An Addendum to the Foregoing

...for emphasis: If I asked you to name a country and gave you the following clues, what would be your answer?

1. This country's government manipulates the media and doctors released documents to alter the truth
2. This country's government targets specific organizations based on their opposition to the regime in power
3. This country's government spies on its citizens and has the authority to kill them on foreign soil
4. This country's government has taken control of one sixth of the economy and selectively props up certain businesses
5. This country's government rewards its supporters with government positions and rewards those who cast votes for the regime with special programs
6. This country's government passes laws to allow special privileges to those in power that do not apply to ordinary citizens
7. This country's government passes laws that violate its own charter
8. This country's government funnels money to unproven businesses, using unproven technology, based on unproven theories based on their political leanings
9. This country's government lies to its citizens
10. This country's government continues to print money and borrow money despite enormous debt and unsustainable spending
11. This country has porous borders and has been invaded by millions of illegal immigrants who are eligible for social welfare and the regime seeks to legalize them

Hints:

1. Benghazi
2. the IRS
3. Drone attacks
4. Obamacare, GM, Fanny and Freddy, "Green" businesses
5. Ambassadors, Social Welfare programs
6. Obamacare exemption, insider trading
7. Gun bans and the Second Amendment
8. Solyndra and other "green" technologies, electric cars, wind power
9. The attack was based on a video.......Your health insurance will not be affected.......
10. Record accumulation of debt in the last 5 years, unchecked spending on social programs
11. Studies conclude that even if these immigrants were granted legal status, they would cost more in social programs than they generate in tax revenue

Answer: One would initially suspect the former Soviet Union or perhaps China, but they fail the immigrant test as nobody actually wants to go there. Perhaps one would consider one of the uber-liberal Scandinavian countries, but at least they are financially viable. Then of course there are the PIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain), but they are so laughably inefficient that they have no money to funnel to anyone. But only one country has slipped so precariously into the category formerly occupied by only the socialist leaning Europeans: the United States of America. Who would have thought that we could have fallen so far, so fast! I have seen the enemy and it is us.

Has Our Government Turned On Us?

Do they really expect us to believe Benghazi is merely a Republican apparition of Democrat malfeasance, that there was no coverup, no misdirection on the part of this administration; that the Boston Marathon bombing was an example of Homeland Security's flawless efficiency in thwarting terrorism.., after the fact; that the IRS's overt acts of bias and intimidation against conservative speakers and supporters was low-level management instigated and perpetrated, sans the Demarcate Party leadership and White House influence?

Could it possible be, that our standing government has turned on us, that indeed Washington D.C has become the epicenter of our down fall. that our politicians have run amuck, consumed in covering their collected behinds and feathering their own nests; that they have successfully lulled us into submission in their political correctness subterfuge while systematically attempting to strip us of our constitutional rights to fight back? Are you not distraught over these endless politically motivated affronts where our politicians have demonstrated gross misjudgment, deliberate effort to deceive us, intimidate us, commit venal, immoral acts of indiscretion beyond the pale of random political theater against us? How can we not suspect that there is a sinister plot afoot to destroy our republic, our society for which it has stood and prospered through some premeditated insidious ill-conceived agenda of sedition. I for one am in a quandary as to what is going on, let alone what to do about it! Everything seems to be upside down, our sense of proportion, propriety and morality distorted in a mosaic of confusing disorder and contradictions. Everyday, evidence of our path to destruction appears more self-evident, more predetermined, more hopeless. I once mused here, in false bravado, "it's everyman for himself", now only to admit that attitude is probably the crux of the problem! No one appears to be thinking about preserving our country, our society, our way of life.The "I" generation's motto of " me, myself and I, first and foremost", prevails as the order of the day, no matter the circumstances. I can only hope I'm wrong in this dire premonition, proven wrong in an imminent ground swell of indignation and action. Wait for it I keep telling myself, surely it's got to come.....

Sorry about that Miss Weissenborn

In response to resent detractors equating my blog persona to that of Elmer Fudd's frustration with Bugs Bunny's affronts; as well as a suspicion of inferior intelligence in my wanting syntax, grammar and spelling. On occasion a not so surprising surmise, I'll grant you. But, I had advised my shortcomings as the author of these conservative slants right up front in my blogging. I'm not proud of them, simply it is what it is! Admittedly these errors make me an easy target for my detractors when my arguments and observation warrant merit, but are not to their liking. So be it! And, yes I have chosen to err on the side of spontaneity, worsening the chances of these shortcomings manifesting themselves! However, feeling these blog burst of mine less contrived, more honest on my part then if copiously edited in forethought and afterthought. Again they are what they are! My high school english teacher's words come to mind: "I know what you are thinking Tom, I just wish you could write them down better!." I'm sure you know what I'm thinking! Hey, we are not dealing with comments for the ages here..., lighten up!

President-elect Hillary Clinton

....not again! The appeal of electing our first president of color was not disastrous enough that we now must endure the supposed appeal of electing our first female president for no better reason then her gender? Only the selection of Whoopi Goldberg as her running mate would make this apparent 2016 Democrat nomination for president more absurd! What, she made us so proud as First Lady, as Secretary of State; that the prospect of her husband being First Gentleman, an impeached former president and proven womanizer, for some reason yet more appealing? And her "Miss Piggy" responses at the Banghazi inquires certainly spoke volumes to her inappropriate politics!
This is what it has come to? He or she who gets the most ink, the most notoriety (good or bad), suggests the greatest diversity in ethnicity, morality, skin pigmentation and/or gender gets the prize..., credentials, character, accomplishments be damn! Again, have we become so shallow-, so dumb that we can not fathom the consequences of our actions, our inactions? We as a society, as a nation are going down the tubes, and like the ninnies we are, are standing around in a funk witnessing our own demise?!
Hey as I see it, it's us against them! Them being career politicians in general! If for one minute you think they have our best interest, the countries best interest at heart, you have another thought coming! Their intentions might start off well and good, but once ingrained in the bureaucracy of government, the headiness of celebrity, power and control it affords, they become addicted to yet more celebrity, more power, more control. Along with it, a greater propensity for self indulgence, self preservation-,all to often indiscretions.Their reaction to any suggestion of term limitations and blatantly exempting themselves from rules and regulations they have imposed on their constituents, advises their awareness and tolerance for this deviation. Yes of course there are exceptions to this contention of mine, outstanding exceptions, but in this modern age few and far between! There is a crying need for changes in our political system, term limitation would be an obvious place to start! Being elected to office, should be honor and reward enough in the opportunity to preserve and advance our great American open society-, not an opportunity through guile and patronage to insure a lucrative career in politics. Our founders didn't intend it to be that way! We simply have to exercise greater discretion in choosing our elected officials, go far beyond vicariously serving their political career aspirations in hopes of personal gain; ferret out their hidden agenda that might be contrary to the good of the nation, the preservation of it's citizen's individual liberties and freedoms, and vote accordingly. Yeah right!

Where It All Began

....hard to believe is it not: the pilgrim's Plymouth landing, Concord's shot heard around the world, the Boston tea party, Paul Revere's ride, Bunker hill...., the environs of the essence of American independence, Massachusetts. Now a bastion of those dependent on government whim and fancy, government regulation and control; a dismissive attitude toward personal freedom and liberties; a preference for all things thought to be politically correct! Consistent, a sitting governor, aspiring presidential candidate, who like his President sees himself above the Constitution, above the state's legislated laws and protocol; free in his wisdom and executive privilege to govern accordingly, above the people! Could it be: This is the end of the beginning or is it the beginning of the end? Boston Strong but nationally weak!

Why Isn't Anyone Listening

Why aren't we being heard, there certainly are enough of us whining about this President and his Administration! Statistically we know as the electorate we are in the minority, but we are not overwhelmed; our numbers are legion. What then? I suspect the enemy within, and apathy! The so called Progressives have infiltrated our ranks with visions of a "World Order", taking our eye off the uniqueness and potential of our American-way of life, and a complacency that in due course everything will miraculously turn out for the better..,and probably a little bit of venal avarice to worsen the mix. Well, an ecumenical, all caring, all rectifying world order in the foreseeable future is simply not going to happen; as for everything will work out in the end, no it won't, look around you-, are things working out? Admittedly there is nothing I'd like better than to see President Obama hoisted on his own vanity and politically correct petard, but I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for it. His political guile has proven much too formidable; his supporters mesmerized with his thought to be inscrutable countenance, committed to his agenda, no matter the consequences. But isn't it ironic his agenda is diametrically opposed to everything these United States are all about; what these United States were always all about; what these United States were founded on, prospered by; its citizens fought and died for here and abroad. Only to be forsaken by generations since totally insensitive to those principals, those aspirations, those accomplishments, those sacrifices! America in it's decline emerging as the home of the dolts, the land of the ingrates! That's why we are not being heard!

Taxes Galore

Anything made, anything bought or sold, any service rendered or received...soon no doubt, every breath you take so to speak, will be subjected to one or more town, city, county, state or federal contrived taxation! With their respective managements ever expanding, their rank and file's generous salaries and benefits sustained-, we can be assured there will be a scramble for creative new tax revenue for funding! The sources for that funding, that would be us, the tax payers! Forget about representation, forget about equity, forget about any semblance of quid pro quo. The agenda: nurture the insatiable beast, big government-, at any cost for any rhyme or reason! The essential component to realize that objective i.e to assure those taxes are levied and collected; the enabling politicians in power must stay in power! And how do they do that: sway the electorate accordingly. Sway? Can anyone spell entitlements a.k.a handouts, freebees! Do they see the "catch 22" here? Sure they do, it's short sighted on their part..eventually killing the goose that lays the golden eggs, but that has never been a deterrent to the anarchist, the socialist among us, the bottom feeders! It's defined as a contradiction in tactics: simply, the end justifies the means, albeit the end is the end of the society itself! So here we are in debt up to our ears, our financial demise eminent, with our current administration showing no inclination to curb our spending on behalf of the longevity of our society, our nation! The prevailing rationale, life is short so enjoy it for what it is, while it is! Never is there a consideration to tame the beast, curb it's insatiable appetite, In doing so, sap it's power and influence accordingly, it's stifling omnipresence in our society. What, risk the the chance of backlash from the state's wards, the kept-, breaking the vicious circle of patronage begetting power? Never!