Why Voting In Our Democracy Doesn’t Matter Anymore

We vote because we believe it changes things, we vote because we have FAITH in the system. We vote because it’s the only control we feel we have. We use voting much like charity work in America. We do it so we feel good about ourselves.

But voting in a Democracy doesn’t matter. It only works for the majority, the minority are left unheard. You only need 51% of the public to agree with you, to have total control. That’s why we were not founded as a democracy, our founding fathers laid the frame work for a constitutional republic. a society of self-government, self-reliability, and self-accountability.

All the talk on the news is we need to vote out every member of congress. The media’s job is to make you think your vote matters.  Why you ask? Because it’s the only way to make the system keep going. As long as people feel they can change our country by voting, the duopoly of Democrat and Republic lead decisions continue. We are presented with two options for the mere sake of making it look like we have choices. It’s a formality really, if they thought the public would go for only one choice trust me they would do it.

That’s why Goldman Sach’s and JP Morgan give money to both Democrats and Republicans. THEY DON”T CARE WHO WINS. As long as you don’t realize they don’t care. That’s why the media marginalized candidates who were anti-war and anti-big government. Ever heard of Mike Gravel? I would hope not, other wise the media hasn’t done a good job.

Gravel was a Democratic candidate for President in 2008. Gravel is firmly against war, I don’t mean he’s anti-war like Obama who said he would bring our troops home, and then continued the wars, explained the wars, hired private contractors to replace soldiers, and then sent more troops to Afghanistan. Not that kind of anti-war. gravel is a point your finger  in the face of the corporations anti-war.

Wonder why you never saw him in a debate? He says he was purposely kept out of the early debates because he’s anti-war, and when he asked why he wasn’t allowed to debate. They told him someone at GE didn’t approve of his views.

See the illusion is you have a choice. You can vote for any of the candidates we have pre-approved.

Diebold who is one of the largest electronic voting machine operators in the US, who was used for the Presidential election, has 5 developers that are convicted felons, including Senior Vice President Jeff Dean, topping the list are his twenty-three counts of felony. Don’t forget the two people convicted of voter fraud in Ohio for the 2004 elections. doesn’t that smell like democracy, placing a vote on a Diebold machine, that doesn’t spit out a voter receipt and doesn’t make the voting record public?

Don’t believe me that it’s a stacked house, can you name an Independent politician? Do you know the name of the only truly independent senator in the house? out of 100 senators there is only one Independent! And no I don’t count Lieberman as Independent in my eyes.

Our country faces a great threat, but it is not a Democratic Problem, it is not a Republican problem, it is a corruption problem. You can vote every member of congress out, every senator, replace every aid in the white house, we can protest against every bill that hurts small town Americans and at best we will create stagnation.

We have made honesty a liability in Washington instead of a virtue. We need to remove the revolving door of corporate influence in private government, we need to remove the lobbyist, we need to remove politically correct speech, we need a public that is more informed about government and liberty then they are about fantasy football stats and fall tv schedules.

We are losing an informed pubic to the self indulged, narcissistic entertainment industry of “ME”. I can hardly have a intelligent political discussion at work or in public with out someone bringing in the “he said/ she said” argument of democrat vs republicans. The republicans always think it’s the democrats fault, the democrats always think it’s the republicans fault. It’s never going to change. You know why, because at the end of the day republicans and democrats are forced to support party lines, they have to put food on the table too.

I think people who believe voting changes things are good intentioned patriots. I also think they are naive not to see the tyranny closing in. voting may work in a republic, it doesn’t not work in our current state of affairs. Protesting may work when government is scared of the people, it does not work when government owns the guns. Is it any wonder that the number one industry in the United States has become the Military industrial complex of war, security, and surveillance. Is it any wonder we are busy spreading DEMOCRACY in the middle east and not a Constitutional Republic?

Our government has become fat, bloated, complacent, and corrupt. We have public officials who don’t pay taxes and get appoint secretary of treasury, we have congressmen charged in money laundry that sit on the board of financial oversight, we have governors of states profiting from political decisions,We have Chris Dodd who is the Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee receiving contributions from Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and JP Morgan! How is that even possible? Not to mention the fact that we can’t ignore the moral failures of our elected officials. It’s become common place to find out a politician is having an affair, of using tax payers money for personal vacations, or over paying for services to companies that profit their friends and families.

Voting is much like choosing the Prom King & Queen. In the end it comes down to who do you think you can live with hearing about and see on every magazine for the next 4 years. Think about this, what would make more change in our government. If 100% of people voted, or if 0% voted? The system only works if we comply.

But what happens when the feds start suing people for garage sales? and swat teaming families that sell eggs? Or get this what happens when  the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service feels like they have to have their very own SWAT team? Did we vote for this? Did we vote for Obama to head the UN Security Council? Did anyone ask you? Did the New York Times even mention it’s a violation of section 9 of the US Constitution?

You may say local politics are more important. Local issues affect your life before national issues do.

In Ohio for example our big issues was “issues 3″ should we build casinos in Ohio, after all it would create 34,000 jobs and we need jobs were in a recession. It would keep a billions dollars in state and we need revenue, after all were in a recession. But there is no talk about the fact that this was the 5th time Ohioans have voted on this issue. See voting doesn’t work …. because if an issues fails, it just comes back next year, and the year after, until they finally get it passed. the best we can hope for is a stalemate, to drag things out.

But the real issue isn’t even talked about. If your economy is so desperate for jobs and money that the only way you can create that is by people gambling, what kind society our you left with? Instead of cutting the budget, deflating government and state payrolls. We encourage people to gamble what little money they have. Why is it that answer is never making tough decisions and cutting programs, it’s always raising taxes, selling bonds, and finding new ways to con money out of tax payers.

I believe we are far past voting for change. We didn’t vote ourselves away from King George. We didn’t protest with clever slogans on poster board for England to leave us alone. When we get to the point of people having nothing left to lose, that’s when we will see real change in our country. When people stop feeling entitled to the profits of tax payers production. When we start creating and producing instead of consuming and plagiarizing. When blogs are filled with original content instead of re-posting mainstream news.

When kids start looking up to Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as role models instead of athletes and rock stars. When people start reading history and living in reality instead of fantasize about hitting the lottery. When kids decide to learn how to play a real guitar instead of playing Rock Band …. that’s when change will come to America.

Atlas Shrugged

I had no idea who Ayn Rand was, never heard of John Galt or Dagny Taggart.

For me “Atlas Shrugged” started as a casual recommendation from a co-worker, and slowly turned into a direct urging. Until I finally just  bought the book and decide to commit to reading all 1100 plus pages. Well worth the seven months it took to read it. It starts as a brilliantly written book, and finishes as an experience.

If you didn’t know any better you would think this book was written this year, not 1957. The plot of the story is right out of the headlines of most U.S. newspaper in the last year. Atlas deals with the decline of the economy and the effects of the railroad industry. You can easily insert any other industry in it’s place. I felt at several times you could easily substitute  in banks. after all while I was reading this book, our government was handing away trillions in taxpayer bailouts to the unproductive, socially irresponsible corporate executives.

It’s impossible for me to summarize a thousand page book in a blog post, so I just want to touch on Galt’s Speech towards the end of the book. The 70 page speech had an incredible impact of me. Full of philosophical ideas, and spiritual references, there were nights where I simply read a paragraph and put the book down, because ideas were unraveling in my brain.

I remember the first time I read the new testament, It was paradigm shifting. Galt’s speech had the same effect. I’ve read the Old Testament, the New Testament, and now Atlas, a  sort of Post Testament for me.

A lot of the ideas in Atlas are things I have felt my whole life but could never put a finger on why I felt that way. Church never addressed these issues for me, religion in general is scared to talk about the ideas of Atlas. For me, it’s not a take one or the other, the bible and Atlas both sit on my book shelf, As the two greatest books ever written.

I like this picture, it humors me.

Perhaps that’s the best summary of all. How do you summarize a thousand pages other then to say, on September 12, 2009 during the Tax protest in Washington D.C., people were moved so much with passion to make signs like these here here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and  here.

We are the music makers

I’ve been digging this lately, after a sunday viewing of the eternal classic “willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory”. With Gene Wilder of course.

We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamer of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.

- ODE
Arthur O’Shaughnessy

Al-Kuffa Tomatoes

This is my Al-Kuffa Tomato plant. I ordered them from Bakers Creek back in the spring.

Al-Kuffa Tomato New!
This little tomato is early, and produces 3-4 ounce fruit on compact, dwarf vines that yielded till frost. We received this mild-tasting Iraqi variety from our friend Aziz Nail, who said, “Delicious one, useful for any purpose, strong bush plant cultivated in the south of Iraq in cool greenhouses for late spring or early summer markets. Also it is [grown] in the middle and north Iraq without greenhouse.”

The plant is about 5′ tall now and has a couple dozen tomatoes on them.

Bakers Creek had the seeds sent to them by an Iraqi farmer who seemed to be worried that the US occupation of Iraqi would endanger native heirloom varieties. There seems to be some concern for that under order 81 of the new Iraqi constitution.

It’s not that heirloom seeds would be made illegal, it’s just giant argo companies like Monsanto would make it more cost effective to use genetically modified seeds. Under the Cover of helping get Iraq back on its feet, the US is setting out to totally re-engineer the country’s traditional farming systems into a US-style corporate agribusiness

How ever you feel about Monsanto and GM seeds is pointless I guess. I simply thought it would a good experience to grow a vegetable that is common to all people, except the fact these happen to be grown on the other side of the world.

This is my first red one.

The New Chevelle Album

Sci-Fi Crimes came out at the end of August, and again it’s another solid album from Chevelle.

The album title was inspired by some off-road adventures with a friend of the band, whom Pete Loeffler described as “this really off-the-wall character, who was driving us around, who believes so whole-heartedly in aliens and UFOs that the subject just really piqued my interest.

If I look at the last ten years and had to pick 5 bands that really move me, Chevelle would without a doubt be in that group. Hard melodic rock is my weak point. I’m an old school fan of heavy guitar and distortion.

Pharmaceutical Whores

Excuse my language but I’m so tired of seeing pharmacies whore themselves out to selling vaccines, via a drive thur mentality.

We have made getting drugs as easy and convenient as possible, and then wonder why prescription drugs deaths are sky rocketing.

I just watched a commercial on my dinner for a Kroger Pharmacy. The Pharmacy manager is actually making a sales pitch to me to come on in and get my flu shot. Nothing could be easier or fastest then getting it at a grocery store!

I expect doctors and pharmacist to educate people on the dangers of any medication. But as soon as Flu season comes around it’s like the Mardi Gras of the pharmacy world. You just walk by and instead of lifting up your shirt, you lift up your sleeve and they will happily inject you.

You can even get a number telling you what time you can get your pharmaceutical cocktail, so as not to interfere with your shopping. After all they need you to spend money too.

It’s sick that most grocery stores over the next ten years see the biggest profit growth in the Pharmacy department. Not grocery, not produce, or bakery, or even prepared food. Selling flu shots, vaccines, and diabetic supplies is a cash cow.

Corporations are once again trading moral Consciousness for profits.

To make it even worse

I have seen picture of what Clorox calls their “Flu Kit”, I can’t seem to find any images online, but I have seen a promo picture that will go in grocery stores. It’s an end cap that displays “Clorox Flu Kit” a nicely wrapped package of Lysol, clorox wipes, rubber gloves, a mask, and hand sanitizer, from what I can make out from the image.

As if these are the things that will keep you safe from the seasonal or swine flu? As if just using Clorox is the key to a healthy life?

How about a package with Vitamin D, or some sambucol, or a bar of soap?

Nope just a package of chemicals that helps build virus resistance to all antibiotics.

Smart Clorox, any for a buck right.

You have to watch those pharmaceutical whores carefully, if you turn your back they’ll inject you with something to make you sick. And then turn and around and sell you a drug to fix it.

Way to make money on the way up and the way down.

Must Read Articles From August 2009

I go through a lot of news articles every month. I archive what i think is important into 71 different categories. But there are those articles that make a lasting impression and having a wider effect then just the day the story was printed.

I put these stories into my MUST READ folder. I wish I had the time or the space here to explain why I believe each of these stories is so important but I don’t. Hopefully something on this list will get you thinking.

The FBI Deputizes Business … an old article from 2008 that I just became aware of.This article talks about InfraGard. 23,000 representatives of private industry who are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security.

Job Growth Lacking in the Private Sector … The admission from main stream media that the American economy has added virtually no jobs in the private sector over a 10-year period. All economic growth has be in the government.

A new superbug found in Britain is major concern: Government scientists … A new superbug that is resistant to all antibiotics has been brought into Britain by patients having surgery abroad. The media is hyping swine fly and we have at least 22 cases in Britain of a superbug.

Swine flu jab link to killer nerve disease: Leaked letter reveals concern of neurologists over 25 deaths in America … A warning that the new swine flu jab is linked to a deadly nerve disease has been sent by the Government to senior neurologists in a confidential letter. Hmm I wonder why this one didn’t get reported in the US.

John Conyers “why would I read health care bill” … This one absolutely floors me. A member of congress say why should be read the bills? because it’s  your job …. and the fact that he needs lawyers to tell him what the bill means proves that congressmen aren’t writing these bills. They’re being written by laywers of the lobbiest and then handed to congress to pass them. That’s enough proof for me right there that you should oppose the health reform bill.

Two executed as China fraud crackdown continues … I love this one. China executed two people for defrauding hundreds of investors out of millions of yuan in beauty parlour, cosmetics and property scams. So Bank CEO’s swindle taxpayers out of trillions of dollars and we give them millions in bonus …. you make a bad business deal and China and your dead!

Judge Orders Fed To Disclose Who Received Bailout Trillions … Bloomberg has sued the FED twice in the last year to get them to disclose where the bailout money went. Now A New York District Judge has ordered the Federal Reserve to disclose the destination of around $2 trillion dollars in bailout funds after the Fed failed to convince the Judge that the records should be exempt from the Freedom of Information Act.

The Man Who Sells America’s I.O.U.’s … The auction of United States Treasury securities, and $32 billion has just been sold in a blink. It was another successful operation for Van Zeck, the commissioner of the public debt, who has the world’s biggest credit card.

Vital Signs and the “Fix” … As we approach the middle of the summer, 2009, it is of utmost importance to be able to slice deftly through the heavy propaganda fog that the government is pumping out through its mouthpiece the media.

Flu shot or get fired … Workers at Capital Region hospitals are going to have to get a flu shot this year or face losing their jobs …. This is a good one to get you thinking, what if this was the policy at your office?

Study Says World’s Stocks Controlled by Select Few … A recent analysis of the 2007 financial markets of 48 countries has revealed that the world’s finances are in the hands of just a few mutual funds, banks, and corporations. This is the first clear picture of the global concentration of financial power.

Common Sense 2009 … This article from Larry Flynt! is amazing. He’s been attacked for years for his free speech as the founder of Hustler. Now he’s hitting back. He writes “The American government — which we once called our government — has been taken over by Wall Street”

Diseased African Monkeys Used to Make Swine Flu Vaccines; Private Military Contractor Holds Key Patents … if your not following Mike Adams articles you should put it on your daily reading list. This guy is hard hitting.

Mini Veggies

This is the result of my gardening. The 2 things that survived the groundhogs this summer. 1 carrot and 1 onion.

At least the kids thought it was cool, abby said she didn’t know I was growing mini veggies!

E11-Blaster

I have an 8 year old boy with a crush on the E11 Blaster!

Never heard of an E11-Blaster, well just check it out on Wookieepedia

Hallertau Plant

A buddy at work just gave me a Hallertau plant.

Hallertau is a noble hop most commonly used for brewing beer. It’s the common hop found in German wheat beer, and might just be my favorite.

The term noble hops traditionally refers to  varieties of hop which are low in bitterness and high in aroma.

The hop plant is a vigorous climbing herbaceous perennial, usually grown up strings like green beans,

It probably won’t produce any hops this year, but man I can’t wait till next spring.