So he traipses up the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to mingle with the tourists and tell them the really really important stuff: that they couldn’t be there enjoying the monument and His Celebrity if the silly budget deal hadn’t been made. Right at the last hour, as planned, His Celebrity has saved the people again! Speaker Boner (AKA John Boehner)? He had nothing to do with it.

Isn’t he wonderful?! Knows exactly what turns his media people on. Runs out there like it was a spur of the moment thing, when we all know a president goes nowhere without Secret Service planning. But what we all know is meaningless. It’s all about what His Celebrity says, not does.

Brilliant politics. Now if he could just get it through his head that he’s killing America. Spending it out of existence with no regard but a piece of lip service here and there about how we’ve got to get control of the budget. Like his word does everything. Like maybe God, when as they say, he spoke the world into existence.

Maybe that’s it! He wants to be God. Or at least a benevolent dictator who could do every little thing – and big thing – he wants without anybody to hold back his slightest whim. Ultimate power and adulation.

Maybe Glenn Beck was right. Monotonous after a while, but right on his big idea. The idea is to kill the country to take complete control of it? People will follow any hope if they get far enough down in spirit. They did blindly follow Franklin Roosevelt during the misery of the depression, because he could talk good hope. Never pulled America out of the depression until he got America into World War II. But he gave such great speech that the public followed like sheep miserable in herds.

Gasoline prices going out of sight again, unemployment still high, spending totally out of control, and all we get is his words about how we’ve got to do something, while real actions go in the opposite direction. What do you think? Was Glenn Beck right?

Freud was so on when he said, “…we men… find reality generally quite unsatisfactory” – Sigmund Freud, Psychoanalysis (1910)

“News this week of the first departure of a Cabinet secretary from the Obama administration comes amid a wide-ranging effort under the new chief of staff, William M. Daley, to repair badly frayed relations between the White House and the Cabinet.”

In another quote, Daley said he’s heard Cabinet members’ complaints. “You hear the same thing: ‘I don’t think we’re used well. I don’t think we’re consulted enough,’ ”

So it keeps stacking up. He’s a go-it-alone president, do his own thing dictator president. One who decides without the help of the Supreme Court what’s constitutional and what’s not, as in deciding not to enforce the defense of marriage act. And we’re talking about a law passed by Congress and signed by Democrat Bill Clinton.

The would-be-dictator president rolls on until the steam roller hits a wall, then backs off – briefly – until he figures a way around it.

No wonder Patriots have always realized that government is the problem. And not only the problem, but in many ways the worst enemy the American people have.

As Thomas Paine put it, “Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil” –The Rights of Man (1792)

via White House moving to repair troubled relationship with Cabinet.

What country does that sound like? Could it be the U.S.? The line is taken from a NY times article on Egypt. But it could just as well apply to today’s America.  Politicians – those already elected wouldn’t agree. They’d object to the patronage and bribes part. But that stuff by any other names, such as outlandish contributions, pet local projects that cost billions and government contracts for things we don’t need? What else are they?

The U.S. has been running for years on the same stuff every other corrupt country has been running on. And “change” has just made it worse. Like a debt we can never pay off growing larger for stuff we don’t need. It’s like a couple I know who always talk the woe-is-me talk because of their credit card debt, and say they’re taking steps to reform,  but continue to charge lavish vacations. Like Obama charges lavish vacations. Yeh, we know he pays for his personal accommodations, but Air Force One, his entourage and security runs into millions. And it’s all charged to our national-debt credit card.

Then there are the protest demonstrations in Wisconsin. Are they just a precursor to the demonstrations to come in Washington if we ever really start cutting back the mess that’s been building  for decades? And someday we will have to.  Either when the bill comes due for the Social Security money we’ve been spending by the billions for things other than benefits for the people who are supposed to get it, or the trillions we’ve borrowed from China.

Yeh, it’s coming due in pieces already. But so far we’ve been able to borrow from one credit card to make payments on another while the interest keeps building.

But one day that stops. And the day Washington gets stopped down due to protest crowds like those in Cairo and Madison Wisconsin, look out. One state government can come to a standstill for a while and the rest of the world can live through it. But a really shut-down Washington?

As Thomas Paine said back in 1792, “Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil” –The Rights of Man (1792)

What we have is good news and bad news.  First the good news…it seems that all across the country (with the exception of California) Americans began to realize that the “hope and change” that was being implemented by the Obama administration, was not what they had voted for:  this seemingly steady march toward Euro-socialism is not what made America great.  Socialism has never worked… anywhere at any time.  Free enterprise and personal accountability separated the United States of America from everyone else and the ingenuity and creative power of the people who knew they had a chance to succeed or fail kept the flame glowing.  No one was promised a safety net and Americans accepted the challenge and thrived.

As has been pointed out over and over again this shift in power of more than 60 seats in the House of Representatives is the largest move since 1938.  Why is this important?  Because the HR is the ONLY branch of government that has to stand up to scrutiny and approval every two years… and this year the citizens said loud and clear that their representatives had not been doing the will of the people.  To paraphrase something I read from and Iowan… it’s “We the People”… not… ”We the Congress.”  Arrogance and condescension is being exposed and replaced.

Now… will the new Republican majority do any better?  Time will tell… and if they don’t respond to the will of the people in two years a new group will be given a chance.  I don’t think that America is again going to lapse back into the coma and lack of attention that brought an unprepared and extremist teleprompter reader into the most powerful office in the world. Accountability is the new watch word.

The other good news is that the people of central Florida rose up and overwhelmingly got rid of the vile and vitriolic knucklehead, Alan Grayson.  Arrogant doesn’t begin to describe his total disregard for truth and civility… I’m not sure what word would describe his embarrassing campaign that, apparently, figured that all central Floridians were stupid and gullible… not so, huh Alan!

Now for the bad news… Harry Reid will be back as Senate Majority Leader and is still as misguided as he has been for the last two years.  Also…Barney Frank is back, but luckily this time he will not be chairman of anything and hopefully will not be able to lead us down the road to financial ruin as has been the case for the last four years.

Also, I guess the people of California were too engrossed in whether to legalize pot to really look at the state of their state and elected Barbara Boxer and Jerry Brown.  Unbelievable!  Two tired and worn out free spending liberals leading the weak and clueless.  We can all just wait for the cry to Washington to bail them out.

So there we have it…a chance for a small step back to sanity.  The liberals still control two thirds of the government…but, we can only hope…and prepare for 2012.

It was a Democratic rally without a Democratic politician, featuring instead two political satirists, Mr. Stewart and Mr. Colbert, who used the stage to rib national journalists and fear-mongering politicians, and to fake-fight each other over dueling songs about trains.(NYT)

FINALLY! A Washington Rally that shows it like it really is. A comedy show that would be funny if it weren’t true.

A congressional committee has Colbert actually come before them and testify, and he proceeds to make even bigger fools of them. And who would have thought that possible? They all run around blaming each other for the huge pile of garbage they’ve made of the system, while nobody’s done anything they want to take credit for. Yet they all claim to be fighting for us.

More billions are being spent than ever to get jobs that pay well, but not well enough to get rich… though many of them do by some “miraculous” means. Like Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Harry Reid, ad infinitum. All who make Congress a career can retire early with a stack of bennies that no private job can come close to.

Careers? That’s the objective. Get a seat of power and prestige you hold for life, no matter what the original intent of the founders of this great country. The idea, remember, was that states and districts would send some of their own to represent them in government. But they stay in Washington so long that they lose all touch with what’s really going on back where they once lived.

So who are all those “Fat Cats” Obama is so fond of blaming for everything he is’t blaming on Republicans at the moment? We’ve seen the Fat Cats. And they are the government.

So is it really unusual to see a comedy bunch gathering in the name of what’s real? In Washington? That’s just normal in our government-gone-wild state of the nation.

Sadly.

Thomas Paine had it right: “Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil” –The Rights of Man (1792)

Problem is, we can’t get anywhere close to its best state with a gang that keeps on pulling every trick in and out of the book to get re-elected for life.

The news is often filled with awful acts of supposed men of God. Priests who rape little boys, a mega-church pastor with the title of bishop is accused of the same acts as the gay priests. A major evangelistic church organization leader who preaches against homosexuality, but is exposed as one who shacks up with one in a hotel room – on a regular basis. And unfortunately, some people get acts of man confused with acts of God.

With all that, it’s amazing to find that a recent study by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found that 69 percent of Americans believe with certainy that God exists, and another 17 percent are fairly certain. Only 6 percent don’t believe in God, 5 percent say they don’t know.

First of all, the most unamazing part of the whole thing is the 5 percent. There are probably more people than that who aren’t sure about anything.

But let’s work a bit with the 69%. If we believe a lot of what we read, we would have to suspect there’s a lot of uncertainty. That some might be less than completely truthful on the certainty part.

Witness the writings of one Bruce Feiler, who’s written several books on religion and writes a monthly piece for the New York Times. In his latest column, he confesses that he was stumped when his 5-year old asked him “Daddy, if I speak to God, will he listen?”

Feiler says his first thought was, “Who told her about God? I certainly didn’t.” Really? This is the kind of “expert” who is picked by the NYT to enlighten the rest of us on God? The kind who has, in his words, “spent a dozen years tracing biblical stories around the world and written four books about God?” A man who uses the term “Age of Doubt” to describe the times we’re living in now?

No wonder the Atheists seem to be winning the debate over the existence of God and the origin of life. Not only do they have the world of psientists (my word for pseudo-scientists) on their side, they have people wearing false crowns of religious expertise batting for them. Not to mention Christians who use as their only weapon some kind of natural longing inside, or a hole in the heart that can only be filled by God.

A better defense of an intelligence we call God being involved in all this would be some real science. Like that in scientist Stephen C. Meyer’s book Signature in the Cell. Meyer points to the complicated machinery in every cell, trillions and trillions of which make up our bodies, as convincing evidence that the chances of life arising by sheer, unguided accident, or somehow evolving out of some primordial soup without intelligent help, are so infinitesimal as to be classified as totally impossible.

Meanwhile, even the courts in America, charged with protecting our rights, have taken them away by declaring intelligent creation as religion, not science, therefore not to be taught in our public schools. The atheistic psientists have absolutely won that round. But winning a round in the debate doesn’t mean their pseudo-science is correct.

And thank God, some real scientists are surviving the ridicule thrown at them by the psientists who’ve put further research into the origin of life out of bounds. And we’re finally getting some real truth through the maze.

So what is it that makes them all fail? The answer is, they don’t… fail themselves, that is. Democrat, Republican, whatever. Doesn’t matter. We elect a new bunch and… or do we? With all the entrenched bureaucracy that nobody has any control over, all the entrenched career politicians swinging the lawmaking axe, all the entrenched mind benders called lobbyists swinging the bribe money, do we really think anything’s going to change with the little nibbling around the edges we do on election day?

Taxes march on, getting ever more complicated, no matter who claims that if we vote for them, they’ll get the system simplified. Economy? It does its own thing. The government only pokes at the edges of problems that cycle in and out. Promises unkept just make everybody edgy about committing to anything because uncertain change is a bad thing.

Somewhere there’s a disconnect. I had lunch with my banker yesterday. We talked about the lending situation. He says his bank has lots of money to lend, they’re actively trying to lend. But not enough people want to borrow. He didn’t say so, but it’s pretty clear: people are afraid of long-term commitment because they don’t have any idea of what kinds of changes will be made. Uncertainty can kill an economy. Or keep it from growing.

That’s on the local side. Main street as they say. But it’s the same nationally with the big banks. Many of them have more cash than their other assets combined. They’re running over with cash. But they have no idea when this administration might come up with a new rule that will require more capitalization. So they hang on. Large companies have no idea what’s happening next so they hang on. Consumers have no idea what’s going to happen so… you get the idea.

Atop it all is the incompetent government most people hope to change. But there’s just too much that can’t change. Do you think a new congressman or senator is going to march in to the established system and change anything? Anything? Kill the thought. The old guard has been there and will be there for a long time. And the system says the old roosters rule the roost.

Even a comedian can’t get a word in edgewise if he’s a new member. It has to be an outside comedian, as in Stephen Colbert called to give his expert testimony.

And why? When we have enough comedians already. Clowns who’ve been there so long that nobody dares run up against them. And the most famous supposed change that did seem to happen – the 1994 Republican takeover? Can’t you just feel the change? Do you really think the upcoming election will change things? Even if it’s a landslide?

If you believe it will, I’ve got a successful snowball in hell story I’ll tell you.

No, it’s not unemployment – nobody’s got an answer for that, and finding somebody to blame won’t solve the problem either. It’s DRUGS.

Talk immigration all you want. But that one could be easy if politicians would just be honest about it. But honesty is a novel idea in a political system where it’s not just the best or worst policy, it’s no policy at all. It doesn’t exist in political campaigns.

Through it all, we wind up with no idea where politicians really stand on the important things. I won’t call them issues, because all the important problems have pat, non-controversial answers made up long ago to keep from dealing with real answers.

The two ticking time-bombs called third rails of politics, drugs and Social Security just sit waiting to explode. With nothing being done until they do. Of the two, illegal drugs are the biggest killer. Here and now. Not sometime in the future. Social Security will be fixed when it gets to the breaking point. There’ll be no choice.

But illegal drugs are to the exploding point already. Not only are prisons filled with the results, graves are being filled at an alarmingly greater rate. But we’ve been lulled into accepting that, amazingly, because it’s spread through the news that doesn’t come to the top any more.

A killing or two here and there in the morning mayhem report most Americans get in their local news is not unusual any more. A casual mention that they are possibly drug related is so ordinary that it hardly ranks a glance up from the breakfast table, even in medium size cities. In major cities a small murder or two may not even be reported. But it all adds up to a giant-size problem

And where it really has burst out as a major problem it’s palmed off as somebody else’s problem. Mexico’s. Like all the killings just across the border don’t mean anything to America. How convenient. That way our politicians don’t have to deal with it.

And they don’t want to, because the way drug reform is referred to makes it the ultimate third rail. The word legalize is the hot button of all hot buttons. It’s got to be changed to “control.” Because that’s what we need.

Control of drugs means putting them in the same category as alcohol in many states. North Carolina, for example, has only state-run liquor stores. If drugs were controlled in much the same way, we could take them out of the hands of the thugs by taking the profit out of them.

The word “control” takes the hot button “legalize” out of the problem and gives us a more sane way of at least having a dialogue without one side shutting down the debate by yelling about the horrors of legalizing.

Because whatever anybody says, trying to stamp out drug use has never and will never work. There is always somebody, somewhere who will take the risks, no matter how great, to sell it for the enormous profits now available.

Time to get real, folks. If we can’t eliminate it, we at least must control it. But it takes somebody with guts to bring the problem out in the open. Laws completely illegalizing drugs have totally failed. So what else is next?

More of the same? Didn’t somebody say that’s the definition of insanity?

To be continued.

If those posters they use aren’t fighting words, what could possibly be? And the Supreme Court ruled long ago that “fighting words” aren’t protected by free speech. In 1942 the court so ruled unanimously in Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, writing:

“It is well understood that the right of free speech is not absolute at all times and under all circumstances. There are certain well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the prevention and punishment of which has never been thought to raise any Constitutional problem. These include the lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous, and the insulting or “fighting” words.”

The “fighting words” in this case were flung at a police officer. A Jehovah’s Witness (another idiot claiming to stand up for God – and no, we’re not saying all Jehovah’s Witnesses are idiots, just this one) said to a cop, “You are a God damned racketeer” and “a damned Fascist and the whole government of Rochester are Fascists or agents of Fascists.”

The cop didn’t react as a pleasant public servant. The idiot sued, claiming he was exercising his rights to free speech. The Supreme Court agreed with the cop, establishing the “fighting words” doctrine.

Signs that say “Pray For More Dead Soldiers” and “No Peace For The Wicked” at a soldier’s funeral aren’t fighting words?” Probably the only reason somebody doesn’t swoop down and beat up these idiots is that decent people who respect our military are just that. Decent. And no decent person wants to sink to the level of these scrud who use “fighting words” on signs to desecrate the memory of someone who has done his duty, fought for this country and made the ultimate sacrifice.

Maybe these are fighting words, uttered in a blog, against such scrud as these desecrators. Then so be it. Somebody needs to protest FOR common decency.

Now why would the big salaries for women come out so well in D.C.? ONE GUESS. U.S. Government jobs are the highest paid, most secure jobs in America. Like we didn’t know that already.

In other words, our “servants,” as so many like to call themselves, are more highly paid, more secure in their jobs and get far better benefits than their employers – meaning the rest of us.

And while many Americans have been displaced, had pay cuts and cuts in benefits, our “servants” in Washington have grown in numbers, pay and perks. That’s not just in this economy called a recession, it’s been happening for years, since so many American jobs have been going overseas.

While American factories have closed in droves, their jobs going to other countries who gobble them up while they smile and shaft us, Washington has celebrated MORE jobs, HIGHER pay, BETTER benefits.

No wonder Americans are outraged. Washington promises us everything but gives us nothing but debt and unemployment while keeping all the best life has to offer for themselves.

So why do we pump this dry hole in one insignificant blog? Because there’s one thing that seems never to change. Americans have been fed up before. And what do they do? Vote for the best actor. Most never look at issues. Or if they try to, it’s information hard to come by. What pops up most in the popular news is Lady Gaga-style nonsense.

And once respected media, notably today Forbes, comes up with drivel like the most powerful women in the world. FORBES, namesake of the ultra-conservative Steve Forbes, has declared Gaga the 7th most powerful woman in the world. Why? She has a daily audience of 25 million on Facebook and Twitter.

May God save America from such power! And such “educational” media as once-respected Forbes.