How to destroy a nation - Part One

Greetings boys and girls! In the next few posts I'm going to take a look a the late great United States of America. The purpose is to illustrate how liberalism and it's partners Socialism and Communism have gradually pushed the nation to the brink of destruction.

The evidence of this destruction are everywhere. Look at how people behave in stores and restaurants. Look at how the nation is covered in litter. Look at what passes for entertainment on the television these days. Look at the books that get rave reviews versus those the "mainstream" media won't even make an effort to review. Look at the condition of our schools and the competency level of those who "graduate" at both the secondary and college level. Look at the business environment and the massive unemployment level. Look at the housing market.

The only two ways you cannot see the damage being done by liberalism is to either be completely deaf and blind...... or to be a liberal.

The thing that gives liberalism it's massive power to change things is time and patience. With the exception of Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt no other Presidents in the history of the nation have moved us so far left so fast.

Obama has the singular distinction of driving the nation further into debt than all the other Presidents combined. Yet, even with the trillions he's already spent, he is now threatening seniors and the military with no pay if he is not permitted to push the nation even further into debt!

Liberalism is like any addictive drug. Once under its spell a person undergoes a transformation that is mainly mental. In fact liberalism has been called a mental disorder by more than one member of the psychological field.

Liberalism seems to always be associated with a heightened sense of self worth and a desire to control people who do things which they don't like or approve of. There is a superiority complex. Liberals always consider themselves above the "common" man and thus always think that they know what is best for everyone.

Liberals are also always telling us about "fairness" and "tolerance" too. For them it's all about equality of outcome. Never mind that two different people have two different work ethics and two different sets of leadership skills. No... those things don't matter. Everyone should achieve the same outcome if they are doing the same thing.

Where has this ignorant idea taken us? How about the kids sports teams and the "adults" saying that it's not "fair" to keep score because then some kids have their feelings hurt? How about the quota system for college placement and even placement in medical schools? Some kids are better at sports then others.... it's a FACT! Some kids understand the team player concept better than others. Thus some teams are better than others.

For a liberal that's just plain unfair. So what if some kids can't play well. So what if some grandstanding kid hogs the ball and causes his team to loose. Loosing is a negative emotion and, since liberals are highly emotional creatures, negative things must be avoided at all costs.

To that end the "adults" decided that keeping score was bad so the kids play and everyone wins! Isn't that just wonderful? That's not how the REAL world works is it? What then are we teaching the kids by not keeping score? Do you honestly believe the kids are NOT keeping score in their heads? If you do then you're probably in need of some therapy.

This brings me to another consistent thing about liberals. They all seem to be delusional to one degree or another. Since reality seldom comports to their odd way of seeing the world they tend to ignore reality and replace it with a mental construct of the perfect world and live there instead.

It's like that guy on Myth Busters said during the introduction to the show.... "I reject your reality and substitute my own!" Of course he was joking. For liberals, however, that is a way of life.

Take the current debt ceiling battle. The adults in the game want to put a cap on the debt ceiling and leave it right where it is. They want to cut spending and they want a balanced budget amendment passed. The left screams "FOUL" and rejects the plan. Harry Reid, Senate Majority leader called the bill "The most irresponsible piece of legislation he had ever seen." and had the bill tabled rather than leave it open for debate. (This from a man who approved of Obama Care without even reading that bill)

SO! What are we to make of this? Well.... it seem that in Mr. Reid's household..... if you are maxed out on all your credit cards simply tell the bank to increase your credit limit so you can go out and buy more stuff! If they ask him how he is going to pay the bill his response would be something along the lines of "I plan to buy one less double mocha latte at Starbucks this year." I know MY bank would be fine with that plan..... just like yours.... right? The bad news? We're the bank, boys and girls. Remember... they are spending OUR money.

As far as tolerance goes it is like so many other things Liberal. That means it's a case of do as I say and not as I do. For example..... to disagree with President Obama in any way and on anything is to be a racist. If, however, you're a member of the media and you referred to the previous President as "Hitler" or described him as "stupid" or "un-curious" then you were simply being an "enlightened" member of the press whose thinking was far above that of the common man.

To those on the left being "tolerant" means that you always agree with them. Their ideas and plans are superior and you should be intelligent enough to see that and accept it. If you point out the errors of their ideas and plans then you are NOT being tolerant! In fact some would say that you are practicing "Hate speech!" (Hate Speech is anything that the left doesn't approve of)

The odd thing is that there is no reverse side of that coin. Only the "right" or "Conservatives" can be guilty of "Hate Speech." Anything said by the left is okay and we are chided to be "tolerant" and understanding..... to open our minds to their brilliance. (Remember... no one can be smarter than a liberal)

The war on America that is being waged here is mostly an information war. The left controls more than 90% of the news that reaches the average citizen. We are constantly bombarded with leftist thoughts and ideas in the news. Stories are cherry picked to show liberalism as this super noble ideal that we should all aspire to and conservatism as an evil that will destroy everything it touches.

Television programming is constantly dumbed down so as to reach the uneducated or under-educated. (ie graduated of liberal colleges) Sit-coms depict conservatives as bumbling fools who constantly do stupid things which liberals, in their infinite wisdom, have to fix.

Even the cartoon shows our children watch have a left wing slant built it so as to begin the indoctrination as early as possible. "Captain Planet" and his rangers battling evil "big business" who wants nothing more than to pollute the planet for their own greed and profit. The brainwashing is subtle and it starts very early.

The objective is clear. Get the liberal message out early and often. Convert entire generations of citizens to the liberal way of "thinking" and, sooner or later, all those who remember conservatism and liberty and freedom will die off leaving the nation in their control.

Fortunately for our side once the light of truth shines on liberalism it crumbles under the weight of the lies it is built upon. The truth of the Founding Fathers vision for America is still like a beacon in the darkness the liberals try to cover the world with. As the old saying goes though... there is not enough darkness to extinguish the light of a single candle. Your job from this moment forward is simple. Be a candle.

More to come.......

It's either a C.F. or a C.J.

Hey gang! Been busy trying to keep Honey patched together long enough to beat this second round of cancer. Since Honey comes first..... this and everything else goes on hold. The good news is that we beat the breast cancer in her breast. The bad news is that while we were doing that some of it managed to spread to three bones in her spine and the ball of her left hip and the socket of her right hip. She had her first radiation therapy today and we're hoping that it will help mitigate the non-stop pain she has been suffering for some time now.

So many things going south that it's hell just figuring out where to start today. The one thing I have come to realize, however, is that if we want lower unemployment, an end to the deficit problem, better standing in the world community and a return to the stature America has had for over a century then we simply need to listen carefully to Obama and his administration and execute a strategy which is exactly 180 degrees from that. *Everything* this imposter has done since taking office has failed to do a damn thing to result in a nation better than the one he inherited.

Bin Laden has reached room temperature and it couldn't have happened to a more deserving individual! Many congratulations and much gratitude to the members of ST6 for another mission accomplished with the impressive precision only a well trained and dedicated force can achieve.

By their very nature SEAL teams live a rather secretive existence. Each member is a world class athlete who works on maintaining the highest level of fitness 6 to 8 hours each day. Teams 1,3,5 & 7 are based on the West coast while 2, 4, 6 & 8 operate from the East coast. There is a 9th team which is the SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team and operates world wide to support both covert operations and intelligence gathering.

Team 6 specializes in anti-terrorist operations in conjunction with other equally elite operators from other branches and nations. While there were a lot of folks questioning the killing of Bin Laden..... this was never planned or conceived as a snatch and grab mission. From day one it was a kill mission and was successfully executed as such.

Moving on..... the debt ceiling. I'd say put a concrete cap on that sucker so it can't be raised to permit so much as one penny of spending which is not fully funded beforehand. Those on the left have taken to labeling and name calling again. I mean.... if it's all they've got then let them rant as it serves only to point out the vapid nature of their argument. Anyway..... those of us with common sense are now called "Default Deniers" by the left.

News flash, lefties. We take in enough revenue to pay all of our debt obligations without a problem in the world. There is NO, ZERO, NADA possibility of defaulting! NONE!! Of course once that bill has been paid there is damn little for all the other things the big government type want to piss away. THAT is the real problem.... no matter what the left says or how much misdirection they attempt to inject. They want their PLAY MONEY so the population of America is simply supposed to bend over, grab the ankles.... and turn over more of our income. Hopefully the TEA party candidates will all toe the line and refuse to agree to an increase in the debt limit. I mean how much debt is enough? 14 TRILLION dollars is MORE than enough! No one in the history of the world has spent as much money as fast as Obama and the democrats since his election.

Unions. Point blank unions are as practical today as a three masted wooden sailing ship 87 feet long is to one of our modern cruise ship lines. (The wooden ship above is the size of the Santa Marie Columbus sailed upon..... just for the record) Many many years ago when there were far fewer regulations unions did serve an important function. Without them it would have taken far longer to improve working conditions in mines and factories and textile plants closer to the turn of the century. Government regulations has rendered them to the land of Dinosaurs..... but they still keep hanging around.

In 2011 unions exist for two main reasons. #1 is power and #2 is democrat power. #1 is power for the union bosses. These people are leaches with a good platform from which to deliver a well crafted line of lies. Thus they remain dues collecting wealthy elitists. #2 is achieved because #1 was. Now that the union bosses have all that manditory dues money.... they can grease the palms of the people who make their continued existence possible.

Thus it becomes a giant LEGAL money laundering operation. Liberals make sure that so much of the economy is controlled by unions. Public sector unions (teachers for example) are paid by the state.... but only after the people of the state have been taxed enough to make that possible. Part of their pay is then held back (mandatory union dues) and forwarded to the union bosses. the Union bosses then make massive donations and contributions to liberal politicians.... and we're right back where we started. The part of this which is illegal (yet is never prosecuted) is that union dues are NOT legally supposed to be used for political reasons. This is because it's not the member deciding whom to support.... it's a union boss with an agenda. Unions must die and the sooner the better!

Protecting the planet. Please.... can we get over our massive out of control egos for a minute here? Planet earth..... been here for 13.5 billion years.... give or take several hundred million. Human race..... been here for barely the blink of an eye. For comparison..... if you consider the age of the planet as one calender year...... we humans have been around for about the last second and a half of that entire year. We can stroke our massive egos and *think* that we can affect the planet..... but the facts don't quite bare that out.

We can be wiped out by freaking microbes while the earth has survived being hit by objects larger than our moon! The asteroid which hit the earth and closed the book on the dinosaurs........ that rock...... while the leading edge was hitting the water off the Yucatan peninsula..... the trailing edge was still 9 MILES out in space! I just stomped my feet on the ground and sure enough.... Earth is still here and doing fine and dandy.

Why the harping on that? The last day of December 2011 is the last day an asthma sufferer can buy a Primitine mist rescue inhaler. Why? Well.... factions within our wonderful government have decided that these little life savers are a danger to our planet!! Yep! Kazillion ton Asteroid can't destroy the planet but asthma rescue inhalers damn sure can. Amazing! The reason? The insignificant amount of CFC used to propel the life saving mist out of the container. "Why.... CFC's destroy the ozone layer you know!" the wisest of the wise tell us.... and of course we are compelled to believe!

Okay.... research time...... go check and see how many people have died in the last quarter century due to the depletion of the ozone layer. Now go see how many people died in 2010 from complications of asthma. Okay.... I'll help you out. The number of people who have died EVER from the depletion of the ozone layer is........... Zero. That's a total of zero for all of recorded history. Number of people who die from asthma each year?

How about 255,000? Yep.... over 1/4 million people each and every year die from asthma while NONE have died EVER due to ozone depletion and the release of CFC's. Now remember... that's 255,000 dead WITH rescue inhalers widely available and being used! How many more will die as a result of our over zealous and incredibly stupid government attempting to save the planet? The best thing that government can do to help us all..... is to STOP trying to help us all!!!

Foreign policy. My God where the hell to start on this area? Maybe at the beginning when the man child ordered the return of the Winston Churchill bust to England. Talk about keeping those bonds with our strongest ally in good repair! Then there was that classy gift of all those great American movies to the British P.M. ....... all in the wrong format so they cannot be viewed in Europe. (And the left constantly told us how stupid Bush was? HA!) Then where was the even MORE classy gift to the Queen herself..... when good old Berry gives her an IPod fully loaded with all of his best speeches!!! My God.... how thoughtful.

Then little Berry goes all around the world telling anyone who will listen just how rotten America is and how we've been too big for too long...... and we need to be cut down to size. I guess he thought that's why he was elected because it's been his biggest project since taking office. He's sold Israel down the river.... ignored Japan after their disaster..... and driven his own nation into debt at a rate at which has never been seen before. Berry has spent more money in two years..... than ALL the Presidents who preceded him!!!

He has assembled the biggest group of left wing radicals the world has ever seen..... and positioned them all at the highest levels of government. These people are at work daily..... not planning on how to make America greater or how to strengthen our alliances abroad. No. These people plot and plan the destruction of the nation they all hate so very much..... America. They have waited for nearly 100 years to be where they are today.... and they are nearly at the point of achieving their collective dream..... seeing America humbled and on her knees.... at the mercy of the jackals of the world. Until we are less than a 3rd world country this group will not be satisfied nor will they stop working towards our destruction.

I don't know about you but I'm in the process of hardening the old homestead. New security fence goes in in June with steel entry doors to follow. Still looking to add that Zestava AK-47 to the weapons locker and a couple thousand rounds for it as well. I already have a 20X50 scope so that I can more accurately reach out and touch those intent upon doing us harm. We add to the food cache still and are fairly well stocked there. I still plan on sinking a well in back to insure a source of water. Should infrastructure fail there is still a functional septic tank system available as a backup. Limited solar and battery backup electricity will be in place by August. It will be enough to keep a freezer and refrigerator operational with some capacity to spare.

In addition to that we are preserving the history of the nation as it actually happened.... not as the left has managed to re-write it over the past century. When the dust settles we'll need to begin the re-education of the population that survives..... but they will need to be armed with the truth and not liberal lies and distortions. As a wise man said.... "Liberalism is the easiest and more gutless choice a person can make." Keeping a Democratic Republic running straight and true obviously isn't easy. If it were we'd not be in the mess we're in today.

The founding fathers new it wouldn't be easy and all of them said so too. Washington said before the congress..... "Let us give them a standard to which they can repair." If I may translate for those not sure of what the heck that means...... a "Standard" can be just that.... something set and steady with is largely unchanging in nature.... such as the Constitution and Bill of Rights.... or it can be a flag such as that carried when troops march. And in this case the word "repair" does not mean to fix...... rather it means to go to or to rally around. So what he said was "Lets give future generations something solid and permanent which they can rally around in troubled times" That is what they did too.

After leaving the constitutional convention Mr Franklin was approached by a woman who asked. "Sir! What have you given us?" He replied: "A Republic, if you can keep it!" America was a radical departure from all forms of government which had come before. Americans were not to be ruled by Kings and Queens..... Americans were going to govern themselves rather than BE governed. Obviously that's a point the current bunch in Washington have lost sight of.

And Thomas Jefferson commented that this grand experiment could succeed but only so long as we remained a nation of moral and religious people..... for morality and religion were key to maintaining the humanity upon which the nation was built. Here too the left has largely been successful at kicking out those underpinnings. These are all dangerous trends which can and must be reversed if the Republic is going to stand.

During the riots in Wisconsin union bosses were seen on camera screaming "This is what democracy looks like!" The intent was to paint the elected leaders of that state as somehow being less than Democratic in their leadership. Not true! They were, in fact, functioning as the founders envisioned. The union bosses, however, were 100% accurate in their statement and that's the exact reason why America is a democratic republic and NOT a democracy. Because a democracy is nothing more than mob rule where those not in the majority have no voice at all in the running of government. The Founders were so far beyond wise it's still amazing what they gave us..... but as Franklin said...... IF we can keep it.

Twisting the Truth.... Unions & the Media

Okay freedom lovers.... time for another dose of reality. All these riots around the world and now in our own back yard got me to the point where I had to lay in another several hundred rounds of ammo! What's the message there? Your freedom to be a jerk.... riot and destroy other peoples stuff ENDS at my property line. I didn't devote my life to military service defending the Constitution of the United States just so some pissed off union thug or other jerk-weed could trample all over me, my family or my property.... PERIOD!

Now that that's out of the way let's turn an eye upwards towards the frosty north and the beautiful state of Wisconsin. Wisconsin is a perfect example of exactly how the LEFT plays the game of politics and government. Further it is a prime example of how they (mis)behave when they fail to get their way. What I like best, however, is that it is also a template of how the RIGHT should respond to their tactics. Let's look at these in order.

In the political area Wisconsin is the victim of liberal over spending. (I know... whats new about liberals and over spending.... I get it) Anyway.... Governor Scott Walker decided that it was time to reign in spending and the best way to tackle that was to deal with the issue of the public service unions and their "entitlement" and pension costs. (Please remember the term "Public Service" as we proceed)

Governor Walker proposed and end to collective bargaining by the majority of union workers. Police and Fire were exempted in the area of hazardous duty pay and teachers were exempted for class size. Further the state would no longer deduct union dues from the worker pay and send that into the unions. When the bill became law it was now the responsibility of each union worker to write out a check and mail in their dues themselves. (This is a wonderfully clever device too!) Additionally union workers would now have to contribute more towards their health care and to their retirement fund. (BTW... in total both increases would still amount to less than half of what the public has to pay for their health care and retirement.... while also supporting the unions workers who think that making *them* pay for their own benefits is unfair!)

As written the legislation contained both new laws, rules and regulations. It also contained funding appropriations for various related items. Well!! The democrats were not about to vote against their union sacred cow... and all those campaign dollars.... so they played it safe and hauled ass to Illinois.... all 14 of them. The reasoning behind this move was simple. Any legislation which contains spending measures can only pass if at least one member of the minority party votes with the majority. Thus if you eliminate the possibility of anyone voting Yea! then the bill cannot proceed. Brilliant! Yeah... about as brilliant as a firefly's butt when viewed from 50 miles.

So for 21 or so days the democrats hid like little children from their lawful obligation to be in the state capitol representing their constituents. They were terrified of the evil boogieman called responsibility. All the while the liberal media is doing cover stories about how "brave" they were for running away from their duties and obligations. Poor babies.

Meanwhile, back at the capitol, union thugs have whipped the workers into a lather by telling them that the evil republicans want to take away ALL their rights! You'll be no more than underpaid slaves if Walker gets his way. You must RIOT and scream and chant and disrupt and destroy things!!!

Also back at the Capitol the adults are calmly going about the business they were elected to do. The governor is offering deal after deal to the runaway democrats but they will not budge an inch. The unions have to get everything they want all the time or we'll hide out forever. So be it.

Well some learned parliamentarian studied the state constitution and discovered that if the spending part of the bill is removed then a simple majority can pass legislation. So bill by bill all the spending items were removed to amendments to be voted on later and the main legislation brought up for a vote. Bill by bill the Republicans did what they were sent to the Capitol to do.... while the democrats hid like the cowards they are.

Meanwhile, also at the Capitol, the union thugs and their useful idiots are storming the building, blocking halls and stairs, destroying landscaping and property.... to the tune of about 7.5 million dollars. What lovely people! Perhaps they didn't hear President Obama when he made that speech about the need for civility. Pity. I also noticed that, rather than condemning the actions of the mob, Obama actually supported them! What a guy! (Yeah... the very same civility speech Obama)

Meanwhile the mainstream media (that's everyone BUT Fox News and Fox Business) is coddling the runaway congressmen as if they were driven from their home.... rather than the reality which was they CHOSE to run away from their duty. As always the democrats are the victims and we must feel sorry for them and have pity and understanding. Cry me a freaking river! In the military if you run from battle you are a deserter..... you can be SHOT for that! What is the difference other than no one was shooting at these people when they ran from duty? These people are nothing but cry baby cowards supported by a bunch of brain washed useful idiots as Marx called them. (That's Karl not Groucho)

In the end, however, Wisconsin got what they needed and that is some help at getting their budget back down to earth. How much closer to being balanced I do not know as those figures haven't been released yet. One thing is certain though..... the days of organized public sector workers are clearly numbered. One can remain in denial as long as they wish but it won't alter that fact. The public is sick and tired of sacrificing, scrimping and corner cutting while their tax money goes to their servants who are making more than their masters.

As the former head of the NEA (National Education Association) said in a speech..... "It was never about the children. It was never about making sure they they had the best education available and the best facilities. It was always about power. And that power came from the hundreds of thousands of people who sent in millions and millions of dollars in dues." Unions today are no different. For them it always was and always will be about money and power. Right now they are starting to feel both slipping away too. Couldn't happen to a better group either.

Time for REAL hope and change!

Okay... so wonder boy managed to pull the wool over the eyes of a flock of sheeple with that message of Hope and Change. Even some of them are starting to wonder if they did the right thing or not. The very fact that they even have to ask the question indicates how dreadfully stupid they really are.... doesn't it?

We got change alright. We basically did a U-turn back to the time of Woodrow Wilson and FDR. Bigger and bigger government.... more and more controls and regulations.... less and less genuine freedom. Plus we got the return of the "hate the rich" mantra. Please! Can we get the hell off the class warfare theme park ride? Alvin Lee and his band "Ten Years After" had a song titled "I'd love to Change the World" One of the lyric lines went "Tax the rich, feed the poor, till there are, rich no more."

That is the essence of the liberal socialist/communist movement and their hatred for the achievers of the world. Tax them out of existence and redistribute their wealth. Okay, fine! Let's say we do just that. Answer this simple question for me..... Now who do you tax once the rich are broke?

It's easy to see why that sort of thing sounds appealing to the youth. As poorly educated as they are by the unionized teaching establishment they are not equipped to think logically and reason things out as we older folks were taught to do.

An interview on TV the other night with a young protester clearly demonstrated his complete lack of understanding of how the real world operates. He wanted to organize and unionize the company where he worked in order to eliminate all the injustice being heaped upon him and is co-workers.

He complained about having to actually show up for work at a specific time! (How draconian!) He bitched about having to prepare the food they served in a very specific way! (Uniform outcome? Why the nerve of that boss!) And he thought it was totally out of bounds and beyond reason that he be expected to meet a specific dress and grooming standard! (My God! How cruel can one boss be anyway?)

Of course this twit had no idea in hell of all the effort it took for his boss (the owner of the company) to round up the money to open the doors and start this venture into capitalism. He was clueless about the number of trials it took to get the the cooking of the product just right either. And obviously he felt that if he decided to come to work looking like a bum from a homeless shelter and smelling like 3 week old gym socks.... then he should be able to do that!

That is the mentality at work in the (so called) minds of these protesters coast to coast and around the world today. However left to their own devices there wouldn't be any protests. Why? These people are NOT leaders.... they are sheeple..... born and educated to blindly follow the orders of anyone who can capture their rather limited attention span. It's like the Wizard of Oz. "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!"

There IS a man behind the curtain too. It's Union bosses and their goons stirring the pot and doing the rabble rousing. It's the liberal left run amuck and totally out of control. They feel they are on the threshold or the socialist/communist utopia they have dreamed for for so long... and so they are going balls to the walls to make that dream a reality.

Well reality check time for the whole damn lot of them. You represent a whopping 12% of the total population. I'm not Einstein but my math tells me that leaves only 88% of the population who just might be opposed to their scheme.

Fear factor time here. Earlier this week one of the Union bosses stated that it might just be time to "get a little bloody" in order to get their way. Oh really? I've seen the courage and bravery of those folks before. They only attack in numbers. They prefer any confrontation to be roughly 10 to 1 in their favor. They generally either all jump one lone figure...... or they hit and run..... or they do their work in the middle of the night like the spineless Jackal they are. (Slashing tires..... painting graffiti on buildings.... vandalizing property and the like) Oh yeah... real upstanding citizens here.

Our wonderful President hasn't been exactly helpful here either. (Come to think of it.... when *has* he been helpful since elected?) After stating that we had to have a return to civility after the shooting in Arizona..... he openly criticizes the Governor of Wisconsin for simply trying to balance the states budget. (Unlike the Federal Government States cannot print money nor can they operate at a deficit.) Earlier in his term he made the statement "if they bring a knife we bring a gun" Yep! Sounds real civil and peaceful to me!

Yet.... watch the evening news and the union protesters are the victims! Poor union people.... they only want what's fair. Give me a king sized break! They already make at least a third MORE than the tax payers who support them. They have far better medical care. They are damn near immune from ever being fired. They barely contribute to their retirement. Even VIAGRA is thought to be a benefit to which they are entitled! God help us! It means they might be capable of reproducing!

And think of this. Exactly whom are they really protesting against? Aren't they called public service workers? Or, phrased differently, workers who serve the public? So are not they actually protesting against the very people they are supposed to be serving? The very people who are already paying for their services. (over paying if you ask me)

Let's simplify this to make it VERY easy to understand. Let's say you hire a kid to take care of your yard. You provide the mower and the gas and whatever other assorted tools he might need to do the job..... plus you pay him say..... $20 to do the job. Seems reasonable.

So one day the kid shows up and he starts complaining that he really doesn't like the mower he has to use..... it's not self propelled so he has to actually push the push mower! Further he is upset that you want him to mow your yard on the weekend. Doing that, he says, cuts into this time to mess around and hang out with his friends. Then there is that $20 for the hour or so it takes him to do the job. Sure it's roughly 3 times the minimum wage... but he should really have more.

Hearing all this you have two choices. #1 is that you go out and spend $400 for a new self-propelled mower (even though your current one is in good working order) and you further rearrange your schedule so as to permit him to mow at a time that suits him better. And finally you pony up $5 or $10 more bucks to shut the little twit up. Or... Option #2 is the terminate your agreement with the kid and hire someone willing to do what you want done when you want it done with the equipment you have available and for a wage agreeable to both parties.

I see nothing at all different with all these union protesters and thugs right now. They were hired to do a specific job and given the tools and resources necessary to do it.... and paid a wage previously agreed upon and stated in a wage scale chart. Other benefits were added in to sweeten the pot. Now they are demanding more and more and more.... while the state is deep in the red and can't pay the bills.

The answer is simple. Fire the whole lot of them! They all have college educations (which is where the problem really started) so it's not like they can't find *real* jobs in the private sector. Granted they will have to take a 33% pay cut.... and loose out on that wonderful retirement plan.... and let's not forget the free Viagra! Let them become the people from whom they are demanding more and more.... and see how they like it.

Unions had their place in history.... and that's exactly where they belong now..... in history... a thing of the past.... a relic of an older time when there was a need for them. Unions put an end to child labor abuses (in America anyway) and to substandard working conditions in some industries such as mining and construction. Today, however, we have SO many rules and regulations controlling every single aspect of everything we do.... that unions serve NO useful purpose whatsoever. Today they simply exist as a money machine for liberal politicians. They want to put an end to America. I say it's past time for America to put and end to them.

Feces and Fan Blades

You read right.... I said feces.... the "F" word. And it is about to impact the electrically powered rotating air movement implement in mass quantities. I'd not be in the first few front rows if I were you.

I've mentioned over the years that liberals never quit. It may take them days.... or weeks.... or years.... or decades.... or even centuries to achieve their stated goals. They are just fine with that because the ends justifies the means to them..... it always has.

What you are seeing now on the evening news.... and even the mainstream media can't put a blanket on a story this huge..... is the culmination of hundreds and even thousands of years of slow steady progress. For some factions it has been less time.... for others it has been a dream spanning hundreds and hundreds of years.

Things world wide are about to take a left turn..... and that's not a good thing either. There are three competing influences working behind the scenes in the past... and right out in the open now. First you have the global communist movement. These fanatics still believe that Marx and Engels had it right..... even though history has proven them wrong time after time. (no offense intended to Cindy Lauper)

As is always the case...... communism will work just fine IF ONLY the *right* people are in charge. Odd that they don't even find it the least bit ironic that it failed for Marx and Engels too. Oh well..... they persist still and among the weak of mind they are a growing force.

Then we have the New World Order bunch which are basically global socialists. What they see as perfection is one government.... one currency..... no borders.... just one big happy family. Sounds simply wonderful, doesn't it? One question. What is the trend in Europe now? Guess what gang.... even they have figured out that socialism doesn't work. As the wonderful Miss Thatcher put it so very well..... "The problem with socialism is that..... sooner or later you run out of other peoples money."

Socialism, like communism, likes to spread the wealth around. (I seem to recall some American presidential candidate saying something like that) Anyway.... there are only so many "rich" people you can target. Even if they have nowhere to run and ho place to hide they do only have a finite amount of wealth. As you take that away you also destroy the foundation that built it. In most cases that would be some sort of business. Destroy the businesses and you destroy jobs. Destroy jobs and you destroy people and families. OH! *Now* I see why socialism is *such* a great idea!!! (not really..... it's dumber than a mud fence)

Rather than giving people freedom and letting them strive to be the best they can be and to enjoy the rewards of their efforts..... you punish the achievers until none are successful and all that is left is a stagnant pool or equally poor folks. Lovely. Who wouldn't be all for that?

Lastly.... but certainly not least..... we have Islam. To be fair not the entirety of Islam.... only the most radical faction of Islam. Just as there are some radical Christians who can selectively pick and choose parts of passages to support extreme points of view..... the radical Islamists pick and choose the parts of the Quran they like to justify their actions.

The problem is that the radicals are *Extreme* (with a capital E) in their beliefs and they will kill anyone who disagrees with them..... even other Muslims. Muslim on Muslim violence is on the increase as the radical factions attempt to either convert or purge the peaceful Muslims from the "faith". In their minds mainstream peaceful Muslims are the same as Christians and other "non-believers" and must therefore be killed. For this faction of "the religion of peace" there will only BE peace when everyone is dead who disagrees with them.

Okay.... so there are the players. Now then.... what is their common goal and what links them together. Well.... it's something of a trick question because the answer is basically the same. Global domination. Each group thinks they should dominate the world. The problem is that individually none is strong enough to accomplish that task.

Thus we end up with a "strange bedfellows" sort of situation where groups of conflicting ideals will make temporary peace in order to achieve the greater goal. The main goal, of course, is to bring down America because we stand for everything they hate and want to destroy.

Our standard of living is beyond the imagination of most of the world. We have gone from a struggling few colonies to the most powerful nation the world has ever seen in under 200 short years. For half of that time we had near unlimited freedom to experiment and explore... to build and create.... to try and to fail..... and to try again. Then, around 1913, limitations to our freedoms started to increase.

It's like you have a strong draft horse and you hitch another wagon behind the first. Then you start loading and over loading that wagon until the horse simply cannot pull it no matter how much it strains. There is nothing wrong with the horse. It's the burden. Freedom works best when it is the least restrictive. True freedom is an equality of opportunity..... NOT an equality of outcome. The level playing field is a myth because not all players are equal..... nor can they be.

My wife is pretty good at math.... I happen to suck at it but I can get by. I'm rather good with non-linear thinking and spatial reasoning. Hand my wife a brick and she sees an object used to build a house..... while I see that and the door stop, pathway paver, end supports to a bookcase and several dozen other things. Liberalism, socialism and communism all want us to see the same thing..... just a simple brick. Here is your lot in life.... now shut up and be a good little worker. That might be your cup of tea..... but it don't float my boat.

You may have noticed the mess up in Wisconsin. It's special interest groups (organized public sector unions) pitting themselves against the very people who pay taxes to support them. That makes as much sense as the family dog attacking the master because it wants more food and less time guarding the house. In my world bowser gets a none to subtle lesson in who is the master and who is the dog. Same with the unions. Keep this fact foremost in your mind.... THEY WORK FOR US!!! Okay? Ditto with those sorry ass politicians. THEY freaking work for US!

With the unions..... they have walked off their jobs in an illegal action against the state of Wisconsin..... terminate..... or perhaps fire is a kinder word..... every last freaking one of them. There is precedent for that action too! Air traffic controllers strike...... President Reagan gave them an ultimatum...... they ignored him.... he fired the whole damn bunch.

In looking at the problem areas around the world there are two factions which take center stage either singularly or together...... Unions and Islamic radicals. Much of the trouble in Greece and the European Union is instigated by public sector union activists. Simply put they want more money and benefits for less work. This minority of the population thinks they have the right to demand the majority open their wallets and support their lack of work ethic. It's kinda like the old saying for the drug problem..... Just say NO!

Egypt is a different story. There the Islamic Brotherhood played the part of union organizers and turned that nation upside down. Mubarak eventually caved and that may prove to be a very bad thing in the long run. Why? Two reasons. #1 is the Suez Canal and #2 is Israel.

If you look at a map the shortest route from the oil fields in the middle east to most of Europe and the United States is through the Suez Canal. If that is compromised then the alternate route is past the land of the Somali pirates then on down around the horn of Africa and back up. That adds 10 days to the transit time.... plus the additional fuel.... the risk of hijacking.... etc. All of which adds to the cost of a barrel of oil.... provided the middle east will even sell us a barrel of oil.

Israel is going to be put in the position of a cornered animal. It knows it has "annihilation" stamped on it if radical Islam gains control in the region and Israel *will* fight. God (with the later help of the United Nations) has given them that tiny little piece of land and no one is going to drive them off of it without one hell of a fight.

The problem is that is exactly what the Islamic radicals want! One HELL of a fight. Among the radicals is the belief in the 12th Imam. As a young boy he fell down a well and was lost.... however they believe that if there is enough violence in the world then the 12th Imam will rise up out of the well again and bring peace (and incidentally a global Caliphate) to the world. (Google Caliphate if it is an unknown term to you) Anyway there will be peace and love under oppressive Sharia Law for the entire world for 1000 years.

The big three are all playing each other in order to achieve their collective goal of world domination. As more of the world falls into chaos the less powerful players will gradually be picked off until the ultimate winner rises to the top. Usually the analogy would be the cream rising to the surface...... however in this case it's more closely related to the turd floating to the top of the cesspool.

Meanwhile.... there is still America. Obama is doing his level best to destroy the nation through massive debt, idiotic restrictions on drilling for oil, padding the rolls of union workers by over 200,000 since taking office and going around the world telling everyone who will listen that America isn't great anymore. It's a lie and he knows it.... but like the master of propaganda said so well..... "Tell a lie and tell it often enough.... and it becomes the truth."

The true Americans in this country need to understand this and quickly..... THEY WORK FOR US!!!! We are the masters.... not the servants..... and the servants need to start doing what is in the best interests of the United States of America or the whole damn lot of them needs to be removed from office. We have a peaceful transition of power in this nation..... so far anyway... so vote the bastards OUT!

There used to be talk about the ghostly "silent majority" in America. They didn't make a lot of noise and so long as things were going pretty well for them were content to just keep silent and go on with their lives. Yeah they'd loose a right here.... and a bit of freedom there.... but it happened slowly so they just got used to it. Kinda like that frog in the pot of gradually warming water. It's about time for that silent majority to realize they are the frogs and if they don't get their asses out of the pot it's all freaking over.

The ideals of the Founding Fathers are worth fighting for. They were then when they won our freedom for us..... and they are now too. This nation and the liberty and freedom is represents is ours to fight for and maintain..... or surrender and loose.

I don't know about you.... but surrender isn't a part of who I am. Freedom and Liberty will not die here where I am without one hell of a fight.

Ostrich or Prairie Dog?

Okay..... so what's up with the title? It is simply a left handed way or asking a question. Are you the type of person who ignores the facts and buries their head in the sand like an Ostrich..... or are you alert to danger.... aware of what is going on in the world..... and ready to take action to protect not only yourself but others? Which are you?

If you have been paying attention you may have noticed that the world is not exactly a peaceful place these days. We have our liberal friends to thank for that. Way back when we were tinkering around with nuclear weapons on a major scale the term M.A.D. came into being. That policy really only affected the two super powers but would have had global implications. It involved hardened launch sites for the missiles of nuclear strike arm of both countries. In the event of a surprise attack by either side it meant that enough weapons would survive..... AND be launched... to completely destroy the attacking nation. Thus.... Mutually Assured Destruction became a way of life for decades.

At the same time there was another idea of Liberal making called M.A.E.D. which you have likely not heard of before. It stands for Mutually Assured Economic Destruction and it linked the economies of the world together through a world bank and the International Monetary Fund. This was intended to ensure that the economies of the world remained healthy through mutual linkage. The downside is that should one member economy suffer a catastrophic collapse then that would start a domino effect and drag the rest of the linked economies down with it. As with all things Liberal the intentions were noble but they consistently fail to think things through and the law of unintended consequences always bites them in the ass in the long run.

A couple of years ago in Europe the effects of socialist rule began to demonstrate the poor thinking that always is leftist rule. They try to please everyone at the expense of "the wealthy". As the lyrics of the old song go "Tax the rich.... feed the poor..... till there are.... rich no more." The song, however, fails to take that to the next logical step. That is, of course, now whom do you tax? Where does the money for their grand schemes come from now?

This takes us to Greece. There socialism granted a relatively short work week, extended vacations, unions everywhere offering high wages and loads of benefits, nationalized health care and every other liberal promise of utopia. Like a Ponzi scheme, however, there comes a point beyond which there is not enough money coming in to cover the promised outlay. Government expenses eventually grew beyond the national GDP and the first domino teetered and then fell.

Spain, France, Italy and Ireland experienced similar financial woes and the EU frantically scrounged around for enough Euros to bail everyone out. The government of Greece announced "austerity cuts" to attempt to bring their budget under control. The unions took to the streets in demonstrations and riots to protest having to give up anything. Human nature is that once you *have* something you should be able to keep it forever. No one was willing to give up any of *their* perks to help the government become solvent..... so they took to the streets to riot and burn and destroy their own country. Pretty damn stupid if you ask me.

The old Liberal trick of playing the "rich VS poor" card had worked so very well in the past. Stir up the masses in protest and action against the evil rich. Loot and rob and pillage.... burn and destroy to make things even. In the process the non-thinking masses dance to the puppet masters string pulling and blindly do their bidding...... all the while knocking out the underpinnings of the economy that they need to support themselves. The puppet master doesn't care about the masses and never has. They are just stupid tools used to achieve an end. That end is either power and control or money.

Meanwhile on this side of the big pond the masses are spoon fed a diet of only the weakest information about the problems in Europe. If you'll recall it wasn't all that long ago that we were being told on a daily basis that we had to emulate the European socialist model. They were *so* much more advanced than us in everything! They had shorter work weeks, longer vacations, better health care and smarter laws. They were everything we should be! However now that the failures of that highly touted system are glaringly obvious the same media is highly reluctant to show us all that truth. The mainstream media still hasn't figured out the most basic fact. The truth is neither right nor left...... Liberal or Conservative. It is simply the truth. There is no need to spin it or twist it or shape it. Simply reporting it is enough. They have not yet come to that realization..... or they fear the truth because it exposes all the fabrications which came before.

For those of us who have been paying attention (this excludes all on the left) certain facts have been obvious for years. We have been nudged toward that European model slowly but surly by the leftists in power here. We have been caught up in a spending spree that was largely pointless except that it was a way of buying votes of certain special interest groups. That was done in an attempt to keep a certain ruling elite in power. That same elite has been so focused on gathering and holding onto power that they have flushed everything else down the toilet. It's no longer a case of doing what's best for America...... it's doing whatever it takes to amass and hold onto power!

That political strategy may well end up spelling the beginning of the end for America. Why? Because while we were so busy playing that game in Washington D.C. there was another strategy being played out somewhere else. There the main focus was also on power..... but national power rather than political. The plan there was to do those things necessary to grow and prosper as a nation. Build the infrastructure that would be needed..... train a large and willing workforce looking to better themselves..... secure the natural resources that would be needed in the future to grow as a nation. Acquire the manufacturing technology necessary to compete on a global scale with anyone. That was their goal and they are advancing to the future while we begin our slide into the ash heap of history. One nation passes laws and generates regulations to cripple their access to their own oil and other natural resources while the other nation quietly scoured the planet buying up what they might need 10 to 50 years down the road. America is the nation busy holding itself back while China is forging ahead.

Here in America the mainstream media had been largely successful in breeding their viewers into a herd of ostriches. Like the media which created them they bury their heads in the sand and ignore reality any time it's not convenient for them to face it. Thus they are constantly "surprised" by events which the more informed of us saw coming well in advance. That is largely because while they have been so busy rewriting and revising "history" to suit their agenda.... we have been studying history and learning it's lessons.

What happens *every* time a government prints money without anything of value to back it? Kindly study some history and check out the Wiemar Republic...... or Germany just after WWI. Inflation so high workers were paid several times a day..... and it took a wagon full of money to buy a loaf of bread. Money was worth so little that it was cheaper to burn it than to buy fuel oil for heat. Just last month the "Fed" cranked up the printing presses and rolled out 800 BILLION dollars worth of currency..... with absolutely nothing to back it up. The left wants to print more! Our President declares a ban on oil drilling off the gulf coast. Rather than have them idle the production companies quickly lease those production platforms to other countries. As a result even if the ban is lifted tomorrow it will be years and years before we have the equipment again to resume drilling and production. This nation has not built one single oil refinery since the 1960's!!! Not one... all because of the leftists and their law suits.

Unions have driven two out of three major car companies into failure and a government bail out. Unions have also lowered the quality of education in America and are on the threshold of bankrupting several states with their pension plan demands. The cost of all these various factors is still below the national GDP but we are loosing ground fast. We have become a debtor nation and the country holding the purse strings now...... is China. If China decides to call on us to pay them what we owe then we are truly screwed. The entire GDP of the nation won't even put a dent it that debt. The old saying is that when you find yourself in a hole..... QUIT DIGGING!! Unfortunately most in Washington are politicians first and thinkers last. We're flat broke and they keep spending our grandchildren's future.

Now... to the little prairie dog. Prairie dogs live in villages. They live and work together and they take care of each other. Since they are so small they can be prey for fox, and coyote as well as hawk, falcon and owl. Knowing this they take turns standing watch over the village and sound an alarm if danger appears. During the warm months they gather more than they will need to survive because they know that leaner times are ahead. They store food in burrows for the winter.

Basically...... you can be an ostrich or a prairie dog. Stick your head in the sand and pretend that everything is just fine..... even while a lion is getting ready to eat your ass..... OR you can be more like the prairie dog. Keep your eyes wide open and watch for the dangers ahead. Gather not only what you need for today..... but put something away for the leaner times ahead. Band together with others and prepare because having a plan allows you to remain calm while others panic. Educate yourself and your children and grandchildren on the truth of this nation and it's founders. In the beginning America was a grand experiment..... the first of it's kind. Before there were always kings and emperors who ruled us as they saw fit. For the first time in history a people threw off the yoke of serfdom and elected to rule themselves rather than be ruled. The founders gave us the tools to be successful IF we would simply follow their lead.

As the constitutional convention was drawing to a close Ben Franklin was approached on the street by a woman who asked..... "Mr. Franklin..... what have you given us?" He replied... "A Republic madame..... if you can keep it." Those words are as true today as they were then. This grand experiment is ours to keep..... or to loose..... the choice is ours.