Welcome to New York State, poised to be the new fascist capitol of the United States, and just determined in a national survey to be the least "free" state in the country. While NY City's mayor Michael Bloomberg prostitutes a significant and steady share of his wealth and power in attempts to ban or modify a laundry list of Things He Doesn't Think You Should Decide About As A Formerly Free American, the state's governor Andrew Cuomo laughs off concerned gun owners as extremists while he and fellow usurpers of common sense and the public good forge ahead with the strictest and likely most unconstitutional firearm legislation in the U.S. No doubt about it, the masks are off now and the charade is over. Bloomberg even spends his fortune to influence elections out of state. And Cuomo? Funny what depths some folks will plumb to become president, even turning against one's own people with the stroke of a pen to facilitate a self-journey to official Washington Oz and its elite. May the nation know him for what he is, long before the 2016 elections. Megalomania is never pretty.
It's little
wonder that guns have become all the buzz among members of the nation's political
class, already beholden to an agenda of control. They don't take kindly or comfortably to a
Second Amendment intended to sort out protections for those who serve, and for
those who are served, from those who merely rule and dominate.
Meanwhile, as
all the special interests attired in sheeps' clothing are out there, blaming and
condemning law-abiding Americans because they can't get their hands on so much
as the ghosts of Adam Lanza, Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold and a host of others
who checked out after completion of their grizzly actions, yet another series of homicides is about to
take place within the classrooms of schools all over the country -- murders of
the mind. Common Core, See-Scope
and other "teaching tools" approved by members of both political parties hover in readiness to
invade schools and the learning process.
The dangers of this New School
are said to include technological monitoring (with high-tech equipment
literally spying on young brains) and data mining of students and their
families, and the choices -- the real choices -- will no longer be decided at
the parent-teacher level. Almost before
children can do math -- and it is our understanding that "math" will
hardly be the same again -- an electronic file springs into existence, damned
nearly noting their every everything, and a digital identity will
conceivably track them indefinitely, providing enough data to determine an
educational and employment fate over which they may have no control. This is not the U.S. This is China. This is Russia. Is it not?
Critics say this wild curricula might be stopped, but the time is
short. This year. School PTAs and state and local legislators
at every level must heed these potential changes with extreme caution because,
according to some, this is the situation that will determine how free our
country will remain evermore.
And the battle
over guns? The cart-before-the-horse
crowd, even as polls show the public has become bored with the whole affair,
continues to focus upon firearms, seemingly caring barely a whit about why,
why, why society grows increasingly violent, crazed and disconnected from
what used to be a sense of reality one could almost touch and feel. No more.
Thanks a lot for laughs from the other side, digital world. The worst may be yet to come, for the young.
We were advised
years ago, not that many, never to fear the computer. Instead, we were to embrace its marvels and be set
free from our cares. That was then. Now, we wake up every morning with a fair
amount of dread, or should. Who will
hack our computers today? Who will shut
down our electrical or water supplies?
Who will steal our identities today?
Who will track our every move today and take photos with tiny objects
too diminutive to see? How many hundreds
or thousands of dollars will it cost to repair a digital catastrophe in the
automobile? How do we know our digital
votes at election time aren't being hijacked and changed? Why is it that personal information
authorities promised would be impossible to steal is stolen on a regular
basis? Who can we trust? Who should trust us? Maybe your heroes include Gates, Zuckerberg,
Google (yes, which owns and carries this very blog) and all the other familiar
names, but they are not my heroes. What
they are is inventors and inventions, but perhaps more for the moment than the
future, and that's a good thing -- but when inventions morph into structures to
be feared, fostering the emergence of supremely technical people with more
knowledge and influence than our own governments or societies can contend with
on something equivalent to an equal footing, that's worrisome. Some may prefer technocratic rule over the
votes of a congressman from some farming district, but therein lies the
danger. How can common people share in
and drive the destiny guaranteed to them within a government when computers
intrude, fail to enable freedom and instead enslave those who dwell far outside
of the digital kingdom whose hardware ultimately prefers obedience and sameness
over ingenuity of the individual who desires a computer-less existence? Nonetheless, not even computer technology may
survive the next wave of uniquity splashing over an horizon of chaos.
IN THE NEWS --
WET NO MORE: I think most of us can agree that the term,
wetbacks, a vulgar term applied primarily to Mexicans who enter the USA
illegally, is rude, crude and unfathomable in today's society, so I, too, was
appalled at the government representative who used a word he grew up with
without giving its utterance a second thought.
Indeed, people of any culture and any nation who come into the country
against our laws, as already written, should more accurately be referenced as
illegal border-jumping criminal aliens.
That sort of encompasses everybody, don't you think?
GAY MARRIAGE: Hey youse, when I jumped up and called for
gay folk the privilege of serving in the military, no way did I see the
marriage thing on the track. Are you
crazy? Keep this up and I may well
address the courts for my right to marry a dog -- though I reluctantly confess
I've never known a dog that would have me.
Then again, loose tongues admit that there's nothing like a nice bouquet
of dog biscuits, rabbit scent, road kill fragments and Ken-L-Ration to attract
the very best. Trouble is, I don't think
they make Ken-L-Ration anymore.
FORT HOOD: Please, somebody get Major Hasan's
court-martial and trial on course.
Anybody who thinks his religion doesn't have a bearing on a nearly
four-year delay -- I have a bridge high over the deep crystal blue waters of
Saudi Arabia I'd like to sell you. 13
dead, dozens injured, and none were allowed the carry a firearm in that
"gun free" zone on an Army base that day. Are you kidding? And why is Obama's Justice Department in on
this mess? So goes the JD, so goes the
Administration, and thus the roadblocks in awarding The Purple Heart to the
victims. Any moron knows these folks
were shot because of a jihad-headed Islamic terrorist wearing a U.S. military
uniform, not something relating to "workplace violence." Hasan will be found guilty for all
that is "alleged," and he should receive the deadliest of death
penalties for it (too bad a little water-boarding can't be administered first,
just for old times' sake), IF anybody still has the courage to do the right
thing in this increasingly wussie-fied country.
