Good on you for highlighting to vital 40/60 statistic.

While we must endure the fluff of empty words about particular “news” of any moment, there is always the ultimate yes or no bottom line. So, as I’ve long been enjoying reading you, VDH, it constantly amazes me how you are able to remember and clearly write about all the still simmering-in-consciousness hot topics.

As an aside, as one who carefully followed the Bill Clinton show, I was CERTAIN he couldn’t be elected president. One night, in 1992, I saw an old “friend” of his on TV bring up his draft dodging and womanizing and pot smoking, and this “news” led me to raise some glasses of wine in happiness that this scoundrel had been exposed, since we all know that light is the best disinfectant! AND, the rest is history!

However, back to the choice numbers. My own cynicism has only grown with the passing years, as things that SHOULD happen don’t, and vice versa, after the facts about various events and choices by people---see Clinton, above---become known.

So, my life-long-learned belief is that at least 80 % of the general population is essentially equivalent to deluded and programmed-from-birth religious believers, such as epitomized by a bin laden. That is, 40% of us will choose the left side of any either-or question, and 40% the right side. Mostly unconsciously.

But, there is always the more aware 20%, and it’s ever at this margin that the scales are tipped.

Right now, we are experiencing a Clinton-like barrage of negative “facts” thanks to the Obama child and his pack. And, perhaps enough excrement has been dumped on the left side of this scale that more and more revulsion will cause the vital margin voters to remove all doubt about the phony Obama “machine”

Actually, even though it’s “against the law” to disallow votes on the basis of color, let alone mention certain irrefutable facts in public, isn’t it “interesting” that 90% or so of blacks support Obama? When this cohort is factored out of the approximately 40% who NOW claim to support him, it seems like something like the following is mathematically true—

Of 100 voters, 40 are for Obama. Since blacks are about 17% of the population, 90% of that is 15%. So, of the 40 Obama lovers, subtract 15 blacks, and that means BHO is only registering 25% approval among non-blacks!

Why, Obama is ALREADY a failed loser, to non-blacks!

We used to worry about the digital divide, when the Internet and personal computers started to permeate society, back in the late 90’s, remember? Poor blacks just weren't able to keep up, Internet-wise.

Well, here we are, over a decade later, and the cascading lack of awareness of the truth, brought about by mal-education in this country, logically brings us to the current impasse.

How much longer can the fools on the left continue to yank the strings of the great mass of Americans?

posted by James at 10:48 AM
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Get Ready for THE November Surprise

A radical reckoning is about to irrepressibly expose most people to the bitter truth, that they are even MORE ignorant than they think!

Each of us living Americans is regularly swamped by the “latest news”, the string of “right now” moments that, like the steady drip of water on our forehead when we’re lashed to a cross, necessarily create our present beliefs and Weltanschauung.

So, with the latest political orgasm a little over a month away, after all the top players of power have so far done their in-your-face duty, as THEY see fit, from the left and the right side of the spectrum, what is the overwhelming news each day brings?

POLL RESULTS!

Just as in economics, the old saw about “this time is different” is about to whack the deluded populous upside its poll-results brainwashed head!

How so, you ask?

Looking back, present day pundits try to make sense of which earlier polls were most correct, and thereby to predict what is most likely come November 2nd. Well, not so fast, my friends!

There is a hidden variable that’s unaccounted for when pollsters ask questions----you can’t query a DEAD or nonexistent person. So, it’s just like Las Vegas---

The political “HOUSE” is rigged, and AS A WHOLE always wins, despite the random FEW lucky winners. Therefore, consider the breakthrough “Contract with America” in 1994, and everything that flowed from that, including the way the HOUSE fought back, and learned its lesson.

Unless and until elections are so clean that fraud is kaput, voting is an exercise in futility, which is why older people both make sure THEY at least provide one honest vote AND become jaded about the whole process.

Actually, the very fact that a Mad Magazine “cut-out” like Pelosi could end up as the speaker of the PEOPLE’S house is all the proof needed to any awake person.

Thus, the only real question is what is the majority of honest right thinking conservatives, who truly number in the many more millions than all the thieves and liars and fake voters, going to do, after the latest election fails to unseat all the powerful robbers?

Paint me a cynic. I think there are more “realistic” people, those who know it’s useless to fight city hall and don’t vote, as well as those who have also given up and vote for their “leaders” who take care of them, AND supplemented with the always available pool of fake “votes--- so, forget about it!

Simple math always serves. Forty percent are “right” and forty percent are “left = wrong”, so the twenty percent in the middle provides the margin for victory.

BUT!!! This “middle” class of voters is as variable as those in control of fraudulent votes require---the elasticity of this band is infinite!

Therefore, I wouldn’t get any hopes up for ANY change for the better, any time soon.

posted by James at 10:02 AM
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To Love, or BE Loved?

Perhaps, after all the words of analysis about all things stemming from the Obama phenomenon, a few key basic components warrant outstanding and continuous awareness.

First, Obama and his ilk, most definitely including his political opponents like John Boehner, are essentially just apparently different variations of Narcissus. I’m reminded of a classic sophomore-in-college bull session splitting question---would you rather be the one who loves your mate or be the one who is loved?

Well, combine THIS apparent dilemma with the fact that there is NO danger of ever knowing the future, because: by definition, the future = the unknown!

However, in the veil of Narcissistic reality peopled by humans who have the life or death power in 2010, one other fact is certain.

Cui bono? “What’s in it for me?” ever provides the true prism through which to focus ALL words and actions by anybody, in particular those high and mighty people who populate positions of power over their low and weak brethren.

Also, never forget that it’s the PERCEPTION, stupid! That is, each of us Narcissistic characters always, instant by instant, spend our Being and Time choosing our NEXT move, and then doing it to the best of our ability. And, or BUT, this is absolutely dependent on our lifetime’s experience, which furnishes our present basic core of values.

So, Narcissistic perception is expressed and expressive AS us.

Witness that woman who “exhausted” Obama, much to his embarrassed surprise. See—it was all about: HER!

Is facile-minded Obama more interested in being loved, or loving?

Isn’t it obvious?

His whole day-by-day record as president reeks of the blatantly Narcissistic desire to BE loved! Simultaneously, the other side of this exudes contempt for those he SHOULD love---the American people he legally represents and is supposed to be working for.

Therefore, probably the best we can hope for in this world of Narcissus is that enough people awaken and throw up real champions of the people, who utterly realize that to be an effective and LOVED leader, paradoxically they, themselves, must be wise enough to know that they are NOTHING---that is, sacrifice is the called for order of today!

Lately, I have seen and heard some rising selfless stars, who proudly and brightly proclaim that this is their truth---it’s the CAUSE of freedom for American individuals, not the candidate that matters.

Lastly, transcend the only conventional Fourth of July expressions of patriotism, and REALLY take into account the millions of dead and buried ancestors, who fought and died protecting America. The draft dodgers, and the war survivors, must, of course, be part of the pool of leaders when the fighting and dying is over, but what about those who were unlucky to be killed?

For example, we got to “endure” a JFK, instead of his brother, Joseph, and who’s to say that wasn’t the second best outcome?

The naïve me “hopes” for the best “change” in the immediate future, so that the largest majority of voters will embrace the selfless statesman running, and we will be able to stop the bleeding caused by the derelict dudes like Obama, Clinton, and even the Bush’s.

The world-weary me “expects” the worst, though, because----Narcissus rules!

I can’t resist, however, relaying one final “solution” note----

The wisest humans, usually after a period of time maximizing their Narcissistic nature, wake up and understand that serving OTHERS is the most ecstatic and blessed way to live. Why?

Because spending one’s precious Being and Time all-concerned with self is like pinching the body, or tightly clenching the fist---such contraction cuts off the flow of blood, and other needed physical and psychic “fluids".

And, attending to others removes this constriction, which is the true way to love: others, and self!

When one puts attention on others, the pain that always takes place when turned inward relaxes.

posted by James at 10:44 AM
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Who Is Chris Coons?

Chris Coons reminds me of a “friend” from University of California, Santa Barbara, a wild and crazy New Yorker. This burly wacko loved to go into bars and pick fights. But, his signature moment was being caught on tape throwing rocks into the Bank of Amerika, in 1970 or so.

Later, I heard he was pulled over for a vehicle violation when on the lam back east, and jailed when the police found dynamite in his van.

At the time I was totally apolitical, but this guy “charmed” naïve me into reading a Marxist “classic”, “Monopoly Capital”, by Baran and Sweezy, I believe. And, I was off and running as an already-too-old hippy, as my youthful caring heartstrings were expectedly pulled. Only when helping run a business and beginning my life’s love affair with the Wall Street Journal around 1978 did I wake up.

So, IMHO, each and every conscious American, epitomized by the heretofore blind sheep who support assholes like Obama and Biden, et al (who are of course nothing but Marxist elites trying to impose socialist edicts under the phony Democratic Party name} are simply being offered the opportunity to really see such people naked, as the jay birds they are.

The only question is whether, on the always all important margin, a large enough percentage of them WILL wake up, when confronted with the unmistakable truth. I try to imagine walking in fooled people’s shoes, and, recalling what it took for me to realize my own turnaround, dare I say it---I am actually feeling more and more full of HOPE that the required CHANGE is coming.

I’ve long marveled at the sleeping giant mass of fellow citizens of this still-free country, most of whom are truly just unaware of the depth of the rot that’s permeated the electorate---in particular, those who vote for the jackass party candidates.

And, based on this simple awareness, isn’t it obvious that a massive shocking event, that cannot be ignored, had to happen?

Well, I thought that we’d need a worse attack than 9/11, since it seems to me that it is foreign enemies who most threaten our very existence as a free and independent country. However, it turned out that the willful blindness of the majority of Americans---with the “Independents” providing the at-the-margin edge---who swept Obama-the-Marxist and his enablers in congress into power, with what they thought was a one-and-done election, was the “benign” crisis we needed! Maybe!

So, as many people have realized and said from the heart, America the lucky is AGAIN being given the opportunity, on November 2nd, to make the choice to stop all the decades of Marxist madness.

Failure is NOT an option!

posted by James at 8:48 AM
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The OBAMA Crisis is a Terrible Thing to Waste

“A crisis is a terrible thing to waste”.

It seems to me that the insurgent leaders of the Republicans, from extant top dogs like McConnell and Boehner, down to and most vitally including, emerging superstars like Rubio, should make the following perfect proof argument a key part of their red meat talking points---say:

“I agree that a crisis is a terrible thing to waste, as the Obama administration told us all, before going on to do so many horrible things. Indeed, the absolute truth is that the very Obama administration, and its partners in crisis crime, ARE the crisis!

And, we should not waste this once in a generation chance!

So, in November we must exploit the hell out of it, and blast away the people who are causing America to commit economic and political suicide.

Out, with their damned "SPOT!”

Another takeoff from this sure-to-be-included-in-the-book-of-famous-quotes gift from Rahm Emanuel is--- “Let’s get wasted.”

You see, the Obama plus cohort can be characterized many ways, but at their core they are unrepentant hippies, defined by taking mind-altering drugs. And, the first choice of such people is marijuana, the consumption of which is purposed by the desire to “get wasted”.

Yes, think of Obama, and now his unhappy wife, also, as people who are suffering from the crisis THEY have unconsciously created, and in so much psychological pain that getting loaded seems to be the only way to get Absolute relief.

I speak from unfortunate experience!

Entropy is always beaconing, while we humans are busy creating and maintaining as much order as we can tolerate, so getting wasted is just one of the ways to dip into that seemingly ecstatic experience of nothingness. Oh, the pressure is just too great!

Also, “Crisis = opportunity.”

It is unnecessary to say more, right? Remember, there are around 300,000,000 humans in still-free America, so the few hundred of us who are willing to get into the ring of political fire and exploit the Obama crisis represent many millions of others who could do so.

Finally, picture that old ad, “A mind is a terrible thing to waste.”, which, if I recall correctly, was aimed at black Americans, who were failing to apply themselves to “book learning”, and thus wasting their “minds”. Of course, this problem persists, and I think is even worse.

So, “Mind” up, cowboys!

Surprise, surprise!

Another way that hubris seems to be blowing in the wind, a la Bob Dylan---and Peter, Paul and Mary!---is also thanks to the unwitting Marxist fool, Obama and his minions.

I’ll betcha the phrase, “It’s a teachable moment” has just begun its run as a used label to apply to---most anything. So, just as wasting the crisis that is Obama is a terrible thing, so is it stupid to ignore the teaching moment that he and his far left idiots ARE.

NOW—Karl Rove, and even Mark Levin, are exhibiting all-too-human behavior, and they need to wake up. As we taught students about to take the SAT’s, when facing multiple possible answers to a question, be very wary of those that use the words “always” and “never”.

So, when Rove said O’Donnell could NEVER win in Delaware, oops! Of course, there is ALWAYS the constant true ongoing opportunity = crisis of the NOW point of space-time, at which to use NEVER:

You are NEVER in danger of knowing a single thing!

A being, from the human on down to the amoeba, and even if a quark can be considered “a” being, NEVER knows the future!

And, that’s the truth—blech!!!

posted by James at 8:44 AM
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Sore Losers Are Such a Sight!

From nowhere, perhaps the “nichts” = nothingness of Heidegger, or the Sunyata = Voidness of Eastern religion, and indubitably stemming from Adi Da Samraj’s most basic insight that ALL forms of our human reality are essentially contraction, the simple word, “sore”, has been hanging out in my mind for about a week.

As Da long ago put it, just being born is, right from the instant of the popping out “gratification”, only vital shock. Keep in mind the twisted face of all newborn babies, crying and spanked into breathing, as their = our introduction to the human trail of tears. Not just tears that escape the eyes, in utter sorrow at the psycho-physical task arriving in human form forces upon us, but tears, as in the fabric of space-time that allow the first core separation into a me and a not-me.

I’m all torn up, and tearing up---constantly! And, I AM you, paradoxically, in Oneness,

Still, let me dilly dally a while on the “sore” theme, and right away notice that we earthbound creatures at once “soar” in our unique way, mostly in a "sour" fashion. Just as birds-- such “poor” driven creatures--- are always in one process of soaring or another during their waking hours in search of vitally shocking food, we soi disant top-of-the-Being chain humans are likewise always on the seeking make.

Admittedly, for “lucky” Westerners, for a while---probably until the next big thing of a local or worldwide disaster strikes---such searching takes a “lighter” form, most of our waking time, because we’ve solved the gross food intake problem. However, it sure looks to me as if nary a human exists who isn’t constantly moving around and Being a sore, soaring human “bird”.

Of course, “sore” invokes the timeless description of “sore loser”, with all the hidden historical baggage this phrase plucks, for surely all of us. Hey---what better way is there to link, for non-Muslims, to the word Islam? We almost all assume that the members of that deluded cult are losers, who are filled with hate and resentment for their “others”, especially Americans.

Still, it is certainly a moving “soar” experience to be alive, these days.

As football season has just blossomed into its yearly dominance of the sports world, probably any American male can remember going through those painful years of high school, during which the desire to excel on the football team, or even just to try out and hopefully make it, is defined by the transition called “getting in shape” And, this workout “job” separates the ones who can handle the severe pain from those who can’t or who are unwilling to, because the muscles always get very sore!

Well, we must also acknowledge that there exist sore “winners”, and glory be, don’t we have to put up with their sore acts? Picture a Harry Reid, a Nancy Pelosi and a Barack Obama, all of them simultaneously sweating constantly in a mug shot pose under bright lights, while they are also, in the next door “frame”, seen running on a circular treadmill, like those prototypical laboratory mice, going NOWHERE even as they exhibit mere sore Being.

NOW, this entire “sore” drama, of course, is always what could be called the biggest ongoing cover up of the separation “crime”, because each one of these sore winners, AND losers, learn to exhibit a false face that tries to smile, OR frown, in dissimulation of their basic core sore value.

Yes, a botoxed Nancy Pelosi has no clue about her weak smiling act, which these awakening days, is surely serving to make anyone brave enough to view her face cringe, and indeed Realize the ubiquitous “sore” act that is humanity on the earthly stage.

All is contraction! And, so, the dance between sore losers and sore winners is the eternally returning circle, a al Nietzsche, only apparently in differing forms, over space-time.

I’ve been rereading a book trying to put the meaning of Heidegger into English, published all the way back in 1959, which was “only” about 30 years after he burst on the philosophical scene with his book, Being and Time, or Sein und Zeit.

Another playful English word we might associate with “sore” is “scour”, and why don’t we make this consideration a trifecta, and add in “scowl”? The past four months, or so, I have been working hard as ever, “scouring” clean many surfaces of the contracted atoms that make up my physical abode. And, this activity could also be expanded in a seemingly non-scouring way, as I applied mucho paint and varnish all over the place---literally!

Was I “scowling” while I worked? Well, I certainly wasn’t working hard the facial muscles to plaster a Pelosi smile for all to see! No, timely gravity necessarily brought my cheeks and jowls LOW, so any who were unlucky enough to view said face, would surely conclude I was scowling!

Here’s another regular experience I endure, at the YMCA---there is this woman, in her sixties, I assume, who sometimes uses the therapy pool with moi. When we meet, she and I brighten up our faces and smile a friendly hello out, and immediately after, the poor “old” suffering Sein-zum-Tode = Being-on the way to-death lady absolutely reverts into a SCOWL!

Yes, we arrive in a “sore” mood, and we spend our ending years in a most “sour and scowling SORE” one, certainly getting ready to do it in the dirt as humus beings, again.

Given the absolutely required seminal action of separation from the undivided One and Only that is Truly our very Nature and Condition, which is necessary for the multiplication into things, and many me and you capsules, let me note the inevitable circular “reasoning” that is what is taken to be conventional wisdom.

One of the jewels from Heidegger happily involves verstehen = understanding. He claims that understanding must assume points of view. How can one understand ANYTHING, unless they “have” a point of view? And, on the flip side, to have a point of view also requires something, to wit---understanding!

Is your point of view filled with THIS understanding? Now, and all thens, all of “your” thens as past or future memories or hopes or fears, we have to Absolutely understand that “point of view”, itself, could be Realized to be the first cut away from One, since to have ANY point of view excludes ALL other ones.

Besides, I wonder about understanding “understanding”, or having a point of view about a “point of view”, and even taking this numerical trip all the way up and down---understanding the understanding of understanding, etc, etc, etc.

Getting back to “sore”---after being born into our growing understood point of view as a named human, the fresh start usually offers a grace period of mostly pain-free life, in the physical dimension. And, so, as one cannot escape the eternally returning change of space-time, known as aging, during which there is a definite ongoing “sore” expression of our unique form of contraction from Light = Being, slowly but surely the physical body wears out, and more and more pain comes, to reside all over the body, either constantly or randomly.

So, the living “in store” of us all, is “sore is us”.

How about the combined point-of-view and understanding contained in the other “sore” phrase that’s so well known---“a sight for sore eyes”?

First, just to be alive and contracted as a human body-mind, for normal people, involves being dominated by the visual sense. And, therefore, just to “have” eyes is to be---SORE!!! It’s hard to understand and take this, I know, because in our human reality seeing beats blindness, so basically.

However, I’m reminded of an old Cat Stevens song that says that if you don’t have legs, you won’t “have” to walk. Now, of course, being born blind, or without eyes, is certainly a survival issue! However, remember this---one of the most essential regular “activities” for serious practitioners of most religions, is meditation, with: EYES CLOSED = BLIND.

What a paradox, AGAIN---which abounds!

I concluded, very long ago, in my own blinded and sore eyed journey as the ongoing present conglomeration of lighted atoms, that even apparently fake words can always be sourced back to their Absolute Truth.

So, take “You are a sight for sore eyes”. The big “door” to the Enlightening perception that I can open, here, first discards the apparent dichotomy of sore verses non-sore eyes. All eyes are, essentially “sore”, by just being there, because they depend on separation from what is seen, and the seeing, itself.

Hence, the One and Only “You” that can be Absolutely indicated by this string of words might better be termed an IN-SIGHT. And, there are many ways to spray words that try to “point” out this One “view”, but I will settle with---UNDERSTANDING.

Instead of buying the conventional “view” about eye sight, one must GET One and turn the usual seeing inside and insight out, and every other way around, by understanding that any seeing by the eyes at once connects the seer, and Transcends this connectivity.

Finally, before born, a fetus is ONE “inside” mother, and on the way “out”, the tie that binds, the umbilical cord, clearly indicates this, until---CUT! Instant separation!

Just so, the very development of the eyes, the physical act of plucking incoming rays of photons, involving all the myriad complications of physicality, is just another way that the “cord” is cut, until---

I see, conventionally, becomes I (AM) seeing, which is, despite any felt “sores”, in all dimensions, Bliss, in and as ONE.

posted by James at 10:59 AM
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