire catholic church corrupt beyond redemption and in "Protest" of this, he initiated the PROTESTANT reformation and started the LUTHERAN Church.  Unknown to Henry at the time, both his intended wife and her FAMILY as well as Thomas Cromwell, were devout LUTHERANS, a heresy punishable at that time by BURNING at the STAKE.  However, Cromwell seized upon Tyndale's book "The Obedience of the Christian Man" which stated that it was the KING who was the rightful ruler in his own kingdom and NOT the Pope.  This fed right into Henry's wheelhouse and ego and he sought to have himself declared Supreme Head of the Church in England.  After bribing, threatening, or executing members of parliament who opposed this power grab, Henry got his law and the protestant reformation and revolution in England was under way,

This battle for English SOUL continued unabated through the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, "Bloody Mary" Tudor, Elizabeth I, James I, and Charles I and was at the heart of the English civil war.  Not unlike "conservative" and "libertarian" Americans today, they knew they were no longer practicing Catholics, but as Henry had merely SHATTERED the Catholic church, but FAILED to replace it with a single orthodoxy and made the Bible and New Testament available in the ENGLISH language, every man in England suddenly though he heard GOD telling him how to reform the church and so the protestant faith continued to fracture and subdivide.  There are many more protestants in the world today than there are catholics, but unlike the catholics who are UNITED, the protestants are factioned and fractured.  It's pretty much the same with the non communist Americans today.  We know we're NOT communists, but since the republican party has been so infiltrated with communist progressives, the message of REAL Republicans has gotten lost in the collectivist rhetoric and deeds of the "establishment" republicans.

Like the Protestants of England, only the coronation of Mary Tudor and the Catholic MASSACRES of protestants, regardless of sect, was enough to bring them together.  So, too, MUST it be that the assault of COMMUNIST Democrats and their socialist minions in the Unions, Media, Academia, etc. will bring those of who do NOT self identify as either Communists or Democrats.  By all accounts, self indentified "Liberals" (aka progressives or communists) make up only TWENTY FIVE percent of the population.  That means WE outnumber THEM by a ratio of three to one, but the difference is that THEY are UNITED and WE are DIVIDED.  Til we recognize that and come together with linked arms and in lock step, THEY will continue their progressive "march to the SEA" and like Sherman, leave nothing but SCORCHED America in their wakes.

What we the "Conservative" and "Libertarian" MAJORITY must accept is that ideological purity in a political candidate is a MYTH, especially when dealing with a POLITICIAN.  Politicians are by DEFINITION, compromisers and LIARS.  They will SAY anything they need to say to get elected, and if you bring up a voting record that runs contrary to their rhetoric, they will either make an excuse for that vote, or claim to have "changed" since it was taken.  We cannot know a man's mind or heart.  We can only know his HISTORY, which has a NASTY way of repeating when we stop paying ATTENTION to it.  That said, ANY of the republican field, and YES, I said ANY, would be an improvement over the current "Apologist and THIEF" if we want America to continue to remain a sovereign and FIRST world nation.  If you value your freedoms, including the right to speak your mind, the right to own a gun, the right to grow tomatoes in your own back yard, etc., then you MUST vote AGAINST the Communi-Crats in November.  If you do NOT, you may as well vote FOR them.  Even if we screw up and elect another globalist who thinks we can bomb anyone at anytime, that person can be IMPEACHED and REMOVED if we get the CONGRESS back, but picking the wrong presidential candidate can put THAT at risk as well.  A candidate with high NEGATIVES can turn off the moderate and independent voters and send them scurrying back to the Democrats which affects OTHER races down the ticket.   America is a CENTER right country, not a HARD right country.  That's the mistake the hard LEFT made in 2008.  We cannot AFFORD to make it again.

One final thought here, as in the English Reformation, the rhetoric was heated and vicious and led to beatings, lynchings, burnings, or other forms of atrocities.  Let's dial back the rhetoric, especially on OUR side.  Leave the HATE to the LEFT.  Let THEM engage in "reductio ab adsurdem" with their overuse of RACISM against anyone who disagrees with them.  We are NOT them and THAT needs to stand out in clear contrast to the rhetoric being spewed by the left and their media puppets.  If we run around like Howard Beale, ranting and raving about how MAD we are, that's the caricature that they will stick to us with SUPER glue.  It's already being applied to ONE of our candidates.  If we can't' build up our candidate without tearing someone ELSE'S down, then we must NOT have MUCH of a candidate.  And even if we don't, come November, the choices come down to "Winkum, Blinkum, or Nod" on OUR side; and, NERO on the OTHER.  Nero believed Rome had become too crowded and unsanitary by the time he became Emperor, so he decided it wouldn't be the worst thing if it burned away.  History doesn't show that he SET the fire, but history DOES show that when it was finally out, he built a HUGE palace over the ruins of MANY people's homes and shops.  And if we truly ARE a Christian nation, we DEFINITELY don't want to become a MARTYRED one.

These are the choices facing our country, and we may only have this ONE last chance to get it right.  If we are to remain the United States of America and not the United Socialist States of AmerKa, or just a STATE in the United NATIONS, we cannot AFFORD to get this one WRONG.  When it's all said and done, the primary elections are for voting your CONSCIENCE, but if the guy you LIKE can't WIN, it's not going to matter in the general election and its aftermath.  As we've seen all too CLEARLY of late, elections have CONSEQUENCES, and if you want an Imperial President who rules by regulatory FIAT, then vote Democrat.  If you want a REPRESENTATIVE government instead of an IMPERIAL one, vote REPUBLICAN.  Rule of LAW must be restored, because rule of MAN is KILLING us. We on the right  may very well need a NEW party and relegate the GOP to the scrap heap of history like the WHIG party it replaced, but that's an issue for NEXT time.  In THIS election, we're trying to SAVE our country.  If we fail to do THAT, the REST is moot.  2012 is not just an ELECTION, it's a federal government RESTRAINING order.

Closing Arguments: Schaddenfreude, Reality TV, and No JUSTICE for Caylee Anthony

It's FINALLY over!  Both sides have been heard, the jury has decided, and Casey Anthony is a FREE woman forced into hiding to work out her demons, sort through offers, and plan the rest of her life which is once more her OWN.  But is she really FREE?  Can she go out for a cappuccino at Starbucks?  Can she shop for a new dress at the local mall?  Can she go into a public hair salon and get her hair styled?  In theory, she can, but in REALITY she would be risking her LIFE.  There is a very real and palatable HATRED of this woman the seeing her in public would likely generate and "Ox Bow Incident" mentality and end with her either being torn limb from limb, or at the very LEAST, lynched or beaten to death.   Sadly it was that way LONG before the jury made it's ruling, which is why this woman has spent most of her pre-trial incarceration in ISOLATION.  It was feared by the Sheriff's department (and RIGHTLY so) that she would not have survived in general population, especially since most of the women incarcerated with her were themselves MOTHERS or just women who had already concluded, like MOST of America, that she was  a child murderer long before the first piece of REAL evidence had been introduced.

Why do so many people HATE Casey Anthony?  It's only natural to want a guilty person to pay for his or her crime, but do we HATE everyone that's accused of murder in this country?  I hope not because there are so many, we wouldn't have time for anything else, nor would likely live very long as HATRED is a very self destructive thing to carry around.  It's physically, physiologically, and psychologically harmful to its host. Hatred is also highly irrational, esp when it's directed against a veritable STRANGER.  It is usually NOT organic in nature, but a result of external stimuli.  Germans didn't HATE Jews instinctively.  They were PROGRAMMED to do so by propaganda from the Nazis.  Anti-semitism results in PREJUDICE, bot not HATRED on it's own.  To get to HATRED, you need provocation and that usually comes from  media saturation.

That's what  has been driving this ENTIRE case.  Absent the media saturation, no one would know the names Caylee or Casey Anthony outside of the people who knew them on a personal basis before they achieved "realty TV star" stature and notoriety.  Had either Caylee or Casey not been so physically attractive, the story would have remained a blip in the local Orlando news and been long since forgotten.  So it's the MEDIA that jammed this story down our throats from day one.  It;s media pundits and commentators that have driven this story, and in a fashion reminiscent of Jean Paul Marat's "Friend of the People" tabloid newspaper, ginned up the lynch mob mentality that sent thousands to the guillotine in an orgy of blood lust during the french revolution.   Marat and Nancy Grace know how to gin up a lynch mob.  Who can forget  the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case, or the total FICTION that was CALLED a rape case?  When emotion drives the bus, the logical and rational "rules of the road" go right out the window, and that is EXACTLY what happened in this case.  But where did the emotion come from and why did it get so intense?

At the heart of everything is a cherubic little two year old toddler named Caylee Marie Anthony.  Who  Gould see that little girl's pictures or videos and not just MELT?  You would have to be INHUMAN to not feel sadness at the thought of that little girl being taken from her family by person or persons unknown; and lest we forget, that is how  this case started.  When her picture first popped up the cable news program as a missing person, my first thought was that she had been abducted by a child  sex trafficker and, even after media pundits and legal analysts starting baying for her mother's blood, I maintained that the EVIDENCE supported that conclusion far more convincingly than it supported the premise that Caylee had been murdered, let alone that her own MOTHER was responsible for it.  It was far more likely that Caylee had been abducted using a long can paradigm that had led THOUSANDS of young women into white slavery, the disappearing modelling agency.  If your target was a CHILD however, the modelling agency wouldn't work, as a mother would tend to REMAIN with her child during the photo sessions.  Far more likely would be a NANNY or daycare scenario, as a mother would be more likely to leave a child there for a prolonged period of time, usually to go to work.

Whenever I argued or defended  this theory, I was ridiculed and attacked by people who had already made up their minds that Caylee was dead and Casey had killed her.  I was called a  dreamer, of thinking like a LAWYER (a pejorative in MY vocabulary) or of being interested in Casey or attracted to her, etc by people who ordinarily were liberal in their thinking and therefore open to possibilities outside the obvious, or at least imbued with the perception of having OPEN minds.  Not in this case, however.  With the EXCEPTION of a few lawyers who practiced criminal or defense law, nearly everyone I talked to regarding this case had concluded the worst and condemned Casey Anthony before there was even the slightest evidence that Caylee was anything but a missing person.  

How then did a local missing persons case get to be a national media event with the appeal of a network produced reality television show?  The simple answer is that it was turned into one by the 24-7 news media and non stop barrage of legal and media pundits and commentators that first created, then FED the addition to all things ANTHONY, much like the average heroin pusher will first create the dependence and then provide the supply of his TOXIC product.  The "reality" in modern America is that it's sometimes difficult, if not IMPOSSIBLE do discern the difference between real life and reality TV.  Some people used to believe anything they saw on TV.  However, since the advent of "reality TV" it's soemtimes hard to tell what's "real" and what's "contrived" to LOOK real.  Just as shows like "Survior" and "Jersey Shore" create "stars" of people who are talentless and mediocre at BEST, so too does a non stop media spotlight create another kind of "star" when it overdoses the public on a criminal defendant (ESPECIALLY and attractive one) like Scott Peterson (who to this DAY still gets love letters and marriage proposals even though he's been CONVICTED or murdering his wife and unborn child) and Casey Anthony, who's now free to PROFIT from being free to sell HER story to a publisher, go on media interviews for pay, and may even end up on a reality TV show, or the cover of HUSTLER.  She, too has recived money from her legions of horny males fans, and  a few marriage proposals as well.  That would NOT happen if she were netiher HOT< nor prospectively looking at getting RICH.  

Some of the hatred directed at Casey Anthony comes from the standard green eyed monster, JEALOUSY.  Women are jealous of her because she's young, attractive, soon to be RICH, and will have her pick of men, including (in thir irrational minds and their husband's wildest fantasies) THEIR husbands.  If you could treat the average couple on a couch watching Casey Anthony on the news like a comic strip and put a though bubble over their heads, you would see something like "She's HOT. I wouldn't kick HER out of bed for eating crackers) over the MAN'S head, and probably something like "BITCH.  I wanna scratch her eyes out" over the WOMAN'S head.  To be fair to the women, some of the hatred comes from the fact that these women are themselves MOTHERS and have natural maternal instincts when it comes to the welfare of children.  Like Sarah Palin and her "mama Grizzlies" implies, women WILL protect their children and attack anyone who tries to harm them.  The protective instinct is not limited to their OWN children, either.  However, these dame women, more likely than not, know EXACTLY what the man next to them is REALLY yhinking as he stares at Casey Anthony, so they HATE her for THAT.

The other explanation for both the popularity of the Anthony case, and the anger over the verdict is the psychological phenomenon of "schaddenfreude."  The term comes from the two german words meaning "damage" and "joy" and more simply put, it means that one takes pleasure in the suffering of another, esp another who ordinarily would have it much better than the person enjohing their suffering.  In one of my favorite episodes of the series "Boston Legal", Betty White uttered the line that describes it best.  She said "It's FUN to see PRETTY people fall."  She was referring to Heather Locker's character being on trial for murdering her older and richer husband.  That line has a missing subtext, however.  It should read: "It's FUN f (for UGLY people) to see PRETTY people fall."  It can also apply to the scenario in which it would be fun for POOR people to see RICHER people suffer.  That mentalilty gas us Madame DeFarge and the French Revolution!  But the conflict between the pretty people and the less than pretty people can be found everywhere as well.  Think of the passions aroused against Lindsay Lohan, and Paris Hilton when THEY were facing jail.  It's the exact same thing with Casey Anthony.

If you look at the "angry mobs" outside the Orange County Courthouse and jail, you don't see many lookers in that crowd.  That may have something to do with the fact that a face contorted in anger is rarely an attractive one, but even putting THAT aside, most of the people baying Casey's blood are much more like the "hound" than the "fox."  This is not to say that everyone protesting outside the courthouse is only mad befcause they're jealous of Casey being young, HOT< and likely to make major bank, there are also MOTHERS and FATHERS out there as well as looks have nothing to do with THEIR anger and frustration at what they perceive is a system that failed to deliver JUSTICE for Caylee Marie Anthony and nay do the same for THEIR child some day,  Regardless of the driver, it's the EMOTION that's in charge of these people.

Any average person has to believe that Casey Anthony had something to do with what happened to Caylee Anthony.  She was the last person seen with her, she had motive, means, and opportunity, and there was a LOT of circumstantial evidence that could lead one to conclude she's involved.  But it's a far crown from being INVOLVED, to being a cold blooded murderer who actred with malice and deliberation.  Those are LEGAL standards, but such circumnstantial cases have sent many men and women to death rows who were later proved INNOCENT by advances in forensic technology such as DNA.  There was none of that here, but the ABSENCE of it ahs to give one pause and create doubt, and by legal standard, that "doubt" MUST innure to the benefit of the Defendant, like her or not.  Do I believe Casey is blameless in this case, not on your life.  But suspecting is a lot different form having it proven to the legal standard.  Like Johnny Cochran once said, "If the gove don't FIT, you MUST acquit."  In a jury trial, only TWELVE opinions matter, and OURS are NOT among them.

Looking at the facts presented from a DISPASSIONATE prospective, which iis what JURORS have to do, There is no way to overcome the presumption of innocence beyond a "reasonable" doubt  Courts exist to apply to LAW, and the legal standard for convinction is that the state must prove the DEFENDANT committed the crime charged "beyond a REASONABLE doubt."  The sticking point in many people's craws is that word "reasonable" which makes since, since it's a SUBJECTIVE standard.   To Adolph Hit;er. Josef Stalin, and Bill Ayers, GENOCIDE was "reasonable."  To a liberal, NOTHING is reasonable because they are driven purely by EMOTION which negates logic and reason,.  Either way, the only way to conclude the Casey Anthony wilfully MURDERED her child based on the evidence presented would be to let anger and hatred overrule logic and reason: and, fortunately for all FUTURE criminal defendants (of which ant of US can be one some day) that did NOT happen here.  LAW is the result of the thoughts and actions of MEN, and as such it is NOT prefect.  JUSTICE is the purvue of "god" or a "higher power" and is best left to him (or HER);

As for Casey Anthony, what SHE deserves at this time is to relegated back to ANONYMITY.  She should be devoutly IGNORED.  Do NOT buy her books, do NOT watch her on television or listen to any interview, close your wallets to anything Anthony, and justice will prevail because the only woman can PROFIT by her act or omission is iw WE buy anything form her.  If WE stand firm and turn her off, tune her out, and shut her down, she will be punished far greater by Universal Justice than anything the State of Florida could have done to her.  She's now a media junkie.  She CRAVES attention, positive OR negative, and she has to have it.  She's an attention junkie, and the best thing we can do is cut her off cold turkey.  Let her return to a life of anonymity and a the only career for which she's qualified, the STRIPPER POLE.  That  outcome would FINALLY deliver JUSTICE, even if it IS only POETIC,  for Caylee Anthony.

Journalism MALPRACTICE: "Liberals" Behaving BADLY!

A few SHORT months ago, following the tragic shootings in Tucson in which a Federal District Court Judge and others were killed, and Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was wounded, every Democratic Party power player and every liberal media pundit made teary eyed and impassioned PLEAS for civility and a decried the need for  a "new tone" in political discourse.  This was due in large part to the fact that they blamed the TEA party for the shooting, despite the fact that it was a LEFT wing loon that actually pulled the TRIGGER.  They made a similar erroneous conclusion when ANOTHER left wing lunatic flew his plane into a building housing offices of the Internal Revenue Service.  When did they stop hiring FACT checkers in the media, and if they DO still have them, they seem to be performing at the level of sleeping air trafic controllers these days.  So, why haven't they been FIRED?  Aah, they must be UNION so they CAN'T be fired for anything less than a CAPITAL crime and not without an act of Congress or the bureaucratic equivalent thereof.


After months of media diatribes about the need for "cilivilty" in our political discourse, the newly elected Republican Governor of Wilsconsin, the Hon. Scott Walker, attempted to carry out his mandate to reign in runaway government spending in his state which necessistated curbing the power and influence of public sector unions, and the ensuing protests commence and take on a tone of rheorc reminiscent of the WORST of the Viet Nam era protests.  UNION goons harasss and even THREATEN state politicians and their supporters, trash and vandalize public property and the media is suddenly nowhere to be found.  One Wisconsin TEACHER even went to far as to communicate TERRORISTIC DEATH THREATS to the republican politicians and again NOTHING from the press, or the LAW ENFORCEMENT community for that matter.


On Tax Day when TEA party members and supporters held rallies calling for less government intrusion into our lives and less government SPENDING, they were harassed and harrangued by UNION goons.  While the MEDIA has never waivered in its' attempts to paint peaceful TEA party members as out of control crazy people, they consistently FAIL to report the FACT that it's the leftist UNION goons that are REALLY the out of control crazy people.  If you compare the two sides OBJECTIVELY, it's the LEFTIST protestors that get arrested for disorderly conduct, vandalism, assault, etc.  Not ONE Tea party member has ever been ACCUSED, let along CONVICTED for such behavior.  If you look at the TEA Party Rally held in Washington DC, the grounds were left clean and litter free at the conclusion of the events, and no publci property was destroyed.  Conversely, when the LEFT held THEIR rally, the City of Washington DC had to spend THOUSANDS on clean up, and police had made numerous arrests and issued even more summonses and citations for disorderly conduct.   Last but not LEAST, several SEIU members were arrested for disorderly conduct and criminal trespass when they attempted to barge into the office of a state official in Seattle, and not one WORD of this appeared in the PRESS.


So, why isn't the "journalists" doing their JOBS?  If you ask THEM, they ARE, and they are working harder than ever to keep pace with fast breaking news in a twenty-four/seven news cycle.  If that's true and they ARE doing their jobs, they're doing them about as effectively as a sleeping air traffic controller, unless THEY have a different understanding of what their job IS than WE do.  I never aspired to be a professional journalist, but I DID take a journalism ELECTIVE in college and in that course I was taught that the job of a journalist was the objective dissemination of INFORMATION.  To the PROFESSIONAL journlaist, however, the job is more one of "shaping public opinon"  which they do by editing the story and deciding what information the public should and should NOT receive.  They think of us in the same way Jack Nicholson's character in "A Few Good Men" thought of Tom Cruise's character, namely that we can't "handle the truth."


The REALITY if not that we can't HANDLE it, but that if we were TOLD the TRUTH, we might come to the conclusion that the things the journalists and liberals in general support are not GOOD for this country and that's what they can't abide.  They can't accept the FACT that America was at it's best BEFORE we became a progressively dominated "nanny state." Most people who live their lives in the progressively and marxist dominated professions will NEVER understand that big government is not the solution to our problems,  but rather that it's the SOURCE of most of them. The best way to explain this view on the part of those who are of the progressive mindset is with this quote by  Dresden James, who said: ‎"When a well-packed web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic." That is why no liberal will EVER be able to relate to the average tea party member, or any small business owner.  And WHO is that has been the most ardent SELLERS of the "well packed web of lies" that government FORCE and not individual initiative and personal responsibility, is the best path to prosperity.  The two biggest "pushers" of the marxist DRUG are TEACHERS and JOURNALISTS.  


In the case of TEACHERS they were first the addicts (victims of OTHER liberal educators who instilled in them a sense of victimization and need for social "justice" delivered by government) and now they are PUSHERS perpetuating a vicious cycle that's gone on for GENERATIONS now and results in students who can't read or write, but know that gay penguins are good and dodgeball is BAD.  In the case of journalists, the same paradigm applies, but it is augmented and amplified because every "professional journalist" was trained in the Walter Lippmann model of journalism, aka PROPAGANDA.  


Walter Lippmann was part of Woodrow Wilson's propaganda trio that included Edward Bernays and George Creel.  These three were Wilson's allies in "persuading" the American oublic that we "needed" to be involved in World War I.  Wilson's motivation for wanting us to get into this conflict was very simple.  He saw it as the perfect way to bring out his "League of Nations" the precursor to the United Nations.  Of course, trying to persuade the average American that his or her SON should risk DEATH for this lofty and imperious goal was gonna take a different method of "persuasion" which is where hs trio of propagandists come into play.  In his book "The Phantom Public" Lippmann wrote "The hypothesis which seems to me the most fertile are that NEWS and the TRUTH are NOT the same thing and must be CLEARLY distinguished (emphasis added)."  He goes on to say: "the function of news is to signalize an event. The function of TRUTH is to bring to light the HIDDEN facts, to set them into relation with each other, and to make a picture of reality on which can ACT"  In other words, namely MINE, the "journalist" is, in FACT, a puppet master, NOT an honest broker of information.  Is it any surprise then that the most infamous propagandist of them all, Dr. Josef Goebbels, Hitler's Minister of PROPAGANDA, read this BOOK.


Walter Lippmann is often hailed as the "Father of MODERN journalism" especially by students of the Columbia University School of Journalism where he is practically a DEITY. Columbia University has been the "mother ship" of American Communism (which is what many of the so-called liberals REALLY are) ever since the Nazis drove the Frankfurt Institute communists out of Germany and onto the faculty of Columbia University. So is it any wonder that students at THAT school of journallism would embrace PROPAGANDA as a means to their desired goals? In point of fact, the modern censorship and thought control phenomenon known as "political correctness ALSO originated at Columbia University, and was the product of Dr. Herbert Markusa and his colleagues, part of the aforementioned Frankfurt Institute Communists expatriated from Germany by the Nazis.  Put marxists who worship at the alter of "political correctness" and "propaganda" together, and you have today's "Journalists."   


The most "liberal" professions in the fabric of mdoern American society are the legal profession, the teaching profession, and the journalism profession.  So, when teachers "misbehave" for political reasons, it stands to reason that their fellow liberals in the journalism profession would IGNORE of downplay  that behavior so that the FACTS don't get in the way of the NARRATIVE they're trying to sell us.  Teachers get a pass for bad political behavior, but they're front page news if they have SEX with a student.  Criminal and terroristic death threats to opposing party policians-NOT news, but consensual sex with horny student-front page NEWS.  It's all, quite simply, LIBERALS behaving BADLY!

The Baby Boomers, Our "WORST" Generation!

"What's the matter with kids today?" is the title of a song from the musical "Bye, Bye Birdie" pretty much sums up everything I'm about to say about the generation that gave us hippies, "Hanoi Jane" Fonda, the "Easy Rider," Woodstock, and free lovin''. I'm referring of course to the "Baby Boomer" generation, those children born in the late 1940's following the end of World War II. This generation owes it's size and everything else to the fact that there were a lot of "hookups" happening when "Johnny came marching home" from the European and Pacific theaters. These actions had consequences,  and in keeping with the morality of the day, these men and women got MARRIED and actually RAISED the children they had conceived during their drunken "hook-ups."  Lucky for the BOOMER Generation, there WERE no Planned Parenthood abortion mills or free clinics around the corner to keep THEM from being born.

So how is it possible that the generation that survived the Great Depression and then fought and defeated the Axis powers of Germany, Italy, and Japan, came back home and led this country to one of the greatest periods of prosperity and growth the word has ever seen, produce a generation that in less than fifty years time would singlehandedly undo everything their parents and grandparents had done for them? Sadly, a significant portion of the blame rests wtih the Greatest Generation, themselves. They were so determined that their children should know none of the hardship and adversity that marred their younger lives that they were over-indulgent and over protective of their children to the extent that they literally spoiled them ROTTEN.

The GREATEST generation had grown up in a country that was in the grip of the Great Depression for mos of their lives.  They had their CHARACTER forged in the blood and iron of World War II.  They had know real hardships, deprivation, and seen all manner of human suffering and they were determined that their CHILDREN would not know such things if they could help it.  This goal was made possible by the economc boom that followed the finish of both the WAR, and the economic policies of Frankin D. Roosevelt wnen a President with good old fashined COMMON SENSE took the office and proceeded to dismantle the maze of alphbet soup buracracies put in place during the New (or was it RAW)  Deal.  Truman understood that it was in fact these very policies that were responsbile for the United States being the ONLY country int he WORLD to have a GREAT Deperession, which  had only ABATED during the war and reared its' ugly head once more when Johnny came marching HOME again and tried to a find a JOB that did NOT include catching bullets as part of its' enumeration of duties.

Thanks to the economic boom that Truman enabled, the children of the BOOMER generation were the first to grow up if not actually IN the LAP of luxury, they were in pretty closee proximity to it.  It was THIS generation that was the first to expect new cloethes at the beginning of EVERY school year, catered birthday parties (complete with clown or magician), a backyard swimming pool, air conditioning, television, and the possibility of getting handed the keys to a new or late model used  car upon reaching their seixteenth birthday and obtaining their driver's license.  This was ALSO the first generation for whom the possibilty of a university education was more than a remote one.  Sadly, many of the boomers did go to college wehre they ran smack into the waiting arms of communist ideologues tthat had been infiltrating the faculties of these colleges and universities since the early part of tghe twentieth century, when Americans learned the extent of the atrocities perpetrated by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution and Communism become the anathema to Americans that it did and SHOULD have REMAINED!

Imagine the pride shining in the eyes of parents of the GREATEST generation as they packed their wholesome, fresh faced, corn fed progreny off to college to become Doctors, or engineers, or even LAWYERS (which were still REPECTED in those days). These children would have opportunities the parents never even DREAMED of.  Conversely, imaagine their HORROR when, a few short months LATER, they opened their door to find a greasy, long-haired, unhygenic, drug addled HIPPIE standing  where there son had been, or if it's a daughter, add PREGNANT to the description, the father being one of her philosophy professors.  Now imagine, that you've reovered from your initilal shock,  only to find out over dinner that the child that had revered you as his HERO and wanted to be just like you, now referred to you as a "capitalist PIG" or "the MAN" or "the ESTABLISHMENT" or  a  "Bourgoisee criminal" and vowing to bring your entire way of life down around your ears.  These were scenes that played out in American households all throughout the SIXTIES and SEVENTIES.

To be fair, not EVERY member of the boomer generation turned into a HIPPIE.  Indeed, many of them, thanks to a strong  Christian family upbringing, were able to resist the lure of marxism and the temptations of hedonism.  It was for this reason that more extreme marxists like Bill Ayers opined that students needed to be radicalized at an earlier age, prompting many commynist thinkers and sympathizers to become teachers themselves and enter the elementary and secondary schools to being indoctrinating children that were less mature and less experienced.  For these reasons, they were less likely to oppose the ideas being forced upon them by teachers more interested in creating future communistis than in actually TEACHING children to do anything productive, like READ.   But that's a topic for a while different essay.

If there is a simple way to distill the real legacy of the boomers into something that will fit in a Twitter post, it would be that this generation destroyed the American concepts of  personal responsibility, and the FAMILY. If you think about it logically, thanks to boomers actions no long have CONSEQUENCES, at leastt not PERSONAL ones, in theory at least.

Think about it this way. If you're sexually irresponsible, they created a pill to spare you those consequnces, and they'll give out condoms as well as teach you how to do things in school. if you STILL manage to and get KNOCKED up, they made it legal to murder the baby so it doesn't become a burden to you, and they'll even help you get around telling your PARENTS.   If you opt to HAVE the child, you're eligible for all manner of free stuff from the federal and state government including unearned income tax cfedit, welfare, subsidized housing, food stamps, medicaid, etc.  You've hit the JACKPOT.

Likewise, If you rack up debt you can't pay, no problem. They pass a law and suddenly you're FREE and CLEAR.  If you take crazy risks run a business into the ground, no problem. Either the GOVENRMENT can bail you out, or you can go bankrupt, and as long as you  haven't committed a criminal act (like a Madoff style Ponzii scheme) , your house, car, Rolex, and bank accounts are safe.  Too bad the same CAN'T be said for your shareholders.  This explains to conduct of Wall Street, Counbtrywide Morrgage, and FANNIE  MAE and FREDDIE MAC in causing the recent housing and stock market MELTDOWN,  but why it is that only Bernie Madoff lost everything and wen tto PRISON?  Why is Angelo Mozilla still strutting aroudn free an dliving in his placial estate?

IN a different way of illustrating lack of personal responsibility, if a government wants to invade your privacy but that pesky FOURTH Amendment keeps getting in the way, no problem again. We'll just pass a PATRIOT Act, and suddenly, they can LEGALLY come into your home, business, bank account, mailbox or wahever whenever they  please, and WITHOUT your knowledge, let alone CONSENT.  The whole BOOMER generation thinks they can LEGISLATE anything, and that their drones in the LEGAL system and Judiciary will give them cover.  Sadly, they seem to have been RIGHT in that assessment for the most part. Progressive or liberal activist judges have legalized CRIMINAL behavior msny times over.

Why do you think good little commies become either LAWYERS or Community Organizers? It's to FORCE legislation, or write law via the BENCH that they can't get through the ballot box such as ABORTION!  No elected legislator ever passed a law legalizing abortion.  That was done by the COURTS.  Since the landmark and totally UNCONSITUTIONAL "Roe v. Wade" case, however, MANY legislators have voted to spend taxpayer dollars subsidizing the abortion INDUSTRY via Planned Parenthood, and now through Obama Care!   Since the boomers entered colleges, more generation of Americans are becoming Teachers, lawyers, or community organizers than any other career fields.  Wouldn't it nice if you could find a DOCTOR when you need one?  Wouldn't it be even NICER to find MEN who know how to DO more than talk or type?

The BOOMERS have been on the political, social, and economic scene for nearly FIFTY years now, and in their wake is a country that went from a moral nation and an eoconomic and military superpower that produced the finest goods in the world and had a rock solid economy, to a national riddled with debt, social problems, economic misery, devalued currency and eroding freedoms.  To see how  much we've lost form what THEY inherited, you have only to watch old movies, find old newspapers on microfilm at your local library, watch reruns of "Happy Days" or even the more current show "Mad Men."  I think one of the reasons for the popularity of THAT show, it that it reminds of the time in our history when it was really GOOD to be an AMERICAN!   Clearly we've lost a LOT during the stewardship of the BOOMERS, and like the ripple effect created in a pond when you toss a rock in th ecenter, this generation has INFECTED every successive one in greater and greater numbers.

So, the next time you see an aged hippie boomer rolling down the road on his power scooter and you're sorely temptedto exact a little "poetic justice" by pushing it over on top of him, think again.  The mantra of the boomers was "if if feels good, DO it" and though it may FEEL great to knock that old hippie over on his ass and crush him under his own scooter, don't DO it.  In that way, you're REJECTING his entire philosophy of life, and only by doing THAT can we hope to being to clean up the MESS left to us by our WORST generation and restore this country to it's natural state of FREEDOM and PROSPERITY!

An Open Letter to All Celebutards!!!

Dear Celebutards: (And you KNOW who you are)

Have any of you ever heard the phrase "biting off the hand that's feeding you?" Well, that is exactly what you're doing when you consistently attack this country's free market capital economy, for it is only THAT economy that makes your pampered, privileged, and overindulgent lifestyles possible. At the risk of breaching that dreaded "separation of church and state" you have been endowed by your creator with a gift. Whether that gift is a talent, athletic ability, the ability to string words together, or even just the vicissitude of good genes that makes you look good in jeans or a bikini, that "gift" together with some action on your part, enables you to live the lifetstyle and have the fame and adulation you now enjoy. It is that adulation that enables you to command attention when you speak. Sadly, most people don't actually LISTEN when you speak because they are too busy either mentally undressing you, or wishing that they WERE you to hear what you're saying. That enraptured state means that whatever you say will permeate the brains of your fans without any critical thinking intervention on their part so they will parrot what you say as if it were some kind of gospel.

To quote one of your own, the great Stan Lee, "with great power comes great responsibility" In case you don't recognize it, that was the sage Uncle Ben to the young Peter Parker, aka Spiderman. I realize that many of you did not ASK to be role models, and that you would probably rather NOT have gaggles of teenaged boys and girls aping your every move and hanging on your every word. In a perfect world that would not happen, but in THIS one, alas, it DOES. In a PERFECT world your drug and booze fueled exploits wouldn't get found the clock attention from tabloid press and the networks whose sole reason for existence is to expose us to what you do when you're not doing your so-called JOBS, bur without the Lindsey Lohan's of the world, where would the tabloids, the paparazzi, and shows like Entertainment Tonight, Access Hollywood, or the entire E network be? But, because of the aforementioned entities, things you do and say are exposed to young and old alike so for God's sake please THINK before you speak.

Then there are the real hypocrites, like Michael Moore and Al Gore, who reap for themselves the benefits of free market capitalism while advocating for a form of governance that will effectively deny those same benefits to those who come after them. Michael Moore is the worst for he KNOWS that if he achieves the world he claims to want, he will have no place in it. It is only through free market capitalism and free enterprise that he enjoys the lifestyle and menu choices that he has clearly enjoyed with great relish. Hypocrites like these who talk the talk, but don't walk the walk make me ill. Though I totally disagree with the "greenies" like Leonardo DiCaprio, Ed Begley, Jr, Darryl Hannah, Matthew Modine, etc. I can at least respect them because unlike Moore and Gore, they PRACTICE what they preach. But Leo, you can only drive that Tessla sportscar and live in that green condo because people are willing to invest their hard-earnred GREEN so the studios can make your movies and people can buy tickets to SEE those movies. Again, I applaud you for your commitment to the environment, but remember that not everyone can AFFORD to do what you do. Same with Brad and Angie and all the other celebs that have helped out in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and again in Haiti. I applaud your generosity and your selflessness. But again remember that you could only DO those things because of the free market and capitalism.


The reason I chose the Sean Penn/Harvey Milk caricature as the illustration for this essay was that he and others in hollywood LIKE him bring to mind the old commercial that starts out with a soap opera actor saying "I'm not a Doctor, but I play one on TV" and then proceeds to advise us to buy some over the counter antacid.  What does he know?  He flat out said he's NOT a Doctor. At least that commercial was honest enough to give you a disclaimer so you could take the "doctor's" advice for what it was worth.  Sadly, actors like Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Natalie Potman, etc. do NOT give you that disclaimer before they proceed to give political advice or speeches but c'mon, this is Jeff Spicoli we're talkin' about.  Just cuz he's PLAYED politicians doesn't he he KNOWS politics.  In fact he and his ilk are so far removed from the real world consequences of politics they have no business EVER getting involved in them, but thanks to Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack and their involvement the Kennedy campaign, there's been an unholy alliance between the fantasy merchants of Hollywood, and the political fantasies of Washington, DC.  Problem is that WE in the REAL world have to LIVE with those politics, Hollywood is, for the most part, insulated by layers of wealth and privilege and therefore do NOT experience the horrors they inflict on us by virtue of helping elect "Stuart Smalley" to the United States Senate.


It's not at all surprising to me that more and more celebrity types seem to embrace the "total government" concept of Marxism.  If they're under the age of 40 and attended public school, they've been indoctrinated by left leaning teachers and school administrators since pre-school.  If they went on to attend college, as many actors and athletes did, the indoctrination went into overdrive.  If they never got out of the protected bubble envicornment of academia and into the REAL world prior to achieving their "celebrity" status, they've never had a chance to learn the way th world REALLY works for themselves.  I had the same public school education.indoctrination and also attended a very liberal univeristy, but it was my military service and business entrepreneurial  adventures that taught me (the HARD way) that everything I had been taught to believe in was a crock of SAND.  Today's youg people are having the same realizations I did, but sadly, thanks to liberal thinking a social experimentation, the lack the coping mechanisms to deal with their disappointments.  This is the reason for the phenomenon known as the "quarter life crisis."  In Hollywood, it's what happens when a child star can't make the transition to adult actor cuz he's no longer the cherubic cutie pie he was when he was six.  In sports, it's when an athlete peaks in high school or college and never quite makes it to the big game.  In business, it's when you realize there's no such thing as a participation triphy, and that if you mess up, you don't see a purple pen mark, you grt a PINK SLIP!  If you've never been allowed to fail before, how can you be expected to handle a failure in later life?


The older hollywood liberal/radical types like Sean Penn are the product of indoctrination both in schools, and in their day to day acting experiences.  They were first the protegees of actors from the Boomer generation, many of whom were the drug addled hippies of Woodstock, and they've become drug and alcohol addled themselves.  Add to that a steady diet of memorizing lines written by writers who are (for the most part) to the left of Nikiti Sruschev going back to the days of the early twentieth century when Communism and Progressivism were hip, slick, and cool and attracted the likes of playwright Eugene O'Neil and Hollywood Ten writer, Ring Landner, Jr. and you can see how the post boomers come to think as they do.  As many actors become producers, again due to the beuefit of free market capitalism, the cycle is perpetuated from mentors to protegees.  Notwithstanding all the foregoing, Hollywood is a BIG Union controlled town, and all know where UNIONS come from.  I'm sure that most of this is new information to you, and it's an arrogant person indeed that doesn't think he or she still has much to learn in this life.   The reason the celebutards do not know these things is because they have not been permitted to LEARN them.  Our history and the true nature of what it means to be an AMERICAN has been stolen from several generations of our citizens and it is only NOW that we're starting to realize this and seeking to regain that knowledge for ourselves.


"The problem with socialism is that sooner or later, you run out of OTHER people's money."  That's a quote from the "Iron Lady"  herself, Britain's Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher.  So my dear celebutard, if yiou think your lifestyle will not be affected if the government you champion gets the total control it's craving, think again.  If we are no longer a free marked capitalist economy, where will the money come from for YOU?  There will only be ONE patron left that can afford you, and that patron will be the government.  Evern wonder what it was like to be an enetertainment or sports celebrity in Nazi Germany?  Wonder what it was like for Max Schmelling to return to Gernmany and face the likes of Hermann Goering and Adolf Hitler after getting his butt beat by a black man?  I sure it was NOT a pleasant experience for him.  And I have first hand knowledge of what it was like to be a dancer in the Moscow Ballet back in the days of Leonid Brezhnev cuz I met a woman who used to be one and subsequently became the mistress of the said Leonid Breznev, a man who was about as attractive to her as a bullfrog, but who was able to give her a nicer apartnment, better clothes, jewelry, etc. until he tired of her and moved on to a younger woman.  She fell from grace almost as quickly and found herself in her middle aged years working in a factory that produced parts for tanks.  It was NOT a glorious existence.  Think it can't happen to you?  You're too young to remember the days of the studio bosses, but how about the child stars of Different Strokes?  Their fortunes were stolen out from under them and they turned to lives of prostitution, pornography and crime.  They all DIED well before their time, too.  Think it can't happen to you?  If we get a Totalitarian government that craves money, how long do you think it'll be fore it wans YOURS?  After all, when asked why he robbed banks, famed bank robber Willie Sutton replied, "cuz that's where the money is."


As a small business entrepreneur and free market capitalist, I don't begrudge you your success.  I understand that your pretty face, hot body, talent pool, ability to punt, hit, or catch a ball, are your stock in trade.  Unlike the President you so giddily supported in the last election, I don't think there ever comes a time that "You've made enough money." because I understand that as long as people are willing to buy what you sell, you're entitled to be paid.  If you likeness sells tickets, DVDs, sports drinks, cereal, sneakers, etc., you're entitled to a share in that revenue and it should only be the free market itself that places a cap upon your earnings, not a governmental entity.  I'm sure you see it the same way now that we're talking about YOUR money don't you?  But if that government you champion takes away OURS, then we won't be able to hire people so neither we nor they will be able to buy those things, or tickets to see your movies, concerts, or sporting events.  Should that happen, you won't have the millions to party with, either.  And if that government chooses to increase the taxes you pay, how many of you will keep company with Wesley Snipes in federal court trying to protect what is YOURS from a greedy, grapsing, intrusive federal government.  How long do you think it will be before that same government tells you what kind of content you can produce, or how much skin you can show, etc.  Where does it end?  The reality is, that it DOESN'T end.  Power and control only create a desire for MORE power and control.  If you think your parents and coaches are bad, try a nanny state GOVERNMENT on for size.  I've SEEN what kind of government can do, and it's not pretty.  I've walked in the ruins of the former Soviet Union and belive me, you don't want THAT here.


So, in conclusion, Dear Celebutard, SHUT UP and sing, act, dance, and hit, bounce, or kick that ball, or do whatever it is that you do to deserve your celebrity and notoriety (and believe me when I say for MANY of you, I have no CLUE what that is) secure in the knowledge that, unless we actually GET the government you champion, life will be wonderful for you.  But leave the politics to those of us who live the REAL world and do the things that make your fairytale existence possible.  If you continue to bite the hands that are feeding you, one day there might not be anyone left to do so.  Can you imagine Michael Moore on a DIET?  Unless you want to go back to waiting tables, digging ditches, or flipping burgers, be careful what you wish for because in the words of Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, "that government that is big enough to give you anything you want is also strong enough to take away EVERYTHING you have."



Sincerely,




Silence Dewgoode (GOOGLE HER)
Flyover Country,(what the glitteratti refer to as the land between Hollywood and New York or Washington, DC)  USA

The "Myth" and "Reality"of Health Care Reform

Yesterday I, like many of my fellow Americans, lost several hours of my life that I will NEVER get back watching the "Blair House Dog n' Pony" show that was the Health Care Summit. The purported idea behind the "summit" was for Republican and Democratic congressmen to engage in a free and open exchange of ideas for reforming our health care delivery system with the President and members of his administration. On the surface this is what appears to have occurred, but as we're all too well aware, appearances can be deceiving. Since this Administration and Congress took power, that seems to have become the RULE itself, not the exception it was once thought to be. What became readily apparent to me, however, was that what was happening had absolutely NOTHING to do with health care reform at all. What health care "reform" is, and has ALWAYS been, is a naked power grab by the federal government of the United States. It is the latest in a SERIES of grabs, by this government for federal control of private businesses and industries with the SOLE aim of increasing the POWER of the federal government. This is FASCISM by definition.

When the Democrats initiated healthcare "reform" their stated goal was to bring down the cost curve, to allow for portability of insurance, to eliminate the pre-existing condition exclusion, and to ensure that the however many millions of uninsured Americans there REALLY are (since the number varies in each politician's speech) could obtain affordable healthcare coverage. Then the Democratic controlled houses of Congress managed to put together and pass two bills that accomplish few if ANY of their stated goals (according to a panoply of non-political business, economic, and insurance experts), expand the size and authority of the federal government, and cost the taxpayers approximately a TRILLION dollars above and beyond the current budget.

While the public had voiced it's disapproval at the directions the Democrats were taking their legislation at Town Hall meetings and tea party rallies, the Democrats chose to ignore their constituents and press ahead. But when word of the veritable "bribery" of Senators Mary Landrieu and Ben Nelson became public knowledge, voter anger exploded and the Democrats lost their veto proof super majority in the senate as Massachusetts elected Scott Brown to the Senate head long held by the late democratic Senator, Edward M. Kennedy. This turnover of a once secure seat to a republican in the very democratic state of Massachusetts, together with rising public disapproval for their legislation, and the fact that all house democrats and several prominent senators have to face re-election in less than a year put the legislation on a very shaky footing. While the separate bills had passed in their respective houses, there were substantial differences between the two bills that would make reconciliation difficult if not impossible. To many, myself included, it appeared as though the push for health care reform was effectively stalled, if not dead.

Then, out of nowhere, it's back and now the Democrats realize they are going to need republican support to get health care legislation passed. Additionally, because of the upcoming election, they WANT the political cover of having republicans on board with this legislation. To this end, they have been courting the more progressive republicans in both the Senate and House and getting nowhere. For this reason, President Obama convened the Health Care Summit at Blair House so that prominent congressional democrats and republicans could get together with him and key members of his administration to try to arrive at a workable compromise legislation that could garner true bi-partisan support. To their credit, Republican legislators showed up and presented a variety of time tested and proven free market solutions which, if implemented, would likely produce the results the democrats claim to want, and without the trillion dollar price tag or need to expand federal bureaucracy. If the Democrats really wanted to fix the system, they would take the Republican's ideas, put them in the bill, and if they worked, take credit for fixing health care in the next election and, if they didn't, blame the Republicans in the next election. All this is merely academic at this point as health care reform is only the magician's assistant. The REAL "trick" in these pieces of legislation is the creation of an American replication of Great Britain's National Health Service.

The National Health Service of Great Britain is the largest single employer on that tiny island. One out of every three working adult Britains is employed by this agency. Of these only one out of three is a medical professional such as a doctor or a nurse. The rest are paper pushing bureaucrats. If you take into account all the workers of other British governmental agencies, nearly forty-five percent of all adult workers in England work for the government and one HUNDRED percent depend on that government for health care. This creates a large and LOYAL voting constituency for the Labor party resulting in that party's veritable stranglehold on political power for the majority of the past thirty years. A great French writer by the name of Alexis De Tocqueville once stated that "Democracy will endure until the day politicians discover that they can bribe the people with public funds." That is EXACTLY what has kept the Labor party in power, and this lesson has NOT gone unheeded by our own democratic politicians.

In addition to the INTENT of the health care "reform" legislation, there is a far more dire and (I HOPE) unintended consequence that can occur if this legislation is signed into law in it's present forms. The net effect of this budgetary nightmare might very well bring to fruition the Cloward-Piven Stragety, especially when combined with the unravelling of the Ponzii schemes that the Social Security and Medicare entitlement programs have become. Thanks in no small part to the Babt Boomer's free love and unfettered abortion policies there are not enough working adults in the private sector of the economy paying into the system to keep pace with the benefits that will have to paid out, esp if no new manufacturing or other capital producing jobs are created in the next ten years. To understand what the net effect of Cloward-Piven will be, you have only to look at what happened to the former Soviet Union, and what's happening in Greece today. Thst is Cloward-Piven in ACTION.

The total economic, political, and social upheaval in this country that would result is the revolution that many progressive Baby Boomers have been dreaming about and creaming their flower appliqued bell-bottomed jeans over since they were teenagers fornicating in the mud at Woodstock. The destruction of America as it has always been, and the remaking of it as a socialist UTOPIA is and has ALWAYS been the goal of the boomer progressives, and with this one piece of legislation, they may well be able to achieve that goal and put the final nail in the coffin that was once the United States of America.What Bill Ayers and the Weather Underground could not accomplish with their bombs, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid may be able to do with their two thousand page bills.

Woith the election of Republican Scott Brown and the loss of the democrats filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, we the PEOPLE thought we had ended this very existential threat. Sadly, healthcare reform seems to have had a "Lazarus" moment and is once again alive and well. Actually, the legislation is more like Michael Myers in the "Halloween" movies and we all know that you can't kill the boogeyman. But like the boogeyman, if you don't kill this legislation now and for all time, it will rise up again and kill you and yours, fiscally speaking.

If the Democrats are allowed to succeed in this, when we go on to our great reward, or punishment, as the case may be, we may very well have to face the Founding Fathers and account for the mess we made of their once noble experiment. Remember, these guys settled their differences with canes, swords, and pistols, and we may very well deserve the thrashing we will receive at their hands for what we have allowed to happen to what THEY bequeathed us. In less than fifty years time, these elitist idiotswill have rolled back every reform of humanism since the Renaissance, and the Enlightenment. We think it no good thing that Islamic terrorists want to take us back to the Dark Ages, but in reality it's our own progressive elites that want to return us to the Dark Ages and feudal serfdom. I truly hope there is a special corner in the hottest part of hell for progressive politicians in BOTH parties for the part they have played in systematically destroying the last, best, hope for mankind and freedom in this world.

You MIGHT be a PATRIOT If: . .

You MIGHT be a PATRIOT if:

1. You can say the Pledge of Allegiance with pride swelling your chest instead of a queasy feeling in the pit of your stomach and the inate desire to remove the words "under God" from the last part of the final statement.

2. You believe that the FAMILY is the best environment for raising children, not the collective public schools, and that it is the FAMILY that should provide children with a moral, spiritual, and political foundation, not the SCHOOL and certainly not any individual TEACHER.

3. You think the United States Constitution should be READ and not read INTO by those office holders who have sworn the oath to support, protect, and DEFEND that said Constitution, not obliterate it with a series of laws designed solely to achieve or maintain their own political power and prestige.

4. You believe that man's rights come from GOD and Natures and not from any elected legislature, and further that that rights of life, liberty and the PURSUIT of HAPPINESS do not include a guarantee that one will BE happy, nor can any GOVERNMENT guarantee one's happiness by the passing of any law.

5. You believe that ones elected legislators are elected to REPRESENT their constituents not to RULE over them, and that a formal education, while necessary in preparing one for certain career pursuits, in no way renders one more intelligent or more entitled to power than one not so formally educated.

6. You believe that the right to vote is sacrosanct and should only be exercised by LIVING, BREATHING American citizens, properly IDENITIFIED as such.

7. You believe that the words "career" and "politician" should never rest together in the same sentence and be used to describe any one man or woman in his or her lifetime. Politicians should be more in the vein of the ancient Roman Cincinnatus, not CAESAR or for a more contemporary example, George Washington who not ONCE, but TWICE voluntarily relinquished power when he could have had absolute power for LIFE, nor Franklin Roosevelt who thought he should be President for LIFE, prompting our elected officials to pass a constitutional amendment ensuring there would be no more such ambitions realized in this country.

8. You believe in American exceptionalism and the power of the individual, and believe that we are citizens of the United States of America, NOT citizens of the WORLD at large.

9. You believe that the individual citizen cannot be deprived of life, liberty, or property without DUE PROCESS OF LAW, which means following the LAW, not DOING whatever the heck the government wants under COLOR of law.

10. You believe that your freedoms are rights are worth fighting to preserve AT ALL COSTS because like Patrick Henry and our forefathers, we are resolved to live and DIE as free men rather than to submit to slavery and tyranny, even from our OWN GOVERNMENT!

Where Have All Our JOBS Gone?

In the days of the Hippies, and the Vietnam era protests there was a song frequently sung by the protesters called "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" It was a hit for the group "The Kingston Trio" and the trio, Peter, Paul, and Mary, and was based on a Russian poem called "And Quietly Flows the Don." The gist of both the song and the poem were that all things have both a cause and an effect and are cyclical in nature. 

In the song lyrics,the first question posed was "Where have all the flowers gone?" Answer:"Young girls picked them everyone." The next question was "where have all the young girls gone?" Answer" Gone to young men, everyone" followed by men to soldiers, soldiers to graveyards, and graveyards to flowers illustrating both the futility of war and the cyclical nature of all things using the flower as a metaphor for life. Makes sense, doesn't it? However, when the same question is posed about American jobs, too often the political ideology kicks in and the blame game begins. 

If you're a conservative, you blame the UNIONS. If you're a liberal or Marxist,you blame big business and Wall Street. In either case, you'd be both wrong and RIGHT. To blame either faction as the sole cause of the eradication of the manufacturing sector of our economy would be an oversimplification and misinterpretation of the events that transpired to bring it about. 

From the beginning of the period that followed the end of World War II to about the mid 1970's, roughly two thirds of the finished manufactured goods sold all over the world were made in the United States.During this boom period, we had relatively non-existent unemployment because anyone willing to WORK could find a job. Not only could one FIND a job with relatively little education or experience but onecould support himself and his family in a respectable manner on what he earned from working at such a job. It was also possible to work that same job for twenty years or so and retire from it with a gold watch and a pension that, together with accumulated social security benefits, would allow one to live a relatively secure and comfortable retirement. To understand how we went from being the world's largest producer of finished goods to one of the world's largest consumers, you have to look at organized labor, progressive politicians, the legal profession (creators of the litigation INDUSTRY), and the "wolves of Wall Street."

I'm not writing this solely for the purpose of bashing labor unions. Unions have done a lot of good things for the American worker. Without Unions, there would be no 40 hour work week, sick days, maternity leave,worker's compensation, child labor laws, and a variety of other laws we take for granted in the modern workplace. At their inception, Unions were comprised of men who WORKED in the industry whose workers they represented. They were true peers of their fellow union brethren, and as such, represented their interests with diligence and empathy against corporate executives and managers. By the late 1950s however, unions had been corrupted by both organized crime, and union management that had no relationship to or understanding of its' members as they had been hired directly out of colleges and LAW schools without having EVER done a hard day's work in their lives.

In the late 1930s, the unions were infiltrated by organized crime families following the loss of their Prohibition revenues, and who used the Union's dues pools and retirement pensions as slush funds to build casinos in Havana and Las Vegas. In the election of 1960, Kennedy family patriarch Joseph P. Kennedy used this relationship to help securetheelection of his son, John F. Kennedy, to the presidency, which resulted in the "quid pro quo" exdecutive order legalizing (for the FIRST time in U.S. History) collective bargaining rights for FEDERAL employees. This provided the model that ultimately institutionalized PUBLIC Sector Unions and gave them the stranglehold they now hold on our states and municipalities. Even the uber progressive Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt knew that doing THAT would lead to econonic DISASTER, but Kennedy paid his father's BILL with OUR money.

From that time on, Union leaders saw the power and profit potential inherent in political activism and became more concerned with their personal and political ambitions than the welfare of their members. It was ALSO around this time that labor unions become the targets of infiltration by the Communist Party of the USA, whose agenda had been set forth in its "45 Stated GOALS for the TAKEOVER of America." 

Unions used their new found legislative clout to get laws passed the strengthened their position in one sided collective bargaining (especially in the PUBLIC sector) and to extort higher wages and greater benefits including "cadillac" health care benefits, unrealistic pensions and stock options for their workers. This went on for a time until the cheaper imported manufactured goods began entering the country and finding their way ontostore shelves. Free market forces put the American manufacturers in an untenable position between a rock and a hard place and they realized they could not continue in business if they couldn't be competitive in pricing their products. However, due to their high labor costs and union contracts, they could do nothing to bring down their manufacturing costs so they were hemorrhaging market share to the cheaper imports. This resulted in deminishing sales, declining profits, and lower share values. More than one manufacturer was run out of business altogether, but some found a way to shake the union yoke once and for all and still remain profitable and this is when the "Wolves" of Wall Street started to howl.

In the Reagan era the 1980s, wall streeters coined a new term for America's financial lexicon. This term was "maximizing shareholder value." It was this concept that gave rise to the corporate raider portrayed to perfection by Michael Douglas in the character of Gordon Gekko from Oliver Stone's classic movie "Wall Street." What the corporate raider did was seek out companies that had been declining in profits and share prices, but still had sufficient cash and assets to make the acquisition worthwhile. These raiders however had no intention of running the business once they bought it. Their purpose was to dismantle these corporations and sell off their assets because the companies were more valuable for their parts than for the corporation as a whole and functioning business. They would "maximize the shareholder value by buying the shares at or above market price thereby removing the shareholders from the business model. They would then either work with the existing boardof directors or a new one they inserted to liquidate the assets of the corporation like its real property, inventory, fixtures and equipment or replace them with a slate of officers chosen by the liquidator specifically for this purpose. Employees would be immediately terminated because the board only has a fiduciary duty to shareholders not to employees, and the equipment would be sold off, normally to an overseas concern. 

The dirty little secret to this whole process is that before the takeover, the boards of directors would often organize another company or corporation overseas in a country that was more hospitable to business and when the equipment and fixtures was sold, it would be that company, secretly owned and operated by the same board of directors, that would purchase the equipment and fixtures at a bargain price. The company would then set up a new company to import and sell to retail the products now manufactured overseas, and it's profit would come from the wholesale to retail sales model now inplace. By this slight-of-hand, the corporations effectively reorganized, removed the union and the high labor and operating costs they would have paid in this country, and with a more streamlined business model in place, could realize greater profits than were realized prior to the "liquidation." New corporate name and no manufacturing facilities or employees meansno more UNION obligations. This process was repeated throughout the 1980s and 90s until the manufacturing sector of the American economy was all but EXTINCT, and it's not limited to manufacturing either. Try calling customer service for your credit card to airline today and you'll probably be talking to someone in New Dehli, India. Apparently it's cheaper to pay the long distance charges and the Indian wage than it is to pay Union scale wages and benefits in the customer service industry. 

The loss of these jobs was not the goal of either the unions or the progressives in government. The INTENT of the unions was to use government power that they bought and paid for to effectively wrest (aka STEAL) control of the corporations and their profits from their rightful owners, the shareholders, as we saw in the rape of GM and Chrysler shareholders (aka the rightful OWNERS) by both the UAW and the US Governmentacting in concert. 

The LOSS of the manufacturing jobs and resulting boom-bubble-BUST economic cycles was an "unintended consequence" of the progressive political and social agenda. Seems, however, that most, if not ALL of those progressive political and social agendas are fraught with the damages from the "unintended consequences" on progressives who don't think past the end of their upturned noses when implementing their ideologically driven, but poorly reasoned, agendas. Ironically, we're NOW supposed to believe that CHANGE will come from doing the EXACT same THING only with the GOVERNMENT doing the manipulating instead of the wolves of wall street. 

At the beginning of this piece I referenced the song "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" I chose that song not only to illustrate the cyclicalnature of events, but because it has a most appropriate tag line for our current economic and political situation. That line is "When will we EVER learn?" And the sad ANSWER to the question is, apparently, WE will NEVER learn.