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It’s time to MAN UP!!!!

Before I launch into today’s BRILLIANTLY written article I sort of feel like I need to put a big asterisk up front.  First, I have no delusions of grandeur. I know there aren’t many people who are willing to subject themselves to my brand of dumbassery, and follow my little blog, so I want to apologize upfront.  I just re-read everything I wrote today and, if you didn’t know me, you would think I was quite the chest-beating, tool-welding, animal-shooting, rather “crap outside” sort of Alpha male.  I’m really not…but I’m not really a “girlie man” either. Come to think of it, I’m really not sure I have much of a “feminine side,” but if I did, I’m pretty confident I wouldn’t stop touching it.  Several years ago I wrote one of my favorite articles entitledThings I Want My Sons to Know.” It was basically advice I wanted my boys to grow up knowing.  And then, more recently, I wrote an article entitled “The Worst Generation” where I discussed a few….hmmmm….oddities about the current generation.  All of that got me thinking about where we, as men in society, are screwing up.

This is the paragraph where I will lose half my readers.  I’m going to get religious on you for just a second, then I’ll go back to writing like the heathen that I am. There is a scripture in the Book of Mormon.  A father, named Lehi, is dying.  He calls his sons to him to give them his last words of advice.  Here is some of what he said: “…arise from the dust, my sons, AND BE MEN…Awake, my sons; put on the armor of righteousness. Shake off the chains with which ye are bound…” (2 Nephi 1:21, 23 emphasis added.)

OHMIGOSH!!!  If we could do that.  If we could all just BE MEN.  

Now with this paragraph I’ll lose my other reader.  When I first started writing today’s article I was all, “You know, gentlemen, ofttimes when we engage in said behavior, the outcome is such…”  That just doesn’t convey how I feel.  Very often, when speaking to men about manning up you need to be blunt.  I don’t want to say “ofttimes,” I want to say “when you act this way you’re being a dick.”  That’s not being hypocritical.  For my liberal friends the word “hypocritical” is a fancy way of saying…PAUSE…what the hell am I saying…every liberal knows what the word hypocritical means.   I’m not being hypocritical…I’m being…paradoxical.  For my liberal friends the word “paradoxical” is a fancy way of saying: sometimes I’ll quote scriptures, and sometimes I’ll swear.  I might quote you a scripture and then tell you you’re a piece of shit. That doesn’t make me a hypocrite, it makes me a man.  It’s two sides of the delightful coin that is I.  This may sound weird, but I’m actually really proud of the man I should be.  I’m just no where near there yet. 

So…I’m going to tell the ladies to stop reading.  This is for men only.  Gentlemen, let’s get started.  

Selfies: The selfies have got to be toned down.  If you’re with someone you get a pass.  If you can’t be in the gym, or in a hotel room by yourself without taking a picture…it’s weird and WAAAAY vain.  (Remember, this is for guys only.  If there are any ladies still reading this…Look at you being all rebellious!  You go girl.   You’re not going to let me tell you what to do.  Hell yeah, you keep reading!!  That’s awesome….Also, feel free to keep taking selfies.)

Take responsibility: If you can’t feed ‘em, don’t breed ‘em.  Having kids doesn’t make you a man.  A real man creates a family and takes responsibility for it.  Feeds, clothes, shelters, protects, educates and does everything he can to make sure his children don’t grow up without a father. That’s what makes you a man. Any animal can breed.  If you can’t afford condoms, you can’t afford kids, and you shouldn’t be having sex.  

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Stay committed:  All men look.  It’s hardwired into us.  If you’re not finished chasing skirts, don’t get into a committed relationship.  If you get married and decide chasing skirts is still for you, get a divorce first.  Don’t put your family through the pain of an affair.  If you make a mistake, make it right. Redemption and forgiveness is real.  In his book Love Must Be Tough Dr. James C. Dodson said, “Of all forms of disdain that one individual can show for another, there is none more profound than blatant infidelity.”  If you are blatantly hurting your wife and family, even if they don’t know it, you’re a piece of shit.  Grow up.  

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Don’t use too many emoji’s: I don’t mean to get all emojnal on you (see what I did here?) but it needs to be toned down.  A few, every once in a while is okay.  If your girlfriend or wife, is being difficult and you say something like, “You’re being a bc3d7c2c8a8cafa979228ec72035e89a”  and you insert an emoji of a bee…Trust me you’re the one who is being a little bitch.

VOTE: You can’t complain about the country if you don’t try to fix it.  If studying the issues is too much for you, or not your thing, grow up and do it anyway.  At a bare-ass minimum figure out what your core values are and then vote for the party which most closely mirrors those values.  Just don’t be a sheep.  Listen to, or read both sides of the issues.  Don’t let anyone TELL you who to vote for, even if they are famous.  Seriously guys, why the hell is there a “Gender Gap” in voting?!  Man up and vote.    

Anything worth fighting for is worth killing for:  For my  liberal friends, get your panties out of a wad.  I’ll admit that title is a smidgen too much.  There are maybe three to five things worth killing for, it’s about the same list of what is worth fighting for.  Family and country?  Absolutely.  Someone cuts you off in traffic, takes your parking place, steals your TV,  or spills beer on your favorite shirt?  No. If you get in a fight over something like that, you’re an idiot.  Stop being a dick.  You aren’t given strength to punish others, you are given strength to uplift those around you.  Take a stance. Fight for those who can’t fight for themselves.  Defend and fight for others, don’t pick on and make fun of them.  That would make you a bully.  Only bullies like bullies, everyone else thinks they’re pricks.  

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Fight real battles: Evil is real.  Fight it, however you can, and however fighting looks like to you.  Too many men hide behind the idea there is no right and wrong.  There is.  Too many are scared to fight real battles and so they create proxy ones: video games, or chasing women for instance.  Use your God given skills.  Could be, “you know like nunchuck skills, bowhunting skills, computer hacking skills…”  My skills are sucking in my gut while stepping on a scale, eating chocolate covered cinnamon bears, and every once in a great while, I can successfully string three sentences together.  Yours might be helping your neighbor fix their broken car, smiling at others, being kind, opening doors for women, mowing a single mom’s lawn, complimenting people, or helping an underprivileged child learn how to read.  The point is to live outside of yourself.  Look for ways to be of service to others.  I saw a quote the other day that said, “If service is beneath you, leadership is beyond you.”  Think about it.  Be the good man you are capable of being.  

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Shake hands like a man:  If you and I are shaking hands and you give me a limp-handed handshake, you are acknowledging to me, non-verbally, that I’m in charge.  Man up.

Stop pushing your fears onto others – don’t inhibit someone else’s freedom: For example, if guns aren’t your thing, don’t own one.  Don’t try to enact laws to take them away.  “But Danny,” you whine, “there is no reason anyone should own an AR-15.”  There is no reason anyone should be a whiny little bitch either, yet here you are (I don’t even own a gun like that, all my guns are girlie).  If being able to defend yourself and your family isn’t high on your priority list, you would rather sleep secure in the knowledge the police are just a phone call away, I respect that.  Stop trying to take away guns, or inhibit others from purchasing one.  Stop being a baby.   

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Stop watching porn:  I remember when I was a teenager, George Michael came out with the song “I want your sex.”  It was scandalous.  Several months ago I was at a convenience store, getting my first dose of daily caffeine, when I realized I could hear moaning.  I looked around and discovered the guy in front of me was watching porn on his phone.  IN THE STORE.  My how times have changed.  I regret soooooo much not saying something.  I should have.  Pamela Anderson, who has been featured in Playboy 15 times, recently came out against porn.  She said it’s for losers.  She wrote, with co-writer Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, “We’re not here to moralize or judge people on porn viewing, we’re rather saying that when porn becomes a replacement for real, live, sexual interactions between loving adults, we’re all in trouble. When the impersonal nature of porn supplants the passion and intimacy of real lovemaking, then we’ve lost the ability to connect. And the growing addiction to porn is creating a level of sexual desensitization that requires a national conversation. Porn is teaching men to view women as caricatures who are all cover and no book, all form and no substance. Both men and women deserve better.”  In other words, it changes how you treat women, it changes what you want from women. It warps your ideas of what sex is and should be. Go find a real woman. Treat her with respect. Stop with the porn.  It’s turning men into sadistic pricks who treat women like objects.  Like Pamela said, it’s for losers.  

Save:  It’s not about how much money you make, it’s about how much you save.  I am painfully aware that the first half of my life I effed this up.  This second half is going to be completely different. I’m not going to stop until my bank account looks like a phone number.  Right now I’m a fiftybucknaire, but it’s a start.  Life craps on everyone.  If you have a little cash stashed away, just in case, it will make life SOOOOO much easier.  When you do spend money, spend it on experiences and other people, stop buying crap you don’t need.  It’s stupid to spend money you don’t have, for stuff you don’t need, to impress people you don’t know, or possibly even like.  Money can be a great thing…if you use it to help others.  It is almost impossible to have charity if your cupboards are bare.  Stop wasting it on stupid crap.  Use it to enrich your life and the lives of others.

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Educate yourself: Free education already exists.  Debt happens when you want a piece of paper that implies you’re smart.  Whatever you do in life, be educated on how to do it.  If you are just starting out, PUT IN THE TIME.  Do it.  To be successful you are going to put the time in anyway.  You can do it when you are in your twenties, studying, with a little kid crawling around, or you can put the time in when you are in your forties, at 3 o’clock in the morning, selling stuff on ebay,  just to make ends meet, with your wife asleep behind you.  I would suggest putting the time in while you’re young. Sacrifice whatever you have too. Educate yourself.  

Be a rock:  If the world is going to hell, things aren’t working out, make sure your significant other, kids, friends, co-workers, or whoever you are with, feel safe.  Staying calm when the crap is hitting the fan isn’t being naive, it’s being a leader.  John Wayne once said, “Bravery is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”  Saddle up.

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Stop correcting people:  If someone misspeaks, but you know what they meant, shut up. Don’t correct someone just to correct someone.  Everyone knows something you don’t, even the dull and ignorant. Everyone has something they can teach you. Go into every conversation with a touch of humility.  You are not always a professor and class isn’t always in session.

Look on the Bright side:  I’m sure you have heard the saying, “Life isn’t fair.”  Guess what I tell my kids?  That’s a lie.  Life IS fair.  Good people get crapped on all the time.  Sometimes life sucks.  It’s harsh. It isn’t easy for anyone.  You have two choices, you can whine and pout about it or CHOOSE to look at the bright side.  You can appreciate wherever you are and the opportunities you have.

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Get a job:  Any well, able-bodied man who would willfully transfer the support of his family onto someone else is a piece of shit, whether the transfer is to family or government.  Everyone falls on hard times.  If you need help in the short term, that’s okay.  Family or government can be used as a safety net. But if you use either as a hammock, mooching off society or your family, you’re a piece of shit. Get a job, whatever it is, and then work your ass off. Be better than your wage, tough it out. Climb the ladder of success.  Too many men think they are above doing certain jobs.  You’re not.  Remember this life is on you.  If you’re happy or successful it’s up to you.  Stop blaming whatever outside forces are conspiring against you to make you miserable…’cause they just ain’t there.  Take control of your choices, control your thoughts and your life…or shut up.  

There is nothing wrong with being old fashioned:  There’s nothing wrong with saying “sir and ma’am.” Stop hiding behind technology.  If you are going on a date NEVER text that you are there.  Be a man and get out of your car, walk up to the door and get her.  HOLD THE DOOR OPEN FOR HER. This is true whether you are newly dating, or you’ve been married for fifty years.  Treat all women, children and the aged with respect.  

I could keep going, but I’m going to stop here.  I want you to know if anything I wrote today offends you, from the deepest recesses of my soul, I don’t give a shit.  Our society is becoming emasculated. Our men are weak, soft and vain.  Get your panties out of a wad and man up. Don’t be afraid to speak up.  There is nothing wrong with being a little critical or a little judgmental. A friend once told me, “As men we need to feel free to cast a ‘What the hell were you thinking?’ from time to time.”  I’m tired of watching our society being destroyed by guys who don’t know how to be men.  Figure it out.  

Watch some John Wayne movies if you have too.  

 

Lifezilla:  Waaaaaay better results than just mistletoe alone.  Trust me.

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The Worst Generation

The Worst Generation

I’m the father of four boys.  Two are in their early twenties and the other two are teenagers.  Because of this, and because of their friends, I have seen my fair share of boys turn into men.  The other day I came home from work to discover one of my kid’s friends (a hairy, transformed child in his early 20s) was visiting.  We talked, we ate, and we laughed.  It was a nice visit.  At one point in the conversation we were talking about the current generation and I said, “Oh yeah, this is definitely the worst generation.” I then added, “Of course, it’s our fault. We are the ones who gave trophies to everyone.”  The young man (we’ll call him Jared*) said, “I hear what you’re saying, but what specifically does this generation do that makes it the worst?”  I could tell he wanted to debate me.  Now there are two things you should know before I continue this story: A) This kid is SMART.  I guarantee he has forgotten more than I have ever learned.  Whenever he visits I try to bigger my words when I’m vocabularying with him so I can trickify him into thinking I’m smart two (the fact, in this day and age, people don’t know the difference between “to” and “too” is amazing two me).  B)  I’m an idiot.  I have opinions, I have thoughts about things-n-stuff, but when I’m asked point blank, I freeze.  So…I froze. I am not a debater.  So I explained my level of dumbassery to him, how in person I require a five minute window for every point I want to make, told him I would think about it and probably write an article about it.

So here I am.

Now, I don’t want to beat a dead horse (although it does make a fascinating “thud” noise).  I know complaining about the next generation is as old as time itself.  I saw the play “Bye Bye Birdy” when I was a kid.  The lyrics, “Why can’t they be like we were, perfect in every way? What’s the matter with kids today?” are ringing in my ears right now even as I type this.

I get it.  And, I have had a change of heart.  Sort of.  There are still some things that are…hmmm…unique about this generation,  generally speaking. (For my liberal friends the phrase “generally speaking” is a fancy way of saying I may not be speaking specifically about YOUR child.  So if I say something and you think, “GASP!!!  MY child doesn’t do that!!!” then rest assured, I’m not speaking about your child.)

Here is my list:

Most easily offended:  HOLY CRAP!!!  Can everyone PLEASE take an effing chill pill?  Seriously.  People are going to disagree with you sometimes.  They may say something that doesn’t mesh with your belief system.  Put on your big boy panties (or big girl panties) and GROW THE EFF UP!!!  STOP LOOKING FOR THINGS TO GET OFFENDED ABOUT.  Clint Eastwood was recently interviewed and he said, “Secretly, everybody’s getting tired of political correctness, kissing up. That’s the kiss-ass generation we’re in right now. We’re really in a pussy generation. Everybody’s walking on eggshells.”  Eggshells is right. Political correctness has run so far amok everyone is afraid of offending anyone, so no one says anything.  It’s ridiculous.  Fortunately there is a tiny glimmer of hope on the horizon.  This year, the university of Chicago in a letter to their incoming Freshmen wrote, “”Our commitment to academic freedom means that we do not support so-called ‘trigger warnings,’ we do not cancel invited speakers because their topics might prove controversial, and we do not condone the creation of intellectual ‘safe spaces’ where individuals can retreat from ideas and perspectives at odds with their own.”  Holy crap, thank you!!  It’s about time.  Like I said, it’s a tiny glimmer of hope, but it’s something.

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Too accepting: This may sound like a weird thing, because being accepting of others sounds like a virtue…But we have taken it too far.  The “bathroom” debate a few months ago was the stupidest thing ever.  If you sincerely believe you were born as the wrong gender, and are willing to legally go through the steps to have your gender changed, then you get a pass.  Otherwise, if you were born with an outie, you go to the men’s room, if you were born with an innie, you go to the women’s room.  If you self-identify differently and aren’t ready to make the change legally, you suck it up until you can.  That’s it. Both sets of restrooms have stalls.  There are over 747,000 registered sex offenders in the US. It’s not fair to make a parent have to guess what the intentions are of the guy who followed their daughter into the restroom.

The following YouTube video shows a man progressively questioning college students about acceptance. Eventually he asks if they would accept his self-identifying as a 6’5” Chinese woman.  Seriously.  In my little brain I think it’s better to have common sense without an education than to have an education without common sense.   That might be easy for me to say, as I ain’t no educated man.  See what I mean?  I just used a double negative!!! (Come on Danny, stop being stupid.)

If more Americans were willing to say, “Yeah, that’s the stupidest thing I have ever heard,” this country would be better off, but we don’t.  Why don’t we?  Because we awe afwaid to huwt othews wittwe feewings.

Ohmigosh, I have so much more to write, but I try not to make these articles too long. So just to list the things I was going to write about: sense of entitlement, living in vans, selfies, whiny, safe spaces, coddled, participation trophies (It’s 2016 people!  How did everyone at the Olympics not get a metal?) micro aggressions – cyber bullying, bullying, trolling, catfishing, college degrees / debt, living in parents’ basement, lack of education of founding principles, not being held accountable any more, holding off on marriage or growing up.

BUT…all that being said, I see hope.  I really do.  I’m reminded of the finishing lines of one of my favorite poems  “And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.   Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.  With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.  Be careful.  Strive to be happy.”

Like I  said…hope.

 

*That’s his real name

Lifezilla:  You are truly a wonderful, Wonderful, WONDERFUL person for reading this article.  And you know it’s true.  I wouldn’t say that to just ANYONE.

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The Age of Dumbassery

I work with a bunch of “Young’uns,” I was just about to call them “Millennials” but according to Google, a millennial is someone who reached adulthood around the year 2000. So whatever “today’s” generation has chosen to dub themselves, I work with a bunch of them. This is both fun and infuriating. It’s fun because they are just a bunch of dumb, stupid kids, and it’s infuriating because they are just a bunch of dumb, stupid kids.

I’m about to tell a story. I want to be perfectly clear that I am NOT picking on one kid. Although it’s a true story, and only one kid is involved in it, all my annoyance is not solely directed toward this young’un. If we are all on the same page, I shall proceed.

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As I walked toward a gaggle of young’uns talking, I overheard the current political situation was being discussed and of course my ears perked up. I asked one of the kids (we will call him Steve*) who is probably 19 years old, who he was going to vote for. Without a moment’s hesitation he answered: Bernie Sanders. I asked why. His answer, “He is better than Trump or Hillary.” I said, I understand you don’t like those two, but what specifically about Sanders do you like? His answer, “He is going to legalize marijuana.”

***FACE PALM***

Okay…so…I can almost understand being a one issue guy. Whatever the issue is. I have friends who believe the legalization of drugs is a good idea. And these aren’t drug-using types of guys. I’ve kicked it around and have decided legalization is not a good idea, I then BRILLIANTLY wrote about it. You can read the article by clicking HERE.  Putting that issue on the back burner for a minute, I just don’t see how any rational, thinking adult could look at the current political landscape, see the direction the country is heading, and think “Oh yeah, that’s my guy because THAT’S my issue.” Now don’t get me wrong. I don’t hate Bernie Sanders. I think he’s an idiot peddling utopian nonsense, but I believe he is a kind-hearted, well-intended idiot. The fact he has such a following with the left is enough to make my eyes roll, but that’s really not the point. “But Danny,” you whine, “what is your point?”

Why the HELL do we allow 18 year olds to vote?

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According to the source of all knowledge, Wikipedia, the 26th Amendment, adopted in 1971, guaranteed the “right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.” The main agreements (back then) for allowing these little’ins to vote was an 18 year old could drink and be conscripted into the military, so they oughta be allowed to vote. I can almost see that. Back then, if you were old enough to drink AND kill for your country you should be allowed to have a voice. HEAR, HEAR!!!

But…in 1973 they ended the draft, in 1984 congress realized 18 year olds weren’t very bright when they drank so they changed the legal drinking age to 21, and if Obamacare taught us anything it’s that you’re not officially an adult until you are 26 and can finally get off your parents insurance. Sooo…why are we allowing these little’ins with zero life experience, who don’t own property, don’t have spouses/children, don’t pay much of anything in taxes (if they do have children and earn less then 39K they get an “Earned Income Tax credit – so they not only don’t pay in to the system, THEY GET MONEY BACK), and many of the kids between 18 and 26 don’t even have jobs (thanks to the floppy eared President they are so proud to have supported, wrecking the economy.)

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What I have instinctively known for years, science has now proven. Human brains are not fully developed until the age of 25. Young people are particularly deficient in the development of their frontal lobes (prefrontal cortex), which control decision-making, complex/rational thinking, judgment, the ability to plan ahead, and resisting impulses. “Adults over the age of 25 tend to feel less sensitive to the influence of peer pressure and have a much easier time handling it.”

So we have the Bernie Sanders of the world promising FREE everything and these non-fully-developed-brained-little’in are sucking it up. Then, of course, we have just under half of the liberals with fully-developed brains, but clearly not fully functioning, jumping on the “Everything is FREE” train as well. As a grown up, I KNOW there is no such thing as a free lunch. There is no such thing as a free anything. Someone always pays. These cute little doey-eyed little-in’s are blissfully unaware they are going to be footing the bill for all these “free” goodies for the rest of their lives.

How can they not see that?

*his real name is Logan

 

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You Got Married? That’s So Gay!

So, as much as it kills me (and it does cause me physical pain) I’m going to throw in my two cents on this whole gay marriage thing that is happening in Utah.

If you don’t know, or if you have been living under a rock, on December 20, 2013 U.S. District Judge Robert Shelby ruled that the Utah state ban on gay marriage violated the U.S. Constitution.

If you’re new here (you may be the seventh person to find this) I have already brilliantly written my take on gay marriage before, you can find it here.

I’ll try to keep this fresh.

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Our founding fathers were obsessed with the separation of powers. They didn’t want the federal government to grow out of control, and so they set up checks and balances. They did recognize there were certain things the federal government needed to be in charge of: making money, immigration, declaring war, you know…stuff like that. To help ensure the restriction on the growth of the federal government they gave us the 10th amendment. It reads:

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

In other words, any issue not specifically mentioned in the Constitution for the federal government to have dominion over (for lack of a better word) is up to the states to decide.

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Let me illustrate an example of the federal government overreaching its authority. Let’s say there is a small, random state of roughly 3 million people. The people of the state don’t want to have fluoride added to the water. They don’t care if other states put fluoride in theirs, it just isn’t for them. They vote and add it to their states constitution that they are a “No fluoride in the water” state. Sixty-six percent of the voters come out in favor of this resolution. BUT…there are a few dentists in the state who disagree with the will of the people. “How can the state not want fluoride?” they argue. “There is no evidence that it hurts anyone.” So they sue, and find a federal judge who interprets the “everlasting gobstopper clause” of the US constitution as saying the will of the people is wrong. And so the state district attorney immediately starts pouring fluoride in drinking water.

That is exactly what happened with gay marriage in Utah.

“But Danny,” you whine, “not everyone is Utah voted on that amendment, what about the will of the people who didn’t vote?”  This is going to sound super harsh to my butt-hurt liberal friends, but if they didn’t vote, their opinion doesn’t mean squat.

Quick side note:  Is it just me, or does “LGBT” sounds too much like a sandwich?

“But Danny,” you whine even louder, “didn’t the Supreme Court knock down DOMA, thus opening the door to this kind of thing?” (DOMA is the “Defense of Marriage Act – signed by Bill Clinton which defined marriage as between a man and a woman).  Hmmm….not really.  Basically the repeal of DOMA showed that the Supreme Court recognized that defining marriage wasn’t the federal government’s place, that put definition of marriage back to the state.

And later, the same year part of DOMA was repealed, Shelby, the judge from a lower court, said the state couldn’t define it either.

I’ve read quite of bit about gay marriage. I’ve read the arguments for, and I’ve read the arguments against. I’ve even read articles where the writer uses copious amounts of inordinately profuse, abstruse, and perplexing vocabulary. When reading these articles I always think, “Whatever, dude, what-ev-er (or dudette if you are one.)” In my mind very few people get it, on either side of the issue.

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It’s sad. There are faces involved. The roughly 1,400 same-sex couples who were married in Utah are in limbo.  Are they married or not?  These people are being used as pawns.  I know my butt-hurt liberal friends are going to howl at that phrase, but it’s true.  They are being used as pawns.   The district attorney who authorized the county clerks to issue gay marriage license knew this was going to happen.

In my little brain the real issue here isn’t gay marriage. That is just the face of it. The real issue is States’ Rights.  Sadly, most people (in this case those in favor of the judges ruling on gay marriage) aren’t looking at the big picture. They either don’t get–or they don’t care–that you can’t pick up one side of a stick. They have an issue and if one activist federal judge can overrule the will of the people, to them, the end justifies the means.

To me that is wrong. Good ends should come about from good means.

Think about it.  We live in a representative democracy.   Generally speaking if a law is made from the elected legislators we, the people, are accepting of it.  Almost all of the most decisive issues in the country are brought about judicially.

Whatever your opinion on gay marriage, for it or against it, it should be the voice of the people who decides. We don’t live in an aristocracy, where the smart people tell the stupid how to live.  In the United States, judges don’t have the right, and should stop trying, to invent laws.

 

LIFEZILLA:  Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice…you probably have boobs.

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NFL – WTH?!?

Before I launch into today’s brilliant article I want to tell you about a scheme I came up with.  I’m gonna start placing little ads in my articles in the hopes I can start making some sweet cash money.  They’ll be really subtle.  You probably won’t even notice them.  Tide® with Bleach.  I hope it works.

Anyone who knows me knows I could never be described as a “man’s man.”  I don’t know a thing about car repair, I don’t own a truck, I’m not a huge sports fanatic, I currently don’t have facial hair (although that changes often and without warning), and if given the option of crapping inside or outside, I’ll choose inside every time.

I like watching Basket Ball.  I don’t understand soccer, to me it’s as exciting as watching male models jog for two hours (*ding*…which is probably why my wife enjoys watching it.)  I will probably watch one or two football games a year.

So what qualifies me to write about the NFL?  Ab-solute-ly nothing.

I’ve just noticed the NFL has been in the news a lot lately.  Now in my mind the NFL, and those who support it, are manly men. I think of the NFL, and I think of big guys who shave with glass and crap muscle.  But everything in the news lately is just a bunch of wussy stuff.  First there is the whole “Washington Redskins” name controversy.  Seriously?  After eighty years someone gets their panties in a wad because of the name?  Waaaaaa!!!  Personally, I hope the franchise doesn’t cave because of the PC bull crap.  If they start losing revenue, I can see doing what you have to do to keep the institution afloat.  Until then?  Go SKINS!!!

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The next recent thing was the Miami Dolphins “Bullying scandal.”  I haven’t really followed it, all I know is one 300 pound muscley man, was being mean to another 300 pound muscley man.  The second 300 pound muscley man, the one whose feeling were hurt, instead of having a calm, cool, sit down, man to man discussion with the first 300 pound muscley man about their difference, or even a testosterone filled raging fight with each other, chose instead to tell the world his tender feelings were hurt.

Again, I have barely followed it.  It just seems to me, as a non-manly-man, that when we, as a nation, start talking about the tender feelings of 300 pound NFL millionaires, the wussies has won.

The last thing was the recent story of the NFL rejecting an “offensive” proposed Pro-gun commercial for the 2014 Super Bowl.

Here is the “offensive” commercial:

If you watch it you will see there isn’t a gun mentioned.  At the very end there is a logo with a gun, apparently the company is willing to replace the gun logo with a picture of the American flag with the words, “Shall not be infringed.”

Still too offensive.

Now, I’m a reasonable man.  I think the NFL can accept or reject any commercials they want.  It just seems to me that beer is a contributor to more deaths in the United States then guns are.  I’m willing to bet there will be a bunch of beer commercials.

Hmmm…

So the other night I was driving home listening to the Rod Arquette Show on the radio.  (Rod actually mentioned my BRILLIANTLY written article “Obama – Worst President EVER” on his show once  – it made me feel really good.)  So any ways, Rod was talking about this story and one of the callers asked if it this commercial was “good for the country.”  I did something I have never done before.  I called in.

I told him during last years Super Bowl, of all the beer, Doritos’s and Go Daddy commercials, the only one I remembered was the one where Paul Harvey was talking about God creating a farmer.

I’m not a farmer.  I don’t even own a truck.  And yet this is the commercial that resonated with me.

Again, the NFL is a business.  I get that.  They can do whatever they want.  If they want to reject a pro-gun commercial that is up to them, but to the question “would showing it be good for the nation?”  I think yes.  In my little brain there is nothing wrong with reminding people about values.  Protecting your family is a value.  Protecting your family is every parent’s responsibility.  Protecting your family is a God given right.

 

LIFEZILLA:  Just like heaven.  But without that awkward “dying” part.

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Turn Your Head and Cough

I vividly remember when I was a wee little lad seeing a car phone for the first time “in real life”.  It had a rotary dial and handset that was identical to the ones we had at home.  I remember trying to figure out how the phone could possibly work not being tethered to a wall.

It looked similar to this:

Car Phone

Fast forward to the eighties:

I remember a guy I knew in high school “borrowing” his dad’s cell phone to take to a dance (he probably just took it).  I remember him trying to dance in his “Miami Vice” inspired outfit, with a phone in his back pocket, roughly the size, shape and weight of a brick.  Someone asked if they could make a phone call, he said his dad would kill him, the phone company charged $4.00 a minute, his dad let him borrow it for emergencies only (a girl at the dance was able to bat her eyes at him and use the cell phone).

80's phone

Fast forward to the early nineties:

The company I work for bought me a “National” pager.  One that would work in any state.  I remember thinking “If I’m so important that you need to get in touch with me wherever I am in the country at any time, I need to make waaaaay more money.”

Fast forward to today:

In your Pocket

I have an iPhone 4.  I bought it brand new about a year and a half ago for $100.  I sincerely doubt I could build the phone I have for $100.00.  A girl I work with just got the same, brand new, phone for free.

Growing up it was understood that only the rich and the privileged had cell phones.  No one whined about it. It just was.  But just like trickle down economics, trickle down technology works too.  Now almost everyone has a cell phone.  The rich and the poor.

Ask yourself, what changed?  How did we, in a short period of time, go from a phone that was the size, shape and weight of a brick, could only be used to make calls, and cost $4.00 a minute to use, to a small, thin, light devise that does EVERYTHING?

The answer is simple.  Capitalism and the free market system.

If I was little bit smarter, or wasn’t so lazy, I would do a Google search and come up with similar examples for advances in the medical field.  Examples that show where the greatest minds of the time, the best and brightest, came up with a widget, a pill, or a break through that cost millions of dollars and years of research to bring to market and now is taught to first year medical students.  Advances that can be traced to capitalism and the free market.  But I won’t.

Obamacare is retarded.

“GASP!!!! But Danny” you whine, “How can you say that?”  It was easy.  I figure we are all grown-ups there.  Obamacare is retarded.  Now before you get your panties in a wad, the word retard is defined as “delay or hold back in terms of progress, development, or accomplishment.”  That describes Obamacare perfectly, it’s retarded.  The days of America leading the world in medical advancements are about to come to a screeching halt.

ObamaCare

Last year the Wall Street Journal explained, “Physician income declines will be accompanied by regulations that will make practicing medicine more costly, creating a double whammy of lower revenue and higher practice costs, especially for primary-care doctors who generally operate busy practices and work on thinner margins.”  The article went on to explain, “The 60% of doctors who are self-employed will be hardest hit. That includes specialists, such as dermatologists and surgeons.”  In other words why would the best and brightest go into a field where they know they will be regulated to death while seeing their wages decrease?  Who needs that?  I don’t think those in Washington could come up with a more INEFFECTIVE plan for producing more doctors if they tried.  Paying them less and taxing them more?  Oh yeah.  Sign me up (sarcasm).  Doctor shortages are going to be an issue in the future.

Reid

Forbes and the Washington Times both explain how the tax on medical devices is hurting that industry.  Again, would the best and brightest go there?  NO.

Obamacare is retarded.

Many Republicans are trying to de-fund Obamacare.  Do I think it will happen?  Sadly, I don’t see it happening.  But I applauded the efforts of the Senators who are doing it.  It’s really the first time the “Affordable Care Act” has been debated.  The “Affordable Care Act” pffffffffffffffffffffft  (eye roll)  there’s the biggest misnomer in history.  It isn’t “Affordable” it not only won’t provide any additional “Care” it’s going to be greatly reduced, so really, it’s just an “Act”.

 

LIFEZILLA: I have the attention span of I’m hungry.

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Hey!! Leave that Bully Alone!!!

So the wife and I went to Sears the other night.  Before checking out I noticed a sign in the middle of the aisle.  I wasn’t clever enough to take a picture of it (I wish I had).  I went to Sears website today and did a screen shot of basically what the sign in the aisle said:

Bully 1Sears is just the latest company, I’ve noticed, jumping one the Anti-Bullying theme.  Generally speaking, I’m an Anti-Anti.  I’m against any movement which is against anything.  But I’ve had a hard time being Anti-the-anti-bully-movement.  Why?  I HATE bullies.

Hate them.

Let me give you a quick self-pity story.

When I was a young lad of 13/14 two things happened nearly in conjunction with each other.  The first: I was TERRORIZED by this kid at my school.  He made it his mission in life to be the bane of my existence.  Every time he saw me he would give me a “Dead leg.”  That’s where you knee someone, really hard, in the side of the thigh between front and back muscles.  If you knee them correctly their leg will go numb.  It hurts.

I hated this kid with the white hot intensity of a thousand suns.  HATED HIM.  This guy wasn’t an asshole, he was an assCANYON.  If we ever made eye contact, and he wasn’t able to give me a dead leg, he would menacingly smile and point at me.  He always wore the same 80’s Powder Jacket.  I loathed him.

The second thing that happened is the original “Karate Kid” movie was released.  Ohhhhh…how this young “Daniel-son” used to stay up at night fantasying about getting a dead leg and then using the Mr. Miyagi taught “Crane Technique” and kicking my terrorizer in the face, thus securing the love and respect from my peers and, of course, the affections of the (non-existent) hot cheerleader who had befriended me.   Then, while basking in the joy of being surrounded by my adoring fans I would stretch out my arm and use the force to help my foe up off the ground.

It was a brilliant plan.

So one day I was in the bathroom alone.  And HE came in.  I didn’t know it was he who had entered the restroom because I was using the urinal.  You learn early on as a boy to not overt your eyes away from the spot on the wall right in front of you.  Standing there, with my unit in my hand, this guy snuck up behind me and gave me the biggest dead leg I have ever had.  I literally saw a flash of light.  As his laughter reverberated off the walls of the restroom, I put “little Danny” back in my pants and decided this was my chance.  I was going to Mr. Miyagi all over this guy.  But instead of employing the floppy-wrist, tippy-toed, crotch exposing maneuver which is “The Crane Technique” I went a different route.  I feigned a demonic possession and went after him like a spider monkey.

I distinctly remember how his face looked as I spastically flailed my arms toward him.  It was not the look of fear, not even close.  It was the look of confusion.  He easily swatted off my attempts of hitting him.  Hit me once in the stomach, knocking the wind out of me, and walked out of the bathroom.

But… he never gave me a dead leg again.

There’s a lesson there children.  I’m not really sure what it is, but I’m sure there is one.

So…back to Sears.  When I saw this sign that claimed that 160,000 students miss school everyday because of bullying my first thought was “who pulled that statistic out of their butt?” and then my brain said, “…Annnnnnnd I’m done” I am now officially finished being bullied about being anti-bully.

In my little, right-leaning brain, I think all we are doing to teaching kids that it’s okay to be victims.  We are also redefining what a bully is.  My fourteen year old arch nemesis was a bully.  A few years later, the guy who made it his mission to make fun of me everyday of my Junior year was (and probably still is) a jackass.  There’s a difference.  How I dealt with that guy is another story for another day.

When I was a kid the purveying wisdom was “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.”  Now it’s:

Bully 2

Now, to be clear, I hate bullies.  I don’t have a problem teaching kids that it’s appropriate to stand together against them.  But this whole “movement” has gone a little too far.

I’m anti-bully.  But I’m more anti-teaching-our-kids-to-be-pansies.

 

LIFEZILLA:  I’m not fat.  My stomach is 3D.

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Skittles and Hoodies, Oh My!!

I decided I was going to be positive today.  Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd that’s it.  I’m done with being positive.  It was a solid effort, though.

I have to be honest.  This whole Zimmerman thing has bugged me.  It has bugged me from the start.  I wrote about it clear back in April of 2012.  I ended that brilliantly written article with this:

So there is no mistake, I’m not saying George Zimmerman is innocent…He could be guilty as sin.  He may have been hoping and waiting for the opportunity to kill someone.  I don’t know.  That is why we have due process.  Not the court of public opinion.  Too many people have interjected themselves into this mess.  The New Black Panthers put a [ten thousand] dollar bounty on Zimmerman.  Spike Lee tweeted what he thought was Zimmerman’s address to his followers, and now Mike Tyson is saying it’s a disgrace Zimmerman hasn’t been shot yet.

Guilty or innocent Zimmerman’s life will never be the same.  Either way he deserves his day in court.

So now, over a year later, he has had his day in court. They skipped the grand jury, went for a trial, where a jury of his peers found him not guilty of the charges.  I’m half tempted, but I’m not going to, rehash the evidence of the trial for two reasons: 1) I didn’t watch one minute of the trial, and  2) it doesn’t matter.

Media Control

What really gets my goat (other than goat thieves, obviously) is that this whole trial is the product of manufactured outrage. It’s all fake.  Yes, Trayvon was killed.  That’s real, I get that, and it’s a tragedy.  The outrage is fake. It’s a screaming example of how the media is willing to portray us, as a nation, as a bunch of red-necked Klansmen, and, when there isn’t any real racism, they are more than willing to make some up.

In Chicago, over the 4th of July weekend, there were 72 people similarly killed.  I’m willing to bet you don’t know anything about the racial makeup of either the perpetrators or the victims in those killings.  I don’t.  Why?  It’s easy.  None of those cases are being held up as the symbolic return to lynch mob justice the way the Zimmerman trial has been.

The real outrage should be that the number one cause of death to black teenagers is homicide, almost exclusively from other black teenagers.

What really bothers me is the public’s reaction to the verdict.

Those who are outraged by the verdict have decided that those who are not outraged are racist.  Period.  End of discussion.

I have a problem with that.

I believe in the justice system.  When I look at this case rationally, dispassionately and legally, I think the jury made the correct decision, based on their understanding of Florida law and the fact they sat through the whole trial and heard all the evidence.  That doesn’t make this case any less of a tragedy; it doesn’t elevate George Zimmerman to hero status; and it CERTAINLY doesn’t make me a de facto racist.

Zimmerman made some mistakes and a young man died.  He could have stayed in his vehicle, and he could have left his gun at home.  He didn’t.  This verdict isn’t an example of the triumph of good vs. evil.  There shouldn’t be joy here.  It just is.

In my little brain this is 100% the media’s fault.  Why did they choose to shine a spotlight on this one case out of the thousands they could have?  Could it be because they hoped to deepen the racial divide and increase the hate?  I think so.  They should be held responsible for any negative outcome due to the results of the case.

Franklin Quote

In my humble opinion, because NBC initially edited the tape of the 9-1-1 call to make Zimmerman sound like a racist, thus starting this whole mess, they (NBC) should, at a minimum, be held liable for any damage to personal or public propriety resulting from any riots or protests, and should probably be prosecuted for incitement.

 

LIFEZILLA:  No, I’m not cynical.  I’m even worse.  I’m realistic.

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Establishment Republicans are SOOOOOO Stupid

I can’t start this article without slamming the President too.  With ALLLLL the major problems we have as a country, what does the President want to focus on?  Drumroll, please…Climate change.  UUUUGH!!!  Seriously. I’m almost speechless.  It is days like today where the most exercise I get is rolling my eyes.

I’m going to go out on a limb and say “exercise” was probably the one thing Meatloaf wouldn’t do for love.

In 2010 at a press conference about Obamacare, then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi famously uttered the stupidest thing ever said on Capital Hill: “But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what’s in it.”  Well, apparently we are doing it again, this time with a 1,200 page immigration bill.

Quick review.  Here is what we are proposing:  After the bill passes, Immigration officials must ensure that immigrants, upon entry, have the necessary funds for their personal sustenance and for their dependents (Article 34). We will classify the act of “illegal immigration” as a felony, with possible imprisonment for: a) foreigners who enter the country with fake or falsely signed papers (Article 116); b) up to 10 years for foreigners who are deported and illegally attempt to re-enter (Article 118); c) up to 6 years for foreigners who violate the terms of their visa (Articles 119 – 121); and d) up to 2 years for ANYONE who illegally enters the country (Article 123). We will also add an amendment to the Constitution that specifically forbids non-citizens to demonstrate or to express opinions on domestic politics.

Hey…that doesn’t sound all baaaaa…Wait…OHMIGOSH!!  I’m so sorry.  This isn’t right.  I’m confused.  The above is from MEXICO’S immigration laws and MEXICO’S Constitution.  Boy is my face red.

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(Ya see what I did here?)

No, no.  We are going the opposite way. After all, we don’t want to be seen as bigots.  (Hey, wouldn’t using the Mexican laws as a model be considered the most “un-bigoted” thing you could do?)  In THIS bill even the CBO (Congressional Budget Office) admits it will: a) lower middle-class wages, b) hurt the poor, c) explode welfare costs, and d) cut illegal immigration by only 25%.

I think that last one is way off.  There will be an explosion of new people.  Because of the “supply and demand” rule, this explosion will only hurt the poor – more.  Why, as an employer, would I give any employee a raise when I have a line out the door of people willing to work for minimum wage?

But wait.  It gets worse than that.  One of the provisions of Obamacare is that all employers who have over 50 employees must provide Health insurance or face a fine of $3,000 per month, per employee.  So the employers have a choice between paying the fine or paying the expensive Health Care.  Hmmm…?  What to do?  OH WAIT…If, as an employer, I get rid of my “citizen” employees and only hire the new “immigrant” employees I won’t have to pay the $3,000 fine OR insurance.  You see, the new “immigrants” aren’t eligible for Federal programs.  That’s a real win/win.  Unless, of course you are a law-abiding citizen.  Then for you, it sucks.

Piglet

The problem is the Republican Party is being hacked to death with a double edged sword.  On one side of the sword, the “Establishment Republicans” have been suckered by the business lobby (who support the cheap labor provided by illegal immigrants) into thinking they will never win a major election again without the Hispanic vote.  I have thoughts on this, but that is another article for another day.  On the other edge of the sword the Democrats (who only want reform so the new, entitlement-receiving immigrants will vote Democrat) paint those opposed to a slave labor class in America as being racist.  It’s a plan brilliantly played by the Democrats.  Big business doesn’t care and Establishment Republicans are too stupid to notice.

Too Stupid to Notice.

“Cheap labor” isn’t cheap.  It is only cheap for the employer.  Why?  Well today, 71 percent of illegal immigrant households, with children, collect government benefits, and 57 percent of all immigrant households receive government benefits, compared to 39 percent of native households.  Now instead of having to pay a little bit more for our strawberries, we all get to support underpaid employees.

I listened to Marco Rubio’s speech about this bill (June 26) and I have to tell you, there is a lot in the bill I agree with.  I really like Marco Rubio.  In this case I just believe he is wrong.  Not that his points aren’t valid.  I agree something needs to be done.  I believe he is putting too much faith in the Democrats.  Democrats lie.  They will do it every single time.   This bill is going to pass the Senate, not pass the House, go into “compromise” (read “Republicans will be suckered into caving – AGAIN”) and come out the other end as amnesty.  Again, the bill is TWELVE HUNDRED PAGES.

Five Pillars

Unquestionably there are good, hard working people who what to come and contribute to this county.  I get that.  I don’t fault anyone in wanting to come to this country.  It’s the best country on earth .  I also get there are those who came here as children and this is the only country they know.  I agree something should be done for them.  But we need to start with a fence.  Good fences make good neighbors.

Instead of building a fence, using E-verify to ensure employees are legal FIRST, we are going to screw everything up.

 

LIFEZILLA:  I’m not cynical.  I’m even worse.  I’m realistic.

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Wake Up (It’s 1984)

When I, your humble writer was a mere, wee little (early teenage) lad, a friend introduced me to what would become one of my all time favorite bands.

Oingo Boingo.

I just gotta say, Oingo Boingo’s lead singer/song writer Danny Elfman is BRILLIANT.   Since the 1980’s he has composed the scores of countless movies and television shows.  Truly a talented, talented man.

It’s the song “Wake Up (It’s 1984)” that I want to talk about today.

If you are not familiar with the song, here is a link to a Youtube video.  (This isn’t the official music video.)

Imagine a young Danny dancing in his room wearing nothing but his red BVD’s to this song (to this day doing “Jazz hands” just makes me look gay).

Just for fun here is a list of some fairly recent headlines:

USA Today – “Tea Party Groups Detail ‘harassment’ by IRS
The Hill – “Complaints of IRS Targeting by Religious Groups on the rise
Huffington Post – “DOJ Seized Fox News Phone Records
Mediaite – “AP CEO: Justice Department Seized ‘Thousands & Thousands’ Of Phone Call Records
Washington Times – “IRS Sued for Seizing 60 Million Medical Records
CBS DC – “Dept. of Homeland Security: Laptops, Phones Can Be Searched Based on Hunches
And then, of course, the latest:
The Guardian – “NSA Collecting Phone Records of Millions of Verizon Customers Daily

It has gotten to the point where even Al Gore is calling it obscene.  Wake Up (It’s 1984).

Gore Tweet

I want to say this again.  AL (Jazeera) GORE has a problem with this.  Al Gore, a man who would, conceivably, drive over a corpse to get a better parking space has a problem with this.

Wake up (It’s 1984)!

Well…not yet.

What cracks me up is the left’s response to these latest “scandals” (or, if the allegations that some emails may be monitored by intelligence agencies is true, we can change the word “scandals” to “Felons”).  With a few notable exceptions, like Al (Jazeera) Gore, most of the left is giving the president a pass, or they blame George Bush (honestly, how can anyone still blame George Bush for anything and keep a straight face?).   Ron Fournier of the National Journal said, “Welcome to the era of Bush-Obama, a 16-year span of U.S. history that will be remembered for an unprecedented erosion of civil liberties and a disregard for transparency.”

Yeah, Ron, that is cute and everything.  But I just ain’t totally buying it.

In the first place if Bush had collected every phone call from one of the largest cell providers in the nation, we would STILL be hearing the screams from the left and he would have been thrown out of office.  Bush’s surveillance program was actually limited and only monitored foreign phone calls.  But somehow Obama gets a pass because his surveillance is a “logical extension” of the Bush policy, when in reality it is a HUGE escalation.  Does anyone remember the weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth we endured when it was reported the Patriot Act gave the Department of Homeland Security the right to see what library books you checked out?

Library books.  It’s kinda cute.

Now, I don’t think it’s the governments business what my kids or I check out from the library, but when you compare that to the Obama administration gathering information and monitoring traffic on major websites like Facebook and Google, it ain’t really the same thing.  And yet he gets a pass.

Verizon

The double standard here is staggering.

Take a minute to check out this video:   (I can’t embed it for some reason)

Did you watch it?  The hypocrisy is overwhelming.

And still I’m not living in fear … yet.  Why?  Well, my personal ratio of library to Google searches is about 1 to 10,000.  Roughly 98% of all my Google searches are to help me “speeel wrods I don’t no.”  You take me and times 300 million other Americans – and you’re talking about a lot of data.  For the majority of Americans, I doubt anyone would ever really lay eyes on it. But there is that creepy guy I knew in high school who works for the NSA … hmmm?

I have two issues.  The first is the definition of words.  Words mean things.  Depending on what side of the desk you’re on, you are either a freedom fighter, or a terrorist. I know what a terrorist is today, but what will it be tomorrow?  The other issue is the “slippery slope” that this is.  Where will this lead?  We went from monitoring library books to monitoring Google and Facebook.  That’s a big ass slippery slope.  What’s next?

I'll be watching you

Gratefully, the American people are aware and the majority of them still get that freedom is a fragile thing.  The ACLU is even suing the Obama administration over the NSA surveillance.  That’s right.  The ACLU is actually concerned over the erosion of our American Civil Liberties.  That’s like the first three letters in their name.  Hopefully with the outrage the American people have with the program it will be scaled back.  If not, I guess if we don’t want the government listening to our calls we can exchange our phones for two big red Solo cups and a REALLLLLLLY LOOOOONG string.

I have to admit, with all the HUGE problems looming on the horizon – high unemployment, entitlement bankruptcy, the implosion of Obamacare, economic stagnation, and granting amnesty before closing the border  – having a government computer looking for patterns in over a gazillion phone calls (if that is all it is) bugs me.  But it’s not 1984.

Yet.

LIFEZILLA:  I never follow my own advise.  What do I look like, an idiot?

Tyranny

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