Layin’ Back

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It’s so easy to do nothin ain’t it?

Yep, no actions and no repercussions.  No responsibilities and no worries.  No sweat and for sure no pain, right?

Wrong!

When you sit back and try to avoid detection that is when you are most easily detected.  When you try to avoid trouble you know that it sure finds a way to find you.  When you avoid responsibility you can blame others but, almost everyone knows that it is indeed your own fault.

You can try to run and you can try to hide but you know you really can’t don’t you?

You should.

You can be totally irresponsible and just sit back and take what others would give you for free.  More often than not it is the government who gives this all that you will take.  You take and give nothing.  That is except the vote that represents the very core of you.  You think that you freely give but you wind up having no choice because, my friend, when you take all that free stuff you really have no choices left to you.  Deep down you know it.  Not so deep down they know it and they always have.  They win.

You can sit back and say that you are waiting to see.  Waiting on a better choice, waiting on a better candidate, waiting on…waiting on what exactly?  Wait long enough and you’ll have nothing left to wait for and that is a firm and simple fact Jack.  You lose.

You can stay back and say to yourself that it doesn’t really matter what you do because, in the end, it won’t make any difference anyhow.  Really?  Isn’t that just being a defeatist and just being plain old lazy?  You know it is.  Quit making those lame excuses.  You neither win nor lose.  You just disappear.

You gotta do something bro.  You need to stand for something because when you just lay back you really don’t stand for nothing.

And it winds up in such a case as this, as in all cases like this throughout history, you’ll have no one to blame but yourself as you, your family, your children, and all that you hold dear are all held hostage to what the state wants.  No more choices and likely no more vote.

They win.  You lose.  You cannot win and they will not lose.

What Can I Say?

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I know no one is listening.  I know that no one can hear me here in the dark.  Still my voice continues in this silence.  Or at least in my own head it does.

I feel the walls as they seem to move closer all around each and every day.  I so very rarely see the sun and when I do it burns my eyes.  The darkness grows and I can no longer tell the difference between day and night.

My muscles used to ache but I really cannot feel them anymore.  They no longer work and they no longer ache.  I do not know how I am able to move from place to place within the smallness of this cell.

I do feel my bones.  I feel bones where I never knew any existed.  They do ache and they do make sounds that seem to me so loud to me trapped here as I seem to be in this too-small and too-dark and too-lonesome a space.

I know what they want.  They want me to simply give up, to finally give in.  They want me to stay quiet, to toe the line, to bring to silence any who would follow.

Why didn’t they just simply kill me and get it over with?  Well, I can only think that they wish me to suffer, that they desire me to serve as an example to others who would follow.

There is precious little time to pen this note before I am again confined to total silence and complete darkness.  I wish that a message from me might work to inspire those still awake who might be moved to action but I fear I have few words to so move those who remain.  I fear that nothing I might communicate would matter much anymore.  In the darkness my voice is silenced.

I feel the tear, the single tear, for that is all that I can produce in here, as it rolls so slowly down my face.  I might feel its sting if I could feel anything any longer.  I had such belief that I could make a difference, that there would be those who might be persuaded to rally to the cause but they never came.  They never came.  And now I am left alone here in this tomb, left to die and then rot away with everything I once believed in.

I wonder what happened to my children after they were taken from us.  I wonder what happened to my wife after our children were taken, after I was then later taken as well.  What happened to my wife and what happened to my life?

What happened to all that we were and all that we might become?

There was silence then and it merely grows stronger now as it surrounds and devours me.  Here alone.  Here in this tomb.  My tomb.

In my silence I know that they have won; I know that they have prevailed.  I know that I have failed and that all we stood for is now lost to time with so much else over the centuries.  Gone.

In my darkness I know that I have lost and that all that was attached to me is lost.  Gone.

Yet, somehow, somehow there remains a trace of what I once was.  Somewhere deep inside, in a place that is not yet still completely quieted or completely darkened, there still exists barely a spirit that will not die before me.  It awaits my imminent passing.

I suppose it is that small trace that they are still after..

I Ain’t No Racinist

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So they tell me that because I am white and a male that I am a racinist.  How come white women get a pass on that one?  Oh, wait.  Since the Dems already don’t have the white male vote but do have the white female vote that may be a possible reason.  Wise up people.

So they have no knowledge of me and my history (NSA aside for now) and they are allowed to call me names.  They are allowed to place a wrapper around me and then tell the world what it is that I am.  There I am, on display.  Grumpy old white man who hates everything and everyone that the Dems claim to love.  That’s some mighty fine convenience.  Nah, it ain’t despicable; it’s just normal.

If I do not agree or even do not particularly like a man, in this case the leader of this country, I am labeled as being a racinist.  Even if this man is half-white I am still accused of hating him because, why, because he is half-black.  How do they know which half I do not like or agree with or even if, just maybe if, I do not like and do not agree with the whole of him.  It couldn’t be the man but it sure as heck can be the man’s apparent color.  Its 50-50 so why does the coin flip always come up heads when I call tails?  Just ain’t right, I wish there was something that I could do to…

Hey wait, I have it!

If I toss Joe Biden into the mix and say that I don’t like and don’t agree with “them” does that now make it 75% anti-white and 25% anti-black?  No?  Still not enough?

How about throwing in Harry Reid for free?  Now it’s 83-1/3% anti-cracker and 16-2/3% anti-well, black.  Did I get the math right?

Let’s not stop.  Let’s add in Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer (did I spell that right Chuck?), Dick Durbin, Steny Hoyer, Debbie What’s-Her-Name Schultz (that was tougher), Waxman, Clinton (pick)…  That’s enough for now.  Let me tally it up.

That’s 10 Dems.  Nine are white (unless one of those honkeys is lying about something in their past and I’m assuming that they would have leveraged that by now) and one is half-white.  So that makes me what now: 95% anti-white and 5% anti-black correct?

So, see?  No racinism here.  I’ll let you figure out what these ten DEMOCRATS have in common but I won’t give you a clue or talk about their IDEOLOGY or their POLICIES or their PARTY PLATFORM or their PAST PERFORMANCE or their HATE-BAITING TACTICS or even their ANTI-WHITE RHETORIC (and I am white so that should offend me but, really, it doesn’t anymore).

Maybe you’ll conclude that it’s still racinism.  Sigh.

Oh yeah, you might notice that I did include two and possibly three women but if I need to add more to likewise prove there is no sexinism or anti-femalarity at work here either I will be glad to do so.

But you probably wouldn’t be swayed by that either.

May I Help You?

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Don’t Get Up Washington

 

I’m hoping that you read this.  Sometime.

I’m hoping that something I write inspires you to action.  Sometime.

I’m hoping that you learn something new about yourself.  Sometime.

I’m hoping that you come back to read more.  Sometime.

You see, to me sometime means  it could happen and it could happen at any time.  So I have made a commitment, this time, to be ready anytime for sometime to come.

What do you have, what do you know, what can you do?  Have you ever made a list, even a mental one, that inventories such things?  You might be surprised at what you learn about yourself.  It could be good or it could be bad and it is, it is.  It is all that.

What do you want, what do you wish to learn, what new skill would you like to possess?  Have you ever made such a list?  This list doesn’t have any limitations in terms of what you can put on it.  Dream big and write it down.  And when you’re reviewing it and think “this can’t happen, no way” that is the time to crank it up another notch and make the dream bigger still.  I mean, why not?  And you don’t have to be a kid to do this either.

Now, what are some realistic items on the list that you can go off and pursue and have hope to accomplish in a decently short time?  None?  That’s okay, just break a big dream down to a few parts and sooner or later one of those parts will be pursuable.  Then go pursue that piece.  You are then off and running after one of your big dreams.  Getting started is important, I would say the most important part, so that you can achieve some quick successes and prove to yourself that you can expand your horizons, you can achieve at least some of your dream, at least some of your dreams.  Once you get started it’s easier to keep going.  Momentum is a huge thing.  Prime the pump and drink the water.  It’s the best way to quench your thirst.

As you acquire new items to move from your to-do list to your its-done list you will be amazed at how much better you feel about yourself and, even more amazingly, about others and life in general.  Not only will you know more, not only will you be able to do more, but you will then realize that there are fewer limits to what you want to accomplish beyond those you place, willingly or otherwise, upon yourself.

“The chains we place upon ourselves are at once the easiest and most difficult ones from which to gain our freedom.  We may even have the key but all too often cannot recall where it was placed.”

But once you are freed you are free.  And you are free to go and help others.

What would this world be if all those who could help others did help others?  And then continued to improve and advance themselves and used that to again help others?  At the same time the others they helped first would then be helping their own others.  You would think the changes could be, should be, exponential.  There would be helpers and others everywhere and, before you knew it, it would be impossible to really tell the difference.

So why would this all not just naturally happen on its own or be openly pursued by, say, our political leaders?  Well, let me see; could a very self-motivated, well-educated, highly-accomplished populace that felt no limitations to what it might achieve be a threat to those in power?  Do you think it is to their benefit to keep you down, to place you in those chains that bind you and then hide or throw away the key?  And we only have ourselves to blame if we continue to let it happen.

It should be the clearest thing you could ever see but it gets blurred when they have you by the wallet; or by the family; or by the church, or by the healthcare; or by the “we know what’s best for you”; or by the “we’re from the government and we’re here to help you”.  And you let that happen too.  We all do to some extent.

If you are not yet fully in chains then good for you.  If you are and want to break free then stand up; rise up and do something about it.  If you are and do not wish to be freed then you have my deepest pity for you are a sad and kept creature.  Do you understand?  You are KEPT.  If you do not even notice the chains that have been (gently) placed upon you to bind you- and I sadly realize that this is too often the case- then I would ask all of my brothers and sisters who do know, who are wise, who have seen the light, to join together in helping you to realize and understand all that enslaves you and then helping you to gain your ultimate emancipation.

Some say it is never too late but I’m just not too sure about that…

Wise up and rise up America.  Vote.  Free yourself from the chains that bind.  Get knowledge and get the power it brings.  Break your own bindings because it’s never in the interest of the man to do it for you.   Wise up, rise up, and be free America.  It’s the calling of your founding and the true nature of your very being to do so.

And deep down, you know it don’t you?  I thought so.

The 100 Eclectics

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Now how many of you thought this would be about a religious topic?  True up now, true up.

No, this marks the 100th entry I would have served up on this blog.  And still no one reads and that’s okay.  My time may yet come.

So let’s go.

  1. All is not lost.  It’s just headed that way.
  2. Why is everyone so jealous and mean-spirited these days?
  3. Why are the rich demonized UNLESS they are also famous?
  4. The time will come when tomorrow does not follow today.
  5. Silence is golden unless it is merely silver.
  6. Kids are the last, best hope of this earth.
  7. Video games are paralyzing this generation.
  8. Why still believe?  Because the alternative is not an option.
  9. Where did simple manners go?
  10. When did white folk lose their own culture?
  11. Why is illegal immigration never discussed in terms of its illegality?
  12. When is enough really enough?
  13. I must have missed the announcement giving parents time off from doing real parenting.
  14. I think the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States are the best two documents ever created by man.  Ever.  Anyone who wants to change them: can you give me an example of what you want to change them to?
  15. When and where did socialism ever succeed without devouring itself in the end?
  16. What is it about capitalism that scares so many of you, the hard work involved?
  17. Owning an easy path to success simply means that you get the easy and you more than likely get owned.
  18. So I guess it’s true that bringing up a child with mom and dad at home isn’t really better than the other options.  Guess I missed the memo with the irrefutable data on that one as well.
  19. When did Islam become the untouchable national religion?
  20. Also, why do people hate Christians so much?  You would think the Jews would have sympathy given their history but I guess they are glad for the company and also hoping to move up from last place.
  21. Is all this social media a good thing?
  22. Just give in- it’s the democratic way.
  23. I am very interested in living long enough to see where all this goes- restriction on free speech; freedom from religion; the legalization of illegal immigration; the control of the states by the Feds; the right of the Feds to know everything about you and be able to acquire information and then ultimately prosecute you (think that won’t happen?) without due process; the acceleration of social justice and entitlements over national defense; the fear to call a man a criminal because of the color of the skin or the basis of the religion; widespread same-sex and other types of marriage (think that won’t happen?); growing control of our schools by the unions and corresponding control of our children by the schools; legalization of marijuana and other drugs (think that won’t happen?); easy and instant access to porn and worse; the rewriting of the Constitution to what the liberal progressives really want; the continuing and purposeful destruction of our economy and international standing.  Much more.  I hope to be dead before I see most of it but I fear I will not be and I no longer know exactly what to tell my kids to expect or to do.
  24. I am still looking for music with a good message.  Much rarer these days in case you plan to look for yourself.
  25. Wonder what the old school civil rights leaders, those who fought with their very lives for equal rights and the elimination of segregation, would say if they were alive today and saw all the self-imposed segregation that has been put in place so willingly and with such purpose.
  26. The best states are run by Republican governors.  I think there is a clue there somewhere.
  27. Who studies history anymore?
  28. The national media should be ashamed; very ashamed.  Not only are they complicit, in the end they are guilty as hell.
  29. I hear that the government thinks they can do something right.
  30. Can Michigan annex Chicago from Illinois so we can get our state back?
  31. When will Obama announce he is running in 2016?
  32. Happiness is indeed fleeting and I am losing a step every year.
  33. There are no more role models I guess.
  34. There is nothing that you do that the government cannot control if you just simply let it do so.
  35. That country founded by those stodgy old slave-owning (by the way, they all didn’t own slaves in case you care to check, and many were vehemently opposed to it in case you care to check)white guys is not nearly as good as the one founded by the _____________________(please fill in the  blank).
  36. Why do you think the government is making it so easy for you to do nothing except vote for them?
  37. What do you think will happen on the day that your vote is no longer needed?
  38. Slaves in the past were so much stronger and smarter- they knew they were owned and they most justifiably despised it.  They patiently and sometimes not so patiently tried to do something about it.  In the end they succeeded, all over the world.
  39. Spoon fed on MSNBC, CNN and the New York Times.  Perfect outlets to tell you what you already know and to make you sign up for what you already believe.
  40. So the U.S. sucks in terms of our international standing on education and we respond by setting national standards (lowest common denominator) and pressing for more power for the unions (which will of course help our kids).
  41. Smiles are infectious but growing more rare these days.
  42. Carly Simon lyric:  “I’ll never learn to be me first, by myself.”  If that was the goal then mission accomplished!
  43. Taxes solve everything but how do you tax a nation where no one works?
  44. We want to be like Europe.  Great goal.
  45. It’s below zero out there and the squirrels are still working the trees for berries and nuts.  Good to know there is still a solid and healthy work ethic afoot in the country.
  46. As everyone watches the national and federal issues the locals are getting a lot done whether you like it or agree with it or not.
  47. Beware the ides of March.
  48. Sometimes my retrievers seem smarter than some folks I know.  They sure are a damn sight more friendly.
  49. Why is it when the Republicans do not roll over they are accused of being obstructionists?  Isn’t one of the benefits of having two parties checks and balances?  Else it is an oligarchy.  Oh, maybe that’s what they want..
  50. I rest at 50 and will return.
  51. The early bird no longer gets the worm- they have been regulated.
  52. Read a good book that wasn’t written any time in the last 40 years.
  53. Write a book with Christian values, no violence, no sex, and good kids from a dual-gendered parentship and then try to get it published.
  54. Protest a movie or song whose content or creator you disagree with- rent an old DVD instead or just take a walk.
  55. Hug your kids and tell them you are trying your best and then go and do just that.
  56. Forgive someone for something that’s hard to forgive.
  57. Vote.  Prepare yourself with the necessary knowledge and then vote in every single election.
  58. Never fool yourself into believing that it cannot happen here.  It sure as hell can.  Again, I keep saying it- read your history.
  59. “Turn on, tune in, and drop out.”  Guess you win Mr. Leary.
  60. When did those who protested authority become the authority that no one is allowed to protest?
  61. Reefer don’t lead to other drugs.  Nope, can’t say I have ever seen that happen.
  62. Do I trust the far right pundits?  Not completely but it is a good bit easier to scoop a pile off the lawn then to strain it from a cesspool.
  63. I said that I did not like the offensive lyrics of a particular rap song and black man who was nearby said that I was a racist.  Before I could respond another black man said that he agreed with me and the first black man said that he was just being white.  I asked which was worse and he told me they were basically one and the same.
  64. It is always the darkest just before the dawn but I still don’t hear the sun waking up.
  65. If the reason for legalizing the many millions of people here in this country is to provide workers for jobs Americans will not do or to provide additional workers to fulfill a seasonal need or to provide another layer of diversity then, if these are key needs, why didn’t we pursue some sort of system a long time ago that would allow us to address these needs or fulfill these needs in a more organized and legal fashion?  Could it be that these are just convenient excuses to seek to help justify the violation of the law?
  66. Have we ever had a more despicable Senate majority leader or a more lawless Attorney General?
  67. Have we ever had a weaker Senate minority leader or House majority leader?
  68. You’ve just been voted head coach for the Dems in the upcoming debate on the “History of the United States with a special emphasis on the Constitution.”  You have one minute left to make your final draft selection and you have to pick one of the following:  Nancy Pelosi, Sheila Jackson Lee, Barbara Boxer, or Maxine Waters.  Quick, who do you pick?
  69. I like rock & roll, R & B, classical, jazz, blues and some country.  What does that make me?
  70. I want everyone who wants to be successful to have the opportunity to be successful but not be given too much of a free ride to get there.  What does that make me?
  71. Why is the U.S really lagging the world so much when it comes to the quality of our education?  It sure ain’t due to a lack of bread but they would have you think so.
  72. I will continue to teach my kids to respect all people and all creatures great and small but I will also teach them that they need not take crap from anyone and that includes being made to feel guilty for things they had no part in.  Got that?
  73. I was born and raised a Catholic but am one no more.  Given the platform for abortion, birth control, and gay marriage why do so many vote Democratic?  You are all just convenient Catholics and you are all hypocrites and you all know it.
  74. Why am I condemned for being somewhat successful (so far)?
  75. Hey Dems- is there a point when there is too much debt?
  76. Someone has to explain to me how the finances of a country, of a government, are so unlike those of an individual.  In the latter case when you owe you have to pay and when you cannot pay you are held to account.  Isn’t that the way countries are supposed to work as well?  Oh, yeah, just the ones that plan to live long and prosper.
  77. Will anyone live to see the Cubs win the World Series?
  78. Why is going to school and getting a good education that you can use to take you to places you never dreamed of such a terrible thing?  And I ain’t even talking about college here.
  79. Why is learning in school considered by some black people to be a white thing?
  80. Why is it that race now enters so much of our conversation?  I know that several of my points here touch on it but, hey, I didn’t start it and I’ll be damned if I’ll sit back and let someone control the conversation without the opportunity to respond.
  81. Are we all just Americans or just when it is convenient to be so?
  82. Is it sometimes convenient to not be so?
  83. Why does no one seem to be able to work together anymore?
  84. When did people in this country get so darn stupid?
  85. There doesn’t seem to be much to stop the Russian state from rising again.  Certainly not the power elite presently in Washington.
  86. I need to decide how and when to get out of the great state of Illinois.  Even Lincoln wouldn’t claim this as his land any longer- he’d prefer Indiana or Kentucky from whence he came.
  87. How many actual Tea Party members do you know and are any of them actually racist?  Can you provide any proof?
  88. When I hear “blah blah blah” I know someone is getting what little information they care to share from MSNBC, CNN, the NY Times, the Huffington Post or a similar outlet.
  89. Greatness is fast departing our once-great country.  We have been told by the man in Washington that we are not an exceptional people.  What are we then?
  90. Why is going to college considered to be a right?  It isn’t for everyone but everyone else seems to think it is.  What we wind up with is a tremendous amount of student loan debt coupled to either a bunch of dropouts or a bunch of non-working hangers-on without a valuable degree anywhere in sight.
  91. Kids cannot learn if parents will not teach.
  92. Parents cannot teach what they do not know.
  93. Teachers will only teach what is sanctioned or so it seems.
  94. What we call poverty today is nowhere near what we called it years ago.  Why did the criteria change?
  95. What happens when the money runs out kiddies?
  96. Global warming?  Please.  Just follow the money, as always.  You insult my minor scientific knowledge when you tell me the science is in and the debate is over.  What debate?  Please.
  97. Tomorrow can indeed be a brighter day.  Hopefully a warmer one as well.  We’re freezing here amidst all that warming.
  98. If the science fails you and your initiative then just change the name and blame absolutely everything on something other than what it likely is.  Einstein could not even figure out that science but he wasn’t as smart as someone like Al Gore I guess.
  99. Too much in life passes by too quickly.  Before we know it the moment and the day are   gone.  Slow it down as best you can and take time to see and smell those roses.
  100. (Darn Microsoft Word for this indent that I can’t figure out how to fix).  I have already wasted too many precious moments in my life and as my life grows shorter I am making a pledge to not waste much more.  Make every moment you can really count for something.  Stand and fight when you need to.  Get educated, wise up.  Wise up and then rise up if you care at all about our future.

That’s it.  I don’t plan to revise any of this, just publish it.  This marks my 100th entry on this blog.  Can you say you have produced 100 entries in just over 3 months and have you ever done a list with 100 things on it?  Until today I could not say that I had done either but now I can.  “Well that’s the way I always heard it should be…”

O happy day.

Life is Passing

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As we now approach the beginning of March we are all looking for an end to this endless winter.  That is the truth and cannot be denied.

As I pass further along in my life I am certainly not looking for an end to anything except maybe some of my many flaws but rather I am looking at a new beginning that I hope will last many, many years.  I’m not dead yet and I really hope that I will not be for some time.  And if I am not to die for some time then I want a new start on what I am doing with what remains of my life.

In case my family ever sees this I do not mean a new start without my family!  You are my life in almost every way as I hope that you realize.  Here I mean the work that I do and the things I may yet still be able to accomplish if I am not dead.   Too darn hard to get much done when you’re dead.

I believe in this country, I love this country as I hope it has become apparent.  I am critical, very critical of where we are today and I believe that I have very good reason to believe that.  I do not believe I am alone in that belief.

I believe in the youth of this country and it disgusts me when I see the bald attempts to program them coming from the liberal progressives and do-nothings: most of Hollywood; a too large part of the music industry; professional sports more and more each year as they are taken over; the video game industry; the mostly worthless politicians; the universities (started long ago) and now the high schools and even the grade schools themselves.  It is disgusting what is allowed to pass and unforgivable what is presented as unassailable fact to these poor kids before they even have a chance to grow up and stand and think for themselves.  It is a function of evil if you ask me.

So I am going to dedicate what does remain of my life toward what I feel needs to happen with our country, our kids, and our future.  Again, I know that I am not alone so I hope that at least some of you will join in and make an effort, make a stand, in a manner that you see fit.

Just some crackpot?  Maybe.  But do me a favor and look around.  Do you like where things are going?  If you are awake and if you are even partly aware of history then how can you possibly say yes?  How can you possibly sit back and do nothing?

Time to go.  Life is indeed passing and before I pass with it I will be heard.

Why Not Now?

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The Soul of General George

 

So I have said stand.  And I say that the same old stuff from the same old parties should be put to rest.  I sure don’t want what the Dems are dishing and the Repubs keep saying they need to get back in power to change things.  Really?  What exactly did they change last time around?

The experts keep saying that this is not the time to make a stand.  I even heard Thomas Sowell last night say that he believes that nothing gets accomplished by doing something like what Ted Cruz did.  He even compared it to Washington (that’s George in case you likely forgot) and the fact that GW did not stand and fight as he would lose to the far superior and much better trained British forces.  I understand and agree that is what GW had to do- he had no choice.  He wasn’t trying to save a country, he was trying to get one started and, oh by the way Mr. Sowell, he was trying to save his forces and also likely his own skin.  This is not a very valid comparison to my rudimentary way of thinking.

Okay though, I will give you the comparison and even agree that there is a time and place for a fight and I will even admit that the effort by Cruz did not yield any immediate or significant results.  I wonder how many times in history though that a protest, a pushback was allowed to get effectively started only when the time was right.  When was it right for the colonists that formed this country?  When was it right for Gandhi?  When was it right for MLK?  When was it too late for Russia, or China, or Japan, or Germany?  It’s fine to sit back in total comfort and simply keep saying the time is not right, that we need to have power before we have power and we cannot even think of acting before we have the power that we need to have.

No, I’m sorry but I don’t think that simply voting back in the same old Repubs is going to accomplish much more than it did last time.  Oh sure, it is a far better alternative in terms of providing the triage necessary to stem the bleeding and harm being done on a daily basis by the Dems and the Progressive Libs but simply causing pause does not in the end precipitate recovery.  Not even close.  How can anyone think that it does?  You’re then a fool and you certainly don’t know much history.

I will give you all points in the argument however.  I will then simply ask just when is it right to make a fight?  And how far are we prepared to go in that fight if it is fought by the same old sad excuses that we have in WDC as our legislators?  The uniforms may change but the team remains essentially the same.

Hell, even Reagan couldn’t yank us back and I think he really tried didn’t he?  I know that he didn’t have the House or Senate but still.  Nudges and tugs against shoves and yanks cannot  in the end bring victory.

And we have been losing for a long time my friends.  It’s time to change the approach.  General Washington would have seen that even if Thomas Sowell does not.

 

Party Time

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The Tea Party

 

In 1824 I believe there was a hotly contested presidential election in which no candidate held the necessary majority number of electoral votes.  The election was thrown to the state delegations in the House and JQ Adams came out the victor much to the extreme ire of one Andrew Jackson.  There is a lot more in regard to what happened and why but I will leave that to the reader to further pursue.  Suffice to say that there was a bit of bad blood and the contest for 1828 began immediately.

Do you remember what happened in the year 2000? 

1824 and 2000: one of these was known as the “corrupt bargain” and the other has indefensibly been characterized as a great theft.  The loser in one went off in a huff of steam and became even more so known for his hot and fiery temper; the loser in the other went off on a big jet plane that spewed all kinds of noxious carbon stuff and became known for causing global warming.  And by “causing” here I mean to say it became his cause.  Of course, what else could I possibly mean?  But I digress.

In 1824 there was essentially only one political party so there appears to have been a good bit of self-loathing afoot in those olden days of Old Hickory.  (Who else could you hate?  Bush wasn’t born yet.)  And, by the way, Old Hick came back to win in 1828 and to his extreme glee and with eternal edification he beat JQ in the process.  Retribution.  Didn’t happen in 2004 though.  To be true to history I guess that Gore should have run again in 2004.  Maybe he was off in one of his mansions or in one of his many transport vehicles and counting all that hot cash.  Dunno, but Kerry lost.

After Jackson was elected the first time, as I understand things there was a split in the party that led to Jacksonian Dems (forerunners of today’s top jockeys) and the Whigs (can you name three Whigs?). 

Perhaps delayed by one term due to a) public trust in Bush as a strong leader in times of grave international concern or b) lack of a good enough set of Dem candidates or a good enough campaign to win, the Dems did come back to win in 2008.  I’ll leave aside any House and Senate parallels for now.

If you could read an honest 2-3 paragraphs description of the characteristics of the men and their administrations you might be struck by the similarities between Jackson and Obama.  Just sayin…research a bit for yourself ok?

So the modern day Dems and the Whigs were formed during the reign of AJ- got it so far?  The Whigs went on to later win two elections I believe but then splintered, foundered and died as slavery returned as a justifiably critical and top issue (indeed in the history of the country) in the 1950s.  The Repubs were formed primarily as an anti-slavery party. 

The Repubs lost in 1856 but gained the White House in 1860 when a man from the great state of Illinois (great no more- I can say that because I have to live here for the time being) though not the front runner in the early days wound up as the Repub candidate.  Since the Dems had split once or even twice, depending on how you prefer to account for things, it seems that good old Abe managed to back in to the presidency.  Lucky for him.  Lucky for us though as he is nowadays considered by those in the know as one of the best prez’s ever, mentioned even in the same convenient breath as JFK, FDR, WJC and even BO himself.  Not bad for a poor white boy from the sticks.

But I digress.  Let’s review.

Fed & Anti-Fed…Antis disappear and Dem-Reps arise.  Feds then disappear and there is true love across the aisle- heck, there is no aisle for a while and everyone is happy expect for JQA, AJ, and the Clay man.  But I digress.  Then the Dem-Reps split into the pure Dems and the Whigs.  Whigs later fold and morph into the Repubs.  Dems splinter enough over slavery to lose in 1860 and are so mad about it they grab their balls and run on back home to fight a war on the inside.  They later lose that war and go on to segregate, demonize, belittle, demean, ostracize, and hang the blacks that were supposedly freed under that lucky boy from Illinois.  But I digress. Dems get real progressive later on and then strike up a new deal and work to establish a great society.  Turns out that the deal didn’t leave everyone with a good hand and the society is only great if you like to take money from the man.  But I digress.  Third parties (I used to be up for three or even four parties on some nights when I was much younger) formed, reformed, sputtered and died over the years to no great avail from what I can see.  Parties like the Constitution Party and the Libertarians gain press but not much prestige these days- still they have very valid points to make in my humbled opinion.

So in 2008 and again in 2012 the Dems won and the Repubs lost.  The Libs were considered merely in passing as I can see.  Constitution Party- uh, who knows.  But rearing up in response to the 2008 election came a new set of folks who did not at first want to classify themselves necessarily as a party but became one nonetheless.  They seemed to know what they wanted but not what to call themselves.  D & R were taken as were L & C so they ran through the alphabet.  They were biased against vowels and first voted for S but someone said they might become known as Sparty which did not sound too official or dignified so on a second vote they settled on T.  Later on a reporter (from MSNBC I believe) recast them as the T(ea) Party and the rest is history.

They exist and it is strange what reactions there have been to them.  The R Party, which should in principle agree with most of what T espouses and therefore welcome them, actually seems to despise them and just want them to go away so they can get back to the good old days.  The D party, which should despise them, seems to love them as an object of their vilification- I don’t think the Dees would ever want the Teas to go away else who would they paint as the nasty old racist white folk out to return the country to Jim Crow and worse?  It’s truly amazing to my simple mind.  But not really surprising.

It ain’t what’s behind the title and it ain’t what’s behind the R or D.  It ain’t what’s behind the door or even what gets discussed in closed quarters.  It ain’t what you tell me and it ain’t what I hear you say on the evening news.  It ain’t none of that.  It’s what you is that is all of that.  And I for one am bone tired of what you ain’t and what you pretend to be.

Many say you need to win elections to change things.  What gets changed? please tell me.  I hear ya but no longer think that’s enough to save this place.  The Whigs certainly didn’t think so and that journey, coupled with such a significant and long-standing issue as slavery gave us a war yes but it also gave official freedom for a whole lot of people and it gave us AL.  That’s meant as Lincoln and not Gore- please!  Granted that real freedom was still a long way off (thanks to the love-everyone Dems) but it arrived nonetheless and although there are those who still conveniently use race for an advantage they do so disingenuously.  If you truly think I hate you because you are black then I am figuring that you hate me because I am not.  Fair enough?  But I do indeed digress.

Final stretch.  I think if the D’s are to be defeated it will have to be due to a real significant reason; an issue as large as that in the 1850’s.  What could it be?  Ok, here is an idea.

Let’s get the R’s & L’s & C’s and then also as many I’s and old school or disenfranchised D’s as we can to come together and build a platform based solely and firmly on the Constitution of these United States as originally intended by the men who made it happen and not intended by those who would later attempt to make it as they so happened to think it should be.  That should be simple enough.

The slogan:  “I am a supporter of the Constitution of the United States and if you would like to know what that means I would be happy to read it for you.”

Nuff said.

Stand. Stand. Stand.

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It’s cold and bleak out there this morning.  Seems like every morning…and afternoon…and evening…and especially nighttime.  Always seems so close to nighttime.

When will it end?  When will it ever end?

The winds blow cold and hard, pushing all that happens to be in the way; relentless, howling, unnerving.

The sun has forgotten how to shine and cast its warmth.  It will not emerge to offer hope for a new and warming day ahead for us.

Precipitation falls as snow, then rain, and then returns to snow again.  Covering the ground and covering the tracks of all of the creatures who dare roam the killing frost of day and night.

The moon, full and eerie, casts a reflected light down and then again off of the frozen surface of the too many snowfalls, cold and hard but illuminating enough for those creatures who roam the night in search of sustenance and furthering life.

The sounds and the sound.  The echo is a dead echo and the sound the sound of the tomb.  Feet break through the frozen surface of some newly fallen crust of snow that has frozen over just enough to offer resistance to those who would tread there, lightly or otherwise.  Try to run but you won’t get far- it is too slick and far too deep and is nothing else but dangerous.

Temperatures that will kill.  Heat can do the same over time but this cold, this bitter, lifeless, brutal cold will kill, can kill, in a very short amount of time.  All that was life before may be no more after such a spell as we have had.  We will, still, have to wait and see what survives it.

Warmer days have always come to chase away the bonechill and make us well again.  But must that always be so?  Could it come to pass that one time, perhaps even this time, the cold will stay to keep us in or kill us if we wander out?  Must we stay locked in our quarters not only for this season but for all of the rest as well?

It could happen.  No one knows when the sun may blink away or the earth repeal its spin.  And then we would be forced finally to stay inside and shiver until even that was not enough to save our very bones.

Keep those in power long enough and we will all feel it soon enough.

When Will it End?

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It’s cold and bleak out there this morning.  Seems like every morning…and afternoon…and evening…and especially nighttime.  Always seems so close to nighttime.

When will it end?  When will it ever end?

The winds blow cold and hard, pushing all that happens to be in the way; relentless, howling, unnerving.

The sun has forgotten how to shine and cast its warmth.  It will not emerge to offer hope for a new and warming day ahead for us.

Precipitation falls as snow, then rain, and then returns to snow again.  Covering the ground and covering the tracks of all of the creatures who dare roam the killing frost of day and night.

The moon, full and eerie, casts a reflected light down and then again off of the frozen surface of the too many snowfalls, cold and hard but illuminating enough for those creatures who roam the night in search of sustenance and furthering life.

The sounds and the sound.  The echo is a dead echo and the sound the sound of the tomb.  Feet break through the frozen surface of some newly fallen crust of snow that has frozen over just enough to offer resistance to those who would tread there, lightly or otherwise.  Try to run but you won’t get far- it is too slick and far too deep and is nothing else but dangerous.

Temperatures that will kill.  Heat can do the same over time but this cold, this bitter, lifeless, brutal cold will kill, can kill, in a very short amount of time.  All that was life before may be no more after such a spell as we have had.  We will, still, have to wait and see what survives it.

Warmer days have always come to chase away the bonechill and make us well again.  But must that always be so?  Could it come to pass that one time, perhaps even this time, the cold will stay to keep us in or kill us if we wander out?  Must we stay locked in our quarters not only for this season but for all of the rest as well?

It could happen.  No one knows when the sun may blink away or the earth repeal its spin.  And then we would be forced finally to stay inside and shiver until even that was not enough to save our very bones.

Keep those in power long enough and we will all feel it soon enough.