Category: Progressive

The Leather Jackets of U.S. Wings: Sgt. Hack’s curious case and exceptional quality

Too often there is very little to talk about but what we don’t like—and when you’re picky, or expect competency when dealing with people, all too often what we get is disappointment.  Every day for over 6 years now I have put on a leather flight jacket from US Wings.  I ride motorcycles all year, and there are maybe a handful of days over that span of time that I don’t have to go somewhere.  And when I do travel it is usually by motorcycle.  So my leather jacket has to be tough, withstand all the elements and be extremely functional.  Even on the hottest days of summer a leather jacket is needed—the mornings are often cool, too cool for naked skin and large bugs pelt you in the torso area while riding.  The leather is an offering of armor and is essential riding equipment.  Even during a motorcycle ride from Key West to the Everglades 50 miles west of Miami where the real temperature was 107 degrees the early dawn sun was pleasant to the naked skin, but once the day hit 10 AM, it was punishing.  The jacket was needed just to stay hydrated and prevent the skin from burning under the sun. Then from Miami to Orlando, afternoon thunderstorms are common, it may be intensely sunny and 15 minutes later a thunderstorm is upon you dropping rain the size of a small fist as hundreds begin hitting you by the minute.  Without the leather the pain would be intense, probably unbearable.  So because I ride a motorcycle every day of the year I wear a leather jacket every day as well.  I have an additional problem, I often meet people where my leather jacket has to go along with a suit and tie.  It would be disrespectful to the people I see to show up in a biker jacket with studs looking like I’m going to Sturgis—so I need my leather jacket to look as good as the cloth underneath it.  So with all that in mind I have only found one company in the entire world that made a jacket fitting for me and that is U.S. Wings outside of Cleveland, Ohio founded by Sgt. David D. Hack, the Purple Heart recipient and Nation’s #1 US Army recruiter from 69 to 73.  He’s been Chief of Police in Sebring, Ohio, and in his spare time founded U.S. Wings in 1986 to the present.  His company knows how to make cloths that fit my very intense lifestyle.  So you can imagine dear reader how disappointed I was when I went to zip up my well-worn flight jacket a few weeks ago and the teeth were so worn out from use that they no longer gripped each other.

I contacted U.S. Wings to price a new zipper and liner and they responded quickly.  The zipper replacement was $60 and the liner replacement was $90, plus shipping the jacket to the New Jersey plant where most of the construction takes place.   It was still winter where the nights are often in the mid 20s so I had to be able to zip up the jacket—it simply couldn’t wait.  But after careful consideration, even though the stitching all over the jacket was still very much intact it was decided that it was time to retire that jacket and buy a new one.  A new jacket from U.S. Wings costs about the same as a good firearm but considering my use, a new one was better than fixing the old one so I placed an order for one of their Signature Series flight jackets with nearly the exact specs.

The order was placed and a few days later the jacket arrived on my doorstep ready for battle.  I literally took it out of the box, tried it on for fitting and left the house on my motorcycle.  When you meet with people they can tell instantly whether the jacket is a cheap rip-off from some shopping mall vender selling “club” clothing or some piece of crap made for the herds at various coat suppliers destined to be sold in the future at a flea market.  It doesn’t matter so much if the jacket is stained from sweet, rain, bugs, or heat streaked, they can tell if it is of quality and if it’s not it won’t look right with a suit and a $500 dollar watch.  But U.S. Wing jackets are just fine for this kind of thing and suit both necessities perfectly.  The jackets are of a quality where their value never comes into question.

When I bought the first jacket six years ago Hack’s company sent with it some bonus items free of charge—a book about Hack’s life which was actually quite good and a free Moko Man hat which I wear often.  As this new jacket arrived I expected him to send something extra, but wasn’t all that shocked when only the jacket was inside.  The economy had been hard for everyone, so I figured that U.S. Wings had given up on those kinds of perks to save money.  Two days after the arrival of the jacket it was a Saturday and one of my nephews was at my house playing Star Wars: X Wing with myself and one of my son-in-laws as we noticed the mail man driving up our driveway.  He dropped off a package and neither my wife nor I expected to receive anything.  We took the usual protocols when examining something unusual which arrives at our home, but my concerns quickly alleviated once I saw the U.S. Wings logo on the box.

U.S. Wings had sent a special delivery of free items, a DVD music video titled “The Ballad of Sergeant Hack” by Erica Lane and a special single song CD by the same musical artist called “Believe in America.”  Inside also was a special bag designed to protect expensive garments while traveling, such as U.S. Wing jackets and tailored suits.  It was a cost that U.S. Wings did not have to incur, they could have just sent the jacket, but as usual they went above and beyond.

The song, “The Ballad of Sergeant Hack” can be heard on the first video on this article along with other videos which give an ideal who David Hack is, and why he is one of those unique people whose personality inevitably comes out in his company U.S. Wings.  Hack is a guy who personally wrote President Johnson complaining that he wanted to go to Ranger school.  He volunteered for Vietnam during a time when many people were dodging the draft and was a recruiter on the active front designated to reenlist soldiers who were set to rotate out of the combat zones.  Needless to say, Sergeant Hack is the real deal and that personality certainly comes out in the clothing line of U.S. Wings.

Hack’s patriotism is genuine.  He’s obviously not happy with the direction of the country currently—and his sentiments are much older than the Tea Party.  He’s not a “come lately” to the ideal of patriotism and is truly one of the unique people of American culture.  I purchase my leather jackets from U.S. Wings because there simply are not better jackets made by any other manufacturer in the world when it comes to military clothing and rugged apparel.  I would not trust my jackets to be made by a roving communist from the East or a socialist from Europe or a conquered soul in Russia.  U.S. Wing jackets are purely American and made for American lifestyles, and they are the only kind of jacket that I’ll wear.

As is often the case, the company U.S. Wings is the embodiment of its creator, Sergeant Hack and the quality he has directly infused into a great American company.  In a day where most things are imports from other countries done cheaply out of necessity, U.S. Wings jackets have an emblem inside all their garments which actually sends a chill up my spine every time I see it—which is every day because I put those jackets on every day.  U.S. Wings is a company that I trust because I trust Sergeant Hack and know that he puts a lot of extra effort into the reputation of his company.  Most companies that make coats, shoes, boots, or even farm equipment have fallen from grace because the personalities of their creators, the Chief Executive Officers who utilize capitalism to bring joy to the world lose touch with their initial passions.  When it comes to U.S. Wings, even after many years of existence, over a long-span of time, their quality and effort are matched by their past performance and it is one of the rare honors that I have had to open a package from them and see what’s inside.  Often it is the little things that matter, and when it comes to U.S. Wings a lot of little things add up to greatness, from the quality of their stitching to the measurements of their segments—to the quality of the actual leather.  And even when they don’t have to—because the product speaks for itself, David Hack wants his customers to know more about him, so that they know what they are getting is the real deal that won’t falter when they need it most.  And when it comes to leather jackets there aren’t any better made.

For me there are two essential ingredients to my daily life, my leather U.S. Wings jackets and Gargoyle Sunglasses.  Everything else is a variable.

Here is the U.S. Wings website:

 http://www.uswings.com/

And now that you’ve read all this, watch all the videos completely and know that what you are seeing is a deep tap-root into American exceptionalism and be damn proud of it.

Rich Hoffman

 www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

 

The Idiots of France: Why Goodyear validates the new Atlas III movie poster

I have been watching the French labor unions behavior toward the Goodyear tire company for over a year now with excessive fascination.  Anybody who thinks that Atlas Shrugged written by Ayn Rand in 1957 is a farfetched fiction novel is out of their mind, because most everything stated in that dystopian novel has taken place in that openly socialist European country.  Most labor unions believe the same type of things that the crazy French union believes, only they attempt to dress it up a bit.  Now with a socialist French president, the unions no longer feel they must dress up their behavior and are revealing what they have always been—economic terrorists inspired by Karl Marx desiring the end game of communism.  Maurice Taylor – chief executive of Titan International told rightly the France’s industry minister that his country had “beautiful women and fantastic wine” but “no idea how to run a business”. Mr. Taylor added: “Goodyear tried for over four years to save part of the Amiens jobs that are some of the highest paid, but the French unions and the French government did nothing but talk.”  The production at the French Goodyear plant has been stagnant as the striking workers regressed into some type of tribal ritual of belief thinking that the jobs at the plant existed in nature and that it was Maurice Taylor who was keeping those jobs from the people.  In reality it was people like Taylor who made the jobs and that isn’t appreciated by anybody—which was the basic plot of Atlas Shrugged.

Last winter Maurice Taylor frustrated with the French government and idiotic workers at the Amiens plant sent a letter to Arnaud Montebourg, the French Industrial Minister saying “I have visited that factory a couple of times. The French workforce gets paid high wages but only works three hours.  They get one hour for breaks and lunch, talk for three and work for three. I told this to the French union workers to their faces. They told me that’s the French way!”  This set off a firestorm of political theater that extended all over Europe.  Most of the opinions sided with the French workers and were against Maurice Taylor which I found appalling.  It has become grossly apparent during this whole French Goodyear issue why Europe is failing economically, and why America even under a socialist president like Obama is far superior in terms of economic development and innovative surplus.  France is the second largest economy of Europe and they really don’t function well at anything.  Taylor stated a fact, the French workers don’t believe in hard work—long productive hours—or capitalism, which is the creator of jobs.  Some French workers may, but a majority of the people elected a socialist president, and they are getting what they deserve, a terrible economy with a dismal ten-year market forecast.  The situation is so extreme that just a few weeks ago the labor union actually kidnapped two Goodyear executives to force negotiations.Non_Fiction_thumbnail_2__54597.1393006797.120.120

After a court rejected their most recent appeal against the plant’s closure, members of the hard-left CGT union locked up production and human resources directors Michel Dheilly and Bernard Glesser.  France 2 TV showed the Goodyear executives seated at a table staring straight ahead as workers shouted in their ears. One director had a bed pan thrust in his face.  This happened after these same union people were insulted at Maurice Taylor’s portrayal of them as being “lazy.”  And this isn’t the first time.  They did it previously at a 3M plant in Pithiviers when a dispute over severance pay couldn’t be resolved.

http://www.lesechos.fr/19/02/2013/lesechos.fr/0202577006715_goodyear—la-lettre-de-titan-a-montebourg.htm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9885369/French-minister-hits-back-at-three-hour-day-attack.html

The kidnappings in France appear to be a normal type of behavior for them as most of the French people were not outraged at all by the incident.  Even after the kidnappings the news slant out of Paris focused on the CEO of Titan Maurice Taylor, and his comments from the previous year.  Here are just a few:

France’s Communist Party expressed outrage at Taylor’s letter to the French government, calling it “an appalling provocation coupled with xenophobia against French workers.”  In France the communist party actually gets quoted in the paper which doesn’t happen at all in The United States–openly—even though many reporters lean toward communism as opposed to capitalism.  Another statement pontificated–“this is an insulting letter,” said Mickael Wamen, the CGT union’s representative at the Goodyear plant, saying it showed Taylor “belongs more in an insane asylum than at the head of a multinational corporation.”  But that same guy supported taking Goodyear executives hostage.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/07/us-france-bossnapping-idUSBREA060GG20140107NowNon_Fiction_Hat__59902.1386945564.220.220

I have seen the new movie poster from the film Atlas Shrugged Part III: Who Is John Galt and it is controversial.  The filmmakers don’t wish me to reveal it at this time, so I won’t, but I’ll say this much.  It features John Galt standing up in front of the labor union at 20th Century Motors and telling them that he (Galt) will not go along with their socialist plans—and that he refuses to join them.  This happens against the backdrop of an American flag, and to me it is very exciting.  I actually love it—because when you pay attention to things like this whole issue in France, it becomes obvious very quickly why the entire continent of Africa is poor, why India is overcrowded and destitute, why China has the living conditions of an insect, why Russia is deceitful and broke, and why all of Europe is a cesspool of jealously toward The United States.  It is because they have behaved with collectivist, socialist corrosion which John Galt wisely divorces himself from in the upcoming movie.  The movie poster may not be exciting in the way a new superhero picture would be, but it is exciting in a way that people who understand capitalism need to see and hear.  Maurice Taylor will like the poster.  The French labor unions will hate it—but who cares what they think.  That French plant has sat idle during their entire strike.  They didn’t create a job to rival Goodyear, they just stood around like a bunch of idiots waiting for Taylor to “give” them a job they were somehow entitled to.

The new Atlas film based on the great American novel Atlas Shrugged looks like it will be fantastic.  Socialists, communists, labor unions, and scum bags won’t like the film.  They won’t like the new movie poster because John Galt is rejecting their premise in the movie–so who could blame them.  The French cannot understand American capitalism.  They have ruined their minds and as much as people like Maurice Taylor have tried to help them, they don’t get it.  In Atlas Shrugged, John Galt tried to help everyone, and they rejected him, so he packed up his efforts and left leaving the world to them—and the “workers” were unable to do anything with it.  The 20th Century Motor Company in the movie went out of business just as the Goodyear plant in France is doomed to failure.  The jobs and the wealth it created doesn’t rain from the sky the way the primitive labor union workers seem to believe based on their national philosophy shaped by Karl Marx, but is provided by people like Maurice Taylor and nobody else.  That is why the new movie poster to Atlas Shrugged Part III is so appropriate and for every reviewer who proclaims that the film is hateful, vitriolic and unrealistic—those same idiots are the people who have sided with the doomed French at the Goodyear plant in Amiens.  At the end of the book, the same thing that happened to the Goodyear executives was attempted against John Galt and the results were not pretty for those involved.  The French have proven Ayn Rand wise beyond belief and Atlas Shrugged more fact than fiction.Rand1

Rich Hoffman

 www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

 

Matt Clark Beats Glenn Beck: The Perestroika Deception and the similarities to college basketball

I have to give Matt Clark credit, he beat Glenn Beck to a story based on the release of my article, “The Pronoun “I”: Communist infiltration of America by Perestroika Deception.”  Beck covered the Perestroika Deception on The Blaze during the week of March 22nd a few weeks after several of my readers sent it to contacts at Beck’s network.  But without knowing that, Clark was booking me on his show the night before The Blaze released their research into the long time conspiracy theory turned true.  When I wrote my article it was my hope that media outlets like Beck’s and Clark’s would cover the story and get the message out to Americans quickly so that they could understand what was happening on the world stage between Russia and Ukraine.  Matt Clark had me on his radio program today to talk about the Perestroika Deception during his 1-3 PM show on WAAM Ann Arbor, Michigan and the impact to the world that deception has had.    You can see the hour-long interview at the two videos below.

Also during this week was the start of March Madness, the gigantic NCAA basketball tournament in The United States.  I watched several games, particularly the University of Cincinnati against Harvard.  UC was a (5) seed playing the underdog Harvard who was a (12), so the game shouldn’t have even been close.   Cincinnati should have been able to destroy Harvard, but once the game began it was obvious after the first two minutes that Harvard would win the game—and I declared so much to many people—which is what ended up happening.  Cincinnati made a close game of it for a little while, but never led, and was never able to stop the momentum of Harvard.   Cincinnati was known for its great defense, and Harvard countered by shooting 3-pointers from behind the arch crushing the Bearcat zone, and taking control of the game.  Anyone who is involved in either a military maneuver or a sporting exercise understands that momentum is of utmost importance during strategic engagements, and the way to gain momentum is to keep an opponent from knowing what’s coming.  This is why coaches cover their mouths when they call out plays to their teams, and why secrecy is very important.

Most people understand sports, they understand why deception is needed to achieve victory, and they understand the nature of a late game rally to attempt to capture momentum.  Human beings design their games after their very lives, so on a perceptual level, it is understood why such strategic implementations are important.  Yet for years many thought that the Perestroika Deception from Russian was a conspiracy theory, and that the former U.S.S.R really wanted to be friends with America.  American politicians foolishly dismantled the main offensive weapon of the Cold War—NASA and turned their research into memos about leftist global warming concerns and decommissioned the Space Shuttle forcing American astronauts to hitch a ride to space with the Russians—their former enemies.  The move by the Obama administration seemed stylish at the time but little did anybody know that the seeds of deception planted by the KGB in America through the education system, through commitment to the United Nations, and a massive debt racked up playing caretaker to the world was all part of the plan—and that Obama was a creation of that deception during the 60s when all his primary mentors were communist advocates—where his college friends were communist revolutionaries and his wife would even work closely with the known American terrorist Bernadine Dorn.  All those elements were results of seeds planted by the Russian KGB in the late 1950s, and by 1989 Russia essentially changed their defense against The United States from a zone to man-to-man.  The defense called by the KGB was the Perestroika Deception and it allowed them to climb out from under American capitalism and capture the momentum of their strategic engagement with the West.

I had a little fun with Matt at beating Beck to the story, but in all fairness, conspiracy theorists have known about the Perestroika Deception for a long time and have been labeled as “tin hat loons.”  I remember a UC basketball game against Duke in the great Alaskan Shootout where UC was down by one point with only seconds to play.  Duke was the number one team in America and had something like 5 McDonald’s All Americans sitting on the bench, let alone playing the game.  UC obviously had to hit a quick basket but they had to deceive Duke to get an open shot.  Bob Huggins positioned Kenyon Martin the future NBA player at half court to draw the attention of Duke players who would try to foul the big man once he cut to the basket.  The Duke players anticipated that it would be Martin who would take the shot.  Instead Melvin Levett was shadowing the sideline opposite court as far away from Martin as possible.  When a long pass was thrown across the court football style to Martin—Kenyon then tossed off the ball to a cutting Levett who was wide open for a dunk that Duke never saw coming.  UC had beaten the titans of college basketball, Duke and the headlines littered every newspaper in the country.  The only way the play worked was with deception, misdirection, and strategic implementation.  People understand these things when it relates to sports, but it is inconvenient to apply the same perceptual knowledge to the world of global politics.  So they often don’t see the signs of such strategies, such as what Russia had done with the Perestroika Deception.

The reason that Vladimir Putin is not afraid of Barack Obama is because he knows that as a child of the 60s, Obama was built from the ground up by the KGB infiltration of communism into the American education system.  As I told Matt during our interview one of the reasons all these things are so clear to me now is because I was an extreme rebel during my school days and never accepted any instruction that would cause my mind to acknowledge such deceptive strategies.  Obama, who is only a few years older than I am—did.  He was raised by flower children hippies and old people who loved collectivism.  His strongest father figures were all communist revolutionaries and those were direct creations of the KGB at the time.  Putin knows exactly what Obama will do and when he will do it, because it was Putin’s KGB which shaped the mind of Obama—so there is nothing to fear from America when it is led by such an easily controlled mind.

I knew Obama picked Harvard to win over Cincinnati, and during the whole game Cincinnati attempted to win by being conventional—by putting the ball in the hands of their best player.  Unlike the game against Duke, where it was deception that won the game, UC tried to play against Harvard straight-up.  Harvard defended against those best players, and they won the game.  Putin is playing the same game against Obama, and he knows the American president is not intellectually capable to deal with Russia as it has been disguised under the Perestroika Deception.  Now Americans are angry that they cannot compete with Russia, we are intertwined with the world in ways that prevent capitalism domination of the global marketplace, leaving us all stuck together like free spirits glued to a first grade student’s art class project.  Putin is making a move against the world knowing that military action cannot happen, because America is too far in debt to China, and China as a communist country was formed by Russia.  Who controls the strings to China—it isn’t the United States?  You can read more about Glenn Beck’s coverage of the Perestroika Deception at the following link:

http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2014/03/19/what-if-an-ex-kgb-officer-predicted-that-the-ussr-would-fake-its-own-collapse-to-ultimately-defeat-the-west-and-no-one-listened/

After a reader tipped me off to the Perestroika Deception and I did some extensive research on my own, I wrote “The Pronoun “I”: Communist infiltration of America by Perestroika Deception” to take it out of the realm of conspiracy into a serious discussion of military, and social strategy.  I count on people like Clark and Beck to then take the next leap forward with their massive platforms on talk radio.  Beck often has a 15 million listener footprint, so it is good when he talks about the Perestroika Deception to the millions of uninitiated masses who wouldn’t otherwise know about it.  Those people who read here and sent it to The Blaze have yourselves to thank.  You did a very good thing.  Beck is often way out ahead of everybody, but this time it was Matt Clark who beat him to the story of the century, and put WAAM radio in the town of Ann Arbor, Michigan square in the sites of Vladimir Putin—which is quite an honor.  Because the thing that Putin doesn’t understand and the reason his KGB had to use the Perestroika Deception in the first place is due to people like Matt, Beck and my readers here at Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom who are clearly superior to Russia, Europe, China and everywhere else that there is collective salvation driving their social and economic trends.  It’s not Obama who Putin ultimately has to fight, it is us—and he cannot beat us in a straight fight.  He and his Russian counterparts must rely on deception—and once that deception is known, their plan is ruined.  On Saturday March 22, 2014 at 1-3 PM Matt Clark played his part in ruining that strategy against Putin, and the world is better off because of it.  YouTube is more powerful than the Voice of America was back in the Cold War days, and our interview will be on it for as long as YouTube exists in cyberspace—where people from all over the world can see it.  As the Ukrainians stockpile their rocks and sticks to fight the Russian military, Americans are sharpening their knives, loading their guns and also preparing for the inevitable failure of our own puppet politicians controlled by Putin and his Perestroika Deception.

And people like me are chomping at the bit for a chance to do more than just talk on the radio…………………………….  I would love to see Putin try to ride his horse down my street with his shirt off displaying his massive stature of 5’ 2” or whatever trying to look bold and regal.  He wouldn’t last long—which is why he must use the Perestroika Deception against America.

Rich Hoffman  www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

 

2014 Tax Day Rally: Doc Thompson, Atlas Shrugged III, and many others

I know it is hard to get a hold of me and many of my readers here have complained that I do not have time for social engagements, particularly over the last year.  I have been busy—very, very busy—15 to 20 hour days busy just doing the things I’m required to do every day.  But I can name one event that I will be at soon where my friends from the Doc Thompson Show, Atlas Shrugged III and several in the trenches freedom fighters will all be gathered at the same time and place.  The event will be the 2014 Tax Day Rally on Tuesday, April 15th, at 7p.m.-9p.m.   I plan to be at this event, so for those who want to touch base and meet with other like-minded people the 2014 Tax Day Rally should be a destination for you.

 

Ann Becker who is deeply involved with a lot of local “liberty” activity and has been on 55 KRC with Brian Thomas every Monday issued a press release about the event with all the pertinent information.  These events are always very well done, and are worth a road trip for those who are my readers from out-of-town.  So don’t be shy.  The new preview for Atlas Shrugged Part III: Who is John Galt will be shown for only the second time ever at this event prior to the Fall 2014 release.  That alone is worth the trip and will be a very special privilege.  Hotel rooms will be available at the site making it very easy for the sometimes late night clashes of beer mugs that happen after these kinds of events.  For those following the film, the premier will be shown in Las Vegas and will be quite a spectacle.  So for the preview to be shown at this point in time is a real treat.

Here is what Ann issued:

 

 

Liberty Leaders,

We are starting to get our 2014 Tax Day Rally together and we would love your help to make it a success!  If you could pass the information along to your members and friends, we would appreciate it.

Text about the event is below.  Feel free to copy it and email it out.  Attached is a logo if you want a picture to go on your websites or email.  There is also a Facebook event, if you want to send it out to your friends personally…..https://www.facebook.com/events/355504824590622/

A second issue we need your help with, we are going to have a signing of the 2014 Tea Party Pledge.  We did this in 2010 when a bunch of us ran for Central Committee. We are going to ask all the people running for Central, State Central  and office in 2014 to sign the pledge to uphold our three core principles if elected.  If you could spread the word to all the candidates you know and ask them to attend the event and also let us know they are coming by sending a message to http://cincinnatiteaparty.org/contact-us/

We will have tables for rent at the event if you know of a group that would like to spread the message about what they are working on, they are $100.  Ask the coordinator of the group to send a message to the contact page, http://cincinnatiteaparty.org/contact-us/ .

Lastly, we are going to do a call for people to send in their pictures of Cincinnati Tea Party events of the past to coincide with our fifth anniversary.  We will ask that they put them on our Cincinnati Tea Party Facebook page…  I am sure some of you have a few great photos, please share….   https://www.facebook.com/CincinnatiTeaParty

Any questions or comments, please let me know… text is best 513-375-3864.

Yours in Liberty,

Ann

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Join the Cincinnati Tea Party as it celebrates our 5th anniversary with a rally, remembering how far we have come as a movement and where we go from here.

Tuesday, April 15th, 7p.m.-9p.m.


Cincinnati Tea Party 2014 Tax Day Rally!
Where: Holiday Inn Eastgate

4501 Eastgate Blvd, Cincinnati, OH 45245
Tickets: $10


Register online at this link.

Vendor Tables $100 each (Contact here)

Speakers will include national talk radio hosts Doc Thompson from the Blaze Radio.  Doc will talk about his experiences in the Tea Party Movement and give us a preview of his upcoming Tea Party documentary, “Intolerable!” It debuts May 6th at www.Intolerable.us.

Also speaking, Rusty Humphries, nominee for Talk Radio host of the year for 12 years and fresh off his role in the upcoming movie Atlas Shrugged Part 3.

Mike Wilson and Chris Littleton, former Presidents of the Cincinnati Tea Party, will speak and present how the Cincinnati Tea Party got here.  They will look back at our amazing five-year history.  Also speaking, former Ohio Liberty Coalition President Ted Stevenot on where we go from here.

One of the highlights of the evening will be the signing of the 2014 Candidate Pledge by all those running for Central Committee, State Central Committee and elected office in 2014.  This pledge will ask candidates to adhere to the Tea Party principles of fiscal responsibility, limited Constitutional government and the free market.  If you are a candidate and would like to sign the pledge, please send us a message here.

We are also looking for pictures from past Cincinnati Tea Party events.  If you have any great shots, please share them on Cincinnati Tea Party’s Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/CincinnatiTeaParty.

Spread the word to your friends on Facebook with our event page

https://www.facebook.com/events/355504824590622/

Join us for what will be an amazing night.  Tickets are limited, so register today!

Rich Hoffman

 www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

 

West Chester Police Attack Trustee George Lang: The fight for power between labor unions and their boss

 

With all the violent voracity that West Chester police officers Gary Gabbard, Randall Farris and Paul Lovell applied to a drunk Jeremy Lewis at a local sports bar, those same officers are now attacking Trustee George Lang for explaining why West Chester was forced to pay $265,000 in damages due to their extremely bad judgment.  As the ultimate boss of the West Chester police, Lang as a Trustee was not happy that officers employed by the community acted so poorly to cost the district so much money based on their reckless actions.  The three officers were cleared of any wrongdoing after an “internal” investigation of a May 2012 altercation with Jeremy Lewis, 29, of Blanchester, who was struck repeatedly with police batons and sprayed with chemical irritants at Win, Place or Show Sports Grill & Tavern.  I covered this story before, CLICK HERE to review.  The video of the incident can be seen on that previous article and it is quite clear that the officers were very hasty in their violence.  What is even more alarming is that the West Chester Police and their FOP union backed the police beating leaving Lang and the other Trustees to settle the case Lewis clearly had against the Township. 

 

 

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2014/03/19/slander-west-chester-lawsuit-george-lang-politics/6623007/

 

The same thuggish intentions which those officers displayed against Lewis are now being applied to their boss, George Lang, only this time without the police batons and “chemical irritants.”  Instead, the cops are using the legal system to attempt to beat Lang into submission.  The situation is just as ridiculous as a French labor union suing Goodyear for wanting to leave France over their unproductive workers—who only work 3 hours a day, the West Chester Police expect financial compensation, promotions, and community merit even when they exhibited errors in judgment.  The West Chester Officers actually expected to be promoted, compensated financially and treated with respect after their disastrous mistake—which is laughably out-of-touch with reality.

 

Lang presented the reasons for the $265,000 settlement publicly.  The lawsuit against him contends that Lang slandered the officers when he let it be known that the officers were “bragging about the beating back at the patrol room,” that the victim was taken to the hospital with severe injuries and that his face was very puffy and bloody—as if that fact could not be verified by the doctor who attended Lewis.  The suit maintains all those statements were false and caused the officers to lose an opportunity for promotion. The township has not yet filed a response to the lawsuit alleging defamation, slander, “tortious” interference with a business relationship, intentional infliction of emotional distress and civil conspiracy.  (Tortious interference, also known as intentional interference with contractual relations, in the common law of torts, occurs when a person intentionally damages the plaintiff‘s contractual or other business relationships. This tort is broadly divided into two categories, one specific to contractual relationships irrespective of whether they involve business), and the other specific to business relationships or activities (irrespective of whether they involve a contract).

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortious_interference

 

In other words, the West Chester Police want to teach Lang a lesson for breaking ranks with them and are seeking to punish him with any means available.  It wouldn’t look good to attack Lang with batons, as they did Jeremy Lewis so they are using the legal system instead.  This is a long time tactic by labor unions to teach governing officials such as their bosses to shut their mouth.  In this case, the West Chester Police conducted an internal investigation which essentially states that the training the officers received were in accordance with policy and that the beating was justified leaving the officers innocent.  That is just as ridiculous as the many times Lakota teachers have been caught trying to have sex with students, or flirting with students only to be protected by the union with virtually no punishment—because the school board doesn’t want to get sued by the union—so they let the actions go without discipline.  The same situation applies in this police case against Lang.  The reason these crimes by public employees happen is because these unionized government employees believe they are above the law and exempt from ramifications for their bad decisions.  In the case of Lang, he is the first public person in a long time to actually stand up to them—and the police are acting violently toward him as a result.

Nobody can ever know what really gets said behind closed doors, and when gangs of thugs get together and whisper off the record about things, they expect that those things cannot be used against them in court—because unless there is a recording, or it is written down—then it cannot be presented as evidence in court.  Police unions because they control the legal process—at least the public interpretation of it–believe they have all their loose ends tied up in this case against Lang and that they have a right to attempt to ruin his life for standing up against them. 

 

But there is always more to the story which will not come out in court—most likely.  Lang as a trustee has voted against the mindless pay increases the FOP union wants out of West Chester, where the officers are already some of the most highly paid cops in this part of the country.  If a bet had to be made in what the real motivation behind this lawsuit was, it would be that Lang would be discouraged to stand against future labor negotiations with the FOP union.  The cops are using this law suit as a way to soften him up—to remove his opposition toward their upcoming contract negotiations.  Most likely, this lawsuit has nothing to do with what the cops are saying it is—but rather its all about their contract.  CLICK HERE TO SEE HOW MUCH THESE OFFICERS MAKE.  The police are simply acting like a band of thugs who are above the law.  Their behavior against Jeremy Lewis is obvious.  But their behavior against their boss, George Lang is even more so—when the totality of the story is known.  Whether the weapon is a police baton or the legal system the goal is suppression of the truth and the desire to inflict the desires of the Fraternal Order of Police upon a society of victims living in fear underneath their tyranny.  If such desires are left unchecked, the situation will spiral out of control. This is why we must all stand with George Lang.  If he goes down, we will all go down and the police will turn on private citizens like they did Jeremy Lewis in less than a moment.  This lawsuit is about power and control and who really has it—and by the evidence presented by the West Chester Police against Lewis and now against Lang their lust for power is undeniable. 

Rich Hoffman

 www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

 

The Failure of Keynesian Economics: France fails right on time as I predicted

I have written about the failures of Keynesian economics many times, but at this junction in 2014 the issue is now beyond question.  Any Keynesian advocate should be removed from American culture with the same voracity that a terrorist or drug dealer is dealt with, because the results are the same.  Keynesian economists should be deported and sent to South Pacific islands where the head hunters of New Guinea are more likely to have success with their voodoo beliefs and faulty thinking.  America is the land of the free and anybody has a right to voice their opinion, but they do not have a right to destroy the lives of others, and Keynesian economists do just that.  They are the cockroaches of money, the scavengers that destroy commerce with unpleasant filth and mindless tenacity and they should be eradicated from any culture that desires to make money. 

I ran across a wonderful article by James E. Miller about the failures of Keynesianism and thought it so articulate that I am reprinting it here for my readers with a link to the original article at the end.  Europe is just now beginning to question the failures of Keynesianism as the evidence is impossible to ignore, as the old world is crumbling to the ground as we speak.  Canada has a lot of very frustrated and terrified Europeans who are relocated to avoid the socialism of their home countries, so an article coming from the Institute of Canada has more direct validity.

It was just recently that the terrible economic conditions in France became known through all the media hype hoping to contain the deep-seated desire to invoke socialism specifically with Keynesian economic models to every country in the world—specifically The United States.  I predicted a year ago that France would fall apart economically after electing an openly socialist president.  Right on time, they are failing, the youth is fleeing to London and Montréal, Canada, and the wealthy are leaving for destinations unknown leaving the country facing huge taxation with nobody to pay but the parasites who want the government to take care of them.  Goodyear is pulling out of the country after the latest union strike where protesters rallied against the greed and wealthy Goodyear executives forcing them to work 3 hours a day.  Sounds even worse than   American school teachers who work only 8.5 hours per day and expect to make between $60K to $80K per year.  In the French and American governments, their commitment to Keynesian economics will simply raise taxes to raise all boats—but Goodyear isn’t a government backed union, and they are leaving France for obvious reasons.  Their French manufacturing plant is not productive and they just don’t get it—because they are Keynesians committed to socialism.

So read Miller’s article below, it has power, conviction, and truth.  Keynesianism should be outlawed with the same voracity as a domestic threat would otherwise be identified.  The evidence is overwhelming and no longer a question up for debate.  The facts just don’t support anything a Keynesian has ever stated about prosperity, economic growth, and the health of nations.  The data points the other way clearly, and concisely.

The Failure of Keynesianism

Submitted by James E Miller of the Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada,

It’s hard not to agree with the old aphorism “history doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” It’s nice to think we learn from our mistakes; yet we always seem to repeat them at some later date.

Reading the daily news, you would be hard-pressed to find mention that there is still an employment crisis unfolding in many industrialized countries. The New York Times recently reported that employers in the United States hired only 175,000 workers in February. This is apparently a cause for celebration among economists. The unemployment rate in the U.S. still remains at a historic high of 6.7%, and there appears to be no date in sight for a return of full employment, but no matter; the economy is supposedly gaining steam.

The only problem is, nobody seems to care much anymore. High unemployment is a constant reality now. Nearly six years of slagging job creation has created a cloud of apathy for most people. It’s just accepted that not everyone who wants to find work will be able to; or they will wander from low-wage job to low-wage job without any kind of security.

The current economic malaise is reminiscent of what the Great Depression was like. Persistently high unemployment with no conceivable end; massive government intervention in the marketplace; a changing industrial landscape; and even social and cultural transformation. We’re less than a century removed from the biggest economic hardship ever faced in America, and the same mishaps are unfolding in front of our eyes.

Then and now, something has remained perennial: the utter incompetence on government’s part to cure economic stagnation.

Newscasters, state officials, and academic economists all tell us government is capable of spending us into prosperity. No matter how much dough is thrown at the glob known as the “economy,” large numbers of people remain out of work. During the Depression, the glut of joblessness lasted for nearly fifteen years. Uncle Sam spent like a drunken sailor while swallowing up much of the economy in fascist scheme after fascist scheme.

The very same thing goes on today, all at the behest of Keynesian-type political actors who provide the intellectual ammunition necessary to justify government’s outstretched hand. With neatly obscure formulas and obtuse language, the apparatchik darlings of Keynes love branding themselves as deep-thinking scientists capable of engineering the perfect economy. When their policy is put to work, we get the opposite. Job creation stagnates, living standards slump, and misery spreads. The siphons of entrepreneurial growth don’t pump; they are bogged down with the grimy sludge of currency manipulation and government hubris.

After decades of constant failure, I mean this wholeheartedly: the followers of the Keynesian school don’t have a damn clue on how to fix the economy. Why my gauche phrasing? Their policy prescription is a complete and total failure. The Great Depression; the stagflation of the 1970s; the Great Recession we see today; in each instance, Washington was impotent to reverse the damage. Keynesians are either pathetically ignorant, or maliciously deceptive.

Taking rhetorical shots doesn’t mean much without some evidence. So let’s meet the Keynesians on their terms. First, economic science itself will be interpreted through the lens of positivism. That means data, in whatever form, will be used to justify whether something works or not. Of course the assumption will be made that spending is the driver of economic prosperity – not saving or investment. The same goes for boundless money printing, which is said to infuse the “animal spirits” with a rejuvenating elixir.

So what have they got for successes? Keynesians used to tout the efforts of Franklin Roosevelt (not so much Herbert Hoover, who was proto-Rooseveltian) during the Great Depression as vindication for their theory. I remember being told in no uncertain terms that Uncle Sam stepped up to save the downtrodden from excess capitalism in my American Presidency 301 class. Sure, it wasn’t an economics course; but it’s the same tale spun by economists anyway.

What does the data say? From 1931 to 1940, the unemployment rate never went south of 10%. From the onset of the Depression, Washington spending went up 97% under the Hoover Administration. According to the White House’s official statistics, the federal budget increased from $3.5 billion in 1931 to $13.6 billion in 1941, jumping in size year after year. A combination of deficit spending and tax hikes (admittedly not a Keynesian remedy) allowed for this gorge in consumption. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve goosed the economy by first stabilizing the monetary base and increasing the supply of money after the initial contraction during the Depression’s early years. According to the Historic Statistics of the United States, the Federal Reserve increased its holding of U.S. securities from $510 million in 1929 to over $6 billion in 1942. During the same period, the central bank’s balance sheet went from about $5.5 billion to $29 billion.

That’s no small stimulus. And yet the unemployment rate failed to drop significantly during the Depression years. Most of Keynes’s disciples admit that nearly fifteen years of high unemployment leaves much to be desired on the part of muscular government. The counterfactual is then deployed that Roosevelt’s domestic efforts lightened the economic burden foisted upon America. What finally put the Depression to bed, they argue, was the incredible amount of spending during World War II.

But as economic historian Robert Higgs shows, measures of economic performance were highly skewed during wartime. Unemployment fell and production ramped up, but this was due to the draft and building of armaments. Rationing was widespread to the point where basic foodstuffs and toiletries were scarce. If a wartime economy counts as prosperity, then the homeless today are the living embodiment of luxury.

World War II is a bunk fantasy that in no way proves the Keynesian theory correct. The same goes for the fascist orgy known as the New Deal. Fast-forward to today, and the same charlatans are preaching from the gospel of government interventionism. They implore Washington to fight back against the Great Recession with the same blunted tools: spending and money printing.

When the housing bubble burst and the economy began to tank, then-Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke and crew nearly tripled the central bank’s balance sheet. As of right now, the Fed’s sheet stands at about $4 trillion. In 2008, it was at $800 billion. Not to be outdone, the federal government ramped up spending by running nearly-trillion dollar deficits year-after-year. Once again, all this effort has only made a slight dent in the unemployment rate.

From a strictly empirical perspective, the Keynesian theory is a disaster. Positivism wise, it’s a smoldering train wreck. You would be hard-pressed to comb through historical data and find great instances where government intervention succeeded in lowering employment without creating the conditions for another downturn further down the line.

No matter how you spin it, Keynesianism is nothing but snake oil sold to susceptible political figures. Its practitioners feign using the scientific method. But they are driven just as much by logical theory as those haughty Austrian school economists who deduce truth from self-evident axioms. The only difference is that one theory is correct. And if the Keynesians want to keep pulling up data to make their case, they are standing on awfully flimsy ground.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-16/failure-keynesianism

 

Rich Hoffman

 www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

 

The World Cannot Play American Football: Why rugby, soccer, and speed skating are inferior

As a continuation on yesterday’s article about the divorce of America from Europe it is time that we had a heart to heart realization as confirmed by the Dutch speed skating coach from the Sochi Olympics.  Jillert Anema said he wasn’t surprised the Americans were doing so poorly in speed skating in Sochi because The United States doesn’t support the sport the way it should be supported.  He thinks we don’t support speed skating because we’re too busy watching stupid American football and that we are wasting a lot of athletic talent on a sport that is meant to kill each other.  Anema confirms what I said previously, that the rest of the world does not understand American football because they do not understand the nature of capitalism.  American football is a game of capitalism as European soccer and rugby are tribal games of domination and socialism.  The premier reason that the rest of the world cannot compete with The United States in American football to the extent that they cannot even put a team on the field, is because they cannot grasp the concept of capitalism for which to train and play the game.   Americans do think they are right, because they are, and they are better than the European, because they are………….because in America they are free and unconquered and a touchdown is symbolic of industrial success and achievement which prompts cheers from a ruckus crowd.

When I was a kid I played soccer. Later in life I realized I would have enjoyed football much better.  At the time everyone told me that soccer was the game of the future and that football was on the way out. That was early in 1980.  What I didn’t know at the time was that there was a desire by Europe to lead the world toward global socialism through The United Nations and that they desired to advocate a game that the entire world could play together which represented the economic and political structure of their design.  They desired at the time to turn The United States away from American style football and onto European style football known as soccer.

I was so aggressive as a fullback in soccer that my teammates nicknamed me the “animal” because I often head-butted offensive players intentionally drawing yellow cards to prevent the other teams offense from getting set-up down the field.  I learned very early that the best way to have a great defense in soccer was to pull our full backs up far away from our defended goal preventing the other team’s forwards from getting too close, because the other team’s offense was not allowed to begin a run at the goal by being behind the other team’s defense.  This kept their offense from getting too close to our goalie.  If our offense kept the ball on the enemy’s side of the field I could pull up our defense to leave a tremendous gulf between our line and the goal which the offense couldn’t exploit because of the rules.  This is how soccer is a socialist game because forwards were regulated to staying in front of a defense.  If they did get behind me they’d be called off-sides, so when a well placed ball was punched down the field toward the offensive player, and they would receive it a few steps in front of me, a well placed head-butt would plant them into the ground and make them think twice about doing it again.

By the time I got to high school I was so disenfranchised with the education system that I didn’t want to engage in any battle that the school would benefit from.  I hated the coaches and most of the members of the team, so I stayed away even though it was a game I was naturally inclined to.  Once I got away from my school days I found I enjoyed the game increasingly over the years and found it to be unique to America in many ways that are positive.  In football the receiver can get behind the defensive backs if they are faster.  The only off-sides there is goes against the defense.  They cannot jump across the line until the offense led by the quarterback starts their play.  This is the essence of the difference between soccer and football.  In soccer off-sides favors the defense, in American football it favors the offense.  In America the offense metaphorically speaking is of capitalism, industry, banking, invention, the defense is regulation, government, and political resistance.  The intention is to beat those elements to score a goal.  That is why Americans don’t typically cheer in football until yards are gained or a score is obtained.  In soccer they cheer collectively during the entire match.  In football it is typically when an achievement is obtained—this is a big difference.

I have been a Tampa Bay Buccaneer fan most of my adult life.  I fly flags on game day and fire cannons from my porch when they score.  I love the hard hits, I love the theater, and I love how it is specifically American.  The rest of the world cannot play American Football.  Rugby is a pretty close adaption and the players are tough in that they don’t use padding, but the concept of the game is still a version of Europe’s addiction to collectivism instead of an individual quarterback standing behind a battle line and delivering the ball down the field to ultimately score.   In American football the quarterback is the CEO of an offense.  He is a celebrated hero from Atlas Shrugged in every circumstance and his job is to rally his team to victory as an “individual.”  In rugby the closest thing they have is a “fly-half position.”  So there is no coordinated effort to get the ball down the field to score a goal—but like soccer it is a kind of chaos where the ball bounces back and forth between offense and defense with no plan or formation on how to execute a task.  Soccer and rugby are European games that reflect their cultures, and they cannot grasp the ideal of a Football playbook where offensive and defensive schemes drive the ball down the field toward the promised land of scoring.

Europe cannot put a team on the field that can even remotely compete with an American team because Europe and the rest of the world cannot grasp capitalism.  The differences are pure and simple.  Who gives a rat’s ass about speed skating around a frozen lake when you can take off the head of an enemy player on the field of capitalism and are given points for ramming the ball down the throat of a defense to gain victory?  In soccer and rugby a score just so happens almost by random chance, just like their stupid economic system—which is why the score is often 1 to 0 or 2 to 3 after over an hour of game play.  In football you get 6 points plus a field goal attempt for scoring a touchdown.  In soccer you get one stupid point.  In America when a business hits it big, people often get rich.  They get more than a silly point; they get SIX points just for getting across 100 yards of defense.  Football is their game, it is the hopes and dreams of every American played out on the battlefield of capitalism.  Soccer and rugby are games of socialism, collectivism, and way too many rules reflective of their societies.  The difference between Europe and America is clearly evident in their games.

Needless to say soccer did not become a hit in America.  I don’t even know where the nearest professional team is, so my teachers lied to me when they said that soccer would suppress American football in the future.  They hoped that it would because deep down inside they recognized the differences which are clearly ideological.  I would love to see London play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, or socialist bitches from Paris.  I’d like to see France find 11 men in the entire country who could meet the Tampa Bay Bucs in Raymond James Stadium—I bet they couldn’t do it.  Let the speed skaters of the Dutch even think about putting a football team on the field against even American high school players.  They would be destroyed.  There wouldn’t even be remote competition, because the people from those places are so intellectually ruined because of their economic commitment to socialism that they can’t even comprehend the role of a quarterback, let alone train a player to perform the task.  This is also why they fail economically, because they do not understand what makes industry work, what makes money, and how products are even created.  They randomly sometimes get lucky and score a point, but often you have to wait an entire game to see a score—or in the case of Europe, an entire decade.

To Jillert Anema, let’s see you even come close to assembling a team that could play American football.  America can at least put speed skaters in an arena with the Dutch but there is a reason nobody in the world can compete with American in football…………………….it’s because they can’t.  Just like the battle between socialism and capitalism.  It is that simple.

How about challenging the rest of the world to a little wager?  Here is the contact page to the United Nations.  Send this article to them and let’s see if they have an answer to it.  Let’s see if they can pull all of the best players from around the world from soccer, rugby, speed skating—whatever, and see if they can even play against one American professional football team.  I bet they can’t.

Go ahead, send them a note:

http://www.un.org/en/contactus/

Better yet contact every country that is in membership at The United Nations from that same link.  Send them a request as well and let’s see if all of them put together could build a football team……………American style.

(Shhhhhhh, they can’t.)  I offer the videos on this article as testimony.  Prove me wrong……………anybody in the entire world.  

There are attempts in Europe to be like America.  There are teams trying to learn the role of a “quarterback” and play the American game.  They can all be found at this link.  Building a proper team should start with them.  But I bet all of them together would fall short of an American professional team.  Because the basic concept of the game eludes Europeans.

 

http://americanfootballeurope.com/

 

 

Rich Hoffman

 

 www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

 

Ayn Rand Versus James Joyce: The Divorce of America from Europe

I feel sorry for people who feel this way. The reviewer simply can’t relate. They have no concept of having the kind of passion for something where sleep, rest and comfort are secondary concerns. They don’t feel those kinds of things, so they think good characters are the type of people who strive to have faults, where they work simply to eat, drink, rest, and have sex. People like that are like monkeys at a zoo looking at human visitors across a gulf of intelligence, beyond the barriers of a cage, and can’t understand why zoo visitors have drinks, and strollers, and small humans in their arms with sunglasses shielding their eyes from the sun. They are primitives, sad and left behind lost forever to faulty thinking and stupidity.

Read more at http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts/5e30cb6/atlas-shrugged-is-a-ridiculous-book~aanyvpt6qjgrvit7nk2b4wfioe#KbDwv05Roro8QBRx.99

That was a comment I made to an article published on Atlas Shrugged is a Ridiculous Book posted in the Galt’s Gulch site where I have quite a few friends.  I read the review linked below and thought that the author Robert Nielsen did a good job citing his opinions, that he did thoroughly read the book and made an effort to have pointed comments.  I thought the author was a generally curious person of above average intelligence.  However, I also thought that the author might be a radical left winged oriented socialist (Democrat) who was a staunch Keynesian and after looking into the guy a bit, that is exactly what he was.  He was a European born and raised amidst the socialism of Europe and simply had no mental mechanisms that could relate to the novel Atlas Shrugged and believed that through democratic consensus that just because a majority of the population on earth does not think like the characters in Atlas Shrugged, that the book is ridiculous and should not have an audience.  Nielsen had a number of opinionated passages in his article, but the one below struck me as being the most revealing.

http://robertnielsen21.wordpress.com/2014/03/14/atlas-shrugged-is-a-ridiculous-book/

 

“All of the heroes have this absurd element to them. They don’t stop to eat or rest a single time in the book and it is casually thrown in that they haven’t slept for two or three days as though that would have no effect on them. They have no hobbies or interested (sic) outside work. Even when they are bleeding they don’t feel any pain. In other words they are soulless robots, machines good for working and nothing else. Atlas Shrugged bears a strong resemblance to Fascist propaganda in its treatment of heroes.  There is a strong emphasis on the cult of personality, of worshipping men of action in contrast to the masses who are too stupid and cowardly to achieve greatness.  Democracy destroys accountability whereas dictatorship is the only system where anyone is responsible.  All of the best firms in the book are named after their owner and collapse without them.”

Nielsen says a lot here and represents a large portion of the world who have grown up for generations under kings, princes, fascist rulers, and tyrannical dictators who to them represent the “right” on a political spectrum and democratic socialists, communists, labor unions, and religious collectivists on the other representing the “left.”  Yet for me personally, I don’t even consider any of the categories on that scale relevant and long ago designated Europe and its history to be corrosive to the human experience.  My ideal of a good time is not sitting in a “pub” with my mates watching a socialist soccer game and thinking that James Joyce was an intellectual giant as the benchmark of good literature.  The guy could write complicated metaphors—but to what end—to be haunted by dreams of a fragmented past as in Finnegan’s Wake or to visit a brothel in Ulysses.  Nielsen is from Dublin, and so was Joyce and because of my experience with those works, I feel I have a pretty good feel for life in Ireland and what it represents—and none of those things are concepts that are attractive to me.

I find it utterly disgusting that so many Americans have been bred through the education system to believe that the cities of Europe are exotic destinations of culture and sophistication.  To me the entire land mass from the shores of France to the end of Russia protruding out into the Bering Strait is a corrupt embodiment and continuation of The Dark Ages.  The people from those lands have been conquered and beaten so many ways by so many tyrants that the only way out of the cycle was “democracy” through majority rule.  And if the majority are idiots, than so be it.  Visiting a BW3’s on a Friday night disgusts me as much as it would if I were in a Dublin Pub with a bunch of socialists banging mugs of beer together in communion around a soccer match—so my feelings are not specific to Europe.  And before I say any more, one of my son-in-laws is from England, just outside of London on the eastern side.  My other daughter dated a guy from the boarder of Scotland.  I have family members from Europe, and I deal with people almost every day in every time zone from London to New Zealand, so I have a very good understanding about the lifestyle of Europe which leaves me shaking my head when Americans seek to mimic that cold landmass with a history of oppression extending from here to the dawn of man shown in the Caves of Lascaux.  America was founded by people seeking freedom from Europe and they were willing to die to leave that place.  In a lot of ways the pilgrims were the original Gaultchers from Atlas Shrugged they were looking to be free of the religious and political persecution of Europe, which still exists to this very day in Keynesian economics.  The thought process moved from churches into the economy but the mentality is very much the same.

Once America was founded and Europe saw that they could visit without being killed by natives, they settled the New England area and brought their stupid European socialism with them in the form of “progressivism,” and started voting for Democrats while encourage America to give up football and making “soccer” the national game…………………………..NO.  In many ways Europe is still stuck under the veil of tyranny that they have been confined with since there was an Ice Age and it is utterly disgusting.  Atlas Shrugged is one of the first great American novels produced under a relatively new country with a new way of thinking.  Now of course the jealous European trained in the liberal schools of Ireland, England and France will scoff at the characters of Atlas Shrugged because they are clearly outside of the European experience.

In reference to many of the successful Americans that I know, it is true that if they do not come to work, or leave a company after they have led it, the company does collapse.  Making money is their hobby.  I remember a lunch meeting that I had in downtown Cincinnati with some very influential financiers and patent attorneys where the bill was $11,000.  These guys did this every day of the week.  They made their money under an American capitalist system and could not have done what they were doing in Europe because people like Robert Nielson would think that they had equal rights to that money just because their mothers gave birth to them in Dublin.  The people I had lunch with had a hobby that was “making money” which is why they had it.  The wealth they produced carried over into every aspect of society from the nice waitress who tended to them daily to the people who imported the food required to feed them.  If those types of people didn’t show up for work one day, or decided to go on a vacation, their businesses fell apart because “the people” working for them lost focus and drifted without proper leadership.  That is not fascism that is leadership.  Fascism is where such a human trait is taken advantage of.

America has created its own definitions and fascism is not even an option.  A business leader of an industry is not a fascist, they are a job creator.  People are free to leave that job if they discover they don’t like the direction of the company.  But to allow a fascist to rule over the entire nation of America—that simply isn’t going to happen.   Europeans can’t wrap their mind around that ideal; it doesn’t fit with their history and their foundations of education.  To them the political “right” is fascists like Mussolini and Hitler and the “left” are people like Lenin, Stalin, and Marx.  America rejected all those idiots because they are collectivists, and in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged she is introducing an entirely new way of looking at the old problems so that Americans can understand why their capitalist system is so superior to European socialism.  Those in love with “democracy” (majority rule, even if a majority are fools) is to commit a political and economic structure around collectivism.  In America where individualism is the foundation concept, collectivism is a curse.  It is a waste of time to achieve group consensus because not everyone is capable of making proper decisions.  The reason for this has been explored by Robert Pirsig in the book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, another revolutionary work of philosophy done specifically in America.  Slowly the old philosophers of Europe, people like Nietzsche, Marx, and Descartes are being replaced by Rand, Pirsig, and Adam Smith.

The characters of Atlas Shrugged are my kind of people.  They represent my daily life and I do feel sorry for those who can’t relate.  It must be terrible to wake up each morning in such a fog that human faults are the first area of focus.  It must be terrible to even consider if “group consensus” is something to measure before taking action.  I once went to Disney World with a large group and watched everyone standing in Tomorrow Land for an hour arguing about which thing to do first. Finally, I got sick of it and gathered up a crew who wanted to go with me and I left to explore the park.  We had a blast because most people just want to have someone give them direction in life.  They don’t want the burden of thinking, they just want to follow—and that’s fine so long as they don’t get in the way.  But if they try to hold things up with indecision and personal insecurities, then it is unacceptable to me.  The primary question explored in Atlas Shrugged is if the majority should be allowed to hold up the few, when it is the few who move the world, and the answer is no.

People like me do not reach out to the “democracies” of the world trying to sell Ayn Rand or Atlas Shrugged because I really don’t care if people like Robert Nielson accepts it or rejects it.  I just don’t want Nielson in a position through his Keynesian economics to hold me up when I want to do something.  If he wants to hang out in a Dublin pub watching soccer matches instead of being productive, that is his decision—but he does not have a right to hinder me.  The point of Atlas Shrugged is that when this process happens, people like Nielson do suffer.   Europe sucks…………..most everyone is stuck somewhere between fascism and communism.  The topless beaches of France and Spain do not give culture to a society—it does not make them enlightened.  French wine is not better than California wine and the Caves of Lascaux are representative of the same tribal collectivism as the Navajo of the American Southwest—both represent primitive collectivist cultures mired with a basic premise of tribal sacrifice.  The America that took Adam Smith’s lead, and John Locke and was first commented on by Ayn Rand, then Robert Pirsig is one that exists outside of European definitions for things.  It is not my task or those of my friends in Galt’s Gulch to “sell” Rand to anybody.  Her books have sold for decades quite well on their own—people come to her work in their own time in their own way.  The difference between a republic and a democracy is that a republic is supposed to represent different people as a representative as opposed to a democracy with majority rule.  America is a republic not a filthy democracy!  A group of thugs do not have a right to impose on me their beliefs just because they outnumber me.  The stupid will always outnumber the intelligent—so the stupid should not have power over the intelligent.  The intelligent should not be hampered by fools, lowlifes, and insecure collectivists.  That is what Atlas Shrugged is essentially about and why it offendshttp://youtu.be/bWebZ_OqU_c so many people.  I can understand that many people don’t like the book or the movies if they identify with the villains—nobody likes being called names.  But for years in every movie and book that has attacked capitalism, they have attacked my values, which is what the artists have done to people like me—so Atlas Shrugged is art that I can relate to.  I don’t expect the democratic masses to enjoy it—it wasn’t written for them.

It is sad that people like Robert Nielsen are stuck behind on an island of Keynesian economics, socialism, communism, and soccer matches over beer in 200-year-old pubs that smell like dirty feet and swamp ass stained to their wooden chairs after 50 years of use.  Like monkeys stuck on an island display at a zoo designed to contain them they can only look across the void at America and wonder why we have it so good, why we have so much money, so many tools at our disposal. But they never get to the answer of why because they are lacking the intellectual tools to step across the barriers which contain them.  If they knew how to swim or were not afraid of the water they could free themselves—but instead they spend their days grooming each other and beating on their chests in memory of their primitive ancestors and call those who have left them behind—cultists driven by “selfishness.”  I would love to help those people, but not by coming to Europe to copy off them, to play their stupid soccer matches where the game resembles socialism with their ridiculous off-sides rules—where a forward cannot be behind a defense—give me a break!  That makes for a boring game and a boring economy, and Europe has both.  Atlas Shrugged, an American story, is about productivity, individualism, innovation, and the corruption of the masses and their need for leadership.  John Galt is certainly not the next European fascists.  He is beyond that kind of thinking—he is all about total independence where individuals are not compelled into imprisonment by the weakest links of society—because those weak links chose to be stupid, perilous, or otherwise reckless with their lives—then expect others to shield them from reality through collectivism.  Atlas Shrugged philosophically is a divorce from Europe, and obviously in such divorces there are hard feelings and one side will always try to make the other look bad.  But in the end, Atlas Shrugged is a change in thinking that the spouse left behind resents and in this case it is Europe and all its faulty past.  Robert Nielsen might feel the chill of abandonment and call after their former lover with disdain and envy, but the merit is rooted in jealousy.  The proclamation that some people, some economies, and some ideals are better than others, and that people who love Atlas Shrugged are willing to go off and do their own thing is a reality that the European and the Americans who love the dank culture of that haze covered land is simply too much to comprehend.

Atlas Shrugged is about a new way of thinking where the roots of productivity are not explored through mystical hocus pocus balancing limited resources against equal distribution to the world.  It is about what makes resources in the first place so that new things can come to be which ultimately benefit everyone.  The question must first be asked, who is responsible for productivity—is it the democratic masses or the few who possess leadership and ability?  My trip to Disney World is confirmation that Atlas Shrugged is the only artistic work to properly identify the answer.  At the end of that day, a majority of the people in the argument of what to do were still there.  They had simply sat down at a few tables and ate food most of the day stuck in inaction driven by their indecisiveness.  Me and my group, we rode Pirates of the Carribean—5 times, road the Thunder Mountain Railroad, did the Swiss Family Robison Tree House, saw a number of shows including the Presidents Showcase, ran all over Tom Sawyer Island, did everything in Fantasy Land, shopped, road Space Mountain—3 times and still had time to do more.  The rest of the group had not even left Tomorrow Land except to get a place on Main Street to watch the fireworks.  That is what has happened to Europe and every single Keynesian economist and every political socialist.  They are still stuck in the politics of Europe and are chained to its dismal fate where America has moved on.  The philosophy of that “moving on” is chronicled in Atlas Shrugged and is only growing as more and more of those monkeys on the zoo island learn to swim and discover a big bright world outside of their intellectual confinement.

Rich Hoffman

 www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

 

Bill Gates Warning About the Future: Inventions that will make Excel look primitive

Bill Gates is a creation of American capitalism and could only have become the richest man in the world in America.  Unlike people like George Soros or Warren Buffet who are also billionaires, Gates became wealthy because of his creation of a superior product.  To this very day I still consider Microsoft Excel to be the most important, and powerful invention of the 20th Century.  The Microsoft Office bundle has literally changed the world and revolutionized business.  I can send a Microsoft PowerPoint to literally any company in the world, and they can open it and view the information effortlessly through a simple email, and that is a real miracle.  20 years ago for a business meeting I would have had to carry a brief case with me everywhere I went, but now I can download all my documents for a presentation on a “stick” and open them on another company’s computer using Excel to show complicated financial formulas and forecasts that would have taken mountains of paper to do in the past.  The cell design of Microsoft Excel is just brilliant.  It is a real technical evolution for the human species, and is why Bill Gates is often the world’s richest man.  I don’t agree with his views on Common Core education which he shares with another person I admire, George Lucas.  I think in that category both men are out of touch to believe that any government is qualified to be in charge of a child’s education.  But I would attribute their world view to a naiveté bred from their wealth and a remoteness created from their financial security and success in business.  They believe that they can apply the same success they had in their business to government sponsored education which has proven incorrect, but I won’t fault them for those moments of faulty thinking, because they are right in their specific fields much more often.  And to that assertion, Gates recently warned world governments of an impending crisis that they must get out ahead of, particularly in The United States.  A serious shortage of traditional jobs is coming to every country in the world, and the need to reduce taxes, avoid any increases in the minimum wage, and to find ways to inspire entrepreneurs to create jobs that have not yet been invented is becoming the most important thing anybody can hope to do.

As I mentioned just a few days ago with the future predictions of Ray Kurzweil artificial intelligence will change the world.  It is likely that as much as Microsoft Office has changed the way companies have done business, and Excel has had a major impact in the world of finance and management, the technical leaps that will be witnessed in just the next decade will be monumental.  Bill Gates is well aware of this upcoming trend because he is one of the shapers of the developing technologies and can see clearly what is happening.  Now he is warning the world of the growing crises of “software substitution” that is about to hit virtually every economic market.

Microsoft Excel already does for one individual what a room full of accountants used to perform prior to the computer revolution.  All those highly paid jobs have been eliminated and given to people who have not dedicated their life to finance and now perform the same tasks as a mere afterthought—people like me.  I’ve always been a creative person, and an in-the-trenches worker, but now it’s not uncommon for me to do complicated spreadsheets in a movie theater before a film begins without much additional effort, because Excel does most of the heavy lifting.  This tendency of software substitution will become greater, resulting in millions upon millions of lost jobs over the coming decades.  Gates is warning now so that governments can prepare, but most of course will not listen.

Obama’s recent insult of an executive order for salary workers is the most obvious current failure of governments to understand just how behind the curve they are.  Obama’s social beliefs were formulated by communists from the 1930s to the 1960s and are why he believes that the profits of the business owner should be shared by the “workers,” which is 100% false.  A joke in our family while traveling through remote areas when we hear a song on the radio that is twenty years old is for me to declare that the song just came out in that location.  I do this a lot in Louisville, Kentucky where we visit often.  My reference is a comment on the backwoods foundations that are built around the city far away from culture centers like Los Angeles, New York and London.   Obama’s thoughts are comparable to a song from 1890 just hitting Louisville and them thinking its revolutionary, that’s how far behind the curve, Obama is on what’s happening in the world.  But Gates is the one who is writing the songs that aren’t even out yet, and will soon flood the world with their popularity once discovered.

It is only a few years away that drivers for over-the-road trucks will no longer be needed.  The trucks will drive themselves.  Nurses who monitor patients will be replaced by medical bots, and fast food restaurants will become dramatically automated.  Human workers are simply too unreliable, they don’t show up for work enough, and cost too much once there.  Insurance companies, financial centers, and most cubical based endeavors will go away.  There isn’t enough work to keep workers busy now for 8 hours a day—as Facebook login hours are proving, and as technology increases, this will become much worse.  Even manufacturing will change dramatically as 3D printers will increasingly do the task of manual labor for component parts.  Gone will be the days where a worker sat in front of a punch press, a sewing machine, or an injection molding unit running production for 8 hours a day 5 days a week.  The jobs in the future will be in material acquisition, and inspection, but not in the actual manufacture.  Technical assembly will still be a human trait, but every job not requiring human reason which is adaptable by circumstance will be challenged by technology.

It is not that far off that building construction will be done by robots because hiring human workers will be risky and unreliable.  It costs too much to hire a human worker with the threat of FMLA benefits, workman’s compensation cases, and the unreliability of momentary lapses in judgment.  Software reliability will prove much more attractive to future manufacturing.  Governments will strive to suppress technical innovation to protect their taxation structure, but it’s too late for them.  A company that wants to make interior car parts for Toyota, Honda, or even Ford will likely move their shop to some African country to avoid the high taxes of developed countries and use 3D printers to make many of their component parts hiring a skeleton crew to perform actual assembly.  As McDonald’s workers protest for unionization and a higher minimum wage the same robots working in the medical industry will prepare the food, drop the French Fries and work the drive thru.  Humans will load the machines with new food, they’ll do most of the money transactions since intuition will still be required between human customers, and they’ll supervise the sandwich making exercises.  But the actual sandwich making will be done by robotic hands.  (Do you have any idea dear reader how much money is lost putting too much lettuce on Big Macs can cost McDonald’s per year?  Too much!  Human error destroys millions of dollars in profit potential.)

Big government people and unionized workers will declare that all this technology is bad for the worker, it’s bad for the human condition, and it is bad for the economy.  These same people think that the sun comes up every morning to shine on their faces during their brief visit on earth and are out-of-touch with reality.  They are way behind the times that are coming and ill prepared to deal with the realities Bill Gates is warning about.  Education will change drastically!  Personal pleasure and recreation will change dramatically!  Manufacture and product delivery will change dramatically!  Service of all kinds will leap into another dimension in just 10 years to something not even recognizable to today’s standards—so the warning as been given—and we’ll see who listens.

The world will not stop evolving just because human beings have not adopted their religions, their politics, and their moral compass to the tools of invention created for the use of advancing society from a perilous past.  Every time I open an Excel Spreadsheet I feel privileged to live in such a time that I can use such a thing.  What is even better is when I can open a spreadsheet with costs, delivery and material items on my iPad removed from a jacket pocket while waiting for food to arrive while dinning out.  Apple Products are not typically compatible with Bill Gate’s Microsoft products but because Microsoft’s Office programs are so heavily used throughout the world, Apple has apps that can interpret them on their platforms.  And in just a few years these Excel inventions by Microsoft will seem clunky and barbaric compared to what’s coming.  Gates is right; most people are not prepared for those changes.  Governments if they were smart would completely reorganize their financial structures to deal with these coming changes and not try to hold the world to outdated and archaic social models where people are chained to programs like Social Security and Medicare.  Technology will create nanobots that will allow people to live for centuries instead of decades.  Cancer will be cured with a computer program that solves the problem in the human DNA itself—who will retire at 65 or even 85 when they can continue working for 100 or 200 years?  Why pay for Medicare when people can just become healthy like they were when they were young?  Why pay for a UPS driver when the truck can drive on its own and a delivery bot can drop the package off on a doorstep?  Why pay a tractor-trailer driver when it can be driven by GPS and a computer program that will even back the truck up to the dock of a destination?  A human driver can only drive so many hours by regulation where an automated driver can continue forever without pause but to refuel.  The world is changing–quickly, and Bill Gates is warning everyone as to the specifics of that change.  Big government types at this point are way, way…………….way behind and at the rate of technical computation that is now multiplying by the day, they will soon resemble primitive natives throwing spears at airplanes flying 30,000 feet overhead.  The choice to be a primitive is one that resists the inevitable and does not heed what Bill Gates is saying—and will be incurred with much peril that is completely avoidable.

Rich Hoffman

 www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

 

Obama The Dumbass: New Executive order against American productivity

Barack Obama has done a lot of really dumb things during his presidency and has shown himself to be a real novice when it comes to leadership.  Obama is the premier reason that an unproven senator rather than a vetted state governor or a military general should have nothing to do with The White House.  For those who foolishly voted for this fledgling idiot, the Percival of American politics, the video below is for you.  What they thought they were getting in 2008 when they cast their votes for the openly socialist community organizer from Chicago with direct ties to domestic terrorists, FBI tracked communists and a mother who slept her way around the world, was far from a savor.  The grim reality of their stupidity is self-evident.  Six years later, most of them are discovering what the woman in the following video have—which is reflected in the current poll numbers in 2014.

Now the idiot has really crossed the line and insulted me personally which is something that I must address directly.  If the dude wants to talk to me after reading this feel free……………he has my number.  This whole business of Barry Obama signing an executive order directed at the Labor Department requiring them to expand overtime pay requirements to include salary workers making under $50,000 per year for every hour worked over 40 per week is epically dim-witted.  This move is to equalize pay and distribution of wealth with yet another brainless attack on the supposed wealthy class of Americans to those in the mythical government created “middle-class.”  Obama stated on March 13th as he signed a memorandum to this effect that, “Our businesses have created more than 8 million new jobs over the last four years.  The unemployment rate is at the lowest it’s been in over five years, but, in many ways, the trend that have really battered middle-class families for decades have gotten worse, not better.  So we’ve got to reverse those trends.  We’ve got to build an economy that works for everybody, not just for a few.”  Obama’s dialogue of course is foolish, and might as well have been spoken by Vladimir Lenin in 1917 Russia.  Whether or not anybody likes the reality of President Obama, this move is rooted in communism—this ideal that all workers are equal and should share in the wealth of profit produced.  CLICK HERE TO REVIEW.

As I have documented I have been employed just about everywhere and done everything in virtually every capacity.  I have been at the very top and I have cleaned toilets—sometimes all at the same time.  I have worked on multiple occasions 24 straight hours and then some and done just about every kind of job that human beings have created.  At every place I have ever worked and all of the thousands of people I have worked with over the years, all of them with equal access to this site and the words I publish and can confirm if they wish to—because not a single one of them ever outworked me in all my years of productivity.  I have always been “that guy” who excelled and strove to do more, get more done, and outwit competitors with cleverness, aptitude, and sheer willpower.  What President Obama has declared with his diabolical executive order is that every other worker behind me has been equal to my efforts—the slug who sits in the break room too long, the imbecile who goofs off during the job too much, and the general bench warmer who can now sit at their computer while on salary and play on Facebook being unproductive during their normal work hours so they can milk the clock out and get paid for it by Uncle Government and pimp daddy Obama.

The primary reason an employer puts a worker who shows promise on salary is to avoid having to pay them overtime.  For the restaurant manager who might work 65 to 80 hours a week, the owner does not want to break their budget by racking up all the overtime hours incurred by a manager, so they are put on salary to fix the costs.  The motivation of the owner to the manager is to convince such people of responsibility to be more efficient with their time and to learn to delegate so that they don’t have to do all that work themselves.  But if they chose to work the extra hours they’ll do it at their cost.  For instance, if one of their restaurant employees calls off and there is nobody around to do the job, the manager is often stuck having to cover—and since they are on salary it will likely be free work to them.  This will cause the manager to hire better people so that they won’t have to do such things. With this new overtime rule by Obama and his gang of government thugs, the manager won’t want to hire another person to delegate to, because they will want to do the job themselves to milk out overtime.  Only idiots who have never managed anything at any point in their lives would think that such a communist concept could work in a productive society.

In my personal experience Obama has just declared with his ridiculous executive order that all the misfits, low-lifes, and lazy losers I have worked with in the past were equal to me—and that is just an insult.  Compared to me, nobody does equal work for equal pay, because nobody puts the same level of effort into a task.  Only a complete idiot with no work experience would believe such a thing, and this is confirmation that Obama and all the socialist knuckle draggers in Washington D.C. are clueless as to what makes an economy tick, and now they have increased the burden on American productivity, not lessened it.

Anyone who has had to manage hourly workers knows that because of the overtime laws created during the “Red Decade” where communism was being openly advocated by the high levels of society in The United States that the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 required most workers to be paid overtime in an effort to shuffle profits into the pockets of the common worker.  Salaried managers were tasked to combat the kind of waste this created by making sure that most of the work needed by a company was obtained within a 40 hour work week.  Without such management hourly workers typically stand at their jobs and string out their tasks so that they can obtain 5 to 15 hours of overtime a week supplementing their income.  In union shops this is an epidemic problem which has ultimately destroyed their competitive swagger in the world.  The federal government never had a right, or an obligation to determine what was “fair” for a worker in their relationship with an employer.  The cost of their intrusion has been productivity.

I have worked for employers who were idiots, and they sought to take advantage of me at every turn.  When I discovered this, I either moved on to someplace else, or I worked the situation to my advantage which is fair play.    Never have I turned to government to protect me from an employer.  It was always my task to handle that myself as it is for everyone.  While it’s true that not everybody is so ambitions, they should be……and they will never yearn to be so long as they are compensated by government for work that they aren’t doing in an attempt to equalize their pay and benefits.  This attempt at “fairness” by the Obama administration is one of the most obvious validations of their sheer ignorance and lack of worldly knowledge—at understanding what makes a person productive and what inspires them to sit on their ass.  This new executive order will encourage a lot more ass sitting and much, much less productivity because now those with management power on salary can milk out a clock too, and will be far less likely to manage hourly workers who desire at every turn to do the same.  This is the most foolish thing I have ever seen done by a politician……………which says a lot.

It is a personal insult to me to give workers who don’t put in the same effort that I do, equal pay.  It inspires me to work less, not more—and those like me who work hard will decide to shrug off that effort since the government has made inferior employees equal.  And that is the source of the problem because if the truly productive stop working hard, what is there that moves an economy……………….some proletariat worker?  Give me a break!

Obama, you are a dumbass.

Rich Hoffman

 www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com