There're Baaaaaack

There’re Baaaaaack



Breaking News…..From the AP…Date 27 November 2009…………………………….
SAN LUIS, Colo. — A creepy string of calf mutilations in southern Colorado has a rancher and sheriff's officials mystified. Four calves were found dead in a pasture just north of the New Mexico state line in recent weeks. The dead calves had their skins peeled back and organs cleared from the rib cage. One calf had its tongue removed. But rancher Manuel Sanchez has found no signs of human attackers, such as footprints or ATV tracks. And there are no signs of an animal attack by a coyote or mountain lion. Usually predators leave pools of blood or drag marks from carrying away the livestock. Two officers from the Costilla County Sheriff's Office have investigated the mutilations but say they don't know what's killing the calves. "There's nothing really to go by," said Sanchez, who's ranched for nearly 50 years. "I can't figure it out." A spokesman for the sheriff's office told The Pueblo Chieftain that investigators doubt a person butchered the calves because there is no blood at the scene. "I've butchered a cow before and I know what kind of a mess it leaves," Sgt. James Chavez said. Some in the area believe the mutilations are the work of aliens. An area UFO chaser, Chuck Zukowski of Colorado Springs, has been to the Costilla County pasture to investigate. He told the paper there have been other unexplained calf mutilations in the area, including three in March. One of the other calves, found dead on a ranch near Trinidad, had its ears removed, Zukowski said. Sanchez said he has sold off his 32 remaining calves out of fear more would be mutilated. He hasn't decided how he'll manage the remaining 40 animals in his herd. "It's a big loss for a small rancher," he said.

Well, there you have it. Holy Cow, where is Mulder and Scully when you need them? Well Mulder (David Duchovny) is now a stud-bucket that has beautiful women falling all over him in Showtime’s Californication and Scully (Gillian Anderson) has just finished her latest movie, Boogie Woogie. Not likely that they could rev-up the old X-files and find out what’s really going on in San Luis Colorado. That being the case, you are left with Banginthedrum’s intrepid investigator, and all-around inquisitive fellow, uh, that would be me, to get to the bottom of this messy business. Good luck with that. Nevertheless, this latest event of Animal Mutilations and the possibility of, Oh no Mr. bill, Aliens fricasseeing helpless pasture animals and taking only the choice organs is a disturbing event. It also begs the question, “Why are the Cosmos ruffians coming all the way to Earth just to carve up some US Grade Choice Black Angus on the hoof?” Perhaps they can’t get a good prime cut on their home planet, “Gillydad Prime”, and so they have to motor light-years just to get to the way-out-of-the-way Earth in order to finally get some decent fixin’s for a really good meal. Of course, perhaps they (the Aliens) are not Cosmos Carnivores looking for a special evening-out meal but they came to the third rock from the Sun because they are Scientists engaged in research about how life on this planet is progressing. Well, if that would be the case, why are they checking out dumb animals, why don’t they go to the top of the heap and carve up Humans to really find our how we are doing, evolution wise, that is? If that is what the Aliens are doing, I would suggest they fly into Washington D.C. in order to pick off some really smart and advanced Humans, because that’s where all the really smart Humans live nowadays, and believe me, we Earth people wouldn’t miss them all that much. But I digress. There is a serious side to this, and I want to address it with you. By now you have read my many pieces railing against Science, and about how Science has become Politicized, and in general, how the Scientists have developed an arrogant attitude towards us dumb-butt ordinary citizens. Let me give you a case in point.


Do you recognize the above diagram? The above diagram is a plaque that was attached to Pioneer 10 &11. Pioneer 10 & 11 are Satellites that are now on their way to parts unknown in the Cosmos. The plaques were put on the Satellites in the event that extraterrestrial life might find them at some point in time and somewhere in the Cosmos. The plaques contain basic information about who we are, where we live, and other basic information. The plaques are an attempt to communicate with unknown life in the event life exists out there and comes in contact with our voyaging craft. When I learned that scientists had placed these plaques on our Satellites, and then shot them into the Cosmos, I was outraged. Think about it. If life here on Earth is just one of many that occupy the Universe, then, more likely than not, all of the other life developed under the same Universal rules as we did, and with the same resulting characterizes and traits as us Earthlings. In case you missed it, while watching the Colts beat the crap out of everyone, its dog eat dog here on good old terra firma. I, and neither did you, make it that way, it’s the way it is. Life consumes (eats) life in order to conserve that planet’s resources and this is the only way that life can survive to advance. It is the height of arrogance that Scientists would make a decision on their own that could have devastating consequences for all life on Earth by assuming that advanced extraterrestrial life would always be benign. What I am saying here is that we don’t know if other life is out there, only that if other life exists, chances are excellent that they developed just like us and we might represent some mighty tasty food that could ensure their survival. After all, the advanced life could rationalize we Humans are not all that advanced, and so they would have no ethical problems associated with using us as food or as beasts of burden. This is not meant to humorous. We have no ethical problems eating cattle or using horses as beast of burden because they are an inferior life that is not really all that advanced and we eat to them and use them in order to survive and advance. An extraterrestrial life, much more advanced than us, would not have an ethical problem having us for lunch either, i.e., big fish eat little fish, or using us as smart beasts to do their bidding. I am outraged that arrogant and sophomoric Scientists could put all life on Earth in such jeopardy without having knowledge of what is really out there in the cosmos, life wise that is. Get the serious picture?

Thanksgiving 2009

Here's hoping that this day allows you to be with family and friends. The sun is still shining upon us and little girls with bouncing curls gives us hugs without a care in the world. Little boys run and shout and ask that you watch their latest achievement. There is much to be thankful for.

The 17th Amendment Legacy

The 17th Amendment Legacy


By now most of us have watched and listened to our popularly elected Senators as they rose up in the well of our corrupt neo-Roman Senate and huffed and puffed, pontificated, equivocated (weaseled), and positioned themselves in the earnest hope of being able to be on both sides of the current manufactured health care issue. Now that they have sanctimoniously voted to allow “debate” on the 2,000-page law, the real bribing/blackmailing can begin in earnest. If you thought the $300,000,000 bribe to Senator Landrieu to vote for debate was outrageous, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. What’s that you say? Isn’t bribery a crime? Well, bribery is a crime for dumb-butt citizens like you and me, but not for the self-anointed Potentates that occupy the 17th Amendment United States Senate. I suggest you go back and read my piece on the 17th Amendment (The 17th Amendment and the Rise of Special Interest) to gain a small understanding of how this monumental mistake has given rise to our corrupt and dysfunctional United States Senate. We all know the Senate is corrupt and I say it is also dysfunctional because the Senators no longer represent their respective state’s interest as was originally intended in the Constitution. Because each Senator is now popularly elected, special interests have gained power over State interests by virtue of funding the popular election and continuous reelection of Senators, thereby enshrining incumbency and ensuring that when you become bribed, you stay bribed. The Senators in reality represent special interests rather than their respective states and the indigenous citizen electorate therein and by so doing have become dysfunctional Potentates bent on gaining and maintaining personal power. The arcane and nutty rules of the Senate serve to perpetuate each Senator’s personal fiefdom, and as a result, the US Senate is a dysfunctional bunch of 100 individuals putting personal power first, special interests second, political party third while leaving the Country’s business relegated to pompous rhetoric and little else. This is hardly what our forefathers constructed as part of our carefully balanced democratic Republic and if one reads the Federalist Papers you will quickly determine that what has happened to our United States Senate is exactly what our framers feared would happen when special interest were given an avenue to corrupt by direct election of long serving Senators. In other words, the dysfunctional Senate is no longer the restraint on the public’s emotions it was intended to be and thereby has given the Administrative branch of government extensive power it was never intended to have. Don’t believe me? The current Administration has appointed over 30 Czars that has enormous power and discretion over all aspects of citizen’s lives and wherewithal and the US Senate wasn’t even consulted or asked to confirm the appointments. In fact, the Senate never even protested all that much because these Czars really don’t impact a Senators ability to remain in power. These appointed Czars are just another aspect of a Federal Government that is becoming more centralized and more powerful with each passing day, just like our founding father’s said would happen if we didn’t maintain our Constitution. Ratifying the 17th Amendment is just one of the more egregious failures of Constitutional maintenance that has lead to a continuing erosion of personal freedom by enabling an every increasing powerful and centralized Federal Government. Fellow citizens, this is really serious stuff, unless, of course, you don’t really care about representative Government, personal freedom, and things like that. You know, things that our Constitution was suppose to protect. Still unconvinced? Lets look at the manufactured health care issue. I say it is a manufactured issue because the premise of Health Care Reform is that the United States health care system is broken. That premise is patently a lie. The United States health care system is the best in the world and the only problem is that it costs far too much. Why does it cost so much? The most basic reason is that healthcare in the US is the best in the world and the best always costs more. Beyond that basic reason, however, is that the healthcare industry has became just that, i.e., they have become an profit making industry that has no constraints whatsoever as they build every bigger and ever more glamorous hospitals, buy physician’s practices by the carload, and then pass the costs on to insurance companies that they invest in and to the Government that aid and abets the whole process. When was the last time you visited a modern hospital? Most new ones have opulence entryways that rival Las Vegas, services that have nothing to do with healthcare and on and on. And you wondered why they charged $20.00 for an aspirin tablet. Then, of course, there is the matter of lawsuits that puts an unfathomable expense burden on the system that we all must pay for one way or another. What has this got to do with the Senate being corrupt and dysfunctional? I think if you have the stomach to read the 2,000 page healthcare law you will find nothing in there that addresses the cost associated with healthcare. So, you ask, if they are not addressing out-of-control healthcare costs, what is the Government Healthcare all about? Really! I’ll leave that for you to decide. Oh, by the way. I have included a link that lists all of the areas of spending that the $787 Billion Stimulus law encompasses. If you really care and dig deep enough, you will find new agencies and entities created to support Government Healthcare, Cap & Trade, Immigration Reform, among many other things that have absolutely nothing to do with Economy stimulus. This was done well before Healthcare, Cap & Trade, Immigration, etc., even made it to the floor of the Senate or House of Representatives. The United States Senate passed this so-called Stimulus law without even reading it and you wonder why I call the United States Senate dysfunctional.

www.propublica.org/special/the-stimulus-plan-a-detailed-list-of-spending

Antecessor Communique

Antecessor Communiqué

This is a letter to my yet to be born great great grandchildren. I can only hope this letter to my future progeny will survive the uncertain temporal journey because I know the Grim Reaper, riding his faithful steed Time, will surely gallop my way to do his duty and make my personal delivery of this message impossible long before my great great descendents become of age. I want to make this temporal connection in order to relay certain facts about the journey from me to you, and perhaps in so doing, shine some light upon how you got to where you are in your future world. Most of the facts to be shared with my yet to be born great great grandchildren are not facts you will find talking heads blathering about in the media as they regurgitate what savants and opinion makers say is important. I’m talking about really important things to share, like my Father resisting my calls for him to spend his carefully saved money in his last days in order to enjoy his final moments in the sun as much as money could make it possible. Why would my Father not spend his money? He would not spend his money because of his experiences gained during the Great Depression. My Father had to put newspaper inside his shoes to buttress the holes in the soles and wear his shop apron backwards because there was not enough money to by new shoes when they wore out or work pants when they developed holes in the rear. People bought potatoes in 100lb bags and ate potatoes at every meal. Indeed, the old Depression era saying, to wit, I complained I had no shoes to wear until I saw a man with no feet, was not a clever sound bite. The saying reflected the reality of daily life during the Great Depression. If one armed themselves with the knowledge of my Father’s experiences during the Great Depression, then it was very understandable why he would refuse to spend any money that was not absolutely necessary to sustain life. To say my Father did not understand the modern welfare mentality is an understatement of historical proportions and his mindset about life, shaped by his experiences, was little changed by current modern events. Even though I was reared in very humble circumstances, I did not experience the Depression as my Father did, and as a result, I do not share my Father’s inability to open the purse for things unrelated to survival. Time marches on. Mind you now, I am in no way a spendthrift. I have availed my family and myself some of those things that make life more comfortable, but I only do it if it can be done without debt. This old fashioned frugal inclination has made me a part of a declining minority in today’s (2009) society. This, and other old fashioned principles that still afflict me and others of my age, like, self-reliance, patriotic duty, nuclear families, and divine imperatives are rapidly being replaced in our society by beliefs of entitlement, hedonism, collective families and secular imperatives. If one looks at these ongoing changes in individual and social behavior with a comprehensive perspective in mind you will quickly realize that the world’s peoples are become more and more “urbanized” and this leads, by necessity, to people becoming less independent and more and more social as urbanization continues to increase. This “urbanization” of the world’s peoples is the root cause for the changes listed above just like the Great Depression was the root cause for my Father’s behavior concerning money. This process of wide-scale social integration is further being aided and abetted by the continuing advances in technology that has provided cell phones and Internet access that has in turn enabled affordable worldwide personal communications for the masses. You should never underestimate the power of communications as an agent of change in human relations. I can only imagine how personal communications will advance in your future world and the social changes that such “advancements” will portend. Equally important during the increase in urbanization is the shift from individual nuclear families towards a collective “one world family”. This change in ethnic attitude can be traced to the progressive movement that started in earnest over one hundred years ago and was initially an effort to “Humanize” the Industrial Revolution and end war. The progressive movement has now morphed from its beginnings of promoting social justice into more of a social control system of enforcing social equality and wealth redistribution. The evolved progressive philosophy is now social fait accompli, in that, within all educational systems, the progressive notion is now exclusively taught and is rapidly becoming the universally accepted gospel of social enlightenment and behavior. This fundamental social change is at odds with the US Constitution that codified personal responsibility and individual freedom and is causing much strife within the legal and political communities. Indeed, the reality of an evolving “collective” society, that we are now experiencing, de-emphasizes personal freedom and individual liberty, and instead, emphasizes collective responsibility and behavior along with enforceable individual restraint. Just like my Father’s behavior was shaped by the Great Depression, my behavior is now being shaped by the great social change taking place and will go a long way in explaining how you got into the circumstances that you now find yourself in. In all honesty, I don’t know if the path we are on represents advancement for humankind, or something else. I suspect it represents “something else” because it all sounds like the eternal quest for a Utopian Society that has never been obtainable, through many have tried. Indeed, history teaches us that most quests for a Utopian Society have been the vehicle for tyrannical rule rather the collective enhancement of individual Human dignity. Well, regardless of the situation you find yourself in, I hope you will look kindly upon me and my fellow compatriots because we were just ordinary people trying to cope with issues that were much larger than our individual lives. I know that sounds like a copout, and it probably is, but no one really wants to trade a comfortable life nowadays for abstract ideas regardless how noble they may be.

Your Loving Great Great Grandpa