Dazed and Confused
Posted on January 24, 2012 with 4 comments
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In general, I don't like to talk politics. It doesn't get me off like it used to, I have neither the time nor the inclination to go on rampant back-and-forth opinion debates with anyone. That was years ago for me, and those days are past.
But these are desperate times, and call for desperate measures.
My zeal for attempting to shift political opinions greatly diminished when I realized that the vast majority of them necessitated an explanation that the United States is not governed by a democracy and is, in fact, by a Constitutional Republic. Basic information every voter should know, but 90% do not. I couldn't stomach trying to undo the damage of a socialized, and therefore impotent, public education system.
I'd prefer to be talking about my NAMM experience today, but bluntly none of that will matter once we re-elect Obama, or put Romney, Newt or, god forbid, Santorum in office. Any one of those goofballs will make being a self-employed musician an incomprehensibly difficult task, so it impacts me directly now more than it ever has.
by Thomas Bensberg, Weather Blognosticator
High of 47 with an overnight low of 27. There is also a chance that the sun will come out. Maybe... We'll see. I've always wanted to turn on the television and have the weather person just drone on about nothing for their entire segment. Just talk about nothing for their full three minutes. You should see this squirrel that sits outside our office in the morning. You can just tell someone feeds him cause he just sits there and gives you the "puppy dog" eyes hoping you'll give him a treat or something. I call him Ed. Ed the squirrel. I want to teach him to water ski which could prove difficult since I don't really don't how to water ski. I do know how to be pulled under water from holding onto the tow rope but skiing... not so much. More like crashing. I guess I'll have to hire some sort of professional to train the squirrel to water ski. I'm trying to remember if I turned the stove off before I left the house this morning. I hope so. It sure would suck to burn my house down. Speaking of burning things I gotta go. Big ups to the gmail spell check for keeping me straight on how to spell squirrel and water ski.
In just about every election, particularly presidential elections, we voters are lead to believe that our choice is limited to this: "Which candidate's personal agenda will have enough side-effects to benefit me the most?"
That's no way to elect a president, folks. Look at our government. It's basically one big company based on profiteering. I like to call it FedGov, Inc. And everyone running for CEO (i.e. US President), including the incumbent, is nothing more than a Company Man. These Company Men come from and represent different departments in FedGov, Inc., and are so entrenched in the FedGov, Inc. Kool-Aid that they've learned the formula and mix their own batches.
Then they feed this Kool-Aid to their constituents, who of course drink it. Even though it tastes like crap and they know it's going to poison them, they're being told which poison will taste the least awful and do the relatively smaller amount of damage. That's basically what we're hearing when our candidates say, "this guy's policy is a mess, my policy will fix his policy even though it's not a good policy, because it's relatively better and will make a different mess that will feel better."
Every agenda is about new rules within a broken system, rules that appear to benefit the greatest number of voters in the short term. But do nothing except damage the remaining voters who oppose it, to the point that their frustration boils over, and we repeat the process to swing the other way. And we go back and forth, back and forth.
Imagine a football game that never goes past either team's respective 40 yard line. No touchdowns, no field goals, just occasional first downs, lots of penalties that offset, tons of injuries and everyone is from the fourth-string lineup. That's pretty much FedGov, Inc. today.
Again, this is a really, really stupid way to elect a president and run a government. And it's been done that way with FedGov, Inc. for as long as I've been voting, which was 1996.
This isn't a pretty picture, and it sure seems hopeless.
There is an exception to this rule, however, and there is one last hope. Because there is one guy running whose message is not about his personal agenda in a damaged system, but is about fixing the actual problems with the system itself.
We have an Inside Man at FedGov, Inc., and he has been working for us against them for many decades. This man has been the target of constant attacks from HIS OWN PARTY as well as, of course, the "opposing" party, and yet he has been consistent in his positions, and has never pandered or played politics. His message has clearly been that the government's sole function is to act for the benefit of people and their protections that are guaranteed in the constitution.
He brings us the truth, and he makes very, very accurate predictions. His positions are not merely theoretically right or philosophically sound; he is well educated, experienced, and incredibly intelligent.
He's been deemed "unelectable" despite having won 15 elections to the US Congress since 1974. He's been called racist, anti-choice, homophobic, and myriad other unfounded and fabricated labels assigned to him on both sides in a desperate attempt to stop his crusade against their political corruptness, greed and destructiveness. The countless lazy voters looking for a Big Brother handout have jumped on that bandwagon and perpetuated these myths.
But the facts don't lie. The Inside Man knows what happened to our economy, our freedoms, our government, and our catastrophic failures domestically and overseas, and he knew BEFORE they happened. TEN YEARS before they happened. This is official record of his predictions, coupled with confirmed news reports. Watch this video, and pay close attention to the date, right off the bat.
Be sure to watch it in FULL SCREEN mode so you can read the headlines.
Not one single prediction he makes in this speech fails to come true. This is a man who knows the system, sees things coming, and knows what needs to be done in order to prevent these things from happening. He is here, he is ready, and we are in desperate need of this man in office.
It blows my mind that so many people feel they are voting for the "lesser of two evils" as if they have no other choice, when this choice is right in front of their faces. When voters are told that their vote won't matter if they vote their conscious, then they inevitably elect an unconscionable candidate.
Bush Sr., Clinton, Bush 2, and Obama, have all been unconscionable choices. Every one of them have either had to sit in their own filth in office, or have set up a pile of filth under the guise of success and prosperity, the consequences of which did not come to fruition until he left office. Obama will continue to sit in his filth when he's re-elected; Gingrich would do the same. Romney would create a powder-keg of disaster that would bring temporary relief with much more drastic and permanent future consequences. (Santorum... I have no words on that guy. I believe in a higher power and I'm a spiritual person, but the notion of injecting personal religious morals into our government is noxious to me.)
But our Inside Man would be a truly, fundamentally different and effective, revolutionary choice. And if ever America has been in need of a revolution since 1776, that time is now. It has, in fact, been time since the mid-80's. Like all whistle-blowers, our Inside Man continues to be targeted, and FedGov, Inc. will stop at nothing to dissuade voters from casting a ballot to support him.
Yet despite the propaganda, he continues to fight. Regardless of the personal attacks (because no-one can effectively attack his real fiscal and foreign policies with anything other than unfounded rhetoric) and the damaging "unelectable" tag, he perseveres. This is a man who has said "to hell" with his personal gain, rejects any policies he doesn't believe in, refuses to drink the Kool-Aid, refuses to serve the Kool-Aid, and insists on truthfulness and openness in government.
Our government worked, and worked very well, until we unwittingly elected a King instead of a president in 1932. The King's illegal and immoral edicts funded the fledgling FedGov, Inc. and gave it nearly unlimited income and power. Unsurprisingly, this corruption begat more corruption, and here we are. Unsurprisingly, we all see it, and we think there's nothing we can do about it.
This is proven by the fact that more than 80% of us disapprove of the job congress is doing. Yet it doesn't change.
The fact is, it CAN change. Obama ran under the slogan "YES WE CAN" and look what it got us. Sure, we "could" have, but not with Utopian pie-in-the-sky plans like he had, and still has. Obama is a dreamer, and if we could all ride unicorns over the rainbow to fairyland and eat sparkles, then yeah, I suppose he's the man.
But for those of us here in Reality Land, there's only one guy who is ready, willing and able to do what is necessary, what is right, and what will work to restore our ability to master our own fates. There's one guy who is in this for We, The People, rather than to perpetuate his own career at FedGov, Inc. We have one guy, one Inside Man, the best, and possibly last, hope that we have for ourselves and our posterity.
Mallory Lennon will be performing as a new artist at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City UT. She will perform a 45 minute set on Friday 1/20/12 at the Bing Bar located in the Claim Jumper Hotel. This performance will be live streamed at facebook.com/bing at 4pm Mountain time on Friday.
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RULE #2: People who don't have pets are not to be trusted.
RULE #3: There's absolutely no good reason to call that beanbag game "cornhole."
RULE #4: It turns out, blondes actually DO have more fun.
RULE #5: You always have the rest of your life.
RULE #6: Lettuce is basically a big waste of time.
RULE #7: Everyone over the age of 30 has had his or her life turned upside-down at least once.
RULE #8: The best music has the worst distribution, but it also has the most sophisticated fans.
RULE #9: Listening to fat, sweaty potty-mouths laughing obnoxiously at their own stupid jokes on the radio is no way to start your day.
RULE #10: Nobody in Europe has ever heard of Grey Poupon. Dijon is just a city in France to them.
RULE #11: Sales forecasts are a funny little blend of optimism, desperation, and fiction.
RULE #12: When you get really pissed off, go ahead and write the email, but then delete it.
RULE #13: There's nothing unlucky about the number 13. Get over it.
RULE #14: In the end, we all have the same amount of luck.
RULE #15: No sane person ever admits to being a bigot. That's why bigotry exists.
RULE #16: The odds of any given event occurring are exactly 50%. Either it'll happen, or it won't.
RULE #17: The path to anyone's heart is through your own.
RULE #18: American Idol is the single most compelling example of why the electoral college is important.
RULE #19: Too few people understand the difference between an automatic and semi-automatic weapon.
RULE #20: Polls serve no purpose other than to fraudulently skew election results.
RULE #21: You don't have to give up your own beliefs in order to tolerate someone else's.
RULE #22: It turns out that pretty much everything can give you cancer, and also prevent you from getting it. The studies prove it.
RULE #23: It turns out that most "studies" are crap.
RULE #24: Believe it or not, the acceleration lane is for accelerating.
RULE #25: AC/DC saved us from disco.
RULE #26: Nirvana saved us from hair metal.
RULE #27: No-one who mocks Buddhism understands Buddhism.
RULE #28: Learn art history.
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RULE #31: The Golden Rule is the most important rule in heavy traffic.
RULE #32: Harvey Keitel's only real objectives in his movies are to cry, and show us his penis.
RULE #33: The death penalty is the most perfect example of irony.
RULE #34: Punk rock brings needed balance.
RULE #35: What happens in Vegas, stays on the Internet.
RULE #36: Trusting your government to take care of you is like trusting your car to drive for you. Remember who's really calling the shots and suffers the consequences.
RULE #37: "Clerks," "Mallrats," and "Chasing Amy," right now, in that order. Go.
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RULE #42: Never challenge David McLean to anything. You will lose.
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RULE #45: Musicians all need to help and look out for each other. Because no one else really will.
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