The end of civility...

The one thing the Zimmerman trial has shown us is civility is dead. With all the Usual Suspects talking about how Mr. Zimmerman should have listened to some 911 operator that really has no authority. We do not hear about how Treyvon reacted to someone asking him why he was there? What if instead of hostility and confrontation...he would have said "Oh I am just coming back from the store. I am visiting my father who lives over there. Maybe you would like to meet him?" But no...from all we have heard he acted with hostility and did not even get off the phone with his girlfriend. Sure it is easy to say Zimmerman should have listened to a 911 operator...but it is also easy to say that Martin should have dropped the ghetto act and just acted with civility. 

Of course calling for civility is not something that the Usual Suspects want...or need. They and the media that takes their bait live for confrontation and civil unrest. And this story gives them all the gas they need for the fire...but meanwhile in urban America the same lack of civility and hostility leads to dozens of murders each day...and the Usual Suspects and the media seem to ignore that. And that...does not help the people they pretend to represent. 

What about the legal ones?

Fifteen years ago my wife and I began a journey though the expensive bureaucratic land called legal immigration. The process took years and each step cost a few hundred dollars and would be more if you used a lawyer I am sure. There were plenty of bureaucratic snafus, like losing photo's or paperwork. Then we made the terrible mistake of moving 17 miles from Maryland to Pennsylvania and that caused our case to get transferred to Philadelphia from Baltimore even though we are an hour drive from Baltimore but 2.5 from Philly. Which caused our case to get moved back in the order of processing. Eventually...after thousands of dollars, to many 4am wake ups to get to Philly by 7am because all in person meetings are at a first come first serve basis and the line forms quickly, eventually...my wife who came he from that exotic locale called Canada received her "green card".  And this is what pisses me off about the immigration debacle. We did it the right way...we jumped through all the hoops, payed all the fees....did all they asked...usually twice because the first time got "lost"....and we are now played as chumps. Where is the legal aliens voice in this debate....I guess we do not have one because we paid our cash. Seems to me in 2013 only the fools follow the rules.

Liberals and lug nuts

Not to long ago I came across a Prius festooned with Obama stickers and other left wing loon slogans. It was on the side of the road with a flat tire on the front and a helpless and clueless driver on the side. So being a compassionate conservative I stopped to help. It was a simple flat tire. So I put the tire on but not the lug nuts.

She started to bitch. "What about the lug nuts?" "Well" I said..."you have 20 lug nuts...but I think that is too much. I am keeping 2 as a tax for not having roadside assistance coverage. I am keeping the other 3 because there are gonna be folks that just don't have enough. You know spread the wealth. You understand as a liberal right? You are too rich with lug nuts."

"But...but...that's not fair? I need all those! " "Really...you still have 15...I just took 5...what is 5 lug nuts to some one as rich as you who has 20?" 

"But my wheel will fall off!" she screeched.  "Well you need to share what you have don't you? You do not want to be greedy and hog all the lug nuts! Maybe you should take one from the other 3 wheels then you will have 3 holding on this wheel and 4 holding on the other. It should be safe I guess." 

"Will you do that for me? Will you take off one lug nut from each of the other 3 wheels?" "Sure!" I said. I then took 2 lug nuts off each of the wheels. 

"Now what the hell was that for? I just wanted one nut off each of the 3 wheels...and you took off 2 but only put 1 on!" I told her..."One for the other wheel and one as a lug nut equalization tax." 

She protested again...."Another tax...that is not fair. I wanted you to help me and all you did was take 8 of my 20 lug nuts and left me in worse shape than when I started."

Yep...now you know how the country feels. Maybe next time you will learn how to change a tire before you learn to vote for change. 

What does it take...

What does it take for the masses to demand someone resign or be replaced. It seems that over time no matter how severe the scandal...the scandalous... will not go away. Think about it...lying under oath...nope...smoking crack with hookers...get re-elected...send questionable pix to women not your wife...run for mayor of NYC. Take under age hookers out of state...get a gig at CNN.  Nothing to too wrong today. 

And now... any one of the 4 issues now facing the Obama administration should be causing mass resignations at the State Dept, the IRS and the DOJ. Not to mention 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. But so far...and I would not be shocked if there are no high level resignations...everyone is still suckling at the tax teat.  And even if there are asked to spend more time with their family ...they will not go away...to jail or oblivion. No...in a few years they will rise again like a Phoenix from a scandal inferno.

Eric Holder won't go to jail. No he will become a President of some collage. Dan Shulman...will end up on some corporate board. Lois Learner...a mouth piece at a liberal think tank...OK that is an oxymoron since we all know liberals do not think. And oh how I love the irony of someone that refused to talk becoming a mouth piece. Hillary...well she will be the next "historic" choice for President. 

The one thing we should all learn about government jobs is that once you reach a certain place...you are a lifer. Nothing or no one will bring you down. Hell even if you just show up every day and do nothing but push a pencil and paper...you are in there for life. 

And one thing we should learn about the plebs plebis is they really don't give a shit. They can't be bothered with holding people to any standard...not just a higher one...any one. After all...the plebs plebis do not hold themselves to any standards. And until they do...they will keep getting worse and worse elected officials and worse and worse government that we are paying for.  

As long as the milk and honey...bread and circuses continue from the tax teat...they will be happy.  And the government will be crappy...well crappy would be an improvement...but I liked the rhyme. 

Information Saturation

For the life of me I could not figure out why the masses do not seem to give a shit about the big 3 now 4 stories closing in on the Obama administration. Then I had an "ah ha" moment... it is information saturation. With the 24/7/365 news cycle and having every news story at our fingertips and in our face many have chosen to just turn it all off. Back in the day when we got news in the AM from the morning paper and in the PM from one of just 3 half hour nightly news shows. Many had time to digest what the media was telling them and think on it through out the day, then get an update at 6:30 from Cronkite, Brinkley, or Reasoner.

Now with it all, all the time it has become to much to digest for may. They have to worry about work, home, kids, and all of them are now 24/7/365 too. So the world beyond their zip code is irrelevant...until they ask..."Why is my gas $3.50 a gallon still? Why are we still in Afghanistan after we killed Osama bin Laden? Why this...and why that? Oh well I am just one person...I'll let others worry about it...I got to play some Candy Crush then chat with people I never met...then pick up the kids from A activity then drive them to B activity...then come home and see what those people I never met have been doing since I have been gone." And it never ends...and unless you are interested in the news...it is not news to you but just back ground noise in your life.

And that leaves the rest of us...I am guessing about 48% to give a shit beyond work, home and kids. To think about the world beyond our zip code and how that DOES affect our zip code. What the Obama folks have figured out is the 52% do not give a shit. This is Rome 2013...the bread and circuses have been replaced with 300 TV Channels and Facebook.

And there....could be the tipping point. The same Facebook that is keeping the 52%ers occupied is also uniting the 48% like never before. With a margin that close...I see the chances of some of the 52 becoming 48's faster than the 48's becoming a 52.

Could Obama get any luckier?

Just as SuperStorm Sandy deflected any and all media away from Benghazi prior to the 2012 election now it seems the Oklahoma tornadoes will do the same with the IRS, AP, Benghazi and now the Rosen investigations. Those stories will be yesterday's news...even though the Rosen story broke today, because the masses love a good tragedy story. The real tragedy will be what Obama and his cult like followers have done to America with the help of a willing and able media. The days of the media being the 4th estate are gone when a democrat is in office. They will turn a blind eye faster than a cyclops with conjunctivitis. The media swells are addicted to the good life on the Potomac and none want to be shunned like a leper at Club Med. So they will not dig to see who knows what when and why? Well we all know the why...the why is to keep Obama and then Hillary in power. Gone are the days of winning a Pulitzer by exposing the seedy underbelly that is Washington. So once again mother nature saves the mother fucker...and we are all fucked in the process. Well unless you are a loyal member of the Free Shit Army...then the manna from the productive tax paying class keeps coming.

Tshit tsunami in DC

I don't know if the good ship Obama is gonna sink like the Titanic or just be towed back to port like a crippled Carnival Cruise filled with piss, shit and irate passengers. But I have never seen a convergence of administration ending events like this. Just one of these would have caused a left wing media shit storm that would have crippled or caused the resignation of a Republican leader. But for they most part they are trying to prop up something...either Obama until he can get out of this like Houdini at Niagara Falls or keep St. Hillary viable for 2012. I for one think Hillary gave the stand down order to sabotage Obama in '12. But even she could not imagine how stupid 52% of the population was.
Now we are stuck with what should be a fantastic political circus this summer...and it even has 3 rings, and plenty of clowns jumping though hoops. Perhaps this fall from grace will bring down the curtain on the leftist Oz. Perhaps Obamacare will be the Seattle Pilots of the social welfare programs, one and done. And perhaps this will finally lead to real effective tax reform. And perhaps...this one is the real stretch...the media will be fair...and not as one sided as the score of a one legged soccer team playing Real Madrid.
All I do know is no one really saw such a massive tshit tsunami coming...but I for one am gonna ride the wave until the end.