Stupidity Breeds...More Stupidity. Imagine That.

Okay, here we go!

First of all, for those of you who don't know, I'm an engineering major. This means that I take lots of math and science classes and am generally able to avoid the liberal indoctrination of college campuses (which in turn makes me less likely to say something that will get me kicked out of class). On the other hand though, it means that when my professors do make political comments it just makes me that much more irritated because Differential Equations and Chemical Process Analysis are hard enough without me getting riled up about politics.

So when I went to Chemical Process Analysis last week and, about half-way through class, my professor said something that reminded him of Sarah Palin which then obviously meant he had to rant about how "public servants used to be the best and the brightest" and are now more like "the dumb and the dumber", needless to say I was irritated.

It's not really the fact that he was saying that Palin had "never read a book in her life", he actually said both parties were full of idiots, it's just that (a) I'm paying mega-bucks to learn and therefore don't appreciate unrelated topics and (b) it's our own dang fault if the politicians are stupid.

I know I've used it before but I love this quote:
"Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption."
[James Garfield, "A Century of Congress" published in Atlantic, July 1877].

If the people in office are idiots, then it's because we voted idiots into office. Such is life. At some point, whether in this life or the next one, everyone has to accept that he or she alone is responsible for his or her actions.

The other thing I've been thinking about lately is the Occupy movement. In short, they're idiots (word of the day? I think yes). I'm in a list making mood so I suppose I'll make you a list. I'll even give it a fancy heading.

Reasons Why the Occupiers Are Idiots (And Probably Can't Tie Their Own Shoes Either):

1. They don't have a purpose. At all. 

These people seem to think that there is nothing more to changing the world then standing around like a bunch of smelly hippies with their signs and their yelling and their outrage. This will do exactly what it's doing right now: whip the leftist media juggernaut into a frenzy of praise and irritate the rest of us while doing exactly nothing.

2. Unorganized (oh, my mistake, I meant leaderless)

So as I've been watching this debacle unfold I've also secretly been collecting some of my favorite quotes. This one in particular just makes me die a little inside: "We are a community group, we do not have leaders, we are a leaderless movement...". This comes from an article about the alleged rape at Occupy Cleveland Ohio and while that in and of itself is a problem, I'd rather focus on the whole "leaderless" thing.

The first thing I thought of when I found out about this whole "leaderless movement" shenanigans is communism. It's so very like it...one big happy family with no leaders to screw things up. It's these people with their lovely, idyllic, Utopian "horizontal democracy" (I would link this to something but it's so pointless--just google it there are tons of results). Everyone's equal. But we've learned that lesson so many times. "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others" [George Orwell, Animal Farm].

3. No understanding of what they claim to protest

The movement doesn't seem to have any sort of purpose (I'm going to hazard a guess and say it has something to do with the fact that they have no leaders...oh, and the fact that they don't do anything). I think my favorite illustration of this point is this video from Exposing Leftists (it's a bit explicit but I think that just helps prove my points):

4. There are no solutions

Honestly, this is all just a big chain of problems. If you have no leaders and no organization, if your participants have no real idea as to what they're protesting, if all your movement is is a bunch of outraged protesters, then of course you're not going to have any solutions. I have yet to see a single solution to any problem. Sure there's plenty of complaining, plenty of finger-pointing, and plenty of blaming [insert your latest displeasure here], but there aren't any plans. It's as if they believe that just because they make a fuss the universe will change its entire course to please them and--newsflash!--it won't. 

5. These people are the dregs of society 

There is something wrong with these people. Of that, I am certain. In my own lovely (sarcasm) school newspaper, they had an article about our very own Occupy MHK and the article, entitled "Manhattan Residents Join Nation In Protest", is mostly a bunch of sob stories about former students who can't pay off their student loans. And what did they get their degrees in? Social sciences, anthropology, women's studies, human services...you get the picture. Now I understand the importance of doing something you're good at and that you love, but if you major in something for which there is no job market, then you have no excuse when you can't get a job and can't pay off your loans. The banks didn't force you to take a loan, you chose to take it and, therefore, have no room to whine about it. 

I could detail the rest of the sordid story but it's easy enough to google--alleged rapes, drugs, theft, the list goes on and on and it's only going to get bigger. 

So now that I've made this freakishly long, let's bring it all together. We live in America. We have means given to us to run our own government. If we stopped voting in all these corrupt leaders then we wouldn't have corrupt leaders (I know, mind-boggling). If we stopped being so lazy and putting so many restrictions on businesses maybe the economy would get the chance to recover. If our government stopped spending so much money on (unconstitutional) social programs, we'd be taxed less. Someone needs to tell these whiners to get off their rumps and do something. I understand that even with the degree I'm at school to get, there's a chance that I won't have a job when I graduate, but I'm going to do whatever I can and I'm going to buck up and deal with it and I'm going to solve my own problems instead of standing on the streets like a bunch of sixties protest throwbacks. 

So that's my two cents on the matter. It's probably not the best article you'll read and if it is (and probably even if it isn't) then you're missing out on some great things so here...a present just for you!

This is by a friend of mine. He's a much better writer than I am and he's more informed as well. This article is frankly amazing to the nth degree! http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/10/marching_for_shackles_and_chains.html

And then there's Ann Coulter who I'm a big fan of because she's sarcastic and doesn't care what she says. She's written three articles on OWS so far.
http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2011-10-05.html
http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2011-10-12.html
http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2011-10-19.html

And then this is just an interesting article that a friend of mine posted...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204479504576637082965745362.html

Have a fantastic evening!

"Let Me Make You A Sandwich!"

I've often contemplated how people can fall for such obvious schemes of evil. But then I realized that in all honesty they're probably not that obvious. Because the best way for evil to work is not to make something 180 out from what's correct, but instead to make it more like 7 or 8 degrees off from what's right.

It's like flying. Anyone can tell when a plane is flying the complete opposite direction from it's destination. But, if a plane is just off a few degrees it doesn't seem so bad. However, if a plane is off course by just a few degrees it will end up hundreds of miles off course by the end of its journey.

So, as we can see, wrong doesn't really have to seem wrong to be wrong.

And I think a prime example of this is Michelle Obama's food campaign that goes by the official name of "Let's Move!" (which in my mind always sounds like a command from a drill sergeant rather than a cheerful encouragement for healthiness).

Being healthy is not a bad thing. I don't have any problem with being healthy. I mean, heck, I actually eat vegetables and fruit as snacks. And although I could definitely use more exercise, I'm no couch potato.

So with that being established, we'll go take a stroll through the Let's Move website (actually I'll take a stroll and tell you all about it because I wouldn't want to subject you to that unnecessarily...of course if you don't take my word on it then go ahead and take that walk).

The site looks all cheery...kind of like an elementary school room. It's well laid-out (which is surprising considering it's a government website) and right across the top it has five things that I would like to call suggestions but are actually orders (remember? question, statement, exclamation, command--those are the only types of sentences).

And right there under "Learn the Facts" is a nice little quote by none other than Michelle Obama herself which says, "The physical and emotional health of an entire generation and the economic health and security of our nation is at stake".

What Michelle Obama has realized is that she can hide most anything she wants behind good intentions.

And it's just inevitable that someone will think, "But whatever could she be hiding?"

And the answer is really very simple--socialism.

It's kind of funny that everyone seems to think that seeing socialism behind someone's actions is this big hoax or that it's the same old excuse because you don't have anything else to say or that it's just stupid when, in fact, sometimes it's just the truth.

Let's look at it--what is socialism?

Merriam-Webster dictionary defines socialism as, "Any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods".

And what this glorious new food revolution is beckoning into our country is just one more attempt to spread socialism. By supporting it we are advocating that what we eat should be regulated and controlled.

Did you know that there are schools across the nation that now send lists home telling parents what they can and cannot send in their child's sack lunch? Excuse me? It's not enough that the schools are removing soda, candy, ice cream, chips, and anything else that might be considered unhealthy from the school lunches and vending machines and telling children what they must pick up in the lunch line, now some feel that it is their right to tell us what we can pack to bring from home or to tell us that we cannot even bring our own food.

They can tout their banner of "protecting" people from their own bad decisions or reducing obesity or whatever else they want to hide behind, but in the end it's just an excuse to expand the ever-expanding government reach into our homes and our lives. And it's wrong.

Of course people praise this plan as a step forward. Of course the plan has good attributes. Every bad plan has good attributes or no one would follow it. But in the end, it is up to each of us to make our own decisions and deal with the consequences of those decisions.

If I want to eat ice cream and potato chips every meal for the rest of my (very short) life, then that is entirely my business and the government, to use a colloquial I'm rather fond of, can shove it.

When the government has the ability to reach into the very bowels, the kitchens, of our homes then our government is obviously too big. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. Because if they government can tell us what to eat, then they can tell us what to wear and what to believe and who to vote for and who to worship and then Big Brother will "watch over" everything.

But at least we won't be fat.