Ogre’s Politics and Views

So, do you suppose the approval ratings of Congress and President have anything to do with anything these days? I mean, do you think there’s even ONE elected member of any national body that cares one bit about these ratings?

Sure, Congress is at 18%. That means, out of 10 people, only 8 are going to say they think Congress is doing a good job. And this is while Democrats control Congress, and yet Democrats are expected to win absolutely HUGE this fall. What does that mean?

I think it means Congress doesn’t care. I think Congressmen see these ratings and laugh with one another while they sip their champagne (paid for with tax dollars) and eat caviar. Why SHOULD they care? After all, just because you disapprove of them, what are you going to do about it? Exactly, nothing at all. There’s supposed to be a “huge” change in Congress this fall — as many as 20 seats might change hands — that’s out of 435. That’s a “huge” FIVE percent of members changing — despite the massive disapproval ratings.

No, the approval numbers are meaningless. The ruling class will not change because they don’t have to. Until there is serious revolution, the United States will continue it’s socialistic tendencies — no matter who is president.

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You have to understand — this IS how elected Democrats, especially in Washington, honestly feel:

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So, have you noticed recently all the various people and groups giving advice to the Republican Party? There was Newt and his steps that need to be taken NOW to ensure victory in the fall. Of course, he was ignored, I think, because his steps this time too resembled the “Contract With America” — which was incredibly successful, but you wouldn’t know that from the reports. They actually did what he said they would do. Unfortunately, the media so blasted them with help from Democrats that you rarely hear the term anymore except that it’s preceded by “the failed.”

There’s nearly daily columns now in various newspaper that are providing suggestions. The RNC is meeting and trying to come up with this thing called “The Change You Deserve.” I guess they’re hoping to ride on the coattails of Obama’s “Change” campaign. Worse, the first views I’ve had of this program are the Republican Party trying to pander with giveaways to buy votes — of women and the so-called “working class.” So I guess the RNC is going to try to out-liberal the liberals. Yeah, that’s going to work.

I know there’s a lot of die-hard Republicans out there. I just wonder how long they will continue to hold their noses and vote for people they don’t like. I’ve made up my mind — I can’t do it. I can’t vote for McCain. If you want freedom, if you like capitalism, there is no place for you in the Republican or Democrat parties today.

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Why not sit back and relax?

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If you want a clear example of how twisted our system of government has become, go read the California Supreme Court ruling regarding marriage. I’ll warn you, it’s 172 pages (I read it), and it’s disgusting.

To sum it up, they take 172 pages to discover a “right” for gay marriage in their Constitution. One of the reasons it takes them 172 pages is because if you read the Constitution, you won’t find it. In fact, you won’t find anything CLOSE to “All persons, fruits, and lunatics residing in the state can marry any person, animal, or other object they desire.” But the California Supreme court claims it’s there.

In reality, that Constitution does have clearly defined rights. Unfortunately, they are listed as rights that people have, instead of listing government rights. A Constitution that lists individual rights without that phrase, “All other rights are reserved to people” means that the government rules its people (and not the opposite, which is necessary for a free country).

In fact, in that insane decision rendered by the California Supreme Court, where they claim to undertake the Constitutionality of the issue, they actually find this new right inside the right to marry, which is inside the right to privacy — none of which are, of course, actually IN that Constitution. In fact, the decision is so incredible that they spend page after page explaining that marriage IS between a man and a woman — and always has been, according to California law, Constitutions, history, and everything and everywhere else!

But of course, none of that matters. The reason these “rulings” are often referred to as “decisions” is because that’s what they are — personal decisions of the black-robed rulers. They’re not based on history, law, or more importantly, on the Peoples’ decisions in how they want to run the country. The judges make up their mind what is right and wrong, and NO ONE shall ever challenge them at any time. The People have no say in how this government operates.

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Ah, the case in Texas with the LDS keeps getting more interesting. It seems now that I was more right than I thought. “New” evidence (not actually revealed by the government) shows that some adults were unlawfully detained by the Texas government. Oh, and because of that unlawful detention, the state now claims custody over the children that were born to some adults while being detained by the government. And laws? Oh, no laws were broken. No trials were held. Not one person has been found guilty of a thing. And in this particular part of the case, no one even ALLEGES that any laws were broken.

So, do you think anyone will get in any trouble for the unlawful detention? Do you think a single person will be punished for taking adults, detaining them, and claiming their children as property of the state without ANY crime being committed, much less ANY due process? My bet is not a single person will face any punishment and in fact all government bureaucrats, who are blatantly WAY out of control, will actually get raises next year for “doing their job.”

What a horrible, horrible system. I honestly believe that the absolute worst government bureaucrats are those who work for child “welfare” or “protective” services. They are scum. The claim to want to help children, but that’s just not what they do. They violate the law. They trample the Constitution with total impunity. They get paid by taking money from people who actually work. And they are completely and totally above all laws, anywhere. If you see them come to your house and you have children, you either flee the state, or you will never see your children again. Go ahead, try and work in the system — as these people are doing — and watch what happens. Your life is over when the evil, horrible bureaucrats of child services step foot on your property. And there is no law or protection that can save you.

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You do understand that America is close to a communist government, right? And you do realize that nearly all of the ideas that Obama supports (and most of McCain’s) are ideas that would promote and advance communist ideals, right? And despite how they might make you feel (the candidates and the ideas), you DO realize that much of the problems in China can be attributed to the Chinese Communist government, right? And no, I’m not talking about Bush’s Earthquake & Hurricane-o-matic.

Just look at some of the things being reported said from communist subjects:

Residents complained that delays in aid had caused more deaths in the immediate aftermath of the quake.

In other words, “Gee, if we just had MORE government, less people would die.” Never mind the fact that much of the construction problems can be traced to government construction projects.

The child did not die right away and could be heard saying, “Please help me daddy, please rescue me,” right after the earthquake, he said, but there were no authorities to save her.

In other words, people stood by and did nothing because they were waiting for government help. They were apparently incapable of helping themselves because they have become SO dependent on government. Gee, does this sound eerily familiar?

Others are complaining because no one will help them. They yell at the government workers, but they do not get helped.

In other words, they stand there, completely incapable of doing anything without government. Does this sound like the hundreds of thousands that are utterly and completely depending on government aid in the form of Section 8, Welfare, and Social Security?

And this is the same government that cannot explain over 40 dead children who have perished from a disease — well, according to the government, anyway. From my own observations of the communist country, the official figures are likely to be much smaller than actual figures.

But hey, this is all coming to America soon. I bet you can’t wait, can you?

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Crescent shapes with and without Islamic intent: the Obama logo example

The two most widely recognized symbols of Islam are the crescent and the sword. Kind of amusing that Barack Hussein Obama’s campaign logo can be seen to feature both a crescent and a curved Islamic scimitar:

The crescent shape in Obama’s logo has the round part on top, just like a traditional crescent shaped mihrab (the Mecca direction indicator around which every mosque is built). The animation shows the two most famous mihrabs in the world: the mihrab from the Great Mosque in Cordoba, and the Prophet’s mihrab in Medina.
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So, North Carolina “needs” to spend $1,600,000.00 MORE of taxpayer money on furniture marketing. No, we just HAVE to. After all, since we already spent $1,000,000.00 on furniture marketing, it only makes sense that we NEED to spend an additional $1,600,000.00, right?

“We need to increase our concentration on international markets and continue to prospect for new categories of buyers”

Well, there you have it. We NEED to sell furniture made in North Carolina so people in international markets will buy it. I’m pretty sure I remember last time I was in Naples, I saw a billboard that just made me really want to buy North Carolina furniture. Or maybe that was just where a dog stopped on the sidewalk, I’m not sure.

The additional marketing money also would help trade show organizers bring more designers to High Point

Oh, well that’s even more important, isn’t it? After all, I’m sure most of the people of North Carolina today are seriously concerned about the lack of furniture designers in High Point. Yeah, that whole gas price thing and immigration debate is nothing when compared to High Point suffering through a veritable drought of furniture designers. We’ve certainly got OUR priorities straight.

“Anytime you have firsttime visitors, they are totally impressed by the magnitude of this event”

Well I didn't realize that the event was impressive. That just changes everything. How can we NOT spend a total of $2,600,000.00 of money people actually worked to earn and give that money to people who just WANT it.

What bastards. These folks, I hate to say it, are true lowlifes. They WANT something, but they don’t want to work for it. Instead, they want to convince government to use it’s monopoly on force to take from from people who work to give to them, so they can spend it. It really is nothing more than that. Oh, sure, they claim they’re “helping the state.” And what else will be done in the name of the all-powerful state? It would help the state to shoot everyone who isn’t paying taxes — are they advocating that, too? No, because that wouldn’t give THEM cash to spend.

High Point Market Authority President Brian Casey — you are a miserable, selfish, evil, lazy thief.
High Point Mayor Becky Smothers, a member of the Market Authority board of directors — you are a miserable, selfish, evil, lazy thief.

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… and Santa Claus, and the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy…

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Richard Viguerie has written an article that talks about Juan McCain and his feeble attempts to court the conservative vote. While many of the points in the article are factually correct, I think Richard is wrong — I don’t think McCain is courting conservatives at all. I don’t think he cares about conservatives.

I guess to be fair, I’ve got to define “conservative” — because if you ask Juan McCain, he’ll tell you that HE is a conservative. In fact, anyone who claims an “R” after their name, no matter their positions on any issues, is claiming to be a conservative today. But when I speak of conservative here, and I believe as Mr. Viguerie does, a conservative is someone who wants smaller, less powerful government.

So if that’s a conservative, Juan doesn’t care about them. Juan believes that he will get most Republican votes and he wants the great unwashed middle. Heck, he believes he can get moderate Democrat votes, too — and he’ll do anything to get those votes.

He may claim he would appoint conservative judges, but again, that’s based on his personal definition of conservative. I honestly believe he would offer Supreme Court judge positions to Ted Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Russ Feingold, and Al Gore. Juan would continue the destruction of America’s borders — because he doesn’t care. Juan would crush freedom now that he’s joined the religion of Global Warming. No, Juan McCain has NO interest in the conservative vote. Juan just assumes he’ll get enough moderate Democrats, Independents, and old-line Republican Party hacks that he’ll win. And he just might — because after all, where do conservatives have to go?

Oh, right, Chuck Baldwin. Or, there could still be a Miracle in Minnesota — Republicans could grow a pair and nominate Ron Paul…

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Well, the “big” news in North Carolina “Education” today is that the North Carolina Community College system claims it will no longer enroll federal fugitives from justice. They do not, however, mention how they will do that or if, as is more likely, they will simply switch to a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy in admitting these criminals and invaders. Previously, the Community College system encouraged illegal aliens to attend the schools for training at taxpayer expense.

As you can imagine, this sparked a firestorm from the elites who know better. University of North Carolina college system president Erskine Bowles was outraged. He said that HIS system will continue to allow any and all federal fugitives to continue to obtain free cash and benefits from HIS system that is paid for completely with taxpayer cash. Thank you, citizens of Illinois, for sending your cash to Mr. Bowles so he can provide education and services to people who are on the run from the federal government and whom the federal government would like to arrest. Bowles whined on with:

In this instance, there sure seems to be considerable legal disagreement about what the relevant federal law really says.

Really, Mr. Bowles? Only if by “disagreement” you mean, “in your ivory tower-based mind” and by “federal law” you mean the things that you, personally, feel like allowing in your fiefdom. No, there is no “legal disagreement” by anyone other than people like Mr. Bowles who simply want more power, control, and taxpayer money. The only people who seem to “disagree” with laws that clarify a national border are leftists, most of whom are living off the backs of taxpayers who actually have to work for a living. The only way you can see “legal disagreement” with the law is if you interpret the law yourself, instead of following the law:

Any alien who
(1) enters or attempts to enter the United States at any time or place other than as designated by immigration officers, or
(2) eludes examination or inspection by immigration officers, or
(3) attempts to enter or obtains entry to the United States by a willfully false or misleading representation or the willful concealment of a material fact, shall, for the first commission of any such offense, be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than 6 months, or both, and, for a subsequent commission of any such offense, be fined under title 18, or imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both.

US Code, Title 8, Chapter 12, Subchapter II, Part VIII, Section 1325a

In fact, based on the information that Mr. Bowles has supplied, I believe that he is actually in violation of federal law himself:

(a) Criminal penalties
(1)
(A) Any person who—
(iii) knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, conceals, harbors, or shields from detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection, such alien in any place, including any building or any means of transportation;
(iv) encourages or induces an alien to come to, enter, or reside in the United States, knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that such coming to, entry, or residence is or will be in violation of law; or
(v)
(I) engages in any conspiracy to commit any of the preceding acts, or
(II) aids or abets the commission of any of the preceding acts,
shall be punished as provided in subparagraph (B).

Do you suppose we could report Mr. Bowles and get him arrested? Oh, right, he’s a member of the elite and not subject to laws like us peons. And there shall be justice for some…

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I’m sure by now you’ve heard the story about the fellow who was forced to sit in a bathroom for a few hours. Did you know that if you are forced into a bathroom that you deserve $2 million? Well that’s what Gokhan Mutlu and his bottom-feedling, ambulance-chasing, slime-ball lawyer claims.

I just wonder how anyone can possibly argue that this is anything other than legal extortion. What sort of person is this Gokhan Mutlu? Does he really think it’s good to punish an airline for this? Is he a simple person who’s being exploited by a greedy bastard lawyer? Certainly he is not a sane, rational person. Imagine what you would do, faced with the same situation. I’d laugh. I would have a blast. I might poop for 2 hours — or at least tell people I did. He claims he was “disgraced?” Why, does he not normally USE a bathroom? Sure, I might have been bored for 3 hours, but personally, I probably would have fallen asleep. I might have rearranged the furniture in the bathroom — but you can bet there’s no way I would sue them for $2 million. That’s blatant abuse of the legal system and Gokhan and his lawyer should be fined — and would be, if there were justice in America today. You can bet they won’t be and instead the airline will be forced to settle for an “undisclosed sum.” Then we all pay because we have to pay for the increased cost of doing business. Greedy bastards, that’s the only way to describe Gokhan and his lawyer.

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I’ve mentioned before that during these recent times where the average, working, productive person is having troubles economically (not bad trouble, but few are unaffected by the massive gas prices), government is seeing no problem at all. Instead, government continues to just do whatever they want, no matter what. Back in the last decade, the North Carolina government expanded exponentially because “times were good and we could afford it.” Now that times are bad, government continues it’s massive expansion because “we can’t afford not to.”

Witness North Carolina governor Easley and his suggested 7% raise for bureaucrats. And yes, once again, the bureaucrats need to nothing to get their 7% raise. In fact, they can actually work LESS, produce LESS, and they still get their 7%. When is the last time you got a 7% raise? I bet if anyone reading this actually ever got a raise that large (and wasn’t “working” for government), you did something HUGE to get that — in other words, you were more productive. A raise of that size is generally unheard of for productive people.

But this isn’t about producing, it’s about leeching and taking. This is about government using it’s monopoly on force to buy votes so they can stay in power. This is about supporting the bureaucrat at the direct expense of people who work and produce. Go ahead, try and convince me we have freedom and free markets in this country. That’s simply not the case. Instead, we have a government that uses it’s monopoly on force to do, quite literally, anything they want without any limits, ever.

Oh, how I yearn for freedom.

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I was talking to a family who had a girl who was about 14 years old the other week. She had on one of those silly cheap plastic/rubber bracelets. It said on it something about “Global Warming.” I laughed and commented something along the lines of, “You know that’s totally made up crap, right?”

Her dad laughed and said, “That’s what I told her. In fact, that’s what both her grandfathers had recently told her — only more vehemently.” She just sat there and smiled. You could see in her teenage mind she was going on with the ideas of “Gee, those silly old people just don’t know. I’m so smart, I know more than they do. ‘They’ told me older people wouldn’t believe me, but I know better.”

So she’s lost. She honestly believes that anyone who supports capitalism and freedom is honestly working to destroy the planet. She believes that only algore and government can save the planet. And one day she will vote. Why does she think this way? Because she has been taught for years that anyone who wants to see valid proof or experimental results is a nutcase. She’s been taught that the religion of Global Warming is right and anyone who disagrees with it is wrong merely for disagreeing.

Keep in mind, if your child is in a government school, this IS what they’re being taught. Sure, you can try and unteach them, but the schools have them for 6-8 hours a day and they’re enforcing their religion of socialism each and every day. If you value freedom, if you like capitalism, you cannot allow your children into a government school. It really is that simple.

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Well folks, there was an earthquake. Therefore, working, productive people of America will need to work harder and more. Any guesses on whether we will send more or less than $1 billion to China, our enemy, in tax dollars? And remember, that’s not government’s money, that’s money that people worked to earn that government is taking by force. Yes, it is completely 100% unconstitutional — no one questions that fact — but we’ll still send it, and it’s got to come from somewhere. So if you work, you need to work a bit more, because you will be forced to give money to the Communist Chinese. If you refuse, you will be shot or killed by the government agents who are “just doing their job.”

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I’ve mentioned before how screwed up the government is, and how bad they have acted in crushing freedom and rights in the Texas FLDS case. Keep in mind as this continues — a LARGE number of people have ALREADY been punished — and there has been no trial, no evidence, ZERO due process. But that is how the government works today.

Now have you see the latest actions of these bureaucrats? I’m having a hard time as I write this in reining in my emotions. I’m very close to openly saying that these people should be shot on sight. These bureaucrats are now saying:

If a child refuses to be immunized, we’re not forcing any children to be.

Of course, in the next breath, he explains that they WILL be immunized. At the same time, the parents of these children (who still actually, erroneously, believe they might get to see their children again) are literally terrified of the government bureaucrats. The parents don’t want an immunization for religious reasons. However, they know, beyond a doubt, that if they make that claim, the bureaucrats will use that as evidence that the parents and children should never see one another again.

This is absolutely awful and horrible. This is government abuse of power at it’s best. Some bureaucrats have made decisions that affect almost 500 children — the VAST majority of which have broken no laws, nor are even victims of crime. In other words, almost no one has done anything wrong — for which they are being severely punished. And the bureaucrats continue to use threats of violence and force to impose their religious will on these people.

People, the less is made more clear every day. If you have children and any department of child services (social services, whatever it’s called in your area) ever so much as looks your way, if you have or participate in a religion that the government doesn’t like — you have two choices: attempt to fight government and never see your family again; or run in terror from the government, knowing they will hunt you down and kill you if they catch you. But at least you’ll be with your family a bit longer. Decide now, because once these horrible, evil, destructive demons from government show up, you won’t have long before they return with lots of people with guns.

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Now while the election results went as the ruling classes (government officials) dictated last week in North Carolina, the elites must be rather confused by other votes. You see, attempts to raise taxes (For The Children (TM) ) have been failing at an incredible rate. You see, member of the royal class (legislators) though they had this game figured out. The state would refuse to give money to the counties. Then the counties would ask to raise taxes. The state would give them “permission” to raise taxes if the people approved a vote. This way both the state and the county legislators would both claim they didn’t raise taxes, while in fact both of them did. Their only problem: the people aren’t voting for tax increases.

It’s rather odd. After all, tax money has been used to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollar to run campaigns supporting these tax increases. Yes, millions of your dollars, money you earned, has been used to try and convince you to vote to have government take even MORE money from you. And sure, those who don’t work (and therefore shouldn’t be allowed to vote) are voting for those increases. But the majority are not. This has got to have the legislators rather confused. Don’t worry, they’ll raise taxes anyway. But they might actually have to go on record as supporting a tax increase. Again, don’t worry — they’ll just say it’s to “fight crime” for now, since For The Children (TM) isn’t working.

I also find it rather interesting that the tax on moving (land transfer tax) has failed 20/20 times it’s been tried. Now that’s funny, right there. Perhaps there are just a couple people left who actually want to be allowed by the ruling class to keep the money they earn. Know what would be even better? If there were some document that put a limit on government. Perhaps something that outlined that the subjects have rights. Something like this would be great, if it actually applied to the government of North Carolina:

We hold it to be self-evident that all persons are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, the enjoyment of the fruits of their own labor, and the pursuit of happiness.

– North Carolina State Constitution, Article I, Section 1

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