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July 28, 2008
The idiocy of liberalism communism and today's Democrats
Yesterday, a man came by the farm to write me a check for the old milk storage tank that is taking up way too much space in my barn. This man owns a distillery here in Kansas, and has made a lot of money through the years by building business and then eventually selling them to big corporations. I'll call him Mr. Capitalism, because he said that he is a devout capitalist.
I had a very nice conversation with him until the topic turned to energy. See, Mr. Capitalism is really pissed off about the price of gasoline and diesel. This Devout Capitalist, who is a charming, 71 year old rich guy, is also a Democrat. I was really surprised when he said that the first thing Obama should do once he is office is to NATIONALIZE the Oil Companies and the Railroads.
Holy Shit! I think his claim to being a devout capitalist just went down the drain!
He thinks that state run energy is the only way for prices to come down. I looked at him, and I said," Mr. Capitalism, I believe that would be unconstitutional. Private ownership of property is one of the basic freedoms that the Constitution guarantees."
This very nice older gentleman, very wealthy "capitalist" pointed out that other countries do it, so we should too.
I politely wrapped up our conversation with the excuse that I needed to get my horses prepared for Brian the Farrier to trim and shoe their hooves, so we parted on friendly terms.
But then, I turned on one of the Sunday political shows on TV and there was a clip of Maxine Waters:
And Maxine, though she could not think of the word for nationalizing (stealing) corporations, didn't limit it to oil - she said "we will take over all your corporations".
Oh, just lovely. The Federal Government is bloated beyond all reason now. I certainly don't want the government to manage our health care, and I definitely don't want them managing any corporation, especially oil.
Later on, I switched to another show. The very angry mother of an autistic son was demanding legislation for hate speech, so that Michael Savage could be properly punished for saying a stupid thing.
I'm sorry, angry parents of autistic children everywhere, but we live in the USA, not Canada, not Great Britain. We DO NOT REGULATE SPEECH! The woman spoke as if we already had hate speech laws. Thank God we do not have laws to tell us what to think and what to do.
What Michael Savage said was dumb, but I have to agree that it seems that everyone I know with children has at least one autistic child - from the severe autism of a little girl I know to the very mild forms of autism (they have added a lot of behaviours to what is and is not autism lately) like Asperger's Syndrome.
Heck, half the adults I know and love have autistic tendencies from time to time, myself included, but who cares? These upset parents of autistic children need to grow up and realize that freedom carries some responsibility to allow other people to have the freedom to say whatever they want on TV, Radio, newspapers or the internet.
I don't want the Government regulating anything like speech, oil companies or health care. They will really suck at it.
Really.
And we will no longer be the wondrous and free country that we are now.
So please, write your congresspersons and remind them that they need to deal with government issues - wars, toting the mail, making sure that the roads are safe, etc. And to stay the hell out of regulating what we say, and what we think.
Posted by Beth at July 28, 2008 6:39 AM
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First off after reading your post i have to say I don't agree with something you said. You said you are afraid Obama will isolate the USA from the rest of the world. So my question to you is this. Hasn't Bush done this already for the for the last 8 years, or at the very least since the Iraq war started? I suppose your going to sit here and tell me that the USA is well liked around the world more so now since Bush has been in office then we were with Clinton right? If Obama is makeing bed fellows with crooks what has Bush and Cheney been doing with the Oil Companies and Haloburton How much has Dick Cheney's Haloburton gouged the American Military and American Goverment on their prices for equipment in Iraq??? Why are we just now when Bush's term is about over only starting to worry about trying to get the price of gas down. If a few months it won't matter to Bush cause he won't be in the office and we as tax payers will have to pay the gas when he wants to go somewhere. Why do we send our oil that is produced in the USA overseas to be refined and sent back to us? Because our refineries are so old they can't do the job. We haven't built a new one in over 20 years. WHY??? Don't you think the shipping of our oil overseas doesn't in some way affect the price of gas? So I think your statement that Obama is in bed with crooks is way off.I think the correct thing to say is ALL Politians are in bed with crooks. So this means both REPUBLICAN and DEMOCRATS. I think you need to go look again on Obama and the 2nd amendment. He isn't against the 2nd amendment but he Supports bans on assault weapons and concealed weapons. While I agree with the ban on the assault weapons I don't agree with him on the concealed weapons. If you say he is against the 2nd amendment then please show me where he is against it
Posted by: QuestionEverything at July 28, 2008 1:09 PM
Well, that's an interesting comment - and it has absolutely nothing to do with my post? Is this your way of showing how intelligent Obama's fans are?
I would appreciate it if people who comment on my blog would at least attempt to make their comment relevant to my post!
Posted by: Beth Donovan at July 28, 2008 2:20 PM
I tried posted to the correct post which was the July 1st one. For some reason when I tried to post it said comments are not alowed to this post. Funny I thought you were for free speech? So if you would allow me to post to the correct post I would be more than happy to post it there.
Funny from reading your posts I always believed you preached free speech. I guess free speech doesn't always apply to this site huh?
Posted by: QuestionEverything at July 28, 2008 2:57 PM
Well that explains it. I am completely for free speech, however, all my posts are available for comment for 5 days only, then I close comments.
Why do I do this? Because that way, I avoid spambots who use my comments as a way to get mentioned on blogs, raising their status on Google.
I really don't feel the need to offer free advertising! LOL.
Posted by: Beth Donovan at July 28, 2008 3:24 PM
Ok that explains it. Thanks for clearing that up for me.
Posted by: QuestionEverything at July 28, 2008 3:44 PM
Wow, Beth, I thought some of the Ron Paul fanboys were a bit "excessively enthusiastic", but the Obama cultists frighten me, a bit. I listen to the Savage Wiener regularly, and also think I have a touch of the "A", so I'm a bit conflicted on that one. I'm philosophically opposed to getting government help unless nothing else works. Being hopeless at housekeeping and never getting laid doesn't mean one needs to be subsidized by the .gov.
Now, getting fired for doing good work but not fitting in socially..
Posted by: Justthisguy at August 4, 2008 4:01 AM