Tuesday, September 27, 2016

And what about you?...

Have you ever been in one of those arguments where you were upset with someone about something they did, or didn't do, as the case may be? "You left the mayonnaise out", or "You didn't put  the car in the garage last night." Or something like "you really piss me off when you say that."
"Oh yeah, well what about you, you never put the butter back in the frig when you're through with it, you always leave it out like someone is going to come behind you and put it away for you." or "I ALWAYS have to remind you to do things or you'd never do anything."
If you point out someone else's fault that is bothering you or something they did is causing a problem you're immediately met with a rebuttal that points out yet but one (or more) of your own shortcomings. It immediately becomes a circular argument. You, or whoever started it, want  to make a  point that the other person has a fault that is a problem. But instead of "Oh, OK, you know you're right, I shouldn't  do that. I can see how that would be an annoyance to others." Instead you open the tap for a flow of admonishments for your own faults. And back and forth you go. Or round and round you go, whichever you like.
What if your boss called you in and told you, "You know Bob, you're not finishing those TPS reports on time." And you let loose with "Well you know Herb, you never finish shit. Ever. All you do is start something then send it to me or someone else to finish. So, if you don't finish shit, why should I?" Just another circular argument. It's the same as if your wife says "You never put shit up,
you leave everything out." "Oh yeah, what about you? You leave makeup all over the bathroom counter. You never put it up."
Does anyone leave a circular argument feeling like "Well, we certainly took care of that." No. Except your boss, when he fires your ass.
I know, you're wondering, where is this going? Think about the presidential debates. Each time Hillary or Donald criticized the other they were immediately hit with a return cheap shot. You  never pay taxes. You deleted 33,000 emails. You are a racist. You're incompetent. Shit, why don't y'all just get married. You'd make a hell of a couple...
I hate circular arguments. "I don't like what you did."
"What about you? I hate when you..."
"Hold on, first let's talk about when you..."
"Bullshit. You think you have a right to complain about me when you..."
Everybody gets pissed off and keeps on doing whatever they were doing to piss the other off. Nothing gets better, in fact the  circular argument makes things worse if anything. It's pointless and futile. which  is probably why politicians do it. Hell  they were probably the ones that started the circular argument.

Sunday, September 25, 2016

One Nation Under God...

Just about the time we think Obama has reached his lowest point, he surprises us. The lies, the scandals, the deception, now he has outdone himself. No doubt he has gotten carried away with his use of executive order. He has been in office for 2500+ days now and has produced no less than 1.03 executive orders per day at a cost of compliance to American business and taxpayers of just under one trillion dollars. Now he has written one that while it doesn't have a dollar value of destruction, it does have an immense, intrinsic cost to us all.
Last Friday BH Obama wrote into law the banishment of the Pledge of Allegiance. It is not allowed in any federal  institution or any of our public schools. He defended his actions by saying that the language in the pledge was divisive and that it did not reflect the true values of Americans. He did this unilaterally, without counsel of his cabinet, either house of Congress or anyone else. All he needed was his pen and a mighty sense of solipsism. Now we can all rest better knowing that our nation is once again fair to everyone. Even those who do not revere our republic and those who do not believe in God. And thank the Lord, all you terrorists in sleeper cells resident here in the U.S. your precious children will no longer be required to recite that vile diatribe.
You can be an American and be atheist. You can be an American and not possess a strong sense of nationalism. You can be an American and not be a Christian. But you cannot be an American and not respect the founding principles of the country. This great country was founded on Christian principles. No one can change that. It's our heritage and the vast majority of us are proud of it. The only one who appears to have a problem with it is BH Obama, and ISIS. Or perhaps I should say the only ones who are making an attempt to change the Christian based principles of our system of government are the aforementioned. One party is using deception and a pen, the other is using terrorism and murder.
You are soon to be gone from the privileged position of power that  you were accorded, Mr. Obama. At that time you will possess no power to erode our sense of governing and justice. You may have influence but you will not have power. Thanks to the brilliance of our founding fathers you will be but a chapter of disgrace in our history and no more. We can only hope, and pray that our next leader will guide our ONE NATION, UNDER GOD better than you did.

Friday, September 9, 2016

It's all about them...

As you go about your business in the course of a normal day, if you're like me you stop at least a couple of times to check on what's going on in the world. And of course, at the present, it's hard not to hear something about the upcoming election. I mean U.S. politics is the topic right now and it will be until November 8th. So you hear about the candidates, their scandals, gaffes, improprieties, ideas, strategies, polls, and the insults they hurl at one another. Front and center of what is being rammed down our throats is Hillary and Don. On and on. Incessantly. Then you'll get something about Ted Cruz or some other senator running to keep his seat since he couldn't hang with the Donald and has nothing better to do. Politicians. On and on and on... Oh, Donald Trump isn't a politician you say? Well he is now.
That's all we hear, all about the politicians, their trials and tribulations and their lives. We hear about Anthony Weiner and the sick, perverted things he does. And cant seem to stop doing. It's all about them. Why? Because the media wants it to be about them. The U.S. media has a liberal slant and they also have a sordid perversion of publicizing politicians character flaws. When I say character flaws I mean the all-inclusive version. The media hangs out all their dirty laundry daily and lets it fly in our faces. And we consume it voraciously. Oh yeah, we the people have our own character flaws but we'll go into that another time.
How much discussion is there of what these people are doing on the floor in the House and Senate. And how what they are doing will affect us. There's a fair amount of talk about how the things Obama is doing will affect us and future generations but that's mostly because it's so profoundly negative. How about some talk concerning topics of real substance? Some, dare I say most of us, don't want to hear about these peoples contemptible behavior. We have perfectly good tabloids that lay out the dirt on celebrities for that. These people, politicians, are supposed to be working for us. For our country. Their job is supposed to be bigger than they are. Trump has always had a tough time with that. So has Hillary for that matter.  We elect them to do very important jobs. It's the JOB that matters. WE don't give a crap about them. It's not about them. Try telling them that...

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