“Flopping Aces” blog posted this great video and it was so good I had to share it too. Former President Reagan speaks to us from the past reminding us we don’t need the “Elite Few” telling us what we want.

Now, if only we could get these D.C. elitists to watch and realize what they are doing wrong…

The ongoing vilification of the term capitalism really gets on my nerves.  People have locked in their minds a mythology defining it as large amoral companies feeding resources and/or people into it’s gaping maw for no other reason than it’s own continuance. However,  at least in my definition of things, that is in fact not capitalism but instead is actually Corporatism.

Once the United States was a flourishing capitalist nation of shopkeepers, skilled artisans, and farmers envied the world over. Increasingly over the last one hundred years corporate giants have crushed competitiveness, destroying small business and individuals who worked for themselves. Today citizens are enslaved to a system where the individual is lubrication for the corporate cogs driving big government.

Corporatism is defined (or re-defined depending on your viewpoint) as:

“Corporatism, also called “neo-corporatism”, is a term referring to tendencies in politics for legislators and administrations to be influenced or dominated by the interests of business enterprises, employers’ organizations, and industry trade groups. In this system government decisions are strongly influenced by which sorts of policies will lead to greater profits for favored companies.”

A recent article at the Missoula Independent points out that unlike some states, Utah has some fair and balanced concealed carry regulations open to non-residents.

Read all the details here – [LINK]

It’s cost this country a lot of money to finally learn the lesson that Obama was not the right person for the job. Many of us were wise enough to know that from the outset, but the mindless hordes that voted him into office are finally getting a clue.

The New York Daily News reports that the majority of U.S. Citizens are dissatisfied with the job he has done and the numbers are on the increase.

Read all the details here – [LINK]

Under the typical confused directionless Obama administration, NASA is being put on the back burner. It seems all the technological achievements brought about through space research and the eventual economic benefits of those new technologies will be ignored like everything else D.C. is refusing to think about. Beyond that there is the psychological effect of being a world leader technologically, it seems the powers that be are forgetting you have to dream, you have to reach for big goals or else you limit yourself until you are nothing more than a “could have been” living on past glories in a run down shack. That happens to people, and it happens to countries. Let’s look forward to something, not just focus on problems and past achievements by earlier generations.

I do feel NASA needed a shake up and to re-focus it’s goals on deep space instead of near earth, but to be shelved for ten or twenty years is just stupid. Washington D.C. still refuses to learn the lesson that you can’t solve problems by ignoring them or regulating them. Becoming deaf, dumb, and blind to things doesn’t solve problems or make them go away.

BBC Link on Moon Astronauts – [LINK]

These ladies were part of the Women Airforce Services Pilots program flying military aircraft for the United States Army Air Force during World War II and never got any real thanks from their country, If anything they were forgotten about for a period of time.

I’m glad the survivors are being formally thanked for all that they did, but isn’t it sad that back when they were in uniform they were not appreciated. Once upon a time this country regularly produced people of such outstanding qualities, makes me wonder why this is not true anymore. These women were heroic patriots and should never be forgotten.

To read more about these incredible women go here – [LINK]

I respect John McCain, however his daughter Meghan needs to keep her opinions to herself. If she is truly a representative
of her generation, then things are worse than I ever imagined.

In her opinion Meghan seems to think that just because many people in our country are concerned about the obvious educational deficiencies of our young, somehow in her mind this translates as being ‘racist’. This is one more reason we need to get the neo-hippy socialists out of our educational systems.

American youth have more potential in them than any other, however they are not being given the knowledge and discipline needed to become informed and well educated voters. Being concerned about this is not ‘racist’ it is normal, and it is abnormal to allow this trend to continue.

I think Meghan has spent too much time on extracurricular activities and not enough time studying, she gets and “F” for her final grade.

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My hope for the new decade is that it will be the start of an upward climb out of the pit of emotional and economic despair this country has been experiencing.

We need huge changes on every level of society and in every facet of our daily lives. Let’s strive to make wiser decisions for ourselves and hope that the people we elect into office make a major paradigm shift in the way they represent us and our interests.

Small business and manufacturing have been the backbone of this country since day one. Unfortunately the piles of cash huge companies throw around has leveraged out the the individual capitalist, setting the stage for the last several decades of Corporatism. I suggest that we stop pandering to these mega-corporations that have pillaged and plundered this nation for the last fifty years and bring back true capitalism. Let’s tie these pirates up in rules and regulations to prevent them from continuing this rape of our home, and let’s free the individual by removing the barriers, taxes, red tape, and fees that have strangled the life out of us making it nigh impossible for an individual to work for themselves.

As a country and as a society we need more responsibility on the individual level and the freedom to make those choices. The last thing we need is another decade of big bureaucracy with communist/socialist delusions of of some quasi-utopia.  Let’s say goodbye to “politically correctness” and cut momma’s apron strings so we can grow up and start taking care of business.

Despite mounting evidence of data tampering and outright lies, our U.S. Government is still perpetuating the myth of global warming to our detriment.

For details and some thoughtful insight please see the following article
at this link -> We’ve Been Had!

There are two great videos on YouTube.com from a university classroom lecture explaining why you should NEVER EVER talk to the police for ANY REASON!

Part 1 – Don’t Talk to the Cops: pt1

Part 2 – Don’t Talk to the Cops: pt2

Watching the two clips will take almost an hour but it is well worth your time. No matter who you are, no matter how much you are convinced you would never have any reason not to talk to a cop, watch this video and see if it doesn’t change your mind.