As I sit here two weeks from Christmas pondering today’s Littlestuff Weekender, I am struck by how for me the past two years have been consumed by two consistent themes: Our alarming loss of personal freedom and the unwillingness of so called friendly politicians to aggressively battle for our Constitution and our freedom. Our liberties have NOT improved in the past 24 months. In fact our freedom has diminished, and the huge unwieldy governmental apparatus has grown larger. Senate Bill 1867 and House Resolution 1540 have given our military—posse comitatus Act of 1878 be damned—the right and power to apprehend and detain anyone for an indefinite period at an undisclosed location without the benefit of a trial. If you believe that our government will never abuse this, then you are smoking something illicit. When government grants itself special powers and authority, it exercises them. For example….how many elected Members of Congress (even the wealthy ones) refuse to accept their plush pensions when they leave office?
If you’ve been watching the fiscal fiasco in Europe, then you may agree with me that “can kicking” should be an Olympic sport. Borrowing worthless paper money from broke nations to prop up bankrupt countries is a recipe for disaster. You don’t have to be Bobby Flay or Paula Dean to recognize that cooking those books will result in everyone getting burned….that is except for the high rollers who jump off just before the fire. What’s worse…Ben Bernanke has been pumping trillions of our worthless dollars into that compost heap of fiscal irresponsibility. For some time now we have been balancing on the tri-fold cusp of hyperinflation, massive deflation or global depression. It doesn’t require a Nostradamus to predict that two of those three scenarios are probable. Truly…as the fortune cookie says ”may you live in interesting times.”
Equality is overrated: Now we are all becoming equally poor and equally fearful.
As we near the end of 2011, the Iowa Caucuses can’t be far ahead. As of this point, Newt Gingrich appears to be streaking towards an overwhelming victory….there, in South Carolina and Florida and is gaining ground in New Hampshire. A cautionary note: the former Speaker spins a grand vision for the nation with fragments of quasi-constitutionalism sprinkled about. To his benefit he is the anti-Mitt (the establishment choice), but his shortcomings are legion. He never lets the Constitution stand in the way of an inspired idea. His organization is skeletal at best and non-existent at worst. His admirers are many, and his detractors are numerous. He believes that he’s the smartest man in the room, and frequently he is. He suffers from a pompous hubris that may bite him (and us) some day. He is Newt.
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Barrack Obama is the poster boy for incompetence. Eric Holder is the poster boy for perfidy. John Corzine is the poster boy for hypocrisy. John Boehner is the poster boy for clueless. Lindsey Graham is the poster boy for more clueless. We need fewer poster boys and more constitutional realists.
So the President arrives in Kansas and proclaims that the Internet and ATM’s have cost people their jobs. He may be right, but what about all the new jobs those technologies have fostered? Who builds and services ATMs? How many research jobs have been created because of the availability of information via the Internet? We could go on for a very long time identifying new opportunities as a result of technological innovation. In a twisted fashion Obama was consistent. If he successfully implements all of his Marxist policies, we will not need ATMs because we’ll be broke, and we won’t have the time to surf the ‘Net because we’ll be too busy scratching a living out of our government-assigned plot of soil. The only thing worse than a flaming ideologue is a stupid, stubborn, not-to-be-denied Marxist ideologue. “Nuff said…that’s probably “watch list” material.
Christmas time is special for me. From Thanksgiving onward my spirits are lifted, and I become slightly less curmudgeonly each day (Bah!). The joy continues for about 5 or 6 weeks after Christmas Day…it’s called bowl games and NFL playoffs. Although I suspect that the Christ child was not born on December 25th and that in all probability the time was chosen to coincide with pagan celebrations, it doesn’t matter. We celebrate the birth of God as Man not the date of its occurrence. We celebrate the gift of a Savior who made us free….if we choose Him. It’s not the date, the season or the sentiment that matters. It’s the outcome….the Child’s and yours…that matters.
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