Recently, Peggy Noonan wrote a provocative article for the Wall Street Journal, America’s Crisis of Character: the nation seems to be on the wrong track, and not just economically. In it, Ms. Noonan lists some of the big issues that have happened in the country recently, but not of a political nature. Rather, she listed some of the occurrences of people’s inhumanity to people. It was a disturbing, and saddening, collection of stories.
In Noonan’s piece, she mentions the that Americans are not feeling too positive about our nation, and its direction. I would be one of those people, by the way. But it is not just in the political realm that trouble is brewing, no, not at all. Check out just a few of the stories in the news recently from Noonan’s column (all Youtube links were not in the original article, and were added by me, and I warn you, they are disturbing):
[snip] Every story that has broken through the past few weeks has been about who we are as a people. And they are all disturbing.A tourist is beaten in Baltimore. Young people surround him and laugh. He’s pummeled, stripped and robbed. No one helps. They’re too busy taping it on their smartphones. That’s how we heard their laughter. The video is on YouTube along with the latest McDonalds beat-down and the latest store surveillance tapes of flash mobs. Groups of teenagers swarm into stores, rob everything they can, and run out. The phenomenon is on the rise across the country. Police now have a nickname for it: “flash robs.”
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Also starring on YouTube this week was the sobbing woman. She’s the poor traveler who began to cry great heaving sobs when a Transportation Security Administration agent at the Madison, Wis., airport either patted her down or felt her up, depending on your viewpoint and experience. Jim Hoft of TheGatewayPundit.com recorded it, and like all the rest of the videos it hurts to watch. When the TSA agent—an adult, a middle aged woman—was done, she just walked away, leaving the passenger alone and uncomforted, like a tourist in Baltimore.
Honestly, when I was first alerted to the tourist in Baltimore video, I could not believe it was real. I could not believe people would laugh at this man being beaten, stripped, and robbed, catching it on video to put up on Youtube. How could anyone be so heartless, so cruel, so cowardly? And not just one person, but a number of them, collectively. Unbelievably disturbing.
And you already know how I feel about the TSA and their sexual assaults on those of us who have a joint replacement or other medical issue that always seems to target us for these invasive “pat-downs.” Don’t even get me started on that again.
That’s bad enough. But there is more our government has been doing that shows a breakdown in, well, maturity and responsible behavior, as this next example highlights:
There is the General Services Administration scandal. An agency devoted to efficiency is outed as an agency of mindless bread-and-circuses indulgence. They had a four-day regional conference in Las Vegas, with clowns and mind readers.
The reason the story is news, and actually upsetting, is not that a government agency wasted money. That is not news. The reason it’s news is that the people involved thought what they were doing was funny, and appropriate. In the past, bureaucratic misuse of taxpayer money was quiet. You needed investigators to find it, trace it, expose it. Now it’s a big public joke. They held an awards show. They sang songs about the perks of a government job: “Brand new computer and underground parking and a corner office. . . . Love to the taxpayer. . . . I’ll never be under OIG investigation.” At the show, the singer was made Commissioner for a Day. “The hotel would like to talk to you about paying for the party that was held in the commissioner’s suite last night” the emcee said. It got a big laugh.
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Their leaders didn’t even pretend to have a sense of mission and responsibility. They reminded me of the story a year ago of the dizzy captain of a U.S. Navy ship who made off-color videos and played them for his crew. He wasn’t interested in the burdens of leadership—the need to be the adult, the uncool one, the one who maintains standards. No one at GSA seemed interested in playing the part of the grown-up, either.
Oh, yeah, so funny I forgot to laugh as I watch these bozos waste our money with drink, food, expensive rooms, and gleefully sing about it. They can bite me. And repay my tax money, thank you so much (there is more by Noonan about the GSA issue in her column). Oh, and they can try growing the hell up, too.
I have to say, on this one, I am not really surprised. When you have White House Staffers, including the Senior White House Speech Writer, taking off their shirts and playing beer pong in Georgetown, the GSA behavior is just a natural extension. There seems to be an overwhelming lack of maturity and decorum operative in the White House, and government departments these days.
This may well be the tip of the iceberg, as the last story from Noonan I share here today highlights. And it is easily the most disturbing. That is of the Secret Service Agents Gone Wild in Mexico on their “Spring Break”:
[snip] What’s terrible about this story is that for anyone who’s ever seen the Secret Service up close it’s impossible to believe. The Secret Service are the best of the best. That has been their reputation because that has been their reality. They have always been tough, disciplined and mature. They are men, and they have the most extraordinary job: take the bullet.
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In any presidential party, the Secret Service guys are the ones who are mature, who you can count on, who’ll keep their heads. They have judgment, they’re by the book unless they have to rewrite it on a second’s notice. And they wore suits, like adults.
This week I saw a picture of agents in Colombia. They were in T-shirts, wrinkled khakis and sneakers. They looked like a bunch of mooks, like slobs, like children with muscles.[snip] (Click here to read the rest of this very good column, and the additional examples Ms. Noonan includes of recent actions in this country. It is well worth a read.)
That isn’t exactly the image most of us carry for how Secret Service agents look. And it most definitely is not how most of think Secret Service agents conduct themselves when on a mission to protect the President of the United States here or abroad.
It begs the question of how long this kind of behavior has been going on. Gov. Palin was the subject of ogling by one of her Secret Service agents back in 2008. How do we know? He bragged about it on his Facebook page, along with posting a photo of himself (aren’t they supposed to remain nameless?). Very professional there, Agent Chaney, very professional. Not.
I understand why Ms. Noonan is concerned about the state of our nation, and not just on a political level. I am, too. I don’t think it is just because I am becoming a curmudgeon in my old age, either. There really does seem to be a decline in behavior in this country, whether it is a group of young people laughing at someone being attacked, or the GSA employees laughing about taking the US Taxpayer for a ride. Something is very, very wrong here.
At least that’s what I think. How about you?
I have been saying the U.S. is going to hell in a handbasket for at least three years!! obama is making it his mission to help destroy our America. He was on the way to grandma’s house and on the way he dropped said handbasket, strewing Americans far and wide and dividing them in everyway possible, jobs spilling out to other countries, banks left to their own devices….the list goes on and on. To say he needs to be shown the door out of the oval office would be a gross understatement!!
“Say What You Will…It Feels So Good”
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I hear ya, psstt – and concur! I don’t recall seeing this kind of thing happening with gov’t departments like the GSA and Secret Service, this rampant immaturity and entitlement to others’ money (I think that is called “theft”) as we are seeing now. It is a failure of leadership, IMHO.
Rev Amy, I don’t know of people are getting worse or if we’re just seeing it more often because of you tube, facebook, the media? If you study history, people have always done some pretty lousy things, it’s just that nobody really heard about it. But one thing I do think that has changed is the way we glorify stuff like this. Violence is viewed as “cool,” and the more shocking your behavior, the more attention it gets. The media of course, is on a 24/7 mission to bring us the worst people have to offer and I worry about what impact this has on people growing up. Our role models are like, whoever has behaved in the most bizarre manner rather then those who have overcome challenges and gone on to suceed. Today you can achieve your five minutes of fame by doing something bad, while those doing something good are generally ignored.
So are we going to hell in a handbasket? Maybe not in a historical context or rather, we’ve always been going to hell in a handbasket, it’s just that people used to strive to do better. Today I’m not so sure if we’re even doing that because the media has far too much of an impact on our lives and they are kind of directing our moral compass. It’s scary.
I know what you mean, yttik, but aren’t we supposed to be better now than we were in the past? Aren’t we supposed to have learned that people should be treated with a modicum of respect? What happened in Baltimore is staggering because, while it may not have been unusual in the 17th century, it sure should be in the 21st. Know what I mean?
We definitely seem to be glorifying violence, though, from song to actions, it has become the “cool” thing, you are right.
And it is VERY scary to think that the media is driving our moral compass since they seem to care more abt making stories than reporting them. All of this recent brouhaha over George Zimmerman is a case in point. An NBC producer alters a 911 call to make Zimmerman look racist, and the photos of Zimmerman’s bleeding head didn’t make it out until YESTERDAY. WTH with that?
So yes, if they are driving our moral compass, we ARE going to hell in a handbasket…
This Zimmerman case is really a great example of how things are just going straight to hell around here. And how the media stands around fanning the flames.
Exactly, hc. They created the story, then promoted the story, and then crafted the response to the story. Unbelievable.
We really do not have a Fourth Estate any more. We have a wagging the dog mentality, along with scurrilous assertion with no basis in fact, and little more than gossip rags these days. I cannot believe the crap papers like the NYTimes will print now – it is truly shocking at what they have become.
Heck, I can’t even say they are like the Enquirer any more…
for sure Amy. do not let anyone control your Moral compass except yourself and the good book
Oh, no doubt, Foxy! I most definitely control my compass, But nationally, it seems, as yttik was saying, that the media seems to be having too much of a hand in shaping the nation’s the way it chooses to project or manipulate a story.
It seems clear that our collective compass has been knocked off its axis…
George Zimmerman was tried and convicted by the liberal media without benefit of due process. I watched his bond hearing and the man looks like he’s lost 20 lbs and is a shell of what he was. I feel sorry for him, because I know he is being railroaded and will never get a fair trial.
Yes, he surely was. Apparently, due process is a thing of the past in this country now, too.
And isn’t it amazing how those photos surfaced so late in the game? Or that it took them so long to acknowledge that NBC manufactured the racism angle? That hasn’t stopped any of these race baiters from going on and on abt this being racism, though.
Oh, my fave story was the one where the guy told Martin’s mom to get off the stage so they could use this for political fodder. That really says it all, doesn’t it? Here’s a link: http://www.examiner.com/article/black-activist-get-trayvon-martin-s-mother-off-the-stage-right-now
I actually do think things are getting worse for American society right now. I think it has reached a tipping point. I mean just look at Detroit from 1950 to now. Its not good. This is not the sign of a healthy nation.
I dont think the average joe is getting worse. But the above average joes who are supposed to set an example just do not set an example. From the top down, like you say.
Go out and TRY to set a good example! People dont even understand what you are talking about! It reminds me of “communist manners” in Russia – where saying please and thank you was for losers.
Even our “educated elites” are going for this whole hog. My mother in law smirks and makes quasi nasty jokes because my own mother taught me to send thank you notes when I receive gifts. Somehow this is considered suspect in 2012. Who do I think I am, with all these airs?
I think a 50 year diet of liberalism (back when that meant actual liberalism) that sounded good and started good (“everyone is equal under the law”) has morphed into liberal-progressive-ism (“all people, cultures and societies are equal, we should guarantee equality of outcome, equality under the law depends on who you are, if you dont obey we will harass you, fine you, send you to jail”).
Add in a massive welfare state and you pretty much guarantee society will go to hell, and fast.
I think people are still striving to do better, but they keep running into one wall after another brought about by big government and those in power who just don’t give a damn as long as everything is right in their world. If anyone thinks obama cares about anyone but himself, they would be wrong and I do not see any way that he has helped his fellow “Americans”…just sayin’
“Say What You Will…It Feels So Good”
Great point, psstt. I think some folks are. But yes, there does seem to be this culture of not giving a damn abt anyone else, especially if things are going one’s way. Well said.
Oh, Cuzn Amy—the state of the Union is overwhelming, isn’t it?! Thank you for writing about it…
Peggy Noonan’s article is excellent—she had another one a couple of weeks ago, too.
Peggy has redeemed herself, IMO, after getting a little tipsy on the Kool-aid in ’08. Thank god she’s thinking critically again—-she’s one of the best when she is spot on. We need a hundred more like her.
I read this article by Noonan, its one of her good ones.
Once, a long time ago, I was doing surveying in a site called Ninevah in Northern Iraq. The archaeologists found a little tablet that basically said “this younger generation will be the end of us”. They took it as a great sign that “old curmugeons” always say this throughout the ages, and spent the afternoon feeling smug and superior about curmugeons and human progress.
What these same archaeologists failed to consider was that they found this particular tablet in the very top of a destruction layer of an entire city – so really were the old curmugeons wrong? Probably not. Life goes on, but your particular society can completely fail. It happens all the time. I do think it is happening now in the USA.
If you go to the horrible site worldwidehiphop.com it is full of mobs doing bad deeds (the incident in Baltimore was one), with other people standing around laughing and filming it. I find it chilling.
And its not just “youth”!
That pervy secret service guy was older than I am. His behaviour is reminiscent of late stage praetorian guard antics. Just decayed and failing. And he will retire with a large pension.
The wife of the GSA guy, the one who wrote “iz yo birfday”, was a middle aged white lady! Speaking ebonics to her husband! Because shes so cool! Maybe Mr & Mrs GSA wear their pants around their knees and talk about Mumia and Tupac at their house in suburban Maryland. And together I am sure they make 300k+, all on the taxpayer.
I dont get this place anymore, and I am less and less optimistic for its future. Singapore is looking pretty good by comparison.
hc123—i always enjoy your comments, even about the most dire events. Your life experiences are so rich.
And yes, please see if you can get us group rates for an extended stay at a Singapore bed and breakfast……!
Lets go! Its a great spot to ride out the storm.
Sign me up! And I concur, Cindy, I love reading hc’s comments. So informative, and just fascinating. You immediately transported me to an archeological dig, hc – what a way with words you have!
Indeed, it isn’t just youth. Noonan made that point, too, in her post. This isn’t just abt “juvenile delinquents,” who have been around for eons. No, it’s abt how ADULTS are acting, too. The very people who are suppose to be the role models for better behavior.
And yes, manners seems to be a sign of weakness, or old-fashioned, or country, or whatever – just basic respect for people real respect, not the “he disrespected me, so I shot him” kind, but treating each person as having worth, seems to have gone by the wayside. It is discouraging, to put it mildly.
Here’s some ” Hell in a Hand Basket” music for you this morning, by a good Dallas boy:
LOL – good one, Cindy! Thanks for adding some music to the discussion!
As far as young people go…it seems most of them these days are either narcissists or sociopaths. They exhibit an almost complete lack of empathy, sympathy or compassion and are all about themselves. The fact that a bunch of them stood around recording it on their cell phones instead of helping the tourist is no surprise to me. I always believed the Secret Service to be comprised of individuals who were highly skilled, very dedicated and had impeccable character. Oh well, guess that belief just got shot down.
I know, SSDD – I always thought members of the Secret Service were beyond reproach. As you said, “Oh well…” Sigh.
I hear you abt the narcissists and sociopaths we seem to be rearing now. Unless children are taught that they are not entitled to everything they want, that they can’t have everything they want, and how to be kind, compassionate people by their parents, mentors, role models, this trend will likely continue.
Something has to give, that’s for sure…
Maybe they are just trying to do their part to bring obamadinejad down….if so, thank you, thank you, thank you.
“Say What You Will…It Feels So Good”
i am going to sound like my grandmother now.
Since the 1960s ethics, morals, manners all have gone downhill.
We no longer educate, we indoctrinate . Bill Ayers method of teaching
The kids are told if your parents discipline you, turn them in to the state, (I am not talking child abuse here)
TV has gotten do filled with nonsense and no longer can be considered a good teaching tool
kids get rewarded for just showing up, not for trying to be the best they can be
when you have parents, some in elected postitions say I voted for so and so because my kids told me so, you know you are deep doodoo
accountability for one’ s actions and choices is a thing of the past.
peer pressure, not home teaching has become the main learning tool
I will take will power, discipline, the ability to say no, tough love to start teaching kids how to be the best adult they can be. Making them understand that you love them enough to care
We also have to start changing the education system back to being an education system . These means getting rid of bad teachers, promoting good teachers, parents being involved and getting rid of the department of education. Just throwing money at schools, and the throwing up your hands is not working
end of lecture for today
Sister, you can “lecture” on any time! Well said. You hit the nail on the head with this comment, Helen. Spot on!
This post has me channeling my grandmother as well. I think the demise started somewhere between taking God out of everything, and giving everyone a participation trophy.
Good point, sybill. They finally realized that telling someone that every little thing they did was, “GREAT!” was not building their self-esteem, but making them think they could do no wrong. Yeah. And we see how well all of that has worked out for us.
Great points in the discussion here. But everyone is missing one of the main instigators for entitled children and adolescents that are today’s young adults acting like Bolsheviks.
That would be the dissolution of the family unit. Woman no longer spend all their time teaching Tommy or Sally right from wrong until he shows he knows right from wrong. Our young woman are encouraged or forced to work after x amount of years in school in order to survive. Corporations and governments have reaped the windfall of a doubled workforce and doubled tax income since the 1960′s, at the expense of society as a whole.(Part of the blame imo)
The family unit was the lifeblood of western nations and woman were always the caretakers of that family unit – the highest honour in my books.
Without that secure foundation that the nuclear family brought, society is destined to crumble as the people won’t know right from wrong and will think wrong (disrespect) is “right”.
One of other thing that’s been on my mind. You can’t really legislate morality. It has to come from the home and from within.
I agree with you to some degree, but people forget there have been working women in this country since at least the gilded age. How many immigrant families needed both parents working to survive? During two wars and several unclassified wars has one parent been away from home. The schools and the home taught respect and the importance of learning to improve your life. That changed and not for the better. Also kids were kids until they were eighteen and did not rule the roost.
beyondwords, so good to have you join us! And thanks for your comment.
We can’t legislate morality – that is true. It is something that is taught and nurtured.
Great conversation, everyone – I am so grateful to be a part of such an incredible community.
Me, too, Amy.
Can we just be rid of this thumbs up thumbs down thing? I see no point to it beyond letting trolls run around saying “yer mom!” to posters. If you have an actual point to refute, do so with words not gestures. Seriously.
Nice post beyondwords, “thumbs up”.
The family unit was fractured when the Government replaced the father in many homes in my opinion. I was the Adopt-A-School coordinator at my job for 14 years before my MS diagnosis. I worked willingly and tirelessly on programs that I thought would help the children strive for excellence, achievement, and personal responsibility. Some of our efforts clearly connected with some of the children, and I would love to know how they are faring today. But, our biggest event by far was providing Christmas presents for the children which we delivered to their homes. By the time my tenure ended, I was delivering to children that were the 3rd generation that had never known anything other than public housing, and a father in the home was a rarity. And I hate to have to make this preemptive declaration, but, since everything seems to be framed about race, the students were white, black and hispanic.
also you have idiots like this using tragedy for their own purposes
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/04/21/jesse-jackson-school-suspension-is-racial-profiling-caused-trayvon-martins-death/
WTH? So now we cannot hold young people accountable for breaking the rules or else it’s “racial profiling”? That is just absurd. And sets a whole different standard for black people than anyone else, which is RACIST.
BREAKING: Family spokesman: Charles Colson, Watergate figure who turned to religion, has died at 80 – @AP
It isn’t a handbasket but a rickshaw, as it were.
Good one, Ferd!
Spot on Rev. curmudgeon? not. I think the velocity and tone of news ebbs and flows in its head long rush to be called “history”, so as to make our reflections cast a longer shadow. Tis not the ‘I’ but the ‘we’ of it, no?
After watching “The Tudors” I am trying to understand the differences between the church of England and the “reformers”. I get that Henry did not want the Vatican pulling the strings, but how was the Church of England different from he Vatican’s Roman Catholic of those times? It seemed that it was closer to the Pope then the Luthern reform movement, but gyrated between the two for some time after. That episode lead to hundreds of years of conflict and death.
In the context of today’s scrammbled moral and spiritual compass, as a nation, the “selfgranted” narcissistic right of entitlement has crossed the physical plane and has found safe harbor in our ethos as a Constitutional Republic, by fraudulent means.
T.S. Eliot, The idea of a Christian society 1940.
We are being lead by an immoral POTUS, who claims to be of a single faith but in reality has no allegience to any belief system, save what will protect his narcissistic ass in the moment.
What example is to be set by such a human, who doesn’t care to understand the moral authority of the office of POTUS precedes any action he may take?
The Federal Hall, the place where Washington to the oath of office, is now to have it’s own little “free speech zone”. Not just our first amendents rights are at stake if this trend continues, for it truly will be “to hell in a hand basket”.. with the peeps still more concerned about the velvet lining of the basket they are in than where it is going.
What a great comment, Teak. Thank you for this insightful response. Definitely food for thought.
And you are so right abt Obama’s belief system, or lack thereof. Well said!
obama To Gays: I’ve Been Good To You….
http://news.yahoo.com/obama-gays-ive-good-174912186.html
The gay community does not owe one iota of allegiance to this flip-flopping, bamboozling, hoodwinking, okey doking ass clown. He may appear a friend of the “family” but it is all blatant pandering for votes, pure and simple.
How I despise this sorry excuse for a human being….just sayin’
“Say What You Will…It Feels So Good”
Oh, he absolutely is no friend to the GLBT community. Anyone who thinks he is is deluding themselves. Obama has done nothing for the community except sign his name on work others did (what else is new?).
Even before he became prez., he surrounded himself with known homophobes, and actively anti-gay people. For that to be forgotten is mighty short-sighted.
I would rather be a Log Cabin republican than support Obama. I would think, as a class of people, the GLBT community would be very perseptive about who has taken their issues seriously and act accordingly. The pathology of this Kool-aid delusion has no known cure. Very curious thing.
You and me both, Teak. I used to make fun of Log Cabin Republicans in my myopic Dem days, but now, I totally understand from where they are coming.
each group that he tries to pander to at his speeches and fundraisers ought to stand up and shout ” what have you done for me lately?????” He will not have a good answer
I will tell you what he has done for us lately….used our ‘dime’ to pay for his campaigning through his frivolous use of AF1…This is how he shows fiscal responsibility for his own money…..just use the taxpayers!!
How about we stop assuming all gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders are the same, and share all the same concerns? Or all women (a group which includes some of the above), or all blacks (a group which can include all of the above), or latinos, or whatever.
These divisions dont even make sense.
Lesbians share exactly what in common with women who have surgically added a penis and become men? A refugee from Cuba shares exactly what with someone from Guyana (where they speak English ffs, but are “latino” according to DC)? A college educated married well to do black soccer mom from the burbs shares exactly what with an unmarried highschool dropout black single mom in public housing in the city? Out of the gate not all that much really.
Stop stuffing us in boxes to bribe us to vote for you. Its grossly transparent and really disgusting, and it serves to perpetuate these stupid divisions within the culture. It just feeds our ever growing culture of race hustling and being offended constantly.
Obama is a friend to Obama and people who give money to Obama. Thats about it.
Also, Obama sounds like Chavez, Ahmedinejad, Castro and also sort of like an abusive spouse when he says crap like “I have been good to you”.
Creepy
Hell to the YES, hc! Precisely! Spot on! What an outstanding comment!! Amen, sister!
msnbc’s Martin Bashir Consigns Romney To Hell…..all this while sticking up for his “bro” obamadinejad. For someone born to Pakistani Christian parents, he sure doesn’t know much about how a Christian should act. Time to call for his removal. Does msnbc only employ “hair on fire” idiots?
http://news.yahoo.com/msnbcs-martin-bashir-consigns-mitt-romney-hell-180500693.html
“Say What You Will…It Feels So Good”
Um, well, I would have to answer, yes, yes they do!
lol….you got me!!
“Say What You Will…It Feels So Good”
I don’t know if it’s their hair or their pants.
hmmmmm….probably both!!
Ninth Circuit: Arizona Proof-of-Citizenship for Registration Unconstitutional (scroll down a bit)
So now the state can require a voter to have a vaild ID, but the state may not ensure it was aquired by lawful means, because of a federal form that the state has no authority to modify? So I gather Obama will be making comments about SCOTUS very shortly…again. I want to hear the audio of SB 1070 oral arguements. It has 10th amendment and federalism all over it and will be instructive of how Obamacare may fare. The cases are manufactured by Obama Inc. If the DOJ had not moved against Arizona for political reasons or Obamacare not been shoved down our throats and out our collective asses before the ink was dry, none of these challenges to the Constitution would be happening.
Good grief. That is just so illogical I cannot believe these are the kind of jurists we have in our country.
And I bet you are right that Obama will be targeting SCOTUS again any day now.
Thanks for the update, Teak. It is just making my head spin…
The #600 gorilla in the room has yet to speak and speak they will if the courts allow the federal government to continue down the autocratic path. This is a group of 50, two-thirds of which are very unhappy and the rest, irritated.
True that, Ferd. It will sure be interesting to see what happens next…
I read about this excutive order yesterday, I am not sure of all the ramifications of it
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/04/21/executive-order-13547-the-sleeping-power-grab/
Under “ask and you shall recieve”, I wish there was a feed or program dedicated to Executive Orders… mmmm.
New Sirus station or a new mini-series? Executive Orders 5-0?
The pilot program opening scene could be the POTUS, signing a Executive Order outlawing the press in this country, for a lark, and see how that “plot” unfolded.
really interesting video
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/04/21/video-the-2012-national-debt-road-trip/
What a fantastic video, Helen. This really does do a great job of illustrating what Obama has done to our debt. Astonishing.
What a hoot!
here is another example of people not doing anything to help when needed
http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1061125965
Wow,t hat young woman is something though, isn’t she? “She-Hulk” – love it!
important artlce about internet
http://news.yahoo.com/hundreds-thousands-may-lose-internet-july-181324701–finance.html
I saw this earlier today. The article is of concern in that the feds used what is called a “honey pot” to replace the DNS servers they took out in combating this scam. Simply put, “DNS” is like an internet phone book. This scam “replaced” the “certified” internet phone book that would look up a the “number” of a given name… When this middleman action by the feds is shut down those still infected will not get to the internet because thier “phonebook” will no longer be available to use.
This is operating un unknown legal waters as the Federal government is directing internet traffic.
I have no problem with them shuting down a fraudulent “phone book” because it forces the users to correct the problem and if not having an internet connection is the most it will do so be it. Fix it. it aint that hard to fix 300,000 machines.
I understand the technical reasons not the legal authority involved, although I am sure it is covered in a recent executive order….
I just wrote about something along the lines of this. I’m sick of computer geeks making our lives miserable. Time for hackers to start doing hard time with Bubba as a cellmate.
I just can’t envision there offspring…. ewww/
I think one problem is that we are becoming a youth worshipping cult. We don’t respect our elders, our history, their work. People like Bill Ayers were going to violently change the whole system because they were so much smarter then anybody who came before them. Obama was going to deliver “change” because everybody else had screwed “it” all up. Some people seem to have this idea that all the people who came before them were morons who didn’t know what they were doing. They’re so arrogant they actually seem to believe they know it all and they’re going to instruct us ignorant people about everything from healthy eating to the environment. They don’t seem to realize that older people were washing out reusable milk jugs, growing gardens, walking everywhere. Some of these people act like they’ve just invented something new. The same is true with our politics, they completely disregard history, wisdom, or experiance, and shove things down our throats, like Obamacare. Well gee, it turns out that the issue is a lot more complex than they thought and they don’t have all the answers. That’s were wisdom and experiance and respect for those who did this work before you comes in.
yttik, what a great, great comment. You are so right. We have become a youth worshiping culture. Who could forget Sen. McCaskill saying she was convinced to support Obama because her teenage kid told her to do so?
As I have mentioned before, since young people’s decision making abilities aren’t even set until their early 20′s, following THEM is not exactly logical, reasoned, or smart…
Outstanding comment, yttik.
Not much else to add.
wow does that video have it right
Came back in to post this, but thank you for beating me to it. I never infuse politics on my Facebook page, but for this I will make an exception.
Wow, that is one powerful video. Thank you, hc!
I awoke to find Janet Napolitano had turned into Obi One!!! Think of my horror!!!
AHHHHHHHH!!!!.
(Suddenly and un-naturally calm)
Yeppie! they’ve finally admitted Obama used a foriegn visa for school…not once but twice. Now they have outsourced the office of POTUS and are proud of it! Yee Haw!
This reminds me of a story I read the other day about 4 teens who killed a homeless man because they wanted to rob him. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/19/teens-kill-homeless-man-one-dollar_n_1437738.html
Oh, good grief. That is so disturbing, SD. I am just shaking my head in disbelief. And sadness.
Me too, and apparently this is some sort of sick new trend that is sweeping across the nation. I just don’t get it!
Well, at least the MSM is reporting Hispanic-on-Hispanic crime. Now if they would report on black-on-black crime, we might start getting some action on the increasing lawlessness in the larger cities.
Agreed! I’ve noticed that MSN rarely has serious news stories, but once in a while they pick up on one or two.
Me, either, SD. It is truly appalling how cavalier too many people have become over human life…
Is America the biggest super power or the biggest laughingstock? I am going with the latter…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/presidential-race-jumps-the-dog/2012/04/20/gIQALrFYWT_story.html
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