Explain it to them

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I was humbled today to see the President awarding Congressional Medals of Honor on Alex's show. I realized quietly how long we have been going without REAL celebrations of this country's spirit.

And this is going to sound weird but I got the same feeling when Bush landed on the aircraft carrier and declared "mission accomplished". I actually wished I was there to see him land and feel the pride of being in the best nation in the world with as brave a leader as he was. But power engulfs even the most staunch in spirit. Some people think because they are so popular they can just go out and drink and drive and noone's gonna say anything.

(Who me?)

So I believe, as should you all, that the 2000 war should have been over about as fast as Desert Shield was over, and it wasn't. Power wanted it to last so that all these "chemical weapons" wouldn't go to waste.

Isn't it convenient that we have all of this conflict right when weapons are being destroyed? I don't think it's coincidental. Moreover, the rest of the world is about to blow ranks to start THEIR arsenals of chemical weapons making. Why? Because those weapons do NUKE radius damage without all of the unnecessary explosions. They also tend to cost next to nothing as compared to Uranium or whatever. And as we wonder if we should have kept Bush in charge, remember that if he had just ended the war the way he should have, the world would not think of us as the fat PIGS that we are.

Now it's going to be time to settle up with the world and with some cost, put us on a track to progress again. Some people think that it's foolish to blow your secrets, that the world didn't need to know about why we went into Iraq, that it is treason to turn people against us by revealing the truth.

No. The only thing you can do is to make the punishment severe or not so severe or you don't have to punish it at all, but sins need revealing so that we as a group can close up them loopholes that make regular living... excitable.

Obama was stoic as usual and it was pleasing to me to see our military being honored with him there. The whole reason any of us can do what we do is because Jack Nicholson is out there on that wall (oh you know what I mean). And you might disagree with me on this but the military should be of an honorbound mindset. You might think that maybe we need to take women out of the military yes? Maybe we need private people in there somewhere, yes? 

No, communism works, democracy works, military tribunals work, and chain of command works.

I was once in a bar getting chatted up by this gorgeous woman who almost NEVER spoke before that night. She is the spitting image of the goddess of the underworld in a video game called TOO HUMAN. Obviously her attributes are not so similar but her face is just as beautiful. So she's going on and on about the ONE TAX or the SALES TAX as an income tax. She explains that it is more fair than an income tax because the people that are the richest are the ones that will pay most of the tax. And I honestly had never thought about that and I was just blown away by her cleavage... er uh I mean her knowledge of how the one tax works. 

But it's not exactly true is it? Sales taxes only tax people spending and since globally rich people earning interest aren't spending they kinda side-skirt this. Also people making money off of tips and stuff don't have to report this so much because there can't be a report if there is no receipt. And as with many things the system would work if people would honor it but fact is, there is no fun in just following the system.

Do people simply drive the speed limit?

And that is what is wrong with trying a new system. We go from being expert rank 10 perfect understanding of democracy, to trying out socialism novice rank 1. As we try to implement healthcare for example, ALL KINDS of little tricks and pecks are bound to crop up because we haven't tried it before and even though I support it now, I can foresee at least 1 or 2 HUGE problems we are gonna have that noone foresaw ahead of time because of a lack of experience. What are those problems? I dunno, I just foresee "problems" I don't know what they are. But rest assured, just like our eager-beaver financial gurus went off to Greece to finagle the derivatives' market there; you can expect several people with some experience in "national" healthcare fraud, to make their way over here from Europe to TRY their old tricks that we don't have the loophole closed to yet.

Oh... so the President is there honoring our soldiers and I get this sad feeling pass over me of wondering how ready we are for war if it comes.

I mentioned this lesson before about Thanos and Hal Jordan in this epic "What if" comic.  Thanos is an ultra powerful being who worships Death and his purpose is simply to find life and turn it over to her as a prelude to marriage.  He is in Marvel comics whereas Hal Jordan is in DC and this was a crossover "special" edition.   Anyways, in this one, one of Thanos' servants gets betrayed and begs him to explain why he gets betrayed over and over again and why does he always believe in him all over again?

To which Thanos replies, "I wonder that myself."

And that reminds me of Putin yeah? I mean you know he has chemical weapons, we know he just re-elected himself and we know he stole a super bowl ring.   The body cannot exist with a foreign vessel attached to it.   If he is not good, he must go, but they are not making him go. This also reminds me of Christie.

But we need to ramp up our expectations. we need to focus on what we are good at which is regulation and impeachment. We need to put the violent people in jail and the dishonest people on the street. Order it up people. We might need drugs to get by day to day but we don't have to allow RICH criminals to stay in power while we wonder if our GOVERNMENT is the problem. No. There is always some jerk that is going to say hey we all going 65, I'm gonna go 80. And that is normal, and because that is normal, people should expect to appear in court for being normal like I did.

No, I wasn't trying to be funny just then. (hah, I gotcha)(Al Sharpton is rubbin off on me, save your thank yous for Alex and perhaps due to no Crossfire for a week)

The lesson I am trying to explain to you is that we need to stay capitalist and stop trying to make the government the problem. We need MORE regulation because more people equals more criminals equals more regulation. It's not hard. And instead of worrying about Ayn Rand and OMG big government is gonna show up at my door and take me away, we need to remember that when they show up they can expect a loaded weapon to be present... and lawyers.

Now all of this disjointed thinking, that you think is a rant, is meant to explain to you that we don't need Democratic or Republican thinking because those people are run by rich people, what we need is laymen or common people's thinking about taking corrupt officials and putting them on the street and taking our government ideology... and leaving it alone.

Oh and forget Economics. If they can't explain it to someone like me that tutored people in Calculus at 16, you can rest-assured it's meant to confuse people.(Btw I sometimes had to ask for "help" from my professor so don't think I'm all that smart.)

Think about chess for a moment, the entire board is like a diagram at some point. You have every pawn piece's future planned.  You have every top piece's POSSIBLE future planned.  And you might even have contingencies based on your opponent's pieces planned.  But it all changes once you move a pawn. All future moves can be changed by a pawn. 

ONE man CAN make a difference.

That is my lesson again is that economics is not perfect, the understanding of global warming is not perfect, the reality of space travel is not perfect, even the reality of cancer, which HAS MANAGED TO HANG AROUND FOR 20 YEARS WITHOUT A CURE, is not perfect.

Nothing and NOONE is perfect... and neither is our system of government.

ps. As you might guess, I fear and expect serious talks to come up soon about the world and its understanding of America. We might have to "EXPLAIN it to them". (Khan's words to his gunner...btw Kirk was the bad guy in that one... betcha yall didn't get that, he's a cheater at the Kobayahi Maru test, he left his son, he flaunts regulations and almost gets his crew killed, he makes a scary face, and taunts his enemy when he had the chance to escape, and yet he STILL manages to make himself appear the hero, but that's what explorers do, they mess up sometimes...)