I’m not here to push any political agenda. Nor do I side with any political party.

I found this news clip of President Barack Obama asserting:

“…We are the only nation on Earth that leaves millions of people without health insurance.”

That assertion does not sit well with me, and I’d love to know what everyone else thinks.

Really?
Out of all 190+ countries we are the ONLY nation that doesn’t provide health insurance for millions of people? REALLY?

This is not true! What about all the 3rd world nations?

Did his prompter slip? (I do not like scripted politics…If you speak the truth it should come from the heart, not from a teleprompter!)
Did his speech writer overlook something?
Was he trying to ad lib?
Does he and his administration think we are that misinformed?

Hmmmm…makes me wonder.

What do you think about this? Leave a comment =)

…and if I am wrong, let me know why.
I’d prefer to be educated on the matter, rather than be slandered and belittled.

-Ego

Today we are going to look at #3 of Celine’s Laws, made famous in The Illuminatus Papers by Robert Anton Wilson, and how it may be manifesting itself through the likes of President Barack H. Obama, and his administration’s seemingly inadvertent march towards limiting Americans freedom’s.

Here is Celine’s Third Law:

An honest politician is a national calamity.

Celine recognizes that the third law seems preposterous from the beginning. While a dishonest politician is interested only in bettering his own lot through abusing the public trust, an honest politician is far more dangerous since he is honestly interested in bettering society through political action, and that means writing and implementing more and more laws.

Celine argues that creating more laws simply creates more criminals. Laws inherently restrict individual freedom, and the explosive rate at which laws are being created means that every citizen in the course of his daily life does not have the research capacity to not violate at least one of the plethora of laws. It is only through honest politicians trying to change the world through laws that true tyranny can come into being through excessive legislation.

Corrupt politicians simply line their own pockets. Honest idealist politicians cripple the people’s freedom through enormous amounts of laws. So corrupt politicians are preferable according to Celine.

Obama, at face value, appears to be on a mission to do good and correct the wrongs of the former administration. Although, I cannot know for certain, nor can anyone else…not until it’s too late, at least. 

…I thought it was an interesting ‘thought-scenario’ to play around with…that’s fun for me…and others, I’m sure.

-Ego

Tune In or Be Left Out!

Ok, go…

It’s interesting to note the amount of people who hear something once and then repeat it to someone else as fact.
What’s even more alarming is the amount of people who repeat things they heard on the news(television), without having researched this information for themselves.
Very seldom does someone hear something and look further into it(self-education).

Rule of thumb:
Just because it’s on T.V. doesn’t make it real/factual.
(Just because the news reports it doesn’t make it true.)

There is a VERY closely calculated formula in News media.
This is the result of years and years of research and development.
The people who write the anchors’ scripts use key words which have been researched/polled to capture and hold(hostage) your attention.

For more on the manipulative-biased-media-formula read my post HERE.

Don’t be so trusting of anything coming out of the T.V. box…

Here is an excellent post on “Detecting Bias In News Media,” from fair.org

-Ego

Today’s post appears to be about wild pigs…er…actually it’s about catching wild pigs. Or for those who will read the story and completely miss the point…It might be about governmental conditioning of it’s citizens, or about how we get used to the way things are and blindly keep accepting. 

The story that follows requires you to read “between” the lines…
Read it, Apply it, but don’t look too deep, after all it’s just a story =)…

Catching A Wild Pig

by an Anonymous/Unidentified Source

A chemistry professor at a large college had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab the Professor noticed one young man (exchange student) who kept rubbing his back, and stretching as if his back hurt. The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country’s government and install a new communist government.

In the midst of his story he looked at the professor and asked a strange question. He asked, ‘Do you know how to catch wild pigs?’ The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line. The young man said this was no joke. ‘You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come every day to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence. They get used to that and start to eat again.

You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side. The pigs, who are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat; you slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd. Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught.

Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity.

The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening to America. The government keeps pushing us toward socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare, medicine, drugs, etc. While we continually lose our freedoms — just a little at a time.

One should always remember: There is no such thing as a free lunch! Also, a politician will never provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself.

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The story above is a more condensed “cheaper” of the original that can be found HERE.

Wake up in the morning and question everything, accept nothing as truth and begin to be an individual. Be smart, logical, and ‘common-sense-ical’…I know you have it in you, we all do…we just can’t see the light.

GRRRRrrrrr….Bite the hand that feeds!

-Ego