I have never been a fan of Donald Trump. Quite the reverse. I have always thought he was a pompous, self-inflated compulsive addicted to adulation and attention.
Now...I can't fully believe I am about to say this...I am warming up to him running for, and me supporting him, for President next year.
He is a very conservative Republican with ardent support for a strong military. He is prepared to offer federal assistance to needy freer nations of the world, provided they "pay" for it by giving us something in return that benefits our country (eg, money, military positioning, etc.). He has a mind on reducing federal debt (something he may know something about), without cutting support programs that people have contributed taxes to and are dependent on. He is pro-life, and opposed to gay marriage (he is wrong about the latter; it is none of our Guardianship's (see post, Name Change)business whom or what you choose to marry, support, live with (other than underage children)...marry your cat, as far as I'm concerned.
Has Trump had political experience? No. Maybe that's good. The people I see with decades of political experience don't seem to have a clue as to what to do to protect our country, to give it the environment in which to thrive. Who is better and electable out there?
He seems to know and is not afraid to identify our enemies (eg, China), and says he will treat them accordingly. He projects the attitude Ayn Rand identified at the core of the American spirit: Don't Push Me Around.
Ron Paul, whom I generally like, asked how Trump could run since he has never won an election for executive office. I suppose Paul told the voters not to vote for him when he first ran for office. Paul could have made the same argument to Washington, Madison, Taylor, Pierce, Buchanan, Grant, Garfield, Harrison, Hoover, Eisenhower. Some of them were pretty good.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Monday, February 14, 2011
TOWARD MEDIOCRITY
On the day the Egyptian president resigned, the head of the American guardianship (read my recent blog, "Name Change"...I don't call it a government anymore)annunced that "we will give the Egyptian people all the assistance they need".
Not "all the assistance we can afford"...with 14 trillion in debt, we can afford nada...
Not "all the goods we have a surplus of in our warehouses that are about to spoil and rot"...there are none...
Not "all the stuff we have that we don't need"...look around, there are Americans are need of everything...you remember Americans, the people who hired the guardians in Washington, the people who pay their salaries, the people whose freedoms and rights the elected guardians were hired to protect and secure, the people who are, or are the parents of, those who will have to pay off our mounting absurd debt.
The head guardian in Washington doesn't even know who will be running Egypt, friend or foe, ally or terrorist. He asks for nothing in return, nothing in trade for that bottomless pit of assistance.
The head guardian has said before that one country should not be wealthier, stronger, more influential, than other countries. He has said before the people of one country should not live better lives than the people of any other country.
He has said that wealth should be redistributed to equalize the present "imbalance" among people. He wants to bring America down to the lowest common denominator.
Any question about that?
Not "all the assistance we can afford"...with 14 trillion in debt, we can afford nada...
Not "all the goods we have a surplus of in our warehouses that are about to spoil and rot"...there are none...
Not "all the stuff we have that we don't need"...look around, there are Americans are need of everything...you remember Americans, the people who hired the guardians in Washington, the people who pay their salaries, the people whose freedoms and rights the elected guardians were hired to protect and secure, the people who are, or are the parents of, those who will have to pay off our mounting absurd debt.
The head guardian in Washington doesn't even know who will be running Egypt, friend or foe, ally or terrorist. He asks for nothing in return, nothing in trade for that bottomless pit of assistance.
The head guardian has said before that one country should not be wealthier, stronger, more influential, than other countries. He has said before the people of one country should not live better lives than the people of any other country.
He has said that wealth should be redistributed to equalize the present "imbalance" among people. He wants to bring America down to the lowest common denominator.
Any question about that?
Thursday, February 10, 2011
NAME CHANGE
We picked the wrong word to characterize those in political office: Government.
Here are some of the Thesaurus synonyms and related words for "govern":
regulate
wield authority
command
be master of
control
mastermind
order
manipulate
maneuver
arrest
restrain
constrain
inhibit
prohibit
hold back
bridle
rein
dominate
Here are some of the Thesaurus synonyms and related words for "freedom":
liberty
rights
unrestraint
unconstraint
noncoercion
nonintimidation
unharness
unmuzzle
disentangle
unsnarl
unknot
emancipated
unshackled
rescued
"Government" may be appropriate when the head of it is an emperor, a king, a
dictator. It is a misnomer in our free country.
I propose Guardianship instead of Government...political employees hired by us,
paid by us, for one and one purpose only: to guard, protect and secure our
freedom. There will be no president, no vice-president, no senators
(historically, the ruling class), no representatives (another misnomer), no
governors, no mayors...only head guardian, vice-guardian, general guardians,
state and city guardians. Period.
Here are some of the Thesaurus synonyms and related words for "govern":
regulate
wield authority
command
be master of
control
mastermind
order
manipulate
maneuver
arrest
restrain
constrain
inhibit
prohibit
hold back
bridle
rein
dominate
Here are some of the Thesaurus synonyms and related words for "freedom":
liberty
rights
unrestraint
unconstraint
noncoercion
nonintimidation
unharness
unmuzzle
disentangle
unsnarl
unknot
emancipated
unshackled
rescued
"Government" may be appropriate when the head of it is an emperor, a king, a
dictator. It is a misnomer in our free country.
I propose Guardianship instead of Government...political employees hired by us,
paid by us, for one and one purpose only: to guard, protect and secure our
freedom. There will be no president, no vice-president, no senators
(historically, the ruling class), no representatives (another misnomer), no
governors, no mayors...only head guardian, vice-guardian, general guardians,
state and city guardians. Period.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
COMING
An Egyptian style demonstration is coming to America. That is my forecast. Maybe this summer (in time for the next presidential primaries and election). High school juniors and seniors, some college students, some older rebels (me). Here is our cry to the president, congressmen, governors and all elected officials:
"STOP the spending, STOP the escalating trillions of dollars debt that we will have to pay for, that will be an unbearable life-killing burden on our lives and dreams...STOP the seemingly endless intrusion into every facet of our lives. Get off our backs. STOP telling us what we must do, what we can do. You do not own us, though you think you do. STOP choosing what laws to enforce and what laws not to enforce. STOP inserting America into every worldwide trouble spot. They are not our troubles unless others directs force against us. Then destroy those enemies with the matchless unparalled force of our weaponry. And START adhering to our Constitution.
We are free people and if you need us to prove it to you, we will. Peaceful, strident, massive civil disobedience on every conceivable front. We will buy all goods on the black market, snarl up traffic to make it difficult for people to get to work, start thousands of lawsuits to congest the courts and effectively shut down the judicial system, flood the post office with incorrect addresses and inadequate postage to overtax the postal system, use different identities for different purposes, strategically make voting difficult and urge parents, friends, neighbors not to vote in the charade that elections have become.
Those are Step 1. Steps 2 to 100 will follow unless you accept, by voice and action, that your dictatorial unAmerican ways are over."
We had a revolution in this country once before. We can have another one.
"STOP the spending, STOP the escalating trillions of dollars debt that we will have to pay for, that will be an unbearable life-killing burden on our lives and dreams...STOP the seemingly endless intrusion into every facet of our lives. Get off our backs. STOP telling us what we must do, what we can do. You do not own us, though you think you do. STOP choosing what laws to enforce and what laws not to enforce. STOP inserting America into every worldwide trouble spot. They are not our troubles unless others directs force against us. Then destroy those enemies with the matchless unparalled force of our weaponry. And START adhering to our Constitution.
We are free people and if you need us to prove it to you, we will. Peaceful, strident, massive civil disobedience on every conceivable front. We will buy all goods on the black market, snarl up traffic to make it difficult for people to get to work, start thousands of lawsuits to congest the courts and effectively shut down the judicial system, flood the post office with incorrect addresses and inadequate postage to overtax the postal system, use different identities for different purposes, strategically make voting difficult and urge parents, friends, neighbors not to vote in the charade that elections have become.
Those are Step 1. Steps 2 to 100 will follow unless you accept, by voice and action, that your dictatorial unAmerican ways are over."
We had a revolution in this country once before. We can have another one.
Monday, February 7, 2011
DEHUMANIZATION
Stifling thought is man's deadliest sin. Alright, second deadliest sin...you fill in the first. And that is because it neutralizes, nullifies, annuls, cancels, vitiates, voids, two of man's distinguishing unique attributes...his ability to think (conceptually) and express his thoughts (vocabulary).
Man has evolved in many glorious ways, but in the process has chosen to bury himself under an avalanche of lame reasons to stifle his thoughts: etiquette, manners, social graces, political correctness, protocol, politeness, and a host of others. Out of a fear of losing acceptance, friendship, employment, or other favors, man restrains from exposing his true self and lives a masquerade. Though he knows who he is, he opts, out of a shortfall of self esteem and/or pride and/or courage, not to let others know it. In an age of instant worldwide communication, he frequently hits the mute button.
Reality, however, can never be stifled, is never silent. It blares the pain of a suppressed self to the deepest level of man's soul.
Man has evolved in many glorious ways, but in the process has chosen to bury himself under an avalanche of lame reasons to stifle his thoughts: etiquette, manners, social graces, political correctness, protocol, politeness, and a host of others. Out of a fear of losing acceptance, friendship, employment, or other favors, man restrains from exposing his true self and lives a masquerade. Though he knows who he is, he opts, out of a shortfall of self esteem and/or pride and/or courage, not to let others know it. In an age of instant worldwide communication, he frequently hits the mute button.
Reality, however, can never be stifled, is never silent. It blares the pain of a suppressed self to the deepest level of man's soul.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
SOS...AND IT'S NOT SAVE OUR SHIP
Here we go again...and if it weren't so stupidly sickening, it would be laughable.
We have been supporting a dictator in Egypt for 30 years on the grounds that it was in our global interest to do so (Error #1, it is never in our interest to be on the side of oppression). We are telling the dictator and his opposition that we stand with both (Error #2, being on the side of both = being on the side of neither). We are telling that dictator and the Egyptian people what they must do in this time of unrest (Error #3, we have no right to tell any other country what it must do to solve its problems, particularly when we don't know how to solve our own). We have given billions of dollars to that dictator and, put your money on this, we will soon be sending more (Error #4, we are broke). We are saying we support democracy (Error #5, democracy is mob rule, we are a nation founded on and supportive of guaranteed individual rights and freedom).
Correction: We elected the wrong people (Error #1).
We have been supporting a dictator in Egypt for 30 years on the grounds that it was in our global interest to do so (Error #1, it is never in our interest to be on the side of oppression). We are telling the dictator and his opposition that we stand with both (Error #2, being on the side of both = being on the side of neither). We are telling that dictator and the Egyptian people what they must do in this time of unrest (Error #3, we have no right to tell any other country what it must do to solve its problems, particularly when we don't know how to solve our own). We have given billions of dollars to that dictator and, put your money on this, we will soon be sending more (Error #4, we are broke). We are saying we support democracy (Error #5, democracy is mob rule, we are a nation founded on and supportive of guaranteed individual rights and freedom).
Correction: We elected the wrong people (Error #1).
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
THE LESSON
There is a lesson the world can learn from Israel and the Jewish people.
The Jewish race was the target and victim of the most barbaric and destructive insanity imaginable: the attempted extermination of every last one of its 12 million members on the planet. The totality of the onslaught against innocent men, women and children will reverberate forever. The gassing and burning of over 6 million... screaming infants in sight of parents, loved ones in sight of helpless lovers, elders in sight of those who revere them...sunk humanity to its lowest level.
And out of the ashes, out of the stench of burning flesh, out of the chaotic mindless and devastating holocaust, out of humanity's shame and degradation, there arose not a hatred, not a call for retribution, not a counter insanity, but a wondrous resolve, a strength, a spine, that declares its life glorifying determination in but two words: Never Again.
The world about it breeds hatred and violence again. Its neighbors scream threats of extermination again. The nation of Israel breeds stoic and mighty power. And goes about living and thriving.
That is the lesson for the ages.
The Jewish race was the target and victim of the most barbaric and destructive insanity imaginable: the attempted extermination of every last one of its 12 million members on the planet. The totality of the onslaught against innocent men, women and children will reverberate forever. The gassing and burning of over 6 million... screaming infants in sight of parents, loved ones in sight of helpless lovers, elders in sight of those who revere them...sunk humanity to its lowest level.
And out of the ashes, out of the stench of burning flesh, out of the chaotic mindless and devastating holocaust, out of humanity's shame and degradation, there arose not a hatred, not a call for retribution, not a counter insanity, but a wondrous resolve, a strength, a spine, that declares its life glorifying determination in but two words: Never Again.
The world about it breeds hatred and violence again. Its neighbors scream threats of extermination again. The nation of Israel breeds stoic and mighty power. And goes about living and thriving.
That is the lesson for the ages.
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