Expectations

One of the things the second Depression has brought is a corruption of the language of economics. This is ironic in that the word "Depression" was never used as an expression of an economic condition until President Hoover was trying to find a psychological explanation for the failure of his ineffectual interventionist economic policies.

Well, today we constantly hear the term in economics that a certain economic indicator whether unemployment, or housing, or whatever was "better than expected." This is very convenient for those who want to avoid and deny the very deep and structural economic problems that are prevalent today. Those that want to avoid the enormity or the economic problems facing the country who are virtually all major media and both major parties, are the ones that create the "expectations." So then when horrible or tepid economic numbers come out they can just smile and say "better than expected!!"

This also occurs in a negative way when elites in both parties want a certain bill passed like the massive bailout in late 2008 that BOTH Obama and McCain personally lobbied for. The expectations were built up that if the bill didn't pass there "will be a second Depression". Well, the bill eventually passed because of these awful "expectations". For one day it was said that there would be "auctions" to sell off the bad debts. Then it simply became the bailout that OWS and Tea Parties are so livid over today.

So I say beware of expectations. You will get the disaster you say you expect with a wink and a nod. It will come in forms you least expect in ways that you cannot avoid. Problems avoided simply find other ways of manifesting themselves like energy that can never be destroyed. There is no statute of limitations on economic depressions. So I say no more expectations.

Words on Sunbeams

In the present, which is the future, it is a revolutionary act to write and think in words that expand the breadth of our minds as we seek to break the shackles of ignorance that the circumstances of modern existence have placed as a noose around our necks.

Open your eyes that see inward and then look up. This is the path to knowledge and wisdom that is within you and therefore is your most cherished possession. Our lives are bound only by the limits of our thoughts. Our thoughts are only bound by the limits of our ability to express them.

Even when our bodies are bound by disease or death or afflictions of weakness we can transcend this by speaking and singing and writing out in words as if illuminated by sunbeams and brought forth with the power of lightning.

Canada 1970

When revolutions go bad

"The Arab Spring"??

Effects of war. but it was "authorized" by the UN so its all for the greater good in that we need to set a precedent whereby world bodies can transcend national legislatures. yeah, ok. So this is all for the greater good. yeah, ok. It won't be a "one world government." It will be a one government world. Sound democratic?? How an Empire falls.

The Question of Occupation

It is a fundamental divide among many of us on the Right about what the Occupy movement means. I think of it maybe in the mirror opposite than many democrats think of it. The hope for the movement is to NOT let it be co-opted by the ideological Left. The "George Soros Crowd" if you will. To the extent that the movement becomes simply a chanting party to fulfill the wishes of large interests whose agenda is global, that is to the advantage of the Right as that is not a movement that will translate into electoral results. These global Left wing interests do not represent or care, frankly, about the extremely pressing real economic problems of Americans that most on the Left AND the Right are up to there last dollar in right now. These GLOBAL left-wing interests want to leverage the fear of ALL Americans and the physical bodies and occupations of the occupy movement into a phalanx to achieve global results that really have nothing to do with the economic conditions of real Americans on the ground in our severely economically depressed cities and small towns.

To my mind the question for the occupy movement is what does it want to continue to occupy?? Does it want to continue to physically occupy as many cities in the country and become simply a tool to achieve the global agenda of some of the Left wing and extremely wealthy interests that it purports to be opposed to?? Or does does it want to transform itself into a spiritual and emotional occupation of the agenda and attention of the American people?? If the movement can transform itself into an "occupy yourselves" movement it will redeem itself. "Occupy" a nursing home where elders are being abused (which is most of them.) "Occupy" a street where hungry people are eating out of garbage cans and feed them. (many streets in my town) "Occupy" town meetings as did the tea party and ACTUALLY speak THEIR minds using words of their own to express ideas. "Occupy" themselves, in short, in the business of creating an equality of caring souls helping each other at the grass roots level where people are hungry and hurting and slowly dying in the slow motion economic melt-down.

To the extent they can "occupy themselves" it is a movement that many good people in the nation will still embrace perhaps not completely at the polls, as we all have varying ideas, but in our time and effort to slowly transform the nation away from one that is obsessed with material consumption and "material occupations" into one that embraces spiritual and personal occupations, the kind that can truly change a person's life and therefore change the nation.

WORLD WAR III IN 72 F%#^&@ HOURS!!!!

I know the world must be near ending. I have agreed with Alec Baldwin and Barrack Hoover Obama in the same week!!! :) This is a sign of impending end of the world events. Baldwin recently defended Capitalism (sort of). And I agree with the Iraq troop withdrawal. Now knowing Obama and his weird passive aggressive foreign policy look for him to enter two more wars for every one he withdraws from. It is official (this is not a joke). I do not know how many wars we are fighting in now. I have literally lost count. I am quite serious. My last count was 6 but maybe 5 after Iraq. But oops I forgot about Uganda and maybe now Mexico so maybe 7?? Could not tell you :( The number of wars we are fighting will soon equal the number of jobs created since 1999.

I will not give Obama any "credit" for any actions in Libya because no actions there should have been taken in the first place. I find the UN call for war crimes investigations of the Kaddafy killing odd as it was the UN itself that dragged our ever too willing asses in there in the first place. It was a war for LSC baby!!! Light Sweet Crude my friends. I am talking oil here people NOT my winning personality!!! lol.

More soon. Here is some great rock and roll and here

Talks With OWS

I like this kid but he needs to read some history. Capitalism can't survive under conditions of anarchy.

Kennedy in 1960

Here is an interesting interview with JFK in Jan of 1960 just before the presidential contest with Nixon really began in earnest. Notice JFK thoughts on power.

The Essential Knowledge for Americans

I cannot recommend this set of lectures highly enough. It is really essential for Left Right and Center. We often forget that all of us can find find examples of champions of our particular politics throughout American history right back to the founding of Virginia and Massachusetts Bay. For those of you on the Left I recommend studying the lives of Roger Williams and Joel Barlow. I wish this lecture could be played at every t party and ows gathering anywhere. This is probably the most lucid, cogent, broadly knowledgeable talk on American history and its essential characteristics that I have ever heard.

Rise and Fight

The nation is more vulnerable than it has ever been. The hour is too late for a national revival of the strength, spirit, and humility that built the nation. Our People are divided. We have forgotten what we once knew, what once bound us as a nation and individuals. We have forgotten that our Liberty only was defended by us as a People, confident that though circumstances divided us, our humanity bound us to inalienable God-given rights. We sap our strength in wars of self-aggrandized hubris falsely confident of our military invulnerability to foreign powers feigning friendship and peace.

Our best rest on the laurels of their fortune, content to wallow in unearned riches. Our worst seek to aggrandize themselves by playing to the envy of the frightened majority cowering in fear of economic collapse. Our corruption blinds us to the urgency of the hour and temptation leads us into the forest of blindness. Our enemies from the East and South, despotic all, salivate at the sight of our wounds, confident in their ultimate victory. We are valueless, leaderless and rudderless.

We as a nation are all these things. But you, all of you as people are not. National revival begins with personal revival. Self-government depends in the first instance on the governance of oneself, self-discipline and self-control. Elevate again your soul and your mind. Resist the mindlessness that surrounds us. Gird yourself for that coming and now present storm that inflicts us from within and is soon to descend upon us from without. Remember again those mystic chords of memory that once bound us, were torn asunder, but can bind us again in the recognition that we are not class, we are not race, we are not creed. We are Free because we are human beings with a spirit that chafes and wails at the hint of despotic tyranny and slavery of our minds and bodies. That spirit is what makes you an American. That spirit, when it is offended will remind you of your duties to yourself and therefore to your nation. It is that Spirit of defiant justice that will again reunify our nation.These are Truths and Truths must be defended if they are to survive.

I expect that every American will do their duty when the time comes. The time has come. Rise and remember. Rise in the bitter tears of your old enemies expected victory. Rise and fight!

When that is done you will have honored yourselves and earned a victory that will ring and shout in the annals of time as a reminder of what is the destiny of all free people in the past, now, and throughout the tapestry of time.

a revolutionary with something to say

Cash

Hitchens

An excellent interview. My political interlocutors often accuse me of being a reactionary, semi-pompous, overrated pseudo-intellectual asshole and I am guilty :) Here is Hitchens a revolutionary, extremely pompous, overrated hyper intelligent intellectual asshole and that is why this Righty loves this Trotskyite Marxist in the grand tradition of the Democratic Left.

Notice all the books in the background appear to have been read and THAT is why he has something to say that is specific, knowledgeable, and always direct and logical.

The young, aliterate, protesters(although I agree with their criticism of the corruption of the American elite) should take notice. IF IF IF you want to be a real revolutionary, you gotta put in the work kiddies. Shoutdowns, monotonous semi-literate chantings led by a leftist professor, flash mobs, incoherent "DEMANDS!!" (how democratic of them), and hand signals to replace the words that are passe in your world of twittering gibberish aren't going to change the world. Put in the hard work of studying and thinking about the kind of country you want or you will continue to be what you are: the mobs and cannon fodder of any Right or Left Wing totalitarian who wants to use your "Demands!!" for his own ends. You are not the prelude to a revolution you are the beginning of a great devolution into a mind-numbing authoritarianism unless you remember again that the respect for a pluralism of thought and the plethora of words that they depend on is the only thing that will "change the world" for the better and not for the worse.

Right Wing Utopianism

the fallacy of the pursuit of a perfect world

A Fabulous BBC Documentary

Here is an excellent piece on the importance or reading.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdwFFFBCPzw%feature=related

The Division of Sovereignty-An American Concept

Sovereignty can take two forms. One is that sovereignty is the authority to rule. The other form is that sovereignty is the power to rule.

The sovereignty of the authority to wield political power is more in line with the federalist American ideal from a constitutional perspective than is the meaning of sovereignty as simply an expression of the POWER to rule, that is brute force. The authority to rule is in line with a concept of American liberty. This means that sovereignty, in its manifestation as the AUTHORITY to rule, can be DIVIDED within one polity. It is a sovereignty of JURISDICTION not of NATION.

Sovereignty in its other manifestation, that of the POWER to rule, is more in line with the modern vulgar way that is currently taught in our political science departments. That is, that politics is about POWER and who GETS IT!!!! This is usually called national sovereignty, or the sovereignty of the nation. This kind of sovereignty dismisses the notion of divided, shared, or concurrent sovereignty and subsumes all jurisdictional sovereignty into one centralized, administrative hub. It is this sovereignty that is the sovereignty of Empire and statism. It is difficult for individual liberty to exist for any length of time within a polity when this idea of sovereignty is in the ascendancy. It also breeds conflict between national and local authorities as neither recognizes that in the United States sovereignty must be jurisdictional and not territorial or national if it to be constitutional.

In the United States the People in their political capacity are Sovereign. They have the authority to rule. They also have the power to rule. However, they in their political capacity also have the authority to delegate power to any level and/or branch of government or reserve it for themselves. In this sense, sovereignty in our country is not divided, it rests ENTIRELY with the People in their political capacity. From a practical view however, the people disseminate the sovereignty among the levels and branches of government. Under the Constitution of the United States no sovereign power whatever exists within the government. It ALL resides with the People in their political capacity. The People then delegate certain powers to government as they see fit through a written constitution allowing the government to exercise certain powers in the name of the People of the United States.

The people of this country must never forget that their Liberty and that of countless Americans into the endless future depends upon their maintenance of their power to defend the authority of their sovereignty. Any people wallowing in an ignorant decadence will never remain free.

An Incident of Consequence

My mom had terrible anemia on January 8th of this year. She had to be in the hospital for a few days for a blood transfusion. At one point it looked as if she would surely die. Her blood pressure had dropped to 38 over 15. At that moment I looked to the heavens out of the fifth floor window. The sun was in the window. I closed my eyes and put my face directly in the light letting it bathe the inside of my eyeballs. I prayed to God to help my Mom have the energy and strength to stay living. I then went to her bedside, held her hand and told her "now its time to fight!" About 10 seconds later her blood pressure began a steady upward ascent to stabilize around 110 over 60. She felt better.

This incident showed me that God exists. This was proof on a personal level. It was not anything public that could easily sway masses of chanting converts. God does not act upon "the public" if any such monstrosity exists other than in the minds of socialists and fascists. If any force acts upon such an abstraction it is the Devil.

God acts in the lives of individual humans. By acts I do not mean doing favors for people. I mean that God is the necessary will, strength and courage that allows for humans to rise and create and think and achieve and sometimes just to continue to live on. This is the simple yet profound truth that Life is better than death, that to fight for Life is that only path to a noble death. This nobility of spirit is the warm and steady strength that God provides us even if we don't know how or why or float on an ocean of doubt. As Churchill said, Man is Spirit.