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Allowing Loafers and Weaklings the Power to Vote: Edward Leedskalnin’s ‘A Book in Every Home’

I have reported on the work of Edward Leedskalnin before—the little man who mysteriously built Coral Castle in south Florida. I like the guy and his science and am puzzling through his mid-twentieth century writings for my new Cliffhanger project. In his writing is a unique glimpse into how people from a previous time thought contrary to the contemporary—which I have stated often I abhor. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ABOUT LEEDSKALNIN. It is not a debate that one of the greatest generations of Americans was the World War II generation, which Leedskalnin was a part of. He was also a fine example of an American mad scientist in that he was eccentric enough to remove his vantage point back far enough to provide commentary based on his unbiased observations. He marked these observations down in a small book called A Book in Every Home meant to impart wisdom to future generations curious about the little 5’ man who could lift 3 ton coral rocks like a child plays with toys. Leedskalnin is an American enigma and his writings are quite intriguing.

In his A Book in Every Home Leedskalnin only writes on the left side of the book leaving the right side for a future decoder of his cryptic work to decipher his numerous mathematical puzzles. He dares readers to attempt to top his work by writing their own contributions into those blank pages. Of course for my task, I’d rather leave them empty for the evolving analysis that I am conducting with his work. Rather, I will gladly place my thoughts on his work here in Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom for my readers to ponder. Leedskalnin’s written efforts are a time capsule through our own corrupted education systems softened by political communist infiltration over time. Leedskalnin’s mind was extremely observant of the human race and was unconcerned with political correctness. For me his work is refreshing as many of my thoughts are similar observations uncovered from under attempted suppressions by contemporary corruption. For instance, below is but one small section of his book that I will focus on in this article written about Leedskalnin’s view on voting. He says:

 

It is not sound to allow the weaklings to vote. Anyone who is too weak to make his own living is not strong enough to vote, because their weak influences weakens the state and a degenerated state cannot exist very long, but every state should be sound and lasting.

 

By voting, the voters dictate the state’s destiny for times to come and then allow such a weak influence to guide the state, it is not wise and so you see one should vote according to how he is carrying the State’s burden.

 

Another unwise thing about equal voting is that it gives the loafers and weaklings the power to take the property away from producers and stronger people, and then another unjust thing about equal voting is that it gives the loafers and weaklings the power to demand an easy life from the producers and leaders.

 

Self respecting producers will not stand such an injustice for long. It is not the producers’ fault when one is too weak to make his own living. The producer’s life is just as sweet as the weaklings and loafer’s life is to them. All people are independent so you see everybody will have to take care of themselves and if they cannot, they should perish and the sooner they perish the better it will be.

To be lasting, the government should be built in the same way as the Supreme power of the land “the army.” Governments have been rising and falling but the army always remains. You know there is no equality in army and so there can be no equality in the state. If you are not an equal producer you cannot be an equal consumer.

 

In hindsight what Leedskalnin has said has proven 100% correct. From the vantage point of the counter-culture hippies and bra burning despots, Leedskalnin was participating in hate speech, but from the context of historical accuracy, nobody could argue the truth of his statements. The only criticism possible is to declare that it is mean-spirited to allow the weak in society to perish while the strong prosper and that it is up to the intellect of mankind to outthink the whole survival of the fittest mentality. However, which is a better mentality for the collective whole, the view-point of progressives who want to raise all boats even those with holes in them determined to remain on the ocean floor, or people like Leedskalnin who thinks society should advance regardless of those who desire to be the bottom feeders drowning from their own ineptitude? Obviously, the old hippie model has brought us all the elements that Leedskalnin predicted, so it was the little 100 pound man who stood at just 5’ in stature who said that weaklings should perish if they do not desire to be strong—that society should see itself as an army not as a government of equals—because such a view forces the strong to be weak so that the weak do not feel lowered in value.

There is no modern choice for the strong but to diminish themselves to the weak as the lesser have no ambition to become strong. So when society decides to make all people equal whether they are producers or takers the takers will always have leverage over the producers. This of course leads to the monstrosity that we have today in modern politics—a valueless system of corruption and disaster—just as Leedskalnin said it would. It’s not mean to say the truth unless the desire for society at large is to hide the truth from their own eyes to fulfill a fantasy of equality as possible no matter what level of ambition that an individual exhibits.

All people are created equal, as our founding documents in America declare. From there people make choices—even the mentally handicapped have opportunities under capitalism to overcome their stature and become something more. But people have to decide if they wish to become leaders or followers. Most people desire to be led about and to follow behind someone on the cutting edge. Those people are not equal to the leaders. It takes courage to be a leader and courage is lacking from the typical follower. So when the decision to become a follower is made, those people surrender their rights to be equal to a leader. There is no way to trick the system into some behavioral nonsense when distinctions between the strong and the weak need to be made.

For the followers nobody is proposing that they be blasted into space or imprisoned for foolishness—or even left to die. Actually Leedsalnin did say it would be better for weak people to die, but what he pointed out is that a democracy cannot survive if weak people have equal rights to vote with strong people—because the weak are not qualified to make proper decisions about such matters. In modern times we can now see what happens, campaign donations are horrendously high, progressives are pushing the ignorant to vote so that they can have wind in their sails of insurrection toward communist thought and the entire political system is bent around the will of lobbyists because of the intellectual vacuum created by such a failed system. When the weak are mixed with the strong and all assumed equal, the weak bring down the value of the strong and the sum of democracy becomes lessened.

All people do start in life equally, but as decisions are made in those lives a vast number of any given social population will desire to fall behind a leader. Such people then cannot expect to have the right to vote equally with people who have proven themselves to be leaders. To allow such a thing brings about the very conditions we are struggling with in American society presently. A continuation of that commitment will only lead to more of the terrible behavior currently witnessed on the political scene.

As hard as Leedskalnin’s comments were in the context of the World War II generation toward an emerging threat that he saw percolating through his scientific observations of unquestioned genius—the results are now confirmed. The progressives ran away from such wisdom and guided society to a precipice of destruction. At the time of his writing, Leedskalnin in his little book A Book in Every Home could not prove the debacle that would soon come from the 1960s in America continuing to the present—but he did predict it. Now looking back, it is time to analyze what values we must carry with us into the future knowing what we do. To fail such a task would be to doom ourselves to our own extinction. The weak cannot be made to sap off the strong so to make everyone equal because that is the only way such a thing can occur. The sum than of such a society is one relegated to the efforts of the weak and not the strong—which does nobody any good—not the weak or the strong. So it is time to take seriously the wisdom of our past and apply it to the future and a good place to start is where Leedskalnin properly identified a potential failure in American democracy within a republic—at the voting booth and the type of people qualified to handle such an important task.

Rich Hoffman

www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

Gene Simmons ‘Me Inc’: How to be an army of one

 Last thanksgiving during the Macy’s Parade I turned off the broadcast because of the Kinky Boots segment. It was too much for my holiday mindset and I didn’t want to see a bunch of guys dressed in drag running around in high-heeled boots. I wouldn’t consider seeing the play in New York, and I really didn’t want to see it on my television. I gave the LGBT people a chance once to pitch their argument and they gave me the Rocky Horror Picture Show—so that window closed and I’m done with them forever. What a ridiculous movement—no wonder they will remain a minority influence in American politics. However, the following year during the 2014 Macy’s Parade they cleaned up their act quite a lot seeking correctly to appeal to not just the red states across America, but the red counties. If any political map is studied, it becomes obvious that there is a lot of American real-estate that is undoubtedly conservative based and major supporters of capitalist endeavors. Liberals are rare in the core of America and Macy’s was seeking to repair their image with them—so it was with great welcome that the old rock band KISS gave a performance right in front of Macy’s dressed in full make-up and shooting fire at the end of their number just like in their concerts.

The only thing that KISS has in common with people in the LGBT community is that they dress up in strange costumes. The rock group KISS led by Gene Simmons is a comic book inspired unequivocal capitalist endeavor that has been a smartly guided enterprise by the former Hungarian immigrant. Simmons inspired by the Beatles created a stage presence that could have only been established in an American capitalist market combining comic book antics with rock and roll to create for himself over $300 million in net worth. Gene Simmons is a smart guy who marketed his band KISS in a way that redefined the music industry, so it was nice to see the 65-year-old rocker blasting away the streets of New York City on a cold November morning.

Gene Simmons is a unique personality that has always been excessively bold—unflinchingly confident, and unceremoniously blunt. He is the exact opposite to the counter-culture movement featuring socialist peace and love protestors looking for collective salvation—but instead represents raw individualism and self-reliance. As a businessman he has a similar personality as Donald Trump because it takes those types of people to create things from nothing. Not everyone can launch a business endeavor, and even fewer have the ability to manage others toward a task on the horizon only they can see. It takes a unique personality type to perform such a task so it shouldn’t be a surprise that Gene Simmons is the type of direct person that he is. He lives the way he wants to, he believes what he wants, he does what he thinks is right not measuring reaction against society’s gatekeepers, and if you don’t like it, he’ll just breathe fire on you and spit up some blood to assault puritan sensibilities.

Simmons has a new book out called Me, Inc and readers of this site will likely understand that there is a reoccurring theme that taps into the kind of work Ayn Rand was exploring about what makes a great entrepreneur and general businessman so successful. Her explorations were in direct contrast to the socialist movement of the twentieth century as a means of study into American capitalism as opposed to European communism. Not everyone is qualified to manage things–people or resources. Often it is a lonely enterprise conducting life as a visionary where only one or two people can see what the goal is, as everyone else sits around waiting to be shown the path to success. Gene Simmons knows what that lonely road is like and he features those values in his new book.

If someone really wants success in life brown-nosing your way to the top isn’t going to cut it. Sending a potted plant to your boss on Christmas won’t help you achieve the levels of success that lead to boasting around the holiday dinner table, it just makes them a suck-ass. Success is not achieved “through” others, but over them. Most of the time people who decide to stand in the way of your vision will have to be run over to get where you want to go. This notion of collective bargaining and consensus is utterly despicable, and ridiculous. Gene Simmons like Donald Trump has written a book that articulates just that very trait for the would-be successful dreamer seeking to take an idea from murky thoughts into hard reality. In that process people will be run over because they are all too willing to stand in the street to halt your progress and as a visionary, you cannot have compassion for their misery when they force you to eradicate their self-imposed barriers.

Just shortly after watching Simmons KISS performance at the Macy’s Parade I received a parade of texts from well-wishers and brownnosers.   Some of those people were sincere and I replied back, most were just looking for a way to get on my good side for some future leverage. My son-in-law and I were at these moments talking about our new plans for the Cliffhanger stories and planning a video shoot to promote it early in 2015. I brought up some names of people to work with and one of them he immediately and ruthlessly dismissed not because the person was a bad person, but because he brought nothing to the table. It reminded me that I was including this person purely out of sentimentality and that this particular endeavor didn’t need to be watered down with such stagnation if we wanted it to work. My son-in-law showed good business sense in his decision and he has not yet read Gene’s new book. But it is those kinds of hard decisions that are required with any business enterprise from music delivery to complicated manufacturing. The coddled masses just do not have what it takes to push an idea of vision across a finish line and sentimentality often leads to destruction of an enterprise. It’s not that people’s opinions don’t have value, but that value often contributes itself to the customer base instead of the creative edge where things are created from nothing. In a nation that is currently struggling under a failed education system taught incorrectly to make decisions by encounter groups, the way to repair the debacle is with Gene’s new book Me, Inc: Build an army of one, unleash your inner rock god, win in life and business. Young people could especially use Gene’s new book as a means of re-educating them into the traits of successful people. They are not learning the correct means to business in colleges and government schools. Performing what is taught in those palaces of stupidity will lead fledgling young business people to crashing defeat in whatever their endeavors might be.

Even liberals got excited when they saw KISS performing in front of Macy’s because there is honesty to that rock group and specifically Gene Simmons that is uniquely American. Americans don’t need to explain themselves just as Gene doesn’t. All that matters in the end are results and America has those results when they act alone. It fails when America seeks consensus with other countries just like people fail when they act aside from the leadership of a visionary. Gene Simmons is a proud individual who offers no apologies. Most of the world could use the message in his new book. He has written it not because he needs the money, but because the old school teacher in him still wants to help people by teaching them to help themselves. Hopefully, many will take him up on his offer. Those who do will greatly benefit.

You can purchase the book at the following link:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0062322613/?tag=mh0b-20&hvadid=7000546533&ref=pd_sl_43ktsu58db_e

 

Rich Hoffman

www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

 

Life as a Conductor: What to be thankful for

We are taught during our educations that we can only be good at one or two things at any given point in our lives, and that we must choose between what is important and what is not. Any idiot who has said these things to you lied—they were vile spinsters of bottomless deceit. They are spinsters not in the usual sense of the sexes and definition of unsanctified matrimony, but in their lack of ability to merge with the heartbeat of life living a unknowing existence driven by ignorance just as the loveless life of a spinster does not know the joy of marital bliss. By default we enter life metaphorically as a musical instrument only able to play the notes of our intellect as our development teaches us to articulate the world around us. When we are teenagers we may develop the complexity of a rock song, able to string together a few musical instruments into a catchy beat. But as we get older, our personal music should become much more complex and dynamic. And if we do things correctly, we should be conducting personal symphonies by the time we are in our middle to elderly years. The notes of our life even down to the smallest subtly should be interwoven into our existence at every level and played as one giant musical number daily. For me at this point in my life, the musical track #13 on the new Interstellar soundtrack reflects my personal level of ability to conduct a personal symphony. The music heard below starts slow but gradually increases to a pitch of very complicated musical compositions including a massive pipe organ that merges from the background music to the forefront, which is very reflective of the type of life I am living. It is a wonderful piece extremely metaphorical—personally.

Success in business should not be shackled by success at home with a family—both are important and there is no reason why you should not be able to get on the floor and play with a grandchild while juggling millions of dollars worth the assets and still articulating important philosophy to adult children. A wife needs love and cannot be neglected do to other interests, but those other interests cannot be neglected by the attention hungry spouse either—just as all music in a complex symphony wants to be heard for the grand fortissimo of their composition. The strings cannot complain that the percussion overwhelms their utterances—it is the conductor’s job to put all those notes at play. It is that step of conductor from simple musician that we must make in our lives if we are to meet the challenges before us as a waking awareness demands.

It was an especially proud moment for me when my grandson said, “OK boss,” when we were playing the other day. That is a term I use with people to let them know I see them as important and that I don’t impose my authority over them in a way that can be seen distracting. I mean it in a respectful way, and I say it to my grandson as a way to show him that his intellect is important and that I am respectful to his awaking knowledge. But as a child with limited instruments to conduct his own symphony with, he can only yet repeat what is said around him as a two-year old. But as we were playing my wife was cooking for Thanksgiving dinner, I was receiving texts from across the world needing answers, and four members of my immediate family have birthdays that desired my ordainment all within a few days of each other. There would be no way to playing all those musical instruments metaphorically speaking with a simply lyrical song such as some rap, or rock beat. Only a symphony is able to pay all those necessities the attention the simultaneously deserve. But to play them it requires a conductor to stand in front of them all and provide direction—leadership, and respect for what they all bring to the table for the composition needed.

For instance, in the Hans Zimmer piece referred, the pipe organ by itself is quite a complex instrument. It could easily be a metaphor for a needy wife or overbearing child that desires exclusive treatment. But to play just organ music when a much more complex piece of music is needed to tell the story of our lives would be to stifle our lives to that limitation, which would be destructive—and corrosive. But you cannot do as many people I know did on the night before Thanksgiving when a symphony was required in their lives to meet all their objectives—you cannot go and get into a drunken state as a declaration of indecision. All the instruments of your life need to be played and they need a conductor to make them work in unison. If things are done correctly, you will become your own personal conductor in a life of music that is enchanting and unique. But if you fail, the many instruments of your life will sit waiting for your direction and without it, they never make a sound—but just sit there rotting.

Most of the hard feelings not talked about around Thanksgiving dinner tables come from this failure to conduct the symphonies of which we all play a part. Some people just don’t feel comfortable with string instruments, or the brass. Some don’t like organ music, some prefer the piano—but the weakness is in not embracing all those elements equally and taking charge as an intellectual conductor who can hear the tiniest note mixed with the most complex fortissimo of full notes in a tight beat. Failure to embrace a full symphony in our lives and instead insist on the simple music of our youth is the source of the tragedy. There is no excuse—“but I’m only one person.” There is only the need of a conductor and the fulfillment of those terms.

I enjoyed Thanksgiving in 2014 because my personal fortissimo was much more complicated than the year before and has progressed that way for over 25 consecutive years, which is a measure I hold in relation to myself. I cannot imagine a more complex piece of personal music to conduct as the one I have performed over the last 24 hours. But I will strive next year to improve upon it as only a conductor can. It is not the job of the conductor to play every instrument in their symphony, just to have an understanding of how to play them all. To do so well takes living life and practicing with all of them—and it takes years to master. But when you do, the music that can be made as a conductor unifying all those elements together can be quite a miracle, and the benefactor of many minds who are directly, or indirectly touched by the music you make. It is possible to be good at many things and to do all those things as the same time. The difference is that we must evolve our musical tastes from the very simple—the tunes of our youth—to the tunes of an adult living a full life as masters of many complex skills played in unison to conduct music only we can for ends specific to our intentions. But we must also do so without expecting the members of our symphony to always be happy just playing instruments for us—but to encourage them to evolve into conductors of their own as their skills flourish.

It is good to encourage the members of our own personal symphonies to be their own boss in due time so that the music that enters the world can evolve into the complex utterances that existence demands without the restriction of excuses and lazy, paranoid, lackluster that would rather bask in drunkenness than to shoulder the responsibility of living life as a conductor for the next grand fortissimo. When I say to people, “OK boss,” it is to get them past the shock of authority so that they can as quickly as possible settle in to conducting their own music the way only they can. It is to step beyond that silly human need to be important by title only—and to step up to the podium and before an awaiting orchestra to begin a tune lead by a conductor who has mastered every instrument and is uniquely positioned to lead them all without pretense.

What am I most thankful to on Thanksgiving—music—the hidden beats of intellects striving to be heard against the cold repression of stoic indifference and fear of the unknown.

Rich Hoffman

www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

Communism in Ferguson: The unstated menace behind violant riots in America

Watch all the videos on this article for the proof of the following text:

They may not call it by name, but much of the behavior rooted in what has become known as black community relations is undoubtedly communist. During the Cold War communist sleeper cells penetrated college campuses and black leadership to inject that vile political philosophy into those communities through a mask of progressivism. Two movements spun off this activity, the counter-culture hippie movement and the various Civil Rights protests advanced by the Black Panthers—not to be confused with the good work of the Republican Martin Luther King. Behind much of that radical behavior in the 60s and 70s was communist insurgency.

During the 80s and 90s the communists changed their names and hid their activity behind labor union policy, black community religion, and progressive politics. Occasionally they called themselves who they were, but generally hid their behavior behind the designation of “alternative.” In most large cities there are always “alternative” newspapers that mostly steer their efforts at college campuses, sexual perverts, and the black community. In St Louis just such a newspaper was called the Revolution and they were actually at the press conference with Governor Jay Nixon prior to the Ferguson grand jury decision. The exchange can be seen at the video below followed by the way The Blaze reported it. If anyone doubted these claims I have made here, and in the past about the influences which have driven black communities all over America into the very poverty they suffer from, this reporter from the Revolution is all the proof needed. Clearly he advocated the very behavior that the people in Ferguson followed as soon as the grand jury decision was made.

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon was interrupted Monday evening while delivering a press conference ahead of the Ferguson grand jury decision by a supposed journalist with a communist newspaper.

“Excuse, me! Governor Nixon, wouldn’t the lack of an indictment be a justification of police violence and lead to more police violence —,” the man, identified as Larry Evers from the “Revolution” newspaper, said.

“I’ve called on this man first,” interjected Nixon.

However, Evers continued asking his question.

“And if I might ask you, you need to let the alternative press speak here,” he said.

“So wouldn’t a lack of indictment mean fear for black people all over this country and effectively a green light for police violence?” Evers continued. “And second, I would like to pose to you, how you would respond to call by … the Revolution Communist Party that if officer Darren Wilson is not indicted … the country be brought to a halt through energetic, civil disobedience by millions of people.”

Nixon dismissed Evers by saying he did not know the grand jury’s verdict or what the prosecutor was set to announce.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/11/24/watch-the-moment-a-communist-interrupted-missouri-gov-jay-nixons-ferguson-press-conference/

Progressive groups largely in control of the black neighborhoods have exposed their tendency toward social collectivism have for years used them to advocate the spread of communism as Karl Marx always intended. That demographic group has been used as pawns in the intense desire to spread communism through capitalist economies. Most of the protestors in the wake of the Ferguson riots would not call themselves communists, but their social beliefs fall nearly in line with that old collectivist mentality. This is because they were trained to believe in communism without calling those beliefs by the official name—instead it was called “democracy,” or “fairness.” However the underlying beliefs were communism advanced through deceit to exploit a race of people who were already primed for revolution.

People like Larry Evers—the communist reporter are just reminders of how much the “alternative” wing of social politics are manipulating the ignorant and easily swayed toward a revolution of their desire. They will exploit any opportunity, and the Ferguson grand jury announcement was just as good as any. Those who still believe in communism must find reasons to churn up the disenchanted with a level of hate that is driven by a perception of their own creation. For instance, the thugs, goons, and low-life’s who took to the streets to vandalize their community supposedly over outrage that a young black male was shot by a white police officer—immediately targeted the capitalist endeavors in their communities. One of the first targets was the burning down of a Little Casers Pizza place which they will regret terribly in a few weeks when they want a $5 pizza.   Another target was a local Dollar Store along with many other store fronts with an obvious militant attitude against capitalist oriented objectives. The rage toward the police is only a ruse as they have been portrayed to represent the protection of private property for “white, capitalist, America” and the “imperialism that it imposes throughout the world.

One of the primary beliefs of communism is the eradication of private property so that everything is collectively owned. The anger at the police is that one of their prime motives is the protection of private property, so when a mass of protestors want to insult the police, they attack the police ability to provide that security. That is the military objective behind the behavior. For the street thug, they are not aware of this higher strategy, but people like Larry Evers is as he represents the radical far left beliefs. His point in addressing Governor Jay Nixon was to let the public know that communists were present behind the Ferguson riots providing news outlets like CNN, and MSNBC along with USA Today to appear as left-leaning moderates. Once the public accepts that those news outlets are the baseline of belief, then outlets like talk radio, and Fox News look to be as radical as the communists—in the court of public opinion. But, CNN and the like-minded affiliates are slowly percolating the same progressive positions inspired by Cold War communism with gentle nudges in support of the protestors—radicalized on the streets by newspapers written by people like Evers, or reverends in their churches invoking open communism through collective salvation.

Most of America is wondering what the riots are really about because what is being shown doesn’t make logical sense. The reason for the mystery is not racism or even aggressive police work—but in the bringing down of “white” (capitalist) America in favor of a social movement toward mass collectivism. Those radicals don’t care if it is little “C” communism or progressivism—they only care to advance their cause against capitalism—by any means. To understand the Ferguson riots it is only possible to identify the correct forces behind the movement instead of the allegations of racism—which are used to mask it. To understand what is really behind the riots just read Larry Evers or any progressive newspaper in any city in the country and you will see.

For instance this is how the progressive newspaper City Beat in Cincinnati covered the story. City Beat’s approach is to sell itself as everybody’s friend regarding life in Cincinnati. They tell you the highlights of the news, what music is playing where, and what’s the latest and greatest in the art world. But sprinkled into their dialogue are heavy-handed progressive diatribes with a very left-leaning tendency. Click the link below.

http://citybeat.com/cincinnati/blog-6113-morning_news_and_stuff.html

Now, I’m sure people with the memory of a shallow stream dried up during a July drought will think that I’m reaching by making such a comparison. For those people the proof is in the link below from that same publication mourning the loss of Mark Mallory as mayor.

http://citybeat.com/cincinnati/article-19452-conservative_policies_and_progressive_voices.html

City Beat is not as open about their social collectivism as Larry Evers is, but their intent is the same, to stir unrest among the black communities so that protests in their favor will always have a willing army. Every city has these provocateurs, and it is they who keep those poor people impoverished with derelict concepts and faulting thinking. It is the sympathy toward communism that is so implanted in black communities that these progressive newspapers use to churn up their desire for revolution against any symbol of capitalism, whether it is a business, or the police who protect those businesses. A whole society of people have been kept in deliberate ignorance by social reformers like Larry Evers with the intent to use them to advance a social agenda started during the Cold War—which is still alive and well, and very much a threat. The evidence of that threat is the Ferguson riots.

How serious is this situation? Well, read this link and you’ll know the extent.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/11/25/rapper-jokes-about-killing-crackers-in-their-sleep-during-ferguson-inspired-rant/

Rich Hoffman

www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

 

 

 

 

Edward Leedskalnin: Secrets of magnatisim and the tragedy of “soiled” young girls

I really like Edward Leedskalnin. He was my kind of guy and is one of those obscure geniuses who never had a fair shake during his lifetime, but likely held the secrets that many in the human race most decidedly crave. It is likely that he had the intelligence of Einstein without the fame or platform—and being a natural recluse whose hobby was “thinking,” the outside world just never considered the importance of his work or gave him the respect he deserved. But Leedskalnin likely preferred it that way.

Edward Leedskalnin (Latvian: Edvards Liedskalniņš) (January 12, 1887, Stāmeriena parish, Livonia; December 7, 1951, Miami) was an eccentric Latvian emigrant to the United States and amateur sculptor who single-handedly built the monument known as Coral Castle in Florida. He was also known for his obscure theories on magnetism.

Edward Leedskalnin was born January 12, 1887, according to World War I draft registration records, in Stāmeriena parish, Latvia. Little is known of his childhood, aside from the fact that he was not wealthy and achieved only a fourth-grade education. However Edward was a sickly boy, and often spent his time inside reading books — eventually leading him to discontinue his schooling as it “bored him”. For Ed, his development of a yearning to obtain knowledge became a passionate and potent driving force in many endeavors throughout his later life.[2] At the age of 26, he was engaged to marry Agnes Scuffs, a girl ten years younger.[3] However, the girl that Leedskalnin referred to as his “Sweet Sixteen” broke the engagement the night before their wedding, so he emigrated to North America[4] where he found work in various lumber camps in Canada, California, and Texas.

Then, after contracting a case of tuberculosis, Leedskalnin moved to the warmer climate of Florida around 1919, where he purchased a small piece of land in Florida City. Over the next 20 years, Leedskalnin putatively constructed and lived within a massive coral monument he called “Rock Gate Park”, dedicated to the girl who had left him years before. Working alone at night, Leedskalnin eventually quarried and sculpted over 1,100 short tons (997,903 kg) of coral into a monument that would later be known as the Coral Castle. He used various basic tools, several made from timber and parts of an old Ford; first he built a house out of coral and timber, then he gradually built the monuments for which he is famous.[4] In spite of his private nature, he eventually opened his monument to the public, offering tours for 10 cents. He was a surprisingly accommodating host, even cooking hot dogs for visiting children in a pressure cooker of his own invention.

When people asked Leedskalnin how he had moved all of the stone by himself, he refused to give over his method and would only reply to whoever was asking with the same statement: “I understand the laws of weight and leverage and I know the secrets of the people who built the pyramids (being those at the site at Giza in Egypt).”

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

Coral Castle is a stone structure created by the Latvian American eccentric Edward Leedskalnin (1887–1951) north of the city of Homestead, Florida in Miami-Dade County at the intersection of South Dixie Highway (U.S. 1) and SW 157th Avenue. The structure comprises numerous megalithic stones (mostly limestone formed from coral), each weighing several tons.[2] It currently serves as a privately operated tourist attraction. Coral Castle is noted for legends surrounding its creation that claim it was built single-handedly by Leedskalnin using reverse magnetism and/or supernatural abilities to move and carve numerous stones weighing many tons.[3]

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

He was also a writer and published a few books, one on education and politics, and another on the mysteries of magnetism. Leedskalnin’s first and longest booklet, a treatise on moral education, was printed on only the left-hand pages, and begins with the following preface:

Reader, if for any reason you do not like the things I say in the little book, I left just as much space as I used, so you can write your own opinion opposite it and see if you can do better.

The Author

In the first section, Leedskalnin vents his anger at his “Sweet Sixteen”, arguing that girls should be kept pure, and that boys are primarily a soiling influence upon them. On page 4 of A Book in Every Home, Leedskalnin writes:

“Everything we do should be for some good purpose but as everybody knows there is nothing good that can come to a girl from a fresh boy. When a girl is sixteen or seventeen years old, she is as good as she ever will be, but when a boy is sixteen years old, he is then fresher than in all his stages of development. He is then not big enough to work but he is too big to be kept in a nursery and then to allow such a fresh thing to soil a girl — it could not work on my girl. Now I will tell you about soiling. Anything that is done, if it is done with the right party it is all right, but when it is done with the wrong party, it is soiling, and concerning those fresh boys with the girls, it is wrong every time.”

The second section continues along the theme of moral education, with several aphorisms aimed at parents regarding the proper way to raise children. The last, “Political” section reveals that the reclusive Leedskalnin had strong political views. He advocates voting for property owners only (and in proportion to their holdings), and argues that “Anyone who is too weak to make his own living is not strong enough to vote.”

Some writers have suggested that Leedskalnin’s booklet contains further information on his electromagnetic research and philosophies encoded in its pages, and the blank pages are provided for the reader to fill in their decrypted solutions. It has also been suggested that Leedskalnin’s frequent referral to his “Sweet Sixteen” may in fact refer to the numerological and/or scientific relevance of the number sixteen to his research and theories.[6]

Leedskalnin’s ideas may appear unusual. He wrote that a mother’s most important task is to ensure that her daughter remains “chaste and faithful”:[4]

“In case a girl’s mamma thinks that there is a boy somewhere who needs experience then she, herself, could pose as an experimental station for that fresh boy to practice on and so save the girl. Nothing can hurt her any more. She has already gone through all the experience that can be gone through and so in her case it would be all right”

I find myself agreeing emphatically with Leedskalnin on most of his social and political positions and believe that he was tapped into the elusive power of magnetism as they have a direct effect on concepts of anti-gravity manipulation. His science as obscure as it was indicated by his writing was firmly rooted in a value system driven obviously by the lost love of a potential wife whom it appears he never got over. He applied his massive intellect toward building a magnificent castle garden for her, but she never came. Even at the turn of the century, he was already observing the corrosive effect that males have on females when he references how they “soil them.” And he’s right, just imagine what his thoughts of girls today would be—they are “soiled” at age 11 and 12 now through the same public education system that he found so boring.

Leedskalnin chose to be a recluse it appears for similar reasons that I limit my social contacts—because people are disappointing—they often fail to live up to their potential and are often relegated to poor personal standards. Leedskalnin saw one of those social failures occurring at the young age of women becoming soiled by males—which then lowers the ambition of the males ones they get what they wanted—the benefits of the young woman’s loins. I often have similar thoughts, older women look too often like used up husks and males no longer want to hunt in their loins since the endeavor becomes easy. So the males turn toward younger women not yet ruined by life and its disappointments. Currently we have an education system which seeks to exacerbate this crisis instead of rectifying it with value and that is certainly not good for civilization. Knowing these kinds of things makes dealing with people difficult—deeply laborious in fact—because people can only take from you and have little to give back leaving the thinking person always feeling emptied by such human presences.

So are people like Leedskalnin wrong? Of course not, nobody else in America or the world currently has been levitating three-ton rocks around with anti-gravity devices—no university has discovered his secrets through his decoded writings. He left hints, but a non-thinking world just doesn’t have what it takes to perform the task. And to him the origin of the problem was with women—a woman that left him at the altar likely for a more exciting man. He blames the girl’s mother for not establishing the proper virtue in causing her heart to behold a man who could lift massive stones with just simple garden tools and an ancient secret as opposed to the football star, the Wall Street financier, or the fancy pants scum bag who could purchase a large diamond for her finger to show off to her friends. A failure to have a society of quality women has led to a degeneration of men who simply no longer wish to work for anything any more—especially sex. The young men of our day are a grotesque species pampered from birth to have everything given to them so as adults they only want to soil up women to deposit themselves in so that they can return back to their video games. It is that loss of intellect that has prevented others from discovering the secrets of Leedskalnin even though he posed the challenge gently hoping for takers to solve his riddles. Sadly, most of a century later—he has not had any real takers because of the soiled women and lazy men rotten from their public educations. I like Leedskalnin so much because for once I feel like I’m not the only one saying these kinds of things. For society, they have to weigh out the value of collective foolishness over individual genius—such as what Edward Leedskalnin had. For me, I’ll pick the advice of a guy who can levitate giant rocks over the average Joe who only wants to soil women, any day of the week. The values of the two are not even relative to one another. And it is in the former that the keys to civilization’s future reside. The trouble is that we do not teach our young to recognize this value—which is a tragic loss to human potential now and so long as it continues.

Rich Hoffman

www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

 

Mighty Mike and ‘Blackfish’: In defence of Sea World–the hypocrisy of CNN

It’s not a secret that I support and love the Newport Aquarium. Over the years I have never grown tired of it, and consider it one of the great Midwest destination points. For travelers coming from New York, Europe, and Malaysia or anywhere for that matter, even Florida—the Newport Aquarium is a combination of spectacular river views, one of the best overlooks of the Cincinnati cityscape there is coupled with an intense love of aquatic conservation. It is a Cincinnati treasure that never wears out. The sharks, and fish exhibits are wonderful—they are top class. But, it is the Turtle Canyon and Alligator Alley that really set this aquarium apart from others and makes Newport such a special place. The animals at the aquarium are lucky to be there—especially Mighty Mike—the 14 ft alligator designated for destruction in Florida when he was found to be too much of a menace to leave alone by the conservation department. Mighty Mike if left in the wild would have been destroyed—but because of places like the Newport Aquarium there was a justifiable reason to capture the large animal and put him in a resort so people could learn about him while also giving him the most optimal surroundings to retire in as he is estimated to be around 50 years old—old for an alligator.

Mighty Mike left the Aquarium in 2011 for a bit of a tour at a zoo but has returned in the spring of 2014 to a new exhibit much more accommodating for the large creature. Here Mike gets spoon fed a few times a week and gets to hang out in a perfectly climate controlled area that never changes. The new exhibit area spans 44 feet and holds 8,000 gallons of water. This makes the new area 30 percent bigger than Mighty Mike’s previous display space. His viewing height is just over 40 inches above floor level when he’s floating in the water. This puts Mighty Mike at the perfect height for children’s viewing.

The water temperature is kept at 80 degrees, ideal for American alligators. New heaters were installed in the area to assure the temperature is met year-round, and new UV sterilization systems assure that the water quality and clarity is pristine for the Aquarium’s large guest. In addition, a 12-foot by 14-foot basking area was constructed for Mighty Mike’s favorite pastime: sunning.

Over 7,000 pounds of concrete have been mixed, colored and hand-applied to the new exhibit area to create faux-rock work, along with over 3,000 pounds of sand for the habitat.

http://www.fox19.com/story/16578564/mighty-mike-returning-to-newport-aquarium

Without tourism like some of the alligator farms in Florida and the Newport Aquarium, animals like Mighty Mike would be destroyed as a menace. If he lived in Africa which hosts a human population still subservient to wildlife due to technological insufficiency Mighty Mike would not have many natural predators. But in Florida—he was just too big to be kept in the wild. Mankind is not subservient to animal life, but is in command of it—that is an important distinction for what I’m going to say next. Also, human life is not more important than intellectual understanding. Humans need to know, to press the bounds of limitation. Advancement technical and intellectual is more important than the death of any individual—such as the case involving the recent Virgin Galactic crash. Just because handling a large alligator like Mighty Mike is dangerous does not mean that there should not be an attempt so that millions of visitors to the Newport Aquarium can learn about the large creature up close and personal. If an occasional trainer is injured or even killed in that process it is worth the experience and preservation of the animal.

This has never been truer than the recent trouble that Sea World is having after CNN aired purposely in support of their radical left winged agenda driven regressive human position the documentary flop called Blackfish. The film was a flop because it only made $2,073,582 during its release. For comparison of how much money that is consider that the films of the Atlas Shrugged series made more money and they were considered a horrible box office disappointment that were castigated by virtually every national media outlet and critics associations. Yet CNN picked up the rights showing the film in October of 2014 causing stock for Sea World to plummet because it was there that regular people and not progressive radicals saw the movie.

Blackfish is a 2013 documentary directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite. The film premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2013, and was picked up by Magnolia Pictures and CNN Films for wider release.

Blackfish focuses on Tilikum, an orca held by SeaWorld, and the controversy over captive killer whales.

The documentary[1] focuses on the captivity of Tilikum, an orca involved in the deaths of three individuals, and the consequences of keeping orcas in captivity. The coverage of Tilikum includes his capture in 1983 off the coast of Iceland, and purported harassment by fellow captive orcas at Sealand of the Pacific, incidents that Cowperthwaite argues contributed to the orca’s aggression and includes testimonial from Lori Marino, Director of Science with Nonhuman Rights Project. Cowperthwaite also focuses on SeaWorld‘s claims that lifespans of orcas in captivity are comparable to those in the wild,[2] typically 30 years for males and 50 years for females,[3] a claim the film argues is false.[4] Interview subjects also include former SeaWorld trainers, such as John Hargrove, who describe their experiences with Tilikum and other captive whales.

Cowperthwaite began work on the film after the 2010 death of Tilikum’s trainer Dawn Brancheau and in response to the claim that the orca had targeted the trainer because she had worn her hair in a ponytail.[5] Cowperthwaite argued that this claim had been conjecture and that “there had to be more to this story”.[5]

The film premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2013, and was picked up by Magnolia Pictures and CNN Films for wider release.[4]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackfish_(film)

I love Sea World and find the whale shows enchanting. Yes the killer whales on display there are dangerous, and yes they do occasionally kill trainers, or maim them. Sometimes it is playfully; sometimes they just don’t know their own strength, and sometimes the whales primal instincts come in and they grab a trainer by the leg and drag them deep into the water to drown them. Gabriela Cowperthwaite because her film attacked the “corporation” of Sea World was paraded around from interview to interview by the progressive media hoping to catch fire to her film. Under the entire enterprise is an attack on the corporate nature of Sea World and an intense desire to bring it down. It reminded me of the several films done against Wal-Mart and McDonald’s over the years attacking the corporate profits generated by these types of companies with a barely disguised effort to destroy capitalism behind a ruse of conservation.

Cowperthwaite behaving like a typical neurotic mom type overly careful in her raising of her children—as one of those bicycle helmet safety first parents who strap their kids up to the chin in padding so they can ride their bikes down the driveway of their house—took it upon her self after seeing an orca whale at Sea World kill a trainer to expose the entertainment giant as a profit first greedy company of exploitive evil. She won awards, critical acclaim and a fan following within progressive circles and nut cases like the PETA girls who stand naked in public to protest the harmful treatment of animals. The movie didn’t get any play until CNN offered the film for free on its news station and it was there that it received a bit of an audience.

This has of course put Sea World on the defensive—because it takes a lot of money driven by profit to run those massive parks—and care for all their animals. The Cowperthwaite argument that Sea World’s animals would live longer in the wild, or have a dominate dorsal fin sticking up erect in the water if they were wild is built on the premise that corporations are evil while nature is an eternal benefactor.

The truth about Tilikum featured in Blackfish is that he was an abused whale and was not the most dominant of his herd—meaning in the wild he would have to compete for mating rights, food and even social status with more dominant killer whales. It is unlikely that he would survive long in the wild, but at Sea World he at least is able to live well in nice climate controlled waters and is fed every day on time by people at Sea World who generally cares about him. Yes he is profitable to Sea World—and he has a lot more value to the human population at Sea World than he did off the coast of Iceland—of which people like Cowperthwaite and the geniuses at CNN would declare—“who are we to say such things?” Well the answer is that human beings right to know supersedes nature and even human life if our species is to advance. Progressives (regressives) actually desire to return back to the nature worship of our primitive past when we did not have tools to deal with such monsters of the ocean, or decedents of the dinosaur like Mighty Mike—the alligator.

The attack on Sea World is the same communist rhetoric which founded the progressive movement to begin with—their intention is not animal conservation, which is arguably far better for the animals under Sea World’s care than in the wild—it is the corporate nature of profit that Sea World uses to propel its conservation awareness. Leftist groups that have rallied behind Cowperthwaite’s film wish to use her motherly panic to attack yet another American corporation with the hopes of devaluing it into nothingness. Largely, by the investment reports regarding Sea World, CNN was successful as the stock price plummeted after the October airing of Blackfish.

For those who really love earth’s animals and wish to learn more about them, a zoo, an aquarium or an amusement park dedicated to that study is a wonderful invention. The most important thing to nurture in the human race is the development of their minds—even if death is sometimes a factor. Safety is not more important than intellectual understanding. Cowperthwaite’s panic over what her children saw at Sea World when Tilikum turned on its trainers stroked the fires of activism in her taking a film maker who needed a project that would have some legs and left her to exploit a corporation that does considerable good for oceanic research and used the progressive left to fuel her efforts at legitimacy. She used CNN for fame she wouldn’t have otherwise obtained, and CNN used her to advance their regressive social agenda of climate conspiracies and anti corporation banter.

Whenever I see Mighty Mike at the Newport Aquarium I am thankful that there is such a place where I can see such a magnificent animal on my way to the bookstore at Newport on the Levy and dining at Claddagh’s. If he wasn’t there, I wouldn’t get a chance to see him and appreciate his magnificence along with the nature that produced him. It’s a good deal, he gets a nice place to reside free of trappers and other predators—even climate fluctuations. People get to see a great exhibit, and human beings are able to advance through intellectual stimulation. Everybody wins, just as they do at Sea World. Life in the wild isn’t so great for the killer whales—mother earth is not kind to her children of the sea. Life is hard and food is difficult to find. You would think CNN and the other progressives would see animal captivity as an appropriate metaphor for their social policies of government dependence and wealth redistribution. They don’t think anything of making millions of people dependent on welfare yet they can clearly see the trouble of making animals addicted to human intervention into the natural patterns of a whale’s life. Yet they argue both ways—with illogical conclusions that point to only one ending, the destruction of the human race in favor of nature regaining control of the future of all evolution—instead of the tools of man formed through observations of Mighty Mike and his prehistoric presence.

Rich Hoffman

www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

Cabela’s of West Chester: The story of a family enhancing conservation through capitalism

 One of my daughters and my wife had a shopping day recently that carried them into Bass Pro Shops at the Forest Park location. I haven’t been there recently because it is moving to the Streets of West Chester and I have been excited for that switch. The store will be impressive and will be a tremendous asset to the destination experience at Union Center, Ohio. The government of West Chester is running the way things should in every population dense area. George Lang and his crew of trustees are creating incentives for businesses to evolve around and lowering the barriers of entry into emerging markets—which is one of the reasons that Bass Pro is moving from Forest Park to West Chester. There are much more lucrative options at the Streets location than at Forest Park—clearly.

The interchange entering the new Bass Pro will be quite extraordinary. IKEA is already quite a draw and will share the Allen Road activity with Bass Pro which will provide shoppers with a truly epic experience. I’m not much of a shopper, but I do enjoy going to IKEA with my wife and eating the Swedish Meatballs they have there. It’s a cool setup and I like to eat in their cafeteria sitting by the windows watching all the cool new development springing up around the Union Center location. Development when it’s done correctly is like a work of art—and the Streets of West Chester, the area around Allen Road at IKEA, and on up Muhlhauser Road to the Jags restaurant is one of the most exciting areas in Cincinnati and I enjoy immensely watching the creation of all the new cool projects. Needless to say, I’m looking forward to the new Bass Pro location.

However my wife and daughter took my grandson to the old one and he had a wonderful time. At two years old he was discovering all the wonderful monstrosities that are featured in that store, the giant fish tank, the shooting range, the climbing wall, the huge selection of boats and pitched tents—for little kids and big kids alike, it is a destination of boundless adventure that is simply just wonderful. When I was a kid I had to get all my outdoor equipment from the Army Store in Fairfield, all my camouflage pants, my rappelling gear, compasses, canteens—all that kind of thing. I still love that store, but Bass Pro has been hard to beat. Their camping equipment is unmatched and whenever I go there I love their roasted almonds. So when my wife returned from Bass Pro she brought home to me a package of those almonds which made for a great snack.

As I was eating those almonds and thinking about the new location I was checking on the new Cabela’s store breaking ground at the Liberty Way location. I had just been looking over the construction at the Liberty Center site—another project I am excited for, and noticed that the new Cabela’s store was moving along in the 4th quarter of 2014 as it was supposed to be. Soon there will be standing an 82,000 sq foot log cabin complete with stone work and all the usual trappings that will give Bass Pro a run for their money just down the road. I am also a fan of Cabela’s and the magnificent store they have in Louisville, Kentucky. It will be quite a treasure to have two of those types of stores in my neighborhood as most communities salivate over having just one. People consider themselves lucky to have a Cabela’s store within a hundred miles of their homes, let alone four or five miles down the road. During the Holiday season if you happen to see George Lang, you should give him a big kiss on the forehead and thank him for keeping West Chester government small enough to stay out of the way of these kinds of developments—allowing them to emerge as profit margins often entice such creativity in business. When it is wondered why this particular point on the map is doing so well, and why there is such a concentrated amount of wealth in one area look at the government—the time it takes to get permits, the rules and regulations of the local bureaucrats and the tax rate–the answer will present itself. Look at areas where fiscal wealth is not present in such abundance and you will find local governments who have mismanaged their resources forcing people to vote with their feet—but pulling out their wealth and leaving.

Many don’t know the Cabela’s story, which is one of the great American success stories. Many don’t know what makes shopping at Cabela’s such a wonderful and fun experience—they just know that it is. So let’s take a moment to get to know the Cabela family—which is featured on many of the videos on this site and are worth watching. Knowing who they are will demonstrate even more articulately why the new West Chester store is such a miracle of capitalism and why I am personally grateful to know of its development.

The company that would become the massive sporting goods reseller and chain was started in 1961. Dick Cabela purchased US$45 worth of fishing flies at a furniture expo in Chicago which were advertised for sale via an advertisement in a local newspaper.[3] When his first effort produced only one response, he placed an ad in a national magazine, Sports Afield, which was more successful. Included with each order was a catalog of other products for sale by Cabela.[3]

As the business grew, Cabela and his wife Mary moved their operation to Sidney, Nebraska in 1963. Dick’s brother Jim also joined the business. From those modest beginnings, the company has since grown to a publicly traded corporation with over US$3 Billion in annual sales.[4]

On February 17, 2014, founder Dick Cabela passed away peacefully at his home in Sidney, Nebraska at the age of 77.

Founders Dick and Mary Cabela and Dick’s brother James Cabela retained 25% ownership of the now public company which trades under the stock symbol CAB.

About half of Cabela’s sales come from hunting-related merchandise with about a third derived from the sale of firearms, ammunition and accessories in 2012. Additionally, in 2012 30% of revenue came from direct sales (through catalog and online orders), and 59% from physical retail stores. The remaining 11% of revenue came from its financial subsidiary and credit card business.[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabela%27s

Richard Neil “Dick” Cabela (October 8, 1936 – February 17, 2014) was an American entrepreneur, best known as a co-founder of Cabela’s, a leading outfitter of outdoor sporting and recreational goods.[1][2] He stated that his business was inspired by his bout with polio and a deep love of hunting and fishing.[3] He was also described as an “ardent supporter of the National Rifle Association, a vocal supporter of the Second Amendment, a hunter, and a staunch proponent of wildlife conservation.”[4]

The fruits of their many years of labor carried them to a level of success that enabled Dick Cabela and his wife to build a magnificent home in the tradition of their many stores, a real tribute to wildlife and capitalist enterprise. That home can be seen at the following link along with a descriptive article. It is quite something to see.

http://www.ezpics.com/clients/savides1/PDF/Cabelas%20House%20feature.pdf

What started with a few fishing lures in a newspaper ad became a multi billion dollar industry and it was all started by essentially three people in a family—Dick, his wife, and brother—and they started it just because they had a passion for the products they were selling. Dick at the head of Cabela’s has been one of the most vocal supporters of the Second Amendment and the NRA so his footprint into the kind of politics I support cannot be ignored. So it will be a great pleasure to visit the new Cabela’s store in West Chester.

It took a lot of creative power and tenacity to bring Cabela’s to West Chester, it took a government with as much hands off approach that they could—minus the infrastructure improvements that had to be made off I-75 and the county of Butler for all the stuff that had to go under the ground to make the Liberty Way developments possible. For each new store that is built at Liberty Way there is a story similar to Dick Cabela—which I will think about every time I visit. It is people like him that make America great—and exceptional. That is why it’s a real celebration to enjoy roasted almonds from Bass Pro and to relish the aisles of a Cabela’s looking for new shirts, camping equipment, and rappelling gear. People like Dick Cabela and his family are uniquely American in that they help the environment by making people appreciate it in the best way possible—as active participants through capitalist endeavor. The new store at Liberty Way will have a constant customer in me—I can’t wait!

Rich Hoffman

www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

“Interstellar” Epiphany and Soundtrack Review: A 50th Anniversary at Virgin Galactic’s first space resort

I had an epiphany that my wife and I were stepping off a Virgin Galactic vessel into the first hotel of their design floating above the earth with the horizon spinning outside of a massive lobby window. It is Virgin’s first hotel in space established as a resort location rivaling the Atlantis vacation destination in the Bahamas complete with an indoor water park covered with large glass windows looking out into the vastness of space. The lobby was lush and expensive with exotic restaurants all offering outrageously epic views out every window. The moon is always full and casts a constant—haunting shadow through every object and mixed with the brilliant light shining off the earth is a bluish hue that has never been replicated by any light on the home planet. It’s our 50th wedding anniversary and we have a $5000 bottle of wine to mark the year of this writing to celebrate our first week-long vacation in space. We have worked hard and deserve to pamper ourselves with a very expensive outing that will mark many years of persistence. In the lobby is playing the old soundtrack to the classic 2014 movie Interstellar, which has by then become the standard of music referencing space. It was that award-winning Christopher Nolan movie that changed it all and set the tone for the second world-wide space race causing Hilton, Marriott and Virgin Galactic to build the first space stations catering to tourism. Virgin was the first to achieve it.

The majestic views out of the multiple windows demand the music of Interstellar because nothing else would be sufficient. The hotel operators just play constantly the old Hans Zimmer soundtrack to help alleviate the shock of being grounded so firmly to the floor as the view outside swirls around like a marry-go-round. It takes some getting used to for some people; some actually throw up with the disorienting effect of the earth’s horizon spinning around so rhythmically. There are trash cans stationed along the pathway toward the check-in counter large enough for visitors to dump their stomachs in the most graceful way possible. A cleaning crew quickly removes the contents so not to alter the smell of space—that rusty metal odor mixed with the fragrance of lobby vegetation that is intended carefully to greet guests as they step off the shuttle from their journey below.

We walk to the counter as track 7 on that enchanting soundtrack plays with organs chiming to the tempo of a clock’s second hand—the earth still swirling, the light from the moon and sun moving around the room casting shadows in all directions hauntingly. Bright overhead lights on the ceiling between more large windows cast stabilizing light so that the lobby looks to be the only stable element of a universe in chaos outside—which adds to the otherworldly sensation of a species raised on a planet where the sun rises and falls every 12 hours and the horizon is always fixed. Here, the sun is always out, the moon is always full, and the horizon never stills—it spins perpetually so to provide an earth like gravity for the visitors—some who are already in their swimming suits and heading for the massive domed Water Park behind the check-in counter.

My wife and I aren’t sick; the music brings our minds to ease with a familiarity that we know well. We have listened to that soundtrack every week for the last 25 years and know its notes by heart. Before checking in we just listen to it while we sit in one of the lobby seats and watch the Virgin Galactic shuttle pull away from the docking station and head back to earth with its navigational thrusters silently pushing it back into a declination orbit to Spaceport America—our home launch point. In another three hours that same ship will be back with more visitors and within 30 minutes another ship will arrive from Spaceport America and fifteen minutes after that, one from Space Port Japan, then one from Spaceport Europe. Because Virgin Galactic has brought the Internet to Africa—they now have one of the fastest growing economies in the world. Soon they will have their own spaceport in right in the middle of the Congo.

My wife and I head to our rooms and prepare for dinner. We spend five solid hours drinking our expensive bottle of wine sitting on our hotel bed watching the world turn—literally. And we cherish that this event has finally been made possible after many years of dreaming. The whole time we listen to our well-played soundtrack for the several hundred thousandth time—Interstellar, as we have always loved it and likely always will.

That soundtrack actually only came out a few days ago, on November 17, 2014, so my son-in-law rushed to Barnes and Nobel to get it for he and my daughter the moment it was unloaded from the delivery truck. They spent their evening listening to it while eating Chinese food from their favorite restaurant—and they gave me a copy. They have already seen the movie twice and are looking for ways to see it many more times. In what’s being touted as a first-of-its-kind promotion, Paramount and AMC Theatres are offering movie patrons in North America the chance to see Christopher Nolan‘s Interstellar as many times as they want, for one price.

As with any deal, there are rules. Those who want to participate must be members of the AMC Stubs program, which has an annual fee of $12.

The unlimited tickets will be available for sale to AMC Stubs members at 330 AMC theater across the country, including AMC Imax locations. The price will range from $19.99 to $34.99, depending upon the location (currently, the average cost of a movie ticket price in the U.S. is $8.08.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/paramount-amc-theatres-partner-unlimited-749512

Interstellar requires for most people many viewings just to understand everything that is happening. Many critics of the film on their first viewings were used to a more conventional film experience and didn’t know what to make of some of the sound issues. As I said in my review—I think I was the first and only one to date to point it out—the sound in Interstellar was entirely on purpose. Christopher Nolan wanted there to be times where the events overwhelmed the sound made by the actors—because in real life—that happens often.

“I’ve always loved films that approach sound in an impressionistic way and that is an unusual approach for a mainstream blockbuster, but I feel it’s the right approach for this experiential film,” Christopher Nolan said, speaking for the first time in detail about the use of sound in his new film.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/behind-screen/christopher-nolan-breaks-silence-interstellar-749465

It is because of this approach to sound that the Interstellar soundtrack was so exceptionally good—and is why it will become the inspiration for all that I described above. When my kids gave me the first copy of the soundtrack and I played it for much of the day on Tuesday and Wednesday listening to it many, many times—it was easy to conclude that it was a masterpiece. I remember the music being great during the movie, but listening to it by itself, it was simply phenomenal as it steps up and well beyond anything that’s ever been attempted. The closest that I can think of is Philip Glass—but the Hans Zimmer approach comes with a much bolder, and narrative link to the future by drawing so historically on the past.

Blasting through the track on the soundtrack titled “S.T.A.Y” all that I began this writing above occurred with the epiphany. Many of the world’s problems seemed so miniscule and the minds that made them that way even less relevant. I could literally reach out and touch that future space station/hotel as if I were there, as if I could smell it, taste it and walk across its vast floors with Richard Branson still alive and standing in the corner welcoming his guests with long flowing locks still beyond his shoulders with a smile from ear to ear.

At dinner in my epiphany there was a guest who played in the center of a vast dinning hall with a clear picture of the moon out the distant window—again spinning around with rhythmic precision upon a large glass piano lit from beneath with blue lights that made it look like it was made out of ice. That guest was an elderly Hans Zimmer playing the Interstellar soundtrack live with a deeply personal concert, graced too with a smile from ear to ear knowing that it was his soundtrack that helped build this palace of achievement in defiance of the earthly stupidity which attempted to shackle man’s ankles to earth forever. His music helped free those shackles to usher in this entirely new age of dreamers, fortune hunters and lovers of science and possibility. It was and would be the best dinner of our lives. Happy 50th Anniversary to us—and it was.

Rich Hoffman

www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

The Scumbag Jonathan Gruber: I hate to say I told you so……but I told you so

I have not covered all the gaffs and fiascos from the Jonathan Gruber meltdown in addition to all the lies emitting from the mouth of Barack Obama simply because I covered those issues years ago and reported them well before these latest revelations.

MIT economics professor Jonathan H. Gruber ’87, often referred to as a key Obamacare “architect,” has come under fire recently for videos from 2012 and 2013 in which he called American voters “stupid” and attributes the passage of the Affordable Care Act in part to “basic exploitation of the lack of economic understanding of the American voter,” according to press reports.

http://tech.mit.edu/V134/N55/gruber.html

To me this is nothing new—to everyone who thought that my comments were just right-winged hatred and mean spiritedness—the evidence is present for all to see. Obama and his companions centering on Obamacare always planned to pass their health care law through deceptive practices and hid key provisions from the American people purposely to get it across the voting process. This isn’t just bad or deceitful politics—it is criminal behavior worthy of serious punishment. But then again, I have said all that before too.

The news cycle is incredibly behind the curve of current thought, most of what they report are the results of things that happened months or years earlier and the Obama supporters behind the Affordable Care Act knew it, and deliberately attempted to deceive the American public with a radical take over of a fifth of the national economy. Their insurrection was nothing less than the equivalent of the nationalization of the health care system which affects the health of every American—and those around the world who depend on the care of Western Civilization. It is as grand of a conspiracy as the communist take-over of Petrograd during the Bolshevik Revolution and it was all conducted under a cloak of deception.

Mysteriously Obama is not shackled and chained for his criminal conduct, but is still given a platform of further lies and fraud to launch new waves of counter logic attacks against those who see what he is and has always been about. For those who wanted to elect a man of color for the White House, there are other options—Obama isn’t the only one—Ben Carson comes to mind or any of the fine people who call themselves Fredrick Douglas Republicans. Even the Civil Rights leader himself Martin Luther King was a Republican—as was the party that ended slavery in America against the Democratic advocates. Obama is a creation of the domestic terrorists left over from the Weather Underground and he was sent to destroy Imperial America for all the hippies who wanted to make themselves into bombs to fight against Western Tradition rooted in capitalism. Obama has always been a terrorist—he is not a representative of American Excpetionalism and does not represent a vast majority of the North American real-estate. Sure they like him in the big cities where welfare recipients have their hand out for government benefits, but in the vast amount of space between major cities, Obama his not only disliked—he is hated. He does not represent America any more than a towel boy represents an NFL football team.

In many ways Jonathan Gruber is worse than Obama, he was hired by the government to provide talking point lies to domestic terrorist politicians. He was hired to be the mind behind the deception and even went so far to brag about it hoping that everyone would forget about it if only he denied the allegations. These treacherous New England liberals watched too closely how Bill Clinton snaked his way through politics and conspiracy to arrive at a level of celebrity that they all aspire to. And arrogant little punks like Gruber felt confident that they could take the scam several steps further even making himself the center of a comic book explaining Obamacare to a naive public—which he was the star.

The result has been lies and lies and lies coming from Obama and his people—especially hired guns like Gruber. Everything from the Fast and Furious scandal, Benghazi and the video controversy which was a complete fabrication designed to save his presidential run—to the IRS attack of conservative groups meant to quell insurrection against Obama and his political machine of socialist Democrats. It will take decades to dust off all the layers and layers of deception conducted by Obama and his criminal class government thugs—and they know that people don’t have the temperament to sort through the mess. Gruber himself said so much. Imagine what they say when the cameras aren’t rolling.

Attend a liberal dinner party at a Nantucket mansion and you will hear far worse than Gruber’s revelations. The people who speak those types of words are not normal people who live in red county America—which is almost every bit of land from New York to Nevada. Their talks of insurrection are mutiny from logic to chaos, from security to instability, from freedom to domination by a bunch of goon squad campus geeks who only have power when they convince the masses to jump off a fiscal cliff into eternal debt that only people like Gruber can solve—because they created the puzzle in the first place.

None of these revelations are surprising to me however. This and more is just the tip of what we will soon discover—and much of it has been discussed here at Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom. I am keenly aware that the Nantucket types and their vast swarms of wanna’ be’s—particularly those pretentious ass wipes who live near me in Four Bridges—they hate this site because they want to stay anonymous to the eyes of the world. They want to conduct their lives as policy terrorists from behind the mask of social health and reform instead of the insurrection that they really intend. But they can’t, because to surrender to them would be a crime in itself. It is a crime to not report a crime—you can’t just pretend you know nothing—that doesn’t make the crime go away and Obama has committed many crimes with a lawyers swiftness figuring that whatever law he can’t openly manipulate, he can just scoot around with a technicality—just as he is planning to do over the immigration issue involving executive orders. The worst kind of criminal there is are those who can make laws to cover their deceit—which is what Obama is attempting to do through his current actions—cover his crimes with executive orders both in concealment and in winning over grateful patrons who might forgive judgment against him at a future date because of one of two good deeds performed during his term.

With Obamacare the economic terrorists hoped that the good deeds of health care coverage for the poor might offset the crimes committed to achieve the criminal elements of the case. They see themselves as Robin Hoods—taking from the rich and giving to the poor. But what they forget is that theft regardless of who it comes from is still a crime. And Obamacare is the theft of our medical industry for the benefit of the few while bringing it under the care of government bureaucrats. When Jonathan Gruber called voters stupid this is what he meant—they are easily deceived by pick pockets in government—so the taking was ripe for plunder. Then when he was caught saying such a thing—everyone was surprised. Well, I wasn’t, and if you read here often—you weren’t either. But comparatively, Gruber’s comments are small stuff—as the big stuff hasn’t hit the fan yet and when it does……………………………”SPLAT,” and it won’t be a pretty sight.

Rich Hoffman

www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

Cliffhanger Research and Development: Stories from inside the rabbit hole

As I promised I have a new project coming which should be obvious by some of the new icons on the side bar to this site. I have hinted at this venture as a second Cliffhanger book which is a sequel to my 2004 novel, The Symposium of Justice. When Tail of the Dragon was released, I heard from many fans that they wanted my work available as uploads to their devices which took me a while to accept. But after my second novel was out for a while and my publisher struggled to keep copies flowing to Amazon.com it was obvious to me that traditional publishing had changed in a way that was not to my liking.

As a writer I was very proud to have Tail of the Dragon move through the process of approval at a traditional publisher and to have it offered through a major book distributer. It was a personal goal of mine to gain that type of acceptance and to go through the process of getting celebrity blurbs and do interviews promoting the novel. It was a fun experience, but what became evident quickly is that really only media personalities already well established are getting play at a book store, and online publishing has changed the industry to such an extent that the new Stephen Kings, and John Grishems are not being moved up the chain in the fashion they once were. It has become much more of a crap shoot just to get exposure to have a chance to write another novel. So I listened to my fans and decided that in the future I would take more personal control over the distribution of my material and make it available in a way that modern audiences want—over their personal devices. My son-in-law spent many hours convincing me that the old publishing model was dead as well—so he deserves considerable credit for this new approach. Publishing in this fashion makes written work available to many more people over a vastly larger area—literally the world is at our feet these days—so any enterprising individual must take those considerations seriously when creating a new product.

14353_845346122153104_1934900240194546747_nBy the time my publisher went out of business bringing to a halt access to my novel, which had been selling well compared to their other titles—it was easy for me to detect much of their problem. For me I had a very good experience with the publisher, their art department, editors and assistants to the CEO. But the trouble started when I had to deal with the marketing department where a snippy liberal leaning young man was lost on how to market anything. He had obvious problems with me personally since all of my blurbs were from very conservative personalities and my views were so contrary to his. My publisher liked my controversial stances and had heard many of my radio interviews on WLW, but their head of marketing had a serious case of the goo when he heard my controversy about the latté sipping prostitutes—which he thought was sexist. Even though everyone I dealt with at my publisher was women, and he was the only man, he was the only one who was offended which I had no sympathy for—and I told him as much on several occasions. He decided to have a contentious relationship with me that lasted during our entire contract—right up until they went out of business in October of the following year—2013.

Clearly to me their failure was because of people like that marketing guy who was picking and choosing the kind of products the publisher would support and he was making the wrong picks. He was trying to sell books to red states offering blue state sentiment—which clearly was the wrong strategy. In hindsight it appears that the publisher was hoping I would find some way to deal with their very liberal marketing department stationed outside of San Francisco—diplomatically—which I know how to do…….I just don’t like it. But from the outset he decided he didn’t like my position, he certainly didn’t like my blog, and he hated my radio interviews especially my latté sipping prostitute interview on WLW where I refused to apologize to women everywhere for calling levy supporters whores and materialistic Obama supporters. Needless to say, we didn’t get off to a good start and in spite of the healthy sales, good blurbs, and media coverage our relationship only got worse over the next year. When they sent me the notification of going out of business I wasn’t surprised. Everyone at the publisher was nice, and we all said our goodbyes—except for that guy. We never spoke again—and likely never will. He was an idiot and he cost their company sales–and ultimately their jobs.

But I’ve been in that position before and my first company Cliffhanger Research and Development was my first experience with that type of issue. I had invented a new tooling concept and was seeking a patent—and the firm I was working with had a similar personality—this time the issue was not my political views, but my age—he simply thought I was too young to be filing patents. I quickly lost patience with the guy realizing that it was people like him who were keeping new products from being created, so I started my own R&D Company— which led to a whole new series of adventures.

Uniquely I have a past that is loaded with these types of experiences, so inevitably those types of plot lines find their way into my stories. They bring richness to my characters that are exceptional to my stories. Most of the time failure of an idea or project comes down to a weak link in the chain, so to guarantee success, fewer links in the chain mean less opportunity for error. So the decision to release my next book The Curse of Fort Seven Mile was made taking into consideration my experience—and input from fans. And as an extra caveat, just for sentiment, my old company of Cliffhanger Research and Development is a major part of the plot of this new story. That is the reason for the sudden appearance of its title and website.

It’s not that everyone in the world is incompetent—but it only takes one in a chain of collaboration to destroy a new concept or idea—when Cliffhanger Research and Development was first brought forth over twenty years ago, I spent more time in court than actually making anything which has provided me with a rich backdrop to create this new novel from. Truth most of the time is stranger than fiction and when I write, it is usually from experience. For instance, I would not be able to write about a character calling a group of prissy, progressive, latté sipping, levy supporters names of castigation unless I had done something similar in real life—which obviously I have. So with a clean conscience I can write with that type of authority which is essentially the nature of the work behind The Curse of Fort Seven Mile. I like to know that whatever I write about I have done in some capacity before. Growing up, one of the people I most admired was Douglas Fairbanks who actually expected himself to be the masked man Zorro, to the extent that he trained hard to be the swashbuckling bandit in real life. I am not the kind of person who is happy to write about fantasy from the comfort of a Starbucks on a laptop—I have to actually do and feel the things I write about.

After The Symposium of Justice came out I had written about that world from a vantage point relevant to my experience up to that point. But to go to the next levels—which was required, I had to plunge myself into the inner workers of my accusations—which I have done over the last five years. The result is what The Curse of Fort Seven Mile and resurrection of Cliffhanger Research and Development are all about. I never planned to be a pawn in politics or a player of the inner workings—I had to know that the characters and their stories that I wanted to write about were ones that I had actually lived through—even when the times and circumstances applied great pressure to be otherwise.

Reading back through my notes from my early twenties when I started Cliffhanger Research and Development I could have written the philosophic stance of The Curse of Fort Seven Mile—but I could not have felt comfortable with the aspects of it that I had to explore because I had not yet went far enough into the void to witness the range of emotions mandated to report such a story. But now I have and it would not be wise not to use the tools of modern distribution in cutting out all the insufficient minds of a collaboration chain when for the first time in history such stories of an unchained nature have the opportunity to be told as in this second Cliffhanger novel.

I am now well into the story and am very happy with the progress so far. I am particularly proud of Chapter II titled “Latté Sipping Prostitutes” which obviously draws from experience. It was a hard story to tell because it’s so relevant to the actual happenings of daily politics and the many tricks that occur which prevent mankind from advancing properly into a destiny driven by thought instead of primitive yearnings. In my experience with publishing, I have done my conventional work—notably with Tail of the Dragon. Thankfully, I am now free of those shackles. It was a relief actually to get the notification that I wasn’t going to have to deal with that liberal marketing guy again. We disliked each other so much that even emails were strained communications that neither one of us enjoyed, so realizing that I’d never have to speak to that guy again was better than realizing that my novel would no longer be offered to the public—even with brisk sales. So in the future, the prospect of direct downloads is far more lucrative and has ignited in me the desire to commit to another project.

There are many exciting things on the horizon for Cliffhanger Research and Development and its fun for me to see that name once again listed like a ghost from my own past—which it is. With age comes more variables—more options that are available, and today there are many more options for such ideas than there was twenty years ago—so it is time to use them to the unchained intentions of my imagination which was always a plan in the back of my mind. And the “research and development” portion of this new/old endeavor should be of benefit to many people—which is something that brings great enthusiasm to my very soul. It is a fun time to work on these kinds of projects and that exultation is driven by the independence that is permitted with these new delivery methods that have not previously been embraced to the full extent of possibility. So it is time to make those things……………..possible……………..little by little as 2015 begins.

Rich Hoffman

www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com