It has been a while since I logged in and gave my thoughts about the condition of the United States. Its time to set the record straight.

Obama is pushing through his health care bill, convinced that he is the only one who knows what is best for the people. Little does he realize is that the American people have seen through his bombastic rhetoric and that this bill is all about the health insurance companies, not the American people. He has resorted to strong arm tactics, threats against those opposed to it and political slight of hand in order to get his way. He has forgotten that he was hired by the American people to do a job and that its a temp job at that. He has forgotten who he works for and how he was elected in the first place. By all accounts, he took less than six months to break most of his campaign promises and has ignored the will of the people. He continues to do so on a daily basis without regard for anyone.

The Catholic Church is in the midst of another sex scandal, this time right in the Vatican itself. Numerous Vatican officials have have been busted by Rome police for soliciting, recruiting and, according to news reports, operating a gay sex ring. Just how will this affect the millions of Catholics worldwide? Hopefully they’ll realize that the Catholic Church is just like any other religion, a for profit organization. In the United States they try to influence elections on both national and local levels, preaching from the pulpit just who the congregation should support. This alone is enough for them to lose their tax exempt status but politicians are afraid of making the first move. The Catholic Church is the largest in the world, only trailing Islam by a few million members, with billions of dollars in real estate. If that property was taxed, just how much money would be put into the economy? Its their way or the freeway; what kind of religion puts that kind of restraints on its members?

Millions of protesters braved adverse weather conditions nationwide to carry signs against abortion, same sex marriages, cruelty to animals, genetically altered crops, nuclear energy, trying to put a sand flea on the endangered species list or the strong arm tactics of the IRS. They protest against Columbus day, immigration, corrupt politicians, corrupt cops, legalizing marijuana, eating meat, crop circles, alien invasions, domestic spying, high credit card interest rates, all powerful banks, high unemployment and whatever else they can think of. What 99.99% of them don’t realize is that protesting never changed anything, nothing. Remember the Vietnam war and all the protests? They didn’t help end the war but did embolden the enemy and create a new breed of draft dodger.

There has been calls for a nationwide work stoppage, just don’t go to work for a day and bring the economy to a screeching halt. Ain’t gonna happen, folks. The ones it would be targeting are immune to such things simple because they’ll still collect their paycheck while you don’t. That should be a no-brainer.

Start a civil war? Well, that’s on its way as we speak, headed by state militia manned with disgruntled people just wanting to make a difference. It won’t be pretty when it happens, pitting ordinary citizens against the state and National Guard units. But will they actively engage citizen armys or hold their fire? That decision is up the individual and probably be surprising to those in command.

I have many other subjects to touch on but I’ll leave them for another day.

You know every time I pick up a newspaper or hell even go on here someone is complaining about the economy and or the national debt which is a ridicules 1.43 trillion thank you Obama. People on both sides wonder how in the hell are we ever going to pay this back. Well Warcorpse is here with the perfect solution but some of you especially conservatives might not like it. Still the economy and the debt could be fixed by legalizing three little things

1 MarijuanaFirst off I have no idea why in the hell this is illegal in the first place. I don’t smoke it myself but I don’t see why the people that do have to live in fear of enjoying something that is far less dangerous than cigarettes. Most of the people that say this should remain illegal base their opinion on  a movie called Reefer Madness showing how weed is basically like LSD something that has been proven wrong time and time again. People who smoke marijuana don’t go into violent rages or have a hallucinogenic reactions unless it’s been laced with something else. And you wouldn’t get laced shit IF IT WERE FUCKING LEGALIZED! So here’s a thought legalize something that’s less addictive and less destructive than booze and guess what you got yourself BILLIONS of dollars in new tax revenue.

Prostitution. Yes I said it legalize the worlds oldest profession and hell you might create Trillions of dollars in new tax revenue. And there’s a million GOOD reasons why it should be legal. 1 It’s MUCH safer for the girls or guys that do this job. 2 It can be regulated so that minors aren’t involved and that the risk of STD’s goes way down. 3 All the crime that goes along with it goes away and you lower the cost of running the courts that deal with bullshit cases like this. 4 It’s been legal in America far longer than it’s been criminalized. Now the reason it’s criminalized is because of some people’s morale values and religious belief. Most of these people feel the need to ram their values down other people’s throats and to make sure everyone else lives the life they want. Hey I thought this was America and if I want to go to a cat house who in the hell are you to tell me that I can’t. We have freedom of religion in this country why in the hell are other people’s morale values interfering with my life.

3 Gambling With the advent of the Internet and current opinions this is just fucking stupid that this remain illegal. Once again billions of dollars could be generated. Most states have Indian casinos anyway so there already there and guess what America hasn’t ended now has it. I’m not even going to prove my point this time go to the PPA’s website and read their material

Well there you go 3 simple things that don’t hurt anyone else. Activities that are for adults only so don’t give me the save the fucking children rant. They won’t cause the downfall of mankind and you know what if you don’t want to partake in them then DON’T. But just because you are opposed to it you don’t have the right to tell other people they can’t participate in the three activities. And guess what you would have a shitload of new revenue to pay the national debt and maybe save social security

Call me crazy but I think $1.43 trillion is a lot of money and that is exactly the amount the federal deficit has reached. I have a tough time imagining a couple of thousand dollars, much less a number with twelve zeros in it. Just think nine years ago, then President Clinton left office with a budget surplus but it only took King Bush less than a year to wipe that out and start adding the red. Now we have a crazy African-American who just keep adding to it while paying off his campaign promises, needless to say, the American voter isn’t on that IOU list. First he bailed out AIG, then other insurance companies, then the banks and finally the auto makers while flipping Americans the bird and lying through his white teeth.

Now he wants to reward the health insurance industry and pharmaceutical companies, all noble ideas, if his proposed programs benefited the American public, which it won’t. I just don’t cotton to the idea that we’ll be giving free medical services to undocumented workers (read that as illegal immigrants). Talk about opening the flood gates, that alone will do it. Under his proposed program, each American family would be required to purchase health insurance or face a hefty fine at tax time. Now how fair is that? Of course our elected representatives would be immune from this requirement, as we’re already paying for their excellent coverage. I don’t know about anyone else but I can’t afford health insurance, I’m living on a fixed income and supporting my daughter and her two kids as it is, she’s been out of work for a year the job prospects don’t look good. That doesn’t leave any money left for such luxuries as health insurance.

There are so many government mandated “must haves” that littler money is left. The state of Colorado mandates car insurance, a law that the insurance companies jumped on like a frog on a June bug. Jack the prices out of sight because the average driver can’t complain. Look closely at your utility bill (gas, electric, phone, internet, etc) and count up all the little charges that’s tacked on. They add up in a hurry. To date, our local utility company, Xcel Energy, has shut off power to more than 38,000 customers for non-payment and winter is coming on. I under stand that its even worse in the mid-northern states. Do they care? you bet they don’t.

So, yes, I’m going crazy trying to keep my head above water, to survive from one week to the next, scratching my head bald figuring out where the money is going to come from. As so many people have done so far, I’m thinking about just ending it all and let the state bury me. Serves them right.

You don’t have to tell me that things are bad out there. Everyone knows that things are bad out there. Everyone is scared of losing their jobs or having the company they work for go belly up or having the fucking bank throw them out on the street. This is not even counting the stress that you feel when the grocery bill goes up and what you get keeps going down. Topple on that all the other expenses that make life possible and hell if you didn’t have a stress relief most of us would probably go nuts.

Now for I’d say 60% of us we do a little activity called DRINKING to relive stress. But now the morality police want to take that away from us and it can cost you your job to! Now I’m NOT talking about people that drink on the job, that’s just plainly stupid and they should be fired for that. I’m talking about when the working day’s over you’ve clocked out gone home changed and get with friends for a night on the town.

So you go out to your favorite bar, watering hole, club or night spot. And you have some drinks laughs and a good time. One of your friends is snapping photos and gets one or two of you haveing some drinks or dancing with someone a little more provocatively then what they showed on the Lawrence Welk show. Your friend inadvertently posts the photos to myspace or the big one facebook. The next morning you wake up you don’t have a hangover and your ready to go for the day. When you get to work you’re called into your bosses office where he tells you you’ve been fired and you notice on the screen is your facebook page!

This scenario is happening more and more across the country and espically for applicants. First off why is it any one’s business what you do when you’re off the clock. Second why are bosses so concerned with the activities of their employees when they’re off the clock! ESPCACIALLY if what they did the night before has no effect on their JOB PREFORMANCE! So what now I’m supposed to be a professional 24/7 and have no fun. Never let my hair down so that in twenty years I have a heart attack because of unreleased stress, just because someone on the morality police busted me living a little.

 Now to the people that say “You don’t need achool to relive stress” or “There are better ways of getting in a good mood than booze” I say your right you don’t need achool to relieve stress and there’s probably a few better ways. But I’ll be goddamned if a ice cold beer or rum and coke dosen’t knock the day’s edge off quicker than anything I know. Plus on that note what I do away from work and in my own PRIVATE LIFE! is really no one else’s concern but mine now isn’t it! Of course these people have  a very funny concept of privacy

So here’s what I want people to do I want them to write in and tell their congressman to get a law passed that says when people are off the clock they have the right to do what they want with their time OFF!!! Or do what I do and get people together to go out for drinks guess what your boss will probably be a drinking man himself!

Anyway that’s all i have to say

Yes a man who was light years ahead of his time penned this opening to one of the MOST influential documents ever written in history.

Sadly, today this means nothing to the elected officials governing our once great country. No it didn’t start sliding downhill when the Novelty Obama-nation uttered the statement, “We live in the greatest country in the world; help me change it, but that non hacker sure as fuck hasn’t HELPED things out a whole lot has he?

Motherfuckers (and father fuckers for you ladies who feel left out when I say it) Are lining up to defend this shitbird with statements like “No one can expect him to deliver on all of his campaign promises”. Then WHY the FUCK was he elected by a majority vote? If it doen’t matter what they say, why aren’t we picking a President’s name out of a fucking Fez? (Yeah a turban would just be a freaking hand towel with a bunch of clumps of paper inside it wouldn’t it?)

I’m getting off track here. HEALTH CARE for ALL should be FOR all not just one for us and one for them. I’f I’m having their shit crammed down my throat then at least tell me that they are getting the same lack of condiments that I am. REGULATIONS and REFORM are what the current System needs and not a Socialist, Eastern Block replacement for it.

While we’re at it, lets think about this. Nancy Pelosi and the fucking DNC is all over this shit about Leveling out the WEALTH of the nation. Lets call this what it REALLY is. They want You and I to be in the poorest 85% of the nation so THEY can be in the RICHEST 15% (if they will allow that many people to be as “privileged” as they are for being good enough to get you fucking moronic, mouth breathing masses to vote them into office.

“From Each According to His Abilities and To Each According to His Needs” is the mantra that these fuckaholics are chanting and the Public is chewing that up like it is a NEW concept. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov brought forth REFORM via these means in a little place that used to be called Russia with these EXACT words.

The FIRST thing that these radicals who wish to infringe upon OUR Inalienable Rights do is to take away the guns of the people that they wish to enslave.

Amendment 2 - Right to Bear Arms. Ratified 12/15/1791. Note
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

This was written by men who had to shed blood to have the right to protect themselves from all enemies Foreign AND Domestic.

Hitler immediately took away every gun from the Jews and I hope you fucking idiots do remember what happened to them during his rise to power. NOW the Democrats have sought to take guns out of the hands of the people for many years and they always come back to the same thing. They SAY it is for OUR own good so that “Criminals” cannot get their hands on guns to harm us. WAKE THE FUCK UP. They are the criminals that wish to enslave YOU and make you work so that you get just enough to get by and they get MORE than they can possibly expect their grandchildren to be able to spend. if GUNS are so BAD, why are these people all Guarded by agents who have them?

AGAIN… WAKE THE FUCK UP PEOPLE! Our society is being dumbed down by the lack of a true Education System. Our Wages and Income are being attacked, we are being led like lambs to the slaughter and the apathy and brainwashing that our leaders MUST be right just because they hold that position is sickening.

We are soon going to need a Revolution to get the Government out of our wallets, schools, and privacy of our own bedrooms because the MASSES can no longer think for themselves or ask the simple questions and react to the answers that are given to them rather than just going with the flow.

I can no longer sit idly by and watch the destruction of the greatest nation in the world. Who has the guts to speak out with me?

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This is a very difficult question, especially in these hard times, when every other person is also laid off. But I’ve come up with some good ideas.

The first thing you do is CELEBRATE the fact that you’re not going to have to kiss THAT bastard’s ass anymore. (even if THAT bastard was sometimes, or even most of the time a pretty nice bastard.).

The second thing is very important: Call everyone you know that works in your industry and tell them that you’re laid off and ask them if they know any other companies in your industry that are hiring.

The third thing you do is even more important. PRAY like hell that they aren’t hiring…so you will have the perfect excuse not to go back to THAT fucked up hellhole.

Next, you make a list of the companies that are NOT hiring.

The fourth (this can be switched out with the first, if you chose) is: FILE FOR UNEMPLOYMENT. The list of companies that you just made will be the first ones you call in your job search.

After accomplishing those few things, it’s a snap. Take a nice long walk and enjoy your TIME and FREEDOM. (They might not last nearly long enough).

Talk to the flowers (or vegetables) in your garden, and tell them all about it. It’s o.k. to cry – they won’t tell…especially the vegetables. Vegetables are particularly adept at keeping secrets.

Make a bowl of Crispy Coated Coffee Ice cream Flakes. This is the true breakfast of champions - a cereal they have not yet come out with. The recipe for this is really quite simple and the end result is thoroughly satisfying. Get some coffee ice cream (it’s ok if you just quit drinking coffee three or four weeks ago – coffee ice cream doesn’t count as coffee, and beside, it’s special occasion). Scoop it into a very large bowl using a teaspoon, so that you get “ice cream flakes”. Pour milk over the ice cream until the bowl is full. Let sit for about one minute or less, depending on how long you can hold out; this gives the ice cream flakes they’re uniquely “crispy” texture and transforms that bowl of sugar hell into one of the most satisfying bowls of cereal you will ever eat (or drink, depending on your preference).

When you are done, go online and update your resume, scan the job listings, watch a few youtube videos, apply to a college. Prepare yourself to lose everything (it won’t hurt quite so much if you prepare in advance).

And, most importantly. Think about what is truly important. Beyond the job, the house, the car, the fancy clothes and perfect manicure, it’s the people you love. And fortunately, your boss (ex-boss) can’t take those away from you. Unless he also happens to be your ex, in which case you might need another bowl of Crispy Coated Coffee Ice Cream Flakes and a baseball bat.

P.S. I just got laid off yesterday and I can’t quite explain it, but it’s the best I’ve felt in a DAMN long time.

P.P.S. …we’ll see how long that lasts.

This is something that all most gave me a heart attack! there is currently a bill in the house it might have been defeated already but it was to limit the amount of news that would be available on the web or the amount of news a newspaper can place on the web I BELIEVE I could be dead wrong. Or it was something close to that.

First off the law itself is totaly uncontitional it violates the first amendment and it violates the free enterprise system. If you’re a bussiness it’s your choice weather you sell items at a store or you sell them online from a warehouse. NOT THE GOVERMENTS!

Now what’s even more surprising is the number of people that support the law, I’m not sure of the age demographic but they want it passed and basically progress stopped. They claim that we have to protect the newspaper! WHY! Back before TV every paper had at least two editions a day the morning paper and the evening paper and if there was something important going on you’d have the extra editions. Do we have that anymore no we don’t why because TV made multiple editions of the paper obsolete. there used to be sitcoms on the radio and they quickly died when TV came once again progress.

Now I like the paper myself and I’ll keep getting it until I know inevitably my paper goes totally online. It’s going to happen it doesn’t take a genius to figure out which way the wind is blowing on this. I mean especially in this recession why in the hell would anyone pay 50 cents a day for something they can read online for relatively free. It’s called progress people accept it. Everything in the universe has a beginning and an end. There are no exceptions to this rule and the print newspaper is reaching its end 

PS Normally I do a little more reshearch on a subject before I flame off about it. If anyone has any more specifics about that said law please leave a comment. All I had to go on was a little thing in my Op-Ex section of the paper. I still do think that the law never even made it to a vote in the house

When you throw money at the problem, that money is taken (in the form of taxes) from those who would otherwise spend it in the Free Market and thus bolster the economy themselves rather than tightening the purse strings to the point where they are afraid to do anything but stuff it in a mattress for fear of the banks collapsing.

Japan had a very similar Housing bubble in 1990 except that their housing market dropped 80% of its value when it burst. They threw money at it, Bailed out the Corporations that contributed to the failures of the banking system (and made a partially National bank), only to ensure that they would have a sub par economy for 18 years.

Why do the people in our NEWLY elected Government keep touting that we should “Learn the lessons taught us by history.” and then try to repeat what HISTORICALLY has not worked for anyone else or our country by throwing YOUR money and mine at the problem to try to go back to an economy that was unsustainable to begin with and deteriorated into the mess we have now?

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results” ~ Albert Einstein

Sorry for my diatribe here but I feel you are all intelligent enough to start asking the questions about whether the Government interference costs more than allowing the problem to run its course, find bottom, and regenerate to a healthy state again naturally.

BTW, I am a graduate of Butler Area Senior High School and followed a General Studies curriculum so this isn’t rocket science.

I’ll get off my soap box now but I WILL be back and maybe we can talk about the EVIL Corporations and how the Free market has destroyed the United States.!!

I would have missed out on many hours of joy if my mother had not given me a puppy (Friskers) to play with.

My teeth would still be a mess if my mother had not made me wear braces.

I would never have become a lifeguard if my mother had not arranged for swimming lessons.

I would not have become friends with many of my favorite people if my mother had not introduced me to tennis, fencing and dancing.

I would never have gone to college if my mother had not expected it.

I could go on and on…

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