Well we've been in Hawaii for 4 days. Haven't hit the surf yet but we have been living the high life.

We have eaten Hawaiin food, scary (cheap) sushi, climed Diamond Head/Le'ahi, gone to Monoa Falls, and Baby Mark stuck his feet in the ocean.

Even PETA takes a stab at one our former VP's...

Why do our politicians act like common thugs? Trying to scare the average American into ceding his or her rights, money, and power to THEM?

This is the same thing that MSM is aiding and abetting by trying to get the word "recession" into every sentence in their newscasts*...

What the hell?

There's no recession. I don't see a recession. That's the attitude we need to PREVENT a recession. Sure, tighten our belts a little, get more careful about spending money LOCALLY and DOMESTICALLY (garage sales!!!), make better (less) consumption decisions, but don't GET SCARED!

That is the tool that politicians have, from all time, used to become fascist dictators.





*So I'm told. I never watch the things -- they're irrelevant.

People are afraid of what they do not understand, and what they cannot control.





This explains much of the current political trend towards gun confiscation. Certain segments of our current politcal topology want to tramble the citizens' right to bear arms because they fear guns... for the above two reasons.





They do not understand them, and they cannot control them.




This approach is wrong-headed from the start. Politicians ARE NOT in the business of control. In fact, they had better not be treating it as a "business" at all. They are in the role of servitude, servitude to the people. The government, at least in the late, great United States, is a tool of the people, serving only to effect the people's will.

I'll say it again. Politicians should not *try* to control people. The should be concerned only with the self-sacrificing service that they are employed in: effecting the will of the people.








The passage of the post-Katrina, non-confiscation law is a step in the right direction. However, it is the first right step after a long series of missteps.




There should be MASSIVE PUBLIC OUTCRY over those events -- and what they signify.






However. I see no reason why we can't rescue this country from within the current legal and political system.



The rudiments are all there. It just takes education, a steadfast commitment to the truth, sacrifice of all kinds, and a tireless, dedicated minority.

There's two things you can trust:

the market, and man's greed.

I don't agree with everything Dave says here, but he raises some good points.

My insistence is that each family unit -- the necessary basic building block of ALL societies -- become self-sufficient for food, water, and energy.

Let the self-sufficiency of the nations (and the strength, and the wealth) flow from that.

When you have grassroots prosperity, it cannot be subverted, by kings, monarchs, democrats, bureaucrats, or socialists.

Hmmmmmm.

These are the ones who will save America... the good ol' boys.