Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man Book VI, the Examiner essays 2011

Commonsense
Political Thinking
of a
Common Man
VI
Examiner Articles 2011
By
Gerald J. Furnkranz

Commonsense
Political Thinking
of a
Common Man
VI
Examiner Articles 2011
By
Gerald J. Furnkranz

Copyright © 2011 Gerald J. Furnkranz

Dedicated To:
Amelia and Ferdinand Furnkranz
for teaching me commonsense
and instilling it in me.

Table of Contents
Commonsense Political Thinking of a Common Man (Book VI)
Examiner Essays 2011

1. April 20, 2011 Page 1

Dodd Defines Theft: Part 1. Taking What People Produce

2. April 21, 2011 Page 1

Part 2. Dodd Theft Hides Behind Taxing the Rich

3. April 23, 2011 Page 2

Asleep on the Job, Merely An Example Learned

4. April 24, 2011 Page 4

Supporting the Sleepers, The Public Union Agenda

5. April 29, 2011 Page 5

C is for City, Incubator of Corruption

6. April 31, 2011 Page 6

Wolves and Sheep

7. May 8, 2011 Page 7

Befuddled Bloomberg Blusters, Bellows and Bloviates, Repeating the Failure

8. May 10, 2011 Page 8

Bloomberg, Running From the Past, Hiding in the Future

9. May 11, 2011 Page 9

Spending; the Lesson Taught

10. May 14, 2011 Page 11

Stepford School Superintendents

11. May 16, 2011 Page 12

Bloomberg Supports Government Unions, Promoting an Elite Class

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12. May 19, 2011 Page 13

Corruption and Scandal, The Politician’s Entitlements

13. May 22, 2011 Page 15

Politicians Testify To Complexify

14. May 25, 2011 Page 16

Cultivating Ignorance of the Law

15. May 27, 2011 Page 17

The Tangled Web of Legalese; Dimming the Light

16. May 29, 2011 Page 18

All Hail Constitution, An American Hero

17. May 31, 2011 Page 20

“Old Ironsides” Wood and Canvas, Sweat and Blood

18, June 3, 2011 Page 21

The Tea Party People

19. June 5, 2011 Page 22

Juan Williams Says, Insurance Companies Cannot Be Trusted, But Government Can?

20. June 7, 2011 Page 23

Words Are Weapons

21. June 10, 2011 Page 25

The Chains of Habitual Lying

22. June 13, 2011 Page 25

Burning Money Fueling an Impotent Government Engine

23. June 16, 2011 Page 27

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Selling America, A Piece At A Time

24. June 17, 2011 Page 28

Stimulus, Shmimulus, Ridiculous!

25. June 19, 2011 Page 29

Not the Secret Garden

26. June 22, 2011 Page 30

Be Thankful, the Government is Still Running

27. June 24, 2011 Page 31

Weiner’s Folly, Clinton’s Legacy

28. June 26, 2011 Page 32

America Has Spawned a New Race of Gods; the Gods of Government Entitlement

29. June 28, 2011 Page 34

We Are Odysseus In Defiance of the Governmental Gods

30. July 1, 2011 Page 35

Unions Seeking Elite Status for Theirs

31. July 2, 2011 Page 37

Constitution Ignored

32. July 5, 2011 Page 38

Mr. Olbermann’s “Bullying” Pulpit

33. July 8, 2011 Page 39

Unions Benefit From Socialism

34. July 9, 2011 Page 40

Over Spending is the Problem

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35. July 12, 2011 Page 41

The Real House Wives from Hell/Washington, DC: Congress

36. July 14, 2011 Page 42

Tea Party Groups Sprouting

37. July 17, 2011 Page 43

Rangel’s Ignorance

38. July 19, 2011 Page 44

Rangel’s Liberal Stupidity Enabled by Belling’s Conservative Blindness

39. July 22, 2011 Page 45

Spending, a Disrespect of the American People

40. July 23, 2011 Page 46

Who is Moderate America

41. July 27, 2011 Page 47

Taking Obama’s Head Fake

42. July 29, 2011 Page 48

The Absence of Will for Clean Government

43. July 31, 2011 Page 50

Waiting for the White Knight

44. August 2, 2011 Page 51

John McCain Attacking the Hobbits (The Little People)

45. August 5, 2011 Page 52

The American Constitution; An Oldie but Goodie

46. August 7, 2011 Page 54

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What Ever Happened To Commonsense?

47. August 10, 2011 Page 56

Drunken Sailor Syndrome

48. August 11, 2011 Page 57

Tea Party Terrorists

49. August 14, 2011 Page 58

Enlightenment versus Entitlement

50. August 16, 2011 Page 60

Ignorance and Intolerance Attack Tea Party

51. August 19, 2011 Page 62

Keynesian Economics; Paid for Accomplishing Nothing

52. August 20, 2011 Page 63

Krugman: The Sky is Falling and Aliens are Invading

53. August 22, 2011 Page 65

The Reality; Science is Politics

54. August 24, 2011 Page 67

Maxine Waters Says, “To Hell With the Tea Partiers”

55. August 26, 2011 Page 68

Entitlement Destroying Freedom, the Source of Enlightenment

56. August 29, 2011 Page 69

Krugmania

57. August 30, 2011 Page 71

Janeane Garofalo, the Angelic Face of the Left

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58. September 1, 2011 Page 73

The American Worker


Labor Day


Send in the Clowns


Twin Towers


Two Giants Stood Upon the Islands Tip


Obama’s “American Jobs Act 4”; Bringing the Curtain Down on America


Donna Shalala, Continuing the Bill Clinton Legacy


American Bridges Falling Down


An Expensive Bridge to Nowhere.


The American Dream


Exposing the Muffin Top; Coming to an Ugly Head


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Discussing Racism: Fools Venture Where Angels Fear to Tread


Charges of Racism Camouflage Socialism

71. October 1, 2011 Page 94

Who Let the Politicians Out?


Poverty and Hunger, a Government Strategy


“Occupy Wall Street” Demonstrations


Christopher Columbus

75. October 12, 2011 Page 100

Obama; Let’s Do More of What Hasn’t Worked

76. October 14, 2011 Page 101

Emotional Health Screening; or Institutionalized Brainwashing

77. October 16, 2011 Page 104

Ruled By Brains; Knowledge Vs Wisdom

78. October 19, 2011 Page 106

Something in Common

79. October 21, 2011 Page 107

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Acting President

80. October 24, 2011 Page 108

Realization and Denial

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81. October 26, 2011 Page 109

Obama is a Godsend

82. October 28, 2011 Page 110

Talking Heads

83. October 31, 2011 Page 111

Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street Compared

84. November 2, 2011 Page 113

Addendum to Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street Compared


What Defines Racism?


Occupy Wall Street Defined


Abramoff is Washington and Washington is Abramoff


Tom Reed at the Corning Area Tea Party Get Together


The Man Who Would Be King


The Penn State Affair (Part 1)


The Penn State Affair (Part 2)


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CNN’s Tribute to Occupy Wall Street’s “Day of Action”


Congress, the King of Corruption; Exempts Themselves from the Law!


Thanksgiving Thoughts


Institutional Self Preservation


Al Gore, the Dark Clown


Shining the Light Upon the Dark Clown

98. December 2, 2011 Page 136

Bailouts: Profiting From Reckless Speculation


Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Intelligence Beyond Logic and Commonsense


George Will Disagrees With Judy Collins and Says, “Stop Sending in the Clowns”


I Trust Barack Obama

102. December 11, 2011 Page 142

I Do Not Trust the Republicans, Romney or Gingrich

103. December 13, 2011 Page 143

Barney Frank’s Legacy

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104. December 16, 2011 Page 144

Without the Spiritual, Christmas is Only About the Material

105. December 19, 2011 Page 146

Alec Baldwin, Clowns on a Plane

106. December 21, 2011 Page 147

The Secret of Christmas

107. December 23, 2011 Page 148

The Secret of Christmas (Part 2)

108. December 26, 2011 Page 149

Rod Balgojevich, the Model of the Illinois/Chicago Politician

109. December 28, 2011 Page 151

Is Jon Corzine Too Big to Jail?

110. December 30, 2011 Page 153

The New Year; a Time for Reflection

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Number 1

April 20, 2011

Dodd Defines Theft: Part 1. Taking What People Produce

Recently former U.S. Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut appeared on Chris Wallace’s
Sunday Show as, “Power Player of the Week”. Now head of the Motion Picture
Association of America, he is defending the interests of the Hollywood elite. Concerned
about the pirating of the films produced in America, Dodd stated, “If someone is stealing
the product others are producing, that is theft.”

Dodd was a supporter of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The government supported
companies that had their bad mortgage loans infesting half of the bad mortgage
investments and influencing the rest, causing the 2007 financial meltdown. He backed
them unequivocally in hearings before the Senate, attacking those who questioned the
organizations practices. He received sweetheart loans from Country Wide Insurance.

To the middle class American, wages earned are the product of our work. We receive
money for our sweat, toil and time, producing products for our companies to sell. When
that money is taxed away from us in an oppressive manner, and used to support
corruption in government made up of the political elite royalty, the product of our toil is
being stolen. Over the years, Mr. Dodd has been leading the charge in robbing the
product of the people’s work. He therefore by his own definition, as part of our
government, committed theft.

Now he is worried about the injustice to the Hollywood elite moguls. Those he rubbed
elbows with and sold favors to as a Senator. He is being compensated by his cronies that
reaped the benefit of his questionable conduct and character. Mr. Dodd seems to see
stealing from the common folk as a different crime than stealing from his cronies. Or is it
just a case of who is doing the stealing that makes it a crime?

Number 2

April 21, 2011

Part 2. Dodd Theft Hides Behind Taxing the Rich

Dodd theft is particularly notable to Southern Tier New York where taxes are among the
highest in the nation, federal, state and school. A land considered far from civilization
where jobs are scarce and good paying jobs much more so! Where we bite the heads off
live rabbits and tea partiers danced naked in the night lighted by bonfires! That was until
outside burning was outlawed. Now they do it in the dark.

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The remedy to the assertion of oppressive taxation of middle class America is to promote
class warfare by declaring, “Increased taxation of the rich, because they can afford it.”
Many middle class Americans subscribe to this solution to deficit and debt reduction.
Yes, it finds a scapegoat! “No”, it does not address the real problem?

The problem is not revenue. The money flowing into our federal and state governments
is much more than enough to fund the jobs desired. If results of those programs, projects
and goals were really desired! That is not the case. The desire is to build an ever
growing spending machine, effectiveness and efficiency contrary to the goal.

It has been pointed out in many areas of government that reducing fraud could save
hundreds of billions of dollars a year. It is often a solution cited, to encourage financing
trillion dollar programs, but never gets started let alone concluded. When there are rivers
of money flowing out of government because of fraud, why would we not check that
flow?

Fraud is only one of those areas of the uneconomical flow of money out of government.
Ineptitude, incompetence, waste and corruption are some others. If a small fraction of
this were stopped, additional taxation would not be necessary. If a major part of this
waste were halted, taxes could be cut tremendously and all the goals of government
efforts could be accomplished, if it were desired they be accomplished.

Their real goal is pulling more money to government. Failure to attain results induces
greater taxation. Politicians, bureaucrats and government elites like the gray areas where
corruption, fraud, waste and ineptitude hide. It creates pools of money ripe for the
picking by politicians. There is much power and profit to be garnered by skimming and
redistributing those excess dollars taken from the people.

The incessant expansion of government is merely a grab for power, expanding only
corruption, fraud, ineptitude and waste. So, the theft of what the people produce, “Dodd
Theft”, takes the power (the wages) from the individuals (the people) and places it in the
hands of the power collective (government elites).

Number 3

April 23, 2011

Asleep on the Job

Merely An Example Learned

There has been a rash of Air Traffic Controllers falling asleep on the job. Pilots landing
planes with only silence from the control towers! If any activity could have been heard
from the towers it likely would have been snoring. This isn’t happening at small airports
only, but major hubs like Washington D.C., Reagan International Airport.

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Leadership by Example

Mediocrity… The New American Dream

Government officials have been up in arms, outraged over this embarrassment. They are
calling for heads as usual, in an attempt to show some action in answer to this scandalous
behavior. Congress will have hearings on the subject to feign further concern.

In actuality, the Air Traffic Controllers are only a symptom of far greater problems.
Their behavior exemplifies quite graphically the state of our government, our leaders who
have been asleep at the wheel for decades now, till oversight has degraded to such an
example by government leadership. The porn infestation at the FBI Headquarters is
another case. These leadership examples travel down the chain of command to staff and
employees throughout.

This kind of negligence on the job is not a rare case in government. The Gulf oil spill can
be traced to government inspector’s negligent performance. The Fannie Mae and Freddie
Mac sub-prime mortgage failures if not causing the 2007 financial meltdown, at least
initiating it. Passing numerous immigration laws over 40 years, none solving the
problem, only making it larger. These are examples of lethargic leadership.

To cast blame on the Air Traffic Controllers is addressing the result of the problems in
the wrong place. Even to pick someone from the top of the Federal Aviation Agency
(FAA) would only be selecting a scapegoat. Our government has become dedicated to
mediocrity and this indolent behavior is the result.

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Number 4

April 24, 2011

Supporting the Sleepers, The Public Union Agenda

Government bureaucrats and politicians asleep on the job should be no surprise. The
deteriorating effectiveness and efficiency in the federal government has been understood
for many years. The late Nobel Economist Milton Friedman in the fifties revealed,
government delivers half the results with twice the resources.

With the advent of the entitled and elite status of government workers, effectiveness and
efficiency likely are degrading further. Add to it the unionized standing of many
government employees, and you have a monopoly immersed in mediocrity, contrary to
the competitive private sector struggling for superiority while restrained, wrapped in
government red tape.

Mediocrity so much fits the long term agenda of today’s public unions. Any road block
or snafu the union introduces reduces productivity requiring additional employees. In the
private sector it destroys companies. In the government sector it increases the tax burden
on the private sector workers.

Government grows while the wealth creating private sector shrinks. In recent years
through the “great recession” the federal government has grown about eleven percent
while the private sector has shrunk over six percent. As reported by The Examiner
(Washington) editorial 07/11/10 Government unemployment is around 4.4% while the
private sector is around 10%.

The Census Bureau of Economic Analysis calculated federal average salaries grew from
$30,415 to $61,998 over the private sector average from 2000 to 2010. Reported by the
Bureau of Economic Statistics the average federal government wage in 2009 was
$123,049, state $69,913 and private sector $61,051. Public unions say this is because
their workers have much greater skills?

Mediocrity, center piece to the union strategy to grow power and profit through
expanding membership, increasing dues collection used to influence and intimidate
politicians and bureaucrats. Education and government, both failing institutions are
controlled by powerful unions, like the bailed out auto industry! Government is the
perfect venue for the mediocrity strategy. Their impotent efforts are bailed out by
increased taxation of the people.

Air Traffic Controllers falling asleep on the job is a product of leadership, both
government and union, mutually supporting each other’s goals of profitable mediocrity.
Fairness for the private sector workers, who finance the government, has long been
forgotten. The unfairness initiated by this partnership makes private sector workers serfs
to government and union fiefdoms.

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Number 5

April 29, 2011

C is for City, Incubator of Corruption

Thomas Jefferson wrote to James Madison, December 20, 1787, “When we get piled
upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.”
What would the heaping of humanity have to do with increased corruption? This oddity
should engage our thought process.

One way of looking at it is, “The pooling of money increases corruption.” Therefore
larger cities will attract greater riches and consequently will draw corruption like a
magnet.

The liberal’s quest for Socialism, larger government taking on more of the personal
responsibilities of the people builds reservoirs for that pooling of money. Government
bureaucrats handle it, creating numerous opportunities for extensive dishonesty,
incompetence, ineptitude, waste; inviting corruption. It allows no talent, lazy,
nincompoops, access to power.

Then we must look at the stacking of poor minorities in the low cost housing project
mega building communities of the ‘70’s and ‘80’s, where crime and poverty were
nurtured like a fungus. Prisons are stacked with those same dark and dismal hallways,
insuring futility.

Blue states tend to be liberal (progressive) leaning toward socialism, seeking large
governments taking more responsibility, therefore freedom from the people. They are the
states with the huge cities, stacked high with arrogant blue blood bureaucrat-wardens.

Look at the attack on rural America. Disarming folk, limiting hunting, open fires, water
usage for farming, actually legislating chains on the self-sustaining American Pioneer
Spirit! The rural areas, red states, are the strongholds where simple commonsense
common folk still exist.

Jefferson had a point! We follow the European metropolitan corruption model!

Note: Jefferson quote from Thomas Jefferson, His Essential Wisdom, Edited by Carol-
Kelly-Gangi

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NUMBER 6

April 31, 2011

Part 2. Wolves and Sheep

While Jefferson’s line, “When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe,
we shall become as corrupt as Europe,” explained a phenomenon, his line to Edward
Carrington revealed the motive. “Jefferson’s 1787 letter stated, “Among [European
Governments], under pretense of governing, they have divided their nations into two
classes, wolves and sheep.”

Metropolitan megalithic monuments are the perfect place to stack, file and entrance the
people. Like rooms of file cabinets, side by side, piled with people controlling data.
Cities file, categorize and make obtainable people for whatever government proposes.

City dwellers cannot be self sustaining. They are dependent upon bureaucratic services.
Bureaucrats (wolves) have the people (sheep) on a leash, able to control them by their
needs, for their survival. Government not teaching to fish, the people wait like trained
seals to be thrown a fish.

Wolves and Sheep

Political Elites Feed on the People

People are crammed into those buildings, like cattle in the stockyard. They are available,
at the whim of the bureaucrats, easy to obtain. So available they can easily be lead to
slaughter, figuratively, perhaps literally!

A better comparison might be from H.G. Wells “Time Machine”, in which the hero visits
a future where humanity splits. The cannibalistic Morlocks (wolves) cultivate the docile
Elois (sheep) like cattle for their own subsistence.

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This is the promise of socialism, a nation of people selling themselves into dependency.
Giving up their freedoms for things, promises that have been and will again be defaulted
upon, the people selling “themselves” into slavery!

Note: Jefferson quotes from Thomas Jefferson, His Essential Wisdom, Edited by Carol-
Kelly-Gangi

NUMBER 7

May 8, 2011

Befuddled Bloomberg Blusters, Bellows and Bloviates, Repeating the Failure

A short time ago, Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City was interviewed by
Chris Wallace on his show, Fox News Sunday. Listening to the interview, Bloomberg
appeared somewhat sound in his ideas. Reading the transcript, he appeared all over the
map, his solutions convoluted, contradictory and confused.

Bloomberg stated, “But the bottom line is, we're here today, April 24th, 2011. Everything
in the past is history. You can entertain your audience in talking about that, or you can
inform your audience and lead them by saying this is what we have to do going forward.”

Far too often our leadership; whether local, state or federal government, even our local
school districts use the mantra, “We must forget the past and move to the future!” They
want to avert their eyes from their mistakes, failing to recognize or avoiding recognition
of how we got where we are. Then blindly plowing ahead, thinking things will change by
themselves.

Poet and philosopher George Santayana in 1863 wrote, “Those who cannot remember the
past are condemned to repeat it.” Leadership’s proclivity to push forward, without
understanding their mistakes, when analyzing the condition of our country, it is not
difficult to understand why we are, where we are today.

Bloomberg then points out the obvious, “You know what we have, Chris, in this country,
fewer and fewer people supporting more and more people. The youth in our country are
assuming a burden to take care of people our age, you're in -- the age of mine and older --
that they will just not be able to satisfy. That is another reason why we need immigrants.”

Then Bloomberg suggested “Comprehensive Illegal Immigration Amnesty” without
saying it, to bring bodies into this country to support the frivolous and wasteful spending
of our inept government elites. So “Illegal Immigration Amnesty” is not only a method
of garnering votes for a particular party, but he sees it will also help finance the waste,
fraud, incompetence and corruption of our government.

Then Wallace questioned, “Isn't that amnesty?”

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Bloomberg retorted, “You can call it what you want, but number one, let's get real. We're
not going to deport -- I think the number today is probably less than 11 million people.
We're not going to deport them. They are going to be here. So let's find a path where they
can contribute more to the country”.

Bloomberg continued, “Sitting around and yelling and screaming about something that
was created by Congress in '86, where they passed a law saying we're going to stop the
illegal immigrants coming into this country, but then deliberately did not fund any kind
of an enforcement leaves us with 11 million rather than the 2 million we had then.”

Bloomberg blatantly ignores the lessons from the 1986 bill. As he pointed out, the tools
to enforce, The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 and later The Illegal
Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, were ignored and have
led to the 11 to 20 million illegal immigrants in the nation today. These illegal
immigrants over burdening our economic, education, welfare, legal and numerous other
critical institutions, he sees as the answer to solving these problems.

Bloomberg is setting us up for the same failures of not enforcing immigration laws since
1986. Pushing into the future afraid, he is merely attempting to escape the past. Clearly
he appears to fall into the category of, “Those who cannot remember the past are
condemned to repeat it.”

NUMBER 8

May 10, 2011

Bloomberg, Running From the Past, Hiding in the Future

Bloomberg stated on Fox News Sunday, “But the bottom line is, we're here today, April
24th, 2011. Everything in the past is history. You can entertain your audience in talking
about that, or you can inform your audience and lead them by saying this is what we have
to do going forward.”

Forgetting the past and blindly plowing ahead, into the future in an effort to leave past
mistakes behind is not only ignorance, but cowardice too. Thinking things will change by
themselves is negligent. This is where the words of poet and philosopher George
Santayana in 1863 come to play, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned
to repeat it.” This is where leadership’s tendency to push ahead, without understanding
their mistakes, is so dangerous.

We saw the failures of past immigration amnesty laws and are looking to copy the parts
that did not work. Amnesty without enforcement of the laws just enlarges the problem.
If we look at history enforcement is the part we did not implement. Shouldn’t that be our

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first consideration now? This exemplifies what Thomas Jefferson wrote July 19, 1788,
“The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them.”

When looking at government entitlements given away like welfare and Medicaid we see
action without recognition of mistakes. A national government healthcare system is
being implemented on a foundation of failing programs. We see government obligations
the people have paid for, but government has already spent the money, like social
security and Medicare. It has long been known these programs were unsustainable as
maintained. Yet, in a cowardly way politicians pushed ahead, kicking the can down the
road, as they say.

By placing the burden and responsibility on future generations, they avoid facing their
own failures. How can they ever learn when too cowardly to face the truth? This is the
kind of spinelessness displayed by charging into the future without serious consideration
of past incompetence.

As Doctor Phil would say, “The best indicator of future behavior is past behavior.” Our
politicians, bureaucrats and government elites have shown us they cannot change their
behaviors. Either their negligence is beneficial to them, their political livelihood, or they
are just too weak for introspection necessary to make things right.

As individuals, life teaches us lessons as we move along. Then there are times the
lessons learned are forgotten and we make the same mistake again. Then we think, “I
knew that, why did I make the same mistake?” The information is processed and stored
for future use. Those too afraid to admit their mistakes are doomed to repeat them.

Bloomberg then points out the obvious, “You know what we have, Chris, in this country,
fewer and fewer people supporting more and more people.” The solution he does not
want to face is getting people off habitual entitlements collected for generations and
making them productive.

NUMBER 9

May 11, 2011

Spending; the Lesson Taught

The Kingdom Cultivating Serfdom

Districts Know Only Spending

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Facing possible economic disaster at local, state, federal and international levels, our
local school districts think, like the federal government, they can spend their way out of
the problem. They are closing their eyes behind the wheel, fingers crossed, hoping to
weather the storm and never give up their gluttony.

When the Star program was introduced in New York State in the late ‘1990s to give relief
to property owners paying school taxes, it should have sent a signal to school districts to
restrain budget growth and district expansion. School administrators quickly moved
boards to the opposite mind set, increasing budgets and programs in spite of seriously
shrinking enrollment.

They calculated the people would not notice the increases as much, seizing the
opportunity for greater spending and expansion. In so doing they abandoned the tools,
skills and will that would have helped them handle these dangerous economic times.

Prior to that was the outlawing of pay-for-play in the mid ‘90s! In the Horseheads School
District where several budgets had been voted down, pay-for-play was instituted. During
that period, many sports were added to the existing programs under the guise it cost the
district nothing. When pay-for-play was made illegal, those sports were not dropped.
They were just added to the people’s burden.

This set the stage for tremendous expansion of school districts adding programs. Seventh
and eighth grade football and baseball along with others were added, in the effort of
school district kingdoms to build sports dynasties. Neighboring districts had to “Keep up
with the Joneses”!

Many of these sports were redundant, providing services already available in community
programs. It revealed the sports programs not to be about a well rounded education or
“sportsmanship”. Those programs had clearly become about district aggrandizement and
negative sports lessons of elitism.

Redundant, obsolete, inefficient, ineffective and ostentatious programs have become the
linchpin in education industry expansion. Education’s alliance with profitable failure
along with a flooding of impotent programs aids expansion. Education only the excuse
for the dog and pony show to strut their business model of perpetual growth!

While education industry expansion is a nation wide strategy, it is not difficult to see how
that greedy goal negatively affects our local school districts. Redundant programs are
numerous. Our schools will gladly usurp activities from the community to expand their
own kingdoms. They encourage any opportunity for money to enter.

Education is an industry, far more interested in power and profit than education of the
children.

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NUMBER 10

May 14, 2011

Stepford School Superintendents

Stepford School Superintendents; production line professionals, manufactured and
indoctrinated by the massive education industry, including colleges, universities, public
schools, teacher’s and administrator unions and associations and more. The education
industry is the one of the largest industries in America, second only to the Healthcare
Industry.

Educators are indoctrinated into the education industry agenda of expansion, making their
training into mediocrity a success for their alliance with profitable failure. Bleeding the
community for more money for more programs, to stem the tide of calculated educational
failure is only to feed an insatiable beast whose primary goal is to eat more.

Education Industry Cannibalizing Communities

Educating The Main Course

I have heard the local superintendents say, “It is a new paradigm. Times are hard. We
are going to have to do more with less.” And yet, while the writing has been on the wall
for years, they continue to do less with more. They are not capable of practical
management. They are addicted to spending for mediocrity. Their livelihood is invested
in incompetence, ineptitude, waste and corruption.

An education industry, so invested in itself; arrogant about its place in society, leads to a
practice of hypocrisy and deceit of the first order! Education is an institution that teaches
behaviors to all the other influential institutions in our society; government, law,
journalism, science, and the arts. When it goes astray, our entire society is likely to
follow.

Stepford Superintendents reject effectiveness, efficiency and even honesty, because they
believe bigger is better. To them more importantly, it pays more!

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NUMBER 11

May 16, 2011

Bloomberg Supports Government Unions, Promoting an Elite Class

During his interview with Chris Wallace, NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg made the case
for public sector unions when Wallace stated, “Voters weren't in on the negotiations. It's
you guys.”

Bloomberg argued, “No, but every year the elected officials negotiate new contracts, and
every couple of years or four years they go before the voters, so why don't you say to
your elected official, hey, you gave a union contract that we can't afford. I don't want you
to do it again. I'm going to vote for your opponent.”

Bloomberg simplified the issue to the point where he ignored the facts. First, the public
does not have access to contract information till the contract is agreed upon and ratified.
Even then, what went on in their secret negotiations is not broadcast by the media. It
really takes years to find out and understand the adverse affects of contract giveaways
government officials have handed to the unions that contribute to politician’s campaigns.

The politicians then use their skills of spin and misrepresentation to deflect
responsibility! Sadly, the public unions have a greater intimidation influence over
politicians than do the American people.

Small groups gathering to represent liberal ideas are accepted, supported and promoted.
People with conservative ideas gathering to exert influence are attacked, besmirched, and
their reputations and character destroyed. An example is characterizing the Tea Party
Movement as villainous when it is merely a gathering of common folk, average
Americans. The Public Union Movement and Union Movement in general have been
given access to government from which the American People have been barred.

Beware The Villainous Tea Partiers?

Tea Partiers Pillaging and Plundering

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Bloomberg states, “A union leader's job is to get the most money for -- in the -- with the
best working conditions they possibly can. That's what they're hired for,” totally missing
the fallacy in what he says.

The union movement was to seek fairness for the American Workers. The union
movement today, particularly the public unions are seeking to raise themselves above the
majority of American Workers. They are carving themselves an elite place in society on
the backs of the American Workers. They are making the American Middle Class serfs
to their ambition for superiority.

Government workers should not be represented by unions. They already were given
preferential treatment in job security and benefits. Now they are given preferential
treatment in salaries too. Government workers are given elite status and compensation on
the backs of the American People. They are picking the people’s pockets to fill their
own. This is wrong!

Government employees should be compensated no better than workers in similar jobs in
the private sector. In fact, they should be compensated the average of those jobs, not
making them the nobles on the fiefdom, and the American Workers their serfs, turning in
the product of their sweat and toil to make government workers elite.

NUMBER 12

May 19, 2011

Corruption and Scandal, The Politician’s Entitlements

William Jefferson Clinton’s Presidential Legacy

Both Among the Oldest Professions; Politician and Prostitute Being Made Synonymous

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“The American People don’t trust you anymore,” Representative (D-Mass) Michael
Capuano scolded bank CEOs, at House Banking Committee hearings, conducted after the
2007 financial melt down. Recently NYS Governor Andrew Cuomo was one of the few
politicians to recognize when pointing the finger, three are pointing back, stating, “The
people don’t trust government!”

It is sickening politicians do not have a clue of the magnitude of mistrust they engender.
Faking a day of decent behavior they think earns trust? They behave like scandal and
corruption are entitlements of government officials. Now, with this smelly pile of
government manure growing like an active volcano, another large load of crap is
dropped.

John Ensign, junior US Senator from Arizona has added a horrific scandal. It allegedly
includes sex, a document shredding cover-up, pay offs, and illegal lobbying. National
Syndicated columnist Debra J. Saunders revealed, “Special Counsel Carol Elder Bruce
found substantial evidence that the senator broke federal law, made false or misleading
statements to the Federal Election Commission about the $96,000 severance, and
obstructed justice when he destroyed documents to cover his trail.”

Debra J. Saunders asks, “So go figure this: Why has the Justice Department indicted the
husband on seven counts of violating the lobbying ban, but not the senator?”

It seems government officials are easy on each other just in case they get caught. If they
give leniency, they will receive leniency for their indiscretions in return. It is the quid
pro quo of politicians and bureaucrats which cultivates and encourages corruption and
deviant behavior.

Look at Eliot Spitzer, strutting on his CNN Show “In the Arena”, rehabilitating his
career. Like many other politicians his arrogance so great, he betrayed his wife, his
children and the people without conscience or consequence. Betrayal came so easy, why
should he ever be trusted again?

Charlie Wrangle, Barnie Frank, Duke Cunningham, John Jefferson, this article could be
filled with a list of names of politicians milking the political entitlements of scandal and
corruption. One cannot help but think is it all of them?

Politicians acknowledge the people don’t trust them, but continue to act repulsively as
though corruption and scandal are an entitlement of their positions. They revel in the
gutter emerging from the slime preening like a peacock. This is the Presidential Legacy
of William Jefferson Clinton, “He only lied to the grand jury about sex with an intern!”

Broken trust takes years to repair, if ever, and only if trustworthy behavior follows. That
would be if they wanted it repaired. Once they could remarket their image to fool the
people. Now they don’t even feel the need to do that.

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“Trust Requires Truth”! Parsing truth, lying, stealing, debauchery, politicians seem to
think this is their birthright. It is within the rules of the game they play. They don’t even
understand they are far more reviled than having to pick up your dog’s waste, in a plastic
bag. It’s more like doing it with your bare hand and depositing it in your shirt pocket,
right under your nose.

Yes, that’s disgusting. It turns the stomach and makes you retch. So do they!

NUMBER 13

May 22, 2011

Politicians Testify To Complexify

Words are being added to the dictionary at a rapid pace. Some of these words aren’t even
words. They are lazy abbreviations of real words. Almost grunts and groans to signify
the word we don’t want to use.

So, a suggestion of a word that has definite purpose should be easily accepted by those
with the authority to add words to the dictionary. Those intellectuals with the power and
scholarly knowledge to know what is important to civilization for communication!

Complexify is the word that would be a tool for civilization’s advancement.
Complexification is one of the derivatives of the proposed word. What does the word
complexify mean?

Complexify means to take something that is simple and make it complex, serving the
purpose of confusing people or camouflaging purposes, in order to arrest and secure
power. It serves as a smoke screen making opponents feel stupid or inadequate so these
complexified ideas sound intelligent and are not challenged, failing to reveal their lack of
substance. It is government tying itself into the “Gordian Knot”.

Government Becoming the “Gordian Knot”

Expanding Government Institutionalizing Their Mess

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What would be an example of this? Spending more when an entity is in financial trouble!
Spending without thought, direction or purpose, just for the sake of spending, and telling
people it will get our states and nation out of its financial crisis.

Or, how about “Global Warming” retooled to “Climate Change” because the data did not
bear out the warming trend. The crisis was relabeled climate change, a natural and
ongoing process of the earth. In this way the con man comflexifiers could say, “See,
climate is changing!”

Politicians, bureaucrats and scholarly intellectuals complexify issues to make the people
question their own intelligence and accede to their political assertions. It is a disguise to
make con men seem smarter, and intimidate others away from questioning their flimsy
ideas.

Complexification is the antithesis of commonsense. It takes things that are very simple to
understand and covers them in complexity so they are not understandable. The shyster
politician, bureaucrat or scholar, like the horse trader or snake oil salesman, can bluster,
bluff and bulldoze their way to credibility by way of cultivating intimidation and
stupidity.

NUMBER 14

May 25, 2011

Cultivating Ignorance of the Law

Simplifying is the antonym of the new word we are trying to introduce into the
dictionary. Complexifying is nothing new. The legal system has been complexifying
language for years, mostly for the purpose of securing their position and profession.

Legal language makes it necessary for the hiring of lawyers. Congressman John Conyers
Jr. of Michigan admitted he never read Obama’s 2700 page Healthcare Bill because he
didn’t understand it and it would take several lawyers to help him get through it.

Complexifying has long been a tool in the legal profession. The term legalese has
become recognized and even found in Webster’s New Dictionary of American English –
Third College Edition. It defined legalese as “The conventional language of legal forms
and documents, etc., involving special vocabulary and formulations, often thought to be
abstruse and incomprehensible to the layman.”

Simply, legalese is lawyer speak. In addition to confusing and unintelligible language
put into legal forms, which would include contracts and even federal legislation, there is
the practice of putting such language in small print. Legalese also meanders, taking a
very long time to come to the point.

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Meandering, confusing and perplexing language, incomprehensible in large print,
becomes unreadable in small print. These methods are designed to create diversions and
illusions, making the mind struggle to understand. Occupying the mind with so many
obstacles and roadblocks, deception is able to be hidden.

This type of complexifying though long in the legal system has expanded to education,
media, science and even the arts. It is used to make certain groups experts and those
outside their loop feel like dopes. It builds a patronizing platform so those seeking elitist
status can talk down to the people. It is a way of gaining power for one group and
arresting power from anyone outside that group.

Building the Tower of Babble

Killing Communication With Camouflaging Complexity

The process of complexifying and the teaching of it has removed commonsense from the
vast majority of the people. Complexifying is the institutionalized Tower of Babble,
blocking opened and honest communications, encouraging dishonesty and constructing
intentional barriers to all communication.

NUMBER 15

May 27, 2011


“Oh what a tangled web we weave when we indulge in legalese!”

Legalese is intended for deception. Its purpose confusing people so they are not on sound
footing when it comes to understanding of the law. Our laws are designed to be difficult
to understand to secure and solidify the position in the legal industry. The legal
administrators pontificate, speaking down to the people, “Ignorance of the law is no
excuse!”

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How is such hypocrisy even possible to allow laws designed to be incomprehensible by
the layman? Can they actually expect people to read the laws when they come out in
thousands of pages of legalese, intended for deception? Many laws actually leave
loopholes wide enough to sail an aircraft carrier through, to allow legislators and lawyers
plenty of room to manipulate the law in their and that favor of their constituency.

Many other professions are following the legal profession to develop their own language
not understandable outside their circle. This is like having a security system for the
profession, limiting intrusion by outsiders.

This also aids the education industry, who wholly participates in the process of
compexification. Intellectual illusions of complexity makes them seem more intelligent.
They engage in helping other professions to build defensive walls. Then they must
educate those going into such professions.


Legalese Webs We Weave

It is the never ending cycle of complexification, design to abolish the quick and cheaper
cure of commonsense. Woven webs dim the light from the outside, creating the shadows
for corruption to incubate.

NUMBER 16

May 29, 2011

All Hail Constitution, an American Hero

At the very start I would like to say a few words about the Constitution. Not the miracle
of the United States Constitution, penned in 1787, the law of the land of a new nation.
The Constitution constructed by our founding fathers, to bring the ideals of freedom and
human rights to the world. I am talking about the USS Constitution, born ten years later.
The United States Ship which bore the proud name of the law of the land where freedom
first rang.

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USS Constitution

“Old Ironsides”, America In Wood, Iron and Canvas

The proud ship USS Constitution built in 1797, one of six frigates to lay the keel of the
United States Navy. This ship so much embodied the spirit of America that went into the
framing of its namesake US Constitution, the foundation of our rule of law.

One of six frigates ordered by Congress, she was built along with two other large, 44 gun
frigates the United States and the President. Three smaller 36 gun frigates the
Constellation, Congress and Chesapeake, would comprise the fledgling United States
Navy.

Built in Boston with Yankee know how and craftsmanship, the USS Constitution forged a
place in our history that typifies the American Story. She saw her first action in War
against the Barbary States to defend our sovereignty, “Millions for defense but not one
cent for tribute.” On the shores of Tripoli transpired the baptism of the United States
Navy and Marines.

During the War of 1812, the survival of our infant nation hung in the balance. There
were few victories in the land war to carry the spirit of America. Still, we persisted, our
nation’s fortunes turning again to the sea.

The Naval War of 1812 began with the Constitution outrunning a devastatingly superior
British squadron that would have canceled her illustrious career before it began. At sea,
the USS Constitution carried the load. Defeating the British Frigate Guerrière, the
Constitution was hailed as “Old Ironsides” a name she carries till this very day.

She followed up against the Frigate Java in a fierce and bloody action. Taking on two at
once, the small Frigate Cyane and Sloop Levant in another battle, once more she was
victorious over the ruler of the seas. England, whose captains had not struck their colors
in surrender in almost ten years! What “Old Ironsides” could not out run she could out
gun. She is a monument to Yankee ingenuity like the US Constitution. (Next - “Old
Ironsides” Wood and Canvas, Sweat and Blood)

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NUMBER 17

May 31, 2011

“Old Ironsides” Wood and Canvas, Sweat and Blood

“Old Ironsides”, The Spirit of a Nation

A Memorial to Our Patriots

The USS Constitution faced dismantling upon the scrap heap in 1830. Oliver Wendell
Holmes wrote “Old Ironsides” a poem pleading for her survival. “Ay, tear her tattered
ensign down,” he lamented. He saved the USS Constitution, “Old Ironsides”, from a
dishonorable fate amongst the trash heap of lost history. He resurrected a symbol of the
American Spirit and those who gave their lives for the freedoms the people of America
enjoy.

USS Constitution was manned by men of the sea, as was our country in the early days.
Every man, woman and child coming to this country was tempered by the hardships of
the sea. From Jamestown to the Pilgrims at Plymouth and the slaves brought against their
will in those “hell on earth” slave ships. The sea tempered the spirit and strength of the
American, therefore America. The sea spawned the new nation where freedom and
opportunity would someday reign.

Those men of the sea were like the Constitution’s fittings, a natural part of the ship. Like
her strong and sleek hull, her canvas cloud of driving sails and her wooden bulkheads that
wore like iron. “Old Ironsides” was an entity of solid timber, cloth, rope, copper and iron
put together in beautiful fashion. She too was an entity of sweat, flesh and blood that
beat in her heart and the hearts of those brave souls that sailed her to victory, one after
another.

Her birth was over two hundred years ago. Most of her gallant actions are just over a
year short of that mark. Yet her life goes on just like the Constitution, our law. Both
were constructed with great care and great purpose. The ship incorporated ideas far
advanced for its time, as did the document. They endure, proud and glorious for their
accomplishments. Together they live on and can be seen today, solid structures of our

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nation’s greatness. Memorials they are to those who gave life and limb for the freedoms
and abundant existence we enjoy today.

NUMBER 18

June 3, 2011


People participating in the tea parties have been tagged with a very ugly image by liberals
and most media. First grabbing attention is the derogatory, perverted and nasty tag of
“tea baggers”. Applying such and expressions comes from a malignant mind in the gutter.
This is the venom which creates all the other accusations. Racists, bigots, Nazis and too
many others to list have been laid on them.

Tea Parties in Corning, Watkins Glen, Ithaca and Penn Yan, revealed Tea Party People to
be quite benign. They’re common folk concerned about our country heading in the
wrong direction. While taxes are an issue, it is not so much the money out of their
pockets, but the money going to finance corruption in government and the usurping of the
people’s freedoms. This is what seems to be the basis of the Tea Party Movement.

Tea Partiers, Good Common Folk


There appears to be some people out there attempting to hijack the movement. They are
getting their name not only associated with the movement, but made synonymous with it.
Liberal media seems very willing to give those people the crown. This way they can take
the words of one person and discredit the entire tea party movement.

The tea party emerges as a bunch of independent thinkers wanting a cleaner government.
They are sick of the corruption, fraud, waste and incompetence that has become accepted
standard operating procedure in government. Our taxes squandered then increased to
hide our government’s inept nature.

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When the tea partiers rally, talk of how clean and well behaved they are circulates
everywhere but the main stream media. They are courteous and compassionate. When
liberals rally the talk about their boorish behavior, and the filthy grounds they leave also
is left out of the liberal media. The tea party character is as fictionalized in the media as
is the liberal character.

Tea partiers are tired of financing people that want to do nothing but selfishly help
themselves to government entitlements. They are willing to help those down on their
luck. They are always willing to give assistance to those needing help to get back on
their feet. But not willing to finance indefinitely those that can stand on their own, but
refuse to.

The “Tea Party” moniker is about people concerned for the future and opportunities
handed coming generations. Will they live in a country of creative, energetic freedom or
lethargic, oppressive entitlements? Will Americans become a people herded by wolves
into becoming sheep to be fed upon by power?

NUMBER 19

June 5, 2011

Juan Williams Says, Insurance Companies Cannot Be Trusted, But Government Can?

Juan Williams on Chris Wallace’s Fox News Sunday, May 29, 2011 seemed
discombobulated hearing anyone could put any trust in insurance companies with regard
to healthcare. He expressed total incredulity that human beings could do so. It was
almost an uncontrolled tirade, fit or rant of utter disbelief. He puts his faith in
government to handle the massive intervention into the people’s lives.

On the other hand, one could look in amazement at his willingness to trust government
with such a task. Government healthcare as it is, Medicaid and Medicare are in serious
danger of burning themselves out financially. Riddled with corruption, fraud, waste,
mismanagement and incompetence to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars per year,
they are bankrupting the country. Yet Williams would trust even larger healthcare
programs to the inept devices of the federal government.

We are going to give greater responsibility to a federal government that spent the money
collected for Social Security for decades. That money they put into the general fund and
spent foolishly and whimsically for over seventy years. Now they expect current
generations to carry the load, looking to current workers to replace the money they
already spent. This, the Ponzi Scheme, a Madoff move, of politicians and bureaucrats
has made a major addition to the debt, a program that should have paid for itself. Instead
they have a huge file cabinet of IOUs to show for their ability to manage.

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Insurance companies probably are not the most honest organizations to place trust in.
Then, there is oversight to keep them in line. That oversight, the federal government,
politicians and bureaucrats, is no more trustworthy than the insurance companies.
Perhaps they are far less worthy of trust, which would be a good bet.

The only oversight in the federal government is the politicians and bureaucrats who have
proved themselves time and again they are not worthy of trust. These people we expect
to lie, cheat, steal and display gross incompetence. So, we would hand ultimate power to
government that has failed at leadership, management and oversight. We would expect
honesty and competence where it has seldom been found before. Well Mr. Williams, I
find that unbelievable!

NUMBER 20

June 7, 2011

Words Are Weapons

Cher sang, “Words are like weapons they wound sometimes.” Even the discussion of
civility brings out sharp words, designed to wound, by the people and groups crying foul
with charges of incivility. Words are warped and manipulated to inflict damage in the
battle for power.

In the discussion of then candidate Barack Obama’s political leanings, identifying him as
socialist found the media declaring “socialist” the new “N” word. Merely a description
of political positioning had the media branding those people, seeing Obama’s ideas
socialism, as racist. If successful in intimidating people, it would remove socialist from
the lexicon, allowing socialism a stealth entrance into our society.

Media Translation Machine

Words Warped To Manipulate For Agendas

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Attorney General Eric Holder declared America cowards, afraid to discuss the issue of
racism. His approach and that of many others has sent the message to discuss racism
from a different point of view could very well hang the label racist on a person. The
label can amass power to destroy careers and lives even if tagged without cause. As
these words are streaming, concerns arise.

Words can accidentally become weapons, carelessly spoken, inflicting hurt on some one.
More often words are sharpened, with venomous poison placed on the tip to inflict
damage. Sexist, racist, homophobic all have an edge designed to demean and cut. Words
can be maneuvered to undermine, camouflage, distort and divert truth for nefarious ends.

Gossiping and bullying with words, though highlighted among students on the school
yard, are taught by school boards, administrators and education unions and associations
to defend the kingdoms they have built. The education industry aims barrages of attacks
against anyone that would question them. They are the teachers by example.

Parsing, molding and warping words to fit an agenda, forges words into weapons. Not by
accident, but purposefully to sully character and destroy reputations. By adding accepted
negative connotations to words it opens the door for them to be banned. For example,
associating “Socialism” with the already banned “N” word! Banning words takes them
out of the conversation replacing free debate with intimidation.

Certainly, from any side or position words should be used with consideration and respect.
Yet, there are times when words as weapons should be wielded, in the battle of words.
Civility may even be dropped, the speaker reaping the rewards or suffering the
consequences of them. Audience will judge how the words are used and if the speaker’s
words should be shunned or embraced.

However, banning words leads to banning books. This becomes the banning of history
and knowledge. People must learn to recognize how words are misused and abused, and
when they are used appropriately. Identifying the manipulation of words to control
people is essential to keeping the debate opened. The courage to stand up to aspersions
cast down from the fortress walls of power is what keeps debate active and freedom alive.

NUMBER 21

June 10, 2011

The Chains of Habitual Lying

“He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third
time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths
without the worlds believing him. The falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart,
and in time depraves all its good dispositions,” written by Thomas Jefferson to Peter
Carr, August 19, 1785.

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William Jefferson Clinton lied to a grand jury and the nation about his sexual encounter
with intern Monica Lewinski. Many dismissed the lie because it was just about sex. The
fact is Clinton had become a professional liar long before this incident, and he merely
practiced a skill he had perfected. This was just another step up the ladder of deceit he
had been climbing for years.

Political activist Saul Alinsky defined “community organizer” writing, “He does not have
a fixed truth – truth to him is relative and changing.” His “community organizer’s”, truth
is allowed major fluctuations and inconsistencies depending upon the organizers mood.

Values “Alinsky organizers” are above include fidelity (loyalty); truth, at the organizer’s
mood; accountability, promises like truth are fleeting, whimsical. Honesty and integrity
are superfluous, by Alinsky standards. He maintains “Ethical standards must be elastic to
stretch with the times,” and “In the politics of human life, consistency is not virtue.”

President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hilary Clinton are both disciples of
Alinsky, like many others. Obama taught Alinsky’s philosophies as a college professor.
There is plenty of deceit inherent in the business of politics. The processes are even
documented for reproduction by such as Alinsky. This gives us a trust and truth indicator
of our political elite.

Recently married New York Representative Anthony Weiner lied about his multiple
sexual escapades over the phone and on the internet. In the Clinton model, he denied it,
making up stories to explain the evidence. Once caught, he was lauded for finally
admitting he lied. The people in his district are willing to let the lying pass, claiming it
doesn’t affect the good job he is doing?

Habitual lying seems obviously notable among our politicians and bureaucrats. Often
lying about sex which doesn’t count? We trivialize wholesale lying by politicians,
making convenient as a standard tool they use. It would be easy to deduce lying and sex
are among their primary skills. It taints our government with dishonesty and corruption.
Thomas Jefferson would be appalled, likely coming to the same conclusion.

Note: Jefferson Quote from Thomas Jefferson, His Essential Wisdom, Edited by Carol-
Kelly-Gangi

NUMBER 22

June 13, 2011

Burning Money Fueling an Impotent Government Engine

Lou Dobbs pointed out on his June 10, 2011 radio show that the democrats in Congress
have presented a jobs plan. That plan is to raise taxes and fund a federal jobs program. I

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guess similar to the $870 billion stimulus package, in which “shovel ready” infrastructure
projects were supposed to be targeted. The shovel was certainly active when this plan
was presented.

What was actually targeted was saving state government jobs, primarily inhabited by
unions. The automotive industry was bailed out, along with and in favor of the
automotive unions. Unions benefited from the stimulus as quid-pro-quo for their support
of President Obama’s election.

Some stimulus money even went to organizations like ACORN, to help finance a
reincarnation under another name. Its operations often illegal and questionable at best in
its support of democrat candidates, prostitutes and pimps, it had to disappear and
resurface, crawling from its image like a snake shedding its skin.

Most went to expanding the federal government by 450,000 jobs. Little money went to
shovel ready infrastructure. Some went to impractical projects like high speed rail. At
the same time, the private sector lost over a million jobs.

Dobbs conjectured it sounded like a 1930’s public works program in the mold of Franklin
Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal. That was a policy that financing a ten year Great
Depression, lamented by Henry Morganthau Jr., his own Secretary of the Treasury!

Senate democrats are throwing good money after bad, implementing retread programs
and policies that have failed time and again. Burning the treasure earned by the
American Worker, trying to fuel a government engine modified to burn that fuel, but
perform very few other useful tasks.

Liberty Is The Stimulus We Need

Burning Money, Fueling An Impotent Government Engine

This is the intellectual power of the majority party of the United State Senate. While the
house fire is burning, they find a bucket with no bottom to put the fire out. Their logic, if
the bucket has no bottom, they can fit more water in to take to the fire. That is as
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finance the first time they said they would. This tactic in combination with using
strategies that failed miserably in the past!

NUMBER 23

June 16, 2011

Selling America, A Piece At A Time

Reuters reported, “The Treasury is so close to the debt ceiling already that it will start to
employ a series of emergency measures on Friday to allow the government to meet its
obligations, such as Social Security and debt interest payments.”

Mary J. Miller, Treasury Assistant Secretary for Financial Markets from the top “secret
auction room”, where American Debt is sold, targeted August 2, 2011 for Congress to
raise the debt ceiling give or take a few days, depending on circumstances. On Diane
Sawyers ABC evening news June 15, 2011, Miller, like Treasury Secretary Timothy
Geithner warned of "catastrophic consequences" if the debt ceiling were not raised by
that date.

With administration policy to take advantage of crisis frightening people to succumb to
their agenda, it is difficult to know if this isn’t just another “cry wolf” contrived
emergency. It would seem that if this was as serious as they claim, thoughtful and
methodical reductions in spending would have been implemented as a solution many
months ago. Instead the opposite took place. Madcap, unrestrained spending continued.

Jonathan Karl of ABC reported from inside the “secret auction room”, that twenty eight
billion dollars of debt would be auctioned off in ninety minutes, allowing the nation to
function for three days. In secrecy pieces of America are sold, one third to foreign
countries, mostly China. The futures and freedoms of the American People are bartered
away at the same time.
Over The Cliff

Racing to Destruction

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In our own lives, living in the small upstate towns of New York’s southern tier, we would
have long ago reduced spending in preparation for the financial crisis looming on the
horizon. The Federal Government’s actions are like driving a car with the gas pedal
pushed to the floor, knowing around some blind corner a bridge is washed out. Or
perhaps the Titanic running full speed in an iceberg filled section of the North Atlantic.
SOS… SOS… SOS… SOS!!!!!!

NUMBER 24

June 17, 2011

Stimulus, Shmimulus, Ridiculous!

Over $870 billion was supposedly poured into the economy as an economic stimulus for
the country. It is well known most of that money was distributed to the states, to meet the
payrolls of the state, primarily unionized workers. Much of what didn’t go to
government unions went to the automotive unions, with the GM and Chrysler bailouts.

The stimulus package was essentially financing the administrations campaign for re-
election. Returning money for votes to the democrats by the unions and ensuring their
votes in the future.

In fact, the stimulus package paid for on the backs of the American People, created
another 450,000 new government union jobs, adding to the union coffers that donate to
the administration party. The stimulus package was an investment in government union
jobs and power, building the portion of the economy that creates no wealth, and only
consumes it. At the same time a million jobs in the private sector were lost. The jobs
that produce the wealth in America and finance the public sector, their activities and
employment!

The economic stimulus that supposedly stopped us from falling of the economic cliff has
been revealed to be campaign funding for the administration and the democrat party. It
only shored up the mechanisms of government and business that threaten to push us over
the cliff. The economic philosophy that extended The Great Depression for more than
ten years is having the same affect now.

You can conjecture it avoided an economic disaster and saved so many jobs, but history
would disprove that. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Secretary of the Treasury Henry
Morganthau Jr. stated referring to the New Deal, “We are spending more money than we
have ever spent before and it does not work.” In 1939 addressing Congress he said, “I
want to see this country prosperous. I want to see the people get jobs. We have never
made good on our promises. I say after eight years of this administration we have just as
much unemployment as when we started and an enormous debt to boot.”

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The Obama administration has chosen to follow this same path, yet with much less
sincerity of Morganthau. The administration argues, “We did not spend enough,” as they
ignore all the warning signs on this path.

Obama’s Blowing It

Inflating Government and Debt, Deflating America!

Not only did we spend too much, we spent it in the wrong place, expanding government
by 450,000 jobs and shrinking the private sector by a million jobs. The economic
stimulus package was merely an investment in growing government and further
corrupting power.

NUMBER 25

June 19, 2011

Not the Secret Garden

The “secret auction room” run by the Federal Government to sell America’s Debt to keep
the country running does not give a feeling of security. Keeping secret to protect the
buyers, as portrayed, witnessing behaviors of our government and politicians the
American People cannot help but wonder what else they have to hide.

Politics of the past have been characterized as deals made in the smoke filled back rooms
of some shady establishments. During the gangster days, dishonest dealings took place in
the dimly lit hidden rooms of restaurants, over spaghetti and Chianti. This sounds like
dirty dealings of the past which have found permanent homes in places like Chicago.
Government’s dealings in secret places should not give warm feelings to the people.

These financial dealings in secret must give pause to the people. Selling debt to keep the
government going, how desperate do our auctioneers get during the festivities when they
think they are not going to fill their quotas? Do they make sweetheart deals giving

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special rates to entice customers to buy America’s debt? Do they get trips, gifts and
kickbacks to entice such special deals? The power is there. Is the will not to be seduced?

The “Secret Auction Room” revealed by ABC’s Diane Sawyer and Jonathan Karl, seems
like an ominous place. It could be a place where America is being sold piece by piece.
One wonders, is America being sold out in the process. The levels of corruption we are
seeing in government, when the people finance the false and worthless paper of the
financial elite, and are bailed out by the political elite, it is not an unrealistic leap.

It appears our political elite treasure more the legacies of New York’s Tammany Hall,
Boss Tweed and Washington’s Teapot Dome, rather than that of our founding fathers.
They worship at the altar of corruption rather than that of integrity. Our nation is seeing
dark and sad times.

The Secret Auction Room

Secret Room, Black Box, Loopholes, Legalese, Designed to Keep Americans in the Dark

The more the Federal Government does, the more they screw up, cultivating corruption.
It would be pretty safe to assume the more the government does in secret, creating
shadows to skulk in, black boxes, loopholes and legalese to manipulate laws, the more
the people are getting screwed.

NUMBER 26

June 22, 2011

Be Thankful, the Government Is Still Running

Fox News Sunday June 19, 2011 again brought up one of the most interesting quotes
revealing a real but disturbing truth. Chris Wallace questioned former Obama Deputy
Press Secretary Bill Burton who now heads Priorities USA an “independent” political
entity. Wallace asked about democrats not passing a budget when they had control of
both houses. Wallace finished saying, “A country needs a budget to run.”

Burton went into a long convoluted answer, the substance of which is really unimportant.
He defended the lack of a budget. His statement tells a frightening story, when he said,
“The country is running. It hasn’t shut down!” His words in two short succinct

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sentences revealed much about the Obama Administration economic policy and
Washington in general.

These are telling statements. They see a successful government as one that is running. It
doesn’t matter if it is running off into a ditch, into a wall or over a cliff. In their view it is
successful merely because it is running. It is of no concern to them if it is running
inefficiently and ineffectively, the fact it is running at all is sufficient.

Amassing a huge debt and driving the country into bankruptcy is of little concern, as long
as the country is running. Taxing working class America into poverty has little interest
for politicians, because the government is running. Reasonable return for tax dollars is
not a measure, the government is running. They talk about constant improvement toward
a more perfect union, but they are satisfied with it just running.

Like the energizer bunny, it keeps going, and going and going. No direction, no purpose,
wasting American Treasure, but it is still running. Like the energizer bunny, it will still
be running till it doesn’t run anymore. The energizer bunny will just need new batteries.
The answer to the American Government stopping because the money is gone will take
much more to fix. A miracle!

Be Thankful, The Government Is Still Running

The Taxergizer Bunny, Just Keeps Going and Going, Taxing and Taxing

NUMBER 27

June 24, 2011

Weiner’s Folly, Clinton’s Legacy

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The behavior of New York Representative Anthony Weiner is certainly deplorable. The
fact he finally told the truth when backed into a corner with the truth has little merit.
Telling the truth only after being confronted with ones bald face lie is not commendable.
It says much about the honesty and integrity of the person.

Listening to the news commentators, they are extremely disgusted by Weiner’s behavior.
Democrats and republicans have come together in condemnation of his sexting
escapades. They discuss it with a tone of nausea, revulsion and down right disgust in
their words and voices. Weiner’s arrogant and aberrant behavior deserves the derision.

Going back in history, think about then President Bill Clinton’s sexual escapades. A
known long history of sexual misconduct, Bill Clinton’s Sexual Scandals including
Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky, Kathleen Willey and Juanita
Broaddrick, etc. All went public with accounts of their confrontations with Bubba. All
were viscously attacked by the Clinton smear team, led by James Carville.

How did Clinton get away with his misconduct? Weiner’s actions, though despicable
were clearly less so than those of Bill Clinton. Weiner used the Clintonian approach of
confident and bold lying. It worked for Clinton, but not for Weiner. Weiner lied to his
colleagues, the media and the people, as did Clinton. Both were caught in their lies.
Clinton trumped Weiner by lying to a grand jury, breaking the law.

Being president must have certain sexual benefits. It was acceptable for a president to lie
about sex, even before a grand jury. Apparently it was not acceptable for a congressman
to lie about virtual sex. Feminists staunchly supported Bill Clinton in his conduct, as did
his fellow democrats. Bill Clinton won with the behavioral model which seems to have
been adopted by many politicians. Weiner duplicated it as have many politicians, and
they seem to have lost.

More recent charges of Clinton’s dalliances have been met with the same wagging finger
and denials that proved false during the Lewinsky Affair. Clinton has used the words
slime and scumbag to describe those making such implications. It is probably human
nature to identify others foibles you can’t see in oneself.

It appears President William Jefferson Clinton has been a trail blazer in the sexual
misconduct of today’s politicians, democrat and republican, taking the politician’s art of
lying and sex to new lows, perhaps heights depending upon your perspective.

NUMBER 28

June 26, 2011

America Has Spawned a New Race of Gods, The Gods of Elite Entitlement

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The New Race of Gods

Playing With the Lives of the People

America has spawned a new race of gods. Self-indulgent, immature and oversexed, the
world is their playground and its people their pawns to be manipulated through their
lives. Washington is the new Olympus, where they strut and prance, displaying their
superiority to all. Lesser seats of government become each a mini Olympus, lesser gods
aspiring to be greater gods. The behavior of these gods is aberrant, outrageous and
hedonistic.

While these gods may look like us, they are not. They are giants among men in some
areas. They have titanic egos and colossal arrogance, thinking they are so special nothing
is off limits to them. Lying, cheating and stealing are their due. Though born of man,
and voted to position by man, they see themselves as divinity. Smarter than mere
mortals, they know what is best for mankind, they think?

Though their superiority tells them they know best, their infatuation with the peon,
peasant people is merely to ensure notice of their caring and kindness to the people. In
their eyes it compensates for the selfish behavior they wallow in. Thus they use feigned
concern for the sweaty and dirty masses to cloak their corruption.

Like the Greek Olympians looking down, they play with the peon, peasant people,
making them toys for their sadistic satisfaction. Sitting around in their godly forums they
discuss us with disdain and earn our disdain with their disgusting arrogance. Self-
absorbed and petty, they play with people’s lives for their own amusement

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NUMBER 29

June 28, 2011


In response to the reign of the Washington gods, “We the People” are Odysseus on the
long voyage home, back to the Constitution. We must confront the challenges of the self-
anointed American gods and in turn, challenge them, converting them from arrogance to
humility, incompetence to effectiveness and accountability.

Challenges

The governmental gods that have evolved in America have made it their goal to impede
the lives of the American people. To remain gods, they must pound down the “Spirit of
America” that would question and challenge them. In essence they have little real
substance, only the mythology of public service. So, through legislation and taxation
they place obstacles before the people to initiate their defeat and maintain bondage.

The Avant-garde Avant-gods


Confrontations

Like Odysseus, the people must meet the confrontations head on and triumph. The
governmental gods are blocking the advances and evolution of the common man so they
are ineffectual and impotent to stand against the gods. They want to beat the filthy
masses down so they pose no threat to the absolute power, over common man, the gods
have contrived for themselves.

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Herculean Tasks

This contest with the gods will be a Herculean task. It will test the metal of the people.
They will have to weather the trials and tribulations the governmental gods rain down
upon them, in an effort to defeat them. Taxation and laws designed to oppress the
people, along with government abuse, waste, incompetence and corruption, are among
the barriers that must be overcome.

The people must defy these gods

The gods must be questioned vigorously in the people’s defiance of them. These gods
must be exposed for the self-serving fakes and frauds they have become. They need to be
mocked and marginalized for their phony political dances and plays, pointing out “The
emperor has no clothes”. They must be defanged and declawed, neutralizing the wolves
that would feed on the sheep in gluttonous fashion. They must be transformed from
predators of the people to servants of the people.

Summary

The American People will have to be persistent in this effort. Constant pressure will have
to be applied on the governmental gods to educate them in the ways of integrity and steer
them away from their hedonism. It will take courage to challenge them and endurance to
defeat them. The people must take up Vulcan’s Hammer and forge the governmental
gods into respectable human beings. If the people do not rise up and do this, freedom is
lost. No example of a free people will exist on this earth.

NUMBER 30

July 1, 2011

Unions Seeking Elite Status for Theirs

Riots in Greece by government union employees seemed to force the hand of Germany
and France to refinance another bail out for the country. Throwing rocks a police, union
thug mentality reflexively comes to the surface. Those government union workers do not
want to sacrifice any of their elite compensation or benefits to save their nations
economy.

Teachers in Madison Wisconsin agreed to giving up something, only after years of
sandbagging and stalling, seeing that Governor Scott Walker was going forward to save
state solvency without them. Then the teachers cried foul, declaring they were willing to
make concessions all along.

“Gov. Chris Christie is like Adolf Hitler and New Jersey is like Nazi Germany,” shouted
Communications Workers of America vice president Chris Shelton at a rally outside the

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statehouse in Trenton. “It took World War II to get rid of the last Adolf Hitler — it’s
gonna take World War III to get rid of Adolf Christie!” “Welcome to Nazi Germany,”
Shelton continued! The incident reported by Politico’s Maggie Haberman.

The union boss in Trenton New Jersey declared Governor Chris Christy and his allies
Nazis, for trying to keep their state from bankruptcy. The battle in New Jersey has been
brutal. Governor Christy making few friends among the elite there, but is gaining respect
and popularity among the people for his commonsense approach and courage to bring
about fiscal responsibility.

Union officials are defining their constituent union members as the American Workers.
They are leaving private sector workers out of the conversation. This is telling to their
strategy. Only government workers are of importance, getting the best of benefits and
compensation at the expense of the Real American Workers in the private sector creating
the wealth.

One thing seems common in these stories of government unions both domestically and
abroad. They are among the elites with the expectation they will be carried on the backs
of the real workers. They do not mind the push toward socialism. They have realistic
expectations of being among the government elite.

The Royal Public Unions

Making Serfs of the Real American Workers

They are now and will be in the future among the royalty cashing in on the sweat of what
they view as the peasant proletariat. Private sector workers generating the wealth will be
the surfs on the fiefdoms of parasitic government elites. Freedoms gone, the workers will
become beasts of burden of a privileged class chosen by the government.

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NUMBER 31

July 2, 2011

Constitution Ignored

“Old Glory” Endures and Freedom Flies

America’s Foundation Keeps America Enduring

Oh, no, don’t tear that tattered ensign down,
trampling “Old Glory” unto the earth.
The banner victorious over darkness at Fort McHenry,
surviving thousands of fiery blasts of bomb bursts.

Like that flag, our Constitution stands for the people,
fighting for freedom, justice and good.
Showering opportunity over all our land,
and throughout our neighborhoods.

Millions of brave Americans battled,
sacrificing life and limb, they fought and died.
To fulfill the promise of our nation,
helping our freedom and liberty to rise.

Why would some scourge and crucify it,
our foundation, our freedom bearing Constitution.
Trashing our traditional rule of law,
for manipulation of the institution.

Creating a needy people, sapping strength within,
leaders sacrifice our laws for selfish ambition.
Stomping on the people, their rights and liberty,
elitists barter our freedoms for position.

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Desecrating our founding father’s intents,
usurping the freedoms they constructed.
Degrading the, people herding them like sheep,
waiting on government to be instructed.

This is about power warped, gone awry,
selfish interests overpowering greater good.
Forgetting the building of our nation,
the miraculous ground upon which they stood.

Are we approaching the end of freedom’s trail,
deciding to push no farther, seeking no more?
Giving up independence the path embarked upon then,
for promises of fidelity from the political whore.

NUMBER 32

July 5, 2011

Mr. Olbermann’s “Bullying” Pulpit

It is frightening that Keith Olbermann is viewed as such a scholarly intellect. He is given
great credence in much of the political world. Like so many chosen by the media,
crowned with great intelligence and insight.

Olbermann went off on Bristol Palin. Deriding her for the poor performance of her
recent book, he piled on his disdain in typical bully style.

When our nation seems so concerned about bullying, how can we hold in high esteem a
hate filled bully? The disgust on his face when talking about those that think differently
from him is disturbing. His eyes squint and the venomous tone comes from his mouth.
The toxicity that spews appears that of an ignorant, uncivilized man, not a scholarly one.

One of Olbermann’s main targets is the pompous Bill O’Reilly. When Olbermann
attacks it appears as though he is insanely jealous, feeling if he tears his competition
down, he increases his own stature. On the other hand, he just may be the hate filled
extremis nut he accuses everyone else of being.

I’m not sure that really matters, but a grown “man” that finds the need to beat up a
misguided and lost little girl certainly has issues that should remove him from the
pedestal of media credibility. Then, most of the mainstream media behaves much the
same way.

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