I’m cranky today, so please forgive me, gentle reader. But I am sick to death of everyone constantly referring to politicians as “leaders”.

BZZZZT! WRONG ANSWER!

The next politician who thinks for a second that his job is to lead me, has lost my vote!

Just remember two words: Representative Republic — The proper name for the type of government we have here in the U.S.A.

I don’t know what country all of these leader-mongers are from, but it’s not mine!

The only people who should be leading in this country are “we the people!” The sooner incumbent politicians figure this out, the sooner I’ll stop fantasizing about election day when I can throw them out of office.

Everyone must understand; we employ these people to do our bidding when we cast our ballots and pay our taxes. They answer to US. Their job is to represent, not lead. If they’re leading us, something is wrong.

We must get these insubordinate politicians (“leaders”), who love ramming rotten and unpopular legislation down our throats, out of office!

Leaders be damned—This is a free country, not a wagon train! If you want to lead, become a tour guide, or start your own church, but stay the crap out of my life and my government!

Why can’t Microsoft make Internet Explorer web standards compliant?

Did you know that many websites require special conditional CSS to coerce IE into displaying the content correctly? After all these years, they still haven’t gotten it right!

First you design your site for a standards compliant browser like Firefox or Opera, then you re-design all of the elements that IE doesn’t handle properly, save the hacks in a special CSS file, and then insert conditional code to load the hacked CSS, overiding the corect code, if your visitor happens to be using IE!

Then there’s the constant stream of security holes that allow all kinds of malware to get into your system as you browse the web. From a security standpoint, IE looks like swiss cheese! Sloppy programming at its finest.

For the love of Pete, does Microsoft ever code anything that works right?!

AAAAAAUUUURGH!

He says capitalism is evil — has declared an all-out war on it — and yet Michael Moore has made his personal fortune selling his movies and documentaries for profit. That makes Michael Moore a CAPITALIST and according to his own definition — evil.

But what Michael Moore really is, is a bombastic hypocrite — a raging case of “Do as I say, not as I do.”

And while Mr. Moore runs around trashing America and berating everything it stands for, he engages in the very freedoms and pursuits that he claims the rest of us have no right to enjoy.

Capitalism and success for him, communism and oppression for the rest of us.

Personally, I suspect that Mr. Moore is not so stupid that he actually believes his own rhetoric (if he did he wouldn’t resort to outright lies to make his points), but that he’s been duped into believing that by helping the communist underground rise to power he’ll be a respected member of it, maybe placed in a position of prominence — that he’ll be be spared from the ugly fate that he helped thrust upon his betrayed country and fellow men.

He is a capitalist, after all, and in his sick way, he’s trying to capitalize on the slavery, oppression, and eventual destruction of the greatest economic engine ever known in the history of the world, and the people who lived (prosperously) under it for a time.

He doesn’t care if he destroys you in his quest to be a king, as long as he’s rich, fat, and comfortable. He’ll sell us all out for his chance to sit at the top.

But trust me, Mr. Moore, you’re just a useful idiot, and you’ll be thrown in the pit with the rest of us when it’s all said and done.

You can bank it! You’re a Mooron!

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the problems that our country is facing, and I’m just so … frustrated! The world is upside down, and no one seems to notice. We’ve got congress trying to spend us out of debt. Barack Hussein Obama thinks a trillion-dollar stimulus package is super idea. Never mind that we don’t have the money; we’ll just print it. But don’t worry, if we flood the nation’s money supply with a trillion dollars worth of monopoly money it won’t cause inflation, right? Seriously, didn’t our congressmen and women go to high school? Because I remember learning about this stuff in my l0th grade economics class! Another thing I learned in that class: Capitalism = Good

Even more offensive to my sensibilities is a frightening new paradigm of socialistic thinking that is washing over our nation like a terrifying wave of political effluent; the direct result of decades of greed, and selfishness. America has become a “me too” state full of whiners, wimps, and crybabies who think that everything has to be “fair” all the time. And before you go thinking that absolute fairness is a good thing, I want you to stop and consider the cost. What is the cost? Oh where do I begin? How about a loss of freedom, control, and independence? And if you think that’s not so bad, just ask any person living in a “home” how they like it. Are they happy being dependent? Do they enjoy having every aspect of their life structured by someone else? Do they like being told what to do? I think they’ll tell you it sucks!

If you think that socialism won’t try to creep in, or even if it does, that it won’t cause suffering and loss, well, clearly you’re not a student of history. This story has been repeated over and over for millennia throughout the history of mankind. And I’m here to tell you, we’re no different from those who walked this path before us, including making the tragic mistake of allowing ourselves to think we’re different; to be filled with a blind confidence and pride which surely is a sign of (if not a direct precursor) to our inevitable failure and destruction. Pride goeth before a fall. And a wise man knows it, and stays away from it.

So what is the point of all this? What am I really trying to say? Well, in a nutshell, America—with its arrogant, misguided leadership—is on a high speed track to destination socialism. But, trust me, you don’t want to go there. Trading your independence for security because you think it’s going to bring you “stuff” is like killing the goose that laid the golden egg. In the end, you’ll wind up, sadly, with neither.

If you care about your future and the future of your children, you’ll want to give serious thought to what I am saying here. Contemplate what I have to say, and arrive at your own conclusion, but understand that we’re at a turning point in this country, and the consequences of our decisions now will have a profound affect on our future, and the future of our children.

Liberalism and democracy are nothing more than elected socialism. Our country, the USA, was founded as a constitutional republic, and not a democracy. When we pledge allegiance to the flag, we say, “and to the republic for which is stands.” We don’t say, “and to the democracy for which it stands.” That’s because we are not a democracy, or at least, we’re not supposed to be! The democratic party is operating our government in a manner inconsistent with its founding principles; the result of which will eventually bring an end to our freedom if we continue to allow it!

A full explanation of the relationship between liberalism, and socialism is beyond the scope of this post, but if you’re interested in an expanded understanding of liberalism, fascism, and “progressive” democracy, I highly recommend the book, Liberal Fascism, by Jonah Goldberg, which explains things far better than I ever could.

So let me repeat, liberalism is socialism … in disguise. And socialism is a form of slavery. Let me explain how by defining what slavery is: Slavery is the act of forcing of someone to work, involuntarily, for the purpose of another. In other words, if I force you to work, against your will, for me; that would be slavery. And wouldn’t you agree that such an act is an unethical and evil thing to impose upon another human being?

But what if it’s the government that’s doing the forcing? What if you were required by the government to spend 15 hours a week doing yard-work for another (perhaps less fortunate) person, or face going to prison? Would that be slavery? Would that be forcing you to labor, involuntarily, for purpose of another? Or, what if you were forced to relinquish your property, or money, which you have earned through your own labor, for the purposes of someone else? Is that not essentially the same thing—the same thing as slavery?

Well, the honest answer is, yes, that is slavery. It’s wrong, it’s immoral, and yes, it is evil. No one has a right to force someone else to labor for the purposes of another; but that is exactly what socialism does. It’s exactly what the democratic political party seeks to impose. It is exactly what Barack Obama is talking about when he refers to “spreading the wealth”.

I know this is a controversial statement, but I must say it: The democrat party, including President-elect Barack Obama, believe in, and support the use of slavery, and by that virtue the unjust oppression of the entire American Public.

I am sorry! It’s not my fault they chose this position, but they have, and I am sorry for that! But I can’t change it, and I’m not going to lie about it. In fact, I want you to know what you’re getting into. I want you to be aware of it.

Now, I’m not saying that all democrats are evil. Many have good intentions, and believe that they’re doing the right thing. They think that the ends justify the means. They suffer from a megalomaniacal delusion that they can do no wrong because their intentions are good. But they are wrong. There is a good reason why so many countries—steeped in socialism—suffer from an ethereal sense of darkness and misery. It’s because socialism is inherently evil, and using evil designs to try to achieve societal utopia is a futile endeavor, because the two concepts are fundamentally incompatible.

You can’t achieve goodness through actions that are fundamentally evil and wrong. The ends don’t justify the means, and the results of ignoring such wisdom will always be tragic. You can’t regulate people into greatness, and you can’t build a healthy society through oppression and slavery.

Freedom and Capitalism built up this country and made it great. They are not a failure as our media and government want us to believe. Our economic problems are absolutely the result of government interference and tampering with fundamental market principles of capitalism and freedom.

We can’t spend our way out of debt, or oppress our way out of unfairness. And we can’t elect slave-masters to save us from poverty and inequality. These things won’t work, and we won’t be saved.

I don’t know how to make it any clearer. I don’t know how else to convince you. I can only tell you what I know, and what I believe. I can only tell you the truth, and pray that somehow you’ll believe it. That we’ll escape from the chains that are being drawn around us, and defeat the agents of change who seek to take away our freedom, money, and independence.

Don’t fall into the trap. Don’t get into the strange man’s car because he’s offering a piece of candy. Understand that there’s no such thing as a free lunch!

We are standing at the edge, looking down at a hole from which any escape is unlikely without real bloodshed. Let’s not go in. Let’s not lose our country.

We need to wise up! We need to elect good leaders! we need to get involved, because if we don’t stop the foolishness, and educate ourselves, and make the right choices: We, our children, and their children are at dire risk of becoming slaves to a system….

Please, don’t let it happen!

Sorry everyone for the lack of recent posts.  I have been working very hard at my real job, trying to build a little nest egg for the slow season.  Of course, this resulted in almost all of my extra earnings going to taxes, because I am now evidently “rich” and don’t deserve what I have worked so incredibly hard for.  I’m not kidding, people.  I cried when I saw my paycheck.  It barely increased, yet I have been living in my truck, gone from home for days, and doing nothing but sleeping and working for the last 4 weeks.  And what do I get?  The knowledge that I have “spread the wealth” to a bunch of unnamed couch-potatoes on welfare.  Great!  Well, I’ll be on welfare too, if I am not allowed to save some money for the comming months!  Obama, you can go pound sand!  Come after my guns, and I’ll give them to you barrell first!  All of you who voted for Obama because you think he’s going to solve your problems, and take away my hard-earned money and give it to you, I hope you get what you deserve!  NOTHING!  And the knowledge that you’re a fool and a criminal for holding the ridiculous belief: that people don’t deserve what they’ve earned, but do deserve what they haven’t.

It’s official, the house passed the bill, and President Bush signed it.  The U.S. Government just jumped head-first into private business, and has decided to take out a $700 billion loan which it will use it to buy junk (mortgage) bonds.  And with one swoop of the President’s pen, the U.S. Government is now going to be competing with investors in the open market.  Interestingly, when President Bush pushed for private investment accounts for Social Security, many of these same politicians thought that allowing people to put government funds into the stock market was a foolish idea and voted it down.  I guess they’ve changed their minds, because they just decided to get into the market to the tune of $700 Billion, despite public outrage and protest.

So it appears that we no longer live in the Constitutional Republic created by our Founding Fathers, or even a Democratic Republic, which the social Utopians have twisted our country into.  Rather, we now live in a socialist dictatorship, where our government tells us what is good for us!  And make no mistake, now that it’s been done, this will only be the beginning!

I only hope that some day our children will know what it’s like to be free to make their own choices.  I truly fear, however, that they won’t.

Our leaders have just sold us down the river, and this country is not going to be the same.  It has been damaged in what I fear is an irreparable way: An obscene desecration of constitutional principles by the very people who swore an oath to uphold them.

We may have just lost our freedom for what is merely a hope of financial security.  And, once again, in the fine words of Benjamin Franklin, “He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.”  I would take it a step further, in this case, to say also: “achieves neither.”

Heaven help our sweet nation, and prevent her from being dragged down by the chains of socialism and greed.  I hope that the derelict politicians who supported this bill go down in flames at the next election.  I’ll certainly do my part in seeing to that.  That goes for Obama, and McCain as well; both of whom supported this monstrosity.  As of this moment, McCain has lost my vote, and I am just sick about it.  He got it, begrudgingly, because he chose Sarah Palin for VP, and I think she’s awesome, but I can’t support a back-stabbing dictator of any stripe.  I am truly sorry, but I guess I won’t be voting at all.  I’ll just write in my own name, or something.

Incumbent Politicians who signed onto this bill beware:  I am actively supporting your opposition, effective immediately!

We’re in BIG trouble!  As I watched the evening news, post Democratic National Convention, I was horrified to see interviews with college students who were just gushing about how wonderful Barack Obama is, and filled with excitement for his new world plan (i.e. to duplicate old communist Russia).

The thing that worries me most about this Obama Generation is that too many Americans don’t seem to understand that when we’re all children of the government, and everyone gets their equal share of the pie; hard work, innovation, and economic success will go out the window.  Why is anyone going to work hard to excel when they get the same keeps as someone who does the bare minimum required?  How will we have a robust, and powerful economy when hard work is a foolish endeavor with no personal benefit?  The only way to raise your standard of living will be to work so hard that you single-handedly raise the standard of living for everyone in the entire country, while everyone else sits and waits for you to do it!

While wealth distribution is a nice Utopian idea, and i agree that it is, it’s destined to fail here on earth, because we humans are generally not motivated to work solely for the benefit of others.  If we were, there would be no need for government to force us to do it through Liberal Fascism.  We would all donate every penny in excess of our basic needs to those who have less than us.  No one would complain about paying taxes, and would probably even look for ways to pay more.  If you don’t believe it, let me ask you; Are you the poorest person in the country?  — Yeah, I didn’t think so!  There are people less fortunate.  You are greedy!  You heartless scumbag!  How dare you hold out on us?

So are you really going to go to your job every day, and work your butt off to “put in the extra mile”, and strive to be better than all the rest, if you still get the same paycheck as the lazy bum who calls in sick all the time, does a crappy job on everything, barely even works, and then goes home early.  Eventually, it’s going to occur to you that you could have an easier life; less stress, more comfort, and still have the same standard of living; the same as everyone else in fact.  Why not be lazy too?  Surrender to the sloth, and ineptitude that is fostered by liberal fascism.  Who cares?  And who would blame you?

This is the reason why socialism has never worked well, and it never will!  However, forces that be; liberal elites, worldwide, are trying very hard to make it appear that capitalism is failing in America, and socialism, or liberal fascism is the way to go.  How?  By deliberately enacting legislation designed to tank our economy, terrorizing people with threats of what will happen if the great global warming hoax is ignored, refusing to allow the use of our own local energy reserves, (which are vast) leading to skyrocketing energy prices, and huge losses to our national economy, encouraging trade with countries that don’t have the same social standards that we have (i.e. no minimum wage, no OSHA, etc.), and are therefore impossible to compete with commercially here in America.  Because of this, America is bleeding money.  Billions of dollars per day are hemorraged from our economy overseas to nations that hate us, and/or want to kill us, making them rich, while we get poorer.  This is the plan!  Liberal Fascism can’t gain traction until the majority of us are convinced that capitalism is evil, and a failure.  And men like Barack Obama promise to rescue us from ourselves if only we will give up our freedom, and accept the government as our new, all knowing, all powerful agent of “hope and change”, our new great saviour; our new parents (like Mother Russia).  Then everything will be fine.  So they say.

It’s funny, one of the students I observed on the nightly news, when asked why she supported Barack Obama stated that she liked his economic plan which rewards hard work.  Obviously she doesn’t understand Obama’s plan, economics, or both!  While Obama gears up to punish hard workers, and businesses with record high taxes, and ill-conceived social programs, he at the same time has these poor mindless students convinced that his plan is to reward hard work!  Honestly, I can’t believe these sheeple so happily consume such rotten piles of garbage as Barack Obama and the media shovel it to them by the bargeload!  UGH!

But capitalism is not a failure!  It only seems that way because it’s being poisoned by people who wish to impose radical changes on our system of government.  Capitalism is what has made America the greatest, richest, and most powerful nation in the world, in such an incredibly short time, historically speaking.  It’s the reason we are so great, both as a nation, and individually.  It’s the persuit of happiness, and the freedom to acheive it, and to have it, and to own it, and to keep it!

Make no mistake!  We are under attack from the inside!  Vote for the security, and hope and change of Barack Obama at your own peril !

In the fine words of Benjamin Fanklin, “He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.”

Hey everyone, FYI, here in Utah a law was recently passed that requires drivers to “give way to overtaking traffic”. In other words, you’re loafing along in the passing lane(s), but you’re not doing any passing. Cars start piling up behind you, annoyed as all getout, and no one can get around you because you’re pacing the cars next to you. THIS IS NOW ILLEGAL! Thank heaven!!! I think that we’re in a pretty sorry state now that we have to legislate common-sense and courtesy. It is amazing that almost everyone is guilty of this crime! Everyone does this! It’s amazing! I can’t tell you how many slow cars I have seen merge onto the freeway, and then immediately cross 4 lanes of traffic to get into the highest priority passing lane and then loaf along at a fraction of the speed limit. Personally, I think these people should be ineligable for a driver license, as they are the primary cause of traffic jams that cost this state millions of dollars, and frustrate countless drivers into a nearly homicidal rage each day. Stop driving like bone-heads, and get out of the way!

If you’re not passing someone, move over, and let other people pass!  Also, if it’s going to take you 30 minutes to pass the car next to you, why not reduce your speed .02 MPH, and just get behind the other guy.  Gee, it’s really not going to cost you that much time.  Oh, right.  I forgot, it’s so much work to disengage/adjust the cruise control.  That’s okay.  Maybe you’ll end up like the guy in the above picture.

Just move over!  It’s not only courtesy, it’s the LAW.   (At least here in my state.  Too bad it’s not enforced.)