Problems, troubles, trials and storms will come your way, Jesus offers love and wants to wipe your tears away.
I know this world got ya feelin down, bound by the problems and troubles of life, full of strife, pain and misery, looking for true peace, love and happiness that you can’t find in drugs, sex or Hennessey, --but come along with me, if ya wanna hear about the One that healed the sick and made the blind to see, the One who turned water into wine and multiplied the loaves and fishes, healed the lady with the issue of blood and cured leprosy, cuz even when your friend ain’t there and you be feeling like nobody cares- God’s still there, ready to cast all your burdens away, let Him in your heart this very day, and I pray that every lyric I spit would hit, penetrate to the very depths of your soul, and I’m gonna let the whole world know that He can make your sins white as snow. Now let me bust en Espanol, para mexicano, o cubano, panameno, colombiano, argentino, chilleno, nico ya, Puerto riceno, lo que yo te enseno es algo que me ensenaron de pequeno, wit’ this instrumental I’m gonna make you get sentimental, ‘cause I be knowin’ that your feeling what I’m talking ‘bout, make ya wanna shout shout let it all out like Tears for Fears – I’m trying to reach my peers and the thugs, playas in the clubs and my patnas slanging drugs, duckin’ them slugs, looking for love in a messed up world that’s cold like a freezer, that’s why until the day I die I’m gonna preach the Word of God like the Man of God they call Peter, mira, ahorita, you might be going through a thing or two, but know that Jesus still loves you, so it’s all good playa, wie your eyes, cuz Jesus said that everything is gonna be alright, now come on down.
11 November, 2002
The Truth About Liberals
Behind the emotions, justifications and ranting there is a root of ignorance demonstrated by the 21st century liberal unlike anything that could be predicted during The New Deal. In objective thought, A=A and reality=reality. Trying to debate with liberals—you may assume that they argue on a logical playing field –but don’t be frustrated- for logic has nothing to do with their case. Usually, arguments melt into name calling, shouting or whatever antics necessary to divert your focus from substance.
Why then is there such a dereliction of mental process for the modern liberal. Whether you see them in the mainstream media or live next to one, they are all quite fundamentally the same:
1. Rule Of Emotion
Listen carefully to libs like Barbara Boxer. On Meet the Press with Tim Russert, her defense of Clinton is prefaced with words like “I feel”. “I don’t FEEL that his [Bill Clinton’s] actions rise to the level of impeachment”. Maybe if Barb stopped feeling her way through the semen stained presidency of Bill Clinton and started THINKING, her sense of law and justice would focus.
2. Belief That Human Beings Are Incapable Of Autonomy
From the labor unions to Hillary’s village, liberals disavow any ability of humans to succeed on their own. Mainstream liberal causes such as homelessness, animal rights, modern feminism, affirmative action, health care and insistence on a government controlled school system all boil down to a common theme: You CAN’T make it on your own.
All these causes lead to programs of forced compassion to those who don’t or won’t take independent responsibility. Well, this writer resents the notion that we need someone else’s help if we are to survive and prosper and this composition is dedicated to that theme. America is still the land of opportunity and this great experiment does not need liberal programs to work.
3. Love Of Government
Have you ever read a bill proposed by a liberal lawmaker that didn’t expand the power of government? Liberals need government because it gives them a medium to promote socialized ideals. Government gives power and power leads to force and force leads to control. Ultimately, liberals wish to control society so government is the means to their end.
Liberals draw their power from managing social clusters. Social clusters from labor unions to manufactured (special interest) clusters like “African American” causes or “working people” [read- not entrepreneurs]. To a liberal, you must belong to a cluster. In some lines of employment your job depends on membership – i.e. labor unions. Abstinence from union participation is tantamount to insubordination and treason. I speak from personal experience.
By the way, you can’t avoid being in a cluster--even if you promote freedom, honor, morality and the U.S. Constitution – in which case your assigned cluster is (the most noble of all clusters)-- the Right-Wing Extremist.
4. Abject Illogic
Don’t believe me? Turn to any news channel and watch Allen Derschowitz for five minutes. Everything that you have ever heard him say can be summarized by the following: “2+2=almost 5”
According to libs, no human is capable of taking responsibility for his or her actions, we need the aid of big government to make it, and by the way, if you think Clinton broke the law---you are a bigot.
Well the truth about liberals boils down to this, truth is what you make it and the ends justify the means (or, the ends justify being mean). But, don’t try too hard to figure them out, leave that to me. Just stay tuned to this periodic tirade and hopefully together we can make a dent.
After years of being primed for this writing experiment, I now embark on a series of short essays that will be my contribution of direct, passionate, and brash common sense into the media world. While these essays will border more on editorializing, my purpose is to point out the common sense and hope reflected in my view of our American society. They will remain short so that those with shorter attention spans will still get some nutrition.
“Carpe Truth!”
Why then is there such a dereliction of mental process for the modern liberal. Whether you see them in the mainstream media or live next to one, they are all quite fundamentally the same:
1. Rule Of Emotion
Listen carefully to libs like Barbara Boxer. On Meet the Press with Tim Russert, her defense of Clinton is prefaced with words like “I feel”. “I don’t FEEL that his [Bill Clinton’s] actions rise to the level of impeachment”. Maybe if Barb stopped feeling her way through the semen stained presidency of Bill Clinton and started THINKING, her sense of law and justice would focus.
2. Belief That Human Beings Are Incapable Of Autonomy
From the labor unions to Hillary’s village, liberals disavow any ability of humans to succeed on their own. Mainstream liberal causes such as homelessness, animal rights, modern feminism, affirmative action, health care and insistence on a government controlled school system all boil down to a common theme: You CAN’T make it on your own.
All these causes lead to programs of forced compassion to those who don’t or won’t take independent responsibility. Well, this writer resents the notion that we need someone else’s help if we are to survive and prosper and this composition is dedicated to that theme. America is still the land of opportunity and this great experiment does not need liberal programs to work.
3. Love Of Government
Have you ever read a bill proposed by a liberal lawmaker that didn’t expand the power of government? Liberals need government because it gives them a medium to promote socialized ideals. Government gives power and power leads to force and force leads to control. Ultimately, liberals wish to control society so government is the means to their end.
Liberals draw their power from managing social clusters. Social clusters from labor unions to manufactured (special interest) clusters like “African American” causes or “working people” [read- not entrepreneurs]. To a liberal, you must belong to a cluster. In some lines of employment your job depends on membership – i.e. labor unions. Abstinence from union participation is tantamount to insubordination and treason. I speak from personal experience.
By the way, you can’t avoid being in a cluster--even if you promote freedom, honor, morality and the U.S. Constitution – in which case your assigned cluster is (the most noble of all clusters)-- the Right-Wing Extremist.
4. Abject Illogic
Don’t believe me? Turn to any news channel and watch Allen Derschowitz for five minutes. Everything that you have ever heard him say can be summarized by the following: “2+2=almost 5”
According to libs, no human is capable of taking responsibility for his or her actions, we need the aid of big government to make it, and by the way, if you think Clinton broke the law---you are a bigot.
Well the truth about liberals boils down to this, truth is what you make it and the ends justify the means (or, the ends justify being mean). But, don’t try too hard to figure them out, leave that to me. Just stay tuned to this periodic tirade and hopefully together we can make a dent.
After years of being primed for this writing experiment, I now embark on a series of short essays that will be my contribution of direct, passionate, and brash common sense into the media world. While these essays will border more on editorializing, my purpose is to point out the common sense and hope reflected in my view of our American society. They will remain short so that those with shorter attention spans will still get some nutrition.
“Carpe Truth!”
07 June, 2002
Love Letter to the Grandma of my Wife
Dear Grandma-
Yesterday was our 10th wedding anniversary thanks for your very nice card! Of course, we won’t be taking our “anniversary” cruise until the end of the month- but we are both looking very forward to that. I hope you don’t mind the typewritten letter- I have gotten so used to the computer for composing letters that I’m worried if I write long-hand- I will make too many mistakes. (bad excuse- I know) But I wanted to write you a personal letter that has been on my mind today – and after listening to an interesting Focus on the Family this morning- I am compelled to write a heartfelt “thank you” letter to you. If you want to share this letter with Darlene- you are welcome- but for now I just want this to be a thank you letter to you personally.
So on this anniversary year, I want you to know how truly thankful and blessed I am to be married to Darlene. And you, grandma, are so much of the reason Darlene is such the loving and thoughtful person that she is. She has on many many occasions let me know how important you are to her and what significance you have had in her life. Deep in my heart, I know it is the loving example you have been to her from her earliest days.
Often I think we wait until it is too late to tell people what we really think of them and I don’t want that to happen with you. Last night, Darlene and I sat out by the fire in the back yard reminiscing on our 10 years together and thinking about how blessed we have been. You are very special part of our lives and we both love you very much. So I just wanted to take this opportunity to let you know what a special person you are and thank you for being such a loving grandma. As I strive to be a good dad to our kids and a decent husband to Darlene- I am filled with appreciation for you.
Yesterday was our 10th wedding anniversary thanks for your very nice card! Of course, we won’t be taking our “anniversary” cruise until the end of the month- but we are both looking very forward to that. I hope you don’t mind the typewritten letter- I have gotten so used to the computer for composing letters that I’m worried if I write long-hand- I will make too many mistakes. (bad excuse- I know) But I wanted to write you a personal letter that has been on my mind today – and after listening to an interesting Focus on the Family this morning- I am compelled to write a heartfelt “thank you” letter to you. If you want to share this letter with Darlene- you are welcome- but for now I just want this to be a thank you letter to you personally.
So on this anniversary year, I want you to know how truly thankful and blessed I am to be married to Darlene. And you, grandma, are so much of the reason Darlene is such the loving and thoughtful person that she is. She has on many many occasions let me know how important you are to her and what significance you have had in her life. Deep in my heart, I know it is the loving example you have been to her from her earliest days.
Often I think we wait until it is too late to tell people what we really think of them and I don’t want that to happen with you. Last night, Darlene and I sat out by the fire in the back yard reminiscing on our 10 years together and thinking about how blessed we have been. You are very special part of our lives and we both love you very much. So I just wanted to take this opportunity to let you know what a special person you are and thank you for being such a loving grandma. As I strive to be a good dad to our kids and a decent husband to Darlene- I am filled with appreciation for you.
13 May, 2002
2002 Corporate Dictionary
Blamestorming - Sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who was responsible.
Seagull Manager - A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.
Salmon Day - The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.
Irritainment - Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying but you find yourself unable to stop watching them. The O.J. trials were a prime example.
Chainsaw Consultant - An outside expert brought in to reduce the employee head count, leaving the boss with clean hands.
Career Limiting Move (CLM) - Used among microserfs to describe an ill-advised activity. Trashing your boss while he or she is within earshot is a serious CLM.
Adminisphere - The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.
Flight Risk - Used to describe employees who are suspected of planning to leave the company or department soon.
404 - Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404-URL Not Found," meaning that the requested web page could not be located. Used as in: "Don't bother asking him... he's 404, man."
Generica - Features of the American landscape that are exactly the same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, subdivisions.
Used as in: "We were so lost in Generica that I forgot what city we were
in."
Ohno-Second - That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake. Percussive Maintenance - The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
Umfriend - A sexual relation of dubious standing or a concealed intimate relationship, as in "This is Dylan, my ... um...friend."
Body Nazis - Hard-core exercise and weightlifting fanatics who look down on anyone who doesn't work out obsessively.
Cube Farm - An office filled with cubicles.
Idea Hamsters - People who always seem to have their idea generators running.
Mouse Potato - The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.
Prairie Dogging - When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on.
SITCOMs - What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids. Stands for "Single Income, Two Children, And Oppressive Mortgage".
Starter Marriage - A short-lived first marriage that ends in divorce with no kids, no property and no regrets.
Stress Puppy - A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.
Swiped Out - An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because the magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.
Alpha Geek - The most knowledgeable, technically proficient person in an
office or work group.
G.O.O.D. Job - A "Get-Out-Of-Debt" job. A well-paying job people take in order to pay off their debts, one that they will quit as soon as they are solvent again.
Yuppie Food Stamps - The ubiquitous $20 bills spewed out of ATMs everywhere. Often used when trying to split the bill after a meal: "We owe $8 each, but all anybody's got are yuppie food stamps.
Seagull Manager - A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.
Salmon Day - The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.
Irritainment - Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying but you find yourself unable to stop watching them. The O.J. trials were a prime example.
Chainsaw Consultant - An outside expert brought in to reduce the employee head count, leaving the boss with clean hands.
Career Limiting Move (CLM) - Used among microserfs to describe an ill-advised activity. Trashing your boss while he or she is within earshot is a serious CLM.
Adminisphere - The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.
Flight Risk - Used to describe employees who are suspected of planning to leave the company or department soon.
404 - Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404-URL Not Found," meaning that the requested web page could not be located. Used as in: "Don't bother asking him... he's 404, man."
Generica - Features of the American landscape that are exactly the same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, subdivisions.
Used as in: "We were so lost in Generica that I forgot what city we were
in."
Ohno-Second - That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake. Percussive Maintenance - The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
Umfriend - A sexual relation of dubious standing or a concealed intimate relationship, as in "This is Dylan, my ... um...friend."
Body Nazis - Hard-core exercise and weightlifting fanatics who look down on anyone who doesn't work out obsessively.
Cube Farm - An office filled with cubicles.
Idea Hamsters - People who always seem to have their idea generators running.
Mouse Potato - The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.
Prairie Dogging - When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on.
SITCOMs - What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids. Stands for "Single Income, Two Children, And Oppressive Mortgage".
Starter Marriage - A short-lived first marriage that ends in divorce with no kids, no property and no regrets.
Stress Puppy - A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.
Swiped Out - An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because the magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.
Alpha Geek - The most knowledgeable, technically proficient person in an
office or work group.
G.O.O.D. Job - A "Get-Out-Of-Debt" job. A well-paying job people take in order to pay off their debts, one that they will quit as soon as they are solvent again.
Yuppie Food Stamps - The ubiquitous $20 bills spewed out of ATMs everywhere. Often used when trying to split the bill after a meal: "We owe $8 each, but all anybody's got are yuppie food stamps.
04 April, 2002
Striking Philosophy!
Striking Philosophy?
I was fascinated by the editorial written by Robert Hunter entitled “An open letter to striking UPS workers”. Thank you to Mr. Hunter, a well spoken and informative person, for helping me understand issues concerning both sides as to their rights. This article gave insight into the process of class-action striking and Union tactics. The article challenged me to examine the roots of “Union thinking”.
All opinions come from a philosophical base. Everything a person (or group of persons) believes and/or acts upon is based firmly on a philosophy. Let us take a moment to drop the fringe issues of this (or any) strike (i.e. pay, full-time vs. part-time, pensions, etc.) and focus on the principle of legalized striking.
What right does a person have to tell another how to spend their money? Where in our Constitution are we given rights for corporate and class-action theft (striking)? Additionally, where are we given the right to tell our employers how they should conduct their business? Don’t get me wrong, I believe that individuals have every right as free individuals to form Unions. Heck, they can form whatever group they want to, BUT DON’T TELL THE JOB CREATORS THAT THEY MAY NOT RUN THEIR BUSINESSES HOW THEY SEE FIT!
The entrepreneurs and risk takers should have every right to hire, fire, and establish procedures on their terms. Yes, I said FIRE! UPS management should be able to permanently fire every last striker. Why? Because it is their business. Their money. Their risk.
“But it’s not fair!” Fair? Since when did the privilege of gainful employment and its components become an issue of fairness. Folks—life is not fair. For goodness sake—gainful employment is a privilege, not a right. Do we need to debate that issue? Maybe for some of you I am making a broad leap to conclude that employment is a privilege. If I have presumed the contrary and you do in fact believe that employment is your right, then may I remind you of the work practices and conditions of past Communist Russia. It that is what you want, then go find a country sympathetic to those views.
The premise of striking or “the tail wagging the dog” stinks of micro-socialism. When did we in this country begin adopting the flawed precept that we may tell those who employ us how to conduct their business?? What kind of rebellious and selfish spirit has perpetuated the Union crowd’s view of employer and employee. I have never heard of an incident where an employer put a gun to the head of a worker and said “WORK – OR ELSE!” A free market economy allows us to find new employment wherever we wish (provided we are accepted into that employment). If UPS is so terrible in their policies – inform the us (the public) of the policies and let us vote with our pocketbooks. And if you, the UPS employee, don’t like the work policies set up by UPS – quit, find other work, and stop whining!
My only alarm of Hunter’s words came in his opinion in the last paragraph of the article where he states to the strikers “You are an American success story. Let that tradition continue and not be lost in this strike.” Success story?! There are NO winners here, Mr. Hunter. This strike is another example of a great American tragedy involving corporate mutiny, union enslavement, and a flawed philosophical base.
I was fascinated by the editorial written by Robert Hunter entitled “An open letter to striking UPS workers”. Thank you to Mr. Hunter, a well spoken and informative person, for helping me understand issues concerning both sides as to their rights. This article gave insight into the process of class-action striking and Union tactics. The article challenged me to examine the roots of “Union thinking”.
All opinions come from a philosophical base. Everything a person (or group of persons) believes and/or acts upon is based firmly on a philosophy. Let us take a moment to drop the fringe issues of this (or any) strike (i.e. pay, full-time vs. part-time, pensions, etc.) and focus on the principle of legalized striking.
What right does a person have to tell another how to spend their money? Where in our Constitution are we given rights for corporate and class-action theft (striking)? Additionally, where are we given the right to tell our employers how they should conduct their business? Don’t get me wrong, I believe that individuals have every right as free individuals to form Unions. Heck, they can form whatever group they want to, BUT DON’T TELL THE JOB CREATORS THAT THEY MAY NOT RUN THEIR BUSINESSES HOW THEY SEE FIT!
The entrepreneurs and risk takers should have every right to hire, fire, and establish procedures on their terms. Yes, I said FIRE! UPS management should be able to permanently fire every last striker. Why? Because it is their business. Their money. Their risk.
“But it’s not fair!” Fair? Since when did the privilege of gainful employment and its components become an issue of fairness. Folks—life is not fair. For goodness sake—gainful employment is a privilege, not a right. Do we need to debate that issue? Maybe for some of you I am making a broad leap to conclude that employment is a privilege. If I have presumed the contrary and you do in fact believe that employment is your right, then may I remind you of the work practices and conditions of past Communist Russia. It that is what you want, then go find a country sympathetic to those views.
The premise of striking or “the tail wagging the dog” stinks of micro-socialism. When did we in this country begin adopting the flawed precept that we may tell those who employ us how to conduct their business?? What kind of rebellious and selfish spirit has perpetuated the Union crowd’s view of employer and employee. I have never heard of an incident where an employer put a gun to the head of a worker and said “WORK – OR ELSE!” A free market economy allows us to find new employment wherever we wish (provided we are accepted into that employment). If UPS is so terrible in their policies – inform the us (the public) of the policies and let us vote with our pocketbooks. And if you, the UPS employee, don’t like the work policies set up by UPS – quit, find other work, and stop whining!
My only alarm of Hunter’s words came in his opinion in the last paragraph of the article where he states to the strikers “You are an American success story. Let that tradition continue and not be lost in this strike.” Success story?! There are NO winners here, Mr. Hunter. This strike is another example of a great American tragedy involving corporate mutiny, union enslavement, and a flawed philosophical base.
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