(This Satire is in response to the NAACP Hallmark Story)

NAACP - Johnny Walker "Black Label" Scotch Promotes Racism

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06 July 2010 18:50 EST
HELENA, MT

HELENA, Mont. (ABCD) -- An alcoholic beverage sold at local stores has been pulled from shelves after a civil rights group raised concerns about the product's name and branding. The group claims the scotch whiskey promotes a brand image that's racist.

It is a Scotch whiskey, made in Scotland, called "Johnny Walker Black Label".

Members of the Helena, Montana NAACP say they were "apallated" when the product was brought to their "attentionization". We weren't really sure what that meant, but we ran with it anyway.

"It's black, it has a label, and it clearly says 'Black Label'", said DeKwanzaa Jefferson Washington M-Aaaybee, director of the Helena NAACP chapter. "Clearly, this is a label on the black man, and he is even walking, while the white man has cars and airplanes and, and, and other good stuff too what we doesn't have and he should be real sorry for it all and give us all his moneys goddammit!", M-Aaaybee continued, somewhat abstractly.

Johnnie Walker "Black Label" has been distilled exclusively in Scotland since approximately 1870, and while the Helena NAACP chapter has linked it's inception with the American Civil War and "labeling the black man", Ian McNaughtie, U.S. spokesman for Johnnie Walker Distilleries Ltd. says "Bullocks!".

"Dammnit there was but three Black folk in all O' Scotland in 1870, and theey we're onlee thar b'cause theey got on the wrong friggin boooot!", said McNaughtie. "Whey in the 'ell would wee be goin' on puttin' down a peerson we couln'd nee but even kick around, ye silly person?", he continued, in an accent we could almost understand.

Still, the Helena NAACP office, which represents over .00000000000000001% of Blacks in the U.S., insists that the message needs to be changed, or boycotts could encompass a full city block.

"We know what they really mean when they say "Black Label", and that's "Label the Blacks!", says local African American resident Propecia Cumalittle Vasquez. "They be labeling us, an' we had enough of it!".

The Rev. Louis Farakan, who was not contacted about this story but contacted us anyway, insisting to comment on it, said "Well we ALL know that the so-called Scottish are really the American-Jewish pro-Israel and banking lobby, wearing kilts and pretending to have been there for a long time, but the devil's work shall be revealed, and the sheep will sleep near the goats, and the orange juice shall no longer mingle with butter!!"

Once again, we didn't quite get that, but we left it in to avoid being sued.

In a related story, Culver City, CA. NAACP officials have filed a civil suit against the Helena NAACP office, claiming "press-related damages". "They just be all uppity and wantin' some attention 'cause they ain't got no black folk to bargain wit fo' free money", a Culver City NAACP official said, under condition of anonymity.

Someone with a sense of humor, and irony, contributed to this story.

It's the damndest thing. I created a store at cafepress.com last year for people like me who are p-d-off-partyless-ordinary-Americans-who've-had-enough-of-all-of-it. I made up some very nice, relatively ambiguous slogans and graphics that indicated distinct discontent with the current state of things without specifically aligning with any one party or movement. I thought a small but measurable modicum of people would eventually find it and buy a few trinkets.

I did a little promotion and then I waited.... and only the crickets came.

Until yesterday, that is.

Yestderday the traffic suddenly started flowing, and oddly enough, all towards one specific message - "We Want Our Country Back!".

I figured, "cool, but probably wingers p-d off over Boomer passing health care reform".

P-d, yeah, but "wingers"? Not so sure. Buyers came from (predictably) NC, SC, Texas, Alabama, West Virginia.....

.... but also from Maine, Vermont, Mass, and California. I mean, California???

So now I'm wondering, is it really health care reform that has so many people p-d off everywhere, or is it the slimy polluted process by which anything gets through Washington that has finally galvanized people from seemingly irreconcilable viewpoints to join together (albeit unknowingly in most cases) and grasp a common message?

I mean, I'm not a Tea Partier or anything, and frankly most of the folks who found my stuff just wandered into cafepress.com and apparently ran a search for "I want my country back". Cafepress doesn't exactly have me featured on their homepage or anything, and yet people from geographically distinct political hot-spots, of vastly differing perspectives, found my little cricket hole.

Makes you wonder what "ordinary folks" who don't go caterwalling to town hall meetings might be thinking right now. Makes me wonder anyway.

Just my ponderings for the night. If you "want your country back" too, for whatever reason, give us a visit. As a bit¢h-slap to corporate America we lowered our prices today in response to demand. The more people buy, the less you should charge, after all, because you're going to get along okay and people will get a good deal.

At least it used to be that way.

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Why do you people hate America?

You know who you are. 

You cheer when a great American city loses it's bid, America's bid, to host the Olympic games.  You gloat over America's loss.

And you froth at the mouth in rage when our President, America's leader, is awarded an honor that brings respect and prestige to our nation.

You gnash your teeth and writhe with hate and anger because world opinion has turned back in our favor, finally.

You call it a sham, bogus, a bribe, a scandal, hollow, meaningless.  You hungrily grab yet another opportunity to invoke Hitler, almost like you miss him a little.

And then you go on to hollowly mouth off how much you love your country, how great it is, how the U-S-of-A is Number One, forever.

Some of us, who see America as all of us, together in this for better or worse, One Nation, look at you, wrapped in your flag, screaming how great it is when WE lose and how horrible it is when WE win, and we just have to wonder.

Why do you hate America?


SAVE OUR REPUBLIC!

Read this interesting and somewhat scary piece over at Salon, and one bit really caught me:

When you overlay a 1930’s style depression on our current society you begin to see just how important the New Deal was. It cooled tempers and gave hope to the poor. Today, however, the New Deal was issued to the banks and they are quickly making a comeback. In 1932 Roosevelt closed the banks and then throttled them. The money was pushed into the bottom of the economy rather than the top. So let’s call this attempt the Raw Deal because that’s what Americans have gotten, a raw deal

I think the comparison between FDR's "new deal" and the current "raw deal" (put into motion by Bush, over $1 Trillion by Nov. 2008) is spot-on.

The government has already spent about $3 Trillion bailing out Wall Street and Corporate America™, and has committed to close to $13 Trillion, with no ceiling, in the "hose up" recovery plan.

Now, we've all seen the emails screaming that this money, if just given out to every American citizen, would have garnered us each something like $75,000 and resurrected the economy, banks and car-makers be damned. That's not entirely accurate.

But, the hysterical emails shouldn't be discounted as entirely false simply because they're, well, hysterical.

In truth, if the money already spent "hosing up" was divided evenly between every American (citizen) man, woman and child, each would have received about $8,500. That's $34,000 to a family of four, a substantial sum to the "average American". The $17,000 my wife and I would have received would have taken us completely out of debt, sent me to a dozen or so estates and auctions to buy merchandise (we're antiques dealers), and left a small egg in the bank as a buffer. We wouldn't be wealthy by any measure, but we would be recovering, which isn't currently the case.

Taken further, if we gave the total ($13 Trillion and rising) recovery cost committed thus far to the American public, we're talking more like $45,000 per man, woman and child. Now you're talking buying power.

Keeping it close to home, if me and the Mrs. received a gummint check for $90,000, we'd do a lot more than plug the holes in the dam, we'd invest in our future. I'd do everything I outlined above, and sock a good bit away somewhere with a stable interest rate, and borrow against our property's equity to expand our business, complete renovations to our 1900's tobacco warehouse and green the roof, put up a couple solar panels, a rainwater recovery system, and a substantial garden. The $8,000 - $10,000 I'd get back from the State for all the solar/green stuff (money still available in PA) would only sweeten the deal. Oh yeah, all the improvement and solar/green work would pay people who had jobs. And if it went even moderately well, I'd probably hire someone to help in the antiques shop.

Debt recovery, business growth, borrowing, property improvement, green initiatives, alternative energy, increased self-sufficiency, new jobs. Gee, isn't that what we're supposed to be doing to fix our broken country? Seems like we could actually be doing some of this if our leaders gave $13 Trillion to America's citizens, who own the play money to begin with, instead of doling it out to corrupt and greedy Korporations.

And yeah, I know plenty of people who haven't figured out what time it is would just take the money and buy an Escalade or take a dream vacation. But until eugenics becomes popular again we're going to have idiots. And meanwhile, slimy corporate execs have used enough of our money in bonuses to buy fleets of Escalades while taking a world tour, again.

See, "new deal" = "give the money to the people who need it, to spend and grow", "RAW deal" = "give the money to the companies who squandered it away once, and plan to rinse and repeat".

Let the banks and auto-makers fail. Some will survive and get their acts together. The ones that don't shouldn't. And if I have a sustainable business, an earth-friendly home, food on my table and the ability to hire someone who needs a job, and my situation can be repeated tens of thousands of times across the country, then we might actually recover.

Just stimulate me, Barry.

Save Our Republic!

So I'm having this same discussion on a forum site, and someone posts an excellent response to yesterday's gig that helped me clarify, or distill my thoughts on the "cultural divide".  Worth sharing here.

"Your well-written piece ignores the fact that at the core of much ongoing poverty is drugs. Most prostitutes are drug-addicted, and turning tricks is the way to get their daily quota either on the streets or from the p!mp who is also their supplier.

It also ignores generational poverty fed by poor example and lousy life choices. And the answer isn't to keep pouring money into the bottomless bucket or to politically elect those who will keep the money flowing."

My response:

You're right on each point, but off-base on the whole overall. Everything you list, and much more, is an aspect of life on the other side of the cultural divide, true. But no one of them, or even group of them lumped together, accurately portray the totality of "otherness" that is the culture of this other world.

We persist in talking about symptoms, when in truth we need to look at the disease as a whole and give it a name before we can productively talk about a cure.

See, it's not just about choices or opportunities, it's about the perspective, the world view from which you see and measure them. And those on the "other side" don't share your views, your perspectives, your moral compass, your culture. This is where I stopped using the term "class divide" some time back, because it's not about "an impoverished and disenfranchised class within our culture", really. It's a separate culture altogether, occupying the American landscape alongside us, but ultimately doing so divided from us by wholly differing perspectives about the basic realities of life.

So, essentially when our people try to address their people and explain why they should stop using drugs, joining gangs, being prostitutes, dropping out of school, having fatherless children etc, it nominally has all the effect of telling Eskimos the benefits of a 401(k).

I realize that much of this is terribly un-PC, but think on the last few times members of the "other culture" came on TalkBack in some numbers. Not only did we find ourselves speaking to each other in two completely different languages, but also from perspectives that neither side seemed able to wrap their minds around. And, in one instance, we were labeled as culturally insensitive.

Think about that.

As much as I wanted to believe, at the time, that the charge was a catch-phrase picked up in church or from some ACORN-type, I find that I'm more inclined to think the writer really meant it. "You don't get us".

And if the plain truth is to be spoken, the vast majority of "us" don't get "them". And "they" don't get "us".

One nation, two distinct cultures. Divided along socio-economic lines to a large degree to be sure, but equally divided by nearly all aspects of "perceiving the world around us" as well.

And in my mind, at least, this is the honest place from which any conversation about change must begin. Acknowledge the disease, openly, then start looking for a cure. If there is one.

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I've been chewing on this for a few days as I follow the story, and I see some misdirection going on.  I think my earlier post needs some clarification.

I lived for 8 years in some "not great" parts of Philadelphia, and for the last 17 years have lived in the heart of the city of Lancaster, PA. I have worked with the homeless and disenfranchised, have experienced urban life to its fullest, and most of all I have paid fairly close attention to my surroundings and my fellow citizens most of the time.

To me, the whole ACORN "scandal" represents a form of bait-n-switch on the part of the far right, who want to hurt democrats at all costs while doing nothing of actual substance themselves, other than being outraged on TV.

Now remember, I'm not a democrat, nor in any way shape or form in love with them. I'm a realist, and getting more P-O'd by political theater by the day.

See, all the "outrage!!!" is focused on these "exposed" ACORN people who have no problems with smuggling illegals, prostitution, lying to the IRS and falsifying federal funding forms. Aiding and abetting, conspiring to deceive, sponsoring hookers and child abuse and theft and voter fraud and all that.

And if one is of the "better classes"(meaning they live ok and don't know any better), one could easily think that these ACORN "monsters" have been "injected" into impoverished sectors of society with an evil plot to teach these poor, downtrodden people their devilish ways. To poison them with the secret bile of the democrat/socialist conspiracy, use them as pawns...

But this is where reality causes those of us who do know better to come to a screeching halt.

See, these ACORN people in the impoverished communities are not just there working with the communities, they are by and large also representative of them, and their ways.

Some of you who haven't yet caught onto the fast-growing cultural disconnect between the haves and have-nots in America may have trouble getting this, but the have-nots are using a different moral compass than you are. They see the world in a different way than you do. Vastly different. And millions of them have been in a trans-generational "survival mode" for decades.  Decades, or generations, gives you the time you need to decide that the best way to do things might not be the way "your betters" tell you to.

To many of America's "forgotten" (read: ignored) masses, it IS ok to be a prostitute, it IS ok to lie to the government to avoid taxes and get a pound of flesh back from Uncle Sam, it IS ok to pad voter rolls among the disenfranchised, it IS just fine to smuggle illegals into the country. That's all just fine, because nobody else is looking out for your butt in this society anyway.

Uncomfortable with this yet?  Hang on, we're going deeper.

And the ACORN people are, again, largely members of these impoverished, uneducated, disenfranchised communities themselves. It really doesn't matter what the people up the ladder believe or dictate, the people at the bottom, working at street level, are going to play by the rules of the society they belong to.  And that isn't necessarily the society you think you belong to.

This is where the disconnect comes into play.  See, their culture + your culture doesn't = our culture.  Just two different cultures occupying the same land mass, with nothing much to say to one another.

And this is the broad side of the barn that neither side of the political spectrum really wants out in the light to shoot at. Our society is socio-economically fractured. BADLY. And those on the hurting-end of the fracture live in an anything-to-get-by mindset that pays little attention to our moral, ethical or legal sensibilities.

This is the elephant in the middle of the living room. And NOBODY wants to see it.  It's too big, too unfixable, too full of blame and culpability, too full of molten political fallout, for any side.  And even the democrats, while weakly sputtering "foul" and back-pedaling, are too afraid to show us the real monster in the closet.  And so it lurks, and so we are allowed to blithely believe that democrat blundering caused some "bad apples" who were "bewitching the impoverished masses to do evil".

Hogwash. WE taught the impoverished masses to "do evil".  By ignoring them unless they're politically useful.  For either side.

And this will come home to roost, sooner than you think.  Unless those of us not nose-ringed to a party ideology start speaking about it.



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ACORN is sure getting a lot of bad publicity and bad blood lately, and I'm sure some of it is deserved.

But while I think any illegalities committed by ACORN staff or employees should be investigated and prosecuted, if proven, I have a hard time painting the entire national organization as "crooked and evil".  Yet many seem to want to do just that.

To me, that would be the same as saying "the entire U.S. government is crooked and evil", when in fact we all know that only 60% or so is actually crooked and evil.

And if we're going to be intellectually honest, we have to acknowledge both the nature of ACORN as an organization and who they mainly serve. ACORN primarily services the underclasses in our country, and I'm betting a majority of their employees and volunteers, especially in the cities, come from the same underclasses they serve.

So, not to put too fine a point on it, your average ACORN worker is not exactly coming to the task with a Harvard law degree. They're mostly the genuine 'Jus Folks, likely undereducated and quite probably ignorant of the finer points of the law and ethical standards.

Now, I'm not saying that higher-ups in ACORN might not have a creepy agenda here and there, but those people aren't really the focus of all the outrage at the moment.

The people being labeled as criminals and conspirators are, again for the most part, simple people with a fairly small world view and no great love for the government. Frankly, in their world I would expect to see some moral relativism and "expediency" when working to squeeze a buck out of The System or get someone social services. That's the reality of how things work in the basement of society.

So, to my mind all the shrill outrage over ACORN workers "conspiring" and "stealing" and "cheating" doesn't mean so much that this organization is a gang of criminals per-se, but really is more an indication that too few members of the better-off class have had a look in the basement lately, if ever.  And look they should, because there's a whole 'nother world out there, and it's growing.

See, for service organizations operating at the bottom of the socio-economic food chain, this is pretty much business as usual. The social service sector has long had a culture of short-cuts and spreading fudge to get things done, because often that's the only way things get done when dealing with beaurocracy.  And in such a culture it's inevitable that things will go too far once in a while, or even frequently, when workers are poorly trained and have no motivation to err on the side of the government or the law.

But still, that's how it is, by and large, and to me it's more shocking that most Americans have no clue about it than the fact that it's been "exposed".  What I see here is just another marker, showing how wide the cultural disconnect has grown between the haves and the have-nots.  The haves think their system is The System, and they're shocked out their shorts when they learn that other segments of society might operate differently, and in fact do so on a widespread basis.

But then these same "shocked and outraged" people would probably be even more shocked if they found out that it's not just some ACORN workers who think prostitution, illegal immigration and lying on government forms are acceptable, but rather the vast majority of the underclass.

Which is where the whole outraged expose completely misses the broad side of the barn.  These ACORN workers are a representative sample of the underclass they serve, not just a "few bad apples".  Our country is socio-economically fractured, and the folks on the hurtin' end of that fracture have a vastly different moral compass than the rest of us.  While we wring our hands and cry about our 401(k)s and the cost of gas, a whole other segment of society is in survival mode, and has been for decades.  Their views of "right and wrong" are vastly different from yours and mine, their understanding of what makes society tick is driven by a whole different set of assumptions, and their world overall is small, dirty and desperate when compared to ours.

The growing gap between "them" and "us" is a time bomb, but opinion drivers selectively use them as political cannon fodder when it's useful, and then quickly draw the shades back down.

The only reason these "incidents" stand out as noteworthy today is because someone with an agenda to embarrass the administration got it on video and into the news. This filmmaker could take his secret camera to any number of organizations servicing bottom-feeders and find the same thing. But I doubt he will, since that's not in line with the agenda.

The agenda I see is "attack Democrats".  And I'll be the last person to say Democrats aren't screwing things up, but the outrage is being misplaced, and the agenda is disingenuous at best.

And at worst, were once again losing an opportunity to take a hard, reasoned look at a rapidly growing segment of our society, because it doesn't fit the agenda, it wouldn't serve Republican interests, and it would be really uncomfortable, for all sides.

But sooner or later we will have to look, because the problem isn't an acorn, it's a whole tree, and a big one at that.




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Since we're continually subjected to the "conservative t-shirts" ad featuring the very young-looking blonde girl with that sultry "come 'n get it" look on her face, I figured I'd look her up.  You know, see if she's the owner's 15 year old niece..... or perhaps a professional model using her little-girlie "come hither" look to make you click on her...um, slogan.

Yup, you guessed it, she's a paid model, 21 years old from California.  You can check out her portfolio at www.modelmayhem.com/452712.  Methinks she could use a couple cheeseburgers.

Meanwhile, I can't afford a model, or even a premium shop, but if this "widget" works right you can check out my slightly-more-relevant messages and maybe put some food on my table.

I recently started a new cafepress.com "basic" shop (www.cafepress.com/totherepublic) with two things in mind.  One, I'm not only discontented with what our government has become in general, I'm REALLY about-completely-over what the "two parties" have lowered things to with the kindergarten dialogue that's been going on since before the election, AND Two, we are freaking up against the wall and facing a Sheriff's sale in a week (as of today) and this whole "new economic reality" thing is about as exciting as prostate cancer.

So, with my thoughts about what's wrong (read: completely phuchked) with our government, my thoughts about how we simply aren't making it despite our best efforts, and my occasionally creative mind, I created the shop and populated it with, within the hideous restrictions of a "basic" shop, a few slogans.  Nicely designed, if I might add.

• SAVE OUR REPUBLIC!

• WE WANT OUR COUNTRY BACK!

• What Would Jefferson Do?

I'd like to do more, but the basic F-You behind the CafePress "basic" shop is that it's "free" (no monthly fees for selling their goods), but you can only market ONE item of each type that they have available.  So, they have a "value t-shirt", nicely priced.  You can sell ONE design on that t-shirt, and ONLY one.  So I can have ONE design on a value-t, one on a man's colored-t, one on a woman's t, etc etc.  For every item they offer, you can put your design, slogan, photo or whatever on ONE OF EACH, only.

Seems a tad counter-intuitive to me, since what they're really selling is their stuff with my design on it, and the only thing stopping me from tempting you to buy more of their stuff with more of my designs on it is..... well, the fact that I can't commit to pay them $5 a month for the privilege of hawking their wares, payable a year in advance.

You'd think they'd have a better view of the big picture.  But then again you'd think Goldman Sachs had possibly envisioned an America with no investment capital.  Go figure.

But I digress.  Get used to it.

Anyway, I set up the shop, populated it as best I could with some great shirts, outer-wear, bumper stickers,,,,and a hat.  Ya gotta have a hat.  And then I emailed a bunch of people I know and asked them to shill my shop.  You know, "tell everyone you know about it!"  "Make me VIRAL!!!!!"

My father in law happily bought some stuff, approvingly, and said he told everyone he knows about it.  Otherwise, crickets.

But that's not the odd part.  I'm pretty well used to failure.

What was strange was that some people I've known for a long time emailed me back and basically said "Dude, WHAT is with the winger stuff??"

And I was sort of like "Huh?"

Which lead me to spend a few days pondering whether or not I actually am "a winger".  You know, "extreme right-wing conservative tool".

The facts that I have a ponytail, beard and aged tie-dyes in my dresser would seem to indicate a "no" vote, but my thoughts, as emblazoned on my merchandise, would seem to say otherwise.

The fact that I'm an antiques dealer specializing in Early American only muddies the waters.

But, to refine the conversation, most of the folks who sent me "WTF??" emails are themselves self-described "conservative liberals", which would make one think they would "get" a simple slogan like "Save Our Republic!", without having to go into a discussion about what Madison and Jefferson were onto when they split from the Federalists and went on to define the Constitution and the Bill Of Rights, and then govern according to them.  Far too cerebral, or something.

SO, all of this has left me sitting on the can each morning wondering "AM I actually a 'winger'?"

Fox News is so on my schit list because of this.

Am I a "winger"?

Well, on the one hand:

•  I don't think Obama was illegally birthed in Kenya.

• I don't think Obama is a socialist with a secret agenda to turn America into a Marxist state.

• I don't think that "Barry" lies to the public at every opportunity.

• I don't think Nancy Pelosi is a man.

• I don't think that anyone in government had any thoughts about "death panels".

• I do think that Sarah Palin is a freaking moron.  And scary beyond all belief.

BUT, on the other hand:

• I do believe that our Federal Government is largely controlled by large corporate interests who care about nothing but profits.

• I do believe that those corporate interests will spare no expense to control our collective "will".

• I do believe that forces outside the electoral system work daily to consolidate power.

• I do believe that politicians on both sides (remember, there are only two) can be bought and sold.

• I do believe that we are being intentionally pitted against one another.

• I do believe that our freedoms are being taken from us as a part of a larger plan.

But, at the end of the day, does that make me a "winger", or simply a realist?

Update:  The editor kept seizing up on me last night and I finally surrendered after a long day.

But to continue, what exactly is it that makes one a "winger"?  Conservative beliefs?

As I state in my bio, I am a registered republican for 27 years, but I find the current state of the GOP offering me little that I find appealing, or rational.  But the same is true of the democrats, who seems as desperate to "feel good" as the republicans do to feel "OURAGED!!!"

But still, I am conservative.  I do believe our Republic is in peril.  I do believe that our country is slipping from our hands as we wring them and tremble over manufactured affronts and outrages.  And, sadly, I believe that if Jefferson rose from the dead tomorrow he would consider us lost.

So I guess my question to those who call my slogans "winger" would be - are these thoughts, expressed above, relegated exclusively to the halls of the right-wing-conservative?  Or might there possibly be millions of us who quietly feel the same, but without the falsetto outrage?  Rationally frightened, as it were, and not simply of "libruls".

I tend to think so.  Otherwise I wouldn't be camped on a so-called "winger" portal sharing these thoughts.

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Well this is depressing.  Marxists calling us, well, Marxists:

It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American descent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.

True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.

Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.

First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their “right” to choke down a McDonald’s burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our “democracy”. Pride blinds the foolish.

Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different “branches and denominations” were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the “winning” side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the “winning” side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America.

The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America’s short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.

These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more then ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them?

These men, of course, are not an elected panel but made up of appointees picked from the very financial oligarchs and their henchmen who are now gorging themselves on trillions of American dollars, in one bailout after another. They are also usurping the rights, duties and powers of the American congress (parliament). Again, congress has put up little more then a whimper to their masters.

Then came Barack Obama’s command that GM’s (General Motors) president step down from leadership of his company. That is correct, dear reader, in the land of “pure” free markets, the American president now has the power, the self given power, to fire CEOs and we can assume other employees of private companies, at will. Come hither, go dither, the centurion commands his minions.

So it should be no surprise, that the American president has followed this up with a “bold” move of declaring that he and another group of unelected, chosen stooges will now redesign the entire automotive industry and will even be the guarantee of automobile policies. I am sure that if given the chance, they would happily try and redesign it for the whole of the world, too. Prime Minister Putin, less then two months ago, warned Obama and UK’s Blair, not to follow the path to Marxism, it only leads to disaster. Apparently, even though we suffered 70 years of this Western sponsored horror show, we know nothing, as foolish, drunken Russians, so let our “wise” Anglo-Saxon fools find out the folly of their own pride.

Again, the American public has taken this with barely a whimper…but a “freeman” whimper.

So, should it be any surprise to discover that the Democratically controlled Congress of America is working on passing a new regulation that would give the American Treasury department the power to set “fair” maximum salaries, evaluate performance and control how private companies give out pay raises and bonuses? Senator Barney Franks, a social pervert basking in his homosexuality (of course, amongst the modern, enlightened American societal norm, as well as that of the general West, homosexuality is not only not a looked down upon life choice, but is often praised as a virtue) and his Marxist enlightenment, has led this effort. He stresses that this only affects companies that receive government monies, but it is retroactive and taken to a logical extreme, this would include any company or industry that has ever received a tax break or incentive.

The Russian owners of American companies and industries should look thoughtfully at this and the option of closing their facilities down and fleeing the land of the Red as fast as possible. In other words, divest while there is still value left.
The proud American will go down into his slavery with out a fight, beating his chest and proclaiming to the world, how free he really is. The world will only snicker.

 

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This happened two evenings ago in front of my shop in Lancaster, PA.  Seems worth sharing.

I was just standing on the front porch of our shop, smoking, when an older black gentleman wandered by. I say "gentleman" because while it was clear he was down on his luck, he was down with style and dignity. Trousers with cuffs above ratty wing-tip shoes, semi-pressed shirt and tie beneath a vest, all wrapped in a not-so-clean overcoat and parked beneath a moth-eaten fedora, carrying a Pan-Am flight bag that appeared to reveal the shape of a 40-bottle.

As he walked past my porch he stopped, looked up at me and said "Young man, may I ask you a question?"

"Certainly, sir" said I.

"What has gone wrong in this world?"

I just looked at him for a moment and then he continued:

"I mean, what has gone wrong with everything?  MY President, a black man... ok well half a black man, has.... son, I am afraid of my President. That's just all wrong".

And with that he turned and continued walking, and I had to note that his gait was fairly straight and steady.  Not exactly a stumble-bum, he.  Just down on his luck, having Colt 45 for dinner, and scared (and seemingly ashamed) of Obama.

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