April 1st Remembered

Many decades ago Many moons ago, my aunt’s church was beginning service.  This was done in the usual fashion as previous services had, with the exception that, (as the pastor later stated) the congregation seemed worshipful that morning.  The usual hum of chatter emanating from the pews seemed subdued and the greater portion of the congregation appeared bowed in a prayer position.  There had been no announcements, no incidents to stimulate such a somber mood, and yet this congregation of 150 members all seemed to be in one accord in their worship and apparent prayer.  The pastor approached the lectern and cheerfully announced the start of the service.  I’m sure a camera was desired at this point as 150 congregants sat upright each wearing a pair of slinky glasses.

 

MSP

I have mentioned many times the MSP and generally referred to the news media that is particularly socialist in their approach.  Remember the reports on the economy 4 years ago?  With unemployment at about 4%?  Compare that to the present reports of the economy with unemployment officially at about 8.5%, but only because of fuzzy math and elimination of jobs to reduce the percentage.  I have been instructed how much more widespread this phenomenon is.  There is a book out there be Ben Shapiro containing the following gem: “I asked Goldberg why there didn’t seem to be any real debate about politics on television anymore – why everyone simply assumed that the far-left position was correct, and that the only real question was whether that position was practical… But if we’ve begun to move beyond such debates, it’s due in large part to the success of writers like Goldberg, who have made the leftist position so palatable to a broad swath of Americans simply by presenting likable characters who promote liberal politics as tautologies.”      (pg 129)

It now makes more sense why so many shows didn’t appeal to my sensibilities.

 

Musings on Obammaville

Good afternoon from my music room. My smile was present as I finished number 8 yesterday morning and as such decided there was no excuse not assist spouseinbox with cleaning the house – getting ready for Thanksgiving. I have previously holed up for hours at a time working on a particular melody, having this done early was a treat. Anyways, there was a thought that has been churning in the back of my mind the past couple of weeks concerning Obammaville. Pres 0 was a disciple of Alinsky and I note the dedication of his book from here: “Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history… the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer.”

I find this an interesting and perfect dedication with acknowledgment of the results of their actions. Note the term “at least” which gives a little wiggle room in the idea because if we examine the place that satan won, I would not use the term “kingdom.” It is described as a place of darkness, loneliness, fire, torture, and the ability to see those better situated. I wanted to note that on all of those save the last, the end result of communism provides. Let’s see, there is Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Mao Se Tung, and each has an impressive set of negatives. After 100 million dead, what’s wrong with communism? Let’s try it again. Reader’s Digest had an article in the 80′s titled “Why Russia can’t feed itself.” In that article was the results of central planning with a top-heavy bureaucracy. No incentive, drunkenness, and starvation. Wow!  What a society!  Sign me up!

That’s exactly the goal of Obammaville. They are doing what the Tea Party did not do and every MSP outlet tried to convince the nation they were doing –  breaking the law protesting.  Back to the link: “A Marxist begins with his prime truth that all evils are caused by the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists. From this he logically proceeds to the revolution to end capitalism, then into the third stage of reorganization into a new social order of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and finally the last stage — the political paradise of communism.” p.10

Some political paradise: rape, murder, sleep in tents with multiple individuals for safety, no sanitation, no cleanliness, and the mistaken belief that all that is better than the country in which we have lived. I like the country of my birth and if anyone wants, they are free to leave. There are many islamic paradises out there where women are treated close to cattle, children are offered to allah as a gift when they are coerced into strapping on a suicide bomb and screaming alla ackbar. Quite a paradise. If that’s your thing, there are several countries allowing that activity. Go there and leave us alone, thank you very much.  It may seem like a non-sequitur to go from Obammaville protesters to islam, but I see them as the same philosophy with islam having a whitewash of religion to make it more palatable.

This leads me to a point I did not see in the linked page.  Lies.  The entire premise of Communism is based on lies, and its promotional book dedicated to the prince of lies.  Quite appropriate.  I see the lies in two fashions: initially the individuals have to lie to themselves, next they have to lie to everyone else.  The self lies have to be present as any honest assessment of the effects of communism acknowledges total failure.  The only manner one can approach this with hope is to lie about the consequences.  As noted in the link, the individual desires the outcome such that ”The end is what you want, the means is how you get it. Whenever we think about social change, the question of means and ends arises. The man of action views the issue of means and ends in pragmatic and strategic terms. He has no other problem; he thinks only of his actual resources and the possibilities of various choices of action. He asks of ends only whether they are achievable and worth the cost; of means, only whether they will work. … The real arena is corrupt and bloody.” p.24

Corrupt and bloody.  How about 100 million people dead?  Is that bloody enough?   And yet only Hitler gets any grief for his 6 million, and the premise of communism is still presented as good.  So 94 million are ignored and the MSP marches on presenting this philosophy as ideal.  Remember the 2008 election where we were repeatedly informed this was the worst economy in 30 years?  How about now when we are constantly being told how things are improving?  That is simply lying to the population with the goal of getting to the goal of a socialized society.

Obammaville presents these failings for all to see.  Will we as a population see accurately?   Will rule of law be established again?  Time will tell.

 

Continuing

I had to stop earlier in the weekend before linking the thought I was having to the wider implications I have noted. Consider the timeframe mentioned. Early 70′s. That is when the halloween candy went from neighbor’s cookies and popcorn balls to prepackaged items that could be scanned – which was offered later. This was also the timeframe for the cyanide in the Tylenol bottle allowing us the privilege of opening several layers of packaging now to get to the pills. This was the time of Vietnam protests, the initial push of feminism, the legalization of killing babies and I note that with the “sexual revolution” and advancement of “women’s rights”, the safety and freedom of children was lost.
How many parents now can say without a second thought, “go and play and come back when I ring the bell”?
How many kids can fight in the back of the car knowing there would be a few minutes before home to try and talk parents out of the consequence? We have a generation who will never know how to judge risk, not be able to internalize the action with the potential consequence since the consequences have been blunted or removed. I can still remember kidinbox’s face the first time the bottom hit the floor without a diaper in place. The mix of shock, bewilderment, pain, and disbelief were palpable in a two-year old equivalent of the rioting spoiled residents of Greece. All the other times the kid’s bottom hit the floor, there was padding to minimize the blow. Once removed, the action occurred with unexpected results – results closer to reality which weren’t pleasant. The child learned quickly that plopping on the floor was an activity to be avoided, and adjusted the sit-down procedure accordingly.
I am one to advocate removing the diaper the government has been trying to place on our society and allow those who want to plop the privilege of feeling the discomfort so that they won’t do it again. Skinned knees are a training ground as well. Stop removing real education.

 

4th amendment is forgotten – abolished, destroyed, etc.

The Patriot Act was started as a tool to fight terrorism. On May 26th 2011 Barack Obama signed a four year extension of key Patriot Act provisions. Also in the Patriot Act is the clause that allows National Security Letters which allow the F.B.I. to search telephone, e-mail and financial records without a search warrant. Now the F.B.I. wants to will expand that privacy invasion power to basically let them spy on anyone in America without a valid reason, search through their trash and search any database on the Internet that holds citizen’s personal records and communications without a warrant or reason! And they are doing it all under the guise of “fine-tuning the F.B.I. manual.

Read the rest. Just add this to the recent supreme court ruling and Illinois pronouncement for police limits – rather lack of the same.

 

Recycling

Several years ago, there was a guy in church who worked in the sewage plant for our town. We were blessed with a tour of the plant. There is a rake at the start or depending upon perspective outlet of the sewage pipes. This rake was used to catch any objects big enough to cause a problem with the plant and requiring a dump in the “sanitary landfill”. Let me pause a moment to consider the pairing of those two words.

Now I’m back. The rake is followed by a vat 24 feet deep where the sewage is fed to bacteria. Imagine a 24′ swimming pool of bacteria and you get the picture. This vat is then pumped to sprayers that settle over a round rock bed where the particles are collected and after a certain amount of time, the beds are cleaned.
The water is then sent through some “sun pools”, I forget their name which are to make the bacteria come in contact with as much ultraviolet energy as possible and kill the bacteria. These are shallow troughs and the water from these is sent down aqueducts and pumped through sprayers that the farmers east of town use to water their fields.
The water then filters down through the ground into the water table to be pumped back out and start the journey again. Now that you have the picture of our water system, consider a billboard noted west of town:

So let’s see…your dog should not fertilize the lawn because it is going into the water in the lake? How about the 24 inch sewage pipe from all the personal waste that gets pumped – eventually – over all the fields and then back into the water table. I guess that’s all right, but the dog behaving naturally is a problem.
Don’t forget that the water on this planet has always been here. There has been no creation since the beginning, which means these molecules are the same as they have been for 6 thousand up to 3 billion years – depending upon perspective. Yes, I’m saying our wonderful bottled, filtered, capped and sold water is the same substance that made its way through the alimentary canal of some dinosaur. So a stupid billboard talking about the natural behavior of a dog is insulting. Note that they don’t offer an alternative. How about flushing it so it feeds the fields just like the human crap.
Next, don’t forget the fish. W.C. Fields famous quote noted
“I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.”
I suppose they have a toilet that runs out to the same treatment facility…

 

Quality work by police

Spouseinbox receives a newspaper from a family town near here. On the front page was a picture of a car with the hood slightly bent back from an apparent rear-ender. Anyways, on the label to the picture the last two sentences were: Bugberg Police Chief Mr. Directum “did a great job of directing traffic. Only minor injuries were reported.”

 

Remember at the founding of the Nation

This country had problems with the muslims. The marine hymn “from the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli makes a reference that is good for a research read. I did. We are there again. The first military honored came from that battle. I like someone who cuts to the bottom line of a subject and bypasses the lies called political correctness and multiculturalism. So for your beneficence I link to the following:
Your Curmudgeon’s opinion is that we owe Pastor Terry Jones a great debt of gratitude. He’s performed a public service of immense value, whether or not we’re inclined to see it thus.

 

Drive with care…they’re out there

Spouseinbox and I were up in a neighboring city where we met with some relatives through today. One topic that was mentioned was from the in-law who works in a retail facility. Apparently, there was a car that pulled up the other day, the door opened and a lady exited while taking a moment to undo her white cane.
Yes, the white cane with the red tip.
This same individual entered the store, purchased a few items, and then requested one of the helpers to place them on her passenger side seat so that she would not sit on them as she couldn’t see them there.
This same individual went back to the car, folded up the cane, closed the door and drove away.
Be careful out there.

 

Another good read

From here.
“More than a half century of affirmative action and job quotas and preferential admissions have yielded little else than more affirmative action, job quotas and preferential admissions, which means generations of affirmees are in positions formerly requiring high standards of competence. The subterfuges to simulate merit would do credit to Byzantium: admissions standards that aren’t standard, curriculums designed to evade education itself, and job competency tests that don’t test competency are chief among them. Our part is to applaud this immorality play, apparently for its entertainment value, after all, injustices are created, not remedied.”

Of course, read the rest.