Ogre’s Politics and Views

Well, I had been forgetting to do these lighter posts on Fridays. I remembered them because Raven posted one. So I headed on over to the Friday Feast site, only to find that the chef is on vacation! Well, since I missed last week’s feast, I figure it’s okay for me to post last week’s feast today! Hooray!

Appetizer: What is the nearest big city to your home?

What’s “big?” Do you mean “big” as in population? Does it mean the tallest building? Maybe the fattest building? And which “home?” My hometown? The town I grew up in? The town I live in now? And what if my home is in a big city? This question is a tough one!

Soup: On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being highest, how well do you keep secrets?

I’ll never tell!

Salad: Describe your hair (color, texture, length).

Sheesh. Which hair? What do you mean, “I wasn’t supposed to go there?”

Main Course: What kind of driver are you? Courteous? Aggressive? Slow?

When driving what? They really need to give me more details if they expect me to answer these questions. When I drive my matchbox cars, they fly through the air. Is that aggressive? They seem like they’re going slow to me, but I’m sure when you consider the scale of them, they’re really moving!

Dessert: When was the last time you had a really bad week?

Ha! I choose not to have bad weeks! Just like when the economy’s in the tank, I just refuse to participate.

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This one is for all of you with little colored ribbons. This is for you people who continue to vote to take money I earn to give to government education “For The Children.” This is for you foolish children who are wearing any of those rubber bracelets that claim you “care” about global warming. Go get one of these. Do it now. For the Children.

Hat tip to Raven.

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I realize that the word “newspeak” gets used a lot today. Many times it’s mis-used. If you want to know where it came from, realize that you can now read 1984 online for free. That’s where it started, and that’s where the Ministry of Truth spend all its time telling people lies — and repeating them often enough that they were accepted as truth. Unfortunately, much of government does that today.

How about Philadelphia City Solicitor Shelley Smith, on the kickout out of Boy Scouts:

“We’re not punishing them for not admitting homosexuals, but they can’t get free rent and violate our policy.”

So in other words, according to this government bureaucrat, it’s not called “punishment” when government uses force to make bad things happen to people when the people disobey government edicts. Okay, Mrs. Smith, would you prefer we use the term “extortion?”

And even more, how about this hubris from the very same slimy bureaucrat:

I think they think that their First Amendment right trumps our local ordinance

Wow. Just wow.

Am I the only person left on the planet that actually understand that the United States Constitution IS supposed to be the supreme law of the land? I honestly wonder if she has ever read the Constitution. Seriously. Guess what, Mrs. Smith, the First Amendment of the United States Constitution DOES TRUMP YOUR PIDDLY LOCAL ORDINANCE! You see, if it didn’t, then the Constitution would have, quite literally, no power at all. Gee, sort of like it does today, huh?

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So, you want to get out of jail free in North Carolina. Maybe you have a life sentence. Perhaps you’ve got 22 years left on your 30-year sentence. That’s okay. If you’re “sick,” then you get out. That’s the decision of the Democrat General Assembly. Oh, you can be sure it’s For The Children (TM) because they want to “save money.”

Once upon a time, prison was a punishment. Sure, our system is based on the Quaker system. Do you know what their purpose was for prison? Nope, not punishment. It was based on the idea that all people were god-fearing people. They believed that putting someone in prison would give that person time to consider what they had done wrong and would allow the guilty to meditate on how to improve their lives and repent for their misdeeds.

Today’s prison system is based on, well, feelings. A few people go to jail to make others feel better. It’s not about punishing people for committing crimes — if it were, a LOT more people would be in jail (like most of the members of the Texas Department of Family Services). It’s not about rehabilitation — if it was the recidivism rate wouldn’t be around 80%. So why do we have prisons today? Perhaps the reason no one can answer that question is why we have so much crime today.

I wonder how the members of the General Assembly will FEEL when someone is let out of jail, set free and let back into society, completely overturning the decision of a jury or judge to incarcerate that person — and that person kills someone. My bet is they won’t care one bit, because they’ll have more taxpayer money to spend.

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Tags: North Carolina Government by Ogre
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