Fools Rarely Differ

The only trouble with doing this blog is that I have to stay in some kind of touch with the present political debate. I would rather shovel rat dung, but somebody has to do it and I guess it is just my turn. What an utterly despicable pile of garbage.

It appears that the great minds of the press have decided that seven states are going to decide the whole election. Wasn’t there fifty states last I checked?  But that’s all right, they are THE PRESS and they are so much smarter, savvier, more connected and in touch than we common slugs in the “fly over states” that we should just sit back and listen to them. After all what do we know?

Well There Was That Wasn’t There?

The Democrats are quick to tell us that Romney is a big business front and will bring down the country and according to Biden “put us all back in chains”. Wow, when was the last time you were in chains? They also say that Ryan is going to tear down the whole “Safety Net” so carefully crafted by the Democrats while fighting the Republicans all the way.  You mean the safety net that robs the rich to give to the richer while leaving the poor in concentration camps we call Government Housing? Well I feel safer.

The Democrats have pretty much accused poor Misters Romney and Ryan of everything but feasting on the flesh of fresh killed children. This series of accusations has risen to the sublime. God Lord grant me the longevity to see what in the world they say about the Republicans four years from now. I may be aging but I am ever curious. 

On the other side of the political alley, it is too dirty to be a street, the Republicans accuse Obama of being a rampant Communist, mean spirited, a man who bows to foreign powers and commits assassinations. That is for starters, after that they get nasty. As to Biden, they portray him as a foul mouthed clown who speaks without thinking, thinks about it and decides he was right in the first place. Well, what can I say; even a blind pig will find acorns if he roots long enough. They nailed that one, the VP is often wrong but NEVER uncertain.

The Republicans have portrayed the put-upon President and Vice President as personal minions of Beelzebub in league with the fallen angels to cause the down fall of Christianity. If Obama wants to call out Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ, for a knock down drag out I think I know which way I am going to bet.

So there it is both sides are slinging mud at each other and the real issues of the economy, the Constitution, the horror of the Patriot Act, taxes and whatever else are left unaddressed.

After studying both parties’ pontifications carefully I can only come to one conclusion. They are both right.  Neither one of them is worth voting for.

Vote for an Independent party.

A Short Quiz

Three of my last four entries are to the effect that the Republicans and the Democrats are in collusion to assure that your right to vote is limited to a choice of the “lesser of two evils”. A little hint here, the lesser of two evils always works out to an evil. Only in multiplication is the product of two negatives a positive. Never in politics does that kind of math work. Show these arrogant tyrants a trick. Vote for an Independent.

That is all I want to say about that this time, I am tired of beating this dead horse, anyway if the Democrats and/or the Republicans stay in power I don’t want to hurt in any horse meat lying around. I might just need it. Instead let me ask you if you can see what these words have in common and yes, it is a trick question:

·         Abortion

·         Education

·         Welfare

·         Narcotics

·         Marriage

·         Homosexual

·         Heterosexual

·         Bisexual

·         Sexual

·         Assault Rifle

·         Cocaine

·         Marijuana

·         Privacy

·         Morals

·         Housing

·         House plants (OK I just tossed that one in for fun, kinda like I did sexual)

Do you give up?

Ok, what they all have in common is that none of them are mentioned in the body of or any amendments to the Constitution of the United States.  Now welfare is mentioned in the preamble where it says in part “promote the general welfare” but in context that has nothing to do with welfare programs and the preamble is just that, a general statement of the goals for the document listed below it. That document is the Constitution itself.

So the Constitution doesn’t mention the “buzz words” that define most of the major social issues of our times. Big whoop, what does that mean to us today? Well the Constitution does actually say something about that; it says this:

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

What I quote above is the 10^th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and the last Amendment in what is termed the Bill of Rights.

You see those Old White Men; slave owners, smugglers, slave traders, back shooters, philanders and largely flawed and sorry men that they were, had a real moment of clarity here. Even though the original intent of the Bill of Rights was to protect their rational self interest and fear of large government at the time it has done a fairly good work a day job of protecting those of us who followed on.

So what it means, in general terms, that none of those words are found in the Constitution is that (How to put this nicely? Oh, never mind.) The Federal Government has no, not a bit, not one scintilla of any authority to act in these matters.

Did I say none?

Yet they still do. Let me ask you this, if you had a contract to buy a car on time and the company you had the contract with kept overstepping their legal authority what would you do? Well I know what my first inclination would be but the car probably would not fit there no matter how hard I tried.

The Federal Government is in severe breach of Contract with each individual one of you. In breach of Contract with me too by the way and I can’t speak for each and every one of you but it tends to make me testy. The fact that both major parties act like this is no big deal makes me just plain mad.

I can’t speak for you but I want to vote for somebody with the ability to read and comprehend at above a fourth grade level and the integrity to keep a simple contract. I think I will vote for somebody in an Independent Party because I am sick and tired of picking a new Massa every for years.

Hey Guys, Water is Wet

I have spent my last three blog post trying to convince you that the Republicans nor the Democrats have your best interest at heart. It sometimes feels like I am making a case for water being wet. Why in the world do I need to keep stating the obvious?

Let us take a look at a short list of some of the real issues that face the United States at present:

1.       Our economy is in the crapper. No it’s not just bad.  If I wanted to dream up a way to screw up an economy I could not come up with anything better that the Dems and Pubs have done by accident. At least they SAY it’s an accident:

a.       Our economy is now founded on an un-renewable energy source that is running out. Oil is going, going and almost gone. There is absolutely no way to save this petroleum based society and both parties KNOW IT.

b.      Our Social Security system is neither social nor secure. By 2033 at the latest this will become glaringly obvious. By then it will be too late to do anything about it, quite possibly it is too late already.

c.       Our major industries are all monopolies, something both the Dems and the Pubs claim to despise but dutifully ignore. Health care, food and energy are all run by a very minority position that actively excludes anyone who tries to break their control. Teddy Roosevelt would simply squat and birth a baby bovine. He thought big steel and rail was bad. Clone Teddy and put him back in Office and the Attorney General would have something to keep him or her out of mischief like sending drones to peek on hones t citizens.

This list is not meant to be encyclopedic, if I tried to list all the ways the government have actively sabotaged a great economic experiment this would not be a blog it would be a series of VERY BIG books.

2.       Our government, through the Patriot Act, has attacked every part of the Constitution except perhaps the preamble. They probably left that alone because it is one drawn out long sentence and they can’t figure out exactly what it means. They do have their limitations.

3.       More than half the world thinks the United States is a bunch of arrogant butt wipes. More than half of those who think that have valid reasons. Isn’t it time we put our FIVE HUNDRED POUND GORILLA on a diet?

4.       Every third idiot is busily interpreting our Constitution to have rights, authorities, privileges and powers it simply does not have. The U.S. Constitution is written in simple declarative sentences, even that long drawn out preamble. It does not require complex interpretation, it is a contract between us and our Government and it requires honoring by both parties.

This list is not meant to be encyclopedic either. It is meant to be indicative of some things we really need to be discussing. So what are the Demopublicans and the Republacrats discussing?

Three idiots. Yes fellow citizens our major political debate between both of the major parties is wrapped up in three individual idiots. Two stuck their individual foot in their  mouth and the other stuck his bare butt in the  Sea of Galilee.  That is what the Democrats and the Republicans think of the level of your grasp of the issues. If you are not insulted by them yet, stick around I will try harder.

It seems that this Repuli-Idiot, Aiken from the shamed state of Missouri, made some stupid statement that women who are truly raped don’t get pregnant. OK, here we have what is classically refered to as a moron. Let’s all not vote for him. I know I won’t. Time to move on.

The other idiot from the Repub side of the house is a man named Yoder from Arizona who appears to have jumped buck naked in the Sea of Galilee. The Sea of Galilee is historic, it is not Holy, for those of a Christian bent you are not supposed to worship ANYTHING but God, through Christ who died and rose again. Even way cool lakes that Jesus walked on.

As to skinny dipping in general, its’ a foolish, and childish practice not well thought out by the Congressman. Are there Snapping turtles in the Sea of Galilee?  Mr. Yoder is a fool, don’t vote for him Arizona. Let’s move on.

But not to be outdone, the Republicans are outraged too. It seems that Vice President Joe Biden said something to the effect that the Repulicrats are going to put us all back in chains; everyone here that does not know that Joe Biden kicks his mouth in gear before he puts his brain in motion please raise your hand. Yes, the one guy who raised his hand can go to the potty, out the door and to your right.

Joe Biden is Jerry Lewis to Obama’s Dean Martin. Obama gets to play the straight man while Biden gets to be the clown. Anybody that doesn’t like that, don’t vote for them.

I tell you plainly I am not going to vote Obama and Biden back into office but I am not going to vote for Romney and his sidekick either.  If you don’t understand my reasoning either you have not read all my post on the issues or I am not communicating effectively so allow me to put it down in skill level one terms:

1. Both parties think you and I are idiots.

2. Neither party represents change in a situation that cries out for change.

3. Both parties are actively working to destroy yours and my rights as citizens. Your choice isn’t which one will protect your rights it is which rights you want to lose first if you chose between them.

4. There is one monopoly I did not mention under the economy because it isn’t a monopoly of money it is a monopoly of debate. That is the monopoly represented by the Democrats and the Republicans. They have no right or authority to tell me what I have to think. Especially when the best they can do is give me fools being fools. Who cares?

This list is not encyclopedic either but I think it is enough.

On a side note Jerry Lewis is a man of intelligence, compassion and integrity and my apologies are in order. The only reason I made the comparison between him and Jokin' Joe Biden is that Mr. Lewis was the greatest clown of his generation while Biden is striving to be the greatest clown of our political generation (with people jumping naked into the Sea of Galilee Biden has his work cut out for him). The difference between Mr. Lewis and Mr. Biden is that Mr. Lewis was acting.

Peak Oil and Flat Heads

It is the “modern thing” to paint your opposing candidate in any campaign as stupid. This is a fallacy. Since I oppose both major party candidates equally I will tell you right now I assume they are at least as smart as me if not smarter. They are also much better informed since they don’t depend on Yahoo and Facebook for their news items.

For instance, I know we have passed the moment of Peak Oil. What that means in layman’s terms, the only terms I understand, is that never again will the earth be able to produce enough crude oil to meet the demand for it. In point of fact production, short falls will continue to grow until the petroleum based economy falls down like the Little Pig’s Stick House that it really is.

You must be about to ask yourself, “OK, where’s the funny stuff?” Good question. The funny stuff is that if I know this you can be certain Romney and Obama know about Peak Oil, the downward spiral and the ultimate outcome unless something radical is done now. They know it and they are still out there talking about who said what about who, when and where like it matters. One is moving the deck chairs on the Titanic while the other is sweeping the Shuffle Board courts. Hey, you either gotta laugh or cry, right?

So what can we do about? Well we could just ignore it and hope the Social Security crisis, global Terrorism or a passing meteor gets us before we run out of oil and end up back trying to plow with mules. That seems to be the present strategy of both major parties.

I had an interesting thought this morning and did just a tad of research. Part of my research tells me that Mars is, depending on the orbit of the two planets, somewhere between 33 million and 250 million miles from earth. Another piece of information I gleaned is that the Mars Rover Curiosity weighs upwards of nine thousand pounds.

So, NASA blasted a nine thousand pound vehicle at least 33 million miles into space so it could run around Mars taking pictures and sending them back to earth. Good deal, great technology. While this thing is running around Mars what is fueling it? Now that is an interesting question.

So I looked it up: Plutonium 238 fuels the Mars Rover. Oh Plutonium, that’s bad can’t use that on earth can we?  Los Alamos laboratory produced Plutonium 238 for use in Pacemakers. The 250 pacemakers powered by Plutonium 238 lasted approximately twenty-five years without being replaced. The fuel on the Mars Rover is expected to last fourteen years.

So what we have is a nuclear fuel that can be produced and used safely INSIDE  humans that will power a nine-thousand pound vehicle for fourteen years. Where do I sign up? Not so fast. No one, and I mean no one, did I say absolutely NOBODY in politics is going to suggest an answer like this to the real energy crisis of Peak Oil. That should be obvious because they won’t even mention Peak Oil.

Why or possibly why not would be the question wouldn’t it? I think the answer is simple. The name of the game is oil. Something on which the economy pivots, something that is making a few people a whole lot of money and something that we have to shove in our tanks every three to five days or so. Big petroleum is not looking for an alternative where the fill up rate is once a decade or so.
 

Perhaps the technology on the Mars Rover is not the answer to petroleum dependence. I really do not have the technological expertise to say one way or the other. I do believe that the answer or answers is out there. What we need is someone willing to entertain answers that do not necessarily including making the same cats fatter.

What we need is someone who is first willing to face the truth, then willing to state the truth and finally willing to entertain the possibility of real change. Now you look at Romney and Obama and tell me if either one of these strikes you as that person?

Friend, that ain’t the way the smart money bets.
 

Monty, Can I have Door Number 3?

I really tried to read the following article with interest and seek some understanding of the problem:http://news.yahoo.com/three-months-uncertainty-reigns-undecided-voters-202100935.html

Yes, it is three months until the election and the two mainstream candidates really are a grim choice. I would say they are a couple of clowns but they are not coordinated enough, they cannot make cool things out of balloons and neither one has set his own hair on fire. Yet.

So the gist of this little article is that the undecided voters are really upset because neither one of the two choices are very good.  This, folks, is just silly. Both parties are so arrogant, so sure of themselves and so absolutely certain of our full indoctrination they are more than happy to give us a choice between Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dumber and expect us to stand for it.

According to Wikipedia there are five major and twenty-nine minor political parties active in the United States today. We have the big two, Demopublicans and Repubracrats, (opps did I get that wrong?) then we have the other usual suspects; Libertarian, Green, and Constitution parties and then we have twenty-nine minor parties including  several variations of the word Socialist and the intriguing United States Marijuana Party. (I did not make that last one up and I bet they run Willie for president.)

So why does the main stream press re-enforce the lie that we have only two choices? Oh, there could be all kinds of reasons but the fact is it’s not true.

So considering that, besides the Republicrats and the Demopublicans, we have thirty-two other choices (thirty-three if you count writing in Snoopy) why should we vote for two guys we all suspect do not know what the question is much less the answer?

I, for one, am not going to waste my vote on candidates and parties that respect me even less than I respect them. I am going to vote for a third party candidate that seems to share my own values. Which party? That’s my business. I researched them, I read their platforms, and I choose one I believe represents my own interest.

No, it’s not the U. S. Marijuana party.

Global Warming or just Hot Air?

Let me tell you a story, it is a story of a Dominant Species on a lovely, vibrant planet. The planet was a gifted place set as if by gentle hand in the exact position which would allow it to prosper and produce life. The Dominant Species, however, was arrogant spreading without regard all over the planet spewing  noxious fumes and gases into the atmosphere.

Plants.

It was plants. At one time the earth’s dominant species was plants which spewed oxygen into the atmosphere to such an extent that other life forms grew up and usurped the plant’s coveted place as top of the food chain. This is according to the majority opinion in the scientific community which, of course, does not mean its right.

Forgive me if I am skeptical of science that can take a coccyx bone, three teeth and a toe bone and tell you what SOUND the animal made. But the story I related to you above is their explanation of how the world went from a world dominated by plants to one dominated by animals.

This leads me to my topic for today, SAVING THE PLANET.  Kiddies, relax the planet will be just fine. The problem we have is saving ourselves.

Let us state here the obvious. Something odd is happening with the weather. Our interpretation of the incidental evidence we see everyday tells us what Bob Dylan made so clear years ago. “You don’t have to be a weather man to see which way the wind blows.”

Years ago science pretty much decided they had the whole ozone layer, heat refracting thing figured out and they named it “Global Warming”. Good enough. For years scientist thought dinosaurs were all reptiles. The name “Big Bang Theory” was a derisive term used by main stream science to put down a theory they did not agree with until Mr. Hubble shoved it up their patrician noses.

Scientist are a tad smarter than lawyers, have a few more ethics than journalist and are a little more pompous and arrogant than your average television anchor person. Forgive me if I do not handle them with the deference they tell me they deserve.

So anyway in the intervening years things did not get hotter, in point of fact they got a little cooler.  Well butter my butt and call me a biscuit. Scientist have a strategy when something like that happens. They just change their tune and pretend like they meant the new thing all along. Now global warming became Sudden Climate Change.  They even made a movie about it. We were going back into the ice age, New York was a popsicle, Randy Quade was in it so it had to be true.

Now it appears to be warming up again big time. So we are back to Global Warming with a sneering “See I told you so.”  Yes, as I said before, the incidental evidence of our own eyes, ears, nose and sweaty bottom cracks tell us it seems to be REALLY hot this year.

That leaves only a few little questions like why and what can we do about it? Why? Well obviously it has to be us. We are man and we were given dominion over the planet. (opps, sorry that is religion not science). Anyway we are man and we are the smartest and the bestest and the most blessed so it is our responsibility… (opps, so sorry, that’s philosophy AND religion not science).

How about this, we do suck up a whole lot of resources to live in the way we are accustomed. I did not say entitled to I said accustomed. We suck dead dinosaur juice out of the middle east, we mine dead plant matter out of West Virginia, we burn all that nasty stuff and apparently only the very learned scientist know what the outcome of that will be.

Those would be the same scientist who did not know until recently the climate was hotter during ancient Rome than now. Did not know or did not bother to tell us. There is not much grant money in saying, “Shuck got that one wrong too.”

So what do we know? We know for a certainty that weather changes, if not a lot of time better spent on NASCAR reports is being wasted on TV every day. We know that weather is cyclical sometimes getting warmer, sometimes getting hotter, sometimes dryer and sometimes wetter.

I know I have been on this earth for sixty odd years and it appears to me that the weather has been trending towards warmer. I also know that trying to support a whole trend based on my sixty years would be like aliens landing in Washington and supposing that, based on their sample, the earth’s population is made up of narcissistic nincompoops.

So am I saying we are not going through a GREAT GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE? No. I am saying I really do not know. People I have reason to respect say we are and people I have reason to respect say it’s a natural cycle.

I do know that, between worrying about how we are going to be able to keep our Ice Cream frozen and what is going on with Tom and Katie, no one even noticed us slipping past the point of Peak Oil and starting the long slide back to horse drawn carriages and whale oil lights.  They wouldn’t want us worrying our little pointed heads about stuff like that would they?