Abortiion: Where have we Gotten to?

Abortion: Somebody needs to say this:

Since 1973 I have sat and listened to the lies coming from the secular, pro choice, anti life, progressive, anti human being lobby, regarding social, emotional, economic, medical and political realities about abortion. This group has lied, misled, spun, and just made facts up as it suited them. Today I see the lies continued on social media, taught in schools, churches, and the public square as if they are in fact, facts.

Q-What is an abortion? Lie-The safe simple medical procedure to remove the products of conception.

Truth: The killing of a human being

Q-Does life exist? Lie-No, life exist at birth and not before.

Truth: Life exists at conception and continues with food water and protection for about 75 years.

Q-Is this a baby? Lie-No this is a mass of cells not life. The fetus feels no pain.

Truth: This is a human being by all biological, ethical and religious standards.

Abortion is the intentional killing of a human being and is morally wrong. No women should have that moral or legal right. No doctor should have that moral or legal right and no other human being should have that moral or legal right to kill another. Oh, we do not, except in the case of abortion.

I am truly ashamed of the latest idiotic decision by our government to allow the unrestricted purchase of the the Morning After Pill by 15 year old children, over the counter, with out parental permission, guidance or advise. Oh I forgot “it takes a village.” How is that working. More sex ed more pregnancies 1.3 million abortions last year. About 1.5 million abortions per year and therefore 60 million since 1973 that should blow you mind. No wonder our culture has lost its way and may never get back to ground zero. We are civilized, you have got to be kidding me. We are the most dangerous people on earth. We kill our own at a rate not know to man or any other animal in history.

Our President said in 2009 regarding what he would do if one of his girls “Made a mistake”. He said he would “not punish them with a baby.” There it is. He should be ashamed of himself instead of wearing that statement as a badge of courage that will get him votes. He is black, abortion has killed close to 20 million black babies since 1973 and if one of his daughters made a mistake he would have them kill one more black baby. How does he reconcile this with his position on slavery. Got me.

Our country, as a society, has allowed a few selfish immoral persons, to replace immoral and unacceptable behavior with legal and therefore, acceptable behavior. As President Clinton said. “It all depends on what is is.” The law allows for the killing of the most innocent. The unborn. Christian Morality says abortion is wrong and is shameful. We are now a country of laws not morality.

Our society has lost sight of our moral absolutes. (for example freedom is not given by the law, it is an inalienable right given by our creator) We have attempted to replace societal shame with a institutional law, or a regulation that should act as a deterrent to immoral behavior. We have then given government exclusive power to enforce legal infringements. We all know how that is going. Boston bombing, make a new law. Newtown shooting, make a new law, and on and on as if a new law does anything. The net effect is to disenfranchise societal power at large and to give a monopoly of what is legal/moral to the government. How is that working for us. ?? There is a law against darn near everything and we have millions in jail, 12 million illegal immigrants who are just playing the game and a political class who have been treasonous in their stewardship of the government.

The major differences between the law and morality are where they come to play. The law only comes to play if you get caught. And then it may only partially play because there may have been mitigating circumstances. Meaning that you only have partial responsibility for your misdeed. That is the devil made me do it defense. I was radicalized and Americans are hateful people defense. Morality on the other hand lets you know you are acting immoral before, during and after. . Simply, because your moral sense comes from with in you. The law on the other hand comes from outside you.

I think the well intentioned have been used by the truly evil doers. For example, the sell for legalized abortion was that it was not fair that the poor had to go to the “back allies” and the rich could by from a local Dr. On its surface this argument seems to hold some water. Nobody wants to be unfair. So 1973 all the poor went to the abortion Dr. in New York. About 350000 the first year abortion was legal. Today about 41% of all pregnancies in NY city are terminated. However the facts do not mean anything because people are getting what they want from the law that morality will not give them. Morality will hold the individual responsible for the killing of their unborn child the rest of their life but the law will completely absolves them or any guilt. At least that is their hope. The true evil doers know that you will not escape the personal moral crises of abortion unless you just displace the law for personal morality. That is the true progressive end game. They want to set what is right and wrong based on what they want today. No absolutes just utility in morality.

I here from the politicians all the time about the our counties most beloved treasure. Our Children: Liars. They have legalized the killing of 60 million of our unborn children and because of this I believe our country is truly lost. We have replaced societal ideals of family, children, church, neighborhood, hard work, individual responsibility, self fulfillment, moderation, and a hole lot of outdated ideals for a society that as we watch now reveres such things as a President advocating his child kill another child based on the utility of the killing. Where in Gods name have we gotten to?

Keep it Simple Stupid (KISS)

Keep it Simple Stupid (KISS)

There is a 24 hr 7 day a week news cycle on more stations than I can count. 1 billion hours of Net flix viewed last month, billions of tweets, 1 billion users of facebook. Billions of smart phones, more communication in one day than all of humanity had had in its life time. We are now at a point where we have so much information at our finger tips that it is not just difficult but actually impossible to now know what is a lie and not a lie. We have gotten distracted with looking at bits of information and reacting to the bit instead of seeing where the bit plays on the whole. For example: Bit “I want my welfare”, Whold “we are broke and have to borrow the money from China”. Bit “I want my military hardware”, Whole “we are broke and have to borrow the money from China”. We now have 10's of thousands of hours of discussion, argument, and fair and balanced reporting on the Money issues. What has the government done. Nothing but borrowed more money.

There are simple solutions to all the major issues in front of this country but we continue to get lost in the minutia. The strategy of minutia arguing is simple. Keep everybody confused and watching.

Simple ideas and solutions that lead to resolutions:

Money issues:

KISS: No borrowing money. Cut the size of Governments Spending. Cut the jobs, the hardware, the waste, the very size by what ever it takes to get back to a balanced and smaller government. Cut it by 10%, 20% what ever it takes. No more bailouts for anybody. No more cutting the rate of the size of growth. No more not deciding. No more needing a certain party to do the right thing. The fact that you are an American is all you need to be, to do the right thing.

We the Peoples Solution: Stop paying taxes till this gets fixed.

Social Problems:

We now have a culture that thinks that welfare, government support and tax support programs are an inalienable right. The are not.

KISS: Gut all the welfare programs. We should only have safety nets. The government has taken the motivation to participate in society away by government supported food /clothing/ shelter. Food, 50 million citizens on food stamps. Clothing, 100 million not including Social Security and Medicare receive some form of welfare from the federal government. We now have a class of citizens who provide nothing to our society. 18 million Cell phones bought by our government for the poor. 1 trillion in student debt that will never be paid back. They take, not give to society but live off it. The social experiment of the 60's (President Johnson's Great Society) has failed and socialism is a fail idea and a failed political and economic system world wide. Shelter, subsidized housing is another word for ghetto and everybody knows it. The ghetto provides for crime, drugs, violence and a life style that leaves us with a Detroit, Chicago, Washington DC and others. The housing crises was a direct result of home purchases and subsidized lending to those who could not afford it.

If I have food, (food stamps), shelter (HUD housing), monthly cash and a cell phone, a government subsidized education, pay no tax, why would I want to stop this. I am not motivated.

We the peoples solution: Stop paying taxes till they stop welfare

Jobs:

KISS: There are 18 million jobs currently taken by illegal immigrants. I am tired of hearing that Americans will not take these jobs. Why would they when they have enough food, clothing and shelter and cash income to get by. Stay poor and you also get free medical contrary to all the Obama care statistics. What a lie. So free medical, enough food, fee housing. Work for cash, no tax. There is no motivation to take a job that pays a small wage. The job would have to pay at least $20 per hour to even come close to welfare, unemployment and other subsidizes. Add the medical in and we are closer to $30 per hour. No wonder we have unemployed and no jobs. No motivation to work. Just survive on government subsidizes.

We the Peoples Solution: Stop Paying taxes till they go to work.

The size of Government:

KISS; Chop the size of government by what ever it takes. If the chop is big enough taxes would be cut, spending would be cut, the the economy would grow, motivation to work and become productive would return, values and morality would guide us in decision making not a set of ever-changing laws and the current utilitarian ethic (ME).

We the Peoples Solution: See the big cultural picture. History proves this assessment.

Schooling and Gun Control

Individual Behavior (Self Defense) or Schooling Behavior Regarding Gun Control

Here I set again having a thought that causes me to write another blog. The thought goes like this.

There is nobody who would tell you, you can not have a gun to kill an animal that is about to kill you or is threatening to kill you (self defense). We have a natural right to survive period. There maybe some far left wacko's, PETA types, who would gladly lay down their lives and become a meal for an animal but most would not think that was a good idea. The whole history of man has us killing animals and eating them, not just for sport but for our Self Defense and therefore survival of the species. So the history of killing animals and exercising our natural right to survive (self defense) has enjoyed broad support through out history. If it had not we would not be here now. This activity (self defense) has roots in the beginning of our species and our DNA.

Since the days of Rome there has been a tenuous relationship between our natural right to self defense and the governments monopoly on rule-making forcible compliance. They, the government, want to have the exclusive power to set and enforce rules and law. Since the earliest of times Government has always wanted to take as much of the self defense natural right away and replace it with their exclusive right to use force. The fact that there is a natural right to self defense is a fact of history and is embodied in our very existence. We do not survive without the natural right of self defense.

Now the next thought has to do with the current push for gun control and the governments push for limiting the exercise of the individuals natural right to self defense.

The same basic reasoning that supports the self defense argument (an individual act by an individual at a time when the collective, government can not or will not protect him from the threat) also supports gun ownership. So, why then do the anti gun lobbies, the pro government control lobbies, want us to loose the individual right and replace it with an exclusive regulation by government ? It is simple. All governments are threatened by an armed civilian population. The only real threat to any government , as many have noted in history (Jefferson, Hamilton, Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin) is the populists ability to take away the governments power by force. Therefore, we the people have a truly important place in our form of democracy. They, the government rule only with our support. They do not govern by the exercise of unlimited power or by devine right. It is this relationship of government of the people that is at the heart of our freedoms. It is also embodied in the individuals right to act in a persons own best interest (self defense).

It is obvious that gun control is an attempt to lessen the individuals right of self defense with a promise that the government, with its exclusive right to force, will be able to protect you in all situations. But why would anybody in their right mind support what is factually antithetical to our own natural right to self defense which is based on our natural right of survival. It is not factual that a government can protect in all situations. Governments are much better at legislating after the fact, and investigating after the fact. A government can not stand between you and a rapist, you and a murder, you and a thief, you and a pedophile, you and a suicide bomber, you and anybody who is determined to harm you. The fact is the government can not legislate away any given human behavior. The fact is the only person who can act, in real time, in your self defense, is you.

So how is it that, with all the facts, historical as well as well as natural, do we find our selves in this argument. This is a question that has escaped my understanding since I became aware that their was a serious attempt at reducing the right of the individual to self defense. So recently, it has occurred to me that the process in the current political discussion is to co-opt the individuals right to self defense based on fear not on fact.

Now the action of self defense is at its heart an action based on fear. The fear of loss, harm death, survival. The fear of guns by those who would take them from you is based on fear as well. Fear for their own survival, and based on a promise by the government that can not possibly be true. The governments promise, that the government will protect you is false on its face. So the government must scare you into believing that the gun world needs to be controlled by them.

Schooling Theory

The fear of guns is central emotion that motivates gun controllers.

Try to follow this thinking. If I am a minnow in a school of minnows what is it that I fear most?. One would think that one would fear the enemy, the shark that would feed on me. However, that is not true because that fear would be an individual fear motivating subsequent self defensive behavior which would then be an individual behavior. The school does not tolerate individual behaviors. In fact the very thing the school says it will protect, is the collective mechanism the school uses to control the school. For example: The school requires you to turn left when the school turns left. If you do not turn left (a collective behavior) and turn right, you then get ate. So if I am a fish in a school my whole focus is on making the next move just as everybody else, because, I have bought into the collective thought that the school can protect me if I do exactly as it says, when it says. The obvious loss of self , in the school, is the loss of the choice to act in self defense (a natural right). Now lets consider what the school ultimately does to protect itself. The fact is the more members of the school the less likely you get ate. So the school is constantly recruiting new members. It is this recruitment that is at the heart of today's political and media hype.

The recruiting lie is that the school (government) “can do for you what you can not do for yourself. Is all you have to do is to join the school (vote for us) and we will reduce your risk of being eaten by” ___%. It seems reasonable on its face. Replace your fear and individual natural reaction to the fear, with the fear of not doing what the school does when the school does it. The school recruiting lie is supported by arguments that are emotionally compelling, with the aid of in your home based images (TV) of dead and dying children, sick and dying elder, homelessness, disease and filth. Projecting a macro view of a hostile environment and a local view that the next gunshot maybe in your home. This of course is the product of the wedding of media, money and progressive thinking.

The 24/7 constant news cycle playing the (join the school lie) has led to a wide acceptance of these lies as fact, and has put at risk our natural right of self defense and is at the same time placing an imbalance on the possibility that the government could govern by the exclusive use of force. One of the most telling of the collective lies about violence is the behavior from the early 70's on Airplanes during a hostage take over. The lie was the passengers were to do nothing in a hostage situation because it would in danger the rest of the passengers. So hostage passengers sat by while they waited for the government to save them. We had as a society given away our freedom to act independent from the government . We had given away our freedom to act in our own self defense. On 9/11 this notion took a big hit with the passengers taking back the United Flight the crashed. Subsequently passengers have acted, since 9/11 in their own best interest on many occasions on airplanes have been able to stop terrorist in their tracks. The entire history of human society supports this conclusion. Of course, once the government obtains the exclusive use of violence, there is only one ending and that is after great suffering by the people. The people will rise to take back by force what is theirs in the first place. Just check out recent history. Of course the greatest lie of all is that this could not happen in America. The fact is it is already happening.

This is the question that brings to mind a school of fish. Now schooling theory as a defensive means to staying alive has its place. It is even effective for the mass majority of the schools members. However, for a percent of the school it is devastating as in death. Now the schooling theory is based on a couple of notions. The contract with you has some of the following elements: The school will provide for basics. Food, Clothing, Shelter, and Safety. For the provision of the following you only have to follow a few simple rules. The closer we stay together and do not break ranks the better our chances are at not being selected by the hunter for dinner. Of course, a corollary to this notion is the greater the number in the school the less the chances are of being selected. Further it is important to the school that behavior be consistant. Group movement is required. So, Closeness together, number of members in the school, group behavior, and chance seem to be some of this theories basic elements.

Not only does the school theory of survival have direct requirements for membership it also has some unintended requirements. For example, you not only join the school but you also have to give up an number of personal liberties prerequisite to belonging. These are never stated..You also have to change your view of the world and have major changes in how you will conduct yourself in this world as a member of the school. At each stage of belonging you give up major individual natural rights (freedoms) that will not be returned to you. The freedom of individual action. The freedom of self defense. The freedom of individual thought. The freedom of association with who you like. The freedom to confront the powers to be. The freedom to move freely in your society and many more.

No matter what your actions were before joining the school your actions will now be governed by the actions of the school. Even if you want to turn left you will not be allowed to unless the school turns left. You give up, in order to join the school, all your instincts, wants, desires, wishes, hopes, dreams, and every part of being and individual. You become only a small insignificant part of the whole collection of members. Remember the promise is to provide Food, Clothing, Shelter, and Safety. And, why in the fish world would you do this. Simple, your belief system is completely based on the fear that the school knows best on how to keep me alive and will provide for all my needs. Therefore, I become willing to give up all my individuality just for the promise that my chance of dying (survival ) is less if I belong to the school. Of course if my chance of dying is 1 out of 100 then 1 out of 200 is even less. So the bigger the collective the better my shot at survival. 

 

Conclusion; Today I believe that there are more in the fish ball (school) than ever before in American History. The countries founding philosophy based on individual freedom and freedom from governments interference in our daily lives, has been given over to participation in the School (collective) for the free Food (food stamps), Clothing (welfare) , Shelter (subsidized housing) and Saftey (take the remaining natural rights away), subsidized everything. Pull down the top and pull up the bottom (redistribution) and end with one class. The School.

Quotes of the Year

‎"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work instead of living on public assistance."
Cicero, 55 BC

Fact or Fiction

FACT OR FICTION:

As I sit at home and contemplate the state of the US people and the US government, I continue to come to the same conclusion. That is FACTS MEAN NOTHING. That the psychology of elections is now more directed at creating a perception that can sell to the masses. If that is the case the looser in that process is REALITY. I now believe that reality has lost and that he who can create a sell-able spin whether based in reality or not, wins. I do not believe the Dems have the corner on this market they just found an alternate reality that sold to the mass. They created and sold a perception that worked. What would happened if we dealt with fact instead of manufactured realities??

FACT: 11 trillion( current obligation), or 16 trillion (including Social Security Promises) or 30 trillion (including all promises and monies owed by the government now or in the future.) as confirmed by Bernanke today in Senate Hearings, is an unsustainable amount of money that will bring this country down if something is not done. $1.5 trillion borrowed this year alone. That means we were unable to pay our obligations to everybody with out borrowing money.

POLITICAL SOLUTIONS and PUBLIC BELIEFS; The rich did this to us and the rich should pay more to get us out of this problem. Apparently, there are now more than 50% of the voting public that actually think this is the how it happened (the rich) and the what needs to be done to fix it (Tax the Rich). Some how by taking money from the rich we will be able to pay down the debt.

FACT: Government spending continues to increase every year including this year even with the sequestration. The sequestration is only .05% of GDP. It is a grain of sand on the beach. We now borrow about $.45 cents of every dollar we spend. We borrow because we do not have the $ money and can not afford everything that has been promised. If we took all the wealth of all the rich in the US it still would not pay down the debt to $0. Then what?

POLITICAL SOLUTIONS and PUBLIC BELIEFS; We must tax the rich and raise taxes on everybody above a certain level. If we do not and allow the sequestration to happen, houses will burn, because of laid off fire fighters, crime will go way up because of police laid off., planes will crash and old people will be cut off medicare. So we need to tax more so government will have the money to continue all programs or face devastating problems especially with the elderly and children. The social net will collapse, the poor will starve, minorities will become second class citizens again and the RICH will get RICHER and the poor with GET POORER. We want ours and we want it now.

FACT: If I do not have enough money to pay my bills I have to suffer the consequences at some point. Smaller home, smaller car, less cars, no nights out. And so on. I can not continue to borrow to live my life. If I can not pay off my debt I am in effect broke. I am unable to continue in the same life style I had become accustomed. My life style changes even if I do not want it to.

POLITICAL SOLUTIONS and PUBLIC BELIEFS: the government can continue to borrow as long as somebody will loan us the money. All governments do this to some degree. There is Greese and others that have borrowed 2.5 to 3 times their GDP and the interest alone is the single most expensive item in their budget. So we have a long way to go and of course we need to tax the rich to get more of their money. We will be able to borrow our way out of this mess. This is only a short term borrowing and as the economy grows we will then be able to pay off the debt. We should not cut any expenses because to do so would cost us an increase in unemployment and then there would be less money in the economy to spend. The government says if we tax and cut spending then we will be ok. Just do not cut any essential programs.

FACT: we are a country founded on individual rights and individual responsibilities. Private property and free enterprise.

POLITICAL SOLUTIONS and PUBLIC BELIEFS; we need to redistribute the wealth. The rich are to rich and the poor our to poor. There is a widening wealth gap and this is not fair. It takes a village to do anything. There are certain rights that citizens have. Universal health care provided by the government. Universal fairness in all activities. I should be paid based on my intrinsic human value not on my production in the workplace. I should be allowed to take under taxation, wealth that he made and redistribute that to me.

It seems to me that the question that was asked in the last election was simple. What type of culture do we want. A culture that will take care of my basic needs (food, clothing, shelter, education, health care, protection), cradle to grave or a culture that allows for us to make our own way with out others or governments undue interference.

It seems to me the answer was not a vote for FACTS or for individual rights but a vote for building a massive government run collective. Anybody who has not read Ayn Rands books should take a look at what one philosopher saw in the early 1950's and what she warned against.

We Lost the Culture War:

Since the election I have been trying to make sense out of my not getting one of my candidates elected to anything. Not even school board. I lost every election that I voted in. Not a single win.

As I have looked at what this means I have come to the following conclusions ;

1. Simply; We lost because we (what has been called conservatives) are no longer the majority. We are now the minority.
2. The loss of the majority view has been happening over a long time but is slowly but surely been happening.
   As I think about how the progressive movement has become the majority we only have to look at how we became the welfare state. How our thinking about government has gone from “I am an individual with with responsibilities and obligations and a social contract with my government. That government can not nor should not intervene in my daily living. That I have inalienable rights to include all the the rights guaranteed us in the constitution and the individual pursuit of happiness, and individual freedoms which used to be at the heart of our society have been replaced.
   3. What has replaced the notion of freedom is a societal norm that first asks what can the government do for me. It is not my fault it is somebody else. It is the governments problem to make laws and enforce them. Call a cope, call welfare, call the school, call the city, call the county, call the state, call the States Attorney, call the federal government, call a lawyer. We now look to government to mediate, solve, enforce, make and change our moral, inter and intra relationships by making and enforcing rules and regulations. We now have rules and regulations that say who I can associate with, how I have to speak in the public square. I can not even advocate competition and winning as a good thing to have as a goal. We now have a culture that has no losers and no winners.
   4. The major problem is in how we discuss the problems with our society and government in particular. For example: all you need to know about government at this point is that we barrow $.46 of every dollar the government spends and we can not seem to stop doing this. The problem comes when government uses our own personal special interests, what I call “good ideas” against us to get us to vote for them. We take sides and have been told that the Reps/Dems can fix the problem and then the problem never gets fixed. Since those in power only give us the two choices then we only have the other side to blame. It can not be my side that is wrong. How has this been working for them?.

There is nobody that thinks we can spend borrowed money day in and day out to the tune of Trillions of dollars with out destroying our selves. Yet that is what we are doing. Why: because my side has a “good idea”. Every idea that our government pays for was somebodies “good idea” That is why we continue to argue about a particular idea when in fact the problem is not the good idea the problem is we borrow $.46 of every dollar spent on all the good ideas.

With 4 million Federal, 3 million state and 11 million local public employees all with lifetime benefits at some level, do we think there can ever be a change by voting in a one man one vote system. Every person votes their own special interest. The problem is not the 18 million public employees, or the 47% who only take but do not pay or the 4 million on welfare or the 47 million on food stamps. The problem is we have given up our way of life to a government that can not get out of its own way and to a majority of well meaning people with “good ideas” that are borrowing $.46 of every dollar we spend to support all the “good ideas”. Gov. Huckabee said yesterday about the shooting in Ct. “the shooting happened because we have systematically removed God from the classroom”. He will be publicly attacked for such a politically incorrect statement. Why??

If he is saying that Government can not and will not be able to pass on a moral code to this countries children. I agree. Government can only pass laws. Just wait for the gun control fascist to come out from under a rock. The moral code is not the responsibility of Government and you can not replace a moral code with laws and continue to have a society that functions. If a person is a student or has just a casual acceptance of Christian Philosophy you will notice that we are once again living in old testament times. How did that work out for our ancestors. The Early Peoples, Greece, Rome, Chinese, Germans, English, Africa etc. and any other peoples that used man made laws, that, by the way, laws are always changed to support the latest “good idea” by the latest dictator. All previous societies have failed because the people rose up at a point because they saw the corruptness of the government that governed them. Every ancient civilization had “good ideas”. Some modern societies have had good ideas, they all failed because they all used man made laws that government misused for their own interest, instead of a society wide morality brought on by and enforced by social forces . Now in the beginning of the rise of man He/She only had their own wits and beliefs. It worked for them for a bunch of years. Modern civilizations have only been around for about 7000 years. We have had a lot of “good ideas” and not one has worked, over the long haul, to date. As in the old testament man is permanently flawed.

America started with” good ideas” by men and women who had seen what corrupt people and government could do to the majority of people if those given the power miss used that which was in trusted to them. They started with an attitude of suffering for the greater good and a vision of liberty not seen in the world at anytime before. We even put in place some very different “good ideas”. Balance of power, bill of rights, guaranteed protection from an overreaching government, strong state rights, freedom of speech, voting rights, limited government rights, civilian power over the military etc. It has only taken 200+years to overcome most of the limits of government envisioned by the “good ideas” of our founders.

I am now in the minority. I truly believe that the government has over-reached its legitimate authority as envisioned by the our founding fathers. I also now believe that the progressive thinking “good ideas” is in the majority. We lost. Therefore everybody lost. The only hopeful notion I can come up with is that this can not last. This form of government only leads to a consolidation of power by a few and eventually a revolution against that power.  So be it. 

I’m Back 

You will not believe this video:   
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwlW4lx6TTo

I am back from the cabin.  4 months of no TV, no radio, no paper, no political lies and re-visionary history.  Refreshed and ready to blog again.  Even though not much has changed in the political realm I have changed in spite of the election.  I lost 60 lbs and swim ½ to 1 mile 3 time per week.  This kept me from throwing things at the TV.  I will now hold my nose and vote for Romney simply because he is the lesser of 2 looser candidates.  I guess we shall see. 

Some disturbing thoughts since returning to the disinformation age of the cable channel  24/7 lies and misinformation. . 

1.      If Romney is elected Israel has an incentive to bomb Iran before he is sworn in as president. Conversely if O is elected Israel can wait to bomb Iran at their leisure. 

2.      The rise of Radical Islam will continue until the Muslim community at large puts a stop to it.  They have to police their own.  A Christian nation can not possibly produce long term continued peace and acceptance in a muslim dominated country.  Witness the past 1000 years.   This is nothing new just the latest version.  We can only act defensively and then get out of the way.  Not all Muslims are nuts, lunatics or radicals.  But they have not stepped up as a people.  Individuals and small groups have, but not the over whelming majority.  They remain virtually silent.  I guess radical Islamic terrorism works on mainstream Muslims as well as with non Muslims.  I know, not politically correct but true none the less.  

3.       Romney will raise user fee’s, which are a form of tax even though he will not raise income taxes.  Revenue has to increase and expensed have to be slashed.  I think he will do both.

4.      If something does not happen in the next few months, years; it will not be the anarchists in the streets but the middle class.  They have been hit the worst, during this massive transfer of wealth to the so-called 3^rd generation of the poor.  (multiple generational poor is to say lifestyle).  Most of the world would be happy to change places with our so-called poor.  Also the 47 percent who do not pay income taxes will start to pay something and not just be takers in the economy. I no longer care who started this.  Johnson, the 16^th Amendment, Lincoln or what or who ever; the notion that the government should be the ultimate decider of who has what, has to come to and end or we shall loose what liberties we have left. 

5.      All experiments in Socialism have failed.  All. 

6.      Big Media is at the heart of our political problems.  They are at the heart of our loss of liberties; they have commercial incentives to have continued crises and disasters.  Simply it sells.  The rise of the Media/Political/Election cabal is more dangerous than the Military/Industrial complex.  Palin has been the most obviously effected political figure in recent times.  However this past spring it was the entire conservative movement and all its favorite sons (Gingrich etc.) that were disenfranchised by major media, all in the name of add revenue.  Keep the lie going.  There are but a handful of individuals who control the major lamestream media (Murdock etc.) outlets along with a handful of major money PAC’s (GOPAC, Rove) who control spending in the political system.  This only guarantees that you and I have very little to say about national politics.  I am not sure which is worse.  15 pieces of snail mail, or 400 Spam emails, each saying the same thing.  SEND MONEY.   

Reality is being sold out for dollars in the major media outlets. Major media editors say: 

1.      lets not vet major office candidates we would lose add revenue.

2.      lets not take on the hard stories unless we can sell on them wwlar

3.      lets avoid doing our story due diligence.  Just find the emotional triggers and use them to sell with. This adds to add revenue.

4.      lets bury reality in the “more press” (200 cable channels 24/7) is better than quality press.  More press more Money.  The press is not journalism any longer.  It is commercialized “$”, rumor mongering at its worst.  It is not about finding the truth or even the varieties of truth.  It is as Clinton said  “"It depends on the meaning of what "is  is”.  Utilitarian Ethics not absolute truths.  This new and damaging philosophy simply means you can now say and justify anything you want anytime you want and it will be reported as fact at the time of the report.  I know nobody who today thinks that the press reports fact.  Congress and the Major Media have the same illness.  They lie all the time to everybody.  They both have lost credibility with the public.  Less than 50% approval rating.  However, if we are to vote only with emotion then the monitization  of elections, (selling scandal, salaciousness, sex, vulgarity etc) is winning.  As in winning add revenue and elections.  If the only activity that is to be measured in an election is winning, then we the people have lost.  We have watched TV, football, the world series, advertisements, popular shows, movies and the like and have given the election the same status as a football game which has relegated the voter to cheerleader only.  Of course the outcome of a football game has no impact on our culture, society, life, liberties, and the pursuit of happiness.  Who we elect should not be the same as picking a favorite player or a favorite team.  The press coverage should not be the same as announcing, calling or reporting on the various colleges, shows etc.  In the grand scheme of things all the media hyped anything’s is only designed to make money not pick a good person to make decision that effect our very well being.  Maybe we should use the same model to pick our wives, husband as we do to pick our elected officials.  How do you think that would work out.  With a 50% divorce rate maybe that is what we are doing.

After my rant on the media read the following and see if you have any rational answers for this:  By the way this is not an endorsement for voting for O.

1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealth out of prosperity.

2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

3. The government cannot give to anybody, anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!

5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation. 

6.  The average cost of the welfare programs in the US in 2011 was $60,000 per household.  Why not just give them the money and get rid of the bureaucracy. 

Go and Vote

Canada and the Cabin:

I have been very quiet in the past few months.  I watched what the major media did and how the mainstream media and the mainstream Reps decided who would be the Rep nominee.  I was hopeful that the conservatives would actually have a reasonable shot at a true conservative representing the Reps party in November.  It does not look as if the Carl Roves of the party will allow this to happen anytime soon.  When Fox News went in the tank I knew it was all over.  Since I cannot stand Romney and I cannot stand Obama I am moving to the Cabin in Ontario until late Sept.  Therefore, since the cabin is water access only and you get up with the sun and go to bed with the moon I will not have to endure the battle between a Moderate liberal and a Liberals Liberal.  I will not have to hear it (the lies, attacks, and more lies) that we call a campaign, until sometime this fall.  Then I will come home and vote for Romney.  Not with out  trepidation, angst and disappointment with America’s choice to continue to move toward bigger government, less individual liberty, higher taxes, congressman that do nothing, senators who can not even put up a budget, an activist supreme court, class warfare, a full out war on Capitalism, the American dream, and a full out attempt to redistribute the wealth of the country by the government not by individuals.  Lobbying, no term limits, and political power will remain in the hands of a few and the mainstream media, who have there own agendas and a continued erosion of the power of We The People as envisioned by Jefferson and others. 

Palin, Gingrich, Perry, and others should be proud to call themselves conservatives and to take credit for pushing the conservative ideas as far as they could.  I still wish Palin would have given it a shot but she knows what is best for her and her family.  Maybe later.  In my dreams and only in my dreams I see the Rep convention coming apart at the seems and drafting Palin.  As I said, in my dreams.  

At least I know in Canada what is available for healthcare, (not much if you are sick), taxes, 7% Federal tax on all purchases and an 8% provincial tax on all purchases total 15% tax on all good and services,  yes services.  Property taxes that are as high in the wilderness as in most US towns.  No services for taxes (fire, police etc) just taxes.  Super high food costs, Cigarettes at $12 per pack, beer at $65 per case, fishing license at $80 and on and on.  The nearest Dr. to me is 100 miles.  I am only 80 miles north of the US border.  However I do know what to expect.  Socialized Medicine, Socialized Trains, Socialized Banking (there are only 5 banks in Canada), Native policies that are 50 to 100 years behind ours and that is not saying anything.  A rule and a law for everything.  There is a saying in Canada, “everything is illegal in Canada;  the point is to know which law they are currently enforcing”  Gun control, no army or navy to  speak of, and no constitution at this time.  Two provinces are seriously interested in leaving Canada to the point of actually voting and coming close to getting out.  The one thing they have is good fishing and beautiful views and the people are “Canada nice”.

Company at the cabin this summer will consist off family and friends and some Canadians that can tolerate my conservative notions about government.  I even have a number of very liberal people that take the risk of a vacation with us at the cabin.     This year we will have people from Texas, the east coast, Arizona, The upper Midwest, the near south and the west.  From liberal to right wing fanatic.  Having all these people around will ease the pain of this election year.  I look forward to getting to the cabin and getting this election over so we can start the presidential cycle early in 2013.  At least Obama is done.  Maybe Hilary this time around.