Enter the Darkness of Disbelief: Great Gatsby Beats Star Trek

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Last night my family and I went to see the new Star Trek movie, Into Darkness.  We went an hour early, because it was opening weekend and we wanted to get a good seat.

And low and behold, on a Sunday afternoon, there were only 8 people in the audience. By all accounts, this was one of the best Star Trek movies ever made in the franchise, and had been promoted in the theater for well over a year…so I couldn’t help wondering..What country am I in?

What happened to America?

Come on! This is one of America’s most famous franchises…what in the world was everybody doing?

When I got home, I got on the internet and saw that the Great Gatsby had done far better box office sales than Iron Man Three AND Star Trek.

What? They did THAT boring old story again? They had to do it over in 3D so that people could FEEL even worse about their lives? Tornadoes are ravishing the land, and we are watching fluff movies?

I don’t care if they spit champagne in 3D at the audience, It was a boring story, and a boring movie the first time around.

You go to look at the clothes and the ostentatious wealth, and dream.

During the last depression, it was Shirley Temple that everyone flocked to see. But was it Shirley or the same old poor girl becomes rich, and always has a happy ending that they wanted?

I have never been a big fan of Fitzgerald. Don’t ask me why, I just think he was a bit like his own characters…lots of bluster but not much meat. He was always trying to make some profound point, but always came up…short, as if he wasn’t sure what he thought.  He had his moments, but Gatsby was not one of them.

I find this lax in American movie going very disturbing. I realized the economy is really, really bad, and going to a movie is much too expensive, but just the fact that it came in third from the people that did go is disturbing.

Does that mean that only liberals can afford movies now?

I can’t help thinking: What in the world would make the American public choose a boring movie about some rich guy wanting a blond bimbo over an action-packed, futuristic movie about outer space?

Does it all come down to people want to dream that they will someday be rich, as opposed to someday they would travel to other planets? The last Powerball numbers support that. They could start charging five dollars a ticket and everyone would still play,—you know why?

Because they think their chances of ever getting rich has been cut off at that knees. And they are right.

Has closing NASA really put death into our dreams as humans….where you dream of future inventions…and the air car. I’m crazy about air cars. I’ve seen real mechanics working on them and posting their work on Youtube.

Forget those stupid solar panels. Get on those air cars. You want to get rid of the Saudis? Make them eat sand.

Where’s the President that stands up and says: Science fiction has many times before foreseen our future, therefore, I am investing in air cars.

I feel like I’m in the Twilight Zone.

Tonight when I got home, I saw that CNN took a poll and came up with the fact that despite all the scandals, Obama is still very popular.

They must have polled people coming out of the Great Gatsby

You’re kidding me. Nobody wants to see Star Trek and Obama is still loved.

What planet am I on?

I still, can’t believe it.

But then again…I do remember Chris Pine, the actor playing Captain Kirk going on a talk show and saying he was a big liberal and he supported Obama.

Elephants do remember, don’t they?

 

 

Dictator 101: How to go around the Constitution

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President Clinton did this: He went around Congress by giving the Commerce Department the power to transfer many of our military secrets to China. Before that, China was 40 years behind us in the nuclear race. Now they can nuke any American city thanks to Bill Clinton.

That was high treason. They impeached him for the wrong reason. Looking back, the Monica scandal might have just been the cover up for the real crime.

And Obama, as we are seeing today with the Benghazi scandal, IRS, and tapping of the phones of the press…is just like Clinton. He has been doing gun running in Mexico, and the middle East. He went into Libya without Congressional consent.

And now, he is grabbing complete control of our schools.  According to Stanley Kurtz, this is how he did it:

From Spreading the Wealth

One: Instead of asking Congress to appropriate money in support of your new education policy, thereby provoking public discussion of the issue, insert the funding for your key education initiative in a massive stimulus package, passed rapidly with virtually no debate even on economic policy, much less education. That is precisely how President Obama procured the $4.35 billion to be used solely at the Department of Education’s discretion for his Race to the Top Initiative.

Two: Now that you’ve got a huge pile of money free from congressional constraints and even public debate, use it as a lure to move the country’s education system toward a federally controlled curriculum. Make the willingness to adopt a national Common Crone a ritual condition of receiving Race to the Top grants, even before the standards and curriculum before finalized.

Three: Orchestrate the creation of a national curriculum and standards fro the White House while denying central control. Recruit publicly unaccountable groups like the National Governors Association to sponsor the project. Bring in the massively wealthy Gates Foundation for funding add supervisor. Obama is making cash strapped states an offer they can’t refuse. So they “volunteer” for the program.

Education is Constitutionally in the hands of the states. What Obama is doing deserves impeachment.

Will they impeach him for his many crimes?

Don’t count on it. But, if you have children in school, you will have to keep close watch on what they are learning.

Nobody Remembers Benjamin Franklin and the Indians

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On May 9, 1754, a political cartoon in Benjamin Franklin’s Pennsylvania Gazette depicted a snake cut into eight pieces, each section representing a part of the American colonies; the caption read, “JOIN, or DIE.”

I wonder if Benjamin Franklin would have ever believed that his famous drawing would now be an icon on tee-shirts and flags, and sold in every Mall in the year 2013?

Benjamin Franklin was such an important part of our founding, it’s a wonder that more of his words are not taught in school. While John Adams once remarked that Ben Franklin never followed his own witty sayings, unless you are a historian, you probably missed some of his other opinions: Like the one he had on Indians.

Here’s’ some quotes from:The Futility of Educating the Indians, from a letter he wrote to Peter Collinson, on May 9, 1753.

The proneness of Human nature to a life of ease, of freedom from care and labor, appears strongly in the little success that has hitherto attended every attempt to civilize our American Indians. In their present way of living, almost all their wants are supplied by the spontaneous productions of nature with the addition of very little labor, if hunting and fishing may indeed be called labor, where game is so plenty. They visit us frequently and see the advantages that arts, sciences, and compact societies procure us. They are not deficient in natural understanding: and yet they have never shown any inclination to change their manner of life for ours to learn any of our arts.

He goes on to point out, that whenever the Indians lived among the whites, or even were educated at Harvard, they wanted to go back home and live out their lives as Indians. But when they did go home, the Chiefs thought their education was good for nothing, because they didn’t know how to survive.

His theory on why some cultures are superior to others was this:

So that I am apt to imagine that close societies, subsisting by labor and art, arose first, not from choice but from necessity, when numbers, being driven by war from their hunting grounds and prevented by seas, or by other nations for obtaining other hunting grounds were crowded together into some narrow territories, which without labor could not afford them food.

And he ends with this comment on ‘welfare’

They should, therefore have every encouragement we can invent, and not one motive to diligence subtracted, and the support of the poor should not be by maintaining them in idleness but by employing them in some kind of labor suited to their abilities of body as I am informed, begins to be of late the practice in many parts of England where workhouses are erected for that purpose. If these were general, I should think the poor world be more careful and work voluntarily to lay up something for themselves against a rainy day, rather then run the risk of being obliged to work at the pleasure of others for a bare subsistence and that too under confinement.

Ben tells us that the Indians, did not want to be Americans. Just like the Muslims don’t want to become Americanized.

Back in Franklins’ day, it was believed if you could work, you should. And that perhaps when forced to start working, you would then see that the future is much brighter than living off of welfare. Lessons that would be lost on ‘President’ Obama.

These are the lessons that should be taught in a history class.  A teacher could use Franklin’s words to start all kinds of lively discussions in the classroom about today’s world.

The great Thomas Sowell came to much the same conclusion as Franklin, the physical terrain where you’re people are from play a big part in the culture you grow up with.  The Indians didn’t want to become Europeans.  Go down this road and you open up a whole can of moral issues don’t you?

The elites of the world are still trying to make all the cultures ‘merge.” They are trying to stuff the round pegs into the square holes. History has shown that it usually doesn’t end well.

The Indians eventually lost their hunting grounds, because they didn’t have a Benjamin Franklin.

Bill Whittle Explains the Origins of Political Correctness

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Ever wonder how we all got mentally brainwashed into being afraid to speak our minds? Enjoy this explanation by the great Bill Whittle. He not only explains the Marxist movement and where it fermented, but the importance of all the bloggers who need to keep up the history lesson.

(Thanks to amfortas)

Nobody Flashes: Don’t Read Old Magazines

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I was throwing out an old magazine today, and it had some interesting ‘fun facts’ about St. Louis. (I live in a northern suburb.)

The book was published in 1998. Here’s a copy of a list of employment facts for 1998:

St. Louis Largest Single Employers Ranked by Number of Employees:

More than 10,000:

1. Boeing co. /2. BJC Health system/ 3. Unity Health System /4. Schnucks Markets Inc./ 5. U.S. Air Force

This year, 2013, Boeing has lost half it’s employees, and the U.S. Air Force is GONE:  Schnucks market just suffered a vicious cyber attack. It’s family owned. The hospitals are still standing.

5,000-9,999 Employees

1. Washington University /2. SSM Healthcare System /3. Southwestern Bell Telephone /4. Trans World Airlines/ 5. Chrysler Corp. Assembly /6. St. Louis University/ 7. May Department Store Co./ 8. St. Louis Public Schools/ 9. NationsBank/ 10. U. S. Postal Service

Washington University used to be the leader in Medical research and science. Now, most of the courses are in Social Science. The cost is $40.000 a semester. Trans World Airlines: GONE. Southwestern Bell…not exactly Apple. Chrysler is GONE. May Department Store went bankrupt, GONE.  The U.S. Postal Service is on its way out. But the school system has grown by leaps and bounds.

2,000-4,999 Employees

1 General Motors Corp. Assembly /2. Anheuser Busch Companies Inc./ 3. Deaconess Incarnate World Health Systems./ 4. Olin Corp /5. At & T

General Motors Corp: GONE. Anheuser Bush was sold to an international buyer. Southwestern Bell…not exactly Apple.

The Olin corporation which makes ammunition is moving it’s operation to Mississippi where there is union-free work.

So after the devastation, what is left? I have watched my city die. And I’m NOT supposed to be depressed? If you are thinking of moving to St. Louis or Detroit:…don’t bother.

So, despite what Obama is telling you, the job market is gasping due to politicians. You’re life choice is slim unless you go into education or Health care or fast food.

Where do you think al the new illegal’s are going to get jobs?

Nobody Knows: Boxing, Matthews, Ricin, Affleck, Internet Taxes

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Terrorist or Boxing Brain Dead?

Nobody wants to know: Where were the tears from Obama, when he described how cold and heartless it was to place a bomb right at the feet of an innocent 8-year-old boy in Boston? After Sandy Hook, Obama was tearing up so much, people were handing his teleprompter Kleenex’s’. But this attack, left only a pretend to wipe of the corner of the eye.

Nobody Knows if it’s because only three people were killed, or because they did NOT use guns.  And the guns they did have were illegal. Or more likely, they weren’t wearing NRA tee-shirts.

The democrats are having a very hard time trying to reconcile the fact that once again we were attacked by Muslim terrorists. The spin control experts went into full “let’s water that down” mode, and called it a ‘religious’ problem. You know…just like the Christians? No difference here.

For the last few days, the poor liberals are having the most frustrating time trying to find out what in the world caused these two normal Porsche driving, dope smoking, regular college boys to want to commit a horrible crime?

And one found the answer: It was Boxing.  (via The Right Scoop)

Could the amateur boxing career of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the deceased suspect in last week’s Boston Marathon bombings, have had a role in the massacre? That’s a question leading brain researchers at Boston University’s School of Medicine hope medical examiners look into when they perform an autopsy of the 26-year-old who was killed during a firefight with law enforcement officials early Friday morning.

Nobody Knows if boxing can be blamed for the two brothers shooting a cop in the head so they could get his gun, only to find out, they couldn’t get it out of his holster. But I think we can safely say that there might have been some logical damage in the brain department there.

And speaking of brain damage:

Brain damage or liberal?

Chris Matthews is upset too. He just can’t figure out, and cannot comprehend, how two young American boys, who were going to college in Boston, driving around in Mercedes, could possibly do such a thing:

CLINT VAN ZANDT, FBI PROFILER: No, it’s really coming together. I mean, there’s — as terrible as this case is and was, there doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of heavy lifting. We’ve got the two primary individuals. It’s obvious that they had hands on the devices. The pieces we don’t have, Chris, are where was their inspiration? Where did they get the guidance? Who taught them how to build the bombs? Where did they build them? These are a lot of questions.

MATTHEWS: Why is that important? Why is that important to — is that important to prosecuting? I mean, what difference does it make why they did it if they did it? I’m being tough here. But I don’t know whether, when you look at all this evidence –

What difference does it make how anyone gets killed said Hillary Clinton.  Didn’t Hillary say the exact same thing about the poor dead guys in Benghazi? It makes no difference how anybody dies. They’re just dead. Don’t judge. It’s all the same.

Can we assume both Hillary and Matthews have been boxing?

Boxing at the Justice Department:

On the other hand, Nobody Knows how the Justice Department made the big mistake, of arresting the wrong guy in last week’s Ricin scare:

During a court hearing yesterday, lawyers for Curtis contended that he had been framed and pointed investigators toward James Everett Dutschke, a 41-year-old Tupelo man with whom Curtis has feuded. Like Curtis, Dutschke is a martial arts expert, a musician, and a Mensa member.

So…we are to believe that a person with a high IQ sent the letters to the President actually thinking that logically, in this day and age, Obama would personally open it, and thereby die?

SURE we are! He’s a Republican. They had the wrong guy, obviously.

(Nobody Knows how much boxing is going on at the workout gyms of the Justice Department, but Nobody suspects a LOT. )

And speaking of the wrong guy.

Boxing at the movies:

Ben Affleck is helping out the new globalization redistribution project:

Oscar winner Ben Affleck is joining in the effort to promote the Live Below the Line poverty-awareness and fundraising campaign, according to published reports.

The anti-poverty campaign challenges those who sign up to live on $1.50 a day for food and drink for five days.

The figure is derived from the World Bank’s definition of extreme poverty. About 1.4 billion of the world’s 7 billion people live on less than $1.50 a day, according to the charity’s

So Ben is going to live on $1.50 a day…how? Will he park his limo in McDonald’s?

The real cause of poverty: Hint: it’s not boxing.

Nobody Knows it: but I suspect that after the internet taxes kick in, we will all have to learn how to live on $1.50.

Senate bill S.336, the Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013, would address the longstanding issue of the online sales tax.  The Washington Post has a good rundown that outlines in simple terms the issues pertaining to the bill:

To start, collecting taxes online in every state can be a technical nightmare for many smaller companies.  The technical issues in mapping all the appropriate state and local taxes to their proper destinations can be complex and cumbersome for retailers that aren’t necessarily equipped with all the technical resources of larger companies.  It would also require changes from many states and localities. Obama has indicated that he supports the bill, according to White House spokesman Jay Carney.

White House spokesman Jay Carney says the Senate bill would level the playing field for small businesses and brick-and-mortar retailers that are undercut by online companies.

Nobody Knows how “level” that playing field is now, but right now, it’s the big companies that always win. What this really means is that the divide between the rich and the poor is only going to get bigger.

We might all have to take up boxing to survive.

Nobody’s Perfect: The Boston Cops

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Here we see some very dangerous terrorists being rounded up and caught by the brave Boston police. Good thing they caught these guys. No telling what kind of insidious tea party was going on in this house.  No doubt they were serving Sam Adams beer. That old lady looks especially dangerous. And the dog…OMG. It’s a good thing those guys had guns.

That dog looked like a trained killer.

I’m sure whoever took this video will get an award for posting it on YouTube. Now we see, why it took such a loooooog time to catch the wounded Muslim. They had to search each and every house…and that took hours. They sure do have a hard job.

Good thing Bostonians aren’t like their ancestors, my goodness…can you even imagine?

Yes, the Boston police…Not perfect, but they’re getting there.

Nobody Cares About the ‘Criminal-in-Chief’ Reaction to Boston

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Like most Americans, I’ve been listening to wall-to-wall coverage of the bombings in Boston, and as usual, scouting the websites for varying opinions…from the Alex Jones version of “FBI maybe setup this action” to the ongoing almost nauseating coverage of how brave Bostonians are…as Carl Sagan so rightly points out in his books, it’s best to take most things, even politics with as much skepticism as possible: So here’s a few Nobody’s Opinions:

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1. The FBI we have found out, could have prevented this if they had listened to Russia, but what happened? Personally, I think, simply by listening to Obama’s own philosophy on Muslims in America and his reaction to the Ft. Hood shootings— it’s the Obama administration that is holding back the FBI from doing their job. When I reported suspicions in my own neighborhood, the Chief of Police was very protective of my Muslim neighbors and told me to leave. The FBI agent, on the other hand, took me seriously, and then told me short of my seeing them load a bomb into the back of their vans, there was absolutely nothing he could do about them.  Hazelwood, the city I live in, is a very democratic stronghold.

2. Throughout Benghazi we saw Hillary Clinton and Obama make statement after statement condemning a video that insulted Islam. That held priory over the attack and murder of our own citizens.  Even at the funerals, Hillary was telling the grieving relatives, “We will punish the man who made the video.” The White House has let the matter go.

3. Obama has had the Muslim Brotherhood welcomed into the White House for the first time in history.  He has opened the visa’s once again for Muslims to flood into our country. He has given speeches about Islam being peaceful, and America being the biggest Muslim nation–his political correctness goes beyond sanity.

In other words, it is Obama that is putting America in danger. The facts all point to that.

4. While the lock down of Boston, by all logical reasoning, seemed very necessary, the precedent it sets is alarming. To have tanks, and big thugs carrying real machine guns— having all those forces roaming the city streets, and having a shoot-out right in the neighborhood, should leave Americans gasping.  While we heard all the regular,  ”Our police and military are great!” speeches, is this the future? Every time some guy goes wacko our cities will be filled with tanks to ‘protect’ us?

When will the tanks be brought out in Chicago? And despite all the money, equipment, and technology, the person who found the guy was a lone citizen who made a simple phone call.

I don’t know how many soldiers, cops, and FBI were in Watertown, but I wonder if all the people of Watertown will give up their freedom to be protected by the vast military complex that the Democrats seem to enjoy.

Yes…the Democrats will bring out the big guns before the Republicans will. Funny isn’t it? No it’s not, when you know that it is their policy to disarm Americans, and let the state protect you.

Let’s not forget, Bill Clinton’s action in Waco, and Janet Reno sending in the military in the middle of the night to send a poor immigrant child back to Castro. Can you even imagine George Bush doing that?

If a Republican had ordered this massive buildup in Boston, or stealing a child in the night by gunpoint, the Democrats would have been screaming.

Clearly, we can assume that the Democrats have no qualms of building Obama’s army…to “protect” us all.

As for Alex Jones and others listening to the mother saying the boys were used by the FBI..that is absurd. Islam and even the moderates that are Muslims, believe that everyone who is an infidel should be killed. She, by all accounts was lying.

It IS in their religion. Nevertheless…just because Alex makes mistakes on some things, he is right about there being a big military presence right near the bombing sites and has video and witnesses to prove it.

That is a piece of the puzzle that we shouldn’t ignore just because it’s from Alex Jones. Alex Jones reminds me of Glenn Beck, who sometimes, often makes big mistakes too.

Both are good guys. Both have opinions. We should listen to them all.

Should we blame everything on the FBI, who even before 9/11 warned the administration about a possible attack?  Something is very wrong.

Bill Clinton once airlifted 80,000 Bosnians (Muslims)  into the St. Louis.  They have not attacked anymore, and nobody goes into their neighborhoods, which are in the city.

They were on our local news. Saying they love it here. So..until proven otherwise, we can take them at their word even though I don’t like the fact that we paid for them to get here with no consent from anybody who lives here…just a President’s wish.

But my Muslim neighbors who came down from Detroit….they don’t like America.

If Obama keeps letting these people in, (as they came in during Clinton’s’ time) maybe we should start questioning the Democrat’s reason for looking the other way when jihadist are let into the country.

Maybe…we should be asking them ”Why?’

Or the question should be…how do THEY benefit from this “turn the other cheek” policy? Does it come down to helping get us to disarm?

After Boston, we should be demanding more answers:

Obama said this after the last suspect was arrested:

And that’s why we take care not to rush to judgment — not about the motivations of these individuals; certainly not about entire groups of people.

To which most Americans go —-WTF? The motivation was on their YouTube videos!

Obama ignores the facts, and we should ask him…why.

Nobody Cares that the most condemning facts all point to Obama’s philosophy. He is starting to look like: the “Criminal In Chief.” One thing we do know: whatever a politician does usually benefits himself.

Obama wants a civilian army: Bigger than the military. He as said so. We should take him at his word.

Nobody Remembers, But Boston Reminds Us

Nobody Remembers…

Boston reminded us, at a hockey game of all places, that in our hearts we are STILL….

“The Land of the Free…and the Home of the Brave…”

I plan to watch this whenever I lose hope. It brings tears to my eyes.

God Bless —-the people of America. We will not go down without a fight.

 

 

Nobody’s Perfect: John McCain VS Real Gun Robbers

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This week, we have John “Mctraitor” McCain, VS  Gun robbers.

(Sigh) Here we saw that John McCain joined up with Chuck Schumer last week to discourage (mostly the tea party candidates) from filibustering gun control measure. I thought both men said the word “amendment” just a little too much for my taste. John is still mad at Rand Paul for filibustering Obama while he was having a great supper with the man at the White House. And while he apologize for calling Rand Paul and Ted Cruz “Wacko birds’, he obviously has not changed his opinion.

This from Right Wing News:

McCain is betraying conservatives by working to make amnesty a reality, he supported Obama’s unpopular drone policy and now he’s opposing a filibuster of gun control. On FACE THE NATION yesterday, McCain said he was open to voting for background checks on guns, which could very well lead to a government gun registry. If the government wanted to confiscate handguns, that would be the first crucial step in that direction.

I don’t understand it. The purpose of the United States Senate is to debate and to vote and to let the people know where we stand.”

Did John understand that not too long ago, the  United States Senate passed a maga-monster million page Obamacare package in the middle of the night, and not one Senator had read it?

Not one. While the nation was screaming “NO!” Nancy Pelosi said, “Well, we must pass it to see what is in it!”

Some debate.

John McCain is now a full-fledge Democrat, and probably helps Obama make his drone kill lists in-between the appetizers and Lobster dinners.

And then there’s the gun robbers who went back to the crime scene to ask for their guns back:

Investigators told Action 4  News two men burst into an apartment located on the 1400 block of West Carmen Street around 4:00 Saturday morning and demanded money. They allegedly tried to steal the three victims wallets.

Police said during the robbery the victims were able to get the gun from the suspects; both fled the scene.

The victims called 911 and turned the gun over to police.

A few hours later the victims said the suspects came back and asked for their gun back—that is when the victims called police again.

So, who wins the Nobody’s Perfect award for the week?

John McCain—clearly he’s the greater of the three evils. If John had been one of those robbers, I actually can see him going back and asking for his gun back…can’t you?

All criminals think alike.