Science & Faith- As Above, So Below

After giving this some thought, I have found I cannot help but to support the faith and theories behind religious and spiritual isms. But my reasoning doesn't have to do with the Bible or people’s firm assertions of what is right and wrong. Rather, my spiritual beliefs and faith in the place of God is based on the very things many people find turning them from these beliefs.

It’s funny how so many people have looked towards science and rational discovery as a vehicle to dismiss the existence of God and, therefore, the value of religion. I find this strange since the more I learn about how the universe and the world works, and how all things great and small work together on a precarious balance, the more it seems the notion that it is somehow an accumulation of random occurrences just appears naïve at best.

When we consider what science has learned of how the galaxies function and hold together, and how the methods operating our home galaxy foster the possibility of life here on Earth, and then how complex and sophisticated life is and has been for more than three billion years, and then how the function of the planet itself allows for life, and then how the solar system’s construction allows for life here (did you the know the gas giants help suck up a lot of meteoric debris through their extraordinary gravitational pull?), and then how our position within the galaxy allows our solar system to operate in its fashion, and the magnetic field of our world along with the atmospheric density of the planet fosters great protection for the life below…and then we must consider how science must only be scratching the surface of what can be known.

I do understand how difficult it is for some to give blind faith to religion; I am one of these people and I find religion a difficult subject. But I cannot help but to believe with absolute conviction there is a Universal Consciousness operating within, throughout, and above all of this. To assume it came together randomly as opposed to Intelligent Design is so hard for me to grasp.

Now, the Biblical teachings of what and who God truly is can be hard for me. It is difficult for me to believe in some invisible man in the sky. But, if my assumptions are correct in there is a Universal Consciousness, then I must concede that this God has placed a method of us understanding Him in a way He has chosen. But, one might ask, how do we explain the various religious dogmas, beliefs, philosophies, and pursuits? There is Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Sikhism, and on and on. They’re obviously different, and within each there are different sects.

Look, once upon a time, mankind was not so united on a global front. Getting from here to there was a significant undertaking for a long time. So, might have this Universal Consciousness reached out to those according to their cultural specifics? Or, did they reach out to it, feeling innately to be a part of it? Beyond this, why do people who look at the Bible and other religious texts as having missing parts (explain the dinosaurs, Jesus) demonstrating a sure-fire clue that they’re just plain making it all up? It is so difficult for me to accept the atheistic notion that there are only the three physical dimensions and that we’re just meat come together as a result of various random effects. The clues signifying this is radical denial are just too voluminous.

It could be that religion and spirituality is evolving and growing in sophistication as we do. That is a bitter pill for the faithful, but my purpose in this treatise is to explore a mystery. So then, how does one explain the corruption of faith, such as is being suffered in the Muslim faiths? How they assume Allah looks at the infidels as something to be destroyed (when He made them like they are) yet assume this same Creator supremely fucked up in placing a clitoris on the female so it is their job to lop all of them off? There are questions just not presenting their answers, but they do point out there isn’t anyone with a firm enough grasp of the actual truth.

I assume (I cannot state this with conviction and faith) that the Universe somehow developed a self awareness of a sort and a consciousness. There is a plane somewhere there that developed a form of sentience. But I assume it may not have always been like this and that this Consciousness does not have all the answers, but is working it out as time moves along. Perhaps God is not omniscient like we want to assume, but He needs to figure things out as He goes along. Maybe, just maybe, God is evolving, too.

As for Evolution, why do the religious want to doubt it? I bite my lip when people arrogantly state evolution says we just came from monkeys so it’s just bullshit. Well, first, it doesn’t say that whatsoever. We have to eat, sleep, bathe, eliminate, and do other things specific to the mundane, physical world, so why must we think God didn’t adopt evolution as a means of creating His Creation? He might have very well started with simple life way back in the Cambrian or whatever it was and then came up with bright improvements along the way (and that’s just here).

Have you asked why we are sentient and self aware (we’re not as much as we like to think) and why we’ve developed our minds and command of our world like we have? Could our intelligence and ability to create technology be a consequence of evolution resulting from the last great extinction? Might the Universal Consciousness assume that since this world could be struck out and somehow destroyed that there should be a species capable of achieving migration from the world, or saving it entirely? Geese fly south for the winter, but we cannot fly into outer space the same way. We must have technology. Ergo, our technology is a natural consequence of evolution and nature because the Universal Consciousness worked it out that way. It is fair to say the neon lights of Vegas are just as natural as the stars or the bellies of fireflies.

In one simple sentence: There is nothing supernatural or unnatural, ever. There is only the natural, and if it exists or will, or has, it is natural. Our space exploration is as natural as the migration of whales.

But this Universal Consciousness doesn’t seem to favor many species. More than 99% of all life that we have ever known to exist has long died out. I believe it is fair to state that if we do not get our shit together and work out our troubles, the Universal Consciousness just might decide to try again with someone else.

This is why we have a space program and a nuclear weapons program. Whichever one works better is the one who gets to stay. Why would God care? Just allow the insect world to develop a sentient species and try again. I believe the one fatal and all-consuming error of religion (forgive me) is that God does not single us out any more than he does any other creature. We assume we’ve had some favor because of our place in the scheme of things, but then, we can only assume. The difference between arrogance and ignorance is minuscule, and we know so precious little. Just imagine how our place in the eyes of God will change should we discover there is really life elsewhere. But life on other planets, particularly intelligent life, would not shake my faith in the Universal Consciousness; it would cinch it down unlike anything else ever could. But those guys in your randomizer and smoke it.

The point is that Nature and God come together so well that I cannot understand how people look to science and dismiss God, or how the faithful look to science and dismiss the assumptions and theories? If there is a God, and then Bigfoot and Martians, ghosts and mermaids, then they are of a Natural consequence. If there were truly dinosaurs, they were a creature of God, too. One does not cancel out the other.

I believe that one of the great challenges humanity faces now is the acceptance of the culmination of these isms. If we cannot do this and we must continue with the notion that they’re separate, then our place in the scheme of things might suffer. This is why I loathe radical political Islam; it could be the very last straw for our existence at all. If it flourishes over us, we will flourish no more.

So, could this final challenge be what has been predicted in the End Times and by the various celebrity prophets? What could justify any attention given to prophecies?

If the Universe works as I theorize and that this Universal Consciousness pervades it completely, then it surely could see these events taking us one way or another. If I see you reaching for a salt shaker and then you ask me, what am I doing right now, I can suppose you’re reaching for the salt shaker. If you grasp it and state I was correct, I would have accurately prophesied a future event. But this one would be so mundane because it is so obviously based on empirical evidence that one’s incited to yawn. But how does one suppose Nostradamus and his vision is based on wacky superstition and not an actual empirical view unseen by us, as he might have a greater touch on universal empiricism. How do we do this to any of the prophets not allowed by our personal faiths?

I believe the missing link between our spiritual faiths and our empirical knowledge is the key to our survival. We must recognize this link if we are to truly succeed and not go extinct. Only time will tell, but the Mayans predicted this time was a new era (those who thought this was the end were incorrect; it doesn't take much faith to recognize that) and this new era sees these two polarities clashing in a way unlike any other time we know of in all of history. We now live in a time when these two will either cancel one another out or come together, united as a One species greater than the one prior.

As above, so below.

My Kindle- Wow, but I Love It So Much!

Now, it may seem I am behind the times. Here I am, now well into 2013, and just now I intend on writing down my thoughts on my eReader. Well, I suppose I have been behind, since I have only had my Kindle (the first generation one, at that) since late September of last year and it is my first. Before that, I endured reading via that hard print, hard copy, weighty book format. 

Relax, everyone. I survived it. 

Now, it wasn't as though I was one of the hold-outs who refused to join the new world and give the eReader a try. I didn't harbor the attitude that these newfangled corntraptions would kill the world of books and reading (although the bookstores felt the grind) and that they'll never get me, no sirree bobcat tail. No, I simply couldn't justify the purchase until several other financial issues (such as avoiding foreclosure) were given their due. 

Then, my lovely wife found a deal on one and gave it to me for an anniversary present. Dear God, but what a present it is. 

I imagined I would like it since I do enjoy reading and, no, I don't like lugging around piles of books. I do enjoy a beautiful, leather-bound edition and all that, but mostly I just want the work contained within. My Kindle offers so much of that and more, since I can carry with me more books than I'll ever read in my lifetime, all in one tidy little package. Technology is awesome.

But my bigger reason for enjoying this is because I like to scour the obscure and little-known sources for reading; particularly those locations containing work so many people find beneath their contempt. This is wonderful for me, since most people find me beneath their contempt. 

The sources for cheap e-reading, such as Smashwords, Amazon, Kobo and on and on, offer vast amounts of cheap and free reading. So, rather than see an eReader as a significant expense, it's actually a marvelous way to save quite a bit of money. While the mainstream offers eBooks for a ridiculous amount of money (fifteen to twenty dollars for a download? Really?), the eBook sources such a Smashwords and Kobo offer decades of reading for a few bucks at the very most. 

Ergo, you can load up with gobs and gobs of marvelous books for very little money. 

I also like the option of downloading library books on the Kindle. Now, I know they say the borrowed download will only remain for a couple of weeks, but if you power off the WIFI connector of the eReader, you can have the borrowed book for as long as you need. 

Also, since the gizmo will read anything PDF, the possibilities of having a vast amount of reading and reference material on there are virtually endless. 

Just wait- in a few years I might be able to get some sort of tablet. Imagine what I'll think of that! Coming soon, a review of the Tamagatchi! 

No, not really. 

Human Trafficking- Reinvigorate Your Vigilance

Ask yourself a simple question- What do you believe is the single most evil aspect of the world today? 

Might it be political corruption? That would be a good one, what with the influence possessed by corrupt politicians. Because they have the capacity to do so much good, they have even more capacity to do wrong and perpetuate wrong. 

But we have to ask ourselves just what is the nature of evil and what does it affect. In the way the world is right now, I must state that I believe the world's most pressing evil is Human Trafficking and this is why.

Only the evil would believe the act of rape is a good thing. Only the evil would support kidnapping or slavery. Only the evil would support the act of cannibalism. Only the evil would support murdering the disposed. Ergo, since Human Trafficking is all of these rolled up into one, Human Trafficking is our greatest evil.

This crime is more prevalent than ever before, despite the so-called efforts on the part of the government. You know what? To Hell with the supposed efforts on the part of government and law enforcement. This writer will, right here and right now, state that these organizations are directly responsible for the success and proliferation of these crimes, so it would be a supreme act of evil to believe they are in the fight to combat it. 

Now, why would I say they are in on it? Look, the statistics show there are more than 27 million people directly victimized by Human Trafficking around the globe. The crime affects people literally everywhere people exist. The reason it exists is because so many common, everyday people feed it with their patronage. Young girls and children are sold, easily, on the internet. Pimps are thought to be cool and funny. With the resources available to government and law enforcement, is one going to try to convince me they're stumped when the average Joe feeds this problem with a minimum of difficulty? That is just pure BS and there's no defense for it. 

It is obvious the government and law enforcement are perpetuating and supporting Human Trafficking and this is why. This crime exists everywhere with virtually no fear of being persecuted mainly because it feeds and stimulates the economy better than just about anything else out there. How widespread and rampant is the act of counterfeiting currency? Yeah, go ahead and get caught trying to buy some gas with a fake twenty. You'll be in a hot seat with a bright light in your face while surrounded by eighty secret service agents. 

But if you want to spend a few twenties on an hour with a nine year old little girl, just to know what it's like, you won't have to make much effort at all. 

If anyone wants to argue these points, please come at it. Be prepared to spend some time, because the information and statistics are overwhelming in volume. 

On a positive point, I still think that this crime is very much akin to a vampire. If the people of society have greater knowledge of what this crime truly is and knows what to look for, effectively exposing it to the light, then we can put a major dent into it. 

But we also have to recognize this crime is so prolific and widespread because this is what humanity is. Humanity is a predatory scavenger, speaking from a purely natural position, so there is no surprise humanity would cling to such a crime like wet plastic wrap. There is a defenseless victim to prey and scavenge on, so our natural instincts, along with our tendency to attract to wealth and power, all combine together to create the perfect recipe for human evil. Little girls are a cliche' of defenselessness, and they sell better than half-price pizza. 

It would be a better idea to perceive Human Trafficking like a classic human failure rather than a crime. Because Human Trafficking feeds our natural instincts so well, and apparently our natural instincts have it thriving, we must recognize how sentient and civilized we are NOT. Because we are so turned by these ancient instincts, we cannot look at ourselves and one another and state we are a smart and civilized creature. No, until Human Trafficking is broken, we can only claim to be the same knuckle-dragging freak we've always been. 

If you don't believe yourself to be a knuckle-dragging freak, then help to combat this. Get involved with Human Trafficking battling efforts through seeking as much educational information as you can find, and then pass that information to all you know. It boggles my mind how so many people hear about this more today than in the past, yet dismiss it largely as a non-issue. Is it because the little girls being raped forty times a day (just to meet the quota demanded by their owner) isn't directly related to them, then she just doesn't matter? Is that seven year old girl just a slut who asked for it? 

What is it about this, the most evil aspect of all of humanity, that is so easily dismissed as not important. 

The answer is easy. Because Human Trafficking slips so well into the realm of human instincts to prey and scavenge, its act seems as natural and obvious as enjoying a warm, sunny day. 

Shed your natural instincts and join civilization. Because until humanity rids itself of this scourge, no other scourge affecting our kind could ever be touched. This is a good place to start.

When I first wrote my novel, The Egocentric Predicament, I, being naive, thought I could prompt people into taking notice of the issue of Human Trafficking. But I literally could not motivate people to read it even when I freely placed it into their hands. The amount of people on this planet who have read that book likely are less than five. Maybe, through some stretch of the imagination, there might be ten. The effort fell flat. But if I can remain vigilant and spread the word via options such as this blog and by sharing information on FB, then maybe, just maybe, I can help make some difference. 

I ask you do the same. Never assume your law enforcement and government are doing anything other than feeding the monster. The best way to fight this monster is to expose it to the light. Click here for Florida information in order to have a better idea of what's going on right in your neighborhood (for those who know me personally here) and click here for New York information for those in NY who know me. Look, I am finding this information with a search engine search taking but seconds. The information is everywhere because the crime is everywhere. 

To start, all you have to do is care. 

Today's Literary Market- The Free, Easy and Wonderful

For those of you who enjoy a good read, today's reading market offers so much for you to choose from. While most people still believe that the way to find good reading material is to visit the bookstore or library, the fact is that this is simply woefully incomplete. 

Today's mainstream (or Lamestream) still offers the plethora of reading from those who have made the publishing grade and those who harbor the celebrity status, but there is simply so much more to choose from. Now, I don't want to knock or criticize those who have achieved success in writing and publication; I applaud their success and wish them more of it.  The purpose of this writing is to point towards the other choices that are equally worthy of the ardent reader's attention. Not just that, but I want to point towards places where one can find writing that went beyond what the mainstream claims the public desires, often without the public's permission. 

Today, technology has opened doors to readers hitherto never seen before. The eReader such as Kindle has opened doors never before imagined, particularly for the writer. The writers out there who vied for publishing success (I feel your pain) but have yet to get there have options available. Places such as PublishAmerica and Smashwords, Kobo and Diesel, and Amazon offer places for today's aspiring writers to offer their work for the public to explore. 

Now, there are critics stating these avenues open the door to less than ideal work as well as offering publishing without standards, and they're absolutely correct. There are people out there cranking out work utterly hopeless and just plain bad. Many of these people have fallen into the realm of bad self indulgence, thinking they can publish a book just like anyone else, regardless of the so-called quality as defined by others. There are those who need to look up the following words in the dictionary- punctuation, grammar, standard, editing, shame, shamelessness, and cheesy. There are more, but this will suffice for now. The pages and pages of available publications are filled with poorly written work created by people who didn't give one damn. 

But they are not the only ones there. There are so many people who are extraordinarily good writers who, for whatever reason, have yet to achieve success or simply never will. Look, there are just too many at this for all of them to make it. But because these choices are filled with both good and bad writing, it makes this even more fun for those seeking the better work. 

I have found several books and stories in places such as PublishAmerica and Smashwords that have been downright remarkable in how impressive they are. Not only are they good reads, but excellent in their writing standards. The truth is that, should one desire to write and want to be recognized as a writer, the pathway is so, so daunting. For those of you who know me, you know I have pursued these things with very little commercial success. But what I have found is the writer can achieve a certain level of readership without the permission of literary agents, publishing houses, and critics. 

Lately, I have been on a mission of finding quality work among the obscure rank and file and passing on the findings via reviews written on Yahoo! through my page there. So, keep watch of my articles; you'll be seeing reviews for books and anthologies that are available for cheap or free but are virtually priceless in their literary value. 

At the moment, I can tell you to go to www.lancemanion.com, should you be a fan of bizarre humor. I recently wrote a review for The Ball Washer and I am waiting to see it published. It's just that Yahoo! keeps rejecting it. The fuckers. But this clever and fun writer is someone I stumbled onto via Smashwords. 

If you check him out, let him know you discovered him through right here. 

Written on the Last Day of 2012

Well, so far we have survived several Doomsdays and Apocalypses, including the one severely feared by many and prompted by the Mayans. Could someone honestly tell me why anyone gave a shit about the thoughts or opinions or, for the love of God, the prophecies of the Mayans? 

Anyhoo, we've made it this far. Of course, there are those who believe we won't see the end of 2013, or if we do, it will be a very different world. Some say many of the Nostradamus prophecies come to pass in 2013, and those are prophecies I am more inclined to provide some attention. I cannot say with a straight face I buy into all of it directly, but the N-man has been far more compelling and convincing than most of the others. Then, of course, we should pay some attention to what's been said by Cayce. He's a homeboy and all of that, you know. 

Regardless of the fate of any or all of us, today is the first day of the rest of our lives, and we all know there is no way of knowing for sure what might come about tomorrow. Hell, I don't even know what's going on today, although I suppose I will be in the truck with my co-driver and heading to Miami soon for a load of fish. But these assumptions are based on past Mondays and other memories, as well as rather mundane data. I mean, I could die along the way, never knowing anything further or what ever really happened. But if I survive this day, then I can assume I have at least one more to pursue. 

So, I have an assumption to work with. I think you, dear Reader, may have something similar. The chances are likely that most of us will make it to the first day of 2013 just fine, and unless we know we're meeting the End due to some doctor's prognosis, we'll likely see many more days from there. 

My father, Texas Jack King, died on March 1st, 2006. If he had survived, his birthday would have been tomorrow, the first of January. I say this only because, should he have survived, he'd be wondering what might be in store for him during the remainder of 2013. But because he has passed, he wonders many other things someplace else, or wonders nothing at all. We just don't know, and this is enough for now. If you are alive today, what is coming is so hard to know, and for those who are not, well...who knows? So, go with that. 

Go with the fact that those who are alive now must strive on and continue forward. Because today is the first day of the rest of your life, and what goes on from moment to moment is difficult to ascertain. If you want to rely on some sort of prophecy for your future, rest assured that you are surely going to die sometime in the future. 

Isn't that comforting enough? 

Yesterday, I released my latest publication, which was a short story collection. This is a collection of 12 short stories I have written over the past, say, 12 or 13 years. I have to say that, out of that many years, that isn't very many short stories. At least not for a guy who does as much writing as I do. But the short story thing isn't my thing, so that's about all I have to offer. I mention this because my writing is something that might outlive me. There's a good chance that the things I've written just might become something important to someone some day, even long after I am dead. The point is that these things help immortalize me to some point. They are something I have left for the world and are something that leave an impression where I no longer remain. 

Might I be remembered after I am dead? Perhaps by those who have known me long or by my children, and then their grandchildren, and this prompts some prophesying by me. Might there be grand or great grandkids down the way who might wonder who that guy is on the family tree? Sierra and Margaret are bound to have families of their own some sunny day, and their children will surely wonder about their family tree. Now, there is a chance these children might bounce on my knee some day, as the grandchildren of present (via Mary) do today. I have grandkids today, but these grandkids have other biological grandfathers they wonder about, or soon will. The children of Sierra and Margaret will wonder about me, just because of the biological family tree. Then, they might wonder about my father, mentioned above. 

My father is in many ways a mystery and I do not know much about him, so I can say anyone curious to know of me have at least some written record to follow, even if much of the record is fiction in nature. It still leads to some idea of who I was. 

I just hope that when 2013 starts out and the sun rises on that day, the future of humanity is worth pursuing. I worry about the future we cannot predict, largely because of the insanity we must endure daily, much of which is political in nature. I state that all I need to know about Islam I learned on 9/11, but it seems there are those who want to fellate that monster in order to gain its favor. Whatever. It often seems we live in some big Ed Show, being led down some chute by some carrot on a stick. But because I have no choice, I have to hope the world occupied by my children and their children is a better one than I occupied, and my world often many nice things. 

But, Dear God, why does it possess so many horrors? As we go from here to there, an instant at a time, what is in store for us? The Mayans didn't seem to know. Many believe You do not know, or just don't care. 

Well, tomorrow starts a new year, so for those of you who read this far, pursue the future with a renewed vigor and try to do better. I mentioned the Pygmalion Effect before, and January 1st often prompts this philosophy. I can prophesy tomorrow prompts hope for a new and better beginning. Run with that. 

Written on December 21st, 2012- The Pygmalion Effect

Today just might go down in history as the single most historically recognized presumed Doomsday assumed, to date. I recognize that is quite the mouthful, but consider this: It seems more people were focused on this day, this day marking the last day of the Mayan calendar (and I will never figure out why those bloodthirsty creeps got this much attention) as the day the world would end, than just about any other.

Someday, they'll look back at us and just shake their heads in wonder and bemusement.

Of course, other prophecies garner just as must attention or more, but this particular day was brought down to one specific day, while Revelations and Nostradamus aren't so ambitious. It just seems that people thrive on such tragic thoughts; so much so that numerous people wrote and published books about this one day.

Many people have looked at the moment as the opportunity to recognize our borrowed time in order to exercise free will and that, yes, we can be the architects of our future and make some grand changes. This date can act as a grand Pygmalion Effect; stating we can see that this is not our last day on Earth and that, yes, we can change for a better tomorrow.

Some have assumed the world will not end, but this will be the end of an era and another era will begin. Okay...but that seems cheap because anyone can say the future begins right at the moment when the past becomes so. But then, why not make it so?

This is a day when you can make a new change and decide that, from here forward, you will no longer be who you were yesterday. Many of us do this when the turn of the year comes, and we all make our New Year's Resolutions. But we all know the next year will come, so we push off those resolutions to the next year. I will quit smoking next year. I will stop this or that, or start this or that, next year.

But we do not have but one era per lifetime to act upon. This is much akin to seeing Halley's Comet. Unless you're really lucky, you'll likely only see that once, if at all. It only comes around once every 76 years or so. But this era thing apparently only comes around every 3,500 years or whatever those Mayans made this out to be. Maybe it's 2,400 years or 10,873 years. Whatever it is, most people will never see the change of an era in their lifetime.

We, for whatever reason, have this advantage.

Today, according to somebody, is the end of one era and the start of another. While this doesn't have to be the actual case, we can exert the free will and state it is, at least for ourselves. We can enact our own Pygmalion Effect.

What is that, you ask? The Pygmalion Effect is a rather verbose way of referring to a self-fulfilling prophecy. State a brand new and as yet unseen TV show is going to be a smash hit and it just might be. Convince the planet's most sentient species that political leaders must never be accountable for what they do or don't do, and you have the state of politics you have today. So, convince yourself simply through the personal goal that today marks your new era, and it just very well could be.

Today is a brand new day and the hope for a brand new tomorrow. Will tomorrow demonstrate the same old you, or your effort to make a better you?

I think I would like to start off, from right now, with a new and improved me. How about you?

But...what do I do now?

A Bad Attitude Supporting the Tenth Amendment

Dear readers, you don't have an attitude that's bad enough. Now, I'm not talking about a bad attitude around your Mom or something, but in regards to how we cope with the latest political issues.

It's now common knowledge that the latest Presidential election was stolen and that corruption was the grease ensuring Obama's ride back into the White House was assured. Reports are flooding in, telling of voter turnout well exceeding 100%, with some reports telling of turnout exceeding 141%. Now, if 141 voters are coming in out of every 100 voters eligible, the democratic process is failing, so those who espouse Democracy espouse nothing.

Further, people like myself have been continually stating this past election was not about D or R, or the Obama train v. the GOP, but about the future of this country and our affinity for what makes us different. Look, if you believe the notion that American values such as a limited government with limited powers and maximum liberty is a bad idea, than by all means, vote numerous times for Obama. I hope you voted early and often on that day. But if you support the philosophy that government governs best when it governs least, and that governmental roles should be droll and simple at best rather than the rock star statuses of today, then one would have voted against Obama and for Romney.

Now, I cannot state Romney was the ultimate solution or the way of the future, but the Tea Party and other conservative groups endorsed him, which was good enough. The point was we needed to maintain a love for American Exceptionalism and that this is Us doing this, not it being done to and for Us.

This is where your bad attitude comes in: Because so many are now espousing and crying for the accolades of Socialism and benevolent dictators, it's time to tell them to go fuck themselves and state there are those of us who will not comply with the decimation of the individual human spirit and allow the future of humanity to end up subjected to the whim of a percentage of one percent. We will not stand back politely and watch people turn the state of the finest species in existence over to a small handful while the remaining billions are their pawns to save or dismiss.

If they say you're offensive, do whatever you can to ensure they know you're offensive by nature, and that you hope they recognize free people don't do coercion well.

"If you don't like the way I disagree with your penchant to destroy American freedom, then drop to your knees and lick my ass. Now there; what do you think of my attitude now?"

Stand up and stand for freedom and what made us a great nation. This country IS what it was originally created to prevent and combat. The United States of America is not a free democracy or even free at all in the spirit originally intended. Are we all shackled to the point of being only beasts of burden? No, but that sort of ultimate enslavement would never function. The hard-line Communists learned the hard way that people naturally resist the Iron Fists, and that chains and yokes are to be fought. But lead people by the nose with promises of better times when one admits (the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem) they are a victim and they need the powers to take care of them. People are standing in line to kiss the ass of Hugo Chavez, including several American celebrities, such as Sean Penn and Danny Glover.

I believe this country is now the most corrupted nation to ever exist on this planet. Thomas Jefferson once stated, "I do verily believe that if the principle were to prevail of a common law being in force in the United States (which principle possesses the general government at once of all the powers of the state governments, and reduces us to a single consolidated government), it would become the most corrupt government on the Earth."

This country is supposed to be the United States of America, with the states being the numerous central points of government while the Federal Government was a limited post with specific tasks. But now, we are one federal government with fifty little piggies vying to suck the sweetest federal tit. This is what led us to be the most corrupt nation and therefore the worst.

This is supposed to be the greatest nation because the several states (the more, the better) are supposed to be several sovereign states working together and holding up one another rather than several children seeking Mommy's favor. Each state should, as some state, be the laboratories of good ideas and the isolators of bad ideas.

So, I ask everyone, regardless of your political philosophy of choice, to demand we return to the notion of the Constitutional roles and that the Tenth Amendment be respected. If you believe Obama's way of Socialistic construct is the way, allow the states to accept or deny. If you believe conservative principles are the way to go, allow the states to accept or deny. Whatever you support, allow the supreme law of the land to prevail.

If Socialist ideas prove greater, the strength of the US Constitution would prove it. But we need the people to display a horribly bad attitude if we're going to return to the understanding that each of the fifty states must be who call the shots, not the Mother Ship of Washington. If you live in (insert state name here), then demand that state harbors its own maximum sovereignty and operates under the authority of the US Constitution, and that the Federal government does what is Constitutionally allowed and nothing more.

Therefore, regardless of what politics you espouse, the strengths of those political philosophies will support themselves or fail under their own power. So, support the Constitutional authority and that the Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land, or suck it. Because if you stand there and talk your talk of this or that way is best and do not support our ways, then the only fair response to you is this:

Fuck you.