Hi,
The rantings and ravings of the over-protective in our society are getting truly ridiculous!!!!! An 85 year old woman on a walker gets strip searched at an airport; a teacher goes ballistic when a tiny student in grade school calls her "cute"! PUL..........EEEEZE!!! GIVE IT A REST!!!!!!!!!!
BE SURE NOT TO BLOW YOUR NOSE ON THE CORNER OF 5TH AND MAIN--THERE'S BOUND TO BE A LAW PASSED, OR ORDINANCE OR RULE AGAINST IT. YOU DON'T WANT TO GET ARRESTED, DO YOU????????
It has gotten that ludicrous. It was a nice thing we did--protecting our children and our grandchildren but I'm sorry I have to say, we have produced generations of TOO MANY OVER ZEALOUS, OVER-ALARMED, AND OVER-REACTIVE WIMPS!!!!!!!!!!! And the cost of all this so-called protection from harm is alarming in terms of transporation costs, local and national security costs, and government costs.
WHO TOLD US WE HAD A RIGHT TO BE TOTALLY SAFE AND SECURE????????? COME ON!!!!!!!!!!! LIFE IS CRAP SHOOT. YOU WIN SOME. YOU LOSE SOME. It is not a nice safe haven for us to traverse. IT NEVER WAS!!!!!!! WAR WAS NOT THE ONLY ISSUE OF DANGER!!!!!!!! How many folks get hit by cars, die in home-related accidents, ride their bikes to disaster and so on. There are more ways to die from THE CARELESSNESS OF OTHERS than I care to count. AND IS IT ONLY THE REALLY BAD GUYS THAT MEAN YOU HARM or could it be your HARMLESS?????? ex-lover who bears you ill-will????????? The list of what could befall you in life goes on and on. WISE UP PLEASE??????????
And speaking of danger, BLOWING YOUR NOSE ON 5TH AND MAIN may spread germs to the WHOLE COMMUNITY thereby killing off a fair number of residents. OH LORDY, WILL ANOTHER SAFEGUARD LAW BE PUT IN PLACE FOR THOSE GERMS THAT DESTROY OUR PEACE OF MIND, TAKE OUR HEALTH, AND MAKE THE OFFICIALS VERY "SNOTTY"!!!!!!
Look at it this way. Taking an airplane was always tricky. If the plane had engine trouble, DOWN YOU WENT. If the pilot was poorly trained, DOWN YOU WENT. If they forgot to put gas in the tank, DOWN YOU WENT. FLYING IN THE AIR IS A VERY RISKY BUSINESS UNLESS YOU HAVE YOUR OWN WINGS!!!!!!!!!! HOWEVER THE AIRLINES PROTECT YOUR SAFETY AS FAR AS THE AIRPLANE AND CREW CAN DO AND THAT IS REALLY ALL YOU SHOULD EXPECT.
I totally understand the paranoia developing from 9/ll and the reasoning behind all the airport precautions BUT IT HAS GONE OVER THE EDGE OF PARANOIA INTO HYSTERIA. STRIP SEARCHING A SICK 85 YEAR OLD WOMAN IS TOTALLY UNREASONABLE. AND WHAT security officials reluctantly TELL YOU (if you ask) IS THAT THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO WAY THEY CAN REALLY STOP AN AIRCRAFT FROM BEING SABOTAGED OR A PASSENGER FROM DESTROYING OTHER PASSENGERS IF THEY ARE DETERMINED TO SO DO!!!!!! The only advantage is to make it difficult so that only the most committed (ie: the terrorists=the ones who caused all the extra security) will attempt it.
These OVERKILL methods simply work aS PUBLIC RELATIONS attempts at making YOU FEEL PROTECTED AND CARED ABOUT WHILE STRIP SEARCHES ABUSE YOUR SENSITIVITIES. It's the feeling that "MOMMY AND DADDY" ARE LOOKING AFTER YOU WHILE YOU PROJECT YOURSELF INTO SPACE WITH ONLY A METAL SKIN BETWEEN YOU AND EARTH!!!!!!!!!!!
I find the dichotomies in our cultures amusing as well as confusing. A person will swing off the end of a BUNGEE CORD, but whimper at the thought of being destroyed on an airplane. A person will ski down a 4000 foot slope (LOOK OUT FOR THAT OPEN CREVICE) but pales at the thought that there might be a bomb on a plane. Someone, who drives 90 MPH on open highway, cringes at the idea that a terrorist might be aboard an aircraft.
IS IT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CAUSING ONE'S OWN DEATH OR HAVING A STRANGER DO IT??????? ISN'T THE OUTCOME THE SAME EITHER WAY???????
LIFE does not come with a guarantee or even a warranty. We could wish for one but living is very dangerous. However as the old saying goes the opposite choice has no benefits! TELL YOUR KIDS, YOUR GRAND KIDS, YOUR GREAT-GRAND KIDS ETC. that life is as dangerous as driving 90MPH. ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN AND DOES!!!!!!!!!
YOUNG SCHOOL TEACHERS--PLEASE NOTE--Crushes by the tiny-tiny boppers in grade school are not an unusual event. It's been going on since schools started (and before) so if one your students says "you're cute" , "you're sweet", "you're wonderful" OR even GOD FORBID, 'You're sexy". Do THE intelligent thing--CONSIDER THE SOURCE and take it as a compliment NOT ABUSE.
EVERYONE NEEDS TO STOP BEING SCARED SHITLESS BY THE GHOSTS OF PAST TRAGEDIES OR OF EVENTS THAT MAY NEVER HAPPEN!!!!!!!!!BUCK UP. When you divide the number of bad events into the total world population even with ongoing wars in various regions, it comes out GOOD NOT BAD!!!!!!!!! WE'D ALL LIKE IT TO BE BETTER BUT THEN PERFECTION IS ALWAYS ILLUSIVE AND ALLUSIVE.
This is not a denial of the existence of predators but TELEVISION and the COMPUTER makes them grow exponentially OUT OF PROPORTION to the REAL WORLD. Those mediums affect us negatively in many areas in a disproportionate amount to actual events. Yes, THEY SHOW US TRAGEDIES but to project these into a gigantic epidemic that needs arrests for all kinds of minor sins is eroding the sense of the law.
Speaking of the law, there is a project that this blogger would like to see taken on by the Congress and THE INDIVIDUAL STATES. It is called SUNSET PROVISIONS FOR ALL LAWS. So that when we go through A MINDLESS PERIOD SUCH AS WE ARE CURRENTLY ENJOYING the laws (SILLY AND OTHERWISE)that are passed have an expiration date.
IN OTHER WORDS, when a law is passed, it is provided with a date by which it must either be renewed or fade away. There are a ridiculous number of laws and Government bills that could have benefitted from this clause. It would mean that A SILLY PROVISION THAT PUTS YOU IN JAIL FOR BLOWING YOUR NOSE AT 5th and MAIN would only last for a few years. Enough time for the population of that area to realize how SILLY THE LAW REALLY IS while retaining laws that truly benefit the citizenry.
REMEMBER, PLEASE, ONE OF THE REASONS the PILGRIMS CAME TO AMERICA in the first place was that they found the laws of England to be overwhelming, overburdening, and overzealous. They had lost their freedom to act in their own behalf because of the burden of laws supposedly designed to PROTECT THEM!!!!!!!!!! Instead of protection, they caused good citizens to be labeled CRIMINALS FOR "BLOWING THEIR NOSE AT 5Th and MAIN". If it continues to HAPPEN IN AMERICA, those pioneers might as well have stayed in England. LET'S BACK OFF BEFORE WE HAVE TO COLONIZE SPACE!!!!!!!!!!!!
cheers, connie
12/9/11
12/3/11
ONE NATION INDIVISIBLE UNDER GOD! POST 86
Hi,
This week I'm including some great thoughts in the headlines sent to me.
Well Europe's Euro is on the brink of tanking with disaster loomimng and the Socialist=(CSP=COMMUNISM=SOCIALISM=PROGRESSIVISM) answer MAY BE to create A UNITED STATES OF EUROPE. Remember some of the ideas that were just a GLEAM IN THE "intelligentsia's" EYE BECAME THE HORROR CHILDREN OF THIS CENTURY. There's a lot to be said about this and not much of it good.
First, this blogger would like to point out that most of the world'S "CSPers" but especially IN Europe have been highly CRITICAL OF THE UNITED STATES' government policies and financial systems yet IT SEEMS they can HARDLY WAIT TO EMULATE US!!!!!!!!
It would appear the DESPERATION to save Socialism includes a STRONG DESIRE to CHANGE TO all of the winning aspects of CAPITALSIM AND DENY THE EXISTENCE OF OUR SYSTEM!!!!!!!!! A reminder as well that Asia NOW has STOCK MARKETS helping to bail out their economy before the widespread poverty of the people topple the system. And a use of a stock market has made Japan rich while other Asian communities continue to explore the possibilities. Meanwhile, Europe decided to SCREW THE RICH TO FINANCE THE POOR TO EQUALIZE THE COMMMUNITY OF CITIZENS which indeed THEY DID. NOW EVERYONE IS FINANCIALLY INSECURE.
GOOD JOB DUM DUMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THE CSP ANSWER may be EVEN WORSE-turn Europe into one gigantic pseudo UNITED STATES. THE BIGGEST PROBLEM AND NOT THE ONLY ONE IS THAT THE INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES HAVE TO GIVE UP THEIR SOVEREIGNTY. What does that mean exactly. NO FREEDOM OF CHOICE. EASY ANSWER.
NOW, LET'S SEE. That means that the FRENCH CAN NO LONGER ACT LIKE FRENCHMEN. They must now be attuned to being like their neightbors, the Italians, the Spanish, the Greeks --PROVEN LOSERS, FINANCIAL LOSERS ALL. Does that disturb anyone???????? DOES THAT SOUND LIKE A RECIPE FOR CONFLICT, EVEN WAR????????
A United States of Europe?????? OK. What about the countries that don't want to go along? Maybe like ENGLAND OR GERMANY OR SWITZERLAND to name a few???????? Does that sound like a PEACEFUL SOLUTION TO WORLD AFFAIRS. DOES CONFLICT AND WAR REDUCE POVERTY OR JUST MAKE IT MORE UNLIVEABLE????????? Or is that another way to REDUCE POVERTY BY KILLING OFF THE POOR???????
A UNITED SOLUTION IN OUR COUNTRY ACTUALLY TOOK MAJOR WARS CALLED THE REVOLUTION AND THE CIVIL WAR TO RECTIFY AND UNIFY THE VARIOUS STATES AND THE AFTER EFFECTS ONLY NOW are beginning to diminish. If that is okay with Europe then the CSP PIE IN THE SKY MIGHT FLY.
However, America had one really BIG ADVANTAGE!!!!!! LANGUAGE!!!!!! English was a common language. Will the French accept giving up their beautiful national language? Will the Spanish discard their tongue and so on? MAYBE--but what kind of language unrest is certain to linger? Can they resolve it or will it continue as it has in Canada just at a simmer state?
What about that all important CSP GOVERNMENT????????WHO GETS THE CONTROL??????? What nationality becomes the IMPORTANT ONE??????? Don't think that's a problem????? That's because you think AMERICAN NOT AS ONE OF THE DIVERSE GROUPS IN YOUR COUNTRY.
DOESN'T ALL THIS SOUND HORRIBLY FAMILIAR?????????Didn't this FAILURE IN RUSSIA??????? Sure the Soviet Union was not made of countries that all willingly conceded to the Union of Russia (which in some ways made DICTATING easier) but the outcome would not have changed very much. And considering Russia's history, can we not believe that some conguring would have to go on in Europe to add enough countries to make the Union look and feel strong which it needs to be as the United States of Europe. WHAT ABOUT THE SOVEREIGNTY OF most of THE SMALL COUNTRIES WITH NO WAY TO REFUSE???????
YOU KNOW FOLKS SOONER OR LATER WE ARE ALL GOING TO HAVE TO COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT THESE OLD--OLD--CENTURIES OLD METHODS ARE 'OUTDATED' AND WE NEED NEW AND BETTEr THEORIES AND PLANS FROM CREATIVE ECONOMIC SOURCES!!!!!!!
This blogger, personally, thinks the American system for AMERICA IS PRETTY DAMN GOOD, NOT PERFECT, BUT PRETTY DAMN GOOD, if the KNOW NOTHING POLITICIANS WOULD STOP MESSING AROUND WITH IT, it might just evolve into a system that eventually would reduce poverty AND LEAVE only THOSE WHO WILL NOT BE HELPED and reduce CONFLICT EXCEPT for those who CANNOT BE CONTENT. Then what you need for them is not more goods or money but a fork lift OF PSYCHIATRISTS to help.
This blogger is also positive that any groups who want to borrow the REAL STRUCTURE AND MEANING INHERANT IN OUR SYSTEM which ENSURES FOREMOST FREEDOM AND HOMOGENITY based on a strong view of CONSITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES, should HAVE A REAL GO AT IT!!!!!!!!!! Understood, protected, and revered countries can find real BENEFIT AND PROSPERITY not PERFECTION, in acquiring AMERICA'S SYSTEM OF LIFE. NOT PERFECTION, BUT A CHANCE TO SEEK IT
even though it is futile.
A perfect economic system is simply A FICTION--A MIRAGE--AND THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A STRUGGLE TO ACQUIRE SOME MAGICAL WAY OF TOTAL EQUALITY. PERHAPS, WHAT CREATIVE FUTURE ECONOMISTS MUST FIRST ACCEPT is that IT IS ENOUGH TO COME CLOSE and then SHORE UP THE REMAINDER of the problems with PATCHES, BANDAIDS, AND CARING!!!! ISN'T THAT WHAT WE DO WITH CHARITIES AND DONATIONS AND SPECIAL FUNDS IN SOME SENSE??????
So not even discussing the tremendous economic problems that a UNITED STATES OF EUROPE will represent to the world; the shift of power that could occur between Asia and Europe; the movement toward other amalgamations and centralizing of SOUTH AMERICAN economies; and a movement toward ONE WORLDISM, the dream of THE POWER AND MONEY HUNGRY ELITE. THIS BLOGGER warns that serious economic attention must be given to the changes being thrust into the forefront by Socialistic forces. Remember that AN AMALGAMATION OF COUNTRIES into a UNITED STATES OF ANYWHERE becomes a catalystic shift in WORLD POWER AND A POTENTIAL threat of MORE WAR AND DESTRUCTION which THREATENS AMERICA viewed as a WORLD POWER.
Recall the first editions of this blog and perhaps thinking that ECONOMICS WAS A REALLY DULL SUBJECT FOR THIS BLOGGER TO WRITE ABOUT?????? YEAH, RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!
Cheers, Connie
This week I'm including some great thoughts in the headlines sent to me.
Well Europe's Euro is on the brink of tanking with disaster loomimng and the Socialist=(CSP=COMMUNISM=SOCIALISM=PROGRESSIVISM) answer MAY BE to create A UNITED STATES OF EUROPE. Remember some of the ideas that were just a GLEAM IN THE "intelligentsia's" EYE BECAME THE HORROR CHILDREN OF THIS CENTURY. There's a lot to be said about this and not much of it good.
First, this blogger would like to point out that most of the world'S "CSPers" but especially IN Europe have been highly CRITICAL OF THE UNITED STATES' government policies and financial systems yet IT SEEMS they can HARDLY WAIT TO EMULATE US!!!!!!!!
It would appear the DESPERATION to save Socialism includes a STRONG DESIRE to CHANGE TO all of the winning aspects of CAPITALSIM AND DENY THE EXISTENCE OF OUR SYSTEM!!!!!!!!! A reminder as well that Asia NOW has STOCK MARKETS helping to bail out their economy before the widespread poverty of the people topple the system. And a use of a stock market has made Japan rich while other Asian communities continue to explore the possibilities. Meanwhile, Europe decided to SCREW THE RICH TO FINANCE THE POOR TO EQUALIZE THE COMMMUNITY OF CITIZENS which indeed THEY DID. NOW EVERYONE IS FINANCIALLY INSECURE.
GOOD JOB DUM DUMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THE CSP ANSWER may be EVEN WORSE-turn Europe into one gigantic pseudo UNITED STATES. THE BIGGEST PROBLEM AND NOT THE ONLY ONE IS THAT THE INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES HAVE TO GIVE UP THEIR SOVEREIGNTY. What does that mean exactly. NO FREEDOM OF CHOICE. EASY ANSWER.
NOW, LET'S SEE. That means that the FRENCH CAN NO LONGER ACT LIKE FRENCHMEN. They must now be attuned to being like their neightbors, the Italians, the Spanish, the Greeks --PROVEN LOSERS, FINANCIAL LOSERS ALL. Does that disturb anyone???????? DOES THAT SOUND LIKE A RECIPE FOR CONFLICT, EVEN WAR????????
A United States of Europe?????? OK. What about the countries that don't want to go along? Maybe like ENGLAND OR GERMANY OR SWITZERLAND to name a few???????? Does that sound like a PEACEFUL SOLUTION TO WORLD AFFAIRS. DOES CONFLICT AND WAR REDUCE POVERTY OR JUST MAKE IT MORE UNLIVEABLE????????? Or is that another way to REDUCE POVERTY BY KILLING OFF THE POOR???????
A UNITED SOLUTION IN OUR COUNTRY ACTUALLY TOOK MAJOR WARS CALLED THE REVOLUTION AND THE CIVIL WAR TO RECTIFY AND UNIFY THE VARIOUS STATES AND THE AFTER EFFECTS ONLY NOW are beginning to diminish. If that is okay with Europe then the CSP PIE IN THE SKY MIGHT FLY.
However, America had one really BIG ADVANTAGE!!!!!! LANGUAGE!!!!!! English was a common language. Will the French accept giving up their beautiful national language? Will the Spanish discard their tongue and so on? MAYBE--but what kind of language unrest is certain to linger? Can they resolve it or will it continue as it has in Canada just at a simmer state?
What about that all important CSP GOVERNMENT????????WHO GETS THE CONTROL??????? What nationality becomes the IMPORTANT ONE??????? Don't think that's a problem????? That's because you think AMERICAN NOT AS ONE OF THE DIVERSE GROUPS IN YOUR COUNTRY.
DOESN'T ALL THIS SOUND HORRIBLY FAMILIAR?????????Didn't this FAILURE IN RUSSIA??????? Sure the Soviet Union was not made of countries that all willingly conceded to the Union of Russia (which in some ways made DICTATING easier) but the outcome would not have changed very much. And considering Russia's history, can we not believe that some conguring would have to go on in Europe to add enough countries to make the Union look and feel strong which it needs to be as the United States of Europe. WHAT ABOUT THE SOVEREIGNTY OF most of THE SMALL COUNTRIES WITH NO WAY TO REFUSE???????
YOU KNOW FOLKS SOONER OR LATER WE ARE ALL GOING TO HAVE TO COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT THESE OLD--OLD--CENTURIES OLD METHODS ARE 'OUTDATED' AND WE NEED NEW AND BETTEr THEORIES AND PLANS FROM CREATIVE ECONOMIC SOURCES!!!!!!!
This blogger, personally, thinks the American system for AMERICA IS PRETTY DAMN GOOD, NOT PERFECT, BUT PRETTY DAMN GOOD, if the KNOW NOTHING POLITICIANS WOULD STOP MESSING AROUND WITH IT, it might just evolve into a system that eventually would reduce poverty AND LEAVE only THOSE WHO WILL NOT BE HELPED and reduce CONFLICT EXCEPT for those who CANNOT BE CONTENT. Then what you need for them is not more goods or money but a fork lift OF PSYCHIATRISTS to help.
This blogger is also positive that any groups who want to borrow the REAL STRUCTURE AND MEANING INHERANT IN OUR SYSTEM which ENSURES FOREMOST FREEDOM AND HOMOGENITY based on a strong view of CONSITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES, should HAVE A REAL GO AT IT!!!!!!!!!! Understood, protected, and revered countries can find real BENEFIT AND PROSPERITY not PERFECTION, in acquiring AMERICA'S SYSTEM OF LIFE. NOT PERFECTION, BUT A CHANCE TO SEEK IT
even though it is futile.
A perfect economic system is simply A FICTION--A MIRAGE--AND THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A STRUGGLE TO ACQUIRE SOME MAGICAL WAY OF TOTAL EQUALITY. PERHAPS, WHAT CREATIVE FUTURE ECONOMISTS MUST FIRST ACCEPT is that IT IS ENOUGH TO COME CLOSE and then SHORE UP THE REMAINDER of the problems with PATCHES, BANDAIDS, AND CARING!!!! ISN'T THAT WHAT WE DO WITH CHARITIES AND DONATIONS AND SPECIAL FUNDS IN SOME SENSE??????
So not even discussing the tremendous economic problems that a UNITED STATES OF EUROPE will represent to the world; the shift of power that could occur between Asia and Europe; the movement toward other amalgamations and centralizing of SOUTH AMERICAN economies; and a movement toward ONE WORLDISM, the dream of THE POWER AND MONEY HUNGRY ELITE. THIS BLOGGER warns that serious economic attention must be given to the changes being thrust into the forefront by Socialistic forces. Remember that AN AMALGAMATION OF COUNTRIES into a UNITED STATES OF ANYWHERE becomes a catalystic shift in WORLD POWER AND A POTENTIAL threat of MORE WAR AND DESTRUCTION which THREATENS AMERICA viewed as a WORLD POWER.
Recall the first editions of this blog and perhaps thinking that ECONOMICS WAS A REALLY DULL SUBJECT FOR THIS BLOGGER TO WRITE ABOUT?????? YEAH, RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!
Cheers, Connie
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