Let's face it. Politicians are surely born and not groomed. Truth be known most greatness in life is nature and not nurture.
Mark Twain was born with his literary talents. No one groomed or taught him to be the greatest wordsmith of American literature. Likewise, Adolph Hitler was hatched and grew into the monster of the middle 20th century. Warren Buffett, born a business man with all the savy necessary to know exactly what to do to make the deal profitable.
I am not saying a person cannot work hard and become mediocre and get along fairly well in life. I did, but true greatness, Michael Jordan, greatness is in the genes. Good looks are also nature and not nurture. What does that leave us with if we agree with my premise as stated so eloquently above?
Every member of congress, the senate, and major politician we have ever known was a student council wannabe in high school, and if your school was anything like mine, I wouldn't follow a single one of these goofs around the block with any hope to arrive back at the starting point.
But now, we have these same power hungry harpies setting policy and making laws that effect all of us who chose to work for a living in America.
Take Albert Gore, Jr, please! As a fine Son of the South his daddy aligned himself with the Soviets through old Armand Hammer of Occidental Petroleum and got himself a rare earths mineral mine in Tennessee and by his associations with Armand bought this valuable property from a poor farmer for peanuts and turned it into gold by leasing the mining rights to Armand for $100,000 a year, a lot of money back in the 40's when this was going down. This deal smells as fishy as grandma's girdle after a hot August Church of Christ picnic.
Al tried his best to drum up fear in the public for global warming and saddle the world with a carbon tax, another of his get rich quick schemes. Gore by imperial fiat declared he owns all the carbon credits industry needs to do business in the world. He has failed so far, but it is coming unless the people rise up and push back against the corruption infesting our governmental institutions. I would not trust Al Gore, Jr to watch my cats over the weekend. Same with most of congress and the senate.
When Al Gore, Jr was blocked on the carbon tax, he and a pal developed a Television product, Current TV, dedicated to "do-goodism" and the environment, but mostly dedicated to enriching his bank account as it turns out. He just sold this product to a group of Middle East businessmen for half a billion dollars, and I believe they will be upset when they realize they just bought snake oil from an unemployed former high school student council member who has zero prospects in American politics. He shot his wad against W Bush in the 2000 presidential election, and lost his chance to be president over his unpopular stance on GUN CONTROL!
Here is the nut in this piece. Politicians fear a well armed populace. Interestingly, homicidal maniacs, when polled, prefer to only attack the unarmed and those who cannot fight back. Witness the Sandy Hook tragedy. Gun Free zones are catnip for kooks who want to make a public cry for help by killing innocents.
Are these politicians who scream for and demand an end to gun related violence through stricter gun controls only using the Sandy Hook corpses as cover? Have they reached the point where they view the voting public not as their masters, but as their slaves whose properties and wealth can be legislated away from one pocket and placed into another, most often theirs or one of their close colleagues? I fear this is the case.
The fleecing of the American Sheep will be easier if the government controls all the weapons. We must not fall prey to this nonsense... God given rights include the will and the right to fight by what ever means necessary to survive. If guns make us equals then guns are what we must have in our daily lives.
It is no different with nations. If nuclear bombs make Iran equal to the US, then I see why they want them. When our politicians find there is no other country to exploit, they will turn their focus inwardly upon us. Then, the problems in America begin. If the greatest army in the history of the world cannot contain 8th century goatherds armed only with no fear of dying in battle and nitrogen based fertilizers in ten years and at a cost of a trillion dollars, how can they succeed against a modern with a defense rifle. Notice I did not use the term, assault rifle, as this implies aggression.
I believe it is in society's best interest to keep weapons away from aggressive kooky people, but to disarm the great majority of peace loving patriot citizens serves no purpose but to subjugate them to tomorrow's tyrant today.
Freedom in a competitive world is better kept weaponized. The weakest man or woman with a gun at a gun fight is not to be trivialized. The strongest man without a gun at a gun fight is its first casualty.
This truth of human nature is not lost on the Iranians. Americans also know this to be true.
Jackson Delano Maybolt, President, Urban Poverty Law Center
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Monday, January 14, 2013
Why Obama's Secretary of Defense and State Department Can Succeed.
Chuck Hagel, as Secretary of Defense, in the new Obama Administration insures American military hegemony will end. And the band played on......
John Kerry as Secretary of State, in the new Obama Administration insures American foreign policy will continue on its losing course. And the band played on......
President Obama, America's first Black president, seems only interested in filling his cabinet with affirmative action equivalencies in the "Whites Only" he surrounds himself with. These positions in his cabinet are not important and therefore can be filled by bottom rung politicians like Hagel, Kerry, and Biden. I am still befuddled that out going congressman Barney Frank has not landed that special council position on NAMBLA soon to be announced by the Obama Administration.
In a sense I believe President Obama needs to call back our military and concentrate more on domestic problems. We do not have the means to bankroll our greatest force for good in the world because we refuse to plunder the riches of war. Where is that Iraqi oil that President Bush spent a trillion dollars to secure? Who is reaping the billion off the Afghan poppies? Why must only the criminals become rich in our society? What about that Kennedy, Rockefellar, Pelosi, Clinton, Obama and countless others who remain in the shadows?
Where is the American Pie? Who is slicing it? Who is eating it? Who is baking it?
Warfare is historically fought to transfer wealth from the losers to the winners. Our big boys seem to have lost that tiny little bit of important information on the way to the middle east and beyond.
As it stands we are transferring wealth from the winners to the losers. The problem is it is our wealth we are losing.
Perhaps Hagel and Kerry are just what the doctor ordered to get America's house back in order.
Obama may be a better qualified president that I have given him credit to date.
Bring America home, President Obama. Rebuild your nation right here right now!
Cut defense spending and cut taxes and wage a war on America where we the people can finally get some
relief. Can I get special status as a refugee when you finally fight the war on Americans? We need a new fire house in Cedar Grove and Highway 70 could use a wider foot print and our meth cookers need real jobs.
Just asking?
Jackson Delano Maybolt, President Urban Poverty Law Center
John Kerry as Secretary of State, in the new Obama Administration insures American foreign policy will continue on its losing course. And the band played on......
President Obama, America's first Black president, seems only interested in filling his cabinet with affirmative action equivalencies in the "Whites Only" he surrounds himself with. These positions in his cabinet are not important and therefore can be filled by bottom rung politicians like Hagel, Kerry, and Biden. I am still befuddled that out going congressman Barney Frank has not landed that special council position on NAMBLA soon to be announced by the Obama Administration.
In a sense I believe President Obama needs to call back our military and concentrate more on domestic problems. We do not have the means to bankroll our greatest force for good in the world because we refuse to plunder the riches of war. Where is that Iraqi oil that President Bush spent a trillion dollars to secure? Who is reaping the billion off the Afghan poppies? Why must only the criminals become rich in our society? What about that Kennedy, Rockefellar, Pelosi, Clinton, Obama and countless others who remain in the shadows?
Where is the American Pie? Who is slicing it? Who is eating it? Who is baking it?
Warfare is historically fought to transfer wealth from the losers to the winners. Our big boys seem to have lost that tiny little bit of important information on the way to the middle east and beyond.
As it stands we are transferring wealth from the winners to the losers. The problem is it is our wealth we are losing.
Perhaps Hagel and Kerry are just what the doctor ordered to get America's house back in order.
Obama may be a better qualified president that I have given him credit to date.
Bring America home, President Obama. Rebuild your nation right here right now!
Cut defense spending and cut taxes and wage a war on America where we the people can finally get some
relief. Can I get special status as a refugee when you finally fight the war on Americans? We need a new fire house in Cedar Grove and Highway 70 could use a wider foot print and our meth cookers need real jobs.
Just asking?
Jackson Delano Maybolt, President Urban Poverty Law Center
Saturday, January 12, 2013
Urban Poverty Law Center: One Flu Over the Cuckoo's Nest
I do not have any background in the health sciences in any large way. If I attended medical school as a younger man, I feel quite certain I would have frittered my medical education away in much the same fashion I spent my youth behind the desk in High School: day dreaming about time spent out of the classroom. This being said I have no background or expertise in what I am about to write, but as astute readers of this page already know, when has that ever stopped me?
As I see it, public water treatment and proper sewers have done more to keep the public health than billions of flu shots could ever hope to achieve. The world is at war. Microbes live on and in us in numbers no one can fathom. Some are beneficial, like the noninvasive staph organisms, who like dogs co-exhist with humans to both's benefit. Throw out the good staph organism and apply the methacillin resistant staph and it takes every opportunity to infect and sicken its host, talk about the dog that bites the hand that feeds it!
The flu is an organism that invades it's host and takes over its functions to replicate itself causing illness in the host and sometimes even death. The host actually kills itself trying to kill the virus through an exaggerated immune response or develops a secondary infection such as a bacterial pneumonia.
I am told that my grandfather on my father's side contracted Smallpox when he was a toddler in rural Alabama around the turn of the last century. There was no Center for Disease Control back then. But our forefathers and mothers knew what to do even without governmental help. I haven't looked up Smallpox lately, but it does not kill all of its unfortunate hosts. He was taken to an abandoned sharecropper's house with a known smallpox survivor and cared for until his eventual death or recovery and the good news for my father and me was he recovered. When both the caregiver and my grandfather came out of the sick house, it was burned to the ground with all its contents including the clothing. I have a decent immune system on my father's side.
When my father was 7 years old he had a stomach ailment which turned out to be a ruptured appendix.
He was hospitalized in Nashville before antibiotics with a veritable death sentence. His parents and his little sister would spend the day with him crying and hugging and kissing him good-bye and leave for the night not expecting to see him the next day, alive anyway. But he just did not die. An old surgeon finally thought best to open him up after a week and wash the abscess out and sew him back up. He survived even this insult, and passed these superior genes to me, or so my mother says he was my father, but how can anyone be certain of lineage, as honesty between the sheets is not always what it is cracked up to be. Some studies suggest that about one child in seven is not sired by the husband in marriage. Nature will alway insist on genetic diversity.
I am fond of saying, "all women are whores, except for your mother; but her mother was a whore!"
Most people take it well and if you consider what that says, it says it all. We should not get too worked up over those things we cannot change, which brings me back to the flu.
Infections constantly challenge us and our immune systems. I contracted the Hong Kong Flu in 1968 and spent a couple of days in a stupor. I recall how hard it was to concentrate and think. I lived through it and wonder if my immune system was tested and trained for worse insults because of it.
Could it be the flu tunes up our immune system from time to time so it does not become lazy and in some way this could protect us from cancer? Are these vaccinations against non lethal illnesses harming us?
I am not trying to be a kook here, but just wondering if an immune system needs to be worked over from time to time to make sure it is functioning properly like an athlete trains and a student studies.
Does the old adage apply, "if you don't use it, you lose it?" to our immune systems. Is the immune response to a vaccination really a test of the full force of a body challenged?
Every year the great public health officials stress the flu shot, and every few years we have a flu epidemic.
Thankfully we have not seen one like the strain that killed millions in 1918, but odds are we will see it again some day.
Flu shots are associated with Guillian Barre syndrome, again a disease where the immune process harms itself. I wonder what the trade off is for the flu vaccinations. Does it make our immune systems weak?
I challenge someone to run the numbers.
I need to go blow my nose as it has begun to run and itch. Now where did I put that penicillin?
Jackson Delano Maybolt, President Urban Poverty Law Center
As I see it, public water treatment and proper sewers have done more to keep the public health than billions of flu shots could ever hope to achieve. The world is at war. Microbes live on and in us in numbers no one can fathom. Some are beneficial, like the noninvasive staph organisms, who like dogs co-exhist with humans to both's benefit. Throw out the good staph organism and apply the methacillin resistant staph and it takes every opportunity to infect and sicken its host, talk about the dog that bites the hand that feeds it!
The flu is an organism that invades it's host and takes over its functions to replicate itself causing illness in the host and sometimes even death. The host actually kills itself trying to kill the virus through an exaggerated immune response or develops a secondary infection such as a bacterial pneumonia.
I am told that my grandfather on my father's side contracted Smallpox when he was a toddler in rural Alabama around the turn of the last century. There was no Center for Disease Control back then. But our forefathers and mothers knew what to do even without governmental help. I haven't looked up Smallpox lately, but it does not kill all of its unfortunate hosts. He was taken to an abandoned sharecropper's house with a known smallpox survivor and cared for until his eventual death or recovery and the good news for my father and me was he recovered. When both the caregiver and my grandfather came out of the sick house, it was burned to the ground with all its contents including the clothing. I have a decent immune system on my father's side.
When my father was 7 years old he had a stomach ailment which turned out to be a ruptured appendix.
He was hospitalized in Nashville before antibiotics with a veritable death sentence. His parents and his little sister would spend the day with him crying and hugging and kissing him good-bye and leave for the night not expecting to see him the next day, alive anyway. But he just did not die. An old surgeon finally thought best to open him up after a week and wash the abscess out and sew him back up. He survived even this insult, and passed these superior genes to me, or so my mother says he was my father, but how can anyone be certain of lineage, as honesty between the sheets is not always what it is cracked up to be. Some studies suggest that about one child in seven is not sired by the husband in marriage. Nature will alway insist on genetic diversity.
I am fond of saying, "all women are whores, except for your mother; but her mother was a whore!"
Most people take it well and if you consider what that says, it says it all. We should not get too worked up over those things we cannot change, which brings me back to the flu.
Infections constantly challenge us and our immune systems. I contracted the Hong Kong Flu in 1968 and spent a couple of days in a stupor. I recall how hard it was to concentrate and think. I lived through it and wonder if my immune system was tested and trained for worse insults because of it.
Could it be the flu tunes up our immune system from time to time so it does not become lazy and in some way this could protect us from cancer? Are these vaccinations against non lethal illnesses harming us?
I am not trying to be a kook here, but just wondering if an immune system needs to be worked over from time to time to make sure it is functioning properly like an athlete trains and a student studies.
Does the old adage apply, "if you don't use it, you lose it?" to our immune systems. Is the immune response to a vaccination really a test of the full force of a body challenged?
Every year the great public health officials stress the flu shot, and every few years we have a flu epidemic.
Thankfully we have not seen one like the strain that killed millions in 1918, but odds are we will see it again some day.
Flu shots are associated with Guillian Barre syndrome, again a disease where the immune process harms itself. I wonder what the trade off is for the flu vaccinations. Does it make our immune systems weak?
I challenge someone to run the numbers.
I need to go blow my nose as it has begun to run and itch. Now where did I put that penicillin?
Jackson Delano Maybolt, President Urban Poverty Law Center
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Urban Poverty Law Center Wishes All Of Mankind A Happy New Year: My Gift Is My Blog
If I make another year this will be my 60th as a human bean. I am still somewhat fuzzy on what I was before my entrance when mother shot me halfway across the room that cold August night. You see my mother was in the change of life when I was conceived and was fearful I might be a malignancy or something causing her to swell up down there. On the night I was born, they called for Doc Taylor, fully thinking he would come over to the farmhouse my great grandfather built just after the Civil War, just in time to ease her passing with a big shot of morphine. Old Doc Taylor was good at taking the suffering out of dying like that.
Folks all over prayed Doc Taylor would make it over to see them off when the time come. All his patients had the mask of comedy and not the mask of tragedy when they passed. Doc Taylor made death pleasant for both the witnesses and the patient. Nobody ever complained after one of Doc Taylor's final treatments.
And best of all he only charged $1.25 for a house call, shot of morphine included!
OK, I did not plan on reminessing about mother's mistake at the change of life, but that is where I started out. Doc Taylor immediately knew she was not dying, but delivering and by the time they got momma's panties down to her knees, I shot out like a rocket and got tangled up in her panties which according to all in attendance probably saved my life, you see, because momma and daddy slept on a bed that was about 5 ft off the floor. Funny my life was spared by a pair of cotton white panties when I came into the world, but there ends my luck with panties.
Panties have caused me great joy and grief in my time since. I have come to the conclusion that if it wears panties and you start fooling with it, trouble is coming your way. There is no way to predict what a panty is going to think, do or say. You can never be certain if the panty is exclusively yours or if it is being shared. If you marry a pair, and they come down from time to time, it is going to cost you in the long run.
Now don't get me wrong here, I believe in panties and the strength of the bond one can make with a pair.
I have eight lovely children through three pair of panties and funny as it may seem, all the children favor each other. And the panties are different, each and every one of them.
Panties may not rule the world, but they control an awful lot of it.
If one googles famous personages who wore panties one is struck by the diversity of results. I will not impune those still living or those so infirmed to be unable to protest or sue for defamation of charactor.
Napoleon wore panties, once confessed to an aide he liked the way it made him feel in battle. Just the other side of naughty. Also felt it made him fight harder so as not to be killed in battle and having his "little secret get out" as it would when he was undressed on the battle field by souvineer and relic hunters.
Adolf Hitler wore panties, a habit he acquired during the First World War, when he was a runner. He found panties gave him more flexibility in the girdle and hip area and made his climbing in and out of the trenches easier. He also liked that they did not crawl into his crack like the standard issue woolen german under trouser. He thought it uncouth to always be picking at his rear with his thumb and index fingers. It was not the image he was looking for in his life.
Abraham Lincoln had a pair of Mary Todd's bloomers on when he was shot at Ford's Theater.
I could go on and on on this crazy list of who in the world wears panties. But I will stop after one more famous pantier. Picasso, the painter was a pantier!
The way I look at it, panties are just underwear without the legs.
The panty is greatly maligned and misunderstood and underestimated as a force for good.
What else could one say about panties that hasn't already been said?
Ok, I will try one more. "Do these panties make my ass look big?"
No, Adolf, your ass does not look big in panties.
I better stop this now. I have a load of panties in the dryer that need to be folded and put away.
Happy New Year!
Jackson Delano Maybolt, Urban Poverty Law Center, President
And yeah, I made all that up. Just poppycock. jdm
Folks all over prayed Doc Taylor would make it over to see them off when the time come. All his patients had the mask of comedy and not the mask of tragedy when they passed. Doc Taylor made death pleasant for both the witnesses and the patient. Nobody ever complained after one of Doc Taylor's final treatments.
And best of all he only charged $1.25 for a house call, shot of morphine included!
OK, I did not plan on reminessing about mother's mistake at the change of life, but that is where I started out. Doc Taylor immediately knew she was not dying, but delivering and by the time they got momma's panties down to her knees, I shot out like a rocket and got tangled up in her panties which according to all in attendance probably saved my life, you see, because momma and daddy slept on a bed that was about 5 ft off the floor. Funny my life was spared by a pair of cotton white panties when I came into the world, but there ends my luck with panties.
Panties have caused me great joy and grief in my time since. I have come to the conclusion that if it wears panties and you start fooling with it, trouble is coming your way. There is no way to predict what a panty is going to think, do or say. You can never be certain if the panty is exclusively yours or if it is being shared. If you marry a pair, and they come down from time to time, it is going to cost you in the long run.
Now don't get me wrong here, I believe in panties and the strength of the bond one can make with a pair.
I have eight lovely children through three pair of panties and funny as it may seem, all the children favor each other. And the panties are different, each and every one of them.
Panties may not rule the world, but they control an awful lot of it.
If one googles famous personages who wore panties one is struck by the diversity of results. I will not impune those still living or those so infirmed to be unable to protest or sue for defamation of charactor.
Napoleon wore panties, once confessed to an aide he liked the way it made him feel in battle. Just the other side of naughty. Also felt it made him fight harder so as not to be killed in battle and having his "little secret get out" as it would when he was undressed on the battle field by souvineer and relic hunters.
Adolf Hitler wore panties, a habit he acquired during the First World War, when he was a runner. He found panties gave him more flexibility in the girdle and hip area and made his climbing in and out of the trenches easier. He also liked that they did not crawl into his crack like the standard issue woolen german under trouser. He thought it uncouth to always be picking at his rear with his thumb and index fingers. It was not the image he was looking for in his life.
Abraham Lincoln had a pair of Mary Todd's bloomers on when he was shot at Ford's Theater.
I could go on and on on this crazy list of who in the world wears panties. But I will stop after one more famous pantier. Picasso, the painter was a pantier!
The way I look at it, panties are just underwear without the legs.
The panty is greatly maligned and misunderstood and underestimated as a force for good.
What else could one say about panties that hasn't already been said?
Ok, I will try one more. "Do these panties make my ass look big?"
No, Adolf, your ass does not look big in panties.
I better stop this now. I have a load of panties in the dryer that need to be folded and put away.
Happy New Year!
Jackson Delano Maybolt, Urban Poverty Law Center, President
And yeah, I made all that up. Just poppycock. jdm
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Urban Poverty Law Center Year Ending Post: Warning Graphic Content!
The year 2012 was over all a huge disappointment for me. Sure, I am one year older and deeper in our collective debt owed the bankers at the Federal Reserve Banks, and I seriously doubt they will ever see any of the money they have graciously sent down the "rathole" our esteemed leaders chose.
Now that others have stopped buying our treasuries, the bankers have stepped up to the plate and have been writing US blank checks with no strings attached. Their efforts will probably be inflationary in the long run and no amount of taxation will ever catch and pass the deficit. Only when the US currency ceases to be the world's reserve currency will we reap what we have sewn. That day is coming.
I will recommend a tiny fraction of your savings in real estate and gold and silver. Bonds and stocks are dependent upon others in distant places being honest, and right now they have not kept true to that. Spending money before it is worthless is another option if you really need what you are buying.
Most thinking Americans have already stocked up on guns and ammunition. I saw the problem when Bill Clinton and Al Gore first burst on the scene in the early 1990's. I had five children then, four of them males and I bought guns like I was buying for their grandchildren. Ammunition too.
After the "dot com bubble" relieved me of half my retirement account in 2000, I swore off stocks as I believed I was the rube and they were the carnival barkers. My assessment was correct.
President Obama was the only one who was possibly more surprised by his reelection and perhaps more disappointed than I. He seems like a caged animal. He has truly made a pact with the devil. Never has one appeared more ill at ease than his excellency, Barack Hussein Obama, in his current position. It is not a good fit for him as leader or us as the electors. I do believe he is trying his best, but his vision of America and for America is slanted by foreign influences and Native African genetics and ways which were hammered out on the savannah over millions of years where survival was winning, and the niceties were only dreams. Where are the African millionaires? Where are the public sewer and water systems? Where is the rule of law? Jungle law and tea parties do not mix.
Hillary Clinton is famous for what it takes to raise a child. "It takes a village" was her quip, quoting from a wise African saying. Jack Maybolt would add to that adage: "It takes a village with a public water and sewer system as well as a strong rule of law which protects private property and basic God given freedoms."
After Benghazi, Hillary Clinton has gotten the flu, fallen and cannot get up long enough to visit the house oversight committee which is investigating this travesty of foreign policy and has possibly gotten enough plastic surgery and liposuction to make a run for the presidency in 2016 though she will be an even more sluggish 72 years young for the campaign. To quote one of my great and gifted friends, "she has waited far too late in life to build an empire!" She is set to resign early next year, when Senator John Kerry will try his hand at Secretary of State. He is a goon with a billionaire wife and a $7,500,000 yacht parked in Rhode Island to avoid Boston's yacht taxes with a pedigree more suited to a common kennel cur than a serious world diplomate. He only avoids about a half a million in sales taxes by keeping it in Rhode Island. What some people will do to avoid paying a fair share.
That money, half a million dollars would keep the Obamas living the life for only about 22 minutes since we spend about $31,500,000 a day catering to his every whim. Last year tax payers paid 1.2 billion dollars to maintain appearances in his honor. I wonder if he could get by on a third less? Say 20 million dollars a day.
The world wonders. How much caviar is enough?
Contrast what a regal bargain the Brits get as the entire royal family in Great Britian only costs their subjects 86 million dollars a year, an even smaller sounding 58 million pounds if you are inclined to change the money.
Seems we could save billions if we apologized to the Brits and became loyal subjects again and disbanded our dysfunctional government. They already have a national health care system in place. I see no need to reinvent the wheel as it is already spinning quite well over there. I think we should bring it up for a vote.
Kerry's tenure is sure to make Hillary's look proficient by comparison. Why the long face, John Kerry?
No year end treatise would be complete in America without comment on the fiscal cliff. Big deal! All about bread and circuses. Bush's tax cuts will be kept for the majority of Americans again for another year as another American financial time bomb explodes the economy, Obamacare. It will be too unwieldy to administer and the GSA will be pulling TSA agents away from the pornographic images at the airports to help oversee the reams and reams of healthcare regulations.
In the meantime our elders get pushed over the cliff without medicare as a safety net.
Finally, all is not without hope. There might be an asteroid hurtling towards Washington D.C. and we might be spared our humiliation. Or not.
Jackson Delano Maybolt, President Urban Poverty Law Center
Now that others have stopped buying our treasuries, the bankers have stepped up to the plate and have been writing US blank checks with no strings attached. Their efforts will probably be inflationary in the long run and no amount of taxation will ever catch and pass the deficit. Only when the US currency ceases to be the world's reserve currency will we reap what we have sewn. That day is coming.
I will recommend a tiny fraction of your savings in real estate and gold and silver. Bonds and stocks are dependent upon others in distant places being honest, and right now they have not kept true to that. Spending money before it is worthless is another option if you really need what you are buying.
Most thinking Americans have already stocked up on guns and ammunition. I saw the problem when Bill Clinton and Al Gore first burst on the scene in the early 1990's. I had five children then, four of them males and I bought guns like I was buying for their grandchildren. Ammunition too.
After the "dot com bubble" relieved me of half my retirement account in 2000, I swore off stocks as I believed I was the rube and they were the carnival barkers. My assessment was correct.
President Obama was the only one who was possibly more surprised by his reelection and perhaps more disappointed than I. He seems like a caged animal. He has truly made a pact with the devil. Never has one appeared more ill at ease than his excellency, Barack Hussein Obama, in his current position. It is not a good fit for him as leader or us as the electors. I do believe he is trying his best, but his vision of America and for America is slanted by foreign influences and Native African genetics and ways which were hammered out on the savannah over millions of years where survival was winning, and the niceties were only dreams. Where are the African millionaires? Where are the public sewer and water systems? Where is the rule of law? Jungle law and tea parties do not mix.
Hillary Clinton is famous for what it takes to raise a child. "It takes a village" was her quip, quoting from a wise African saying. Jack Maybolt would add to that adage: "It takes a village with a public water and sewer system as well as a strong rule of law which protects private property and basic God given freedoms."
After Benghazi, Hillary Clinton has gotten the flu, fallen and cannot get up long enough to visit the house oversight committee which is investigating this travesty of foreign policy and has possibly gotten enough plastic surgery and liposuction to make a run for the presidency in 2016 though she will be an even more sluggish 72 years young for the campaign. To quote one of my great and gifted friends, "she has waited far too late in life to build an empire!" She is set to resign early next year, when Senator John Kerry will try his hand at Secretary of State. He is a goon with a billionaire wife and a $7,500,000 yacht parked in Rhode Island to avoid Boston's yacht taxes with a pedigree more suited to a common kennel cur than a serious world diplomate. He only avoids about a half a million in sales taxes by keeping it in Rhode Island. What some people will do to avoid paying a fair share.
That money, half a million dollars would keep the Obamas living the life for only about 22 minutes since we spend about $31,500,000 a day catering to his every whim. Last year tax payers paid 1.2 billion dollars to maintain appearances in his honor. I wonder if he could get by on a third less? Say 20 million dollars a day.
The world wonders. How much caviar is enough?
Contrast what a regal bargain the Brits get as the entire royal family in Great Britian only costs their subjects 86 million dollars a year, an even smaller sounding 58 million pounds if you are inclined to change the money.
Seems we could save billions if we apologized to the Brits and became loyal subjects again and disbanded our dysfunctional government. They already have a national health care system in place. I see no need to reinvent the wheel as it is already spinning quite well over there. I think we should bring it up for a vote.
Kerry's tenure is sure to make Hillary's look proficient by comparison. Why the long face, John Kerry?
No year end treatise would be complete in America without comment on the fiscal cliff. Big deal! All about bread and circuses. Bush's tax cuts will be kept for the majority of Americans again for another year as another American financial time bomb explodes the economy, Obamacare. It will be too unwieldy to administer and the GSA will be pulling TSA agents away from the pornographic images at the airports to help oversee the reams and reams of healthcare regulations.
In the meantime our elders get pushed over the cliff without medicare as a safety net.
Finally, all is not without hope. There might be an asteroid hurtling towards Washington D.C. and we might be spared our humiliation. Or not.
Jackson Delano Maybolt, President Urban Poverty Law Center
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Urban Poverty Law Center: Why Can't Johnny Read But He Can Kill?
Inundated by the horrible events in a sleepy Conneticut village, I am curious about all the pundits and their written and spoken hand wringing about Lanza's crime and motives.
Killing man on man, has been around since the second generation of mankind was banished from the garden of Eden, some 6,000 years ago give or take a few million years. Recall Cain on Abel. Did our early ancestry ban clubs after that horrific crime? Adam was quoted in the Biblical Times when asked: "Clubs do not kill people, people kill people." Not many people know the original source of that one.
Murder and slaughter are not new to mankind. It has been taking place all over the world for thousands of years and at levels past which would cause todays pundit's heads to explode. I believe I have addressed this in a prior enlightened treatice, but since I am old, I may repeat myself even if it means I will have to change my depends adult diaper from a minor soiling or wetting of said product.
When I was a young boy I was cursed with a tender heart. When our cat would bring a mouse up to the house as a gift, still alive, I would struggle to save the doomed little furry creature. My father watched with bemusement and told me the laws of nature were against my intervening. The cat after all would go get another mouse to eat if I saved this one.
Man has a nature about him as well and killing is in it. This we cannot deny, for to do so would be pure folly. We are constantly or should be on guard. We avoid certain sections of our cities where crime and criminals are known to thrive. Even the anti-gun punditry class of liberal lunk-heads would not be caught dead on the Southside of Chicago after dark with some of the strictest gun control laws in the land in the city that Rahm rules!
So you see, gun controls are clearly not the answer. The nature of man will never change. We are killers.
Most of us were brought up by parents and in churches that taught us the commandments from God. One down the list a way is "Thou shalt not kill." But because of space considerations in one of the versions of the Bible, I am told on good authority the original tenent was "Thou shalt not kill or be killed!" This by our nature allows us the will to survive and to fight and use what ever means necessary and we will pull the trigger to protect ourselves and our families and at times other innocents.
Finally, there are always going to be runaways and nuts who kill for reasons we will never understand. Set points for survival are different from person to person. Where most people would feel threatened by the people out on the street in Chicago on the Southside after midnight, only a very small fraction would feel threatened by the typical 1st grade class in a small Conneticut village. Mr. Lanza's kill centers were set way too low. He is the exception, thank God, and not the rule.
We as a people and a society must not over react to exceptions and any serious talk about gun control over this tragic event is unwarranted and unwise. Man has been man for as long as man has been man and nothing will change the way we are.
There are always a few nuts in the Christmas candies, but you do not throw out the whole box because of it.
Jackson Delano Maybolt, President Urban Poverty Law Center
Killing man on man, has been around since the second generation of mankind was banished from the garden of Eden, some 6,000 years ago give or take a few million years. Recall Cain on Abel. Did our early ancestry ban clubs after that horrific crime? Adam was quoted in the Biblical Times when asked: "Clubs do not kill people, people kill people." Not many people know the original source of that one.
Murder and slaughter are not new to mankind. It has been taking place all over the world for thousands of years and at levels past which would cause todays pundit's heads to explode. I believe I have addressed this in a prior enlightened treatice, but since I am old, I may repeat myself even if it means I will have to change my depends adult diaper from a minor soiling or wetting of said product.
When I was a young boy I was cursed with a tender heart. When our cat would bring a mouse up to the house as a gift, still alive, I would struggle to save the doomed little furry creature. My father watched with bemusement and told me the laws of nature were against my intervening. The cat after all would go get another mouse to eat if I saved this one.
Man has a nature about him as well and killing is in it. This we cannot deny, for to do so would be pure folly. We are constantly or should be on guard. We avoid certain sections of our cities where crime and criminals are known to thrive. Even the anti-gun punditry class of liberal lunk-heads would not be caught dead on the Southside of Chicago after dark with some of the strictest gun control laws in the land in the city that Rahm rules!
So you see, gun controls are clearly not the answer. The nature of man will never change. We are killers.
Most of us were brought up by parents and in churches that taught us the commandments from God. One down the list a way is "Thou shalt not kill." But because of space considerations in one of the versions of the Bible, I am told on good authority the original tenent was "Thou shalt not kill or be killed!" This by our nature allows us the will to survive and to fight and use what ever means necessary and we will pull the trigger to protect ourselves and our families and at times other innocents.
Finally, there are always going to be runaways and nuts who kill for reasons we will never understand. Set points for survival are different from person to person. Where most people would feel threatened by the people out on the street in Chicago on the Southside after midnight, only a very small fraction would feel threatened by the typical 1st grade class in a small Conneticut village. Mr. Lanza's kill centers were set way too low. He is the exception, thank God, and not the rule.
We as a people and a society must not over react to exceptions and any serious talk about gun control over this tragic event is unwarranted and unwise. Man has been man for as long as man has been man and nothing will change the way we are.
There are always a few nuts in the Christmas candies, but you do not throw out the whole box because of it.
Jackson Delano Maybolt, President Urban Poverty Law Center
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Urban Poverty Law Center Takes Aim At School Massacre
One swallow does not a summer make.
The calls from our national leadership for gun control seems fishy at a time when our society is on the brink of completely falling off the fiscal cliff and is already speeding down the immoral trail of turpitude and decadence. Soon only those capable of defending themselves and their families along with any private property the takers in government allow them to keep will be the armed and dangerous.
A quick review of recent history is replete with stories of how the unarmed populace fares vs those in power who have all the guns. Ask the gypsys, the bolsheviks, and the Jews about their experience during world war II. As Americans if we allow this pipsqueak of a troubled boy to disarm 330,000,000 of our countrymen, with his psychotic out burst that killed 26 in Conneticut, then we may as well shoot ourselves in the head. More will die after gun control in America at the end of a barrel that otherwise would have. Thousands more.
The liberal progressives in power know armed Americans are harder to fleece. Our guns grant us parity against tyrrany. Alan Lanza did not go into a police station to act out. He purposefully chose a gun free zone where noone would be shooting back. A school, as long as it is a gun free zone will remain a great target of opportunity for all the Alan Lanza's of the world who would wish to cause turmoil and unnecessary grief for dozens of our citizens.
Is there an alternative to gun control which would keep another school house massacre from happening?
Alan Lanza has pointed out a great weakness in our homeland security. Why was Alan, not say a Mohammed, or Abdullah? Only by luck of timing. The others have plans.
Our intelligence officers have reported that the terrorist have chosen schools in America in which to act upon, especially the ones with younger students who can not be expected to fight back with any success.
Maybe it is time to prepare for these sorts of attacks, instead of waiting and hoping none will materialize.
Armed and trained teachers would be a good start like they have in Israel. Of course it must be up to the local school boards to decide if they wish to have protection like this, but it makes sense. An armed population is a polite population. Hire a school police force with arms and have these former military men and women ready for the attack which will surely come.
Washington will try to parlay this tragedy into some kind of gun control legislation, but our founding documents and our families require clearer heads must prevail.
The people who would rob you of your life and property respect guns when they are pointed their way. Without weaponry our enemies laugh at us. It is the same with a strong national defense. The strong horse is admired, the weak one is mocked.
President Obama and his gun running attorney general, Eric Holder, want to make all Americans weak horses as they try to disarm our countrymen.
When you take the "gun" out of "gun control", all that is left is "control" and that is their object.
The only effective means of controlling one gun is with another gun.
Good will only prevail over evil if they are on a level playing field and good has a good day.
Come out fighting and may the best weapon win.
Jackson Delano Maybolt, President Urban Poverty Law Center
The calls from our national leadership for gun control seems fishy at a time when our society is on the brink of completely falling off the fiscal cliff and is already speeding down the immoral trail of turpitude and decadence. Soon only those capable of defending themselves and their families along with any private property the takers in government allow them to keep will be the armed and dangerous.
A quick review of recent history is replete with stories of how the unarmed populace fares vs those in power who have all the guns. Ask the gypsys, the bolsheviks, and the Jews about their experience during world war II. As Americans if we allow this pipsqueak of a troubled boy to disarm 330,000,000 of our countrymen, with his psychotic out burst that killed 26 in Conneticut, then we may as well shoot ourselves in the head. More will die after gun control in America at the end of a barrel that otherwise would have. Thousands more.
The liberal progressives in power know armed Americans are harder to fleece. Our guns grant us parity against tyrrany. Alan Lanza did not go into a police station to act out. He purposefully chose a gun free zone where noone would be shooting back. A school, as long as it is a gun free zone will remain a great target of opportunity for all the Alan Lanza's of the world who would wish to cause turmoil and unnecessary grief for dozens of our citizens.
Is there an alternative to gun control which would keep another school house massacre from happening?
Alan Lanza has pointed out a great weakness in our homeland security. Why was Alan, not say a Mohammed, or Abdullah? Only by luck of timing. The others have plans.
Our intelligence officers have reported that the terrorist have chosen schools in America in which to act upon, especially the ones with younger students who can not be expected to fight back with any success.
Maybe it is time to prepare for these sorts of attacks, instead of waiting and hoping none will materialize.
Armed and trained teachers would be a good start like they have in Israel. Of course it must be up to the local school boards to decide if they wish to have protection like this, but it makes sense. An armed population is a polite population. Hire a school police force with arms and have these former military men and women ready for the attack which will surely come.
Washington will try to parlay this tragedy into some kind of gun control legislation, but our founding documents and our families require clearer heads must prevail.
The people who would rob you of your life and property respect guns when they are pointed their way. Without weaponry our enemies laugh at us. It is the same with a strong national defense. The strong horse is admired, the weak one is mocked.
President Obama and his gun running attorney general, Eric Holder, want to make all Americans weak horses as they try to disarm our countrymen.
When you take the "gun" out of "gun control", all that is left is "control" and that is their object.
The only effective means of controlling one gun is with another gun.
Good will only prevail over evil if they are on a level playing field and good has a good day.
Come out fighting and may the best weapon win.
Jackson Delano Maybolt, President Urban Poverty Law Center
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