The Coming Storm

The US is TRILLIONS of dollars in debt and the Congress and incoming President wants to spend more. If I was Bush, I would keep my hands off anymore bailout money. Yet despite this gas is inexplicably down. That I can't quite figure out, but it doesn't sit right with me. World leaders are watching and Obama is trying to play a chess game in his appointees. He's trying to keep some semblance of balance, in an effort to look like he cares. How else do you explain zealots like Rahm Emmanual (Zionist), Robert Malley (anti Israel) and Zbigniew Brzezinski (anti Israel)? It doesn't make sense. Once the smoke clears, what will they think? Who knows. I feel like we've all been smoked in one big, giant, peace pipe dream.

Batten down the hatches and hold on. The world won't end and America will keep churning, but for now, while I can afford it, I'm learning to make bread from scratch. I plan buy some food items and will learn simple recipes. With Trillions of dollars waiting to be spent, they are holding this thing up with toothpicks, when they need to let the pain pass quickly. Other people have predicted that the recession has hit bottom. Yet I keep reminding myself these are the same people who didn't think we we're in a recession for the last year and a half. I'll say it, since they won't: depression and inflation. Like I said the world will keep on spinning and things may get bad, but it's better to be prepared than to live spend these days in the fog, only to emerge and see the tidal wave 3 miles offshore.

How to make bread. (I should have mentioned this, this is Part 1. Click on the video to find the other parts. Sorry.)

I'm Tired of These F-in Reporters

These morons need to learn how to actually do some good reporting.

Read this pathetic piece of reporting (which is similar to other reports out there). But since it takes a simple blogger to show the media how utterly stupid it is-

Let's break it down.

Here's the headline:

"Gingrich: Palin won't be future GOP leader"

Sound juicy doesn't it? well let's read a little further.

"Gingrich (R-Ga.) is batting down the hype that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin heads into 2012"

Except it's not just Gingrich batting down the hype. Palin did the HER OWN DAMN SELF!!! Don't believe me? Watch the video below. Oh it gets better.

"Gingrich, an architect of the Republican revolution of 1994, took Palin down a notch, asserting that she would not become the party’s leader."

Ok. Let's compare that to what Gingrich actually said.

“I think that she is going to be a significant player,” said Gingrich during an interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation”. “But she’s going to be one of 20 or 30 significant players. She’s not going to be the de facto leader.”

You get that. Palin's still a player, but she is not the de facto leader. Simple. The party gets to decide that in 2011. He didn't "take her down a notch". In fact it's hard to take people down from a title that they have not claimed. In fact let's look at what she actually said during the Republican Governor's Association.

"This group is going to be looked to and looked at, for leadership that perhaps had been lacking in Congress and Washington DC"

"This group". Not ME. But this group. The collective "we".

"I, like all of our governor's, we're focused on the future. And the future, for us, is not that 2012 Presidential race. It's next year and our next budgets."

Did you hear that? She's not worried about 2012. But again, notice the collective "we" she keeps talking about.

"The media likes to focus on us as individuals, but the Republican Governor's Association is a group committed to Governors who know that only we, by working together, can bring back the change that has been so desired by the American public.... I'm proud to be a part of this team."

Again. Do you notice the collective "we". She specifically takes away the notion of focusing on the individual and stresses the group. She's proud of the group.

Now they one thing I noticed on Face the Nation this past Sunday, is that Jindal and Gingrich are echoing this same sentiment. The reality is that the new leadership of the Republican party is joining together as a united front. They seem to be shifting their focus to populism. The Democrats and the old Republican guard are scared shitless. Because the truth of the matter is that many of the Republican governors are doing a fantastic job in their respective states. When you take this into account of a new poll saying that many Americans feel as though their values are under attack and nearly half of them think the media is pushing the message, it doesn't look good for the media or the Democrats. If this group can coalesce around a populist message and talk directly to the people, they can easily rid their party of the unnecessary politicians and unseat the Democrats in 2010 and 2012.

All of this "Palin is a diva crap" is nothing but an attempt to sow discord amongst the new force of the Republican party. And frankly I think the media will fail. I would love to see her run, but that's up to her and her party in the future.

Interesting Comparison

Not trying to freak any one out, but this is funny/scary because they are right next to each other on the Drudge Report.

First: Economists see 14-month US recession

Then: Trader shoots himself at Brazil financial exchange

My Lessons From This Election

Having spent some time of the Left side of political ideation, I can safely say this:

The Left is just as hateful and as ignorant as the people they claim to fight against.

It is not all people. Often times I find that those with the best intentions, more than likely do not understand how much venom they have. They do not understand how much they actually look down on the same people they claim to want to help.

I think it stems from some highly intense anger against those on the more extreme side of ideology. Maybe that hatred is understandable. However, instead of dissecting the politics from the person, they melt the two together. They somehow think that the two are inseparable.

However, we must all learn to judge the man, for the man. I honestly do not hate liberals/Democrats, seeing as how I was one for a time. I do speak with some venom because I often can not stand the hypocrisy and laziness of those who say that they fight for us. I'm more angry at the system and how our politics are structured. I'm angry at the person who gave me a look (anger, sympathy, disgust) when they found out I would not now, nor ever, vote for Obama. Apparently I was supposed to blindly follow the crowd, the movement is what it was called.

But I want to be part of no movement. I simply want to be. I want to be respected despite my sexual orientation or my politics. Why should I be judged on the superficiality of life, the minor moments, while you ignore the whole of my existence? Did I suddenly change the last three months, or have you changed? Maybe you find the calling of the movement (and consolidation of thought) more important than your friends or your family? Maybe we both have grown? Maybe we both have stayed the same? Maybe this is who we are, this thing that was lying underneath the surface?

I don't know. I'm just thinking out loud by now.

Interesting Quote

From Here.

Stumbled upon this site today. I haven't read the book he's referencing, but this quote seemed interesting. "An Empire of Lies"

Check it out.