Urban Poverty Law Center Calls For True The Vote: Monkey See, Monkey Do

Comrade Joseph Hussein Stalin famously quipped after too much Russian vodka one evening to a New York Times reporter, "Sure, everyone votes in Russia.  But only I count the votes!

That reporter was my great uncle and I found his original notes on his time in the early days of the Russian republic fascinating.  It was Uncle Rheemus Delano Maybolt, writing under the pen name, Nathaniel Whoops, his grandfather's name, who took the liberty to clean up Comrade Stalin's awkward attempt to be quotable, his mind addled by vodka came up with:  "He who casts the vote decides nothing.  He who counts the vote decides everything."  The Russian language has been heavily influenced by vodka throughout the ages.  It is rumored that Tolstoy original intent for "War and Peace" was a short, but 1323 cases of fine Russian vodka later and this is what you get.  It is best read under the influence.  A little publicized fact.

Uncle Whoops came to reporting naturally as his great grandfather also helped edit Karl Marx's famous treatise on  Communism.  It started out being one of those self-help guides for the common man which were so popular back in the 1840's, but Uncle Whoops got with Karl and Fred, early on and one thing lead to another.

Uncle Whoops even gives himself credit with titling the tome.  Mr. Marx was in favor of using a less forceful title and had settled on: "A Communist Suggestion".   Where Freddie and Uncle Whoops thought the title needed more force.

They settled on "The Communist Manifesto", and the rest is history, the battle lines were drawn between the people who believe man can own property, a clearly feudal belief,  that he can use to enrich himself to the detriment of all others, and the people who believe all of mankind has a stake in mother earth and what it can provide to its children.

I guess what I am getting at here is that human beings have sought and fought for advantages through out all of time.  Cain's killing of Abel set the action that all of mankind would follow.  Greed and envy have changed history more than peace and love.  The trenches of history are filled with the silenced victims of greed and envy.  Hitler and his henchmen, Jos. Stalin and his, along with Mao, and let us not forget our own Andy Jackson and his assault on the Native American population, all have added victims to that deep trench.  To these ruthless leaders, people are not the children of God,  for they are godless and evil to a man.

People are often in the way of the greatest Utopian dreamers.   How many times have we heard "this old world would be a better place if there weren't all these people?"  Confession:  I thought this every time I went to Disney World.  Human nature you see.

During WWII the Polish ghetto was full of lice laden Jews.  To Hitler, the best way to rid the Ghetto of lice was to kill the Jews.  To Andrew Jackson, the native American population interfered with his idea of expansion, kill and move them out was his answer.  Stalin slaughtered millions and ditto Mao.

Just maybe, maybe these fellows are right and there is no God.  We are just a great big lonely quirky happen-chance of goo that pulled itself up out of the primordial soup cooking deep within the fiery earth and stood up and proclaimed to all that would listen.  "I am gonna get me some of that!"

And here we are only a few million years into this beautiful world still hitting each other over
the head for personal gain, in spite of all the education, riches, and religion this old world can entertain
we are still just a bunch of hairless monkeys dressed up with deodorant and mouthwash and a functioning public water supply and adequate sewage treatment.  Add hand washing and antibiotics into the mix and we have the numbers necessary and required for some real mischief.

America, and the American experiment of the past 200 plus years was just an experiment and we are watching what happens when greed and envy overtake a country that was founded on deeply held religious beliefs.  The religious beliefs are rejected and the riches are scattered to the winds.

America is just one zoo for humans in a world filled with human plantations.  Our national zoo keepers have decided that capitalism is no longer the best way to keep the inhabitants of our zoo happy and fed.

Can we trust these elites, the smart monkeys with the ivy league credentials to have the local monkey's best interest at heart?  Sending trillions of bananas to Washington, DC every year to the Zoo Keeps, is not making much sense when those bananas could be doing more good at the state and local level.

King Obama has shown his propensity to cast bananas to green energy monkeys who are his banana bundlers in what looks to be a banana payola scheme.  If our leaders are dishonest then the zoo is in danger.

Back to Stalin.  I believe the monkeys voted in the past US election, but some monkeys votes counted more that the others.

Is this anyway to run a zoo?  A monkey without arms is just a monkey.  A monkey with arms is alarming.

Monkeys of the world, UNITE!  Otherwise, somewhere out there, there is a trench with your name on it.

Jackson Delano Maybolt, President Urban Poverty Law Center

Urban Poverty Law Center: Obama Biden Farewell, New Adventures Await Thee

Tennesseans, like me, can vote early.  I voted my conscious a couple of days ago even though I live in a state where the universal mind will invariably do the right thing.  I lived in Wyoming for many years and I did not have to vote for my will to be done.  Tennessee like Wyoming and a host of other states in this great land of ours are in lock-step for Romney/ Ryan.

I am proud to live in a location where I am relieved of my civic duty and can be lax and lazy and not vote just to avoid being called to jury duty.  I was assured I would not be called up if I voted and the first year I registered to vote, I was called to jury duty.  Coincidence, perhaps?

I explained to the kind Judge, I was a poor selection as I could not pass judgement on my peers as I have none!   His honor was not moved and said I would have to pass judgement on our county's petty criminals and meth cooks to meet my civic duty and assure our form of self-governance and rule of law is met and surpassed here in Cedar Grove.

Thanks to several postponements and legal wrangling I was never seated on the jury and my hemorrhoids are thankful.

This is my last post before the election, unless I am outraged by something.  I believe President Obama will be rejected in his bid for re-election.  He is weak on the economy, weak on defense, and weak on style and leadership.  He has surrounded himself with self-serving nincompoops.  His closest advisers have ties to radicals in the Middle East.   His instincts for picking winners in businesses including green energy winners is 180 degrees out of sync.  He is incapable of compromise and refused to work with the republican minority in congress in his first two years and when Americans with good sense voted overwhelmingly to change the flavor of congress in 2010, the new republican majority was not interested in compromising with President Obama.

To paraphrase the warden in "Cool Hand Luke":  "What we have here is a failure to compromise."

We call it governmental gridlock.  The founders set it up this way, wisely.

I believe Romney and Ryan will win this election and it will be a popular vote cliffhanger, but an electoral college blow out.

The election is the first referendum the voters have had to directly voice their support or rejection of President Obama and his policies.

America has a clear choice.  Stay the course with Obama to economic ruin or correct the ship of state and renew the American Dream.

In America the pocket book always wins.

Good-bye, President Obama and Vice President Biden.  It was nice knowing you.

Jackson Delano Maybolt, President Urban Poverty Law Center

Urban Poverty Law Center: Is The Election Over?

I feel like President Barack Obama has been running for president of the United States for at least four of the past four years.  Turn on the television or crank up the radio and there is his image and his patented soothing baritone voice bleating out some feel-good patriotic gobble-de-gook about the other guy, you know the one, that rich guy over there, who has taken advantage of us by paying half of what he makes to state, local, and federal taxes, additional fees sometimes apply.

Obama, in his staccato, drones on and on like a perpetual motion machine, never tiring, never changing, never interesting, never believable on anything that really, really matters.

His economic policy:  let Bernanke and the rich white guys over at that private bank called the Federal Reserve, handle it.  Add liquidity, lower values, destroy savings.

His energy policy:  give billions in guaranteed loans to friendly campaign bundlers of green energy start-ups and look the other way when all the money is gone with nothing to show for it, not even one molecule of CO2 less circulating in our atmosphere for these billions of dollars of handouts to his friends.  Institute policies that close down coal power plants and cause electric rates to "necessarily skyrocket."  Stop drilling permits on federal lands.  Start a war on domestic oil and gas production and on coal.

His foreign policy:  help destabilize the middle east so we can be tied up over there fighting the middle earthers who are content to brutalize females and herd goats if we would just leave them to their own devices.

His Domestic policy:  grow welfare, shrink the private sector, grow government dependency and destroy the American health care system, and with his wife, Michelle's,new public school policy now in play for school lunches,  along with not being able to get a decent education our kids can't even get a decent meal at school.  Truth be known, many of our children only attended school for the free meal it provided, that and the opportunity for teacher on student sex.  I predict truancy will skyrocket when the sex is outlawed.  Make the Catholic's use birth control and abort babies.

Forward is forewarned.

I spoke desparagingly in the last post of President Obama's squirrelly effete little muppet hands as he tried to ball up the five trillion dollar Romney economic plan, I forgot to mention his yellowed demonic eyes which seemed to spew daggers and fire at Romney during certain phases of the last debate.  Creepy, and now we learn he watches the Superbowl by himself? 

No man is an island, but if Al Gore, Jr wades out into the ocean he would look a great deal like one given his corpulent size of late.

Hit the scary music from the "Exorcist".

Forward, fade.

Jackson Delano Maybolt, President Urban Poverty Law Center

Urban Poverty Law Center Picks Next President of the United States

In 1976 I was a younger man, most reading this were also younger then unless you were born after that year in which case I do not have a classification of your state, and I was only mildly interested in politics. I had seen Nixon railroaded out of office by a ferocious press and watched the bumbling Gerald Ford pardon Nixon, the right thing to do IMHO, and followed the piano toothed Jimmah Carter's rise to the presidency, but what about Reagan? How did this actor and governor of California fit into the picture.

Reagan was despised by the Get Nixon Press Club. The big three media outlets controlled all information back then and I was afraid the world would end if Reagan was elected. I tuned into the Republican national convention on the night of Gerald Ford's coronation in time to see Ronald Reagan speak to the crowd. I cannot recall what he said, but I do recall what I thought after seeing that speech.

God damn, these idiots have nominated the wrong fellow. Everybody who heard that speech knew that. Reagan was real. He was honest. He was as real as Bill Clinton was phony. When Reagan ran in 1980 I was not old enough not to be swayed by the big three media and I voted for Anderson, that third party footnote who was probably put there like Ross Perot as a spoiler in a vain attempt to keep Reagan from gaining the presidency.

In shame I must admit I voted for Perot and must take my part of the blame for Clinton, who for the most part was a good ole boy with an exaggerated love of women, and aside from a few breaches in national security with technological transfers to China was rather harmless. I do feel he was loose with the truth and an exceptionally adept liar, not a bad trait for a top flight politician.

And now to the pit of this cherry, Sara Palin's VP acceptance speech was a Reaganesque moment. She came across as genuine, smart, honest, and just what the nation needs after this failed experiment with a man whom no one knew until he read a speech at the the 2004 Democrat national convention when our elite press selected him as a poster boy for the next president. He sure does have a perty mouth and a booming voice which is not off key that much from Richard Nixon's vocalization style.

Anyway, as president of the Pulitzer pride winning Urban Poverty Law Center, I declare my love, excuse me Todd, my support for Governor Sarah Heath Palin as the next president of the United States of America.

Her detractors among the media elites are numerous and loud, a sure sign that she is right for Middle America. When you read or hear a "hit piece on Sarah Palin, and with 2012 fast approaching they will be more and louder as these people fear a Sarah Palin's Washington like vampires fear sunlight. The elites know she will shine the light on all the political corruption in our nations capital. Why is the tea party congress unable to move the entrenched members of congress to cut spending? Not in their self-interest.

The political swamp of our current club in Washington DC needs to be drained and the ablest Crock hunter this country has to offer is Sarah Palin. She knows a Crock of crap when she sees it and is not afraid to call it out.

I support her and urge all patriots of this great country to do the same. She is Reagan in high heels.

Jack Maybolt, President Urban Poverty Law Center

"A woman's place may be in the home, but look out when one gets to the Oval office!"

Mother Maybolt, 1922-2008