Liberals hate private sector leaders.
In their world, a world very much created by Marx and Engels, government (or better said "the state") must have the exclusive and exhaustive leadership role. CEOs, corporate presidents, religious officials (especially bishops and the Pope!) are all seen with skepticism and fear as rivals. In the statist vision of the world, only the state has the true vision and altruism to properly order mankind. All competition must be eliminated.
As Milton Friedman said to Phil Donahue about 30 years ago "Where in the world do you find these angels who are going to organize society for us? I don't even trust you to do that". Here's the clip. It's worth watching:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWsx1X8PV_A
So because today's American left, liberals, statists, Obamists, socialists, etc hate non-government leaders, they take the necessary steps to destroy them. (There are many ways to do that- read Saul Alinsky for some tips in case you want to play the home version.) One way to destroy these leaders is through direct government attack.
I think of Hank Greenberg the former CEO of AIG. Greenberg was basically told by former N.Y. Attorney General (turned disgraced prostitute loving embezzling Governor) Spitzer to resign "or else". Repeated calls to the AIG Board, threats of indictment, of penalties, of fines, all empty hallow threats caused Greenberg to step aside. Spitzer used his status as AG to hold press conferences aimed at maligning Greenberg. Spitzer ruined his reputation and character. Spitzer behaved like a complete and utter extortionist, mafia thug. Greenberg was forced to step down. He was never charged, indicted, or to my knowledge, even investigated for any misdoings.
So why the need to get rid of him? He was too powerful. He controlled too much money. He had more power than Spitzer, and in Elliott's statist-worldview, that is a bad thing. Only government officials should have such power. (By the way... I am waiting for Elliott to get charged with something).
I forget... after Greenberg stepped down 3 years ago, how has AIG done as a business? Is it still making money for it's shareholders?
And just today, Kaiser Obama had Rick Wagoner step down at General Motors. Now, Obama can "appoint" the right person to restructure GM according to his (Obama's) vision. Obama and his task force can decide the product and the financial make-up of this behemoth and iconic corporation. They can decide what kind of cars are made, how much they cost, how much the employees make, how much Ron Gettelfinger gets paid...
I forget.... how much experience does Obama have running a corporation? Did his years as "community organizer" give him the financial and corporate acumen to overhaul this company? Did his years in the Illinois legislature gift him with automotive know how and experience? Did his 2 years in the Senate provide him with industry vision and labor-relations capabilities?
Rick Wagoner is just the latest victim of a soon-to-be common trend. Obama is a statist. He believes in complete state control of all sectors of society: education, healthcare, employment, production. Any leader who tries to remain free of state control will be subject to death- industry death, power-death, responsibility-death. Not actual "death". Not yet, at least.
What? Am I saying that soon Kaiser Obama will actually KILL people? No. But all totalitarian regimes begin small... go read up on the Reign of Terror in 19th century France, the beginning of Bolshevism in early 20th century Russia, the birth of Fascism in Italy, Communism in China, Hitler in Germany. Totalitarianism doesn't begin with murder. It begins with "the state" taking control of:
industry: banking, mortgage
the private sector: automobiles, healthcare
religion: eliminating conscience clause and tax-exempt status, imminent domain legislation
the press: fairness doctrine, newspaper bailouts
The state does this for your good. They care. But this lust for control grows and grows. Soon, as Orwell reminds us, you cannot tell the men from the pigs as they all look alike.
Do I sound alarmist? Good. I'll keep ringing that alarm bell. Didn't another statist, Lula Da Silva, just blame the global recession on "blue-eyed white people"? Now ask me again if I am going to far in my comments... Hitler did not begin his powergrab with dissimilar attitudes.
Greenberg, Wagoner- who is next? Steve Jobs? Warren Buffett? He criticized Obama recently- maybe Berkshire Hathaway should be under state control. Should the state appoint university professors and deans? All this is coming. Look at which industry is under Kaiser Obama's attack: oil, pharma, healthcare, energy, transportation, banks, "Wall Street" (the guy is so inept he talks about "Wall Street" as if it were a specie and not a genere. Plato would be happy to see his beliefs are being codified into metaphysical legislation.)
Watchout Exxonmobile, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, CSX. Wells Fargo and Ford are being FORCED to take TARP funds. What will Kaiser Obama FORCE upon you, Pfizer?
Maybe AstraZeneca can make a pill to counter the effects of American Fascism.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Where does Football rank on the importance scale?
What goes on in those hallowed halls? What happens in those vapid heads? Is the current political system such that the most truly narcissistic and haughty interlopers are elected?
Legions of men and women spend their days telling us, the American people, how to live their lives. As Chuck Schumer said upon his election "I was born to legislate".
So now the colossal morons who sit in power chairs on the Hill and rape the public of their resources and trust are now investigating (drum roll please....) College Football.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9759GG00&show_article=1
What the hell is with these people? They passed a $700+ billion stimulus without reading it, allowing 8,000+ earmarks, included corporate bonus clause, denied it, feigned indignation, tried to ex post facto tax it, all while okaying a Treasury Secretary who failed to pay their taxes. And that shit show of a process allows them to move on to another area where they can stick their noses and screw things up beyond repair.
College football? With inflation soaring and the dollar plummeting and North Korea launching weapons... you want to get involved in College Football?
Let me ask you this, bastards, what RIGHT do you think you have to regulate college football? Are you going to regulate what student gets "homecoming queen" and "most likely to succeed"?
I just don't understand what these elected officials do in those offices. There must be some stupid pill they have to take every morning. We've got Mexican drug lords turning Phoenix into another Mogadishu. Russia is sending bombers to Cuba. Yet you focus on... football.
No wonder we are heading in the wrong direction. When the martians land and say "Take me to your leader" I'd be embarrassed to show them who's in charge. The aliens will know their invasion of our planet will be like Hitler's march on France but with better hygiene.
Legions of men and women spend their days telling us, the American people, how to live their lives. As Chuck Schumer said upon his election "I was born to legislate".
So now the colossal morons who sit in power chairs on the Hill and rape the public of their resources and trust are now investigating (drum roll please....) College Football.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9759GG00&show_article=1
What the hell is with these people? They passed a $700+ billion stimulus without reading it, allowing 8,000+ earmarks, included corporate bonus clause, denied it, feigned indignation, tried to ex post facto tax it, all while okaying a Treasury Secretary who failed to pay their taxes. And that shit show of a process allows them to move on to another area where they can stick their noses and screw things up beyond repair.
College football? With inflation soaring and the dollar plummeting and North Korea launching weapons... you want to get involved in College Football?
Let me ask you this, bastards, what RIGHT do you think you have to regulate college football? Are you going to regulate what student gets "homecoming queen" and "most likely to succeed"?
I just don't understand what these elected officials do in those offices. There must be some stupid pill they have to take every morning. We've got Mexican drug lords turning Phoenix into another Mogadishu. Russia is sending bombers to Cuba. Yet you focus on... football.
No wonder we are heading in the wrong direction. When the martians land and say "Take me to your leader" I'd be embarrassed to show them who's in charge. The aliens will know their invasion of our planet will be like Hitler's march on France but with better hygiene.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Sexual Dysfunction
This is a tragic story.
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090322/NEWS01/903220312/-1/TODAY
Jessica sent a nude photo of herself to her boyfriend who forwarded it to a friend, so on and so forth, it appeared online and the entire school saw it. Jessica was ridiculed to the point of suicide.
What a tragic end to a young life. Her parents are rightly angered, overcome with grief and looking for an explanation. I am sure they feel that something else- some external force- is to blame. And they are right.
But legislation preventing kids from sending or posting nude photos, or, as it is called "sexting", will not change anything. Sexting is just a symptom of a greater societal problem.
Jessica is of the generation that read "Heather has two mommies" in kindergarten and learned about "the blue dress" by 4th grade. Jessica undoubtedly watched "Sex and the City" since she was 10, saw Tony and his gang at the "Bada Bing" and has seen self-proclaimed "pan-sexual" Madonna grab her crotch every time she gets on a stage.
What happens to a group of children who are told, often times under legally procured rules and methods, that there is no taboo about sex? Nothing is out of question, nothing is private, nothing is even wrong. Condoms and abortions are offered free of charge to minors in schools. Snap bracelets are worn by 8th graders. And sexual conversation is as commonplace as any other topic like sports or the weather.
Recently, at a cocktail party, a woman felt compelled to tell my mom that her son was experimenting with his sexuality. "You have several children. I'm sure you know what that phase is like". My mom didn't know how to respond. I wish I could have seen the look on her face.
In the 1970s a great Italian thinker prophesied in his book "On Human Life" that the overacceptance and overindulgence of sex outside of a committed married relationship would be devastating to mankind. Rather than make us a more tolerant and loving society, it would bring out the selfishness of man, often at the expense of women, and lead to higher abortion rates and more out-of-wedlock births. It would victimize women in domestic violence and rape and the banality of sex and it's proper context would lead to an overall moral decline.
Real prophets are dead-on. Recent studies show that 40% of births in America are out-of-wedlock. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4733330.stm. That is staggering. But back to Jessica and her family.
There are things parents can do to protect their children. Legislation is not the answer.
Don't give your children camera phones. That's a quick, simple start. No one NEEDS a camera phone. Don't give your children phones that can receive photos either. This is not because you don't trust your children- it's because you don't trust other people children. Sorry.
Computers, especially with internet connections, should be in a common room of the house: a home office, a corner in the family room, a hallway. A teenager, alone in his room with unlimited internet access is just not prudent. Same with cable TV or DVD players. Not in a private bedroom- it's just imprudent. When thousands upon millions of predators, sexual, financial, whatever kind you imagine, are out in cyberspace and on TV and cable looking for your kid you've got to take necessary preventative measures.
But that's just not enough. More importantly we as a society need to control what our children are being taught and what is being fed to their minds through social communication. Our kids are bombarded by sex at a very early, very young age and we have become immune to it. How sad is it that my dad, my brothers and our nephews cannot watch the Superbowl or the World Series without Viagra after Levitra after Go-Daddy after God know what other breasts in your face and penis won't work commercial. And 8 year old Peter asks "what's an erection". (Following in the footsteps of thousands of generations before us, we respond "Go ask your mother".)
And where is the modesty of a young boy who receives a nude picture of his "girlfriend" and shares it with the world? Sure guys in locker rooms have always talked about girls and what they did/did not do and what we did/did not do. But usually, rather, always, when conversation switched from "girls" to "my girlfriend" the questions, and the jokes, ceased. Guys will talk smack about girls- but not about their mother or their girlfriends. Some things are sacred. Were sacred.
But here is a young boy who was 8 when he learned about oral sex from a House Committee. Sex was no longer something you talked about (but weren't supposed to) or experienced with a cheerleader (but wasn't supposed to). Now, you are SUPPOSED TO. And if you don't something is wrong with you.
Why is it fun to make fun of the Jonas Brothers who wear their purity rings, but Angelina Jolie, who is in all lay terms a homewrecking whore, is cool? We make fun of Eli Manning who married his High School sweetheart and is faithful to her but Tom Brady who impregnates one, dates another, now a third is some sort of hero?
And that is the switch-a-roo that has me concerned. What is good is stupid; what is bad is cool. What is moral is nerdy; what is immoral is awesome. "And Eve saw the apple was appealing to the eye". What amazing twists in life that turns goodness into wrongness and makes what is bad a necessity.
My heart goes out to Jessica's family. I don't blame them, I don't blame the way they raised their little girl. But they had tremendous opposition since the day she was born. And my fear is that other parents will not learn from this tragedy and see the enemies of their children as real, intentional, coordinated and calculated.
"Boys will be boys". I agree. We always will. But parents should be parents. I hope Jessica's tragic death will remind other parents about the tremendous responsibility they have before them. Maybe we can reverse the prophesy before it becomes fully true.
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090322/NEWS01/903220312/-1/TODAY
Jessica sent a nude photo of herself to her boyfriend who forwarded it to a friend, so on and so forth, it appeared online and the entire school saw it. Jessica was ridiculed to the point of suicide.
What a tragic end to a young life. Her parents are rightly angered, overcome with grief and looking for an explanation. I am sure they feel that something else- some external force- is to blame. And they are right.
But legislation preventing kids from sending or posting nude photos, or, as it is called "sexting", will not change anything. Sexting is just a symptom of a greater societal problem.
Jessica is of the generation that read "Heather has two mommies" in kindergarten and learned about "the blue dress" by 4th grade. Jessica undoubtedly watched "Sex and the City" since she was 10, saw Tony and his gang at the "Bada Bing" and has seen self-proclaimed "pan-sexual" Madonna grab her crotch every time she gets on a stage.
What happens to a group of children who are told, often times under legally procured rules and methods, that there is no taboo about sex? Nothing is out of question, nothing is private, nothing is even wrong. Condoms and abortions are offered free of charge to minors in schools. Snap bracelets are worn by 8th graders. And sexual conversation is as commonplace as any other topic like sports or the weather.
Recently, at a cocktail party, a woman felt compelled to tell my mom that her son was experimenting with his sexuality. "You have several children. I'm sure you know what that phase is like". My mom didn't know how to respond. I wish I could have seen the look on her face.
In the 1970s a great Italian thinker prophesied in his book "On Human Life" that the overacceptance and overindulgence of sex outside of a committed married relationship would be devastating to mankind. Rather than make us a more tolerant and loving society, it would bring out the selfishness of man, often at the expense of women, and lead to higher abortion rates and more out-of-wedlock births. It would victimize women in domestic violence and rape and the banality of sex and it's proper context would lead to an overall moral decline.
Real prophets are dead-on. Recent studies show that 40% of births in America are out-of-wedlock. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4733330.stm. That is staggering. But back to Jessica and her family.
There are things parents can do to protect their children. Legislation is not the answer.
Don't give your children camera phones. That's a quick, simple start. No one NEEDS a camera phone. Don't give your children phones that can receive photos either. This is not because you don't trust your children- it's because you don't trust other people children. Sorry.
Computers, especially with internet connections, should be in a common room of the house: a home office, a corner in the family room, a hallway. A teenager, alone in his room with unlimited internet access is just not prudent. Same with cable TV or DVD players. Not in a private bedroom- it's just imprudent. When thousands upon millions of predators, sexual, financial, whatever kind you imagine, are out in cyberspace and on TV and cable looking for your kid you've got to take necessary preventative measures.
But that's just not enough. More importantly we as a society need to control what our children are being taught and what is being fed to their minds through social communication. Our kids are bombarded by sex at a very early, very young age and we have become immune to it. How sad is it that my dad, my brothers and our nephews cannot watch the Superbowl or the World Series without Viagra after Levitra after Go-Daddy after God know what other breasts in your face and penis won't work commercial. And 8 year old Peter asks "what's an erection". (Following in the footsteps of thousands of generations before us, we respond "Go ask your mother".)
And where is the modesty of a young boy who receives a nude picture of his "girlfriend" and shares it with the world? Sure guys in locker rooms have always talked about girls and what they did/did not do and what we did/did not do. But usually, rather, always, when conversation switched from "girls" to "my girlfriend" the questions, and the jokes, ceased. Guys will talk smack about girls- but not about their mother or their girlfriends. Some things are sacred. Were sacred.
But here is a young boy who was 8 when he learned about oral sex from a House Committee. Sex was no longer something you talked about (but weren't supposed to) or experienced with a cheerleader (but wasn't supposed to). Now, you are SUPPOSED TO. And if you don't something is wrong with you.
Why is it fun to make fun of the Jonas Brothers who wear their purity rings, but Angelina Jolie, who is in all lay terms a homewrecking whore, is cool? We make fun of Eli Manning who married his High School sweetheart and is faithful to her but Tom Brady who impregnates one, dates another, now a third is some sort of hero?
And that is the switch-a-roo that has me concerned. What is good is stupid; what is bad is cool. What is moral is nerdy; what is immoral is awesome. "And Eve saw the apple was appealing to the eye". What amazing twists in life that turns goodness into wrongness and makes what is bad a necessity.
My heart goes out to Jessica's family. I don't blame them, I don't blame the way they raised their little girl. But they had tremendous opposition since the day she was born. And my fear is that other parents will not learn from this tragedy and see the enemies of their children as real, intentional, coordinated and calculated.
"Boys will be boys". I agree. We always will. But parents should be parents. I hope Jessica's tragic death will remind other parents about the tremendous responsibility they have before them. Maybe we can reverse the prophesy before it becomes fully true.
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