A Little Personal Rant-Off

Today, I was looking at my visitor, reader, and subscriber numbers. I combed over the fact that one third of my visitors come from Twitter, as well as another third are coming from other social sites. I am amazed by the one third coming from Twitter, just because I really haven't seen any replies or direct messages (in Twitter) pertaining to my posts. Let's not get into the lack of comments on my posts, because I haven't seen any since I left Facebook.

On to a real post.

Upon looking at some news out of the San Francisco Bay Area, I am thinking that this is a move for more of a police state. There was a huge police shoot out on I-580 in Oakland, to the shooting death of a prospective Google employee, I think these are going to be the perfect ammo (pun intended), for an all out gun ban, either in the Bay Area, or throughout California. I really love the people that I affectionately call "stupids." They may not have any mental incapacitates, they could be completely capable of logical thought. It's usually tied completely to their inability to act like a normal human being. They go through life acting as though they only have use of their lizard brain, and choose not to utilize their logical abilities. It is these people who ruin our way of life. They are the reason that our governmental overlords feel as though they need to enforce the "Nanny State." I, personally, blame the stupids of every community for killing off our rights, and annihilating our personal freedoms. The stupids can't raise their children, the government can! The stupids can't keep their lives in order, the government can! You get the point.

I could call them idiots, but they aren't. They are perfectly capable of handling every aspect of their daily lives on their own. It really isn't physically difficult, nor is it rocket science. It's something that people have been doing for thousands of years. But it's this sort of stupidity that has opened up the hole for the government to feel as though it needs to be filled. A hole that entitles the government to take you as their ward. Congratulations, people. You are now the equivalent of a fucking child.

So, what now? It's a hell of a lot harder to back out of the garage, now that you've driven through it, and into the neighbor's pool. How do we fix the mess that we and our parents have gotten us into? We could blame our grandparent's generation, as well. It's their fault that they allowed for the largest government grab bag with "The New Deal." It really has been, since then, that we have spiralled downward into a big government necessity. Before that, the government was actually fearful of sticking their tentacles into their constituent's daily lives. After Franklin Delano Roosevelt tore-ass into the New Deal, and all of it's splendor, and gave us Social Security (and a fucking number to go with it), so-on, and so-forth, it essentially made it okay for the government to regulate every aspect of a given person's daily life. That opened the hole for Lyndon Baines Johnson and Medicaid, and now Barack Obama's Socialized Medical System (whatever it's going to be called).

I'm not completely opposed to social programs. I'm not against all government assistance. I am against the government believing that they can stick in their tentacles, once they agree to assist you. Once Obama's Medical System comes into fruition, do you honestly believe you can continue to eat your Big Macs and fries? Yeah, right. Your Chicken Mc Nuggets are out, too. Why do you think they are trying to kill your sodium intake, as we speak?

757 Words for July 17th

I have decided that I am going to get away from the doom and bitching about my past. It's not fruitful to dwell on such things. Maybe I'll just go on about the book that I am attempting to write. It's nothing more than an idea of a mostly fictional, slightly autobiographical novel. Come to think of it, I don't think that's a half bad idea. Let's start with Chapter One.

I believe that dwelling in the past leaves us there, but not remembering it causes us to relive it. It's all quite simple, really. If we think in ways of constant progression, forgetting all of our accomplishments and losses that got us to this point, we are more than likely going to continue in a constant, downward spiral towards somewhere we have been before. That can be actually and metaphorically. Maybe, even metaphysically.

And that, my friends, brings us to where we are. Currently, we are told about change, and how things are changing, and how to change things that need to be, etc. I really don't mean to be political, but I think that this is a perfect example of spiraling towards where we have already been. In the past fifteen to twenty years of life in the United States, we have lost many of our "inalienable rights." Maybe lost is the wrong word. They aren't completely gone, just gravely whittled away.

Along with our tattered rights, we are constantly inundated by key words, like "change." It wasn't just Obama who has these. Bush did, too. The current issue is more of a look towards the days of the German Worker's Party, Socialist Nazi Germany, the USSR, Stalin's rhetoric, bread lines, and all the other great things that come with an ill directed socialist society.

Don't kid yourselves, kids. We are always days away from becoming a completely Socialist society. Good bad, or otherwise, I honestly believe that Obama is a good guy, who is smart, with a good heart, that is in the right place. I, however do not agree with his policies. I disagree with those policies even more when I think about what is possible in the future. Look at it this way, Obama could create the Great Socialist Utopia, complete with socialized medicine, food, shelter, breadlines, the whole nine yards. He could be so great that we repeal the twenty-second amendment, and he could serve longer than FDR, maybe until death. Then the Catholics could canonize him and the world is better off. Here lies the issue, who comes after him? Someone as great, or someone with ill intentions. Someone who could take this Socialist Utopia and turn it into something closely mirroring George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

What then? Our fucking rights were completely obliterated to create the utopia that you all wanted. There's no protesting. The first amendment was repealed after you guys got your fucking Fairness Doctrine. You have no right to assemble, no freedom of speech. You'd be lucky if you make it through all of this with a freedom of religion. I really wouldn't doubt us moving toward a Chinese style of state, where you are not allowed to express your religious freedoms. Another possibility would be that after all of the Muslim extremism, people may be afraid to practice religion outside of their own houses, out of fear of being ridiculed our blown-the-fuck-up. All of this is possible, even with the first amendment's statement of no official state religion.

Fear. This is how the government has enslaved us and has kept us that way. It is only going to get worse, my friends. We can preach about the internet and how it frees us, but lets be honest. How many heads of government (including the United States) have been given what equates to an Internet Kill-switch? Oh, do you slaves want to speak out against me/us? The internet is shut off for a later determined amount of time.

Piracy. Another nifty meaningless keyword that our governments like to throw around. Vice President Joe Biden equated internet piracy to a smash and grab. Though I am against piracy, and I do see it as theft, I have a hard time drawing the same lines that he has. With internet piracy, there is no vandalism. He's making it sound like it's a fucking hold up, and people are shot, and real destruction and physical damage is occurring. Is he fucking retarded? Do our government officials actually hear themselves, as the falsehoods pour out of their mouths, like diarrhea?

Mr. Obama

Mr. Obama,

    

     Could you please quit throwing money at banking and other tanking organizations? They are companies. They have many places to draw income from, and it should be up to them to pull themselves out of the holes that they have dug. I know you would like to socialize the workings of everything within our borders, but could you not take our economy along with you.

    

     Along with stopping bailouts, is there any way the government could stop running British Petroleum? I realize that the United States government has been in the oil business a long time, but is running multinational corporations really in the job description of the President of the United States? I honestly don't remember that being in the Constitution (or the Ammendments, for that matter).

    

     That's about all of my bitching for now, Bob knows I have plenty where that came from. Continue digging your hole, just please keep the Constitution on life support. Leave a window for someone better suited to clean up your mess. After Clinton, G. W. Bush, and you, they're going to need any help that they can get in rebuilding our republic.

American Conservatism in the Twenty-First Century

Here are some things that I think the GOP need to work on, if they stand a chance in the twenty-first century. They aren't really guidelines, just some thoughts running through my head.

Reagan. Possibly the most charismatic president that ever graced the Oval Office. The man who was told, at 72, that he was too old to run for presidential office. Some laughed at the fact he was an actor. This man won two landslide elections (one versus an incumbent). He took the thought of "Compassionate Conservatism" (birthed by Barry Goldwater) and took it to the next level. Not to mention the fact that this man ended the Cold War. He didn't do it by sanctions, nor did he use ass kissing. He looked Gorby in the face and said, "Tear down this wall!" To look a fascist regime in the face, with the nuclear buzzer constantly at 23:59:59, and tell them (in a Moses sense) "let your people go!". That's being a true leader of the free world.

It is this form of diplomacy that the Republican Party has lost. It is what won in 1980, 1984, 1988, and brought in a Republican lead congress in 1994. Somewhere during the early 2000's it was lost. This is why they lost big in 2006, and lost huge in the presidential election of 2008. 

Reagan (and to a point Gingrich) had the love of the people. It seemed as though they were approachable, like you could possibly have a beer with them. This is why Pat Buchanon has lost every bid he has put in for the nomination, Bob Dole lost in 1996, and why McCain lost in 2008. I like the way Buchanon thinks, but I honestly don't think that I could watch the Superbowl with any of these men. Obama won for the same reason Clinton won in 1992 and 1996: constituents thought that they could either enjoy a cookout with these men, or share a joint with them.

The GOP needs to fall back to what worked for them in the latter part of the twentieth century. The people cry for change, but maybe they'd fair better with a little bit of regression.

S.C. Governor Must Take Stimulus Funds

In a unanimous ruling handed down by the S.C. Supreme Court, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford must request the $700 million in federal stimulus money he had wanted to reject. The court says Sanford has a duty to execute the state budget, which includes provisions for using the funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Governor Sanford had contended that accepting the cash would make the state budget dependent on federal aid. He had said he would accept the money only if he could use it to pay down the state’s debt. The Obama administration rejected that idea, saying the money was intended to spur the economy, not apply to debts. The state Supreme Court ruling settles the issue. This week, Sanford said he wouldn’t appeal the decision if it came down against him. (Information courtesy of the Charlotte Business Journal).

I believe that it is the governor's right to accept, or deny, this federal aid. This is more a battle for state sovereignty than it is a question of applied stimulus funds. Also, where does the state's legislature fall into this? Are we going to have high courts all over the land fighting battles based on a united agenda? With things stacking all over this nation on a one-sided point of view, I fear that our "stack" will come toppling over, due to imbalance.