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Mantra

Let it go.

I have been telling myself this many times the past few days, always when out in public passively interacting with the rest of the world.

Let it go.

Time for an attitude sabbatical

Angry. Bitter. Indifferent. Cynical.

For many people that know me, these aren't the descriptors that typically come to mind, except maybe the last two. For a while I have found myself being easily tweaked over unrelated things that really do not matter. Time to bore into the depths of that metaphorical cave until I figure out some whys and methods of eradicating them at the root level. Life is too short to be bitter about things that are irrelevant. Most are impossible/improbable scenarios in my head anyway - why get worked up over something that won't happen?

I'm going to take a break from politics and whatever else comes to mind that I think will repel my psyche from poisonous spheres of influence. No more internet news, television news, talk radio, or political books for a while. Let's see if I can exorcise the demons from my world view. Time to remove or replace some of the mental filters and lenses that focus my consciousness on the negative. The polarity needs to change 180 degrees.

If this is my midlife crisis, I'm not complaining a bit. I've already had the sports car. Been there, done that. Little ROI.

and I am already married to my trophy babe...

Teflon by means of intended ommision

Here's a funny image I saw today. For me it depicts my perceived bias of the mainstream press. After she gets the Democratic nomination, take note for instances of the following:

[1] No tough questions that will make her look bad or incapable.
[2] No questions about any of her previous (documented) contradictory positions.
[3] The downplaying of any scandal.
[4] No deep investigative reporting or reminders of any actual relevant scandals from her husband's administration.
[5] No questions about her funding "sources" (i.e., China).
[6] Kid glove treatment because of who she is married to. (poor Hillary, that cheatin' 'ol bastard Bill...)

Kum-by-ah... All prostrate before St. Hillary...



p.s. Women have and do currently govern countries in this world and there is still war. Nice try. Not all of us are that gullible.

Monday morning quarterbacking at its worst

Sorry, no week 1 football commentary here, except GO SEAHAWKS!

General Petraeus gives his report on Iraq today to the weasels in Congress. Keep the quote below in mind when you read all of the "unbiased" and "objective" commentary from the mainstream press.

"It appears we have appointed our worst generals to command forces, and our most gifted and brilliant to edit newspapers. In fact, I discovered by reading newspapers that these editor/geniuses plainly saw all my strategic defects from the start, yet failed to inform me until it was too late. Accordingly, I am readily willing to yield my command to these obviously superior intellects, and I will, in turn, do my best for the Cause by writing editorials - after the fact."
- Robert E. Lee, 1863

Good to be iHome

Back home from another clandestine mission. Travel was per the standard HEMI-powered, 1/2 ton, 4-wheeled, Hydro-Carbon Fueled Eco-Vehicle variety and was uneventful (good). Many hours spent on the road and many rest stops along the planned route. No kinky Senators or other such public servants to be seen loitering the public haunts - not that I was intentionally seeking their "company".

Always good to be home, this time just my lovely wife and the cats, but I know it's only a respite. I'll now appreciate them more when I can.

Yesterday, I experienced one of those moments where the unique alignment of the planets went in my favor. Apple dropped the prince of the iPhone and combined with my ever-generous Timeline comrade (and Apple mucky-muck) employee discount, I was ready to financially pounce on the iPhone. I can't wait. The headphone jack on my 2nd gen iPod separated itself from the internal circuit board almost a year ago leaving it useless as an actual listening device. I will now be able to listen to audiobooks again on my daily commute. Yes, I had other options, but this is the best use of my ample commute time, especially with the absolute CRAP available on the FM airwaves in the SF Bay Area. I can't deluge myself to AM talk radio 24/7 because I am pissed off enough as is.

On an unrelated front, please keep your fingers crossed for my company. We've bid on a large government contract and should learn the outcome in a couple of weeks. Potentially another may be on the near horizon... This could facilitate keeping me locally a bit longer than previously anticipated (good), especially if yet disclosed responsibilities land on my doorstep - more on that **if** it develops.

How long does the USA have?

... reporting from an undisclosed bunker ...

Another of those internet emails that is quite interesting. This further reinforces my belief that the better days of the USA are long behind us and we're only a short distance away from the totalitarian/socialist "utopia" the liberals, the elite, and the country club Republicans are hoping for.

How Long Do We Have?

About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government."

"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury."

"From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the Public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years."

"During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:

1. From bondage to spiritual faith;
2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to complacency;
6. From complacency to apathy;
7. From apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage.

Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election:

Number of States won by:
Gore: 19
Bush: 29

Square miles of land won by:
Gore: 580,000
Bush: 2,427,000

Population of counties won by:
Gore: 127 million
Bush: 143 million

Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:
Gore: 13.2
Bush: 2.1

Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country. Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..."

Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.

If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegals and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.