Ogre’s Politics and Views

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Everyone please welcome Mr. and Mrs. Domalewski, the latest contestants in “So, you want a huge pile of cash for nothing” game. Our latest couple wants a giant cash payment from, well, anyone with money. Therefore, they’ve targeted manufacturers of metal bats, a store that sells bats, and the Little League organization that actually has the gall to USE metal bat to, yes, hit baseballs.

You see, their son, Steven, was involved in a tragic accident two years ago involving a baseball. This couple, with the help of a miserable bottom-feeder (read: lawyer) decided that because there was an accident, they should have a few million dollars. That’s pretty much the whole story — at least all the parts that are relevant.

Once again, the only way to stop these foolish, evil people from clogging up the legal system and costing everyone cash in the form of more laws, restrictions, and insurance expenses, is to fine them and their lawyer for filing a frivolous lawsuit. Unfortunately, it likely won’t make it to a jury because the companies will likely settle for a pile of cash because that’s actually cheaper than the lawsuit going to trial. Greedy, selfish people like this only drive the prices of everything up.

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I read this story over at Survival Blog. It’s a good one and makes you really think about things when you’re complaining that you’re working “hard” today. I would suggest that about 95% of Americans have no clue what real hard work would be like:

I recently finished trenching and running a few hundred feet of irrigation pipe on land that has been in my wife’s family for a few generations. We are the proud recipients of this small farm in the Southeast US. My Mother-In-Law was helping, and getting various tools and such out of the 100 year old barn (still standing and strong). We found an old hoe that was worn so that over half of the tine was missing. She said that her father and grandfather had used this hoe to manually weed and till every bit of the 50 acres! This was a farm that didn’t have indoor plumbing until the early 1970s.

Here I was, exhausted from digging a trench (with a machine of course), and laying pipe (plastic with glue), and had been working “very hard” for a few hours. Slowly realizing, listening to my mother-in-law that her family worked this land without the aid of gas powered equipment until her father died in the late 1980s. For over 125 years this farm had produced an income and raised families. I was tired after working, but now had an understanding that in no way can I count myself in the same league as the men that had worked sun up to sun down by hand, these were true men. I whine when the lawn mower won’t easily start, or when the padded handle on the shovel gets too hard for comfort!

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Sometimes there’s a lot of stories I want to comment on, but I just don’t want to post 100 posts a day. So you’ll see one of these little “news blips” posts with a bunch of stories I just can’t ignore. Like these:

Young drivers don’t wear seat belts. Yeah, so? This is news? Do you suppose it’s coincidence that federal department of “traffic safety” is running a campaign about “click it or ticket” at the same time? I sure don’t. What a total damn load of crap and waste of money. Hold on, let me check my Constitution to see where The People gave the federal government the authority over seat belts. Yeah, I know, I’m dreaming. Only in my dreams does the Constitution actually mean anything.

Hey look, a few members of the government uneducation system have some sense. But the foolish parents are mad that their kid was duct-taped into his room at a hotel. These fools actually believe that their student could have been trapped. I guess they’re too rich and special to have actually ever dealt with duct tape before. And I have to wonder how many other charges they’d be filing if their child escaped and got hurt? I also wonder how the students found out it was duct taped in the first place…

When will we declare open season on dangerous animals? This isn’t an isolated case. Pit bulls kill people. That’s what they do. The “owners” of these dogs should be jailed for murder. But just to show you how utterly insane our “justice” system is — the parents of the child who was killed by dogs in the street are being investigated by social services. As you know by now, if you have kids and you’re being “investigated,” you should run out of the state NOW.

And in case you need a reminder, if you’re a government employee, you are exempt from rules. If you walk away from your child for a few seconds, you might get arrested, jailed, and will likely never see your children again. But if you’re a police officer, stopping someone for a dog-law violation, you may abandon kids on the roadside at will. At midnight.

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At one time, having an education mattered. In order to prove you had an education, you obtained a degree. That degree indicated certain things and had value. If you had a high school diploma, for example, that meant you had obtained a certain level of skill and knowledge in certain areas. If you had a college degree, it indicated that you had more advanced learning in various areas, including your specialty and various other general educational areas. But that was then, this is now.

Now having a college degree, a Bachelor of Science, for example, means nothing. It does not mean you have a certain level of competence in, well, anything. Instead, a college degree today means that you managed to get the federal government to take money from working, productive people and give it to “teachers” on your behalf. That’s about it. Sure, there’s a few places where a degree has actual meaning and value, but those place are few and far between.

If you want true education today, stay far, far away from any government institution. They are designed to consume money, not educate.

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What is happening with Sex Business, Children and Jessica’s Law in North Carolina’s 2008 Legislation Session?

A Guest Post by Mark A. Palmer

North Carolina has too many individuals in Raleigh that are just too soft on crime. These individuals do not want to increase penalties; this is so they will not have to spend money on building prisons. This behavior made evident from seeing what happen recently, with the Gang Bill as well as HB 933, The Jessica Lunsford Act aka. Jessica’s Law. These individuals rather spend money on trivial items, rather than on dealing with crime or protecting our children.
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