This was yesterday’s man………………….
This is today’s NFL player………………..
This is today’s Speaker of the House……………………
This is America Tomorrow
I’ll stick with yesterday
Rich Hoffman
Today’s………………………..Man: Something to cry over
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Primary Victories for the GOP: The glee of establishment thinking
Those who love the status quo enjoyed the primaries of May 2014. After failing a school levy in November, Fairfield got their money six months later putting the issue on the ballot again and having next to nobody show up to vote. Cindy Carpenter kept her Butler County Commissioner seat, the Butler County police got their money in Liberty Township and across Ohio 90% of all school levies passed—again due to extremely low turnout. Several Tea Party Central Committee seats were thrown back to the GOP loyalists and the biggest GOP representative of all, John Boehner easily kept his seat against Tea Party type challengers. Big government lovers, like the Cincinnati Enquirer enjoyed thoroughly the retention of the safe old and beatable GOP strong holds and big tax initiatives against challengers. Here is how they described Boehner’s win:
Tea party challenger J.D. Winteregg, a 32-year-old high school French teacher from Troy, could do nothing to push Boehner from a spot on the November ballot.
Throughout the night, Boehner blasted Winteregg, taking 66 percent or more of the vote.
With 41 percent of precincts reporting, Boehner had 71 percent of the vote with Winteregg trailing at 23 percent. Liberty Township businessman Eric Gurr had 6 percent.
The GOP and its supporters are happy that they were able to survive a challenge to their authority. They are short-sited enough to believe this primary year will get them off the hook forever with the Tea Party—which they supported in 2010 to take control of the House of Representatives, but abandoned by 2012 leading largely to the reelection of Barack Obama. In the end Obama and Boehner are a lot closer together in political ideology than an average farmer or member of the Tea Party. In GOP circles the common belief is that everything will now return to normal. Radical Tea Party types—those who believe in the United States Constitution will drift away into oblivion once again to hide in discontent behind the shadows. The statists once the polls closed Tuesday night celebrated. Good times were back—there would be a return of the dinner parties, the back slapping, and the golf games—and gone would be all this crazy talk of Constitutional value. Progressive advancement of the old socialist doctrine would continue unencumbered—at least that’s what they believed.
I listened with patience to my many friends that night disappointed with the results and their showings in the election. The school levy issue is a predictable strategy—in Fairfield if they didn’t get their money this time, they’d try again in November—and again and again until they were successful. This is the way of the game, if the public does not give the money the first time, take away some services, make it hard on the public, then ask again once the extortion measures have taken place. In a lot of ways, the GOP has done much the same thing. They simply waited out the storm, dumped large amounts of money at public perception, and put selections to the public during a primary season where most people are far more concerned about the upcoming NFL draft, and the new summer movie releases.
The Enquirer was very happy that most of the potential voters out there stayed away from the polls and those who did vote, supported their social concerns. They will continue to be happy so long as this cycle continues. But it can’t. The GOP is operating in an unsustainable fashion, the communist oriented Democrats are even further out of touch, the school levy increases cannot continue forever, and eventually the police levies will run out because their wages like their teacher counterparts are too high for the services they provide. The reason the GOP and Enquirer enjoyed their primary night was not because their social objectives are superior, but because most people just don’t care anymore. They don’t want to vote because they don’t see the point.
When it is said that “Boehner blasted Winteregg, taking 66 percent or more of the vote” the enthusiasm wasn’t even hidden, yet 66 percent of nearly nothing is the reality. Boehner had 66% of a voting group that was small and already behind him to begin with, so the results are not a surprise. The tragedy is in the apathy of the voters who see so little hope in going to the polls to vote, that they didn’t even bother. And in their absence, public school looters, career politicians, and general scum bags were allowed to resume their activities of treachery.
Oblivious to them all while they knocked glasses of wine together and whispered in each other’s ears about their plans for the next golf game is the end game of this whole election mess. What happens to them when the next generation simply doesn’t care enough to vote—because most of the voters in this primary are from the old days—those over 50 years of age and still believe in civic responsibility? What happens to the GOP when those people are gone?
Their extinction is a forgone conclusion. They cannot continue. The system will not withstand the pressures and apathy of the future. The Enquirer is happy that Boehner had 66% of the vote from a group of participants who are in the extreme minority. The majority cares more about who the Bengals will draft in the first round of the 2014 NFL draft than they do if Boehner is Speaker of the House. And because of the choices everyone involved in the 2014 victories made, from the Enquirer to Boehner’s handlers—the end of the road will hit them hard sooner than later. When that happens, the Tea Party will still be there when the mountainous network of lap dogs have left the GOP vulnerable and chewing their own tails. When that happens it will be remembered the choice of words used in those elections. And “blasted” will find a resurrection to fit the cause of the new day against the old GOP.
Rich Hoffman
A Fox and Her Babies: Being cunning, free–and ALIVE!
I found it fascinating and ironic that a family of foxes made a home in the drain pipe at the end of my driveway. For as long as I have been alive I have loved the character of Zorro which means “fox” in Spanish. They are nocturnal creatures who are extremely difficult to catch. As a young man in Liberty Township I knew plenty of people who trapped foxes hoping to catch them for their pelts. I always hoped that the foxes would evade capture—like Zorro—my favorite defender of justice. Only a few times did I see them captured, but otherwise they were like mysteries of the night. I would see them occasionally like ghosts sneaking across the yard—cat like, but large like dogs with their big bushy tails flowing out like the cape of Zorro. As soon as your eyes focused on them, they were gone again leaving their presence to be in question—as if doubt could be placed on their existence. So it came with some shock that a fox came to my home to give birth to her pups. It is highly unusual to see a fox in the daylight but because the babies had no idea what night and day was yet, they were up at all hours blowing the cover of the normally nocturnal fox. Here is a video of their activity at the end of my driveway.
Zorro is a character created in 1919 by New York–based pulp writer Johnston McCulley. The character has been featured in numerous books, films, television series, and other media. Zorro is the secret identity of Don Diego de la Vega, a Californio nobleman and master living in Los Angeles during the era of Spanish rule.
The character has undergone changes through the years, but the typical image of him is a dashing black-clad masked outlaw who defends the people of the land against tyrannical officials and other villains. Not only is he too cunning and foxlike for the bumbling authorities to catch, but also delights in publicly humiliating them. That last part is a trait that I have personally carried with me most of my life. It is what a fox does and if I had to identify with an animal, it would be that of a fox.
That left a question in my mind as to why if that fox were so smart, why would she decide to have babies at the end of my driveway right next to a road that has frequent travelers just feet from their play area? A fox should be smarter than that. Her nest was quite well out in the open causing many people to drive by and slow down in disbelief wondering if they were really seeing what they thought they saw. I watched the fox and her cubs playing and nursing just feet from the crushing tires of the large cars going by and found it interesting that the little animals never jumped out under them even by accident. The mother was secure in her knowledge that her children would escape danger. She seemed unconcerned.
Even when I went out to film the fox and her litter she seemed unconcerned by me. I deliberately stayed away so that the little ones would not become complacent to my presence, because they needed to stay vigilant. Not all humans they encounter will respect them they way I do. Many will want to make a coat out of them. So it is important that the little fox cubs not let down their guard. But the mother had made her decision after very careful assessment and her pick of birthing location was no accident. The nature of a fox is always a planned escapade that has elusiveness in their prerogative.
In the morning several times the mother fox would sit next to my driveway as the sun came up and I would drive my loud motorcycle right by her and she would not move. She had determined by some unknown method that I was not a threat to her or her children—but how did she know? As I thought of her strategy she was actually quite clever in her endeavor to give birth in that particular location. The success rate of having babies in the drain pipe is that coyotes, cats, and other small carnivores won’t have easy pickings of her cubs while she’s away hunting food. Her dangers are minimized if only she could have assurance that the humans who can see her in plain site will respect her space. The cars that go by are much less of a concern to her dashing children than the natural predators of the nearby woods.
The more I watched her over the last few weeks the more respect I had for her. A few times I had to chase off gawkers who were being too intrusive of her space, and the Butler County Animal control people had to be talked off the wire a few times—thinking that they needed to take some kind of action. My wife told them that the little ones would be big enough to go to the woods on their own soon, so their services were not needed. A few other nosy people behaved similarly thinking that it was their job to remove the little creatures from human eyes—because foxes are known carnivores and do kill cats and small dogs. To them a small army of foxes growing up under my driveway was a threat to their lives in some way. At our home we have an outside cat that lingers in our garage but is out and about in the day and the cat and the fox do not pay each other much attention. In our backyard is a ground-hog that is a full-time resident and harasses our two dogs with his pudgy body wobbling across the yard when he sees them. The fox has shown no desire to bother any of these animals. They are all living happily on my property without fanfare.
They will soon be gone and it is unlikely that I will ever see anything like them again. The more I watched them, the more cunning I came to understand the mother fox to be. Like Zorro, she knew how to hide from her enemies in broad daylight in much the way Don Diego hid in society disguised from his foxlike justice seeking alter ego. The mother fox had made the ultimate strategic move to preserve the lives of her children from the natural predators of the wild—she found safety under my driveway knowing well enough that my family would not be a threat to hers. And she hedged her bet that she would gain enough human support to fight off the parasites of humankind as she insulated herself away from the threats of the woods—until her children were big enough to care for themselves. The cars were surely dangerous, but not as much so as snakes, and other carnivores looking to feed themselves on the young babies—so the fox placed herself between the dangers of two worlds to find that perfect balance of safety for her children.
It was a bold move by the mother, but I am happy to have assisted her—a fellow fox of outsmarting the very nature of life itself and mocking it with her bold presence. Her daylight presence was almost like giving the middle-finger to the nearby woods and all the animals there wishing to make an easy meal of her babies. She knew what she was doing and I’m glad she did. It was a sight and trust that I will not soon forget. From one fox to another…………………………..adios.
“Z”
Rich Hoffman
The Grand Lie of Public Education: How to fix a broken system
When anybody uses the term, “we must educate our children to compete in the global marketplace,” or any variation of that term the instigator is totally ignorant as to what makes education valuable. They falsely believe that education consists in teaching children left-winged ideology and work habits of a 100% commitment to institutionalism and that since the rest of the world is moving in that direction, that American education must consist of these erroneous premises. After all, political “leaders” see how things are done in China, and Japan, and they believe they must copy those methods—which is probably the dumbest thing that could be introduced to an American workforce and the people who make it up. People who believe that “education” as defined by Common Core standards is the way to direct young minds might as well be crack addicts instructing others on responsible living. The point of education eludes them making them a menace to the discussion of learning.
The most important attribute public education could and should implement into an instructional system of any kind, is the ability to think. The second thing it could do would be to teach students to be competent human beings. Anything outside of those parameters is useless to a human mind, and merely ornamental. Education is not a race against the socialists of Europe, the communists of China, or the kamikaze driven Easterner. Americans are imaginative, intuitive, and utilize large amounts of horse sense in their utilization of productivity and their education system needs to reflect this trend.
Americans fix tractors often with shovel handles, solve complicated engineering feats with bubble gum, and produce more patents than anyplace else in the world—because they are a free people who are at liberty to think. However modern education which leans way to far to the political left, is about chasing the rest of the foolish world teaching our youth to be just as stupid as everyone else, and to turn off their minds to the process of thought—and to embrace blind submission to institutional authority. This is the most damaging attribute that can be taught to an American.
If those who support government education want real success, not just statistical success relative to the rest of the world’s false methods they would teach young minds to “think” not just remember facts given to them by the state. Even conservatives are guilty of this tendency of believing that by committing resources to “education” that they have done their job. They don’t consider the quality of education, only that someone is doing something educationally related. They don’t think of what the implications of education may be if the wrong things are learned, or the wrong interpretation of history is broadcast to young minds awaiting programming of their brain by trusted adults.
Michelle Rhee the popular education reformer at the heart of the movie Waiting for Superman is wrong when she says that education is the key to the success of American children. That cliché is overused and ridiculous. It is a mythology designed to preserve the education culture and their utopian vision for the world. Most of those people are well-intentioned human beings who simply love children and teaching them—but they do not consider in those assessments the quality of their love, or their intelligence as factors that can hold back children from living otherwise fruitful lives. They assume that they are qualified to teach just because the state has given them a license to do so—a license that meant the teacher had to comply with the state’s version of reality.
The way to alleviate these faux pas in education is to teach children to think. Why is Common Core so vile and evil? The reason is that the only way it can work is to limit the intelligence of the most brilliant and force them to only be as good as the weakest links. Our modern education system does not like making such value judgments—which is why they ultimately are failures. The belief with Common Core is that if children spin their wheels copying off students from countries reeking with statism, that success will abound and that such success can be had by not asserting value to the quality of the students or their educations. It cannot. If students aren’t taught first how to think, or how to be competent human beings, the education system will fail 100% of the time.
If the value is to produce students who will mindlessly serve the state, then modern education throughout the world is doing its job. But if the goal is to teach human beings to invent new things, start businesses, vote correctly, or mentor a child—they are way off the intended target and have no hope of getting there under the current circumstances. Education is more than just lip service—it is a philosophy. It can’t be memorized; it has to be a part of an individual mind. There is no way to cheat it. If garbage is put into a mind, then garbage will come out.
My daughter sent me a text the other day that featured a cartoon of a young person reading a book. The caption read, “Uploading data to the human brain.” What we feed our brains is what we ultimately become. If we read good books, think good thoughts, and use our imaginations to explore possibilities, we will have reasonable success in life. But before that can happen, “good” has to be identified, and stood behind. If on the other hand we put into our minds garbage like pornography, sports stats, trivial nonsense like global warming issues, political diatribes and that kind of thing, our minds over time will become encumbered with sluggish thought processes. Education is not good unless the value of good accompanies it. A well-rounded education is not exploring sexuality, worshiping the earth, or supporting teacher unions. It is about learning to think and living as a competent individual.
It is utterly shocking how many functioning adults in 2014 are incompetent fools. The only way I can avoid this incompetency is to not leave my driveway in the morning, because there are some really stupid people functioning in the world—which is evidence that our education system is a complete failure. Yet politicians want us to do more of this foolishness so they can get their fingers on federal money dangled like bait in a trap to supersede our state sovereignty. That is just idiotic.
It is easy to make clichéd comments about education without considering the implications and it happens all the time. But the answer is not in just hiring more teachers, giving more money to teachers, or building more schools. That is not enough. The real intent of education is in teaching people to “think.” Without thought there is no education, there is no mind, and there certainly isn’t any kind of future. Without thought, there is nothing—but empty promises and misery. And I want no part in that.
Rich Hoffman
The Great Gatsby: Preparing for assassinations against Americans
I have received several warnings from readers here at Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom that within the year of 2014 to 2015 that I am on the target list of professional assassins headed to my doorstep. These assassins are part of a kind of shadow government which desire a one world command guided by socialism desiring to eliminate those considered front-runners of any particular resistance. My usual answer to these well-meaning readers is that I’m looking forward to the attempt—which I am. It will be good to finally drop away the pretense of civility and act out of an authenticity indicative of our times. I would rather deal with professional assassins than political back stabbers embedded in our neighborhoods as friends. However, to an increasing number of Americans who consider themselves part of the Sovereign Citizen movement this knowledge is quite terrifying. Many of the supporters of the Sovereigns are deeply religious and take scripture literally—so the information coming at them quickly now closely resembling The Book of Revelations is literally terrifying and the assassins of the upcoming apocalypse are something to be dreaded. To understand these types of people who have some legitimate points, this video from Sgt. Major Page was given to the St Louis Oath Keepers.
I listen cautiously to these kinds of public speakers because most of their opinions are laced with fear instigated from the basic premise of social antagonism. They are insulted to learn that there are elements of global politics from finance to actual office holders who wish to end American sovereignty and the Constitutional Rights of its citizens. Their reaction is often extreme when they run across this information and their number is growing. When people lose their trust in government, the natural reaction are people like Sgt. Page.
Oath Keepers and Tea Party types are considered by the hard left and even the moderate middle grounders in politics to be radical because they consider as progressives adherence to traditional values, Christianity, or Constitutional purity, to be terrorism. So people who adhere to traditional values in America are considered terrorists to those who wish to change it and a war is on the horizon. Sgt. Dan Page was correct in his speech when he said that in such a future confrontation only 3% of the population will actually resist and anybody considered in that 3% is targeted for assassination before the actual violence transpires due to economic crises, global incident, or other subversive measures.
Currently, which has been more than adequately discussed by me, government education is heading down the exact path that Sgt. Page discussed. Today’s school levy supporter is tomorrow’s distressed parent wondering why their public school wants their 2 and 3-year-old children to stay at a pre-school campus under the constant care of a teacher. Most school teachers today have no idea of the possibilities designed for their future, but it will not be a long time before states declare such things as legal necessity for national security driven by global competition. And once a law is created police and teachers will enforce those laws and parents will wonder how they lost control of their children so quickly. The needs of the state will superseded the needs of the individual. China’s GDP is surpassing the GDP of America and the blame will be placed on the poor education of American children—leading to earlier education start times dictated by the state—because that’s how things are done in China—the current driver of world economic standards.
Where I disagree with Sgt. Page is that he is a blind supporter of taxation—where I am absolutely not. He is a federal employee and as he says—he is still owned by the United States military. He believes that contractors like him will be hired to hunt down people like me and that he will win. Nope. Won’t happen, it doesn’t matter how many sniper shots a trained killer has taken or heads they have cut off. The bottom line is that they are by their very nature creations of the state and they will go down by the state as well. If I had to report how many meetings I have been in where bureaucrats came up with some kind of plan that quickly fell apart the moment everyone left the conference room, I’d give the ratio of success at zero. The more people involved, the greater the tendency of failure and in an operation like what Sgt Page is discussing I believe the intentions are real, but I do not believe that anybody in government is competent to pull it off. I believe they will try, but they will fail just as they fail at everything government does. Ultimately when they send people like Sgt. Page to my doorstep with his Green Beret trained antics the government will fail because it needs people like me to be productive and continue feeding it. So they are the ones caught in a Catch 22. They may not want people like me around, but they can’t live without me either.
There have been a few who have tried to “sway” me away from my task over the last couple of years with “force.” Their mistake, and foolishly, they won’t be the last. But most of the time—probably 90% of the time the people involved are completely incompetent and unable to achieve their objectives and that ratio won’t alleviate just because of a desire on behalf of the insurgents supporting progressivism. They are doomed to fail and unable to do much behind hiring contractual killers and holding meetings to talk about doing things. Of the given pool of contractual killers out there in the world, only a few will actually attempt to perform the task because most are on my side of things and hate the governments trying to employ them. Those who have no real convictions and can take money to kill a good person are bad people and in the rock, paper, and scissor game of life good beats bad because value destroys those who lack value. The only way that poor value beats value is by surprise and deceit which significantly lowers the opportunities for success of mission objectives.
More powerful than any weapon in Sgt. Page’s arsenal is the written word. Millions of people have read by this point in their lives the novel The Great Gatsby by F.S. Fitzgerald which is a favorite of mine. Most people read that novel and think that it is about American excess in capitalism and how the evils of old money need to be leveled off for fairness to all. The villain in the novel was after all an Ivy League wealthy polo player who believed that he was born superior to everyone else and in the end he got the girl. But I understand the Great Gatsby, I get his innovation, I understand his passion, and I understand deeply his tenacity—his single minded determination to stare at the green light across the harbor and get what he wants. I learn from such stories and I won’t be making the same mistakes as to let old money beat the new—or to let scandal and love blind the opportunities for success—my green light is not an unappreciative lover living a dual life in scandal but an ideal of Constitutional purity. The schemes of the old world will not find a weakness that will be brought down by a car accident. It might be said that I was so inspired by Fitzgerald that I use the written word as my weapon as opposed to meeting the contracted Sgt. Pages out on the battlefield where their military trained minds only think one way and are sluts to their dollars given to them by bureaucrats to remove that 3% opposition to their objectives.
The Great Gatsby has been available to millions of people for over 100 years yet 97% of those readers think the novel is a cautionary tale about the American Dream. It is not. It is about the ability of one man to completely dominate New York society and Long Island politics in a short 5 year period. Yet Gatsby never cared about the money so much, only about the woman he loved who did love money and in the end, she picked the cheating husband of old money over the loyal charisma of new money. The new money is America the old money is Europe. On the battlefield the old money is Sgt. Dan Page and I am the Great Gatsby—only I haven’t dedicated my life to making money for women, but to using the power of the written word to appeal to the 3% out there in the world who understand The Great Gatsby without explanation and will join me on the battlefield when the time comes to fight in a way that the contracted killers can’t understand against an enemy that is the purer version of their former selves. In the end, guilt will rob them of their wits, and their trigger finger.
I appreciate the concern, I really do. But I’m playing my own Great Gatsby game but the focus isn’t the same as the 1925 Fitzgerald novel. And in that game there are rules that haven’t even been taught yet that will come into play and the statism trained provocateurs will be at a serious disadvantage. Yes, hard times are coming, but it isn’t the Book of Revelations—the end of times, that we are dealing with. Rather, it’s an undefined time that has not yet been taught to human populations because nobody has yet framed these arguments in ways that 97% of the population will understand. But the 3% do, and in the coming war—that’s all I need. We should learn from the literary classics—not repeat them.
Rich Hoffman
Wanted, Mercenary Group For Nigerian Mission: Saving sex slaves from the Boko Haram
I often get called a sexist by idiots who have swallowed the hook of feminism without consideration. I have traditional values in regard to the roles of the sexes in domestic life and in the upbringing of children. Critics of mine draw their terminology from low intellect sloths with assess the size of their mouths—and they do it to attempt control of my behavior when they discover that they can’t out maneuver my strategy. That type of name calling is not about correctly labeling a dire social position or old-fashioned neurosis, but in gaining control over another person. It is often an offensive tactical maneuver to attempt to play a race or sexism card created by progressives to leverage control over the powerful. Similarly I have watched this whole issue involving Donald Sterling who was obviously jealous of his mistress girlfriend V. Stinviano’s enjoyment of men with color—and didn’t want to be made a fool of at his Los Angeles Clipper games of which he was the owner. After all, he’s 80 years old and left his wife of many years to hang out with young women like Stinviano—so he doesn’t need her bringing around young studs to public settings where people know that he’s sexually engaged in the same young woman only not for his prowess, but his money. That’s what I heard when listing to the tapes accusing him of racism—of which Stinviano recorded to gain power over her sugar daddy—which worked. Now Sterling is destroyed as the machine of progressivism has went to work at removing his property ownership of an NBA team and virtually everything he ever was by accusations of being a racist. Even Snoop Dog weighed in to give his two cents about the Donald Sterling case.
Many of those opinions have been formed by progressive influences that have dumped billions of dollars into years of shaping the parameters of social terminology. George Soros for one, Bill Gates for another along with thousands of others who are excessively wealthy and seem intent to help shape the world toward progressivism have been bold about their assertions regarding feminism and racism advocating an open society where the government does the child raising while all able-bodied adults work and pay taxes to supply the state with the money it needs to properly fund the kind of socialism that progressives are such large supporters of.
However, in the recent case of the 329 schoolgirls from northern Nigeria stolen in the middle of the night from a boarding school in the Chibok region currently being sold as sex slaves to members of the Boko Haram—there doesn’t seem to be the same kind of anger from the Snoop Dogs of the world—the progressive social shifters who are so inflamed with rage over the Donald Sterling racism issue. After all, in regards to the 329 little girls, they are female, so feminist groups should be outraged, they are young ladies of color, so civil rights leaders should be even more angry than they are over Sterling, and every human being in the world should be upset that the girls are being forced into slavery—sex slavery at that. Yet there doesn’t seem to be any desire to help the little girls from the George Soros types—those with bottomless pit money. A few news outlets have written about it, but nobody has any desire to help the girls or their families with any real action.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/boko-haram-329-schoolgirls-stolen-3489356
The Boko Haram literally means in Nigerian “Western education is sinful,” and members of it are associated with the Taliban movement from Afghanistan. From the perspective of those Islamic radicals, they are intent to make all of Nigeria a strict Muslim country operating under Sharia Law and they don’t care who dies or what individual liberties must be trampled on to achieve their global vision. For the people who have jumped against Donald Sterling and support massive feminism in American society, or stand against the history of The United States slavery issues, and wish to advocate civil rights for all people in every corner of the world, these young girls in Nigeria need help. But none is coming. Their parents have been pooling their money together to conduct a search to locate their daughters but the region is so poor that buying a tank of gas to operate a motorcycle costs a small fortune. So the parents of the girls are helpless losing their children to the vast evils of Sharia Law.
If I were in Snoop Dog’s social position, or George Soros, Bill Gates or any progressive billionaire claiming to really care about civil rights issues, feminism, or slavery, I’d be organizing right now a mercenary group to go into Nigeria and rescue the little girls from their slave trade masters. After all, Ross Perot did something like that when he rescued his own employees from Iran who were arrested on suspicion of bribery. It’s been done before—and could certainly use the same kind of American boldness now. The book talking about that Iranian case was called On Wings of Eagles and was published in 1983. The story was made into a miniseries in 1986 and starred Burt Lancaster who played the real life role of a retired United States Army officer who organized the EDS employees into mercenaries to sneak into Iran and rescue their own people from harm.
As bold as Snoop Dog talked regarding Donald Sterling it would seem he’d be the first to organize a rescue mission to Nigeria to save those little girls from their attackers. Why not pass the hat around to his Hollywood friends to cover the cost of organizing a mercenary group to go into Nigeria, attack Boko Haram and return the girls to their families so that they don’t have to become sex slaved wives to radical Muslims ruining their lives until the end of time. Anyone who supports women rights and a world without racism should be able to get behind this effort. I have my passport right next to me and would gladly join in an effort with George Soros and the Hollywood elite if they wanted to send mercenaries to Nigeria since it is obvious that no government on earth is capable of dealing with the situation.
But nobody will take me up on the suggestion. Nobody in the entire world even though many people quite capable of funding such a thing will read this article—they’ll shake their head, and will move on to something else plagued with inaction. Most people, most feminists, most race baiters, most civil rights advocates and progressive spawns are hypocrites who know not what they demand of society. They have not thought things through to their natural conclusions. Any supporter of a one world government and open boarders for all needs to be concerned about this Nigerian situation because this is what they want to see in America. In their attack against American capitalism, they too hope that someday soon a tank of gas will cost four chickens and a mule—which in Nigerian currency might as well be a fortune. Nigeria’s problems today will be American problems tomorrow. So why not help them now in their hour of need, because if America doesn’t—specifically billionaires who support progressive causes, nobody else will help those little girls and their fate will be a lot worse than the members of the L.A Clippers NBA team or Stinviano who had sex many times with an 80-year-old man purely for money. The poor girls in Nigeria won’t even get paid to do far worse with the Muslim radicals who will cut off their noses and lips in less than a second if they believe they are honoring Sharia Law with their stolen brides taken at gun point.
The world sits and talks tough about equal rights for all—yet they don’t even lift a finger to help people who really do need it. They’ll call me a sexist because I think women should stay home with their children and actually raise them—because I believe motherhood is the most important job in the world. They’ll call Donald Sterling an ignorant racist because of private conversations leveled jealously at a girlfriend 50 years his junior who has the intellectual capacity of a box of dry cereal. A billionaire destroyed by a mixed race woman just because of progressive posturing, but when it comes to destroying a real villain, like Boko Haram—nobody does anything but talk.
That is shameful……………………………. The world is in desperate need of courage. Reports are that the girls are being raped up to 15 times a day, and it’s now been several weeks. Justice needs to be done. A rescue mission could likely be done for under $10 million. Any takers? Watch all these videos, particularly the On Wings of Eagles movie. Then decide what you are willing to do.
Rich Hoffman
“Dude, That Was Like Two Years Ago”: What is behind the White House kids
To kids like Tommy Vietor, two years ago is a large part of their life. However, for anybody over 40, two years ago is only a small amount of time and a fraction of their existence on earth. I don’t know how the Obama administration ever thought giving a kid who looks like he’s 14 or 15 years old so much power in The White House was a good idea but nevertheless Tommy Vietor was in the situation room the night of the Benghazi attack. When the recent news broke that The White House was directly connected to a cover-up of the Benghazi story, Vietor actually came on Fox News to attempt to spin the conversation on the Bret Baier, World News Tonight program. The reality of the situation set in once the smooth talking kid was painted into a corner by Baier when Vietor actually said, “Dude, this was like two years ago.” At that point the spin doctor had lost his credibility and the deeper roots of the scandal were revealed. Obama and his team at The White House attempted to cover-up the Benghazi story to get re-elected and now they are caught.
This is what people like me have been saying all along, only our voices were ignored as we were told that the information from the investigation was “old news.” We were told that any method of investigation into the Benghazi matter was a partisan witch hunt that was not good for the country, and that it was driven by crazed radicals who were inherently uncomfortable with the skin color of a sitting president. Out of guilt, many conservatives didn’t press the issue any further even though their primary political rival in the future was at the heart of the case, and people actually died during the debacle—and the issue was covered up during a presidential campaign—that if the results had been released earlier America would not have Barack Obama as president. Even with all those conditions present, Benghazi was covered up by many people including the national security spokesman Tommy Vietor.
If the evidence is not clear to what extent established politicians will attempt to go so to preserve their jobs, then the Benghazi tragedy will never make it easier. There was a direct cover-up more treacherous than the Watergate scandal that occurred during a presidential race where people actually lost their lives and if justice cannot be found over this case—it can’t be found for any. America should not have Barack Obama as a president—because he obtained that position through deceit. His administration lied to the American people to preserve his political presence. America should not have Hillary Clinton to worry about in 2016 as her career should be over due to her ineptitude over the Benghazi affair. Instead, The White House actually hired children to present their case to the public because they knew that older people would not be so willing to be spokesman for direct lies as more mature experienced candidates would have too much knowledge to attempt such audacious lies under one of the most critical scandals in American history.
It is 100% conclusive that The Whites House engaged in a cover-up, and that it used naive kids lacking worldly knowledge to conceal their plot. Tommy Vietor looks like he’s still a teenager, but he had the ability to speak in a sophisticated fashion giving the illusion of worldly knowledge which epitomizes the goals of the Obama administration clearly. However, when pressed with the facts, Vietor resorted to the language of his age—“Dude, that was two years ago.”
The Obama administration from the fall of 2012 to the present has been declaring that Benghazi was a thing of the past. And they have used children to advance that logic where literally two years ago in their young lives is a long time. But for the rest of the world, two years is just enough time to get the facts uncovered objectively—in spite of a massive media cover-up unwilling to admit to themselves that their beloved Obama is a deceitful insurgent intent on remaking America into their socialist utopia. These people lied and they all deserve to be punished with a minimum of ejection from American office. Obama’s administration among its many crimes is also guilty of child abuse in that they have hid their crimes behind children right out of college—still too stupid and unable to grasp large world views exploiting them for Presidential preservation. Behind Tommy Vietor’s “dude” statement is a mountain of concealed revelations that will now come forth which not even smart-mouthed teenagers can dress up to shake reality from.
This is the reason that Obama, and Clinton liked to exploit young people in their administrations hungry for career advancement and résumé padding. Not only are young people nicer to look at, but they are more prone to advancing a corrupt political agenda as they have yet to gain enough wisdom through living to decipher scandal from honor. To them protecting the objective takes the highest precedent, not getting to the truth of the Benghazi matter. Young people trained recently with the type of socialism taught in colleges are ripe for exploitation from the Obama types in the world and behind all these more obvious scandals is the one involving the exploitation of young people for personal gain. A kid like Vietor should never have a job like he had in The White House at such a tender age because underneath all the slick Saul Alisnky double-talk is still a child who resorts back to a playground argument when pressed, “dude, that was like two years ago.” Tommy Vietor sounds like a child who got caught peeking at his best friends mom through a crack in a bathroom door and is trying to shake off that memory before a big date during his senior year in high school. “Stop bringing that up, I was like a sophomore back then—now I’m all grown up—and like a senior.” Only in this case we’re not talking about some old lady’s boobs, but the dead bodies and botched management of Americans under attack by terrorists.
We were lied to, the proof is now before us—and it will be up to the adults to take charge of our country from the cult like Obama youth who from the very beginning were intent to lie, cheat, and manipulate any fact about any matter to protect the President from his own stupidity. Their result has given America a parade of scandals and a president who should not be running a nation that couldn’t afford four more years of Obama debacles to begin with. Upon detection of the administration ineptitude they relied on inexperienced young people to advance their Democratic agenda. And it worked until they were caught, and Tommy Vietor certainly was. Now there is no going back. The president can only receive the kind of treatment at the very least that Nixon did—because his actions were far, far worse. The only difference is that Obama didn’t record it on tape; he used young people like Tommy Vietor to preserve the storyline so that he could achieve the highest office in the world and pardon himself from public scrutiny with “executive privilege”
Rich Hoffman
The Last Chance to Fire John Boehner: Two challengers lose their jobs
Two days ago I wrote about J.D. Winteregg’s termination from his teaching job at a Christian college due to his challenge of John Boehner—the current Speaker of the House in the 2014 primary. Boehner in interviews makes it appear that he is just a common man in uncommon circumstance that does not care for the glory of high political office. Yet his actions defy such unassuming posturing. John Boehner and the people who want something from him in the form of machine politics want to keep him in power and they will literally do anything to keep challengers from jeopardizing Boehner’s congressional seat.
The Daily Caller exclusively reported Monday April 28th that Boehner’s tea party primary challenger J.D. Winteregg was fired from his job as an adjunct professor at Ohio’s Cedarville University for running an anti-Boehner campaign ad accusing the speaker of “Electile Dysfunction.” Winteregg is challenging Boehner in the district’s May 6 Republican primary.
But Winteregg is not the first Boehner challenger to lose his employment while on the campaign trail.
Justin Coussoule, a West Point graduate and former army captain working as a purchasing manager for Cincinnati-based consumer products manufacturer Procter & Gamble in Ohio suffered a similar fate when he ran against Boehner as a Democrat in 2010. Coussoule fired from his job for taking on the veteran lawmaker.
“In Justin’s case he was faced with resignation or termination from Procter & Gamble. They were surprised that anyone would want to run against John Boehner because he had been, as they said, so good for their business,” Alliea Phipps, Coussoule’s 2010 campaign manager, told The DC.
A vice president of government relations at Procter & Gamble took Coussoule out for coffee after he first decided to run against Boehner, and pressured him not to do it.
This kind of activity is not the role of business. If a business is truly good, they should not be concerned about injecting themselves into the political process. In the case of Winteregg, and Coussoule each coming from different party backgrounds, they had their livelihoods taken from them just because they challenged the political establishment. The message has been clear, either vote for the progressive machine representative of the Republican Party, or lose your ability to make a living—which runs counter to everything America is supposed to be.
Boehner has spent a lot of money on this primary campaign to continue holding his seat. He would not spend that money if there wasn’t a chance that Winteregg could oust him. All the political pundits predict Winteregg is not a threat and in the end, he probably isn’t—because of situations like what has been described here. In modern business, there is certainly peer pressure to back certain candidates because often those companies give money to certain politicians in hopes of buying off their regulatory tendencies. Business should not have to engage in such a thing—but they do. They will fight to protect their investments even to the extent of preventing candidates like Coussoule from participating in the election process as a rival.
For those who scream for democracy these terminations of political rivals is an unabashed threat to the will of the people. For people who understand that the natural discourse of democracy is to migrate into socialism and instead regard a Republic as the superior government, the attacks against Winteregg and Coussoule is even worse. The threat of losing a job is an attack of a challenger’s livelihood and the intent behind the action is to steer political support in the direction of institutional control—not the will of individual voters.
Years ago it was common practice for supervisors at companies participating in United Way campaigns to strong-arm their employees for weekly donations. At that time I worked at Cincinnati Milacron and every year I was paraded into the office of my supervisor and given a lecture with the expectation that the guilt would coax me into donating for the charity organization. Of course “The Mill” wanted the political relief of a 100% contribution from their employees to brag about within the business and political circles that it was concerned with—so the supervisors were expected to use peer pressure against the employees to get “voluntary contributions.”
It was understood that if an employee didn’t give a donation, that they would be listed by the supervisor as a “troubled employee.” Overtime opportunities would go to United Way contributors before they’d go to those who refused to give, and if there was a layoff, the first targets would be those who did not give to the United Way. There was never an intention during these campaigns to know the real charity desires of employees, the goal was to force through peer pressure compliance to the company goal.
The same peer pressure goes on over a massive scale when it comes to political contributions. The punishments are not layoffs or lack of overtime opportunities, but regulations that come their way if they fail to support a particular candidate—or take a political position that is contrary to the orthodox acceptance of the general business community. In the case of John Boehner’s district, there isn’t a potential Democrat who could even think of running in what is likely one of the most conservative bastions of a district in The United States. Boehner has so much power and is so entrenched in the Republican Party that he now has celebrity status and if a businessman wants to be considered for an important new contract, or wants relief from government regulation, they learn to give some of their money to the political machine in charge.
In case of the Winteregg, and Coussoule their employers took the extra step of actually terminating them for challenging the political establishment. The behavior is the same as the company who punishes a worker for not participating in United Way campaigns. The method of achieving consensus within the party is force, and manipulation. The genuine emotions of the electorate are not desired—only conformity to the established party and its members.
John Boehner is not Speaker of the House and the third most powerful person in the world because he is the best person for the job, but because he has the political high ground that can destroy the lives of any potential challengers to his grip on power. Boehner is the first person to say that he is not a power-hungry detriment to the human race—yet he is willing to fight with much more vigor to hold his seat than he ever did against Barack Obama’s takeover of healthcare, and the various budget crises occurring during his watch. Boehner is the top Republican because people who might otherwise challenge him were eliminated from contention. The “Party” doesn’t care who is destroyed in the process, so long as the system of politics that they control remains in power—and that is a lesson that Winteregg, and Coussoule share in common that transcends their individual politics.
In Winteregg’s case there is still time to correct the John Boehners of the world by voting for the young victim instead and firing the Speaker from his job for a change. That power is still in the hands of the voters which is the reason behind the intimidation. Voters are coerced to vote for Boehner, they are not trusted to make their own decisions. And the history behind Boehner goes further than these two names which is all the reason that changes should take place. If Boehner were truly the best man for the job—nobody would try to eliminate his competition. Instead, they have, and they have been successful—at least twice.
Rich Hoffman
Dr. Duke Pesta’s Speech on Common Core: Public education is dangerous and detrimental to children
I recently wrote an article about a popular band teacher at my school district of Lakota who is in trouble, and many of his supporters came to his defense, angry at me. CLICK HERE TO REVIEW. Read the comments there to see what I’m talking about. The teachers and the parents who supported the band teacher are simply malfunctioning humans who have been programmed incorrectly through progressive educations, and the more I hear from them, the angrier I get at modern public education. I am 100% convinced that public schools are DETRIMENTAL to the American way of life, and it is clearly on purpose. The proof is all around us, it’s not even hidden. I hate public education because it is run by the state—the federal government should not be involved in a capitalist society’s education, and it is purposely dumbing down the students so to attack the premise of capitalism in America. For proof I submit the following video which is a two-hour lecture about the dangers of Common Core by Dr. Duke Pesta. Why am I angry at public education…………………watch the video at the 1 hour 10 minute mark. You will see it clearly.
Teacher unions are radical organizations committed deeply to the progressive transformation of society. Even good teachers who know this keep their mouths shut because the unions give these employees high rates of pay that they wouldn’t get at Wal-Mart—which most of them are only qualified to do as far as productive equivalency standards are concerned. The money teachers make is hush money while they accept progressive transformation methods driven by communism to destroy American capitalism. I would not hate public education if they taught young people how to make money, create a good work ethic and expand the influence of capitalism throughout the world. Instead, public schools sponsored by the federal government is at war with capitalism and are fully open in their support of socialism and that makes government schools enemies of the state.
The commenters on my article referred above do not wish to accept this—just as you dear reader are having difficulty with what I am saying right now. Yet I have never been surer of something than I am that public education institutions are hell-bent as a unified organization on destroying the minds of children and their families into a collective whole where group consensus rules over logic. For anybody who has tried to hire an American worker, the results of three decades of idiotic teaching methods are in. Where farms used to produce good hard-working young men and women who could be relied upon and an occasional loafer would sometimes be seen, the trend now is that such hard workers built within public schools is rare—almost nonexistent and the loafers are everywhere. The work ethic of the modern American is terrible and they are not motivated to improve because their minds have been ground into mush during their public school days by progressive institutional instruction.
The situation is so bad that I didn’t even want my daughters to date American boys when they were teenagers. So many young men, not necessarily of their fault—are just douchebags, scummy, smelly, drunkards proud of their lack of sophistication. The young men learned this behavior in their public school culture which promotes stupidity. I was so serious about this problem that my oldest daughter actually married a young man from England who grew up with socialism but came from a good family that still believed a little in traditional value. There are good young men still out there, but they are hard to find and women are struggling to locate them. The situation is technically the biggest contemporary crises of our time yet it is also one of the most ignored because most people exploring these topics are guilty of being the douchebags.
The point of Common Core as exhibited in the video by Dr. Pesta is to perpetuate the false belief, the Kantian philosophic theme that belief by the many can shape the reality of the whole. God forbid when these young Common Core students try to build a bridge with the mathematics that doesn’t allow stacking numerical values but symbols and belief. If a consensus of the majority believes that 4 + 4 = 40062, then who are we as individuals to question the reality of that proposition. That is the public school way—the instruction is not to learn that the value of two groups of four add together to give eight, but that value is a relative term. Under that belief system, good is relative and so is bad. Is it any wonder that so many people have lost their way these days? Is it a mystery that Ohio government cannot build a bridge into Kentucky any longer along the I-75 corridor through Cincinnati—because public schools have taught that no action can be made until there is a group consensus—and government is awaiting action until that consensus is reached. Until then all parties will be mired in stagnation.
American business is plagued presently with this very debacle. It is extraordinarily difficult to find any member of a business transaction willing to make a decision—even easy ones. Fear of overregulation, lawyers, and just general responsibility have created in America a trend where the spineless run everything and they are as numerous as the stars in a desert night sky. The occasional bold, decisive, decision maker on the other hand is as rare as a four leafed clover in the middle of a Pentagon parking lot. That fault is the education system which taught everyone involved–public education which is teaching the kind of crap seen in the video by Dr. Pesta.
Stupid people don’t often look in the mirror and declare that they are faulty products of bad mental programming which started when they were 5 years old when they entered a public school. It is only over age 55 when their bodies are in rapid decline, their marriages are in a shambles, their children are idiots and their own parents are dead when the realization hits them hard. At that point they take up golf to find some peace on the vast greens of Americana, or maybe take up a young mistress, gamble their life away in a casino, or join a Tea Party and try to correct a lifetime of errors. They do this because they reason that they only have thirty years of their life left to them—but its often too late. Public schools made them into idiots and 50 years or more of such behavior cannot be erased with a few good deeds. Just like the Common Core math, a few good things done does not cancel out thousands of stupid decisions, like getting drunk at frat parties in college, or being a loser in their careers and being happy with it, or dropping their children off at a public school and surrendering them to the progressive teachers who want to radically change society into a communist utopia.
I hate public education because of what it has done to over 300 million people who would otherwise be better off without the creation of the Department of Education. It’s not hatred of learning, but because of a love of it that I hate government-run education which is insisting on Common Core and the nightmare shown in Dr. Duke Pesta’s video. No civilization including America will survive long taught the methods currently popular in public education. And wishing for a different outcome by the group consensus of over 300 million people does not make my opinion about it wrong. In the end anybody who wants success in their life and their children will have to come to the same realization that I have, and Common Core math will not make the medicine go down any easier once that realization hits. People may get mad, but the reality won’t change because they have achieved “consensus” and determined that they are correct. The actuality of their circumstances will say otherwise and they will not like the results.
Rich Hoffman
Hives of Scum and Villainy: What casino gambling in Ohio is all about
When advocates of Issue 3 in 2009 walked away from their victory in Ohio they declared that the “people had spoken.” Their looting tendencies were infected with the sudden cash cow known as casino gambling which would now become a constitutional amendment in Ohio that had finally overcome the previous four attempts by the casino industry to operate within the long tradition against such things in Ohio. It might be realized that it was shortly thereafter that election I began this blog, Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom as a personal answer to the debaucheries of politics which placed on my doorstep a casino. The manner for which Issue 3 passed broke my trust in elected office when the voice of voters was ignored so many times and the Fraternal Order of Police came out in favor of casino gambling. The method of election approval was the same process that school, fire and police levies all were passed and were rooted back to a basic premise among politicians from Washington, Columbus to Butler County—my own people. They will impose themselves upon anybody, anywhere to get their hands on more tax revenue. Essentially, casinos are just new forms of taxation designed to extract wealth from people and put the money into the pockets of public employee unions and politicians. They are hives of scum and villainy at best and at their worst regress the human race into a primordial cess-pool of vile excrement sympathetic only to the most didactic fragilities of desire.
I am against gambling. I don’t like Vegas, I don’t like the casinos in Lawrenceburg, I don’t like them in Michigan—I don’t like them in the Caribbean or anywhere in the world. I don’t like the cheesy shows, I don’t like the stupid color schemes of the typical décor, and I don’t like the employees. They all have an emptiness to them that is ever-present—as though their minds are turned off. I don’t like the arrangement of the neon lights, the bulletin boards, or the way the announcers sound. The food is often good because the casinos use it as a trap to pull people into their maniacal temple of social regression, no different from a trapper might bait a steel cage with delectable food for an unsuspecting animal. Casinos are parasites to the human condition and they only feed the power and influence of state-run authority by feeding public officials—including police, firefighters and teachers—with more tax money stolen from property owners. The only difference in this tax is that it is voluntary. Casinos lure people into their traps with the promise of gain, and send them away back into the world in most cases poorer. For the few who win, they are taxed on their winnings, and it is there where the taxation is deceptive. The victor of the money doesn’t mind paying the tax because they won it anyway, so they leave with more money than they came with. But for the people who tossed their money into the jackpot, they did so only to serve the state and leave the casino to run on a treadmill of productivity again only to gamble their money away weeks later when they’ve accumulated enough to try again.
Down the road from my home in Liberty Township is the Miami Valley Gaming facility which was placed near the wealth and farmland of my community—to extract wealth like a parasite off my neighbors. The politicians in the area as well as the police support the casino because it is guaranteed revenue to pay for their labor contracts without the constant pressure to get their wages approved by property owners during contentious elections. They are willing to trade away the soul of the good city of Monroe, named after President James Monroe—a Founding Father—for easy cash and a morally depleted population.
The downward spiral of Monroe began years ago when Larry Flint opened up the Hustler of Hollywood store in Monroe next to the strip joint Bristol’s. At that “gentleman’s club” there were frequent games of topless volleyball in the back fenced-in area along I-75. The Christian community around Monroe hated the place, and eventually after several prostitution raids the place went out of business, and remains an empty husk to this day. But the Hustler store has thrived and broken the will of the traditionalists of Monroe in much the same way Ohio broke the back of voters with the fifth attempt within the decade to pass Issue 3. Now Monroe has a prison at its exit, a flea market, a Hustler store an outlet shopping center and now a giant casino called Miami Valley Gaming complete with its own race track. Coming soon, will be more strip joints, because the stage is set, and property value will plummet. Nobody wants to live next to a strip joint and once Liberty Center moves in at the next exit to the south, real estate investment will be of the more unsavory type—not the high-end establishments that might be found in places like Kenwood and Indian Hill.
It’s a path to decline that is assured. Nothing good can come out of the Miami Valley Gaming facility. The restaurant Cin City Sea and Steak along with the supposed dedication to Ohio called the 1803 Bar are designed to pull in levy supporter types ignorant to the ways of the word with their heads so far in the clouds that they stop by for a quick drink with other adults between running their kids to soccer games so they can earn that “coveted” sports scholarship and learn “teamwork.” The trusted name of Jim Labarbara, the “music professor” is there to pull in the minds of Butler and Warren County wealth with a blast from the past so that they will connect him to the trust built-in their minds from his years on the radio. Once that trust is earned, their pockets empty into the mouths of a wolf dressed in sheep’s clothing.
Most reading this will assume that I’m a Bible thumping Sunday puritan that believes that the sins at the casino will bring everlasting damnation to my community. They would be wrong. My hatred of casinos is much deeper than that. I hate the way that casinos pander to people’s weaknesses—attributes that I want to see fixed among human beings, and casinos take people the other way. The Miami Valley Gaming facility is designed to do one thing—and that is to empty the pockets of the productive and pour that money into the parasites of public service and make the owners wealthy by pandering to both groups. A casino does not produce wealth, it simply extracts it. There is no product at a casino, only a chance to win something for a small investment. There are no inventions being made there, there is no thought—in fact thought is discouraged. There are games of chance and random winners to keep fools migrating to that hive of scum and villainy.
I’ve been to casinos. I’ve watched old ladies camp out at a slot machine and dump all of their money coin after coin into them while chain-smoking packs of cigarettes. One woman I knew once had been a Christian woman who read the Bible every day and ran her family with an expectation of purity. Her husband took up the hobby of gambling during their middle years and ended up falling for a stripper who was only 21. The couple divorced and the old woman lived alone for 10 years until she could collect Social Security. At the age of 69 she took up slots in Lawrenceburg. At 81 she was a wrinkled up wreck of a woman, her children were busy with their lives and her husband long dead after three failed marriages after their divorce left her broken emotionally as well as financially. When I asked her what she hoped to achieve at the slot machines her answer was to hit it big—so that she could send money to her kids so they’d come and see her—or so she could fly out to see them. She had won small jackpots of $1500 and $5000 a few times, but spent it again looking for the big one, the one that would change her life and pour six figure winnings into her pocket. One time she hit it, she won $150,000 dollars, but by the time she paid the taxes and other associated fees it was just over $50K. That money was consumed in plane tickets quickly and one visit from her children—the kids who could come and see her did, those who couldn’t she went to see them. After three weeks, the money was gone and she was back at the slots trying to win more money so she could do it again. I felt terrible for the lady. She died a year later at 82 and six people came to her funeral—one was the floor waitress at the casino who had developed a small friendship with the old woman. How did I know her…………she worked for me. When I gave her a check every Friday, she took the whole thing to the casino and camped out at the slot machine for the entire weekend hoping coin after coin that she’d get one more chance to see her kids before she died. That is what casinos are all about. The casino ruined her marriage and after being alone for a number of years she turned to them for help, because there was nothing else—she was unable to see how the chain reaction of events migrated to her ultimate fall from grace.
In Ohio and everywhere that there are casinos the product they create is misery. They are traps for human beings designed by crony capitalists and political alliances. There is nothing—nothing good about them—not even the food. Everything is a trap which leads to more scumbag behavior for which once ensnared there is no escape. They were made legal by deceit, they operate under false pretense, and have only a parasitic characteristic as their foundation—and they bring out nothing but the worst in people of all ages and sexes. That is what gambling in Ohio is all about.
Rich Hoffman www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com
