THE NOTHING

For years now I have wondered if Glenn Beck was getting his show topics based on my articles here at Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom. What he speaks about and what I write about seemed to parallel closely over a long period of time. I know I don’t have time to watch and listen to Glenn Beck in much detail. My exposure to Beck is usually what people send to me in the form of clips through email. On Beck’s end, given his success over the last 5 years, I’m sure he has the same problem that I do only 100 times worse, so I doubt he has time to read my articles—unless somebody he trusts sends them to him. But it is beyond coincidence that he has arrived at just about the same place that I have in regard to public education at virtually the same time. The only rational explanation is that people like Glenn Beck, Judge Napolitano, John Stossel and of course myself have arrived at the same independent conclusions based on our observations of public education because logic has delivered us to truth’s door. The conclusion of those observations that is difficult for many to hear is that if you love your child, you should take them far away from public education. If you love your country, you should take your children out of public education. If you love humanity, you should take your children out of public education. In short, public education is a terribly corrosive social element that is destroying everything we are as human beings toward an aim that is beyond human comprehension. Watch Glenn Beck state the same things I have been saying for quite a long time now:

When I first worked with No Lakota Levy to reform the cost impact of our local government school I didn’t feel so strongly until I learned how mindless the collectivism in public education truly was. But a few years into the levy fighting efforts and three elections later which were ignored by the administrators, I began to realize that Glenn Beck’s statements above were true, and a sad realization. It was actually hard for me to accept and I have never been a fan of public education or collective endeavors of any kind. Even in my own school days when many of the coaches wanted me to be on their track and football teams I was always hesitant because of the collective nature of the “team” concept. Even as a young man I never yielded my individuality to a collective endeavor—so with that position in mind it was hard for me to realize that public education needed to be scrapped in America in favor of a system that is independently competitive, and innovative. Anything attached to government control needs to be rejected and since The Department of Education was created at the federal level in 1979, public education has quickly degraded into a propaganda arm of progressive causes. But why is this so?

The best explanation for the degradation tendency of public education and collectivism in general cannot be found in the rally cry toward socialism or communism that comes from the political leanings of progressives—it’s a far deeper philosophical problem than those types of ideologies. To date, the best explanation behind the type of evil that is in the wake of public education was best defined in the fantasy film The Never Ending Story which came out in the 1980s just a few years after the creation of the DOE. The Never Ending Story is a fantasy about a young hero who must slay a fathomless enemy called The Nothing and the pursuit of the hero’s journey for the main character is to learn that it is imagination that destroys The Nothing. The way to destroy the evil that is destroying the world is to recharge the world with imagination—(thought).

Childhood mythologies often contain within them the stories of morality that all of society needs to keep order to their own value system. As anyone who reads me often understands, mythology is the most important ingredient that a society produces which is why I so openly support the Star Wars franchise, because the product of Lucasfilm is in the manufacturing of values society is hungry for. The reason that fantasy is so popular culturally in movies and books is because humankind seeks to counter the effects of the mythical “Nothing” which imposes itself on their lives—as defined in The Never Ending Story. WATCH THE BELOW CLIP to learn more about The Nothing.

When I was in the fourth grade my class went on a field trip to see the Cincinnati Pops at Music Hall play a symphonic rendition of John Williams’s music for Star Wars. Hanging behind the orchestra was a giant projection screen which displayed slides of the movie characters during the performance and the entire building rumbled with cheers as each slide arrived in procession celebrating the movie that had taken America by storm in 1977. Star Wars to all my young classmates from schools all over Cincinnati were being enchanted with the values of the music and the film behind the characters that contained limitless imagination and boundless energy. I thought the experience was a wonderful one. But later, when we returned back to the school on a silent school bus and were back in the seats of our classroom our teacher unleashed a fury of anger at how inconsiderate we were for cheering on the heroes of Star Wars and ignoring the efforts of the members of the symphony. Even as a young fellow in the fourth grade I shook my head at the obvious ignorance of the teacher. I knew that the teacher represented The Nothing well before The Never Ending Story so accurately placed a name on the type of evil she was spewing. Her values taught to her as an educator pursing the field of instruction through years of college thought the symphony was more valuable than the characters the music reflected—her values came from The Nothing. She valued the collective symphony as the source of goodness behind Star Wars instead of the individual characters who were the real heroes of the afternoon. The music only supported the plight of the heroes. She misidentified the value system of the entire event.

Years later when I first saw The Never Ending Story I had an awwh haaa moment while watching it, and it hit me most when I was first married and had a young child of my own sitting on my lap looking for family friendly programming to show my daughter. When the wolf explained what The Nothing was, I immediately thought of the political world in the wake of the Reagan Presidency, my personal experiences with public education, the relationship between public sector jobs and private sector and all the drama of local politics. The situation in America was not quite as bad as it is now so the impact of The Nothing was not yet in place so obviously. I could see The Nothing even then as clearly as can be expected for something that doesn’t exists–because even a blank space is “something.” The Nothing can only be seen for what it destroys, not for any mass it holds. It can only be measured by what is missing from one moment to the next.

Now, in 2013 many years after the release of The Never Ending Story following 4 years of George Bush senior, 8 years of Clinton, 8 years of Bush Jr., and now 5 years of Barack Obama as Presidents of The United States, it is easy to see that The Nothing is moving easily through the world and it uses people like the wolf did in The Never Ending Story to carry the message of The Nothing. The Nothing seeks to destroy thinking. It is what Ayn Rand calls “evasion” in the philosophy of Objectivism. In mythologies like Star Wars it is called The Dark Side of the Force. But in The Never Ending Story, it is most accurately described as “The Nothing.”

The products of The Nothing are all forms of collectivism which seek to strip away individual thought and action on behalf of a greater good. The greater good is never on behalf of individual freedom, it is always in service of The Nothing—the evil behind the evil that some cultures call The Devil, Sith Lords, demons, or any face of sinister display. The attempt to articulate such collectivism with a face only names the crime—but does not define the origin of the crime, or the tendency to succumb to it. In public education young people are stripped away of their minds and are vehicles for The Nothing which has slowly destroyed the entire world right in front of our faces. No one person controls The Nothing. But individual people dance to its strings just as the wolf did in The Never Ending Story. In that context it could be said that The Nothing is behind government seeking to increase taxes forcing parents to have two incomes to accomplish what one used to—to strip mothers away from their children leaving kids open and vulnerable to The Nothing of public education. It is The Nothing that moves the mouth of Barack Obama seeking to place every child in America during age four into pre-school so that a mind numb teacher can begin to teach young people to turn off their thoughts, and imaginations in dedication to The Nothing. The Nothing is often difficult to see. But in public education, it is evident for those with eyes that are open and willing to take notice. Public schools—government schools–are dedicated to The Nothing like a religion. To see The Nothing speak to people and learn what is NOT there. That is how you know The Nothing is at work.

It is The Nothing that Pink Floyd sang about in their Wall album. Many pot smoking patrons declared that the movie The Wall could only be understood when they were “high,” (mentally impaired, intoxicated—or otherwise inebriated) which has been the running dialogue among young people for the last 30 years. But for me, as a young man of 16, 17, and 18 years old who didn’t do drugs of any kind, I understood The Wall on my first viewing, and knew the protagonist was fighting against The Nothing ultimately. Pot smokers could only begin to wrap their minds around freedom from The Nothing when they were “stoned” and had turned off the rules of society. This is why people do drugs and get drunk, so they can have momentary release from the grip of The Nothing. But when the intoxication wears off, The Nothing has them again, and the poor souls become mindless dogs lobbying for more school levies, advocating more socialism under President Obama, and seeking to expand government so that it destroys each and every individual on planet Earth.

I know that many reading this will wonder how I can connect all these dots, and may even question whether or not I am even sane—because relative to their social position, these are outlandish claims. For many people fantasies like The Never Ending Story or Star Wars are just entertainment and the lessons of mythology contained within those stories are dead to them. Those are the kinds of people who are the wolves in our society who help The Nothing destroy the world without knowing it. Like the teacher from the fourth grade who represented The Nothing yelling at our class her embarrassment of students clapping and cheering the images on a slide show instead of the live collective symphony of the Cincinnati Pops, The Nothing destroys by ripping away the source of goodness through deferment. The teacher played her role in destroying the imagination of her students year by year until the kids were less mentally than what they were when they first entered kindergarten. Teachers like that fourth grade instructor plant the seeds of The Nothing so that the adult of 50 years of age has less of a mind than the 3-year-old, because The Nothing lives in their minds and eats their thoughts. It doesn’t mean the 50-year-old does not have statistical knowledge. But the ability to think independently has been destroyed in such individuals—and that is the result of The Nothing.

When Glenn Beck says to take children out of public schools he is saying the same thing that I have been saying and for the same reasons. However, it is not just collectivism that is the ultimate threat, but it is The Nothing that is behind the collectivism that we must fight against. The way to beat The Nothing is with thought and independent values produced by a mind free of collectivism. That was the lesson of The Never Ending Story which never does end. We are living the story today as we have in the past and will in the future. It never goes away; The Nothing will always seek to destroy mankind with the obscure allure of collectivism. It takes an imagination to see the truth and understand the shape of The Nothing. It also takes an imagination to apply thought and mythology to the legal world of the functioning adult which is what I spend a lot of time doing here at Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom. Just because it is difficult for many to grapple with, does not mean the evil does not exist. To stop that evil, every parent who claims to truly love their child should pull their children from public schools as soon as possible and find an alternative. If parents do not do this, they will subject their children to a doomed life in service of The Nothing, which already holds the hearts and minds of 99.999999999999999999999% of the adult population. Only a few—like Glenn Beck has managed to escape and report what is obvious to those not consumed by The Nothing—that public education is the vehicle that is used to destroy our children—and the problem is far bigger than most people are willing to accept. But The Nothing still is there hunting us all for its collective consumption in a quest that will last all eternity if left unchecked.

It is because of what I have learned about public education that my feelings have evolved over time to seek answers for these modern problems in the myths that have built our society. The logic of political life does not contain the answers—yet the childhood stories of our past contains the wisdom needed to understand the obscure problem of our present—why our children are growing ignorant over time instead of more intelligent and why our adults walk around like mindless zombies full of arrogance due to their years of exposure to The Nothing. At golf courses they add up their scores over a day time beverage and whisk their children to and fro soccer practice thinking they are parents of the year—only to discover too late that they have delivered their children to the gates of doom. The trivia of the adult, and school levy supporter who blindly believes that public education is the savior of society, are simply agents of The Nothing who reside behind all forms of collectivism and is instructed to our world population through public education universally committed to the kind of evil that only occupied the minds of childhood nightmares when the purity of youth could still tell the difference.

For the facts to sustain the assertions above click the link below:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/07/cscope-exposing-the-nations-most-controversial-public-school-curriculum-system/

That is how bad the system is. If you have a child in public school, they are being trained by those methods. Every child in a school district is being exposed to these things, and it is our tax money from property values that pay for it.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

Kasich The Progressive: Medicaid expansion in Ohio and why Republicans lose so often

Let’s play a little game……………guess who said the following—“This budget also takes the significant step of helping more low-income and working Ohioans have access to health care through Medicaid, for which the federal government will pay 100 percent for three years and level off at 90 percent beginning in 2020. While a complex decision, this reform not only helps improve the health of vulnerable Ohioans and frees up local funds for better mental health and addiction services, but it also helps prevent increases to health care premiums and potentially devastating impacts to local hospitals.” If you guessed President Obama on one of his frequent campaign speeches that have extended well past the election, you were wrong. No, the person who said such a reckless political statement cited above was what once people—myself included—thought was one of the most conservative governors in the Union. The author of that statement was none other than Governor John Kasich.

http://www.redstate.com/jasonahart/2013/02/05/with-medicaid-expansion-gov-kasichs-credibility-collapses/

Kasich has ignored the efforts of Ohioans to reject Obamacare and instead has put his finger to the political winds after the loss of Senate Bill 5, and changed his political philosophy in the wake of the election of 2012. Kasich seems to be listening to his more progressive friends these days like tabloid television star Bill Cunningham instead of people like Sean Hannity as he has made a noticeable political shift to the far left relative to his previous position. Kasich’s progressive shift portrays exactly why government continues to grow unsustainably as politicians who lack personal conviction find themselves molded by the mob, (masses) and lose their will to fight, or step out of office to maintain their principles. I would respect Kasich more if he didn’t allow himself to be swayed by public opinion and simply did not run for re-election in 2014—returning back to Fox News as Bill O’Reilly’s back-up host. Rather, he has listened to his progressive friends in that an elected representative must put aside their personal feelings and govern on behalf of all people, not just certain groups. While on the surface, this sounds good—in a democracy it allows for the masses to shape government toward the whims of collective force rather than a republic shaped by the representation of the people who elected that voting presence. With Kasich we thought we were getting a conservative—instead we ended up with a guy who lost a couple of fights and has now thrown up the white flag—surrendering to progressives allowing government to grow even more under his watch.

I had a state senator tell me recently that he despised the word “Rhino” which is what Tea Party types have been calling Republicans who have shown a willingness to work with progressives to find a “middle ground.” To such people who don’t desire to fight for their principles, even if it costs them an election, they see the Tea Party position as radical, and too far to the political “right” to win over the “working poor,” “minorities,” and those addicted to government entitlements. Rhino Republicans like Chris Christie and Kasich have listened to their critics and moved to the left, which is what has been happening to Republicans since the Civil War—and is why government has grown so much over the last hundred years. Nobody has been present in government to stop that growth and when it has been thought that such people have been elected, they turn out to lose like Kasich has to progressives, and our entire society moves further to the left. I told the senator that elected representatives need to believe in something and stand for it, and to stop thinking strategically about maintaining the House or Senate as a majority—because if it means compromising fiscal beliefs to hold the office, then their representation is worthless. He said we’ll have to agree to disagree and we both put more relish on our hot dogs and let it pass nicely—but the implication of his statement stayed with me for weeks. The game modern politicians are playing on the conservative side is a game of keep away, but even so, they are losing ground in the process by the radical progressives incessant pursuit of moving the goal posts far to the political left with each year that passes. (SEE MY PREVIOUS ARTICLE ON THIS)

Now that my youngest daughter has had a baby the constant advice from many family members is that she should take advantage of the many government programs available to her such as Wic and various insurance programs supported by the government. Many of these family members are affluent people and their comments center around, “You already pay taxes honey, just look at it as collecting on your investment.” This has went on for many years, in fact when my wife was pushed in the same direction when we had kids over twenty years ago and I learned of the nature of the discussion—there were serious fireworks at our house and family rifts that lasted decades. The reasoning to my wife then was, “you’re husband is riding a bicycle to work for God’s sake, take the pressure off him and get on Wic so that you can afford baby formula.” I was as violently against government assistance as a 19 year-old as I am today, so this urging did not sit well with me and did not go unanswered. The expansion of government happens in part because they actively attempt to sign up young women to government programs to take off some of the financial pressure, then the young women as adults have lost their moral authority to speak against those programs as wizened adults, so they justify such endeavors by saying that “we already paid taxes into the program, we might as well get something out of it.”

I learned recently that regarding Kasich’s expansion of Medicaid, offices have been actively attempting to increase enrollment on the program to justify the expansion. The unsaid strategy from Kasich is that he wants young women and the working poor voters to know that the Governor is looking out for them–to give them a hand up in life—especially during the hard first years of starting a family. He thinks he’s taking a page from the Democratic playbook and is beating them at their own game, but in the end the progressive wins because they set the measure everyone is playing to. In that way conservative governors like Kasich and Christie play to the same rules that Obama and the New York progressive Cuomo play by. In the end, government expands because nobody in government from either side fight for their beliefs, and the republic of America is reduced to a democracy of majority rule which will always perpetuate toward degeneracy. When politicians refuse to take a hard-line, then chaos becomes the ruler no matter who is in charge.

The senator mentioned that was eating hot dogs for dinner with me will never understand why Tea Party members call him and his kind Rhinos due to their will to compromise, because their goal is not just the health of Ohio, it is in maintaining majorities in the House and Senate. To do that they must compromise with radical government expansionists who are always looking for new ways to make the public addicted to their services as they redistribute wealth with tax and spend management of state and federal economies. The people who lose are those who think they are voting for men and women of conviction only to find out that their representatives are weak-willed progressives addicted to public office and perpetual elections that keep them out of the meat grinder of the private sector. The worst and weakest human beings typically therefore move into public office and they work to stay there. Real reformers enter office only to leave a few years later in frustration, or do like Kasich has and declared that if you can’t beat them………….you join them. Which he has.

Now a note about what can be done about these diabolical schemes from the desk of Steve Elliott, which primarily focuses on these issues at the federal level. It should be noted that many of the sequestration jobs being cut were created in the same manner that Kasich is now expanding Medicaid, so the events are connected directly.

The BIG LIE of BIG GOVERNMENT is about to be exposed — IF members of Congress will stand strong and NOT be bullied by Obama. We must understand precisely what’s happening. Please see below. — Steve

Dear Don,

Yesterday, we warned you that an effort was under way to give Obama unconstitutional authority to raise taxes. This shocking news was confirmed by various news reports.

The good news … many grassroots citizens responded, and we dodged that bullet!

Now … today … as the doomsdayers in D.C. are counting down to the Sequester-mageddon. President Obama just held a press conference DEMANDING NEW TAXES and blaming conservatives for the coming alleged catastrophe of sequester.

And our Radical-in-Chief is getting ready to unleash his unprecedented grassroots army to PRESSURE your Ohio members of Congress to RAISE YOUR TAXES!

+ + Krauthammer Exposes OBAMA’S BIG LIE

Let’s be clear — the entire sequester “crisis” is a fabrication of Obama himself — the idea originated in the White House. And it’s designed to force us to accept even higher taxes and even more government spending.

Obama thought conservatives would have caved in long ago. Now, as Charles Krauthammer explains in his column today, the BIG LIE of the Left is about to be exposed.

What is that BIG LIE?

Simply this:

The LEFT’S BIG LIE is that any cutbacks to BIG GOVERNMENT will cause severe economic hardship to be unleashed on our nation. But it’s a lie!

As Krauthammer explains, if the sky doesn’t fall with a modest cutback in government spending, “people might get the idea that we can shrink government and live on.”

Do you see what’s happening?

If the sky DOESN’T fall with a 2% cut in government spending, then the BIG LIE of BIG GOVERNMENT will be exposed!

That’s why Obama’s far-left “Organizing For Action” activist group sent this message out to their tens of millions of followers yesterday:

“On the chopping block are 10,000 teaching jobs, more than 70,000 kids’ spots in Head Start, $35 million for local fire departments, $43 million to make sure seniors don’t go hungry, and access to nutrition assistance for 600,000 women and their families.”
Obama and the Left WANT sequester! They want the threat of school teachers and firemen and air traffic controllers losing their jobs because it creates an underlying fear of any cutbacks in government.

+ + TAKE ACTION: EXPOSE THE BIG LIE!

As I write, Obama has unleashed his ORGANIZING FOR ACTION activist group to bombard Congress.

You and I have two choices.

We can sit by silently and let Obama’s fear tactics take the day.

Or …

We can take action and help EXPOSE THE BIG LIE of BIG GOVERNMENT leftists!

If you want to take action, here’s what you can do:

#1 — Call Your Members Of Congress

Tell your two Ohio Senators and your Representative what you think about Obama’s plan to grow government and raise taxes. Let them know that you see through the BIG LIE of BIG GOVERNMENT. Phone numbers:

Sen. Brown: 202-224-2315
Sen. Portman: 202-224-3353
Rep. Chabot and Rep. Boehner (Note: we are listing two Reps because you live in a gerrymandered district.): 202-225-2216 and 202-225-6205

#2 — Sign Grassfire’s “No New Taxes” Petition.

If you oppose the BIG GOVERNMENT plan to raise taxes, join with nearly 100,000 other citizens in signing Grassfire’s “No New Taxes” petition. We will be delivering petitions to leaders in Congress as soon as next week. Go here now:

www.grassfire.com/322/petition.asp

Remember, just two months ago Congress and Obama raised YOUR TAXES by two percent — and exactly 60 days later, they’re back for more! Sign the petition.

#3 — Tell BIG GOVERNMENT Politicians: “We Paid Our 2%! Why Can’t You?”

Grassfire has set up a FaxFire to let you tell Congress, “We Paid Our 2%! Why Can’t You?” After all, they just imposed a two-percent tax on us. That means we were FORCED to cut back our family budgets by two percent. Government can do the same!

As Krauthammer writes:

“…millions of American workers have had to tighten their belts by precisely two percent. They found a way. Washington, spending $3.8 trillion, cannot? If so, we might as well declare bankruptcy now and save the attorneys’ fees.”
Go here now to fax your two Ohio Senators, your Representative and key leaders on Capitol Hill:

www.grassfire.com/5322/offer.asp

Again … Obama and the Left are very nervous today. WHAT IF THE SKY DOESN’T FALL?

Then their Big Lie is exposed.

Thanks for the stand you’re taking.

Steve Elliott

P.S. Liberty News’ Norvell Rose just posted an exclusive that further exposes the sequester madness called “The Sequester Is Falling!” Also, I have posted this update on my Liberty News blog. Go here to comment and share.

ACTIONS:
1. Call your members of Congress.
Sen. Brown: 202-224-2315
Sen. Portman: 202-224-3353
Rep. Chabot and Rep. Boehner (Note: we are listing two Reps because you live in a gerrymandered district.): 202-225-2216 and 202-225-6205

2. Sign our “No New Taxes” petition.

3. Fax Congress.

4.Read Krauthammer’s column.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

Walking the Streets of Old Boston During the Revolutionary War: The new way to think about education

When people ask me what I think education should be, and how much money I think should be spent on it, my thoughts are not even in the same universe as the typical concerned parent. In such discussions it quickly becomes realized that parents need a babysitting service for their child, and that is their primary concern when discussing education, so they aren’t even willing to discuss the quality of education itself. I personally think the old top down teaching method is dead, and is obsolete entirely. I favor one that has individual interaction with all the wonderful media tools available today and that will come to availability tomorrow over a teacher standing in front of a classroom like a dictator reeking with authority toward an uninterested class. I touched on some of these changes coming to education in my article on School Choice which can be reviewed by Clicking Here.

I recently found myself inspired by playing an MMO video game called The Old Republic in how the power of gaming and story driven content provided a context to how the future of education might take advantage. After spending roughly 300 hours playing the story portion of that game with my wife I am more convinced than ever that it is in that forum that education might best be stimulated. Now, under my daughter’s guidance and continued coaxing, I am playing a game on Xbox called Assassin’s Creed III which I previewed here a bit, CLICK FOR REVIEW, and I am staggered by the results of that effort. Assassin’s Creed III is a visually stimulating game that is a fictional story set during the Revolutionary War taking some liberties with the time period and involves a war between a group of Templers and Assassins that extends for millenniums of human history. It has some science fiction elements, mystery, drama, action, and some sentimental romance that makes it a compelling story—but more than that I found it educationally thought-provoking.

I more heavily than ever support the Tea Party efforts of my friends in the Liberty Movement and there have been some intense discussions of late over beer, chicken wings, and flat screen televisions in dark corners of dank local pubs that have reminded me of how the Liberty Movement started in Boston during the years of 1750 to 1773. I see the same thing happening once again in America in these dark corners under hushed voices. Being a lover of Alan Eckert novels especially The Frontiersman, and Wilderness Empire which cover American development from 1720 through the early 1800’s from the East Coast to Illinois I have a love of information that covers that era. To date only The Last of the Mohicans really jumped into this time period successfully as Walt Disney attempted on several occasions to tell stories from the period without coming out like stale bread. The period of 1680 to about 1840 in America is one of the most violent, liberating, and exciting times in American history, yet it has been watered down by modern education to reflect through academic collectivism only the concerns of the Civil Rights debates of the 1850s to 1970s which were only the tail being wagged by the dog which began in the period of the First Great Awakening, roughly 1730 to 1770. So it was with some excitement that I placed Assassin’s Creed III into my Xbox to play after looking at it on my book shelf for nearly 4 months unopened, as I had other tasks to attend to over that duration.

The game is fun, and it’s wonderful to cut the heads off bad guys and do all the usual video game antics that make them so popular with young people. But Assassin’s Creed is more than just fun—it is deeply educational, and places the video game player in the sights, sounds, and politics of 1750 – 1773 America very accurately, much more than I anticipated. Within the first 15 hours of game play I took a journey from England to American aboard a four masted galleon that took 73 days. Life on the ship was brutally realistic, and even though I have read for years about such journeys, having the ability to walk around a ship, sleep, look-out across the water, talk to people working on the vessel and doing simple chores made the journey very real for me and gave me an appreciation for these boats and their tribulations that I have not received upon viewing actual replicas in port at Jamestown and other such places. In Assassin’s Creed III I have had the opportunity to walk the streets of Boston as they might have looked at the time and engaged in meetings in those same dimly lit taverns which reminded me very much of my present reality. I have met and interacted with Ben Franklin, William Johnston, George Washington, and Sam Adams just to name a few. I have found myself just walking around the streets aimlessly looking at all the street vendors, the ship yards, and various businesses in amazement. They have done in Assassin’s Creed what Walt Disney attempted to do with his Frontier Land in Disney World, which is recreate Old Boston with as much accuracy possible so that the essence of it would not be lost to time.

To get an idea of where Lexington is in relation to Boston and how the terrain outside of Old Boston might have looked to neighboring Native American tribes has been nothing short of stunning. The Native Americans speak in their native language with subtitles needing to be read, and I found that after a little while I was starting to understand some of the words in context to the situations without reading the subtitles. I could literally go on and on about the quality of Assassin’s Creed as a video game. It is an example of exception that has set a new high bar for video game development.

Yet I could not stop thinking that more kids have probably learned more about American history after playing Assassin’s Creed for 40 or 50 hours than they have in all their years of public education history classes—which makes the video game far more superior as an education tool than a stagnant teacher standing in front of a class writing on a chalk board. Assassin’s Creed would be a fun game if killing wasn’t even involved, but rather just interacting with the Founding Fathers and watching the slow gradual rebellion fester up against the English over a twenty year period. It is one thing to read about the occupation of British troops in Boston in 1770, but it is another to watch them patrolling the city and shoving you out-of-the-way if you walk in front of their formation to exert their authority, like what happens in Assassin’s Creed. I have caught myself saying ahhh, haaaa many times as things I’ve read in different books over the last thirty years came together for me in the video game where I suddenly had visual reference to tie it all together. The detail is immaculate, even down to the mechanics of riding horses as they splash about on a muddy street from a recent rain.

For me the beauty of the game is in the ships. Assassin’s Creed III allows me to climb aboard the kind of ships I have built and used in strategic combat CLICK TO REVIEW, and walk the decks, hoist the sails, and steer accurately on the open sea. In reality those old ships were boring, but Assassin’s Creed makes them realistically boring to the level of excitement if that makes any sense. The graphics engine for the ship to ship combat in Assassin’s Creed III is so deliciously good, with water looking photo realistic and the ships pitching to and fro so authentically that Assassin’s Creed 4 is going to expand on their ship development with a pirate adventure in the next edition—which for me is equitable to the most ecstatic experience imaginable. Aside from the Revolutionary Period in America, the Golden Age of Pirates is among my favorites in history, and my daughter knew it when she obtained the leaked news from Ubisoft sending me a text, “DAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE NEW ASSASSIN’S CREED GAME IS CALLED THE BLACK FLAG!!!!!!!!!!!! IT’S ABOUT PIRATES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Being a history buff, I love to interact with these three-dimensional environments that modern video games afford. They complement my reading in a way that allows a very detailed picture to be painted in my mind, and connects many historical dots obtained from multiple sources. The games are made for the purposes of entertainment, but it is staggering to consider how effective they could be if they took themselves seriously as educational tools. As I examine the effectiveness of Assassin’s Creed III next to the stagnant education methods of even the best schools, it is obvious that public education is well down the wrong path, and they refuse to analyze their position in favor of something better. Not being a gambler I would bet everything that most young people today know more about George Washington not because of the books by Glenn Beck, or the efforts of 12 years of public education, but because they played Assassin’s Creed III during the fall of 2012 and winter of 2013 and had to speak to him, go on missions that he sent them on, and watch history take place in a computer game instead of a solitary, bored individual standing at the front of a class spewing “teacher breath,” (a combination of coffee and teeth in the first stages of gingivitis) toward an uninterested class that has no context to apply any information to. Video games provide that context, and to date, none better than Assassin’s Creed III. Not even the great Sid Meyer games did so well to place a player into the streets of history to interact with its authors as equals so that truth can be grappled with. That is the power of a video game to become an opportunity to improve education effectiveness.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

Take Away 2 1/2 Fries from a Big Mac Meal: The real cost of federal sequestration

On the day after the sequestration implemented from the federal government on March 2^nd Darryl Parks from 700 WLW covered the events that transpired in the aftermath as government officials calculated that society might come to an end because of the cuts. Well, in his usual fashion Darryl brought some non-partisan, non emotional, non group affiliated analysis regarding the sequestration cuts to the light of reality. As many might be afraid of the rhetoric coming out of Washington Darryl put into the context the extent of the cuts in a fashion that everyone can understand. The ridiculous amounts that Darryl laid out in his broadcast, and that I break down below in written form are so small that they aren’t even worth discussing. Yet all the news broadcasts on television cried like infants for over three weeks along with virtually every politician, especially Barack Obama about the costs of these cuts to the social fabric of American society. So without further fanfare have a listen to Darryl’s broadcast as it was given on March 2^nd at 9 AM in the morning.

Most people think that 44 billion sounds like a lot of money, but in regard to the sequestration cuts, it is only 1/80^th of the total federal budget. The federal budget is in fact so large, and deliberately made complicated by the same politicians who have been crying wolf, that most Americans cannot even wrap their mind around the numbers. Nobody can envision a trillion dollars, and one billion is well out of touch from most people’s minds. Yet American spending is in a deficit trend of over a trillion dollars per year from an income stream where only 1.35 million Americans at the very top of the income bracket pay as much as the bottom 95%. In total roughly 130 million Americans pay taxes into the total federal budget minus some revenue generated from foreign trade and travel gathered in the form of sales taxes. So when it is learned that most of the federal yearly budget supplied to the government is provided by only 130 million Americans—while almost as many more pay no taxes off payroll or other direct measures, the situation becomes incredibly frustrating, and daunting. Like their counterparts in the government school system, federal bureaucrats make it a practice to deliberately deceive voters into protecting the empire of spending they have recklessly erected. For more information check out the links below:

How much the Top 1% pays in taxes:

http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/12/top-1-of-american-taxpayers-pay-almost-as-much-in-taxes-as-bottom-95-and-half-of-that-group-paid-nothing-in-2010/

Federal budget by the numbers from the Heritage Foundation:

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/10/federal-spending-by-the-numbers-2012

Most people start to blank out when such large numbers are expressed so they cannot get their mind around such concepts. Looting politicians like Barack Obama know this, and have successfully hidden the extremity of these federal numbers behind relatable faces, like children, National Park employees, government janitorial staff and so on—so that tax payers will be inclined to vote in favor of more tax increases to help out their fellow Americans. The federal government essentially uses the same tactics that we have been fighting locally in the school levy debates—they clearly manipulate the numbers in hopes that nobody can wrap their mind around the truth. However, Darryl Parks did better than President Obama in showing the hypocrisy of the federal diatribes by putting into a context that everyone can understand the amount of the sequestration cuts that prove just how small they really are—and how much politicians in Washington and the doomsday press blew out of proportion the extent of the damage—which proves that none of them can be trusted.

Darryl did the hard math and discovered that it was much easier to understand the 44 billion in cuts coming from the sequestration reductions that went into effect on March 1^st by proportionally breaking it down against something that virtually everyone can relate to, a McDonalds Big Mac extra value meal. Darryl took the known value of 1320 calories that are contained within a Big Mac extra value meal consisting of a Big Mac sandwich, a medium Coke and a large order of French fries that normally contain 87 individual fries within the container they come in and for sake of argument gave that value of 1320 an equal value to the federal budget. Now we know that 44 billion in cuts is only 1/80^th of the total federal budget, so if we apply the same reduction to the Big Mac value meal, we discover that we will only lose 2 ½ French fries from our feast

Most people eating such a meal would not notice a 2 ½ fry reduction, and in the society at large, particularly the 130 million Americans who pay nearly all the federal tax, they won’t notice any reductions at the federal level. The only people who will notice the reductions are those who have built their careers in the flimsy existence of government and find themselves jobless in the sequestration cuts. It will be discovered that many of those reduced jobs were not necessary to begin with just as many of the local schools who have had to reduce their staffs have found that they can still operate with fewer employees as they work to meet their budgets. The impacted parties are those who work for government at wages that are too high for jobs that were created by government for government reasons.

Nobody in their right mind can argue that losing 2 ½ fries per Big Mac value meal will ever be noticed and will drive down the quality of the meal itself. Just like the sequestration cuts don’t even come close to bringing our federal government into the light of reality when it comes to fiscal spending of those poor 130 million tax payers who are covering the whole bill. Yet everyone who covered the sequestration in a negative way is guilty of openly misleading the American people with radical rhetoric that belongs in the basement of old hippie flower children engulfed in pot smoke as they watch reruns of Sesame Street and think themselves sophisticated contributors of society. In reality, much, much, much more needs to be cut from our extra value meals if we wish as a nation to lose any weight and take measures to truly get our budget under control. Taking away 2 ½ French fries out of 87 won’t do the job—and is not even worth the discussion which has transpired.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

The Conservative Versus Libertarians: Looking for laws to create shared values

John Stossel and Ann Coulter had a wonderful debate recently in front of a group of college Libertarians in Washington D.C. over the nature of personal liberty. During the debate Coulter told John and the audience that Libertarians were a bunch of pussies for pandering to liberals with a social message of drug use and gay marriage. I normally agree with much of what Stossel, Judge Napolitano, and Glenn Beck who are all declared Libertarians state, but in this debate seen below, I am on the side of Ann Coulter 100%. I personally deplore drug use of any kind, and that includes over-the-counter medicine. I would never use marijuana as an ingested smoke into my lungs under any circumstance. I resist even taking aspirin or drinking alcohol. I think anyone who drinks alcohol to get drunk is an absolute fool. I have ended long-standing friendships over drug use and even abuse of alcohol, so I have no tolerance for it among the general population. Even in my teenage years where such behavior was expected, and I lived a life from 16 to 18 years old that would fill encyclopedia volumes with wild adventures, I had a sign in my car that indicated that no smoking was allowed. And it wasn’t…………for anybody. I have even thrown people out of my car for lighting up cigarette in the back seat while I was driving. I have no tolerance for drug or alcohol abuse and I have always been that way. So like Ann Coulter, my biggest problem with modern Libertarians is their permissiveness of drug use and the name of their movement, which is way too close to the word “liberal.” So I do not identify myself as a Libertarian. The barrier for me is their permissiveness of social debaucheries behind a flag of liberty.

The question that arises from Libertarians is how can government control what goes on in the bedroom of citizens, or dictate what an individual puts into their bodies? For me, government can’t, and shouldn’t be in the business of social behavioral regulation. That type of thing would normally be regulated to the spiritual pursuits of an individual which would create the goals people strive to live within. This would work fine if people shared similar values, such as a majority of the population wished to live by Christen values or Buddhist ideas, but in the absence of such social conviction there is a kind of free-for-all mentality that causes some to impose their freedoms on others who don’t share their values. So a law is necessary under those conditions, and a penalty for that law must be swift so it is respected by the public as a shared value.

For instance, if I’m in line at Kings Island, a popular amusement park in Southern Ohio and there is a guy in front of me smoking a marijuana cigarette, he is making a decision based on his personal liberty to impose upon me the expelled air from his lungs that contain within it chemicals I do not want in my body. Currently the law protects him from me, because I cannot just go up and knock his face into another dimension as he imposed upon me the marijuana smoke from his lungs. Because using drugs in public is illegal, the conflict is averted, where it wouldn’t be if marijuana use in public were legalized. There is nothing more disgusting than such public displays where the careless use of intoxicants can be seen coming out of the mouth of an individual and the only way you can prevent yourself from ingesting it yourself is to hold your breath. Such a thing is nearly as disgusting as seeing discarded cigarettes on the ground of a parking lot, or walkway that has been saturated with rain and are smashed flat. When in a public place I am always cautious to avoid stepping on them because I don’t want to drag that trash into my car, or my home as the old cigarette might become lodged into the tread of my shoes to fall out within my property littering it. I am just as cautious about looking for places in public that people have spit on the ground. I do not want to step in the spittle of some other person and drag their chemical intoxicants into the carpet of my vehicle on the way home. The rights of liberty from the person who spit on the sidewalk do not supersede my rights to maintain my property free of their discarded saliva, or cigarettes.

With liberty comes responsibility and if the social trends of the day leaned in the direction of social valor, then I might embrace the Libertarian designation a bit more amiably. I have no desire to visit the city of Amsterdam because of their loose drug laws, and now that Colorado has passed legislation legalizing pot, I may never visit that state in the years to come. The very idea of a body of people who collectively wish to participate in detrimental drug use is disgusting, and changes the way I view the entire state. I find the tendency to use drugs even for bi-polar disorders to be deplorable. I would like to see the human spirit overcome shortcomings and illnesses in the most self-reliant fashion possible—and I don’t see the Libertarian political movement going in that direction. Instead, it appears to be a happy middle place between what the Republicans once stood for, and what the hippie liberals promote actively–human weakness.

I hate more laws, and encourage breaking unjust laws as the situations dictate. The ultimate question is who decides what good and proper social behavior is—is it the Republicans, Democrats, or Libertarians? The answer is in none of them. Before the kind of freedom that Libertarians are striving for can ever occur the human race has to have a desire to behave with quality. They have to want to live quality lives and to respect the quality of other peoples’ lives. Without a firm definition of quality and what makes one thing better than another one persons freedom becomes another person’s hell. Without a spiritual bonding agent that is shared between one group of people and another, freedoms will collide and impose on unwarranted victims the pursuits of less stable personalities and their flaws.

The argument between Ann and John above is the direction that I see America going. As for the liberals, the Democrats, the communists and socialists of collectivism, I don’t even recognize them as having a seat at the table of tomorrow. I see them as having the same kind of living quality as any other animal on Earth. They live, eat and die in predictable fashions but are governed through their lives by animal instincts, the desire to have sex, consume food, and sleep. Without a personal commitment to any higher thoughts or causes, they are no different to me than an average household pet—and they will lose their standing all together in the future of America between the pot-headed Libertarians and Republicans like Ann Coulter who are trying to return the party back to the ideas it was founded on. As for me, no political party represents my thoughts best but the old Anti-Federalist Party of Thomas Jefferson. All these new political variations are lacking an inherit wisdom that is governed by personal valor. Without a human desire to be good, all the laws and political posturing of any collective group of individuals is a worthless pursuit that lacks sustainability. So long as Libertarians embrace drug use of any kind, I will never have an “L” next to my name in any professional or casual reference. I’ll stay with Independent—which is what the aim of all politics should be.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

The Danger of Agenda 21: Eating old people so the young can suffer

To understand what Agenda 21 is, the people who designed it for the United Nations with an aim of one world government, and what it will look like in the future implemented from cities like Hong Kong to Cincinnati, Ohio all you need to do is visit the birth place of it in Rio de Janeiro where the Earth Summit is routinely held. Agenda 21 was created in the minds of European socialists while attending one of these Earth Summits as far back as 1992, but in reality percolated in the minds of collectivist oriented governments for decades, since the words of Karl Marx first touched their minds nearly a century and a half ago. The Earth Summit has been routinely held in exotic cities like Rio and Cancun, Mexico to enamor the participants with familiar culture and high-minded thinking while topless women and string bikinis fill the sights and sounds of visitors with equatorial delight. Both Rio and Cancun are examples of what the future of the world will look like if left to Agenda 21. Both cities are filled with delightfully luxurious hotels and tourist accommodations while they are surrounded by extreme slums of people stacked upon each other in an inhumane fashion of compressed living and diabolical concessions to the human soul. These cities are true glimpses of what the future of human civilization will look like under Agenda 21 globally. Everything looks wonderful in the tourist areas, but for the workers who maintain the cities of Rio and Cancun—life sucks—big time. Listening to Bob Silliman who is the coordinator of Ohio’s Agenda 21 awareness efforts I thought of a visit my wife and I made fairly recently to Cancun where the United Nations often holds their Climate Change Conferences and saw the future of my own community in the vision plans of local Agenda 21 planners.

At the end of Bob’s speech many in the audience contemplated what the end game was for Agenda 21, and why it was even being implemented. Many speculated generally that it was power that was the intention—but as the young lady who stood up at the end declared, even if radical environmental leftists like George Soros wanted to use Agenda 21 to gain power over massive municipalities of people he would be long dead by the time Agenda 21 takes full hold in America—leaving the question mostly unanswered. The menacing answer is much more severe and difficult to comprehend. The people from the United Nations who fly in to participate in the Earth Summits and Climate Change Conferences in places like Cancun and Rio see the glitter of tourism and exotic locations and find themselves enchanted by the beauty of the Earth. Often they don’t travel too far from their hotels so they don’t see the massive slums that the people who live and work in those exotic cities contend with. For proof of these summit locations check the links below.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conference

When my wife and I visited Cancun we were both astonished at the terrible living conditions of the residents just outside of the main strip in Cancun. Even more shocking was the massive shopping mall like complex just down the road from the airport that held a multiplex of strip houses and sex shops. The entire complex was one giant sex store that was reeking with human trafficking from young girls stolen from their families all over the world. It made the sex store at Exit 141 in Tennessee just a few miles from Knoxville look small. In the city of Cancun, Mexico if you head into the interior of the country within ten miles of the major hotels, once you pass the shopping mall of gentlemen clubs there is nothing for many dozens of miles, and for hundreds of miles in the Yucatan, there are only a few villages—many of them still containing thatched roofs the way a primitive might inhabit. As my wife saw this for the first time after growing up in America and living all of her life in upper class conditions, she was absolutely aghast and wanted to help the poor Mexican people. But the social conditions and politics of Mexico have imprisoned those poor residents of Cancun to be run by corrupt drug lords and the mobs who own all the hotels. The government is run by the mobs, and this is what the United Nations is selling in Agenda 21.

In Mexico and Brazil the residents have been pushed through regulation and policy into the cities to live like rats under the command of central planners. The living areas of these cities are terrible, and to call them slums would be a credit. They are the result of the well intended global climate United Nations sympathizers who think they can contain the human spirit in a bottle to preserve the Earth from global warming. Their intention of putting the human being in a bottle and holding them there so that green space thrives can be seen in Cancun. Mexico has lots of green space…………..lots and lots………….and LOTS of it. After traveling for a few days around the Yucatan Peninsula after being accustom to travel in America, my wife and I enjoyed a Big Mac at the McDonalds outside of our hotel like it was a feast at one of Chef Ramsey’s restaurants. In fact, a Big Mac never tasted so good and my wife and I decided in that McDonalds in Cancun on Kukulcan Blvd that we would commit ourselves to saving America from United Nations global planners. In America when we travel from Cincinnati to Louisville, or Cincinnati to Lexington, or Cincinnati to Columbus there is a lot of farm land that is being used productively, there is a lot of wonderful green space, and the Earth’s beauty is easy to see. If there is one reason to go after Agenda 21 it is to preserve the Big Mac. When I want a Big Mac, I can get one about every 20 miles no matter where I go in America—and that is a BEAUTIFUL thing. Savor the moment—take a deep breath……………ahhhhhh…………capitalism. Capitalism=Big Mac. Two very wonderful ideas.

No place in the world has it so lucky as I do in The United States, and I would love to see places like Mexico, Brazil, and the entire continent of Africa have a life as good as I have it in Cincinnati, Ohio and that means a McDonalds every twenty miles and cell phone service uninterrupted for thousands of miles. But they won’t get it with Agenda 21. Instead, Agenda 21 and the United Nations architects wish to take from me these wonderful attributes of American culture and make Cincinnati more like Cancun and Rio. The end game of Agenda 21 that is intended to take place over many generations is to destroy the infrastructure of suburbia and force residents back into the cities. The sinister aims at work are not ones of direct power from people like George Soros in his generation, but the larger aim of surrender to global collectivism where the human body is but a cell in the body of the Earth, which is considered the highest form of existence.

In my community of Liberty Twp one of my favorite Trustees David Kern finds himself voting in favor of a massive apartment complex at the new Carriage Hill development because members of the Vision Committee years ago approved the development. Developers are happy to make money off the Vision Committee’s idea, but what nobody knows is that the Vision Committee created their land use plan with a commitment to Agenda 21. Since most people think only in terms of their generation and not the collective salvation of collectivists who attend the Earth Summit in Rio, they don’t know that the intent behind the luxury apartments at Carriage Hill are to be Section 8 housing 50 years from now, and as taxes push people out of their homes in the suburbs they will retreat to those Section 8 homes as they lose their homes. Once they get used to that style of living they will crave the same kind of home centralized in Cincinnati near public transportation like what the Street Car is offering. When Mayor Mallory used the Delphi Technique mentioned in the video above, to achieve passage of the Street Car even with all the opposition, it wasn’t because Mallory wanted to build a legacy for himself; it is because of his collective commitment to Agenda 21. Fifty years from now when all the United Nations plans for the Twenty First Century are put in place, the suburbs of America will look like the green space outside of Cancun and all the residents will be stacked like insects in the apartment slums of Cincinnati not out of convenience to make life for the human being a good one, but out of a sacrifice to preserve Mother Earth. When Liberty Township Zoning Administrator Jon West says to my good friend Cathy Dirr who is the loudest voice in Southern Ohio against Agenda 21 that “you can’t stop progress, Cathy,” he is saying that the progress of Agenda 21 and its commitment to Mother Earth is more important than the happiness and sovereignty of the individual citizens of Liberty Township. By the time those new apartments being built at Carriage Hill–the Homearoma community in 2013–becomes Section 8 housing in 2040 the developers will long be dead and their children will have squandered all the money they made on the present real estate deals. But Agenda 21 will just be kicking in and those same children will be pushed out of the suburbs and back into the city where the prying eyes of government can control and regulate their lives with the kind of imprisonment that one can see in present day Cancun.

In Cancun nobody is rich, but the organized crime organizations who own everything. The same with Rio de Janeiro, but Hollywood has taken part in selling the Agenda 21 dream to the world with films like Blame it on Rio and the Mickey Roark film Wild Orchid. To the soundtrack of Ofra Haza’s sexy Egyptian music, the sex in Rio during Wild Orchid was the fantasy of most men and women and the result has been a massive influx of spring breakers who have fled the control of their liberal college institutions in America for destinations abroad where commitment to Mother Earth takes priority over human lifetimes and morality. Thousands of young people fill the hotels of Rio and Cancun as they have become the premier spring break destinations where they indulge in the loose rules of sexual conduct and make fools of themselves forever drowning their morality on the beaches of those resort cities. As adults they will remember their shame and pour their redemption into collective salvation by sacrificing their lives for Mother Earth. The plan of Agenda 21 is there in the financing of those particular films most recently exhibited in the Fast and Furious film titled the Fast Five, which featured street racing in Rio.

The pattern and commitment to Agenda 21 can best be seen in the 1973 film Soylent Green. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green The investment of the culture into youth can be tragically seen and the result for the elderly who are killed and eaten by the youth once the reach the decided upon age for death is the end game for Agenda 21. It may not be the intention during the Earth Summits, but it will be the result. After all, that is what Soylent Green is, the chopped up bodies of the dead elderly of society who are fed to the youth as a sacrifice similar to the commitment of all collectivists into the surrendering of their lives to the benefit of Mother Earth. Agenda 21 is so embedded in our culture that conservative trustees and country commissioners have been voting in favor of its implementation for decades without even knowing it. Agenda 21 was there in the movie Soylent Green, it was there in Blame it on Rio, Wild Orchid, and The Fast Five. It was there when travel agencies created the incentives to lure young people from American colleges to spend spring break in Cancun to have crazy sex on the beaches like they saw in movies under the watchful eyes of Mexicans with machine guns patrolling the beaches at night and watching in delight. The bulge in their pants is not from the clips of .223 ammunition designated for their machine guns.

Part of the Agenda 21 strategy is to get people to finance their own demise. Uncontrollable development will make a few developers wealthy such as in the Liberty Twp case of the Carriage Hill Apartments, but everyone else will suffer. But in the far away land of Rio and Cancun the plans were created long ago to use the greed and short-sightedness of the average American to drive them like cattle to the slaughter-house of their own culture. The end game is the city of Cancun and Rio where the tinsel looks impressive right off the airplane quickly degrades just under the blankets of society’s view. While dining in an upscale Mexican restaurant in Cancun my wife and I spoke a bit with our waiter, a nice Mexican man who said yes senior and yes senorita at the end of every sentence in his dialogue with us. At first site we thought he was just like us, that he lived in a decent home, had a decent family, had a decent car to drive—access to iPods and Xbox games and watched football on Sunday afternoons in the autumn. But as we spoke to the man deeply, more than he was used to, he revealed after fifteen minutes of conversation that his brother had been recently killed by gang violence in the living quarters outside the tourist district. He lived in a card board box. His wife worked at the Sex Mall outside the airport and his children had all disappeared. The epic peril of his story immediately alarmed us that he was using a typical tourist scam on us hoping for a good tip, but his body language and demeanor was one of honesty. He was barely hanging onto life, and had little incentive to proceed from one day to the next. Looking at him I thought of the movie Soylent Green where the elderly actually looked forward to their death because the toil of their lives would soon be over with pleasant music and comfortable settings not experienced in their day-to-day living. In that man’s face I saw the result of Agenda 21 and the future of not only Cincinnati but every city in America. If Agenda 21 is left unchecked the future of all our children can be seen in the lives of the current residents of Rio and Cancun. The plans made by The United Nations are made in those cities for the results of the current inhabitants, and the results are not good for the human race.

Without question zoning administrators like Jon West in Liberty Twp will roll their eyes at the presentation shown above by Bob Silliman and regard them as the frightened antics of an elderly man. Community administrators like West are so entrenched through the Delphi Technique to the practices of Agenda 21 that they are not able to see the big picture beyond the advancement of their own careers—and that is part of the United Nations strategy that is discussed at Earth Summits every year since 1992. They count on human beings to be too short-sighted to see the whole picture, and in America people like Bob Silliman who are elderly and no longer concerned for their social advancement can finally see these schemes for what they are. There is a clarity in old age that people like Bob Silliman have that people like Jon West do not yet possess—and the truth is in the words expressed in Silliman’s presentation. Agenda 21 is a sinister aim for the human race, and wishes to end the American way of life. The situation is made even worse when it is realized that The United Nations uses American tax dollars to fund its own existence which is the joke at all these events in Rio and Cancun. Americans are funding their own end, and members of The United Nations are laughing about it as they gaze at the bronze bodies of topless women and string bikinis while sipping on their margaritas thinking of themselves as masters of the universe. They might even think that their sacrifice of the human race to the goddess Mother Earth be equivalent to the Mayan who sacrificed many human beings to the god Kukulcan which is the name of the main road that runs the strip of Cancun. The mind of these social collectivists and parasites to the human soul has the end game of the movie Soylent Green where future human beings will beg to be killed so their misery ends and they can become the food that feeds the human race and bring real value to their lives at last, as they spent a life time locked in an apartment living miserable lives of labor because of Agenda 21.

For a local example of organizations that most advance Agenda 21 in the Cincinnati area here is one:

http://www.citizensforcivicrenewal.org/index.html

They are the same group involved with the Street Car issue of Cincinnati and was hired by Lakota Schools to operate their “community conversations” which have not been cheap. They specialize in The Delphi Technique which anyone who has attended the meetings with Jeffery Stec at Citizens for Civic Renewal has learned. CLICK HERE to learn about The Delphi Technique and how it works. It is the same technique mentioned in the video of Bob Silliman.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

The Tea Party is America’s Only Hope: A look into the future of politics

The political entities who claim that the Tea Party is a radical organization of dangerous individuals are speaking relative to their far left positions, and that includes people like Karl Rove—political strategist for the Republican Party. In a very clarifying example shown below by Glenn Beck and Judge Napolitano it is displayed why Republicans and Democrats are emerging into a single party that we might at this time call “Republicrats” which is a combination of raw communism, progressivism, and soft socialism following the Overton Window of gradual progression toward big government. To them, the position of the Tea Party does seem radical as it is their desire in both parties to move further and further toward big government until all personal freedoms are completely lost. The video below should be watched in its entirety, because it is filled with information that is very useful in explaining the direction of politics today. I personally consider Judge Napolitano to be one of the greatest human scholars of Constitutional understanding alive in America with the exception of Supreme Court Judge Scalia. Scalia, Napolitano and other members of true American conservatives represent my beliefs and the thoughts of most Americans. It is the big government radicals on the far left relative to the Tea Party position who consider such conservativism as radical. It is they who have attempted to move millions of Americans toward an unmanaged government utopia with an end game of far left control. It is people like Karl Rove who have split the Republican party by strategically taking the party toward the misfits of socialism instead of the direction of American liberty and it is not the task of Americans to buy into the collectivism of party rule—but rather to reject it in favor of Constitutional logic and freedom loving scholarship that paves the way toward self-initiated prosperity. Watch the clip below carefully and take notes. This one is very, very important. The fate of America and each of our lives is described within it.

The failure of Republicans to unseat President Obama can be said to have rested upon the power of collectivism. Democrats have long ago surrendered self-initiation and are happy to function as a blob of collectivism, so they do not have a philosophical struggle within their party. They are all to some degree or another socialists. Some Republicans have taken notice and have allowed themselves to be pulled in that direction for many years. They have been weak in their convictions and have lost consistently to the radicals on the left. The best and most recent example is that Mitt Romney felt he had to defend his wealth and success in his run for president, and the campaign became entirely about the bourgeois class against the proletariat which is a communist strategy from the far left. Some conservatives like Rove, Governor Kasich, and Speaker Boehner have decided that they need to move from their conservative positions to meet the liberals halfway, but often get scammed when liberal politicians refuse to meet them at all creating a situation where the conservatives move to the left, but the left stays where they were. Once the conservative is with the liberal, the liberal then moves further to the left, which is what has been happening during the Obama Presidency. Karl Rove is urging conservatives to rally behind the party so they can defeat the mass of liberal collectivism aligned behind politicians like Obama, and the Clintons behaving like insects in an insect colony rallying to the urgings of the queen. But reaction and compromise is the worse thing that can happen, because it is the strategy of far left radicals to propagate their scam using the Overton Window to continue a collective march to the left. Rove says, “If you can’t beat them, join them.” That is where the Tea Party has emerged to fill the void and provide representation to those not represented by the two-party system which is in essence just one leftist leaning party all dancing to the same music.

The successful formula for America is in The Constitution. It has worked in the past and it can work again, because it was formed by people with a deep philosophical understanding of life and politics that transcends historic barriers or limitations. The Constitution has most come under attack as Judge Napolitano pointed out in the video above during the Presidency of both Roosevelt’s and Woodrow Wilson. The deal at the time was a basic disagreement over the style of collectivism that would be imposed on society. Teddy Roosevelt deeply in love with European hierarchies openly began the process of bypassing The Constitution that is seen to this day by virtually every President which has gradually moved America further to the left as seen in the chart Glenn Beck displayed. It is not the problem of me, or you dear reader that politicians like Roosevelt, Wilson, and Johnston imposed their personal views—and personal failings into politics and attempted to suppress The Constitution with their own princely influences. It is not our job as a collective society to cover their follies with more mistakes. It is our job and duty to return the country back toward the Constitution.

As Judge Napolitano stated, that process will be painful. It is hoped that perhaps time will merge the two current parties together into some form or Republicrat and that people in the Tea Party will be represented by some sort of Freedom Party that is more representative of the original Anti-Federalists. In the mean time America may become a three-party system as strategist have abandoned conservativism in favor of short term political victories. But things will not continue to proceed to the political left without conflict. I’m not going in that direction, and the people I know in the Tea Party aren’t going either. It is not my job to follow Boehner or Kasich in a march to maintain party rule, it is the job of the Tea Party to return the nation to Constitutional principles and to chastise those who abandon it in favor of financial security under the covers of collectivism. Napolitano also discussed the unfortunate end game if the political process fails, and that is that we have an obligation to return the nation back to The Constitution away from the hands of Obama, Kasich, and Boehner with force if needed, which is why we must have the Second Amendment. That is not a negotiable Amendment, and history proves that politicians cannot be trusted with power. So guns will always be needed.

In short, the Tea Party exists not as a radical organization hell-bent on old-fashioned ideas, but as a defender of The Constitution where the present political system has failed—immensely. It is not the collective obligation of American citizens to continue to cover up the false interpretations and radicalism of European loving monarchs who would crown themselves king of America—if allowed. They are not allowed, and presidents, speakers of the house, governors, congressman, senators, trustees, commissioners are all servants of the people—servants of the republic of America. If they insist on anything else, they are wrong and it is the obligation of Constitutional protectors like the Tea Party to reset the correct political course through debate or conflict in the unbiased pursuit of justice. The movement to the political left by both parties can no longer be advanced through name calling and extortion. It is time to stop that progressive erosion of American value with a firm dedication to Constitutional adherence and not the loose interpretation of radicals who would seek to end The United States through the Overton Window. CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE.

Click the link below to see how George Washington viewed government, which is what the Tea Party wishes to bring about again.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/02/18/its-george-washingtons-281st-birthday-here-are-his-5-most-important-warnings-to-congress/

Only an idiot would call the logic of Washington’s arguments “radical.”

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

The Scum Bags of Washington: Why so many politicians become “rich” in office

I am not a fan of Elizabeth Warren, and I fully support profitable endeavors, but I do not like it when politicians rally against the evils of Wall Street while they take bribes on K-Street. In my opinion the K-Street bribes are a far greater problem. But I will give credit where credit is due, Warren asked recently the hard question as to why there has not been justice done on behalf of government when crimes are known to be openly committed, particularly in the financial sector. When people are openly robbed by greedy crony capitalism, who is looking out for the victims? Warren at least addressed the issue which Darryl Parks covered during his Saturday show on 700 WLW. Darryl for a number of years has been asking how can congressman and senators who make a yearly salary of just over six figures become millionaires within a few years of taking office? The answer is in corruption deals where they all put their hand in the bucket and take out as much money as they want—which is the standard practice in modern politics. Have a listen, it’s well worth your time:

Warren obviously as a progressive does not like Wall Street or oil companies, so she will have a tendency to put them in the spotlight whenever possible to make her point—but in this case she was right. I’m sure Warren has nothing to say about the recent Facebook announcement of paying zero taxes on over a billion dollars made during 2012. She is picking winners and losers in business as notoriously as any politician, so she is no saint by any measure. But as a new senator she knows that there are crooked deals, and she made a point to expose one in her opening days of office—which as Darryl pointed out, Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid will surely quickly get under control. The other senators on Capitol Hill will not let Warren expose their easy cash gravy trains for long, so enjoy the bursts of honesty while it lasts.

If anyone thinks that Jessie Jackson Jr. is alone in his fall from grace, guess again. Jackson is only the latest to get caught dipping is hand into campaign donations to buy Rolex watches and other tid-bits of pleasure while working in government. Politicians who would otherwise be unsuccessful in business find they can become respected in public office, but they lack the mental aptitude to resist temptation making them for the most part scandalous bands of thieves always looking to partner up with a financial pirate or public con artist. The Jackson case is fresh from the press and shows to what extent the trouble in government runs. I would say that Jessie Jackson’s tendency to throw his wife under the bus in his plea deal to get reduced jail time says everything about the quality of person Jackson is and all politicians in general. Read more about his case at the link below:

http://sandrarose.com/2013/02/jesse-jackson-jr-s-plea-deal-incriminates-his-wife/

The trouble with politicians is that they represent the low quality constituents that America has become. Just the other day as I was listening to Bill Cunningham on the radio, he was rather animated over John Boehner’s long time position against earmarks in congressional bills. Cunningham on the air stated that his golf buddy John should drop a few billion dollars worth of earmarks into some bill to pay for the new bridge that needs to replace the Brent Spence connecting I-75 in Cincinnati and Covington, Kentucky. “Nobody would notice,” Cunningham said. “Everyone else does it, so why doesn’t Boehner?” That statement ladies and gentlemen is why we have so many scum bags in politics. The more money that is thrown into the public treasury, there are far too many hands who wish to take it and use it for some pet project to satisfy the whims of any of the multiple lobbyists on K-Street. Wall Street to hedge their bets and keep government looters out of their pockets is happy to include politicians in their scams to keep the law off their back. Politicians like Jackson can’t resist the call of easy money, so they start taking it and buy themselves expensive watches, and real estate investments off money that isn’t technically theirs. Boehner is a Washington insider who considers himself an honest politician compared to the rest because he has a long-term policy against putting earmarks in congressional bills, but at the same time his golf buddies who claim to be conservative hawks want him to take money out of the treasury to pay for pet projects in the Speaker’s district—which is just as corrupt as when some politician on the other side of the country does it.

The trouble is in the lack of personal responsibility, the disconnect between the value of money and the value of the people stealing it. When people of little personal value have their hands on money of great value, the attraction is unfathomable. When Jessie Jackson Jr. took money to buy lavish gifts for himself, he did it to fill a void in himself that lacks personal character. When Bill Cunningham urges John Boehner to install earmarks in some meaningless congressional bill to raise the billions of dollars for a new bridge, he is making such statements from a lack of personal value. The money is there to be taken, so somebody should take it and use it on something needed. When Elizabeth Warren asks why there is a cozy relationship between Wall Street and politicians on Capitol Hill, she is really positioning herself for a candidacy in 2016 for President. She doesn’t care about the corruption really, but rather sticking to the progressive party talking points that wants to destroy Wall Street while making waves that place her on the national scene. Politics is all screwed up and is run by thieves and con artists because the values of our society are so bad that nobody sees such things as wrong any more. Nobody wishes to uphold a moral order, so there is no consequence for actions. That is unless, as in the case of Jessie Jackson Jr., he understates his income on his tax returns. Then, justice is swift and true. Government must have its money to pay for all the bandits that hold office there, and wish to make sweet-heart deals with scum bags on K-Street. When taxes aren’t paid, even Al Capone was sent to jail—because government is not about caring for people in a republic. It’s about making politicians rich off the backs of extortion and shell games of injustice that makes Las Vegas look like a church on a Sunday morning.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

Rich Hoffman Loves Education: Thomas Jefferson did not have sex with Sally Hemings

Contrary to what many think I do not hate education. In truth I doubt you know dear reader any ten adults combined who works as hard as I do every day to learn something new. The people I look up to and admire are not movie actors, sports figures and celebrities, but rather scientists like Leonardo da Vinci, and Founding Fathers like Thomas Jefferson. I admire personalities who continue to grow and learn their entire lives and dedicate their very souls to goodness, and perpetual knowledge. I find anything less to be disgusting honestly, and I have no pity for less. In that regard I felt it necessary to provide some context about some of the many bits of mail that I received after my article on the new superintendent Keith Kline who moved from Lakota to West Clermont recently. The collection of nay-sayers in the wake of that article (CLICK HERE FOR REVIEW) collectively assumed that I had no right to say anything about Kline’s movement from one job to another—that it wasn’t any of my business—“that everything that happens in public education doesn’t have to be approved by Rich Hoffman.” Well……………….I beg to differ. Before I explain why, please do refer to the below article link about the Franklin superintendent who recently rallied against several schools including one where my friend Kelly Kohls happens to be president of the school board in Springboro. Apparently Arnol Elam was playing Angry Birds on his phone during Kasich’s recent budget proposal because money is not being taken from the poor districts and given to the rich as Elam suggested in a letter he sent to parents urging them to remove Kasich and other legislators who supported the new budget. Elam should have been paying attention because in fact the opposite is true, much to my displeasure. (CLICK HERE TO HEAR THE GOVERNOR HIMSELF talk about his budget) Kelly Kohls and her Springboro school board have done a good job of managing their district without tax increases and is one of the examples that Kasich has been looking at for how all public schools should be run. (CLICK HERE TO SEE KELLY AND I SPEAK AT AN EDUCATION EVENT. But Elam has other motives. He doesn’t like Kelly Kohls because of her open campaigning for Senate Bill 5 a few years ago, and he doesn’t like the conservative governor. He represents the typical labor union radical that is in public education these days, and it is people like him that have brought me to my conclusions about public education.

http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/news/franklin-schools-under-investigation/nWPmZ/

Below is a clip of what Kelly has been able to do as President of Springboro schools.

If public education were about actually teaching children, I would be all for it. If little boys wanted to grow up to become Thomas Jefferson and little girls Annie Oakley or Amelia Earhart I would support public education in less than one second. Instead, public education inspires young people to be more like Kim Kardashian and Honey Boo Boo. When I speak against public education and college it is not because I don’t love learning. It is because those institutions are reeking with liberalism and are teaching our youth everything wrong. They are filled with teaching positions held by liberals scared of the real world and in no position to teach the youth of American anything! The evidence of this liberal presence in all tax payer funded schools is overwhelming, and is vastly ignored by the adult population because the knowledge is inconvenient. Parents fear losing their day time babysitting service, which is all public education really amounts to these days—which is quite tragic.

Many people today would be shocked to learn that in the year 1636 Harvard was founded by Congregationalists to train for ministers. Yale in 1701 and Dartmouth in 1769 were founded with the same intention. The College of William and Mary was founded to train Anglican ministers. In fact many of the early education institutions in America particularly those guided by minds like Thomas Jefferson who founded The University of Virginia as a multi denominational school committed to higher learning, emphasized critical thinking, and a yearning for philosophy in their studies. Education in the early days of America was committed to more than just landing a good job with a high salary. The students were encouraged by their teachers to be good people, and to operate under moral conviction. Education in America during the time of the Founding Fathers intended to elevate the soul of the students through education not to reprogram them into some small-minded perpetrator of liberalism.

It is educators like Arnol Elam who have yelled to the world that good men like Founding Father Thomas Jefferson should be discredited by an affair with his 15-year-old slave Sally Hemmings—because the tenants of progressive philosophy must tear down Jefferson and those like him so that history will not measure progressivism against the philosophy of Scottish Common Sense, that are most guilty of destroying our society with moral depravity and watered down educations. But guess what? I measure Progressivism against the philosophy of Scottish Common Sense that founded American very unfavorably, so unfavorably that I reject modern education because of it.

The Scottish School of Common Sense was a school of philosophy that flourished in Scotland in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Its roots can be found in responses to the writings of such philosophers as John Locke, George Berkeley and David Hume, where its most prominent members were, among others, Dugald Stewart, Thomas Reid andWilliam Hamilton, who combined Reid’s approach with the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. The peculiar influence it had on philosophers elsewhere in Europe, not to mention in the United States, exemplified by the American pragmatist Charles Sanders Peirce, is of a considerable magnitude.

One central concern of the school was to defend “common sense” against philosophical paradox and scepticism. It argued that common-sense beliefs govern the lives and thoughts even of those who avow non-commonsensical beliefs and that matters of common sense are within “the reach of common understanding”.^{[citation needed]} The qualities of its works were not generally consistent; Edward S. Reed writes, e.g., “[Whereas] Thomas Reid wished to use common sense to develop philosophical wisdom, much of this school simply wanted to use common sense to attack any form of intellectual change.”^[2]

In regard to the affair of Jefferson and Hemings it is highly unlikely that Jefferson even had intercourse with another woman after his wife died, let alone had an affair with Hemings. It was largely because of Jefferson that slavery began to be examined as immoral in The United States, steps that Lincoln would later utilize to abolish the practice for the first time in human history. And Jefferson was NOT having sex with underage girls as progressive modern educators hell-bent on embracing human weakness wish to slander and propagate to further their agenda of social destruction. Jefferson it would appear—especially once he was over forty, was far more concerned with reading, writing, and scientific thought than plotting ways he could have sex with a woman for a mere two hours of pleasure. Only an immoral progressive educator would think such a thing—who has nothing going on in their minds or private lives to indicate to them that people think any different from them.

Imagine the typical modern-day school superintendent who has a doctoral degree in education—in liberal studies, in progressive social advancement–that is committed to attacking America’s version of Scottish Common Sense, who don’t even have understanding enough to see that Kasich wasn’t stealing money from the poor to give to rich schools, but that it is the other way around. Modern education is not about teaching children big ideas about science, philosophy, or even spiritual awareness. It’s about creating good jobs for progressive minded human beings who seek to impose their small-minded world view onto all tax payers with the blanket assumption that education is universally good—when in fact it only advances thoughts favoring liberalism and rejects common sense entirely. The product of modern education is bad. It creates bad, immoral characters, and it is responsible for much of the misery that can be seen around the world to this very day. It is truly sad that dusty old relics such as the Founding Fathers of The United States were far more intellectually sound with all the limits of their day than the modern educator with far more tools at their disposal—but it’s true. Educators like Arnol Elam see only one thing—money and progressive causes in the daily conduct of their lives and they disgust me. I despise having to contribute money to such people with my tax dollars. I hate that a small portion of my money goes to the salary of Arnol Elam to propagate such disgusting verbiage to his school district that young people will learn and carry into their adulthoods.

There isn’t much in this world that I love more than books. I read every single day of my life, and most days I read for many hours. I understand people like Thomas Jefferson, and yearn to see his kind of America. I do not want to understand people like Arnol Elam. Educators like that are small people with small minds and they are teaching young people to be small adults—and that absolutely disgusts me. It is not the job of the American tax payer to throw more money at education so that people like Arnol Elam can have a good job on the public dime. The job of education is to teach young people how to be successful adults, and that job is not being done. So in that respect I see every public education issue as my problem because my money is being used to advance it. If I’m going to pay for public education I’m going to get a return on my investment. If public education takes my money, they will get my criticism especially when they fail to do the job as I think the job should be done. My measure for good education is people like Thomas Jefferson who placed education on the highest level of human thought and spent his life learning every day and wanted to share that love of learning with all American citizens. I do the same, and understand that. But advocates of a faulty product such as modern education like what Arnol Elam represents are parasites to common sense; they seek to advance the basic tenants of Immanuel Kant and the European Enlightenment. Jefferson spoke of that same European Enlightenment by saying “the comparisons of our governments with those of Europe are like a comparison of heaven and hell.” And so too is my idea of education compared to Arnol Elam, it is for this reason that I reject modern education in public and college models. I see them as lost ships guided far out to sea under the idiocy of modern progressives who built their philosophies off Kant and the European Enlightenment monstrosities. Such things may sound like disconnected rubbish when attached to superintendents like Arnol Elam, but the roots of progressivism are in his concerns, his political actions to move the city of Franklin to political action against a governor in Kasich that is trying to reform education spending. Districts being run by my friend Kelly Kohls are cast in a bad light by people like Arnol Elam because it is Springboro that is trying to emerge from the darkness of liberalism that has so infected every single education institution in America, breaking the universal commitment to collectivism which so terrifies progressives. As a conservative, anti-Federalist, Tea Party loving American, the liberalism being taught in public education is unacceptable and I’m not happy with it. If I had a choice, I wouldn’t spend one dime of my money on it. Instead though, because of big mouth, greedy, small-minded educators like Arnol Elam who cries out for more money at every turn to fuel their progressive diatribes my money is taken from me and wasted on liberal institutions in the form of public education without my consent—and that is not acceptable.

So it is not true that I hate education just like it is not true that Thomas Jefferson had an affair with Sally Heming’s. Both falsehoods have been spread by progressive enemies of Scottish Common Sense in order to advance modern progressive activism rooted in European Enlightenment. I love education, but I reject the liberal institutions that currently possess those houses of learning. Instead I advocate individual learning so to bypass the liberal control of the education process so that young minds can return their concerns to common sense and a life-long study of morality and goodness that they can carry not just into a job making them subjects to consumerism, but in every aspect of their lives from being good parents, to responsible voters, to committed community contributors, to thriving human beings. If education is not concerned with these things, it is worthless. The evidence to the state of modern education is in the words of Arnol Elam and his cries to steal more money from the rich to fuel his progressive school district toward the destruction of more youthful minds and their last hope for a clean and productive life.

Education is more than cheerleading, band, football practices, and art class. Education is philosophy, critical thinking, and moral grounding along with igniting a life-long yearning for knowledge. Education in the state that 2013 America holds is a deplorable excuse for human achievement that does little if anything to advance human progress. Instead, it seems committed to carrying mankind backwards to the tribal villages of Africa or the human sacrificing city-state of the centrally planned communities of the Aztecs and Mayas. I wouldn’t offer modern education to a dog I cared about, let alone a child I loved. So it has no value to me as a viable tax expense and there are few politicians qualified to offer commentary on the subject when their primary concerns in life is the quality of their golf game instead of the quality of their life. Thomas Jefferson did not, and would not have an affair with Sally Heming’s or any other sexual representation of feminine magic. Such a thought is hard for people who are still intellectually inept to grapple with, but sex is not the only concern for the human mind. As anyone who has a love of learning can attest to, and has lived a full enough life to tell the difference, books and learning are far more rewarding than sex. Thomas Jefferson in all probability spent the last 45 years or more of his life sexless completely because his mind was so active. Modern educators who seek to teach young people about sex in the 4^th grade can’t imagine such a person as Thomas Jefferson—and because they can’t are not qualified to teach anybody anything, let alone a child. Thomas Jefferson to me represents how education should be in America and anything less than his approach is worthless and not worth any amount of money. If the desire in public education were to carry every child into the life of such a classic founding father, I would support it unequivocally. Instead, modern deconstructionist education seeks to tear Jefferson down, so that people like Arnol Elam can be seen by the public to be viewed as an equal measure of a man, instead of a money-grubbing thief with their gluttonous eyes on the public treasury.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

More ‘Tail of the Dragon’ Reviews from Amazon: The communist attack by teachers, critics, and entertainment executives

Over the past couple of days I have received very nice reviews for my latest novel Tail of the Dragon. It means a lot to me whenever I get these reviews because it indicates that the readers had a good time appraising the book and thought enough of the contents to compliment me. Many who read my thoughts here at Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom everyday already have expressed similar sentiments as the referenced reviews. The difference between what I write on my blog site for free and what I write in my books understandably contains more intensity, more conviction, more action, and much more color. So for those who think that my daily thoughts are colorful by my blog postings, and add rebellious energy for their lives, when they read one of my books, they quickly learn the scope of my convictions.

Tail of the Dragon is about rebellion, it’s about living honestly even if the result of the honesty makes a person an outlaw in the eyes of politics. It’s also about romance, and the importance of relationships. It is a romantic, rebellious, ruckus story that challenges our current legal system in ways that deserve to be analyzed without lenses fashioned through fear. I appreciate when I receive so many comments about the story citing that they hope it is made into a movie, which I have discussed in other articles. I have a great love of old Jimmy Stewart films—especially Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It’s a Wonderful Life, and even though Hollywood doesn’t make films like that any more, I am happy that Tail of the Dragon evokes such a reaction from its readers. But unlike those classic character driven films, I take the action that is expected in a car chase story to an entirely new level that many find shocking—which is the intention. There are some action sequences in this story that are thoughts that have bounced around in my head for over 40 years. I have a great love of car jumps, car crashes, and high-speed chases that are integral parts of my character. They go back to my first toys that I played with as a kid, to the first bicycle I ever had, to my soap box derby racing days all the way up to my own early driving days that paralleled Rick Steven’s own life in many ways. The results of many years of high-speed driving, several car crashes and many, many, many close calls are found in Tail of the Dragon. But action by itself is not enough, the characters have to have a reason for their epic rebellion, and they must have heart and soul. It is a rewarding experience when, as a writer, all these elements can be captured and placed within the context of a story. But it is even better when readers of the story understand and feel what the characters are going through as can be reflected in the two reviews below reprinted from Amazon.com.

High Speed Excitment… February 12, 2013

By G-Man

Format:Paperback

I’ve not finished reading this fun-filled ride on the wild side yet but what I’ve read so far is amazing! The characters seem well-developed and the high-speed car chases are amazingly detailed! I think if I were Rick Stevens GPS I would probably explode!!! I cant wait to see how this rollercoaster concludes!!!!

Awesome Ride.. Can’t Wait for the movie February 11, 2013

By Nathan

Format:Paperback

This was an outstanding book. Once you get started you can’t put it down. And if you do you can’t stop thinking about what is going to happen next. Once the story is set it moves very fast. You can see many comparisons to that state of our nation in the things that happen in this book. Rich has nailed it down in story form. I can picture every moment as if I were there. The setting is familiar to many and promises to give the chills to make the hair stand up on your neck.

There is nothing better than taking on “the system” at a time when it needs taken on more than ever. You can insert any of today’s leaders in politics in the places of the political characters in the book and see why things came to a head like they did, because it is fixing to happen in America in front of our eyes. The message in this book should be a wake up call to stand strong and firm to protect America the way it was founded.

Everyone needs a copy

My publisher has been very supportive, and I appreciate them for it. But they, especially in the beginning were very concerned that my small government views would isolate half of the book buying public, and in the short run they were right. However, I believe in what I write and will stand behind the actions of Rick Steven’s in his fictional rebellion against the Federal Government that is the start of the next Civil War in America because the winds are changing, and our society I believe will be very hungry for stories like Tail of the Dragon in that emerging future. If other publishers and Hollywood in general looks down upon the exploits of Rick Steven’s and his very rambunctious wife in the ultimate car chase that thumbs its nose at every law that politicians have concocted for the human race, in these modern times, rebellion against big government is coming back into fashion, similar to how it was when Star Wars, Smokey and the Bandit and The Blues Brothers came to cinemas in 1970s America. There is a little of all those films in my most recent novel as I dredged up my day dreams from the third grade of car crashes and polices chases with the mind only a child can produce in great vibrancy. America embraced rebellion once upon a time against big government and they will again, and the readers who are enjoying Tail of the Dragon now are ahead of the rest, who in the years to come will join the ranks of lovers, rebels, and small government advocates who find themselves enamored by Rick Stevens high-speed exploits with his bikini wearing wife and a 200 MPH classic muscle car that runs off vegetable oil fueled by restaurant garbage.

I said to somebody whom I was speaking with just today that communists attacked America in the late 1950s in a way similar to the way that Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Communists instead of attacking with bombs, planes and kamikaze pilots attacked American culture with liberal film critics, books, and entertainment executives. It took about 30 to 40 years for the slow attack to manifest, but it has. And it might take 30 to 40 years for the slow attack response to swing the world the other way. For me, Tail of the Dragon is my own run against those opponents and it feels good to strike back, even if it is just words that paint a picture of the nature of freedom in the mind of readers giving them the tools needed to push back against the shroud that has been placed upon America’s head to destroy everything we hold dear and to bring a future that is unfathomably disastrous. Rick Stevens is my hope for the future of America, and I am proud of the novel’s fans who are inspired by his actions.

Yes, the book is available at Ron’s store shown below where Larry the Cable Guy recently filmed an episode of his television show Only in America for The History Channel. Click to visit for yourself.

I appreciate deeply all the kind words. Thank you. Amazon.com has been routinely sold out, but have been very good about restocking it within a few days. CLICK HERE FOR MORE about Tail of the Dragon.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

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