Pick A Vlad, Any Vlad

Oh man, we humans are so FumBucked.

Just to put a fine point on how nutz the world is these days, Vlad Putin is being pushed for a Nobel Peace Prize.  Now that in itself is not so crazy, but his name comes up because he stopped a Nobel Peace Laureate from prosecuting a war on Syria.

We are so screwed.

Most of the insanity is coming out of America today.  World War 2 vets are catching flack for assembling at the World War 2 monument in DC.  If you think this is something new, then you should read up on the Bonus Army.  Keep in mind that then-Majors Patton and Eisenhower were riding through the protesters hacking and slaying with their swords.  Now they just use microwaves.  So much cleaner and doesn't provide unseemly photo ops.

More fun?  Just as full-blown socialism arrives in America (Obamacare), the country crashes and burns.  No wonder a dozen countries all want their gold back.  There may not be anyone to load it pretty soon.

One good thing about the government shut-down...the US won't be invading any countries for several days.  One bad thing...if it goes on too long, old Bammy might just start exercising Emergency Executive Powers and finding it much easier to operate without that silly old Congress in the way.  Remember some guy names Hitler?

This is likely the beginning of the end of the Anglo-American empire.  The country is already in receivership - euphemistically called sequestation (note definitions 3 and 4).

As the London Telegraph notes, this is no way to run a country.  Of course, being stupid hasn't stopped the polidiots yet, and London has little room to talk on the subject.

At any rate, these events will likely, and may already be causing a crisis of confidence in US bonds.  Even more to the point, Russia and China may be holding US by the short and curlies with the threat of a mass sell-off of US debt instruments, which is at the root of all this mess.

We shouldn't be surprised if Germany, Venezuela, Finland, Poland, Romania, and a number of others start getting very cozy with the BRICS alliance.  Furthermore, we should look for Russia and China to kick their efforts to establish a seperate system of finance into high gear.  They've got to get their safety net in place before the last few threads break under the Evil Empire's behind.

What's a real head-slapper here is that the more we see, the more Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was right.  He said many pressient things, but the one that stands out just now is, "The Capitalists will sell us the rope by which we will hang them."

The US sold its soul to Russia and China thinking that by owning piles and piles of US debt, they would never stand up to Anglo-American hegemony.  The neo-whatevers apparently never considered that the transfer of wealth and manufacturing to points east, as well as the decades-long effort to completely destroy family cohesiveness and educational excellence at home have completely destroyed capitalism and the empire in one fell swoop.

The Capitalists not only sold the rope, they tied the knot, found the tree, and stuck their head into the noose.  Lenin is stunned into a catatonic state just pondering how right he was.

Where to now?  Well, if you're in the US, you might want to get out.  If the collapse of Rome is any indication, that country will be no place to live pretty soon.  All those post-apocalyptic movies, like Mad Max and The Postman are probably mild compared to what's coming.

As one Texas politician put it some time back, "Rape is like the weather - if it's inevitable, just relax and enjoy it."  Heck, if nothing else, we may get to see two Nobel Peace Laureates go to war against each other.

Won't that be entertaining...

Welcome To Botany Bay

"My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either." - Christopher Hitchins

Welcome to the penal colonies

One of the best American thinkers in recent years was a Brit.  Hitchins' geopolitical views were absolute rubbish.  He couldn't shake the monarchist prejudice.  But his cultural and social commentary were spot on.  In fact, he was almost as insightful as Mark Twain or H. L. Mencken. 


But that's neither here nor there.  What I really want to talk about is government, and the imperative that humanity faces to get rid of the Frankensteinian monster we collectively have created.


All government, everywhere at all times throughout history, is nothing more than publicly sanctioned force.  That's it.  If you need a complete and unabridged definition of it, that says it all.  Government is the right to compel, cajole and kill people to get them to follow someone else's idea of The Right Thing.  Furthermore, it is the power to legally steal our money to do it.


The only reasonable and sane thing to do, is to wipe all governments everywhere out of existence.


Oh sure, there have been attempts to create the uncreatable.  Some were even notable.  Switzerland, Iceland, even the united [sic] States of America.  At some point, though, they all devolve into corrupt, seething morasses of unethical, immoral and unjust cruelty and violence.  All governments, no matter how lofty the founding ideals, eventually force you and me to follow an external code of morals and regulate what you and I do, say, eat, drink, inhale, excrete, and create.

One hears it all the time.  In the US, people bellow at the top of their uneducated lungs that "this is a christian country!"  Here in Indonesia, it's "this is a muslim country!"  All seem to forget that all countries are lumps of dirt that happened to rise above mean sea level, and that the dirt has no allegiance to any one nor any ideal.  It's simply dirt.


All human beings are nothing more than self-ambulatory balls of dirt and water.  Granted, we have an amazing capacity for reason, though few ever exercise it.


Most of us are happy to trip through life believing whatever was mashed into our heads from birth.  We believe certain old books because, well, gosh...they're OLD!  The greatest minds ever produced by our species have tried and failed to prove the existence of various gods and souls and other mystical stuff.  Not one has ever succeeded.  Thomas Aquinas resorted to faith.  Einstein resorted to non-randomness.  Newton threw up his hands.  Lao Tsu called it mu.


Ultimately, most folks resort to something called 'god', and they are willing to slaughter, torture and enslave until you believe it too.  To achieve that end, different groups of people set up different types of government to pass different types of laws to force you and me to do things this way or that way.


In some countries, abortion is an industry, in others it's murder.  Either way, it's only a matter of how money to which person to get what you want.  In some countries, marijuana is illegal and punishable by years in prison and/or death, while in others it's a subsidized crop.  In some countries, you can run naked in the streets if you want, while in others, you must cover your body from head to toe or be lashed into submission.


Why, for god's sake, hasn't anyone ever tried to just leave people alone?


Here's an idea...I believe the sky is green.  I seek out others of like mind and we form a community.  If believing the sky is green is beneficial, we thrive culturally and economically.  If you are born into this community, but over time you come to believe that the sky is yellow, then you find another community of like mind and pack your bags.  Or better yet!  We build a community of people who indivisually believe the sky is many different colors, and we acknowledge that difference and use it to build a stronger community.


The latter was an idea called 'diverisity'.  Once upon a time, there was this soupy, loopy idea that we all just celebrate 'diversity'.  Naturally, over time it evolved into, "Believe my definition of diversity or I will beat, torture and ostracize you."  Same old BS, different name.  Ultimately, it became the belief that everything is diverse except those who don't believe as we do.


Governments are like sports teams.  Many people say, "Oh, such-and-such is MY team!"  No it isn't.  It is the sole property of an owner, and it exists to enrich that owner.  Your mindless support and loyalty of the team only serves to make someone else rich and the expense of food and lodging for your family.


It's the same with governments.  People say, "It's my country and I love it!"  In reality, it is owned by a few folks in the background, and all your mindless support and loyalty and blind obedience serves only to enrich the owners, not you or me.


The process is the same everywhere at all times.  People set up governments to protect them.  The governments set up regulatory agencies to oversee the groups who potentially could do the people harm.  The groups give money to the regulators, who end up protecting the groups from the people who first gave birth to the monster.

Over and over and over and over...at all times everywhere.


Like the child who sees the government thug standing around menacing regular folks:


"Daddy, why is that man dressed like Darth Vader and pointing a gun at me?"


"He's there to protect us from ourselves, son, so we don't do anything to ourselves that will impair our ability to make money for the owners."


"Oh, I see."


It's always the same.  We're going to create a society that is full of peace and harmony, where everyone can hold hands and sing "Kumbaya" and hug trees.  God help you if you want to sing "Hokey Pokey" and slap cats, though.  That'll get you 20 years of hard labor in Sing Sing and lifetime labels that will prevent you from ever getting a job again, so that you are forced to sing "Hokey Pokey" on street corners, so they will keep throwing you in jail, so you can have a place to sleep and food in your belly.  Makes perfect sense, since the money to incarcerate you is legally stolen from me by Darth Vader-wanna-bes to protect me from "Hokey Pokey."


So what's the point, you graciously ask, and I'm glad you did.


The US is arguing over shutting down the federal government.  To me, there's no argument.  Shut it down!  It's just a bunch of steroid-addicted, pea-brained micro-willys that put on a show for us that we call Our Team.  It's not our team.  It's owned by a bunch of mysterious reptilians who sole aim in life is to take money from you and give it to themselves.  Our aim, of course, is to earn money and keep it in our pockets.  It's the polar opposite of Our Team, since our team would be on our side.


After all, what has the FCC ever done for you, except prevent you from seeing a multi-thousand dollar pair of enhanced mammary glands and hearing words you hear 20 times a minute in the average movie on the very same TeeVee set?


What has the IRS ever done for you (though I bet you can make a list of done to you)?  What has the FBI ever done for you?  What have ANY of the alphabet goons ever done FOR you?  By that, I mean direct, personal benefit that you can quantify and prove.


I'll bet, if you're one of the three people left who doesn't work for the government, you can't think of one, single, solitary thing.  And the ones shrieking about it being the end of the world are the California state nurses earning $300k+ per month, or the New York toll booth atendent getting $100k+ per month, or all the useless freakin' numb-buckets in CONgress shoving YOUR money in THEIR pockets.


Governments are now and have ever been social welfare for moral and ethical degenerates, like Newt Gingrinch.  Shut them all down.  Start fresh with a new idea.  Leave me the hell alone and I'll do the same, neighbor.  Set foot on my property with malice, and you'll get a case of lead poisoning.  Very simple concepts, very difficult to get people to realize it.

No one expects the Inquisition!

The only reason governments keep springing up is because the owners want your labor and wealth.  No other reason at all, no matter how lofty the rhetoric.  Put the lazy bastards out of work.  Make them find productive things to do that really benefit society.


What Hitchens said about George W. Shrub could apply equally to every single government employee that ever lived:

"He is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly inarticulate, fantastically uncultured, extraordinarily uneducated, and apparently quite proud of all these things."

Shut 'Er Down!

 Ever heard of Form DS-5513?

Probably not yet.  It's only in the proposal stage in Congress.  But, take a look at the link to the current form being proposed as the new application for a US passport by clicking the link above.  Chances are, you'll be shocked.

Heck, you thought the census form was bad, this little gem is BOHICA with two hands, a flashlight and a 10-foot, rough-hewn wooden plank.

Or maybe not.  Maybe you can remember what your mother did before you were born.  Maybe you remember the circumstances of your circumcision.  Maybe you remember every place you've every lived, every school you've ever attended and the name and phone number of every supervisor you've ever had.  Wish I were like you.

I'm adopted, so I wouldn't have that information if my life depended on it...and it may come to that.

If you don't have a passport now, US citizen, you might want to get one soon.  If you do, you might want to get a second from one of a few countries that issue them for favors to high-rollers.  The Sovereign Society has a lot of information to help you escape tight situations.  Check them out here.

On the other hand, the world may just get lucky and the federal (or is that feral?) government will shut down, never to re-open.  Wouldn't that just be peachy keen?

Fat chance.

Apparently, a lot of the media hand-wringers and wonder-pundits don't remember back in the mists of time when Clinton shut the whole thing down, last time.  Guess what happened?

Nothing.

Three days, we were at peace.  No bullshit, no propaganda, no enforcement of unconstitutional laws.  It was wonderful!  I recall one local radio station taking full advantage of the fact that the FCC was shut down to play the unedited versions of all those great songs they always 'blipped.'  Pink Floyd's "Money," for instance.  The DJs were saying naughty words and laughing about it.  Not that it would shock anyone anymore, since we've all seen Janet Jackson's right boob at Super Bowl half-time now.

By the way, I know where her crew bought the nipple piercing she wore.  They specifically wanted only one, so don't tell me it was a costume malfunction.  HA!

So, who really cars if the feral gummint shuts down?  I mean, really?  Does it make a rat's patoot to anyone?  Let's make a list...

• The NSA, CIA and FBI will be out of business for a few days.  Bonus!  Now you can have phone sex and only the neighbor kid with the Junior Spy Kit will be listening.
• No postal delivery.  Shucks!  No junk mail or bills for a few days.  All the dogs will be bored to death.  The mailman is the highlight of their day!
• Three wars will shut down.  Double bonus!  It will achieve what Obama apparently could not, and finally put G. W. "Shrub" Bush to rest.  I can just hear peace breaking out all over, even now.
• The FCC will close.  Radical dude!  The internet will be free once again!  At least for a little while.
• The EPA would go on vacation.  Can't think of a more deserving group of folks to be furloughed.  No one to raise the 'safe' levels of radiation in the food and dairy for a while.  Just makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
• Federal parks will close.  Well, what that really means is that no one will be there to tell you how to enjoy nature.  You'll have to figure it out all by yourself.  And I still can't find the part of the Constitution that gives the feral gummint the power to take over vast sections of land and tell us owners how to use it.
• The BATF will be down and out.  Damn!  No one to run guns and drugs across the border?  Whatever will we do?  And how about buying guns without background checks?  HAHAHAHAHA!
• ICE will be laid off for a while.  No loss there.  They aren't doing anything anyway, except sucking up money.
• NASA will have to go home.  Ah shucks, they were closing down anyway.  This just picks up the pace a little.  No loss there.  Only problem is if ET wants to call home, no one will be listening.
• No more PBS.  Crap!  Nuff said.
• The National Endowment for the Arts won't have any money.  WHAT?!  You mean my taxes won't pay some numbnut to piss on a cross and call it 'art?'  Whatever will I do?  Wherever will I go?  Frankly, my dear...you know the rest.
• Congress will still be in session.  DAMN!  I knew there was a catch.

Really, when you think about it, who cares?  The reason they don't do this very often is because people would suddenly realize that they don't need the damn feral gummint.  Life goes on without 'em.  In fact, more people would survive without 'em, and that's a fact.  As important as they like to think they are to our every breath, they just don't make a good gol'durn in the Big Scheme of Things (BST).

All they really do is steal your money at gun point and lie to you.  Hell, I can get that in any old dark alley without paying taxes!  In fact, my former wife did it quite well without any help from the feral gummint.

The big problem is that the IRS and the Federal Reserve (HAHAHAHA...pardon me while I wipe away the tears) aren't part of the feral gummint.  They'll be up an running, and they're the de facto gummint anyway.  No matter what happens, Benanke still has the key to the printing room and the IRS is still the collection arm for the bankster class.

Heck, if they shut 'er down long enough, we might just be able to retire the national debt.  Now THAT would be a good thing.  I figure shutting down the feral gummint for the next 47.365 years will just get the debt down to a manageable level, somewhere around $9 trillion or so, after compounded interest.

Obviously, I'm not the only one unconcerned about shutting down the feral gummint.  Obama and his brood are heading to Virginia for the weekend.  I guess the crew of Air Farce One are still on the clock.  Not that Bammy runs the gummint anyway.  That job went out back in 2008.  It's all just smoke and mirrors now, hiding the banksters behind the scenes pulling the strings.

Oh sure, I hear you saying, "Well, what about the Social Security and welfare recipients?"  Well, now's as good a time as any to figure out something different.  Time for families to come together and help each other again.  Time for others to quit having families on the public nickel.

So, when they start getting all misty eyed and talking about shutting 'er down, I say, "Let 'er rip!"  Couldn't happen to a better bunch of people.

After all, it may cut of Social Security checks, but Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, GW and Il Padrino, and a whole bunch of deserving bastards ex Congress will get cut off too.  

And that ain't all bad, now is it?