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Sheesh…..

So now the President feels like it’s his job to tell the media what to do. How outrageous is that? I thought that free speech was everybody’s right, even if people chose to be ‘rude’. The president clearly feels like the job of the media is to further his agenda, such as his healthcare mumbo-jumbo. That was the clear message of his recent appearances on network and cable news shows: to stop being rude and talk about the dems side of the healthcare debate. I’m sorry Mr. President, but there are more sides to healthcare reform than the democrat side; and more solutions to it than one.

This is total nonsense….

Speaker Pelosi, in making some public statements has likened genuine public outcry and concern over government run healthcare as very similar to violence that occurred in ‘78 San Francisco. The other side of this blade is that this was the year Harvey Milk was assassinated. This just seems like a scare tactic and an unfounded emotional ploy. There haven’t been any instances of domestic violence and terror on account of the healthcare debate. I just can’t get over the fact that us right wingers can’t have peaceable demonstrations just like the left and not get tagged as terrorist and extremists….

Revamps

More often than creating new content, I’m constantly trying to update and reinvent this blog. Problem is that no one will look at it if there is no content. But I guess that if I have a good idea to run under, it will be easy to create interesting content. One of these days I’ll hit the nail on the head…..

Anyway, I figured that if I renamed my blog for what I want the content to look like, it would give me purpose. So, what used to be “Run of the Mill Stuff”, is now Uncommonly Common. I know it really seems like a bad take on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. But I wanted to relay that idea in my title, but also show that the common sense Paine talked about is not so common these days.

Another idea that I tend to hold close is one that was discussed at length by Friedrek Bastiat, political author durring the second French Revolution in 1850-51. He talked about unseen consequences of hastilly drafted quick-fix laws. In his pamphlet entitled “What is seen and what is not seen”, he discusses the fact that there is a higher probability of the ocurrance of the “law of unintended concequences” when a government ennacts a law that is meant to fix a probem within months, rather that consider something that will not fix everything quickly, but sometimes takes a matter of years or decades to put things where we need them to be. Bastiat treats this subject deftly, considering small scale problems to effectively carry us through his thought process.

So with these new ideas I endeavor to ad my opinion to the hundreds of millions shared in this country today.

The Cap & Trade Crap

I am very opinionated, for the reason that I feel that I need to be. Why must one always be opinionated? Because it is needed for one’s survival. And I could argue that an opinion is founded in values and personal morals and therefore the lifeblood of the way someone makes decisions. If we had no compass that tells us how to make decisions, then we would have a race so passive that no one would have the will to live.
That being said, I have an opinion to share. The Cap & Trade bill will be the single largest tax increase in the history of the country. You can look at wikipedia on the subject and see how impossibly complicated it is to explain the “science” of regulating carbon dioxide emission, handing out pollution credits, trading them, making us pay for the “allowance” to use pollution and so on. How convoluted have our so called leaders become to think that they can do this.
We need to look at what produces carbon dioxide before we can tax it’s use. We know that cars produce it, but what else will be driven out of business, I ask? Well, for one example, the beef and dairy industry will go up in smoke, driving many who rely on beef and cattle out of business because of the amount of money they would end up paying our lovely dictators in Washington. Apparrently the cows poop too much. Why, I breath every day and produce what Pelosi wants to tax. Why don’t they just tax my body and get it over with.
I know I’m sounding histerical and seem to be overreacting, but I am not. So much industry is just going to be replaced. With all the regulation that would happen here, we would see a shift from automotive and agricultural jobs to jobs that mostly do with shutting every it all down. What will happen when lots of the economy is so overtaxed that most of it goes out of business? Will there be anything to regulate and “make green”? I say that even though in the short term there will be new jobs, but in the long run, we won’t even have an economy because of this.
Some of you may argue this, but I would like to point out that if a government-controlled economy is considered a free market or even a real working economy, I beg to differ. If it is by the whim of our government that we can buy and sell goods, invent, build and so on, is that really an economy, or is it the government just “dispensing priviledges?
The Senate needs to see from beginning to end on this issue. If they are as power hungry as Obama or Pelosi are, we are in deep trouble. The Senate is our last stand against this tyranny.

PolySci

It’s amazing how one can just forget or put off writing something for the blog…..
Just a few comments to make for the record.
First, I am back in school. My major is PolySci. I look forward to getting into it more; government and history has always been an interest, and I hope to find a career in law or policy making. But we’ll see how it goes. I’m not happy with most of the parties out there, even the big two, especially because of all of the politicking involved. It sounds funny that I would like to be involved in such a field, but something has to be done, even if I don’t like or do politics very well. I might even launch into why I don’t like politics on another post.

The New X-Men Movie

So, I just got back from the movies, having seen the new X-Men movie. I do have to say that it was pretty good. There was a feeling that something was left to be desired, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. Maybe it was the fact that there was so many x-men in the movie, but only a few of them were featured. Yep, I think that was it. Now I want to see a sequel…..

Anyway, if you want to see a lame scene, wait ’till the end of the credits.

What is the meaning of life?

It’s a simple question. But for some reason to a lot of us here it seems that the answer is most incomprehensible. But, as a missionary for the Lord Jesus Christ, and as one who has sought salvation at His hands, I will endeavor to show you what I have found for my self, and no other man(and many have tried) can dissuade me from the knowledge given me by God Himself through the power of the Holy Ghost.

This post is only preliminary to the next posts or even pages that I will add in the near future, so keep an eye out! But I also refer all who see this post or any others, to visit Mormon.org to find out more.

$19,000

Recently, a rare copy of Harry Potter sold for $19,000! It blew my mind when I heard about it. Why would someone spend that much money on a book? I can understand it was the birthday of this guy’s wife, but you could have taken a huge vacation over sea’s or something. Unless,if they are uber-rich and can do both…… mmmmm…. interesting……

Education Reform….

President Obama has unvieled his educational reform plan. On the whole, I agree with some critics in the fact that all this money has to come from somewhere, and we don’t really have much money as a country at all. But that being said, I do have to agree with two points of his plan.

“If a teacher is given a chance but still does not improve, there is no excuse for that person to continue teaching,” he said. “I reject a system that rewards failure and protects a person from its consequences.” If some one that I have entrusted a child’s education with doesn’t feel like doing their best, or improving their skill and ability, they don’t deserve to teach. It would not cost a lot of money to improve education in this way. If some really are invested in the state being in charge of education, it must be done right.

Number two thing, is Obama’s call to the states to lift the cap on the number charter schools allowed to exist. This would allow more choice for parents in their child’s education.

Every thing else I adamantly disagree with, because any way I look at it, it would require the government to dish out billions more money than there really is. I don’t agree with a parents’ attitude that the state is totally in charge of their childrens education, and blame any shortcomings on the state, and don’t do anything to improve the situation beside whining. If we dump untold billions into giving free college to everyone, allowing everyone access to nurses and head start personel, and setting unrealistic standards for every single child, we foster the false reality that education will improve dramatically. Really, if we put the responsibility for education completely in the parents hands, the level of education then will go up, cost to the state will go down, and in a round about way, will bring a diverse and robust economy in a few decades.