Like We Didn't See It Coming....

Amen.

Late Night Humor: German

I regularly get hits from France, Canada, Ireland, UK - but don't seem to have any followers from Germany, so QUICK BEFORE THEY'RE LOOKING!

Ha HAAA! Make fun of Der Deutschelanders here!

We all know Adolph Hitler is the only famous person from Germany right?  Actually he was Austrian.  Late night free fun factoid while we're at it.  I'll leave the number of testicles he had for some other time because discussing Der Fuhrer's testicles here would just be inappropriate.

"You should be outraged, but you're not"

That's a clue really. People who have made a mistake or find out something's going wrong don't respond so calmly as the IRS chief and Obama do.

Hats off to this congressman for calling it like it is and saying what so many of us have wanted to say. 

We aren't allowed to have one damned thing out of line if the IRS comes knocking but the IRS can make this huge "mistake" and they respond so calmly about it like its just an annoyance that they have to answer to it and we are wasting time?  And they don't call it intimidation?  These are clues that this was deliberate and known. Right now this presidency is held together by the media, people bought off, and smoke and mirrors. It is already unraveled. But time will tell how far this goes.

Well worth the watch, though we should be hearing a lot more of this.  Wanna tell him thanks, here's his page: http://kelly.house.gov/

He nailed it, this is exactly what the American people fear about their government.

Late Night Humor

This is totally worth the six seconds spent watching it: (I'm totally showing this next week when I facilitate class on Monday on racism).

And you can't watch this and not go "What the hell?" if you don't at least crack up, its better when you listen to it without watching it.

The Left is Flabby!

Only a wimpy man would be a lefty

Study shows that the men on the left are a bunch of girlie men. Yah.

Because they do not have what it takes to survive in the wild they think they can take their flabby girlie man arms and sign laws to make other people take your stuff from you because they do not have what it takes. 

I should have known that only girlie men would embrace the left because they would become extinct like the dodo bird and all other pathetic forms of life that cannot survive in the wild. 

But hear me now, believe me later and think about it sometime - even if they bring this whole system down the real men will be the only ones who survive and the girlie men will still die.

The Real Problem With America

Conspiracy conspiracy conspiracy.

You've been warned

You'd think by identifying a conspiracy you could head it off, wouldn't you?

Like the rumors of the establishment of camps and the stockpiling of man-killer bullets that are currently going on in government and IRS scandals etc.  You'd think that would be enough to stop it by uncovering it, wouldn't you?

I would normally think so as well.

But here's what I think the real problem is.  One, we are being conditioned and numbed to scandal and being told it is futile to speak out and are being disempowered by the media to think that anything we are going to do is going to help.

So what's the alternative?  Armed revolution?  Obama clearly fears this and this stands in his way, otherwise he wouldn't be working for gun control like he is. 

But can you maintain freedom by firepower?  You can win it but you can't maintain it.  Otherwise you just live in another police-state where people are compelled through force to do what is right or don't do wrong for fear of punishment, but regardless society doesn't progress.  You can use arms to defend your rights or to secure them, but when you have to use firepower to enforce them?  You're not in society anymore - you're at war. 

And if the fight simply becomes one of survival rather than moral differences, what is going to be left when you are done or what will you build upon at victory?  Meanwhile, your contest simply becomes one of might and ability rather than philosophical differences to offer the other side or those willing to surrender. 

So what do we do?  What do we do?  What to do?  What to do?  What to do? (twiddling my thumbs).

Ah!  I have an idea, let me look in my scriptures.....here's one 5 And now, as the preaching of the word had a great tendency to lead the people to do that which was just—yea, it had had more powerful effect upon the minds of the people than the sword, or anything else, which had happened unto them—therefore Alma thought it was expedient that they should try the virtue of the word of God. (Alma 31).

The Word of God.

That thing that has become politically incorrect anymore in our society and associated with crusades while overlooking the FACT that religion/spirituality is one of the single greatest safeguards against harmful behavior identified in psychology.  Did you know that?  It is true. 

All right, and all you veterans, I know you've heard this: There are no atheists in fox-holes.  Natural human phenomenon when the fit hits the shan, humans look up or around for something outside themselves and find that hope that there is something bigger than them that is unseen that can help.  Now we may not have all hit that point yet, but there is a natural human tendency to do this.

This in mind, let me share two scriptures that I believe are tied together in this increasing moral abyss in today's world:  9 Believe in God; believe that he is, and that he created all things, both in heaven and in earth; believe that he has all wisdom, and all power, both in heaven and in earth; believe that man doth not comprehend all the things which the Lord can comprehend. (Mosiah 4)

Well, admitting we don't know everything is a great starting place!  Saying it is impossible to know though is folly because then why would we have our sciences to learn?  That scientific-logic eats its self as soon as it is born.  

And then along with it:

 35 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,

36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?

 37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

 38 This is the first and great commandment.

 39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. (Matthew 22).

And lastly

 3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. (John 17). 

There is a God.  He isn't incomprehensible, otherwise we wouldn't be told that life eternal is to know Him.  

Finally: 16 Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.

 17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. (John 7).

We can know God and know if the doctrine we have been told is true by doing it and living it.  We can receive and see the blessings of keeping the ten commandments (and the many others there are). 

Six years into my education, I got the stats that science has shown that the very thing our society is abolishing is one of the biggest safeguards against harm (Religion/Spirituality). 

If we kept the commandments or even knew them, we would have recognized that Obama does not

keep them by and large and has actively built his campaign and presidency on breaking them (coveting, bearing false witness, murder, stealing). We would have been protected by this knowledge and recognition, but no.  We have turned from them to gratify our pride on issues of race and revisionist history while overlooking our blessings, dividing society and coveting without gratitude.

My point?  The media and exposing all these conspiracies isn't going to stop them from happening in a society that doesn't believe they are wrong or has simply descended into survival at all costs while gratifying its pride. 

We're going to get to a point where we say "The are committing genocide!" and people will say "So?" and justify it or ignore it.  

Again, it isn't that history repeats its self so much as the rewards of mortality, the nature of man and his weaknesses haven't changed over the centuries.  He is still enticed by promises of riches he covets from those he hates while not being grateful for his own blessings and overlooking them.  Until that changes, history is going to keep repeating its self.  Unless man wipes himself out of existence and there is no man to make history again. 

I guess I'll start to wrap up with one of my favorite scriptures:  10 And now, my beloved brethren, and also Jew, and all ye ends of the earth, hearken unto these words and believe in Christ; and if ye believe not in these words believe in Christ. And if ye shall believe in Christ ye will believe in these words, for they are the words of Christ, and he hath given them unto me; and they teach all men that they should do good. (2 Nephi 33).

Do good.  Without a belief in God or something higher there is no reason to do good.  It boils down to just survival at any cost without principle. 

Death comes to all.  Every single day we die.  And we will either come to God or he will come to us.  

34 Ye cannot say, when ye are brought to that awful crisis, that I will repent, that I will return to my God. Nay, ye cannot say this; for that same spirit which doth possess your bodies at the time that ye go out of this life, that same spirit will have power to possess your body in that eternal world. (Alma 34)

We all have choices to make.  But to an extent, we are all in this together.  I won't diminish the importance of a belief in God nor expound upon it any further to simply say that if we wish to change the outcome of our society we need to learn right, eternal principles and live them in our personal lives to the best of our abilities and then let God work through those principles and us and His power to improve our future nationally and individually.  

Anything less than this isn't going to be enough.  And I won't apologize for saying so, but I can't do much more than do my best where I am while everyone must decide for themselves.  But at this point?  Simply exposing it...isn't going to stop it.  They've got the momentum they want and they aren't going to give it up - not when they are finally at the precipice of having what they want.

Decisions decisions and choices and choices.

May God Bless America.

What If....?

Okay so this thing with the IRS being used to intimidate, harass and stop political, personal and even religious freedom in the United States.

And of course, Obama, the all-wise community organizer never knows anything that goes on in his government.  He's just the president.  He has no power whatsoever.  None of these people were directed by him.  You know why?  Because they don't have to be.  That's why they were hired in the first place is because they would do what he wanted and shared his ideology so he wouldn't have to direct them. 

Plausible deniablility?  Regardless, the man is a liar whose political ideology and leanings are known so don't try to con me.

So far people are saying on the left that no laws were broken in this thing by the IRS.

Laws broken by who? The Tea Party and they know because of the extensive background checks they've done?

Basically they were using a government agency to stop people from exercising the first amendment by denying them tax exempt status so they couldn't participate in a lot of processes or exercise their freedom of speech in the ways they wanted to.

Okay, so it happened to conservatives.  The Tea Party.  You know those guys? 

Can you imagine the outcry if this had happened to black groups?   How about lesbian groups?  Abortion groups?  Hispanic groups? (Never mind the Tea Party has blacks, lesbians, people who have had abortions and Hispanics).

And that's the problem now isn't it?  They've legalized discrimination on a whole new scale heading in the direction of making you wear a yellow star and enacting a bunch of laws against you and this goes right to the top.

And the media doesn't see a problem with it.  No, they're just pissed off they got their phone records looked at by the gummint.  Otherwise they'd have been quiet. They've been quiet up until this. As long as they get to be the ones rounding you up in the cattle cars they don't see a problem with it, but when it comes at THEM!  Well....now that's just not right.  THAT is immoral. 

I warn and I forewarn, this isn't going to just stop at political posters and bumper stickers and audits unless we wake up as a nation and use that awful politically incorrect "R" word: "Repent."

Oh, it will take a bit of time.  Slow enough for us to convince ourselves like frogs in pots that "oh, its just this and then it will end" and then "Okay, now its just this, then they will be done!" Bit by bit by bit. The media will do their bit in assuring the low-information voters that all is well and they will believe it.  That way we don't have to be responsible for doing anything.  It is easier to ignore it than speak out.

Maybe our British forefathers had something up on us in that they weren't willing to just take it sitting down.  But then they did put the whole thing into perspective in the Declaration when they said: Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

True true.  They knew the cost that a revolution would cost in money, blood and suffering.  Myself and all the veterans I know wouldn't want a revolution here nor would we ever push for one. But then sometimes like at Lexington, you don't get to choose whether the other side wants a war or not.  You only get to choose whether you're going to go along with it or not.  And right now?  They are at the highest levels of our government using government institutions and powers beginning to divide in preparation to conquer.

Peruse the grievances of 1776 and see what is the same as now.

Well, it isn't so much that history repeats its self so much as the rewards over the ages of man are the same and so is the nature of man when it comes to obtaining those rewards. The inspiration to do so is the same as is the low cunning.  The weaknesses and vulnerabilities of man are the same as well. 

Time will tell what is going to happen, but if history and our knowledge of man is any clue as to how to interpret what is going on now?  I think it is pretty clear where we're headed.

Normal? Normal? Abby Normal?

I have a cheerful disposition and enjoy a good laugh, I've told you some of the things my father did, I definitely got it from him as he got it from his dad.  Beyond that I don't know where it started.  For example, the US Navy found its self at odds with me (and not visa versa) very often because all the things I thought were important for keeping me alive and doing my job (ammunition and weapons for example, functioning radios) the Navy thought was optional and the things the Navy thought were mandatory (name tags professionally written on lockers) I thought we had a bit of leeway on to have fun with to improve the morale over not having the weapons, radios or ammo we needed.

SO!

Always label your brains and leave them out in the open to avoid accidents

 In keeping with this character trait, when my professor for my psychoactive substances class passed around the roll last week, I signed my name next to mine and then as an act of boredom and amusement added at the bottom of the roll "Abby Normal" and signed that as well.

Ha ha end of story that was fun now moving on.

Right? 

So I thought. 

I had to facilitate class today and give a powerpoint on the readings for the week and I opened up with "Abby Normal Mental Health Productions" with a nice pic of Marty Feldman to open my presentation.

The roll was on the desk where I was presenting from.

I looked at it.  At the top of the roll now as an official student in the university was "Abby Normal."

You'd think that was all there was to it. (Click to hear the rest).

What He Really Needs To Do

And....there aren't enough lifeboats for Obama's world either

In reading the Politico's story on Obama, with all the fallout with these scandals they said that

Obama needs to do something dramatic on the IRS, and quick: “He needs to fire somebody. He needs action, not conversation.”

No, he doesn't need to fire somebody. 

No, he doesn't need to do anything like that. 

No.

He needs to tell the truth and fess up and set his life in order and start living up to the oaths he took and his obligations. 

Why should someone else get fired for this?  He's the one responsible.  If anyone should get fired its Obama, not some peasant reporter or tax-collector rounded up at random from the crowd for an execution to keep the masses agitated and waiting. 

I'm sorry that my writing is so simple, I wish I had more profound insights, but it really is that simple.   This is corruption.  This is lawlessness and wickedness is what it is.  

A little more: 

Chris Lehane, who spent so much time managing scandals in the 1990s that it inspired him to write a textbook on managing them, is among the contingent of Clinton-era scandal hands that thinks the Obama team has botched its second-term image. “One cannot get caught up with chasing news cycles in a crisis, as that is a prescription for putting out inaccurate information that does not withstand scrutiny or the test of time,” said Lehane, whose book is titled “Masters of Disaster.”

Wrong again.  That's not even the point.  The point is if you're doing what's right these things are less likely to happen and these +-things have happened because he's breaking the law - if not actual law then principle and moral and social and ethical (there's a tricky word) laws.  We can't legislate everything.  At some point people have to know for themselves what's right and wrong and do what's right.  If you're going to do what's wrong - you're hosed.  If you don't know what's right - you're still hosed.

This is a man who is trying to lead people someplace they don't want to go.  Who has told them he's giving them what they want so he can do what he want's and convinced that once he sells them something they don't want they'll either learn to like it or it will be too far gone to stop him.  I really do shudder to think of what the consequences for this are going to be spiritually.  

Even Princess Pelosi is stuck on repeat mode and doesn't know what to do other than her usual psychotic blaming and rambling round and round by saying things like "Obamacare is driving down the deficit."

That's just scary.  This thing - her world and Democrat power and the media premise - is falling apart and this woman either completely lacks the mental faculties to assess the situation and respond to it and has nothing else in her repertoire than the spin cycle, or simply is so far gone from reality that she can't even see what is happening.   If I can draw another Titanic analogy it reminds me when Cal tries to buy his way into a lifeboat and the crewman finally throws his money back at him and says that his money can't save either of them - just - wake up.  Ah but the wheels of national direction and public opinion turn slowly.  And in some people's heads the wheel is spinning but the hamster is dead.

Time will tell.  In the meantime?  Do what is right let the consequence follow. Don't fire people for what you did.