Ripples build into irresistible waves when the tide finally comes in...
It's past time the hard working, law abiding people who are the backbone of the United States wake up to rid ourselves of the ineptitude and just plain evil greed for power and wealth our employees in the local, state and federal government have enjoyed for way too long.
It's been said the best way to kill a snake is to cut off it's head. Although for many years we've labored under the obviously mistaken belief that change in government is effected beginning at the local level, we must wake up to the fact that our system of government is now upside down.
This snake needs killing.
It needs killing before it devours everything our forefathers toiled for, shed blood for and put their trust in "we, the people" to preserve!
There was good reason (better than we may have realized in retrospect) many of our founding fathers did NOT wish to form a union overseen by a central government. They foresaw the possibility that their states, heretofore autonomous, accounting to their hardworking citizens only, would be swallowed by an overbearing oligarchy. That's the many ruled by the few, folks. Look familiar?
Below is a link to a petition that every law-abiding, red blooded American should read and sign. It's a letter received by Glen Beck (the story link is on the page) from a woman who put it all on the line. Let her speak for all of us!
Sign the petition and pass the link on to everyone you know who wants to restore constitutional law and liberty to this country!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/8/an-open-letter-to-our-nations-leadership
Monday, June 29, 2009
Friday, June 26, 2009
Truth Of The Moment
...but not a moment of truth!
Ah, the ever changing truth in politics, open ended and impossible to successfully nail down. At least that’s the case in narcissistic lefty land. Really, you must understand it all depends upon the day, the hour or the minute as to what the truth is in their warped realm. What is true now may not be true tomorrow and of course, it all depends upon what the definition of “is, is.”
Welcome to the age of no accountability. Without a moral compass, truth is just a word. It certainly isn’t a philosophy, condition or indisputable state of being we can all relate to anymore. When it comes to politics especially, you can't count on the truth being, well…the truth.
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders defines Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) as:
“A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy.[jma: NPD first appeared in DSM-III in 1980”
The NPD person will do anything to acquire what is called “narcissistic supply”, defined as anything perceived as useful to the NPD's insatiable neediness. This includes adoration and esteem from their victims, money or other valuable stock or trade, physical and/or mental support. Should the victims of the NPD person be depleted of this “supply” those victims find themselves objects of scorn to the NPD person and tossed aside like an empty bag. But, most alarming, should the NPD person discover in future that the victims are again capable of being a potential supply source, he or she (the vast majority of NPDs are male) will not hesitate to return in order to exploit those victims again.
But back to the “truth of the moment” and how the Narcissistic Personality Disorder monster may use considerable charm and ruthless drive to acquire at any cost the power he so desperately craves and is bound to pursue.
Dr. Luther Hofmann-Engl has a very informative collection of information on NPD and the game of lying NPD personality types enjoy at: www.chameleongroup.org.uk/npd/lies.html
Dr. Hofmann-Engl writes:
“The attitude of the narcissist towards lying is very childish and simple: If the narcissist lies and gets away with it, (s)he interprets this as being clever and superior to others. In this sense, while common sense clearly sees lying as a social ill, the narcissist views lying as an excellent tool to obtain what (s)he wants and as a means to demonstrate how stupid others are.
A person now, who wishes to engage in real communication and shows openness, will be viewed by the narcissist as an utter fool who deserves to be exploited. Willingness to communicate and to show openness will be seen be the narcissist as weakness and stupidity. –Dr. Ludger Hofmann-Engl (www.chameleongroup.org.uk/npd/lies.html)”
I define “truth of the moment” to be whatever one wishes it to be at any given moment. Whatever needs to be said to get a victim…or in the case of the citizens of the United States, victims…to believe what is normally perceived as a solid state of being or natural condition, universally understood or historically known as “truth”. By communicating this truth of the moment, victims are made to feel relief, comfort, happiness or contentment. In the case of the people of the United States, this “truth” is meant to fool us into believing the best interests of the country are being served. No matter that tomorrow, next week, next month or next year that “truth” will be a lie. It served the purpose for the “moment” and another lie can be made into a “truth” for the next “moment”! Using Dr. Hofmann-Engl’s observation above, the “utter fools” of our country who deserve to be exploited will be charmed again and again into believing more lies parading as truth. Or would that be truths parading as lies. Hey, it’s the truth of the moment! The author of that “truth” gets to pick!
We might surmise then that a leader of a nation of “utter fools” is finding it easy to use the truth of the moment to push through an agenda which may be harmful, if not completely lethal, to the freedom and prosperity of the citizens of the greatest nation the world has ever seen, the United States of America.
We would be correct.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder types can rarely be rehabilitated, and ONLY if they wish to effect that rehabilitation themselves. Few even recognize they are the self-serving vampires they are. Since they are without normal empathy for their fellow man, believe themselves to the smartest people in their spheres of experience and are arrogantly disdainful of those they see as inferior (everyone who isn’t them) the only way to deal with them is to protect yourself from them.
When our leaders tell us lies wrapped up as truth as an expediency to steal our freedom and prosperity, the time has come to rise up and clean house!
Ah, the ever changing truth in politics, open ended and impossible to successfully nail down. At least that’s the case in narcissistic lefty land. Really, you must understand it all depends upon the day, the hour or the minute as to what the truth is in their warped realm. What is true now may not be true tomorrow and of course, it all depends upon what the definition of “is, is.”
Welcome to the age of no accountability. Without a moral compass, truth is just a word. It certainly isn’t a philosophy, condition or indisputable state of being we can all relate to anymore. When it comes to politics especially, you can't count on the truth being, well…the truth.
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders defines Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) as:
“A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy.[jma: NPD first appeared in DSM-III in 1980”
The NPD person will do anything to acquire what is called “narcissistic supply”, defined as anything perceived as useful to the NPD's insatiable neediness. This includes adoration and esteem from their victims, money or other valuable stock or trade, physical and/or mental support. Should the victims of the NPD person be depleted of this “supply” those victims find themselves objects of scorn to the NPD person and tossed aside like an empty bag. But, most alarming, should the NPD person discover in future that the victims are again capable of being a potential supply source, he or she (the vast majority of NPDs are male) will not hesitate to return in order to exploit those victims again.
But back to the “truth of the moment” and how the Narcissistic Personality Disorder monster may use considerable charm and ruthless drive to acquire at any cost the power he so desperately craves and is bound to pursue.
Dr. Luther Hofmann-Engl has a very informative collection of information on NPD and the game of lying NPD personality types enjoy at: www.chameleongroup.org.uk/npd/lies.html
Dr. Hofmann-Engl writes:
“The attitude of the narcissist towards lying is very childish and simple: If the narcissist lies and gets away with it, (s)he interprets this as being clever and superior to others. In this sense, while common sense clearly sees lying as a social ill, the narcissist views lying as an excellent tool to obtain what (s)he wants and as a means to demonstrate how stupid others are.
A person now, who wishes to engage in real communication and shows openness, will be viewed by the narcissist as an utter fool who deserves to be exploited. Willingness to communicate and to show openness will be seen be the narcissist as weakness and stupidity. –Dr. Ludger Hofmann-Engl (www.chameleongroup.org.uk/npd/lies.html)”
I define “truth of the moment” to be whatever one wishes it to be at any given moment. Whatever needs to be said to get a victim…or in the case of the citizens of the United States, victims…to believe what is normally perceived as a solid state of being or natural condition, universally understood or historically known as “truth”. By communicating this truth of the moment, victims are made to feel relief, comfort, happiness or contentment. In the case of the people of the United States, this “truth” is meant to fool us into believing the best interests of the country are being served. No matter that tomorrow, next week, next month or next year that “truth” will be a lie. It served the purpose for the “moment” and another lie can be made into a “truth” for the next “moment”! Using Dr. Hofmann-Engl’s observation above, the “utter fools” of our country who deserve to be exploited will be charmed again and again into believing more lies parading as truth. Or would that be truths parading as lies. Hey, it’s the truth of the moment! The author of that “truth” gets to pick!
We might surmise then that a leader of a nation of “utter fools” is finding it easy to use the truth of the moment to push through an agenda which may be harmful, if not completely lethal, to the freedom and prosperity of the citizens of the greatest nation the world has ever seen, the United States of America.
We would be correct.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder types can rarely be rehabilitated, and ONLY if they wish to effect that rehabilitation themselves. Few even recognize they are the self-serving vampires they are. Since they are without normal empathy for their fellow man, believe themselves to the smartest people in their spheres of experience and are arrogantly disdainful of those they see as inferior (everyone who isn’t them) the only way to deal with them is to protect yourself from them.
When our leaders tell us lies wrapped up as truth as an expediency to steal our freedom and prosperity, the time has come to rise up and clean house!
But Can He Moonwalk?
Since Obama loves the TV camera so much, couldn't he at least dance?
The abrupt death of Michael Jackson and the predictable wave of worshipful mourners shown swarming the streets on every TV station got me thinking about parallels. The moony-eyed worship of movie stars and musicians used to be confined to the US teenager who eventually outgrew the immature behavior. Today cult personality worship pervades a disturbing percentage of our population. The influence of worshipping cult personalities, many with questionable moral and ethical character, affects the manner in which many of our young men and women conduct their lives long after it should, including how they determine who to vote for as president.
Talk about a case of mass arrested development!
It's an appalling realization that a huge chunk of our electorate vote for their politicians based on the same criteria and with the same immature vision one expects to find in a teenie-bopper! Does my idol look good, dress sharp, appear sincere? Yes! Oh, my idol cares about me! He looks through that TV screen and I know he sees the real me! Understands me! He is soooo "cool", letting the media "catch" him bare chested for a bit of cheesecake...and oh yeah, he plays with his dog! Isn't that precious? All right, so he promised to get a rescue dog, but that was just a tiny lie. He can promise me anything with sparkling eyes and a smile. And if he smilingly reneges, I'll forgive him! He's so cute! He's a STAR! Who cares what he actually does...it's what he SAYS he'll do! That's what really matters. He tries, but those mean old Republicans stop him. But really...0he's so wonderful! He's my HERO!
Having been born in the nifty fifties, I gratefully appreciate the fact that my elders and educators provided me with REAL heroes and role models to admire. My teachers taught history and current events making certain to laud the accomplishments of men and women who actually deserved our respect. But at the same time we were taught to maintain a level perspective realizing that these great men and women along with their deeds and accomplishments, while worthy of our deepest respect and even reverence in some cases, did NOT deserve to be worshipped as demigods.
We find ourselves today in a country staggering under a horrible infection of full blown personality worship. In most cases, men and women who are the recipients of this worship don't even deserve more than a modicum of respect, much less reverence. While in the past we could count many authentic heroes among our popular entertainment and sports figures, we sadly find few worthy recipients of such praise today. I'm talking about the current crop of popular yet shallow icons we observe in movie, television, music and sports entertainment...and sadly, as it turns out, in our political arena.
Obviously, pointing out that we should've seen this coming serves no other purpose than to attempt to pinpoint the beginning of this "cult of personality" worship.
I recall visiting a friend many years back who emigrated to the US from England and noticed a rather extensive collection of royal family collectibles in her home. The collection seemed to begin with the crowning of the current Queen Elizabeth, progressing through Princess Diana, then the young princes and all sorts of memorials in between. I learned that the English people were pretty keen on their "royals" and attended in droves every sort of special royal occasion, much like their ancestors did when they were REQUIRED to offer their worship centuries ago. While today we might say that the royals "ain't what they used to be" still there is that definite star quality that continues to attract and dazzle the faithful masses.
Poor US of A. We really haven't been able to truly enjoy having a royal family to worship, have we? Oh yes, we had JFK and "Camelot" and perhaps this was the beginning of our modern longing for royalty to worship. But going back earlier in our history we can find many exemplary (and some not so exemplary) figures who did or could've lassoed in a crowd of personality worshippers with their charisma. After all, our founding fathers wanted to make George Washington king and it was our great fortune that he and wiser men prevailed. It just might be that a certain lust to hero worship is in our DNA, certainly as idealistic youth. But maturity used to bring wisdom and while we've always enjoyed and even admired the talents of our movie stars, musicians and athletes, all of us grew up understanding that real heroes actually accomplished real and meaningful things.
We still have heroes worth our respect in this country. Sadly, our children have been indoctrinated into a liberal agenda in our public classrooms then allowed to marinate in a deteriorating and warped popular culture outside those classrooms. Parents, either by benign neglect or fear they will alienate and thereby lose their children's love, have abdicated their roles as moral and educational authority.
Dear reader, I've no idea when your preteen through college formative years occurred, but if you're reading this I'm pretty sure they didn't include the upside down morality exalted by the popular culture today.
Our schools and now our government have hijacked moral authority, rightfully the province of the family and more elementally, the individual. Worse, these schools no longer provide their most important service, teaching the foundations whereby critical thinking evolves, the very critical thinking which should enable our youth to do more than rely on sound bites to effectively arrive at logical judgments. This includes the critical thinking our young people need in order to make one of the most profound judgments they will face, the choosing of our country's leader.
Our old and proper heroes have been well and truly buried...in the dark stacks of some antiquarian book store, and the memories of we who read them. They're entombed in history books our children will likely never see. And our genuine heroes of today labor in anonymity, ignored by a sycophantic mainstream media bent on propping up false idols.
No wonder our young people wail and shriek over the death of a music icon. They also faint and moan over a slick-packaged empty suit, propped up by a mysterious cast of directors and money pushers and takers.
The abrupt death of Michael Jackson and the predictable wave of worshipful mourners shown swarming the streets on every TV station got me thinking about parallels. The moony-eyed worship of movie stars and musicians used to be confined to the US teenager who eventually outgrew the immature behavior. Today cult personality worship pervades a disturbing percentage of our population. The influence of worshipping cult personalities, many with questionable moral and ethical character, affects the manner in which many of our young men and women conduct their lives long after it should, including how they determine who to vote for as president.
Talk about a case of mass arrested development!
It's an appalling realization that a huge chunk of our electorate vote for their politicians based on the same criteria and with the same immature vision one expects to find in a teenie-bopper! Does my idol look good, dress sharp, appear sincere? Yes! Oh, my idol cares about me! He looks through that TV screen and I know he sees the real me! Understands me! He is soooo "cool", letting the media "catch" him bare chested for a bit of cheesecake...and oh yeah, he plays with his dog! Isn't that precious? All right, so he promised to get a rescue dog, but that was just a tiny lie. He can promise me anything with sparkling eyes and a smile. And if he smilingly reneges, I'll forgive him! He's so cute! He's a STAR! Who cares what he actually does...it's what he SAYS he'll do! That's what really matters. He tries, but those mean old Republicans stop him. But really...0he's so wonderful! He's my HERO!
Having been born in the nifty fifties, I gratefully appreciate the fact that my elders and educators provided me with REAL heroes and role models to admire. My teachers taught history and current events making certain to laud the accomplishments of men and women who actually deserved our respect. But at the same time we were taught to maintain a level perspective realizing that these great men and women along with their deeds and accomplishments, while worthy of our deepest respect and even reverence in some cases, did NOT deserve to be worshipped as demigods.
We find ourselves today in a country staggering under a horrible infection of full blown personality worship. In most cases, men and women who are the recipients of this worship don't even deserve more than a modicum of respect, much less reverence. While in the past we could count many authentic heroes among our popular entertainment and sports figures, we sadly find few worthy recipients of such praise today. I'm talking about the current crop of popular yet shallow icons we observe in movie, television, music and sports entertainment...and sadly, as it turns out, in our political arena.
Obviously, pointing out that we should've seen this coming serves no other purpose than to attempt to pinpoint the beginning of this "cult of personality" worship.
I recall visiting a friend many years back who emigrated to the US from England and noticed a rather extensive collection of royal family collectibles in her home. The collection seemed to begin with the crowning of the current Queen Elizabeth, progressing through Princess Diana, then the young princes and all sorts of memorials in between. I learned that the English people were pretty keen on their "royals" and attended in droves every sort of special royal occasion, much like their ancestors did when they were REQUIRED to offer their worship centuries ago. While today we might say that the royals "ain't what they used to be" still there is that definite star quality that continues to attract and dazzle the faithful masses.
Poor US of A. We really haven't been able to truly enjoy having a royal family to worship, have we? Oh yes, we had JFK and "Camelot" and perhaps this was the beginning of our modern longing for royalty to worship. But going back earlier in our history we can find many exemplary (and some not so exemplary) figures who did or could've lassoed in a crowd of personality worshippers with their charisma. After all, our founding fathers wanted to make George Washington king and it was our great fortune that he and wiser men prevailed. It just might be that a certain lust to hero worship is in our DNA, certainly as idealistic youth. But maturity used to bring wisdom and while we've always enjoyed and even admired the talents of our movie stars, musicians and athletes, all of us grew up understanding that real heroes actually accomplished real and meaningful things.
We still have heroes worth our respect in this country. Sadly, our children have been indoctrinated into a liberal agenda in our public classrooms then allowed to marinate in a deteriorating and warped popular culture outside those classrooms. Parents, either by benign neglect or fear they will alienate and thereby lose their children's love, have abdicated their roles as moral and educational authority.
Dear reader, I've no idea when your preteen through college formative years occurred, but if you're reading this I'm pretty sure they didn't include the upside down morality exalted by the popular culture today.
Our schools and now our government have hijacked moral authority, rightfully the province of the family and more elementally, the individual. Worse, these schools no longer provide their most important service, teaching the foundations whereby critical thinking evolves, the very critical thinking which should enable our youth to do more than rely on sound bites to effectively arrive at logical judgments. This includes the critical thinking our young people need in order to make one of the most profound judgments they will face, the choosing of our country's leader.
Our old and proper heroes have been well and truly buried...in the dark stacks of some antiquarian book store, and the memories of we who read them. They're entombed in history books our children will likely never see. And our genuine heroes of today labor in anonymity, ignored by a sycophantic mainstream media bent on propping up false idols.
No wonder our young people wail and shriek over the death of a music icon. They also faint and moan over a slick-packaged empty suit, propped up by a mysterious cast of directors and money pushers and takers.
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