This was yesterday’s man………………….
This is today’s NFL player………………..
This is today’s Speaker of the House……………………
This is America Tomorrow
I’ll stick with yesterday
Rich Hoffman

This was yesterday’s man………………….
This is today’s NFL player………………..
This is today’s Speaker of the House……………………
This is America Tomorrow
I’ll stick with yesterday
Rich Hoffman

Family Supports Medical Marijuana
How far would you go to ease your child’s pain?
Unless Ohio’s law changes, some families are considering relocating. Family Supports Medical Marijuana
That is the tag line of the progressive organization Ohio Rights Group who is attempting to exploit children in the same way that government schools do in order to pass school levies. They want Ohio passage of laws to use medical marijuana for children as a gateway to overall pot legalization. As usual, isolated cases of children suffering are being exploited by the masses to achieve an ultimate corrosive goal, the ability to smoke pot in public—and it is disgusting. If you voted in the recent primaries in Ohio dear reader you likely saw some of the activity this group was pandering as they are attempting to put the issue on the November 2014 ballot. Here is what they are saying.
Friends of the Ohio Rights Group, do you have one day, or even 4 hours this year to help put therapeutic cannabis and industrial hemp on the ballot in Ohio? Wondering how to use up your vacation time at work? On May 6, we will be executing a coordinated effort to collect a large amount of signatures. Signature gatherers will be provided with training, materials, a polling location, and rules about petitioning at polling locations.
Every single person who exits a polling place is guaranteed to be a registered voter in that county. Teams are being organized now to concentrate on target locations with the goal of obtaining the required number of signatures in 44 of Ohio’s 88 counties by May 7, 2014.
Sign up to be a Polls for Patients hero today. And please, reach out to your friends and family and encourage them to help as well. Click on the link above and someone will contact you to let you know how you can help. Share this link with others and ask them to do the same!
United We Win!!
http://www.ohiorightsgroup.org/
Let me make my position quite clear. I am against drugs of all kinds. I am against alcohol, especially for intoxication purposes, I am against cigarettes, I am against Viagra, Rogaine, aspirin—I don’t like taking substances that alter my state of consciousness, or attempt to trick nature, or change my genetic makeup in any fashion. If something is in pain it is because something is broken and needs to be fixed. It is best not to numb one’s senses to pain—it is best to solve the problem to begin with. We live in an age where there are cures for cancer, although the medical industry does not accept them—and regenerative growth is also an option—again, the medical industry does not support the repair of people. The medical industry advocates the degradation of people so that they can profit off their misery—so they do not support cancer cures and generative growth—generally. This is why they support legalization of marijuana for patients in pain instead of real genetic fixes for the ailments.
The goal of all progressives is interdependence and mass collectivism and marijuana helps them reach critical mass. Marijuana numbs the mind of users and drives down in the mind of participants their individual ambition which helps considerably the progressive objectives in society. Marijuana and alcohol are all about turning off a mind and surrendering thought to outside chemical influences. What make marijuana worse than alcohol are the lasting effects. The ingestion is not as violent as alcohol but it sticks around in the body a whole lot longer. Alcohol consumption is a quick experience. The drunken objectives can be achieved quickly and the body dumps the waste just as fast through the digestive system. Marijuana is much slower in that it doesn’t get processed so much digestively, but through the respiration system and attacks the mind directly.
I have known a lot of people who smoked dope yet I never have even under coercive circumstances. I have heard all the claims that people can smoke dope occasionally and still have successful and productive lives. Well, not by my measure which many think is ridiculously too high. My measure is the one that counts since it is the pace setter for conversation as the target objective. Smoking pot before sex, or to ease away the stresses of a hard day, or just to feel the euphoria of a high is weak and participants will amount to very little in life. I can always tell a pot smoker even a casual one just by speaking to them—so nobody on earth can tell me it has no effect on the mind. Marijuana smoke destroys thought and numbs ambition. Pot legalization advocates can conjure up the falsehood in their minds that pot laws were created to protect the monopolization of competing businesses, but ultimately the stuff is illegal because there is a real threat in attacking the very soul of a productive society by dramatically lowering the GDP of a nation.
If you look at the donor lists of progressive organizations like Ohio Rights Group you will eventually find people like George Soros and his other wealthy friends who are ultimately looking to profit off the fall of America. Wealth redistribution of American assets to a global government led by the United Nations is their goal. Pot is being used to destroy the American workforce and the ambition that drives it. It is nearly impossible for a child to attend a public school or college and not have interaction with a pot culture of some kind and progressive groups are behind the effort. It is a military strategy against American life pure and simple. It has nothing to do with saving a few children from seizures. It’s about attacking American productivity by destroying the minds of its youth, and nothing else.
Play chess with an habitual marijuana user, or even play Xbox with them. Two drug induced players against each other may think that they are both good, but if they play against a person who does not engage in drug activity of any kind the match isn’t even close. Marijuana changes the thinking process of a human being for the worse—and that is a trade-off that is not worth any measure of pain relief. A body can be in terrible pain but if it has its mind intact—it is still superior to the pain-free body of a person intoxicated. There is nothing good about mental inebriation. There is nothing sexy about a girl so stoned or drunk that she doesn’t even know if she is wearing cloths any longer, there is nothing cool about being so drunk that a person can’t count or string together two sentences, and there is nothing cool about seeing everything in life through rainbow colors and unicorns induced from THC consumption. The reality under such conditions is a false one, and not one of any merit.]
Ohio Rights Group wants to bring to a conservative state more purple tendencies to fulfill a progressive strategy of conquest. They don’t really care of families move to drug induced Colorado or socialist driven Seattle. They want to spread progressive belief everywhere and the best way for them to do that is by getting people stoned so they are too stupid to think otherwise. Like scum bag boys who want to have sex with a girl, but don’t want the challenge of winning her over traditionally, they seek to get her intoxicated so she’s easy. Progressives want Ohioans high on marijuana so that they are too stupid to vote other than the socialist collectivism they are advocating. And that is the beginning and end of their story. It certainly isn’t about helping people. It is about destroying them.
Rich Hoffman

Those who love the status quo enjoyed the primaries of May 2014. After failing a school levy in November, Fairfield got their money six months later putting the issue on the ballot again and having next to nobody show up to vote. Cindy Carpenter kept her Butler County Commissioner seat, the Butler County police got their money in Liberty Township and across Ohio 90% of all school levies passed—again due to extremely low turnout. Several Tea Party Central Committee seats were thrown back to the GOP loyalists and the biggest GOP representative of all, John Boehner easily kept his seat against Tea Party type challengers. Big government lovers, like the Cincinnati Enquirer enjoyed thoroughly the retention of the safe old and beatable GOP strong holds and big tax initiatives against challengers. Here is how they described Boehner’s win:
Throughout the night, Boehner blasted Winteregg, taking 66 percent or more of the vote.
With 41 percent of precincts reporting, Boehner had 71 percent of the vote with Winteregg trailing at 23 percent. Liberty Township businessman Eric Gurr had 6 percent.
The GOP and its supporters are happy that they were able to survive a challenge to their authority. They are short-sited enough to believe this primary year will get them off the hook forever with the Tea Party—which they supported in 2010 to take control of the House of Representatives, but abandoned by 2012 leading largely to the reelection of Barack Obama. In the end Obama and Boehner are a lot closer together in political ideology than an average farmer or member of the Tea Party. In GOP circles the common belief is that everything will now return to normal. Radical Tea Party types—those who believe in the United States Constitution will drift away into oblivion once again to hide in discontent behind the shadows. The statists once the polls closed Tuesday night celebrated. Good times were back—there would be a return of the dinner parties, the back slapping, and the golf games—and gone would be all this crazy talk of Constitutional value. Progressive advancement of the old socialist doctrine would continue unencumbered—at least that’s what they believed.
I listened with patience to my many friends that night disappointed with the results and their showings in the election. The school levy issue is a predictable strategy—in Fairfield if they didn’t get their money this time, they’d try again in November—and again and again until they were successful. This is the way of the game, if the public does not give the money the first time, take away some services, make it hard on the public, then ask again once the extortion measures have taken place. In a lot of ways, the GOP has done much the same thing. They simply waited out the storm, dumped large amounts of money at public perception, and put selections to the public during a primary season where most people are far more concerned about the upcoming NFL draft, and the new summer movie releases.
The Enquirer was very happy that most of the potential voters out there stayed away from the polls and those who did vote, supported their social concerns. They will continue to be happy so long as this cycle continues. But it can’t. The GOP is operating in an unsustainable fashion, the communist oriented Democrats are even further out of touch, the school levy increases cannot continue forever, and eventually the police levies will run out because their wages like their teacher counterparts are too high for the services they provide. The reason the GOP and Enquirer enjoyed their primary night was not because their social objectives are superior, but because most people just don’t care anymore. They don’t want to vote because they don’t see the point.
When it is said that “Boehner blasted Winteregg, taking 66 percent or more of the vote” the enthusiasm wasn’t even hidden, yet 66 percent of nearly nothing is the reality. Boehner had 66% of a voting group that was small and already behind him to begin with, so the results are not a surprise. The tragedy is in the apathy of the voters who see so little hope in going to the polls to vote, that they didn’t even bother. And in their absence, public school looters, career politicians, and general scum bags were allowed to resume their activities of treachery.
Oblivious to them all while they knocked glasses of wine together and whispered in each other’s ears about their plans for the next golf game is the end game of this whole election mess. What happens to them when the next generation simply doesn’t care enough to vote—because most of the voters in this primary are from the old days—those over 50 years of age and still believe in civic responsibility? What happens to the GOP when those people are gone?
Their extinction is a forgone conclusion. They cannot continue. The system will not withstand the pressures and apathy of the future. The Enquirer is happy that Boehner had 66% of the vote from a group of participants who are in the extreme minority. The majority cares more about who the Bengals will draft in the first round of the 2014 NFL draft than they do if Boehner is Speaker of the House. And because of the choices everyone involved in the 2014 victories made, from the Enquirer to Boehner’s handlers—the end of the road will hit them hard sooner than later. When that happens, the Tea Party will still be there when the mountainous network of lap dogs have left the GOP vulnerable and chewing their own tails. When that happens it will be remembered the choice of words used in those elections. And “blasted” will find a resurrection to fit the cause of the new day against the old GOP.
Rich Hoffman

I found it fascinating and ironic that a family of foxes made a home in the drain pipe at the end of my driveway. For as long as I have been alive I have loved the character of Zorro which means “fox” in Spanish. They are nocturnal creatures who are extremely difficult to catch. As a young man in Liberty Township I knew plenty of people who trapped foxes hoping to catch them for their pelts. I always hoped that the foxes would evade capture—like Zorro—my favorite defender of justice. Only a few times did I see them captured, but otherwise they were like mysteries of the night. I would see them occasionally like ghosts sneaking across the yard—cat like, but large like dogs with their big bushy tails flowing out like the cape of Zorro. As soon as your eyes focused on them, they were gone again leaving their presence to be in question—as if doubt could be placed on their existence. So it came with some shock that a fox came to my home to give birth to her pups. It is highly unusual to see a fox in the daylight but because the babies had no idea what night and day was yet, they were up at all hours blowing the cover of the normally nocturnal fox. Here is a video of their activity at the end of my driveway.
Zorro is a character created in 1919 by New York–based pulp writer Johnston McCulley. The character has been featured in numerous books, films, television series, and other media. Zorro is the secret identity of Don Diego de la Vega, a Californio nobleman and master living in Los Angeles during the era of Spanish rule.
The character has undergone changes through the years, but the typical image of him is a dashing black-clad masked outlaw who defends the people of the land against tyrannical officials and other villains. Not only is he too cunning and foxlike for the bumbling authorities to catch, but also delights in publicly humiliating them. That last part is a trait that I have personally carried with me most of my life. It is what a fox does and if I had to identify with an animal, it would be that of a fox.
That left a question in my mind as to why if that fox were so smart, why would she decide to have babies at the end of my driveway right next to a road that has frequent travelers just feet from their play area? A fox should be smarter than that. Her nest was quite well out in the open causing many people to drive by and slow down in disbelief wondering if they were really seeing what they thought they saw. I watched the fox and her cubs playing and nursing just feet from the crushing tires of the large cars going by and found it interesting that the little animals never jumped out under them even by accident. The mother was secure in her knowledge that her children would escape danger. She seemed unconcerned.
Even when I went out to film the fox and her litter she seemed unconcerned by me. I deliberately stayed away so that the little ones would not become complacent to my presence, because they needed to stay vigilant. Not all humans they encounter will respect them they way I do. Many will want to make a coat out of them. So it is important that the little fox cubs not let down their guard. But the mother had made her decision after very careful assessment and her pick of birthing location was no accident. The nature of a fox is always a planned escapade that has elusiveness in their prerogative.
In the morning several times the mother fox would sit next to my driveway as the sun came up and I would drive my loud motorcycle right by her and she would not move. She had determined by some unknown method that I was not a threat to her or her children—but how did she know? As I thought of her strategy she was actually quite clever in her endeavor to give birth in that particular location. The success rate of having babies in the drain pipe is that coyotes, cats, and other small carnivores won’t have easy pickings of her cubs while she’s away hunting food. Her dangers are minimized if only she could have assurance that the humans who can see her in plain site will respect her space. The cars that go by are much less of a concern to her dashing children than the natural predators of the nearby woods.
The more I watched her over the last few weeks the more respect I had for her. A few times I had to chase off gawkers who were being too intrusive of her space, and the Butler County Animal control people had to be talked off the wire a few times—thinking that they needed to take some kind of action. My wife told them that the little ones would be big enough to go to the woods on their own soon, so their services were not needed. A few other nosy people behaved similarly thinking that it was their job to remove the little creatures from human eyes—because foxes are known carnivores and do kill cats and small dogs. To them a small army of foxes growing up under my driveway was a threat to their lives in some way. At our home we have an outside cat that lingers in our garage but is out and about in the day and the cat and the fox do not pay each other much attention. In our backyard is a ground-hog that is a full-time resident and harasses our two dogs with his pudgy body wobbling across the yard when he sees them. The fox has shown no desire to bother any of these animals. They are all living happily on my property without fanfare.
They will soon be gone and it is unlikely that I will ever see anything like them again. The more I watched them, the more cunning I came to understand the mother fox to be. Like Zorro, she knew how to hide from her enemies in broad daylight in much the way Don Diego hid in society disguised from his foxlike justice seeking alter ego. The mother fox had made the ultimate strategic move to preserve the lives of her children from the natural predators of the wild—she found safety under my driveway knowing well enough that my family would not be a threat to hers. And she hedged her bet that she would gain enough human support to fight off the parasites of humankind as she insulated herself away from the threats of the woods—until her children were big enough to care for themselves. The cars were surely dangerous, but not as much so as snakes, and other carnivores looking to feed themselves on the young babies—so the fox placed herself between the dangers of two worlds to find that perfect balance of safety for her children.
It was a bold move by the mother, but I am happy to have assisted her—a fellow fox of outsmarting the very nature of life itself and mocking it with her bold presence. Her daylight presence was almost like giving the middle-finger to the nearby woods and all the animals there wishing to make an easy meal of her babies. She knew what she was doing and I’m glad she did. It was a sight and trust that I will not soon forget. From one fox to another…………………………..adios.
“Z”
Rich Hoffman

When anybody uses the term, “we must educate our children to compete in the global marketplace,” or any variation of that term the instigator is totally ignorant as to what makes education valuable. They falsely believe that education consists in teaching children left-winged ideology and work habits of a 100% commitment to institutionalism and that since the rest of the world is moving in that direction, that American education must consist of these erroneous premises. After all, political “leaders” see how things are done in China, and Japan, and they believe they must copy those methods—which is probably the dumbest thing that could be introduced to an American workforce and the people who make it up. People who believe that “education” as defined by Common Core standards is the way to direct young minds might as well be crack addicts instructing others on responsible living. The point of education eludes them making them a menace to the discussion of learning.
The most important attribute public education could and should implement into an instructional system of any kind, is the ability to think. The second thing it could do would be to teach students to be competent human beings. Anything outside of those parameters is useless to a human mind, and merely ornamental. Education is not a race against the socialists of Europe, the communists of China, or the kamikaze driven Easterner. Americans are imaginative, intuitive, and utilize large amounts of horse sense in their utilization of productivity and their education system needs to reflect this trend.
Americans fix tractors often with shovel handles, solve complicated engineering feats with bubble gum, and produce more patents than anyplace else in the world—because they are a free people who are at liberty to think. However modern education which leans way to far to the political left, is about chasing the rest of the foolish world teaching our youth to be just as stupid as everyone else, and to turn off their minds to the process of thought—and to embrace blind submission to institutional authority. This is the most damaging attribute that can be taught to an American.
If those who support government education want real success, not just statistical success relative to the rest of the world’s false methods they would teach young minds to “think” not just remember facts given to them by the state. Even conservatives are guilty of this tendency of believing that by committing resources to “education” that they have done their job. They don’t consider the quality of education, only that someone is doing something educationally related. They don’t think of what the implications of education may be if the wrong things are learned, or the wrong interpretation of history is broadcast to young minds awaiting programming of their brain by trusted adults.
Michelle Rhee the popular education reformer at the heart of the movie Waiting for Superman is wrong when she says that education is the key to the success of American children. That cliché is overused and ridiculous. It is a mythology designed to preserve the education culture and their utopian vision for the world. Most of those people are well-intentioned human beings who simply love children and teaching them—but they do not consider in those assessments the quality of their love, or their intelligence as factors that can hold back children from living otherwise fruitful lives. They assume that they are qualified to teach just because the state has given them a license to do so—a license that meant the teacher had to comply with the state’s version of reality.
The way to alleviate these faux pas in education is to teach children to think. Why is Common Core so vile and evil? The reason is that the only way it can work is to limit the intelligence of the most brilliant and force them to only be as good as the weakest links. Our modern education system does not like making such value judgments—which is why they ultimately are failures. The belief with Common Core is that if children spin their wheels copying off students from countries reeking with statism, that success will abound and that such success can be had by not asserting value to the quality of the students or their educations. It cannot. If students aren’t taught first how to think, or how to be competent human beings, the education system will fail 100% of the time.
If the value is to produce students who will mindlessly serve the state, then modern education throughout the world is doing its job. But if the goal is to teach human beings to invent new things, start businesses, vote correctly, or mentor a child—they are way off the intended target and have no hope of getting there under the current circumstances. Education is more than just lip service—it is a philosophy. It can’t be memorized; it has to be a part of an individual mind. There is no way to cheat it. If garbage is put into a mind, then garbage will come out.
My daughter sent me a text the other day that featured a cartoon of a young person reading a book. The caption read, “Uploading data to the human brain.” What we feed our brains is what we ultimately become. If we read good books, think good thoughts, and use our imaginations to explore possibilities, we will have reasonable success in life. But before that can happen, “good” has to be identified, and stood behind. If on the other hand we put into our minds garbage like pornography, sports stats, trivial nonsense like global warming issues, political diatribes and that kind of thing, our minds over time will become encumbered with sluggish thought processes. Education is not good unless the value of good accompanies it. A well-rounded education is not exploring sexuality, worshiping the earth, or supporting teacher unions. It is about learning to think and living as a competent individual.
It is utterly shocking how many functioning adults in 2014 are incompetent fools. The only way I can avoid this incompetency is to not leave my driveway in the morning, because there are some really stupid people functioning in the world—which is evidence that our education system is a complete failure. Yet politicians want us to do more of this foolishness so they can get their fingers on federal money dangled like bait in a trap to supersede our state sovereignty. That is just idiotic.
It is easy to make clichéd comments about education without considering the implications and it happens all the time. But the answer is not in just hiring more teachers, giving more money to teachers, or building more schools. That is not enough. The real intent of education is in teaching people to “think.” Without thought there is no education, there is no mind, and there certainly isn’t any kind of future. Without thought, there is nothing—but empty promises and misery. And I want no part in that.
Rich Hoffman

For the first time that I can think of the official Star Wars weekend launched a spectacular amount of news over the first weekend of May. First the new cast was announced for the new films—which had their first script read together last week. At midnight the new Rebels television show released their new preview which can be seen below. Guess who was watching it at 12:01 AM in the morning of May 4th? Me! On top of all that even the Cincinnati Reds dedicated a whole weekend against their first place division rivals the Milwaukee Brewers. It was Star Wars weekend at Great American Ballpark in Downtown Cincinnati. My family went on Friday night when after the game there was a spectacular fireworks display to the music of the famed musical conductor John Williams that ignited the sky. From the premium seats in Great American Ballpark it was the best fireworks display I had ever seen. Just a bit behind home plate, most of the people who normally sit in that section had got up and left leaving us nearly alone in the coveted section and completely untouched by other human beings. However most of the 30,000+ crowd stuck around with their children and they loved the show with much emotion. During the entire game Friday night, Star Wars characters were all over the field and the music was piped in through the stadium and it was genuinely inspiring to see the two entertainment franchises coming together like that.
Leading up to that baseball game many of the die-hard Reds fans on talk radio and elsewhere were perplexed as to why the baseball team even attempted to cater to a new “geeky” demographic group. I wanted to tell them, but they lacked the language to understand. Just like they would never understand why I kept checking my UPS tracking number on my Rebel Transport during the game hoping it would arrive for a vicious game of X-Wing the following Saturday. I’m 46 years old and to their minds should be interested in a lot of other things—but I am part of that demographic that the Reds were reaching out to—and among young people there are a lot more like me coming to age.
During the Reds game I had to explain to my daughter how when I was younger I had to make a difficult cultural decision. I was spectacular in sports and every teacher who coached a sport wanted me to be on their team. I was the fastest kid in my school especially during my grade school years. Athletically, I could have done anything I wanted to. But, culturally back then, it was taboo to enjoy Star Wars because that made a person categorically a geek. And I loved Star Wars. I was friends with one of the most popular girls in my school and her younger brother was one of my best friends. Through her I could have had access to the upper echelons of public school popularity. But I hated it and wanted nothing to do with any of that politicking. Instead her brother would come to my house on a Friday night and bring all his Star Wars toys and he, my brother, my brother’s friends and I would play with all those toys until late into the night. I never got sick of it even when I was older and my girl friend was interested in boys and all the kids my age were going to dances and hanging out at football games. She thought I was weird because I had no interest in the life she lived. I had picked Star Wars over sports because the culture dictated that you had to choose.
I thought it astonishing that the Reds actually had a Star Wars weekend because finally after 30 years of human evolution the marketing department for the Cincinnati Reds understood that if they want to survive into the future, that they better find a way to appeal to the “Star Wars Geeks.” The game of baseball with all its traditions is struggling to appeal to younger audiences, so they are getting creative even though in an interview with Brandon Philips on 700 WLW, he clearly didn’t understand.
In a lot of ways the new X-Wing Miniatures game is closely associated with those late night sessions playing Star Wars as a kid, and even as a grown adult I’d still rather do that than hang out in some other venue doing something I’d consider utterly useless. Many people confuse Star Wars and Star Trek as being of the same thing, but they are radically different. Star Wars is not about just exploring new frontiers in space and the interactions of characters with different backgrounds and species types. Star Wars is a deep, and rich mythology that works in ways that religion struggles with and is a creation of our times exploring all the primary concerns of our day. Star Wars for me is a western in that it is primarily concerned with the same type of honorable values. It is also about technological innovation and has its roots in drag racing where a young George Lucas loved cars and carried that love over into the space ships of Star Wars. Many of the beat up ships of the new Star Wars games are like galactic hot rods and have a similar appeal as Hot Wheel cars, only these can be used strategically to beat an opponent in a game of thought. I have never seen anything like the new Rebel Transport created for a simple game. By itself, it is an amazing work of art.
Ultimately the wars of Star Wars are about value and the popularity of those films in all the venues extending beyond the silver screen are essentially about preserving or destroying values. For me, the stories of those values carried far more weight than just athletic prowess in sports, or the ability to kiss a girl at a dance. Watching the Cincinnati Reds embrace those values gave me tremendous hope for the future transcending a human leap of evolution many were not aware of. But I saw it during the Reds post game fireworks display and the many tens of thousands who were at Great American Ballpark to enjoy the relatively private show. With all the news that came out about Star Wars during the May 4th Weekend I understood with renewed vigor why the first film was titled A New Hope. The movie was not just about a galaxy far, far away a long time ago but about our human race in the here and now. For many, myself included, Star Wars is about a new hope. My infant grandson knows it, the people at the Reds game knew it, and the thousands who like me were watching the Rebels preview at 12:01 AM knew it. And I wasn’t the only one waiting for my Rebel Transport to arrive over the weekend. Most fans of Star Wars find in it a hope that is otherwise vacant. Hope is why I picked Star Wars over sports as a kid, and space ships over girls. I’m still that way, only my wife actually plays that stuff with me, which is why we’ve been married so long.
The new Rebel Transport is one of the most dramatic things I have ever looked at for a whole lot of reason—most of them centered on hope. In the films the Rebel Transport was the rebels last hope of punching through imperial blockades and fleeing for freedom to live another day in a fight between tyranny and goodness. The X-Wing Miniatures model is really just a lot of plastic and paint, but it is in the organization of those things into a coherent interactive story about hope that makes it something I was checking its arrival time every hour on the hour over the entire weekend. And now that I have it, all is right with the world. The reason is that it represents to me hope, and that is the core of what the term, “May the 4th be with you” really means.

I listen cautiously to these kinds of public speakers because most of their opinions are laced with fear instigated from the basic premise of social antagonism. They are insulted to learn that there are elements of global politics from finance to actual office holders who wish to end American sovereignty and the Constitutional Rights of its citizens. Their reaction is often extreme when they run across this information and their number is growing. When people lose their trust in government, the natural reaction are people like Sgt. Page.
Oath Keepers and Tea Party types are considered by the hard left and even the moderate middle grounders in politics to be radical because they consider as progressives adherence to traditional values, Christianity, or Constitutional purity, to be terrorism. So people who adhere to traditional values in America are considered terrorists to those who wish to change it and a war is on the horizon. Sgt. Dan Page was correct in his speech when he said that in such a future confrontation only 3% of the population will actually resist and anybody considered in that 3% is targeted for assassination before the actual violence transpires due to economic crises, global incident, or other subversive measures.
Currently, which has been more than adequately discussed by me, government education is heading down the exact path that Sgt. Page discussed. Today’s school levy supporter is tomorrow’s distressed parent wondering why their public school wants their 2 and 3-year-old children to stay at a pre-school campus under the constant care of a teacher. Most school teachers today have no idea of the possibilities designed for their future, but it will not be a long time before states declare such things as legal necessity for national security driven by global competition. And once a law is created police and teachers will enforce those laws and parents will wonder how they lost control of their children so quickly. The needs of the state will superseded the needs of the individual. China’s GDP is surpassing the GDP of America and the blame will be placed on the poor education of American children—leading to earlier education start times dictated by the state—because that’s how things are done in China—the current driver of world economic standards.
Where I disagree with Sgt. Page is that he is a blind supporter of taxation—where I am absolutely not. He is a federal employee and as he says—he is still owned by the United States military. He believes that contractors like him will be hired to hunt down people like me and that he will win. Nope. Won’t happen, it doesn’t matter how many sniper shots a trained killer has taken or heads they have cut off. The bottom line is that they are by their very nature creations of the state and they will go down by the state as well. If I had to report how many meetings I have been in where bureaucrats came up with some kind of plan that quickly fell apart the moment everyone left the conference room, I’d give the ratio of success at zero. The more people involved, the greater the tendency of failure and in an operation like what Sgt Page is discussing I believe the intentions are real, but I do not believe that anybody in government is competent to pull it off. I believe they will try, but they will fail just as they fail at everything government does. Ultimately when they send people like Sgt. Page to my doorstep with his Green Beret trained antics the government will fail because it needs people like me to be productive and continue feeding it. So they are the ones caught in a Catch 22. They may not want people like me around, but they can’t live without me either.
There have been a few who have tried to “sway” me away from my task over the last couple of years with “force.” Their mistake, and foolishly, they won’t be the last. But most of the time—probably 90% of the time the people involved are completely incompetent and unable to achieve their objectives and that ratio won’t alleviate just because of a desire on behalf of the insurgents supporting progressivism. They are doomed to fail and unable to do much behind hiring contractual killers and holding meetings to talk about doing things. Of the given pool of contractual killers out there in the world, only a few will actually attempt to perform the task because most are on my side of things and hate the governments trying to employ them. Those who have no real convictions and can take money to kill a good person are bad people and in the rock, paper, and scissor game of life good beats bad because value destroys those who lack value. The only way that poor value beats value is by surprise and deceit which significantly lowers the opportunities for success of mission objectives.
More powerful than any weapon in Sgt. Page’s arsenal is the written word. Millions of people have read by this point in their lives the novel The Great Gatsby by F.S. Fitzgerald which is a favorite of mine. Most people read that novel and think that it is about American excess in capitalism and how the evils of old money need to be leveled off for fairness to all. The villain in the novel was after all an Ivy League wealthy polo player who believed that he was born superior to everyone else and in the end he got the girl. But I understand the Great Gatsby, I get his innovation, I understand his passion, and I understand deeply his tenacity—his single minded determination to stare at the green light across the harbor and get what he wants. I learn from such stories and I won’t be making the same mistakes as to let old money beat the new—or to let scandal and love blind the opportunities for success—my green light is not an unappreciative lover living a dual life in scandal but an ideal of Constitutional purity. The schemes of the old world will not find a weakness that will be brought down by a car accident. It might be said that I was so inspired by Fitzgerald that I use the written word as my weapon as opposed to meeting the contracted Sgt. Pages out on the battlefield where their military trained minds only think one way and are sluts to their dollars given to them by bureaucrats to remove that 3% opposition to their objectives.
The Great Gatsby has been available to millions of people for over 100 years yet 97% of those readers think the novel is a cautionary tale about the American Dream. It is not. It is about the ability of one man to completely dominate New York society and Long Island politics in a short 5 year period. Yet Gatsby never cared about the money so much, only about the woman he loved who did love money and in the end, she picked the cheating husband of old money over the loyal charisma of new money. The new money is America the old money is Europe. On the battlefield the old money is Sgt. Dan Page and I am the Great Gatsby—only I haven’t dedicated my life to making money for women, but to using the power of the written word to appeal to the 3% out there in the world who understand The Great Gatsby without explanation and will join me on the battlefield when the time comes to fight in a way that the contracted killers can’t understand against an enemy that is the purer version of their former selves. In the end, guilt will rob them of their wits, and their trigger finger.
Rich Hoffman

Many of those opinions have been formed by progressive influences that have dumped billions of dollars into years of shaping the parameters of social terminology. George Soros for one, Bill Gates for another along with thousands of others who are excessively wealthy and seem intent to help shape the world toward progressivism have been bold about their assertions regarding feminism and racism advocating an open society where the government does the child raising while all able-bodied adults work and pay taxes to supply the state with the money it needs to properly fund the kind of socialism that progressives are such large supporters of.
However, in the recent case of the 329 schoolgirls from northern Nigeria stolen in the middle of the night from a boarding school in the Chibok region currently being sold as sex slaves to members of the Boko Haram—there doesn’t seem to be the same kind of anger from the Snoop Dogs of the world—the progressive social shifters who are so inflamed with rage over the Donald Sterling racism issue. After all, in regards to the 329 little girls, they are female, so feminist groups should be outraged, they are young ladies of color, so civil rights leaders should be even more angry than they are over Sterling, and every human being in the world should be upset that the girls are being forced into slavery—sex slavery at that. Yet there doesn’t seem to be any desire to help the little girls from the George Soros types—those with bottomless pit money. A few news outlets have written about it, but nobody has any desire to help the girls or their families with any real action.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/boko-haram-329-schoolgirls-stolen-3489356
The Boko Haram literally means in Nigerian “Western education is sinful,” and members of it are associated with the Taliban movement from Afghanistan. From the perspective of those Islamic radicals, they are intent to make all of Nigeria a strict Muslim country operating under Sharia Law and they don’t care who dies or what individual liberties must be trampled on to achieve their global vision. For the people who have jumped against Donald Sterling and support massive feminism in American society, or stand against the history of The United States slavery issues, and wish to advocate civil rights for all people in every corner of the world, these young girls in Nigeria need help. But none is coming. Their parents have been pooling their money together to conduct a search to locate their daughters but the region is so poor that buying a tank of gas to operate a motorcycle costs a small fortune. So the parents of the girls are helpless losing their children to the vast evils of Sharia Law.
If I were in Snoop Dog’s social position, or George Soros, Bill Gates or any progressive billionaire claiming to really care about civil rights issues, feminism, or slavery, I’d be organizing right now a mercenary group to go into Nigeria and rescue the little girls from their slave trade masters. After all, Ross Perot did something like that when he rescued his own employees from Iran who were arrested on suspicion of bribery. It’s been done before—and could certainly use the same kind of American boldness now. The book talking about that Iranian case was called On Wings of Eagles and was published in 1983. The story was made into a miniseries in 1986 and starred Burt Lancaster who played the real life role of a retired United States Army officer who organized the EDS employees into mercenaries to sneak into Iran and rescue their own people from harm.
The world sits and talks tough about equal rights for all—yet they don’t even lift a finger to help people who really do need it. They’ll call me a sexist because I think women should stay home with their children and actually raise them—because I believe motherhood is the most important job in the world. They’ll call Donald Sterling an ignorant racist because of private conversations leveled jealously at a girlfriend 50 years his junior who has the intellectual capacity of a box of dry cereal. A billionaire destroyed by a mixed race woman just because of progressive posturing, but when it comes to destroying a real villain, like Boko Haram—nobody does anything but talk.
That is shameful……………………………. The world is in desperate need of courage. Reports are that the girls are being raped up to 15 times a day, and it’s now been several weeks. Justice needs to be done. A rescue mission could likely be done for under $10 million. Any takers? Watch all these videos, particularly the On Wings of Eagles movie. Then decide what you are willing to do.
Rich Hoffman

To kids like Tommy Vietor, two years ago is a large part of their life. However, for anybody over 40, two years ago is only a small amount of time and a fraction of their existence on earth. I don’t know how the Obama administration ever thought giving a kid who looks like he’s 14 or 15 years old so much power in The White House was a good idea but nevertheless Tommy Vietor was in the situation room the night of the Benghazi attack. When the recent news broke that The White House was directly connected to a cover-up of the Benghazi story, Vietor actually came on Fox News to attempt to spin the conversation on the Bret Baier, World News Tonight program. The reality of the situation set in once the smooth talking kid was painted into a corner by Baier when Vietor actually said, “Dude, this was like two years ago.” At that point the spin doctor had lost his credibility and the deeper roots of the scandal were revealed. Obama and his team at The White House attempted to cover-up the Benghazi story to get re-elected and now they are caught.
If the evidence is not clear to what extent established politicians will attempt to go so to preserve their jobs, then the Benghazi tragedy will never make it easier. There was a direct cover-up more treacherous than the Watergate scandal that occurred during a presidential race where people actually lost their lives and if justice cannot be found over this case—it can’t be found for any. America should not have Barack Obama as a president—because he obtained that position through deceit. His administration lied to the American people to preserve his political presence. America should not have Hillary Clinton to worry about in 2016 as her career should be over due to her ineptitude over the Benghazi affair. Instead, The White House actually hired children to present their case to the public because they knew that older people would not be so willing to be spokesman for direct lies as more mature experienced candidates would have too much knowledge to attempt such audacious lies under one of the most critical scandals in American history.
The Obama administration from the fall of 2012 to the present has been declaring that Benghazi was a thing of the past. And they have used children to advance that logic where literally two years ago in their young lives is a long time. But for the rest of the world, two years is just enough time to get the facts uncovered objectively—in spite of a massive media cover-up unwilling to admit to themselves that their beloved Obama is a deceitful insurgent intent on remaking America into their socialist utopia. These people lied and they all deserve to be punished with a minimum of ejection from American office. Obama’s administration among its many crimes is also guilty of child abuse in that they have hid their crimes behind children right out of college—still too stupid and unable to grasp large world views exploiting them for Presidential preservation. Behind Tommy Vietor’s “dude” statement is a mountain of concealed revelations that will now come forth which not even smart-mouthed teenagers can dress up to shake reality from.
This is the reason that Obama, and Clinton liked to exploit young people in their administrations hungry for career advancement and résumé padding. Not only are young people nicer to look at, but they are more prone to advancing a corrupt political agenda as they have yet to gain enough wisdom through living to decipher scandal from honor. To them protecting the objective takes the highest precedent, not getting to the truth of the Benghazi matter. Young people trained recently with the type of socialism taught in colleges are ripe for exploitation from the Obama types in the world and behind all these more obvious scandals is the one involving the exploitation of young people for personal gain. A kid like Vietor should never have a job like he had in The White House at such a tender age because underneath all the slick Saul Alisnky double-talk is still a child who resorts back to a playground argument when pressed, “dude, that was like two years ago.” Tommy Vietor sounds like a child who got caught peeking at his best friends mom through a crack in a bathroom door and is trying to shake off that memory before a big date during his senior year in high school. “Stop bringing that up, I was like a sophomore back then—now I’m all grown up—and like a senior.” Only in this case we’re not talking about some old lady’s boobs, but the dead bodies and botched management of Americans under attack by terrorists.
We were lied to, the proof is now before us—and it will be up to the adults to take charge of our country from the cult like Obama youth who from the very beginning were intent to lie, cheat, and manipulate any fact about any matter to protect the President from his own stupidity. Their result has given America a parade of scandals and a president who should not be running a nation that couldn’t afford four more years of Obama debacles to begin with. Upon detection of the administration ineptitude they relied on inexperienced young people to advance their Democratic agenda. And it worked until they were caught, and Tommy Vietor certainly was. Now there is no going back. The president can only receive the kind of treatment at the very least that Nixon did—because his actions were far, far worse. The only difference is that Obama didn’t record it on tape; he used young people like Tommy Vietor to preserve the storyline so that he could achieve the highest office in the world and pardon himself from public scrutiny with “executive privilege”
Rich Hoffman

Two days ago I wrote about J.D. Winteregg’s termination from his teaching job at a Christian college due to his challenge of John Boehner—the current Speaker of the House in the 2014 primary. Boehner in interviews makes it appear that he is just a common man in uncommon circumstance that does not care for the glory of high political office. Yet his actions defy such unassuming posturing. John Boehner and the people who want something from him in the form of machine politics want to keep him in power and they will literally do anything to keep challengers from jeopardizing Boehner’s congressional seat.
But Winteregg is not the first Boehner challenger to lose his employment while on the campaign trail.
Justin Coussoule, a West Point graduate and former army captain working as a purchasing manager for Cincinnati-based consumer products manufacturer Procter & Gamble in Ohio suffered a similar fate when he ran against Boehner as a Democrat in 2010. Coussoule fired from his job for taking on the veteran lawmaker.
“In Justin’s case he was faced with resignation or termination from Procter & Gamble. They were surprised that anyone would want to run against John Boehner because he had been, as they said, so good for their business,” Alliea Phipps, Coussoule’s 2010 campaign manager, told The DC.
A vice president of government relations at Procter & Gamble took Coussoule out for coffee after he first decided to run against Boehner, and pressured him not to do it.
This kind of activity is not the role of business. If a business is truly good, they should not be concerned about injecting themselves into the political process. In the case of Winteregg, and Coussoule each coming from different party backgrounds, they had their livelihoods taken from them just because they challenged the political establishment. The message has been clear, either vote for the progressive machine representative of the Republican Party, or lose your ability to make a living—which runs counter to everything America is supposed to be.
Boehner has spent a lot of money on this primary campaign to continue holding his seat. He would not spend that money if there wasn’t a chance that Winteregg could oust him. All the political pundits predict Winteregg is not a threat and in the end, he probably isn’t—because of situations like what has been described here. In modern business, there is certainly peer pressure to back certain candidates because often those companies give money to certain politicians in hopes of buying off their regulatory tendencies. Business should not have to engage in such a thing—but they do. They will fight to protect their investments even to the extent of preventing candidates like Coussoule from participating in the election process as a rival.
For those who scream for democracy these terminations of political rivals is an unabashed threat to the will of the people. For people who understand that the natural discourse of democracy is to migrate into socialism and instead regard a Republic as the superior government, the attacks against Winteregg and Coussoule is even worse. The threat of losing a job is an attack of a challenger’s livelihood and the intent behind the action is to steer political support in the direction of institutional control—not the will of individual voters.
Years ago it was common practice for supervisors at companies participating in United Way campaigns to strong-arm their employees for weekly donations. At that time I worked at Cincinnati Milacron and every year I was paraded into the office of my supervisor and given a lecture with the expectation that the guilt would coax me into donating for the charity organization. Of course “The Mill” wanted the political relief of a 100% contribution from their employees to brag about within the business and political circles that it was concerned with—so the supervisors were expected to use peer pressure against the employees to get “voluntary contributions.”
It was understood that if an employee didn’t give a donation, that they would be listed by the supervisor as a “troubled employee.” Overtime opportunities would go to United Way contributors before they’d go to those who refused to give, and if there was a layoff, the first targets would be those who did not give to the United Way. There was never an intention during these campaigns to know the real charity desires of employees, the goal was to force through peer pressure compliance to the company goal.
The same peer pressure goes on over a massive scale when it comes to political contributions. The punishments are not layoffs or lack of overtime opportunities, but regulations that come their way if they fail to support a particular candidate—or take a political position that is contrary to the orthodox acceptance of the general business community. In the case of John Boehner’s district, there isn’t a potential Democrat who could even think of running in what is likely one of the most conservative bastions of a district in The United States. Boehner has so much power and is so entrenched in the Republican Party that he now has celebrity status and if a businessman wants to be considered for an important new contract, or wants relief from government regulation, they learn to give some of their money to the political machine in charge.
In case of the Winteregg, and Coussoule their employers took the extra step of actually terminating them for challenging the political establishment. The behavior is the same as the company who punishes a worker for not participating in United Way campaigns. The method of achieving consensus within the party is force, and manipulation. The genuine emotions of the electorate are not desired—only conformity to the established party and its members.
John Boehner is not Speaker of the House and the third most powerful person in the world because he is the best person for the job, but because he has the political high ground that can destroy the lives of any potential challengers to his grip on power. Boehner is the first person to say that he is not a power-hungry detriment to the human race—yet he is willing to fight with much more vigor to hold his seat than he ever did against Barack Obama’s takeover of healthcare, and the various budget crises occurring during his watch. Boehner is the top Republican because people who might otherwise challenge him were eliminated from contention. The “Party” doesn’t care who is destroyed in the process, so long as the system of politics that they control remains in power—and that is a lesson that Winteregg, and Coussoule share in common that transcends their individual politics.
In Winteregg’s case there is still time to correct the John Boehners of the world by voting for the young victim instead and firing the Speaker from his job for a change. That power is still in the hands of the voters which is the reason behind the intimidation. Voters are coerced to vote for Boehner, they are not trusted to make their own decisions. And the history behind Boehner goes further than these two names which is all the reason that changes should take place. If Boehner were truly the best man for the job—nobody would try to eliminate his competition. Instead, they have, and they have been successful—at least twice.
Rich Hoffman
