The reason I am so hard on public education and the college system in America is because they have let us down. I mean educators are always talking about how important education is to our society, but look around. Just a quick glance around the grocery store would seem to indicate massive failure of our education system that is unquestionable. The greed, and politics involved in all of education has left our society dangerously dim-witted as a nation, and I do not care if it hurts the feelings of the people who I’m thinking of. We are well beyond a point of no return and the quality of the people in America today is a direct result of our educational system. The American people are the direct result of the kind of things they pour into their brains, and much of the garbage that we see today can be blamed on politics and the kind of education shaped by it. Education does not get a free pass because of the children involved. Quite the contrary, we should look hard at ourselves for our future generations and consider if this is the best that we can do, because if it is—we might as well fold up the tent and go home.
The situation is so bad in America that I am actually surprised when I meet someone with half a brain and that should not be the case. We have allowed ourselves to believe that being “cool” is being stupid, and this is the heart of the problem. This is also why I have so much anger at progressives, because it is they who have advocated such nonsense. No civilization can aspire to new heights when stupidity is craved and intelligence is punished. The math just does not add up, and anyone who supports such a structure is an enemy of the state.
Peter Griffin from Family Guy and Homer Simpson from the Simpsons do not represent life in my family. I find Homer and Peter reprehensible. I do laugh at the jokes because there is truth in them, but there is also sadness. These days whenever an opinion is given, people feel they must add the small line—“I’m no expert but—“ before giving their opinion. This is because our legal culture has turned everyone into an expert in a specialized field. If one is not an expert, then they are not qualified to provide their opinion. This has led our society to behave like a bunch of mindless drones ill-equipped to pass any kind of judgment or opinion, and under such eyes evil spreads, because there is nobody to check it. Nobody feels “qualified” to cast an opinion so they don’t. Instead they just go with the flow as a brainless blob of energy whisks everyone through life aimlessly. As a result, society is regressing at an astonishing rate and there may be no repair for it. I am beginning to think that Armageddon won’t be a fabulously evil chapter of fire and brimstone emanating from devils as they roam the earth, but a bunch of brainless thugs chanting for their union rights as their minds refuse to instruct them how to walk to the end of their driveways. These minds of the future may only be capable of stuffing their faces with food, while laughing endlessly at their ability to belch and fart.
Since I was a very small child, I have despised belching and farting—because there is something about those basic human tasks that point to un-sophistication. When a baby craps in their diaper they smile because they are aware that they did something. Their mind produced an action that they see, feel and smell manifesting in reality. But when a 10-year-old does the same, it is an insult to the intelligence that the youth has achieved so far in their life. Such things should no longer be funny to them at age ten. They should be smarter, and striving for higher pleasures. But the situation is even worse when a 40-year-old man does such a thing. A man should be proud of the products of their minds, not their ability to shit their pants or pass digestive gases from their mouths. That is the world we live in today, just visit a sports bar during a football playoff game. Farting is more honorable than reading a book, and that is why our society is so damn stupid.
Many expect me to apologize for some of my insulting comments, but I won’t do it, because many people insult me just by their public exhibition of stupidity. I place the blame on the backs of politicians and education squarely. Both have failed miserably, and do not deserve money, pity, or a continuation of their destructive behavior. If there was ever an enemy to the human race, it is the belching 40-year-old who is too stupid to pay attention to anything but a sports score. But worse than that are the people who failed to teach that poor soul that he was more than just a biological entity that could eat, have sex, and exhaust bodily gases. Our society is full of these Homer Simpson’s and it is one of the greatest tragedies the human race has ever suffered that so many of them exist at the same time.
Who else is there to blame but those who taught them to be that way?
Before I get into a lengthy diatribe of translating the good experience of taking my grandson to his first book store as a 4 month old lad, I must comment on the video below featuring a middle-aged couple being hounded by their grown children after seeing the new movie release ofLes Misérables featuring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crow and Anne Hathaway in a fantastic rendition of the popular play and book. The couple is noticeably emotional as they left the theater and were in the car on the way home. The sons of the couple thought the sight of their parents emotional state worth capturing for the YouTube archives. Les Misérables (usually pron.: /leɪˌmɪzəˈrɑːb/; French pronunciation: [le mizeʁabl(ə)]) is a Frenchhistorical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that is widely considered one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century. In the English-speaking world the novel is usually referred to by its original French title, which can be translated from the French as The Miserable, The Wretched, The Miserable Ones, The Poor Ones, The Wretched Poor, or The Victims. Beginning in 1815 and culminating in the 1832 June Rebellion in Paris, the novel follows the lives and interactions of several characters, focusing on the struggles of ex-convict Jean Valjean and his experience of redemption.[1]
I don’t have the same experience with Les Misérables as the couple above. For me, the French Revolution was a failure, and the aftermath led them to become a country continuously conquered by the Germans thereafter. But, in American society, much of the love of Paris, Mardi Gras festivals, and even the roots for socialism among the so-called educated and cultured East Coast residents can be traced back to the popular play and their love of it. For me, the characters in Les Misérables do not have enough Übermenschin them, which is all that I find worthy in works of art these days. But I was thinking of that poor couple as my wife and I took our grandson to our weekly outing to the bookstore to stock up on more books for the week. Before our shopping spree however we went to Chili’s as I watched the preview show for the BCS Title game between Notre Dame and Alabama on ESPN. As I looked around the bar, everyone’s eyes were fixated on the same information being broadcast from the flat screen televisions all around the restaurant. As we ate, I discussed all these elements with my wife and grandson, we spoke about the BCS game, Brian Kelly in leaving the University of Cincinnati to bring Notre Dame to dominance in just two years, the consistency of the Alabama program, and why the poor couple coming home from the Les Misérables movie were so sad. I explained to my grandson that many adults have turned off their minds. Football, even though I enjoy the drama of the game is an accepted entertainment that occupies the neural development of the brain’s core processes and serves as a great distraction from the helpless, out-of-control nature many people feel in their lives. Many adults have turned their minds off to many forms of mythology unless the orthodox society has determined that something has great sophisticated merit over other forms. In other words, most adults wish to believe that they have arrived in their advanced age at a place of mental superiority over children like my grandson.
My grandson looked at me gurgling milk bubbles from his mouth as I spoke for nearly a half hour without pause. I’m not sure how much he understood, but he looked at me and didn’t interrupt as my wife fed him his bottle. I was feeling relaxed as we are on the third week of our unconventional vacation in the Star Wars galaxy of The Old Republic video game, and my wife and I have been having a blast. Unlike Les Misérables or sports of any kind, the philosophy of Star Wars deals often with topics of the Übermenschso more and more I turn to it for the level of thinking I enjoy indulging in, and two solid weeks of gaming on the new MMO The Old Republic with my wife and kids solving various political problems as Jedi Knights on the worlds of Nar Shaddaa, Coruscant and the shattered world of the once thriving Taris, I am at the closest place to complete bliss that I think is possible, and I suddenly felt very sorry for my adult contemporaries who only had the BCS Title game to look forward to, or a screening of Les Misérables. To me, those are passive—or dead mythologies. But Star Wars has always been a vast and creative mythology. The concepts set in the mind a motion that unifies complex ideas under the powerful process of mythology and in human history, there is nothing like Star Wars, and sadly parents like the couple crying over Les Misérables deny themselves the same experience with Star Wars because they mistakenly believe that Star Wars is for kids alone. It’s not. For the adults who can share those mythologies with their children—and in our case—grandchildren, Star Wars is the building blocks to the next great philosophic movement.
The start of this new philosophic/religious awaking is just beginning. Star Wars the Clone Wars just had their 100th episode aired on the Cartoon Network during the second Saturday of January 2013 and Kathy Kennedy is moving the production of the new movie trilogy into the casting stage. The servers are thumping for the MMO game that my wife and I were eager to get back to after our dinner and trip to the book store—so BioWare has been successful in bringing new interest to the game which I think is very valuable. But the reason for our outing was not to buy a new video game, see a movie, or even to eat out with our grandson. The purpose of our journey to the book store was to buy the new Star Wars book called Scoundrels which just came out on January 1st and is a book that my wife has salivated over for nearly 6 months. So after dinner we headed over to our favorite bookstore and suffered through the numerous people who wished to stop our progress and gaze at our grandson who was wide awake and smiling. I was happy to show him such a place of freedom—a book store. For me personally, there is no place better on Earth. I love the smell of them. I like the people in them. And I treasure the vast vaults of knowledge contained in them. So long as there is a free press, tyranny of any kind can never take full hold in any culture. Bookstores are the backbone to freedom and this was my grandson’s first experience in one–his first of millions—I will make sure of it.
For me, when I was only 9 or 10 years older than my grandson is now, I would spend all of my time away from home in two places, the arcade and the book store. When I ran out of money in the video arcade, I would then go to the book store and read through the titles for hours and hours never getting bored. In fact, I read the Egyptian Book of the Dead complete with hieroglyphic translations during these visits before I was able to purchase my own copy many years later once I started working at age 13. Back then, Star Wars as a mythology only centered on the original trilogies and had three novels out, the novelization of A New Hope (the first Star Wars film) a novel called A Splinter in the Mind’s Eye, and a book called Han Solo At Star’s End. Now, there are hundreds of novels, and they take up an entire section of the book store. In fact, there is no other section in any book store that is larger than most of the sections dedicated to Star Wars books. And I am proud to say that my wife and I possess every single Star Wars novel or junior book ever written and have them in our personal library. She has read them all, I have read about 2/3rds of them.
The book we came to get, Scoundrels was sold out in just two days. The book features Han Solo in a Timothy Zhan story taking place immediately after A New Hope. My wife really wanted to read this one, because it takes Solo back to the time of his late 30’s. In the books that will lead up to the new films being produced by Lucasfilm and Disney where Harrison Ford will reprise his role and introduce Han Solo’s glorious daughter Jaina to the silver screen, Solo is well into his 70’s—so he’s been around a long time. (No Lucasfilm has not confirmed that Jaina will be in the new film. I just know it to be the case—my own deductive reasoning.) Well, apparently we weren’t the only ones wanting to buy Scoundrels. The book store employee who was very excited to talk about the Star Wars books he’s been reading with us, called around town to find a store that had the new book. While we waited, a young man was in the Star Wars section buying up four paperbacks while his girlfriend waited patiently. I was impressed to see his ambition as he declared to me that he “loved Star Wars.” I saw on his face a more mature and controlled emotion than the one shown by the distraught Les Misérables viewers. With that being said, I noticed that the book store had more Star Wars books than usual and it was explained to me that a combination of the BioWare game The Old Republic, The Cartoon Network television show The Clone Wars, and the announcement of a new Star Wars trilogy coming to theaters in 2015 along with a very aggressive publishing effort pumping out books like Scoundrels every couple of months–nothing is selling hotter than Star Wars these days.
I enjoyed the passion of the young man in the Star Wars section and the book store worker. I saw on their faces an enthusiasm that was much different from the patrons at the Chili’s bar watching the BCS pregame statistics. That football game will come and go and be forgotten within months. Star Wars will be remembered and built upon by the fans who read the books in a mythology that takes place over 37,000 years of interconnected story that spans thousands of characters arcs. Nothing against Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables but as a literary endeavor alone, Star Wars is the greatest single work of literature ever created—and it’s not just for kids. Adults could learn a lot.
We traveled across town and picked up the book that was being held at the counter for us. Barnes and Noble at The Streets of West Chester had a copy left and my wife erupted into delight when she put her hands on the meaty hard cover book. “It will be so nice to read a story where Han and Chewie are together again” There was a love on her face that was much more sophisticated and honest than the poor people who were broken up over the ending of Les Misérables. There is a truth in Star Wars that is eluding the rest of our 21st century society and only Lucasfilm has really managed to put their finger on it fully. I have been visiting book stores for nearly 35 years and this was the first time it really hit me that a wave of new philosophy is about to impact the human race with a freshness that modern mankind has never experienced. And it happened during my grandson’s first visit to a book store to get a Star Wars novel.
But Star Wars is the next artistic step in mankind’s long quest for truth, justice, religious purpose, and the endless desire to discover what’s over the next horizon. At least, that’s what I told my grandson, and judging by is facial expressions—he was listening intently, even if he has not yet constructed the ability to express himself with anything more than a smile.
If you ever wondered why our current government is so screwed up all one needs to do is look at the kind of institutions that instruct our society and study how they behave when confronted with trouble. It is not hard to discover the root of the deteriorating rot that infests anything that is attached to government, and public schools are “government schools.” They believe that they function outside the rules of reality because they live off of tax money which is collected on their behalf under force—and they fight over that money like dogs over a bone. And their collective intelligence is just as proficient as the only concern they have is to fill their bellies so they can live five more minutes before they are begging for another bone.
In my local community of West Chester it has been well-known that I have spent the last couple of years fighting the stupidity of the blind tax and spend actions of the Lakota school district—which I attended as a kid. Many, because I went to the school, believe that I should automatically support anything that Lakota does because I’m an “alumni” or something. I hear the same type of ignorance from fools who blindly support their colleges because as adults they love the sports program—never connecting the dots that it is in such follies that many evils are conducted. Those actions are forms of collectivism which I reject entirely. At Lakota, they have refused to acknowledge that the cause of their funding problems is that they are like rabid dogs begging for food at the dinner table blindly hungry for more and more money to consume never connecting their actions to their hunger—as if the two weren’t connected. Then to make matters worse, there are the apologists who try to sneak food under the table even when the owner of the dogs tell those apologists not to—because it makes the dogs even hungrier, and misbehave more often. Such is the role of the local newspapers against the wishes of the taxpayers.
It’s not like Lakota tried—they simply refused—just like Obama and the gang is doing now on Capitol Hill–to deal with reality. They simply ignore any part of reality that doesn’t fit their version of it. As government entities, they have their agenda, and their expectations—and they will only listen to options that fulfill their agenda—which is why they fail time and time again. Have a look:
In the course of early March 2012 The Enquirer decided to get into bed with the Lakota school district and the evidence is in their priorities of what they consider to be the “biggest story of the year.” But nowhere is there any mention of “WHY” Lakota has a budget problem. The article only mentions the result, not the cause, which is typical of these big government types. The reason is because Lakota employees make too much money, and there are too many of them. Pure and simple. The education market is changing, there are many options that are better for teaching children, and government schools are clamoring to keep themselves relevant just as the Postal System is trying to stay relevant after the advent of EMAIL. Public schools are trying to fulfill a progressive utopian vision of being the central figures in society, and the newspapers are obviously on board to help paint that picture—which is why The Enquirer has been losing readership by the droves and more and more people are turning to alternative sources of information like this blog, for their news. People see the situation for what it is, and 18,000 people voted against the foolishness of the Lakota district, and the many thousands of tax payer dollars they have spent on public relations—to help set up articles in publications like The Enquirer and The West Chester Buzz.
As The West Chester Buzz published their top story of 2012 article a levy supporter sent me an email stating, “No Lakota Levy seems to indicate that the teaching staff is paid too much and now the community is unable to afford such salaries. I contend that the labor force is overworked and, for it to consider any further concessions, that group needs to be thanked for their steadfast service of the past and encouraged to work a normal 8 hour day rather than devoting hours of free labor to a district that can no longer afford such dedication.” That statement, which the newspapers should be covering, cites the entire funding problem at Lakota, and in just about every government employee in The United States. They have all lost touch with reality and have a sickness rooted in neuroses. They simply aren’t working within the realms of reality—and therefore cannot be rationed with. “Thanked,” what are these school employees—children? Or worse—not even possessing the ability to retain information like simple dogs begging for food.
How can any sane person claim that an employee making 65K per year should not be expected to work 10 or 11 hours a day or more, and that such people are “overworked.” The average income for Lakota employees is 63K per year, which is very good compensation, but the trouble is, it’s not competitive. In the argument over what makes a good teacher or a bad teacher the public is supposed to take the word of labor radicals like the guy who sent me that comment at face value without validating the truth. In my book his comment doesn’t even deserve a seat at the table because I don’t recognize his right to exist. I have determined that the biggest problem in public schools is the labor unions who utter that kind of garbage, and there is no discussing anything with them. They are like speaking to hungry dogs who only wag their tails if food comes near their mouths. They are not the pinnacles of our society as The Enquirer has tried to make them out to appear. They are simply parasites hungry for more government expansion, mindlessly higher taxes, and more youth seduced by all the wrong things to be cast out ill-prepared into adulthood. The labor argument in this case has a monopoly on education and the government backs that monopoly, and until that organization is broken up, there will never be cost reductions in education, there will never be improved test scores, and there will never be great leaps in social advancement. The problem with government schools and their monopoly is the fact that there are no options for parents to have their child taught by ambitious teachers making only 45K per year over the one making 90K per year who is tired and beat up—hanging on till their retirement at 55 years old. The tax money in the State of Ohio is sent to the school, not to the child, and that is the source of the problem allowing labor unions to basically control that tax money. The system is ridiculous, and the press has not had the backbone to do their job—which is a disservice to everyone.
People say that all the things I’ve said above are “just politics.” It’s just the way things are, and they will never change. Well, it might be politics, but like I told one of my employers years ago, “politics costs money.” If you remove the politics, you will save millions. And the same holds true for Lakota and every other public school—remove the politics, and they will be able to balance their budget without being leeches on the rest of the community constantly hitting up the residents for more tax increases. Lakota needs competition, and the press needs to get out of the business of helping to support destructive monopolies, which The West Chester Buzz confirmed is the role of The Cincinnati Enquirer in regard to Lakota. For myself, and many on my side, the “labor argument” doesn’t even deserve a place at the negotiating table. I don’t care what they think; they are no different then dogs begging for food to me. They don’t offer a service I think is important, and they charge too much to provide it. They need to be cut out of the money stream completely and that is my 2013 position. Apparently, the media is going to settle for their role to be mere lap dogs, to the dogs begging for food at the bargaining table where the feast of West Chester is in control of the adults sitting at the table.
As the nation prepares to plunge over the “fiscal cliff” of 2013 with $16.3 trillion dollars in debt, and the promise of increased taxes on every American tax payer—not the moochers—the roughly 50% who do not pay taxes, but the actual tax payers who have their incomes taxed because they are productive; the finger-pointing begins as to who is at fault. Well dear reader, I will tell you who is at fault—and I’m happy to proclaim it as I have made my own internal arrangements to legally avoid my tax hikes. I will not stand for being robbed by the idiots who caused this mess. I will not work harder to slave for the bad decisions of the people who are at fault for the “fiscal cliff.” America is not a “good for one, good for all” kind of place. I am not “connected” to the fools of bad thought, and do not feel compelled to help those who are listed below with the mismanagement of their individual lives which has caused the current crises.
The people, who are at fault for the “fiscal cliff”— not necessarily in the order of importance, are those who are willing to pay for their food at McDonald’s with a credit card. It is the congressman who would rather play golf with the president, than to do the job he was elected for. It’s the President of the United States who believes more in socialism than capitalism. It’s the woman who puts her career in front of her family leaving the children emotionally bankrupt. It’s the father who would rather watch Monday Night Football at Hooters with his friends than to sit at a dinner table with his family. It’s the woman who is on her third husband in a decade, and on the man who just left his wife of twenty years for a 23-year-old girl younger than his own daughters. It’s the idiots who would rather spend their Friday evenings getting drunk than reading a book. It’s the welfare mother who just gave birth to her fourth child in 6 years by all different men so she can qualify for more government assistance. It’s the over-weight fool who has spent 35 years overeating to the point they can barely get up off a couch then expect someone else to cover their medical expenses as they are perpetually sick. It’s the teacher who lies to themselves that they are in the teaching profession to care for children when in reality it’s really for the money and the shopping sprees it affords them. It’s the lobbyist who would sell their country up the river in a heartbeat for a lap dance at Archibald’s on K-Street while their wives brag to their friends about what “great guys” their powerful—well connected husbands are. It’s the woman who turns a blind eye to her husband’s indiscretions in trade for diamond ear-rings on Christmas. It’s the woman who would rather work a job so she can get away from the pressure of being a mother then blame her child’s failures on a public school. It’s the man who sent his son to college on an athletic scholarship so that the boy can have a shot at professional athletics. It’s the gamblers who are still at the slot machines at a casino at 3:30 in the morning spending the last of their weekly paycheck waiting for the buffet to open for breakfast which they charge on a credit card because they’ve lost all their money. It’s the news reporter who slanted their stories to fill an ideology they inherited during journalism school; instead of using what their critical mind tells them is right. In short, the people most corrosive, most destructive, most diabolical and the most responsible for the “fiscal cliff” are those who blindly serve an institutional system in some fashion or another, and have strayed from individual responsibility. They are commanded by their social weaknesses instead of commanding their daily lives.
There are of course many more types of people who are responsible for the “fiscal cliff” and the moral bankruptcy that America is now in. But the above description paints the picture effectively. My view of those types is that they created their own problems, and it is not my responsibility to save them from their own stupidity with extra tax money—which is what additional taxes are really going to fund—more of the above behavior. The problem is, until the above issues are addressed, America will always have a debt problem because the root of the problem is greater than money. It is a rot of the human soul that the fools above seek to fill with material possession which skews all the raw data needed to solve the actual “fiscal cliff.” I realize that the best way to teach America the hard lesson it needs to straighten out the behavior above is to let them fall off the cliff, and to plummet to a painful crash. Only then might they listen the next time we come near a “cliff” of any kind. Maybe then they’ll listen when people of logic and reason tell them to be careful with their lives and treat every aspect of living as a precious moment worthy of great care. Because the debts of our society are a lot of little things that add up to trillions of dollars and the people who created that debt do not deserve to be a part of “the land of the free, and the home of the brave.” Such disreputable characters are not worthy of the honor to call themselves Americans when all they have done to contribute to the nation is debt.
Don’t ask me to pay for their bad behavior—because I won’t do it. I realize that I just insulted most of the people reading this—but tough. A thousand fools does not trump the brilliance of a creative individual who lives on the side of goodness. Such is a problem of democracy and the demise of fools who seek to cover their folly by the good deeds of the few by force of the federal government and the armies of the destitute employed by their tyranny.
Not all teachers are communist loving despots’ intent on traditional American destruction. Second grade teacher Stephen Round, fed up with being forced to teach students values he does not share resigned from his $70,000 job with benefits to keep his integrity intact. The teacher tried to read his resignation during a recent committee meeting but was denied the opportunity, so he took his message to YouTube. Have a listen.
I am fully aware of the intent of the Community Conversations campaign being performed in the Lakota school district which a series a meetings that district officials have with members of the community to find out what they want the school district to do with the money spent on education through taxes. Some of my fellow tax fighters have actually hosted some of these meetings so I know for a fact that on more than one occasion it has been suggested that employees at Lakota take a 5% pay cut so they can fit into the budget that the community is supplying without tax increases. However, when Superintendent Karen Mantia, or as the Pulse Journal spelled her name (Karen Mantian) reported to the community what she had accomplished in an entire business quarter from September to December of 2012 with $40,000 tax payer dollars paid to progressive activist Jeffery Stec, she made no reference to such suggestions. Instead she reported essentially the same information that she had stated during the levy attempt of 2011. Ignoring completely the suggestions that many have made to her personally to cut their employee wages to avoid tax increases, Mantia instead stated in her pre-Christmas report to the Pulse Journal in the A4 section published on December 13th 2012 that the community is demanding 5 five major themes:
That residents want Lakota to offer a well-rounded education, one that includes life skills, character education, citizenship and a spirit of giving back. (Altruism)
People understand the need for assessments and accountability but they want schools to go beyond the test, and teach communication skills, problem-solving, critical thinking and collaboration. (collectivism)
There’s a recognition that every child is different and schools need to be innovative to provide an education that isn’t one-size-fits-all.
That children need a real-world education and a way that lets them experiment and sometimes fail.
Also, that the roles of schools, parents and the community should be better defined so that they can all become better partners in education. (collectivism again.)
Mantia went on to discuss how citizens involved in these Community Conversations are critical to helping craft a 21st-century education and went on to preach how important listening is. Ironic that she would make such a statement as she still has not listened to what 18,000 voters told her in the last election. They have chosen to ignore what voters have said and instead regurgitated the campaign points from the last school levy attempt using the same progressive social engineering talking points. What Lakota did with all the money they have spent on Jeffery Stec and his progressive Community Conversations is to create a lot of hype, in order to disguise their intention to continue advancing a political agenda that is at the core of all public schools—out of control budgets that are sold on the backs of children and their busy parents.
Virtually every public school in America is dealing with the same kind of arrogance, and blind foolishness that Lakota in Southern Ohio is facing, and it is good to see that some teachers like Stephen Round are refusing to participate. It takes a lot of guts to give up an inflated job like Stephen’s teaching job was in order to stand for something—instead of being a pawn like Mantia from Lakota is in advocating the reckless spending of thousands upon thousands of tax dollars in order to advance the same tired progressive diatribes that education under the control of organized labor and socialist advocates have been spewing for decades. There is something to be admired when teachers stand up for themselves as all those around them continue as spineless cogs in a machine that is more sinister than most people are willing to consider, and functions at best as a dualistic entity that preaches to do as they say, not as they do. What’s good for the goose, is not good for the gander if the goose is a progressive and all public schools are full of them. The only way to gain independence from them is to leave—as Stephen Round boldly declared. Good for him!
Below is an example of how local government is supposed to work—at least as a sample of the type of debate that should transpire between the participants. This is true no matter what kind of government is presented, whether it is a school board, a group of trustees for a township which is the example below, or a city council—the elected representatives are supposed to argue and hash out issues with passionate narrative in order to arrive at a proper conclusion. In the example provided, West Chester Trustee George Lang argues against the proposal of trustee Cathy Stoker, and Lee Wong who are voting in favor of a contract renewal with the Fraternal Order of Police that has very lucrative benefits included. Many of the employees being discussed make very close to six figures a year. CLICK HERE TO SEE HOW MUCH AND WHO THEY ARE(there’s over 80 comments on that link that are very entertaining). So the employees are already well compensated, and this new contract more than insures more of the same behavior, which Lang argues West Chester may find balancing a budget will be difficult in the coming years. Watch for yourself:
George Lang was outvoted 2 to 1, but he still went to the trouble to make the public argument for the good of West Chester, and this is why it’s important to vote in favor of more representatives like Lang at election time. In West Chester, Cathy and Lee’s seats are coming up for re-election, so there is a chance for West Chester to vote big spenders like those two trustees out of office in favor of managers who will behave more like George Lang.
The trend in most political organizations such as school boards, trustees and city councils is to try to achieve group consensus and this is where politics fails. When the members of the governing body are more concerned about winning a popularity contest, or being accepted by the other governing members, the chance for spirited debate is effectively squashed, and does not happen very often. In Lang’s situation of course his position will not make him popular with the public sector unions, but he is not concerned about those kinds of things—he is trying to manage the impact of the contracts cost against the ability of the tax payers of West Chester to pay the bill without tax increases, which is how the process is supposed to work.
Ultimately the video above reveals a much more sinister evil that is at the heart of every government deal involving any public sector union, and illustrates why school boards and other management organizations lose control of their costs—third-party arbitration. In the video Cathy Stoker discusses that if the contract is not accepted by the trustees that a third-party will be called in to resolve the dispute and force the hand of the trustees against their will. This third-party arbitration is exactly why school boards do not have the stomachs to fight teacher unions to manage their costs, because the union will force the dispute into arbitration and trump the elected school board. School boards don’t want to be trumped, so they go along with whatever teacher unions’ support to avoid the third-party embarrassment.
The same threat is present when involving fire fighter unions, and police unions. In West Chester, Cathy Stoker showed in the video that she is very concerned about third-party arbitration forcing upon them costs that exceed the contract they are agreeing to, while George Lang suggests that the trustees should force the issue into arbitration and fight it out in an effort to save the costs against the tax payers of West Chester. Lang knows that if they lose their arbitration hearing, he would then have the leverage in the media to blame the arbitration process for the high taxes imposed by the third-party. So he is willing to roll the dice, whereas Stocker and Wong aren’t. But at least the debate happened and all three trustees didn’t mindlessly accept the contract without spirited discussion.
When electing these kinds of politicians it is more beneficial to elect fighters instead of people who will just lie down and say “uncle” in the face of third-party arbitration. It is this threat that drives up the cost of all these public sector workers with teachers, fire fighters, and police departments. Public sector unions should be illegal, and third-party arbitration by un-elected officials should also be illegal. The laws that protect this system are a travesty against the tax payers. But thank God not all politicians are mindless “yes men” who just go through the political motions so they can have the social popularity of a name-plate upon their desks. Some politicians like George Lang actually try to manage the costs that impact his community, which is what he was elected to do.
I knew there was a reason I always liked Darryl Parks from 700 WLW. On his first Saturday show of December 2012 he offered an excellent reason why Kelsy Hartmann from Huber Heights—was caught having sex with one of her 16-year-old students in her husband’s car while pretending to do some last-minute shopping on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. According to Kelsey’s latest evaluation she was an excellent teacher, leaving Darryl to conclude that Kelsey was simply doing what many other teachers have been doing in the competitive field of public education, and that is to personally reach out to their students to give them something unique that all the evolving education tools are doing better, such as the modern computer. One thing that a computer can’t do for young students is have intercourse with them to keep their interests so during these very difficult times when school budgets are shrinking, and work forces are being reduced teachers like Kelsey have determined to stay on top of their students–quite literally. Maestros de escuelas públicas de amor tener sexo con hombres jóvenes y chupar sus penes! No wonder so many parents support public education for their needy young sons. And no wonder so many students take to the streets to tear down the signs of tax opposition when school levies are attempted. The young boys of public education know they can’t get sex this easy anywhere else but in their classrooms, so they defend their sexually charged teachers with a fury. Check out the pictures of Kesley at Darryl’s blog posting, and then listen to his Saturday broadcast below.
I think Darryl is right; Rosetta Stone software has changed the field of foreign language education. In these modern times of 2012, it is rather easy to learn a foreign language should one wish to, completely invalidating the old archaic style performed in front of a classroom. The two years of mandatory high school foreign language education is absolutely out of date—because the modern computer does a much better job than a traditional teacher. So credit must be given to Kelsey and her barrage of other public school teachers and their labor unions all around Ohio who have tener mucho sexo con hombres jóvenes y tragar su semon en cantidades tales que los maestros beben su hombría por la taza con el café. And we thought teachers were drinking coffee in the morning……………………..apparently not.
A computer can teach young students in high school better than just about any teacher in any course these days—math, science, history and especially foreign language. Since most people learn by visual stimulation, the computer is much better equipped to perform most of the modern education tasks with far superior results than the traditional teacher, and the computer is a lot cheaper on labor too. But a computer will not steal the keys of her husband’s car and meet with students on the side of a road and have sex with them to keep their interest in public education like Kelsey and her other tri-state teachers will. That is the one thing the computer cannot do better, and that is actually provide such “hands on” training.
So whenever a school levy is voted for, and support for public education is declared, think of the over the top and under the covers antics of many fine teachers like Kelsey Hartmann and how dedicated to their students they truly are—so much so that they are willing to stay on top of their students needs—literally. Kelsey le encanta sentarse sobre el pene de sus alumnos en el asiento trasero de un coche. Auuuuhhh…………….public education at its finest.
To win the fight that we are all currently in, the proper targets must be properly identified, and dealt with. In this case, the evidence points to an aspect of conspiracy that I didn’t want to believe. But there is no other conclusion as to what happened in the election of 2012. The foreign investment in America has spoken against the wishes of United States sovereignty. In the case of Romney versus Obama, Romney was most prone to strengthening the American currency, which goes against the plan of global planners, who were very much invested in the American election.
So to learn who these people are and how they are all connected; watch this video by Jim Marrs speaking about this topic in Australia. I personally like Jim, so much so that he is currently reading my book Tail of the Dragon for a cover blurb satisfying a portion of my 2013 marketing plan. I’ve read many of his books and in several cases did not want to believe what he was reporting, as he has a reputation as a conspiracy theorists. His newest book is a New York Times Bestseller called The Trillion Dollar Conspiracy. He’s a great journalist, public speaker, and a damn good researcher and the burden to disprove his theories falls on his critics. It is evident to me that much of what he says in the video below is the cause of the election that went against American value, and more toward the collapse of American currency purely for the profit of the puppet masters who have their hands in most of our lives.
To be free as we desire in America, we will have to cut our strings to these influences, which reside behind the façade of President of The United States, and must admit to ourselves that the system is broken beyond repair, and must be replaced with a return to Constitutional principles. There is no compromise with people, who are willing to kill to see their intended results, and those are the kinds of people we are dealing with at the highest level, and they must be the new focus of any liberty movement that is to survive.
To the small-minded progressive types, the Koch Brothers are the ultimate evil in that they–along with Rupert Murdoch support conservative causes, which are at odds with leftist diabolical schemes. Progressives often do not connect the influence of billionaires like George Soros with the funding of their causes, because they don’t understand how the dots connect. This leaves them victims in the schemes of billionaire battles between people like the Koch Brothers and George Soros who disagree with how to move planet Earth into the future. Soros wishes socialism, the Koch Brothers wish for capitalism. The people of the world have to decide where they fall on that battlefield of ideas but it is apocalyptically foolish to assume as the puppeteer in the below video does that it is the evil Koch Brothers who want to end the world as we all know it.
The world for progressives should end, because I believe as the Koch Brothers believe that capitalism should be the ruling economic force in America in the purist form possible. That means an end to the progressive platform, so the puppet chick has good reason to fear that the changes she wishes to see happen will be reversed, because I don’t want to stand shoulder to shoulder with people like her. I don’t want to hold hands with her. I don’t even want to breathe the same air as she does. I don’t want to hear her ideas. I don’t want anything to do with her view at looking at the world and if that makes me a big mean guy, then so be it. I’ve been called worse.
But you know what; I have my opinion completely free of the Koch Brothers or any money given from the Republican Party. In fact, I’ve never taken money from any conservative groups like the Koch Brothers or otherwise, yet I have my own conservative opinions that I advocate completely on my own. This runs counter to how progressives think—most of whom can be bought for cheap prices and used ideologically to advocate that the sky is pink, and the leaves on the trees are blue just because some progressive leader said so. Naturally, these idiots believe that everyone in the world is just as easily mislead as they are, and their platform is built to protect themselves from their own stupidity—and they fully expect the rest of the world to come down to their level. That’s why to them anybody who has a mind and can think for themselves are greedy, mean people.
I have presented over the last couple of years multiple scenarios to show how destructive and parasitic progressives are. I have shown with great detail how the power vacancy they leave in their wake can usher in radical forms of socialism and radical Islamic elements fully intent to take America over with their corrupt ideologies, and are a million times more dangerous to our lives than the money the Koch Brothers give to political candidates. In the video below is just one small example of how Muslim extremists intent on a world-wide caliphate have sought to destroy America from within. This is certainly not science fiction, but fact. Listen carefully.
Yet Muslims are not the only ones looking to overthrow America, communists are still at their radical behavior hiding their global intentions behind progressive politics, and they are probably more active in our public affairs than the Muslims have been. They are just better at hiding their radicalism since the back lash they faced in the late sixties. Fools like the puppet girl above who are angry at the conservative movement financed by people like the Koch Brothers have paved the way for letting the aggressive factions of radicalism all over the world set their sights on America as a playground for possible destruction. History now has facts, and progressives are dangerous to America because they are too stupid to defend themselves intellectually, and physically, and are attracted to ultra aggressive political movements to hide behind. So self-made men and women are scary to them, so scary that progressives shutter in their shoes at the mere thought that someone like me, or the Koch Brothers, or Governor Kasich will tell them to pull their own weight and shut the hell up. Instead they lobby for more collectivism, which invites outside infiltration into our country to wipe from the face of the Earth the only free country that there ever was, or ever will be.
I am currently reading War and Peace by Leo Tolstroy. I bought it because I wanted to read about the society of Russia before it was destroyed by communism in 1917. Like an archaeologist I want to see what Russia was like in the middle 1800’s from a book that was published right after the Civil War here in America. I am curious to how such an opulent society could have been ravaged blank in just a few short years, because it is obvious that there are global factions that want to do the same thing to America, and we are currently not very far from it. If not for the money that the Koch Brothers and others have spent to preserve conservativism in America, it may well have been swept away ushering in the destruction of everything we know and cherish. Ayn Rand’s book We The Living made me interested in War and Peace because I want to stop such movements from happening in America.
The puppet girl above is a wonderful metaphor for progressive politics. She like her puppet are simply caricatures for people like George Soros and other wealthy philanthropists who have lost touch with reality, and feel guilty that they made so much money off the capitalist system. They turn to socialism not because it is the wisest political philosophy, but the one that will preserve their own legacies by cutting the legs out from their potential competition. Unlike Soros, billionaires like the Koch Brothers aren’t cowards afraid that if they preserve capitalism that future wealthy people might challenge their supremacy. Unknown to many progressive fools it is such an elementary notion that drive these political movements to the antics of sock puppets to make their final argument. And in such notions reside the intelligence of their entire position.
The endorsement by The Cincinnati Enquirer of ultra liberal progressive goof-ball Senator Sherrod Brown says a lot about why The Enquirer has been losing readership by wheel barrel loads over the last couple of years. They have an interesting problem; they are a leftist media group trying to produce a product to a very conservative city. I mean they know their market, and they have decided to consciously go against their readership, and now they have really hurt themselves by coming out publicly for politicians like Brown. Over the last year The Enquirer has made a conscious decision to prop up progressive causes even more, where in the past they at least attempted to mask their intentions. As time has gone on, The Enquirer has struggled to maintain their readership because they have offered a product that leans more and more to the left in the ultra conservative city of Cincinnati.
In the chess game of politics, it is important to know the rules, and as Election Day nears, or future election days come about, it is imperative to use the entire chess board to defeat your potential school levies or whatever issue you might be fighting. I know some reading this might be tempted not to talk to Michael Clark at The Enquirer or some other reporter because they represent a product that is of the opposite political affiliation, or because you have seen the ordeal I have had with them, and the belief is that if Clark and others are shut out of the Anti-Levy movement then he will suffer and maybe even lose his job out of revenge for what he did to me. But let me report dear reader that the fate of The Enquirer cannot be changed, they have done it to themselves, and Michael Clark cannot be saved either. He is on a sinking ship, and he knows it. But while the ship still floats if the reporters of The Enquirer come calling for interviews over the respective issues around the city, then don’t hesitate to give them interviews and feed them the information you want to get out. Use them to your advantage, because they will certainly use you to theirs.
I suppose this situation comes with a back-story that should be explained at this time. By now, everyone knows that I had a famous melt-down with The Cincinnati Enquirer that was rather epic, and I have said that it was by design, and in many ways I was playing the chess game that anybody who hopes to win such games must play to achieve any victory. And if you are on the front of a movement, then you have to understand what kind of game we are all playing, so you cannot be mistaken into thinking that Michael Clark of The liberal Enquirer is your friend. He’s not, and he never will be. Such people must be handled as though they are two-headed snakes and just because one head is in your hand, you must still guard against the other.
I allowed Michael Clark to make me the “brand” of the No Lakota Levy on purpose, because it served my needs. Every time a product is driven, there must be a “brand,” that people associate with the product. In this case the product is “saying no to tax increases.” My rival over this matter has a brand of their own, so it must be countered. Their “brand” is “children.” That is why most of their promotional material feature children receiving the benefit of their services in some way, because that is how they establish product recognition. So to fight the school levy, I needed a brand of my own, because to win such things and get the message out, you need more than charts, arguments, and yard signs—you must have a brand. People often wonder why I allowed myself to be photographed by The Enquirer with my whips and hat to fight the Lakota Levy—it was because I had to establish a brand for the No Lakota Levy in order for things to take off the way I wanted them to.
This of course carried over into other media markets because it is personal branding that gives them the hook for their stories. Without the branding, there isn’t a way to market the idea to the public; the reporters don’t know how to frame the argument. So banding is very important because it provides the backdrop of the story when a reporter writes. In the case of the levy fighting efforts at Lakota, I took an aspect of myself that was unique and used that for the branding of the levy fight. This worked well until The Enquirer hit the year of 2012 and had to restructure their paper and move around some full-time reporting positions. I knew there was trouble when Michael Clark at the beginning of February 2012 wanted to treat me to lunch to discuss the future of the things, especially the Lakota Levy problems. Clark has family that is involved in public education, and he makes his living reporting on public education, and in his stories I was his villain, and the villain kept winning—giving him a problem. So he wanted to discuss it over lunch.
That is when I knew I had to change the brand because the education professionals and media people where struggling to prop up public education as a heroic endeavor, because I had successfully and rightly—branded them as the villains, turning the tables on their original strategy. I simply used the radical labor position arguments against them, for which they could not defend, because they were up to no good. So the trick with branding is it works great as long as you adapt it to the changing circumstances. In my case my friends in the No Lakota Levy movement were getting tired of the levy fights. Lakota was setting up for another run, a fourth attempt in three years, and we were all getting fairly pissed off because the management didn’t listen to what we told them. They were told to their faces, in The Enquirer, on 700 WLW, on TV, through the brand we had created in No Lakota Levy using my face that we expected management to present to the teachers union a 5% reduction in pay and benefits, which they refused to do. So strategically, this forced a change in the branding from my position, and a change in alliances.
My friends had wanted to merge with an established community group that would help pay the sports fees for some of the neediest students, which was a good idea, but it danced around the whole problem of why the sports fees were cut to begin with. I went along with it knowing that the proposal would cut into the Lakota School System’s branding in a dangerous way, and may actually destroy their public relations efforts up to that point. This effort was needed because the management at Lakota refused to present the 5% reduction to the labor union so more drastic measures were needed in the levy fight. I arranged with Michael Clark to have a story done about our new announcement of giving $10,000 to some of the students so it would help cover their sports fees at the school which were cut as an extortion tool in favor of the labor union. Once word got out what we were doing, the community group bailed on our effort to join with them and some of the most radical levy supporters gathered outside of a Kroger store to smear my name, just as the members of the community group had been doing—because our strategy cut into their branding, and it really made them mad.
So I knew a fight was coming either now or in the near future and one of the first rules of any combat is to strike first and fight from the high ground. Beat them to the punch. Be the first to strike, and most of the time, you will be the victor. This is true even if it’s a fight in a parking lot one on one, or with an entire labor union that has a state organization at its back. The rules are the same. So I volunteered to become the country coordinator for making Ohio a Right-to-Work state, collecting signatures for that ballot initiative, even though many of my friends advised me against it since Kasich wanted no part in such a thing in a year when Ohio had to vote Obama out of The White House. I did it anyway because it was the right thing to do in Ohio, even though it might further tick off the labor unions—which is what I wanted to do anyway as part of the branding strategy. We also as a group at No Lakota Levy started our own community group and upon the announcement of our endeavor I called a press conference that entailed the presentation of a $10,000 check to members of the Lakota athletic department.
When The Enquirer was present along with members of Channel 19 and Channel 5 Lakota had no representative to receive the check because they couldn’t. They knew that in so doing, they would destroy their own branding model of using the children of the school as an extortion tool. We were effectively taking that tool away.
The story appeared all over the city of Cincinnati. It fit into the progressive position of The Enquirer, the altruistic pursuit of community sacrifice, so they predictably ran with it. Clark made it an exclusive story, so it had great curb appeal, which served his needs as a reporter. The danger for everyone involved was that I had changed the branding from a lone cowboy running around Lakota opposing school levies with a bullwhip to a person with an organization at his back that could conger up $10,000 dollars to pay for sports fees. This level of branding was something the school could not deal with, so they worked with The Enquirer for their own assassination story against me to break up the merger that I had formed with the people who provided the money. I had given them on purpose the tools I desired to defend against, since I already had a plan two defend one or both of the issues, one was a blog posting I did about the PTA moms–community personalities who played politics with the situation smearing my name, and the other was my participation in the Right-to-Work effort for Ohio. Of course they took the bait and ran with it as Clark went over the top with the whole ordeal because his short-term gain would solidify his position at The Enquirer during a time when they were doing major restructuring as a company.
It was painful but worth it. After three levy attempts I knew that I couldn’t personally continue to be the face of the No Lakota Levy effort. My branding had worn out, and a new approach would be needed for the fourth, fifth, and sixth efforts, one that had more horsepower behind it, and the best way to kick-start such an effort was to get everybody off their ass with a provocation. As the months went on after that event over 100,000 people visited my Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom site to read my articles on education reform, sex scandals at Lakota, bullying cover-ups, and the raw numbers of how the management was in bed with the labor union in a grotesque way, and how they were using our children as the tool for performing the task. My hope was that if I couldn’t be the face of the anti-levy effort anymore, because the branding needed to be changed—and updated, then I could do something extraordinary to teach other people to participate in the fight instead of it just being about me personally. The Enquirer article that Clark had written about me as a favor to Julie Shaffer–one of the school board members at Lakota was so astonishing that it gave me more readers than all my radio interviews on WLW combined over a two-year period. And most of those people sent kind words of encouragement, admiring that I had stated publicly what many of them had already thought. It was great advertising and really helped take my branding to a public that was quietly angry and looking for a battle cry to get their hearts racing. That battle cry will always be from now on, “Latte sipping prostitutes with asses the size of car tires and diamond rings to match,” and I will use it till the next necessity for re branding becomes necessary So the new branding had worked, and it looks as though going into the future that more people are going to be willing to put their name out there and fight these levies, which makes me very, very happy.
So when the news comes calling around election time, don’t refuse them just because you might be angry for what they did, or tried to do to me dear reader. In a game of strategy, nothing happens by chance, and by my own measurement, I knew that my check-mates would cause a stir, which was needed. But there was a purpose behind the madness and I wanted to tell this little story so that people could learn how to fight these types of people using their own tools against them. I watched what was done to Arnie Engle over in Fairfield over the years and I have wanted to help him desperately. He was doing a lot of this levy fighting well before I did, and he has been painted as a radical child hater by all members of the media guided by the union apologists for years now. He has run for school board and fought many campaigns as radicals have attacked his home and threatened him in many ways for nearly a decade, and it became clear to me that if I allowed the media to process me the way that they had Arnie, then I would eventually fall behind in the fight.
During all this activity in early February I sat down with Arnie and listened to his stories. We had a couple of beers together as he explained the cameras that canvas his property collecting data from the vandals who have attacked his home continuously. A short time ago Arnie found himself baited by one of the school levy radicals which led to a conflict in front of Arnie’s house. You can read about that occurrence here:
Arnie is a passionate guy, and he’s right. The trouble that I concluded about him is that most of Fairfield agreed with him about the taxes, and the position the management took in defense of the labor unions, but Arnie held onto his brand too long without changing it. He tried to do all the work himself–he even tried to become a school board member to help the situation from within and he was attacked, attacked and attacked again each more ruthlessly, for standing in the way of what the union wanted. The situation was so bad that in August of 2011 there was a FBI investigation over the school board itself that was quickly forgotten by the time the election came around in November, partly because of the article above.
The Enquirer from 2005 to 2010 used Arnie much in the way they used me. And Arnie used them much the same way that I used them to get the word out. It’s part of the business of branding, and selling ideas through the media. But at a certain point, the brand becomes too big for the issue and even distracting—to the point that it can implode on itself by the sheer weight, and the cycle time appears to be about 3 years at the level that Arnie and I had endured before diminishing marginal returns become self-evident. As I drank beer with Arnie and watched his monitors scanning his yard for attackers I thought of Clark, The Enquirer, Lakota, WLW, the State of Ohio, John Kasich and his Right-to-Work opposition, my own friends who didn’t want to touch the issue so that Obama wouldn’t win Ohio on the back of the union vote, and I thought of my No Lakota Levy friends who wanted to work with a community charity group to repair their own public images after three contentious levy fights where the school board refused to listen to the will of the voters. Yes, war has many casualties, and if you are the brand, it will be especially hard on you dear reader. That is when it is best to strike first, and hit on your terms, and hit them so hard that they can’t get back up again. Punch them so hard that their teeth come out of the back of their head……….metaphorically speaking of course. And while doing it, have a plan to re-brand your product every couple of years or so–so that your material is always fresh.
The media is not your friend. They will use you, and they will turn on you. They will work behind your back to destroy you if they find that you are at cross purposes to their intentions, which is often just survival in a marketplace that is highly competitive. In the case of The Cincinnati Enquirer, they are their own worst enemy since they chose to support candidates like Sherrod Brown and other progressive political positions in spite of Cincinnati’s deeply conservative nature. But you can also use their ignorance to your benefit, and should do so whenever possible. So when they put out the call for a few comments about the school levy defeats that will happen on Tuesday, or the future levies that are scheduled to be put on in March, May, August, and November of 2013, feed them a line and make sure it’s always to your advantage. And always be looking for ways to re-brand your product. If that product is you personally, then have a plan to pull more people into the fray one way or the other. But remember, if you hang on too long with only your branding, the media will seek to make you the story, which will destroy your branding before you desire it to. So make sure to always stay in front of what they are going to do next.
In spite of all these perilous conditions, the good of our communities, our state and our nation are at hand, and if we don’t play this game, then we yield to the forces of manipulation shown above. There are only two choices, you play the game, or you get played. So if it is thought that one can sit on the sidelines and just vote YES or NO on an issue, it’s not enough. You have to play the game, or the game will play you. And the best way to play that game is to figure out what your personal branding is, develop it fully, use it to gain traction in the media, but also use the media to expand your base so that you can change your branding latter to alter your strategy. Failure to do so will cause a collapse of your branding effectiveness. And timing is everything. But do not make the mistake in thinking that you can protest The Enquirer for being too left of center by not speaking with them. They are what they are, and the market will determine their fate. But while they still exist use them all you can to the aims that you determine following a strategy you created through your branding and implantation. And be sure to be the first to punch them—so that the chances of winning improve dramatically. Playing nice is the same as yielding your strategy to the fate of goodness, which is the method of a fool. Because no organization that builds itself on the back of children and hides many evils behind them is good, and will do anything to win. So they must be treated accordingly—with great aggression, and well thought out strategy with layers and layers of deceptive subplot.
And when in doubt, listen to my favorite song shown below at the top setting of your iPod and it will all clear up. Listen to the words very carefully, and be willing to do anything to win. Anything! I am, are you? And that often means not playing nice.
The Overmanwarrior 