In This Dimension

Force Congress to Live Under the Rule of Law

Think about that title up there for a second. We are a nation of laws. We entrust Congress with writing those laws. Yet they refuse to abide by them and often give themselves specific exemption from the laws they pass to govern us. They seem unable to remember that THEY work for US, and not the other-way-’round.

Americans are CITIZENS, not SUBJECTS. Within reason and the Constitution, we do what we want, not what we are told. Many people of many countries do what they are told. We call these people “Europeans” “Chinese” “Russians” etc. We do NOT call them “Americans”.

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Why Not to Use Audible.com

This is a bit of a rant.

Basically I have become so irritated with Audible.com, an Amazon company providing a good library of audio books, what once was a very good service, that I not only have cancelled my membership, but am informing as many others as I can. Below is what I sent their tech support.

I have been an Audible member for years, and have hundreds of downloaded titles. But your service has become too expensive in my time to continue using. I am a 30-yr tech person who has spent decades in computer usage, programming, etc. I am not[…]

Supercommittee Superfail. No Surprise

So our heroes in Congress have failed again. Big surprise.

Here, therefore, a plan to fix the fiscal problems we face.

Democrats Expanding Military Deployments While Cutting DoD Budget

So… the Dems - having walked-away from a Supercommittee GOP offer of $500B of tax increases over the next ten years (they are demanding a trillion), now seem intent on cutting the Defense budget 10%.

I’m fine with cutting the defense budget - just not without re-ordering their mission (i.e. I am tired of paying for the defense of the entire West while these silly little pretend nations can’t even stand-up a military larger than the NYPD and spend all their tax money on unsustainable welfare benefits - meaning, because defense of citizens and borders is the First responsibility of a[…]

Flame ON.. Obama was correct we ARE “too soft”

Yep, you never thought you’d see the day, right?

But - here’s the deal: Holder?

50 years ago when we still had adults running this nation, if MY son had been killed by a gun that had been watched BY MY OWN GOVERNMENT as it was illegally bought and taken to Mexico - not interdicted, WATCHED - then Holder wouldn’t be on a stand lying to Congress. Nor would his boss. And our society would be OK with that.

And - here’s the deal: Paterno?

50 years ago when we still had adults running this nations, if MY 10-yr-old son had been raped by[…]

When Obama said “One-term proposition” did he mean it?

A friend recently asked, “When Obama said that if he hadn’t fixed things in 3 years he would be a one termer…do you think he believed that what he was doing was going to fix things?”

I think it was just hype to play to the Center voters.

Look at his past. He is absolutely incapable of making a decision. Did you see the House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy on Greta this week? He said Obama’s main trait is to say that he’ll think about something or form some committee or get back to you on this - and then NOTHING ever[…]

Barone on not Trusting ‘Experts’

Michael Barone has an interesting column today, the net of which is that today’s populism is fueled by a growing distrust of experts. I am not at all sure I agree with this thesis.

Rather than putting a low value in expertise, which assumes incorrectly that those in office now are expert - and they demonstrably are not (they are just the most-expert in a self-validating cohort of inexpert ideologues) - I think America finds itself at the point in which the best and the brightest - who most certainly are NOT in office of any kind - have decided that[…]

Democrats are Stopping Obama’s anti-Jobs Bill, Not Republicans

A Haunting Performance

Take a moment, if you will, to listen to this. It’s a young woman - 13 years old - playing a trumpet solo before a packed audience. The piece is - what’s a good adjective? Grand? Wonderful? Haunting? Beautiful?

Listening to it, taking the time to relax for five minutes and just listen, one thinks of the true glory of our culture and civilization. Nowhere else outside Europe has this - could this have - happened. We treasure music, what it says, what it communicates, how it sounds. It is both an entertainment and a cultural voice of what we have,[…]

The 2012 GOP Field

FWIW, here’s my summary take on the GOP field as it stands, on the nomination, and the ramifications of the next election, should I be correct.

Romney: Say anything to get nominated and then run-away from Conservatism to get elected; we never win with moderates: Ford, GHW Bush on his own (not as Regan-II), Dole, McCain. If the GOP can’t get past the Rockefeller wing, then we’ll keep losing - and should.

Perry: Can’t debate. Arguably shot himself in the foot with the big prayer meeting, shot himself in the thigh with immigration (with the Base, though I agree with him), shot[…]