"Together We Thrive"

Team Obama, never letting a good crisis go to waste, used the "memorial service" for the six victims of a lunatic's murderous rampage in order to re-distribute t-shirts left over from Teh One's 2008 Presidential campaign.

"Together We Thrive," while being a fairly catchy, if vapid, slogan is hardly a comfort to the parents of Christina Green, the 9-year-old whose political affiliations are now forever undecided.  The very idea of sloganeering at a funerary service is disgusting on its face:  that the shirts also bear, in the fine print, "Rocking America and Rocking the Vote," the tried-and-true DNC motto used to induce voting by the Vuze-and-Warcraft constituency.  Appalling is the most fitting term I can print.  Christina's parents will never fully recover from her death, and all this Administration can do is hold another pre-election pep rally.  How detached from reality is this man?  Not the murderer Loughner,  Mr. Obama.

"Hate Speech," or, as the rest of the world calls it, "differing opinion," is now being codified to include "violent political rhetoric," such as "Don't Tread on Me!" and "Give me Liberty or Give me Death!"  And, of course, the eternal enemies of the Secular Progressive left, the First and Second Amendments, are once again under fi, umm, in the cross, ummm, about to be excecu, ummmm, in dange, ummmmm,  in jeapor, ummmmmm, about to be revisited by the 235 men and women who had never read the Constitution prior to January 3, 2011.  This should end well for all Americans.

Messr.s Obama, Holder, et.al. can keep their pep rallies.  The people of America want fiscal accountability and responsibility from Congress, and a return to adherence to the Constitution as opoposed to efforts to circumvent its constraints upon government.  Remember Candidate Obama's characterization of the Constitution as "a document of negative liberties" for the Federal Government?  In his obvious Freudian slip, he revealed his intent then to do end-runs around those limitations by using the undefined powers of the Administration and the Executive Branch to set policies and dicta which would NEVER pass Congressional scrutiny,  Mme. Pelosi and Mr. Reid notwithstanding.  The EPA can regulate energy prices and supplies by fiat;  the food supply is growing ever closer to being Federally collectiviized;  even medicine is frighteningly close to being just another Federal Bureaucracy managed every bit as well as Amtrak, the Postal Service, and Fannie Mae.  Already the DHS, under the allegedly competent eye of sleepy Janet Napolitano, has abandoned the "virtual fence" for our porous southern border.  Fortunately for the virtual leadership, "only" one billion of the proposed 3 billion dollars has been pounded down that particular rathole.

Your tax dollars are working harder than ever, but you may not live long enough to "thrive" from the wastrel and profligate spending sprees unless your name happens to be Methuselah.

An Alarming Statistic

Today, in America, more than 64.9 Million gun owners
killed no one.

Worth Another 1,000

War of the Words

   Not in the fictional town of Grovers Corners, New Jersey, but in the semi-fictional realm of Mainstream Media, another war has begun.  This war will be a long, arduous conflict with many casualties.  In the crosshairs:  your First Amendment right to speak freely in the public square has become the primary target.  The secondary target is, as usual, your Second Amendment right to take arms for yourself against a tryannical government.   And, as the movie title said, "There Will Be Blood." 

   Zealots on all sides of the political arena are seeking to blame "violent rhetoric" in political speeches, noticeably excepting  B.H. Obama's "If they bring a knife, we'll bring a gun" diatribe against those who would dare oppose him, or Rahm Emanuel's now-famous "Dead!  Dead!  Dead!" cocktail-party repartee.  Surely one must placxe all blame squarely upon  a) Sarah Palin;  b)  George Bush;  c)  Rush Limbaugh; and, obviously d)  Fox News, particularly Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly for the malevolence in Arizona.  Poppycock!!  But, trust me, Orwellian ThoughtCrime bills are already being written as knee-jerk politically-correct reactionary politicians seek to use this latest horror as yet another stake in the heart of your Constitutional rights.  Did you shoot anyone?  Did you call for a mass murder? Did you attempt to blow up Parliament?  Of course not, but it is you who will lose your rights "for the good of Society."  Or have you never heard of the TSA, the Patriot Act, and Homeland Security which works "24/7, 364 days a year?"
 
   Unfortunately, Jared Lee Loughner is not a political figure, but is, IMHO, a psychotic individual with little or no attachment to the rest of the universe:  his writings and YouTube exploits reveal his dementia. (Interesting word, dementia.  Look into its etymology.)   Did he murder six people because of a political ad?  NO.  Did he wound twenty because of Sarah Palin?  NO.  Prisoner Loughner murdered a Federal Judge simply because his victim was available, as was the 9-year-old little girl and the 76-year-old husband who died shielding his wife from the gunfire, and all the others.  It could just as easily have been you, it also could have been me.

    Rhetoric is not at fault.  Gun ownership is not to be blamed.  Political bloviation is innocent in this case:  Richard Speck, Ted Bundy, Charles Whitman, James Huberty, Patrick Sherrill, Nidal Hasan, and many, many more needed only to obey the "voices" in their heads, not those on the TV or AM radio.  Society is not to blame, nor is any religion.  The fault is "not in our stars, but in our selves." 
Let's just hope Mr. Loughland is quickly and permanently escorted into his separate universe . 

Perhaps there he will see what true homicidal madness really is.