Of all the ways to start the new year Bill Hicks is one of them. If you understand the opening sequence of this film then welcome fellow seekers and enjoy.

Cognative Dissonance Express

I think what bothers me the most about the right wing is that they insult my intelligence and ability to discern when they try to pass off all their cognitive dissonance as a coherent policy. I think I am also quite saddened that so many of them just go with the flock and never see it for themselves. One hot meme in on the wingnut planet is that they are trying to bankrupt the country to impose socialism on it.
First we hear that health care and other government services would be too expensive and socialism would will eventually bankrupt us. Just go ask those European countries about their higher taxes. Yet now they are saying they are trying to bankrupt the country so they can take it to socialism. So they are going to bankrupt it so they can take over and bankrupt it again? I'm a connoisseur of conspiracy theories and actually think some of them have merit. That argument though would be debunked in an instant. At least have a consistent line of thinking. It's just stupid and I am insulted that someone would even was my time with such idiocy. Not to mention he dissed the President in front of little kids and the military on a holiday. The Dixie Chicks are jealous.

It sound to me like their goal is to just make sure they bring up bad things and say socialism a lot so you will have a fearful reaction whenever you even hear the words....Pavlovs dogs.


You thought Obama was going to turn over America to the socialists...or the blacks...or the Muslims. Nope today he is turning it over to the Indians(native Americans). Are you scared yet?
Remember the oh so serious fears that Obama was going to ban fishing? Remember those right wing emails? What happened to that fear? Seems everyone is still fishing as usual.  When I say Obama or socialism, you bark. Pavlovs dogs.

Republicans plan to read aloud the Constitution of the United States when the 112th Congress kicks off on January 6th, 2011. 

So the ones that annually have big dust ups that it needs change or reform are now the ones that love the Constitution? God you must think we are stupid.

Blast From The Past

Still admired by dirty hippies the world over. We miss you John.


Disclose.tv - John Lennon interview on Illuminati Video

Justice

So you're somebody who brags about their innocence
While playing on the ignorant storm
Now I'm just here to criticize the lies, the lies, the lies...

What Is Money?

As he says, this game has been played for centuries. Even in this country people have caught on a couple of times. During Andrew Jacksons time and during Teddy Roosevelts time. It's time again to have a thorough examination of how this most vital piece of our life really works...or doesn't.

Spawns of satan

You know, the right seem to be very comfortable with their adjectives and disdain for everyone who is not them. Try pointing out their defects, which could easily be seen if they would hold a mirror up to their actions, and oh they are so insulted and enraged that any one should say such a thing. Why, here's Kid Hannity having one of his frequent temper tantrums now! They're now even attempting to convince us we could or should ban ...are your ready for this...Karma!! ??? Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha.  They prove again they have no idea what they are talking about.

 The complete and total immorality of nearly everything they believe in is astounding to me. I can barely watch these days. Which is why the posts have become less frequent. It is a sad occasion to see people I should feel at least some kind of affinity with become so foreign to everything I consider important.  They spend copious amounts of time demeaning the poor and even the middle these days.
Trying pointing out that the rich are robbing them blind (it aint the poor or they wouldnt be the poor. Where are all those BIG government checks going?) and they dig themselves in deeper.  This little immoral spawn of satan named Bernard Goldberg wants to build a monument to the rich!  Why not build a monument to all the people that got less than they deserved in the process of making them rich? The rich have already received their reward. Nobody does it alone.
Even worse he is using the same thread worn argument that has been debunked roundly and thoroughly while blithely ignoring the real point.  They don't care, they keep using it anyway. Making themselves more evil every time they try to pass off evil as something noble. People that comment on this very blog have done(and likely will do) the same thing.  With the explanation of how easily they dismiss the evil of torture and preemptive war and inhumanity and disdain for their fellow man and a panoply of other issues I find no common ground.

This was actually the inspiration for this post.
Here's some more of them lamenting on what a pain in the ass it is to care about unemployed people.  Even when there are not enough jobs to go around for people that REALLY WANT TO WORK!  Apparently this is no longer the UNITED  States, apparently it's everyone for themselves and let the musical chairs mayhem begin. Again their rationalizations and justifications for their view makes them look even more evil not less.

It is nearly impossible for them to see what everyone around them sees plain as day. The fear and distrust that permeates every opinion or thought they have these days. You see if you keep people in fear mode it occupies the brain so completely that you don't have time to contemplate love, unity or cooperation or how to actually make progress.
You don't have time to dream of a better world when your time is full of fearing today and tomorrow.  This is the plan of their so called New World Order(they are right about this it does exist, but its not run by socialists its run by the biggest of capitalists you'll find on the planet.) and they are doing everything needed to provide smooth sailing to their dreaded NWO.

A Musical Interlude

Human Nature?

I was watching some world news(not US based) tonight and found it amazing how with such diversity on the surface, how many things are so similar in quite different nations. 
There are many 2nd and 3rd world countries having elections and trying to use them to unify people so they can have an organized society. Unfortunately they, no matter where they are, work pretty much like we do. What ever side loses they say that the election or the results are illegitimate and go back to knock down drag out. Should you think that it is an insult to compare the great American nation to 2nd and 3rd world countries remember;
George Bush was never elected and Barack Obama won't show us his REAL birth certificate and Bill Clinton? Impeach!

My friends I'm rooting for the US as strongly as anyone can. I've been fortunate enough to live all over the country in many different regions and cultures. I have never stepped foot outside the country. Absolutely everyone I know and love from personal experience lives in the US. I'm not a wealthy person. There is no foreseeable way that I will ever do anything but live my life out here.
That all said I think it is quite easy for flag waving, patriotism and nationalism to go too far.
When I was a young person in the 60s and 70s the US lead the way. We were truly, by understandable statistics and by proof of invention, number #1 in vast swaths of positive important benchmarks.  This is not to say that many dark things weren't happening then. We live in a world of duality. The fact remains that the US blazed the path. How long has it been since we have done that? 

Many of the numbers are somewhat dated but you can fish around here for a while for a perspective.  Now we are #1 in defense spending and obesity. Education, science, healthcare, things one might call worthy advances...not so much.  My point is not that there are no reasons to be proud, or whatever affectionate feeling you want to apply. There's no lack of people to tell you what all of those things are if you don't already know.
Sadly there are more and more places that, beyond nationalism, we don't have the greatest nation anymore. I don't  think it is unpatriotic to point that out. As a matter of fact until people decide to hold the respect of what the nation is and does to the same standard that we do each other we will never be that great nation again. I'm  guessing if we choose to look and act more like 2nd and 3rd world countries then we will become one.

Unity-Sustainability

No One Is Smarter Than You

And we mean that seriously. 
"Nobody is smarter than you. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?"