The UN… Not what they say but what they do.

Sometimes things that seem like a greater good on the outside, have a much darker potential inside. Take for example the United Nations, and so many of their affiliates. On the outside or at first glance, things like Global sustainability research or Agenda 21 seem like good and noble undertakings. But look at the actual documents and then the way they are being implemented, and we may get a different picture.

A one world government sounds all wonderful but is it the government we want? Socialism sounds like a fine idea but is it truly a government for the people?

You run down the list of agencies in the UN who will be interacting and changing things in the various countries of the world and you will find a great number of experts from all fields one can imagine. And although they are considered experts, do they have our best interests in mind or those of their stated agendas? After all they are not voted in to their position, nor are they even appointed by our governments elected officials. So who can say that this or that expert from another country is able to grasp a situation in a country which may give extenuating circumstance to a proposed new legislation or action.

Say he is to integrate new environmental laws to coincide with those of the UN, and finds they are not applicable or even effective in a given country? Will he be more obligated to the UN or the people he is supposed be there to help. Well he wasn’t appointed by that countries government, and not elected. In fact the only oversight they have is from the UN itself. We cannot refuse their plan or it will be a violation of UN agreements. If we say no to them we are listed as a rogue nation or receive sanctions or embargoes.

Remember in this country our forefathers made the government into equal branches. That was so we would always have oversight; each one keeps the other in check. The UN’s oversight comes only from within itself. The members are not elected, they have no populace to answer to, and they can and do effect the governments of the world with near impunity. What is the old saying about power? Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The next time you here of a UN mandate or a proposed legislation or action, remember in a given situation a power will seek to preserve itself before any other considerations. This is true of even elected officials, but you consider this same principle in a governing body of unelected officials and imagine the problems that can arise.

Are they in this for us all still? Or are they in it to preserve themselves? Are their interests still our interests?

For some reason these days questioning the UN or its motives has become a traitorous offense, especially on the liberal side. You want to have a heated argument? Go to a liberal chat room or blog and write anything even questioning the UN and watch the response you get. You will be called all kinds of names, and harassed until you leave or change your tune. I am truly shocked from the behavior of the so-called liberals on anything regarding the UN or its agendas.

Why all the rage over a simple question? Debate is democratic, discussion is the key to understanding, yet from the supposed more flexible, open-minded, socially conscious, and understanding side I see little to none of these traits at all concerning the UN or its policies.

If you have any insight into this trend please share it.

Election 2008 AKA; The evil you know or the evil you don’t know

    This election has gotten ugly, and it won’t get any better. The days of candidates running on the issues and intelligent debate are long gone, and sadly they won’t be back any time soon. Now it’s a matter of who can scare the hell out of you the most about the other guy. So little time is spent on the issues it’s hard to know what the real issues are in America. Sure we know the economy is a shambles, the war is a mess, and this administration lies, but what about gun control or the schools? I know the war and economy are the more pressing problems and should be addressed first, but both candidates seem to be avoiding everything else.

For instance do any of us know what Obama thinks on immigration, or John McCain’s’ views on jobs going overseas? These are issues as well yet they seem to be more interested in winning than doing a good job. This tells me one thing for sure; in four years, no matter who wins they will then be more interested in keeping their job than doing their job well. I know I know, it’s nothing new, but at least before they acted like they cared about what they were doing. They used to make us believe they were trying.

The media is probably the number one cause of this but who really knows for sure. I mean do they act this way because of the media or does the media do this because they act this way? Wow, that can give me a headache. I got to cut this short tonight, but I just hope one of these ding-a-lings can convince of something sooner or later. I’m about to lose faith in the whole system. Night folks!

9/11 Seven years later.

I have been trying to avoid mentioning the significance of this day. Not because I don’t remember or because I don’t care, but because it is so difficult for me. That is a selfish way to avoid an uncomfortable situation, and I feel selfishness is one of the biggest problems in the world. So for me to avoid this day is an even greater wrong than forgetting about it. Its called accountability, and it’s relatively unheard of these days; but as I know about accountability that makes me even more accountable for my actions or the lack them. For a blogger to preach about accountability in our government and then avoid such where he himself is concerned, is inexcusable. I am terribly sorry for the late post on this my friends; it is my own desire to maintain my comfort level that has brought this about.

On September 11^th of the year 2001, on a bright and clear Tuesday morning at 8:45 am, the world became a much smaller place. I say that because until then I knew without question that the problems of the Muslim world did not affect me or my family and friends. Their troubles were exactly that, and my section of this vast planet was unaffected by their beliefs or petty disputes. Sure some of them were professing their hatred for us, but that was over there, and they most assuredly only a small portion of a much larger group of people. After all, I knew some Muslims and they were not trying to do me in. Obviously there were a few extremists ruining things for good Muslims the world over. And that was how I believed until 8:45 am.

At 8:45 am a hijacked passenger jet, American Airlines Flight 11 out of Boston hit the north tower of the World Trade Center. At 8:55 my wife called me and asked me turn on the TV, because she heard there was an accident in New York and it had something to do with a plane. I was half asleep (I worked 2^nd shift then) but I got up and went to the TV and the first thing I saw was a flaming hole in the side of the tower. Telling my wife what I saw and that it was defiantly a plane that hit it, according to channel 8 news anyway and trying my best to take it all in, we began to speculate on how a plane could accidently hit such a large building. After a few minutes we watched in horror as a second plane hit the other tower. I immediately told her what I saw and at that moment we both knew it was not an accident.

At 9:03 am a second hijacked airliner, United Airlines Flight 175 also out of Boston, crashes into the south tower of the World Trade Center. At this point we were in shock. The word actually doesn’t do it justice as it was something I have never felt before or since. My wife and I were speechless for several minutes, until she asked me if I thought there might be more. I was dumbstruck; what if there were more? What would I do? Should I go get the kids from school? Anyone who could do this could just as easily attack a school or nuclear power plant. These and so many other frightening thoughts raced through my head in a flash. Somehow I managed to tell her that I will call the schools and get them ASAP, and for her to stay at work until we know more.

We hung up and I began to call the schools, my fears grew as I found their lines were all too busy to take any more calls. At this moment my 2 year old daughter came walking into my bedroom rubbing sleep from eyes and asking,” Can I watch cartoons in your room with you?” My fear suddenly disappeared and my dad instinct took over. First I need to protect my youngest and then find out about my other two. So that is what I did; I gave her the living room TV and told her to stay right there, then I began calling the school again.

Keeping one eye on the news and on eye on my daughter I called my wife back and gave her the situation on the school, and asked if she could call as well. She agreed and as soon as I hung up the phone rang and I was overjoyed to hear the voice of my oldest child telling me that she and her brother were alright and they were in the school gymnasium. I felt the world lift from my chest as I asked her what she new and if she wanted to come home. She replied, “why?” I knew then that she didn’t know exactly what was going on and that was probably for the best right now. She said her teacher let her use a cell phone to call home, and that there was an accident in New York. I told her I loved her and to look after her brother until I come for them. I then talked to the teacher and thanked her for her thoughtfulness. She explained the situation and advised me to keep the kids there until we knew more and I agreed.

At 9:43 am American Airlines Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon. I had just walked back into my room when the news flashed to the Pentagon. Oh My God! I thought as I saw the gaping hole in the side of the building. 3buildings and 3 planes what’s next? I called my wife and gave her the information I had, she explained they had brought a TV in from the conference room and where watching it now. I thought, okay, we are good now we can get information, and assess the situation equally thereby making our decisions more quickly. We agreed that the older children were safe where they were for the time being, and that we should each stay where we are until the situation changes.

At 10:10 am United Airlines Flight 93 crashes in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, southeast of Pittsburgh. This was most assuredly another attempted hijacking I thought. Surely either the hijacking failed in disaster or the Air Force shot it down to prevent another catastrophe. One thing stuck in my mind though; this was not the act of one or two wakos, but the work of a well organized group with no problem killing innocents to make their point.

At 10:05 am the south tower of the World Trade Center collapses and at 10:28 am The World Trade Center’s north tower collapses. Minutes before the first tower fell from the angle shown I could see people falling from the upper levels; this was immediately changed to another camera. I was completely numb from what I had already experienced that day; all I could do was watch silently in reverence to the visions before me. After seeing the second tower fall I ran to the living room and grabbed my daughter in hug to end all hugs.

That is all I wish to share with you on this, the rest is mine to contemplate; just as it is and should be with all of us. Do the best thing you can do for yourself today; hug your wife and kids, kiss your best girl (or guy), or whatever makes you feel better about the world.
We are all as different as can be in so many ways; maybe for one day we can embrace all that makes us alike. Maybe for one day this world can get smaller again, but this time for the right reasons.

In closing I want to say I do not hate Muslims, Arabs, or anyone else as a group. I will continue to treat each person as their behavior would warrant, be they black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Arab or Jew. I will reserve judgment solely for those who do or plan to do harm to me, my family, and my country.

However, if you do plan harm, harbor hate, or attempt violence to even the least of us, all I’m going to say to you is;
“come get some”. We may be separated here by party affiliations, religion, race and creed, we may also be complacent and lazy at times, but do not mistake any of this for a weakness of spirit or lack of strength. We are the sleeping giant that Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto of the Japanese navy referred to when he said, “I fear we have awoken the sleeping giant” shortly after the attack on pearl harbor. Nothing will unite a group of individuals into an army of one faster than when an outsider comes in and attacks.

To those responsible for 9/11, you will be found and you will be held accountable, in this life or the next. What will you do if upon standing before Allah in the afterlife he asks you why you killed so many in his name? What if the things taught to you were nothing but the twisted ideals of a would-be messiah possessed by his own fears and hatred? What will you say? Will you point to the one who told you Gods plan and will? Will God then say to you, “it’s okay, you were led astray by evil” or will he cast you to same fate as the demonic messiah? What if you were wrong about Gods will? What will his wrath be like? If man was made in Gods own image and man can hate and kill this well, what level of hate could God bring forth? I wouldn’t want to know, and I bet you wouldn’t either.

That is all from me tonight; good luck, good night, and Godspeed to all our brave troops out there.

Super Sarah Palin!

Look up in the sky its a bird, its a plane, its supersarah! Faster than a sasqatchuan seal hunter, more powerful than a polar bear, able to ban books and fire those who oppose her in a single bound!

Well Ok, she didn’t actually ban any books but she did try to and has tried to fire any who don’t agree with her. The GOP seems to think she is the new savior of the party and brings with her a fresh surge of potential voters. Sorry but I disagree with that, and moreover I hope Americans can see through the BS and see her for who and what she really is. And that is a religious zealot who is completely pro-censorship, and who is willing to do whatever it takes to push her agenda.

Please all you conservatives out there waiting to scream liberal and socialist at me, spare me the BS about her not actually firing the librarian or the police officer. Her intent was to do so and that is the real point here.

I don’t put on a raincoat unless it’s raining, and neither would she. She has stated that her intent in the questions about book banning were hypothetical when posed to the librarian, calling it a test of her loyalty as she put it. Well that makes a lot of sense; I often go in and concoct elaborate schemes to test the loyalty of my co-workers and employees. If you had a boss do this you’d think he was first; a twisted individual and second; a tyrant.

But perhaps I’m wrong about old Sarah, maybe she really was just fishing for information on loyalties in her town. Okay giving her the benefit of the doubt for a second; why do it like that? I mean if you are concerned about her loyalty, why not have a meeting with her in your office with some cabinet members around to help in the assessment or at least as witnesses. That would prevent any backlash and false accusations regarding her behavior or intent. But supersarah did not do this. No she tested her over the phone with no witnesses other than the other librarians, who would most assuredly back their co-worker.

Look, she is either malicious and conniving with plans for censorship, or an incompetent and obtuse would-be dictator with paranoid delusions. My personal guess is a little bit of both. It’s obvious she has some kind of issues with control in regards to those around her. Whether her questions were hypothetical or not is beside the point anymore (the fake banned book list made it so thanks a lot who ever started it). The point now is whether or not she is competent and from this and the Troopergate scandal, I don’t think so. As I said before she was at best least incompetent, and at worst a book banning religious zealot.

I got a comment once before about my lack of sources in a post. So just to appease the GW ditto-heads out there who can’t GOOGLE their own information here you go: Here’s the story from the Wassilla newspaper, here , and this is what Sarah said when asked about it; … Oh wait she hasn’t given a reply yet. Well until she does make a statement about it many will make their own decisions.

One thing I want to say of a more personal note, whoever started circulating the ridiculous banned book list; stop helping us! Really we appreciate the effort but some of the books on your list weren’t even in print at the time of this incident. So please don’t circulate this list, all it does is make us all look like Republicans. That’s the kind of thing Ann Coulter or Rush Limbaugh would try and now they have this for fuel to run their conservative propaganda machine. So please don’t help them anymore and stop with the obviously fake list.

Well let me know your thoughts on this story folks.

Smear politics 2008

Well in case you didn’t notice yet it’s an election year. You can tell because the smear books and party-purchased authors are selling millions of books based on BS. They call them factual and informative, but all they really do is spout off innuendo and party propaganda to a generation of ditto-heads that believe anything they are told first or the loudest. The latest is a smear book by the same guy who co-authored the book a few years ago about John Kerry’s war record. You may remember the “swift boat veterans for peace” who were for the truth even if they had to make it up themselves.

Now I’m not going to name the author or his books in this post because he is not going to get any help from me, and neither are his ridiculous novels. That being said he writes for a website called worlddaily.net (I’m not going to link to them either); in my opinion it’s just a conservative trash disposal posing as a political website. The author has a PHD in political science from Harvard but seems to have trouble discerning fact from utter nonsense, and has the same affliction bothering so many right wing talk radio and TV hosts. The affliction I refer to is what I like to call “Anti-social, Homophobic, overt or Latent Syndrome” or “ASHOLS” for short. This disease affects Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, and nearly everyone working at Fox News, and will most likely be considered an epidemic by the CDC very soon. For brevity’s sake I will hence forth call these people “ASHOLS”.

These “ASHOLS” have been a thorn in my side since GW’s first election and continue to get my Ire up every time they speak, post, or write. These “ASHOLS” must be stopped at all costs or our society will be forced to conform to the conservative mindset or perish. If we continue to tolerate their brand of social-political repression the intelligence levels across the country will drop until we all talk like GW. “Bushim’s” will replace properly formed sentences, and truth will be reduced to what we hear on Fox News.

This is why I am forming a group dedicated to the abolition of these fear and hate mongering snake oil salesman in $10,000 dollar suits. The group will be called the “Anti-ASHOLS Society” or A-ASHOLSS for short. So get ready and practice your acronyms and abbreviations while I get the ball rolling on this. I’ll get back soon and let you know my progress. A-ASHOLSS unite!

Name Your Favorite Flavor

In our modern tech-savvy world, we have so many choices or “flavors” as I like to call them. Everything we can think of comes in a variety of styles, colors, and textures, and if we don’t like the choices we are given, we can even personalize them. We see it in every aspect of our culture; especially here in the USA.

This ideal of instant and total gratification has invaded our politics, religion, and news so much that we now seemingly have a party, belief, or channel to suit everyone. At first, I thought it was wonderful new advancement that would allow us all to have exactly what we want. However lately I see that it is actually hurting our society more than I could have imagined. Burger King will give it to you your way, but is that such a good idea when everything else comes exactly how you want it?

I’m sure some of you are saying, “yes it is a great idea” and “why not have it all my way?” and maybe it is or maybe you should. My fear in all this is not having all the choices, but what will become of us when we can’t have it our way anymore. I mean we all have gotten a lot more double standards since the PC, Internet explosion, and having hundreds of TV channels.

We say we want a more secure border but also want cheap labor. We want less government yet we pass more laws. We also say we want our rights protected and secure but allow them to be bent and nearly broken so we can temporarily feel safe. If that is not enough we even say we want equal rights but only equal to certain people.

And what do we do when our government does not give us everything we ask for? Come next election we seek a candidate that will pander to our needs and of course we will find one; there’s always one that will want your vote. Remember that I said “vote”, he wants your vote not your needs. And when he gets your vote he or she will no longer feel as obligated to you. Are elected officials so foul a breed? No, but they are like the rest of us and must have it their own way. Sure, they will do your bidding enough to keep your semi-trust at least, but that’s where it will end. At least until they need your vote again of course, and then it will be ” I want what you want” and ” I have your best interests in mind”.

Of course, they have readymade excuses to hand out to you, when they fail to fulfill your needs. Like the ever popular “it was my predecessor’s fault” or my personal favorite; “the bleeding heart liberals or right wing conservatives blocked me”. I like to blame them all for any problems I have with our government, but the truth is it’s my fault. My fault for expecting things instead of making them happen, my fault for allowing my comfort to prevent my action, and my fault for wanting rights given to me.

The rights we have in this country were not given to us, they were fought for and earned. The Constitution even left us instructions on how to keep them, yet we somehow found them to be inconvenient or too much work. The Declaration of Independence also told us to get rid of bad government and start anew when the old one becomes oppressive or restrictive to society. Yet we call anyone that speaks against our leaders a traitor.

Lies and deceit have become the necessary evils we must endure from our government. We are told we cannot know some things for our own safety or national security, or that we cannot be trusted to vote responsibly enough to rely on a popular ballot alone. When all the while, they are allowing special interest groups, big business, media, and our banking institutions to manipulate policy.

Despite all this, we prefer our little bit of comfort to our freedoms. I believe this is not a government we can fix with elections; this government can only be fixed by its people first fixing themselves.

The new fascists

In the information age we have become desensitized to sex, violence, and the foul actions of criminals, almost to the point of complete apathy. With radio shock jocks and television shock hosts, very few things are taboo these days. We grew into this state slowly, starting with the televising of the war in Vietnam, and steadily on through the subsequent decades.

Just in my Thirty-Nine years I went from watching cigarette commercials to reality tv and all points in between. Some of these programs contributed positively to society, others did not. Despite this I have managed to keep it in perspective for the most part: despite the coyote and road runner cartoons I knew that an anvil on the head was deadly. At times television even inspired me to reach for goals, which I had thought impossible before. When I first saw Muhammad Ali speak before a fight, I was in a state of shock. Here was a guy that said anything that came into his mind seemingly without any fear. Little did I know then that others would try and capitalize on that;” Hate me all you want as long as you watch me” style. Everyone from talk show guests to radio disc jockeys would soon have a few of these extremists.

Once the shock and awe style invaded political commentary, I thought well, it was just a matter of time, and accepted it. However some have taken this style and gone too far. A few of these have been able to make vast fortunes and fame using blatant lies and misquoted garbage. They have been able to sell millions of copies of their books, and win awards for documentaries that despite having perhaps an idea of the truth, somehow manage to completely avoid it. Even when shown the truth alongside their own blatant lie, they manage to find a way to either; blame the other person for a mistake, misprint, or incompetence, or keep shouting over them until they can find a way to back out gracefully. Some have built whole careers on attacking the homeless, and drug addicted; all the while they themselves are drug-addicts. They attack homosexuals on one hand while on the other have multiple same sex partners.

One went so far as to attack the widows of 9/11; claiming they have enjoyed the deaths of their husbands and profited from it. That same person also claimed John Edwards had a bumper sticker that read “ask me about my dead son”. When John Edward’s wife Elizabeth tried to ask that person to stop using the death of her son to attack them, they went into a scripted style of talking over her and trying to turn what she said into something all together different. I’ve seen this person claim Jews were imperfect Christians, needing to be perfected by Christianity. Despite these strong religious convictions she has yet to name her own faith.

If this is what debate has become I fear for our future. When substance is forsaken for shock value, and truth becomes a matter of if it will sell, we are truly lost. “If it bleeds it leads” has taken over political commentary, as well as the tabloids. When we have no place to turn for truth, we will accept whatever we are given as gospel. And then where will it end? When we are robotic sheep, all going towards the slaughter without questioning our fate, will we then realize the value of truth? Entertainers are now frightened of being called a traitor, anti-American, communist, or even a socialist for expressing their views on our government, yet there is no cry of outrage, no protests or assembling of the masses. Artists are one of the purest forms of truth a society can have, and ours are now quieted from fear of their own government.

There has been a frightening trend in our society, a trend that has allowed so many to take no responsibility whatsoever for their own actions. This has allowed murderers to go free, politicians to lie to the people, and doctors to turn health care into a cash cow. It has corrupted religious leaders, business men, and the media to the point we can no longer accept what they say as truth. Instead if we want the truth, we must find as many sources as we can and then filter the information to remove any impurities. Gone are the days of accepting your local news paper’s account of something as being truthful.

I could go on forever with this and still not scratch the surface. So I will end by saying; I hope for my children’s sake we can start to take responsibility for ourselves soon, before truth, justice and liberty have become ideas we only read about. As the great Benjamin Franklin once wrote: “Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”