Really, I have a ton of subjects to write about, and yet all of them are doing the Billy Connelly thing, saying "pay attention to me, pay attention to me, pay attention to me or I'll fricking go away.
Now as thoughts go, this gives rise to some scatterbrained and entertaining comedy. As governance goes, this gives rise to so many aspects that tying them all together would require expounding upon history necessitating a book bigger than the Bible or Atlas Shrugged, or perhaps both together.
For instance, just how should we perceive Michelle Bachmann and her husband when they espouse that gay people are "sexually dysfunctional and enslaved". They actively try to change the psychological makeup of a person when science has proven that gays are gays because they are gay, not because they are misdirected.
Even if one could actually say without science that gays are "redeemable" one has to ask the question of why anyone would think they need to be redeemed, which brings in outside forces which can't be explained in any terms of science meaning religious beliefs.
Look, I have no problem with people holding religious beliefs, but I do have problems when they take those religious beliefs and suppose that they are, in some manner or other, required to be active in adversely affecting other people's lives based on those beliefs.
This is the religious equivalent of having a Mrs. Kravitz on everyone's street, always paying attention to other people's comings and goings rather than spending any time at all on just what they are doing, not only to the neighborhood, but to themselves. Growth is a part of the human equation, but when you only complain about others, you're possibilities for personal growth are stagnated, and at that point you have already failed in what you designated as your duty to fulfill.
And in that effort the failure is even more important because one has the possibility to lead someone else out of a life they have enjoyed and enjoined and has no direct adverse effect on others.
Politics plays some, if not an ever growing, role in this type of manipulation. When you place both politics and the assault on personal responsibility and well being, you define a newer, even stronger force, not because you are making headway against the concepts you abhor, but because you encompass more people who are likely to think like you.
Personal freedom is not up to a vote, and no matter how many methods you use to increase opposition to particular ways of living life or specifics when it comes to what people think, you are still imposing yourself upon someone else's personal freedom.
Now I'm not talking about personal freedom to kill, rape or maim people, and anyone who would bring that type of personal freedom up has no brains. This is not a contest of right and wrong as would be expressed by those desiring to take some person's personal rights away. This is an expression of the concepts presented in the Declaration of Independence where all people have inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
And yet we have a history in this country where "like minded" people would take away other's lives because they have done so, such as the KKK, and we have people that would take away other's liberties, because we have done so, such as the Bush administration, and in either case we have allowed people to infringe upon the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness.
Now I know a lot of people will say, but that was only the Declaration of Independence and it isn't a part of our law.
To this I would say that these three things established as the reason to have a new government are far more important than simply telling King George that we didn't want him to govern us anymore. For without these three things there was no basis for the Constitution of the United States nor the establishment of what government could not do against its citizens as specified by the Bill of Rights. We decided that we were going to establish a new government of bold new laws, and he had no place in that determination.
But somehow, as a people on a people level, we believe that these three documents mean something else. We believe that the Constitution specifies the freedoms of Americans because we hear it all the time. I want my country back; I will protect the Constitution of the United States, when, in fact, the Constitution, as written, only designs a government organizational chart, giving specific responsibilities for the actions of government, but giving no rights to anyone in particular. There is not one single personal right in the Constitution. There are definitions as to those whom may hold office, which branch can decide taxation, etc., but not one single right of a person as a citizen of the United States is defined in the Constitution.
Many people believe that "of the people, by the people and for the people" is part of the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence, when it was in Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address 75 years after the establishment of the Constitution.
I've heard a number of people argue this point with threats of fighting to prove their point, apparently without the knowledge of just what is in the three defining documents of the United States, and the proof is in the pudding when one group of people think they have the right to impinge their thoughts, their morals, their repugnance upon any other group.
Our ignorance is our greatest challenge today, and it is astounding. It is astounding because there are people elected today that couldn't have been congressional pages at age 40 in the early days of our democracy.
These people have people whose sole job is to devise mechanisms allowing statements to be made that are clearly not true nor even a part of the conversation, and yet somehow are given weight in the efforts to make our country the best country it can be.
The further we dumb down our people, the more likely we are to come up with these dumbed down people as our legislative members, thinking that they have some knowledge because they got where they are when they have only demonstrated just how little knowledge the people who elected them possess. This is an utter failure or our educational system and our national media who apparently don't follow the precepts of Thomas Jefferson in that an informed public is necessary to the advancement of good government.
I am quite disconcerted by this continued downward spiral in our national awareness of the issues even though they press down on our backs like the boots of the slave owners on the slaves as they beat them near to death or to death. We have a country dying here right in front of our eyes. The greatest country ever defined by the precepts it was built upon, and taken over in only 30 years by those who would simply deny the majority of the people their own voice in how the country is to be run.
So if you decide you like a particular person for any office based upon what they say in their stump speeches, then take the time and make a determined effort to see just what they really think.
The reason I say this right now is that Michelle Bachmann just won the Iowa Straw Poll and in all of her interviews on this Sunday, Aug. 14th, 2011, she still doesn't get what the problem is, but she has fooled enough of the people to think she actually has a brain and that she cares about the American people.
Oh, people maybe, but she doesn't care about gays, nor the homeless, nor those out of jobs because she's still talking about deficit spending instead of creating jobs. She's stupid enough to think that 30 years of trickle down economics is only getting started, rather than recognizing that 30 years of trickle down economics has killed America for the vast majority of its people, the middle wage earner she so clearly ignores.
It amazes me that these "real elite" consider the people inconsequential in comparison to the captains of industry who might be able to create jobs, but have not done so in a generation.
There is even some evidence that the Republicans and corporations are working in collusion to cut back the level of unemployment recipients by hiring in people, which takes their unemployment away, and then a month later firing them "with cause", which takes away their unemployment for good.
The tightening of credit has also played a part in continuing such activities, as creditworthy individuals have decided to move into self-employment only to find the terms of their credit were changed in mid-stream.
These are not just a couple of isolated incidents, but a ever increasing methodology to maintain a labor force without means who will, at some point, take any job they can, as was expressed today by a commentator on the entry of Gov. Rick Perry into the Republican nomination campaign. Yeah, Texas has jobs, but the jobs don't buy milk and school supplies at the same time.
If you want a good job, move to North Dakota and work in the oil fields, where they continue to plunder America's resources without paying royalties and continuing to suggest that the EPA is restricting their ability to pollute the land without penalties.
Every single argument by big business is about things they have complied with for the past 50 years, and yet, somehow, today, it is job killing.
Bull. They lie because lying is what they do. They lie because they can and reasonably expect that enough people aren't going to get involved to expose the lies, thereby allowing them to profess that those who do get involved are loonies.
Just a "for instance" to prove a point. If shale fracking doesn't have any record of causing problems with the water tables across the country, then why does Pennsylvania offer free water to those whose wells have become unusable? It is, after all, PA. law. Where would such a law come from?
If these wells are so far under the ground as to not adversely effect the ground water, as stated by numerous industry "scientists", then why is benzene found in virtually all locations. How much fracking solution gets pumped into a 3500' deep well? Enough to fill the drill up to the water table? If so, what's the specific gravity of benzene? Lighter than water? Most liquids other than liquid heavy metals like mercury are far lighter than water.
See? This is what I mean. If you look closely at one thing it is bound to take you to something else and ask questions about that particular thing. Not because you wish to, but because it is obvious that there are other problems laying waste to our human condition just as surely as the housing bubble caused foreclosures on properties that weren't even under water much less in a position to be foreclosed upon.
Let me express it like this. If, in all the UFO reports throughout all of history, just one is fact, then we have a lot of readjustment to our way of thinking in order to ensure that we have accepted all the facts. In a new book by Annie Jacobsen, Area 51, there is evidence that, indeed, there was a saucer shaped ship, which crashed to earth in 1947. This woman is not a conspiracy theorist, but rather an investigative reported who spent 4 years on this project.
When we hide our heads in the sand with the facts in our hands, we are not serving humanity in any way whatsoever. We will have failed if we allow any facts to become something other than facts and believe what we would like to believe rather than what is absolutely necessary to accept as fact.
In terms of a real crash of a saucer shaped ship at Roswell, then regardless of where it came from (in this case, the Soviet Union), the fact is that there was a crash and that the United States chose to lie to its people rather than present the facts. The information provided to Ms. Jacobsen was from a man with 34 years of military service, many of which were, in fact, at Area 51.
Does the government keep crazy people on staff for 34 years? What we have is evidence that the Air Force has provided 3 separate and different accounts of a specific incident. I know whom I'm more likely to trust.
Again, this is all about the connections involved with how our country is run and what is told to the people. Any politician that would lie to the people in their efforts to gain office does not deserve to gain office.
But often it is hard to determine what the truth is based on what we are told by the politicians because they have learned how to couch terms in a manner that appeals to a certain portion of people without being the truth, but representing what those people desire to hear. Much as the government has turned honest people's reports of certain instances into "crazy people" talk, our politicians are schooled in how to present these ideas to those they desire to entice into their sphere of influence, assuming that those people will bring other like minded people into the same sphere.
Ultimately we all learn that we have been lied to, but rather than taking this information and learning from it, we simply move to the next person who professes these same ideals as if they are facts, causing the suspension of disbelief and then, yet again, the American people are led down the wrong path. This is evidenced by such information as the CIA overthrowing the democratically elected government of Iran in 1953 and installing the Shah of Iran. A little matter that still holds sway today, 58 years later, even as we tell the world that Iran is a danger.
For instance, Ken Rogoff, Economics Professor of Harvard, has talked about just digging ditches and then filling them in isn't a stimulus to the economy. What he neglects to say is that those ditches, during WPA, weren't filled in but became irrigation systems and water reservoirs. Some of the most prominent public works during the 1930s have today become historic tourist destinations, providing money to those local economies and having the benefit of providing year round vegetable farming and electricity generation.
The point is one cannot assume that because someone says something and it has the sound of that which you like that you should somehow suspend your beliefs in favor of things which just sound good. You have to prove they are good. Otherwise you fail your obligations as an American citizen and you fall to the bullSh*t politicians tell you.
Make them prove it. Don't allow them to change the subject. Don't allow them to start answering your question with a "But". Don't allow them to try to turn your concerns in their views of their concerns. They lie. The average American person does not lie in their normal day to day life.
Politicians are taught to lie by their handlers, which is why they have people that re-define words that have had meaning for thousands of years. When they do that, they are lying.
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