I probably think of General Patton at least once every day of my life since I saw the movie about him when I was a very little boy. In the film when Patton was under strife by aircraft instead of taking cover like everyone else, he ran out into the street and poured his revolver into the planes as they flew by staring down the bullets as they hit around his feet without flinching an iota. Later, during 90’s while watching the historically accurate Young Indiana Jones Chronicles on ABC television I learned of a much younger Patton who was hunting down Pancho Villa on the Mexican border and challenged some of his men there to an old-fashioned duel. That clip is seen below. In the 80’s I was working at the restaurant ran by the Chinese mob out of Chicago and froze when I saw on the bar television the broadcast movie called The Last Days of Patton done once again by George C. Scott. I clocked out and the owner let me sit down at the bar next to two former Bengal players—Isaac Curtis and Gary Burly to watch the show—which floored me, because it seemed like such a bad end to such a glorious life that George Patton had. I never forgot it—in many ways Patton shaped my view of politics, military life in general, and the role mankind plays in the fate of its own history. I promised myself never to be stuck in the same situations that Patton found himself in—so have approached my own life much differently. But there is not a day where I don’t think of George Patton at least once.
Much to my delight the History Channel put on a miniseries after Memorial Day 2014 which captured the back story of the most important men from World War II and how World War I shaped their lives—and of course Patton was heavily featured which is why I watched the show. Much of the history shown in the program I already knew, but it was so wonderfully done that the context to the presentation was quite extraordinary. It was a stunning series done excessively well by The History Channel. And while I enjoyed the fresh perspective on George Patton, the rise of Adolf Hitler, the context of Mussolini—the newspaper man who wanted to rule the world—the wisdom of Churchill it was the sequences about Lenin and Stalin which hit me the hardest. Here is the press release material on the program. If you get a chance to catch the show—do so.
An assassination in Sarajevo sparks a global war. For the next 30 years, deadly fighting rages across Europe, Africa, China and the Pacific.
Hitler. Churchill. De Gaulle. MacArthur. Patton. Stalin. Mussolini. We know them as legends. But they first learn what it will take to rise to greatness as young soldiers, fighting for their lives on the frontlines.
This is the story of a generation of men who come of age in the trenches of World War I, only to become the leaders of World War II. The lessons they learn on the frontlines shape them as they rise to power—and haunt them as the deadly fighting breaks out again. Some become heroes, forged in courage under fire. Others emerge as the most infamous villains the world has ever seen.
Theirs is one story—the story of a 30-year global struggle. A fight that will either save the world—or destroy it.
Narrated by two-time Oscar nominee Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker, The Town), this three-night event series featured gripping dramatic scenes, stunning CGI visuals and interviews with contemporary leaders, including John McCain, Colin Powell, John Major and David Miliband, along with noted historians from around the world. The World Wars is a mini-series event that takes viewers on an epic and groundbreaking ride through the bloodiest century in history.
I knew that Lenin was in exile from Russia in Germany and that he had returned to Petrograd to ignite the Communist Revolution—but I didn’t have the context of the role the German government played in the expansion of that diabolical scheme which still haunts the world as the most devastating aspect of the 20th Century. The Germans sent Lenin back to Russia on a train with $10 million dollars and the philosophy of Karl Marx not to spread communism to the rest of the world for the benefits of mankind—but to destroy Russia so that Germany would not have to fight the war on two fronts. It worked—obviously The Communist Revolution in Petrograd has been covered by me extensively on these pages—but what I learned from the new History Channel documentary is that Germany intended to use Marxism to destroy Russia—not help it.
Later when Hitler would rise to power as well, it was socialism—a softer version of communism that he used to advance his position against the Allied powers which had crippled the German government into poverty after the Treaty of Versailles which has also been covered by me extensively. I have so many articles on this topic I wouldn’t even know which one to link to properly. What the History Channel documentary did so well was pull back far enough on the characters without emotion and tell their story correctly—and clearly in the early stages of Hitler’s rise—was a combination of two German philosophers, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Nietzsche. One of them I despise, one of them I love—and Hitler got them both wrong just bad enough to nearly destroy the world. It quickly became quite clear that the Germans were vastly responsible for the creation of communism and played a major role on the defamation of the human race which persists to this day.
I am of German decent. Cincinnati was built essentially by Germans. The beer which established Cincinnati as a city came straight from Munich and was adored all over the nation. Yet some of the worst clashes I have had—business wise—have been against old German money in Cincinnati where my reverence for good ol’ Patton takes precedence over my German heritage. The Germans make great engineers, great philosophers, and a great productive society—but they are essentially collectivists whom I have grown to despise—first from my business experience—then from my knowledge of their history. And it gives me great satisfaction to know that Patton overwhelmed the German troops and caused the acquisition of Berlin ending both World Wars.
So many bad things have come out of Germany, specifically communism. For that alone, they deserve responsibility for one of history’s greatest follies. It is the modern Germans who still function under socialism and carry the rest of the European Union financially. It is because the Germans as so good at technical feats that they have managed to have a robust economy as socialists playing around in small ways with capitalism in the manner only collectivists can do. It is because of their collectivist nature that Hitler rose to power, and that Russia was destroyed as a rival in World War I. But in the end, Patton beat them twice—with a little help—but with the same gusto shown on a dusty street at the border with Mexico hunting down Pancho Villa. It is the Americans who function from bravery and the rest of the world through collective effort—and the two are radically different and can never be reconciled. These differences are on full display on the History Channel’s miniseries The World Wars. Watch it if you have not already.
What wins is Patton. What loses is Germany. It is better to face down a bullet than to hide from it, and when it comes to communism—it has to be stared down and dealt with directly. Not hidden from behind a barricade of cardboard capitalism. It has to be met the way Patton met things—head on, and with bravery—which is why I love that guy so incredibly much to this very day.
It is an unpopular position to state that the American education system is disgraceful, and that the labor unions are destroying the minds of American youth. My position against public education has caused many uncomfortable engagements with people who obviously do not know the facts, or are willingly ignoring them. I have associated with entertainment professionals, science foundations, business leaders, and just casual everyday people and due to my positions, they are not sure whether they like me, or hate me. Yet I am unconcerned by these appraisals, because to my eyes, the worst thing any society can do is destroy the mind of young people. In the 1930’s the United States had the best school system in the world. Now we are ranked at 32 – below Cyprus. More money thrown at teacher unions has not helped American schools. The curriculum taught in these schools have destroyed them and the kids in attendance. The situation has become notably worse in just the few years I have spent covering these issues and making my disapproval so vocal. I know that sooner rather than later, my opinions about public education will be mainstream—so any current resistance to my evaluation will dissolve with time.
Honestly, I can’t think of a more pleasurable event than watching the minds of children coming on. Our society puts a lot of effort into these young people from ages 3 to 5, and it is wonderful to see children learning to talk and interact with the world in a completely open manner—not fearful of failing, no resistance to adventure—just open books looking or good material to imprint upon their brains. Conversely, the saddest is when those minds are turned off. Some of the saddest moments of my life were not the death of loved ones, or the occasional tragedies that happen, but in watching people I have known deliberately turn off their minds through intoxication or deliberate stupidity. A room full of college kids getting “high” in a small fraternity room at Miami University, a passed out girl nude and gang raped by everyone at a party covered with beer, spit and semen, or a former reading advocate who gave up books for cocaine and found themselves a twisted mess within months of making the perilous decision are examples of what I consider the worst examples of human detriment. The young girl I am thinking of saddened me because I thought at the time that once not that long ago she was somebody’s pride and joy. She was a wide-eyed child figuring out that circles and squares were different and she was learning how to string together words to make sentences. The world was alive with adventure and thought and within a decade of that behavior she was robbed of her dignity and abused by others in the same state to be forever tarnished and lowered in her own mind never again to reach for the stars of opportunity. After a few of these events, the young mind always reaches for less, and less until they are unhappy grey hairs on a collision course with their own death only to live fruitless, uneventful lives as a malcontent. Those paths to destruction begin young, and are planted in their minds at public schools—and for that reason—I hate those places.
Children before they attend public schools are alive and curious. After they are numbed and destroyed. By the grades of 3 to 5, most children are so turned off to the world they no longer function properly. By the grade of 6 to 8, children are pulled nearly exclusively into the didactic world of puberty—the public schools are not palaces of adventure and learning—but of sexual pursuits or the option of it through peer group development. Peer groups form and sexual pairings occur along the lines of those boundaries. The appeal of gang raping an intoxicated female once grades 9 through 12 are reached are that alcohol and drugs break down those peer boundaries and inter-pollination of sexual advancement can take place through thoughtless exchange. By the time these tarnished youth arrive in college, the peer groups further devolve into complete social neurosis paving the way for democratic unity. With peer groups stripped away, these minds are now ready to accept their role in the “middleclass” under of course the political upper-class who makes the law and substitutes the teacher role as an object of authority. Once jobs are obtained, and children are born, the public educated victim becomes more “conservative” and may even vote for a Republican. This they hope gives them redeeming value for all the mistakes they made in their past. Two decades later, they are in physical decline and willing to yield to the youth of the next generation not departing wisdom but in worshipping them with a lust not felt in 40 years. Regret fills their minds, corrupts their hearts, and destroys their families. By the time they are in a coffin and visitors come to see their vacant bodies, there are a few good things that are remembered by those left behind, but mostly it is sadness. The sadness is not in missing the person who has died, but in all the potential they had, which was not developed, or lost during their lives by thinking wrongly about things. This pattern of living is getting worse, and is the fault of our public education system.
To measure just how bad the situation is the below statistics come from a friend of mine who used to be a school board member. The information she provides is startlingly illuminating as to the real contents of the public education problem. Public schools are not teaching children, they are simply performing a scam selling an elixir—a cure all to life’s problems—but once consumed the student discovers there is nothing there. I am willing to call the situation what it is—after the scam that it is because of the way it is destroying minds and sending young people into lives of unhappy adulthood where the magic of youth has been destroyed. The confirmation of such an assertion can be seen in the college readiness scores shown below of a number of area schools. More information can be found at my friend’s site linked below.
The college readiness statistic is based on a score of 100%. That means 100% of the senior students in a school took the test and 100% passed the test. Every student had to take and pass at least one AP class. Few schools reach the 100% mark. The math and reading scores are based on the number of seniors that took and the number that passed the Ohio State Exit exam. Listed below are some examples of the scores.
WALNUT HILLS – Rank: Ohio 1 National 77 College Readiness Score 81.3
College Readiness: 92% tested 78% passed
Math – 100% proficient 0% not proficient scored at 4.8
Reading – 100% proficient 0% not proficient scored at 4.4
WYOMING – Rank: Ohio 2 National 110 College Readiness Score 74.4
College Readiness: 83% tested 71% passed
Math – 98% proficient 2% not proficient scored at 4.6
Reading – 97% proficient 3% not proficient scored at 4.4
SYCAMORE H. S. – Rank: Ohio 23 National 514 College Readiness 46.6
College Readiness: 51% tested 45% passed
Math – 96% proficient 4% not proficient scored at 4.5
Reading – 97% proficient 3% not proficient scored at 4.3
KINGS – Rank: Ohio 31 National 666 College Readiness 42.2
College Readiness: 52% tested 39% passed
Math – 94% proficient 6% not proficient scored at 4.2
Reading – 94% proficient 6% not proficient scored at 3.9
MILFORD – Rank: Ohio 32 National 707 College Readiness 41.4
College Readiness: 54% tested 37% passed
Math – 91% proficient 9% not proficient scored at 4.2
Reading – 94% proficient 6% not proficient scored at 3.9
MASON H. S. – Rank: Ohio 34 National 720 College Readiness 40.9
College Readiness: 44% tested 40% passed
Math – 96% proficient 4% not proficient scored at 4.6
Reading – 97% proficient 3% not proficient scored at 4.2
LAKOTA EAST – Rank: Ohio 36 National 750 College Readiness 40.4
College Readiness: 44% tested 39% passed
Math – 96% proficient 4% not proficient scored at 4.4
Reading – 97% proficient 3% not proficient scored at 4.1
LOVELAND – Rank: Ohio 43 National 955 College Readiness 35.7
College Readiness: 42% tested 34% passed
Math – 94% proficient 6% not proficient scored at 4.3
Reading – 96% proficient 4% not proficient scored at 4.1
LEBANON – Rank: Ohio 51 National 1119 College Readiness 32.6
College Readiness: 41% tested 30% passed (approximately 60 students)
Math – 92% proficient 8% not proficient scored at 4.1
Reading – 94% proficient 6% not proficient scored at 3.9 (near OH Average)
LAKOTA WEST – Rank: Ohio 53 National 1178 College Readiness 31.3
College Readiness: 34% tested 31% passed
Math – 96% proficient 4% not proficient scored at 4.4
Reading – 95% proficient 5% not proficient Scored at 4.1 (above OH average)
CENTERVILLE – Rank: Ohio 70 National 1436 College Readiness 27.0
College Readiness: 32% tested 25% passed
Math – 94% proficient 6% not proficient scored at 4.4 (above OH average)
Reading – 96% proficient 4% not proficient scored at 4.2 (above OH average)
SPRINGBORO – Rank: Ohio 84 National 1629 College Readiness 23.5
College Readiness: 29% tested 22% passed
Math – 97% proficient 3% not proficient scored at 4.5 (above OH average)
Reading – 98% proficient 2% not proficient scored at 4.1 (above OH average)
MONROE – Rank: Ohio 93 National 1698 College Readiness 22.5
College Readiness: 38% tested 17% passed
Math – 89% proficient 11% not proficient scored at 4.0 (near OH average)
Reading – 96% proficient 4% not proficient scored at 3.8 (above OH average)
VALLEY H. S.(297 students) Not ranked College Readiness 18.3
College Readiness: 30% tested 14% passed
Math – 92% proficient 8% not proficient scored at 4.2 (above OH average)
Reading – 90% proficient 10% not proficient scored at 3.7 (near OH average)
The reason I am going to all this effort to post these scores is so that a valid comparison can be made. Note that Walnut Hills has a college readiness score of 81.3 and that 92% of their senior class took the test. Compare that to Lebanon where only 41% were tested and 30% of those passed the test. If you calculate that out you will find that only 60 AP students passed the test. That is 60 out of approximately 500 students.
The test is pure propaganda meant to disguise what is really going on, and the schools and law makers are all openly participating in the deception. The entire purpose of the test is not to ensure that children are learning, but to keep the money flowing into their incompetent jobs of the labor union employees and tax funded colleges. It is a scam designed to feed off the minds of people only to discard them like dirty laundry in search of the next victim. Ultimately once children learn to read, and think and they see what is really going on, they take on a kind of prison inmate position to the school experience and they make their moves to survive in that culture. They pair up with a peer group to protect them and hope to get out alive. This starts them on a life of bad decisions that lead one into another for the rest of their lives and is caused by the public education experience.
I feel very passionate about those houses of horror. I despise them more now than ever—because I know that the testing, and school scoring have no basis in reality, but are designed with one intention in mind—to convince tax payers to continue funding the insane behavior. They are lies because the real statistic is that Cyprus is now ahead of The United States in educational aptitude. To truly understand how bad the situation really is read the below report, which refers to a 1983 document titled A Nation At Risk. The situation is dire! And remember this; the Department of Education was formed in 1979. The 1983 report was only 4 years into the DOE existence. We are now three decades of destruction into its incompetency now.
So I offer no apologies to the insanity that is public education. It is a failure and should be massively defunded—abandoned, and rebuilt around competitive models. The labor unions should be outlawed, and the curriculum must be totally overhauled. It is the number one problem facing the modern United States because public education is breeding stupidity—not saving the world from it. And for that, I have strong feelings that are quite rational—if the facts are understood in context.
Make no mistake about it; the Mason Education Association is after money and nothing else in their threats to strike. Their public relations stunt against a district trying to at least look like they are trying to manage their budget is purely to get under the skin of the superintendent during an intense negotiation over their upcoming contract which is the usual tricks of thuggish enterprise shown by labor unions. The teachers are after pay increases when reality states that they are already overpaid, and want benefits that are unrealistically good provided by the Mason taxpayer to essentially be babysitters for children the parents are too busy for. The MEA hopes that the multiple scandals at Mason are over, the sex parties with the teachers that brought national focus to the affluent Ohio community and were dramatically embarrassing, have subsided. The MEA after three years of trying finally has the media back on their leash including Scott Sloan at 700 WLW who used to be a critic—but has now through his real estate selling wife been effectively muzzled. So the Mason teacher’s union is making their move to strike—so to impose on tax payers their radicalized demands—and it looks like the school board is about to collapse under the pressure.
MASON, Ohio —Mason Schools’ teachers will be meeting with their union discussing their contract. The teachers have been negotiating with the school district since April over more pay and better benefits.
“Up to this point, our focus has been exclusively on the children we teach every day. However, now that the school year has concluded, Mason teachers believe the community must know: we are greatly troubled by the direction that Superintendent Gail Kist-Kline is taking the district,” Mason Education Association President Karrie Strickland said in a news release
To properly understand how education labor unions think in these Mason type cases the movie Won’t Back Down should be watched. In that film released in 2012 and currently shown on HBO features the “parent trigger” law which is a legal maneuver through which parents can change the administration of a poorly performing public school into essentially a charter school. The film shows how things work in public education on both sides of the argument—it explores the teacher union point of view fairly, and the parents. However, in Mason, there will never be such an invocation of the law, because the vast majority of the parents at affluent schools like Mason, and its neighbor Lakota expect a babysitting service that takes the pressure of instruction away from them. So the teachers at Mason and Lakota don’t have to worry about parents leaning over them to demand better teaching because the parents really aren’t engaged in their children—for the most part—and won’t be attempting any recitation of the “parent trigger” law.
Recently, the other school mentioned, Lakota managed to pass a tax increase and immediately threw that money at their teachers just a few months later—as I predicted they would. I presented charts showing the exact behavior of the Lakota teachers, and everything happened on time. Lakota had managed to win over enough support from the opposition through a “niceness” campaign to put them over the top during a 2013 election. They had to counter my comments about them being thugs, fat assed despots, and diabolical menaces with a public relations campaign promoting them in the opposite way. Through their maneuvers and help from a patsy media, they put people back to sleep and kept the opposition at bay just enough to pass a levy and throw that money at the teachers to keep them appeased for a few more years.
Over in Mason, they had the added complication of the Stacy Schuler sex case and several other district embarrassments which made national news, so the MEA stayed low and avoided asking for more tax increases until enough time had passed. After watching the results of the May primary elections where a majority of Ohio school levies passed due to record low turnout—the MEA figures it’s time to make their move for more money—and are now returning to the old radicalized tactics of work stoppage which is mostly theatrical due to the fact that it is currently summer—and the teachers are out of school anyway—and the parents are not thinking about Mason schools—but summer vacation plans. Mason parents won’t become engaged again in Mason schools until August, so this is plenty of time for the Mason teachers to stage an attack against the tax payers.
But on the opposition front, Sharon Poe and her anti-tax activists still have a very strong resistance—and they attend the school board meetings—which is nearly an equivalent threat to the school board as the labor union. Sharon has stayed plugged into the happenings with the administration for many years now and is as close to an immovable spot as there is. But it won’t matter in the end. The administration will cave under the union pressure—they will give their employees the raises they are demanding and will be forced to go to voters with another levy against property values. The Mason school board won’t allow school to resume in August without teachers there teaching—and they don’t have the legal ability—or will to fire the striking teachers and replace them with new ones. The teachers know it, and are taking advantage. So the result is a radicalized class of imbeciles’ baby sitting children for busy parents who want more money with an outrageously high benefits package sitting around off work anyway watching daytime television and threatening not to work during the upcoming fall.
As usual, the antics of the MEA display what a scam public education is, and how stacked against the tax payers it really is. Ohio tax payers don’t stand a chance against such forces because politicians, administrators, and parents for the most part do not have the stomach to deal with the thugs on the true ground of their positions. The teachers only want money for a babysitting service no different from a teenage girl who wants more on the hour to watch the kids of parents who just want to go out for the evening. For the baby sitter, she won’t work any harder with the raise, but will spend her time playing on Facebook and talking to her boyfriend—same as she would if she were paid at the lower dollar amount. The parents however want to believe they are hiring professionals to teach their children—so they will accept the illusion and either not vote one way or the other, or they’ll grudgingly support a future tax on their homes hoping that they too will get a raise down the road to pay for the tax increase. After all, it costs less to pay the tax than to hire professional baby sitters to watch their kids as they work to build their careers. This leaves the Mason school board with no support and surrounded by radicalized anger they are not equipped to handle—and in the end, they will back down and give the union everything they are demanding. And my friend Sharon Poe will find herself fighting another school levy. Then, once the teachers get their money, the sex scandals and similar bad behavior will resume—because it has been killing them to be on such good behavior. For the teachers—it is now or never—because it’s only a matter of time before another member of their incompetent ranks screws up again returning public opinion against them once more.
Without question I am part of the new focus from the Eric Holder’s Justice Department on an “escalating danger” from “homegrown” terrorists within the United States. A new task force was announced this week to target threats to American safety as perceived by the current criminal class of politicians occupying the modern White House. Every day members of this Justice department likely monitor my every word and movement from one GPS setting to the next. This has been going on for a long time. However, because the administration continues to make mistake after mistake in domestic and foreign policy strategies—the pressure to silence their critics is becoming overwhelming. I’m certainly not alone, they are now watching more intensely than ever thousands of similar voices who find the current administration reprehensible—for fear that some rebellion might be born from the words uttered by such people.
The task force will chiefly comprise leaders from the FBI, the Justice Department’s National Security Division and U.S. Attorneys. Called the Domestic Terrorism Executive Committee, it is a recreation of a task force formed by former Atty. Gen. Janet Reno after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. The task force fell into disuse after 9/11.Holder promised that the government will continue to fight terrorists abroad, but added “we also must concern ourselves with a different type of threat. We face an escalating danger from self-radicalized individuals within our own borders,” he said. “Now — as the nature of the threat we face evolves to include the possibility of individual radicalization via the Internet — it is critical that we return our focus to potential extremists here at home.”
“The threat from al-Qaida is much more diffuse after Sept. 11, and the threats posed by a single horribly misguided citizen or permanent legal resident in the U.S. is in a sense as great as what core al-Qaida posed before Sept. 11,” says Neil MacBride, a former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.
In short, “THEY”–meaning the Justice Department–guided by President Obama don’t want people to think or question their reality. They want anonymity from justice and are primarily concerned with maintaining their control over the mainstream media. Yet that same media is under tremendous pressure to compete with the numerous blogs, radio shows, and Tea Party oriented groups still very strong all around the country who no longer accept being spoon feed complete fabrications of reality from the modern political class. So the only thing a criminal who wishes to hide can do to stay hidden from the lights cast upon them is to get rid of them. To that effect, I am at the center of many liberty movements and this site inspires hundreds of leaders all across the nation. Surely, the FBI has the statistical data of the IP addresses which visit every day, so they already know. People like Holder hope to cut off the intellectual maintenance of such movements by stopping the source. That is the reason for their resurrection of the Domestic Terrorism Executive Committee.
However, one might wonder if I am worried. Of course not. Do you know why dear reader? My lack of concern comes from the name itself more specifically the word—“committee.” As I said before, the U.S. Government and a whole room full of Barack Obama types are incapable to perform effectively any management endeavor because committees do not work. They don’t work in business, and they don’t work in politics—yet every institution of higher learning is teaching that they do—which is an extreme folly. I do not worry about those watching me, because they are not able to organize well enough to implement a strategy of any kind. All they can do is provoking suspects through harassment so their targets turn to anger prompting them to break the law which “they” control.
I’m on my second decade of this type of watching. I am now well aware of the white service vans parked down road collecting intelligence on me, listening to everything I do and say hoping to connect the dots of some patterned behavior. I know of the listening devices that no longer have to be physically planted in a home because they are now so sophisticated. I see the lurkers online trying to piece together the IP addresses of my readers and determine a pattern of behavior that they can pin to my name so to stop my online columns. And I could recite word for word the kind of dialogue uttered by Holder and his gang in these “committees.” They are lucky if they can order lunch for 10 people—let alone catch a domestic terrorist. The real terrorists are the ones who look back at them in the mirror as they plot with every breath of their being to destroy the American Constitution. When criminals are in charge of the law, they feel they have the right to define criminal behavior and turn the world of right and wrong on its head—and so long as there is a Constitution—they cannot perform the task.
So worry not about the drones taking pictures of you having sex with your wife in the backyard. If they get an eyeful, it will ultimately serve your strategy—but don’t be fearful. The people watching the images are perverts about as sophisticated as an average ground-hog, and we have a family of seven of them in our yard—who I pay equal mind to. Worry not about what they record, because if you are truly good, they may learn something and collapse under their own guilt. I have seen this happen many times. I have found that such opportunities teach the bad guys how to be good, and they turn against your enemies helping you more than they can hurt you. One thing that is common to most people is that they desire to do right. Often people think they know the definition of good as someone like Holder might define it. But through contention, they learn otherwise and today’s enemy can become tomorrow’s ally once they learn from you how to be good after being assigned to listen and watch all your movements the way a child does to form their basic static patterns of social conduct.
But make no mistake about it, Holder and his gangs of government thugs are looking to suppress opposition to their social philosophy of general Marxism. They are radicals hoping to change the world toward socialism, and will see any threat to their desire as an extremist position—so if you are a Christian, you are likely on the list, if you attend Tea Party activity—you are on the list—if you write blogs, give public speeches against the government, or even write books they would consider you incendiary to their authoritarian position. You can then be assured that they are watching your every move and plotting your demise. But just remember that as they try to figure out your doom—they struggle to order pizza—so keep that in perspective as you think of who is on the other end and how serious a threat Eric Holder is in the grand scheme of things.
( I originally wrote this article a year and a half ago, but after seeing a preview of the film, can confirm that Han Solo does die in The Force Awakens. So read the rest of this knowing that it has happened, and that it will have an impact on the franchise going forward. While Harrison Ford was reluctant to play the part in the past, the death of that character will be difficult for Disney’s expectations in the future. They should have waited, but they did it, and now Star Wars fans will have to deal with it. For me personally, a long time Star Wars fan–so much so that it has been a major part of my family’s life for three decades–I’m out. That did it for me.) December 16th, 2015. I feel like a real sucker waiting three damn years for that shitting revelation. Bad move Disney……..It was good while it lasted.
(I guess I’ll burn my favorite shirt now)
Apparently word from inside the Episode VII Star Wars film has leaked that Han Solo will die in the upcoming trilogy, and while this doesn’t surprise me given that such a plot point gives weight to the plight of the next generation and their tasks during the mythic journey which they are a part of—I can’t say that I will enjoy the films because of it. If not for Han Solo, I would likely not enjoy Star Wars so much. From those films Solo’s prized pirate ship The Millennium Falcon is the symbol of those famous films which have changed pop culture. I have written about this before—actually extensively and I realized just how important The Millennium Falcon and Han Solo was to society when I saw a Falcon shirt at Target of all places the other day. Solo is the glue that holds Star Wars together and without him—and his common sense of “shooting first” the popular space opera is just another movie. So I can’t image Star Wars without Han Solo. I’ll give it a shot, but likely it will be earth shattering for millions of fans when he dies on-screen.
The Falcon is in the news this week because the Internet was on fire regarding news of the full-sized Falcon being built for Episode VII. I have thought for years of doing just what Chris Lee from Nashville is currently doing—and that is building a full-sized Millennium Falcon. I have priced the project at around $15 million dollars to do it the way I want to do it, and Chris is attempting to build one with volunteer help and donations, which can be seen at his website shown at the link below. Chris just spoke at a TED Talks event and is preparing to show parts of his full-sized Falcon build—including the landing gear, the turret, dish, and cockpit at Star Wars Celebration in 2015 in Anaheim, California. Lee’s work is very impressive and is on track to build a full-sized Falcon within a decade at this pace. He still needs funding, but the resurgence of Star Wars should help keep things going—slowly. But no matter what level of love for The Millennium Falcon that there is, all fans loved the pictures seen of the full-sized set being built-in England which can be seen on Lee’s site:
Of late, my relationship to the Falcon has been that I fly one nearly exclusively in the Star Wars Miniatures Game: X-Wing. I flew in my first tournament over the previous weekend and had a tremendous amount of fun. I currently am running a build that allows Han Solo to be the pilot, and for the Falcon to perform barrel rolls, evasion, and engine upgrades based on my experience after the tournament. It is an expensive build for the tabletop role-playing game that is essentially a tactical exercise, but the goal is to make the Falcon as close to the speed and flexibility of a TIE Interceptor, which is actually more appropriate for its role in the movies. The reason it isn’t done more often is because it is hard to fly. One thing that I noticed during the tournament even though I lacked experience at playing at that level, I was able to fly much better than average—so it would be wise to play to that strength.
For that same game I created a build called the “Corellian Massacre” which consists of the speedy and agile YT-1300 along with two escort ships consisting of two HWK-290s, one flown by Kyle Katarn. The two HWK-290s are designed to slow down my opponent long enough for the Falcon to chip away at their ships from outside their firing arcs—with the extra speed and agility for such a large ship. The risk is bouncing off the board or into asteroids, but that is where the pilot skill comes into play. It’s not a build for everyone—but it is one that I love. I have even bigger plans for the Wave 4 ships again capitalizing off the Falcon which has me very excited.
That’s why it would surprise me if Disney allowed Han Solo or the Falcon to be killed off. I think Harrison Ford wants it. I think the writers feel they must do it so to give a proper story context to the crises of the children in the series—the whole mythic atonement with the father issue which drives most mythology. After all, a healthy happy family between Han, Leia and their children does not bring crises to the situation enough to merit a sense of peril. The Empire Strikes Back has long been considered not just the best Star Wars film, but one of the best films of all time—and in it Han Solo was tortured and frozen, so surely the Star Wars team thinks that the series can survive without the character—but I’m not so sure. At least then there was a hope of coming back, and The Millennium Falcon was still the vehicle for all the heroes. If one or both of those elements are missing in the upcoming trilogy it will be a massive loss to the gravitas of the overall fan experience.
There will be stand alone films, Boba Fett is set to get one probably directed by the current Godzilla director and Han Solo will get his own film around 2018 playing a much younger man—obviously not Harrison Ford. Disney is planning to still give fans their Han Solo fix, but it will come after the tragedy that will occur in the upcoming series. Disney is planning their amusement park centered around a Star Wars theme and there will likely be a full-sized Falcon there for fans to tour and walk around which will be fantastic. Hopefully by that time Chris will be nearly complete in his own version of the classic Corellian pirate vessel. There will be a lot of Falcons out there in the world in new spectacular ways that many never thought possible before. But Han Solo’s future adventures will be coming to an end and that is a possibility that will be difficult to overcome thematically. The Jedi are a neat concept, but Star Wars gets it’s teeth through pirates, scoundrels, and rebels, and Han Solo is a bit of all those characters rolled up into one. He is essentially an Ayn Rand character meant to achieve a character arc of sacrifice who took over the series in popularity against the wishes of creator George Lucas. Han Solo was an accident—a good accident because through him millions of people gravitated to Star Wars as a mythology exploring good against evil in the context of gigantic galaxy spanning politics.
For me the love of Star Wars will likely die when Han Solo does and I will still fly the Falcon in X-Wing Miniatures 30 years from now refusing to acknowledge the history of Star Wars after the death of Han Solo. And a certain amount of the magic for me will die with the character as I’m sure it will for millions of similar fans. The question will be–can Star Wars live on without Han Solo? Just look at the Prequels and the answer will tell the story and those results may not be what Disney is looking for.
Because it happened in my neighborhood the attempted murder trial of the young Lakota honors student has been unavoidable. Mitchell Simon tied his parents’ bedroom door together and lit their Liberty Township home on fire committing arson and attempting to kill them because the parents took away his laptop. The father jumped out of their window breaking his leg leaving his wife to be rescued by firefighters. Listening to this story I wondered if this family had been my rivals in previous school levies where they declared that high taxes for Lakota were needed to give their child a great education. This student was after all an honors student and was very well thought of so the reasoning that a child would hate his parents so intensely that he would actually try to burn down their house with them in it, so it took a lot of people by surprise. But why did the kid do it and why were people so surprised? I’ll offer my thoughts at the end of this article, which will be related to my own experience on these matters.
The trial of Mitchell Simon was slated to begin Monday with jury selection, but instead the teen pleaded guilty as charged to two counts of attempted aggravated murder and one count of aggravated arson. He faces a maximum of 33 years in prison — 11 years for each count — and will appear for a mitigation hearing June 10 at 9 a.m. prior to sentencing.
Simon’s defense attorney, Brad Kraemer, is expected to put a psychologist on the stand to testify during the hearing. Kraemer said the doctor will talk about how Simon “is still very much a young kid rather than a man” despite his age. Common Pleas Judge Craig Hedric is expected to hand down Simon’s sentence afterward.
According to sheriff’s detectives, on Oct. 23, Simon, then a 16-year-old junior and honors student at Lakota West High School, went to the basement of the family home, found rope left over from when he was a Boy Scout, and used it to tie his parents’ bedroom doors shut. He then retrieved a gas can from the garage and lit fires outside both rooms. Simon was allegedly angry with his parents over his laptop being taken away, according to detectives.
A journal found in the nightstand of Simon’s room near the charred second-floor bedrooms of his parents detailed the angry feelings the teen had for his parents and himself, according to testimony given during a hearing late last year in juvenile court.
Kraemer told the judge that Simon’s parents, Perry and Sharon Simon, “are aware of his guilty plea and do think it is in his best interest.” Simon had limited contact with his parents — who have supported their son at every court proceeding, including Monday’s plea — because of the nature of the crime.
I don’t know these people personally, but I do know the types of people that they are. Likely, they were rabid supporters of the Lakota levy attempts and also previous fire and police levies over the years. In a moment of crises, the father showed what kind of man he was by jumping out the window leaving his wife to be rescued by the fire department. These types of levy supporters do not have any inclination of self-reliance. It does not occur to them to break down a door by head butting it or kicking it down with authority, or if it is simply too think—using furniture to escape. The parents have likely never seen a rappelling rope and surely don’t have such things in their closet that could have been used to scale his wife and him to safety during the crises. The family probably doesn’t even change their own oil in their cars—expecting a specialist to care for every aspect of their lives. Gone are the days from people like this where a man would lay down his life to protect the woman he loves—because such romances have been cheapened to such an extent in our society that nobody thinks with valor anymore.
The level of anger the young boy had for his parents appears to be unjustified by conventional thinking. By conventional I am referring to the progressive mindset of the typical levy supporter who moved to Lakota for the schools and social services—and the sense of community shared by others like them who conjugate on the soccer field sidelines and community sidewalks talking about the latest scandal discussed on The View. Conventional thinking which is represented by the court of law does not understand why the kid did what he did—he lived in a nice home, had loving parents, went to a nice school, associated with nice people—the kid had everything a young person should ever want—and then some. So why would he be so unhappy?
I don’t know for sure—as I said I don’t know those people other than passing them occasionally in a supermarket isle. We only have in common that we live in the same community. But, if I had to place a bet, I would say that the child saw what kind of parents he had and had the crises moment of realizing that he was becoming just like them—and in his journals of hate hoped that he could change his fate by rebelling so violently against them. When he realized he couldn’t, he did the unthinkable—he tried to remove them from his life.
Now that it’s too late—he’s facing most of the rest of his life in jail—his problems seem pretty petty now. If he turned out like his parents it would seem a blessing now compared to the lack of freedom he will now experience for his adult life—his premium years. Compared to where he is in jail it would be wonderful to have a wife in a nice Liberty Township home with a career that paid the bills and then some. At least he’d have the freedom of a movie or occasional golf game. Perspective is everything and a year in jail already likely has diminished greatly the hate he had for his parents on the night he tried to kill them—but why was the anger so intense where he felt no other way out—and how can similar parents prevent the same thing?
As I have said I knew a lot of smart kids in my high school days, and several of them had fantasies of killing their parents. It wasn’t that the parents were bad people and didn’t love their children—it was just that the kids didn’t want to end up like those parents—fat, ugly, unhappy, bitter about life—unimaginative—suck asses so willing to whore themselves away for a nickel. Kids want to know that they have the opportunity to be more than that—and if the parents set the bar low for themselves, the crises of the child is to destroy their fate toward the same end by killing the path that will deliver them to such a destination. I got along with my parents for the most part because I was so rebellious that I didn’t fear falling short of my personal goals because I did not have the needless concern over impressing others to enjoy my personal happiness. But most people are not like that—and they have great conflict between their internal dreams and those provided to them by parents they want to please. Under such circumstances, a parent showing such disapproval of a child already hiding online to avoid becoming exactly like his parents is forced to confront his emotions when the parents take away that hiding place and force the child to deal with reality—which is what he was running from. Since the parents never dealt with the reason for the anxiety—likely because they didn’t pay close enough attention to notice—the boy tried to kill the source of his conflict hoping for relief from the pressure. And what he lost was all his potential freedom forever—and the parents are now stuck wondering what they did wrong when everything they thought they were doing right blew up in their face.
Their biggest mistake likely was in believing that their personal failures as parents could be hidden by a Lakota education. Obviously not. And also likely, this kid isn’t the only one thinking about doing such a thing. Being a smart kid, Simon likely played out his tragedy and saw no way out, where kids not so bright might find it easier to live with their disillusion. The situation is rather common if the reality of real emotions are explored not from the perspective of law and conventional thinking—but what is really going on in the hearts and minds of people. I certainly don’t want to add to the grief of the parents. They did what they thought was right based on what was taught to them. But for others out there dealing with the same raw emotions—there are reasons for the behavior, and those reasons must be confronted and not further pushed down deep into the minds of a troubled teen. Otherwise the consequences will be literal—as they were in this case or internal—as they most of the time are left. But the emotions are always there—and left raw, and primal.
And Lakota is not a substitute for good parenting……….otherwise, the kid would not be in jail.
Oh, and just for reference…………..when people hear about this case they assume that the entire home was ablaze to justify the father jumping out of a window, breaking his legs, and leaving his wife hanging out of an upstairs window in a panic awaiting firemen to rescue her. Listening to Sheriff Jones talk about the case, he declared that the firefighters and deputies risked their life to save the woman and provide care to the man of the house in the yard with broken legs. The son was ready to skip town with his girlfriend in Lawrenceburg to disappear forever—it all sounds very dramatic. But in all reality, the fire only did $2,500 in damage. It was so small that the father could have put it out with a couple of buckets of water from the bathroom sink. If he had burst open the locked bedroom door and put out the fire himself, his son would still be living at home—and would actually have a future. The trio could have talked about the family incident and worked things out. Instead, they panicked and placed their lives in the hands of public officials, and once they did that—the police, and legal system made a circus out of it—to serve their own needs at the expense of the family. Now the boy will live in jail, the mother will yearn for a man who won’t leave her hanging out of a flaming window, and the man will live in embarrassment from jumping out of a two-story window because of a silly little fire he could have easily put out himself—if only he knew how. Such a sad situation for everyone involved. They must have been levy supporters.
One of my son-in-laws worked very hard to become an American citizen. I still believe citizenship is a concept worth fighting for in spite of the obvious criminal takeover of the government by con artists and thieves. That is not an inflammatory statement, just a fact—the evidence is obvious. So I am torn by what I think is right and what might strategically make sense—which a close friend of mine has done—and is technically one of the freest people on earth. He is now an expatriate—otherwise known as a tax exile. I’ve known this friend for over 40 years now and can state emphatically that he is more intelligent than a room full of $500 dollar an hour lawyers. He knows law better than any person I have ever met and has technically been an outlaw most of his life and has only been caught by the legal system once. Getting caught is what happens when living life half in and half out of what many in the sovereign citizen movement call “The Matrix” occurs. You can’t really live half in half out and not have the two worlds mix in a way that gets you into trouble. So my friend learned from that experience and is now 100% out and living free. He is offering his vast intellect to others who wish to do the same and follow suit.
Should you dear reader wish to quit the world as you know it in favor of freedom—real freedom—you can contact him to receive these services through me. If you so desire, I will point you to him, and he can help you become a tax exile. This friend of mine could easily argue Supreme Court Law with any sitting or former judge, he could argue law against any lawyer in the country right now, so his services should be expected to be rated as such. He is an eccentric in all the stereotypical ways, but he is a certifiable genius and has successfully beaten the legal system to arrive at a status which grants him the following abilities.
1. No more TSA, go around them at airports.
2. No hassle at Customs anywhere on Earth
3. No more Social Security (FICA) taxes
4. No more Income taxes
5. No more Public School Taxes
6. No Property Taxes (you decide if you want to pay for fire, ambulance)
7.No Traffic Tickets (unless you injure someone or drive super fast) They can still issue citations against you for public endangerment)
8. No zoning beyond ridiculous fire hazards etc.
9. No public officials may come on your property (some exceptions such as your house is on fire AND about to catch neighbors house on fire, then they can intercede.)
10. No prosecution or fine, or Incarceration for victimless crimes.
11. No child Protective Services or requirement for public schooling
12. No forced injections
13. No FEMA camp for you or your family
14. You can exchange your Equity in the United States Corporation as desired for the products, fixtures, “things” you need or would like to have instead of what the State thinks you should have.
15. You can live where you want, do what you want with your property so long as it doesn’t harm others.
16. You can travel Freely.
17. You will have standing to remove and severely punish public officials or corporate officers if they do you harm. There are two different court systems one for free men and one for slaves (U. S. citizens)
The list goes on in that fashion extensively.
Part of the journey toward this tax exile status is that you will have to go to the State Superior Court in your State. You must “show up alive” and claim title/execurptorship over your Estate -self rule. Basically you declare to the judge, “Hi your honor, reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” His typical response will be, “My God we have another Living Person!” It is a kind of behind the scenes code that is available to anyone who wishes to cross over in this fashion. After a lot of reading and forms to fill out mostly by mail you become a statistic published by the Treasury Department under U.S. Expatriations. You will then no longer be a “child of the State” and will no longer be treated like one. It takes a few months of these form exchanges, but it is certainly possible. It is much easier under the guidance of my friend than trying to go it alone. He is offering himself as a guide through that process to make it not so scary.
If I didn’t know this person so well, and have seen him in action so often, I wouldn’t believe any of this was possible. This is the same guy who as a 23-year-old guy stood in front of the Mayor of Cincinnati, all of city council at the time, and every powerful builder and developer, instructing them brick by brick to build what is now The Banks Project in Downtown Cincinnati.
The construction for the new riverfront area between the two stadiums is the result of a public participation planning process officially began in October 1996. Hamilton County and the City of Cincinnati engaged Urban Design Associates to prepare a plan to give direction in two public policy areas:
To develop an overall urban design framework for the development of the central riverfront which would capitalize on the major public investment in the stadiums and structured parking.
A Riverfront Steering Committee made up of City and County elected officials and staff was formed as a joint policy board for the Central Riverfront Plan. Focus groups, interviews, and public meetings were held throughout the planning process.
A Concept Plan was published in April 1997 which identified three possible scenarios for the site of the stadiums and the development of the riverfront. The preparation of a final Master Plan was delayed due to a November 1998 public referendum on the site of the Reds Stadium. Once the decision on the Reds Stadium was made by the voters in favor of a riverfront site, Hamilton County and the City of Cincinnati appointed sixteen prominent citizens to the Riverfront Advisors Commission who were charged to “recommend mixed usage for the Riverfront that guarantees public investment will create sustainable development on the site most valued by our community”. The result of that effort was The Banks, a September 1999 report from the Advisors which contained recommendations on land use, parking, finance, phasing, and developer selection for the Central Riverfront. The final Master Plan includes The Banks recommendations from the advisors. But where did the advisors get their idea from—this same friend during the winter of 1993. It took them half a decade to let it sink in, but they eventually implemented almost every design proposed by my “genius” friend. Go back and watch the tape from that period in the records at City Hall. Nick Vehr knew him, because Nick was there, before he tried to bring the Olympics to Cincinnati then started his own public relations firm.
The only reason to name names and places in this situation is to confirm that this offer is real. My friend is a tax exile—as he always said he would be. After thousands of hours of reading and arguing against his Social Security number—which has been a life long obsession with him going back into his grade school days, he has succeeded. He used to have epic arguments with his elementary teachers over Social Security responsibilities before most kids could read the “Tom and Jane” books of early learning. He read all the Encyclopedia Britannica editions over a single summer before the fifth grade. If there is anybody on earth who understands law and the loopholes in it—it is this guy—and he has quite a track record that has pissed off a lot of people over the years. Because he doesn’t care about terrestrial concerns in the way average people do—a lot of people have taken credit for his ideas without a challenge from him—because that’s just how he is.
He has been after me for a long time to take the same path as he has. I have been reluctant for obvious reasons. My American citizenship is of sentimental value to me—and it would appear that this is purely cosmetic—legally. It is a willful illusion these days—but one that I wish to defend. He on the other hand is not about illusions. He is a fact based analytical thinker with more processing capability than most computers. And if you lean in his direction, he can help take you where he is currently. Just let me know by leaving a comment on this page and I will put you in touch with him and you two can take it from there.
It is a big, scary decision—but it is an option. In a world where options seem limited, this is one which works in your favor if you are willing to drop illusion and embrace reality for what it really is, not what you hope to make it into. So before hopelessness carries you into despair, contact this guy if you really want out of the loop. You don’t have to be ground into nothing by a system of tyranny designed to consume every last essence of your being. You do, have choices, and now you dear reader know of one that can dramatically change your life and fortune—for the better. All you have to do is have the courage to ask.
I blame public education and modern colleges for many of our contemporary problems because they deserve it. They have not earned such high wages for teachers and college professors as they are currently receiving because they are failing at their jobs. I hear all the time from teachers who think I am being unfair to them, and should show respect for their professions. They also continue to state that they are overworked and underpaid which is completely ridiculous at this point—as I have labeled most teachers in public education as very expensive baby sitters. Kids are not learning anything in public schools and colleges. They are only learning how to take directions, they are not learning to think, and that is a massive failure in any education system. For proof, this segment of Water’s World done during the Bill O’Reilly show shot during Memorial Day Weekend provides all anyone needs to confirm my statements. Those poor children featured are the future of America. They are future voters and decision makers—and they will as shown—fail at life. They aren’t able in their present form to even raise a child let alone run a nation with the massive wave of problems coming at them. Watch the segment for yourself.
That is just disgraceful, and most of those kids are proud of their stupidity. It’s cool to them to be so dumb. Hey—I remember what it was like. Even when I was in school the way to pick up girls was to act like you didn’t know anything. It was like putting on a muzzle and within a few weeks of dating, they learned quickly that I knew a lot and it scared the crap out of them. No matter how good-looking you might be, if you were smart, they were not interested. I remember specifically, even though I was married there was a very pretty girl who wanted desperately to date me. She practically threw herself at my feet every day I saw her. Being loyal to my wife, I kept her at arms bay which was sometimes difficult—until one day she told me that Jurassic Park was the dumbest movie she had ever seen. She said to me, “who wants to watch a bunch of dinosaurs running around?” Then she laughed as though I would follow her lead in the conversation. I told her I would. We never spoke again. Those are common experiences with people and I have seen it all my life, and it starts in public school at the kindergarten level. I don’t think any teacher believes they are contributing to such stupidity—but the system they teach mandated by the state creates such a lack of curiosity in young people as shown in young women like the attractive seductress mentioned.
People wonder why I married so young when so many pretty girls were available and there was so much fun to be had. When my wife and I married I was 19 and she was 18. Parents on both sides thought we were suffering from a mother/father complex where we found in each other extensions of our home life as we were moving out into the world on our own. Well, that was an inaccurate assessment if there ever was one. What my wife and I shared was a love of thinking. She loved to think, and so did I and neither one of us wanted to waste our time on stupid people, and playing stupid just so we could date members of the opposite sex.
Public schools breed a lack of curiosity about life. This behavior extended into college which we both detested—obviously in the case of the Water’s World segment it was the University of Maryland that was failing. Any child who arrives at age 18 to 19 as those kids are and is still that stupid about the world—it is not their fault—it is the fault of their parents and teachers who failed to inspire in them a love of learning and curiosity about life. I have never forgotten the Jurassic Park comment from the attractive girl. She went on to have a series of bad relationships and ended up being a stripper at New York New York in Franklin, Ohio. What I knew of her was that her father left her mother when she was very little for another woman and she barely knew anything of him. As a result of that unhealthy relationship, she had a father complex. She was filling her life with people who filled the father role in her life—but she was ultimately attracted to abuse. She was not able to even consider a healthy relationship due to her unfortunate past leaving all her contact with other males to be superficial. At the time Jurassic Park came out and I mentioned it favorably she didn’t understand. I have heard the same kind of comments from people about Star Wars, Star Trek, and most films and books that inspire thinking. Because I didn’t look “geeky” girls would seek me out as potential company, but after just a little inquiry, they learned that I’m not like them and they’d move on to someone else. My wife and I got married not just because we fell in love, but because neither of us wanted to play that stupid game. We are both the kind of people who would expect to be five for five if interviewed by Jesse Waters and would expect nothing less. It would ruin our day to miss one of those questions—because we care about knowing things.
Without a curiosity about life, there cannot be any success and the kids interviewed during the Water’s World segment have no chance at success in life. The girl in that thong who giggled at all her missed questions—she will not raise good kids and have a good life. She may manage to snag some rich slob who will leave his old wife for a new younger one, and the thronged girl may live in a big house, drive a big new car and have diamond jewelry—but she will look like a dirty rug by the time she’s 35, and she’ll be alone and bitter—no longer giggling her way through life—because the elements to her future failure are already in motion provided to her by her education up to that point. It is a serious problem.
Women are taught as young girls in their public schools to seduce young boys. Because teachers are teaching everyone to be the same, the only way to lure boys to girls once puberty kicks in is to give them bits of sex—which is taught in sex education as early as the fourth grade these days. Once that happens the neat little children who had been building cars and airplanes out of Lego blocks and watching lots of educational television on Nickelodeon and Disney Channel begin learning to shut down their creativity and channel their energy into dumbing themselves down for potential sexual partners. By the time children turn 10 to 11 years old, most of them find their minds destroyed by public education methods that have only taught them the basic low-level ambitions such as food acquisition, sexual release, and general social skills—which are already instinctual.
Movies like Jurassic Park are not one of the most beloved blockbusters of all time because people didn’t like it. That girl who spoke despairingly about it to me likely would have enjoyed it as a little girl—before her puberty years when there was still a curiosity about the world. She probably did like it when she saw it with her eventual children. But during the mating game, which her life was so much about—she couldn’t let herself enjoy such things because the guys she had been talking to up until that time, and after also played stupid with her—and got so good at it after 10 years that they just stopped thinking. They do such a thing to themselves because sex with young girls like the girls in the Water’s World segment is impossible if they show too much ambition of thought.
Finally, I raved yesterday about my positive experiences at Yottaquest where I played in an X-Wing Tournament. One thing that was missing in those places was women. There were no pretty girls coming in and playing X-Wing. But the guys who were playing had already decided in their lives that they didn’t care for such things. Most of them were married for much the same reason my wife and I married. They don’t want to play the game of being stupid to have sexual partners. Once you are married, you can share your intelligence with your partner and be free of the foolishness of single life stupidity which is staged during the public education experience. I have two daughters and they are very attractive—but they enjoy places like Yottaquest because as a father I always taught them how not to be like that poor girl who hated Jurassic Park. Such girls will never land a good guy in her life which she can share her real thoughts. It’s not a mystery, I taught my children to be curious and full of lifelong learning—and Jurassic Park is one of their favorite movies—and their husbands are grateful for it. Stupidity is shackles for the mind—and is just as limiting as literal shackles on arms and legs.
The seeds for thought are planted in children very young by their parents. If the parents are not very good, the children will suffer. But even parents who do plant the seeds of lifelong curiosity find their children have those seeds extracted by the public education process and destroyed. By the time kids reach 12 to 15 years old their minds are gone—mentally and destined to be like the kids from Maryland College. There are a few kids who escape and I find them in places like Yottaquest on a Saturday afternoon, or at an X-Wing Miniatures event—or playing Magic the Gathering in a booth at Trader’s World. But for most people, they are destined to be like that poor girl who didn’t like Jurassic Park—who had lost the adventure of learning too early in her life to save her from future tragedy. Not that liking Jurassic Park would have helped her with me, my wife already had me, but she could have met another good-hearted person who could have enriched her life. Instead, she is old and bitter, and all used up as just another former has been for a series of dimwitted males crippled in their minds from an insufficient public education that destroys most of the people it processes.
So why are we paying for such a stupid thing to happen with tax dollars?
After so many years of shouting to the wind regarding politics, business, and other enterprises that always point to the same human failures and finding the temptation to become bitter about it very overwhelming—I have immersed myself into this new X-Wing Miniatures game at a level that made me want to participate in my first ever tournament for X-Wing which took place all over the world during the last weekend of May 2014. Before the tournament, just to get a feel for how things would be I was watching footage from a German group of players as the time zones were that far ahead of my location in the Eastern United States. It was truly a global event which centered around another mythic relic from my past experienced with those same aforementioned nephews. These tournaments were played in gaming stores—in Cincinnati it was Yottaquest in Mt. Healthy which held the regional. My son-in-law and I played in it and it was a wonderful experience. The main thing that attracted me to this one was that it was named Assault on Imdaar Alpha and provided an opportunity to see the new ships coming out for Wave 4 specifically featuring the TIE Phantom.
I ran across the term Imdaar Alpha during the 90s playing a game with my nephews when they were little boys called Rebel Assault II. The nephew who had the HeroScape game in Florida last summer used to stay up with me playing Star Wars: X-Wing and its sequel—Tie Fighter all night on the weekends—which was a computer flight simulator, and of course we played Rebel Assault nearly burning a hole in the CD disk that played over and over in the newly formed home PCs at the time. So these names were familiar to me.
Imdaar Alpha was a moon of Imdaar. Grand AdmiralMartio Batch had a massive research station there which was fastened on the most part of one of the moon’s hemispheres. It developed an advanced cloaking device and the first of the TIE Phantoms. However the moon appeared empty since the station itself made use of the cloaking technology, being thus invisible.
The moon lost a significant part of its mass when the Imperial facility exploded.
The development process began in response to the Rebel victory at the Battle of Yavin. After some initial troubles, Batch was able to secure a supply of the stygium crystals required by the cloaking device, and the fighters entered production on Imdaar Alpha. When the testing process was completed following the Battle of Hoth, Darth Vader intended to use the new starfighter in a devastating assault on the Rebel Alliance Fleet. However, over a series of encounters, the Rebels learned of the new threat. Recognizing the danger, the Alliance dispatched pilotsRookie One and Ru Murleen to capture one of the fighters for study.
The Rebels successfully infiltrated the Super Star DestroyerTerroras it prepared to launch the fighters against the Alliance and escaped with one of them, which they used to destroy both the Terror and the facility where the fighters were produced. However, the Rebels’ acquisition of the fighter was short-lived—when the stolen TIE Phantom’s self-destruct mechanism activated before the Rebels could examine the fighter, the technology was lost.
Fast forward to the Fantasy Flight event nearly 15 years later taking place all over the world at the same time and it was obvious that the makers of the new tabletop game loved the old video games as much as I did and have carried over the mythology explored there into this new—and better X-Wing Miniatures game. So with all those events culminating together, I attended my first tournament and found layers of hope in the back room of Yottaquest in the players I met during the event. I learned a lot of cool little tricks that I had not even considered until competition brought the issues to the surface. But most pleasurable to me was in seeing how much reading comprehension goes on at these events from the players. I had been to gaming stores like Yottaquest because I have went to them with my kids a few times, but while playing in that tournament I was impressed by the level of reading comprehension that the players who averaged from their late 20s to mid-30s displayed and it was obvious that the recent explosion in tabletop gaming which Yottaquest represents is satisfying the deep human yearning for participatory mythology that cannot be experienced by just passively watching a movie—or even reading a book. X-Wing like the other games at Yottaquest is a recent rendition of pure mythology which is my primary interest due to my own background in comparative mythology through the Joseph Campbell Foundation. The players all shared a love for mythology as the game experience pulled them into that world to resolve a story driven by human need—not fulfilled by any other social mechanism.
After watching the final match between the store’s best two players that day, it was clear that out of the four new ships coming out during the upcoming Wave 4 release from Fantasy Flight Games that the TIE Phantom was the dominate ship. It is firing five dice at Range 1 with a gunner and a cloaking device. In the game I watched, it easily tore through the other ships flown by a very good player. It was obvious that once again, Fantasy Flight Games has managed to up the bar with their tabletop gaming experience and the new latest trend will be those TIE Phantoms. Three of those flying in formation will be terribly hard to beat—but that is the fun of the game after all—seeing what your opponent puts on the table and figuring out ways to beat it with all the variables available.
For me, it was wonderful to step away from the world of problems which is a daily burden and live in a functioning mythology with my son-in-law and those other X-Wing game players in that back room of Yottaquest. We had a uniquely bottled Coke imported from Mexico and enjoyed watching that final match learning more in just that one day than I had managed to learn over the whole previous year about some of the nuances of the game itself—that can only be realized through competition. If I were in my mid-twenties and did not have nearly the amount of responsibility that I do now, I would be inclined to travel the world playing in those types of tournaments every weekend—I enjoyed it that much. There wasn’t anything like that around when I was that age, not at this level. Places like Yottaquest and games like X-Wing are a fairly new invention driven purely by human desire for a mythic experience and I love it enough to spend as much of my time as possible experiencing them.
But the early scouting report is that the TIE Phantom will be dominate—very much so. If I were an Imperial player—which I’m not, I’d get four of them. Likely, I will get that many anyway just to practice against—because they will be hard to beat with their clocking device which grants two extra evasion dice when used. But their sheer firepower is so far the best in the game—which is saying a lot. They will have to be countered with pilots of a high rating shooting decent firepower at close range—and that will be a challenge. But that is what is wonderful about events like Assault at Imdaar Alpha and the world of X-Wing Miniatures in general. This game is far more enjoyable than the old video games and the interaction with other players also on similar mythic journeys is unique and indicates a major change in human value that is very positive. It gives me hope where it is difficult to find elsewhere.
In a world of careful calculation where nothing happens by accident, Jay Carney’s decision to resign within hours of Eric Shinseki’s resignation as Veterans Affairs Secretary says more in what it doesn’t say, than what it does. The Press Secretary and close advisor to Obama, suddenly decided to leave his post on a Friday at the end of May hoping that by the first Monday of June, the nation would have forgotten why—and forgiven the administration for not standing in front of the press to take barrages of questions that can never be answered especially now that the mismanagement of the VA scandal is just beginning. Obama and his team at the White House have proven themselves to be everything people like me have said about them—they may be functioning communists, diabolical progressives, even religious radicals—but at the heart of them is serious incompetency that can no longer hide behind slick words carefully constructed by public relations tricks. For Carney to leave at this point in time points to just how bad it is behind the scenes at the White House attempting to put five major scandals climaxed by the VA situation under a rock that no longer exists. Carney’s exit is about leaving an administration that will soon collapse in front of the world under the full weight of sheer stupidity—and the now former press secretary is savvy enough to see it.
Carney said that he wanted to leave his post as far back as April indicating that he wanted to spend more time with his children whom he shares with ABC News correspondent Claire Shipman. Yet such people as Carney and Shipman do not put their children before their careers under any circumstances—ever. They plot and scheme their social-climbing every minute of every day always on the lookout for a rising star for which they can clip on a tow hook to ride. As typical second-handers, they live through other people’s achievements. They don’t raise children—unless they wish to hide behind them—as most progressives do when they desire something whether it is a school levy, or a new law through congress. For Carney who has already lived in Russia for four years as a correspondent for Time Magazine and later served as bureau chief—what would it cost his children to wait two more years for the Obama administration to leave office? The answer is nothing. Carney and his wife have already put career over their kids, and it is unfathomable to think they would have a change of heart now when the most powerful man in the world considers them a friend needing an allay at the hardest point in his life. Carney’s exit is a strategy in second-handed self-preservation ahead of the growing implication of serious scandals that won’t go away and are picking up momentum.
The blood is now in the water and the sharks smell it. Obama is in trouble. The VA debacle for most Americans is the promise of what Obamacare will give them and the world knows it. Everything that is wrong with the VA—the waiting 115 days for treatment dying in line, the systemic misconduct from every level of that government office and the incompetency of 1700 vets not even put on the list being forgotten by a bureaucracy that has no value for their individuality. The correct impression is that Obamacare will be handled in the same way. The VA scandal is the future of America’s health care system—and finally people see it.
How do I know—well, my son-in-law is from England where his family already has this socialized medicine that Obamacare is molded from, and most of his family has moved to The United States chasing the benefits of American life. Listening to their stories about how difficult it is to get medical care in England sounds exactly like the VA Department under president Obama. There is no indication that Obamacare could be managed any better—and Americans know it.
Carney is leaving because as a second-hander he knows when there is nothing left to suck off of from the current White House, and also is savvy enough to think that passing duties off to Josh Earnest will buy time for Obama—as Earnest can claim ignorance for a month or two. About Earnest, isn’t it interesting that such a “progressive” administration as Obama’s didn’t ask an African-American to be his press secretary instead of another “white male,” or even a woman. Why do you think that is dear reader? They certainly could have, yet Obama has picked his third white male as press secretary in six years. Why not give an African-American a chance at the job if the White House is truly progressive. I’ll tell you that answer too—it is because The White House truly fears that America is a racist nation based on their radical beliefs and will not listen to the lies of anybody but one of their own. The White House fears these things because they are guilty—not because they are innocent. The evidence of real behavior and motivations is always in what is not said, not what is. If Obama really wanted to promote African-American advancement, he’d put someone like Morgan Freeman up as press secretary and let the chips fall where they may the way he has with his corrupt Attorney General Eric Holder. But where Holder has failed, Obama cannot risk his personal shield—the press secretary to be of a type that will further anger the American public—so they put up a safe—clean cut white guy for the third time in a row.
The guilt of The White House is spilling over to such an extent that Jay Carney hopes to throw himself on the sword for Obama one last time in behalf of the VA scandal, but as a second-hander knows that Obama has nothing left to offer and does not want to be the guy answering questions that will come in the months that follow. So he left, not to be near his children, or hang out with his wife, but to hide from the storm that is coming where a new star will be sought out—or he will hide in obscurity defeated forever as being so intimately attached to an Executive Branch that is riddled with corruption and incompetence to such an extent it might as well be a third world dictatorship.
The Overmanwarrior 