Guest Post by Antonius Aquinas
One of the greatest hoaxes ever perpetrated upon Americans at the time of its telling and which is still trumpeted to this very day is the notion that the U.S. Constitution contains within its framework mechanisms which limit its power. The “separation of powers,” where power is distributed among the three branches – legislative, executive, judicial – is supposedly the primary check on the federal government’s aggrandizement.
This sacred held tenet of American political history has once again been disproved.
Last Friday (October 23), the Attorney General’s office announced that it was “closing our investigation and will not seek any criminal charges” against former Internal Revenue Service’s director of Exempt Organizations, Lois Lerner, or, for that matter, anyone else from the agency over whether they improperly targeted Tea Party members, populists, or any other groups, which voiced anti-government sentiments or views.
The Department of Justice statement read:
The probe found ‘substantial evidence of mismanagement,
poor judgment and institutional inertia leading to the
belief by many tax-exempt applicants that the IRS targeted
them based on their political viewpoints. But poor
management is not a crime.’ (My emphasis)
Incredibly, it added:
We found no evidence that any IRS official acted based on
political, discriminatory, corrupt, or other inappropriate
motives that would support a criminal prosecution.*
That the DOJ will take no action against one of its rogue departments demonstrates the utter lawlessness and totalitarian nature of the federal government. The DOJ’s refusal to punish documented wrongdoing by the nation’s tax collection agency shows the blatant hypocrisy of Obummer, who promised that his presidency would be one of “transparency.”
It can be safely assumed that Congress will not follow up on the matter, as Darrell Issa (R-Ca.), who chaired a committee to investigate the bureau’s wrong doings, admitted that its crimes may never be known.** The DOJ and Issa’s responses are quite predictable once the nature of the federal government and, for that matter, all governments are understood.
Basic political theory has shown that any state is extremely reluctant to police itself or reform unless threatened with destruction, take over, or dismemberment (secession). The Constitution has given to the federal government monopoly power where its taxing and judicial authority are supreme. It will not relinquish such a hold nor will it seek to minimize such power until it is faced with one of these threats.
While it was called a federated system at the time of its enactment and ever since by its apologists, the reality of the matter is quite different. As the Constitution explicitly states in Art. VI, Sect. 2, the central government is “the supreme law of the land.” The individual states are inferior and mere appendages to the national government – ultimate control rests in Washington.
In fact, it was the Constitution’s opponents, the much derided Antifederalists, who were the true champions of a decentralized system of government while their more celebrated opponents such as Madison, Hamilton and Jay wanted an omnipotent national state.
Thus, in the American context, the only method for those oppressed by the federal government is to either threaten or actually go through with secession. Attempts to alter its dictatorial rule through the ballot box or public protests are futile. While there will naturally be outrage at letting the IRS off the hook, focus and anger must be redirected away from participation within the current political system to that of fundamental change.
Congress’ refusal to prosecute an executive bureau that has deliberately used (and is still using) state power to oppress and harass opponents of the Obama regime demonstrates the bankruptcy of the idea that separation of power limits tyranny. Federal power and the corresponding tyranny and corruption which it has bred has never been countered by the checks and balances and separation of powers of the supposed “federal republic” created a little over two centuries ago.
Until the “big lie” of the Constitution is realized, agencies like the IRS will continue to target and tyrannize anti-government organizations, groups, and individuals. The Constitution provides no real mechanism for the redress of grievances from the subjects which it rules. Only when the breakup of the federal Union has taken place, will American liberties and freedoms be secured.
*Tyler Durden, “DOJ Closes Lois Lerner Investigation Without Charges.” Zero Hedge http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-23/doj-closes-lois-lerner-investigation-without-charges
October 23, 2015.
**Melanie Batley, “Issa on IRS Scandal: May Never Get the Truth.” Newsmax http://www.newsmax.com/US/issa-scandal-irs-investigation/2014/07/09/id/581638/ July 9, 2014.
Antonius Aquinas@AntoniusAquinas
Anybody curious as to “what” the United States was actually supposed to be should read the Articles of Confederation. The so called Constitutional Committee actually HAD NO CHARTER to do anything other than amend the Articles of Confederation. Instead they threw them out, penned the constitution which established a strong federal government, and bought off states to ratify it. There are legitimate questions as to whether the so called constitution was ever truly ratified by the states. The Civil War in the United States was the last challenge to this hoax, it had little to do with slavery.
“As the Constitution explicitly states in Art. VI, Sect. 2, the central government is “the supreme law of the land.” The individual states are inferior and mere appendages to the national government – ultimate control rests in Washington.”
An alien learns what government is:
We have seen this so many times now that perhaps it no longer surprises anyone. What surprises me is that they go through the dog and pony show in the first place. How many people agree that the evidence of wrongdoing by almost every single one of the “officials” who have been investigated for abusing the power and authority of their office is overwhelming, YET the investigators somehow seem to be blind to what many of us realize.
Notice I wrote “seem.” They are no more blind to it than you or I. Like any wordparsing lawyer, they come up with a way to allow the behavior that every single one of us knows is not only unethical, it is illegal by any stretch of the imagination.
The same can be said of Hillary’s little moment of angst-ridden questioning. We all know nothing will come of it because nothing CAN come of it. So many transgressions by our political and bureaucratic hacks have been overlooked by so many agencies that are supposed to be serving as Oversight for Congress, which is supposed to contain the Stewards of the Public Trust, monetary and principles of liberty as well as regional interests for which they were elected. Once the Stewards discovered that they could convince people that they, in reality, owned the Public Trust and, in fact, were entitled to their fair share of respect and honor just because of their position, all was lost.
The Constitution’s Big Lie became the lie when the people willingly accepted their servitude.
“The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their
own rights, and are the only instruments which can be used for
their destruction.” –Thomas Jefferson to John Wyche,
1809.
“It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.”
― Benjamin Franklin
The Constitution limits government by naming specific powers and duties to the government and reserving all others to the people.
But like any law, people have to commit to and insist on adherence to it for it to be meaningful.
And when not followed -when ignored- the situation gradually deteriorates to the point where the only real law is that commanded by those with the largest number of guns and the greatest willingness to use them.
Belief comes first. Humans all exist in a fog of belief, which is to say that we grasp infinitely complex reality via gross oversimplifications…i.e., “stories.”
Combine Orwell (Eric Blair) and Etienne de la Boetie and you understand 100% of how human social behavior, subset politics, works.
The High runs things. The Middle makes things work. The Low exists. Each has both a rationalization for their place in this hierarchy and each has a goal. The High wishes to simply stay there, the Middle wishes to replace the high and the Low is too dull to have much grasp of anything.
All must consent, on balance, with conditions or conditions change. The only change that CAN occur is that the Middle may kick the High out (to become Middle) and replace them…and then resume doing exactly what the High did before.
Western Civilization’s dominant rationalization today is a theology: Progressivism. Whether called Fabian socialism in the UK, social democracy in Europe or whatever term you use for the USA, it’s all the same dogma:
1. Open voting for political rulers baptizes the political state in Godliness. Under democratic forms, political government assumes the infallibility of God, and the men and women who rule the state are demigods whose work is prejudged as Good.
2. The purpose of political government is to Make Mankind Better, and if you dig deep enough you find that the goal is either to construct Utopia (in the UK/Europe) or the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth (USA, via progressivism’s Unitarian Christian foundation.)
3. Unquestionable dogma within this:
A. All men and women are equal. Unequal results between groups of people are due to innate evil and must be eliminated by any means necessary.
B. All cultures are equal. People exhibiting every culture must be welcomed.
C. All power exercised by people working for political systems is Godly. All power exercised by people outside of political systems is evil unless proved otherwise.
This dogma gives rulers the rationalization they need to see their parasitism as benevolence. When Hillary Clinton amasses tens (if not hundreds) of millions of dollars in bribes, graft, etc., she sees herself as a Warrior Woman for Good, not a money-grubbing con artist. All people are heroes in their own minds.
This dogma gives those in the Middle the rationalization they need to keep slogging away under the burden of taxes that pay the 1% who are poor/oppressed/etc. out of accident and the 99% whose lives are crap because of the choices they made. It keeps the slaves laboring in the fields of the plantation.
This dogma absolves the Low of the sense that they earned their place in the bottom run of society.
We in the USA live in a theocracy. We just can’t see it, for the most part, because our lives are saturated with it every waking moment from birth to death.
Now you know why those who explain this openly are shouted down by the mob. In every master/slave system, the most energetic people keeping the slaves from escaping are OTHER SLAVES.
In this case, however, challenging the dogma of the State Cathedral is open heresy. If times get tough, pointing out the truth (as I did above) will get heretics stoned.
dc sunsets- Excellent post per usual and so true. You have been missed, glad to see you.
DC
I’m glad to see you back. Your insights add a lot of value to TBP.
I worry when long time regulars suddenly disappear.
People herd.
Fashion is not limited to wardrobe. Political fads come and go. The one under which we live has had a very long run (a couple centuries), but it appears by all honest measures to be in its terminal stage. While the last 50 years of monetary debasement is extreme, the celebration of folie à plusieurs with Bruce/Caitlin Jenner as the Poster Child strikes me as about as far as it can go. The attempt to push that narrative into high school girls’ locker rooms is slamming into innate fatherly protection. It Will Not Pass.
What follows will not be peaceful or fun.
Conditions of the future spring from seeds planted today. The seeds being planted today include:
1. Vast dependence on highly specialized systems for delivering life’s necessities.
2. Coerced mixing of people who barely trust or tolerate each other during the best of times.
3. Filling a vast reservoir of rage, dammed by Progressivism’s squatter’s rights to the Moral High Ground.
4. Building a vast inverted pyramid of perceived wealth that rests on the volatile and explosive mists of hiveminded trust and groupthink “money.”
dc-
Second. I always read your comments and think you bring a lot of wisdom here.
Glad to see you post again.
Thanks, Bea.
Frankly (as Roy will attest) I’ve fallen off the wagon. I find perusing (and commenting) on blog sites to be a particularly virulent vice for me and I’m doing my best to actually NOT visit social/political commentary sites.
My “presence” here is sadly a display that weakness is routing strength at my keyboard. I miss the dialogue, but I also know it’s “not good for me.”
OT, but last week I re-learned what happens when you challenge even the tiniest bit of Cathedral Dogma. In a Breitbart story about women and defensive gun use, when (presumably) male comments were 99% “my wife outshoots me” I simply stated that when it comes to handguns, while women are fully capable of using them for defense, they are simply not equal to men, all other things equal. I cited the 2014 national championship rosters for United States Practical Shooting Association and the International Defensive Pistol Association, where even industry-sponsored, professional female competitors’ scores were way below those of the top men.
I was called every name in the book, by (presumably) men and women. At no point was a single datum of proof offered to counter my observation, and in fact it was hilarious when one critic brought up Serena Williams as an example of a woman being “on top” and I countered with Wikipedia’s list of top tennis serve speeds where men didn’t even make honorable mention unless their speed was significantly higher than the highest female serve ever recorded.
Women are equal to men.
Blacks, Asians, American Indians and Caucasians are all the same.
African, Asian, American Indian and European cultures are all the same.
Heaven help you if you argue otherwise, NOT examining individuals but highlighting group averages.
This is why I find commenting both addictive and valueless. We all learn nothing from each other; if we agree with someone, it just reinforces our own biases. If we disagree, it still reinforces our own biases, we just attack the messenger.
The world goes by itself. The future is simply a dynamic result (a moving target) of an infinitely complex system. Anyone who proposes that they can control it is delusional. We are but ants, riding leaves that float on History’s River. We don’t change where the river flows, at best we can hope to paddle our leave to what we hope will be the calmer part of the stream…and in truth, even the best people will often get this wrong and paddle in the wrong direction. Lots of life is luck.
“paddle our leaf”
Damn it, I hate lousy copy editing.
DC as usual…+1000
People are more comfortable with emotion than fact…the need to feel is more important than the desire to understand which is why applying the proper solution to the pertinence problem is so rare in government …because “I FEEL” overpowers ” I understand”…for example the simple truth and well researched truth that the 19th Amendment was largely responsible for the massive growth of government in the 20th century and when brought the attention of the feminists on TBP will create a firestorm of blabbering exceptions..even from the manboob feminist…facts be damned.
Hi Admin. Yeah, none of us lasts forever, and the further our society travels into Unicorn Land on the vast continent of Folie a Plusieurs, the harder it is for the sane to survive.
In the interest of mental health, I’ll probably disappear again soon.
@flash, if I’m informed correctly, neurons in the brain’s seat of emotion, the limbic system, actually fire with higher amplitude and frequency than do those in the human brain’s seat of reason, the neocortex.
For this reason alone, we can deduce that in a contest between our emotional brain and our reasoning brain, the emotional one wins. This is why I can take a box full of writhing black snakes (harmless) and dump it in your lap several times, and even after several iterations you’ll still jump. The synapses in your reptilian base brain do NOT LEARN. They react; this was a survival mechanism for our ancient ancestors, for whom a “hang on, let me think about that bit of movement in the grass I just spied” came at the cost of being a carnivore’s lunch.
We are truly a product of our biology. This is why I find the concept of AI so funny. No machine will ever think like a human because no machine made by man will have the nature of a man. A machine can mimic a man, and a machine can calculate far faster than a man, and store and recall far more than a man, but a machine will never feel. Mimicry is not identity.
Sorry, my mind was wandering….
http://www.socionomics.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/nutshell-2.pdf
http://www.socionomics.net/2011/04/social-mood/
If the socionomic hypothesis is correct, then what we (the kind of people who peruse TBP) experience is a leading-edge anxiety, which is a product of being slightly less attuned to the herding dog whistles of our times. We see the ingredients of the future being mixed in right before our eyes and it TERRIFIES US even as we marvel in astonishment that our fellow citizens are blind to it.
If you’re like me, it makes you question your sanity at times.
“You have been missed, glad to see you.” ——– Bea
” …. you bring a lot of wisdom here. Glad to see you post again.” ——– Tim
+1000
I certainly understand the need to take a vacation from this madness here …. a day, a week, whatever. I do it. Sometimes. BUT …. they always pull you back. Fuck the other blogs. THIS is the place to be. THIS is the place that luvs ya.
“This is why I find commenting both addictive and valueless. We all learn nothing from each other …..” ——- DC Sunsets
That’s simply not true, my friend. I have learned SO much from MANY of our regulars, including YOU.
For the sake of ultra simplicity let’s narrow down the world of Internet readers to two groups;
1. —– those whose minds are made up
2. —– those who have the capacity to change their views
Granted, #1 above is probably at least 90% of the population.
BUT there are 10% left!! THEY are worth it. They are people like ME …. who has changed his opinion on QUITE A FEW major issues since I’ve been here. Are we worth the aggravation caused by the other 90%? I think so …….
Good to have you back DC, even if just for a while.
Sure, a whole bunch of shit-flinging goes on here and a good deal of mindless mutterings, BUT there are a few commentors who regularly offer new, unique points-of-view and challenge those very biases you speak of—this is VERY valuable to those of us with enough wisdom to realize that we all know very little in the grand scheme of things.
I have always enjoyed reading your POV on a wide range of topics and most specifically on the financial threads.
They are quite transparent, transparently criminal –
transparently totalitarian –
transparently incapable of learning from experience –
transparently blind –
add your own descriptor of Statist behavior
The scary part for me is that my intellectual journey is taking a very, very dark path.
Everything I perceive (the stuff that gets past my mental filters, that is) is taking me to places I spent most of my life seeing as, well, evil.
I started as a Republican, went to the Libertarian (Party) and then to apolitical libertarianism…then to “market-order” anarchist…and now have left the light and am traveling toward a place I cannot name.
I now see my earlier views as foolishly Utopian and incompatible with human nature. This leaves me hewing dangerously close to viewpoints that actually get people fired from their jobs and threatened with jail if they so much as *think* about acting on them (yes, my conclusions tell me that non-violent actions in line with my thoughts lead to actual malum prohibitum *CRIMES.*
I’m becoming (right-)collectivist in my viewpoints, something I find abhorrent but irresistible. It is a journey I didn’t imagine taking, one I wish I could avoid but our left-collectivist State Religion forces upon me as I react to being coerced by its lies and dogma.
Some of what I’m reading is this:
(the above is *very* long, so below is a Cliff’s Notes of its first part.)
(6th paragraph+)
http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/
http://anonymousconservativ.ipage.com/blog/
http://www.unz.com/ (except that Ron Unz is pro-open-MesoAmerican immigration, for which I consider him a fool)
http://www.vdare.com
http://www.amren.com/
I’m now of the opinion that I want to live in an aristocracy where people get ahead by production, trade and wise living, one where people mind their own damn business, and one where people who want to institute replacement-level immigration, wealth redistribution or lecture their neighbors about badthink are summarily thrown the F out of the country.
I want to live in a place that’s relatively orderly, which means that if you insist on behaving like a barbarian you will be tossed OUT, not subsidized, not coddled, and sure as hell not JAILED (where your maintenance and upkeep lands on decent people.) You refuse to play nice? We kick you out. You return? We shoot you dead, bury your body and go have a beer.
That’s a huge change from my laissez faire libertarianism of a couple years ago. I wonder if that means I’m just getting old.
DC
I think you just described yourself as Rick from The Walking Dead.
D.C. said…”if I’m informed correctly, neurons in the brain’s seat of emotion, the limbic system, actually fire with higher amplitude and frequency than do those in the human brain’s seat of reason, the neocortex. For this reason alone, we can deduce that in a contest between our emotional brain and our reasoning brain, the emotional one wins”
D.C…..spot on….I’ve told many a person who has “Lost It”when talking about a topic,family or politics that when they “Lose It” they lose their ability to think coherently .I’ve asked folks if after they “Lost It ” and calmed down if they thought of a position ten minutes later that would have bolstered their position. Almost all have answered “Yes ” . This proved my point to them that in order to think clearly you MUST keep your emotions in check ( thanks Spock) .
dc sunsets – We cannot be neutral, we must come here to point out the fractured thinking in the hope that those who have the ability to accept the truth will find the enlightenment that is not offered elsewhere.
Admin, I’m not ***nearly*** that touchy-feely.
In all frankness, I usually enjoy a good zombie apocalypse story, but that character (Rick) was such a pussy in season 1 that I turned the channel.
[It doesn’t help that Walking Dead peeves me no end by forgetting that every character in it would be utterly, irreparably DEAF if exposed to a tiny fraction of the gunfire in the show. If you’ve ever been anywhere NEAR an AK47 clone when it’s fired you know that even with ear plugs and ear muffs together those guns are painful to be around. A person shooting even one shot without good hearing protection would be unable to hear much at all for hours, and a steady diet of that leads to permanent deafness.]
I’ve coined a new phrase: I think what America needs is for more people to be “Goetzed.”
You know, when a thugscrum of lowlifes decides to relieve some taxpayer of his wallet, her dignity/chastity or their life and instead the victim turns the tables and ventilates each and every one of them…until the pistol runs dry. And maybe after a spare magazine is emptied, too.
Of course, a white person doing this would likely get the full Christian Treatment (they’d be “Zimmermaned,” even if Zimmerman wasn’t actually a full Caucasian) but I see no way to avoid this given the coming collision between BLM, cops going on a work stoppage due to the Youtube Effect, and money drying up for courts, jails, etc. as cities and states divert taxes to funding their pension systems.
Crime suppression is going to move to “point of sale” or not occur at all.
Or perhaps not. Maybe Americans are like Angela Merckel, more interested in looking PC than in actually doing something as gauche as surviving.
DC
Rick toughened up by season 4. I can picture you biting a scumbag’s jugular too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNzgDgdmRK4
Buckhed, I once read a book about how to deal with angry people and learned a lot.
I realized that once I (or anyone) was escalated (getting angered), my ability to think or reason was gone. Reasoning with angry people (including me) is impossible. I learned that avoidance (of becoming angered) was extremely important.
I like myself as Dr. Jekyll, not so much as Mr. Hyde.
I’m glad I never get angry. I’m just the easy going Admin.
Bea, I’m not neutral, but my view is that I can’t change anything, only myself.
In this regard I weave my historical fatalism (what will be, will be) with the Voluntaryist Approach, which is if you want to improve the world, the only thing you can do is present it with One Improved Unit: You.
Self-improvement is the only path a person can take to improve the world around him.
The most difficult part of this for me to confront is that my influence is so miniscule. I now have two granddaughters and another grandchild on the way, and it is now obvious to me that my ability as a grandparent to influence them is likely to be tiny.
Our impact in the world is tiny, and incredibly brief. Like a drop of water in a calm pond, little changes and soon even the ripples of our passing by are calmed to nothing. “Dust in the Wind,” just like the Kansas Song.
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@ Admin, I more fancy myself along the lines of Clyde in “Law Abiding Citizen.”
Actually, I don’t think I could do that. Probably. But the experience of the character in that movie (watching his beloved wife and daughter murdered) might make anyone into Clyde.
Anger, when properly controlled is a thing of beauty. I had a supervisor for a short time that decided to “get under my skin” when I made it clear that I was never going to play his particular brand of ball. He liked to rally “his employees” to ridicule and marginalize whoever was the subject of his ire. In this way he could claim innocence and give the troops a “stern talking to” if it blew up in his face. A real psychopath he was.
Anywho, once he declared me persona non grata, I killed myself to smile at and agree with every bone headed idea he came up with to irritate me no matter how much it pissed me off. I even came up with multiple reasons his new changes to my shift, days off, work load, responsibilities or whatever were good ideas and I suggested even harsher changes to benefit the company and make him look good. I would usually do this in front of other management. This pissed him off to end and at times I had him so fucking pissed he could spit nails but he couldn’t do dick about it without walking some of his shit back. It really was “orgasm satisfying” to watch him squirm.
He quickly found a reason to transfer me to another department to get me out of his hair which was ultimately what I wanted anyway. He kept up his psychopathic behavior and lobbied for and was given control of another department just so he could fuck with and ultimately fire another guy he didn’t like. This guy was even smoother than I was at throwing it back on him and when the supervisor eventually blew his top in a fit of rage thinking he was a firing the guy, he found out that HE was getting fired.
So when you encounter someone trying to fuck with you don’t get mad, just figure out how to give them just enough rope to hang themselves.
DC Sunsets said:
“This is why I find commenting both addictive and valueless. We all learn nothing from each other;”
Maybe for most but not for me. I seek out articles and opinions that challenge my beliefs in an effort to refine them. In refining them I learn more about myself. That’s what makes the collection of STM’s around here so great. Sure, a handful post continuous streams of drivel but most offer viewpoints that serve to educate.
You said:
“The scary part for me is that my intellectual journey is taking a very, very dark path.”
You’re not the only one my friend. Before my doom porn odyssey began I never considered for a second the level of absolute evil that exists in this world beyond your run of the mill criminals. Most of it is concentrated in those who are held up as our so-called leaders and others we are taught to trust. I feel the evil creeping into my thoughts as well but I’ve decided to just “go Carlin” and enjoy the freak show rather than breaking myself against the rocks. Paddle you leaf to a calm spot in the stream and marvel at the enormity of it all until the high water threat of collapse passes.
If you do bail for a time to preserve your sanity, check in once in a while. Although I rarely comment on your wisdom here, it is appreciated and among the best.
dc,
Really glad to see you back, and I intend to investigate the links you posted, but a quick question if you have the time and interest to share your thoughts: above you said “The attempt to push that narrative into high school girls’ locker rooms is slamming into innate fatherly protection. It Will Not Pass.” How does your prognosis change if the progressives manage to destroy the family with such tactics as the normalization of pedophilia, public school and media brainwashing, etc? And how likely do you think it is to occur? In my view the end of the nuclear family would be as civilization-changing as the development of agriculture, and maybe just as hard to reverse.
By the way, as an example of the “dark path” my thinking sometimes turns to, what if the psychopaths are right? What if, with the potentially very dangerous technologies about to come on line, too many political jurisdictions, too much freedom, and too many people actually threaten the survival of the human race, and a single unified group of overlords is our best chance of surviving it? My current thinking is, if the future doesn’t include what I think of as a human mode of existence for the masses, I don’t much care whether humanity survives or not.
AnarchoP, I can’t speak for anyone but myself. The whole “I’m a girl in a guy body so I want to shower with your 17 year old daughter” brings a series of thoughts to my mind.
1. Over your dead body. (Dead serious.)
2. Screw this, pull the daughter (and other kids) from school and let the cesspit sink.
Number 2 is less emotionally satisfying, but wiser. This is actually what WILL happen if we continue down this path much more. People will simply withdraw. This is a behavior that is difficult for collectivists to fight. This is academic for me, anyway. My kids are grown. Their kids are their responsibility, and while I’d be at least tempted to kill anyone who threatened or harmed my grandkids, my role is increasingly “emeritus.” I’m not over the hill, but the hill isn’t that long a trip any more.
In the larger world, science and technology have handed the greatest sociopaths among us the means to wipe humanity from Earth. I know this, but can’t worry about it. Trying to hide from it is mutually exclusive with respect to living in the world as it is.
So I simply live each day, recognizing that we are ruled by scorpions.
Oh, and I absolutely concur with you. The nuclear family is the keystone of Western Civilization. While left-collectivists are always busy trying to destroy this natural opponent to their desire to remake mankind, the reality is that not everyone will go along with them.
The family will survive…among the Remnant. The rest of the world, well, what they do is irrelevant to us, isn’t it? We go our own way, and when necessary simply keep a low enough profile to keep doing so.
We are, however, surrounded by Pod People
@DC: “We go our own way, and when necessary simply keep a low enough profile to keep doing so.”
Welcome to my world! Hint: in our world, it’s ALWAYS necessary to keep a low profile!
Hey DC, good to hear from you. I have always enjoyed your posts. And to think I was worried that you were going to kick my ass on the “he could be obama’s son” thread! Welcome to the dark side!
DC, thank you for your posts, they are always thought provoking as others have noted. I too have been going down similar paths to understand the way the world works and what is rational and it seems some things I used to think not rational are now clearly rational.
This country will continue to be fucked up until and unless Bush, Cheney, Obama, and their henchmen are indicted and tried for their war crimes and treason.
D.C. Thanks for your thoughts and checkin-in, don’t sell yourself short with the grand kids, it might surprise you how much influence you will have over them, even long after your gone. I suspect you already know this.
I know a few who have had repeated,exposure to gun fire over long periods of time, sometimes confined, and still posses decent hearing.
Enjoy the ride
“I know a few who have had repeated,exposure to gun fire over long periods of time, sometimes confined, and still posses decent hearing.”
I envy them. I’ve been shooting for almost 40 years, have fired “typical” guns (pistol or rifle) without hearing protection 4-5 times in my life, and with hearing protection many thousands of times….and I have tinnitus for the rest of my life which I blame mostly on the cumulative effects of this.
It is a fact that the bones in the face carry a significant amount of percussive sound (like gunshots) straight to the auditory canal. Plugs or muffs have no effect on this whatsoever.
This is why it is a CRIME that firearm sound suppressors (silencers) are available only under an onerous and expensive regulatory regime. The people who oppose removing them from the National Firearms Act of 1934 are vicious, ignorant, rotten, evil assholes, every single one of them. They and their moron supporters get their facts from TV and movie plots (Hollywood lies) and wallow in their ignorance. They are only too happy to see people who indulge in a sport they hate (shooting) suffer debilitating effects that could easily be prevented.
A suppressor put on a typical rifle often reduces the percussive report by the same amount as ear plugs. Adding ear plugs to that would take the effect on one’s hearing down to zero. It should be standard procedure, just like putting mufflers on cars.