i thunk so

Ha ha!

Shame on you anyway.

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Ron Paul is not going to play the class envy games, and that pisses “under-advantaged” people off. The irony is that the dismantling of the federal government’s bureaucracy behemoth would be the best thing for those less fortunate people. I don’t know too many poor or lower-class people who employ hundreds of people. You know…jobs? The things that allow people to take paychecks home? And if Ron Paul had the blessing of America’s voters, those lower-class people would stand to gain the most.

A fixed-percentage consumption tax would grade the tax scale against the wealthy by the natural order of things. Rich people spend more. The lower-to-middle-class working Joes would get to keep their paychecks and put away more of THEIR OWN MONEY for things like cars and houses — things they can’t even dream of affording today.

By de-centralizing the federal government’s power seat, you systematically force them to ease their grip on your day-to-day life. Everyone pretends to be so paranoid about Big Brother, but they will pout and kick and scream the moment they don’t get what they want from the Feds — national health care is a good example of how people are swallowing the dogma of the nanny state whole.

Weak and ignorant people look for the path of least resistance. Life is hard.

Sending power back to the States was the purpose of the Constitution. The Constitution was supposed to outline the LIMITED POWER of the federal government.

I heard a great quote the other day about freedom that I don’t remember exactly, but it was something like: “The dirty little secret about freedom — and also the absolute beauty of it — is that you’re on your own.” The moment you throw yourself at the mercy of the government, you become a slave to it.

I don’t know about the rest of this country, but I’m looking to get rid of my chains.

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We already knew Harry Potter was a ruse to “sillify” witchcraft for children and make spells and incantations seem somehow harmless — something even a child could master.

The Harry Potter evolution is a perfect picture of evil at work.

The first book (and subsequent screenplay) in the series introduced young readers to a whimsical world of children at play — children just beginning to explore the wonders of the magical realm. It was like something kids might experience in their dreams at night — flying, quidditch, giants and other “wondrous” creatures from the imagination of J.K. Rowling.

It began innocently enough, but with each book the characters all began to take on increasingly dark personalities. It became obvious that the more Harry came to understand the powers of “magic,” the more the power at his disposal began to present a moral dillemma for him.

I’m not writing anything earth-shattering here. I’m sure all of this was intentional on the author’s part…and that’s my point. The series attracted throngs of young readers and quickly became wildly popular. It soon became a literary standard for kids everywhere — if you weren’t reading Harry Potter, you were just a bit uncool. Now the youthful fans were addicted, and it become much easier to begin to indoctrinate them and scare them. But of course, they simply had to find out what would happen to Harry in the next book.

Evil is something that is regularly disguised as harmless fun. It is a two-faced predator. If it shows its true colors at the very first, potential victims will run away screaming. Evil must soothe its prey into believing that no threat of harm or ill intent exists. It is a wolf in sheep’s clothing — a Venus fly trap.

The Harry Potter saga was a devolution into a world of evil and death — a slow, downward spiral into the pit of hell. “But Harry wins in the end!” you say. Good triumphs over evil? Really? At what expense? How did it really end?

J.K. Rowling, much like the hero of her now-concluded Harry Potter series of novels, was allowed to toy with the minds of millions of children. Parents all over the world willfully exposed their children to witchcraft for the first time — many of those same parents would never dream of bringing a Ouija board into their home, let alone having their kids play with it. Millions of children are now having nightmares which may as well be ripped from the pages of Rowling’s works.

Innocence is a frail thing. Many parents who pride themselves as pro-family conservatives were among those who delighted in the new excitement and fervor for reading that their children seemed to have discovered. They eagerly rushed out to buy every single Harry Potter novel — after all, wasn’t it amazing how little Johnny and Susie seemed to be able to sail right through a 500-page novel? All the while your kids were being stuffed into an abyss of fear and darkness.

Then, even after the series had concluded, Rowling had to make headlines one more time by sticking it to all the parents who might have begun to realize that they had squandered their childrens’ innocence on a worthless heap of paper and ink. She announced that Dumbledore was, in fact, a gay man. She described his inner torment and repressed love for another male character referenced in the series.

Was there a reason to make this declaration? I say of course there was a reason. Dumbledore was one of the series’ most beloved characters. He was a grandfatherly figure who was always both the watchful father figure as well as the junkyard dog when the situation required it. Readers quickly came to see him as the protector of Harry Potter.

Now, with the series finished, Rowling decided it would be nice if she proclaimed Dumbledore’s homosexuality — not because it was essential to his character development or the plot (the series is finished, remember?). She couldn’t resist one final twist of the knife that is already embedded in the imagination of your kids’ minds forever.

Are your kids any better for having read the Harry Potter series? Are you that unimaginative that you couldn’t find anything wholesome and well-written for your kids to read? Witchcraft is evil. Those who seek to further it are evil. Those who would abuse the minds of children and seek to indoctrinate them in the ways of evil are the lowest form of life in existence — I consider Rowling to be in that category.

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Politicians, take notice. The American people actually do care about freedom. The more you scoff and snicker at grass-roots movements in support of candidates who favor limited government and individual rights and liberties, the more you cause those people who didn’t care to take an interest.

So keep mocking Ron Paul. Keep belittling the middle class. Keep up your classless, ignorant, high-and-mighty antics. You are waking a sleeping dragon. Above all, we Americans value our Constitution. Every move you’ve made recently has been to undermine our rights and individual freedoms. You thought you had us right where you wanted us. You thought you could just buy us off with your bloated government programs, handouts and entitlement programs. You thought you were done with us. Well, we are done with you.

A peaceful revolution is taking hold across America. You’d better make other plans for your future because your days of aristocracy are over. The voters are beginning to remember who really holds the power in this country, and we are taking our Republic back.

We are tired of party-manufactured dogma, absence of intelligent debate, and utter disregard for the financial burden that the middle class of this country is being forced to bear. We are noticing how you are voting and how you are behaving. As you smugly dictate your agenda to us, we are fully aware and we will remember when it comes time to pull the lever.

Your earmarks disgust us. Your waste is repugnant. Your willfully indignant attitude toward our feedback and opinions is utterly reprehensible.

Don’t forget, you work for us. You will be getting your pink slip any day now.

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I like to think that I am unaffected by these ridiculously early campaign stump speeches and straw polls, but sometimes I just can’t help but watch. Train wrecks and all that…

Over the Labor Day weekend, Hillary was wooing the union labor vote.

I find the liberal stance on border control (they want open borders) and illegal immigration (they want to ignore it) to be quite at odds with what union laborers generally want. Now, of course union laborers also want handouts from anywhere they can get them, but how does letting millions of illegals pour across the border help the typical blue-collar union laborer? Answer: it clearly does not. Millions of illegals taking jobs from lower middle class Americans undercuts the blue collar wages. Illegals also tend to be non-union workers. Unorganized labor doesn’t contribute dues to the labor unions.

I can’t say that I care about the survival of labor unions anyway. Unions are not about equality. Maybe they were at one time, but now they’re about selfishness and consumer exploitation. In a way, union labor is a microcosm of what’s happening with our federal government: power to the aristocracy and screws to you. Unions pay their dues like lemmings while policy is dictated to them from on high. The upper crust has little concern for the everyday plight of the middle class, or they would give unions the tough love they need to survive.

I just find it ironic that unions will back liberal candidates in elections, yet liberals have an agenda of empowering government — the most anti-union agenda one could have.

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I’ve listened to Jim Cramer on the radio quite a bit. He’s usually on his game. Yeah, he’s a little annoying to listen to, but he’s very knowledgeable. That’s why this video kind of shocked me.

Liveleak: CNBC’s Cramer goes Crazy over Stock Market

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Recently, at my job, I was asked to take a personality profile test. This test was given with the premise that “there are no wrong answers,” of course. Isn’t that typical of any test where the results are based on total quackery?

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I found a fascinating article today in the New York Times entitled “Big Oil Find Is Reported Deep in Gulf” that initially made me smile. It was a report about a huge oil find deep underneath the Gulf of Mexico.

Chevron, Devon Energy and Statoil ASA, the Norwegian oil giant, reported that they had found 3 billion to 15 billion barrels in several fields 175 miles offshore, 30,000 feet below the gulf’s surface, among formations of rock and salt hundreds of feet thick.

Naturally, the more I thought about it, the more I realized that this will eventually just be used as another card in the deck for the oil market manipulators. Once those oil rigs go online, the oil market will be that much more “sensitive” to inclement weather in the Gulf of Mexico.

Of course it’s all puppeteering and scare tactics anyway since the oil companies have a “can’t lose” scenario. By not investing in refining and production infrastructure, they can claim lack of capacity and manipulate prices as such when anything bad happens. They also save that investment capital for themselves, and happily add it to their already record profits. How many businesses in the world can you think of that actually profit from ignoring consumers and from not reinvesting in infrastructure? Only one that I know of.

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You have a keyboard. You have the Internet. You have thousands — no millions — of random thoughts bouncing off the walls of your grey matter. These thoughts…they’re too deep for words. Or are they?

Now you’re typing feverishly, trying to put those restless emotions to words. Nobody in your world seems to understand you. No one cares. No, I’m serious. No one cares. About you. About your blog. About your stupid ideas, your poetry, your poor emo self.

Editor’s Note: Notice I said YOUR blog, not mine.

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They’re called mp3s. And no, you didn’t invent them.

I, for one, am sick of whatever implied podcast controversy there may be over who started what, and who should get credit for this or that. Podcasting is not a new idea. Sure, someone started saying “podcast,” but that is where the controversy should stop. Now it’s turned into this whole subculture of infighting, and over what? It’s NOT your idea. Ever heard of a webcast? They’ve been around since…well, since Adam Curry was cool.

By the way, the fact that it’s called podcasting explains a lot about the whole attitude around this made up controversy / publicity stunt. All you Mac snobs out there…you always have to pretend you’re so different. But now being different or “unique” just isn’t enough anymore. Now you have to be the mostest different or the uniquest ever. “Hey, I know…let’s add ‘pod-’ to the beginning of this random word for something that’s existed for millions of years, and then we’ll be the coolest Mac dudes ever!’ Better yet, let’s just put an “i” in front of a word, and then slap a trademark on it. I’m getting iShivers™ just thinking about it.

For all of you lackeys out there with no lives and no real jobs who think you have a shot at making it big just because you banter on for a half hour once a week about things nobody else cares about (yes, I know nobody cares about my blog either, but at least I have no delusions of grandeur) , and then somehow manage to figure out how to make an mp3 file; I hope you find something else to do before I–along with millions of other taxpayers funding your future food stamps–am forced to sustain your pathetic existence.

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