I'm glad you asked. This is something that applies to smoking, drinking, or any other activity one voluntary does which is known by that person and others to be detrimental.
It is a false rationalization placing the responsibility for your actions onto others. If you look for it, you'll find a conspiracy of enemies out to make you do any stupid thing you can imagine. The enemy is largely created and organized in your own mind. It is fiction.
Obviously no one can make me start smoking again. If I want to I will, and any other explanation is total garbage. If I do, it will be because I am not thinking straight. Most, probably all addictions feed on a person's ability to lie to himself. Or her/it/they self.
Sometimes people see odd things I write and wonder. I guess I don't blame them. Of course I don't. They took time to notice. But I play around a bit and rarely feel emotionally all that angry when ranting. When I get all sappy and sentimental, I'm probably coming from a more heartfelt emotion that I let completely out. I'm a lover not a fighter. Wonder if I've forgotten how to do either one? Probably not...
By not letting life's triggers, which are all part of the conspiracy to make me do what is not what I should do, dictate my behavior, I win. See? I beat Them, even if there actually is no Them.
Never mind.
You probably couldn't see the other dimension friends and things, that float all around me, if I introduced you to each and every one by name, and they all tweaked your nose.
Saturday, January 18, 2014
Friday, January 17, 2014
Better Lay Low; facebook is the devil-part01172014
Don't even try to tell me there is no conspiracy trying to make me smoke. Obviously, there is. I'll give one example, provided I don't get carried away and give five or ten.
They have a page for the regular saturday open mic thing. Actually many very experienced and good players attend this. It is more like a big social club where most of the people play some kind of music. Not everyone is all that good, but most are experienced and have played good paying things at some point.
Anyway, there is a violin player who used to come around. He's played everything from classical to bluegrass, and is very good. He had to move away for whatever reasons, somewhere north of here, so he only gets down this way once every several months. Everyone is happy when he shows.
Well, he posted on the page that he'd be here tomorrow, and said he looks forward to playing, then he said "and I have been practicing so please...bring your A game."
Slowly I turned...
Needless to say, this struck a nerve. Really. You announce you are coming into town and tell everyone what amounts to, "you better play at the top of your game because I, the creme de la creme fiddle del mundo am making an appearance." I know he is in on the let's-anger-John-and-make-him-smoke bandwagon.
It won't work. I did the mature reasonable thing. I posted a reply to his egotistical announcement which says, "Screw off. I'm bringing my B game".
Now I'm thinking, "cool comment. Wish someone else had thought of it first.". This guy is somewhat of an icon I think. You know, the type who many put in that class of people who enjoy a different set of standards and expectations than the average peon in a given group. I know this syndrome both from being in that spot a time or two, and from experienced observation.
So, maybe someone will get a kick out of it. Or maybe not. Either way I can see the trouble I am prone to if I read things and comment.
The Obamabot posted one of those half true talking point pictures which gave all these figures about when the big O took office as compared to now. I know of many things that would shoot some of the figures down, but even in my somewhat agitated condition I'm not going to get into a skewed statistics pissing contest with dedicated statists.
So, I just commented "Utopia!!!"
The reply was, "hell no, but it beats Romneytopia!" Slowly I turned...
What I replied is too long unless I cut and paste. The first line says, "A kick in the nads beats having an eye poked out, but I've never experienced the latter.", then it goes on and on, and who knows what I said. How the hell did Romney get in there?
Obviously the conspirators are laying traps to get me so fed up with humanity, so mad at everything that I'll decide I have to smoke or else I'll drink. And I walked right into the traps. But they can not
win. This is bigger than me now, and I have to do it for God, Freedom, and all that is holy, and whatever it is that makes women so powerfully irresistible. And, I'm doing it for the children!
I'll have to go into camouflage mode for awhile. This is war. And war requires strategy, patience, and stealth. If I were to light up, they'd spot my position and shoot me. Sneaky infidels! I'll not do that today!
They have a page for the regular saturday open mic thing. Actually many very experienced and good players attend this. It is more like a big social club where most of the people play some kind of music. Not everyone is all that good, but most are experienced and have played good paying things at some point.
Anyway, there is a violin player who used to come around. He's played everything from classical to bluegrass, and is very good. He had to move away for whatever reasons, somewhere north of here, so he only gets down this way once every several months. Everyone is happy when he shows.
Well, he posted on the page that he'd be here tomorrow, and said he looks forward to playing, then he said "and I have been practicing so please...bring your A game."
Slowly I turned...
Needless to say, this struck a nerve. Really. You announce you are coming into town and tell everyone what amounts to, "you better play at the top of your game because I, the creme de la creme fiddle del mundo am making an appearance." I know he is in on the let's-anger-John-and-make-him-smoke bandwagon.
It won't work. I did the mature reasonable thing. I posted a reply to his egotistical announcement which says, "Screw off. I'm bringing my B game".
Now I'm thinking, "cool comment. Wish someone else had thought of it first.". This guy is somewhat of an icon I think. You know, the type who many put in that class of people who enjoy a different set of standards and expectations than the average peon in a given group. I know this syndrome both from being in that spot a time or two, and from experienced observation.
So, maybe someone will get a kick out of it. Or maybe not. Either way I can see the trouble I am prone to if I read things and comment.
The Obamabot posted one of those half true talking point pictures which gave all these figures about when the big O took office as compared to now. I know of many things that would shoot some of the figures down, but even in my somewhat agitated condition I'm not going to get into a skewed statistics pissing contest with dedicated statists.
So, I just commented "Utopia!!!"
The reply was, "hell no, but it beats Romneytopia!" Slowly I turned...
What I replied is too long unless I cut and paste. The first line says, "A kick in the nads beats having an eye poked out, but I've never experienced the latter.", then it goes on and on, and who knows what I said. How the hell did Romney get in there?
Obviously the conspirators are laying traps to get me so fed up with humanity, so mad at everything that I'll decide I have to smoke or else I'll drink. And I walked right into the traps. But they can not
win. This is bigger than me now, and I have to do it for God, Freedom, and all that is holy, and whatever it is that makes women so powerfully irresistible. And, I'm doing it for the children!
I'll have to go into camouflage mode for awhile. This is war. And war requires strategy, patience, and stealth. If I were to light up, they'd spot my position and shoot me. Sneaky infidels! I'll not do that today!
??????????? comments, we're doomed
Just a quick WTF. I was reading a little article about Obama telling democratic lawmakers that he planned to do things with or without congressional cooperation in the coming year. What is new? He's saying he'll use executive tricks, directives and the usual moves to push the envelope of executive power.
Presidents have been doing this for some time. Each one seems to step it a little further beyond legitimate constitutional authority, and they get away with it.
Their own party is always ok with it. I'm not. Big deal.
In the comments some character was listing all the flaws of this president; narcissist, messiah complex, etc. He wrote well enough, and spelling was OK--rare for political commenters. Then he says at the end of the list, "and a severe edifice complex".
What is an edifice complex? Is it something to do with buildings? Maybe he thinks he's a building or ..I don't know. If the guy meant Oedipus complex, I'm still not sure I get it. And he said severe, so I guess he really wants to do his mom, and maybe kill his dad? Oh well, too late on both counts.
It could be he actually meant edifice complex.
Finally, I found it in the urban dictionary:
Presidents have been doing this for some time. Each one seems to step it a little further beyond legitimate constitutional authority, and they get away with it.
Their own party is always ok with it. I'm not. Big deal.
In the comments some character was listing all the flaws of this president; narcissist, messiah complex, etc. He wrote well enough, and spelling was OK--rare for political commenters. Then he says at the end of the list, "and a severe edifice complex".
What is an edifice complex? Is it something to do with buildings? Maybe he thinks he's a building or ..I don't know. If the guy meant Oedipus complex, I'm still not sure I get it. And he said severe, so I guess he really wants to do his mom, and maybe kill his dad? Oh well, too late on both counts.
It could be he actually meant edifice complex.
Finally, I found it in the urban dictionary:
(n.)An Edifice Complex is a serious budget-busting illness that typically manifests itself on modern college and university campuses. Soon after their inauguration, an incoming university president will frantically and feverishly fall all over themselves to relentlessly badger wealthy donors and students for the purposes of leaving a mark with their name on it on the campus by constructing a new, over-priced, prime parking lot removing, ten-story structure post-modern eyesore whose purpose is solely to house administration, their support staff, and grace the cover of university brochures and websites. Faculty and students then are given the vacated, broken down, second and third string buildings for use as classes and offices.
So, maybe that is what he meant. Budget busting, ego-centric policies.
Still, I wonder. I'm no fan, but it takes support of congress for a president to get away with madness. Unless of course you are G.W. Bush. In that case you are so powerful you can make hurricanes, and do anything, even hypnotize the democrats to vote for your wars and wipe out their memories so they forget they did it.
A severe edifice complex. I think it would be more fun if he had a severe Oedipus complex.
Either way, if you read comments on news stories, you may find them even scarier than the news.
Review of Lone Survivor; maybe review of the reviews
First let me address the idea that this flick in any way promotes the thrill of touring Afghanistan via the US military. If anything, it does the opposite. Especially because it highlights the unrealistic practice of placing soldiers into war zones under ill conceived rules of engagement. And it also casts a casual light on the typical difficulties bureaucratic arrogance precipitate.
That anyone escaped alive is nothing short of a miracle. There is good reason that so few qualify and make it through SEAL training. That aspect, I can see wanting to do. Perhaps if I had been exposed to that branch of military at an age prior to 16, maybe I'd have tried to prepare myself and sought that as a goal. Probably not, but I do see how a young guy might do that. Maybe girls do, but I don't get that. Sorry.
Anyway, I was prepared for gratuitous blood and gore. It wasn't like that. Highly intense battle scenes were well filmed and effective. Keeping in mind that this was a real mission, and it is based on the book which details the account of the only survivor, it is mind blowing. When the realization sinks in that this stuff happens, this is what we actually send people out to do, it makes me angry and more convinced than ever that politics attracts sociopaths.
No one else would conduct such a foreign policy and place such valuable, incredibly bright, disciplined, well trained people into such situations which do not have more direct connection with the defense of our country. They essentially use the integrity of these teams for their own political gain. It is maddening.
I'd definitely say this movie highlights the very best of what a soldier can be, and the extremes of mental and physical toughness a human being can achieve. It reflects well on the best of the best in special military forces. But it in no way glorifies the context in which they have to do their job in modern times.
Another point to counter some of the lies from critics; the Afghanis were not presented in a bad light. Taliban were portrayed as badass brutal lunatics, which is probably pretty accurate for any islamic extremists. Other Afghanis had a code of honor, and a compassion, without which we wouldn't be having this discussion because Marcus Luttrell would not have survived, so no one would be around to tell the tale.
Now I have to read the book. My impression is that the movie is not too much over the top, like some. How there could be any controversy, or why some think they are taking the liberal line by downplaying this story, or a conservative line in promoting it, I have no idea. People are idiots and willing to hijack or demean anything to further their stupid agendas.
If you want to see an amazing, edge-of-your-seat, almost incomprehensible survival story, see this. You leave thinking, "Holy smoke, how did that guy manage to live?" How did any of them survive as long as they did?
And for all the redneck tough guys out there, black white, or whatever, you think you could do one tenth what these guys did? I seriously doubt it. Most wouldn't have the brains or education to operate the equipment. And you would never make it through training, providing you have the smarts to even qualify for training. (Sorry, I hate gangs and thugs and punks with a passion)
Score 1 for the elite of the military and minus 1 for the political elite who decide where we go to war and how the war is conducted. That is how it goes down in this movie from my perspective.
I'd class this as an anti-war film, but not one of the in your face bullshit ones written by naive dolts. It's an anti-stupid-war film. Good movie.
That anyone escaped alive is nothing short of a miracle. There is good reason that so few qualify and make it through SEAL training. That aspect, I can see wanting to do. Perhaps if I had been exposed to that branch of military at an age prior to 16, maybe I'd have tried to prepare myself and sought that as a goal. Probably not, but I do see how a young guy might do that. Maybe girls do, but I don't get that. Sorry.
Anyway, I was prepared for gratuitous blood and gore. It wasn't like that. Highly intense battle scenes were well filmed and effective. Keeping in mind that this was a real mission, and it is based on the book which details the account of the only survivor, it is mind blowing. When the realization sinks in that this stuff happens, this is what we actually send people out to do, it makes me angry and more convinced than ever that politics attracts sociopaths.
No one else would conduct such a foreign policy and place such valuable, incredibly bright, disciplined, well trained people into such situations which do not have more direct connection with the defense of our country. They essentially use the integrity of these teams for their own political gain. It is maddening.
I'd definitely say this movie highlights the very best of what a soldier can be, and the extremes of mental and physical toughness a human being can achieve. It reflects well on the best of the best in special military forces. But it in no way glorifies the context in which they have to do their job in modern times.
Another point to counter some of the lies from critics; the Afghanis were not presented in a bad light. Taliban were portrayed as badass brutal lunatics, which is probably pretty accurate for any islamic extremists. Other Afghanis had a code of honor, and a compassion, without which we wouldn't be having this discussion because Marcus Luttrell would not have survived, so no one would be around to tell the tale.
Now I have to read the book. My impression is that the movie is not too much over the top, like some. How there could be any controversy, or why some think they are taking the liberal line by downplaying this story, or a conservative line in promoting it, I have no idea. People are idiots and willing to hijack or demean anything to further their stupid agendas.
If you want to see an amazing, edge-of-your-seat, almost incomprehensible survival story, see this. You leave thinking, "Holy smoke, how did that guy manage to live?" How did any of them survive as long as they did?
And for all the redneck tough guys out there, black white, or whatever, you think you could do one tenth what these guys did? I seriously doubt it. Most wouldn't have the brains or education to operate the equipment. And you would never make it through training, providing you have the smarts to even qualify for training. (Sorry, I hate gangs and thugs and punks with a passion)
Score 1 for the elite of the military and minus 1 for the political elite who decide where we go to war and how the war is conducted. That is how it goes down in this movie from my perspective.
I'd class this as an anti-war film, but not one of the in your face bullshit ones written by naive dolts. It's an anti-stupid-war film. Good movie.
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Casting Pearls Before Swine
Seriously, I wonder what I should do about this. The last 3 or 4 posts here are as good as anything since the stories of Tito Bandito and his perpetual McDonald's soda cup.
The world just keeps going, paying no notice of it. Probably trying to make me smoke. Is there no one who is not part of this conspiracy?
I'm going to go see Lone Survivor. I read some reviews and a few reminded me of a time long ago when Once Upon a Time In the West came out. It was during a period when it was hip to decry anything slightly violent, unless the violence involved mobs storming administration buildings or snarling and stopping traffic in the name of peace.
Wait.
So it is bad if a politician screws with traffic because someone is not in his camp---could be dangerous and cost lives---but ok when unions or others do it in the name of some self righteous zealotry? Let's think about one set of standards someday.
Anyway, the film critic at the Miami Herald made such a complaint of the opening scenes of that movie, admittedly walked out in the first 10 minutes, slammed the flick so hard that it was pulled after just a few days. It was one of the best of westerns--spaghetti western with Charles Bronson, Henry Fonda and others. Pure classic.
But it was the pretense of the critics that they were giving original viewpoints, when they were merely echoing the hipster intellectual party line of the time, that was obvious to me. That kind of trendy pseudo-intellectualism has always made me want to rebel or punch someone. I see similar idiocy in the language of many of Lone Survivor's reviews.
My response to pandering critics is, I'll see the flick, even though I think our mideast involvement has been insane since probably the 1950s. Certainly since the 70s. But that is not the point of the thing. I do not dislike our policy because I think the cultures and people there are marvelous and wonderful. I think they are examples of the mass insanity typical of religious fanaticism, and religious states in general. Especially Islamic states. Very brutal and backward and impossible.
You cannot deal with religious states, and we should mind our own business, and define "our interests" little more narrowly. As it is, we could go to war anywhere in the name of national security and "US interests abroad". This crap about bringing democracy to everyone in the world is improper on various levels. For one thing democracy and liberty are not one and same. For another, if those societies wanted something different they've had many centuries to change things.
So there. And you can't make me smoke today, so quit trying.
The world just keeps going, paying no notice of it. Probably trying to make me smoke. Is there no one who is not part of this conspiracy?
I'm going to go see Lone Survivor. I read some reviews and a few reminded me of a time long ago when Once Upon a Time In the West came out. It was during a period when it was hip to decry anything slightly violent, unless the violence involved mobs storming administration buildings or snarling and stopping traffic in the name of peace.
Wait.
So it is bad if a politician screws with traffic because someone is not in his camp---could be dangerous and cost lives---but ok when unions or others do it in the name of some self righteous zealotry? Let's think about one set of standards someday.
Anyway, the film critic at the Miami Herald made such a complaint of the opening scenes of that movie, admittedly walked out in the first 10 minutes, slammed the flick so hard that it was pulled after just a few days. It was one of the best of westerns--spaghetti western with Charles Bronson, Henry Fonda and others. Pure classic.
But it was the pretense of the critics that they were giving original viewpoints, when they were merely echoing the hipster intellectual party line of the time, that was obvious to me. That kind of trendy pseudo-intellectualism has always made me want to rebel or punch someone. I see similar idiocy in the language of many of Lone Survivor's reviews.
My response to pandering critics is, I'll see the flick, even though I think our mideast involvement has been insane since probably the 1950s. Certainly since the 70s. But that is not the point of the thing. I do not dislike our policy because I think the cultures and people there are marvelous and wonderful. I think they are examples of the mass insanity typical of religious fanaticism, and religious states in general. Especially Islamic states. Very brutal and backward and impossible.
You cannot deal with religious states, and we should mind our own business, and define "our interests" little more narrowly. As it is, we could go to war anywhere in the name of national security and "US interests abroad". This crap about bringing democracy to everyone in the world is improper on various levels. For one thing democracy and liberty are not one and same. For another, if those societies wanted something different they've had many centuries to change things.
So there. And you can't make me smoke today, so quit trying.
Mama's Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Junkies
This damned keyboard is driving me to sniff glue or point toy guns at the ground while cops shoot me down. The s and d aren't printing on the screen much of the time. They know when I'm not watching. That's when they lay out.
It is the keyboard of the laptop. I have one that plugs in to usb or other port. I guess I have to break it out finally. What a pain.
I should not be going through withdrawal at this point but it is monumental today. And it is making me have to fight myself not to fly into an unfocussed rage. I tell you, it is the curse of my people; the ones of high cheek bones cursing my light eyes side.
For that reason I do not give in. The bastards want me to fail. I am sick of them winning. They are as obnoxious as the one sided, half truth Obama worship that guy keeps posting on facebook. Republican this and republican that. They are all posted from other fanatic sites. And then they claim, oh look, a 53 billion dollar surplus in dec. Thank you obama. Then all the comments go back to republican this and republican that. Explain how you have a surplus if your debt is in the trillions and not going down?
And leave republicans out of it. They do not hold the major power, and don't do much to counter the shysters that do. And that is on the page where everyone plays Mr and Ms Ultra intellectual. They really do pretty much go off in the vein of angel dancing on the head of a pin, except they always mange to spin it as something regarding republicans; either outright or implied.
So you hate republicans. I'm not arguing. But I do think, since we never nailed Bush for things like prosecutor Johnny Sutton's criminal acts and pandering to Mexican crooks, we can avoid the same mistake and hold this group accountable for their gun running fiascos, both in Mexico and, in another context, in Benghazi. And IRS and NSA abuse; just to scratch the surface.
But nooo. Any mention of any of it and here we go with republican this and republican that and opponents just want to take Obama down because he is black. What part of bullshit do these sycophants not understand? It is annoying me to no end today. It is like a bunch of automatons programmed to parrot the same thing over and over, no matter what facts or questions lie before them.
They want me to smoke. You think I'm going to do what they want me to do? No! They can probably turn that into some republican this and that nonsense. Obviously they refuse to hold the two teams they think cover the entire gamut of human discourse and thought to equal standards. A republican can sneeze in a closet and it is some evil racist plot, most likely involving the Koch brothers. But Pelosi or Feinstein can be making millions off of government favors and any mention is back to republicans this and that and furthermore fox news is bad.
I've never seen anything like it. And it is all a plot to make people smoke cigarettes, sniff glue and give up. And you better buy insurance or they'll mess you up so you have to go to the hospital, and then you got some 'splainin' to do. But they aren't republicans, so that makes it all OK. That is, apparently, the whole democratic platform; we aren't republicans and every screwed up, corrupt, crony ridden act we make is not our fault. It is all because republicans hate women, puppies, old people ("seniors" barf), the children, education, art, and they love mass murder.
These are people who probably do well at scrabble and other smarty pants contests, yet they continually pump out this one sided, half true or totally false nonsense. They sincerely believe that you can run the US like a small european state and that making everyone but them pay for it is going to be utopia. They must be on grants.
I want a grant to research how not to smoke when the Man and his herd of elitist sheep drive you over the edge.
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Been reading Roxanne's dad's books about the airlines and his life. What a cool guy. A movie should be made without a doubt. Really something, I think. Most WWII veteran airline pilots were 1st class jerks. Heroes, sometimes, but total ego-swelled pricks. I knew many, including my own dear dad, pbuh. Facts are facts. Papa of Roxanne was not like that.
I don't know why Roxanne isn't putting the full court press on me. She really should. If she isn't totally nuts we'd be good. If I had a game, I'd step it up. Friggin subliminal attack is not yielding any obvious results. She's probably in on the make-John-smoke conspiracy. Not sure if she has high cheek bones. I only know I do because some people said so. I don't even know what that means.
In any case, papa Roxanne is an excellent example of how to live your life. I'm sure it hasn't all been roses, but I think he's kept his end of every bargain, and been gentle and forgiving of those who may have fallen short. Although he probably held a hard line at times. He married someone who never quit being ultra attractive, and probably hasn't spent a boring moment since birth. And he has good looking daughters, and a son that did quite well.
So, the ones who can't address an envelope without going off on republican this and that, the ones who want a king, Roxanne, the Cherokee nation, and maybe the Sioux, are all trying to make me smoke. This is now a battle of wits, and I think it inconceivable that I will lose. Been taking DHA to make my brain optimal. They have no chance.
It is the keyboard of the laptop. I have one that plugs in to usb or other port. I guess I have to break it out finally. What a pain.
I should not be going through withdrawal at this point but it is monumental today. And it is making me have to fight myself not to fly into an unfocussed rage. I tell you, it is the curse of my people; the ones of high cheek bones cursing my light eyes side.
For that reason I do not give in. The bastards want me to fail. I am sick of them winning. They are as obnoxious as the one sided, half truth Obama worship that guy keeps posting on facebook. Republican this and republican that. They are all posted from other fanatic sites. And then they claim, oh look, a 53 billion dollar surplus in dec. Thank you obama. Then all the comments go back to republican this and republican that. Explain how you have a surplus if your debt is in the trillions and not going down?
And leave republicans out of it. They do not hold the major power, and don't do much to counter the shysters that do. And that is on the page where everyone plays Mr and Ms Ultra intellectual. They really do pretty much go off in the vein of angel dancing on the head of a pin, except they always mange to spin it as something regarding republicans; either outright or implied.
So you hate republicans. I'm not arguing. But I do think, since we never nailed Bush for things like prosecutor Johnny Sutton's criminal acts and pandering to Mexican crooks, we can avoid the same mistake and hold this group accountable for their gun running fiascos, both in Mexico and, in another context, in Benghazi. And IRS and NSA abuse; just to scratch the surface.
But nooo. Any mention of any of it and here we go with republican this and republican that and opponents just want to take Obama down because he is black. What part of bullshit do these sycophants not understand? It is annoying me to no end today. It is like a bunch of automatons programmed to parrot the same thing over and over, no matter what facts or questions lie before them.
They want me to smoke. You think I'm going to do what they want me to do? No! They can probably turn that into some republican this and that nonsense. Obviously they refuse to hold the two teams they think cover the entire gamut of human discourse and thought to equal standards. A republican can sneeze in a closet and it is some evil racist plot, most likely involving the Koch brothers. But Pelosi or Feinstein can be making millions off of government favors and any mention is back to republicans this and that and furthermore fox news is bad.
I've never seen anything like it. And it is all a plot to make people smoke cigarettes, sniff glue and give up. And you better buy insurance or they'll mess you up so you have to go to the hospital, and then you got some 'splainin' to do. But they aren't republicans, so that makes it all OK. That is, apparently, the whole democratic platform; we aren't republicans and every screwed up, corrupt, crony ridden act we make is not our fault. It is all because republicans hate women, puppies, old people ("seniors" barf), the children, education, art, and they love mass murder.
These are people who probably do well at scrabble and other smarty pants contests, yet they continually pump out this one sided, half true or totally false nonsense. They sincerely believe that you can run the US like a small european state and that making everyone but them pay for it is going to be utopia. They must be on grants.
I want a grant to research how not to smoke when the Man and his herd of elitist sheep drive you over the edge.
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Been reading Roxanne's dad's books about the airlines and his life. What a cool guy. A movie should be made without a doubt. Really something, I think. Most WWII veteran airline pilots were 1st class jerks. Heroes, sometimes, but total ego-swelled pricks. I knew many, including my own dear dad, pbuh. Facts are facts. Papa of Roxanne was not like that.
I don't know why Roxanne isn't putting the full court press on me. She really should. If she isn't totally nuts we'd be good. If I had a game, I'd step it up. Friggin subliminal attack is not yielding any obvious results. She's probably in on the make-John-smoke conspiracy. Not sure if she has high cheek bones. I only know I do because some people said so. I don't even know what that means.
In any case, papa Roxanne is an excellent example of how to live your life. I'm sure it hasn't all been roses, but I think he's kept his end of every bargain, and been gentle and forgiving of those who may have fallen short. Although he probably held a hard line at times. He married someone who never quit being ultra attractive, and probably hasn't spent a boring moment since birth. And he has good looking daughters, and a son that did quite well.
So, the ones who can't address an envelope without going off on republican this and that, the ones who want a king, Roxanne, the Cherokee nation, and maybe the Sioux, are all trying to make me smoke. This is now a battle of wits, and I think it inconceivable that I will lose. Been taking DHA to make my brain optimal. They have no chance.
Monday, January 13, 2014
Dancing on the Head of a Pin
Back in the good old days, maybe during the medieval period or similar era, supposedly intellectuals and philosophers of the day debated topics like "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?".
Later the topic arose as indication of the superiority of more modern intellectuals as a form of derision toward their predecessors. Don't be fooled. The self appointed elite never ceased in such egocentric dialog.
{People forget just how rare freedom to improve one's lot in life was back in the pre-automobile, pre-electric, and pre-American Revolution times. You could probably get away with more in many ways because technology of official control and oversight was rather weak and ineffective. They couldn't afford to have government agents hiding in the woods hoping to catch speeding buggies, or horses with a missing shoe.
It has taken us a long time, but much of the ideology which switched us from being considered subservient subjects to being autonomous individual citizens did influence world thought, including ending slavery in most places. Though it is still prevalent in parts of Africa, the mideast and asia. Unfortunately, the basic premises of individual liberty have been lost or convoluted under the power structure which evolved in spite of the Constitution. (not because of, as some nincompoops claim)}
But we don't hear much about the people who accomplished the mundane things of life, like market the first toilet paper. We hear about the geniuses who could take a topic, like angels dancing on a pin, and employ very deep, complicated analysis to it, so that a normal person happening upon such a discussion would conclude that he was too ignorant and devoid of intelligence to even understand the topic, let alone venture an opinion. The topics may not be the same, but lawyers and doctors and academicians, among others, built much of their industries upon such linguistic and philosophical tactics.
And that has been the trick employed by manipulators of people and public principle, as well as academia, ever since. Had I not undergone extensive testing, for simple yet complex reasons, I would have forever believed that such people were far more intelligent than I. I always found the ones who convolute the issue at hand with a myriad of obscure, and often irrelevant bits of information highly annoying. Now I know why. They are annoying, and not as smart as they'd have you believe.
It is the vanity of many in academia, and people all over the internet, to swamp a discussion with alleged facts which avoid the principle at hand, and are half truths which really require a separate analysis on their own. Throw in some LOL, and reference to unhip political opponents, and bammo, you've won the day without making a single legitimate point.
Sometimes I see academic types who have to reference obscure literary works or other esoteric references when discussing things with which they personally have little knowledge; blue collar jobs, being poor, hazards of racial violence, running a small business, etc. But they know the answers, and how others feel. Their nonsense is so steeped in rhetoric that only masters of the expert level of Trivia would know, it tends to cause one to shrink away from commenting or disputing their marxian conclusions.
I have a lot of trouble using what intelligence I have. Maybe I'm too stupid to know how. It did open my eyes a bit when two separate, unaffiliated shrinks tested me about a year apart and exclaimed the same thing, which would indicate that these annoying academic types, insulated from real life, have absolutely nothing on me in capacity to know or learn. I do have my glitches, but that is another story.
The point is that much of the world is run by purveyors of fine print, and coded language which only serves to dupe others, feed egos, and generally steal and mislead. I observed a thread discussing the war on poverty, and why are there so many poor people?
They went into all kinds of mumbo jumbo, analysis of the lack of apprenticeship opportunities due to manufacturing moving overseas, and using words like "vector" and on and on. I envisioned a pompous pipe smoker, mumbling in a country club voice, sipping scotch, chilling out in the smoking jacket.
Obviously, these guys had never worked where I've worked, closely examined public schools, or been stranded in pockets of either white or black redneck areas. They never tried to legally go from homeless to self sufficient with their own transportation only to discover that fees and taxes and official hoops doubled the initial cost of existence. They, like most people, never considered those who really want to better their lot, but do not want to go to a government agency and be humiliated, second guessed, treated like a truant child, and lose what shred of self respect they have left.
How many programs and initiatives have to be lost in bureaucratic insanity before the dancing pin analysts figure out that their theories and misuse of the wealth of others has contributed, and still contributes to the problems they decry, and characterize as "somehow Kafkaesque", all the while maintaining a condescending, if not disdainful attitude toward those who attempt "pedestrian" enterprises like building a business, owning a gun, working without joining a union, speaking or writing in ways that most people can understand, raising a decent family, building a lifelong marriage, minding one's own business...things beneath the self appointed arbiters of social cost and greater good.
Funny how running a hardware store is considered somehow less elevated than being in advertising if one observes Hollywood's take on it. And, oddly, Hollywood and academia are largely on the same page, as far as what is revered and what is shunned. And being in acting or politics even trumps advertising. Some jerk spending public money in a way in which 49% disapprove gets labelled as a "great American"; great man or great woman. Give me a friggin break.
Let those leeches dance on a pin. The guy who used to run Miller Road Hardware in southwest Miami was a great man. And he didn't do it on money taken at gunpoint. You can have your huckster heroes posing as "public servants". I'll take a good hardware person over them any time.
I think much of what ails our country, and many others, is that they let the debate regarding angels dancing on the head of a pin serve as the model for making laws and reasoning through various problems as they've arisen. (Of course, behind the scenes, the unscrupulous make fortunes off the madness)
This explains why the more effort on the official level that has gone toward solving "crises", the more the crises have grown and multiplied. But we pretend it makes sense because they sound smart, and they claim all who disagree are idiots, bigots, fools, unAmerican, xenophobic, baby killers, warring against women, mean to old folks, for poisoning the children, racist, stoopitt, etc., and then they lol . Or even roflmao, and worse!
The emperor has no clothes and, it appears, he/she/it/they has undergone a sex change.
update: the native part of me has still been successful in resisting the white devil's firewater.
The white devil in me is still resisting the red devil's evil killing smoke.
One, or two, must be ever vigilant, and it can be trying at times.
I'm repulsed by firewater most of the time, so that is good.
I'm hoping to find the evil tobacco as repulsive someday soon. We are getting there.
This inner conflict caused by my multi-cultural genes is tricky and potentially volatile.
Just imagine the foolishness of thinking it isn't equally volatile and dangerous in the outer world on the macro scale in society.
Later the topic arose as indication of the superiority of more modern intellectuals as a form of derision toward their predecessors. Don't be fooled. The self appointed elite never ceased in such egocentric dialog.
{People forget just how rare freedom to improve one's lot in life was back in the pre-automobile, pre-electric, and pre-American Revolution times. You could probably get away with more in many ways because technology of official control and oversight was rather weak and ineffective. They couldn't afford to have government agents hiding in the woods hoping to catch speeding buggies, or horses with a missing shoe.
It has taken us a long time, but much of the ideology which switched us from being considered subservient subjects to being autonomous individual citizens did influence world thought, including ending slavery in most places. Though it is still prevalent in parts of Africa, the mideast and asia. Unfortunately, the basic premises of individual liberty have been lost or convoluted under the power structure which evolved in spite of the Constitution. (not because of, as some nincompoops claim)}
But we don't hear much about the people who accomplished the mundane things of life, like market the first toilet paper. We hear about the geniuses who could take a topic, like angels dancing on a pin, and employ very deep, complicated analysis to it, so that a normal person happening upon such a discussion would conclude that he was too ignorant and devoid of intelligence to even understand the topic, let alone venture an opinion. The topics may not be the same, but lawyers and doctors and academicians, among others, built much of their industries upon such linguistic and philosophical tactics.
And that has been the trick employed by manipulators of people and public principle, as well as academia, ever since. Had I not undergone extensive testing, for simple yet complex reasons, I would have forever believed that such people were far more intelligent than I. I always found the ones who convolute the issue at hand with a myriad of obscure, and often irrelevant bits of information highly annoying. Now I know why. They are annoying, and not as smart as they'd have you believe.
It is the vanity of many in academia, and people all over the internet, to swamp a discussion with alleged facts which avoid the principle at hand, and are half truths which really require a separate analysis on their own. Throw in some LOL, and reference to unhip political opponents, and bammo, you've won the day without making a single legitimate point.
Sometimes I see academic types who have to reference obscure literary works or other esoteric references when discussing things with which they personally have little knowledge; blue collar jobs, being poor, hazards of racial violence, running a small business, etc. But they know the answers, and how others feel. Their nonsense is so steeped in rhetoric that only masters of the expert level of Trivia would know, it tends to cause one to shrink away from commenting or disputing their marxian conclusions.
I have a lot of trouble using what intelligence I have. Maybe I'm too stupid to know how. It did open my eyes a bit when two separate, unaffiliated shrinks tested me about a year apart and exclaimed the same thing, which would indicate that these annoying academic types, insulated from real life, have absolutely nothing on me in capacity to know or learn. I do have my glitches, but that is another story.
The point is that much of the world is run by purveyors of fine print, and coded language which only serves to dupe others, feed egos, and generally steal and mislead. I observed a thread discussing the war on poverty, and why are there so many poor people?
They went into all kinds of mumbo jumbo, analysis of the lack of apprenticeship opportunities due to manufacturing moving overseas, and using words like "vector" and on and on. I envisioned a pompous pipe smoker, mumbling in a country club voice, sipping scotch, chilling out in the smoking jacket.
Obviously, these guys had never worked where I've worked, closely examined public schools, or been stranded in pockets of either white or black redneck areas. They never tried to legally go from homeless to self sufficient with their own transportation only to discover that fees and taxes and official hoops doubled the initial cost of existence. They, like most people, never considered those who really want to better their lot, but do not want to go to a government agency and be humiliated, second guessed, treated like a truant child, and lose what shred of self respect they have left.
How many programs and initiatives have to be lost in bureaucratic insanity before the dancing pin analysts figure out that their theories and misuse of the wealth of others has contributed, and still contributes to the problems they decry, and characterize as "somehow Kafkaesque", all the while maintaining a condescending, if not disdainful attitude toward those who attempt "pedestrian" enterprises like building a business, owning a gun, working without joining a union, speaking or writing in ways that most people can understand, raising a decent family, building a lifelong marriage, minding one's own business...things beneath the self appointed arbiters of social cost and greater good.
Funny how running a hardware store is considered somehow less elevated than being in advertising if one observes Hollywood's take on it. And, oddly, Hollywood and academia are largely on the same page, as far as what is revered and what is shunned. And being in acting or politics even trumps advertising. Some jerk spending public money in a way in which 49% disapprove gets labelled as a "great American"; great man or great woman. Give me a friggin break.
Let those leeches dance on a pin. The guy who used to run Miller Road Hardware in southwest Miami was a great man. And he didn't do it on money taken at gunpoint. You can have your huckster heroes posing as "public servants". I'll take a good hardware person over them any time.
I think much of what ails our country, and many others, is that they let the debate regarding angels dancing on the head of a pin serve as the model for making laws and reasoning through various problems as they've arisen. (Of course, behind the scenes, the unscrupulous make fortunes off the madness)
This explains why the more effort on the official level that has gone toward solving "crises", the more the crises have grown and multiplied. But we pretend it makes sense because they sound smart, and they claim all who disagree are idiots, bigots, fools, unAmerican, xenophobic, baby killers, warring against women, mean to old folks, for poisoning the children, racist, stoopitt, etc., and then they lol . Or even roflmao, and worse!
The emperor has no clothes and, it appears, he/she/it/they has undergone a sex change.
Aloha, you peasants and peons. Let's move, you obese subjects.
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
First spouses shouldn't be seen or heard. Nothing but fodder for lazy journalists and a waste of tax dollars. You want royalty and nobility? Move to a goddam kingdom!!!update: the native part of me has still been successful in resisting the white devil's firewater.
The white devil in me is still resisting the red devil's evil killing smoke.
One, or two, must be ever vigilant, and it can be trying at times.
I'm repulsed by firewater most of the time, so that is good.
I'm hoping to find the evil tobacco as repulsive someday soon. We are getting there.
This inner conflict caused by my multi-cultural genes is tricky and potentially volatile.
Just imagine the foolishness of thinking it isn't equally volatile and dangerous in the outer world on the macro scale in society.
Saturday, January 11, 2014
Sitting Bull's revenge
Ever think the revenge of the red man might be cigarettes? I guess it is ok to say red man. God only knows.
I was thinking about it because I cannot understand why I have a desire to murder myself with smoke. It is not only the nicotine that is craved, but the harsh feel of the smoke which is undoubtedly the sensation of throat tissue undergoing abusive irritation. Like ripping fingernails into an open sore that tends to itch. No good can come of it.
So why would anyone be compelled to such self mutilation? It goes good with coffee, must be the definitive answer. Chicks do not tend to dig it, so there isn't that.
Seriously, this thing of having an addictive personality and physiology is not as cool as I'm sure everyone thinks. It's like having a free pass on a railway that only travels between here and hell, and you hop on because you want out of the house, and it is the only option. Or something.
This is the first time I've suspended the smoking habit and actually noticed that I felt better in any way. Previously, I couldn't tell much difference in physical feeling of well being. This time I feel a physical improvement to a small degree. Enough to notice, and I've not done without for long.
I blame it on Hiawatha and the gang. Probably my own ancestors, since I have high cheek bones like that Indian princess from Harvard who is now a senator, Running Compost aka Liz Warren. So my own people may be getting revenge on my other people, and the war was waged in me. "Smoke and die, you white devil!!!" "Live free and don't smoke. Let pale face with forked tongue die like dog, not you".
This is what wannabes don't get; life is full of conflict and confusion for the truly multi-cultural. And the wannabe hucksters actually make it worse with their white guilt, and support of ethnic and racial jingoism. All these internal factions drinking the kool aid and warring with one another as a result. Stop it!! I say. You are driving parts of me to smoke and die badly.
But not today.
So, when waxing poetic and lamenting the abused perfection of the native American, (of which I am one--born here and raised here through no fault of my own) rest easy knowing that an effective long term curse did, and does still, plague the evil pale intruders. And many of their not so pale brethren.
Was this an intentional plot? Could they have known the many directions in which this would pull the multi-cultural generations of the future? Like me. They launched a scheme which is dividing my spirit and awakening the Jones within. The ready-rolled jones.
I'll try not to be their puppet by refusing to do what they want me to do. They want me to smoke so I won't. I'll blow smokeless air in their face.
I can get nicotine any time I want, from a lozenge. But I tell you, nicotine is a small part of this conspiracy. Obama smokes. That indicates that the American Indians aka Native Americans have him right where they want him. They own him. He's their bitch.
That's what I'm trying to avoid, especially now that I've uncovered their dastardly plan.
I was thinking about it because I cannot understand why I have a desire to murder myself with smoke. It is not only the nicotine that is craved, but the harsh feel of the smoke which is undoubtedly the sensation of throat tissue undergoing abusive irritation. Like ripping fingernails into an open sore that tends to itch. No good can come of it.
So why would anyone be compelled to such self mutilation? It goes good with coffee, must be the definitive answer. Chicks do not tend to dig it, so there isn't that.
Seriously, this thing of having an addictive personality and physiology is not as cool as I'm sure everyone thinks. It's like having a free pass on a railway that only travels between here and hell, and you hop on because you want out of the house, and it is the only option. Or something.
This is the first time I've suspended the smoking habit and actually noticed that I felt better in any way. Previously, I couldn't tell much difference in physical feeling of well being. This time I feel a physical improvement to a small degree. Enough to notice, and I've not done without for long.
I blame it on Hiawatha and the gang. Probably my own ancestors, since I have high cheek bones like that Indian princess from Harvard who is now a senator, Running Compost aka Liz Warren. So my own people may be getting revenge on my other people, and the war was waged in me. "Smoke and die, you white devil!!!" "Live free and don't smoke. Let pale face with forked tongue die like dog, not you".
This is what wannabes don't get; life is full of conflict and confusion for the truly multi-cultural. And the wannabe hucksters actually make it worse with their white guilt, and support of ethnic and racial jingoism. All these internal factions drinking the kool aid and warring with one another as a result. Stop it!! I say. You are driving parts of me to smoke and die badly.
But not today.
So, when waxing poetic and lamenting the abused perfection of the native American, (of which I am one--born here and raised here through no fault of my own) rest easy knowing that an effective long term curse did, and does still, plague the evil pale intruders. And many of their not so pale brethren.
Was this an intentional plot? Could they have known the many directions in which this would pull the multi-cultural generations of the future? Like me. They launched a scheme which is dividing my spirit and awakening the Jones within. The ready-rolled jones.
I'll try not to be their puppet by refusing to do what they want me to do. They want me to smoke so I won't. I'll blow smokeless air in their face.
I can get nicotine any time I want, from a lozenge. But I tell you, nicotine is a small part of this conspiracy. Obama smokes. That indicates that the American Indians aka Native Americans have him right where they want him. They own him. He's their bitch.
That's what I'm trying to avoid, especially now that I've uncovered their dastardly plan.
Friday, January 10, 2014
Income Inequality
Oh my God!! Not everyone's income is equal. Thankfully, Obama and the latest NYC annoyance are "fighting" to solve this problem. That sort is always "fighting for you". They don't mean it. They aren't actually fighting.
They are making conspicuous rules and directives to please large blocks of morons who vote, while including inconspicuous perks for companies and interests which fund campaigns and help keep them in power and luxury. You'd think they were out on a battlefield somewhere slaying dragons to hear them talk. No. They are cruising in limos and jets and doing "important" stuff that we're to common to comprehend.
One thing on which you can depend: when wealthy people in government pretend to care that people are not all rich, another sliver of honest opportunity is about to go out the window, chances to scam the system are going to increase, and crony capitalists(that part is really a misnomer) are preparing for a windfall of one type or another.
It is a waste of time to discuss minimum wage laws with the hard core. It doesn't work, won't work, and can't work. If every bit of wealth is centrally controlled, and the population so under the thumb, dumb, or drugged that no private initiative is possible, then you may have a shot for success. But you have to be able to make everyone do exactly the right amount of work, according to ability, as well. And you have to be a damned good planner.
Otherwise, forcing a minimum wage merely inflates the money, and sometimes contributes to contraction of an economy due to less hiring and other reductions in business expansion. Eventually the new minimum wage is worth the same or less than the old one. If you are lucky, technology advances allow one to survive with little wealth. Mostly it is another front for power grabbing by forcing more dependence upon lovely government programs which enrich the cronies through contracts and blatant theft--like the outfit which produced the healthcare website.
I refuse to call it obamacare--too orwellian, patriarchal, and totalitarian in it implications. Besides, he has no idea what is in it, only who it benefits in terms of paying off those who put him in office and keep him there.
One reason I want to find a way to make money is so my income will not be equal to what it is now. We seek greater numbers in that realm.
I've worked more than one job which paid people according to job title and time of employment. No exceptions. Both union and non-union. And I can say this without even a shadow of a doubt, in those situations the problem was that there wasn't MORE INCOME INEQUALITY. Many, often most, of the workers were worth about half what they were paid, while the rest were worth their pay, or double or triple what they were paid.
But they couldn't pay by merit. That wouldn't be fair. And what about the over paid worker's kids, and child support? The slackers tend to multiply as if they haven't a clue how it happens. Too lazy to figure out the fine points of birth control I think. Not the people that need to be multiplying, that's for sure. But I'm definitely not in favor of some official agency making that decision.
The problem is created because government does not do its job--protect against force and fraud, maximize individual freedom. It cannot do that while maintaining "business-government partnerships". Such alliances merely allow elect firms and organizations to avail themselves of tax money while ruining competition. Not that complicated, and they do it in plain sight.
Corporations, as such are not evil or bad. When they write laws, own politicians, start wars and generally usurp the military and police for their own ends, then you have what we have now. I consider modern trade unions, as well, to be modern corporations which employ a very similar scheme. They are even more transparent but people have an emotional attachment that causes them to ignore the scams, the violence, and outright thuggery. It is always justified with "what about that evil thing...", never addressing the real problems.
So, income inequality is nonsense when being touted as some new issue by a guy who is OK with the IRS enforcing the buy or die insurance scam. He's just pandering, trying cement further ignorant voting blocks for the democratic party, while those who oppose him are suckered into the republican party, and the real infrastructure of oppression, and un-constitutional madness continues to grow.
Whenever they had power to do it, I didn't see republicans reshaping foreign policy into what it should be. They did not can the IRS or many other agencies which have no business existing in the federal government. Democrats clearly believe socialism and centrally controlled wealth works. They don't like to be called socialists, usually, but that is pretty much where it is. They also love to think that condition of birth amounts to varying degrees of virtue and philosophy. Politics of race, genitalia, and ethnicity. I don't get it, but they do.
So, at least I know what they represent. I despise that plan, but that is the way it goes.
Republicans on the other hand, baffle me. They claim a variety of economic suggestions that often sound right, yet they are not that different from democrats on foreign policy or being intrusive. And they go along with the snowball from hell spending and power grabbing of the central government. Enough get all religious that the the group has been painted with the zealot image.
Too many diversion issues in the republican world, and too easily bullied. Benghazi actually was an atrocity and a scandal, but republicans are so easily bullied that now it is used in the press by dem puppets as a joke on those NOT in power to cement the position of the party who committed the lies and negligence in this case.
It doesn't help that some New Jersey issue comes up and the reaction is "what about Benghazi?" That's like Obama blaming Bush for his crony motivated stimulus, ill fated foreign policy and polar bears drowning. I don't care about new jersey. I care about the USA and have a vote on that.
They will not win that way. Or maybe so, and then we'll have the same over reaching police state we have now with a little different twist.
The news is trying to pretend that Chris Christie was the big hope of those who don't want Hillary--another Obama, except allegedly white and female.
AS if Christie is significantly any different or less self serving and corrupt than the democrats who hold power now? Hillary may be less of a race demagogue than Obama and Holder, and so may Christie. She serves the politics of birth condition--being female. That's the difference. He's fat and male. She's less fat and female. Not much choice, except I think she's more experienced in being ruthless and corrupt, but he could have held his own. Substantively they aren't much different. They just pander a little differently.
Someone in power must have feared Christie. They are frying him early.
Oh yea. Income inequality. If you let those whose policies have done much to contribute to opportunity inequality convince you that idiots should get paid more, and that it is not they who made the corrupt obscenely wealthy, then embrace the results of your foolishness, again. How many half assed wars have to be waged, how many unqualified people put in schools and jobs ahead of the more qualified, how many crazy economic bubbles must burst leaving people broke with wiped out savings, how much pretense can people take before they admit this nonsense of the last hundred years ha been a progression of lies and doesn't work?
Never happen. Good enough for Woodie Guthrie, by God, must be the right way to think. Lots of fine people mean well, and have charisma, brains, and they are good in bed. That doesn't mean they aren't a little misguided when it comes to law, order, international conduct and the public purse.
Some of the misguided have no brains or charisma, and are a celebrated blight on humanity. I won't mention names, but I hope they never leave N. Korea. Somewhere along the way ugly became chic and insanity grew to be dubbed genius.
.
They are making conspicuous rules and directives to please large blocks of morons who vote, while including inconspicuous perks for companies and interests which fund campaigns and help keep them in power and luxury. You'd think they were out on a battlefield somewhere slaying dragons to hear them talk. No. They are cruising in limos and jets and doing "important" stuff that we're to common to comprehend.
One thing on which you can depend: when wealthy people in government pretend to care that people are not all rich, another sliver of honest opportunity is about to go out the window, chances to scam the system are going to increase, and crony capitalists(that part is really a misnomer) are preparing for a windfall of one type or another.
It is a waste of time to discuss minimum wage laws with the hard core. It doesn't work, won't work, and can't work. If every bit of wealth is centrally controlled, and the population so under the thumb, dumb, or drugged that no private initiative is possible, then you may have a shot for success. But you have to be able to make everyone do exactly the right amount of work, according to ability, as well. And you have to be a damned good planner.
Otherwise, forcing a minimum wage merely inflates the money, and sometimes contributes to contraction of an economy due to less hiring and other reductions in business expansion. Eventually the new minimum wage is worth the same or less than the old one. If you are lucky, technology advances allow one to survive with little wealth. Mostly it is another front for power grabbing by forcing more dependence upon lovely government programs which enrich the cronies through contracts and blatant theft--like the outfit which produced the healthcare website.
I refuse to call it obamacare--too orwellian, patriarchal, and totalitarian in it implications. Besides, he has no idea what is in it, only who it benefits in terms of paying off those who put him in office and keep him there.
One reason I want to find a way to make money is so my income will not be equal to what it is now. We seek greater numbers in that realm.
I've worked more than one job which paid people according to job title and time of employment. No exceptions. Both union and non-union. And I can say this without even a shadow of a doubt, in those situations the problem was that there wasn't MORE INCOME INEQUALITY. Many, often most, of the workers were worth about half what they were paid, while the rest were worth their pay, or double or triple what they were paid.
But they couldn't pay by merit. That wouldn't be fair. And what about the over paid worker's kids, and child support? The slackers tend to multiply as if they haven't a clue how it happens. Too lazy to figure out the fine points of birth control I think. Not the people that need to be multiplying, that's for sure. But I'm definitely not in favor of some official agency making that decision.
The problem is created because government does not do its job--protect against force and fraud, maximize individual freedom. It cannot do that while maintaining "business-government partnerships". Such alliances merely allow elect firms and organizations to avail themselves of tax money while ruining competition. Not that complicated, and they do it in plain sight.
Corporations, as such are not evil or bad. When they write laws, own politicians, start wars and generally usurp the military and police for their own ends, then you have what we have now. I consider modern trade unions, as well, to be modern corporations which employ a very similar scheme. They are even more transparent but people have an emotional attachment that causes them to ignore the scams, the violence, and outright thuggery. It is always justified with "what about that evil thing...", never addressing the real problems.
So, income inequality is nonsense when being touted as some new issue by a guy who is OK with the IRS enforcing the buy or die insurance scam. He's just pandering, trying cement further ignorant voting blocks for the democratic party, while those who oppose him are suckered into the republican party, and the real infrastructure of oppression, and un-constitutional madness continues to grow.
Whenever they had power to do it, I didn't see republicans reshaping foreign policy into what it should be. They did not can the IRS or many other agencies which have no business existing in the federal government. Democrats clearly believe socialism and centrally controlled wealth works. They don't like to be called socialists, usually, but that is pretty much where it is. They also love to think that condition of birth amounts to varying degrees of virtue and philosophy. Politics of race, genitalia, and ethnicity. I don't get it, but they do.
So, at least I know what they represent. I despise that plan, but that is the way it goes.
Republicans on the other hand, baffle me. They claim a variety of economic suggestions that often sound right, yet they are not that different from democrats on foreign policy or being intrusive. And they go along with the snowball from hell spending and power grabbing of the central government. Enough get all religious that the the group has been painted with the zealot image.
Too many diversion issues in the republican world, and too easily bullied. Benghazi actually was an atrocity and a scandal, but republicans are so easily bullied that now it is used in the press by dem puppets as a joke on those NOT in power to cement the position of the party who committed the lies and negligence in this case.
It doesn't help that some New Jersey issue comes up and the reaction is "what about Benghazi?" That's like Obama blaming Bush for his crony motivated stimulus, ill fated foreign policy and polar bears drowning. I don't care about new jersey. I care about the USA and have a vote on that.
They will not win that way. Or maybe so, and then we'll have the same over reaching police state we have now with a little different twist.
The news is trying to pretend that Chris Christie was the big hope of those who don't want Hillary--another Obama, except allegedly white and female.
AS if Christie is significantly any different or less self serving and corrupt than the democrats who hold power now? Hillary may be less of a race demagogue than Obama and Holder, and so may Christie. She serves the politics of birth condition--being female. That's the difference. He's fat and male. She's less fat and female. Not much choice, except I think she's more experienced in being ruthless and corrupt, but he could have held his own. Substantively they aren't much different. They just pander a little differently.
Someone in power must have feared Christie. They are frying him early.
Oh yea. Income inequality. If you let those whose policies have done much to contribute to opportunity inequality convince you that idiots should get paid more, and that it is not they who made the corrupt obscenely wealthy, then embrace the results of your foolishness, again. How many half assed wars have to be waged, how many unqualified people put in schools and jobs ahead of the more qualified, how many crazy economic bubbles must burst leaving people broke with wiped out savings, how much pretense can people take before they admit this nonsense of the last hundred years ha been a progression of lies and doesn't work?
Never happen. Good enough for Woodie Guthrie, by God, must be the right way to think. Lots of fine people mean well, and have charisma, brains, and they are good in bed. That doesn't mean they aren't a little misguided when it comes to law, order, international conduct and the public purse.
Some of the misguided have no brains or charisma, and are a celebrated blight on humanity. I won't mention names, but I hope they never leave N. Korea. Somewhere along the way ugly became chic and insanity grew to be dubbed genius.
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Wednesday, January 8, 2014
I Like the Attitude
and I like the idea that this picture might annoy hand wringing, white supremacist, PC police cadets. They think they are so much better than everyone else that they have to defend and protect those they see as victim by condition of birth for not being like themselves (whether the group wants their condescending protection or not) even from things like this mascot, which the Seminoles officially support and endorse.
This guy expresses my feelings on a number of fronts...screw it, this is war!
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- John0 Juanderlust
- Ballistic Mountain, CA, United States
- Like spring on a summer's day
