Observations about trust and major disappointments

Observations about trust - a short one

I have a very simple rule regarding trust for friends and family. I trust them recognizing that they, like myself, can be mistaken or fooled. It's a whole lot easier to trust those I know than to bother with doubts. I have been stung a very few times, but as I have always said, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." It simply makes sense and I don't believe I’ve ever been fooled twice.

As far as those who are not family or friends:

I believe nothing I hear on TV, radio, movies or the Internet that does not make logical sense to me or I cannot personally prove, especially if it doesn't pass a scientific test. That's the basics, math, physics, and chemistry.

I believe nothing I hear from the so called, "unbiased" main stream media that I don't personally know to be true from other sources. Their biggest lie is not reporting or minimizing news that does not promote their leftist agenda.

I believe nothing any politician says, ever. Even things that make sense to my logical mind. I always think there must be something I'm missing, usually about who is the real beneficiary and where the money is going.

Major Disappointments:

I am particularly distressed when I hear these man-on-the-street questions that stump so many Americans, particularly about our government. These interviews usually conducted by late night TV or talk radio make me wonder if those people being interviewed ever attended any school or read anything but advertising copy in their entire life.

Then there are the political fiascos like the senate race in Minnesota. How anyone could vote for that idiotic failed comedian and caricature of a human, Al Franken, for the US Senate is beyond my comprehension. Then watching the blatant vote fraud conducted by Democrats who used the recount process to "find" more than a thousand "misplaced" ballots, all for Franken, even finding more ballots for two precincts than there were voters in those precincts. Of course, as soon as they produced enough votes to push Franken over Stevens, the Democrat secretary of state certified the election and pronounced Franken the winner.

For my money the Democrat party is totally corrupt, buying and manufacturing votes with total impunity, right out of the Cook County IL Democrat machine play book. Meanwhile their coconspirators in the "unbiased" main stream media completely ignore these blatant unethical if not illegal activities and fawn over Obama and his wife. Our new President obviously was and probably still is involved up to his eyeballs in Cook County Democrat machine crooked politics. Of course the MSM (Main Stream Media) will never even breathe any of this so it has to be found from other more reliable sources.

I hate to admit it, but many Republicans are as crooked and self serving as their Democrat counterparts. Unfortunately they are amateurs at vote stealing and don't have the adoration of the MSM so they are quite unpopular.

I am amazed at how the American people seem to accept all this criminal activity as normal and acceptable. I guess the new Americans believe that the way to get what you want is to lie, cheat and steal. It’s all right as long as you don’t get caught or are a Democrat politician and get a pass. Perhaps that is the new American ethic replacing the old hard work ethic of previous generations of Americans and new immigrants. Never in our history have so many politicians become so wealthy so fast as Democrats like the Clintons, Reid, Pelosi, Raines, Obama, and others. I wonder where all that sudden new wealth came from—I mean really came from, not the conveniently opportune immediate source. The real sources are doubtless hidden by several untraceable steps. No wonder there are so many felons and criminally indicted in the halls of our nation’s federal buildings. It seems like criminal accusations and indictments are almost a testimonial for so many Democrats. There are so many it would be foolish fo me to list them here. They run continuously from Bobby Baker (remember, he took a fall for Lyndon Johnson) to Jessie Jackson’s protégée, Mel Reynolds (sent to prison for bank fraud and having sex with a minor) to William Jefferson from Louisiana (unexplained $100,000 found in his freezer - is he still in Congress?). How about Barney Frank having a male prostitution ring run from his home? (He says he knew nothing about it, snicker, snicker.) Any Republican or Conservative in these circumstances would have been hung, drawn, quartered, and boiled in oil by the main stream media.

To refresh you memories check out these websites:

Bobby Baker - . . . http://http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=4332

Mel Reynolds - . . . http://http://baic.house.gov/member-profiles/profile.html?intID=57

William Jefferson - . . . http:///theoryequalsdogma.blogspot.com/2008/12/congressman-money-in-freezer-william.html

Barney Frank - . . . http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,958598,00.html

Some interesting quotes:

* "[Karl] Marx never did a day of work in his life, and never took the trouble to find out how a worker really feels when on the job. He naturally assumed that workers were a lesser breed of intellectuals."
--Eric Hoffer

* "Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena."
--Saint Albertus Magnus

* "More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones."
--St. Teresa of Avila

* "Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead."
--G. K. Chesterton.

* "You shall not go about spreading slander among your kinsmen; nor shall you stand by idly when your neighbor's life is at stake. I am the LORD."
--Leviticus Chapter 19:16 NAB.

* "Every former protester I know passionately defends the actions of the 1960s and early '70s as "exercising our First-Amendment right to criticize government policies." None seems to have read the First Amendment to the end where it speaks about "peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government." More importantly, even in their advanced years, many seem incapable to confront the reality of having served the interest of America's enemies."
--Balint Vazsonyi.

* "The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax."
--Eric Hoffer.

* "Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility"
--George Orwell.

* "Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?"
--T. S. Eliot.

* "There’s no such thing as life without bloodshed. I think the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom."
--Cormac McCarthy.

* "If there were no God, there would be no atheists."
--G. K. Chesterton

* "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other."
--John Adams

* "In children we have an innocent audience not yet hardened and brutalized and made cynical. They look to us trustingly for information and enchantment. How very few of us are worthy of such trust.”
--Sterling North

* "A trained flea can be taught to do most the things a congressman does.
--Mark Twain

* "Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth."
--Eric Hoffer

* "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
--Philip K. Dick

* "With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination."
--Oriana Fallaci

* "Hollywood has unfortunately become a memory. It's nothing but a sign on the side of a hill."
--Mickey Rooney

* "The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it."
--George Orwell

* "The desire to transcend the human condition is an invitation to tyranny."
--Gertrude Himmelfarb

* "When only cops have guns, it's called a 'police state.'"
--Robert Heinlein

* "Without violence nothing is ever accomplished in history."
--Karl Marx

* “The United States will be a socialist dictatorship by 2030.”
-- Howard Johnson