I know how stupid I am. And that is what REALLY worries me about my country, because the people running it are stupider than me. All my life I assumed that people who got elected or appointed to high places must know more than me, at least, and I could be assured that at least in some ways, they might therefore be trusted to make better decisions for my country. I have been disavowed of that notion now, long ago.

Here we have supposedly highly educated people running the show, eduated at some of our nation’s most elite universities. Yet, they seem to be devoid of not only basic knowledge of history and economics, subjects you would think would be basic to even rudimentary understanding of how our country works and how it relates to the rest of the world, but grossly lacking in simple common sense.

It’s like the planet Socialism landed a space ship from outer space and dumped off its refuse of losers who already screwed up their world onto ours. We have a President who claims to be the smartest guy in human history for whom we have never seen a grade score from college, nor any records whatsoever from same. The press seems not to care, but perpetuates the myth of his consumate smartness while demanding anal inspections of the most minute details of every Republican candidate’s past. Rick Perry’s Texas A&M grades hit the intrnet five minutes after he announced, yet crickets chirp before you will see the President’s proof of brilliance school records. How come?

Leaving that aside, let’s look at some of his “appointments”. We have Timothy Geithner, who heads up the agency that collects taxes from us, yet cheats on his own, and claims to not be able to use Turbotax as an “excuse”. Hello????

We have a supposedly brilliant Secretary of Energy who wants us to pay ten dollar gas to promote his bogus global warming green energy agenda to enrich his and Obama’s rich donors while hurting severely every Texas businessman who has to drive long distances to work, every midwest farmer, everybody in the country who depends on gas-powered tansportation to haul things, work and eat.

But, it gets worse. Because now we have Republicans running who are discussing contraception and not gas prices, egged on by the hostile news media who are in the tank for the Democrats one and all.

We’re running on fumes, people!! The country is broke while Michelle takes yet one more pricey vacay on the taxpayer dime. Gas is scheduled to hit 5 bucks a gallon. The Democrat Senate has blocked every spending cut attempt to get the situation under control, and the Republicans have been too wishy washy, caving to this “bipartisan” nonsense the Dems periodically run by them as regularly as Lucy snatches out the football from Charlie Brown.

I’m frustrated. I want to be led by somebody smarter than me who will return my country to fiscal responsibility, stop the giveaway goodies to the losers of the world, and drill baby drill and bring down that pipeline from Canada to get us energy independent and get the gas prices down. We should be able to tell the Middle East to take their oil and feed it to their camels if we used the least bit of common sense in developing our own resources.

The cherry on the cake came in my mail last week as “good news” from my medicare advantage insurance provider. They announced “new services” Medicare is now paying for with money earned by you and me, the productive of the country, and virtually every one is to shore up somebody who, frankly, has made “loser” choices with their own health. You will be happy to know that if you choose to abuse alcohol, are depressed, are engaging in irresponsible sexual conduct so you might get a sexually transmitted disease, are obese or making nonheart-healthy eating choices, medicare will counsel and intervene you and whatever for “free”- To you, the person making bad choices, not for the rest of us who are paying for it for you.

Now maybe that sounds a little harsh here, on my part, but hey. We’re BROKE. And this stuff is why. Here’s your free behavioral therapy from me: quit drinking. Quit whoring. Quit overeating. Get off your ass and get some excercise. And quit charging me for your bad choices.

And those of you running for office: learn some history, learn some economics, learn some common sense, and get the gas prices down. Quit living high on my hog while I eat the pig’s feet. I’m ready for somebody with a brain cell not polluted with the cocaine of power ( not to mention the real kind) to run my country. ..somebody SMARTER than me.

I’ve been musing on the lack-luster condition of the Republican nominating processes as it currently stands. And I’ve been looking forward. All I can see is the problems, with one slim ray of hope at the end. We stand in a unique position to run this socialist poser and his Democrats out of town, but we are blowing it. Here’s what we’ve got:

Mitt Romney: The default establishment candidate due to the establishment’s Huntsman-farce falling apart before it started. He has money and organization. He is pretty. He is the ultimate insider pretending to be an outsider. Of him the establishment says, “Well, at least he made the Olympics run on time.” He is the ultimate moderate candidate striving for nomination in a conservative world. He bangs the drum of family values but don’t you dare say “Mormon” while doing that. He is polished and poised and feels he is the one and only one who can beat Obama and the Karl Roves and National Reviews of the world have been doing their best to convince us of that from the beginning. According to the bosses at the RNC it’s Romney’s turn to run. Why? Because we say so. However, a funny thing happened on his way to the nomination. He has peaked in the conservative polls at around 20% and can’t seem to break through that barrier, probably because he is the grandfather of Obamacare, which he steadfastly refuses to abandon and is a global warming geek. True, he has promised to destroy Obamacare under a strained Federalism argument, trying unsuccessfully to walk both sides of how it’s just dandy for Massechusettes (it isn’t by the way; it’s an abject failure) but can’t be tolerated nationally. He has also rejected “Cap and Trade” but how can one intellectually do so, if one embraces the well-debunked myth that manmade global warming is destroying humanity? To top it all off, Obama’s minions have made it clear Romney is the one they want to run against. While he is in reality about 80% of what conservatives want in a candidate, it’s that other 20% that will keep conservatives from having anything to do with him.

Newt Gingrich: with Reagan and Buckley, Gingrich is one of the fathers of modern conservatism but is rejected by the most fanatic of the conservative movement, and perhaps rightfully so. Of the course of his long and sometime distinguished political career Newt has been the one and only one who has ever actually CUT government spending. He has recently joked that Romney is rich because of Gingrich’s work in harnessing government. He is the latest in the series of “Not Romneys” to vault to the front of the heap but this one seems to have more legs than the others. He is glib and overwhelmingly intelligent. He is crafty and knows well which levers to pull behind the curtain to manipulate government. He is a good debater and attacks Obama’s media wing adroitly. But then there’s all the baggage. Over the course of his public service he has said about everything one can say, on both sides of each issue. He has a string of failed marriages, begging the question of just how important that is, or isn’t, but certainly is important to Romney, who paints the contrast, and to Christian conservatives. The implicit question is “if he can cheat on his wife(ves) why won’t he cheat on us?” Yet he is enjoying a conservative wave now. He appeared before the so-called leaders of the conservative/tea party movement in the last few days and while receiving some pointed questioning, in the end he enjoyed a standing ovation from them. Besides his personal foibles and his believed flip-flops, he has real problems in lack of money and lack of organization. A recent story suggested he may not even be able to get on the key Ohio ballot because of that.

Ron Paul: Holding down the far right flank with the same verve of Davy Crockett holding down the Alamo, Ron Paul, the Libertarian who would be a Republican, has managed to nail down a 15-18% stake, at least in some Iowa polls. He is consistently far right. So far right it makes rightists uncomfortable. His followers are unswerving in the support and admiration and fight to the last breath in Dr. Paul’s defense. But he has reached his high water mark. Congressman Paul may very well win the Iowa caucuses because, well because they are caucuses, not votes, and rely on manpower to deliver the faithful to the caucus sites. His volunteers are very good at that and showing up to yell at debates, and to stuff the straw polls. Paul’s intelligence and commitment are unquestionable. But the only people who get a tingle down their leg with what he is saying are those who want to go back to the gold standard, isolationists, strict constructionists and others who are stuck in the gilded age of the 1890s. He has no mass appeal and will never have. No one beyond the denizens of the forums know or understand him and he has no mass media appeal. On TV, he looks like the funny old guy with the old-fashioned ideas.

Rick Perry: of the also-rans, Perry stands out for 17 million reasons. His war chest can keep him in the battle and Texas has a lot of delegates. He is actually a very good candidate but the conservatives buried him over the illegal alien tuition issue and have falsely branded him an amnesty guy, despite Sheriff Arpaio’s recent endorsement. He is making a bit of a comeback but probably too little, too late.

Also rans: Bachmann (too shrill, too kooky, talks to fast), Santorum (yawn), etc. Please just get out of the way. It’s over.

The Point (finally): On top of this great confusion lies the eternal suspicion/mistrust we conservatives harbor. We have been burned so many times we tend to trust no one and get excited about no one. On the left side, there is no Democrat primary fight so many dems are free to cross over in the primaries and vote for whomever they see as the weakest GOP candidate. Absent the money problem, I see a chance of the nomination going into the convention unresolved. After a ballot or two there the delegates will be released. If a deal is not cut (politics make strange bed-fellows) then an open convention is free to nominate the one true unifier of the right: Sarah Palin.

But I can dream can’t I?

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Randall Mead is a simple, country lawyer, scratching out a living in the belly of the beast, the capital of Madiganistan.

It’s the Tea Party, Stupid

The talking bobble heads are punditing themselves crazy, trying to figure out the phenomenon of Herman Cain. There are many similarities between how they covered the Tea Party with how they are covering him, and it is not surprising they still either don’t “get it”, or, more likely, in their fear of their own irrelevance, they don’t want to. For years, they have operated under a comfortable illusion that they, the elites, influence opinion driven by their own agenda, money, and the “politics as usual” they hypocritically pretend not to support, but really are integral parts of themselves.

They forgot about one thing- We, the People, the sleeping giant, finally awakened as the abuses mounted of our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor and decided to take back our country. The Tea Party is truly a grassroots phenomenon, and coalesced spontaneously like a fire lit by a lightening bolt from the hand of God, and is burning and spreading and glowing like embers quietly throughout the body politic even when it appears to be quenched into quietude. They do not realize it is indeed most dangerous to their agenda when quiet, used as they are to astroturfed ginned up political movements meant to challenge it like OWS.

They first tried to ignore the Tea Party, underestimating its numbers at demonstrations if they covered them at all, snidely dismissing it as inconsequential if not a bit goofy. When it grew and grew into a phenomenon so large it could not be ignored, and Tea Party activists began to actively challenge the status quo at raucous town halls of establishment politicians, the demonizing knives came out by both the media and the establishment. The Tea Party was characterized as “extreme”, potentially violent and dangerous, terrorists, even, ignorant, drooling gun-toting redneck uneducated anomalies surely not supported by “mainstream” people. And, worst of all, EVERYONE knew, the Tea Party was the ultimate slur, RAAAAACCCIST!

When the requisite violent racist excesses failed to materialize, the media made them up, then repeated them ad infinitum over and over despite no proof existing whatsoever of the spitting incident, name-calling, etc. they were accusing the Tea Party of doing. And they also claimed organization was behind the Tea Party, a conspiracy of Koch Brothers money and manipulation. They could not believe the competence, order and organizational skills of the ordinary Tea Party individual volunteers could possibly produce such large, organized, clean and well-planned widespread events without an Invisible Hand orchestrating behind the scenes.

Obviously, the Talking Heads had never participated in a PTA organized Halloween Carnival, Church Supper, or local charity event these people had honed their organizational skills on quietly for years as unpaid, local volunteers, or running small businesses doing everything from waiting on customers to cleaning the john while carpooling three children to various activities. They could simply not know, from their life experience, how much We the People are used to doing on a daily basis, and that we don’t need the Koch Brothers to be masters of organization.

So, now we have Herman Cain, the one guy in the race who DOESN”T care about race but about winning The Race to take back America, and has shared our experiences and challenges from the grassroots up. He has tapped into the real power that is the Tea Party, and this is the real power in the upcoming election.

There was a strong hint of the surprising power of the Tea Party in the last election, and while the talking heads are telling themselves the Romney lie and trying to convince us all Cain is just a flash in the pizza pan, Cain may be laughing all the way to the bank. The Tea Party is the real wind beneath the wings of this election, and so far Cain is being lifted on the wings of those ordinary moms and pops who coach little league teams, work at real private sector jobs, and bake the cookies for the Girl Scout meetings. They have not realized yet there are more of us than they anticipate, we are stronger than they know, and while we don’t beat drums in Zuccoti Park, our hearts beat more strongly for America and it is we who are, in the final analysis, raising Cain!

The Occupy protests are being equated by the always-biased liberal media as analogous to the Tea Party protests. This argument is being used to obfuscate their extreme negative features with the old tried and true “he did it too” routine. Every parent and schoolteacher in the world is familiar with this juvenile tactic and to pull it out now is just embarrassing. But what else is new with the hypocritical elites in both media and government?

Any logical comparison of the two movements will force any fair person to conclude they are vastly different. Of course, when has the media or any Democrat in government been burdened with ACTUAL concern for “fairness”?? First of all, the fact that both are fairly large movements with demands for change is about all the two phenomena actually share. And the media immediately betrays its lack of “fairness” because it denigrated the Tea Party movement from the get-go while supporting sympathetically the Occupy movement. Why might that have been? Let’s just compare and contrast the two groups and see if we might get a clue, as if we don’t already have one:

First, the Tea Party movement arose totally spontaneously as a vast outpouring of frustration among middle class working people, older traditionalists and many younger people who were disturbed as they saw the traditional values with which they were raised eroding for their children and also worried about their financial future. Most of the people who joined in with the Tea Party movement in some fashion had never been involved with politics other than voting or supporting a few local candidates and certainly not with “protesting”.

I am a typical example- I’m 68, a small business owner with my husband, raised 3 kids, traditional values kind of people but not any kind of religious “extreme” in any way, and conservative on fiscal issues. As I watched my country erode in all these areas with alarm, the first Tea Party event was going to happen on my small town square. I got a wooden stake out of the garage, a couple of pieces of poster board and a roll of duct tape and made me a sign. One side said “Cut Government Spending”. The other had a picture of the Come and Take It cannon from Texas history and said “ My Ancestor Was There and I’m Here”, which is true. I wanted my sign to symbolize that my ancestors also stood up against tyranny and helped give us the rights we were now exercising on this town square.

I’d never been to a protest in my life. I drove to the town square- my husband was working and couldn’t go- parked the car and walked over to join hundreds of people already there. A couple of young guys with Audit the Fed signs were standing around and I asked them “what am I supposed to do, smoke dope or something?” and they all laughed. So did the nearby cops. I attended a number of Tea Party events after that. Nobody was “racist”. Nobody was “violent”. The cops were, if anything, sympathetic to the cause., but always very professional, and you could tell it was an easy gig for them.

There were all kinds of people there- several young women with kids told me at every event I attended “ I never cared about politics before, but had to get involved for my kids’ sakes.” Many people brought kids. One young couple I saw, at least, were white parents with a black kid. There were all races at every one I attended. Some of the most effective speakers at each were black.

The media excoriated us- as did the liberal politicians- we were called “racists”, “terrorists”, etc.etc.etc. I forget all the pejoratives, oh, and the really funny part was the “Astroturf” label. Funny, I am still waiting for that check from the “Koch Brothers’, who I never heard of until this stuff started. It was a VERY DIFFERENT reaction from Nancy Pelosi’s lauding of the present protests, which have been replete with violence and arrests, to her tearful, quavering indictment of the Tea Party protests as they dared to wave their American flags aggressively with small children sitting on their shoulders, prayed, and meticulously cleaned up the trash before leaving their protest site half a million strong with no arrests.

The current protests are orchestrated and coordinated by numerous Soros-backed liberal groups and protesters unable to articulate why they are there, and in some cases, paid to be there. EVERY Tea Partier can articulate their simple demands of less government spending, smaller government and, novel idea, adhering to the country’s founding document, the US Constitution. Compare and contrast. The Tea Party wants the proven successful system of capitalism to be allowed to work, while the Occupy people want to throw it out and institute the proven failed policies of socialism/Marxism, if they can articulate any policy at all.

The current protests are violent, law breaking, replete with arrests, destructive of property, and even symbolized by the grossly crude picture of a protestor defecating on a police car. The Tea Party protests had NO violence except from leftists, no arrests although much larger and more widespread crowds, and rather than trashing the venues, carefully picked up their own trash. Occupy protesters are costing the cities money everywhere they go in excess security and cleaning services, while the Tea Party left their place cleaner than they found it and caused the local law enforcement authorities no danger to themselves or others. Yet, the media criticized the Tea Party while praising the violent, trash-creating, communist endorsing, Astroturfed, anti-Semitic, Occupy forces.

Go figger.

The media and government elites tried to ignore the Tea Party, and when they could no longer do so, they lied about us, called us names, accused us of things we never intended, never did, and never would do. By contrast they gave reams of undeserved positive publicity to the Occupy people, lied about THEM positively and covered up their astroturfed origins, and are ignoring the things they intend, are doing, and plan to do. The Tea Party wants to lift up the individual by reducing spending, taxing and government, and promotes individual opportunity and freedom.

The Occupy people cannot even speak as individuals, parroting in unison the “leaders” with their weird chants, they want to demonize successful individuals, spend “other people’s money” forcefully confiscated by government, tear down the very system that made our country the greatest in the world, and limit opportunity and freedom. They laud “democracy” and mob rule while ignoring the fact that our Constitution established a Republic for the very reason that “democratic” mob rule ends up repressing the individual, not freeing him or her. No thanks. Give me tea and freedom, not Soros’ bitter koolaid. And will somebody PLEASE teach these children some history before it is too late?

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – URGENT
Government News Association

Alleged Senior Terror leader Robert Jones was killed in Indiana early Friday morning by a U.S. missile, marking the highest-profile takedown of a terror leader since the raid on Sarah Palin’s compound.

Jones was a U.S.-born auto mechanic, became a prominent figure with the Tea Party in the American midwest, one of the network’s most active branches. He was involved in writing for several right-wing blogs in the United States in recent years, using his fluent English and Internet savvy to draw recruits to carry out thought-crime attacks. President Obama signed an order in early 2012 making him the second American to be placed on the “kill or capture” list. The first was Imam Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen. Using that al-Awlaki precedent, the first known assassination of a native-born, American citizen, President Obama had no problem ordering Jones assassination, of whom Obama said, “It was only a matter of time before his hate-filled words, widely disseminated on the internet, led to violence against our brave Federal workers and our enlightened administration. We had to act proactively in this situation. It is a policy we will explore further as the need arises.” The assassination of Jones is also the first such proactive act of patriotism by our dear leader since the Perdue Initiative was proclaimed, suspending all American elections given the continuing financial crisis, caused by the stone-walling Republican Party, which has since been ordered dissolved.

“The Tea Party has lost one of its ideological leaders, which is a huge blow,” a former intelligence official who has tracked Jones for years told the Government News Agency.

The Indiana government and Defense Ministry announced Jones’ death, but gave no details. TSA officials confirmed that the Tea Party leader was dead, with one describing him as a “big fish.” Several officials would not confirm or deny if it was a Homeland Security airstrike, but a senior TSA source confirmed it was a Homeland Security missile that struck the terror leader.

The 40-year-old al-Jones had been in the U.S. crosshairs since his killing was approved by President Obama in April 2012 — making him the first American placed on the Homeland Security “kill or capture” list. At least twice, airstrikes were called in on locations in Indiana and Kentucky where Jones was suspected of being, but he wasn’t harmed. In May, U.S. forces were able to track his truck but were unable to take him out.

Jones, born in New Mexico to American parents, was believed to be key in turning the Tea Party’s affiliate in the midwest into what Obama officials have called the most significant and immediate threat to the Obama regime. Jones, was eductated at Liberty University, long known to be a hot bed of anti-government sentiment. He was also suspected of being a Christian.

The former intelligence official said that with Jones gone, the branch “still retains a lot of capability.”
“He understood American society very well. He understood American idioms and pop culture and the old Constitution which has since been abolished and how to appeal to Americans,” he told GSA News. “The trouble is, it’s very hard for them to replicate this.”

Known as an eloquent teacher who spread English-language articles about the out-dated concept of liberty on the Internet, calling for resistence against our Dear Leader’s regime, Jone’s role was to inspire and — it is believed — even directly recruit militants who could carry out attacks.

For additional information, click here for the approved story on the Government News Agency website.

Dateline: Booneville, Indiana
September 30, 2014
by Daniel B. Young, licensed journalist (34A729-B)
Government News Association

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Yes, I cannibalized a Fox News story to make this little story. We have crossed a line today. We killed a “bad guy.” However, this “bad guy” was an native-born citizen of the United States of America. President Obama ordered his assassination. If the President can unilaterally order American citizens to be assassinated because they are claimed to be “bad guys” then only someone’s subjective definition of “bad guy” protects us from death by government.

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Randall Mead is a simple, country lawyer, scratching out a living in the belly of the beast, the capital of Madiganistan.