This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here

Author: Zero Ponsdorf

  • Pat Boone Ain’t No Chuck Norris, But…

    Even the AARP (no link – don’t like ’em)  is reminding us that seniors make up a potential 50 million voter bloc.

    Pat Boone speaks a bit clearer on the issue.

    President Barack Obama has ignored the concerns of senior citizens because his only interest is “gaining absolute power over government,” a position that could hurt him in 2012, legendary singer and seniors advocate Pat Boone tells Newsmax.TV.

    The spokesman for the 60 Plus Association and recent recipient of the Conservative Political Action Conference’s Lifetime Achievement Award said the senior vote could swing the election in 2012. “I think if seniors all get exercised, we do have enough votes to make the difference,” he said.

    “I don’t think President Obama has really taken seniors much into account,” he explained. “But still he has an agenda, a political agenda, and he is only interested in gaining absolute power over government. He wants it to be a one-party nation.

    This actually makes me feel just a bit better about our future.

    Seniors, disabled vets, military retired, and a rather long list of otherwise peripheral ‘special interest groups’  might just stave off something ugly with little more a few bruised egos?

    As usual with my ramblings… YMMV. TAH is an open advocate for Truth, Justice, and The American Way, but some may use a more nuanced view than I.

  • “What’s Past is Prologue”

    The Past:

    THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to TAX) but “to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER” and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God.

    Thomas Paine: The Crisis. December 1776

    The Present:

    Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

    Santayana

    On the Fourth of July I did a post that has thus far engendered over 300 comments. I claim no credit for the video, mind you, but I am responsible for posting it. That responsibility means I am notified with (and read) each comment. Setting aside the troll visits the comments have been enlightening.

    That process, and the process ongoing now is DC, have melded in my head a bit. Toss in this being the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War and the admixture has me scratching my head in curiosity or shaking it in wonder much of the time.

    So… In the spirit of sharing with everyone That Damn Song I can’t get of of my head; Is common sense a thing of the past, as lost and useless as knapping flint in the iron age?

  • Later folks.

    With this pronouncement The Wife and I may disappear from the web…and elsewhere.

    Mr. Obama told Pelley “this is not just a matter of Social Security checks. These are veterans checks, these are folks on disability and their checks. There are about 70 million checks that go out.”

    Damn us disabled vets and baby boomers anyway. It’s us that suck the life out of the economy. Doesn’t matter what price we might have paid, nor how much we put into “The System”.

    Too stunned to find words. Heads up Military Retired. BOHICA!

    ETA: Just to get it said… I’m hardly naive enough to not recognize political posturing, whatever the source. Nor am I beyond using hyperbole as a fun reaction to hyperbole.

     

  • The Other Shoe

    Court Orders End to Ban on Gay Service Members

    Zombies are at work here at TAH. Be warned!

    I deleted this post. Yet it lives.

    Now I’m afraid to delete it again!

    Since it’s here yet again; read the link and wonder just what the urgency is?

    Is there some guy in uniform somewhere wanting to wear a dress?

     

     

  • When is a Memorial NOT a Memorial?

    Political correctness gone mad at Ground Zero

    This Sept. 11, the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks upon America, New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg will dedicate the massive, $600 million National September 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center. What Americans have not been told is that this “memorial” will remake Ground Zero so that it does not acknowledge 9/11.

    Instead of acting as a constant reminder of the attacks, a symbol for us and future generations of the evil that struck, the death and destruction it caused and the heroism and sacrifice in response, the memorial will wipe out all evidence and memory of the attacks.

    I haven’t studied this specific issue, but I HAVE visited the Flight 93 site more than once and noted a similar exercise ongoing there. Much of what made that place a true Memorial has been ‘placed in storage’.

    One line in the linked article captures the sense of the effort I’ve seen in action for myself in Pennsylvania, and what appears to be happening at Ground Zero.

    This is like banishing the USS Arizona from the USS Arizona Memorial.

    I’m hardly an expert concerning memorials, mind you. When The Vietnam Memorial was in the planning stages I was with “The Black Gash of Shame” crowd. Then I actually saw it! But it’s the names and dates that make it a memorial – NOT the architecture.

    It would seem that 9/11 doesn’t merit more than some artists rendering?

  • Useful Reminder

    A pal of ours sent this via email. A bit late for today, but…

    YMMV, and I dunno if it’s appropriate for here?

    Just struck me that this might be the kind of thing our Founding Fathers would have done had they the technology?

     

  • Rationality in Spades

    These are possibly the 5 best sentences you’ll ever read
    1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.

    2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

    3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

    4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!

    5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.

    Someone sent me this. I simply can’t find any argument with the ideas.

    There IS merit in striving to negate each idea, mind you, but the simple truth is that none of them works in real life… if you need to read about the failures then you won’t get it.

     

  • Ruminations on Sheep

    Been invested in The New Forum for the last few days…

    But someone over there stirred up a thought.

    Here’s a point of reference (thanks Matt): Sheep.

    There’s a flaw in the good Colonel’s paradigm that I have been ignoring; in  the real world the sheep control the purse strings!

    I’m sure most of you have seen his observation and were certain he was talking about YOU?

    I certainly did. Mind you his observations are ‘right on’, but I’ve read, and re-read his words with a certain glee until today.

    Sheep don’t vote on what Sheep Dog saves them!