Almost six decades with a democrat in the senate seat for Massachusetts and history has been made with Brown's election. The people of Massachusetts have spoken and are saying no to Washington's choke hold on the American people.

Congratulations to Scott Brown! What a victory!

There is no reverse racism

Today I was listening to talk radio, some random show that I'd never heard before, and the most ridiculous human being was talking about how white people have kicked Tiger Woods out of golf because he had all those white mistresses. And apparently all white people are mad at Tiger for being with white women, especially the Irish in charge of the PGA. I have never in my life heard more racist things come out of another person's mouth than this man's.

It really upsets me that some Black and Minority people think that all white people are biased against them. I know that there are white racist people still in this country. There have been racist people for thousands of years, I'm not sure how having a Black president is going to change that, some people are just messed up in the head. What I don't understand is how being a minority exempts you from being racist. The most racist things I've ever heard have come out of the mouths of minorities.

It also upsets me me that I am lumped into a huge category titled "white." Just because my skin is lighter than other people's means that I have no diversity? I have a lot of culture and diversity in my background and it annoys me to no end that some politically correct entity has decided that if I try to celebrate my culture, that means that I'm celebrating white people suppressing other people throughout history.

I don't understand people wanting to paint themselves the victim. Perhaps that is why I do not understand the desire to continue claiming that white people are overwhelmingly racist. Tiger Woods left the PGA because he's a cad, not because white people are in a tizzy about him sleeping with white women. For God's sake people, we're in 2010, interracial couples are no big deal anymore!

Liberty is the key

I wish I could write more often on this blog. I have so many thoughts and there are so many things that happen in the realm of current events, but my time is taken up by the events of the day most often. I think in 2010 I will attempt to put more effort into this blog.

I find myself identifying more and more with a libertarian sort of viewpoint. I think I was always more libertarian, but I'm just realizing it a little more these days. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I just wish the government would butt out of our lives as much as possible. I think for the most part conservatism is on board with this kind of thinking. Of course there is the brand of conservatism which is more interested in legislating religious views, which conflicts with libertarian ideals. Here's my take, which has a lot to do with human nature in general:

I think that human beings yearn for freedom, independence and self sufficiency. Humans don't like being made into victims. They like succeeding and they don't like it when nameless, faceless bureaucracies get in the way of their success. I see our government teaching people to wallow in victimhood, and not just this administration. Our government has been teaching people to make a living off of being victims for over 50 years. Living off of the government as a victim has become a sort of art.

I have so much more in my brain on this and many more subjects, but for now I must go. I will make much more efforts to write on this blog more often (hopefully multiple times per week).

My America

The country that this administration and congress is building is not the country I want to live in, nor is it the country I dreamed of growing up in as a child. They are building a country where our dreams are sacrificed in order to quench their selfish political desires to create an imaginary utopia. Instead of America being the land of opportunity, they are perverting it into a land of binding debt. My generation will never have the opportunities of our parents because a slew of politicians decided to put their own political and financial gains ahead of every single person they supposedly represent. My America will be beholden to China and every other country holding our debt. My America will lose its freedoms bill by bill until My America is unable to be distinguished as the America founded in 1776 by those men and women who so lusted after freedom and liberty that they cut ties with their mother country to found their own. My America's government will suffocate its citizens. My America's government will squelch entrepreneurial drive in favor of a distorted concept of equality.

If I could do anything to stop this from happening, I would give up my dreams to fight for my children's liberties. I would give up my hopes so that my children will be allowed to chase after theirs, free from a crushing government. Our founders were so lucky. They had the geographical luxury to create a new country. They had the luxury to escape tyranny. We are not so lucky. We must stay and fight where we stand, because there is nowhere left to go on our little planet. There is no ocean separating us from our oppressors.

A lesson in capitalism

I don't fathom why people think the government would run anything better than the private sector.

Case in point:

Today I went to the post office to mail a package to someone. Apparently today is the busiest day ever at the post office (or so I was told). I took one look at the line and immediately left to go to UPS where I was helped right away and was out within two minutes.

Long lines? Rationing? Hell yeah. Go to the post office and get a little taste of the doctor's office after socialized medicine is foisted upon us.

And after three hours...

Ladies and Gentlemen, it was worth it. Despite having been subjected to a crowd full off hateful, racist, bigoted homophobes for all of three hours, Sarah was simply wonderful. We ended up getting our books signed near the very end of her time there (I'm not sure if they let her stay longer than 3 pm, when she was scheduled to leave), so we were quickly rushed through the line. People had started lining up at 5 am! We got there at noon, and we were lucky to make it through the line at all. The Air Force estimated that 2,000 people showed up and there were hundreds after us who didn't make it to see Sarah. And that was only for people who were military or had passes to get on base, I can't imagine what it would be like if the general public were admitted.

Everyone was so nice in the line. There were young people, old people, families. I felt bad for the people with toddlers, having to carry them through that line for hours. Luckily we were lined up through the food court, so we had quite a variety of food choices to stave off hunger.

I had read her book within two or three days of it coming out, and her story felt remarkably similar to my own experience, especially since much of it was about Alaska. For those who didn't grow up in Alaska and haven't lived here, I think a lot of her book would be some what foreign. It was so great to read about her past and her Alaskan experiences, many which parallel my own experience here. It's easy to say that you don't fully understand Sarah until you become an Alaskan, but really, I think it's true. She often says that her upbringing in Alaska informed and shaped both her political and personal points of view, and I completely understand what she means by that.

If you hate Sarah Palin, you hate me.

The Eagle Has Landed

Within the last half hour Air Force One has landed within a football field of where I am currently sitting. Honestly, despite the fact that I disagree with pretty much anything Barack Obama has said or done since announcing his candidacy for president, it is still an exciting thing to witness Air Force One and the leader of the free world land at an Air Force base. If it was Reagan it would be 100 times more exciting, but oh well.
This whole trip to Asia and the stop of at Fort Hood and the complete blow off of the Berlin Wall anniversary is somewhat troublesome. I just wish the president would acknowlege the importance of things like the Berlin Wall. Some people have been saying, "Well, if he went to the Berlin Wall, right wingers would be whining about him following the coat-tails of Reagan." Frankly, I'd prefer if he'd ride the coat tails of Reagan a little more. I doubt we'd be in collosal debt if that were the case.
I think the Berlin Wall issue is just another in a pattern of behavior. My belief is that America is a beacon of hope for freedom and liberty. People come from around the globe to realize their dreams here in America. Obviously some dreams don't get realized, and there are hardships that must be overcome, but by and large America is seen as a place where you have no limitations. You can work hard and make something of yourself. As the president, one is face of this sense of freedom and liberty. Wherever you go as president, you take that hope with you. When AF1 lands and the president steps of, hope and freedom steps off with him (or her). I just don't see Obama as caring much for that role. He ignored the cries of the people of Iran when their freedoms were stripped from them in their recent presidential election, chosing to side with a tryannical dictator instead of the people dying in the streets to hold on to the shred of freedom they still had. Young people being beaten and killed were ignored in favor of appeasing a dictator.
The White House has claimed that the trip to Asia conflicted with going to the Berlin Wall anniversary, but who scheduled the trip to Asia? The White House. It was one day. Sure it was a photo-op, but it was so much more than a photo-op. It was an opportunity to show the world that the President of the United States still stood for freedom and liberty.

But, you know, glad he could make it to the 57th state...

SOUND FAMILIAR

A cornucopia, of sorts.

I've been mostly absorbing recent happenings, abstaining from commenting on them. As much as there has been a variety of different things happening around the country, they all seem to have a similar tone to them.

I was reading about the mayor situation in Baltimore and how people are concerned the governor will appoint a white mayor to the majority black city. Those people were worried that a white mayor won't represent the black concerns, and were taking measures to pass a law to prevent the governor from having the authority to appoint a new mayor.

I found all of this to be very strange. How in 2009 people are still thinking that a person of one race cannot represent a person of another race fairly. Has it ever occured to them that maybe a person would represent all human beings, regardless of gender/color/etc. I mean, does it then follow that all the male mayors are ill equiped to represent females? Since when did being a mayor of a city mean that you have to represent certain demographics. I elect a mayor, or any executive office, to run something (whether it be a city/state/country). If they are ill equiped to manage a city, then I won't vote for them. Am I not going to vote for a 50 year old candidate because he can't represent 20 year olds? This whole idea of certain people being unable to represent other people is beyond me. I mean, I wouldn't be the best person to represent a majority gay group of people, but I would hope that that majority would see that I have the concerns of my constituents, as well as liberty and freedom, at the core of my values. Liberty and freedom trancend race, gender, and any other grouping.

I was listening to Rush this morning and he had a caller who was not a "typical Rush caller" (if you go by what the mainstream media would define as a typical Rush caller. He was a gay man in his 50's and he said that he and Rush agreed about 99.2% of the time. He was concerned about the infringements on liberty and equality and so on, but what struck me most was how he referred to the civil rights movements for gays and that he had fought so hard for equality- which is now what statist are trying to take away from people. He talked about how he grew up with a mom who worked all the time to make house payments and feed her several children, and that he too had worked hard all his life for what he's earned and doesn't see it as fair whatsoever that this administration is planning on taking it.

I have a friend at work who smokes, drinks, smokes weed, and idolizes Che Guevara. He is getting a tattoo which has the words, "America Falls to Communism" in it. Interestingly, he is in the Air Force, which, now that I think about it, makes a little bit of sense. I mean, he already has the government paying for his housing, food, healthcare, etc. But I digress. Why does the government want to force me to give my tax dollars to support people that I don't want to support? I don't want the money I spend hours of my life working for to end up in the hands of someone who is just going to sit around and smoke weed all day. I'm all for taxes being used to support the infrastructure of the country and to fund the military, but I really cannot see the logic in redistribution of wealth. These people don't want to give money to church groups who are actually helping the disadvantaged in a meaningful way, but they will take my money to support people who aren't willing to work for it. This is not to say that everyone on welfare or using a government program isn't working, or trying to get on their feet, but I think it is common knowledge that free money is about as addicting as crack.

This post has been somewhat scatterbrained, so I apologize for the random nature of my various subjects, but this is what has been on my brain lately.

The Education system, it's a problem in the U.S.A.

I know that you've all probably seen this video, and it's only the most recent in a disturbing series of videos showing school children singing about President Obama.


I keep wondering when this exploitation of children is going to end. It just seems to go beyond the brink of decency and appropriate conduct for teachers. If a child wants to spearhead this kind of think on his or her own, I think that's completely fine, but when teachers start feeding politics into the classroom- that's another thing. I don't know if the kids in the above video decided to do this on their own or not (though I do know not all of them are in favor of goverment healthcare), but regardless, the exploitation of children should never be tolerated.

Who decided that kids should have anything to do with politics in the first place? In my opinion children should never be involve in anything political. Childhood is a time for growing up, having fun, playing with friends, birthday parties- not worrying about insurance deductables and taxes. That's why there are adults, who are supposed to be watching out for their children and making sure that the next generation will have it better than theirs. With the massive debt we've been plunged into, it seems like some adults could care less about passing the buck onto the unborn generation.

I don't understand why teachers believe it is their position to not only educate kids, but to tell them what are right and wrong ways of thinking. Teachers are supposed to provide kids with information, critical thinking skills and the ability to effectively communicate so that as they grow up they can make informed decisions on their own, and be able to share those ideas with others. I don't care if it's a public or private school, if a teacher isn't doing those things and is injecting his or her own politics into the classroom- it's wrong.

At colleges and universities I think professors should be able to have political discourse with students, but since the classroom has often been a political indoctrination center for the student's entire education, I don't believe many college aged students are able to properly engage in discourse or disagree with a professor. Since for so many years their grade and success in school has been directly linked to regurgitating a certain political agenda, they don't really have the tools or strength to disagree because there's a programmed fear that they will get a bad grade if they show dissonance with the teacher's point of view.

Maybe... yes... then agan,...I think...

Art and fashion are great interests of mine, so when those things intersect with politics it's always a treat. On Michelle Malkin's site today I found her post on the art the Obama's have chosen to decorate the Whitehouse with. It's an Ed Ruscha piece, and, uh, remarkably apt? I wish it weren't so apt...

Of all the works by Ruscha, this is the one they choose? Way to show some power and strength, guys. I mean, come on, Ruscha is INCREDIBLE. He's a pop art icon. I'd say that this piece is probably among my least favorite of all his works. Let's consider some other options the Obama's had, when choosing a Ruscha piece (though I doubt all of these were available, but still...)

And really, isn't the obvious choice this one?:

Though I have a feeling many Americans are now wishing he'd chosen this one:

Obama Money!

-Why are you here?

- To get some money.

-What kind of money?

- Obama money.

-Where's it coming from?

- Obama.

- And where'd Obama get it from?

- I don't know, his stash! I don't know. I don't know where he got it from but he givin it to us. To help us. We love him, that's why we voted for him! O-BA-MA!

I don't think I need to say anything about this. It speaks for itself.