Washington DC 912

Yeah, I'm one of the Tea Baggers...Isn't that what Anderson Cooper called us. I really can't say here all the things I've called him since, but if you check out episodes 5 & 6 - 2009 of "It's High Time We Talk" on crookedhook.com, you'll get some clue.

Anyhow, I spent the entire day yesterday 09/12/09, in Washington DC. Man, what a turnout - had to be at least 60,000 solid, American citizens there voicing their displeasure with the way things are going in DC. I sure felt proud to be an American yesterday. Look for pictures on the Crooked Hook site in the next few days.

I just wanted to put up this short post to say THANK YOU!!! to everyone who was there and to the organizers. When the next one rolls around, I'm there...

Constitutional Crisis?!?!?!?

I dunno! Are we or aren't we in a constitutional crisis? I think we are, but many of my confidants feel otherwise. I suppose this belief is split almost along a right/left dichotomy. Personally, I don't think it's a right/left issue as much as an AMERICAN issue. I mean once the 1st Amendment is swallowed up by bill H.R. 1341, the Fairness Doctrine, and the president's attempt at usurping control of the private sector portions of the internet when he deems it a "National Emergency", both ideologies will suffer. Once our 2nd Amendment rights succumb to the numerous legislations, the CIFTA treaty, the US Customs Service's proposal to ban any pocket knife that can be opened with one hand, and the other socialist attempts to disable the population's ability to protect itself, then will the liberals suffer any less than the conservatives? When the proposed security force - dubbed "Obama's Army" because of his call for a domestic force "equal in strength to the US military" marches down the streets of our cities and towns will they ask our who we voted for? (They probably will!) I mean, why does the administration feel the need for such a security force. Don't they trust the military? Are they planning something in which they feel the military will oppose them ? Is it because they are alienating the military and intelligence communities by persecuting and prosecuting those who are prepared to give the ultimate sacrifice in order to preserve the very freedoms that the politicians are striving to curtail?

Perhaps I feel as I do because I am concerned about living under a one party system. Now I've heard it argued - most recently on "It's High Time We Talk" at www.crookedhook.com - that we've had situations in the past where Presidents have enjoyed a same party filibuster proof majority in Congress before. But prior to the current scenario, we had more politicians who were not idealogues, who would actually represent their constituents and not their party. There is currently no system of checks & balances. It is this feeling of a "runaway train" that has given rise to the Tea Party movement, comprised predominately of average citizens - many of whom had not previously held any great political convictions. These are not extremist nut-cases, radicals or militants (as is much of the current administration). These are average, every day, hard working, mostly middle class citizens who feel disenfranchised. These are Citizens who feel that too much is happening too fast. Recent polls have shown that many voters have switched their voter registration status to either "independent" or "unenrolled", while other polls have shown that as much as 57% of the country are now considering themselves "conservative". This is the segment of society that feels they were not adequately represented by either candidate in November of 2008. This is the segment of the population that feels the need to do something. But what? What recourse is available to the average citizen who has found that their voices are no longer counted. What redress is there to We The People, who are not fortunate enough to belong to a group that can wield a high powered, well placed lobbyist to ensure our positions are properly paid for and legislated upon?

I've said this before and it seems I've got to say it again: "AS LONG AS THEY KEEP US AT EACH OTHER'S THROATS, WE CAN'T GO FOR THEIRS!!! "

I would suggest that a Special Election needs to be held for both the Senate and the House of Representatives. Each sitting member would be challenged by 2 - that's right two - opponents, one of which would be from the incumbent's same party. In the interest of national security, the elections for each body should be held separately. They should not be immediate, but expedient, forgoing the intensive media hype that is part and parcel of the current election process. The less personal smearing and campaign blustering the better. While there is not much time until the next regular election cycle, there is certainly enough of a period to enact legislation that is capable of tearing asunder the societal fabric of America.

While I'm in rant mode I have a couple more things about which to opine. The first is my new favorite question: "What do you think has caused more damage to the American way of life? Drugs or Television? " Think about it and, as always, feel free to comment. Now, how about one of my more hairbrained ideas...What if we did away with the President's Press Secretary? Make him speak to the press and the people directly. It's always easier to lie through a lackey. And what about this? Last May, the BHO admin has sold off the entire wheat reserves, held in the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust with no commitment to replenish. Now, I'm no genius, but I know you don't sell off your last morsel of food...

We Need This Guy !!!

Check this out. I'm voting for him in 2012!!!

Below is an e-mail that is circulating which is attributed to Dr. William H. Cosby:

I HAVE DECIDED TO BECOME A WRITE-IN CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT IN THE YEAR 2012...HERE IS MY PLATFORM:

(1). Any use of the phrase: 'Press 1 for English' is immediately banned. English is the official language; speak it or wait outside of our borders until you can.

(2). We will immediately go into a two year isolationist attitude in order to straighten out the greedy big business posture in this country. America will allow NO imports, and we'll do no exports. We will use the 'Wal-Mart 's policy, 'If we ain't got it, you don't need it.' We'll make it here and sell it here!

(3).. When imports are allowed, there will be a 100% import tax on it coming in here.

(4). All retired military personnel will be required to man one of the many observation towers located on the southern border of the United States (six month tour). They will be under strict orders not to fire on SOUTHBOUND aliens.

(5). Social Security will immediately return to its original state. If you didn't put nuttin in, you ain't gettin nuttin out. Neither the President nor any other politician will be able to touch it.

(6). Welfare. -- Checks will be handed out on Fridays, at the end of the 40 hour school week, the successful completion of a urinalysis test for drugs, and passing grades.

(7). Professional Athletes -- Steroids? The FIRST time you check positive you're banned from sports ... for life.

(8). Crime - We will adopt the Turkish method, i.e., the first time you steal, you lose your right hand. There is no more 'life sentences'. If convicted of murder, you will be put to death by the same method you chose for the victim you killed: gun, knife, strangulation, etc.

(9).. One export of ours will be allowed: wheat; because the world needs to eat. However, a bushel of wheat will be the exact price of a barrel of oil.

(10). All foreign aid, using American taxpayer money, will immediately cease and the saved money will help to pay off the national debt and, ultimately, lower taxes. When disasters occur around the world, we'll ask The American People if they want to donate to a disaster fund, and each citizen can make the decision as to whether, or not, it's a worthy cause.

(11). The Pledge of Allegiance will be said every day at school and every day in Congress.

(12). The National Anthem will be played at all appropriate ceremonies, sporting events, outings, etc.

My apology is offered if I've stepped on anyone's toes ..... nevertheless......

GOD BLESS AMERICA.

Sincerely, Bill Cosby

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On another note be aware the BHO administration is lobbying for the president to be able to usurp control of the internet in cases of "national emergency". Funny how when the internet is used to get him elected or mobilize his community forces, it is an instrument of great change - a bastion of freedom. However, once it poses a threat to the administration's socialist agenda, once the "other side" begins to use the net as a tool of mobilization, talk of curtailing its use abounds. This is another attack by this admin upon the 1st Amendment. We cannot let this happen. If it does, I'm sure I'll be one of the first to go...

You Betcha!!!

Man, August whizzed by. I meant last week to rant against the (former) hippies in a post on the 40th anniversary of Woodstock. Time usually does that when one ages, and when one keeps as busy as possible. Even when one gives up a couple of hours sleep as I routinely do in order to DO more. Think about this: If - by the age of 72, one sleeps 8 hrs per day - then 24 years are spent sleeping, leaving only 48 years of waking activity. However, if one is dormant for only 6 hrs per day, then only 18 years are spent behind closed eyes, leaving a whopping 54 years of DOING stuff, I could really use a 32 hour day...

A lot has happened during the month to contribute to our inevitable slide into socialism. The Nevada head of ACORN has been convicted of voter fraud and has plead down to lesser charges by agreeing to drop the dime on others within the organization - both locally and nationally. The outrageous Tax & Spend mentality in Washington has reached epic proportions. BHO's Health Care agenda is abominable in that it'll end up costing We The People more than ever, stifle small business growth, and provide us with inadequate, insubstantial coverage. Oil has hit a high for 2009, Scotland has slapped the US in the face by releasing the Lockerbie bomber under Gordon Brown's failing leadership, the car dealers aren't getting paid for the "Cash For Clunkers" program - which incidentally is only an additional bailout for the auto industry - the foreign auto industry at that. (Toyota was the #1 seller). State and federal government has generated 110,000 jobs while 3 million private sector jobs were lost. Las Vegas is at an all time high unemployment level of 13.1%, California at 11.9%, New York City at 9.6% and Barack lost his cool and said "Folks In Washington are all wee-weed up" before he took a vacation on Martha's Vineyard for 20 grand. This just as he announced the revised 10 year budget deficit figures - 9 trillion!!! (I don't think I could have typed that out with the zeroes.) The same figure that was disputed when released by the Congressional Budget Office last month. All this without the cost of the aforementioned health care plan. The Justice Department has decided to take a step backwards and attempt to prosecute the CIA for interrogation issues as well as adopting the Clinton era policy of treating terrorism as a law enforcement issue, despite the fact that history has proven this method to be ineffective and dangerous. The House & Senate Democratic leadership have called the citizen protest groups all kinds of vile names, branding average American citizens as nazis, terrorists and racists even though they advocated similar protest actions - albeit more radical - during the previous administration. ( I have a few beefs with George W, Bush but that poor bastard never got a fair shake. BHO sure makes him look like a dream.) The Left wing media doesn't want to admit that it may have been a little short sighted in their BHO love-fest and remains completely in the tank for the administration while the right-wing pundits continue to increase their bankrolls by playing upon the fears and uncertainties of an increasingly disenfranchised population. Their fires are fanned by a recent Gallup Poll which reported that people who consider themselves conservative outnumber those who consider themselves liberal. In the meantime, punditry of both persuasions continually strive to maintain the left/right dichotomy. This split along ideological lines is a guaranteed cash cow and keeps us from recognizing the real threats to our society - The Beltway!!! I've said it before, and I'll say it again - "As Long As They Keep Us At Each Others' Throats, We Can't Go For Theirs".

I was going to go into a diatribe about how the hippie generation is responsible, but I would be repeating one of my previous rant - Those Damn Hippies - verbatim, so I'll include it below. The link to the original article from "The Uncommon Manifesto" is: http://www.crookedhook.com/Ramblings009.html

Those Damn Hippies

Those damn hippies. I had heard that phrase uttered around and at me throughout most of the sixties and seventies. I never, ever thought that I would utter that very same phrase all these years later.

You see, I wasn’t really of the hippie generation. I was eleven years old when Wooodstock went down. Stuck somewhere between the “Peace, Love, Dope” crowd and the “Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll” folks, I idolized those ahead of me during my teenage years. After so many years of moral repression, racism, and uptight social mores, the so-called path to an “enlightend society where everyone was equal” seemed to be the modern day version of Utopia. I think they meant well, but somehow between the commercialization of the counter-culture and the actual reality of trying to enact some of the extremely liberal social policies, intention was overtaken by greed, apathy, and blind ambition.

Don’t get me wrong. The music was great, the clothes pretty cool and I always preferred to wear my hair long. BUT, for the most part, the “sexual liberation” of our culture has been taken way too far and has caused our society more harm than good. Less than a generation of loosened morality spawned the likes of Madonna (she and I are the same age, incidentally), whose music was predominately targeted towards an adolescent (and younger) audience, thereby mainstreaming her far more adult oriented image. We all stood by while a generation of children were forced to lose their innocence earlier than necessary in the name of the almighty buck. Unfortunately, this all occurred under the most often abused tenant of our constitution - the right to free speech - The First Amendment. Then, another half generation passes and along comes Bill Clinton, who basically legitimized adultery and caused another generation of American youth to believe that oral gratification was not to be considered a sexual act. Although, it could be argued that the media and partisan politicos were equally at fault for overly publicizing a situation that has been occurring since at least Thomas Jefferson (Clinton’s idol - no wonder) and in fact has been perpetuated by the world’s leaders since the beginning of recorded history.

The same holds true with “recreational” drug use. No one will argue that the drug problem in our society is a major issue, which has been exacerbated by years of an inept drug war that has only served to create huge economic concerns on both sides. There is a lot of money to be made via illicit drug trading and an equal income to be had in the eradication of said contraband. While some great ideas have emitted by those using these substances in the interest of “expanding horizons” the general populace has only been dragged into an abyss by these practices. There are really only a very select few individuals on the face of the earth that are capable of achieving any form of great awareness through subsance use - certainly not for everyman.

The desire for compassion and for the creation of a society to include all types has evolved into what is now termed “politcal correct” behavior. The inclusion of radical feminist beliefs have emasculated the male population rather than achieving the desired effect of creating equality for women. (Women have ALWAYS held the upper hand in societies since biblical times.) Under the guise of affirmative action, whole generations of citizens with european ancestry are made to feel guilty and are in fact denied the very same equal rights guaranteed to so-called minorities. In order to be more understanding and compassionate, we are now expected to be forgiving to those who wish us ill will, even if preventative opportunities are presented.

Those damn hippies, they led my generation and those who blindly followed us to the edge of the precipice, pushed us off and turned around and went to Wall Street, Hollywood, Washington DC, and even places like Seattle and Montpelier, Vermont to count their loot obtained by the sales of counter-culture ideals. Shrouded in slick packaging and appealing ambiguities, we have been sold upon ideals that have been perverted and that are only now beginning to display the decay.

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Most of the icons of the day have either become the "man" that they previously railed against - case in point, Jerry Rubin, who did quite well investing in Apple Computer (among others) early on and now lives comfortably in Australia. Or they have passed on before sacrificing their ideals such as Abbie Hoffman (d. 1985) - Rubin's former Yippie partner, who prior to his passing engaged in a speaking tour with Rubin entitled "Yippie vs. Yuppie". Then there are those like Bill Ayers of Weather Underground and Barack Obama fames. They keep coming back in a fashion similar to the Herpes virus. Those were but to name a few of the movers and shakers of the day. So many more lesser known, but equally idealistic individuals permeated our universities, media organizations, and public sector jobs in order to advance their socialistic one-world order agenda. The hope and change that this generation offered when they were young was far less scarier than the hope and change that they are cramming down our throats today.

I've spent the last couple of days listening to and editing the "First Season" of "It's High Time We Talk" for a best of type compilation tentatively entitled "Highlights & Lowlights:. While the CD will contain primarily the more humorous moments of our escapades, there has proven to be some very thought provoking moments as well. We update on an irregular basis as is befitting our characters. Think Cheech & Chong meet Dennis Miller with a smattering of John Stewart and Michael Savage throw in for good measure. Do yourself a favor and give the show a listen...

Owww! My Head Hurts...

I guess it's because I'm crazy. Let's see - the left thinks I'm crazy because I believe there's a Constitutional crisis occurring. The Right thinks I'm crazy because I think that these wimpy-ass tea parties aren't the solution to regaining our country (3 months ago I did. Time has proven that belief wrong!). They are merely a way of mollifying the masses so they stay neatly in their place. My wife thinks I'm crazy because she always has. My kids think I'm crazy 'cuz I'm fun. My friends think I'm crazy because they know me well....I guess I am, so if at this point you wish to discontinue reading in order to avoid the "guilt by association" factor, so be it...If not - enjoy the rantings.

Without naming my name, an unnamed right-leaning talking head - oh let's call him Puffy Doughboy - claims that those of us who believe that there are puppet masters behind the scenes pulling the strings of DC and the media are nut cases. He also claims that we should continue to march and hope to save our country at the ballot box in a year. The damage is already done. You can't erase almost a hundred years of setting up for a new world order with one election cycle. C'mon!!! Another - oh, we'll call this one Schill - thinks we're obfuscating matters by wanting to see BHO's birth (and other) records. Another attempt to pacify the growing masses of fed up truth seekers who are getting too close to the facts. Of course they would - they work for said puppet masters. As I've said in the previous blog post, TV is killing our free thought, and these and other individuals who work in this medium are the instruments of our societal decay. No don't get me wrong. I, being a right of center independent, espouse a lot of the principles and ideals that these two targets of my anger purport to stand for. It's just that with their calls for passivity, they are basically asking us to roll over and let it happen, no matter how much they spout otherwise. They keep our nation divided along a right/left dichotomy intended to keep us from the real issues at hand. I mean, do we really need all the hatred and divisiveness of such issues as abortion, gay marriage and stem cell research (to name but a few). I certainly don't want the government telling me what to do with my body (although I believe that abortion for birth control measures is heinous), I don't want the government telling me who I can and can't marry (devout hetero here. I believe in a "don't flaunt it and we won't bother you" policy), and I certainly don't want the government controlling scientific matters when they can't even run the mail deliveries properly. Equal right for all - NOT special rights for any one, specific group. What's wrong with an equal number of liberals and conservatives - either on the Supreme Court or in the legislative branch - getting together and hammering out solutions to problems in a fair and bipartisan manner? THAT would be Fair & Balanced! This smokescreen of division is what keeps the populace from actually maintaining a vigilant eye upon our governing bodies.

Not a single mainstream media pundit has reported on FEMA's NLE2009, which is by no means a conspiracy theory. It actually happened July 27 - 31. An exercise on US population control with foreign troops (From the UK, Canada, Australia and Mexico) on US soil!!! Bend over We The People and take it til it hurts!!! I've not been able to verify the truth of some of these reports, but have read online that: handguns were confiscated in Louisiana, 70,000 were evacuated from their homes in Texas, and intelligence gathering on US citizens (WITHOUT FISA permission) was conducted in ALL 50 states. Where is the outrage here? Is the confirmation of Judge Sotomayor or the death of Michael Jackson or Paula Abdul's leaving American Idol more important than THIS??? Wake the @#%$ up!!! When any government agency practices martial law exercises, one has to wonder what they're preparing for...

It has come to my attention that my exercising of my 1st amendment right to freedom of speech is causing me to be placed on federal watch lists. Well, so be it. Complacency breeds stagnation and I'll stand for neither. Stand For Something or You'll Fall For Anything. How true that phrase is in today's modern era of mollification. Do you expect me to be happy when we have what is essentially a one-party governing system, ramming through an agenda that is design to crumble the very fabric of American society while spending trillions of dollars that put the burden on my unborn as of yet grandchildren??? Should I simply watch as Chuck Schumer calls the US Constitution an "antiquated old document" (his words not mine)??? I think not, and neither should you!!!

One final note. Even though I wasn't gonna mention the Bilderbergers or the CFR or the Trilateral Commission for fear of being branded a conspiracy theorist, I would like to see a panel of five individuals investigate these groups and perhaps even attend a meeting of each in order to confirm or disspell. Ron Paul, Sarah Plain, Michael Savage, Dennis Kusinich, and Ralph Nader. These individuals by virtue of their past and recent actions have proven that they are not beholden to political ideology, but to their own personal code of right and wrong. Now, I may not agree with them, but they have proven that they stand up for what they believe in. For that fact, this panel should investigate everything!!! Caveat: Sarah WILL have to play ball with the puppet masters if she has any hope of occupying 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

Oww, my head hurts from all this...I'm sure I had more that I wanted to spout about, but I feel the sudden urge to go build a bunker....

The Infernal Boob Toob...

Did you know that there are now more televisions in the United states than there are people? What the hell kind of statistic is that to be proud of? There are 150 million homes with TVs and each home has an average of 2.85 boob tubes. The math says that's 427,500,000 sets in use. The US population is estimated to be at 338 million at the end of June 2009. This is a direct correlation to the decline of our society. In particular, the decline of the neighborhood community. Television - as used by the media moguls, industrialists, and government is used to dumb down We The People. It is a means of disseminating disinformation to the masses while pacifying all but the most radical elements of the populace. (I'm watching a Red Sox game as I type this!!! They Just won!!!)

After the presidential election of 1960 (those were the first televised debates. Kennedy vs. Nixon), the TV moguls, among others, realized the power that their chosen medium contained. The previously unavailable power to sway mass opinion through simple usage of lighting techniques, makeup, and camera angles. Another widely practiced technique in the industry is that of repeated redundancy. By pounding a subject - factual or non-factual - into our brain relentlessly, popular opinion can be shifted toward the desired goals. Now, that these infernal devices outnumber humans in the US, the practices of the manipulators become even more poignant. Initially, this power was used by the first generation of TV producers and moguls for capitalistic goals, which in retrospect, did very little damage to society in general. Once the next generation (the baby boomers) entered the fray and started to use the airwaves to induce societal upheaval, and took the political applications to a new level, the rot became apparent. Observe for example, the footage of the Clinton/Bush debates of 1991 - 1992. Some of the same techniques that lost the election for Nixon in 1960 were applied to the elder Bush. He was lit from below with the result being a haggard, drawn out appearance casting his eyes in deep shadows. Conversely, Clinton was graced with soft even lighting with a strong backlight, giving an almost halo-like appearance to his not-yet grey (but light colored) hair. The Obama campaign machine had the media in the tank anyway, but were also masters of the subtlety of these forms of manipulation. This generation of baby boomers who now control the media know only to well the power of the idiot box as they were the first generation to be propped in front of the electronic babysitter. They certainly realized the tremendous potential for mass indoctrination to their leftist and socialistic ideals. Bear in mind that this does not only occurr in news programming. That would be too easy to resist. It takes place in ALL forms of programming from children's educational TV to cartoons to weekly sitcoms to cable-specific programming to prime time and even to late night talk shows. It's everywhere and we're all guilty of succumbing to the mind numbing effects of what has become the entertainment centerpiece of almost every home in America. Pulling the plug is the only solution...

As a caveat, it was also reported that there are more internet users in China than there are people in the US. I would say that it is equally as scary, except that with all the bans and restrictions that China has on the online experience, what we end up with is more people with less access to information. While I often claim that the internet is equally culpable in the process of dumbing We The People down, there is the opportunity for expanding one's knowledge base. After all, you're reading this. Aren't you? If only we could achieve the situation where the Chinese society is deteriorated as much as the west, by reaching the point where that population has more TV sets than they have people, then maybe they wouldn't be such a fearful bunch. Actually, that has always been my idea to defeat an enemy is to give them all free cable and free internet for a year or two and then send in the social rights activists....Oh that's another blog....

As Politically Incorrect As I Can Get...

As if I don't piss off enough people without trying, here goes with one of those "I don't care, I just gotta say it" type of posts. The premise that I am going to espouse in this post is that STEREOTYPES DO NOT CREATE THEMSELVES. I may use some terminology that some folks would term as hate speech. I may use some racial or sexual epithets that some would take offense to. I may at some points even devolve into rude and crude language. Well, I just gotta say what I gotta say and I gotta say it in the way i gotta say it. If it offends or repulses - I'm sorry. Keep in mind that my heart contains no hatred for any single human being or any grouping of humans, no matter how they are lumped together. hatred is far too strong of an emotion (second only to love) to be tossed around lightly. BUT, I'll re-iterate STEREOTYPES DO NOT CREATE THEMSELVES!!! There are white people and there are crackers or honkies. There are black people and there are niggers (there! I said it - so sue me). There are hispaics and there are spics. There are Irish and there are micks. There are Italians and Guidos (among the many other terms). There are Chinese and chinks. And so on. Each race contains exemplary individuals and the dregs of society. They all also are predominately comprised of average folks, just like you or me, but perhaps colored with a different crayon. Unfortunately, because this segment of society - regardless of race, creed, or sexual orientation - largely behave themselves and are relatively silent (I'm an exception to this - and every other - rule). As a result this majority of the populace is not publicized and we are less aware of the average, hard working, family values believing, honest Black, Hispanic, or Asian or what have you (insert a maligned group here) families. As they are relegated to a less visible role of society, similar to the way the unglamorous backbone supports the more flamboyant human body, they are also swept up in the whirlwind of undeserved hatred, bias and animosity. There is good and bad everywhere and in every segment of society. How one reacts to it is a deciding factor in which camp that individual is in...