Brain Switch

The switch in most of our brains does not flip between hate and love ... it goes between hate and ambivalence ... or between ambivalence and adoration. — Anon.

Quotable Quote

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.

Love

We love others to distract us from adoring ourselves. — Anon.

Newest Newspeak

Hate is love ... peace through violence ... suppressing free speech is Constitutional ... being attacked is incitement ... denouncing the KKK is racist ... rioting is peace-loving ... castigating neo-Nazi is anti-Semitic ... killing cops is justified payback ... enforcing immigration law is xenophobic ... embracing Afro-American leaders is racism ... refuting fake media news is anti-American ... black-masked fascism is patriotic ... fighting terrorism is Islamophobic ... telling it like it is, is lying -- some of the newest Newspeak

Greed

Last year I wrote about the “Love” program run out of the U.S. Department of Agriculture wherein a women could get a $50,000 check just by claiming she or a close female relative had been denied a farm loan based upon her gender … no proof was needed.  This program was a clone of two similar programs … one called “Pigford” for black farmers and one called “Garcia” for Hispanic farmers … both groups who had supposedly been denied farm loans … again no proof was needed. (First read this blog entry: Love.)  The original exposer of this multi-billion dollar government fraud was the late Andrew Breitbart.

Now, the New York Times has picked up the torch from Breitbart and has run a front-page exposé on the Pigford program. This article is journalism as it is meant to be … but of which we see so little these days.  I most highly commend it to you.  Please read this article through to its end (if you can without throwing your computer across the room):  NY Times Article.  I know that it is hard to believe that a program so massive, so fraudulent, and so corrupt could be harbored within our current administration. But it was ... and is still going on (see: Breitbart Article.)

Is this backdoor reparations?  Probably.  But it is also government run amok.  It is also vote buying on a massive scale.  It is the abasement of the electorate into a state of abject greed and dependency … so that the perpetrators of such fraud will be re-elected … so that their next give-away can be engineered.  It is an appeal to this nation’s worst instincts … and, until this New York Times exposé, it has been mostly ignored by our nation's media.  How can this be?  Do we really want to wink at such malfeasance?  If so, we are doomed.

Wake up America! 

Love

Can you use an extra fifty thousand tax-free dollars?  Well our generous government has concocted a way for perspicacious individuals to claim such largess.  All you need to do is to get a “Love” form from the Department of Agriculture (USDA) within the next 88 days and, on it, claim that your deceased mother or grandmother or sister filed for a farm loan from this government agency in the 1990’s and was denied one because of her gender.  If you think I’m blowing smoke, see: The "Love" Program. And you need not worry about being thrown in the poky for concocting lies, you won’t.  Nobody will be investigated for mendacity in this program … it’s written into the law.  What you say is swallowed, er, accepted, as gospel.  So no need to fret.  Just spend a day spinning a good agrarian yarn and the government will reward you for your creative prose.

And, if you are lucky enough to have a black or Hispanic deceased close relative (or can make one up), you might also get an equal amount from the “Pigford” or “Garcia” programs also run out of the USDA.  Just think about that … $150,000 in Uncle Sam checks that are just waiting for you for the asking.  (And you wonder why we are running such monumental fiscal deficits?)

Then, when you get your check(s), all I ask is a 10% commission for this heads-up.  I think that's only fair.

Why Christie's a Republican

In his speech to the Republican nominating convention Governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie, revealed why he is a Republican.  Of course he didn't say it in so many words, but he did reveal a key guiding principle of his life.  He said that his mother told him that, if he had a choice between being loved or being respected, choose being respected (see: Politico Story).  In many ways this mirrors a theme that I have been espousing of late -- Democrats govern with their hearts and Republicans govern with their heads.  And there is no clearer distinction to be drawn between the consequences of these two styles than Christie's success as New Jersey's governor.  He took a state broken by the dewy policies of Democrat Jon Corzine and his many Democratic predecessor governors and, in a few short years, has begun to bring this state back to fiscal solvency.

Clearly not every Democrat eschews logic in their administrative styles, but enough of them prosper by pulling the heart strings of their voters for me to comfortably make this generalization.  Too many Democrats denounce the economic self interest which is fundamental to capitalism as "greed."  Too many Democrats denounce any criticism of Obama's policies as "racism."  Too many Democrats denounce a belief in the traditional family unit  as "homophobia."  Too many Democrats denounce a desire to see people achieve their greatest inborn potential as "slavery."  Too many Democrats denounce right-to-lifers  as "sexists."  Do you see where I am going with this?  Using pejorative labels to silence your critics has been a strategy of those on the left for too many years now.  Listen to Christie ... it's time for Republicans to stop trying to be loved and go for respect instead. 

I actually think Romney gets it.