Contemplative Order of the Drunken Masters

The housing market was in a slump until recently when the biggest mortgage financiers reported recorded losses and the market when from a slump to a flaming shit spiral. Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae; yes that is the name of the two largest governmentally backed mortgage companies, are actually worth negative money.  That means that if you sold everything they own off and fired everyone you’d still owe their creditors 5.8 billion dollars.

This along with the energy fucking nightmare ( crisis not being sufficient) suggests that the US is facing not just troubled times but a depression so massive that the the Great One we had 80 years ago will seem reasonable.

Greed and corruption plus short sighted good intentions and incompetent fumble fingered leadership is going to jettison our grand country into 3rd world status ripe for take over. Buy guns, ammo, and food folks.  We are in for a heck of a ride. Especially if a majority of Americans don’t have skills that are independent on technology.

I’m glad I know how to raise and butcher animals.  I need to learn some basic farming.

This would be the entropy side of being a discordian.  The part that involves laughing as the system breaks down. Giggling as the law and order freaks watch the tatters of their civilization shred themselves because of mismanagement and abuse. Playing while everyone who can’t change and adapt cries “why me” and doesn’t do anything. Smiling a mirthless self-satisfied smile as balance reassert itself.  We are coming to a time when we have to change, adapt and overcome our ignorances and pride.

Hail Eris!

So how do you vote when to don’t like any of the candidates? Do you vote for the one that is closest to your views when you know that they are going to do a lot of things that you are going to disagree with? Do you write in your candidate knowing that they have no chance of winning? I can’t feel good about blindly voting for the party I’m attached to and voting for who I think will win just to be part of the winning team is … something bad. Do I have the right to bitch if I did the research, took part of the process, got defeated, and decided not to vote

Screw it.  I’m going to concentrate on them all leaving office as fast as possible by whatever means that is most readily accomplishable.

If more than 60% of the people don’t even bother to vote then there is no mandate from the people. How much must happen before the apathetic majority stand up and what will happen if they do?

Where did my country go?

A Congressional committee has asked federal law enforcement authorities to investigate whether Roger Clemens made false statements under oath about his use of performance-enhancing drugs. So if I understand this right congress is asking the justice department to investigate an alleged perjurer and steroids user; a fucking baseball player, and we still can’t get anyone credible to investigate George W Bush to see if he broke the law.

This country is fucked up.

Can you have a fascist nation with an armed public?  If not then so long as we keep our guns and use them (let me be clear, I mean kill, literally, people with gun) should the government ever try to take them away, then we are good. I wonder how bad it can get without losing our guns.

I feel sick. I don’t know what to do. I don’t know why this is. I don’t know how to help fix it. I don’t know what is true, false, or my own hope biased opinions. Worse I can’t see into the future and see what the results of this are going to be though my cynicism leads me to many horrible potential outcomes.

We have mass media setting inscrutable arbitrary standards to exclude candidates from important debates. From what I’ve heard the people who make the voting machines refuse to reveal the programming behind them. We have news sources reporting projections as facts.

Some part of me just wants the drink the kool-aide and go back to sleep so I can dream the American dream. Another part of me is disgusted that I could think about giving up and ashamed of such cowardly thoughts. And most of the rest of me is scared for what is going to happen in the future.

Good night.

If someone kills a bunch of people with an assault rifle it makes it more likely that laws will be passed to ban assault rifles. A better example is if a bunch of people fly some airplanes into a couple buildings then laws to restrict that from happening will be passed quickly to assuage the publics fear. That seems to me to indicate that Chaos promotes the creation of more laws. What if the opposite is true; that the sudden imposition of overly restrictive laws might create a resistance to them.  If the creation of law promotes chaos and the creation of chaos promotes law and I believe there is too much law then should I join some of the more fanatic law inducing organizations?

I think it is an interesting thought that the people who run ultra-evangelical organizations are trying to create chaos by imposing law.

Campaign to become the person in charge of car registration. Refuse to register cars for anyone who has any moving violations or some other wildly outrageous restriction.  Get thrown out of office and law put in place to prevent such restrictions again.

Become President of the USA. Pull all troops around the world back to the US. Declare Marshal Law citing the laws and acts that allow it. Declare that the Congress, Senate, and Judiciary branches of the FED are abolished. List off a bunch of people who are now declared Enemies of the State and have them executed without trial for passing the laws that allow this to be legal.  Remove the laws that imped social uprisings. Watch as the revolution rises and over throws you and makes laws so that this can never happen again. And just before you are executed declare yourself Ceaser and laugh at how they will remember you always as the cause of their renewed independence.

Zen Anarchist.  Zenarchist.

I’m a 29 year old Systems Administrator from Kentucky with a Computer Science degree from UK. I’m single and not any particular religion. I was a registered Democrat but switched to Republican so I could vote in the primaries for Ron Paul.

I’m concerned that well financed special interests will lobby for more laws eroding freedom, that we will lose our sovereignty to foreign governments like the UN, that socialization of necessary services will bankrupt the lower and middle classes, and that our fiat money system is headed toward collapse making this country weak.

I’ve donated $400 to Ron Paul in the hopes that he will remove the laws that are preventing people from governing themselves. I want to make the choice as to how my money is spent and who gets it. I’m tired of lying politicians scaring people into giving away my freedom for the illusion of their safety. I want what everyone of us wanted when we were teenagers; to be responsible for myself and free to make my own decisions. I want to live my life the way I want to not how people who don’t know me want me to.

You can now buy booze on Sunday in Lexington.  The law has taken effect, and strangely enough I haven’t molested anyone, gotten in a fight, or run anyone over as is mostly likely expected by the Pro-Christians and MADD people.

Well Ron Paul made it.  He was driving to get 12$ for the 4th quarter.  He is at 15.3 mill as of now. Ron has more 100,000 individual donors; thats more than the other Republicans individually. I think this gives us the lead in money on hand, including those self financed rich guys.  That really gives me hope.

No matter what happens I’m going to vote for Ron, but news like this actually makes me think we might do it.

Iowa’s primary is 18 days away.  New Hampshire’s is 23. I encourage everyone who reads this to register republican as soon as you can so that if you have a closed primary you can actually Vote for Ron Paul in the Primary.

Woo Hoo!