I've given it a lot of thought, and I think I've come up with a way to fix a lot of what is broken in the government. The federal government is far too powerful, and our elected officials tend to think of themselves as aristocracy. There are a few simple changes however that would resolve a great many issues.
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Monday, June 13, 2011
Joplin, Missouri vs New Orleans, Louisanna
Joplin, Missouri was hit by a severe storm a short time ago. The storm spawned several tornadoes, including at least 1 EF5, which hit Joplin. At least 200 people unaccounted for, with at least 125 confirmed dead, and at least 900 injured. The entire town is basically gone. Yet despite all of this, people are already rebuilding. Everyone is pitching in to help, and some have already started rebuilding. It is an inspiring view of what America should be.
Let's contrast this with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans a few years ago. Everything was Bush's fault. FEMA somehow caused all of the problems, and the government didn''t just come in and fix things. People basically sat around waiting for mommy government to come and kiss it all better or something, and when that couldn't happen, the result was anger and helplessness, not self sufficiency, or personal responsibility.
Let's view some basic differences:
First a nicely illustrative picture of the attitudes in New Orleans.
Now some comments from Joplin:
Now one could argue that it is simply biased reporting, but I've heard nothing about how the government failed Joplin, only New Orleans. I've also heard nothing about FEMA coming in to take care of things in Joplin. What I hear about are people coming together to get things done.
Now a lot would call this racist, but it isn't. It has nothing to do with race, and everything to do with ideology. Everywhere a socialistic/progressive viewpoint prevails, helplessness prevails, not only are people unwilling to help each other, they are unwilling to help themselves. They sit and wait for someone else to take care of it for them.
In areas where people have a sense of individuality, not only do they help themselves, they help each other. It is a truism, that if you can't help yourself, you can't help others. As we can see, in areas where people are willing to own their misfortune, things are getting better. In areas where progressivism reigns everyone sits around waiting for someone else to take action. The worst part is that in these areas, if someone does stand up to try to help, no one else stands up with him. He is crucified in the court of public opinion for not helping more.
Let's contrast this with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans a few years ago. Everything was Bush's fault. FEMA somehow caused all of the problems, and the government didn''t just come in and fix things. People basically sat around waiting for mommy government to come and kiss it all better or something, and when that couldn't happen, the result was anger and helplessness, not self sufficiency, or personal responsibility.
Let's view some basic differences:
First a nicely illustrative picture of the attitudes in New Orleans.
Now some comments from Joplin:
Now one could argue that it is simply biased reporting, but I've heard nothing about how the government failed Joplin, only New Orleans. I've also heard nothing about FEMA coming in to take care of things in Joplin. What I hear about are people coming together to get things done.
Now a lot would call this racist, but it isn't. It has nothing to do with race, and everything to do with ideology. Everywhere a socialistic/progressive viewpoint prevails, helplessness prevails, not only are people unwilling to help each other, they are unwilling to help themselves. They sit and wait for someone else to take care of it for them.
In areas where people have a sense of individuality, not only do they help themselves, they help each other. It is a truism, that if you can't help yourself, you can't help others. As we can see, in areas where people are willing to own their misfortune, things are getting better. In areas where progressivism reigns everyone sits around waiting for someone else to take action. The worst part is that in these areas, if someone does stand up to try to help, no one else stands up with him. He is crucified in the court of public opinion for not helping more.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Needing to Get Away From the Public School System
As I said before, being a substitute school teacher was healing me, but I think that is coming to an end. While I actually like the teaching, I'm burning out on several aspects of subbing: It is difficult to deal with kids who always want to use a sub to get away with whatever they can. I hate never knowing where I'm going to sub, and there is just the overall feeling of being an intruder in someone else's classroom.
But these aren't the major problem. I can't handle the left wing bias. I don't want to go into too many details, however it seems to me that the major push within the public school system is to indoctrinate the students to a blind obedience (at least during a crisis) and waiting for someone else to save them. Moreover, no questioning among the staff about these, even in private is allowed. In fact, in my experience, if you don't profess sufficient enthusiasm for the procedures, you are called in on the carpet.
I want to be generous and try to believe that the goal isn't to create a nation of easily led sheep, however I can't even begin to fathom how anyone involved can't see it, so I must conclude that it IS indeed the goal, and that the overall participants fall into a few categories: Those wanting to create a nation of sheep, those who have already become sheep, those who need the work and are willing to compromise their principles, and perhaps a few who are trying to undermine from the inside.
It isn't just the emergencies either. The curriculum, texts and lessons all seem to be prepared to dumb down the population, and to force a left wing mindset.
There have been several suggestions in my state for ways to reform education, but the only reform that will really work will be to have the parents,taxpayers (for the taxpayers should have some say in what their money goes to fund), and voters to actually know what is being taught and why. I'm pretty confident that if the general population in my state knew what was going on in the schools, there would be an uproar. Maybe it's time to expose it. I just can't be the one to do it. I can't operate in secret, and that is what would be required.
But these aren't the major problem. I can't handle the left wing bias. I don't want to go into too many details, however it seems to me that the major push within the public school system is to indoctrinate the students to a blind obedience (at least during a crisis) and waiting for someone else to save them. Moreover, no questioning among the staff about these, even in private is allowed. In fact, in my experience, if you don't profess sufficient enthusiasm for the procedures, you are called in on the carpet.
I want to be generous and try to believe that the goal isn't to create a nation of easily led sheep, however I can't even begin to fathom how anyone involved can't see it, so I must conclude that it IS indeed the goal, and that the overall participants fall into a few categories: Those wanting to create a nation of sheep, those who have already become sheep, those who need the work and are willing to compromise their principles, and perhaps a few who are trying to undermine from the inside.
It isn't just the emergencies either. The curriculum, texts and lessons all seem to be prepared to dumb down the population, and to force a left wing mindset.
There have been several suggestions in my state for ways to reform education, but the only reform that will really work will be to have the parents,taxpayers (for the taxpayers should have some say in what their money goes to fund), and voters to actually know what is being taught and why. I'm pretty confident that if the general population in my state knew what was going on in the schools, there would be an uproar. Maybe it's time to expose it. I just can't be the one to do it. I can't operate in secret, and that is what would be required.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
The UK isn't Alone In Stupidity
In Obamaland, they've banned most lunches brought from home. Parents are no longer allowed to make decisions for their own children. Children in "progressive" areas have become wards of the state, with parents as free care providers. You don't have an option on what to feed them, where to send them to school, and even what you can ideologically teach them is limited.
This is a perfect example of a government out of control. I say again that the agenda does not seem to be to protect us, but to make sure that we are more easily ruled.
This is a perfect example of a government out of control. I say again that the agenda does not seem to be to protect us, but to make sure that we are more easily ruled.
As Bad as the UK Has Become...
I think they've gone beyond anything any comedy writer could imagine. With a hat tip to Madogre, Britain is now wanting to ban fire extinguishers because, get this, they pose a fire hazard. The claim is that untrained people might try to fight the fire rather than leave. There is also a concern that someone might use the wrong fire extinguisher on the wrong kind of fire.
Back in the day, the Monty Python gang made fun of bureaucratic stupidity (ministry of silly walks?), but this is something too stupid even for them.
So now I guess, it's not just guns that pose a hazard to the great unwashed, but fire extinguishers too. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but it seems more and more clear to me every day that the "progressive" ideal isn't to protect people, but to make people dependent, and incapable of acting without government approval, as a dependent people bleating for security are far easier to rule.
Back in the day, the Monty Python gang made fun of bureaucratic stupidity (ministry of silly walks?), but this is something too stupid even for them.
So now I guess, it's not just guns that pose a hazard to the great unwashed, but fire extinguishers too. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but it seems more and more clear to me every day that the "progressive" ideal isn't to protect people, but to make people dependent, and incapable of acting without government approval, as a dependent people bleating for security are far easier to rule.
Friday, March 25, 2011
I've had experience with this
Over the years, I've learned that Dilbert isn't really a comic strip. It's more of a documentary.
At the university I worked for, while it was not specifically stated, we were basically to get approval for all activity participated in outside of work. If your extracurricular activities did not meet their approval (some of these included such things as attending an unapproved church, or starting a relationship with a blacklisted individual) they began to try to force that person out. If the mistreatment didn't either get the person to change their life to meet the boss' approval, or quit, charges for firing would be trumped up.
I knew this was happening long before I got fired. I committed several serious betrayals. I took part in a case of whistleblowing, when they fired the whistleblower (since she was a student employee, and at will, they could fire her without saying why), I took her side and tried to help her. Finally I committed the ultimate betrayal. I married her.
They, of course couldn't let that stand. Seven months after I married her (and we went to some significant lengths to hide our relationship from them), they fired me.
As they went through the process of firing me, my department director had a meeting with me to "determine if there was a way I could be returned to work". It was a part of the state mandated appeal process for all classified state employees. I recorded that meeting.
When he determined that he would fire me (he's the one that made the decision anyway), he had to submit it to the university vice president. In that letter, he outright lied, and I had the recording to prove it.
I appealed further, and nearly all of the charges against me were thrown out. Only one remained. One suspicious thing however. The hearing officer delivered his decision two weeks later than he said he would. It made me wonder if there were some sort of coercion going on.
I wanted to appeal further, but that would have required at least another $5000, and I just didn't have it. Of course, since the hearing officer only had the authority to put me back to the same position, I'd pretty much decided that I didn't want to go back to work for such an abusive place.
In the end, I'm happier not working for them. Of course, I'm not through dealing with them. I've managed to collect some evidence that they are actively trying to prevent me from getting another job. I don't have enough to prove it, but some interviewers have asked me some interesting questions.
In truth, as one of my collected quotes says. "I realized recently that my personal happiness and sanity are worth far more than anything an employer can pay me, and that nothing is worth that twisting feeling you get in your gut every morning as you drag yourself out of bed and to a job you can't stand."
-- MC Langston
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Fixing Health Care
I keep hearing the argument that "The United States is the only developed country that does not have universal health care", or "People are going bankrupt to pay for health care."
To the first I say "so what?" Things can work (sort of) in countries where people are used to the government being mommie, but is a disaster in any country where people have any sense of personal responsibility or freedom, and therefore can not work in the U.S. until the spirit of independence has been pounded from us.
While the powers that be are trying to do just that, I will fight against it. Instead however I have a way that will provide high quality, affordable health care for the vast majority, with charities able to pick up the slack for those truly in need, thus eliminating the worthlessness of government involvment.
First:
Tort reform. A huge part of the cost of health care is that it's just to easy to sue. Whether the doctor, the drug company, the medical equipment supply company, or whatever else. This not only causes them to raise prices to offset the cost of malpractice insurance, fighting the lawsuits, paying out huge settlements and loosing idiotic lawsuits (hot coffee is hot anyone?), but also the large numbers of medical procedures that are only necessary to preemptively reduce someone's ability to sue, massive increases in R&D costs for drugs unnecessary testing, for much the same reason, likewise for medical equipment and supplies. While you don't have to purchase it, the hospital does, and passes the cost on to you.
Some have estimated the over all cost of the litigiousness of our society as totaling over 80% of medical costs. While that sounds totally exaggerated to me, even if it's 20% that, enough to give anyone pause.
Second:
Allow health insurance companies to sell insurance across state lines. This increases competition, and increased competition is always good for the consumer.
Third:
Also related to insurance, ban group health insurance. While this would appear to increase the out of pocket to the individual, the idea that your employer actually pays for your health insurance is an idiotic lie. He does not. You do. They just hide it from you. If employers didn't have to give the money to your insurance company, they would be free to give it to you. They would also be free to give you the cost of administering that health insurance plan. You would actually end up with more money.
There's more however. Health insurance companies would have to compete for your dollars individually. Charge too much? It goes out of business quickly because no one would use them. Not cover enough? Go out of business as customers make an exodus. Annoy doctors? Loose customers when no doctors accept that insurance. Things would regulate themselves rapidly, and there would be few who couldn't find some form of health insurance, and those who couldn't should be few enough that private charities could cover most of them.
Fourth:
This is more of a general business regulation, and one of the few that I think business needs. That is a strict truth in advertising law. Not just fines, but massive fines for the company AND primary stockholders, and massive fines AND jail time for those involved in the deception is necessary. This would not only preempt any deceptive tactics insurance companies would be tempted to use to get customers, but would also pretty much end a lot of the other problems liberals are always calling for strict regulation for this or that for.
These changes would make health care affordable, they may be the opposite approach of other countries, but the constitution was the opposite approach any other country at the time. Going the other way seems to work for us.
To the first I say "so what?" Things can work (sort of) in countries where people are used to the government being mommie, but is a disaster in any country where people have any sense of personal responsibility or freedom, and therefore can not work in the U.S. until the spirit of independence has been pounded from us.
While the powers that be are trying to do just that, I will fight against it. Instead however I have a way that will provide high quality, affordable health care for the vast majority, with charities able to pick up the slack for those truly in need, thus eliminating the worthlessness of government involvment.
First:
Tort reform. A huge part of the cost of health care is that it's just to easy to sue. Whether the doctor, the drug company, the medical equipment supply company, or whatever else. This not only causes them to raise prices to offset the cost of malpractice insurance, fighting the lawsuits, paying out huge settlements and loosing idiotic lawsuits (hot coffee is hot anyone?), but also the large numbers of medical procedures that are only necessary to preemptively reduce someone's ability to sue, massive increases in R&D costs for drugs unnecessary testing, for much the same reason, likewise for medical equipment and supplies. While you don't have to purchase it, the hospital does, and passes the cost on to you.
Some have estimated the over all cost of the litigiousness of our society as totaling over 80% of medical costs. While that sounds totally exaggerated to me, even if it's 20% that, enough to give anyone pause.
Second:
Allow health insurance companies to sell insurance across state lines. This increases competition, and increased competition is always good for the consumer.
Third:
Also related to insurance, ban group health insurance. While this would appear to increase the out of pocket to the individual, the idea that your employer actually pays for your health insurance is an idiotic lie. He does not. You do. They just hide it from you. If employers didn't have to give the money to your insurance company, they would be free to give it to you. They would also be free to give you the cost of administering that health insurance plan. You would actually end up with more money.
There's more however. Health insurance companies would have to compete for your dollars individually. Charge too much? It goes out of business quickly because no one would use them. Not cover enough? Go out of business as customers make an exodus. Annoy doctors? Loose customers when no doctors accept that insurance. Things would regulate themselves rapidly, and there would be few who couldn't find some form of health insurance, and those who couldn't should be few enough that private charities could cover most of them.
Fourth:
This is more of a general business regulation, and one of the few that I think business needs. That is a strict truth in advertising law. Not just fines, but massive fines for the company AND primary stockholders, and massive fines AND jail time for those involved in the deception is necessary. This would not only preempt any deceptive tactics insurance companies would be tempted to use to get customers, but would also pretty much end a lot of the other problems liberals are always calling for strict regulation for this or that for.
These changes would make health care affordable, they may be the opposite approach of other countries, but the constitution was the opposite approach any other country at the time. Going the other way seems to work for us.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Health care lies and indoctrination.
I just watched a PBS (Proletariat Broadcasting System) special in a class I Subbed for. It was on “Government health Care” Basically socialized health care. It explored the socialized health care in several systems, touting that there are “real market solutions” to the problems critics of a socialized health care have raised.
I can’t speak to all of the information they put in it, but it was somewhat dated (from around the time of the election), had some seriously dated information. Only glowing reviews of the English system were shown, however there were several parts that were inaccurate at best. It stated that England has a longer life expectancy than the U.S. This is true. It’s about a year longer, and it just counts age at death rates. That means that the serious problems the U.S. has in the inner cities with a murder rate that leaves a male born in certain areas a life expectancy of 18 years is counted in the U.S. figures. England has a serious gang problem, but the murder rate is no where near ours. This skews our life expectancy lower. No matter the medical system, murder it isn't going to help murder.
The other problem was that nearly every country surveyed, mandated that everyone had to purchase health insurance. While I find the idea flat out chilling in any case, and it was clearly before the court decision was handed down stating that such is unconstitutional, there was no mention of the potential constitutional problems with such an arrangement. This from a supposedly reputable journalist. He didn't even think of it.
It's clear that the progressives see the constitution, not as something to guide and restrain government, thus keeping it from becoming tyrannical, but rather an obstacle to their goal of total government. They only think of it when it gets in their way.
Monday, January 17, 2011
Wyoming to Become the Fourth State to Allow Constitutional Carry
Legislators in the state of Wyoming have introduced a new bill, SF-47 would allow anyone who would otherwise be legally qualified to possess a concealed weapons permit to carry concealed within the state of Wyoming.
This would make Wyoming the fourth state to have such a law, joining Vermont, Alaska and Arizona. Word is that the bill is very likely to be passed and signed.
I congratulate the people of Wyoming on this step toward greater freedom.
This would make Wyoming the fourth state to have such a law, joining Vermont, Alaska and Arizona. Word is that the bill is very likely to be passed and signed.
I congratulate the people of Wyoming on this step toward greater freedom.
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords Shot in Tuscon
Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords has been shot at a town hall type meeting in Tuscon Arizona
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01/08/arizona-congresswoman-reportedly-shot-public-event/
Ms. Giffords is apparently in surgery at this time and in grave condition.
Apparently, a federal judge John Roll(sp?) was also either killed or wounded (conflicting reports at this time) in the shooting. 10-19 (depending on the report) have also been shot. Apparently one of the dead is a young child.
Now, I'm a paranoid person in general, but while Rep Giffords did vote for obamacare, she did not hold the party line. She wasn't a fully loyal democrat. She was an ardent supporter of border security, and gun rights. This means that if you are a left winger, her death gives you a significant number of wonderful things.
Update:
Well, the media is pulling out all the stops to paint the shooter, Jared Loughner, as having been influenced by the Tea Parties. They have quoted associates out of context and left out statements by those who knew him, saying that he was not a "right winger", but an extreme left winger.
Whether or not this was a false flag operation, the left is pulling out all the stops to see to it that they get to impose more controls. Typical. Any bets as to how long it takes to introduce more gun control legislation? Moreover, I'm willing to bet the Obamunist administration will be doing what it can to impose back door gun control through the BATFE.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01/08/arizona-congresswoman-reportedly-shot-public-event/
Ms. Giffords is apparently in surgery at this time and in grave condition.
Apparently, a federal judge John Roll(sp?) was also either killed or wounded (conflicting reports at this time) in the shooting. 10-19 (depending on the report) have also been shot. Apparently one of the dead is a young child.
Now, I'm a paranoid person in general, but while Rep Giffords did vote for obamacare, she did not hold the party line. She wasn't a fully loyal democrat. She was an ardent supporter of border security, and gun rights. This means that if you are a left winger, her death gives you a significant number of wonderful things.
- You get rid of someone who wasn't totally loyal to the party line.
- You get to blame it on the "evil-teabaggers".
- You get an excuse to delay the repeal vote on obamacare until a replacement can be elected. (The constitution requires that representatives be replaced via special election). This could take months.
- You get a ready martyr for your cause.
Update:
Well, the media is pulling out all the stops to paint the shooter, Jared Loughner, as having been influenced by the Tea Parties. They have quoted associates out of context and left out statements by those who knew him, saying that he was not a "right winger", but an extreme left winger.
Whether or not this was a false flag operation, the left is pulling out all the stops to see to it that they get to impose more controls. Typical. Any bets as to how long it takes to introduce more gun control legislation? Moreover, I'm willing to bet the Obamunist administration will be doing what it can to impose back door gun control through the BATFE.
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Starting to Read Glenn Beck's "Broke"
I've just had a birthday. One of my gifts was Glenn Beck's new book Broke. I'm only a few chapters into it, but so far it is a very intriguing read. It is relatively clearly written, although Beck's writing style can be somewhat confusing at times, and he can have some small difficulty keeping on topic. I would say that either he or his editors have gained some skill since he wrote his own Common Sense.
Broke is a damming condemnation of progressivism, it is well sourced, and well documented, although Mr Beck chooses a slightly unconventional referencing style that would annoy most serious scholars. There are no footnotes. Rather, at the end of the book, there is a chapter by chapter and page by page list of the citations, with quotes from the text, just long enough to find it on the page. Then there is the regular reference.
The clear disadvantage to this is that it makes it slightly more difficult to check the references. The clear advantage is that it makes the text a good deal less busy and easier to read. As the book is designed to be accessible, Mr Beck's citation method is rather nice. That it would piss off the APA and MLA people is merely a bonus.
Thus far it is a compelling read, but as I'm only about 50 pages in so far, I'll withhold judgment and a more complete review until I am finished.
Broke is a damming condemnation of progressivism, it is well sourced, and well documented, although Mr Beck chooses a slightly unconventional referencing style that would annoy most serious scholars. There are no footnotes. Rather, at the end of the book, there is a chapter by chapter and page by page list of the citations, with quotes from the text, just long enough to find it on the page. Then there is the regular reference.
The clear disadvantage to this is that it makes it slightly more difficult to check the references. The clear advantage is that it makes the text a good deal less busy and easier to read. As the book is designed to be accessible, Mr Beck's citation method is rather nice. That it would piss off the APA and MLA people is merely a bonus.
Thus far it is a compelling read, but as I'm only about 50 pages in so far, I'll withhold judgment and a more complete review until I am finished.
Friday, December 3, 2010
How I Became a Gun Owner
I am an enthusiastic gun owner. I have been for about six years. The question becomes "Why does someone in his 30's suddenly decide to start acquiring guns?"
My journey toward gun ownership is rather inextricable from my journey toward conservatism. For much of my life, I thought of myself as a liberal. I wasn't really, but I hadn't come to that realization yet. I am and was raised in a Mormon household, and hold to those beliefs. Already, anyone familiar with traditional Mormon beliefs can see that I was far from being an actual liberal, but my parents were firm Democrats. My father, as well as my grandfather, were railroaders, and union men. Then I started to get some actual life experience.
When I was young, I had only a little interest in guns. It wasn’t that I was anti-gun, but is pretty apathetic toward gun ownership. I generally felt that some sort of gun-control was necessary to prevent insane individuals from entering into public places and shooting unarmed people. I had no idea how this was to be done.
My first shooting experience was when I was about 7. I was playing with the next door neighbor. He was a bit older than me, and had a BB gun. He let me shoot it a couple of times. I had asked my dad for one, but he didn't want to get me one. He said that they were too dangerous, but upon reflection, I'm pretty sure he just didn't want to go to the effort it would have taken to teach me how to use it properly. It took too much away from TV watching. I would be left to do all of my shooting activities in the Cub and Boy Scouts for the next little while.
I next did a little shooting at a Cub Scout day camp. My dad didn't seem to mind, which would tend to confirm my belief that he just didn't want to be bothered. Of course, since I was young, I didn't realize that it was an excuse.
It would be a few years before I would be able to do any more shooting. The summer I was 12, my cousin came from Kansas City for a visit. He had gone to scout camp, and had tried for his Rifle and Shotgun merit badge and failed to get it. He was on the competitive side (but nothing compared to his father my uncle E) we had been doing some other sporting activity. I have always sucked at sports. My cousin was more gifted. He had to be. If he weren't his father would have never have even claimed him.
We had been doing something something sports related. I don't remember what it was, but I hadn't done it before, and I sucked at it. My cousin made fun of me, and rather pissed me off. I had already registered to go to scout camp, and it was coming up in a couple of weeks. I had signed up for several merit badges, but I decided then and there that I would do whatever I could to get MY merit badge. I had to do something better than he could.
When I went to Scout Camp, I started working on all of my Merit Badges. Unfortunately I needed to spend so much time at the range that I could only work on a single other Merit Badge. I managed to get Rifle and Shotgun. It took a lot of work, a lot of .22 ammo, most of my time for the whole week, and a lot of help from my Scoutmaster.
When my cousin heard that I had gotten a sports related merit badge that he couldn't get, he was somewhat annoyed, but my uncle E was livid. He couldn't stomach that I had done something better than his spawn.
The next year, he brought a BB gun when he came to visit, and we borrowed one from my Grandpa, and we ran around the neighborhood having fun. We weren't exactly responsible, but nothing bad happened. The next Christmas, I asked my Grandma for a BB gun, and I got a decent Daisy repeater air rifle. My cousin got one like it. By then he had moved much closer, so we saw each other more frequently. We had great fun with our guns.
Over the next few years, I kept the squirrels out of the nut and fruit trees around the neighborhood, I did a lot of target shooting, and in general had fun.
Then I got into computers. The BB gun went to storage, and I played with my computer. I finished High School, and went to a year of college. Then I went on my mission.
On my mission, I went to the Dominican Republic, and then because I got sick, I was sent to Maryland. Here was where I started my journey toward conservativism. In the Dominican Republic, I encountered actual poverty. Although I didn't really connect it until later, I witnessed the actual effects that the "evil American capitalists" were having on that country. They were building factories, and paying the workers. They were paying what we would consider slave wages, but were about five times the going wages from local employers. Hideous I know.
Even worse, their employees weren't as productive as they could be because they were sick, so they bullied and bribed the local government into providing proper sanitation, and they provided classes in home sanitation. They built apartments for employees and their families to live in, so they could get out of the palm frond, or even garbage huts they lived in before. The apartments had flush toilets and running water, rather than having to use a communal latrine. They had kitchens, rather than having to cook over charcoal purchased that day. There was refrigeration, rather than having purchase food fresh daily. Then they taught them how to use and maintain these things.
Of course they didn’t just give the people these things. They gave them the opportunity to work for them. Simply giving someone something makes them dependent, and doesn’t turn out as good of workers. They were taught to earn it for themselves, and that they could keep what they earned.
When I went to Maryland. I met some actual liberals. It was in Maryland that I first realized that I wasn't all that liberal, but I couldn't admit it to myself. I met radical feminists, militant homosexuals, and the like. I still thought of myself as a Democrat, but I realized that I was nothing like a liberal. I still held a rather anti-capitalist attitude, and felt that I was somehow better than people motivated by money.
After I came home, I started into the local university, and received a wonderfully socialistic indoctrination. I got involved in Linux, and the Open Source/Free Software movement. What these are, and the difference between them is beyond the scope of this article, but perhaps one day, I’ll write a little more about that. To keep matters short, I became deeply involved in the advocacy of Open Source or Free Software. Some individuals in these movements have very socialistic leanings, and tend to be a little heavy handed in their advocacy. I began to notice some of this behavior, and started to wonder. That is not to say that the Open Source movement is socialistic. There is also a very prominent libertarian faction, as well as a small number of conservatives.
The Clinton administration didn't help the liberal cause. Clinton was a slime ball, and I became rather antipathetic toward politics. I had voted for Ross Perot the first time, because I couldn't bring myself to vote Republican, and Clinton was so bad. I even considered starting the "anti-incumbent" party, which would endorse whoever wasn't the incumbent, or lacking an incumbent, whoever wasn't in the incumbent party. In the case of a third party candidate, the endorsement would go to that candidate if he stood a chance of winning, or if a particular winner was basically a foregone conclusion.
Then came my first real realization as to some of my particular problems with liberalism. I was doing my taxes. I had an actual job, and although I wasn’t earning a lot, I was earning some. I did my taxes, and didn’t understand a lot of it. I did know how much I had paid in however. Somehow I had gotten back three times what I put in. That didn’t seem right. I checked it again, very carefully. The numbers checked out. I found this part called “Earned Income Credit.” Without that part, the numbers looked about right. I asked my mother about it, and come to find out this is a feature.
I eventually mentioned it to some of the more liberal students and professors at the university. I was told that it was a wonderful program for redistributing wealth. I had a serious problem with that. First, the government is stealing money from those who did earn it, and giving it to people who, like me, did not earn it. I had a serious problem with that.
For the most part, however, I remained apathetic. I was uninvolved in politics in general. Then came September 11th. That was really a turning point for me. Evan Sayet said it better than I could. In "How Modern Liberals Think", he gives a parable. He tells about a guy who is always complaining about his wife. He's always talking about how terrible his wife is. Now his friend is talking to him one day in a restaurant, and looks out the window, and sees his wife being beaten by a gang. He says "Come on, your wife is being beaten, let's go help her". The man says "No, whatever it is, I'm sure she deserved it."
This was my experience on 9/11. We were attacked, thousands of Americans died in a cowardly and unprovoked attack, and the response I heard from people in the university I where I was working and going to school. I heard how we deserved it, and the implication of how those who worked there also deserved it. I saw the media deliberately distorting the story, and deliberately sanitizing it to make it seem less horrific than it was
That was when I truly realized that liberalism was completely bankrupt morally, ethically, and in every other way conceivable. I began to reexamine other viewpoints that I had shared with those "people."
I had also watched a show on the History Channel about Upton Sinclair, author of The Jungle. He was a communist, and wrote The Jungle, not to showcase the need for an FDA like I was taught in school, but to show the evils of capitalism. I had seen how badly communism had failed, but the History Channel show made it sound like a good deal. It actually made me a bit sick. The real telling thing was when I first tuned in.
I had been raised by union workers. I had been taught how great unions are. In the show, it showed a dramatization of Upton Sinclair (although I hadn't been watching long enough to know who the show was talking about) going to a meeting. I hadn’t figured out even what the show was, but they had speaker spouting pro-worker propaganda. It was some of the same things I’d heard when listening to my father or grandfather talk about unions. I was only half watching, but I figured it was a union organization meeting. When I found out it was actually a depiction a communist rally, I was somewhat disturbed that it was basically impossible to tell the difference between union propaganda, and communist propaganda.
Along about this time, I had another epiphany. I was on my way to pick up my paycheck, and was thinking about how I had no problem paying taxes. They weren't that much, and they did a lot of good. When I went to pick up my check, I looked at how much my gross pay was. I had done it before, but I had never really taken stock of just how much the government was stealing from me. I wasn't making that much, but was having more than a third confiscated from me. I would get some of it back in tax return, but only a small fraction of it and, of course, there is the promise of social security when I retire, but I'm starting to think that wishing on a star might be a more reliable retirement plan.
I began to become interested in my rights, and I started to read about the philosophies that this country was founded on. I found web pages by geeks, like myself, who were not liberals, and started to read what they had to say. I started to think about getting a gun, as it was clear to me that gun ownership was the most effective way for the populace to guard against tyranny. The problem was that guns aren't cheap. If someone tells you they are, either they've looked somewhere I've never been able to find, they're lying, or they have no idea what they're talking about. Whenever I had money, it went toward more computer equipment.
By this time, I had basically become a conservative. I was watching what the liberals said, and did. I was watching how it worked. I was observing history, and noting that we were repeating it. We were allowing our country to move toward a more statist stance. I began to wonder if gun ownership and perhaps violent revolution may, one day, be necessary to restore our liberties.
Then one day, I had a minor lapse of sanity. My mother and my aunt go to yard sales every Saturday during the summer. I tended to lose sanity and go with them once per year. I had my sanity lapse this day. We were checking out yard sales, and I was becoming annoyed with myself and my mother and my aunt. They were checking out the dumbest yard sales, and staying forever at places that had nothing.
Then we stopped at a yard sale, and I saw a semi-auto .30-06 rifle. I wasn't particularly initiated into guns at the time, so I had no idea what kind it was (and I can't remember enough about it now to tell), or if it was in any kind of good shape. It was only a couple of hundred dollars, I passed. I wasn't thinking clearly because I was upset.
Later I started considering the political situation. John Kerry was running for president, and it was looking like he had a chance. He had gone on the record as to supporting all manner of gun-control. I wanted to get a gun before he had a chance to screw everything up. I was kicking myself for passing on that rifle at the yard sale.
I spoke to my father and grand-father about it. Since I had a fair amount of money at the time, I could actually afford several guns. We decided to make the rounds on gun stores to see what they had. There was one problem however. I have poor vision in my right eye, I have to shoot rifles left handed. We needed a semi-auto, a pump action, or a left-handed bolt. I had no idea at the time, but left-handed bolt action rifles are a bit of a rarity, and generally must be special ordered.
We hit a couple of gun shops in the area, and I didn't seen what I wanted. Then we hit a Sports Authority. Someone had ordered a Remington 700 BDL left handed bolt there at least a year earlier, and had never picked it up. They were practically giddy when I wanted to buy it. It was taking up space, and although it's an excellent firearm, a left-handed gun isn't nearly as easy to sell.
Over the next little while, I acquired several more guns. Both pistols and rifles. I started reloading, and now reload for everything I shoot, I acquired a concealed weapons license. I read everything I could about various types of guns, ammunition, and I acquired several books. I began to advocate for the Second Amendment, and I joined the NRA.
I have not been able to go shooting as often as I would like, and I haven't done any reloading in over a year and a half, as life has gotten complicated, but I still love guns and shooting. I still carry habitually when I can, and I'm saving for more training. I've convinced my wife to get a concealed weapons license, and we're currently waiting for that to come through.
My journey toward gun ownership is rather inextricable from my journey toward conservatism. For much of my life, I thought of myself as a liberal. I wasn't really, but I hadn't come to that realization yet. I am and was raised in a Mormon household, and hold to those beliefs. Already, anyone familiar with traditional Mormon beliefs can see that I was far from being an actual liberal, but my parents were firm Democrats. My father, as well as my grandfather, were railroaders, and union men. Then I started to get some actual life experience.
When I was young, I had only a little interest in guns. It wasn’t that I was anti-gun, but is pretty apathetic toward gun ownership. I generally felt that some sort of gun-control was necessary to prevent insane individuals from entering into public places and shooting unarmed people. I had no idea how this was to be done.
My first shooting experience was when I was about 7. I was playing with the next door neighbor. He was a bit older than me, and had a BB gun. He let me shoot it a couple of times. I had asked my dad for one, but he didn't want to get me one. He said that they were too dangerous, but upon reflection, I'm pretty sure he just didn't want to go to the effort it would have taken to teach me how to use it properly. It took too much away from TV watching. I would be left to do all of my shooting activities in the Cub and Boy Scouts for the next little while.
I next did a little shooting at a Cub Scout day camp. My dad didn't seem to mind, which would tend to confirm my belief that he just didn't want to be bothered. Of course, since I was young, I didn't realize that it was an excuse.
It would be a few years before I would be able to do any more shooting. The summer I was 12, my cousin came from Kansas City for a visit. He had gone to scout camp, and had tried for his Rifle and Shotgun merit badge and failed to get it. He was on the competitive side (but nothing compared to his father my uncle E) we had been doing some other sporting activity. I have always sucked at sports. My cousin was more gifted. He had to be. If he weren't his father would have never have even claimed him.
We had been doing something something sports related. I don't remember what it was, but I hadn't done it before, and I sucked at it. My cousin made fun of me, and rather pissed me off. I had already registered to go to scout camp, and it was coming up in a couple of weeks. I had signed up for several merit badges, but I decided then and there that I would do whatever I could to get MY merit badge. I had to do something better than he could.
When I went to Scout Camp, I started working on all of my Merit Badges. Unfortunately I needed to spend so much time at the range that I could only work on a single other Merit Badge. I managed to get Rifle and Shotgun. It took a lot of work, a lot of .22 ammo, most of my time for the whole week, and a lot of help from my Scoutmaster.
When my cousin heard that I had gotten a sports related merit badge that he couldn't get, he was somewhat annoyed, but my uncle E was livid. He couldn't stomach that I had done something better than his spawn.
The next year, he brought a BB gun when he came to visit, and we borrowed one from my Grandpa, and we ran around the neighborhood having fun. We weren't exactly responsible, but nothing bad happened. The next Christmas, I asked my Grandma for a BB gun, and I got a decent Daisy repeater air rifle. My cousin got one like it. By then he had moved much closer, so we saw each other more frequently. We had great fun with our guns.
Over the next few years, I kept the squirrels out of the nut and fruit trees around the neighborhood, I did a lot of target shooting, and in general had fun.
Then I got into computers. The BB gun went to storage, and I played with my computer. I finished High School, and went to a year of college. Then I went on my mission.
On my mission, I went to the Dominican Republic, and then because I got sick, I was sent to Maryland. Here was where I started my journey toward conservativism. In the Dominican Republic, I encountered actual poverty. Although I didn't really connect it until later, I witnessed the actual effects that the "evil American capitalists" were having on that country. They were building factories, and paying the workers. They were paying what we would consider slave wages, but were about five times the going wages from local employers. Hideous I know.
Even worse, their employees weren't as productive as they could be because they were sick, so they bullied and bribed the local government into providing proper sanitation, and they provided classes in home sanitation. They built apartments for employees and their families to live in, so they could get out of the palm frond, or even garbage huts they lived in before. The apartments had flush toilets and running water, rather than having to use a communal latrine. They had kitchens, rather than having to cook over charcoal purchased that day. There was refrigeration, rather than having purchase food fresh daily. Then they taught them how to use and maintain these things.
Of course they didn’t just give the people these things. They gave them the opportunity to work for them. Simply giving someone something makes them dependent, and doesn’t turn out as good of workers. They were taught to earn it for themselves, and that they could keep what they earned.
When I went to Maryland. I met some actual liberals. It was in Maryland that I first realized that I wasn't all that liberal, but I couldn't admit it to myself. I met radical feminists, militant homosexuals, and the like. I still thought of myself as a Democrat, but I realized that I was nothing like a liberal. I still held a rather anti-capitalist attitude, and felt that I was somehow better than people motivated by money.
After I came home, I started into the local university, and received a wonderfully socialistic indoctrination. I got involved in Linux, and the Open Source/Free Software movement. What these are, and the difference between them is beyond the scope of this article, but perhaps one day, I’ll write a little more about that. To keep matters short, I became deeply involved in the advocacy of Open Source or Free Software. Some individuals in these movements have very socialistic leanings, and tend to be a little heavy handed in their advocacy. I began to notice some of this behavior, and started to wonder. That is not to say that the Open Source movement is socialistic. There is also a very prominent libertarian faction, as well as a small number of conservatives.
The Clinton administration didn't help the liberal cause. Clinton was a slime ball, and I became rather antipathetic toward politics. I had voted for Ross Perot the first time, because I couldn't bring myself to vote Republican, and Clinton was so bad. I even considered starting the "anti-incumbent" party, which would endorse whoever wasn't the incumbent, or lacking an incumbent, whoever wasn't in the incumbent party. In the case of a third party candidate, the endorsement would go to that candidate if he stood a chance of winning, or if a particular winner was basically a foregone conclusion.
Then came my first real realization as to some of my particular problems with liberalism. I was doing my taxes. I had an actual job, and although I wasn’t earning a lot, I was earning some. I did my taxes, and didn’t understand a lot of it. I did know how much I had paid in however. Somehow I had gotten back three times what I put in. That didn’t seem right. I checked it again, very carefully. The numbers checked out. I found this part called “Earned Income Credit.” Without that part, the numbers looked about right. I asked my mother about it, and come to find out this is a feature.
I eventually mentioned it to some of the more liberal students and professors at the university. I was told that it was a wonderful program for redistributing wealth. I had a serious problem with that. First, the government is stealing money from those who did earn it, and giving it to people who, like me, did not earn it. I had a serious problem with that.
For the most part, however, I remained apathetic. I was uninvolved in politics in general. Then came September 11th. That was really a turning point for me. Evan Sayet said it better than I could. In "How Modern Liberals Think", he gives a parable. He tells about a guy who is always complaining about his wife. He's always talking about how terrible his wife is. Now his friend is talking to him one day in a restaurant, and looks out the window, and sees his wife being beaten by a gang. He says "Come on, your wife is being beaten, let's go help her". The man says "No, whatever it is, I'm sure she deserved it."
This was my experience on 9/11. We were attacked, thousands of Americans died in a cowardly and unprovoked attack, and the response I heard from people in the university I where I was working and going to school. I heard how we deserved it, and the implication of how those who worked there also deserved it. I saw the media deliberately distorting the story, and deliberately sanitizing it to make it seem less horrific than it was
That was when I truly realized that liberalism was completely bankrupt morally, ethically, and in every other way conceivable. I began to reexamine other viewpoints that I had shared with those "people."
I had also watched a show on the History Channel about Upton Sinclair, author of The Jungle. He was a communist, and wrote The Jungle, not to showcase the need for an FDA like I was taught in school, but to show the evils of capitalism. I had seen how badly communism had failed, but the History Channel show made it sound like a good deal. It actually made me a bit sick. The real telling thing was when I first tuned in.
I had been raised by union workers. I had been taught how great unions are. In the show, it showed a dramatization of Upton Sinclair (although I hadn't been watching long enough to know who the show was talking about) going to a meeting. I hadn’t figured out even what the show was, but they had speaker spouting pro-worker propaganda. It was some of the same things I’d heard when listening to my father or grandfather talk about unions. I was only half watching, but I figured it was a union organization meeting. When I found out it was actually a depiction a communist rally, I was somewhat disturbed that it was basically impossible to tell the difference between union propaganda, and communist propaganda.
Along about this time, I had another epiphany. I was on my way to pick up my paycheck, and was thinking about how I had no problem paying taxes. They weren't that much, and they did a lot of good. When I went to pick up my check, I looked at how much my gross pay was. I had done it before, but I had never really taken stock of just how much the government was stealing from me. I wasn't making that much, but was having more than a third confiscated from me. I would get some of it back in tax return, but only a small fraction of it and, of course, there is the promise of social security when I retire, but I'm starting to think that wishing on a star might be a more reliable retirement plan.
I began to become interested in my rights, and I started to read about the philosophies that this country was founded on. I found web pages by geeks, like myself, who were not liberals, and started to read what they had to say. I started to think about getting a gun, as it was clear to me that gun ownership was the most effective way for the populace to guard against tyranny. The problem was that guns aren't cheap. If someone tells you they are, either they've looked somewhere I've never been able to find, they're lying, or they have no idea what they're talking about. Whenever I had money, it went toward more computer equipment.
By this time, I had basically become a conservative. I was watching what the liberals said, and did. I was watching how it worked. I was observing history, and noting that we were repeating it. We were allowing our country to move toward a more statist stance. I began to wonder if gun ownership and perhaps violent revolution may, one day, be necessary to restore our liberties.
Then one day, I had a minor lapse of sanity. My mother and my aunt go to yard sales every Saturday during the summer. I tended to lose sanity and go with them once per year. I had my sanity lapse this day. We were checking out yard sales, and I was becoming annoyed with myself and my mother and my aunt. They were checking out the dumbest yard sales, and staying forever at places that had nothing.
Then we stopped at a yard sale, and I saw a semi-auto .30-06 rifle. I wasn't particularly initiated into guns at the time, so I had no idea what kind it was (and I can't remember enough about it now to tell), or if it was in any kind of good shape. It was only a couple of hundred dollars, I passed. I wasn't thinking clearly because I was upset.
Later I started considering the political situation. John Kerry was running for president, and it was looking like he had a chance. He had gone on the record as to supporting all manner of gun-control. I wanted to get a gun before he had a chance to screw everything up. I was kicking myself for passing on that rifle at the yard sale.
I spoke to my father and grand-father about it. Since I had a fair amount of money at the time, I could actually afford several guns. We decided to make the rounds on gun stores to see what they had. There was one problem however. I have poor vision in my right eye, I have to shoot rifles left handed. We needed a semi-auto, a pump action, or a left-handed bolt. I had no idea at the time, but left-handed bolt action rifles are a bit of a rarity, and generally must be special ordered.
We hit a couple of gun shops in the area, and I didn't seen what I wanted. Then we hit a Sports Authority. Someone had ordered a Remington 700 BDL left handed bolt there at least a year earlier, and had never picked it up. They were practically giddy when I wanted to buy it. It was taking up space, and although it's an excellent firearm, a left-handed gun isn't nearly as easy to sell.
Over the next little while, I acquired several more guns. Both pistols and rifles. I started reloading, and now reload for everything I shoot, I acquired a concealed weapons license. I read everything I could about various types of guns, ammunition, and I acquired several books. I began to advocate for the Second Amendment, and I joined the NRA.
I have not been able to go shooting as often as I would like, and I haven't done any reloading in over a year and a half, as life has gotten complicated, but I still love guns and shooting. I still carry habitually when I can, and I'm saving for more training. I've convinced my wife to get a concealed weapons license, and we're currently waiting for that to come through.
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Rush Limbaugh's Real Story of Thanksgiving.
In his book See, I Told You So, Rush Limbaugh tells a story about the "First Thanksgiving" that is a little different than the one we were taught in school. Each year he retells the story on his radio show. I would just post a link to it, but since I heard him say on the radio that he's ok with people disseminating it, even without giving him credit, I'll post it here. I wouldn't consider posting it without credit, but from what Mr. Limbaugh said on the radio, I'm pretty sure I can post it here without issue.
Since he just retells it each year, minor details vary from year to year, and he does insert the occasional sarcastic statement, but the overall story is pretty well documented from the pilgrim's own journals. We've just revised the history to suit a leftest bent.
Since he just retells it each year, minor details vary from year to year, and he does insert the occasional sarcastic statement, but the overall story is pretty well documented from the pilgrim's own journals. We've just revised the history to suit a leftest bent.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Buying Gold
As things get worse and worse for this country's economic situation, I'm thinking of cashing out the retirement from my former employer, and buying gold. Why? Because gold is the safest investment possible. I may lose money, but I won't loose it all.
My wife is against the idea, and I won't go ahead with it until we're both onboard. Also, since it's an outsourced retirement fund, I could find another employer that pays into the same retirement fund. I'm just concerned that the dollars in that fund will be worth nothing very soon.
So my dilemma is, do I cash out and loose at least 50% of what is in there, or do I keep it. If I keep it, I may lose more, but I may be better off in the end. Without knowing what is going to happen with our monetary system, I have no idea what to do, but I'm more and more inclined to play it safe.
My wife is against the idea, and I won't go ahead with it until we're both onboard. Also, since it's an outsourced retirement fund, I could find another employer that pays into the same retirement fund. I'm just concerned that the dollars in that fund will be worth nothing very soon.
So my dilemma is, do I cash out and loose at least 50% of what is in there, or do I keep it. If I keep it, I may lose more, but I may be better off in the end. Without knowing what is going to happen with our monetary system, I have no idea what to do, but I'm more and more inclined to play it safe.
Monday, November 8, 2010
Glenn Beck Is in Danger -- They WILL Kill Him. He is Exposing Them.
The radical left has taken control of this country, and Glenn Beck has been doing a lot to expose it. He's called crazy, and yet the things he predicts keep coming true. Not long ago, he said that socialists were trying to take control. He was called crazy. "There are no more socialists," was the constant refrain. Now he's showing videos created by the supposedly mainstream left, of people not espousing socialism, but openly espousing communism.
He said that the fed would monetize the debt. They said that he was fear mongering, and such a thing could never happen in America. Now the fed has announced that they're monetizing the debt. The left has gone to great lengths to discredit Mr. Beck, but he's practically prophetic in his predictions. Every time they try to discredit him, he gains credibility, because he is so often right.
Now he is running a countdown to the revelation of the "puppetmaster", and revealing the plan. this week. They can not let this stand. They now have no choice but to silence him. He and they know that will only stop things for a while, but they are at a critical juncture. Mr. Beck has the ear of a huge number of Americans, and he is exposing their agenda at a critical time.
Now if Mr. Beck is killed, another will step up in his place, but if they can silence him for just a little while longer, they might be able to finish implementing their plan.
Mr. Beck, please take care of yourself.
He said that the fed would monetize the debt. They said that he was fear mongering, and such a thing could never happen in America. Now the fed has announced that they're monetizing the debt. The left has gone to great lengths to discredit Mr. Beck, but he's practically prophetic in his predictions. Every time they try to discredit him, he gains credibility, because he is so often right.
Now he is running a countdown to the revelation of the "puppetmaster", and revealing the plan. this week. They can not let this stand. They now have no choice but to silence him. He and they know that will only stop things for a while, but they are at a critical juncture. Mr. Beck has the ear of a huge number of Americans, and he is exposing their agenda at a critical time.
Now if Mr. Beck is killed, another will step up in his place, but if they can silence him for just a little while longer, they might be able to finish implementing their plan.
Mr. Beck, please take care of yourself.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
We Won!!!
Well, the election is finally over. Now all we have to do is listen to whining from the Democrats about election fraud, at least until investigations are started and find roughly 100 times the election fraud favoring Democrats, then the investigations will quietly go away (there's always some election fraud, this country is too big not to have some).
The Tea Parties have had the desired effect. Fiscally conservative candidates have won in a huge number of races. His Obamaness himself called it a "shelacking". One of the few times I can agree with him.
Now the problem is to not back down. The Republican party has said that they've heard the message, and are going to do what they've seen that the people want, but we've heard that before. Newt Gingritch and his "Contract with America," a 'contract' they broke as soon as they won the elections they needed.
We may have won a pretty good victory here, but it was only a small battle. Now is the time to really push. The Progressives in both parties don't want to loose the power they've usurped over the last 100 years, but we must take it back from them, and return sovereignty to our constitution where it belongs, and not to the massive bureaucratic machine that simply seeks to interpret anything of any value in the constitution away into nothingness.
We need to increase the pressure over the next two years. The progressives might back down a little bit, but they have long term goals. They won't go away until we take control of the country and show those who've been brainwashed by their filth that progressivism doesn't work.
The Tea Parties have had the desired effect. Fiscally conservative candidates have won in a huge number of races. His Obamaness himself called it a "shelacking". One of the few times I can agree with him.
Now the problem is to not back down. The Republican party has said that they've heard the message, and are going to do what they've seen that the people want, but we've heard that before. Newt Gingritch and his "Contract with America," a 'contract' they broke as soon as they won the elections they needed.
We may have won a pretty good victory here, but it was only a small battle. Now is the time to really push. The Progressives in both parties don't want to loose the power they've usurped over the last 100 years, but we must take it back from them, and return sovereignty to our constitution where it belongs, and not to the massive bureaucratic machine that simply seeks to interpret anything of any value in the constitution away into nothingness.
We need to increase the pressure over the next two years. The progressives might back down a little bit, but they have long term goals. They won't go away until we take control of the country and show those who've been brainwashed by their filth that progressivism doesn't work.
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