Quote of the Day

"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." -- Samuel Adams

Tolerance is a Two-way Street

It has been declared that we should all tolerate other opinions and points-of-view. A proper liberal education compiles the various studies in mathematics, science, language, and history to provide the worthy student a glimpse in to the complexities and the simple principles of man and civilization. A man truly does not gain wisdom and thereby tolerance until his learned knowledge is tempered by his experiential knowledge. Thus we have the most youthful or the perpetually college-bound minds who can be the most easily manipulated by ideals free from all the constraints of practicality. The experienced individuals, who have borne responsibilities and suffered the inequities of life, recognize the challenges inherent in a successful life.

But not all people respond to these challenges in like fashion. There are those who feel their losses and setbacks are not the nature of the struggle but the evil conspiracy of evil men. Failed individuals always have recourse to the conspiracies to cover their failures, and they have the truly evil men who take advantage of it. Thus we have two major groups of experienced people who take on the challenge of life and suffer through it and those people who blame their failures and the natural inequities on others. Ask yourself; where do you lie?

Maybe Walmart can fix it?

1. Americans spend $36,000,000 at Wal-Mart every hour of every day.
2. This works out to $20,928 profit every minute!
3. Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St.  Patrick's Day (March 17th) than Target sells all year.
4. Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target + Sears + Costco + K-Mart combined.
5. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people and is the largest private employer, and most speak English.
6. Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the world.
7. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger & Safeway combined, and keep in mind they did this in only 15 years.
8. During this same period, 31 supermarket chains sought bankruptcy.
9. Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the world.
10. Wal-Mart has approx 3,900 stores in the USA of which 1,906 are Super Centers; this is 1,000 more than it had 5 years ago.
11. This year 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will occur at a Wal-Mart store.  (earth's population is approximately 6.5 Billion.)
12. 90% of all Americans live within 15 miles of a Wal-Mart.

You may think that I am complaining, but I am really laying the ground work for suggesting that MAYBE we should hire the guys who run Wal-Mart to fix the economy.
This should be read and understood by all Americans - Democrats, Republicans, EVERYONE!!
To all 535 voting members of the Legislature, It is now official you are ALL morons:

• The U.S.  Post Service was established in 1775.  You have had 234 years to get it right and it is broke.
• Social Security was established in 1935.  You have had 74 years to get it right and it is broke.
• Fannie Mae was established in 1938.  You have had 71 years to get it right and it is broke.
• Freddie Mac was established in 1970.  You have had 39 years to get it right and it is broke.
• War on Poverty started in 1964.  You have had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to "the poor" and they only want more.
• Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965.  You have had 44 years to get it right and they are broke.
• The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to lessen our dependence on foreign oil.  It has ballooned to 16,000 employees with a budget of $24 billion a year and we import more oil than ever before.  You had 32 years to get it right and it is an abysmal failure.

Depending on Failure

Just the other day, I was reading an interesting online article. It was written well (save one spelling error) and related a relationship problem between a conservative and a liberal who had been friends for many years. Though an interesting read, I found the first six comments even more illuminating. Combining the theme of the blog and the responses, I have come to some conclusions about both the black population of the U.S., the Leftists, and their role in the forthcoming socialist playground.
Both depend on redirecting blame for failure to someone else. In each of the cases, the supporters of socialism or the supporters of racial equality both assume that the cause of their failures come from an outside source. While the groupthink may spout some platitudes about racial equity or social justice, I am now certain that the individual in these groups is vitally certain that they are unimpeachable in their actions and all failures must come from some mysterious evil force.
Ergo, a black man will believe in the power of racism, while still deperately trying to enforce a racial discrimination in the workplace, and the socialist believe in the power of social justice, while still seizing the possessions and the hardwork of the successful. Both of these are contradictions in their desire and implementation, yet the individual will irrationally defend any contradictory action in fear of or in hopes of some solution to their failure. Eventually, though, they become inured to the sensation of failure and simply become minuature defenders of their failure without taking any real individual steps to secure success. They join the group and try to garner the sensation of success through others, usually rock star presidents and over-funded "non-profit" groups helping the exhalted disadvantaged. With failure being supported and excused from primary school to university to non-profit group, how can we possibly expect to turn the ship of state towards a universally successful capitalism? Major changes have always required major sacrifices.

Obama, are you listening?

"I want to speak to you this evening about my highest duty as president: to preserve peace and defend these United States. ... One cannot sit in this office reviewing intelligence on the military threat we face, making decisions from arms control to Libya to the Philippines, without having that concern for America's security weigh constantly on your mind. We know that peace is the condition under which mankind was meant to flourish. Yet peace does not exist of its own will. It depends on us, on our courage to build it and guard it and pass it on to future generations. George Washington's words may seem hard and cold today, but history has proven him right again and again. 'To be prepared for war,' he said, 'is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.'" --Ronald Reagan

Tax Day Tea Party, Daley Plaza, 2010

National Cell Phone Reform Act

"A few weeks ago, The New York Times ran an editorial noting the amazing fact that, by the middle of this year, there will be an estimated 6.8 billion people on Earth -- and 5 billion will have cell phones! ... How did that happen without a Democrat president and Congress using bribes, parliamentary tricks and arcane non-voting maneuvers to pass a massive, hugely expensive National Cell Phone Reform Act? How did that happen without Barney Frank and Henry Waxman personally designing the 3-foot-long, 26-pound, ugly green $4,000 cell phone we all have to use? How did that happen without Obama signing the National Cell Phone Reform bill, as a poor 10-year-old black kid who couldn't afford to text-message his friends looked on? The reason nearly everyone in the universe has a cell phone is that President Reagan did to telephones the exact opposite of what the Democrats have just done with health care. Before Reagan came into office, we had one phone company, ridiculously expensive rates and one phone model. Reagan split up AT&T, deregulated phone service and gave America a competitive market in phones. The rest is history. If you can grasp how inexpensive cell phones in a rainbow of colors and wonders like the iPhone could never have been created under a National Cell Phone Reform Act, you can understand what a disaster ObamaCare is going to be for health care in America." --columnist Ann Coulter