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John Kasich for President: Being consumed by the Pussyopolis

I didn’t want to think it when I recently listened to a high-ranking state Senator in Ohio explain to me how unfair it was for people to call Republicans “Rhinos” because they were willing to compromise with the other side, but something was very wrong with Republicans in Ohio—they seemed very sick—almost zombie like.  The Senator felt the term “Rhinos” was very disingenuous, and mean-spirited.   I just listened because I trusted that Kasich and his team of which the Senator was a part had a plan for returning Ohio to prosperity.  I had met Kasich and felt that he was in politics for all the right reasons–that he didn’t care if he was a one-term governor or what the poll numbers said about him—he was intent to do what was right no matter what.  I even made Governor Kasich “warrior of the week” right here on these pages in the past.  But the grim reality is that Kasich and those who follow him directly have been negligent in their duties as it appears they have all been bitten by a Pussyopolis—a ravenous beast that sings siren songs to its victims and brings them to their doom with lusty secretions of praise.  It has captured governor Kasich with its vile stench and oozy eminence and is enveloping Ohio into an abyss from which a return may not be possible. 

Kasich has made three terrible blunders of late—political calculations no doubt generated from the sentiment that the Senator explained to me—that they were very sensitive to being called “Rhinos” because of their tendency to work with radicals from the other political side.  Kasich has not used the Health Care Freedom Amendment to protect Ohio from Obamacare.  See the link below for more info.  Kasich allowed his political insider friends to get a hold of him after the election of 2011—after the defeat of Senate Bill 5, and steer him away from making Ohio a Right-to-Work state as Indiana and Michigan have been doing.   Clearly it was sometime in the winter of 2012 that a Pussyopolis got a hold of Kasich, sometime around the time tornados hit Southern Ohio with devastating impact and he was heavily criticized for not taking Federal money for the disaster immediately.  He attempted to project a 10th Amendment stance of state self-reliance, but he broke down due to heavy public criticism.  On the heels of the Senate Bill 5 it was just too much for him to handle.  He was consumed by a Pussyopolis and has never returned.

http://www.westernjournalism.com/john-kasich-betrays-conservatives-lies-about-blocking-obamacare-in-ohio/

The third thing he did terribly wrong was launch his exploratory probe into running for President of the United States in 2016, which was something he originally said he didn’t care about.  This means that he plans to tread on egg shells for the remainder of his first term, get reelected then halfway through the next term–run for President against candidates like Rand Paul, Paul Ryan, and Chris Christie.  He has been seduced by the power of public office and likes it so much that he wants more of it.  It is evident that he won’t be happy just going back to a Fox News gig subbing on the O’Reilly Factor, or becoming an even more prosperous millionaire as a financial consultant.  When Kasich was bitten by the Pussyopolis it injected into him the venom that corrupts the minds of so many human beings, and it is sad to see—the desire to be popular, liked, cherished, and to shake hands with your critics in the all too fateful “compromise.”  In the case of Ohio Kasich has obviously made a deal with the police unions and firefighters to keep Right-to-Work off the table during his terms in order to make peace with them.  Kasich then turned his back on his Tea Party supporters figuring that the Tea Party was dead and he wasn’t going to become a casualty too.  In so doing, he walked right into the mouth of the Pussyopolis only to be consumed forever.

Politics in many ways is just big time wrestling.  Speaker of the House John Boehner and Governor Kasich pretend that they are out there fighting the good fight, but what you learn upon close examination is that like a school board meeting, the decisions are already made in executive session before the public is ever made aware of an issue.  Republicans and Democrats play their act for the public that they are in the ring fighting it out, but the reality is that well before hand the winners and losers are determined in a carefully coordinated public show.  In the case of Kasich, he has been determined to be the loser and Obama the winner.  Boehner has obviously made a similar deal—he is playing the villain while Obama gets to play the hero.  I’m sure both men believe that their strict adherence to the script will pay off down the road–politically.  With Boehner, I am not surprised.  I expect that kind of theater from him.  He has the markings of Pussyopolis consumption all over his face.  I mean he cries after every public event.  I knew his real heart when he became emotional over regaining the Speaker seat.  The acceptance of his peers means more to him than doing the right thing, which is the path to the mouth of the Pussyopolis.

Kasich on the other hand has done a good job of balancing Ohio’s budget by cutting away all the fat.  All politicians should do this, but Kasich is wrong to believe that balancing Ohio’s budget will be enough to launch him into The White House.  Balancing a budget is too “cerebral of a victory” and most Americans won’t understand or appreciate it, sad to say.  Kasich is throwing away the opportunities of a lifetime—tactically—to preserve his own run for president.  Now, he is morphing into a Pussyopolis and it appears there is no return for him.  We should have all known something was fishy when President Obama, John Boehner, and John Kasich all played golf together.  Somewhere during that golf game Obama fed them to his pet Pussyopolis who rides his coattails everywhere.

It must be terrible to be consumed by a Pussyopolis, to lose your backbone, your principles, your very soul to some perverted notion of popularity—to become President of the United States.   Who wants a measly $400K job a year when the ability to make millions has been proven—like it has in Kasich’s case?  The answer tragically is a weak-kneed Rhinos who believe that compromise with bad ideas is a receipt for success.  They (the Rhinos) justify such a peril as “fairness.”  People who think in such a fashion are the victims of a Pussyopolis and the moist, dank caverns of its bottomless pit called a stomach.    The Pussyopolis does not care about sustainability, only tireless consumption.  Once a politician is consumed by one, the only concern is to learn their place in the great public spectacle called a “Run for The White House.”

The Pussyopolis has also bitten Chris Christie as well, just as it did his friend John Kasich.  The Pussyopolis hides in the shadows of “Federal Disaster Relief.”  For Kasich, it was the Southern Ohio tornadoes. For Christie it was the hurricane that struck the East Coast during the fall of 2012.  Both tough talking men turned against their conservative ideals and embraced the poison inside the belly of the Pussyopolis and corrupted their images forever as they found at the heart of such a ravenous beast Barack Obama and the parasites of Big Government.   They allowed themselves to be completely consumed by the siren song of doom surrendering through “compromise” the merit of their life’s work for the sad illusion of perpetual popularity and memory in the annuals of history.

It’s all a show………………….every bit of it.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

If You Love Your Kids, Don’t Send Them To College: The Real ‘Fountainhead’ Frank Lloyd Wright

When I think of college the very first thing I think of is intoxication, experimental sex, and liberalism.  I would never in a hundred years tell someone I care about that they should go to such a mental meat grinder as American modern colleges—because those institutions are not about learning—but are rather about following the advice of Princeton President Woodrow Wilson who said colleges were tasked to make children as less like their parents as possible.  Colleges as they are today are about reprogramming 19 years of love and emotional investment out of a child with the destruction of their individuality and through progressive scholarship—to be reborn as a collective oriented species.  Colleges are run by a class of human being called “the academic of intelligentsia” and they are a sinister group that holds much responsibility for the current destruction of The United States.

That is not to say that all young people who attend college become mindless drones who vote for Presidents like Barack Obama, campaign against gun rights, strive for social evasion through intoxication, and have difficulty maintaining relationships because all their sexual standards have been ripped away leaving nothing to cherish in their bedrooms.  I know of a few.  In fact most of my closest relationships all have advanced degrees and have survived the experience—but not without scars.  Unfortunately for a vast majority of college bound young people, they will not survive intact, and will be crushed under the mantra of progressivism taught in those schools into something unrecognizable from the miracle their youths were destined otherwise to produce.

When it is said that Americans are behind other countries in academic achievement—in producing engineers, scientists and other advanced degree oriented professions I would say to fret not.  Let India, China, Japan and other countries with collectivist cultures produce nice little pets who do what they are told under the terms of employment.  America can always hire that talent away from those other countries—it does not need to produce them in American colleges.  America needs to produce solid individuals who create jobs so that those jobs can hire the pin headed collectivist to work nicely in their cubicles under the guidance of their boss.  America needs to concentrate its energy into making more entrepreneurs and it won’t do that by copying the academic model of Europe and Asia.

To get feel for what I’m talking about, the context is explained wonderfully in one of my all-time favorite novels, The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.  In that great American novel the main character Howard Roark was openly molded after the great real life architect Frank Lloyd Wright.  Frank Lloyd Wright, (1867-1959), was an American architect, a pioneer in the modern style who is considered one of the greatest figures in 20th-century architecture. He was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin. In 1887 Wright went to Chicago, where he became a designer for the firm of Adler and Sullivan. In 1893 he established his own office in Chicago.

Wright created the philosophy of “organic architecture,” which maintains that a building should develop out of its natural surroundings. His designs for both private and public structures were boldly original, and he rebelled against ornate neoclassic and Victorian styles. Wright believed that architectural form must be determined by the particular function of a building, its environment, and the type of materials used. His interiors emphasize spaciousness, which derives from open planning with one room flowing into another.

Wright initiated many new techniques, such as the use of precast concrete blocks reinforced by steel rods. He also introduced numerous innovations, including air conditioning, indirect lighting, and panel heating. His works include the Millard House (1923) in Pasadena, California; the Johnson Wax Company Administration Building (1939) in Racine, Wisconsin; the First Unitarian Church (1947) in Madison, Wisconsin; and the Price Tower (1953) in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. In 1959 he completed the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.

Wright also spent much of his time writing, lecturing, and teaching. By 1908 he had originated most of the principles that serve as fundamental concepts of modern architecture. His work profoundly influenced the development of contemporary architecture in the United States and Europe.[1]

Ironically, contrary to what academics care to admit, there is no evidence that Frank Lloyd Wright ever graduated from high school.  He was admitted to college under a special arrangement, but left the school without taking a degree after only a few classes.  No college in the world could have taught Wright to think so far outside the box as he did, and in fact nobody has been able to think as originally as he has to date.  In colleges all over the world architecture students study Frank Lloyd Wright, and they copy some of his elements in modern building techniques, but they cannot think like he did.  Those other students would be what the novel The Fountainhead calls the Peter Keatings of the world, the fools destined to live in the shadows of everyone else their entire lives, who go to school, get good grades, do what they’re told, and die unspectacularly as decrypted caricatures of a mind that had degraded each year of their lives from age 4 to 75.  For that matter I have told almost the same type of story about Walt Disney.  (CLICK HERE to see a list of some of the most successful names who have not received college degrees.)  College is not necessary for success, only for keeping the coffers of progressive politics alive—to fulfill the dream of people like Woodrow Wilson who wanted to engineer young people away from their parents and destroy the American family by rule over them as members of the college educated intellectual.  (Look at that list at the link carefully and you will see a pattern.  If you want your children to be successful you should follow the evidence of that list)

Frank Lloyd Wright detested intellectuals as they were classically portrayed, and wonderfully articulated in The Fountainhead.  Wright is an excellent example of why America was great, because it created a nation that could give wonderfully original minds like Disney and Wright a place to develop their thoughts without the rigid guidelines created by college academics always in the hip pocket of politics.  America did best when it conducted itself with old-fashioned horse sense.  Colleges have prided themselves on destroying that horse sense in a quest to crush individualism in favor of collectivism.  It is because of this trend that colleges study Frank Lloyd Wright, but cannot produce modern versions of him no matter how much money a student spends on their education.  A parent who wants to produce the next Frank Lloyd Wright in their child cannot do it with their life savings.  Colleges are happy to sell the snake oil that they can, but they can’t.  Only an original mind can perform such a task, and original minds are produced while children play and such thought processes are preserved into adulthood.  Currently originality is destroyed in public education leaving once great minds caricatures of themselves by the time they hit puberty.  Once a deranged mind hits college age, they have almost nothing else left in the tank to resist the reprogramming that modern intellectuals cast upon their unsuspecting minds.  In a couple short years of college, most minds are destroyed forever and those young people are destined to look back on their youths as the best days of their lives, as they begin a slow journey toward death in the 60 or more years that follow.

Public education sells itself on producing young minds for college, but this is an error.  Parents should not spend a lifetime of savings on college only to have their children programmed away from the values taught by the family for 14 to 18 years.  If a parent really loves their children, they will discourage their children from being destroyed in these palaces of corruption called American colleges, and encourage them to become the next Frank Lloyd Wrights, or Walt Disneys.  The blueprint on the how and why can be found in Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead.  The novel like the people it portrays is a window into when America was producing the best minds in the entire world and is a direct link into how we can restore to our nation a trend of supremacy that has always defined The United States.  But such a path will not be through college doors so let the rest of the world travel that path to their own destruction.  It is to America’s competitive advantage to turn away from the stuffy academic and put its faith in the mind of the innocent and encourage them to reach for the stars without limitations, without the rigid lines of social political rules—to become the next great thinkers who will usher in a new age of prosperity and innovation.

[1]Encarta® 98 Desk Encyclopedia © &  1996-97 Microsoft Corporation.

All rights reserved.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

Pirates of Washington D.C.: The New Port Royal

If a group of robbers came to your house and stole nearly $1000 dollars sometime during the upcoming year would you not call the police, file a report and attempt to prosecute the perpetrators?  Of course you would, you’d be very upset at the loss to your personal income, and the imposition to your rights and liberty.  What if you discovered that the same robbers came as guests to your house many times and stole $20 dollars each time until after 50 such visits added up as a loss to your personal income of nearly $1000.00.   The cost of the theft was not obvious because the impact of the theft was distributed over a long period of time.  Well, the later scenario is exactly what the federal government has done in regard to the new taxes coming out of our personal income taxes that nobody is talking about.  If you look at your paychecks, you will notice that anywhere from $20 to $40 dollars each week is coming out of your personal income every single week and the total cost to you will be nearly $1000.00 by this time next year.  The act of taking the money out of our pay checks is theft.  In my case I did not vote for the tax increases and my elected representatives left me hanging out to dry making deals with the thieves behind the scenes.  As John Boehner said, “Obamacare is the law of the land.”  And Governor John Kasich of Ohio ignored the Healthcare Freedom Amendment that passed a few years back in order to protect his 2016 run for President.  A lot of people are behind the force stealing that money from our paychecks and what they are doing is criminal.  To understand why, watch this video carefully.

More info on the new taxes can be found here:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/01/02/despite-deal-taxes-on-most-americans-will-go-up/

As I’ve said, my favorite pirate of the famous pirates of the Caribbean era was Henry Morgan who was governor of Jamaica for a period of time, and anyone who knows pirate lore knows how infamous the port town of Port Royal was before the great earthquake which sunk the entire town shortly after the death of Morgan.  But during the late 1600s while John Locke was studying the freedoms exhibited by Morgan and the pirates of Port Royal, which eventually went into his Second Treaties of Government, there was no place on earth that was more prosperous or sinful.  The pirates would drink, gamble and spend all their money on orgies with prostitutes until all the money ran out.  They spent the money like there was no tomorrow, and once they ran out of money, Morgan would organize another raid against Spanish vessels who were in turn stealing gold and silver from the Aztecs and Incas all across Central and South America.

The modern government in America is no different from the bands of pirates who inhabited Jamaica in the city of Port Royal in the late 1600s.  They have an insatiable appetite for sex, drugs, and endless theft to satisfy the bottomless pits of their personal treasuries.  There isn’t enough money in the world to quell their endless thirsts for looted currency.  Back then, Morgan had a letter of marque from the king of England that gave him legal right to harass Spanish and French vessels in the Caribbean region.  John Boehner has the same kind of letter from Barack Obama—who thinks he’s king of America.  The responsibility for the increases in taxes—which is simply legalized theft—falls on the king, while the looters confiscate more and more wealth from anyone they can get it from without an eye on the end result.

Those of us who pay taxes, those few of us who are now under the 50% minority are being told that we will pay more taxes to support programs we detest.  It is being forced upon us through threat of force, and is piracy.  The stolen money will go to sin, crime, and detestable activity.  It will not go toward altruism even though it has been stolen under the banner of social justice.  It is simply stolen by the pirates of government for the end result of further plunder.  For those of us who pay most of the taxes, we are now less wealthy just because the calendar year changed from 2012 to 2013.  The modern pirates don’t even have to go to the effort to take our money with literal force any longer—they simply write new laws in the modern version of Port Royal called Washington D.C. and force everyone to send the money to their door steps.  This year it is the subtle amount of $20 dollar a week.  But add that to the nearly $300 a week for other federal taxes, or the hundreds of dollars for Social Security.  Heck, it costs almost half as much just for Medicare as all the state taxes in Ohio.  The looters have set up a complicated scam that subtly steals from us all bit by bit so gradually that it is hardly noticed.  But the total cost is quite extensive when it is considered in its entirety.

I don’t need much out of the government.  I don’t need the heath care.  I don’t want their retirement plan.  I don’t even want their education.  I don’t want their regulatory committees; I don’t want their prying eyes and hands on my wife when we fly on an airline.  I want them as much out of my life as humanly possible, and I do not wish to be robbed by them for their own pillaging tendencies.  I don’t support their reckless spending, their short-sighted vision, and their back room Washington deals.  I don’t want to pay them any ransom—“protection money,” for their extortive practices.  With the government, like the pirates of the Caribbean you pay the extra $20 dollars a week in taxes, or they take all your possessions and throw you in jail.  In that way, they have robbed us all with a letter of  marque provided by President Obama and his financial supporters, SEIU, AFL-CIO, FTA, billionaire philanthropists and many other collectivist organizations acting no different from pirates in Port Royal spending money like its going out of style requiring more looting just to live one more day of pillaging.

Port Royal is no longer evident in Jamaica outside of Kingston.  There is little evidence of its once great wealth and sinful prosperity.  In the same regard, Washington D.C. will someday follow the same path and will see its streets vacant of life and abandoned completely.  The mentality of the two cities is the same—they are all pirates who make their livings stealing money from others in order to live.  The question is why do we allow it to happen?  Why do we allow them to steal money from us in small increments of $20 at a time?  Why can’t we add up that a decade of such activity means hundreds and hundreds of dollars of stolen money we are committed to pay each month away from our individual desires?  Instead we are told to give toward the collective cause of the pirates and their thirst for plunder—and if we don’t cough up the loot, they will take it by force—and we call this behavior “civilized” or even “free?”

I call it theft by robbers and pirates, and they deserve to be called such, and not honorable representatives of a righteous republic.   The robbers are only drunken fools unable to do anything right and should not be allowed to run Washington D.C. like its Port Royal.  According to The United States Constitution, we don’t have to.  So why do we?Obama car

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

The Winds of Revolution: Executive orders signed on the backs of exploited children

I have established the parameters of America’s next Civil War in my 2004 novel, The Symposium of Justice.  I then defined the who, what, why, when and where for rebellion to occur in my 2012 novel Tail of the Dragon.  Before the scam artists in government attempt to portray my future actions as radical, dangerous, or as an enemy of the state, those two literary works are my testimony of innocence against a court system built by insanity.  A government that allows $16 trillion dollars of debt to go unchecked and signs 23 executive orders against the 2nd Amendment is a criminal syndicate no different from Al Capone’s organized crime actions—and I consider them all domestic enemies.  Click the link below for more detail.   After all, Saul Alinsky learned from Al Capone, and it was Saul who taught most in modern government how to conduct their business of arm twisting and extortion against individual liberty.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/01/16/obama-presents-new-gun-control-measures-live-updates/

To learn more about Saul Alinsky, click this link:

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

When I speak about the need for a Civil War it is not because I want it, but because bad people are attempting to impose themselves upon my life, and those of the people who are not so vocal about their desire for liberty.  I know all too well that many lawyers, judges, and politicians do not believe in the Bible they swore their oaths to, or respect the Constitution they pledge to protect.  They are simply scavengers who seek to pillage the lives of individuals of everything they own or desire to possess.  I have seen first hand many instances where America’s entire court system is about nothing but generating money for the participants at the expenses of the victims.  I gave such an example in Tail of the Dragon, which is based on first hand experience.  The court system is only about making money through the clerk of courts for the judges, the lawyers, the bailiffs, the jails, the insurance companies, the legal professors, the mind numb politicians, and nothing else.  They seek targets that have broken the law as defined by those same people who have no respect for the American Constitution but serve only the case-law of fellow attorneys.  The legal system in America is a racket no different from the organized crime syndicates that formed during the Prohibition Period.

When Jon Hammer was thrown into a Mexican jail for trying to register a rifle at the border, the Mexicans were not interested in justice, or fairness.  They were only interested in jailing the young man and attempting to extort money from the ex-Marine’s family.  The Mexicans behaved no different from a band of pirates who took over the lives of the innocent and threatened to kill them on behalf of their personal profit.  The court system is corrupt beyond repair in Mexico.  Nobody cared about the life of Jon Hammer.  The President of Mexico allowed the behavior to continue on once the story became public for over 4 months.  The criminal underground runs Mexico, and the Jon Hammer case proves it.  Both The United States and Mexico showed the world that neither side cared about Jon Hammer or his family—especially when the situation was so obviously unjust.  Instead all the parties involved on both sides walked over the issue as though they were egg shells, not daring to step too hard in any one place so not to upset their supplies of money that funnel to them through organized crime.

What’s worse about the whole ordeal is that Mexico appears to be more honest than America.  At least the Mexicans don’t attempt to hide their tyrannical intentions behind children or tapestries of “justice” like American courts have attempted to do.  President Obama attempted to hide his power grabbing actions of executive orders behind the naive innocence of children, and nobody questioned the obvious evil of the act.  Both courts in Mexico and America are corrupt and rotting with scallywags intent to profit off the unfortunate misery of the guiltless.  When things go bad in the near future it will be those types of scallywags who attempt to call me “the criminal,” which of course I am not, or won’t be.  There comes a time when it is right and honorable to fight back against evil that attempts to hide theft behind righteousness, and that time is coming quick.

We are living in an upside down world, the bad pretend that they are good, and the good are made out to look bad, so a war between those two ideas is immanent.  In the context of a normal life, the talk of war might seem extreme, but it is in the desire for peace that the pirates of government loot us all in broad day light with further encroachments’, and out-right injustices are advanced through sheer greed.  It is against those feeble minds that we will protect ourselves and in that context, is the reason for the next war that is about to break out.  It will also be in the context of the villainy conducted among America’s failing political system and its corrupt courts that the actions of liberty will forever be measured.  The sanity of the Constitutional defenders is written down forever and cannot be changed by the looters of social order, who hide their malicious actions behind “safety,” “security,” and “children.”  The truth is easy for everyone to see and that truth might waver for a bit when the first shots are fired and real lives find themselves at the cashiers counter–but context will find its place which is the reason for these millions of words.  It cannot be said that we did not try a solution of peace.  When the lives stack up, nobody can say that we did not try.

Because we did………….(past tense.)  Corruption advanced anyway with executive orders and a court system that lacks the will for justice, thus the title—The Symposium of Justice.

As to the source behind Obama’s new gun control laws created by executive order………………..it is all about making more money for an ever-expanding–all-encompassing government.

Among the new spending the president proposed:

• $4 billion for the president’s proposal “to help keep 15,000 cops on the streets in cities and towns across the country.” (That is roughly $266,000 per police officer.)

• $20 million to “give states stronger incentives to make [relevant] data available [for background checks] … “$50 million for this purpose in FY2014”

• “$14 million to help train 14,000 more police officers and other public and private personnel to respond to active shooter situations.”

• “$10 million for the Centers for Disease Control to conduct further research, including investigating the relationship between video games, media images, and violence.”

• $20 million to expand the National Violent Death Reporting System.

• $150 million to “put up to 1,000 new school resource officers and school counselors on the job.”

• “$30 million of one-time grants to states to help their school districts develop and implement emergency management plans.”

• $50 million to help 8,000 schools “create safer and more nurturing school climates.”

• $15 million to “provide ‘Mental Health First Aid’ training for teachers.”

• $40 million for school districts to “work with law enforcement, mental health agencies, and other local organizations to assure students with mental health issues or other behavioral issues are referred to the services they need.”

• $25 million for state-based strategies that support “young people ages 16 to 25 with mental health or substance abuse issues.”

• $25 million to “offer students mental health services for trauma or anxiety, conflict resolution programs, and other school-based violence prevention strategies.”

• $50 million to “train social workers, counselors, psychologists, and other mental health professionals.”

Click here to visit the source article at Buckey Firearms.org.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

The Difference between Us and Them: Morning Joe Team shocked by NRA advertisement

‘One of the grossest things they have ever seen?’ This is what the Morning Joe Team on the Progressive channel MSNBC said in regard to a recent NRA advertisement. Obviously these people don’t remember how poorly George Bush’s children were treated when he was president. But they have conveniently forgotten all about that now. Watch and listen how shallow the minds and memory of these progressives are.

There is no dealing with people like this from the “lean forward” channel. Wasn’t that the campaign slogan for the last Lakota school levy, and Barry Obama’s latest run for President? Progressivism is for these mush minded types, not real Americans. They haven’t a clue as to what the Constitution is about, nor do they care to learn. They wish us all to “lean forward” straight into the same brick wall that all of Europe is hitting. They are the primary example of why America must never give up their guns, because it will be these types of people who will run everything.

They can’t even remember the Bush Presidency which was only 5 years ago.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

John Stossel’s “NO THEY CAN’T”: Most politicians wish they were rock stars

President Obama’s press conference over the debt ceiling and proposed gun control measures on January 14, 2013 was so worthless that I won’t even waste my time discussing it here.  A response to his claims has already been refuted, dissected, and railed against on these pages and many others in copious quantities.  Rather, I would like to refer you dear reader to the video below, which is a bit long, but is one of the better interviews that John Stossel gave while promoting his book No They Can’t which is quite good.  Stossel’s book cuts to the chase in a way only an award-winning journalist of many years can in articulating the fundamental problem of any government could do—that politicians wish to rule over others as a primary concern—they are constantly on the hunt for new measures to use in order to rule over others—and are universally prone to manipulate the law in any fashion to advance their offensive against those they wish to rule.  Stossel concludes that government under any condition is not emotionally equipped to achieve anything close to their intended proposals, and almost every time they involve themselves in anything, they bungle it up.  So the more government there is, the more screwed up a society is. Stossel makes the argument clear in his book, which is discussed in great detail in the interview below.  I would suggest a full viewing of the clip provided:

Stossel’s conclusions remind me of a book I read years ago that I used to carry around like it was a Bible.  It was published in the late 1980s called A World of Ideas by Bill Moyers.  The book was written at the height of Moyers PBS career as a reporter on the heels of his excellent book The Power of Myth which is still one of my all time favorites.  These books were written when progressivism and communism were still undercover and functioning behind layers of deceit within the Democratic Party—before even the Clinton Administration came into power—so I saw no danger in A World of Ideas, only scholarly information that was quite good at the time without the political spin that might be seen today.  In that classic book Moyers basic thesis was that the quality of politicians in our Republic are bad because there isn’t any clear incentive for good people to enter the world of politics.

This is true for the most part.  I know a few people who are good and enter politics, but for the most part politicians are low life scum bags who secretly cry out for attention.  The people of quality that I know are either rich and chose to control politics with donations, or they hide in their garages and hire accountants to work around all the stupid laws that politicians come up with.  Those people don’t enter politics, of which I fall into a similar category.  I have had countless requests from many community members to run for local trustee positions that are coming open, or school board titles—and during every one of those requests I think of that old Moyer’s book A World of Ideas, especially the chapter interviewing Tom Wolfe—one of my favorite writers—specifically The Right Stuff novel.  A republic of any kind is only as good as the people who run it, and ideally the best people of any society should run for office, not the worst.

When I think of political office and imagine myself in one, I would likely go on violent rampages the first time the bureaucrats did a role call. It drives me crazy every time I see a meeting of any kind where they do a roll call.  Every political meeting I’ve ever attended is so ghastly ineffective that I find them appalling.  I don’t function well with rules or meetings that go on longer than 20 minutes, because anything longer is or more complex is to fulfill the inner whims of some stuffy politician hiding their incompetency behind the complexity.  This is one of the primary reasons that intelligent people avoid politics, because they simply don’t want to deal with stupid people.  But if only stupid people run for office, then the people managing all the tax money are stupid people, which is the case of modern politics in America.  Most of the people who run for office would fail in the private sector.  They would not be invited to charity events and treated like a big wig around town otherwise, so they run for an office to gain prestige.  They are not interested in committing their years of wisdom to an elected office, because often they have no wisdom to speak of.

I once had a friend who was a former Penthouse model and was married to a big time strip mall developer around the I-275 loop.  She was the classic trophy wife and her 60 year-old husband knew it.  He didn’t care that people thought she was a trophy wife—all that mattered to him was that his money was able to buy a 26 year-old-wife who was loyal to him who he could show off at social events.  She was from Sweden and was fascinated by politics at the time even though she was a very early version of a libertarian by nature.  I was baffled when she expressed to me her desire to meet Mayor Tillery at a fundraiser event that her husband was conducting.  I asked her why, because he was a Democrat—had bad breath like every other man and was an astonishingly average human being.  This woman was the kind of female who could attract any man in the world that she wanted, but she found herself drawn to “powerful” people wither they were literally powerful like her husband was, or figuratively powerful like Mayor Tillery was in Cincinnati politics.  It was people like her who feed the egos of politicians like Tillery and made them feel as though the work they are doing is important.

The same types of women swoon over President Obama and make like-minded politicians believe that they are doing important work, because they have a title that carries prestige in our society.  Because they are in politics, they have a celebrity status that exhumes power, even though their minds may be insufficiently developed toward leadership.  Smart people like the model’s husband who might not otherwise be able to attract such a woman with their looks become powerful through enterprise so that they can buy themselves such a woman.  But stupid people who desire the same kind of ability are lured into politics so that they can also attract those types of personalities.  The incompetent person who fears the private sector has learned that by giving away tax money to a lot of people, that they can purchase reelections for themselves and have access to the kind of men and women who clamor for powerful people—even if that power is only by title.  In no other form of endeavor could an average person like Mayor Tillery have women like my old Penthouse friend excited to shake their hand—but in politics.

We’re not talking about sex when it is said that politicians scurry for office to have access to women like the former Penthouse model.  This sometimes happens of course, but the end result is not a sexual one, it’s simply an attention grabber.  The small-minded person wishes to be addressed as sir, or madame, or by an official title that projects social importance.  These social butterflies wish to be treated with respect, even though they often don’t deserve it.  They like to see beautiful women and men standing behind the rope lines fighting to shake their hands or to get an autograph—and that is the root of the whole problem.

Stossel is not wrong or reckless when he says that government can’t do anything right—because they can’t.  Government can’t because they are a group of people who desire attention before anything, and President Obama is the classic case of such an attention starved human being—who might otherwise struggle to put together two dimes if he were not in public office.  Obama knows it, which is one of the reasons he supports socialism, and other progressive causes—and nurtures a deep hatred for the rich.  Obama desires to see the rich bow at his feat by using his perceived power to conquer them into submission so they are in awe of his power.  He enjoys knowing that the trophy wives of his political rivals seek out to shake his hand against their protests, because those young ladies are drawn to the power of the politicians—the tribal leaders of their community.  Women look at Obama the way the Penthouse model looked at Mayor Tillery in Cincinnati, with respect and wonder.  But these emotions are left over remnants of the human beings evolution from hunter and gather tribes to the perceived human sacrifice and altruism of the agricultural based city-states.  Intelligent people have outgrown the need for “tribal leaders” or “politicians.”  Stupid people are still in that pre-evolution period of yesterday—they are always trying to figure out who their “clan leader” is.  Like Stossel said in his book, it is the yearning for somebody else to take responsibility that leaves the good people on the outside of politics and the bad people inside—because that is where the fans are.  Like the Nickelback song states, everyone wants to be a Rock Star, but not everyone has the talent to be.  Others who are qualified don’t even have the desire to trade in their privacy for the constant bombardment of fans that comes with such social roles.  The politician in American society can be a Rock Star with just a simple election, and that is the real problem. They get the title without having the quality of mind to back it, which is why government can’t do anything right under any circumstance.  John Stossel is 100% right that when it comes to government—NO THEY CAN’T!  And they never will because the mind of everyone involved is faulty.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

The American Dream Labs: A new book by David Barton ‘The Jefferson Lies’

I received from a good friend and loyal reader here at Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom a great gift—one of the only things that I truly love in the world—a new book.  And this particular book is from one of my favorite authors and is about one of my favorite Founding Fathers.  The book is called The Jefferson Lies by David Barton and seeks to set the record straight about Thomas Jefferson as progressive secularists have attempted to destroy his good name in order to advance their diabolical causes.  The book was ironic because it represented a kind of book end to a string of announcements that had their source in one man—Glenn Beck who is proving to be one of America’s new Founding Fathers by creating the means to rediscover what made us so great in the first place.  If not for Glenn Beck the new book I received about Thomas Jefferson would not have been possible—because it is Beck who has given voice to scholars like David Barton who would have otherwise been whisked away into a corner of intelligentsia and subdued.  If not for the efforts of Glenn Beck’s media empires, fueled by the book publishing industry and a society starving for intelligent material, people like David Barton wouldn’t have a voice.

Much of the trouble in America today can be blamed on progressives.  The world of debt, of broken marriages, of childhood misery, of aborted babies, of a stupid grown-up electorate more interested in sports scores than who they will vote for in the next election, of kids walking around aimlessly with their pants down around their knees in public wondering why nobody wants to hire them for a job. Most every problem in our modern society is the fault of secular, tampering, small-minded, progressives like Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnston and a whole slew of other like-minded fools who have attempted to socially engineer mankind with their infantile foolishness driven by insecure minds not completely sane.  One of the reasons secular progressives have attempted to diminish the work of people like Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, George Washington, and one of my all time favorites—Ben Franklin is because the modern man of progressive thought is but a boot heel philosophically to those classic Founding Fathers.  Presidents like Thomas Jefferson must be defamed so that presidents like Woodrow Wilson can look equal.  The progressive, who is in charge of every public school in America knows that the way to make themselves look good is bring everyone else down—which is why the world around us is filled with so many stupid people.  (I mean I was at the movies the other day and I think the collective intelligence of the people around me might have been able to power a pocket calculator.  They all looked like they voted for Obama.  One kid was walking with his girlfriend and literally couldn’t carry their popcorn into the movie theater because his pants were pulled down so far that he had to hold them with one hand because his other was holding his girlfriend’s.  The girlfriend had to carry the popcorn and pop.  The boy probably had a brain, and he might otherwise have been a promising young man of some merit, but I could take one look at him and tell that he was probably raised off government assistance, that he came from a fatherless household, that he probably ran with a group of wanna’ be thugs practicing gang behavior as kittens practice fighting with a ball of yarn—to prove their prowess.  The boy was a victim of secular progressivism and their social experiments that have gone worse than a Frankenstein mad scientist experiment.) 

As I held the new Barton book in my hand I thought of the spot that I had sat in over a decade ago when I took my family to Monticello—Jefferson’s very innovative home.   I sat where Jefferson did as he wrote his letters and looked out the same windows that he did the day that he died on July 4th, the same exact day as his one time political rival John Adams.  The two men wrote each other furiously during the closing days of their lives, and July 4th meant something special that nearly defied death.  Both men separated by miles of carriage driven roads through an endless wilderness pushed their minds to see one more July 4th in 1826.  In fact, they died within 5 hours of one another, no phone lines, no television, just remote wilderness and a mutual love and respect for knowledge and the founding of America.  Jefferson was a smart man overflowing with self-driven ambition.  He was the result of his many thousands of books.  What he put into his mind came out as a direct result to the quality he had invested.  He read books ranging from Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations to Alexander O. Exqemelin’s The Buccaneers of America (One of my all time favorites first published in 1678—Oh what I would give to have an original copy of that book in my personal library!)  Like Jefferson my life would be meaningless without books.  They are the blood that pumps through my veins and that will always be the case.  I simply love to read them, and I love to be in their company whether it be a private library or a public one.  I love the presence of knowledge, thought, and enterprise.  I have often spoke of my disgust that the Library in Alexandria, Egypt was destroyed by the mob.  CLICK HERE TO REVIEW.  Progressives like all the parasites of the past know that the way to control the masses is to make them too ignorant to think for themselves—so that those same masses will always clamor for a leader—provided by the modern progressive politician.  The mentality is the same whether the period of time is the sacking of Rome, or the modern push for same-sex marriage as a priority over the national debt.  The secular progressive seeks destruction of thought to advance their sinister plots.

But the same man who made indirectly the new David Barton book about Jefferson possible had just spent a week explaining his new massive project—The American Dream Labs which is a fantasy right out of the pages of anything Thomas Jefferson or Ben Franklin could have ever hoped for in America.  Glenn Beck is restoring to our modern times a love of knowledge and innovation that founded the nation, and he is doing it beyond the reach of secular progressives.  Beck is achieving a kind of critical mass that George Soros and all his billions couldn’t stop, because in the “rock, paper, scissors” game of politics, intelligence always crushes stupidity and progressives like Soros have been crushed by a reawakening of the human spirit.  Glenn Beck simply refused to back down, and he is about to erupt with a creative energy driven by the same kind of restless force that drove Thomas Jefferson.  The results of this awakening unfortunately won’t be measured for a decade or two, but it will occur now that Beck has started the process.  The results of today are a direct result of progressive policies started in the 1990’s.  The conservative revival of Beck, Barton and those like them won’t be truly felt until around 2025 or 2030.  It takes a long time to emerge, but it starts in arts and entertainment–the rest of the culture will follow later.

Beck shares with me it appears a love of the theoretical city/amusement park Epcot Center.  Walt Disney, like Beck was committed in his day to the same kinds of thoughts and feelings that drove the Founding Fathers, which is why there are such strong themes referencing them in Disney World.  CLICK HERE FOR REVIEW.  Every city in America should take notes from Disney’s Epcot Center and form their infrastructure around those concepts.  But none do, instead they allow themselves to be shaped by corrupt politicians who try to scrape enough off the top to buy a new condo for themselves.  Modern cities are shaped by incomplete people.  So Glenn Beck is planning to build his own city called Independence, U.S.A. at a cost of about $2 billion dollars.  Click the link below to see all the video of Beck explaining the concept complete with drawings and further commentary.  Most important to me is that Beck is going to feature a library in the center of his city that will be available to teach politicians all over the country how they are supposed to govern based on wisdom, not diabolical greed.  I am extremely excited about Glenn Beck’s American Dream Labs.  He is attempting to do what Walt Disney never could, and Ayn Rand only thought about in the book Atlas Shrugged—he is building a Galt’s Gulch in plain sight—in the midst’s of secular progressive political control.

The American Dream Labs (CLICK TO SEE MUCH MORE)

Progressives who believe that everything is interconnected around the halls of intelligentsia obviously missed the boat.  They are right about the interconnected nature of things, and the need for wisdom, but they allowed their academic vision to be corrupted by the wrong philosophy—that of European collectivism, and they will fail 100% of the time as a result.  They outwardly proclaim to represent wisdom, and knowledge—but instead they represent foolishness, and apathy—so it is they who are behind the push to destroy the name of Thomas Jefferson.  And it is because of them that people like Glenn Beck must build a new city so that it can outshine all others as a gleaming example of how things should be done—not how they currently are.   Because of books like the one I received from my friend, The Jefferson Lies, Glenn Beck is moving his business operations into movies, television shows, more books, and more radio—in short, as I mentioned to Doc Thompson the other day—“Glenn Beck will be the new Ted Turner of modern media.”  Ted Turner represented the views of secular progressivism and the world has been shaped by his many billions of dollars.  Ted is indirectly responsible for that young man I mentioned at the movie theater who had to hold his pants up with his free hand walking like a penguin into a movie theater with his girlfriend.  The young man is the result of secular progressive thought advanced through Ted Turner’s cable television empires.  CLICK HERE FOR MORE.  Glenn Beck is now doing the opposite of all those past media tycoons.  Beck before he’s done will far out-grow his media model of Orson Wells, and I believe that he will out-produce Walt Disney—and that means an end to secular progressivism eventually in America—and I can’t wait.

The book I received as a gift on January 12, 2013 from one of my dear Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom readers represents this slight shift in embracing knowledge over political ideology that has helped feed the modern empire of secular progressivism.  The  book is a an early product of Glenn Beck’s American Dream Labs and I cherish the very pages contained within it like a lost treasure found after thousands of years of being buried in the sand.  All books have value, but some have more value than others, and anything by David Barton is a treasure trove of wealth and knowledge.  I am so thankful to have such a book in my hands.  Upon reading through it I am reminded of the rooms of Monticello which was an early version of Jefferson’s kind of American Dream Lab, and found it easy to understand why Jefferson answered his own White House door in his slippers and bed robe, and didn’t think enough of the presidency to even put the title on his tomb stone.  That is the kind of man who founded America, and that is the kind of man who I admire.  That is the kind of human being that Glenn Beck’s American Dream Labs will be committed to producing in The United States and that excites me greatly.  It is my hope that my grandson can go to the movies with his future wife and take note that all the young men there can carry the popcorn for their girl friends while holding her hand with the other.  The young men will be able to perform the task because they’ll have their pants pulled up around their waist and properly fastened where they belong, and not down around their knees like the messed up kids from the early 2010’s who had been virtually destroyed mentally by secular progressivism and left to root in the abyss of cataclysm.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

Lee Wong President of West Chester: Turbulant politics ahead!

For all the reasons that Lee Wong is now president of the West Chester Trustees, local politics is at best dysfunctional beyond repair with the same old faces.  Only Catherine Stoker knows her true motives, but it appears that during an election year where Lee and Cathy’s seats are both up for re-election, Cathy—who has been a trustee for West Chester since 1994 and represents every brand of big government intrusion into business interests, private residents, and is a tremendous supporter of the public education black hole school funding that currently exists is dealing her friend a bad hand of cards. Cathy and Lee have a great relationship and work well together for their own collective oriented agenda, but politics is…………….well……………politics.  For an example CLICK HERE to see video and commentary on the sidewalk debacle that took place in Becket Ridge by Lee and Cathy.

http://westchesterbuzz.com/2013/01/09/west-chester-board-of-trustees-name-wong-president/

If anyone has ever seen Lee Wong conduct a meeting, it is obvious that he struggles to keep everything organized, so it appears that Cathy is throwing her friend under the bus by allowing him to draw all the fire that is coming from the West Chester Tea Party’s commitment to fiscal responsibility—which is proving challenging. Cathy’s years of experience knows that whoever is president will take most of the fire as they are required to provide frequent quotes to the press—and this will be politically difficult for the kind of person that Lee is.

The same type of shuffle game occurred on the Lakota school board last year when Joan Powell relinquished her president’s seat to Ben Dibble.  She had an election coming up to win, and the new comer Julie Shafer was elected vice-president allowing Powell to hide in the background till the heat died down that was going on at the time.  CLICK HERE FOR REVIEW.  It is relevant to the trustees of West Chester as they are all politicians in the same community and are functioning from the same strategies.  While inexperienced politicians like Lee, Ben, and Julie are led to believe that they are being promoted for their good behavior, the more politically manipulative “old timers” know how to preserve themselves under challenging circumstances, and both Lakota school board members and the West Chester trustees are faced with huge challenges in 2013 from new blood running for their seats.

I know of two people who are thinking seriously of making runs for the trustee seats of Cathy and Lee, and they stand a great chance of removing those two progressive minded politicians.  Cathy had arranged with Lee in much the same way they worked out the issue of the side-walk in Beckett Ridge–that he would become president and she would be vice-president because they hold a 2 to 1 vote over the third trustee George Lang recently re-elected during 2011.  In Cathy’s case, it is best for her to appear she is not a power-hungry name plate goddess by relinquishing some of her power to Lee—while the real motive might be to diffuse political attention away from herself to Lee, so that her seat gets most of the progressive votes over the two conservative challengers who are planning to run against her.

It is interesting that there is never any explorations in the local papers about this kind of behavior.  Reporters have allowed themselves to be lap-dogs to people like Cathy, Lee, and Joan.  Reporters enjoy powerful people with name-plates because it makes for easy reporting, so seldom is any substantive investigation done into the motives of politicians when positions of power changes.  But in Lee’s case, it would seem obvious given his political handicaps what Cathy is up to.  Voter apathy is how Cathy has managed to keep her seat and maintain invites to all the prestigious West Chester social occasions for over 20 years.  Often, that is the real motive behind these types of politicians; they enjoy the social occasions and the feelings of importance that they offer.  They are always seeking ways to exploit voter apathy—such as changing around the names to make positive adjustments appear to be happening, to give the appearance of democracy in action. But the reality is quite something else.

It will be up to voters to prove Cathy politically wise, or not during the election of 2013.  In the past such decisions have worked, but that was before people started to wake up, as they are beginning to do now.  The question will be whether or not voters will give new people a chance to rock the foundations of West Chester politics with much more competent minds—instead of the scheming that goes on which centers completely on self-preservation using politics to provide the illusion of personal value in the context of social occasion.  The management of a district or a community is not about hand-shaking, charity events, or touchy-feely progressivism.  It’s about making hard decisions and care-taking the community’s tax money with more than lip service—it requires a surgical approach to all things financial, and a healthy disdain for the power of a name plate.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

New Frontiers in Education: ‘Star Wars The Old Republic’ on Alderaan

One of my changes in position on public education comes not from the revelation that the labor unions have no respect, or desire to work with taxpayers over school funding issues—but in learning about changes in education methods that are far better than the traditional way of learning.  To my mind first comes Rosetta Stone software which is completely changing the way that foreign language is taught to individuals, and is quite revolutionary.  It is only a matter of time before math, science, and language arts is revolutionized in the same way.  In fact, I believe that Microsoft Office is the most significant revolutionary step forward that any society has ever made, because it helps solve many of the basic language problems in communication with its powerful word processor and very excellent Excel Spreadsheets which I think are stunning in their conception.  The Cell design in Excel is one of those very unique inventions that are having a major impact on our society, because it makes complex mathematical computations accessible to a mass audience.  No longer is an accounting degree from college necessary to understand complex financial calculations.  This fact alone has helped stoke the fires for the present “freedom movement” that is going on in The United States where everything is being re-considered and re-invented as the revelation that we have all been duped by the political class for many years with fuzzy math and flat-out lies has been easily revealed by Microsoft Office’s powerful, user-friendly programs.  Excel by Microsoft has helped average people blow the lid off the truth that used to be concealed in the brief cases of politicians and understood only by accountants and lawyers.

Education based software like those mentioned above are the obvious signs of change that is coming on the forefront of learning.  Along the same education lines, yet in the field of entertainment I have been playing a new video game from BioWare called Star Wars: The Old Republic that I have found to be absolutely stunning in its conception, scope, subtle ambition, visual articulation, and intelligence that is absolutely mind-boggling compared to the kinds of entertainment options that were available when I was a kid.  The game is an MMO so you play with millions of other players from all over the world at the same time and interact with a storyline that is in essence an epic novel.  In fact, that is exactly how my wife and I have been describing it after over 100 hours logged onto the game during the last two weeks.  The Old Republic is a living breathing novel with sights and sounds where it requires the input of the player to advance the storyline.  To date, co-opting with my wife playing as a Jedi Counselor and myself playing as a Jedi Knight, we have made literally hundreds of decisions along the way that have proven how education in the world of tomorrow should be.  The decisions made have immediate consequences on the story so depending on how those decisions are conducted directly impacts the outcome of the story.  For the designers at BioWare if I didn’t know better I would think that they were trying to “teach” society the meaning of democratic republics and the value of being “good citizens,” because the content is very heavy, and without doubt, most of the young people who share that cyberspace with us in that massive concept of a game probably don’t retain much of the vast amounts of data provided.  But in watching them play the game, I have been impressed at how quickly some of them have advanced in the game managing many aspects of their characters with a complicated system of adjustments that must always be checked and dealt with.

There is a currency system in the game that is specific to over 17 different planets, plus the Republic itself has a kind of universal currency.  A player must manage their crafting skills, their armor damage, the specs of their weapons, armor and those of their companions.  They must also manage a starship of their own including the fuel to get from point A to point B, and countless other small little details that must be constantly maintained as the game is played.  Not to mention there are many opportunities to play with groups of 4 to 16 players at the same time so you have to coordinate with all of them to achieve mission objectives.  Most of the time my wife and I work as a team, I’ll designate that I’ll perform one task while she does another maximizing our efforts and it was during all this that I realized that much of what The Old Republic was doing is far better than the kind of things public education is trying to achieve in the old fashion way of teaching.  No wonder kids are so bored in school and aren’t learning anything when they are playing games like these for fun!

I had managed to curb my enthusiasm for the first 70 hours of game play by telling myself I only liked the game because it was new, or because we had to spend several thousand dollars to play it at the level I wanted to.  But after we visited the planet of Alderaan, the planet that was destroyed in the first Star Wars film A New Hope I realized that I was not only playing the best video game I have ever played, but was witnessing a revolutionary new way educating tomorrow’s youth.  Alderaan graphically and politically is absolutely magnificent.  The reason we spent money on buying new computers just to play The Old Republic were for moments like the environment on Alderaan, with snow-capped mountains all around the major cities that even have mist drifting in front of them.  There are windmills generating power off in the distance and everything is very lush, green, and advanced.  For those who know me, my favorite amusement park in the world is Epcot Center at Disneyworld, and Alderaan in the game The Old Republic is like a living breathing city of Epcot design with very complicated politics that must be unraveled by the game’s players.  It is extremely intriguing and really mind-blowing how vast that world is.  We tried for over an hour to get to the edge of the map world, (the programmed content of just that planet) and couldn’t do it.  Alderaan alone in The Old Republic is bigger in size than most video games that might be programmed for Xbox or the PC, so in relation to the other 17 planets in the game, it is difficult to comprehend how BioWare pulled all this material off.  There had to be mountains of scripts, dialogue performed by actors for many, many hours and large teams of programs just to create all the substance—but to connect it all with a storyline is baffling.  To stand on Alderaan and take it all in, and look at the mist forming and drifting across the mountains in the distance it had the same kind of look as the Smoky Mountains, the Colorado Rockies, the Canadian city of Banif, or the Swiss Alps—BioWare pulled off what I would consider an impossible feat with just this one environment—the illusion of reality.  Once a player is in that reality, they are open to be taught in that environment.  That is why The Old Republic is so superior to any other game experience I’ve personally ever had, but also sets the stage for education in the future.  This is the way education should be handled with all America’s youth.  No politics, no exploitation, none of the funding issues that are plaguing modern public education with inefficiency–but instead the kind of productivity that is evident in The Old Republic that encourages a player to learn, and rewards that learning with gratifications that are remembered because they are fun to pursue.

Needless to say that I am impressed beyond measure with The Old Republic, I get the feeling that I’m involved in the start of something truly revolutionary.  I remember how educators and scholastic purists had a negative reaction to the pocket calculator in the 1970’s the same way they are resisting Rosetta Stone software today for foreign language use.  Many will resist too the notion that a game like The Old Republic can replace much of the current education structure with a more efficient type of learning that is far more powerful than the type of collectivism found in public schools.  The Old Republic is the first of its kind and is heads and shoulders above anything else done to date—not just in the combat system, but in the story and what it teaches the player.  It is gigantic in an attempt that is utterly successful and it makes me wonder what the future holds if there comes a time where The Old Republic becomes considered graphically simple as a standard that gamers today look back on titles like Pac Man and Pong from years past and shake their heads at how far we’ve come.  The world is changing, and The Old Republic is evidence that not all of it is bad.  The lessons learned within the context of the story are valuable, morally sound, and players can see immediately the consequences of their actions in a way that life has a way of molding over many years.  On The Old Republic players can see those actions within the context of 200 hours of game play instead of 20 years of hard living.  In that way The Old Republic is the best form of educational entertainment I have ever seen, and I am proud to live in a time to see it developed into a reality.  I simply love the game and am a very proud subscriber, and will be for a long time.  It is a miracle of everything that is good about our modern times mixed with the power of myth, which is the backbone of every culture that hopes to survive into the future.  It takes more than math, science, and language arts to make a flourishing society.  It requires “context” to apply all those skills, and without that context, education only succeeds in creating mindless drones.  What The Old Republic does successfully, is provide “context” in a story which allows players to develop skills that are directly applied with quick and frequent rewards.  That is why The Old Republic is so revolutionary, and is the first step into a much, much larger world.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

The Steubenville Rape: Guilt, Evil, Sorrow, and Epic Institutional Failure in Education

Thank goodness for “New Media” (blogs, Twitter, and YouTube) otherwise the rape case at Steubenville high school would have went nowhere.  It has been well documented at this site the various instances of institutions that have covered up the very bad behavior that goes on in education establishments such as Penn State, virtually every public school and college, to protect their bottom line when controversy erupts over various sex scandals.  When their sports programs are caught over something despicable they participate reluctantly in the prosecution of outright evil—because they all recognize that their sports programs are their sources for funding.  Click here to review the Stacy Schuler case at Mason high school for an example.  Virtually all institutions have a tendency to turn their faces from evil in order to protect their own interests.  They do not care what happens to individuals, they only care about the collective survival of their institutions.  In the mind of the institution whether it be Steubenville high school, Penn State or my local school district of Lakota, they all are willing to use sports as a safety blanket to sweep all their garbage under, and they do so without apology.  They only care about individual lives when they get caught.

Specifically in Steubenville a couple of high school football players appear to have gang raped an intoxicated 16-year-old girl that was bragged about by other students on YouTube.  Fury broke out on both sides of the argument featuring the same old cover up neglect that is always present in these cases—primarily from adults who are so in love with the distraction of organized sports that they no longer recognize the rights of individuals. On the other side are the kinds of people who make a moral argument for justice on behalf of the victim.  In this case of Steubenville computer nerds making up the group Anonymous hacked a deleted controversial video where an 18-year-old Ohio State student bragged about the crime with his friends, then tried to take the video down once the heat came down on them.  Anonymous reposted the video which opened up the case nationwide.

But what I find most amazing is that Ohio State and now Kent State is seeking to distance their affiliation with the characters that were directly or indirectly involved in the “gang rape.”  Surely Ohio State and Kent State are quite aware that the same levels of rape are occurring every single night on their campuses, particularly on Friday and Saturday nights when group parties are most prevalent.  And surely the parents of every decent looking 16-year-old girl up till about the age of 23-years-old knows that their little girl has probably been gang raped in the exact same fashion as the girl at Steubenville high school.  Surely the parents knew that all the years they saved money so they could send small fortunes to these colleges that this was the kind of activity their children would be involved in.  If their child attends parties—especially ones where athletes are present, gang rapes of unconscious girls is common, not unique.  Surely they know that the problem is wide-spread and nowhere near an isolated incident.  These rapes happen every single night on their campuses, and they happen all the time in high school parties where drinking is involved.  If a girl loses consciousness in a crowd of boys, she will find her cloths off and sexually assaulted nearly 100% of the time once she wakes up again.  Any girl who brags that she has lost her memory at a party is trying to distance herself from the disgrace to save embarrassment—which is why these things don’t get reported more often.  When they do, the girl is blamed for getting so drunk that she put herself in danger—just as what happened in the Steubenville incident.  The general attitude from the public is that “boys will be boys” and collective salvation takes precedence over the individual rights of a passed–out young girl.  So why do the universities distance themselves from a few boys when tens of thousands of girls and boys are conducting the same activity nightly?  They are either liers, or extremely niave.  I would bet on the former.

Most of the time the fathers of these young girls are as guilty as the young boys who perform the gang rapes because secretly in the back of their minds they root for their high school and college sports stars to have sex with their daughters as though they are sacrifices to the Gods of sports.  These pathetic fathers, who are quite numerous in population density, enjoy knowing that their daughters have been the object of delight for the gladiators of sports, so they do not prepare their daughters for the primal aggression of girls and boys coming together under situations of intoxication.  Also the universities and education institutions using their progressive philosophy have taken on the mentality of orgy porgy from A Brave New World.  Schools everywhere at all levels use casual sex as a way to implement a social collectivism that was first experimented with in 1920 Petrograd—the cradle of communist thought during the Russian Revolution of 1917.  The term “Let’s Party” comes not from rebellious youth fighting for their freedom as we have all been led to believe in songs like the Beastie Boys performed, but from communist Russia and their strict adherence toward crushing individualism and cherishing the collective.  To the collective oriented institution, a young woman who has been gang raped has been stripped of her individuality and accepted into the community through group enjoyment so the behavior is encouraged—which is why it is so wide-spread on college campuses.  Partying is not about having fun; it’s about breaking down the individual ego with acts of disgrace that cause the masses to seek solace in collective salvation.  That is the goal of the institution philosophically.

If not for New Media and some of the computer geeks who used it–the story at Steubenville would have been covered up like the hundreds of thousands of other rapes that occur every weekend at every education institution across the country.  And the guilty parties are virtually everyone who has turned their eyes away from the nature of evil and embraced collectivism.  It is only for New Media that a change in society is occurring forcing it to look evil in the eye at Steubenville and deal with their emotions—instead of using evasion to turn away from the responsibility.  The little girl who went to the party and was allegedly gang raped by a small group of football players is ruined forever in the a way that innocence can only measure and I feel deeply sorry for her.  The guilt falls on many shoulders.  Women who find themselves in this kind of situation are ruined because men do not like to take on wives that have had sex with lots of other men, and now that her story is out, she will have to explain it forever not only to her future husband, but her future children, which will be embarrassing for the rest of her life.

That doesn’t mean her life will always be terrible, but there will always be that stigma that she will either have to explain, or avoid when dealing with others.  But the girl is not alone, she shares a story that many thousands of young women all share these days, and they try to ignore their checkered past when they finally do marry and try to start families of their own.  But the secret is always there in the back of their minds and all future relationships.  It is the source of much male impotency, sexual dysfunction, and amorous relationships that occur outside of wedlock in the decades to come regarding relationships.  Men like to know that their woman have been theirs and theirs alone.  But a society committed to collectivism wants to destroy that sense of possession, and that is the root behind the evil.  The girl was just doing what society has instructed her is “popular” and “proper.”  She has been taught that getting drunk is good.  She has been taught that self-respect is a bad character trait.  And she has been taught to surrender her integrity to the Gods of sports.

When I go to sports events I often park in the same areas as the players do who play on the field, and it always amazes me after a game the lines of young women who form up where the players exit.  All those young women are hoping to use their looks to sleep with a sports star that society thinks is so important.  The women in the back of their minds hope they might become pregnant so they can have a permanent connection to those Gods of the arena, or at least be able to brag about their powers of seduction to friends which gives them social prestige.  The girls who think such things are fools, but the people who taught them to think this way are worse—their parents, their school, their media driven society that turns its eyes away from evil by promoting it are the real villains.  Ultimately, the poor girl who went to the party at Steubenville, got drunk and surrendered her body to the athletes at the party did it for the same reasons that the groupie girls try to bed professional athletes—for social prestige. They of course don’t mean for things to get out of hand—but often that is the case.  Evil is at work in these events, and the guilt is on more hands and minds than the two football players who will be tried for the incident only now that the story has become a national story.  Those football players like the girl are only sacrificial victims to a society committed to collectivism.  It is society at large that sacrifices these young people once the evil of their actions are exposed in the light of day, and there is no court system in the nation that can prosecute such a wide-spread evil that is virtually everywhere.  It is an evil that has grown under our current education system and is a direct result of America’s social commitment to progressivism.

Rich Hoffman

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