A quick insight into an issue the US can expect to encounter in the future:



The view of French philosopher Radu Stoenesc presented in the middle of this short clip is worth consideration. The problem with all of this is that most people are unwilling to face confrontation, even when it is the right thing to do. Little has changed since the American revolution, where most people were not willing to take a stand.

Yes, the citizenry at large succumbs to fear first.

Apparently, according to Politico, babbling Boxer will win in California. Among the many reasons:

The architecture of the ballot itself complicates Fiorina’s task. Unlike in some other states, U.S. Senate candidates in California are at the bottom, not the top, of the statewide ballot — trailing all seven partisan statewide constitutional offices and even the lowly Board of Equalization, the state’s tax board. [Read]

So, according to the in-depth analysis provided by Politico, the (D)emocrat will win because the only voters that can get to the end of the ballot in California are (D)emocratic supporters? This is what Politico considers high-minded political analysis? We have a better description: What a joke.

When you put power into politicians, many of them will be corrupted, and yet we continue to give them more and more power. Do you think a congresswoman who is giving away scholarships to her grandsons, grandnephews and children of an aide is really looking to be a ward of the people, or looking after her and hers? The answer is demonstrably clear, unless you have rocks spacing your ears.

Read Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson says she'll repay scholarship funds by week's end

Odds are the imbeciles who put her in office for 18 years will do it again, but we can hope...

"While I am not ashamed of helping, I did not intentionally mean to violate any rules in the process." Believable? Her defense is ignorance? For what kind of voter is this acceptable?

It is now acceptable in the western states for the government go track and monitor you with your consent, or a search warrant. Why, because judges said so, except for that crazy conservative judge who thinks the protect of privacy should not be a privilege of the rich.

When you cede your liberties to the government because you are not strong enough for the responsibility of freedom, the totalitarian state will dress you appropriately.

A Times article states:
It is a dangerous decision — one that, as the dissenting judges warned, could turn America into the sort of totalitarian state imagined by George Orwell. It is particularly offensive because the judges added insult to injury with some shocking class bias: the little personal privacy that still exists, the court suggested, should belong mainly to the rich. [Read The Government Can Use GPS to Track Your Moves]

Read the judge's dissent:
Having previously decimated the protections the Fourth Amendment accords to the home itself, United States v. Lemus, 596 F.3d 512 (9th Cir. 2010) (Kozinski, C.J., dissenting from the denial of rehearing en banc); United States v. Black, 482 F.3d 1044 (9th Cir. 2007) (Kozinski, J., dissenting from the denial of rehearing en banc), our court now proceeds to dismantle the zone of privacy we enjoy in the home’s curtilage and in public. The needs of law enforcement, to which my colleagues seem inclined to refuse nothing, are quickly making personal privacy a distant memory. 1984 may have come a bit later than predicted, but it’s here at last.

The facts are disturbingly simple: Police snuck onto Pineda-Moreno’s property in the dead of night and attached a GPS tracking device to the underside of his car. The device continuously recorded the car’s location, allowing police to monitor all of Pineda-Moreno’s movements without the need for visual surveillance. The panel holds that none of this implicates the Fourth Amendment, even though the government concedes that the car was in the curtilage of Pineda-Moreno’s home at the time the police attached the tracking device.. [Read Full Opinion]

Another opinion of his worth a read is the aforementioned UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. JUAN HERMAN LEMUS

People do not seem to understand that those who have usurped the term liberal are nothing of the sort, though you must admit it sounds so much nicer than the truth.

Do you have a gate on the front of your property? No? Sorry, you only get partial Constitutional protection.

When you turn to government for solutions to the morass you have in a broken private sector, you get an even greater morass. Take a moment to read how your government and its bureaucracy went out of their way to harm people after hurricane Katrina. Read Katrina a tale of SBA failure, it is not what you think. (It is not about how the government was not there in a time of need, it is how your government was there and screwed over its citizens, with malice of forethought.)

You cannot blame Bush anymore than the people in the article can blame their supervisors. You do not go bad and screw over your fellow citizen for a secure government paycheck because your boss said to, unless that is who you are already. And what are the consequences for government ineptitude and immorality? The usual; no consequences and continued paychecks and benefits for the government's loyal soldiers of fortune.

If you do not see what is in store for government run healthcare, you have chosen to be blind, or are incredibly stupid.

In case you are wondering how your neighbors are managing to keep up their lifestyles in this economy, consider the following:

> Many homeowners are NOT paying their mortgage so can sustain a standard of living above what they should be able to afford. If you do not know someone doing this, you are, or you do not know enough people, or someone is lying, or you are living in a nice little bubble of happy unreality (Washington DC).
> Many people have borrowed from their 401(k) under the hardship provision. This borrowing is at a 10 year high at Fidelity Investments, and, unfortunately, many of these people will not recover because of the state and direction of the economy. [Read: 401(k) hardship withdrawals, loans up]

When are things really going to get better? When we realize freedom is more valuable than government control and citizen management, and that the engine that runs our economy is opportunity for the individual.

What does this new administration give us in the way of change? More focus and assistance for the banks and other large institutions. You? No, you are *%#!ed.

Read Banks to benefit most from White House effort to fight foreclosures

The only way for the people to get a government to treat them honestly, is for the people to want nothing more than their government to treat them honestly. As soon as you ask for your special handout, the negotiation has begun and you lose.

Bored with being bent yet?

Who do you people think you are, expecting transparency from the Obama administration just because candidate for president Obama promised an open, transparent government. He has shown you, sending his ethics czar to the Czech Republic and putting a none-of-your-business lawyer in charge of openness.

Read Obama closes curtain on transparency


Change? Right. He's soooooo different than every other power hungry politician...at least that's what the party ideologues tell us.

You people, you stupid little people.

Watching one of those government appointees discuss economics on television forced a question: Where did this idiot come from?

With the advent of this great communications platform, it took little time to research the history of the government official, and to the surprise of no one, the history showed not a day of employment in the private sector. College was attended due to a special government program, and from there it was an assistant to an official, to holding one office after another until their current appointment in this administration. After discovering this information, it was understandable that the village idiot discussing policy did not understand the economic situation they were discussing.

Economics is about inputs and outputs, understanding how inputs and outputs equate. When someone works in business, they are aware of the full of the equation, knowing what happens when the equation is not balanced. Businesses must balance the equation, or they will go under. Only government can run with the equation out of balance, demanding money without having to earn and/or spending far more than they take in, but only for a period of time, as eventually even government collapses--but this is rare and when it does happen it is bad and necessary, though along the way government largess gets in the way of business success, but that is for another conversation. The point is, how can you can you expect someone to understand and discuss something when they have only seen half of the equation?

Halfers,that is what we have in our governments, and we have put them there. We have placed people in charge with NO business experience who have appointed like minded people with NO business experience. (BTW: Theory cannot replace experience.) You cannot place people who only understand half of the equation in economics (or war, biology, rocket science, etc.) in charge and expect them to not only understand what is going on and why there is a problem but how to find a solution. They only know half of the equation. We are putting halfers in office.

Halfers, our creation and our problem, because too many of us do not understand the full of equations; like them, we prefer nice sounding theory to truth. Halfers are not the answer, halfers are the problem. Don't be a halfer, and don't support halfers. In fact, if you have the opportunity, educate a halfer--easier said than done, because so many are half-witted.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) thought you might like to know:

Further increases in federal debt relative to the nation’s output (gross domestic product, or GDP) almost certainly lie ahead if current policies remain in place. The aging of the population and rising costs for health care will push federal spending, measured as a percentage of GDP, well above the levels experienced in recent decades. Unless policymakers restrain the growth of spending, increase revenues significantly as a share of GDP, or adopt some combination of those two approaches, growing budget deficits will cause debt to rise to unsupportable levels. [Read]

Do not worry, Washington is speeding up the process of resolution...as failure will bring about resolution.

It has been the big, buying middle class that has made the United States the world super-power. It would hurt us all if the middle-class were to disappear, as most of us are members of it. Of interest, a few startling and relevant statistics that demonstrate how under attack to middle-class has become:


22 Statistics That Prove The Middle Class Is Being Systematically Wiped Out Of Existence In America

A few of note:
- More than 60% of us are living paycheck-to-paycheck.
- Banks have a greater investment in housing than all of us combined.
- 10% of the earners make 50% of the money. [Read]

It is good to see we are righting this ship and prepared to do the hard lifting necessary to once again have a fiscally responsible, limited government.

The news is so good, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) had a few nice words after reviewing the path:

...CBO concluded the plan would "make the Social Security and Medicare programs permanently solvent [and] lift the growing debt burden on future generations, and hold federal taxes to no higher than 19 percent of GDP." [Read]

The problems?

Fiscal responsibility: the (D)emocrats would prefer to dig the hole deeper and the (R)epublican leadership is afraid of...leading.
NMP Syndrome: NMP (Not My Plan) Syndrome is a very common disease amongst politicians who find themselves unable to do the right thing in the first place. To support a good idea from another politician, especially if the letter on their chest is different, is anathema.
Understanding: it is clear that there are few in Washington that understand economics, and fewer in the media (even holders of the Nobel prize in economics) that understand economics...that even understand 4-32 DOES NOT EQUAL 73!
Integrity: Everyone seems to be out for themselves, wanting something from others without having to earn it themselves, and this is how politicians without integrity can by votes from voters without integrity. Until we require integrity from ourselves how can we expect it from our politicians?

Still, there is a man with a plan.

The financial regulation floating around congress creates "Offices of Minority and Women Inclusion"? Not only does this have nothing to do with financial regulation, but on the face of it, it is not constitutional--a largely ignored reference to a beautiful document limiting government's power.

How quaint, we think the federal government and its officers have to abide by the Constitution...they [the politicians] do not feel constraint by such documents or oaths.

Read: Offices of Minority and Women Inclusion

It is hard to believe, especially for those who think (D)emocrats are looking out for "the little guy", but the lead Democrat is LOVED by the highly profitable pharmaceutical industry:

...no incumbent is receiving as much air support from the drug industry as is Reid, who championed a health care bill that pads drug company profits. [Read]

And his followers excuse this because...they too are corrupt of character.

I have a dream, that someday the head of the National Aeronautic Space Administration (NASA) will have as their foremost mission, space. That's it, this dream is simple, let the head of NASA focus on space with international relation on the list of, perhaps, the state department (Or are they busy designing a new battle ship, or monument, or peanut butter sandwich?), but the current leader appointed by administration interested in doing anything but the job on hand has another plan:

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his "foremost" mission as the head of America's space exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world. [Read]

"It's not a diplomatic anything," Bolden said. Well, it sure ain't a science thing.