So, It Comes Down To This

It seems like the echo of complacency is settling in sometimes, but with no outlet or avenue, any mouthpiece and without a leader, any hope seems disconnected and trashed. I write in my blog about some of the feelings I am personally going through and hope that it will be enough between me and my maker. I will not have to answer to anyone about how much effort is enough except to Him and to Him should always be enough. After all, I do not wish to sound too zealous, but He controls it all anyway, so what we do with it is what He really wants to see. 

I also belong to 4-5 part time Ning groups, twitter like crazy and try to be a nuissance. I'm reading nonstop but also I am thinking critically. That alone takes an immense amount of work and pretty much fills my day. I love my country, and most of all my country at peace but I will trade my comfort for my kids anyday and the prospects of their lives haunts me to my core. For thousands of years and hundreds of generations from the primordial ooze, parents have wanted no less for their own.

I divide my time in every way that I can think of and quite frankly, the ride gets to be too much sometimes. I definitely don't need to get into the litany of what I see as a perfectly coordinated attack not only on liberty and property, but on basic competence and human dignity as well as livelyhood and free enterprise. Each day, it is the same thing, a new assault from a new direction and and it surely is designed to run any opposition squarely off the rails in rage and tempestuous but futile effort. Too little is not enough and too much will forever be too little. God help us.

If, we are talking about action, there have been any number of planned and civilized outrage actions and at any various levels of organization and not one iota of success. But such a tour de force on that side could give the Nazi's a run for their money in the speed in which they have gotten things organized at at our throats.

I am not a history buff, but even Hitler had the Kaiser to check his progress for a time. Even Moussilini had to suppress a few wild hairs before he got really started. This has hit and hit and hit, over and over again along every faultline there was in America. It is amazing there is any opposition to speak of at this point. I am talking about - both the at once inept yet pervasive nature of how so much of it dovetails into the rest of it. What I am suggesting is that we pay attention to what we already know in our hearts and seem to be dumbfoundedly waiting for confirmation of it to happen.

Let's assume the worst. At what point in your to do list do you decide to buy a gun? Many of us have already decided that that is a perfectly reasonable thing to do and may have already done so or are in the process of becoming a firearm owner. There are all of those issues that ownership brings up. Safety, best practices and what to do if the stuff really hits the fan, breaks into your house and you actually have to use that new stuff. There's ammo and a safe to keep it and practice, practice, practice in order to know how not to shoot yourself if you use it, because, self defense and defense of someone else is the one thing that they are good for. I thought criminals had guns.

Then there is the other part of the 'to keep and bear arms' stuff that IS in the constitution that no one really wants to talk about because it is so extreme, so fantastical that it doesn't even remotely resemble reality in any sane sense, but now, somehow, in a far out way that the founders were in their foresight able to detect from 1775, that we don't seem to be able to recognize on the evening news that lie, lie, lie about not only the country, but also ourselves and what we believe, to be mocked and ridiculed and I just get super pissed and have a tough time with it. It is Saul Alinsky's 12th rule of freeze the target and isolate, ridicule and cut off the aid. Pretty much what they are doing over and over every day to some other make believe person that so much as looks at the president Obama as the insane lunatic he is. So we were supposed to use the second amendment for that?

I KNOW how crazy this sounds but I also know that this man decided that He needed a 72% share of General Motors today and that is not even by five o'clock eastern time. Believe me, by the time he gets around to telling you how you are going to live, you will be begging, no pleading for the reeducation camp. I pray that that is not the case, but he is acting with line with the rest of our government; as if that is the only plan that they are even remotely capable of handling.

I grew up on a farm. I have seen how animals react and they do so effortlessly and they do so all day long. They never tire and they never weary, they don't even sweat. They are acting on instinct. Fight. flee, mewl, eat, get sick / well, birth and death is in their nature. It is we, who give them names and make them move, choose the time of their coming and going, how they live and how they die. They do not have to think of tomorrow, there is only this somehow terrible now we are living in and only instinct to guide them. They do so because that is their nature.

This is how this administration is running, on instinct as one great beast. Because I have seen what animals are capable of up close and to what purpose they act and react to. I am not now offering how to become alarmed. I think we are all already alarmed because we realize the implications that is happening. But do we realize what we are up against? What does it want? What is it going after? What are the forces at work within it and when will they tire? While we are navel gazing, how much longer do we have to react and to save what we are feeling from happening? What would that look like if we did 'pick up our sword' and 'gird our loins' metaphorically speaking?

So many voices talk about organized resistance and a few with an outright bewilderment as to why there hasn't been actual revolt. But I wonder if any of those same voices have an answer as to exactly when should this happen? Does anyone alive have any idea what it would take to take on America in her Imperial majesty? It's not the bloody Redcoats we are talking about. Mel Gibson in the Patriot was pretty much right to refuse to having to fight one more war. It's an insane mess. We would be fighting for our rights with pitchforks and peashooters while they would be amassed with the whole myrmidon army. Will it come to that? Only chance would know once the bottle is spun. Last time it cost America 600,000 lives who's ghosts are screaming from their graves for for the sin of slavery on mens souls. There shouldn't have to be any more lives spent achieving a more perfect union. 

Discuss.

Che Down The Rabbit Hole Parts I and II a Movie Review

It really is fascinating the unrelenting marketing of this man.  Someone said that the brand identification of Che started with that ubique image of the man from the sixties.  I was bored on this Read the Constitution Monday and decided to go have a tortured evening watching such stuff to see if I could figure this thing out.  I did not, sad to say, nor for that matter did I ever figure out what on earth was the fascination with the Grateful Dead.

What I saw, I have to admit was a loving embrace of the revolutionary and an almost total whitewash of the man.  There is nothing of the person, only the revolutionary with a twist, that of an almost morbid fascination with gritty wounds.  Nobody ever gets better in this movie, but there seems to be an endless stream of bullet wound trajectories and woozy camera angles to fizz in and out of consciousness and blood drippy fingers.  It is almost like the movie tries to make metaphor for what the propaganda is supposed to do for you.  

It also says it in the credits that this part of the movie (its actually a two parter, just like the old double feature, so thats over four hours- of Lawrence Of Arabia doting of loving embrace)that what follows is based on Che's actual diaries, and if this is what passes for his diaries, then there was absolutely no humor in the man.  Just what you would expect from reading the memoirs of a sociopath. Whatever plot interpretation, quips or jokes, or for that matter character depth is absent.  Benecio Del Toro is a fine actor and many, many fine latino actors are in it up to and including a surprising short sequence with Lou Diamond Phillips but alas , no Edward Olmos.  This thing is put together with the exact literal translation of Che's personal notes with; I want to say an almost sacrosanct devotion to every word.  I am saying almost because its not because I studied Che, or even thought of him as anything other than a misguided killer on a Statezilla binge, but I could only determine the relentless drive and heroic struggle of the sleeping in the rain, playing with buddy guts and the 'doing what needs to be done' task type stuff of the 'trooper life', sorry that does not include catholes and stinking to hell, but the romantic Zapatista, the Simon Bolivar type of revolutionary that pissed off Texans once or twice and that seem to be in need of another ass whuppin as we speak.

But what I did get as a student of history and that usually includes military history if you get into history at all, you will be struck by how absolutely by the book the memoir and the tremendously EPIC four hours of film are to Mao's Little Red Book on guerrilla warfare.  This is the motherlode of asymetrical warfare which our current baffoon in office Barack Hussien Obama seems to not only do alittle doting on dictators himself but perhaps might even fancy himself as one by the time he is through having his way with America, as in U.S, America, home of the free, land of the brave, which, Che makes quite a bit of hay blaming America in trying to unite the 'helpless peasants' behind the blood drenched cause by circling and underlining American Imperialism, shake, stir, repeat.

Any way, if you go to this thing with anything other than stars in your eyes "for the revolutionary struggle of communism" then its pretty much bound to tick you off in a few places. 

I only saw maybe a handful of people at the theatre with me, so, hopefully, this thing gets sold to the latino market and fizzles out as nostalgia for sixties prop that it most definately is.  Long Live The Revolution and Off Topic

Real Story From Boots On The Ground

Wonder why it took five days to rescue The ships captain? Warning, this is RAW feed and does not have supporting evidence. What is there is the language of those who do these things for a living. I offer it only as advisement for those who like to be smarter than everybody else.

Long Legged Mack Daddy President. Prayer Hour

Let Us Pray For Deliverence





Amen

Alinsky in the Presidents Pocket.

While perusing the decks for something to understand the playbook, or the ROE of President Obama's stratergery, it jumps out at you like a lock in key, that Sol Alinsky' Rules for Radicals is in the Presidents Playbook.  What technique depends on what tactic is coming next.  What we should do is study this Mien Kampf if we don't wish to be led to the funeral pyre.

Always remember the first rule of Power Tactics; 

1.) Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.-

Tracking this dictum, there has never been another administration in my lifetime that has been so dedicated to creating a mystique of power and ineptitude. Daily within these first 70 days we are tracking news reports that are designed to confuse the issue with propaganda and malfeasance of the countries wealth, while demanding more and more power in order to 'fix' the problem.  This disconcerts the enemy and brings more illusion of power in order to continue the consolidation for a power base and army of activists.  We understand that he will not give up his Blackberry because to do so would be to admit a weakness. There are thousand of Tweeters he can call on in a moments notice.  Again, I do not imply that he is anything more than inept but even that can be cultivated.  He cannot be pinned down.  He is walking contradiction.  The press fawns over him while the rest of the world marvels at the horror of his lack of protocol and manners.  The news reports of the G20 visit faux pas cannot be equivocated, or explained away as simple oversight, that would have been boneheaded the first time with the Gordon Brown debacle, the one where he said that he was so tired, yet he has time enough to single handed run up the deficit and tell Joe the Plumbers about redistributing wealth.  Not somebody else's wealth, your wealth, and that the governments revolution is to provide that.  We will go into more of the pragmatic uses of Alinky's Rules for Radicals in more installments but the next rule in power tactics is;

2.) "Never go outside the expertise of your people" 

The mainstream media , Pro-nounced ; meed-ja has been the single most abiding supporter of the revolution they openly declare as having begun and that the President has only Four Years to get things done or the world is lost and we will be consumed in a fiery flood.

People get that, they don't seem to care about some fifty year old mien kampf from an old Marxist, but the Progressives Do!

Maybe it is clear that the actions of the news which we are relying on to be objective, that the presidents natural critics  having learned their lesson from the 'Swift Boating' have finally circled the wagons and have a hammer lock of objective reality.  For far too long the right has been forced to feed the presidents natural critics, the hoi pilloi, or common sense independent thinkers,  still capable of critical reasoning.  Their group was despirited by the sudden flash from out of nowhere Pajama's Media to counter the stupid lies that twenty seconds with a google could uncover the lazy journalism, the fabricated stories and malevelant America bashing that the 'Intelligensia' generated.  This was somehow America's Worst attribute, that they were not ready for revolution.  They weren't ready for the new Ruling Class.

Ah, Hemlock, Where Is Thy Sting?

Or;  Better A Socrates Than A Pig Happy.

In the milieu of news and blog sensations, hash and rehash of the days flotsam and jetsam, intrigue and winners and losers and who gets to pick.  I also wonder what all of this means?  If you make sense out of it do you get to worry more, or is there some sort of prize?  Does a person get to sit in the lifeboat, or on the steering committee?  What the heck does it matter?

Will we ever get our country back?  Is there a way to get home?  What ever happened to those I told you so's that was the conservative base's raison d'etre?  What ever happened to the chastisement that was bound to come when millions of good church going people could see it all sliding off the cliff forever?  WE knew all about what was going to happen.  We told you so.

Now we slide right into the dark ages.  We had so much stability that we even heard people praying for another WTO to protest, or another war just to get rid of the damned ennui.  Thats the way it is when you can't see anything other than self interested altruism.

Everyone of the good looking liberal arts degree, skinny, tall, have it both ways people - too absorbed to notice hypocrisy even if they were wearing it (NIke), who were too unconcerned or were too busy sneering their snarky little comments, and acting queer even before it was the cliched and boorish term; Metrosexual.  

We who actually live to love and love to learn, to absorb our life in the experience of achievement and values were ridiculed for it as we still are.  We who stood on the pickets in the cold every January 20th for thirty years to protest the insane murder of the unborn and take a stand for human rights, we are deflated.  It is all undone and all for nothing.  Go away Virtue, go away Values.  Get lost Truth.  We killed God so we damn near care even less for you, so get lost.  Ah, Hemlock, where is thy sting?

The world does not care for you little children, your mothers and fathers are murderers and the state will even fund it because it has an interest in embryonic stem cells, your, embryonic stem cells to feed the demon called Technology.

All of your immense stability and equilibrium or non judgmental relativism and secular humanism is crashing around your ears and you can't even hear it.  Because you have sealed them against your own children's cries from your nightmare test tube.

We get to say we told you so.  This feels so completely useless and a waste of human life.  I cant even muster a whimper of pity for you bastards.

Sure Hope This Chills Me Out Saga.

Some free association follows: 

Let's write Pelosi, Reid and Obama each a trillion dollar check preferably in peso's to get out of D.C.  I may be writing a check on my kids nickel but they would thank me  for it.

Best Ever Stimulus Plan:

Take any city of large size here in America, lets say; around three quarters of a mill and tax the hell out of business in the center of the city.  Then draw a circle outside of the center, say ten miles, then another one to fifty miles.  Any city within that band with two hundred thousand population gets a ten year moratorium on taxes.

The kicker is that you kill the Highway Budget at the same time.  Seriously.

Best Reform the Government and Establish the Meritocracy Idea:

Eliminate State Legislative Elections for House positions.  Who the hell pays attention to them anyway? Replace them with a draft. Do away with elected representation in those positions.  Anyone who has been deselected for a jury trial three times must serve a two year stint in the State Legislature or forfeit $40,000 a year to someone who wants the job. We need a new way to identify talent because the best people are doing important things.

Why not the Senate?  Because of the Federalist Papers.

There will be exceptions but lawyers cant get to pick.