Politics and elections, bah, humbug!

LOL, Bush bashing and liberal lashing, it's all the same to me.

The "moral majority" component of the right scares the hell out of me, and the socialist loony left is worse.

The biggest problem facing the USA is the erosion of our personal rights under the Constitution. This has been a process that has been in full progress for more than 40 years under the aegis of both major political parties here. It started, though, with the dual edged sword of bad laws and their (intended!) results being used as a reason for even more bad laws, and the move away from the gold standard of money.

Many like to say that all the conflict in the Middle East is a result of oil. It is not. It is the result of 3 major religions with common roots. The conflict there has existed much longer than has any dependence on oil. Oil is merely a rationalization for the violence. It is a smokescreen for other, more sinister, agendas.

Much of the inner city violence in the USA is blamed on drugs. This is incorrect, it is a result of bad laws about drugs, and this is demonstrated by the lessons learned (or that should have been learned) from prohibition.

No, I do not defend Bush, he has had some real problems in leadership. I do not defend the crooks named Clinton either. The USA has not been wise in it's choice of leadership, and this is a direct result of the federalization of schools. We have raised 3 generations of educated puppets, unable or unwilling to understand that freedom and security are the same thing. An armed society is a polite society.

While I do not subscribe to any monstrous conspiracy theories, I will say that there are those who hold great power who are NOT in any government. These people control the money, or more precisely, the flow of value.

There is an old saying that to find the reason, follow the money. Interestingly, the research shows that there is a curious linkage between terrorism, oil, drugs, major religions and governments. Not just the USA government, nearly all of them.

In the USA we had the curious spectacle of the CIA importing drugs to fund (counter-) terrorism in South America while the DEA was trying to stop them. Insanity! The urban myth that drugs are the government's way of destroying minorities has some support in fact. Consider this an example of what goes on globally, mostly undetected and certainly never reported in the news.

If the USA really considered oil as the only issue in the middle east, there is no reason why we could not seize it. We have the power to do so, and as long as the rest of the world gets theirs, they would not care who sold it to them. They do not now. The reason we do not is simple, we still see ourselves as the good guys, no matter how clearly our democrat and republican leaders have demonstrated otherwise to the rest of the world. The ignorant masses still wield some power in the USA, but this is quickly being destroyed. The wars on poverty, drugs and terrorism have achieved their goals. The populace will soon be powerless against the police state and the military, Posse Comitatus be damned. When that populace is disarmed, the Middle East may well be doomed.

The UN has stated outright it's desire for a world government where the control of wealth is in the hands of those who did not create it, and those who did create wealth are curiously silent. Perhaps they know that their puppets are well controlled. How better to protect one's wealth than to control a world government?

This myopia on the part of the citizens of the USA (and the rest of the world) is the result of the desire of those who hold the real power to remain anonymous to most people. One must understand that not all of these powerful people are individually rich, they can be cartels and other types of organizations, even criminal conspiracies. Power obeys only natural law, not the laws of man. Crime does pay, if you can write the laws. (I mean that statement in every sense you can think of!)

This is a world of many conflicting egos, whose loyalties and alliances shift to the highest bidder at a moments notice, and the currency is human misery and despair.

So, please spare me the drama that is politics, for that is just the face of the beast. The real enemy is ignorance and laziness, laziness of mind and willful, blessed ignorance.

Pass me a beer and put on the Braves game. Thanks.

Talking to God

“You do know that the reason that there is pain in the world is because there must be a contrast to pleasure, don’t you?”

“Yes, Lord.”

“And the reason for illness is to give the healthy a reason to rejoice?”

“Yes, Lord.”

“Why do you think I made it so that there are people who corrupt my teachings?”

“I would guess that you did so in order for the pure of heart to see that there must be balance in all things, Lord. That man has free will enough to choose between your will and his own, but that even he who corrupts your teachings can seek your solace when he sees the error of his way.”

“Why do you think there are so many religions, and so much hatred between them?”

“Lord, you spoke of faith and redemption. And you said that you had arranged it so that man could see the path if he would only but look. Those who saw the path spoke of it to others and in imperfect language, so that the ideas were corrupted, and imperfect humans seized upon these imperfect ideas as the perfection of your will. Thus they led those with no vision on paths to destruction. They call these paths religions. Lord, I have a question.”

“Yes, my son?”

“Why did you create man in such a way that all this is necessary?”

“I wanted to invent curiosity.”