Kenders' Musings

Remember when you were a kid and you and your friends got together and built a fort? Whether off in a field or built into the spreading branches of a tree, the childhood is something that most of us built, cobbling together scraps of wood from where we could beg, borrow or steal them, usually giving it a name and granting the privilege of entry to our friends and barring those icky girls and the nerd from around the block.

That is the spirit of America.

Rugged invidualism. Doing for oneself. That's the American Way.

And now the laft along with many, many unthinking Americans that simply go on feelings want to ruin that decidedly American mindset.

Let me sum this up for you.

The Government doesn't owe you anything beyond making sure you are safe from foreign aggression and that the roads between states are paved. In fact, beyond the interstate highways that actually run between states the federal government should not be involved in roads at all.

They also should not be involved in education, healthcare, business grants, or any of the other myriad things they have stuck there hands into, and while I am on tghings they shouldn't be involved in let's add "low cost housing", which is theft of my money to give housing to lazy, ignorant criminally minded cretins that, if life had a shred of justice, would be living under a bridge.

Americans have lost that attitude that hard work leads to its own rewards. Most of them it seems would rather sit back and let the government take care of them. There is precious little left of that attitude that had men standing proud, no matter how little they had compared to their neighbor, simply because they had worked an honest job to get what they had.

When the going got tough before the depression, people picked up and moved on, looking for better opportunities elsewhere, and making a life for themselves, often struggling for years, even putting their children to work at times.

These days when the going gets tough people whine that the government must do more.

It is precisely this mindset that will be the end of this great country.

You, my friend, are living in the last great days of a grand experiment that looks as if it will fail. And it will fail because the nature of humans as we have evolved have overtaken the ideals that founded this nation. The ideals that free men making their own destiny was not only a good idea but the way that God wanted us to live.

We have slipped away from the noble ideals that birthed this nation, falling for a feel-good-anything-goes-secularism that denies the spiritual aspect of life in favor of the materialistic. It is now more important to get all you can no matter what, as opposed to getting what you earn and being happy with it.

This, above all, shall be our downfall.

Really.

Why fight it anymore?

Hillary is apparently up in the polls, and many are saying she will be our next president, with all of the attendant socialized medicine (which will kill our medical establishment and ruin my healthcare) and stealing from all of the people that made money on the stock market to give it to those too stupid or lazy to make a better life for themselves.

What that will do of course is take away money from private corporations because there won't be an incentive to invest your money for a return on stocks through dividends which in turn means that companies won't have as much working capital to expand and improve which means people will be put out of work which is fine with the dems because they will help you anyway, even if their policies put you in the poor house in the first place.

So why fight it?

I am going to join the far left socialists. I figure they can get me an apartment, a small stipend for food (which I will dutifully use to sit around a coffee shop with wifi and bitch about the capitalists all day while writing bad protest poetry) and a bus pass. Once a month I can go down to the unemployment office and toss in the proof that I am looking for a job so my "benefits" will continue. In the meantime when I do go look for a job I won't bathe, I will talk in slang and be slothful and nobody will hire me.

Doesn't matter though because the dems will take care of me.

I will sit and sneer at all of you boobs that go work for the military-industrial complex and write long rambling missives about how much better it is that I sit and rail against an unfair system rather than bing a productive citizen.

And the dems will take care of me.

I will use my government money and bus pass to go to protests against multi national corporations that have invested money in great tracts of forest with the goal of employing people and turning a profit and chant loudly that they are killing some owl I will never lay eyes on while completely ignoring the fact that several people are now out of work and their children don't have enough food or healthcare due to the actions of me and my shortsighted compatriots.

And the dems will take care of me.

I will stand outside of a prison at midnight, yelling about the evil state taking the life of a convicted murderer, never once giving a thought to the family of the murder victims, and not letting a shred of wonder at some kid growing up with out his dad and what that must have done to him.

And the dems will take care of me.

I will do all I can to stop the evil oil companies from exploiting the land to build refineries in an attempt to bring cheaper gas to the masses. They should all ride the bus like I do. The freedom to go where you want when you want must be tempered with the environment and the good of the whole kept in mind. You don't need that car. It would probably do you good to walk anyway, lardass. You should be riding the bus like me and the other slacke....errr...people that care about the future of humanity.

And still the dems will take care of me.

Finally I will demand that they pay for my schooling, so I can be trained to be a productive member of society, and I will get a degree in 15th century spanish poetry, and learn to say "Would you like fries with that?"

And still the dems will take care of me.

And when, at the end of a long life of living under a socialist umbrella, when I die and have nothing but an old bed in a shitty apartment, a laptop, a bus pass and a "Buy 10 get the next one free" card from my local coffee house, the government can pay for a paupers funeral, tossing me into a mass grave along with all of the other railing, coffee addicted bad poets that keeled over on the Number 12 bus that week.

And let our grave marker say:

The Dems Took Care Of Them.

We have a large group of people in this country these days that don't believe we should fight against our enemies.

We have a large group of people in this country that have bought into the socialist belief that it is the governments job to take care of everyone, that it is not the individuals job to decide how they want to live their life or how successful they wish to be but rather it is the governments job to make sure that outcomes are equal.

We have a large group of people that believe it is unfair for one man to have so much less than another man, and to that end we must steal from the man that produces and give to the man that doesn't, because that man has a larger house and more income, and it just isn't fair.

That is the antithesis of The American Way.

Allow me to explain why socialist policies destroy the greatness of the human spirit.

In a society that gives a man the ability to truly succeed the possibility of abject failure must be present. If one is guaranteed by the government that they will provide food, shelter and healthcare no matter what, a false floor is created. The necessary counter to this false floor is a false ceiling. Somebody must pay for that floor. Now if you have a guaranteed level that you cannot fall below, in essence a line you cannot fall beneath, what is "success" in that system worth?

This mindset is mirrored in todays youth sports, where everyone gets a trophy no matter what happens or where their team finishes. This is teaching nothing more than "all you have to do is try and you will be rewarded." This is not how life works.

In the wild trying doesn't get the bear dinner. Actually getting dinner is the only thing that gets the bear dinner. So in society should it be the same. Trying to make a life for yourself is not the same as doing it. Just getting up and going to work everyday should not be sufficient to be successful. Success should come with hard work, ambition and some luck.

Stealing from the producers to give to those that don't produce not only is an evil action, but is one that lessens the greatness of humanity. For if we are artificially propping up those with no ambition, we are diluting our pool of worthwhile humans.

Now at this point I am sure that many people are going to scream, but that fact is this; Some People Are Worthless.

People that lack ambition, people that are prone to be criminals, people that basically are a drain on society bring us all down through their lifestyles and bad choices. Frankly these folks shouldn't even be allowed to breed, but they do, and copiously I might add.

And herein lies our problem.

Look at it like this; The average IQ is 100....half of the people are stupider than that....and they vote.

Follow home a stupid kid and you will find stupid parents.

Water seeks its own level, therefore stupid people breed with stupid people, and they tend to breed a lot.

Therefore the stupid to smart ratio is growing at an ever faster rate.

With this ratio growing at an ever faster rate, what is the shot that we can stay where we are as a nation?

If we enact more and more socialist policies how are we eventually going to pay for them when everyone gets what they need provided by the government, thereby taking away all incentive to actually work and produce something of value for society?

People on the left have this idea that people are basically good at heart, but I have seen too much of humanity to believe such simplistic ideas, and know that when you take away the incentive to succeed people will sit back and take what they can get.

When we no longer have the ability to truly succeed, and fighting for a better life is no longer possible because the government will provide for your basic needs we will not have a great country, but one where everyone does the bare minimum to get by, for at that point when you can only go so far in life no matter how hard you try what becomes the point of trying?

Think about that.

Yes Amtrak Sucks!!! It is probably amazing to you that a subsidized public transport system using antiquated equipment and surly employees who know their jobs are secure and therefore don't care about making you a happy customer could possibly suck but when I say Amtrak Sucks I mean that Amtrak sucks in the worst way it is possible for anything to suck.

To quote that great Animated American Homer J. Simpson, "They are the suckiest bunch of sucks that ever sucked a sucked."

So....


Have you ever been bent over a table full of spikes, with car jumper cables hooked to a battery clamped on your nipples while a bear trap was clamped around your nuts?

Figuratively speaking, that is exactly where I am at the moment of the writing of this post.

It all started a couple of weeks ago when my GF looked up flight info for Screamy and I to go visit my Dad, Grandma and various other relatives. On a lark I decided to check Amtrak.

I was surprised to find that the Amtrak ticket was very affordable, and the thought of spending some quality time with my boy for a couple of days and seeing the countryside was enticing, so the plans were made, tickets reserved and bags packed.

So the GF, Screamy and myself toddled off to Union Station in L.A. via the Metrolink. Once at the station we grabbed our tickets through the automatic ticket machine, then had to wait in line to check baggage. Forty five minutes in line to find out that the sign that said “Check Baggage Here” really meant that for our train baggage did not get checked, but thank you for choosing Amtrak.

I should have known then that the clusterfucks of all grand clusterfucks was commencing. After standing in another line to receive a boarding pass we stood in yet another line in hopes of being one of the first people to get to the train.

As I said, clusterfuck.

When the line was allowed to head to the train for boarding it was everymen for himself, and those that got to the line late but with very little baggage shot past those of us that had been standing there for over an hour.

So we said good bye to the GF, who stayed home to care for the dogs and such.

I won’t bore you with all the little details, as I was actually having a good time traveling on the train. The (eventual) six hour delay and lack of smoky treat time notwithstanding, it was a fun trip.

Up until we hit San Antonio Texas.

You see, I paid extra for the privilege of staying on one train, mostly due to the fact that I knew we would get to San Anton in the wee hours and waking a 7 year old to move from train to train is not my idea of a good time.

Apparently it IS the idea of a good time to someone at Amtrak who decided that we would be leaving the train car we were traveling in at the station in San Anton and switching trains at O dark thirty.

Up to this point I had not uttered one word of complaint. This was about to drastically change. After fighting the crowd, moving our gear and then not being able to sit together (our assigned seats suddenly didn’t seem to apply) I called customer service.

I wanted my money back. Not all of it mind you, just the 30 or so extra I paid for the privilege of not having to hump my gear and a seven year old to another train.

Let me say that the person at customer service that finally picked up the phone to help me was a unique individual whose level of indifference to my anger at having thirty dollars stolen from me was unable to be measured by any instrument yet made.

And it turns out that Amtrak doesn’t refund tickets that have already been traveled on. They do however issue credits, good for applying to a future trip on the Official Train of the Second Level of Hell.

Now at this point I am furious, and the last thing I want is a credit to ride this shitbox again. They may as well send me a roll of used toilet paper. At least then I could decorate an Amtrak train.

It should be pointed out that several people were angry before this point, mostly due to delays.

Now once we left San Anton things proceeded smoothly…for awhile.

By “for awhile” I mean about three hours. Down the way at another station we picked up about 70 people, mostly kids, as in under the age of driving kids. As fate would have it they would not be with us long, as at Austin they whisked away in taxicabs to make a connection that our train was suddenly unable to get them to in time.

This of course was just before the announcement stating that we would be sitting in Austin for a couple of hours and would be getting out of there around 2:30. Several people at that point went to the store down the street. The kids I was sitting with had decided to go also, and I took down one of their cell numbers just in case, which is a good thing because about 20 minutes after they left the announcement came over that we were pulling out in 5 minutes.

I went down and let the conductor know that there were people still off of the train, and he said “Then they’re staying off, cuz we’re leaving.”

Great customer service huh?

I called the kids and they literally dropped their items while standing in line at the store and ran back, barely making it onto the train, breathless and sweaty, but others weren’t so lucky. About 4 people were left behind. One, as I understand it, was given a ride on a freight train to catch up with us. The others were given a taxi ride two stations ahead to wait on us. They were waiting for three hours.

So we left Austin and proceeded a couple of miles up the track and stopped there instead, right out where we could sit on the train going nowhere but not get off and smoke. So instead of waiting at the station we went to sit up along the track…. I am still not sure why. Up ahead was a derailed car, and nobody was getting through, but there we sat.

Finally the derailed car was moved and we set out, again, and again things proceeded smoothly….for a short while.

Then we stopped again and were told that a couple of locomotives were “on the ground” and we would be waiting for that to be cleaned up.

At this point jokes were flying and now mottos were being thought up, and one fellow even talked about buying some horses and covered wagons to compete with Amtrak.

Imagine our surprise when we finally got underway. By now the sun was going down and the word was that we were about 7 hours behind. This meant I would be into Malvern sometime around dawn. That would leave me plenty of time to get showered and off to dialysis, which was scheduled for 1 PM in Little Rock, although the dialysis unit had called me the night before and asked me if I could come in early. If we had been on time I could have, and then I would not have had a shortened treatment and spent three days of my vacation feeling crappy.

We blasted through the night, wheels clacking and the train swaying and finally, FINALLY it seemed as if we had an actual train trip going. I should have known that would not last. About 4:30 AM we pulled into Texarkana, a town obviously named by people on the border of Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana that seriously lacked imagination when it came to place names.

I called my dad at that point to let him know we hit Texarkana, which gave him about an hour and a half to get to Malvern. I rolled over and went back to sleep, figuring that it would be an hour or so more before we got close to Malvern, my destination

What a surprise when I awoke an hour later to find that we were in…… Texarkana……and the train was quiet…almost too quiet….in fact it was stifling. That’s when I realized the AC was out. I made my way down the train and found the kids I had been hanging out with, (in all fairness they weren’t actually “kids”, but at my age anyone born in a year you can remember qualifies as a “kid.”) and found out we had lost the generator to the train, and we had no toilets either.

I called Dad back and caught him about to leave for Malvern. Shortly after that we started moving again, after an announcement about the dead generator and some ephemeral plan about getting another engine hooked up from another train.

Had I known then what I know now I would have taken myself off of the train in Texarkana and waited for a ride. Not too long after dawn we stopped on the tracks as the crew tried to hook up another locomotive to ours so we could have flushing toilets and AC once again.

Finally they succeeded in that endeavor only to inform us that we now had no brakes.

At this point the crept up the tracks, finally stopping seemingly within longbow distance of Arkadelphia, a town named by people that apparently thought names like Texarkana to be too sane.

It was at this point that I saw one man bail from the train to wade through a ditch full of water and escape in a car that had pulled up on the road alongside of us. I was in contact on the cell with my Dad at this point, and knowing I had to get to my treatment he wandered up and told the conductor my problem. Dad was wearing his “Retired Air Force” hat, and the man he talked to, retired AF also, seemed more than concerned and helpful, from what Dad said. I was paged to the diner car, where the conductor talked to me, got the info and said he would see what he could do about getting me off of the train to get to dialysis.

Yeah that never happened. I paged the conductor again and never got a reply. About an hour later we moved up the few hundred yards to the station, where I met my Dad and headed to dialysis, with the train more than 14 hours late and having to get off of the train one stop before the stop I had paid for.

I can still turn in my unused ticket, and get a refund of 90% of the purchase price, which is what I plan on doing. I am losing money on the train tickets, and will spend more to fly home, but at this point I don’t care.

I will never, EVER ride Amtrak again.

Amtrak absolutely and completely sucks balls. They don’t care if you are happy, their coaches are ugly and falling apart, the food in the dining car is shit (it is actually worse than Denny’s food) and the only bright point on the trip, Kevin, who ran the snack bar in the lounge car, was running out of supplies earlier than I believe he should have.

Amtrak basically screwed me out of about 30 bucks, plus the cost difference between Malvern and Arkadelphia, plus the 10% they won’t refund, and they don’t care. So be forewarned. The service sucks, the cars are old and crappy and falling apart, and Amtrak employees could give a rats ass less about you once they have your money.

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With the case of a man in New York being charged with felonies for putting a book in a toilet playing itself out, one must wonder if all of the yelling and screaming going on in the U.S. about having lost civil rights is being done by the wrong people.

The morons on the left scream constantly that we have lost our civil rights under the current administration but can never actually point to one civil right they have lost, while a man in New York puts a koran or two into the toilet and is charged with criminal mischief and aggravated harassment.

Who did he harass? How is criminal mischief a felony? Did the toilet back up and need a plumber to repair it? If so then vandalism would be in order, but if not who did he hurt by his actions?

Oh...some muslims got their feelings hurt? I remember "Piss Christ." So it's ok to denigrate Christianity but not islam? Maybe that's because Christians aren't going around cutting off the heads of non-believers.

It boils down to this. This man didn't steal this koran from someone and toss it in the toilet (as far as we know right now) and since it (seemingly) was his private property he can toss it into a sewage pond for all anyone should care. The fact that the muslim student union and CAIR (allegedly) ARE PUSHING FOR THIS PROSECUTION should scafe the hell out of American citizens.

UPDATE: Apparently the koran was stolen. So nail him for theft and the value of the book. BUt a felony? Come on and have some common sense.

When prosecutors are guided by partisan groups with agendas, instead of the letter of the law, we head down a dark road, one better left untraveled. We are losing our free speech rights in this country, and pretty soon prosecutions for simply stating opinions will be more commonplace.

So there is a very real possibility that I may end up in jail in the near future.

Now if you will excuse me I need to go buy a new koran and clean my toilets.

I have a mess of credits on Blog Soldiers. Mostly from surfing a lot.

So let's do this.

I will GIVE, completely free, 500 credits on Blog Soldiers to the person that sends me the best essay on why they deserve the credits.

Email your essay before August 10th, 2007 to kendermacgowan@gmail.com with "Essay for Blog Soldiers" in the subject line.

Essay should be three paragraphs and no more than 500 words. Winning essay will be posted here and maybe somewhere else. Decision will be made on or about august 12th 2007.

By The way, you must be a member of Blog Soldiers to enter this contest....how else would I get you those credits?
Good luck.

CLICK HERE for the BEST STUPID LIBERAL JOKE EVER!!!!!

I just got this email from a dear friend of mine:

I am writing this to ask you all for your help. The help is not for me,it’s for a friend of mine. She is one of the kindest and gentlest souls I have ever known. And she has been given some very hard news.

She has stage 4 cancer and has been given 6 months to live.

Last month she collapsed suddenly and was rushed to a nearby hospital where it was discovered that a tumor covered a third of her brain. Emergency surgery was performed, and while a good portion of it was removed, the docters are 99% sure that it will grow back. She has spent the last month re-learning how to talk and walk only to be given the full truth of her situation once adequately recovered.

She is now in the process of change. She is letting go of all of the things that have not served her in the past that she no longer has the time or energy for. She is looking forward to all of the things she’s ever wanted to do in her life. She is not giving up and is holding on to that 1% left to her.

Her name is Beth and I ask that you add her to your prayers.

Now for the big help. Beth has always wanted to see the Northern Lights. I am putting together a collection to help her go. A friend of hers has a cabin in Canada where there is a good view of them in August. She just needs travel and food money.

In a time in most peoples lives when most people are enjoying relatively decent health and energy and the prospect of watching ones family grow up Beth has been thrown the most horrid of curve balls. Knowing that your days are short will certainly put everything into perspective.

If you can help, even if it is just for a dollar, please hit the paypal button and stick something about Beth in the title line....from Beth, her family and friends, thank you in advance....the donation button is in the left hand column near the top.

I will keep you updated.

This is all of the states I have been in during the course of my wanderings.

I bet I finish them all in the next five years....that is the goal anyway.



create your own visited states map
or check out these Google Hacks.

Go here to make your own map.

linked in the title is an article by John Bambenek asking if Daily Pos (no links for that bunch of seditious bastards) should be regulated by the FEC.

Daily Pos goes far beyond any other blog out there, staging a konvention that actively seeks politicians to appear and endorsing candidates, and that is pretty much all they do.

They are a completely political entity.

They FEC should rip them a new one and demand accounting from that traitorous, limp wristed rat Pos.....

What say you?

Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson (December 22, 1912 – July 11, 2007) was the wife of former President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson, and was First Lady of the United States from 1963-1969. From infancy she has been known as Lady Bird.

As First Lady, Johnson started a capital beautification project (Society for a More Beautiful National Capital) to improve physical conditions in Washington, D.C., both for residents and tourists. Her efforts inspired similar programs throughout the country. She was also instrumental in promoting the Highway Beautification Act, which sought to beautify the nation's highway system by limiting billboards and by planting roadside areas.

I have always admired her simply for the fact that she pushed limiting billboards at the side of highways. She feared, (rightfully) that eventually the roads would be lined with billboards and the great views of this wonderful country would be spoiled.

Godspeed Lady Bird. Rest In Peace.

So Algore's Live Earth concerts kicked off in Sydney Australia, under a barrage of attacks from several quarters, including none other than his Royal Highness of Charity Concerts For No Reason, Sir Bob Geldof, who said:

“Live Earth doesn’t have a final goal,"..."Everybody’s known about that problem for years. We are all f***ing conscious of global warming,”

Roger Daltry chimed in with:

The last thing the world needs is a rock concert’

Most likely thinking of all the private jets that shuttled around all of these self serving bastards.

And Matt Helders, the drummer for Artic Monkeys added that it would be:

“a bit patronizing” to think his youthful group could change the world. “Especially when we’re using enough power for 10 houses just for lighting, it would be a bit hypocritical,”

Ya think?

Given recent findings that Greenland once was very green, recently in fact by geologic standards, coupled with the slew of scientists that do not believe in global warming being caused by humans one has to wonder if these morons are reading the same internet.

Now add in the fact that Algore owns a chunk of the biggest carbon credit company out there (BTW, carbon credits are simply a self imposed guilt tax) and that he basically pays himself for his carbon offsets and something really stinks in here, and it isn't the smell of millions of unwashed environutjobs panting breathlessly about how much they save the environment by showering only once every lunar cycle with dew they collect off of the carbon reducing trees they live under next to the overpass.

I think my favorite line of the day was spoken by David Gray, who likened the campaign to save the planet to the threat Britain faced from the Nazis.

No, the campaign to "save the planet" is not a threat like the nazis were. Eventually you idiots out there with your little florescent lights (which I hate because they won't work with a dimmer switch) and all of your recycling (for the record recycling hurts the poor and doesn't pay enough for me to do it) and "green" sensibilities are going to wake up and realize that you are serious fools.

Then instead of greenies we can call you red faced idiots. Seems most of the stuff that the global warming crowd wants to do sounds like old soviet style rules anyway, forcing me to live my life a certain way and taking away my freedom, so red is a better color for you numbnutted twits anyway.

So I will tell you what I am gonna do about global warming:

I will contribute.

That's right, I will contribute to global warming.

I will leave my computer and every 500 watt light bulb on all the damn time.

In fact I have five computers here, and I am gonna make sure they all stay on all the time.

I will continue to not recycle.

I will go out and get a car that guzzles even more gas, and I will alter the exhaust system so I get the maximum amount of EPM (Emissions Per Mile)

I will use as much food that comes pre-packaged and processed as possible. In fact the more packaging the better. I want my food wrapped in a vacuum form container inside of a box that uses no recycled material and I want that box wrapped in shrink wrap plastic, two layers, with tamper proof tape on it that has lead based writing telling me that the tape is there to keep me safe from wackjobs that would poison me, and after this missive I am sure the number of those guys will shoot up some.

I am going to cook over an open fire whenever possible, and if I can, I will try to use wood that has been sprayed with pesticides just so I can release that much more stuff in the atmosphere. In fact I may even start cooking with all of the plastic wrapping that will soon be festooning my house.

I am going to drive everywhere, even to the end of the driveway to get the mail.

I am going to set tires aflame on earth day.

I will let my water hose run all the time, even if I have to let it flood the yard and run down the gutter.

I will let my household faucets stay on, running a stream of water continuously 24-7.....even the bath tub......and I will make sure it is the hot water spigot that is the one running.

I am going to take extra hot, extra long showers......without a water saving nozzle.

I am going to wear my clothes for 15 minutes and immediately wash them on the high water, hot wash, hot rinse setting.

I will make sure to run the dishwasher every time I use a dish....and I will run that on the long hot cycle also.

I will run my AC at 58 degrees all summer, walking around my house in a sweater and ski jacket if I must, but that will be countered by winter, when I will crank the heat up to 88 degrees and lounge around in bermuda shorts.

I will take out all of the trees on my property, and all greenery, and then pay my neighbors to let me take down their trees as well.....then I will use those trees for firewood.

I am going to use one complete roll of toilet paper every time I so much as pass gas.

I am also taking all of the insulation out of my house and replacing the nice new double paned windows with plastic sheeting, on the theory that plastic sheeting is good enough to keep the bugs out.

Better yet I will remove the windows and I will saturate my property with the most noxious chemicals I can get my hands on so that no bugs will live in my yard and be tempted to come into my house.

In short I am going to be the most wasteful SOB on this planet....well, next to Algore, at least..

Independence: freedom from control or influence of another or others.

It is Independence Day. The day that Americans celebrate throwing off the shackles of King George and declaring to the world that we have the God Given right, RIGHT, to decide our own fate, our own destiny and to not be governed by those that think themselves above the law.

The day we celebrate the fact, the FACT mind you, NOT the belief, that ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL.

Pay attention to that word “created” for it plays a large role in how this country was born. All men are equal in the eyes of the law. Nature, however, has always taken quite a different approach to that whole equality thing. It boggles my mind that there is a group of people in this world that can hold beliefs that are directly contradictory to each other. Specifically the liberal stance that man should stay out of “nature” (i.e. everywhere we have not yet built over or paved) yet we cannot let nature takes its course in society and let people succeed or fail on their own merits, that it isn’t “fair” that some people have more than others, never mind that some people are naturally smarter, or more ambitious or luckier than others.

That ideal, that we must take from those that have, those that earn and give it to those that don’t have or earn is patently un-American, and at its heart an evil policy of theft, avarice, greed and sloth.

It is theft from those that produce, avarice on the part of those that create those laws and policies and greed and sloth on the part of those that don’t produce or earn what they receive.

It has been said that those that surrender liberty for security deserve neither.

Of course it has also been said that:

"A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property, and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means." --Thomas Jefferson to John Colvin, 1810.

And this wisdom:

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
And:

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

I put forth that what the democrats are now doing (and have been for years) is patently un-American.

They have created a class of dependent people who are subservient to them. There are generations of people on welfare that have been told repeatedly that they are owed something for the travails of their ancestors. They show their subservience by blindly following a party that strives to keep them poor and panders to their victim mentality and they sell themselves for a pittance like common whores instead of taking responsibility for their lives and working towards a better future for themselves and their country.

The democrats suffocate the germ of virtue, for there is true virtue is honest work, and no virtue in sloth. Now that the people are becoming more dependent the ambitious designs of the democrats coalesce and ever more theft is in the future of this country.

They use the force of law to threaten citizens with prison and more theft in the form of fines and penalties if we stand up to this theft and say no.

Despotism comes next.

So on this Independence Day we should sit back and reflect on what it means to BE an American.

Being an American means so much more than simply living in this country. Being an American is a state of mind. One might say that BEING an American is almost a religion. For a religion is not solely an adherence to some book or belief or non belief in a deity but rather the way one lives their life and the beliefs and actions that guide ones decisions
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Secular Humanism is a religion. As is adherence to the junk science of global warming, but those are topics for another day and we shall stick to the point of what it takes to BE an American.

There are many people around the world that are Americans at heart, but may never make it to our shores. Conversely there are many people in our great country that do not deserve the title of American.

Americans crave freedom.

Freedom to live their lives as they see fit.

Americans desire Independence.

Independence from tyranny and oppression.

Americans realize that Liberty is the first gift of the Creator and we so love the concept that all men are created equal and have an inalienable right to live in freedom that we have consistently gone to war to secure that freedom for ourselves and others.

Being an American means also being generous, to a point. We have been blessed in this country by our forefathers that sacrificed to build a nation of free men, men that were free to choose their destiny and succeed on their own merits, talents and abilities and this blessing should be shared. But a handout is inherently evil, as opposed to a “:hand up,” and true Americans understand the grace involved in helping our fellow man to become a better person by teaching them to contribute to society, thus bettering all of us, rather than to suckle at the teat of thieving socialist policies.

I have long said that socialism destroys the human spirit. People are like pendulums, and I have found that, generally, as far over on the side of good they can swing they can also go that far on the side of evil. The kindest most generous people I have known have also been the most vindictive when angered. Look at the democrats. They are extremely kind with other peoples’ money and thoroughly evil when it comes to actually getting that money from them, short of actually stabbing them in the street and taking their wallet.

Life is a lot like a pendulum also.

A man that cannot truly fail; I mean end up in the gutter living under a bridge and eating from a trashcan due to socialist policies that guarantee a minimum standard of living is also a man that cannot find the greatest heights of success through his ability. For the system that takes away the possibility of utter and abject failure also must take away the ability to truly succeed simply to take care of those failures and pepper the lower rungs of society.

The death of the human spirit is the only possible outcome of socialism.

Witness France.

They refused to ratify their new EU constitution because it took away too much of their welfare state and now many of them are up in arms about Sarkozy and his seeming adherence to a more conservative approach (read more common sense and personal responsibility and fewer 35 hour work weeks) to governing his whiny and complacent countrymen.

That mindset, the belief in a system of socialism that steals from those that produce to give to those that do not is exactly one of the major reasons our country fought a revolution. Only instead of every citizen being the recipient of that theft it was used for the state only.

King George III got exactly what he deserved. An ass whipping of such epic proportions that 230 some odd years later it is still a sore point with the descendants of his country.
Policies and laws that steal from one to give to another are inherently evil and should be completely against everything an American stands for, but many of our countrymen have gone soft, in the belly and the mind and hold beliefs that advocate exactly those ideals. Guilt and indoctrination from socialist academia and media have turned many of our countrymen, well — stupid.

Independence Day. The day we celebrate the founding of our great country and the ideals that make us uniquely American.

Daniel Webster gave the eulogies for Thomas Jefferson and John Adams (who both died on July 4th, 1826) and he said; "It [the Declaration of Independence] is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God, it shall be my dying sentiment. Independence now, and independence forever."

This Independence Day reflect on the qualities that make us Americans and know that the forces arrayed against Liberty cannot win so long as we hold true to the principles that our country was founded upon.





xposted at Gribbit Online

Somewhere out in the vastness that is the United States of America there sits a factory. Built in secret by noam chomsky this high tech marvel of idiocy pumps out cloned liberals. Each succeeding generation, it seems, is being refined to drool more, think less and squawk louder.

Case in point is the latest cretin to be unleashed upon the blogosphere, BJ over at breaking dim bulbs. BJ, (who goes by the name billy joe, either because he is trying to get those much sought after redneck creds going or he just likes having his hobby as a nickname) styles himself as the destroyer of the right wing blogosphere.

Umm...yeah..ok.....so far he has called big dog a traitor without backing up that little lie, tried to rag on wild bill (who is completely up front and honest about everything) and now claims that I don't care about the truth because I said I don't care what McCain says one way or another.

McCain is not gonna get the nomination, so he doesn't matter in the race for the oval office.

Billy Joe likes to twist things around and ignore the claims he has made about others. I want to know why this little mattress-thrashing-cum-burping-gutter-slug feels he can lie about people and get away with it, but that answer will never come, as BJ is too busy making stuff up and following his mom in the family business. I understand she has passed along her first set of kneepads to BJ tho, as a gesture of good luck, so maybe he'll be too busy in the future to keep posting lies about his betters.

BTW BJ, let your mom know I caught her show in TJ once and was just wondering.....is she still friends with that donkey?

Dear President Bush, and all of the other "law-makers" that are pushing for an amnesty, I have one major question:

Are you out of your flippin' mind?

Who are you representing anyway?

You know those people that voted for you? The American citizens? Certainly you are not representing them, as the vast majority of them want you to secure the border and ENFORCE our current immigration laws which, by the way, are NOT "broken" but rather simply not in use.

Trying to shove another amnesty down our throats is really pissing us off, and when our reps won't answer their phones, claiming they are overwhelmed on one hand while stating that they are receiving no negative feedback on the other regarding this amnesty we get to see just who the duly elected representatives of this country are really representing.

And it isn't the American citizen.

Now you may think we are powerless to stop you from doing as you please, and will merril;y continue on your way to flood this country with more people that are only after the freebies you hand out at our expense, but I wish to remind you that another George once thought that the American people were powerless to stop him from doing as he pleased.

YOu might wanna call up your buddy Blair in London and ask him how that worked out for old Georgie.

Seriously. Linked in the title is the story of some "day laborers" (which means ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS--people that have snuck into this country ILLEGALLY to work, jumping ahead of countless people that are waiting to come here legally, flaunting our laws and acting with utter impunity) that were picked up on a street corner, tied up and taken and dropped off in Tijuana.

The Sheriff Dept. are investigating it as a kidnapping. I hope they put their laziest detective on this case.

Polls overwhelming show that the American citizens, (you know, us folks that VOTE) want our border secured (as it should be) and people that employ illegal aliens taken to task for their flaunting of the law.

We already let over a million people immigrate here LEGALLY every single year, more than every other country on EARTH allows in legal immigration to their countries every year, and the new amnesty plan being proposed is going to up that number substantially.
We are about to reward people that have to problem ignoring the rules (what makes you think they will suddenly start paying attention to rules and laws now, huh?) and even though the people (read: CITIZENS) have said "don't" our elected ruling class is going to ignore us and do as they wish.

Is it any surprise that someone picked up some illegals and deported them? Our government isn't doing their job.....someone has to do it. I think you will see more of this as things get increasingly tense in the immigration "debate."

As one man put it in a fax to Sen. Feinstein, "if an American citizen worked for case or with a fraudulent SS card, they would be facing jail time. DO these laws not apply to illegals?"

Keep faxing and calling and emailing your reps.....tell them NO AMNESTY. If worse comes to worse I guess we can always form a volunteer INS and start our own deportations, as it seems to government isn't interested in doing the job.

His Imperial Rottiness has written up a nice bit about our Liberal Offsets.

Go have a read and then click the link and buy one for that Liberal Friend or Family Member today.

There is a lot of pointless stupidity in the world, and many things top the list above the pointless stupidity that is the subject of todays rant, but I just have to say something about Colgate's new toothpaste.

Colgate's Max Fresh Toothpaste has....are you ready for this?


BREATH STRIPS!

Yes....those little cellulose strips that are impregnated with mouthwash have been shredded and placed IN the toothpaste.

Now what a fool I am it seems. I believed that breath strips were to use after a meal when you couldn't brush, or when you were about to put the moves on some girl.

I also believed that toothpaste was to be used to clean teeth and get your breath fresh.

Now I know it is a minor thing, but when you add to a product to another product to make a new and improved product shouldn't that new and improved product do something, well, new and improved?

It seems to me that adding in breath strips to toothpaste is simply useless, kinda' like...well...it seems like such a stupendously stupid idea that I can't seem to find an analogy for it.

Granted it is still not as stupid as letting millions of people sneak into the country and then march to demand non-existent rights, but it is right up there with it.

I wish the democrats were right......

I wish the world could get along......

I wish that all the strife would simply end if we brought everyone
home because then we could make this madness stop.....

I wish we could afford to take care of all the people that needed it.....

I wish we could end hunger, homelessness and disease.....

I wish we could find a never ending energy source that didn't pollute
at all....hell while I am wishing I wish that the never ending,
non-polluting energy source had emissions that smelled like whatever
your favorite smell was so we could all walk around smelling something
nice......

I wish Big Macs weren't fattening and that cauliflower was.......

I wish beer flowed up through natural springs and twinkies grew on trees...

But most of all I wish President Bush was the evil, rotten, scheming,
lying sunuvabitch that the left claims.....maybe then he would start
rounding those assholes up in the middle of the night and give them
HALO lessons over shark infested waters.....

The inspiration for this post came from this video.