Serious People

A serious people have serious leadership.  However, in the United States, there hasn't been an adult in office since 1992.  We are no longer a serious people.  We are a nation of juvenile idiots.  We are more concerned with the name of a football team than we are with the next plague.

This generation's mortal enemy

If we were alive and cognizant in the 1930’s we would have heard all manner of “enlightened" and “scholarly” opinions about the vitality and imminence of fascism as per Mussolini (Churchill admired him) and Hitler.

Accounts of the savagery meted out to their opponents were dismissed as too complicated and trivial to pass judgement on, especially with the apparent economic miracles they were rending.

This is not speculation, this is documented fact for any who care to research it.

Yet, Hitler had spelled out in no uncertain terms his plans and prejudices.   And step by step he did exactly as he intended all the while offering politically expedient excuses the asinine leaders of the alliance could cling too 'maintain the peace' and remain in office.

The exact same pathology is playing out now with a political ideology every bit as insane and ugly as Nazism.   

Idiots like Kerry, Obama, Cameron, et al insist they know better what Islam is and is not than the countless mullahs and hundreds of thouseans of muslims do.

It come down to the definition of ”peace”.   The west considers peace as a state of tolerance and mutual respect.  Islam considers “peace” a state were all are muslims, or subdued by Islam, or dead.

Here are some recent quotes of authorities on Islam much more authoritative than any western politician.

Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, “Caliph” of the Islamic State: "Support the religion of Allah through jihad in the path of Allah. Go forth, O mujahidin in the path of Allah. Terrify the enemies of Allah and seek death in the places where you expect to find it, for the dunya (worldly life) will come to an end, and the hereafter will last forever.”  July 4, 2014

Osama Bin Laden, former leader of Al Qaeda: "I am not afraid of the American threats against me… As long as I am alive there will be no rest for the enemies of Islam. I will continue my mission against them." October 18, 2000

Ayman al-Zawahiri, current leader of Al Qaeda: “I invite you to gather around the true scholars of Islam, support them and protect them. I invite you to back them and support them and guard them. And I invite you to launch a massive public uprising in defense of Islam against them enemies of Islam.” February 15, 2014

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran: “The enemies of Islam are afraid... and try to confront Islam in the name of Islam and under the cover of Islam… The American Islam, despite having Islamic appearance and name, complies with despotism and Zionism… and totally serves the goals of despotism and the US.” June 30, 2014

A history for our grandchildren

We - western civilazation now has a mortal enemy every bit as crazy, brutal and motivated as the Nazis.

We will have to choose which way we will comport ourselves - either as Chamberlain or as Churchill.

The future will judge us accordingly

Marketing jackasses

Imagine you walk into a store and before you can look aroung at what's availble to buy, someone stops you and insist you give them some personal information that includes your phone number, address and email address.  Would you bother with this, or would you invite the solicitor to piss off?

This situation has become the norm on the internet.   Not only do most website trying to sell you something insist on collecting such data, many also compel you to watch a commercial of some sort before you can actually get to what you're looking for.

I find this particularly repulsive.   I make a point of boycotting any product associated with such coercion.  I can only hope that enough other like-minded folks will do the same so that perhaps this offensive practice will cease.

Ugly Apple OS

Wow!!  I'm amazed at  how uninspired and downright ugly the latest Apple OS interface is!  I keep thinking they will evolve to better and they only get worse.  The graphics design staff should be summarily fired and replaced with people that actually like artfulness.  Presently it looks as though the interface is being designed by soviet-era programmers.

Snowden is a gift

In time, Mr. Snowden will take on a mythic status as one who awakened the civilazation to the perils of government control.  This guy is a hero.

Cancer to Marketing

I can no longer use the internet without being affronted by advertising.  Without any consent on my part, any page I may click through to, and just as many that I didn't will begin to run sound and video content that I've no interest in whatsoever.  Furthermore, like the network television, the advertisements are set to a louder volume than the principle content.  Even more offensive is the length of content is actually several times less than the ratio of network broadcast - that is to say, one will be obliged to wait through a minute of advertisement for as little as 2 minutes of 'content'.

Marketers have now managed to make the internet even more advertisement-laden than broadcast television!  Where's the friggin' FCC on this aspect?  All the concern about the internet is the profitability of corporations.  Precious little is given to the consumer.

Susan Rice

She had so much promise.  Now she's just an expendable for the Obama legacy.  Pathetic: how many will be sacrificed for this petty imposter??

The Sun King stumbles

How can anyone be so stupid as to trade a deserter/traitor for 5 terrorist leaders!!!!?

Pay Back

There should be a service that allows people served up with an unwanted bit of adware to send some nasty code back to the authors.

American Egos

Is it just the city I live in, Los Angeles, or do americans insist on telling each other just how intelligent and talented they are?

Dalai Lama is a show pony

seriously, what good is the dalai lama for the people of Tibet anymore?   He's just a prop for useful idiots in the west to gawk at.   He's a joke at this point.

The Plague

One of the positive effects of the plague in Europe was that it wiped out the masses of peasants that competed for work.  

This scarcity of serfs made for a better bargaining position.  

It’s pretty straight forward - one needs servants and farm workers for the estate and they’ve become damned hard to find - we have to offer the bastards more money and benefits!

But in these sophisticated times, the yearly influx of illegals into the work force is said to have no negative effect on the lower classes.  After all,  "they do the work that american citizens won’t."    (But that’s only true because american citizens won’t work for such a low wage until they have to!)

In the end it’s apparently more important that the upper classes (including you and I), have a delightful range of exotic foodstuffs and cheap domestic labor.

The only plus I can see in allowing such an influx of cheap labor is that they’ll eventually be contributing to the SS fund to keep me fed and under a roof.  

Hopefully there’ll be no racist backlash when the younger majority - people of color - realize they’re giving up a large percentage of their wages to take care of the older minority - white baby boomers.

Domain Pigs

There should be some legal restraint in place that prohibits the purchase of domain names for the purpose of reselling.  It's a nasty little game played by people that compare poorly to the average parasite.  They've no drive to create a service or increase the common good.  They are a type of troll that abuses the law to acquire passive income.

The next party

I propose a new party to eliminate and replace the Republican Party.  I think I'll call it the "Origins Party"  This platform will reassert the fundamentals of the constitution and amend it to include a strictly limited taxation clause - that being a flat tax on all manner of income period.  Limited government that includes term limits, a prohibition on lobbyists and absolute transparency for all poitical negotiations.

LAUGHTER: The ultimate personality test

The quality of one's laughter I believe is a very accurate means of assessing their fundamental nature.  

If the sound of one's laughter is joyous and pleasant to the ear, it's likely the person laughing is a good sort.  On the other hand, there are those whose laughter has an edge to it, a strain of cruelty or meanness that belie an impoverished psyche.  

Along with this is also what it is that makes an individual laugh.  Some delight in the humiliation of others.  Some breakup at physical comedy.  Still other's are greatly amused by what's known as toilet humor.  

Indeed, If I where in need of making assessments of people, I'd show them a variety of humorous stimuli and make recordings of each individual laugh's quality and intensity.

I suspect my screening system would be the most accurate over all of any out there at present.