OH. MY. GOD.
San Jose in August.
I just got back from the oven that is San Jose in August, overheated to within an inch of my life. This guarantees that it's NORTH for me when I get outta here. I just can't take the heat. At my age, I can't prance around in next to nothing, and next to nothing is what you'd have to wear to even come within lobbing distance of remotely comfortable.
That being said, it was great fun. Even with a couple Liberals who would insist on engaging me. Let's see. I was called a liar, and a Rush robot. One women with a baby told me that Rush Limbaugh trades on fear and hate. I suggested that if she actually listened to him she'd know that wasn't true. Naturally, she claimed she does.
Why do they do that when it's so clearly a lie?
Her man announced that the Constitution was written over 200 year ago, for agrarian times and didn't apply to our current modern culture. Seriously. HE. SAID. THAT.
I should have countered with, "Do you mean that individual liberty is an obsolete idea?", but he was beyond talking to at that point, and did I mention I was over-heated...?
Another sited Alexander Hamilton as proof that the "Founding Fathers" didn't consider government as the necessary-evil-enemy-of-the-people that they themselves made clear.
Sigh.
When I told him I'd rather have freedom than even "good" health care if it was run by the State....he just looked at me.
It's like "freedom" is a word in a foreign language that they don't understand.
Same guy insisted that Europe has great health care and that everybody there loves it. Faced with three different groups of people who said they had friends, especially in Britain, that hated it, he wasn't fazed at all. He's got the talking points down, and he's sticking to them. Facts be damned.
Here's more or less how his argument ran:
1) Liberal: "The health care system is horribly broken. We need to reform it."
2) Me:" I agreed that health care needs to be reformed, but not by turning it over to the State."
4) Liberal: "The STATE already runs over half of our health care, so what's the problem?"
5) Me: "I thought you said the system was horribly broken? If the STATE is running over half of it and it's horribly broken, why do you want to let them run MORE of it?"
6) Liberal: "Well, they probably run less than half, actually."
I don't think they think their arguments through very well.
But we far outnumbered them in any case, one estimate was that a thousand people showed up! So while we didn't invade Barnes & Noble, nor cause any problem, it's not possible that Babs didn't know we were there, and that's all that matters.
We did stick around until she left...there was a town crier going up and down the sidewalk giving us updates. And a big crowd gathered at the driveway when she was driven out...
All was peaceful and friendly and fun. Lot's of horn honking and waves and thumbs-up of approval from cars passing on the big street we lined.
Another day, another protest.
God, I rather be home playing with my cats, blogging and staying cool under the lovely overcast skies of my coastal town...
But, hey, the Republic is at stake, and considering that...and what the Founders risked to create this amazing, God-blessed, divinely inspired miracle called "America", and what so many more have fought and died to preserve and protect, it's the least we can do, right?
Get out there. Give them hell! And let's THROW THE BUMS OUT!
The Gunslinger
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GREAT writing,last 2 posts!!!Submitting to ??? I'll e-mail to others.
ReplyDeleteWat to go Gunslinger,
ReplyDeleteHard to argue with zombies. You are a true Patriot.
"In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man/woman;) brave, hated, and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot." - Samuel Clemens
IM
Here are some pictures from the 8/15/09 book signing at Barnes & Noble.
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Slingbaby the liar, and a Rush robot...I'll stand with you anytime...
ReplyDeleteGreat work gunslinger, but I see a problem here that no one is addressing.
ReplyDeleteEveryone is thinking of the position of congressman or senator as a job position instead of as part of a corrupt power elite. Why should any politician care about reelection? Vote them out. They retain a whole lot of perks and then they get to move to that big company or union that has been lobbying them all these years. Fire them and they get a pay raise. It changes the way they view their positions.
If the major players in socialized medicine can offer them a better position than their current one, why should they care about the voters. Of course that is probably evident by now.
Artic Wolf....you've hit the nail exactly on the head. That is what the "awakening" is all about.
ReplyDeleteThat's exactly what I mean by "Imperial State". The corrupt elite "rulers" who see themselves as different from the common folk are growing into a sick version of an aristocracy/oligarchy.
And it's been happening for a long time, only most of us haven't noticed. Obama, with his gratuitous over-reaching, his arrogance, his profligate spending, blatant Marxism and his Chicago thuggery...and the blissful cooperation of Congress has awakened us to the peril and the reality of what our Federal Government has become.
When we read the Constitution, we do no recognize our government in it. It has grown beyond all reason and permissible limits, and we have allowed it to happen by our inattention.
The price of Liberty is eternal vigilance. And we weren't vigilant, and now we are faced with what we have allowed to mutate into this Frankenstein monster.
Shame on us. Taking it down will be so much harder now, so much more dangerous, so much more costly because we have allowed it to grow so huge and so strong...so corrupt, insulated, imperial.
Personally, I think there is likely to be blood. But I'm doing what I'm doing to try to avoid that terrible eventuality.
The race is on. Can we cut government down to Constitutional size through peaceful means? With the participation of formerly sleeping Citizens in huge numbers I think it's possible. If not, there are already too many awake to the new reality that will never accept the incipient tyranny to come to fruition without a fight.
Ifticar....yep, that's us! I'm not in any of the pictures, myself, but a couple of people I know were.
ReplyDeleteThanks TJ....as always!
ReplyDeleteIM...that's a great quote. One feels so inadequate most of the time, though...
ReplyDeleteHaving lived in the UK for many years before moving to the States, let me put my two penny's worth in here! The National Health Systems was set up to be contributed to by working people and the companies that employed them years before 'true' socialism took effect. And...
ReplyDeleteBefore the country was flooded by people from all over the world who never paid a penny into the system, but arrive full of third world diseases and huge families. The drain on the system was huge.
Before the food industry (Big Argribiz) had poisoned our bodies with the shit they produce and package into pretty boxes and sell to us through their ridiculous lying advertising campaigns. Unnecessarily burdening the health system.
Before the Big Pharma's produced drugs that we didn't need until we started eating the crap - see above - which caused problems with our health.
Before the Big Pharma's produced drugs to counteract against the drugs they already prescribe to us. Dontcha just love that?!
Before their were more managers and administrator's running hospitals than qualified Staff Nurses. (Vocational workers caring for patients with a passion.) Not government paid jobs worths sitting on their fat arses pushing pens across forms all day long. Enjoying 6 weeks off a year paid vacation time, plus paid maternity leave, paid paternity leave, paid sick days, paid compassionate leave days - waiting for an early retirement on a comfortable pension.
Before hospitals became filthy rat infested holes because the cleaning staff can't understand orders in English and can't be sacked because they are protected by laws.
Those that could afford to purchased private health insurance. Incidentally a fraction of the cost in comparison to what we pay here. Private health care in the UK is fantastic. NHS care is a gamble. But if you break a leg and hop into your local hospital it will be dealt with for free!
There were lots of good things to be said about the NHS, but times changed. what can I say?
The system in the US is crying out for reform no one can argue that. Health insurance costs are astronomical - something has to change, but while the Fraud and Death Administration known as the FDA and our beloved government have any say in the matter we are lining ourselves up to be well and truly screwed!
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