So Where Do I stand on the issues?

My partner in crime asked Where do you Stand on issues the other day, and it is a great question. I started to answer just to clarify MY positions and it got too long for the comment section.

When I started this blog I would have to say I thought I was what commonly passes for Republican these days. The more I have discussed and aired my thoughts here and studied and read, the more I realize I am Constitutionally Libertarian. So in a nutshell here is my stance on the issues:
Fiscal Policy - Leave us alone. Free Market Capitalism is the way, the truth, and the light when it comes to fiscal policy. The government is the problem not the solution. Audit the Fed, Get rid of the Fed.

Freedom of speech - this means freedom of all speech even that which we disagree with and do not like or that which makes us uncomfortable. This means Fox news and even MSNBC news.

Freedom of Religion- not freedom from, even those ideologies that we do not agree with , as long as those people believing those ideologies can live peaceably with us and not blow up our planes, trains, automobiles, and buildings, or Kill our kids. Free to choose any religion, even none, realizing that this nation was founded on strong Judeo Christian traditions.

Second Amendment - Leave us Alone. It is plainly said in the constitution and there is a reason why. I have perfect gun control thank you: the ability to hit the target, and a good two hand weaver stance.

Abortion- LIFE, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. Duh. I do not know exactly where life begins, but in lieu of knowing I will side with Life. It is totally illogical to be pro-abortion and anti-KFC

Taxes - will never be low enough.

Entitlements - breed cultures of dependency and need to be slowly and methodically scaled back and controlled. OASDI will not be there when I need it anyway, start letting me pay for my ancestors as well as save for MY future.


Anthropogenic Climate Change - Good story, right up there with Hansel and Gretel and the Three Little Pigs. All three are to get children and mental midgets to do something someone else wants them to do.

Wars- IF...IF, they are important enough to fight, fight hard, win decisively and come home quickly. Strike fear into the enemies heart and break his will to wage war and you won't have as many people trying to start stuff with you.

UN - keep them here and keep an eye on them, but never take them seriously.

Immigration - I am for all the LEGAL immigration we can stand. I am in favor of making it easier to obtain work authorization. But the line forms over there and no cutting, the rest of you go back the the end of the line, cross our border illegally again and we will shoot you.

Education - leave my damn kid alone, you can't run the post office, DMV, balance a checkbook, read a bill, tell the truth, obey the law, or pay your taxes. Leave my Kid alone. Vouchers are a good idea, let parents vote with their feet, and their school tax dollars. Then the schools that PERFORM will SUCCEED.

Unions- there was a time, fifty years ago, when Unions were a good thing. Now they are just PACs and Criminal Organizations that feed off of hard d working people like a tick. They need to go the way of the dodo.

Healthcare - Leave me alone. Tort Reform, Entitlement reform, EMS reform, less insurance restrictions. That would help healthcare. What the Fed wants to do is not about healthcare or health insurance but about consolidating control and power.

Energy, for heaven’s sake drill here, drill now. All the Cars running on wishful thinking is not going to happen this decade or probably in the next two. So let's quit running ourselves into bankruptcy and prevent our economy grinding to a halt. Let's stop funding those entities which do not have our best interests at heart. Let's create some jobs in this country. No Smart grid, that is just like Government Healthcare, a joke and lever of control. Build some Nuclear power plants, they are good enough for China and France, why are they not good enough for us?

-Kook

So Where Do I stand on the issues?

My partner in crime asked Where do you Stand on issues the other day, and it is a great question. I started to answer just to clarify MY positions and it got too long for the comment section.


When I started this blog I would have to say I thought I was what commonly passes for Republican these days. The more I have discussed and aired my thoughts here and studied and read, the more I realize I am Constitutionally Libertarian. So in a nutshell here is my stance on the issues:
Fiscal Policy - Leave us alone. Free Market Capitalism is the way, the truth, and the light when it comes to fiscal policy. The government is the problem not the solution. Audit the Fed, Get rid of the Fed.

Freedom of speech - this means freedom of all speech even that which we disagree with and do not like or that which makes us uncomfortable. This means Fox news and even MSNBC news.



Freedom of Religion- not freedom from, even those ideologies that we do not agree with , as long as those people believing those ideologies can live peaceably with us and not blow up our planes, trains, automobiles, and buildings, or Kill our kids. Free to choose any religion, even none, realizing that this nation was founded on strong Judeo Christian traditions.



Second Amendment - Leave us Alone. It is plainly said in the constitution and there is a reason why. I have perfect gun control thank you: the ability to hit the target, and a good two hand weaver stance.


Abortion- LIFE, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. Duh. I do not know exactly where life begins, but in lieu of knowing I will side with Life. It is totally illogical to be pro-abortion and anti-KFC


Taxes - will never be low enough.


Entitlements - breed cultures of dependency and need to be slowly and methodically scaled back and controlled. OASDI will not be there when I need it anyway, start letting me pay for my ancestors as well as save for MY future.


Anthropogenic Climate Change - Good story, right up there with Hansel and Gretel and the Three Little Pigs. All three are to get children and mental midgets to do something someone else wants them to do.




Wars- IF...IF, they are important enough to fight, fight hard, win decisively and come home quickly. Strike fear into the enemies heart and break his will to wage war and you won't have as many people trying to start stuff with you.


UN - keep them here and keep an eye on them, but never take them seriously.




Immigration - I am for all the LEGAL immigration we can stand. I am in favor of making it easier to obtain work authorization. But the line forms over there and no cutting, the rest of you go back the the end of the line, cross our border illegally again and we will shoot you.


Education - leave my damn kid alone, you can't run the post office, DMV, balance a checkbook, read a bill, tell the truth, obey the law, or pay your taxes. Leave my Kid alone. Vouchers are a good idea, let parents vote with their feet, and their school tax dollars. Then the schools that PERFORM will SUCCEED.


Unions- there was a time, fifty years ago, when Unions were a good thing. Now they are just PACs and Criminal Organizations that feed off of hard working people like a tick. They need to go the way of the dodo.



Healthcare - Leave me alone. Tort Reform, Entitlement reform, EMS reform, less insurance restrictions. That would help healthcare. What the Fed wants to do is not about healthcare or health insurance but about consolidating control and power.


Energy, for heaven’s sake drill here, drill now. All the Cars running on wishful thinking is not going to happen this decade or probably in the next two. So let's quit running ourselves into bankruptcy and prevent our economy grinding to a halt. Let's stop funding those entities which do not have our best interests at heart. Let's create some jobs in this country. No Smart grid, that is just like Government Healthcare, a joke and lever of control. Build some Nuclear power plants, they are good enough for China and France, why are they not good enough for us?
-Kook

Internet Neutrality? Yeah sure....

I have said it is a matter of time before the federal government shuts us down. Well that time looks like it is much closer. How are you going to like the FCC deciding what can or can't be said on your blogs? How about who can have blogs or having to pay a big fat tax to even read a blog. These will be just a few of the ways the folks at war with the Chamber of Commerce, Fox News, Health Insurance, Talk Radio, the Consitution, Sarah Palin, Christianity, Capitalism, the health care system, the U.S dollar, the Military, the CIA, non-union Businesses, the Unborn, Your car, French Fries, and anyone reading this can restrict who says what and for how much on the worldwide web. Think about it, if the rumors about the so called enemies list at the "Charman Mao memorial bldg.", formerly known as the White House are true, do you think the emerging opposition to the marxist agenda of the Regime has gone unnoticed? The following is from our friend Chris and he did this story so well, I basically trashed my post on this in favor of his. He is new over here with us and on his blog he talks about whatever subject he likes. Check him out here: http://chrisgworld.blogspot.com I really like his blog. He just talks about whatever is on his mind which I find extremely refreshing. Now, I don't claim to know how, but I know that the government wants to control what you see and say online, but I am unsure if they would leave such power in corporate hands.

With the FCC voting tomorrow on Net Neutrality I wanted to find out all i could about it:

Net Neutrality is this:

Net Neutrality is the guiding principle that preserves the free and open Internet.
Net Neutrality simply means no discrimination. Net Neutrality prevents Internet providers from blocking, speeding up or slowing down Web content based on its source, ownership or destination.
Net Neutrality is the reason the Internet has driven economic innovation, democratic participation and free speech online. It protects the consumer's right to use any equipment, content, application or service without interference from the network provider. With Net Neutrality, the network's only job is to move data -- not to choose which data to privilege with higher quality service. ( source)

So why and who is trying to get rid of it?:

The nation's largest telephone and cable companies -- including AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and Time Warner Cable -- want to be Internet gatekeepers, deciding which Web sites go fast or slow and which won't load at all.

They want to tax content providers to guarantee speedy delivery of their data. And they want to discriminate in favor of their own search engines, Internet phone services and streaming video -- while slowing down or blocking services offered by their competitors.

These companies have a new vision for the Internet. Instead of a level playing field, they want to reserve express lanes for their own content and services -- or those of b ig corporations that can afford the steep tolls -- and leave the rest of us on a winding dirt road.
The big phone and cable companies are spending hundreds of millions of dollars lobbying Congress and the Federal Communications Commission to gut Net Neutrality, putting the future of the Internet at risk. (source). in essence, they want to control what we see and where we go online

But now the FCC is getting involved. From redorbit.com:

Five years into an often-heated policy debate, proponents of so-called “net neutrality” may finally be close to getting their wish of having broad band service providers guarantee equal treatment of all types of Internet traffic. Such ‘net neutrality’ rules would ensure that Internet users could access any Web site and online services they choose, and that cable and phone
companies, for instance, could not block subscribers from using lower-cost Internet calling services or accessing competitive online video sites. However, despite or. because of Democratic control of both the Congress and the WhiteHouse, enacting “net neutrality” rules is proving to be a challenge.Ultimately, the courts and perhaps even Congress may have to get involved in the matter.The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is scheduled to vote this Thursday on a proposal by chairman Julius Genachowski, which calls for regulations to be drafted that would prohibit Internet providers from discriminating against any type of Internet traffic.

The internet is one thing that is unregulated. But now people want to regulate it. I think thats dangerous. For the record, FCC Chairmen has said yes to Net Neutrality

Internet Neutrality? Yeah sure....

I have said it is a matter of time before the federal government shuts us down. Well that time looks like it is much closer. How are you going to like the FCC deciding what can or can't be said on your blogs? How about who can have blogs or having to pay a big fat tax to even read a blog. These will be just a few of the ways the folks at war with the Chamber of Commerce, Fox News, Health Insurance, Talk Radio, the Consitution, Sarah Palin, Christianity, Capitalism, the health care system, the U.S dollar, the Military, the CIA, non-union Businesses, the Unborn, Your car, French Fries, and anyone reading this can restrict who says what and for how much on the worldwide web. Think about it, if the rumors about the so called enemies list at the "Charman Mao memorial bldg.", formerly known as the White House are true, do you think the emerging opposition to the marxist agenda of the Regime has gone unnoticed? The following is from our friend Chris and he did this story so well, I basically trashed my post on this in favor of his. He is new over here with us and on his blog he talks about whatever subject he likes. Check him out here: http://chrisgworld.blogspot.com I really like his blog. He just talks about whatever is on his mind which I find extremely refreshing. Now, I don't claim to know how, but I know that the government wants to control what you see and say online, but I am unsure if they would leave such power in corporate hands.

With the FCC voting tomorrow on Net Neutrality I wanted to find out all i could about it:

Net Neutrality is this:

Net Neutrality is the guiding principle that preserves the free and open Internet.
Net Neutrality simply means no discrimination. Net Neutrality prevents Internet providers from blocking, speeding up or slowing down Web content based on its source, ownership or destination.
Net Neutrality is the reason the Internet has driven economic innovation, democratic participation and free speech online. It protects the consumer's right to use any equipment, content, application or service without interference from the network provider. With Net Neutrality, the network's only job is to move data -- not to choose which data to privilege with higher quality service. ( source)

So why and who is trying to get rid of it?:

The nation's largest telephone and cable companies -- including AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and Time Warner Cable -- want to be Internet gatekeepers, deciding which Web sites go fast or slow and which won't load at all.

They want to tax content providers to guarantee speedy delivery of their data. And they want to discriminate in favor of their own search engines, Internet phone services and streaming video -- while slowing down or blocking services offered by their competitors.

These companies have a new vision for the Internet. Instead of a level playing field, they want to reserve express lanes for their own content and services -- or those of b ig corporations that can afford the steep tolls -- and leave the rest of us on a winding dirt road.
The big phone and cable companies are spending hundreds of millions of dollars lobbying Congress and the Federal Communications Commission to gut Net Neutrality, putting the future of the Internet at risk. (source). in essence, they want to control what we see and where we go online

But now the FCC is getting involved. From redorbit.com:

Five years into an often-heated policy debate, proponents of so-called “net neutrality” may finally be close to getting their wish of having broad band service providers guarantee equal treatment of all types of Internet traffic. Such ‘net neutrality’ rules would ensure that Internet users could access any Web site and online services they choose, and that cable and phone
companies, for instance, could not block subscribers from using lower-cost Internet calling services or accessing competitive online video sites. However, despite or. because of Democratic control of both the Congress and the WhiteHouse, enacting “net neutrality” rules is proving to be a challenge.Ultimately, the courts and perhaps even Congress may have to get involved in the matter.The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is scheduled to vote this Thursday on a proposal by chairman Julius Genachowski, which calls for regulations to be drafted that would prohibit Internet providers from discriminating against any type of Internet traffic.

The internet is one thing that is unregulated. But now people want to regulate it. I think thats dangerous. For the record, FCC Chairmen has said yes to Net Neutrality

Life on a Farm and Intellectual Dishonesty

I was reading BNGFan’s post regarding Sherriff Joe (America's sheriff) and the inmate who wanted an abortion. It is a great little post and it made me think. I spent a great portion of my youth on Pa’s farm. We still raise cattle there. We raise them to eat. Now we know that we are raising Beef cattle and to some that would mean that we are the world’s worst barbarians. My grandpa would have been in his late sixties and I in my early teens. We had an old cow who was in labor and she was down and we were trying to help her but it was not going well. Here is a, not completely, domesticated (at least in the way you think of horses or dogs) animal who does not really want your help, she weighs somewhere around 900 pounds and she is down. Calf coming out all upside down and backwards. To top it all off this has got to be the biggest calf I have ever seen trying to fight his way into the world. So picture this, she is lying out in the field, it is muddy, wet, filthy, and bloody, it is getting twilight, she is down, she is hurting, we can’t get her up, we can’t get the calf turned, and it is about to die, and her chances of living are falling fast too, because the thing is just too big. Now if we were evil barbarians knowing that the calf was as good as dead, and the cow was rapidly losing her chances you would think we would cut our losses, and just shoot her, right? Well I cannot speak for every rancher/farmer but I was taught that,when you raise animals, although we kill them and eat them when it is time, we also have a responsibility to protect and care for them. Just like in the Lion King, the circle of life. We don’t just let a cow die, we have a responsibility. We own it, we probably raised it, it depends on us for food and health and although it is not a pet, we do see them as more than meat or money on the hoof.

So we get the truck and the trailer and the tractor and we proceed to lift and push her into the trailer. We call the vet, Doc Baker will meet us at his office, it is an hour drive. An hour later we arrive at the Vet’s, it is past supper time now. We fashion a ramp and tie her off to the barn and drive the truck out from under her. Somehow we get her on her feet. She has been in labor since sometime right after lunch, we realized she had trouble mid afternoon, we worked on her until dark, it is now over an hour past that. The calf is in a bad position and is huge. Doc reaches it and feels around and sure enough the calf is dead. What follows was one of the worst experiences on the farm I have been through. If nothing is done the cow will die shortly. Her hips are already so disjointed she can barely stand, and if she was not in the chute she would fall. Doc gets a piece of cable saw and reaches in and positions it between the front legs of the calf and on one side of its neck and then cuts the calf in half back through the shoulders and pulls that piece out. A little repositioning and a repeating of the process and one hind leg comes out. Lastly he pulls the other leg and abdomen out. It looks just like a calf, but it is lying in a pile in three pieces in the dirt. It has hair, and eyelashes, and big brown eyes, and it is, although very large for a newborn, still a baby calf. It should have been walking around and lookin’ all cute the way baby’s of every species do. Instead it is lying like meat in three pieces on the ground, it might have lived if we had gotten her to the doctor a few hours previously, then again, it was so big I am not sure. Then Doc has to retrieve the placenta because the cow gave up pushing hours ago. Pa asks Doc, “you think the mama will make it?” Doc says “I don’t know, she will not be able to stand but if you can keep her on antibiotics and get her to eat and drink a bit she might.” Some painkillers for her and some stitches and then we spent another hour getting her back in the trailer and another hour driving back. Pa attended to her for about a week, and gradually the ol’ gal got better. I am sure Pa sold her not long after that and she probably ended up hamburgers. The point is this, that was almost twenty years ago, and I still remember. Doc Baker was at home, he didn’t have to get back out that late at night to do what he did. We didn’t have to pay all the money hauling her and medicating her, and the vet bill notwithstanding; she was just a beef cow right? I remember that baby calf lying in the dirt, flies buzzing around it, it was all wet and it had a pink little nose and big long eyelashes and it was lying in three pieces…dead. I remember it still.

These same assholes that think Partial Birth abortion is fine and dandy are the same people that think clubbing a seal and wearing fur is abhorrent. The only two differences between my story with the calf and a partial birth abortion is the calf was dead and the baby isn’t; and Babies are humans. I am not one of these people who say that all lives are equal. If it was between my hunger and a cow dying, I’ll take my Steak medium well, thanks. But some of the idiots we have in the White House actually believe that there is no difference between one life and another, and they think that abortion is ok, yet hunting wolves that are decimating the caribou herds is akin to the genocide in Darfur… I am intellectually honest in my position. All lives have worth, and yet some lives are going to have to be lost to provide for the circle of life. On the other hand I am saddened by the needless death of something that only a few years later I would have killed myself to provide food for me and mine and remember it plainly twenty years later. We spent far more on the old cow than she was worth, treating her and caring for her; and yet she still ended up as meat. Where is the intellectual honesty of people who say that aborting a child, and some even say up until he has the concept to understand his place in society, is acceptable; and culling predators who are driving other animals to near extinction thus preventing famine of the predators themselves, or the outrage over whales, seals, chickens, etc. used for food and clothing is barbaric? Abortion ok, killing animals for food bad? I love beef but feel remorse for veal. I Like eating goose, but I am not really wild about what it takes to make Fois Gras (and it is gross anyway).

I say all lives have the right to be born and be lived to the best of their ability, we have the responsibility to care for the animals and not treat them cruelly, at the same time we should not Humanize animals to put them on equal terms with our own species. How can we elevate a good dog, a seal, or a beef cow above that of an infant? Some people actually believe that the dog that is trained to get the newspaper’s life is worth more than a newborn baby’s and some of them are in the White House. Not only is that plainly crazy, it is intellectually dishonest. I think if everyone grew up on a farm raising animals they would understand. Instead we have people who think abortion is ok, and KFC is a sin.

-Kook

Life on a Farm and Intellectual Dishonesty

I was reading BNGFan’s post regarding Sherriff Joe (America's sheriff) and the inmate who wanted an abortion. It is a great little post and it made me think. I spent a great portion of my youth on Pa’s farm. We still raise cattle there. We raise them to eat. Now we know that we are raising Beef cattle and to some that would mean that we are the world’s worst barbarians. My grandpa would have been in his late sixties and I in my early teens. We had an old cow who was in labor and she was down and we were trying to help her but it was not going well. Here is a, not completely, domesticated (at least in the way you think of horses or dogs) animal who does not really want your help, she weighs somewhere around 900 pounds and she is down. Calf coming out all upside down and backwards. To top it all off this has got to be the biggest calf I have ever seen trying to fight his way into the world. So picture this, she is lying out in the field, it is muddy, wet, filthy, and bloody, it is getting twilight, she is down, she is hurting, we can’t get her up, we can’t get the calf turned, and it is about to die, and her chances of living are falling fast too, because the thing is just too big. Now if we were evil barbarians knowing that the calf was as good as dead, and the cow was rapidly losing her chances you would think we would cut our losses, and just shoot her, right? Well I cannot speak for every rancher/farmer but I was taught that,when you raise animals, although we kill them and eat them when it is time, we also have a responsibility to protect and care for them. Just like in the Lion King, the circle of life. We don’t just let a cow die, we have a responsibility. We own it, we probably raised it, it depends on us for food and health and although it is not a pet, we do see them as more than meat or money on the hoof.

So we get the truck and the trailer and the tractor and we proceed to lift and push her into the trailer. We call the vet, Doc Baker will meet us at his office, it is an hour drive. An hour later we arrive at the Vet’s, it is past supper time now. We fashion a ramp and tie her off to the barn and drive the truck out from under her. Somehow we get her on her feet. She has been in labor since sometime right after lunch, we realized she had trouble mid afternoon, we worked on her until dark, it is now over an hour past that. The calf is in a bad position and is huge. Doc reaches it and feels around and sure enough the calf is dead. What follows was one of the worst experiences on the farm I have been through. If nothing is done the cow will die shortly. Her hips are already so disjointed she can barely stand, and if she was not in the chute she would fall. Doc gets a piece of cable saw and reaches in and positions it between the front legs of the calf and on one side of its neck and then cuts the calf in half back through the shoulders and pulls that piece out. A little repositioning and a repeating of the process and one hind leg comes out. Lastly he pulls the other leg and abdomen out. It looks just like a calf, but it is lying in a pile in three pieces in the dirt. It has hair, and eyelashes, and big brown eyes, and it is, although very large for a newborn, still a baby calf. It should have been walking around and lookin’ all cute the way baby’s of every species do. Instead it is lying like meat in three pieces on the ground, it might have lived if we had gotten her to the doctor a few hours previously, then again, it was so big I am not sure. Then Doc has to retrieve the placenta because the cow gave up pushing hours ago. Pa asks Doc, “you think the mama will make it?” Doc says “I don’t know, she will not be able to stand but if you can keep her on antibiotics and get her to eat and drink a bit she might.” Some painkillers for her and some stitches and then we spent another hour getting her back in the trailer and another hour driving back. Pa attended to her for about a week, and gradually the ol’ gal got better. I am sure Pa sold her not long after that and she probably ended up hamburgers. The point is this, that was almost twenty years ago, and I still remember. Doc Baker was at home, he didn’t have to get back out that late at night to do what he did. We didn’t have to pay all the money hauling her and medicating her, and the vet bill notwithstanding; she was just a beef cow right? I remember that baby calf lying in the dirt, flies buzzing around it, it was all wet and it had a pink little nose and big long eyelashes and it was lying in three pieces…dead. I remember it still.

These same assholes that think Partial Birth abortion is fine and dandy are the same people that think clubbing a seal and wearing fur is abhorrent. The only two differences between my story with the calf and a partial birth abortion is the calf was dead and the baby isn’t; and Babies are humans. I am not one of these people who say that all lives are equal. If it was between my hunger and a cow dying, I’ll take my Steak medium well, thanks. But some of the idiots we have in the White House actually believe that there is no difference between one life and another, and they think that abortion is ok, yet hunting wolves that are decimating the caribou herds is akin to the genocide in Darfur… I am intellectually honest in my position. All lives have worth, and yet some lives are going to have to be lost to provide for the circle of life. On the other hand I am saddened by the needless death of something that only a few years later I would have killed myself to provide food for me and mine and remember it plainly twenty years later. We spent far more on the old cow than she was worth, treating her and caring for her; and yet she still ended up as meat. Where is the intellectual honesty of people who say that aborting a child, and some even say up until he has the concept to understand his place in society, is acceptable; and culling predators who are driving other animals to near extinction thus preventing famine of the predators themselves, or the outrage over whales, seals, chickens, etc. used for food and clothing is barbaric? Abortion ok, killing animals for food bad? I love beef but feel remorse for veal. I Like eating goose, but I am not really wild about what it takes to make Fois Gras (and it is gross anyway).

I say all lives have the right to be born and be lived to the best of their ability, we have the responsibility to care for the animals and not treat them cruelly, at the same time we should not Humanize animals to put them on equal terms with our own species. How can we elevate a good dog, a seal, or a beef cow above that of an infant? Some people actually believe that the dog that is trained to get the newspaper’s life is worth more than a newborn baby’s and some of them are in the White House. Not only is that plainly crazy, it is intellectually dishonest. I think if everyone grew up on a farm raising animals they would understand. Instead we have people who think abortion is ok, and KFC is a sin.

-Kook