Sarge

Embarrassment

Attorney General Holder is before a Congressional committee trying to determine who knew what when, how it happened and why and finally get to the truth concerning Fast and Furious, the ATF’s effort to track guns THEY gave to drug cartels in Mexico. Holder completed his long winded prepared statement while trying to justify his lack of knowledge concerning this matter.

Paranormalist President

We wonder if Barack Obama is a covert Paranormalist. A Paranormalist studies the occult sciences, or things that are hidden and possibly unexplainable. The Paranormalist may conduct experiments in psychometry; the measurement and testing of mental states. The Paranormalist believes in the possible existence of telekinesis (picking your pocket through taxation), mind reading (he’s obviously reading Greek – we speak English), sightless vision (blind to what’s really going on around him), and mind control (mass media propagandizes everything he says).

Spoiled thinking

So many people have no idea politics in this country was vastly different a hundred years ago than it is today. Communications was rudimentary in that day. Telegraph was “speedy”. Telephones were by no means as widespread as today. A computer was called an Abacus.

Nose out of joint

We’ve seen the control of the Republican Party candidates decided by forces outside of the average citizen’s control. Herman Cain has dropped out of the run for the presidency. This was accomplished after the Pastel Press exploited a series of unsubstantiated and impossible to defuse allegations of sexual harassment.

Just because…

Whenever somebody asks me what qualifies me for this job I have to admit I have none other than American citizenship and a genuine concern for the number of idiots we employ regularly as our representatives to Congress. The second thing I suggest qualifies me is I ask more questions. I don’t blindly accept statements made by people with an axe to grind or a profit to make. I don’t think I’m the sole expert on any subject. You know; somewhat like yourself. We view this stupidity masquerading as governance and say: hunh?

A lot of hats but no cattle

The sun rises each day, but as usual, it’s taken for granted. There are newer things to look at taking our attention away from what we need to think about.

Potemkin Architecture

Leadership (n): guidance, direction, control, management, superintendence, supervision; organization, government --(Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus 2008) Imagine our surprise when told the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (or as we so indifferently referred to it; the Super-committee) dissolved into the mist its true effectiveness was constructed from. Again I ask you to imagine where anybody with a bit of sense could assume two totally partisan groups could step beyond the confines of their chrysalis as caterpillars, and emerge as butterflies bringing the delight of harmonious and beautiful resolution on any issue. Instead we have moths in the sweater locker eating holes in our belief system that we really have representatives caring about our well-being more than their power plays.

Media Jaundice

Media: The journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry. -- Wiktionary 2011 In a lot of ways progress actually causes us to lose ground from the efforts we make to attain something. In the case of government we’ve grown so much, we’ve progressed so far it appears we’re returning to the beginning where we had no control over government. We traded Royal Empire and imperative for a plutocratic oligarchy or government by a small dedicated few harboring the wealth necessary to ensure they remain in control. Toward this end we find a new class and sub-species of oligarch: the Media.

Mental health issues

"We cannot solve the problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." ~Attributed to Albert Einstein

The Stupid-Committee

The Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, or Super-committee was created on August 2, 2011 by the Budget Control Act of 2011. The act was intended to prevent the expected budgetary default if actions weren’t taken.[2] Barack Obama approved the measure to create a bi-partisan, balanced panel of legislators dedicated to reducing the budget by approximately a Trillion dollars. The committee downgraded the amount of money pursued in efforts to cut the budget.

Apologist in chief

Dear Mr. Obama, Please note the lack of honorific: “president”. To me you’re decidedly NOT presidential. Your statements and positions on internal and international policies indicate you have NO idea what it means to be President of the United States of America.

An open letter on Veteran’s Day

There are days when I wonder just why it was God made man ascendant over all of the other creatures he chose to inhabit the face of the earth.

Disprove a negative

Herman Cain is still in the spotlight. Another woman has come forward to proclaim she was harassed and damned near molested while driving in a car, in traffic and without success. He allegedly managed to get his hand under her skirt, move it toward her privates and then try to push her head toward his lap.

A quantum of understanding

Occasionally we must question what is simplistically asked by children. Like: can you make something from nothing?

Bottom feeders and cannibals

This latest effort to assure the Republican Party self-immolates is proving successful. The furor over charges of sexual harassment by Herman Cain has started taking its toll. A once burgeoning campaign is coming off the rails and doing it faster than Casey Jones on the Cannonball Express.

Different doesn’t mean better

Last week was a loser for me and some friends, acquaintances and colleagues. In a theatrical sense somebody might have titled it: “Week of the Dying Computer”. It seemed like everybody either crashed, bombed or let the holy smoke from the interior workings of these little communications marvels. My personal disaster required the purchase of a whole new unit.

About the Benjamins

Participate (v): Share in something. 2) To have a share in common with others; 3) To partake of; to share in; to receive a part of; 4) To impart, or give, or share of ~ Webster’s On-line Dictionary Responsibility (n); A form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct; "he holds a position of great responsibility". ~Wordnet

Deference

Deference: 1. a courteous expression (by word or deed) of esteem or regard; 2. courteous regard for people's feelings; 3. a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others; 4. a yielding of judgment or preference from respect to the wishes or opinion of another; submission in opinion; regard; respect; complaisance. Webster’s On-line Dictionary

Now we must give

Occasionally, I listen to the silence around me. It’s similar to the moment before all hell breaks loose and you’re involved in one of the most frightening moments of your life.

Lift the veil

Political correctness is America’s newest form of intolerance, and it is especially pernicious because it comes disguised as tolerance. It presents itself as fairness, yet attempts to restrict and control people’s language with strict codes and rigid rules. I’m not sure that’s the way to fight discrimination. I’m not sure silencing people or forcing them to alter their speech is the best method for solving problems that go much deeper than speech.--George Carlin