On Credibility And Partisan Hacks (REMIX)

I posted this as a reply to a comment, but not knowing who would be able to enjoy it in that location I am riposting it as a post.

Anonymous Commented:

Still a partisan hack, I see. Color me unimpressed.

I replied:

Dear Anonymous,

Thank you for expressing your opinion. I am not at all interested in your color or if you're impressed or not.

For shits and giggles, what party am I wholly supporting the policies of and am perhaps even reluctant to acknowledge correctness on the part of their political opponents in almost any situation. In other words, who am I "hacking' for? Are you just critical because it's not yours?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partisan_%28political%29

If I was a partisan hack, assuming you believe I am hacking for the Republicans, why then would I have many posts and opinions that are not wholly supportive of the GOP? Why then why would my most current post be against the farm bill most of them support and defend. My post on Gay Boy Scouts does not at all align with Republican talking points. I don't support the amount and types of spending that is in the Defense bill. That bill is riddled with both Republican and Democrat pork with the sole purpose of protecting jobs of their constituents, not the needs of the military or the country. The military industrial complex is highly supported by the Republicans and its size and monetary appetite is hastening the downfall of country. Who am I hacking for again?

If and when, or if ever, the Democrats or a Democrat or a self identified Liberal or Progressive starts talking and acting in a way that I feel is appropriate and in line with more liberty and freedom and the Constitution and common sense I would love to point them out, maybe even praise them. I just don't see it. To be honest, I don't spend a lot of time looking for it.

This would be a great thing for Anonymous to help me with. Please if you can, or if you want, please help me notice Liberals or Progressives or Democrats who fight for legislation or repeal of legislation or in defense of anything having to do with more liberty more freedom the Constitution and common sense. I know the common sense one is subjective, but maybe I'll be in a statist mood one day and see the light, or maybe not.

In closing, being critical of a Party or an ideology or the current administration does not gain one membership in or to another.

Thanks for reading and kind of participating,

TOA

So, that's that. I think I could go on and on with examples and ideas and ideals that do not match up with the GOP. I feel I am floating between libertarian with a small L and Libertarian with a big L.

People can label themselves or each other as they want. If they self identify, that is when they need to start walking the talk. If they are labeled by others words and or actions need to back up those labels. That is what keeps most Democrats and Republican supporters and opponents occupied full time, looking for hypocritical words and actions in members of the other group. They only are hypocritical because they say or stand for one thing and do or say another. I don't care. I care about what they do or say, and if what they do or say aligns with more freedom, more liberty, the Constitution and if so applicable, the will of the people. Pointing out hypocrisy is not a hard game to play. It is a opiate of the political masses. It is MSNBC's whole schtick. I really don't care about hypocrisy. It is systemic in politics. You can't not have wealthy-ego maniacs, the type of people who mostly run for office, claim they fight for the poor or who ever, while they are all very well of and many times got there by being born to the right people or exploiting a people or system they claim to defend and want to "fix." Then they like the power their post comes with. That is how the system starts going to shit, and is in the state of shit that it is. That is why FOXNEWS has so much marital to work with with the Obama administration and all who it touches and all who support it. That was kind of what the post that Anonymous commented on was all about. The bummer state of our Administration. They (FOXNEWS) don't even need to bother with the reporting the hypocritical stuff, they can go right for the criminal and unconstitutional stuff. Easy pickens. Can anyone say term limits? That's an idea neither party likes. Who am I hacking for now?

I would love for readers, if they feel so inclined, to ask me pointed questions. Like the kind of questions we should be asking candidates during the vetting process or in debates. Like what is your stance on gay marriage? What is your stance on the legalization of pot? What would be your policy on x or y. If I cut and paste from the Republican web site, then Anonymous would be right in calling me a partisan hack. If I sound like Biden, you can call me crazy, I mean "Vice Presidential." If I sound like Obama you can call me "Presidential." If I sound like Jay Carney, oh man, that's a funny one. I digress, back to cutting and pasting my answers. I don't think that would be the case. If there was any cutting and pasting to be done it most likely would be from the Libertarian Party (www.lp.org) site or from my own grey matter. I would be fine with being associated with them. Or maybe from someone like Rand Paul or Ted Cruz or Ron Paul or maybe even a Berny Sanders. Cruz and the Pauls, although on paper they are Republicans, they do not act at all like or in line with the other Republicans. They are the true RINOs. They have signed under that party because it is the only way to break in to the two party system. Oh the two party system, what a disservice to the country. Look for a post on that some day.

I am done for now. Some will like this post, some will not, and some will see it as expanded political hackness. I am not in the business of pleasing anyone or everyone. I think I am succeeding.

The Sad State of the American Farm

There are so many good things happening in the small farming movement. Maybe I will do some posts on that someday. But lets focus on the bad today. Its not hard. Just look at 95% of our food industry. How our vegetables and grains are grown and used. How our meat, eggs and dairy are grown and used. All bad and perverted. It baffles the mind, kinda like space, just how much shitty and down right criminal and inhuman and inhumane things that are happening in the large farming industry. Monsanto. Corn. GMO. Subsidies. Monsanto. GMO. Monsanto. Bad after bad after bad. I am going to share two things today, no, three, that are a good snapshot of this state of shit.

One. This article from a fairly decent site: The farm bill is back and it sucks.

Two. The original Chipotle ad/video/song. The message is great. The song is great. Willy's way of singing it is great.

Three. The newest Chipotle ad/video/song. This one is a bit more disturbing, and I like that. I showed both of them to my six year old little girl. She did not like them. The tone of the music did it's job and she did not feel good about what she was seeing after she was explained a few of the parts.

We need to fix our food system bad. It is a big part of the reason our health is so broken. Its like the GOV and the BIG AG and HEALTH CARE, don't want us to be healthy. They have spent years and bazillions constructing this system. It wouldn't be good for business for it to change for the benefit of humans. Hmmmm. Nah, that couldn't be. That's conspiratorial type talk...

So, if you were feeling good this fine Sunday, this might have taken some of that away. That is exactly what needs to happen. This needs to piss us off. Best way to beat this. Vote against all that are for anything that feeds this system. That makes up about everyone who is in office right now. The real best way to beat this is opt out. Grow your own. Buy from real farmers. Stay healthy. Let their system kill it self as it most likely will, eventually. Till then, opt out.

Oh yeah, update on some other shit, things still suck in paces like Syria, most of Africa, North Korea and oh yeah, some little place called Detroit. Peace.

Proof Of Life Post

I am alive. Busy, enjoying life. Lot's going on. Stressers, most of them good.

This blog is alive, barely. Bread and water rations.

WARNING: Reading any further increases your chance of being bummed out. Do not consume alcohol or operate heavy machinery during or immediately after reading this post. Contact your doctor immediately if your are bummed out for more then four hours. Continue at your own risk.

Here is a link to a site I came across the other day. It is fun, amusing, interesting and scary all at the same time. It is where the American Left goes to look at what real Leftyism is. It is what people who want to be progressive want. It's what the Democrats think they see when they look in the mirror. But right now, it is one of those bendy carnival mirrors. Right now the American Left other wise know as the Democratic Party is all confused. They elected the most liberal, to the left, most anti war Senator in the Senate, and he turned in to Bush light with spending and civil liberties problems. He gave us Biden, and Clinton and Holder and Big Sis and that HHS Lady. They gave us IRS, Fast and F, NSA, Benghazi, ObamaCare (Oct 1st, it's gonna be awesome, just wait) and general over all government dysfunction. They broke it, we bought it. Thanks. Ego, incompetence, bad luck, all of the above? Everything is not their fault, but how they act and react is all their fault. We put him there, he put them there, we let him, them, do what they are doing. So, I guess, its OUR fault. Unless you only listen to state approved sources, they will tell you it is the Republicans fault and or extremists in their party. Leadership by blame, awesome. Hopeful, I am. Optimistic, I am not.

www.prospect.org

Enjoy.

End the Fed by Deleting it

Happy Sunday all. I almost posted this to my Facebook. Then I was like what the hell am I thinking? That is why I, we, have TOA.

A story from Reason about ending the fed.

I know some of you are for this, and some are against this, and some don't know what the hell this is.

If you are in the first group, good for you. You are on the side of right and rational and can see and understand just how bad off we are and how we got there. You are familiar and agree with Ron Paul, that is a good thing. History will confirm that. BZ.

If you are in the second group. Well, there might not be any helping you. You might not be the problem, but you are not helping the solution. Sheep are not totally to blame for how they are shepherded. Bah. The message and the knowledge has been out there for a while, and you seem to be really ok with how things are going, monetary policy wise, and want them to keep on going on the same path. Oh by the way, that path leads to a cliff that we will all go off. Print more, print more, print more. Just keep on chanting. If you do feel brave enough to comment on how I am wrong and all is well, please do. You most likely will not change my mind, but you might reenforce what you believe, prolonging your feel good statist state of mind.

If you are in the last group, welcome to earth. Look at what one dollar can by now compared to a century ago. Look at what an ounce of gold can buy now compared to a century ago. To make it easy, what can you buy then with $1500ish and now. Big difference. Look at who is supposed to set monetary policy, constitutionally. Look at our nations "wealth" it is based on debt. That debt taken out by one generation for the next to pay. That is about as wrong as it gets. Look into honest money. Money with something backing it, not a legal group of criminals who write numbers in a book hence creating money in collaboration with a fancy printing press. It will all fall some day. I hope you have taken steps in your own personal lives to weather out the storm that is coming.

I will have TOA tin foil hats for sale soon.

Peace.

TOA Post Sighting, Uncorroborated.

Hello loyal readers and new readers. It has been a long time. Like I have said before, the lack of posts on this blog does not in anyway indicate I am happy with the world or our country and or think the President and his ilk are doing a good or even a satisfactory job. They are not. Not even close.

Benghazi. IRS. DOJ. NSA. Fast and Furious. Obamacare Train wreck. Anything from the Left.

All that being said, I have been hitting the news cycle pretty lightly lately. Not reading too much. It was absolutely silly how much coverage the Trayvon/Zimmerman trail got, and how little coverage dozens of other black on white crime have gotten. I expect no less. Syria is getting worse. Red line after red line. Over 100,000 dead. Oh well. Clinton had Darfur and Obama will have Syria and he will hope history books gloss over those dead instead hoping they write about how he was the first black president. Bla bla bla.

I have seen a few articles here and there that I like, but this one really caught my eye. It is from (the chick being interviewed who I guess is big or known in some circles, enough to get an interview) a self proclaimed Libertarian but she also says she is a registered Democrat. I don't know how that is possible, but to each their own. So, the person being interviewed, not the interviewer gave some really on the mark stuff about the likely Democrat 2016 chosen one. I will cut and paste the relevant part for the lazy readers. The over achievers can click the link and read the whole thing.

It's been nice taking the time off (from paying attention and helping other to pay attention), and I plan to stay on the wagon as much as I can. I did enjoy and appreciate all those I talked to when I visited Massachusetts who said they really enjoyed reading this blog. That was really good to hear, and I appreciate each and every one of you. Thanks.

Here is the link and the paragraph I mentioned. I case you didn't know, Salon has a severe Left leaning limp, but once in a while stumbles upon some truth. Enjoy. My personal favorite part "...Hillary disqualified herself for the presidency in that fist-pounding moment at a congressional hearing when she said, “What difference does it make..." Never gets old. Enjoy.

Salon
  

Any hopes, fears or predictions for the presidential elections in 2016?

As a registered Democrat, I am praying for a credible presidential candidate to emerge from the younger tier of politicians in their late 40s. A governor with executive experience would be ideal. It’s time to put my baby-boom generation out to pasture! We’ve had our day and managed to muck up a hell of a lot. It remains baffling how anyone would think that Hillary Clinton (born the same year as me) is our party’s best chance. She has more sooty baggage than a 90-car freight train. And what exactly has she ever accomplished — beyond bullishly covering for her philandering husband? She’s certainly busy, busy and ever on the move — with the tunnel-vision workaholism of someone trying to blot out uncomfortable private thoughts.

I for one think it was a very big deal that our ambassador was murdered in Benghazi. In saying “I take responsibility” for it as secretary of state, Hillary should have resigned immediately. The weak response by the Obama administration to that tragedy has given a huge opening to Republicans in the next presidential election. The impression has been amply given that Benghazi was treated as a public relations matter to massage rather than as the major and outrageous attack on the U.S. that it was.

Throughout history, ambassadors have always been symbolic incarnations of the sovereignty of their nations and the dignity of their leaders. It’s even a key motif in “King Lear.” As far as I’m concerned, Hillary disqualified herself for the presidency in that fist-pounding moment at a congressional hearing when she said, “What difference does it make what we knew and when we knew it, Senator?” Democrats have got to shake off the Clinton albatross and find new blood. The escalating instability not just in Egypt but throughout the Mideast is very ominous. There is a clash of cultures brewing in the world that may take a century or more to resolve — and there is no guarantee that the secular West will win.

FINEX

Not seeing eye to eye with the holy see.

Hello O faithful TOA readers. So, there’s a lot going on in our country and world uh? You may ask why so few posts from me. Well, it is almost an over target saturated environment. Not almost, it is. I would have to spend hours every day researching and writing, and I just don’t have the will or the time to do so.

I will steer clear of the every growing laundry list of Obama scandals. They are almost just too easy. I mean, John Stewart looks like an Obama basher and all he is doing is actually reporting. Many of the Lefty sites are having a hard time not reporting and criticizing the President. They try, they focus on long standing complaints like genetically modified crops, or fracking, or the XL pipeline, or poverty, or hoping the SCOTUS will come out waiving rainbow flags. They’re really trying. But in the end they can’t ignore it all and they have to talk about the drone killings, the NSA spying, the chilling of the first amendment and the free press by the DOJ and all the other scandals the most transparent administration ever is wallowing in. The love affair is over, and the Hope and Changers feel dissed.

I am instead going to point to an open letter from a Catholic Priest to House Minority Leader, the former most dangerous Democrat in America, the champion of ObamaCare, the queen hypocrite herself, Nancy Pelosi. That was a long and glorious introduction, and it still did not do her justice. She is way over ripe as a public servant. Numerous fishy things in her past, but one of the consistent ones is her insistence that she is a Catholic and not only her stance on abortion, but her actions in the United States House of Representatives to secure and advance the “right” to abortion.

I have talked in previous posts about abortions. You can search and read if you like. I know a little bit about Catholicism. I was born and raised as a “casual” Catholic. I even made it so far as to be confirmed, until I kind of admitted to myself I really just didn’t believe in the whole deal. I enjoy and respect the bible as I do most religious texts. I like Jesus, as I like Siddhārtha Gautama. All of their words, teachings and actions are sound and can help humans be better humans. On the subject of abortion, WWJD, well IMHO he would advise against. If she went ahead with it anyway and realized her error and wanted forgivness, he would give it. That is what "I" think now. I have to admit, I don’t think I even knew about abortion and the church's stance on it until years after I “left” the church. I can write that because my grandmother does not go on the internet, so she for sure would never read this. Back to Nancy Pelosi, she needs to “leave” the church for the same reason I did, her views do not align with the leaderships views on abortion. It is a club for like minded individuals. The church’s views and hers are not like minded. If she believes in god or God if she is a true believer and all the other stuff that goes along with it. I am sure she can find a church, especially in San Francisco that would welcome her and her views in. Especially if she actually tithes! Cha-ching!

Bottom line, it is not the religions place or job to change to align with Nancy Pelosi. She needs to get in line with them, or leave. At a minimum, she needs to stop saying she is a Catholic, where her words and actions do not align with the Catholic Church. I know there is nothing anyone, human or divine, could do to make her to stop avoiding answering legitimate questions, but it would be nice if she did that too. There is little chance she will do any of that, but this should serve as another among many reasons why Catholics should not and cannot support pro abortion politicians.

Live long and prosper.

Things are starting to get ridiculous.

Wow! The hits just keep on coming. I could go on and on, but will try to keep short and avail some links for your reading pleasure. I am going throw some words out that have come to mind lately. Amateurish, incompetence, criminal, arrogance, unconstitutional, expected, impeachment, scared, worried.

As on most days and on most things Rand Paul was sounding more presidential than Barack Obama ever has. Plus, anytime anyone accurately evokes the novel 1984, I smile. Here he is being awesome, as usual. And bonus, it's on Reason.com.

Rand Paul being awesome on Reason.com.

A bit more on Obama's 1984.

Best line of the day. Why does Obama talk like Rand Paul and govern like Dick Cheney?

Shit, if he just talked like Rand and acted like Rand, I would both like and support the guy. Maybe even admire. And it would work. Things would get better. America would get better. Americans would get better. Alas, he doesn't and he won't. Sad. Sad for America.

Here is a little reality from the Brits who broke this Verizon/NSA story. Decline.

Not the teleprompter! 

The NYT is sad on the inside.

Update: A day later the NYT softens is sadness.

Even the Huff is sad, on the outside.

I hope everyone has a great "Aloha" Friday and a great weekend. And remember, Big Brother is watching. No, he really is!