Fuzzy Wuzzy Hope and Change

I woke up this morning with an old childhood jingle running through my brain. Everybody's surely heard it before:


Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear.
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair.
Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy, was he?


I interpreted this as a message about the promises of "hope and change" that hypnotized enough people to elect Mr. Obama in 2008. His promises of transparency in government have been broken and his "hope and change" was just "more of the same". 


The engineer of our national engine has no idea how to steer and we're headed for a trainwreck.  The House could save us if they'd have the backbone to grab ahold of the brake. I believe they all know the wreck is going to occur, but are playing a game of musical chairs to see who catches the blame. Who's really to blame?  The people who voted for this worthless crowd of fools. You, me, everybody. We've allowed politicians to gradually expand the power of the government over the people until the weight is so great that a financial collapse is 99% inevitable.


I sincerely believe that our only chance to survive this disaster is to "reboot" the system and start over with the "constitution" as our compass. The captain of our ship should be the man who has consistently told Americans the truth, even though the truth is not very popular in Washington. If Ron Paul had been elected President in 2008 our situation would be significantly improved over what we are now enduring, and 2112 will probably be our last chance to get our collective heads out of the sand and put a principled person in the presidency.  


The rest of the fuzzy wuzzies have no hair.

Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead

Tonight I hear that Osama Bin Laden has been martyred by the U.S. military in Afghanistan. President Obama, in his speech tonight, claiming credit for the killing, says this represents a great victory in the international war against terrorism.  One might argue that Bin Laden might have lost his last battle,  but won the war by destroying the U.S.

After 10 years of searching and $10+ trillions of dollars spent in that search we have finally run down and killed one old man tied to a dialysis machine. An excellent example of government efficiency. Would make the old 19th century Apache Indian fighters proud.  It only took them 50 years to run down and kill a couple of hundred starving Apaches.

Now that Bin Laden is resting in the arms of Allah and the fabled virgins, he is probably smiling as he looks down on an American landscape that has been stripped of its personal liberties and freedoms, with an economy devastated by unemployment and government over-regulation, and a society on the verge of chaos once the value of the dollar collapses because the federal reserve is desperately trying to paper over government debt and deficit spending with newly printed dollars backed by nothing but the faith and good credit of the U.S. government.

Is there any hope for our country? Well, yes and no. We might save ourselves by insisting the government stop trying to be the world's policeman. Close our 900 military bases around the world, bring our military home. We could decide to sharply reduce the size and scope of the government bureaucracy. Stop subsidizing and over-regulating our economy. Give up on the idea of the Nanny State. Abandon the concept that people have "rights" to government handouts while the government has the "obligation" to provide for every deficiency so that everyone can be "equal".  Protect and defend Freedom and Liberty allow the people to be responsible for their own lives. Put an end to Corporate Welfare and the culture of the Special Interest/Lobbying and influence peddling in our government. Can it happen? Yes. Will it happen? Probably Not.

Anyway, Bin Laden is dead and a lot of folks are glad that he's gone. But to characterize it as a great victory seems to me to be just more of the same old shameless hypocrisy that governments are famous for. Will Bin Laden spend eternity in heaven or hell? Guess it depends on which religion you believe in. Christians will be certain he'll go to hell and the Muslims might see him headed in the other direction. That's the problem with religions.