WanderingSalsero

Closed libraries? What the hell did they expect??

The people in Oakland, CA. are upset because the City of Oakland had to close the library for a few days.  The story is in this article.

And they're upset??

Well.....what the hell did they think was gonna happen while California has had the lifestyle it's had these last 20-30 years?

California has the potential to have an economy, a healthy economy, larger than 99% of the countries in the world.  In fact, I remember many many years ago that California was the cover story on Time Magazine. 

Back then, and in fact for many years in Amerika's history, California has represented one of the highest ideals of free enterprise and capitalism.  If you were looking for an 'opportunity', it was.........'go West, young man!'  Meaning.......California.

Lots of people did go West.  And lots of people made it big there.  Every heard of Steve Jobs?

But someplace between then and now the wrong people and the wrong philosophies began to gain dominance in California.

I'd say the word would be 'liberalism'. 

Sure, that's also where Silicon Valley is and, as Newt Gingrich so often observes, Silicon Valley is a sterling example of why certain parts of Amerika work, and work very well.  But the peoblem was that too many Barbara Boxer types and liberal Hollywood types began to run things out there.

I guess you've heard, haven't you, that San Francisco has the reputation of being the city with the most unruly drunks, homeless and street people in the country.  Their liberal city council out there almost protects them like an endangered specis.

And of course that's not even to mention the problem with gay culture out there.

Well...they're paying the price now.  And I don't thinkthey've heard the end of it yet. 

But California still has it's potential.  Just like Amerika.  We just need to take it back.

Peter Schiff on 'why education costs so much today'. Very interesting

Think government college loans are a good idea?

I did too.  Until I heard Peter Schiff explain how and why government 'assistence' actually makes education more expensive rather than more affordable and accesible.

This brief video blog explination illustrates, once again, why Libertarian thinking is what Amerika needs today to restore some degree of normalcy and equilibrium in our lives.

P.S.  An education at Yale University for $33 a year??!!

Are you in "the Movement"?

I'm speaking of 'the Freedom Movement'.  Especially as it pertains to Ron Paul.

You remember Ron Paul, don't you?  He's the congressman from down around Friendswood, Texas way, right?

Sure.......you know him.  Point is, who woulda thought a year or two ago, that his movement to audit the Federal Reserve would have the support of 80% of the people of Amerika.  Certainly not me.  But, according to what I just read, that's true.  And the Fed is having to spend major bucks to fight it. 

Will it ever happen?

I don't know.  Those crooks have a lot of connections and  virtually unlimited money.  And they basically 'own' the people who make the laws.  So it's certainly not for sure it'll ever happen.  But I think there's a 50/50 chance it will.

And who would have ever thought that his son, Rand Paul, would be running for Congress, somewhere, and (in  the polls) actually be ahead of the establishment incumbant.  That's true.

Yeah buddy!  People seem to be waking up, don't they?

And the good news doesn't stop there.

Our good buddy, Peter Schiff, son of Irwin Schiff, is running for Congress again another establishment incombant (Chris Dodd, I think it is) and is actually ahead of him in the polls now too. 

Ain't that something!!?

Well, all this certainly is good news.  But we gotta remembe that these slimeballs have had a lot of time and money to get dug in and camoflaged really well.  Just like t he Germans on Normandy in WWII.  And they're not going to give up easily.  And they undoubtedly have contingency plans within contingency plans (I would.....wouldn't you??)

And they're as sneaky as the day is long.  So......we can't give up too early.  We've gotta find'em all and chase every last lousey one of'em outta town.  And make sure they stay out.

Let's just hope Obama and his gang of 'frat rats' don't screw things up totally beyond rescue in the definately finite time they have left.  I predict that Obama will go down in history as one of the presidents with the biggest swing from positive to negative of any president in Amerikan history.  Better late than never.

Remember a place called Carthage?

I suspect that most of my readers remember at least the basics of a place in the Mediterranean called Carthage.  Actually it was a country and a city.  And at one time it was as powerful as Rome.  In fact, they fought two long wars.  The first one was a stand-ff (I think) but Rome clearly won the second one.

Point is, Carthage was very big, very powerful, very rich and no doubt they thought they would endure forever.  But that's not reality, usually, is it?

Now....remember a city called Detroit?

Whereas Carthage was defeated from without, Detroit has fallen from the heights to the depths largely because of liberal left political and social policies.  Did you know that unemployment in Detroit right now is around 50%?

Yeah.....according to this article in World Net Daily.

Fact is, most Americans want the best for every other American.  I know I sure do.  But it seems to me that 'we' haven't been allowed to run our country and our lives within the parameters of our own values but rather our country has become one big failed experiment for the liberal left and RINO(Republican In Name Only) right.

My prediction is that there will be another American Revolution.  To what extent it's peaceful or otherwise remains to be seen.  But there's no doubt that in a country as big as we are, there's sufficient number of Americans who yearn for an America of principal and true justice again and who most assuredly have a limit beyond which they will not allow their country to be prostituted like it is now.

Seriously........Detroit?  50% unemployment?  That ought not to have happened!!

The international joke in Copenhagen

I've been picking up bits and pieces of the big Goofball Congress....otherwise known as the 'Climate Summit', in Copenhagen.  Seems to me it's become just the kind of farce that I, and others, thought it would be.

Of course, I'm not alone in my opinion that this climate-change issue has been totally misrepresented and blown out of proportion by the radical left for their own benefit.   Lots of people have been calling it just what it is, pure bullshit, for many years.  In a way, I think these recent happenings have really been good for our side. 

As an example of this craziness I'm talking about, here's an article I just read.  And to think that these people actually have fat expense accounts and can get away with what they're doing.  It's really appaling.

You think the Israelis are the bad guys over there?

Here's an interesting story about the real situation concerning Israeli conduct in Gaza and the Palestinian situation. 

Knowing something, as I do, about some of the tricks the North Vietnamese and VC used in the Vietnam War, I gotta say that I'm not surprised.

People don't change.  Bad guys do what bad guys do and good guys do what good guys do.

Afganistan Exit Strategy?

It's interesting what you can see between the lines when you take statements that prominent people make and look at them through the filter of history.  I've always thought I know a bit more history than the average person but I must admit I didn't know enough about history to make the connections and comparisons that Pat Buchanan makes in this editorial .  

I can't find fault with anything he says.  He basically says that Obama is putting the pieces togather for an Afganistan exit strategy.  I thought what he says makes sense.   See what you think.

This is what 'real change' looks like!

Click here to see what unemployment has done in the last couple of years. 

Yeah, since uhhhh, Mr. Deceiver-in-Chief has been in charge.

The Confederacy had it right...it is about states' rights.

I just read in an email newsletter that Dick Morris predicts much higher state taxes if they are forced to accept the proposed new federal health care guideline.  I agree with him in that prognosis.

And that observation on the relationship between the states and the federal government brings to mind something that my artist friend back in Houston, Ron Gordon, told me.  I've mentioned it before but it's even more relevant in the light of current government intrusions into our 'space'.

Ron told me that it was either his grandparents or his grandparents' grandparents who were alive during the Civil War.  I forget which it was but.....for discussion's sake, let's just say it was his grandparents.....OK?

Anyway, they told him that the southerners who were alive then and who fought the North in the Civil War actually believed that the issue was much bigger than just slavery as 99% of the history books would have us believe.

They believed the large issue was 'states rights' .

According to them, it was a well known and accepted amongst southerners that slavery was an outmoded and unfair institution.  They knew perfectly well that it was wrong and wasn't practical in the their emerging industrial economy.

But they also were trying to cope with the reality that there was no way in hell that they (i.e. the South) could just 'free' the many thousands of black slaves working within their predominantly agricultural economy. 

To release that huge number of totally uneducated, non-Christian, and almost savage human beings into 'the streets' of America would have been a catastrophic socio-economic shock that could not be survived. 

If you don't think that's so, just look at the situation today with clash between law abiding, educated society and our present non-lawabiding and uneducated (slight) minorities who just, by coincidence happen to be mostly Hispanic and/or Black. 

And remember that the Northerners who controlled Congress at that time also wanted to give those newly freed blacks the 'vote' too.  As I recall from my history classes, it wasn't a straight up 1:1 vote (i.e. 1 slave....1 vote).  But still, because of the large numbers of black slaves living in the South at that time, far outnumbering the whites, they would have constituted a dramatically predominant voting block.

The Southerners werent' stupid.  They knew this would be a disaster.  So is it any wonder that they resented this intrusion and apparent destructive intent of the North?  Is it any wonder that they rebelled?  I think not.

That's why, as Ron's grandparents told him, that the South was actually defending their life, liberty and pursuit of happiness as guaranteed to all US citizens by our Constitution.   That's the larger reason that they revolted, attacked Fort Sumpter,  and....the rest is history. 

That brings us up to today.

Here's a situation where the states are being more and more compelled by the federal government to do things that they don't want to do.  And that's why there's a small but growing resistence movement amongst some state governement officials to resist.

Where will it lead to?

I don't know.  But I do know that it'll lead somewhere.  And, as I've often said....'people don't change'.  When people are pushed to what they perceive as their limit, they eventaully, sooner or later, start to push back.  That's how revolutions start.

Make no mistake about it.  There will be a revolution in this country.  Whether you're a part of it or just 'go with the flow' is a separate issue. 

But history does repeat itself.  It's as natural and normal as the sun coming up in the morning and going down in the evening.

The revolution is, I believe, going on right now.  People like Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Bob Bar, Nancy Pelosi, Barak Obama, Hillery Clinton (et.al.), Warren Buffet, Ted Turner, Rupert Murdoch (even though he's not a US citizen), Harry Reid, Barney Frank, and others.....They're all factors in a huge equation that's sorting itself, on a macro scale, as we go about our daily lives.

Most people probably do not see the significance of these events but rather look at it on a more personal (WIIFM...what's in it for me?) scale.  For that reason, only a few people who realize the real significance of these times and the opportunity we have to make corrections that will dramatically impact our future.

I believe the issue for you and me is simply........"do I want to have a say in my future?"

Do you really understand what's happening, why it's important, what value system you want to endorse within this battle of ideas, and what level of involvement you want to take?"

Well........you better get it figured out.  Or somebody else will make your decision for you.  And you won't like it.

States rights are right next to individual rights.  We've got a situation today where an abusive, oppressive and out-of-control federal bureaucracy is taking away more and more of our personal freedoms and the prerogatives of our states.  Those are important freedoms that originally made this a great country.

Personally.......I prefer to be a freedom fighter.

Are you ready for 'debt shock'?

You've probably at least heard of that new movie that's out right now called "20012".  I saw it last Sunday and I thought it sucked.  I thought that was strange because I'd read that it had been a box office hit.

I guess the biggest problem I had with it was that there really wasn't much plot.  Volcanic eruptions cause massive dislocation of the earth's crust.....earthquakes, volcanos, tsunamis, continental shift, oceans rise and fall, etc.  Everyone dies except a handful of elites picked by the heads of government.

As flood waters again cover the earth, that lucky remnant gets aboard one of 3 special arks hurridly built, somewhere in China, to preserve them until the earth's crust settles down and the water recedes.

End of story.

The one thing that I did find interesting was the 3 super-colossal 'ark' type ships themselves.  The movie didn't make a big deal of the ships themselves but I thought they were kinda cool.

In the end, you see these 3 ships (a la "Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria") sailing into a beautiful sunrise and across an expansive ocean toward the 'new world' that remains.......oddly enough, South Africa.

Point is though......we're headed toward a radical new world too.  A radical new economic world previously unknown to this present generation of Americans.  At least for the next few years.......we ain't number one anymore.  We're broke. 

Are you ready for your new world image?

That's right.  A lot of things that many of us take for granted will no longer be a valid reality.  Why's that?

Check out this article.  As it says, the US is headed for a multi-billion dollar brick wall of debt that we're not prepared for.  All this overspending and the recent ill-conceived 'bailouts' have effectively 'shot our wad'.

Buckle your seats belts baby!  The government is trying to put on a smiley face now but I'm not buying their story.  And neither are a lot of very knowledgable economists.  They're all saying that you can expect massive inflation and much higher unemployment.

And considering how accustomed certain so-called minorities have become to the benifits of political correctness (which are partly to blame for the mess we're in)and their government provided social umbrella....I think they're in for a rude awakening too.  Expect a sharp increase in crime.

I'll tell you one thing......I think you've got a death wish if you don't go down today and buy a gun and as much ammunition as you can get.  Of course, it won't be much because you know, don't you, that it's getting harder and harder to buy firearms and ammunition this recent year.  Everybody's already been doing it.

The one issue that I don't think anybody can quantify is.....how will the conservatives of America react to this crises? 

While on one hand I don't think the liberals realize our numbers or what we're capable of, on the other hand I don't think we'll do much without effective leadership.  Could that leadership be Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Bob Barr.....or who?

That's the next big question:  what are the good guys gonna do with the power they have?  Sounds like WWF doesn't it?