Don't you love moments of clarity? The lights go on...

I don't want to jinx myself, but I have been starting to feel normal, must be because I am adjusting to OLD, or it just takes a little longer to get better from terminal illness called life. But thank you all for your good thoughts and prayers.

I have been spending way too much time on the computer and watching mindless television, watch enough and you are guaranteed the mindless. I mind less than I ever have in my life. Luckily my wife just thinks my hearing is gone a little farther away. She often forgives me, all my known faults.

I have mentioned before, Facebook, and the game CastleVille, the Government and why things don't work... or I think I have. But as I found myself discovering in the darkness of Gloom a new shadow, and there has been some foreshadowing of the new quest/adventure/efforts of the game designers to suck me into the impossible and their goal of making money from my participations.

They do offer the game free! They allow you cheap exploration to suck you into straying from your mission of cleaning up the other three areas of roots, slime, or rocks -- at the same time you are adventuring to re-float a pirate ship on an exotic island. That is a lot of stuff, and for some crowns (which you can pay real dollars for) you can cut corners and get on to the next big thing.

Well, I decided that time I have, so I opened up the block and found a giant. All I have to do is make his life feel worthy, so a magical birthday party is just the ticket. Which means diversions from the stock piling and creation of the weapons needed to destroy the bad guys and gals and GLOOM. Which are not really EVIL characters, they just love the Dark.

Since I was faintly listening to the news that Mitt Romney is a man that lies and could be a felon... the light came on. The game is the politics of our government. Free to play, lots of quests and adventures and 'feel good' moments and surges of fervor uniting the masses of mindless. EXACTLY. THE. SAME.

The rules of the game have never been read by me, I have read the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, but the little sets of rules in business and work, the piles of regulations designed by the government and game designers are to be ignored, they only slow me down and divert my attention and energy from my objectives. Both the politicians and the game designers don't worry about my goals - they know if I had a life I wouldn't be paying attention to them. Kind of why the general information of not being cruel in your killing in combat, make sure that non-combatants aren't taken out of season -- is ignored in legal terminology, understand not wasting rounds on that that isn't threatening me or my operation. Sadly, the same self-centered thoughts mean I don't cuddle save nor comfort those that don't add to my immediate combat op. That can come after I win the battle and am cleaning up. AFTER.

The politicians in our (?) government, and the game designers will completely not miss my participation in their puzzle places, real or virtual. They are already sure they know and are the experts.... and the government keeps sinking into debt, more regulation and the game keeps having fewer players, fewer playing longer because of frustrating wading in muck and murk. The politicians and game designers believe that they will be in control and successful as they wear out the players patience. Have you had enough yet? They only want your money, participation, and if it all falls apart you can't blame them, because they were trying.

So old, just don't pay attention to the old guy in the...

corner.

Personal opinion, he should get a more deadly pistol, or not. He was the only person willing to attack while waiting for the law to take charge. Nice to know they don't think his actions were racially motivated. Nor has anyone covered this story as "suicide by gray haired concealed carry nuts" or "how to go out with several bangs". Decided lack of Main Stream Media frenzy. Thank him for his service, both perps were wounded and will live to become choir boys or Republicans.

Just a note...

Dreams of returning to fight again in Vietnam, where did that come from? Wet a bit outside, luckily the grass was trimmed neatly by Saturday. Great day in worship and socializing at church, two lively smiling young lasses made me donate to the youth trip to the Grand Canyon, ice cream and big smiles do that to me. Spent a fine quiet evening with my kindle and romantic errant knights and foolish young temptresses... so out of culture. English lady writing it.

In the what if category. Being very tired of lies of politicians and their henchmen, I have mostly stopped paying attention. I have my picture from President Obama, and now from Governor Romney. The governor is in color! and spiffy dressing down in front of weathered building with American Flag, can't see his gun nor his target from the range. Neither of them is looking me in the eyes. If I were voting on pictures, the Governor would have mine. But the stray thought, is maybe the Governor Romney run for office is a feint, that at the Convention everyone will select another candidate and the Democrats will still be asking for the tax returns of the wrong fellow.

Have any of you looked into opening an account in a Swiss Bank? Maybe that is a project whose time has come. It can't be that difficult, could it? Better than packing out to go fight again in Vietnam. Start that week!

A job for a former Secretary of State...

The News having little of importance to cover will consider anything news worthy. A Senator from Florida and a former Secretary of State have both said they are not seeking the Vice Presidential position on Governor Romney's Republican ticket. What is most not worthy of being covered nor speculated upon by the Main Stream Media is that two very qualified people would not seek to be in that position. That is only a Heartbeat away from becoming President. It is the position of President of the Senate and used to break ties in that body (not often but importantly).

I also guess that one of the reasons that the press doesn't cover that, is that the press doesn't think elected offices are of more use to it than the behavior of Actors, singers, and sports heroes in selling ad time. They have exactly the same weight. If boring life were television worthy, there would be more of it on television. No, the media is in selling products, and selling producers and sellers ad time. Rush Limbaugh seemed humbled by being asked to front for the Republicans under Bush the elder against Clinton (the last?) because he knew what he did had nothing to do with making the country stronger, smarter or more humane. What he did was stimulate discussion not covered by Main Stream Media, allowing the conservatives an opportunity to expound and vent and show they weren't stupid. But he did it so he could sell airtime for products that would make him money. Overseas, the Armed Forces finally broadcast an hour of Rush Limbaugh's show, one of three. I would have rather have had straight Blues, or Jazz without words but I wasn't in charge. I -stopped listening at all to Rush Limbaugh when I found him outraged and ignorant of the truth during the invasion of Haiti, or was that a kind of rescue mission? No matter, he had fallen for a poor First Sergeant's complaint about not having enough ammunition for the jump into possible combat. It was not true.

I would rather on several levels have either the Senator Rubio, or the Secretary of State Rice as Presidential candidate than either Governor Romney or President Obama - but like what I wanted to listen to on the radio - I am not in charge. I think both of them would serve if Governor Romney sincerely requested their participation for that ticket. They both are still stirring up the support for the party. I lean just a little bit more towards the former Secretary, she is honest enough to say she is a little pro Choice.  A true politician wouldn't take that position. I, myself, am for a woman's choice (to have sexual relations) - until she gets pregnant, then I think the unborn child should be protected until age eighteen when the mother and the doctor can go into an alley with the now grown child and fight it out to see which one has God on their side. It would only be fair. Abortion is five steps deeper into personal Hell than any woman needs to go. But jeering and cheering and crowds of stupidity all around - drown the cries of Love, and the moans of blessings unwanted. The government doesn't care, for the government has no soul and cares not for anything but itself.

Well, I hope that Governor Romney continues to do a fine search for the perfect Vice President, I voted against Senator Obama because he picked Senator Biden. Which told me more about Obama than all the lauds and lamentations I had heard from his lips and the star struck media. And for a transparent President the seal on his school records says so much. And although the dumb Democrats want to make much of where, Swiss Banks, Governor Romney has some of his riches -- they haven't said he has hidden anything from the tax man. Knowing that people that work for Obama politically may just be very stupid when they say that Romney might be a felon... it could be true, no one in politics or Washington DC has any honor left.

Or, as I told many military men on their way to the Pentagon, all the REAL Soldiers in that area, are all in Arlington, in the Old Guard or buried beneath the soil. All others are politicians, and that is sad.

I don't write well, so I am sorry, but no one should

read this without understanding that if I were really smart, or worth reading I would be making money at it... and I am not.

I think the United States of America, is a fine country, and solid form of government and has much it can be very proud of... but things that were never built into the government have taken all the good things and twisted them into what we have now. There is entirely too much government, too many regulations and too many people go get power to have it and lots of money. Mostly they want the power, the money will come.

In the American People are many very great folks, solid families, hard working, fun loving and looking to a better future - what happens is they are in servitude to the government and its agencies, unless they are keeping their eyes open and working out of the system. Because the government as it is now, thinks nothing of making its people (when did the people start belonging to the government?) more dependent on its goodness. I wouldn't worry about being part of something that owned me, I was in the Army for twenty-seven years. But I thought of it as an exchange, my services in occupations that weren't easy and seemed to be needed. So if the government wants to hire all the civilians and put them to work, go to it. I am sure, every private business will do better than the government at any task. Every state has an Employment Agency - yet, all the people they hire for the State positions (important ones like Director of Education) are normally filled by a civilian headhunting organization. They need to fight a war, so they hire the unwanted and unworthy (NOT!) but then if it isn't an important or critical war, the enlightened elite keep their young people out of it, or in safer places. Which is why I think the elite are only posers, Caesar fought many enemies of Rome, and had a much better idea of war and politics than our current professors or experts in government.

Well, there I go being negative again. Real people outnumber the fools, fanatics and fearsome and fearful. And real Good people are a large part of of Real people. And some of the Good people, and Real people are in government employment - doing the very best job they can. Many in far off combat zones or guard posts, doing work that won't change the world, but will change them, forever. You don't know the cost.

Now, business and corporations, and banks  - are not EVIL. Being rich is not the same as being a Drug addict, a drug dealer or a dope. Although, a person (one of THE PEOPLE) could be all at the same time.
People grow up, grow old, grow bored, grow excited, get smarter, lose it all --- there is no forever after, you have to work very hard to keep the body strong, healthy and HAPPY! and even harder if you want to be Holy! God doesn't proclaim easy, sexy or green in the Gospel.  I will wish you lots of success with your relationship with God, it has to be personal and I can only say 'have one'.

But business is how one exchanges goods and services with other intelligent beings that want the goods and services and has something to exchange agreeable to both parties. Where there seem to be problems is that businesses are encouraged to count money as success. Not fine products, repeat customers, satisfaction of transactions beneficial for the beings in the transactions... false values. Banks make money when they help move it, to produce more business actions between people. They get in trouble by keeping too much money out of circulation, alienating customers, pretending that someone has to help them when they hire the most stupid con-artists as investment managers. I think some banks are really solid, but there are some really big banks that are completely out of touch, and going to fail.

What is going to be very difficult to overcome in the approaching decline and collapse of the United States of America is the lack of Trust. It comes from making too many enemies: of races, of sects, of 'they' or 'them kinds of folks'. That is all tribal, you should read the story of David and Uriah, and look very closely at that ugly fact that Uriah was keeping the Law much better than David. Don't you just hate those people that live to the letter? I don't, if David hadn't cheated then the whole lineage of Christ would have been lost... and I will always know that no matter what the central headquarters says about how to plan a battle or the death of a great warrior - it is all naught with the first contact with the enemy. You should love your enemies, I hold with killing them quickly, or beating them up badly, but they will have to surrender and change - cause I love them and it can't get any better than that... can it? But maybe I don't trust many people until I meet them, and having met them I trust them until they prove otherwise. Now in the case of every organization (government, business, banks, or other groups of grasping better than I folks) I look and see I can't trust them quickly.  As more of The People get smarter and uneasy with the grasping control of our lives and future, the lack of Trust will grow and it will all come tumbling down.

Remember if the government could regulate success - they would issue degrees in expert of anything, make doctors of everyone, and declare good health and happiness! And anyone that says differently must be insane and need to be eliminated or treated for the illness. Oh, that is happening already, issue another medal, the wars are smaller, the costs always in time and dollars, but paid for in flesh, blood and spirit. We don't know the real price, our values are false.

Summertime and the living is easy... or could be...

You haven't noticed but I have been having trouble getting going, my getup was gone... leaving me behind. But for no reason I have located, I was going to move a part to the gunsmith working on my favorite target rifle. I called him after nine, making sure I would be welcome with the part, dressed, shaved and put my teeth in... got on the Trusty Triumph and was off. I had made sure to take my camera (took no pictures) and was armed (anyone on a motorcycle is already dangerous). I had the part and paperwork for it.

I got lost, Kent is the Post Office of the address, but Covington, Washington is where I needed to be. I got refueled and found a map and decided that I could get there, I had a map now. Sure enough, I found a fine twisty road to get farther East then turned down the correct road, and turned into the drive way of his home/shop. He has such a lovely lot of firearms, being worked on. He had another Stevens with the need for an extractor like the one I had purchased, I gave him the number of the supplier that I bought it from so he could get another one (here in Washington State!). One complaint he had, wasn't the amount of work he was going through, it was the amount of guidance from goodness gracious government (most of which sat unopened on a stack out of the way). I did not suggest it was good of the government to supply fire starter (if they made it on real soft and flimsy stuff - he might not need to buy toilet paper). But I know, he has too much work to stop and read more regulations that he might not understand - or won't improve his craftsmanship. He is proudly Italian, now American, I would (if I were the NRA or supporter of more guns for citizens in America) reach out to the gunsmiths in Europe, if they were willing to set up shop here. There is a need. Now, if you are a smart young person, wanting to be in business for yourself - you should look into this fine profession, we aren't giving up our guns, and they do wear out and break. If you are thinking of the hot sexy, and all the fun shooting full auto and piles of cash that one sees on television - go become a lawyer or a banker.

Back on the motorcycle, and down the road to Highway 18, Federal Way, Dash Point Road (lovely twisty turns and views) Tacoma, the Main Library of TPL, and then back home. To find what I had forgotten in my excitement of the leaving. I forgot any key to open the Caravan, or the house... I am so old. But I was at the correct house, and looked it over carefully, searched all my pockets - AGAIN. Still no key, no hurry, so I don't break open the front door, there were two ways in that my wife (the Home Fires Security Matron) hadn't secured. The old Earl rose to the challenge and I was in... I may be absent minded, fat and faint of heart - but I had a dark past almost professionally going to Hell. I don't recommend it, except you seek the light when it gets really dark. Better to live in the Light... still, I could have waited for the Security Matron and slept away the afternoon, or gotten back on the Trusty Triumph and tooled up Mount Rainier - looking so cool and solid in the Sunshine.

Old dog no tricks...

Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the last Presidential election:

~Number of States won by: Obama: 19 McCain: 29
~Square miles of land won by: Obama: 580,000 McCain: 2,427,000
~Population of counties won by: Obama: 127 million McCain: 143 million
~Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Obama: 13.2 McCain: 2.1

Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory McCain won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country. Obama territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in low income tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..."

I don't know that the above is at all true. It just feels so wrong. But I am here to write about why the economy isn't working and I am not working either...

I play some computer games, the only one online I am slugging through is CastleVille now. The game designers have the typical stupidity of the government - and being a citizen of America and a player on CastleVille I discovered that I am almost as stupid as they are.

The government has decided that they must make lots of money, to spend lots of money, so they have a greater measure of success. The game designers decided that they must make lots of money, to spend lots of money so they have a great measure of their success.

Earl doesn't have a job, doesn't want to owe for a new business and is often preparing to leave the mortal realm for the Heavenly one - so I am cutting bills, paying off loans and trying to smile at more people - measuring my success in reflecting goodness gracious and smiles that keep the dark away.

The government increases the pace and pages of regulations, without ceasing. Prayers without ceasing would be more effective, but they don't really believe in God.  The game designers want the players to play faster, offer buy ins (with real dollars) to gain glory and success. They also sell ads and ad space and design their game to cause more clicks, to reduce screen, add ads, and impress ad space buyers. 

I am tired. Suddenly realizing this is why business is slow, business is tired. No one in government is cutting regulations, REALLY CUTTING! No one in government is reducing the intrusion into the daily lives of the citizens! WHY! If I don't know what my taxes will be for the next ten years, why work, why plan, why struggle if the government has become the ugly cancer on my life? 

The game designers have made me tired, too. There are too many things to rid the game of, monster and ugly out number the beautiful, as fewer gamers participate daily the remaining gamers must decide to drop out, prioritize or just lull. Nice thing about the game - it is not a real life. Turn it off and feel just a little guilty for abandoning my fellow gamers. I have done it twice, on two other games, and the games have never ended up on my dream schedule.

So the government and the game designers have beaten business and Earl into a passive watcher. Wanting to play harder, work more, remembering the glory days when HP could start in a garage, Jobs could get with friends and amaze each other, and I was fully employed really defending the America I loved, sure it was mythical but it hadn't gotten bent yet, we are close to broken now.

Slash and burn, clear the trees, gird them and start tilling the soil. IF the game designers or the goodness lost government  want to increase players and participants in the game, economy or life in general. CUT THE REGULATIONS, quit building challenges and barriers to moving into the future. The people and business are ready to grow.

On the whole 9/11 event --- the government was stunned that it was supposed to have stopped this type of attack. And then decided to pretend it could stop it for ever and invented more agencies and departments and obstacles to better relations to the world, the people and the idea of law. IF THE PRESIDENT HAD SAID we were going to be attacked tomorrow and every day there after, we might have had a better solution than the mess we seem to be mired on now.

There are people in the world that hate us for what we are, for what we pretend to be, and for what we will never become. Some of those people are very dangerous and willing to die for their mark on History or death of their fears and enemies. Get over it, build your life on solid values, not fears, base it on Love not lust, envy, and sloth...

The government and game designers will never ever have your best interests in mind.