Author Unknown - Age of Insanity

And  it came to pass in the Age of Insanity that the  people of the land called America , having  lost their morals, their initiative, and  their will to defend their liberties, chose  as their Supreme Leader that person known as  "The One." He  emerged from the vapors with a message that had  no meaning; but He hypnotized the people  telling them, "I am sent to save you, from yourselves."  My  lack of experience, my questionable ethics,  my monstrous ego, and my association with evil doers are of no consequence.  I shall save you with Hope and Change.  "Go, therefore, and proclaim throughout the land that he who  preceded me is evil, that he has defiled  the nation, and  that all he has built must be destroyed."   And the  people rejoiced, for even though they knew not what "The One" would do, he had  promised that it was good; and they believed.   And "The One" said " We live in the greatest  country in the world.  Help me change everything  about it!"  And the people said, "Hallelujah!  Change is good!"   Then he said, "We are  going to tax the rich fat-cats."  And the people  said "Sock it to them!"  "And redistribute their  wealth." And the people said, "Show us the  money!"  And the he said, "Redistribution of  wealth is good for everybody..." And Joe the  plumber asked, "Are you kidding me? You're  going to steal my money and give it to the  deadbeats??"  And "The One" ridiculed and  taunted him, and Joe's personal records  were hacked and publicized. One lone reporter  asked, "Isn't that Marxist policy?"  And she was banished from the Kingdom's press corps. Then a citizen asked,  "With no foreign relations experience  and having zero military experience or  knowledge, how will you deal with radical  terrorists?"  And "The One" said, "Simple. I  shall sit with them and talk with them and  show them how nice we really are; and  they will forget that they ever wanted to  kill us all!"  And the people Said,  "Hallelujah!! We are safe at last, and we can  beat our weapons into free cars for the people!" Then "The One" said "I  shall give 95% of you lower taxes." And  one, lone voice said, "But 40% of us don't  pay ANY taxes."  So "The One" said, "Then I  shall give you some of the taxes the fat-cats  pay!" And the people said, "Hallelujah! Show  us the  money!" Then  "The One" said, "I shall tax your Capital  Gains when you  sell your homes!" And the people yawned and the  slumping housing market collapsed. And He said. "I  shall mandate employer-funded health care for every  worker and raise the minimum wage. And I shall give  every person unlimited healthcare and medicine and  transportation to the clinics." And the people said,  "Give me some of that!"  Then he said, "I shall  penalize employers who ship jobs overseas."    And the people said, "Where's my rebate  check?" Then  "The One" said, "I shall bankrupt the coal industry  and electricity rates will skyrocket!"  And the  people said, "Coal is dirty,  coal is evil, no more coal!  But we don't care for that part about higher electric rates."  So "The  One" said, "not to worry. If your rebate isn't  enough to cover your expenses, we shall bail you  out.   Just sign up with the ACORN and your troubles are over!" Then He  said, "Illegal immigrants feel scorned and  slighted.. Let's grant them amnesty, Social  Security, free education, free lunches, free medical  care, bi-lingual signs and guaranteed housing."  And  the people said, "Hallelujah!" and they made him king! And  so it came to pass that employers, facing spiraling costs  and ever-higher taxes, raised their prices and laid off  workers. Others simply gave up and went out of business  and the economy sank like unto a rock dropped from a cliff.   The banking industry was destroyed.  Manufacturing slowed to a crawl.  And more of the people were  without a means of support. Then "The One"  said, "I am the 'the Chosen One'- The Messiah - and I'm here  to save you! We shall just print more money so everyone will have enough!"  But our foreign trading partners said unto  Him. "Wait a minute. Your dollar is not worth a pile of  camel dung! You will have to pay more..."  And "The One" said,  "Wait a minute. That is not fair!" And the New World Order said, "Neither are these other idiotic programs you have  embraced. Lo, you have become a Socialist  state and a second-rate power."  "Now you shall play by our rules!" And the people cried out, "Alas, alas!! What have we done?" But  yea verily, it was too late. The people set upon The One and spat upon him and stoned him in the POLLING PLACES, and his name was dung.  And the  once mighty nation was no more; and the once proud people  were without sustenance or shelter or hope. And the Change  "The One" had given them was as like unto a poison that had  destroyed them and like a whirlwind that consumed all that  they had built. And  the people beat their chests in despair and cried out in  anguish, "give us back our nation and our pride and our hope!"  But it was too late, and their homeland was no more. You  may think this a fairy tale, but it's not. It's happening  RIGHT NOW. Reject the notion that MORE WASTED TAX DOLLARS is the Solution to ANYTHING! THIS  really tells it like it is.  After reading it -- and  before you go into the bathroom to throw-up -- forward it to  your friends and those you know who care about our country  and what is happening to it under the rule of Commissar  Obamanation. The day we lose our will  to fight is the day we lose our  freedom.   GOD BLESS   AMERICA [ps. If you wrote this please write so I can attribute Name & Town]

Trump is Not Perot Again?

A pair of items today caused a moment of reflection as WE approach the 2012 election cycle. First was the Today Show Interview of Donald Trump by Meredith Viera [Must See TV] and the second was the thoughtful Comment to a Forbes Blog Article on Trump's Left-Leaning Donations, apparently aimed at preemptively striking conservative support for a Trump Presidential bid.

I am delighted by the former, as The Donald is able to break through the Left Wing Media Apparatus to call things out and can help focus the debate where WE need it. 

I am concerned by the Latter, as so FEW facts are employed to create a deceptive (IMHO) picture of Donald Trump's activities when he was clearly focused on Real Estate Development. [I challenge you to be successful with Real Estate Development in New York & Chicago with only GOP donations] I don't know if Brendan Coffey is Left-Wing or Right-Wing leaning his-self, but the tactic is as employed by radical organizers and counter productive to U.S.

Shutting down a Trump bid at this stage helps only Incumbents at all levels, and I plan to encourage open debate about the Real State of The Union, in lieu of allowing the Progressive Propaganda Outlets to run unabated. The Just-like-Perot discount tactic will be employed should Donald Trump or any other Non-Establishment Candidate enter the ring, and WE need to be prepared to support the most principled and fiscally responsible officeholders that we can elect.  In the interim lets encourage truthful analysis to permeate the Media outlets.

I would encourage you to read and ponder the Comment Posted by Tedinpdx, pasted here in it's entirety. Perot is Not Trump, and America can't tolerate Obama Ver 2.0

In this just completed decade, we have watched the selection process for President deteriorate to the point where it is almost identical to the one we use to select “The American Idol” or the winner of “Dancing with the Stars”. When a person like Sarah Palin shows up at the top of a poll showing Republican’s preferences for presidential candidates, it raises fundamental questions as to the viability of our entire political process. For even more devastating evidence, look no further than the current disaster-in-progress which is the Obama administration.

When I heard that Donald Trump was seriously considering running, I was skeptical, and I still am. I know whereof I speak: in 1992, I and a group of other civic-minded folks in my home state of Oregon organized the Perot ballot initiative which put Ross Perot on the ballot in Oregon as a presidential candidate. As chairperson of that group, I had occasion to meet Perot and participate in a meeting he held in Dallas of all the state campaign chairpersons. What I discovered was a man [Ross Perot] singularly un-suited to participating in the political process, and by temperament, one who’s totalitarian instincts might have created serious problems for this nation had he been elected.

At the time, those of us who got behind Perot (in February of 1992) were motivated by his apparent commitment to forcing government to live within it’s means, and a hypothetical belief that his success in business would translate into success as President, particularly given the issue that mattered most to us, ie: elimination of deficit spending by the federal government. To say that we guessed wrong is an understatement, given the actual outcome of our initiative. But even with the benefit of that negative first-hand experience betting on success in business as a predictor of success as a political leader, I’m not prepared to write-off Donald Trump’s potential to provide the leadership this country desperately needs here and now.

In terms of “apparent temperament” and political skill, Barrack Obama is an obvious prodigy. However, in substance, based on the empirical evidence of his conduct once elected, I would classify his election as the most egregious mistake ever made by the American electorate (and BTW, I voted for him), and a man who’s radical political ideology and extreme narcissism, pose a clear and present danger to the immediate future of this country. The damage Obama has done in just two years to this country is hard to comprehend. We may need someone as decisive, and with a deep intuitive understanding of the necessity to restore our free-market economy, that Mr. Trump might well be uniquely qualified to deliver. Therefore I plan to wait and see if he can navigate the gauntlet of our dysfunctional and profoundly corrupt political process, and make the case that he might be our best hope of fixing it.

Three Little Perps, Is FUNDING Obamacare illegal?

Misappropriation :"The misappropriation of funds is stealing money or other property that was entrusted to the perpetrator but is owned by someone else, who is the victim."

"Misappropriation is a felony crime punishable by imprisonment."

Whether by Miscommunication or Intentional Non-Consensual Regulation, what began as a sales pitch to make Health Care more available and affordable for the American people, emerged as a healthcare industry hijacking by bureaucrats which have far reaching impacts on Economy and Liberty of the average American.

WE THE PEOPLE of the United States of America made clear, through Peaceful Assembly and Speech, OUR understanding that President Obama's Government Takeover of the Healthcare System was not Constitutionally allowed. The U.S. Congress and U.S. Senate proceeded with a Bill that in no way matched the Advertising for it, even attempting to cast the SPENDING AUTHORIZATIONS in LAW.

Misappropriation & Fraud or Grand Theft & Larceny? - I's A Toss-Up for me, follow the money. Since the Obamacare passage, in the dark of night and arguably against the Rule of LAW requiring that appropriations Bills Originate in the U.S. House of Representatives, a growing number of State Governments are paying Legal Appeals and Waivers diverting needed capital resources to fighting this unlawful Act.

The law, according to Vinson, was "outside Congress' Commerce Clause power and it cannot be otherwise authorized by an assertion of power under the Necessary and Proper Clause," the Wall Street Journal reported.

While it's a small - and perhaps one of the most controversial parts of the legislation -the clause makes the entire law void, according to Vinson. -from USNEWS

Since the first official ruling, acknowledging that WE THE PEOPLE were correct in our assessment of this far reaching legislation the misappropriations continue, quietly in contempt of the court ruling the Dept. of Justice is now aiding and abetting the Felonious Act by postponing the inevitable outcome.

The 1000+ waivers "GRANTED" by the supreme Federal Bureaucrats, at Dept Health & Human Services and February shift in policy direction towards the States directing Obamacare were proof that the Administration recognizes the LAW is not going to pass Constitutional Muster.

There is little doubt NOW, that Obamacare will be declared Void. (Hat Tip to Debbie at Eastern Orlando TeaParty) The precedent is deep enough, most recent support being a ruling that was suppressed by the Liberal Media in 1997. The State of Montana shut down the Federal desire to enforce the Clinton Era "Brady Bill" using Chief Law Enforcement Officers of the individual States.

Printz v. United States (95-1478), 521 U.S. 898 (1997)


WE all know the Bill is illegal, and has been declared VOID by the first Judge to hear the case, yet the Executive & Legislative Branches of Government continue to misappropriate funds to develop 150+ new wasteful departments.

The Gig is Up, The THEFT MUST STOP

AT WHAT POINT did this Federal Spending become Felonious Missapropriation is the first question I have for the Ethics Committees.

The second question is Whom should be impeached for this travesty of Justice? Is it enough to include the original perpetrators: President Obama, Senator Reid, Representative Pelosi, that implemented the permanent misappropriations?

SHOULD WE include Speaker Boehner for Continuing the Misappropriations by his fidelity to Rules the perps would not abide through Continuing Resolutions began by the Three Little Perps?

Having recognized his complicity, and atoned by cessation through the 2012 Budget Process, I would reward Speaker Boehner for his fidelity to Law.

Tsunami: Learning the RIGHT Lessons

May God with all his Might and Grace, comfort those that have suffered the Loss of Loved ones, and strengthen the survivors rebuilding after the recent tsunami in Japan. Through natural disaster Humans re-learn to become enthusiastic about life, and often rebalance the stuff:relationships scales in the recovery period.

The Left Oriented Media, literally & emotionally thousands of miles away, is quick to help us identify the Lessons that support the ideology and Worldview they deem correct, while completely ignoring Lessons that challenge other positions. While focused on Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubts about the safety of Nuclear Power in the excitement of a non-standard F&D plant shut down, the media completely ignore the longer term impacts of flooding the plant with seawater destroying all future generating capacity for the plant.

Some of these impacts are local to Japan, as excerpted from a Bloomberg article on Sony shuts more plants from supply chain interruptions.

A recession is “almost certain,” according to Mizuho Securities Co.

“Companies’ production and people’s consumption will be stuck in an abnormal state at least for the next six months,” said Naoki Iizuka, a senior economist at Mizuho Financial Group Inc. in Tokyo. “The electricity shortage will continue to hamper economic activity.”

Some impacts will be Global. The Nuclear Reactor is for practical purposes the harnessing of the Sun, right here on earth. An obvious question following dramatic withdrawal of significant Electrical Generation in Japan is if the chicken little's win their way...What Will Replace this source? New Gas Turbine or Coal Fired plants? 

In the Western United States we have seen a fraction of this type of impact in the California boom years. Rather than build Nuclear Generation capability, the "Environmentally Conscious" experts began building Natural Gas Turbine Generation. This of course has driven up the cost of home heating for those in fly-over country that prefer not to e waste Electricity trying to accomplish a task in which GAS is much more efficient. Of course they won't think of converting an internal combustion engine to natural gas capable, eliminating the wasteful transmission and recharging penalties.

In typical Government Efficiency, the idea that WE urgently need an ALL-Of-The-Above energy policy is now FOUR YEARS in discussion and no closer to reality. Adding insult to injury, we have the Depts like EPA and Interior (and others) working to starve the private sector of the Energy to recover, while spending records amounts digging us deeper into debt.

To make a long story short, the most important lesson for our officeholders in Washington may be that the need for Energy Independence is second only to Human Enthusiasm, IF a vibrant economy is the mission objective. Currently thanks largely to Career Politicians arrogance and greed, the United States of America is running low on both of these critical elements.

My message to the peoples house is as follows. Life is short, and you don't know when it will end. Real or as affected by Gov't, The Energy shortage will continue to hamper economic activity and until you get bureaucratic boots off our necks there is no recovery, only risk of deeper recession.

HUD 1st, Towards Green Economy

Sunshine for Green Economy Mythology

Honored with a Guest Blogger Spot, my goal is to contribute substance to the http://StateBudgetSolutions.org/ site. This information is presented for consideration in SOLUTIONS: REDUCE STATE SPENDING, and raises awareness of an underlying requirement for Budget Control, Regaining State Sovereignty, and Green Economy Mythology.

Denver is close to home and in transition from Conservative to Liberal over the past few years so I started pulling threads with this years office of Economic Development Budget Report from a Pioneer Sanctuary City-Denver, CO

It takes money to spend (Federally Redistributed) money. Worse than the increase in Local & State Government overhead to handle this 'manna from D.C.', the federal subsidy always comes with sovereignty stealing “mandates”. When times were better (good?), there was no stopping this juggernaut. Now that we are experiencing a steady decline in Revenue at all levels of Government, States have a unique opportunity to stop the incursion into their jurisdiction and reduce the budget -Sorry, No Money.

When the purse strings from Washington are cut, your State enjoys sovereignty. Until then, the profligate spending Federal squid is dragging the State budget to the bottom, and economic peril.

How did we get here?

Each incursion into the States Domain starts with a premise that we can “ALL AGREE ON”. What the Politician Says (the sale) is never what he Signs (as we heard it).

So it truly is a Communication Gap between the TAX Payer, and the Bureaucrats in which we have blindly entrusted our destiny. To help bridge the communication gap here are some key interpretations of Political jargon. Filter What you hear a Politician Say with the following to know What They Will Sign.

Essential Bureaucrat Terminology
Investment	Redistribution of Tax Dollars
Multiple Bottom Line “investment”	Affirmative action requirements for subsidized business, in addition to traditional -is it profitable
RE-INVESTMENT	"Investment" (as above, not For ReturnOfCapital) Targeted Specifically at RE-ELECTION of Bureaucrat
Waste	Historically 5%-10% Private and 90%-120% Government. The Bureau wants us to Cut Private waste while they -The Anti-Green, most Wasteful Organism ever devised by man- continue to Do What they Do.
Expense	Anything that Benefits The TaxPayer

PSA Reminder: Self-Government requires Educated & Engaged Electorate

An Example:Office of Economic Development

-Everybody agrees that Economic Development is a “Good Thing” -Too Bad thats not what Goes on in Most Cities Office of Economic Development (OED) -A truth in advertising Label for http://GlobalUrban.org/ recommended practices would reflect the real objective. More Equal Economic Re-Distribution.

When originally conceived, the OED was a marketing think tank, producing Incentive Programs (Tax & Land Deals) to steal businesses from other states or bringing them in from offshore to the growing city -in need of ever an increasing TAX base.

Today, the OED is a malignant HYDRA – with increasing layers of redundant bureaucrats handling money for other Departments, and injecting the City Culture and Regulations with ideology like “Sustainable Economic Development”. The Denver OED includes two internal departments spending HUD and other assistance, which are likely redundant, however; my research revealed OED is the home of a more troubling current trend. Green Economy Mythology.

Listed accomplishments from the Denver Budget Summary, Office of Economic Development include “Greener Denver”.

Established the Greener Denver initiative, an integrated economic development strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while expanding economic opportunities for local businesses and residents.   Through Greener Denver, OED is: o Helping to increase energy efficiency, increasing renewable energy use and expanding “smart growth” investments by business and community. o Increasing clean technology industry growth and green supply chain development. o Developing Denver’s green talent pool by training the green workforce of the future while preparing clean tech entrepreneurs.

I can't find ANYTHING on the Denver Web Site to substantiate the Greener Denver “accomplishments”, and the leader just vacated office for a position at Climate Prosperity Inc. They have a web site, but I think Global Urban has everything you need to begin unraveling this sham in one place. http://www.globalurban.org/projects.htm

Climate Prosperity, not likely

The only thing I can see that is Sustainable about this scheme is Higher Education Grants and Consulting Fees for the looters creating eyewash entrancing our intellectually superior bureaucrats. If you recall the ISO 9000 craze, Consultants thrived as businesses productivity dived in mountains of bureaucratic paper.

Schools and Consultants win – Politicians get re-investment benefits - John Q. Taxpayer LOSES with this blatant waste on Local, State and Federal Levels.

Every Dollar from the FEDERAL TREASURY comes with Strings.

It may seem difficult to cut the strings and refuse the Money,

 but it is TRULY Sustainable.

Supreme Contradiction - Decisive Action is Needed

This Letter is written to my representatives from Colorado, but is I believe relevant for ALL members of the United States Senate. I hope you will be able to reflect on the importance of a grounded Supreme Court in maintaing necessary Checks & Balances in the Tri-Branch Miracle that we have inherited for our self Governance.

Senator Mark Udall

Senator Michael F. Bennett

Gentlemen,

The decision to approve a nominee for service on the Supreme Court of the United States may very well be the most important vote you will cast while representing Colorado in the United States Senate. Ideally, given the lifetime term of an appointee, the Justice will preserve and protect the U.S. Constitution for the remainder of their working life, offering stability as many popular congressional classes pass. This structure does however create the possibility to create the risk of a forty-year mistake.

The present nominee, Ms. Elena Kagan, in testimony has given me pause on several occasions during the confirmation hearings, such as Congressional Oversight of Citizen Mandated Diets however; the most troubling to date (and perhaps a cause of Ms. Kagans indecisive/evasive demeanor) was the dialog with Sen. Coburn when she refused to acknowledge, as valid or relevant, the idea that human beings possess certain inalienable rights preexisting the U.S. Constitution (specifically the Declaration of Independence) and not subject to the whim of the Executive and Legislative Branches.

The Declaration of Independence and other American History seems to have been marginalized in Ms. Kagans vast education, indeed in the Law School where she made policy Ms. Kagan institutionalized a preference for International Law Precedent over Constitutional Law. 

The Declaration of Independence is THE ORIGINAL PRECEDENT for the U.S. CONSTITUTION, with which the capable, impartial, Justice must weigh each case considered against when forming their decision. I submit to you esteemed members of the United States Senate that seating a Justice with a total disregard (vis-a-vis relevance) of the Declaration of Independence is a supreme contradiction and puts us at high risk of a long term mistake.

The success of our Country since its inception can be directly attributed to the stability provided by adherence of the Supreme Court, and subsidiary courts, to the original precedent. While created by and for persons of faith, the Declaration of Independence transcends Race and Creed, creating an environment optimized for HUMAN NATURE.

The social and business climate created by a grounded set of Rules (Law) that can be counted on for Long Term stability is essential for the continued success of our Republic. A Justice that does not posess an understanding of the original precedent, and its essential function, will subject to pressures of the current economic, social, political environment (witness Bank Bailouts) veer off course as Human Nature recreates precedent.

In Colorado, we are during this election cycle addressing Judicial Activism which is the result of decisions made without regard for original precedent to the detriment of Colorado in many ways. Beyond the scope here, but research is available for your consideration at ClearTheBenchColorado. 

The chief Justice has signaled her intent to resign in advance of a Retention Defeat and we look forward to a Colorado Supreme court that returns to the successful course shown by our founding documents. 

We would prefer to keep the U.S. Supreme Court on track, as any mistake is necessarily more difficult to correct. A climate of uncertainty and competition between Judicial-Legislative-Executive branches is a detriment to the Life, Liberty and pursuit of Happiness of every citizen. It is for this reason that I implore you to withdraw your support for the confirmation of Ms. Kagan and request an alternative nominee from the President as soon as possible for the benefit of all our United States.

Respectfully Yours in Liberty,

Joe Elector

Excerpt from The Original Precedent

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,

Unions Electioneering By CHOICE-Isn't it Time?

We have been force fed for the past 100 years, flogged brutally with it over the past few, that nothing Good or Right can be done without some sort of D.C. Legislation. I am going to give the notion the benefit of acquiescence for this thought exercise and would ask you to a)Do the Same long enough to consider this proposed Legislation and b)Help with an experiment to make advantage of the current position of "Overton Window" on this notion by making this post VIRAL.

Where As the Billions invested by Union Organizations on Electioneering has been acknowledged as Money Flushed Down the Toilet by the Obama White House

and Where As  Union Pension Systems are heading towards insolvency like a Tsunami due to unfunded liability and swelling overheads and electioneering expense

and Where As the Pension Safety Net (Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation -sort of like Fannie Mae for Pension Ponzi?) is unravelling as fast as the Union programs as U.S. Treasury Debt exceeds GDP AND May NOT be available

and Where As the Union Membership should enjoy the Economic Freedom and 1st Amendment voice to participate in the Democratic Decision making regarding the Expenditure of their contributions