Firstly, I am urinated off at the Federal Guvmint due to their raid on the Gibson Guitar company and subsequent shake down for the better part of a million dollars. Not one of those SOB's can produce ANYTHING. Not one of them is a luthier (guitar maker) or an artisan or even a tradesman of any worth. I would be willing to bet that less than one percent of congress would be worth a pile of hyena nuggets when holding a hammer, shovel, wrench, chef's knife or mortar trowel let alone a framing square. In short they have no skills. Never but never trust a man who can't use a shovel. It's like these bastards from Nashville who have never stepped in a pile of manure or shoveled out a stall or been stepped on or been bitten or been chased by a cow protecting her calf wearing a cowboy hat and singing rock. Country music my ass!
All of this is to say that it was nonsense. Also IT SURE GOT THE GUITAR PLAYERS VOTE SEWED UP DIDN'T IT? Well, maybe not so much. I am irritated because this company has had a hard time surviving. Maybe it would be better if they went under, I am not certain about that. Or if they left and moved to Indonesia. Maybe that's the plan.
Next thing. Accusing Mitt of not paying taxes is the same thing as “swift boating” was with John Kerry. It is nonsense. UNLESS IT HELPS BALANCE THE BUDGET, IT DOES NOT MATTER! All of this is nonsense. Not one of them can do math. Not one of them is willing to discuss the government as a percentage of GDP. (Gross Domestic Product if that is too much for anybody.)
I do not care if Mitt paid taxes, I don't care if Obama was born on the damn Moon! If you cannot tell me how that is going to solve the fiscal crisis I am not interested and you are a child or a fan of Hulk Hogan. If anyone thinks this slop is in any way related to solving the country's problems they need a course in logic.
Lyndon Johnson once accused an opponent of having sex with farm animals. One of his aids said, “You know that's not true.” To which Lyndon replied, “I know that. But I want to hear him deny it.” This is funny but it came back to haunt Lyndon when he was hated and reviled. He left office a broken man.
Gay Marriage is between two people not the state. I will say that again. Gay Marriage is between two people and not the state. If we let the federal government decide ANYTHING about marriage they will find a way to set up guide lines for it and eventually decide who does dishes and who takes out the garbage. Jocelyn Elders (former Surgeon General) wanted to teach teen age boys to masturbate. I was against this because sooner or later it would require a license and there would be regulations. I don't care who marries who.
The idea of a bunch of old farts pontificating on birth control for women is INSANE. One look at them an you could see they all needed some action to restore their humanity. None of them would know what to do with a naked woman without consulting an OSHA handbook.
How do you force business men to run successful businesses? How do you force lenders to be responsible in their lending? How do you force them to lend?
The government knows how to pass laws but it cannot sell. It cannot convince. It has no access to the human heart.
The political action committees should have to put the pictures, names and addresses of the board on television. Along with cell numbers. Then they could experience the terror of a possible lynching like the peasants storming the castle of Dr. Frankenstein. It would be fun to see mobs on their front lawn with pitchforks and torches, a hangman's noose in the back ground. It could go on pay per view. They are gutless sunsabitches like cyber bullies.
About the nonsense in Iraq and Afghanistan: nobody sacrificed with the exception of the military. Let me say that again. NOBODY SACRIFICED ANYTHING EXCEPT THE MILITARY. It is a fraud. We should ALL have been taxed to pay for the entire action. Every Dime. Pay as we go. Cash. Today. Also rationing where we had to limit our use of meat, tires, gasoline, and the like.
Instead it is part of the national debt. It contributes to the problem. Too late now, my friend, too late now. We cannot go back and change it.
A big piece of the problem is that the media wants to talk about the past. If anyone reading this thinks he can have a better past, he is a child, not a grown up. This is Big Boy time. Time to put on your Adult Pants and face up to the fact that it is impossible to change the past. We have to fix it. That means we have to make the folks who want to appeal to our emotions aware that it won't work. They do not care what they do to the country. They want power.
I want to see a list of spending cuts from the Democratic National Committee. I also want to see a list of tax increases from the Republican National Committee. I also want to see an Orca tap dancing. Not likely. None of them will even attempt to give real answers because it could result in the end of the world as they know it: not getting reelected. If there is no principle worth getting voted out of office for, why be there?
It is an Oligarchy, friends, and we are not part of it. We are just the great unwashed masses who believe the gruel we are fed. Barack and Mitt are the same guy. Neither one of them has a degree in physics, chemistry, math, language, engineering or any of the hard sciences. I don't think either one has taken a course in rhetoric which is the basis of logic and argument. Yes, I am being a snob here. The truth is neither one of them is fit to carry the book bag of a real scholar. Neither of them could Identify Epictetus, Menelaus or Aeschylus .
This is the best we have to offer? Which one will tell us the real truth? Neither will. Because to do so is to risk certain defeat. Neither will tell us that it is not possible for the president to fix what is wrong. It is congress that bears most of the responsibility for what has gone wrong: they have the power to declare war and they have the power to tax. They have run and hid like frightened children. I sometimes think they want the president to save them too. Congress reflects the electorate. Rep. Steve Latourette said it well when he announced he will not run for office. The parties want your wallet and your conscience.
Harry Truman would not be welcome in today's Democratic Party. Dwight Eisenhower would not be considered by the Republican Party. It is insane.
The time is coming when the markets will say “Enough. The United States of America is a bad bet.” When the Chinese domestic market gets as big as ours they will no longer need us. Then our debt will be less attractive. It cannot continue. We currently have monopoly money. Read Boomerang by Michael Smith. It is about Ireland and empty housing developments. They will never be used. We have become materialists of the first order. We think money is wealth. We think it solves everything. We have “role models”. We refuse to believe the facts that our senses bring us. It is not about congress or the president or the supreme court. It is about what I do. It is about what you do. We elected these folks. No bitching, no complaining. We are responsible for what we leave behind and right now it looks pathetic. Don't blame liberals and conservatives. We are only responsible for what we do. If I listen to sound bites on tv and refuse to read trenchant analysis, whose fault is it if I am taken in? Mine. Not yours, mine.
I am glad I live three hours from the nearest Interstate. I am kind of isolated here in the Four Corners. The folks are nice and the sun shines. The winters are cold and the summer is hot. I know cowboys, truck drivers, college professors, PhD candidates and painters, sculptors, Spanish folks whose families were here in the 1500's Mormons, a Navajo hair dresser, roughnecks homeless guys and millionaires. I really love New Mexico with all its problems and extreme weather, corrupt politicians, good guys and wackos. I seem to fit right in.
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