It's somewhat embarrassing to restart a blog after 18 months only to cease posting after a couple days. Actually, it's not that embarrassing. It's not like I don't work or boldly think out loud for public consumption and financial fulfillment. It's just anal, is what it is really. Sometimes we imprison ourselves.
Lately, I've been saving some feelings (and boundary-defined energy) for the Tea Party speech I plan to give next Saturday 2/27 at the GA State Capitol. Y'all come. Contrary to the media-influenced warning that we are dangerous people, we're...uh...not. Unless you are currently in the mass media news business, the arts, education, or government, that is. In those cases, the fear is warranted. We are about to give you a hard push in another direction than what you've planned. It's going to hurt, but you'll be OK in the end.
If you like liberty or are even slightly familiar with it's benefits, then you'll like these gatherings. The bulk of the people attending, somewhere in the 90th percentile, are there for freedom from excessive debt, regulation, and taxation. We don't want our lives re-ordered. We like them fine the way they are...or were. It's hard to tell sometimes what's ebbing and what's flowing. There are other issues discussed, but they take a back seat to the demand for a re-re-ordering of the mess we currently have in accordance with constitutional principles.
With all the talk of how entitlement programs are killing us and how we could be headed for a collapse due to their unsustainability, there actually is one entitlement program that I am quite fond of and, I believe, the only entitlement program that works. It thrills liberals and conservatives alike. It adapts to one's personal needs with little red tape or hassle. It guarantees opportunity. It generates income. It stimulates the economy.
FREEDOM.
We are entitled to it.
Not a bad start. I'll have to polish that up and practice emoting a little this coming week. Now, let's look back on this past week and some of it's shiny objects.
Climategate scientist Jones confesses! "No global warming since 1995."
As banal as evil is, it's end can be even blander.
I just got finished watching V for Vendetta, a very good, if misguided film--the dystopia is caused by neoconservatives circa 2005, but the characters behave like Democrats circa 2009--and it made me chuckle that the titular anti-hero/freedom fighter must learn and exhaust every trick known to every military and government operative in every country in every era, to relieve the high command of their jobs and lives, when in reality, a few leaked emails would likely do the trick.
Now Phil Jones goes out whimpering something that we've known since people used hand puppets to give the weather forecast. No fireworks, no dudes in Guy Fawkes masks, no mass murder of government officials. Just a few leaked bytes and it's over, kids. V is for Vigilance.
Now would someone fess up about the Swine Flu Hoax? It's been colder than Madonna's genitals up in here this winter, but I've to yet to bump into anyone I know who has so much of a sniffle. I know...the worst is yet to come if we don't do something now. Better safe than sorry. Here. Please. Take my place in the shot line. You seem to care.
USA's oldest death row inmate dies of old age
Sometimes Too often, the justice system looks downright unjust and plain stupid. I don't think that was the original idea of death row. You don't die on it. You die after it. I don't understand why people think that this de facto life sentence result is more humane and cheaper to produce.
Why is it remotely humane to elevate the life of the killer over those whom he killed? Why should he be subsidized for the rest of his life by the families of people he killed? And if he doesn't qualify for the ultimate penalty for the ultimate crime, what then is humane about subjecting this poor innocent to the horrors of prison?
How is it cheaper that if this animal was executed years ago it would have been MORE expensive? I guess it makes sense like the way to lower our debt is to take on more debt. Right? Something along those lines? It's just not cheaper to the state to keep a guy for 27 years instead of hearing a limited number of appeals to salaried employees and then shooting him up with $10 bucks worth of kill drugs.
I'd like to abolish death row and re-institute just plain death amongst our capital convicts.
Robert Pattinson claims to be allergic to vaginasThe cutie boy who's in all the Twilight movies said this. I don't know if he was goofing or not, but since most of his fans have vaginas and with it the commitment to hysteria that comes with the organ, he might want to brush up on his marketing skills.
I personally like the idea of vaginas, but in practice, so much can go wrong with them. It's very difficult to find an ideal one, and even tougher to hang on to it. So I guess i'm not allergic to vaginas, but I do have my doubts as to their efficacy as a pleasure-giving device.
Sarah Palin vs. 'Family Guy'
Family Guy made fun of Sarah Palin's Down's Syndrome child, and guess what? She complained about it. Why does she even respond to it anymore?
Most people in this country don't care if she has a retarded child either way. They do care that she can allow Family Guy to get under her skin.
She just needs to be a little smoother under pressure and she'll make a fine presidential candidate someday. Oh, and make people forget that she quit as Governor. She did so for practical understandable reasons, but most people will wonder if that quittin' spirit will be present when she deals with unFamily Guys like Ahmadinejad.
Someday. Not today.
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