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I'm back and ready for the fight. Eric Dondero called me in off the bench and said we need everyone on the team. What could I say? Articles to follow shortly.

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Time For A Break

It's time for The Right Guy to take a break. Like Nickie Goomba, I need a break from this. Too much time in for too little return and it's the same shit thrown against the same wall as everyone else. For what? At best a $10 check from adsense? Not a good return for capitalist and I don't even make that.

Anyway, see you in month or so or whenever I feel like it.

Thanks again for reading this blog and hopefully, if I come back, I will have renewed energy.

Libertarian Politics Live

On tonight's edition of Libertarian Politics Live,
our guest is J. Grant Swan, a Maine pastor and blogger, who will
discussing the bland bipartisan bullshit that passes for political
discourse in today's politically correct environment.
We will be discussing  Sarah palin, John McCain's bland rehtoric, and other
contorversial issues.
Please join us tonight at 8-00 p.m. Ct, at
www.blogtalkradio.com/libertarian.
Andre Traversa and The Right Guy

The Right Guy Featured on Eric Dondero's Blog Talk Radio Show

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Obama Tried To Manipulate The Rightwing Press: An Update

Breitbart reports White House at War with Fox News. I guess Roger Ailes didn't give in. I wonder what was in the offering? It seems that the White House is in overdrive trying to quash opposition. B&GF at The Right Stuff reports on the latest antics of Eric Holder & Co. trying to quash the truth coming from the right wing blogs. Obama truly understands the Marxist maxim that peace is the absence of opposition. Troll all you want Eric and Barry, it won't help.

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Sunday Brunch With The Right Guy: The Inner Circle

It's Sunday and it's brunch time with The Right Guy and his blog peeps, The Inner Circle.

This week was like no other. Coming out of post op, I thought someone was playing a joke on me when I first saw that MaObama won the Nobel Peace Prize. I was assured by Bug that I was not hallucinating, that indeed Obama had won it, and not only that, but nothing he has done, but for what he will do.

To that extent, I have used an image for this post that shows the next contest Obama must feel that he has to win. So far he's gotten honoraria from universities, Nobel prizes, the presidency, and now he is going head to head with Jesus in a Messiah-Off Contest. Al Jazeera has the odds 3-2 in the Obamessiah's favor, according to their spokesman.

Clay over at BBCW proposes that if you want to smell like a Nobel Prize winner, you have to go with BO.

Dr. Dave at Feed Your ADHD tells us Obama is a shoe in for the 2010 Miss Universe Title.

Nickie over at Goomba News tells us MaObama is 3rd in the Heisman voting.

Our most pro-second amendment buddy, the inestimable Dr. John R. Lott has decided to gloss over the Nobel celebrations to concentrate on why women like feminine men.

And my pal Sharky, over at Land Shark 5150 was even more incredulous than I was about the nobel, getting a case of agita.

Tim over at LCR is all over the linky love, FMJRA, and the Nobel Debacle, all in one post. Thanks for the link Tim, I appreciate it, you are a friend of The Right Guy.

Eric at LR was a little late to the party, with the LP reaction. Where is Eric's outrage? With the moonshine tax, of course.

Then there is my buddy and fellow super hero against autism, B&G Fan at The Right Stuff, giving her unique and compelling opinion about the Nobama prize.

Right Klick is on the case, describing it as the 2nd biennial anti-bush award. How about anti-common sense award? Then again we should call it the mmm, mmm, mmm Obama award.

Last but not least, the Smitty and RSM team have been at it again with their prolific FMJRA and Linky love. While there was outrage at the contest results, The Right Guy was admonished for that post. God has spoken.

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Off The Grid

Just a quick note. The Right Guy will be off grid for a couple days as I am going in for some surgery tomorrow morning. If all goes well, I hope to be back on Saturday at the latest. Wish me luck and keep up the fight. Freedom first, freedom last.

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The Right Guy Stimulus Plan: What I Would Do If I were the H*IC

The Right Guy Stimulus Plan

1. Repeal of all federal taxes (thereby abolishing the IRS as we know it).
2. Implement a national sales tax of 10-15%(on everything).
3. Implement zero based budgeting.
4. 20% across the board budge cut the first year, 10% each year there after for a total of four years. Eliminate some agencies.
5. In regards to capital gains tax and inheritance tax, see 1.
6. All bailouts cease. All institutions that took money from the government will pay it back at a prevailing rate. If they go under, we own the assets.
7. Either Social Security must be scrapped or everyone contributes into it.
8. A roll back of emission standards to 2006 standards for 4 years.
9. No more corporate subsidies, no more individual subsidies. If you make gasoline, make gasoline, you don't need our help. The same for corn, soybean, milk or anything else.
10. Repeal of the minimum wage.
11. Repeal of the Wagner act.
12. The creation of a national Right To Work law.
13. Repeal of the CRA.
14. Begin drilling for oil anywhere in the U.S. and its territories, like ANWR, and any coast.
15. Overhaul of the Federal Reserve.
16. Extend our domain from 12 miles to 50-200 miles where applicable for offshore limits. Enforce them as well.
17. Sign free trade agreements with as many nations as possible. This means we can sell anything anywhere without restriction or tariff, and vis versa.
18. Federal monies that go to states are directly proportional to their population and contribution (and therefore tax base). You can't get more than you put in.
19. Nations where our troops are stationed: Germany, Korea, Iraq etc, will have to pay for our troops that are there. If they cannot pay in some way, we leave.
20. Reduce foreign aid by 50%.

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Expletives Not Deleted

It seems the right guy has been admonished for his liberal use of expletives of late. Normally I would plead Nolo Contendere, but judging from the evidence I suppose a guilty plea is more fitting. Should I throw myself on the mercy of the court? Of course if I plead guilty I will have to elocute my crimes before the court, and in this case that would be too much. I will state for the record that I have used the F word of late in my posts. Guilty as charged. Should I get a suspended sentence? I'll try to be a good boy your honor. 

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The King Of Expletives

Cannoli Numero Due:Einstein, Gates, My Son and Me

You are probably wondering, what does Einstein and Gates have to do with my son or myself. Nothing on first blush as Einstein developed the Theory of Relativity and Gates is the founder of Microsoft. There are two reasons I picked these two gentleman: One, they are well known in both their fields and society as a whole, and two, they both had/have Asperger's Disorder. That is not to say I compare any of my kin or myself to the capabilities of either of those two great men at all, but that Asperger’s is something that some famous and successful people have had and it is not some rare disorder that relegates people to the freak show.

What of it you say? It's an interesting disorder, and my 13-year-old son had been formally diagnosed with it in 1999. I also have a three-year-old daughter that has it as well. Out of five children I have, two definitely have it, and the others show variations on a theme, but seem to function better than the bookends, my three and 13 year olds.
You may be asking, what is Asperger’s Disorder? I provided a link above, but I will give a little detail here:
In General, people with AD have problems with:
• Socializing with Others
• Thinking
• Emotions
• Intense preoccupation with one or two topics
• Repetitive routines, behaviors and movements
• Play
• Speech and Language
• Motor Skills
• Sensitivity to sensations of sound, light or touch

More specifically, to break down the above into finer detail:

Social
• Prefers to be by themselves
• Unaware how his/her comments or behaviors affect others
• Does not seem influenced by peer pressure, fads, trends, or pop culture
• Inability to interact with peers
• Lack of desire to interact with peers
• Poor appreciation of social cues and body language
• Limited facial expressions
• Socially inappropriate responses
• Seems uninterested in what others have to say in conversation
• Does not ask others questions or their opinion
• Makes limited eye contact
• Limited use of hand or body gestures
• Does not look others in the eye

Thinking
• Impressive long term memory for facts
• Seems almost obsessed with a particular topic
• Expects other to understand what he/she thinks without telling them
• Does not ask for clarification when confused
• Cannot imagine what others are thinking
• Cannot interpret other’s intentions

Emotions
• Does not understand how other people feel
• Extreme reaction to minor upsets
• Fails to modify emotional expression to match the situation
• Feelings are all or none
• Cannot read emotions of people’s faces

Intense preoccupation with one or two topics
• Fanatical about his/her interest
• Seems obsessed with interest
• Talks incessantly about his/her interest
• Little Interests in other topics
• Pursues advanced knowledge about his/her interest
• Shows off knowledge in almost encyclopedic manner

Repetitive routines, behaviors and movements
• Sticks to rigid routine
• Difficulty being flexible
• Imposes routine on others
• Needs excessive reassurance when change takes place
• Upset by changes in routine
• Repetitive and senseless body movements

Play/Work
• Seems not to understand how to play/work with others
• Does not know unspoken rules
• Often prefers to play/work by him/herself
• Uses playmates as objects
• Intense reaction if things do not go his/her way
• Controlling of playmates
• Difficulty sharing
• Lacks imaginative play

Speech and Language
• Interprets things literally
• Does not understand figures of speech or metaphors
• Has an unusual tone of voice
• Talks in an overly precise manner
• Uses advanced vocabulary
• Odd Rhythm
• Peculiar voice characteristics

Motor Skills
• Poor coordination
• Poor ball play
• Odd gait when walking or running
• Poor handwriting

Sensitivity to sensations of sound, light or touch
• Overly reactive to sounds
• Overly reactive to lights
• Overly reactive fabrics
• Overly reactive to textures

The thing to remember is that AD is an disorder in the autistic spectrum and thus it’s not quantitatively exact as to whether or not someone has AD or not particularly that someone has to have every symptom listed above, but needless to say it would be in the gross majority that present themselves to some degree. Both my children that have been diagnosed have some differences, but more similarities. My son did not speak a word until he was four years old. My three year old can sing and talk some sentences, but most things are words and phrases.

So you are saying, what of it that The Right Guy’s two children have been diagnosed with AD? What I find interesting are the familial connections. Contrary to popular hysteria, I do not believe that AD is caused by thimersol in vaccines. In my case I can definitely see a family history that indicates a genetic link. There are behaviors that both my kids have done that the youngest could not have learned from her brother, as he hasn’t done them since he was small and she was yet to be born. The other thing is that I have family members that have exhibited AD symptoms. My father’s older brother (I would even say their father as well), my father, my brother and myself have all exhibited many of these symptoms. It wasn’t until I started reading The Asperger’s Answerbook, by Susan Ashley Ph.D, that the concept of familial connections really sunk in with me.

You may be asking, why now? Why talk about it now? Well, because I feel like it, and I feel that since armed with some knowledge, coupled with circumstances, I feel I needed to say something. I can tell you that in my dad’s day there were absolutely no resources for people with AD. Kids with AD probably dropped out of school, never married, and lived relatively solitary lives (even being married with children, I often feel lonely and solitary). My dad did not marry until he was 33 and my uncle never did. I myself was 32 and my brother was 36. In my day, schools did not have special education other than for those that were mentally retarded, and they were sent to the Rose Marie Kennedy Center. In some ways I consider myself fortunate that I went to a parochial school where it wasn’t as socially competitive as public school. In some ways that is bad because what I didn’t experience right off I got to experience in ninth grade when I transitioned to public school. Even then, in 1977, no one really knew what AD was or what to do with it. In fact, it wasn’t formally classified until 1994. The good news is that for people like my kids, there are programs in school that will help them with socialization skills, as well as academically.

Still, my fear is that while my kids may have a somewhat normal life, is that they will not be happy and at least better adjusted than I am. It does pain me to think they will go through some of the same social issues I did and continue to go through. All I can tell you is that I don’t have to watch the X-files to know what it is like to feel like an alien. It’s one thing not to fit in and another to realize it and even yet another degree to not be able to (or want to) learn as quickly or permanently social rules and unwritten rules that govern human interaction, particularly when it comes to being employed. I have always screwed that up and it has had a direct negative effect in my careers. In my father’s day, the expectations were different. Interpersonal interaction was secondary to getting the job done. The other thing is my dad and uncle worked at jobs where they did not have to interact with a lot of people. For people with AD, today’s work world is much more tortuous because of the alleged necessity for any position to require people to be a “team player”, and have “good communication skills”. Because of these social deficits, people with AD have been relegated to positions that are usually below their mental capacity and in some cases from attaining comparable success in a particular position. On top of this, this, they have a much higher incidence of depression, probably due to the social issues. Below are listed some issues people with AD have with work:

• Finding work at level of education/ability
• Keeping a job long term
• Getting along with co-workers
• Sensory overload
• Coping with the unpredictable
• Learning the unwritten rules of the job
• Failing to ask for help or clarification
• Socially inappropriate behavior
• Misinterpreting others words/actions
• Easily frustrated
• Multitasking
• Time management
• Presenting well in interview
• Inability to work in a group
• Inflexibility
• Need for excessively precise expectations
• Poor organization
• Difficulty remembering verbal instructions

A lot of these issues are familiar to me. While I would like to do better, at the age of 46, I consider myself pretty much done. All I will accomplish is what some would call sandbagging, thereby holding on for the end as it were, which isn’t a bad thing I guess, but disappointing nonetheless. My wish here is that if you suspect that someone you know might have AD, try not to judge too harshly and it might do you well to get a book like my wife got. It will give some strategies in dealing with it, and it will also give insight as to what AD is. While I am no Einstein or Gates, I’d still like to do better than dad did, god rest his soul. Einstein said insanity is doing the same thing over and over, yet expecting a different result. May be I should give it a rest. At some point, you have to say fuck it.

Ashley, S. (2007) The Asperger Answerbook. Soucebooks, Inc, Napervile, Il

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