Mary

Mary

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Do Something, Anything, Even If It Does Not Solve The Problem.

FILE - In this Jan. 16, 2013, file photo, President Barack Obama listens at left as Vice President Joe Biden speaks about proposals to reduce gun violence in the South Court Auditorium at the White House in Washington. There is a legal avenue to get any gun you want somewhere in the U.S., thanks to the maze of gun statutes across the country and the lack of federal laws. An Associated Press analysis finds that there are thousands of laws, rules and regulations at the local, county, state and federal levels. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
After you turn in your guns we are headed to the beach
to command the oceans to stop rising.
"Because while there is no law or set of laws that can prevent every senseless act of violence completely, no piece of legislation that will prevent every tragedy, every act of evil, if there’s even one thing we can do to reduce this violence, if there’s even one life that can be saved, then we’ve got an obligation to try." - President Obama

The false premise in the President's statement is that laws can prevent some actions or any action from occurring.

Laws are written for two reasons. The first is that when individuals enter into an agreement with the state to not seek personal vengeance against another individual who has committed a crime against them the state then has the responsibility to punish the transgressor on behalf of the victim. The benefit to the victim and to the state is that communities are not torn apart by an endless series of blood feuds. The second reason laws are written is to provide a consistent rule concerning the type of punishment for the type of crime committed.

Laws are reactive not proactive. The law can only be applied to a specific crime that has been committed against a specific individual.  The only way to eliminate the crime of bank robbery would be for the state to declare bank robbery will no longer be a crime.

There is a greater danger to the nation when we demand action and our elected representatives  are more than willing to take the action that we demand. I am not speaking solely about the issue of the individual right to own firearms.

"We must here return for a moment to the position which precedes the suppression of democratic institutions and the creation of a totalitarian regime. In this stage it is the general demand for quick and determined government action that is the dominating element in the situation, dissatisfaction with the slow and cumbersome course of democratic procedure which makes action for action's sake the goal." - F. A. Hayek, The Road To Serfdom - Chapter 10, Why The Worst Get On Top.


http://www.examiner.com/article/obama-s-speech-on-gun-control-and-gun-violence-america-video

http://news.yahoo.com/thousands-march-gun-control-washington-164306917.html

http://news.yahoo.com/biden-heading-virginia-push-gun-control-093634783--politics.html

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Piers Who?

Television host Piers Morgan hosts a conversation titled ''Communication by Design: Inspirational Change'' during the final day of the Clinton Global Initiative 2012 (CGI) in New York September 25, 2012. REUTERS/Andrew Burton
Credit: Reuters/Andrew Burton
Man: That was not five minutes just now.
Mr. Vibrating: I told you I'm not allowed to argue with you unless you've paid.
Man: I just paid.
Mr. Vibrating: No you haven't.
Man: Yes I have.
Mr. Vibrating: No you haven't.
Man: Look, I don't want to argue about this.
Mr. Vibrating: Well you didn't pay.
Man: Aha! If I didn't pay, why are you arguing? See, I've got you.
Mr. Vibrating: Not necessarily. I could be arguing in my spare time.
Man: I've had enough of this.
Mr. Vibrating: No you haven't.


For some strange reason people want to deport Piers Morgan. I would hate to see him go because I think he brings Monty Python back to life.
He is certainly a reminder that a British accent is not necessarily a sign of intelligent life. I will admit that the sound of his voice is far more pleasant than the sound of Ted Turner's voice.

There is no word yet from his twelve viewers if they will leave with Piers if he is deported.


And now for something completely different.
 
Man: That was not five minutes just now.
Mr. Vibrating: I told you I'm not allowed to argue with you unless you've paid.
Man: I just paid.
Mr. Vibrating: No you haven't.
Man: Yes I have.
Mr. Vibrating: No you haven't.
Man: Look, I don't want to argue about this.
Mr. Vibrating: Well you didn't pay.
Man: Aha! If I didn't pay, why are you arguing? See, I've got you.
Mr. Vibrating: Not necessarily. I could be arguing in my spare time.
Man: I've had enough of this.
Mr. Vibrating: No you haven't.

Courtesy of Monty Python - After all CNN could not have written this, but they are getting closer to the target.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/24/entertainment-us-piersmorgan-petition-idUSBRE8BN0M920121224

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

We Are Schizoprhenic And So Are We

Tell me doctor, what do you see?

“In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.” - George Orwell

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by a breakdown of thought processes and by poor emotional responsiveness. Common symptoms include auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking,

We are rightly horrified by the shootings in Newtown Connecticut. Our feelings of sadness, fear, and outrage are normal reactions to an action that we find incomprehensible.

When one asks why, or how something like this could possibly happen in this age of enlightenment the lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia become like razor wire. Razor wire that protects some individuals from any argument that might disturb their conscience, or the realization of what type of world their political actions are creating. Any effort to breach this intellectual razor wire barricade is met with savagery, ridicule, and hatred.

Lies, Bizarre Delusions, Disorganized Speech and Thinking

"It's so unbelievable, and it only happens in America." This is a statement that Mayor Bloomberg of New York City made on Meet The Press concerning the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. This statement is false and David Gregory the host of Meet The Press did not challenge the Mayor on this statement.

Norway, Finland, Great Britain, Germany, France, Canada, China, Pakistan, Israel, Russia and Afghanistan have had incidents of homicidal violence directed at school children, high school students, college students, and school staff.

I do not make a distinction between "terrorist homicides" and "criminal homicides", nor do I make a distinction concerning the motive of a killer, or the type of weapons used to murder one human being or many human beings. These distinctions makes no difference to the dead.

Mayor Bloomberg also demands that President Obama do something about guns in the United States. This is the same President that is hiding e-mails from Congress concerning a government program that was selling firearms to Mexican drug cartels. These firearms were used in the killing of two U.S. Border Patrol Agents and an untold number of U.S. and Mexican citizens. President Obama can hardly claim the moral high ground in any discussion of firearms, the sale of firearms, or the ownership of firearms by U.S. citizens. His Department of Justice encouraged, or coerced firearms dealers to violate federal laws in selling firearms to Mexican drug cartels.

Do not expect the media to question this moral paradox at White House press briefings, after all one does not get invited to the best parties in Washington D.C. or New York by asking tough questions.


Evasions, Folly, and Hatred

“I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is 'Abortion', because it is a war against the child... A direct killing of the innocent child, 'Murder' by the mother herself... And if we can accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?" - Mother Theresa


“The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father's role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts--a child--as a competitor, an intrusion and an inconvenience. It has nominally accorded mothers unfettered dominion over the dependent lives of their physically dependent sons and daughters. And, in granting this unconscionable power, it has exposed many women to unjust and selfish demands from their husbands or other sexual partners.” - Mother Theresa

Over 50 million abortions have been performed in the United States. The state sanctioned killing of the defenseless in a nation that is dependent upon future taxpayers to help pay for Social Security, Medicare, and other social welfare programs is schizophrenic behavior. Euthanasia is becoming accepted in the United States. Euthanasia is an accepted practice in Europe.

The message sent by the state is that the killing of some defenseless individuals is morally acceptable and necessary, while the killing of others is not. Who knew that the Nazis were right, they were simply decades ahead of all the rest of us.

I find it interesting that the latest installment of the Texas Chain Saw Massacre series was the top grossing movie in the U.S. last week-end. Two dimensional slash and spatter was not enough for the producers, 3D gore it must be. I find it interesting that the depiction of sadism and murder has now become mainstream entertainment, yet proponents of abortion become enraged when photos of aborted children are made public.

Pontius Pilate is not the only one in history who felt the need to wash his hands, we have all been standing at the same basin.

http://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2012/03/01/medethics-2011-100411.full.pdf+html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2240075/Now-sick-babies-death-pathway-Doctors-haunting-testimony-reveals-children-end-life-plan.html


http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2012/12/18/press-gives-bloomberg-pass-only-happens-america-remark-meet-press

http://video.msnbc.msn.com/meet-the-press/50215647#50215647