The Monday Morning Meandering Manure Message on Memorial Day

It's Monday Morning, It's Memorial Day, and I have nothing I feel compelled to write about, except that I have nothing I feel compelled to write about.

Most of us have come to the the conclusion that Obama is incompetent. Never in the history of the presidency have we seen such blatant on the job training for a position that requires someone to hit the ground running. Even George W. Bush wasn't this bad. Ok, what's next? Are we tired of the oil spill, Obama's Marxism,  or how the GOP is going to screw up this November? I am.

Today is Memorial Day, formally know as Decoration Day and while the day commemorates soldiers that have died in military service, it was originally created to honor Union soldiers that died during the Civil War, but was expanded after World War I. Since then we honor US soldiers from WWII, Korea, Vietnam, The Gulf War, The Iraq War, the Afghanistan War and a host of other smaller conflicts and long forgotten and secret missions around the world.

When I was young, we used to have a Memorial Day Parade, with marching bands, the fire and police departments, veterans, and even the cub and boy scouts. It was a big deal. This was during the Vietnam war and in spite of the poor treatment of soldiers coming home then, veterans were looked up to where I lived. I think attitudes changed until September 11, 2001, and we became united against a common enemy, at least for a few years, until the next election cycle when political expediencies trumped decency in some cases.

Still, I have say I have become retrospective and introspective about some of these wars, their costs in human and hard capital and wonder if it was worth it. Thomas Jefferson, one of my heroes, if that is possible said that "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural manure." What is a patriot? A "patriot is a person who vigorously supports their country and is prepared to defend it against enemies or detractors." Ok, sometimes I guess I feel like a patriot in my actions, but I never really liked the word. When I think of the word patriot, I imagine the revolutionary war soldiers with the tricorner hats playing the snare, flute and carrying the flag. It's seems anachronistic in that it was a long time ago, a time I am not in. Anyway, I digress. I think the Civil war was worth it, the same for WWII, although if not for our mishandling at the end of WWI, we wouldn't have had a WWII. Korea was never resolved, and we ran out of Vietnam, the last two committed in the name of preventing communism, which BTW, is anathema to everything i stand for. We've had the first gulf war to save the Kuwaitis from Saddam, and now we have two wars, one in Iraq over weapons of mass destruction, and Afghanistan, for a purpose whose meaning has been list. I don't think anyone remembers why we went there anymore. Remember Osama Bin Laden?

Instead, we are fighting the Taliban in efforts to nation build there. Where have I heard that before? Hearts and Minds? I don't think we will be any more successful in Afghanistan and to be honest, why are we doing it? No one asks that question, at least from the right. It seems many of my compadres are of the mind of Charlie Gruschow, and think we need to fall in line. I think we need to take 10 steps back and ask what the heck are we doing?

After 9/11, we had every right to retaliate against those that not only perpetrated and promulgated the vile acts against us, but those that actively enabled them. Instead, we trumped up a war with a crazy despot to engage in reshaping the middle east. Such is the mentality of those that have or ever have had any skin in a game. We went to Afghanistan to find Osama, and we're still there, nation building now, while the rat still eats and sleeps under the cats nose. Let's face it: we screwed up and now the Yo Gabba Gabba president is making it worse. It's easy to spend human and hard capital when one isn't respected and the other isn't earned.

Anyway, on this Memorial or Decoration Day, I do want to thank all those that gave it all, and those that gave some. We such people, but we need to take better care of them, and use their services more wisely and effectively. I think we also need to ask the hard questions of our leaders and demand responsibility and accounting for failures. We are almost 9 years into it without an end in sight, and no one, at least on my side is asking why? It's time to bring them home as we are going to have bigger fights to win in the future. As Thomas Sullivan Magnum once asked, "did you gird your sword just to gather water cress?" I hope not.

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What Worries Me

A friend of mine sent me a link the other day to Lew Rockwell's site, titled Is Obama really preparing for civil war.   The article was pulled, but god bless google for caching everything, right?

Anyway, the night before I had been listening to George Noory on Coast to Coast Am, which used to be The Art Bell Show. Before you start throwing brickbats, let me tell you that George et al cover topics no one else does and even with the tin foil crowd, it's the most interesting radio out there and you will learn more than listening to Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck or Sean Hannity, but I digress here.

George had a guest on, G. Edward Griffin, who is a very knowledgeable writer and speaker. I highly recommend listing to the podcast and to check out his website. My friend's email along with the previous show got me thinking and worried. I responded to my friend thusly:

I will tell you this: If anything, he is waiting for a rebellion. There is a difference. Rebellions are conflict that are against something without an end game in sight, often without centralized leadership. In our history, rebellions are put down time after time. We need to be wary of that, as it is a loser out of the box. Even if a rebellion won, then what? In the case of our own revolution, our founders had a very good idea of what they wanted to do, how they wanted to do it, and were willing to discuss it. With rebellion, anarchy follows and some despot that is meet the new boss same as the old boss takes power.

My opinion, if Obama is wary and preparing for anything, it is possible secession. It’s my opinion that he wants to destroy the dollar (money control ed. listen to G. Edward Griffin.) and create a scenario that makes the NAU (North American Union) possible. He will also try to foment a global currency. Without our own currency, we will have given up sovereignty. Even the brits have kept the pound. What will happen is an economic adjustment that will push our worth down.  That will make people very unhappy. The pilot to this is healthcare. Obama et al are doing this inspite of public opinion. They know they have a short amount of time and once done, it’s almost impossible to undo. Basically, they are purposely driving us over the cliff.

The only solution is states rights. Gary who posts at LR is wrong. Redoing the districts for 100K people will do nothing much. The leadership of the states have to step in and say enough and be willing to back it up. Every state has it’s own military. Just like in the 1770’s, it was 13 states that agreed to split. While I am not officially endorsing revolution or secession, I will say with out some sort of united front from states invoking their 10th amendment rights, Obama wins.

That is the short and long of it. Obama et al are in fabian progressive socialist mode. Which is to say, approaching socialism progressively and deliberately. Yes, they know damn well their programs won't be repealed by future versions of congress, even if the GOP and other parties strike back next november. There's no precedence for it. My esteemed colleague Chuck Coffer offers the solution of term limits. Good start, but it is down the road and honestly, many pols don't see it in their best interests to do so anyway. We need to make it so. 


I have posited previously here that states are the key. States have standing in this fight and carry more weight than even a group of individuals, even very large ones. States also have better standing before SCOTUS. While I do not like courts making law, it is fully appropriate for them to knock down laws as unconstitutional and send it back to the legislative branch for fixing. This brings me back to my statement, what worries me. 


What worries me is a populace that would react with rebellion, but also not react at all and capitulate. Both of those are extremes that do not solve any problems. If we come to an impasse of major proportions, then it should be through the states that we act, with full authority of our 10th amendment rights, through non-violent means. This means Tea Party, this means 912ers, this means getting involved with a political party that opposes Obama and his fabian socialists, this means yelling from the rooftops that socialism is coming or unfortunately it is here. It also means getting rid of the scum left in congress and the senate by voting them out next November. If all that fails, then come back to me and we'll talk some more, but it won't be about anarchy non-sense or stupid ass rebellions. 


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The Fight For State Sovereignty: Nebraska is next

Nebraskan Legislators want to pass a resolution that asserts Nebraska's state sovereignty. The State Sovereignty Movement is an effort by the states to push back on an over reaching, overbearing and moreover a socialist government that is continually trying to control more and more of people's lives and direct what states can and cannot do. We have not seen such vigor since the first Civil War. I wish Iowa legislators would do such, but Governor Granstahl and his lackeys are too busy licking the hand from Washington that feeds them. It's 1857 boys, and the day is coming should the Mountebank in Chief continue on his socialist way.

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Political Correctness and Constituency Pandering Reach Another Level

On this day I would not want to disparage any people's contribution to this country, but Obama really pandered today in his laying a wreath on the tomb of the unknown soldier by laying a wreath for those blacks who served for the Union. What about the half a million white soldiers that died for the result that blacks would be free? Blacks were not freed because of the EP, because had the south won, it would have been moot. Still, Obama's actions smack of catering to a constituency. May be I am looking too much into this, but when is he going to stop running for office (a problem many pols have today) and do what he was elected to be. On the other hand, may be he should run around the country catering to constituencies, as it might distract him from implementing his progressive and ultimately socialist agenda. In the end, this is no surprise. Obama would rather use emotions to create consensus as opposed to rational thought and politics in general have been fraught in excess with this since FDR and the man behind the curtain pulled the strings of the straw man. May be all of this will turn to be a bad dream like the Wizard of Oz. At least with Oz, good did eventually triumph over evil. In the real word, not so much. So Barry, what's next?

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