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Hammers and Nails

So,

Here I am with a blog post.  Amazing, I know.  College took more than even I expected this last term and the next one, which starts tomorrow, doesn't look like it will be any lighter.  I haven't been able to stay up to date with current events in the depth that I prefer and have been reduced to scanning headlines most of the time.  A recurring theme I have heard is that when your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

I saw a video (posted below) about the Quebec student protests that brought this to mind this morning.  Students in Quebec (and around the world) are upset about the escalating cost of higher education and are letting the government know about it.  Someone with half a brain would think that an appropriate response would be to work on some way to lower the cost of education.  Unfortunately, we are talking about politicians. 

The truth is that the hammer *is* the primary tool in the government workbelt but the reason that it is finally getting so much press is that it's been used more transparently, more often, and predominately against the 99%.  The Internet has been effective enough at reducing the other major tools (propaganda and indoctrination) that the hammer is being used liberally while the 1% tries to find a way to gain control over the world wide web.

Instead of looking at reducing tuition costs for students or even *saying* they will look at reducing tuition costs for students, the rocket surgeons wielding the hammer passed a law making it illegal to protest without permission from the police.  That's like a patient going in to take care of an itchy rash on his right arm and the doctor tying down the patient's left arm to keep him from scratching it.  Actually it's worse than that because, in this case, it brought extra people into the fight on the students' side.

People who were not protesting tuition hikes came out to protest the new anti-protest law.  Shortly after the law was passed, 700 people were arrested for illegally protesting.  This just brought more people out to protest the arrests and the heavy-handed tactics used by the police.  The response to the hammer seems to be such a no-brainer that it leaves me wondering what game the lawmakers are playing.  Have they painted themselves into such a corner that they are powerless to do anything else?  Wouldn't it have been better to do nothing than fan the flames? 

What do you think?  Why are lawmakers around the world making symptoms illegal instead of dealing with the disease?

Beliefs (Part 1)

So,

I've been giving this topic lots of thought, off and on, for quite some time and have not been able to put my thoughts into any easy order.  That means that I will once again be using this blog as a rough draft to make some sense of the topic and I will, once again, probably be meandering all over the place.

Standard Operating Procedures.

Yup.

In reading Lynette's blog, I came across something that she said that really resonated with me and I told her so.  She said she had been reading a book that brought me to mind and recommended that I read it.  I downloaded Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior by David R. Hawkins to my Kindle and have been reading it.  I'm only about 20% through the book but I'm intrigued and it has rekindled something in me that goes right along with my thoughts on Belief.

One thing that I know I need to do is be nicer to the cult members and minions.  I don't go out trolling but I have certainly been less than kind on my blog.  While I can rationalize the reasons for this because I can say what I want on my blog and they are doing far worse to me, it actually doesn't fit with what I would like to see happen for a number of reasons.  It may actually cause them to dig in deeper to defend their religion and it's really not fair.  It's not entirely their fault that they don't understand things.  I saw a video this week that explained it nicely.  Serendipity at work.

Picking on cult members is like having a spelling bee with contestants that don't speak English.

Spell the word, "Violence."

Could you use the word in a sentence?

I'm not sure how I have escaped the Matrix and to be clear, I'm still trying to teach myself.  I still go out looking for truth and I'm trying to teach myself to think better.  It's an important skill and one that I want to be able to pass on to my kids.  My wife and I discuss it often but we are at a point where we feel we need a better understanding of the concepts before we will be able to adequately pass them on.

There are a few things to note about my intention for a kinder and gentler blog in regards to cult members and minions.

1. I am naturally sarcastic and snarky and one of the voices in my head is even worse.  So, this may be a work in progress.
2. The good intentions are aimed at the cult members and the minions.  Their prophets are still fair game.  Failing to point out the evil would be a disservice to humankind.

Unfortunately, time is going to require that I split this up over at least one more post, if not more.

Let me leave you with something completely unrelated that I found funny.  I was looking around for information yesterday and Googled, "Obama pays travel expenses."

Success Warrior blog was the number 1 hit.

I don't care who you are, that's funny right there.

Git-r-done.

Larry the Cable Guy will be out here tomorrow.

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There is also a business side to all this fitness that you can take advantage of. Whether you're looking to just make a couple hundred extra dollars in fun money or are looking to take complete financial control of your life, BeachBody can help you get there. If you have a desire to be more fit and would love to help other people do the same while making some money at it, visit BeachBody.com and click on the "Coach" link. Team up with me and I'll help you reach your goals, in fitness and finance.

WTF Has Obama Done So Far?

So,

I've been encouraged to visit the cult website a few times because this will somehow cultivate an acceptance in using violence to jam my opinion down someone's throat and kill or imprison anyone who doesn't see things my way.  I believe that I did visit the site a year ago or so but I have to admit that if I did visit it, it was so unmemorable that today, when I finally decided to see if I was missing something, I did not recognize the site at all.

For those of you that haven't been and have no desire in tazing anyone who disagrees with you, I'll give a quick description (admittedly based on the small part that I saw).  It's a collection of pages with one-liners of "inspirational" things that Obama has done.  There is one little, teeny, tiny, string attached to how inspirational the statements are.  The level of inspiration received from the statements is inversely proportional to the reader's level of morality, knowledge, and willingness to seek the truth.  Cult members eat this shit up.

What are you inferring?

I thought it was clear.

The first statement that popped up for me was that Obama has cut Medicare drug costs by 50%.  First off, the law is unConstitutional but at this point, that's Standard Operating Procedure for The Great and Powerful Oz.  From the cult member perspective, I think the Constitution is irrelevant when it's something that they want.  Not that they wanted this bill.  None of them have probably read it but they do want to support their prophet and gawd's laws are above man-made laws like the Constitution.  Tossing that aside, let's look at this claim.

Now, the thing about Obama's lies is that there is usually some bit of twisted truth in there somewhere.  It seems obvious that he's lying but I like to dig to find out what he's using for the basis of his lie.  What can he point to and say, "See?"

Certainly not his leadership abilities.

Or his very own set of balls.

After someone on Medicare spent over $2,700 in the year 2010, Obama send them a check for $250.  No one has yet claimed that Obama knows anything about math.

Or economics.

Or ethics.

Under the old law, grandma had to pay 100% of drug costs from then on until she had spent $4,550.  This crippling financial gap where grandma is more likely to die than cross the finish line is lovingly referred to as the "Donut Hole."  If she can survive on cat food and saltines until then, she only had to pay 5% of the drug costs until the new year started.

Under this great new law (which imposes a 10% tax on fake baking, oddly enough - and I'm not going to mention the other stuff in this bill), grandma only has to pay 50% for prescriptions after she passes that $2,700 mark.  Don't get me wrong, that's better than 100%, especially since Obama and his predecessors have created a system where drug companies can charge $150 for a pill that costs $.02 to make.  If you could escape their protectionary "laws", you'd cut grandma's prescription costs by more than 50% on all her prescriptions, even saving her from that initial $2,700 gouging.

It's close enough to the truth for cult members to get goosebumps.

It's really important for cult members to pretend like they care about people.

There's some truth to it and if you ignore the rest of the bill, you could say this was a "win".  I was thinking that I may be persuaded to the use of violence to solve any desire that I had after all.  I clicked to the next one.  It was about how Obama pays travel expenses for families to fly out to see the body of their dead son/daughter/husband/wife who died trying to make sure that Exxon and BP keep making record profits.

I threw up a little in my mouth and went out to play basketball with my son.

One thing, skipping back to the first wtf page that I read, that I have often wondered about is the possibility of some agreement, implicit or expressed, between cult members and minions.  Democrats and Republicans are constantly battling each other using talking points handed to them by talking heads, who most likely also have not read any of the bills. 

At this point, I probably don't have an cult members or minions as readers, which is unfortunate because I'd like to hear the rules of engagement for their arguments.  From what I've seen, there must be some sort of pact where they are only allowed to use propaganda from their team in these arguments.  My guess is that anyone who uses truth or morality is red-carded.

Anyway, if you want a chuckle, go visit the website.  You won't learn anything useful there but if you ever find yourself in an argument with a Republican minion, you can zing these statements at him like they are deadly ninja stars.

Made out of origami paper.

Folded by a three year old.

Saturday Video: Obama and His NATO-Run Military

So,

I am not sure why Congress has suddenly woken up to the fact that they have been letting American Presidents acts as dictators in control of the military or the fact that that the United Nations has more control of the military than the United States Congress but they have.  Defense Secretary Leon Panetta tried to sugar coat it at the start of this discussion but he makes it quite clear at the end of this video that the United States Congress does not control the United States Military.

This has been going on for some time now but this "in your face" attitude has prompted Congress to pass a resolution reminding The Great and Powerful Oz that if he uses the military to attack someone, he can be impeached.  It's very weird to see Congress take a stand on this so it makes me wonder what else is going on.  There are several other aspects of this video that are worth delving into deeper but the point of Video Saturdays is to keep it short and sweet so maybe at a later date.

Highlights

So,

I unintentionally took two days to write my "Summer is coming" warning post and then the weekend hit where I have to work my day job instead of working on my dream job of being a professional blogger.

I'd rather work at Victoria Secrets helping women try on bras.

Smartass does have a point this time.

Anyway, the world just keeps on moving so today you're going to get highlights of things that I have run across over the last few days that have not made it onto this blog and are not going to get their very own individual blog post.  Here's what been happening, in no particular order:

The Euro Zone has officially entered its second recession in three years, according to the European Commission who lied about the first recession ending.

Maybe the recession ended because it went into depression and now it's back up to recession.

I don't think it works that way.

This was in the pile but it's actually from last November.  It's a chart of the Criminal Financial Institution Fraud Prosecutions over the last 20 years.  It looks like the financial institutions are playing by the rules now and aren't committing as much fraud.

They're probably afraid of Obama's tough stance.

Or the 1% has gotten rid of most of their competition so there's no one left to persecute.

The Great and Powerful Oz trotted out the fact that his plan is working and the United States has reduced its dependence on foreign oil.  Huzzah!

Wait!  Were his lips moving?

Why do you always think he's lying?

What he accidentally failed to mention in his "Silver Bullet" speech is that US dependence on foreign oil increased from 37% to 40% but US demand for oil has dropped off so much because of the depression that US use of oil has dropped enough that even though foreign oil is a bigger percentage, it's at a lower overall quantity.

If his plan is working, does that mean he's working to keep the economy crippled?

The depression does lower usage of foreign oil.

Here's a side thought that I have when the president, any president, tells outright lies like this.  He obviously does it because enough people are stupid enough to believe him or too lazy to check into the facts.  It's something that I stated previously.  If Obama told this lie and all of the media ran headlines of "Obama Lies About Foreign Oil Dependence," he would probably stop.  Of course, the establishment media supports the 1% and won't do that.  Plenty of us bloggers do but sometimes it just seems like breaking through the spoon-fed ignorance is such an uphill battle.  I just read an article about people being too stupid for Democracy to flourish and I look around at the world and say, "Duh!"

Chicago is bringing out the big guns for the G8 and NATO summits where leaders will get together to decide the fate of their subjects and if there is one thing that these leaders don't want, it's input from their subjects.  To this end, Obama is moving the G8 summit to Camp David and Chicago camps are bringing out a historic law to deal with NATO protesters.  It's a Class 1 Felony to audio record someone without their consent.  Any video with sound (and let's be honest, it won't matter if there is sound or not) of a cop beating down a protester will land the videographer in prison.  It is illegal in Chicago to hold public employees (you know, people who supposedly work for the public) accountable.

It does cause problems for the government when these videos go viral.

They should pass a law making it illegal for videos to go viral.

The TSA, my beloved TSA who I have not mentioned recently despite some horrendous actions on their part, have started doing vehicle checkpoints and plan on expanding them.

In the hopes of catching someone driving a Chevy Volt into a skyscraper?

Papers!  Papers please!

Representative Charles Dent, a Republican from a state where late-term abortion should be legal and they should start by aborting Rep. Dent, has come up with something that I actually find to be stunningly ingenious and thinking outside of the box.  I am an expert at thinking outside the box and I found this tactic surprising.

One of the biggest problems that Obama, his band of 535, and the 1% have is all this clamoring about Americans having Constitutional Rights.  It seems like just about every law passed lately violates the Constitution in some way and Americans are actually starting to take notice.  Everyone also knows that Occupy Wall Street is going to come back bigger than ever and that it will be a long time before December snow quiets things down again.  Not to worry, Dent has solved the problem.

He has introduced a law to fix all this cry-babying about the government completely ignoring the Constitution.  Here's the summary of bill HR 3166, The Enemy Expatriation Act:

"To add engaging in or supporting hostilities against the United States to the list of acts for which United States nationals would lose their nationality."

It doesn't even list suspected terrorism like NDAA did.  All you have to do is engage in or support hostilities to the government of the United States and they will revoke your citizenship.  It's hard to whine about your Constitutional Rights as an American if you aren't an American.

You can't scare me with this gestapo crap.  I know my rights.  I want my phone call.

And tell me, Mr. Anderson, what good is a phone call if you are unable to speak?

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Have you heard of P90X? That's BeachBody. They also have Insanity, Turbo Jam, TurboFire, RevAbs, Brazil Butt Lift, and many more. They have some of the best exercise programs on the market. These aren't just DVDs but are complete programs to transform your body. They also have the hugely popular, and what they call "the most important meal of the day", Shakeology. Go HERE to learn the most inexpensive way to get Shakeology.

They have equipment and supplements in addition to Shakeology and popular exercise programs. Visit BeachBody.com and click on the "Shop" link to see everything they offer.

There is also a business side to all this fitness that you can take advantage of. Whether you're looking to just make a couple hundred extra dollars in fun money or are looking to take complete financial control of your life, BeachBody can help you get there. If you have a desire to be more fit and would love to help other people do the same while making some money at it, visit BeachBody.com and click on the "Coach" link. Team up with me and I'll help you reach your goals, in fitness and finance.

NOW DC Should Be Seen and Not Heard

So,

Occupy Wall Street never stopped and is picking up steam again as we head into spring.  The group that will be occupying DC may be adopting a new name, National Occupation of Washington DC or NOW DC.  I believe there is supposed to be some big kick off event at the end of March.

Here's a weird coincidence in timing.  Guess what's about to become a new law?  Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011.

Well that sounds like a good cause.

Just remember that laws are named opposite of their intention**.

This law to improve buildings and grounds doesn't do anything at all to improve buildings and grounds in the way that the 99% would think of as an improvement.  If you are one of the puppets for the 1% though, this is going to be a vast improvement.  Here's what the law will do after President FuckTheConstitution signs it:

You will no longer be allowed to protest in proximity to anyone who is being guarded by the SS.

This obviously applies to the White House . . .

. . . but wait, there's more.

Act now.  Callers are standing by.

It applies to anyone that has Secret Service protection and applies to temporary sites of that person.  Obviously, no more mic checks at one of the Great and Powerful Oz's "I'm so full of shit" speeches but maybe not so obviously:

• Mittler Romney has had SS protection for some time now - no more glitter bombs
• Rick inSanitorum has recently started getting SS protection
• Foreign dignitaries are routinely guarded by the SS
• The G8 Summit in Chicago - fogedaboudit
• The Republican National Convention - the Ron Paul Revolution will be federally charged
• Even the Superbowl is guarded by the SS

After NDAA, striking down the First Amendment isn't shocking and it's actually quite a tribute to how effective Occupy Wall Street has been.  This is a sign of fear from the puppets.  They want to sit in their big white domed buildings pissing on the 99% and they don't want to hear any complaining about it.  They don't want people confronting them with their lies and corruption.  They want people to play within the ever-increading rules of the system that they control because they know that anyone dumb enough to try to change the system from within the system is easy to control and anyone daring enough to challenge the system is a threat. 

Sit down and shut up!

You should run for Congress.

I'm sure that Obama will regretfully sign the bill into law and maybe even jot down a signing statement saying that he doesn't think that this bill is right but he's really got no choice in the matter.  After all, the people voted for these lawmakers who are acting as representatives of the people and the vote was 388 for and only 3 against so it is the will of the people that they not be allowed to voice their displeasure with their representatives.  And even if Obama wanted to veto this and I'm sure that he does because he cares so deeply about the American people and he is well versed in Constitutional Law, the cult member apologists will surely point out that with a vote of 388 to 3, any veto from the well-meaning puppet-in-chief would just get over-ridden anyway.  And so, sadly and with a heavy heart, Goldman Sachs' MVP will sign this into law and continue on his path to destroy any trace of freedom in the United States of America. 

We're going to have to change the national anthem about "land of the free".

You're an idiot!  They'll pass a law making it mandatory that everyone sing it.

And smile.

** Update: I ran across a video today that fits perfectly with the statement made by one of the voices in my head.  The topic of the video is what the GOP primary actually looks like compared to what is being reported in the news.  It's the last quote from Ron Paul that fits today's post:

Mitt Romney Unveils His Economic Strategy

So,

Good ole Mittler is in Michigan trying to fool the people into voting for him.  He has taken some heat during the campaign for not being more specific (or specific at all really or even not quite so vague would be nice) about his plans to turn the economy around.  Mitt finally came forward with his plan.  Here's a video of Mitt's plan:

Resisting Indefinite Detention

So,

The Virginia State Legislature has passed an interesting new law in response to the NDAA giving the president the "legal authority" to kidnap people and detain them for pissing off the 1% without ever filing any criminal charges against them.  NDAA is such a blatant violation of the Bill of Rights that I've seen NDAA reported as the law that repealed the Bill of Rights.  The Great and Powerful Oz has secured his place in future history books by undoing such a critical element in the foundation of the United States of America.

It shows too as the states become less and less united.

He needs four more years to finish the job.

His re-inauguration could be National Secession Day.

Virginia, while not able to directly void the unconstitutional law (which means that it's already null and void and will just be enforced through the use of overwhelming violence), did what they consider to be the next best thing.

They moved the state to Canada?

Canada's no better, eh.

Did you hear that Canada is going to build a military base in Germany?

Focus!

Stay with us SW.

Virginia passed a law making it illegal for anyone who pulls a paycheck from the State of Virginia to assist the federal government, in any way, with the unlawful detention of a Virginia citizen in violation of the Virginia Constitution.  Obama may have tossed the US Constitution in the crapper but Virginia looks to be holding on to theirs, at least in this instance, and are holding it as preeminent to the kidnapping sections of NDAA.

Virginia's actions are important and play into the post on beliefs that I am hoping to write in the near future.  I'm afraid that said post might be time consuming and I have homework to do.  However, if I can get caught up, it will be next on the to-do list.

And while Virginia's new law is important and many are applauding it, I'm going to have to give it a golf clap when it comes to the directions given to the men and women of Virginia who have sworn an oath to protect and serve the citizen's of Virginia and uphold the Constitution.  Do you know how frustrating it is for cops when someone could help but instead they chose to "not get involved"?  How much more frustrating is it going to be when the goon squad starts kidnapping people and it's the police who don't want to get involved.  It's like passing a law saying that cops aren't allowed to help murderers.  First, you shouldn't have to pass such a law in the first place.  Second, umm, hello?

It is a start though and there will be more state and local governments in the future that do the same thing.  It may seem like irony but I think it's more about how humans are programmed.  The more that the 1% try to control everything that people do, the more chaotic things are going to get.

Humans were not meant to be kept in cages.

Greece Fired

So,

It's looks like the EU bank is looking burn Greece right to the ground. 

"Salary cutbacks (called "unified payroll") for contract workers at the public sector set to be finalized today. Cuts to be valid retroactively since november 2011. Expected result: Up to 64.000 people will work without salary this month, or even be asked to return money. Amongst them 21.000 teachers, 13.000 municipal employees and 30.000 civil servants."

The people of Greece should give the EU the finger, go back the drachma, and fix things on their own terms instead of letting some outside troika hell bent on the destruction of the people send in a list of impossible demands for yet another bailout this is going to fail in the end. 

Hanging Bankers

So,

Ken Livingstone, the homophobic tart and London mayoral candidate, made the news today by announcing a new plan to fix the economic problems of the world.  That plan is to hang a banker each week until the remaining bankers figure it out and bring themselves into line.  This plan is likely to have some appeal (hopefully not enough to get him the job) but it fails on so many levels that I'm having a hard time deciding where to start.

First, the fact that Livingstone, the closet fag, is so openly anti-gay means that he should not be allowed to be in charge of a city, or a church choir, or a family, or even be allowed out in the public without a shock collar.  Worse yet is the fact that he gets press coverage for this shit (gay bashing not hanging bankers).  It's unfortunate that the press-titutes publish this stuff.  They are so hard up for ratings or in favor of gay bashing that they actually give this shitbag press time.  People like this should get a media blackout that would make Ron Paul look like a rockstar.

Okay, all of that had nothing to do with the problem with Livingstone's comments but I am sick unto death of people, especially power hungry bitches, attacking gay people.  It makes me understand why people might nod their heads at his hanging bankers comment because quite frankly, wrong as it might be, it would be quite enjoyable to kick Livingstone as hard as I can in the balls.  He'd need a tonsillectomy to get them removed.

However <deep breath>,

That's not the solution and neither is hanging bankers.  Like Livingstone, bankers may be maggots but what makes them dangerous is the ability to wield the violence of the government.  Without the government, the "too big to fail" would have failed long ago, oil companies would be dinosaurs, Livingstone would never have a single comment repeated by the media, and gay people could marry anyone that they wanted to.

When you give one group of people the power to wield an ungawdly amount of violence and another group of people more money than gawd, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see what kind of barter system is going to to be set up.  It's something that hanging bankers is not going to fix.  Next you'd have to hang owners of big oil, big pharma, big agriculture, and big whatever comes next. 

I don't think that Livingstone is smart enough to know what he's doing so it's probably completely accidental that he's throwing the red herring.  He's just trying to use a ploy to get himself into office where he can lord over young male interns under his desk. 

Occupy Wall Street is making the same mistake.  They are mad because the rich can use money to buy politicians completely undermining any idea of a representative republic for the people by the people.  Money is the vote.  Lobbyists write the laws and law makers don't actually read the laws.  They just vote what it says on the memo line on the bribery check.  OWS wants, like so many people, to get the money out of politics.  First, that's the wrong part of the equation to be looking at and second, it's just plain impossible. 

Who is going to pass a law saying that politicians can't accept money?  The law makers?  Shah, as if.  If the law was passed, who would enforce it?  People appointed by the law makers?  That would be effective.

I stand with OWS against people being able to purchase the capacity for violence from the government but the key isn't in hanging bankers.  It's in teaching people that the government does not have the legitimate right to initiate the use of force against people.  It's in showing that the immorality in the situation isn't in renting the initiation of force, it is the initiation of force.   It's the people who rob, steal, taze, pepperspray, kettle, kill, kidnap, rape, and do it all under "the color of law".  All of the "legal" immoral actions taken against the people, that's the real problem. 

Education is key also because education isn't violence.  Violence is not the solution.  Hanging bankers or burning down buildings is not going to solve the problem.  Best case scenario for those people thinking that a violent revolution is the answer is that this batch of immoral thugs will be replaced with another set of immoral thugs.  Things might be better for a while but in today's fast-paced world, the money would find it's way back into the system within a couple of election cycles.  That's how the game works.  Unlimited power + unlimited money = unlimited corruption. 

The true problem is the belief system and when that changes, everything else will change with it.  When the belief system changes, the government will not have enough violence to stop the change.  Respect for the government is already a thing of the past.  In its place is fear.  When fear passes, we will enter the next step for the human race.

. . . to be continued.