NO QUARTER - (NOT ONE DIME, EITHER)

In many ways I approach problems psychologically like a conservative. For instance in answer to the Dr. Phil question, “Which would you rather be- - Right, or Happy?” I would answer that I would rather be Right than Happy. That’s just the way I’m wired. My belief is that if you choose being happy over being right that in the end you will be neither happy nor right. My psychological mindset is definitely more akin to Malcolm X than it is Martin Luther King. I believe in descriptive declarative statements rather than fuzzy if emotive moral platitudes. I am a firm believer in self reliance over the whining of a political interest group. I am also a firm believer in the statement of President John Kennedy that “Human rights come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God”. In like manner I recoil as the sort of Choice that Johnny Wendell set before us the other day saying that yes we should have government health care but since we’re getting health care from their “generosity” then they have the right to check up on us and invest time and energy monitoring us that we don’t gain weight and we eat right and don’t smoke and our Body Mass Index and cholesterol are within proper preset bounds. Given this choice or nothing at all, I would without batting an eye say, “Nothing at all”. Johnny Wendell was a conservative’s best friend in making all of their worst nightmares com true about the government overruling your own doctor, as to your health care. In some ways “balance” and “diversity” are bad things. Let me give you a descriptive example. Suppose it is an absolutely true fact that without that gigantic 700 Billion bank bail-out we would have slid into a deep ‘30s style depression? Some who would “compromise” would say “We’ll compromise. We won’t retire the national debt in the next ten years. In fact we’ll run a little deficit. But there will be no 700 billion dollar bail out”. A person could say this and we would be in a 1930’s style depression now. Sometimes “balance” is another word for “bullshit” like when Jesus Christ uses the word on KFI. Pastors love to put “balance” in their sermons to negate what the Bible states explicitly in the text. I’m a believer in the axiom “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of Justice is no virtue” (Selah)

It is my contention that we democrats made a big mistake in electing Barock Obama rather than Hillary Clinton for President last year. Hillary billed herself as the woman who could “get things done” because she “knew the ropes” and didn’t need on the job training. Hillary would have taken a “take no prisoners” stance with Congress. Conservatives were afraid of her because they said she was vindictive against republicans who wouldn’t go along with her. She was an Advocate. She was up front about the sort of measures she would try to get passed. Many Hillary supporters were such die hards in supporting her that if they couldn’t vote for her they’d just as soon stay home. But it was my feeling that Hillary’s supporters were objectionable. To me they were too White, too old, and too rural. I didn’t like the places where her support was coming from. But still in direct head to head contests she most always won the most hard fought elections. Much of my prejudice against Hillary stemmed from the Rush Limbaugh days when I listened to his show all the time. There are certain people who won’t compromise. They can’t be coaxed, cajoled or bullied into changing their stance. The gonads of the day award today goes to Bo Brady on “Days of our Lives”. He took the uncompromising position that he wasn’t going to pay off kidnappers who were holding his little daughter for ransom. His reasoning was sound in that he said “As long as they are hoping to get money. But if we pay them the money what’s to stop them from killing Sierra since she’s the one person who’d be able to identify them”? Have you also considered this slogan to live by, “People who have been spoken to by God have the advantage that comes from Knowing”. Or try this one. “Ignorance of the future doth make cowards of us all”. Once you know to a metaphysical certitude what the Future holds, you can find new courage in your positions. The coward among us can finally “grow a pair”. Sometimes you do what you have to do so that you can look yourself in the mirror each morning and not want to vomit. I know when I got on S S I, I had grave moral reservations about doing it. I was not real comfortable with myself, even though I had a lot more money because I also now had reduced rent. Now some may say we can wish away our problems. But a man who is not true to himself has already screwed himself over even before he comes in contact with anybody in the outside world. President Obama wrote “The Audacity of Hope”. If you think about it- -there are times when having Hope is audacious. You don’t deserve to have Hope if you haven’t already done everything you can to help yourself to achieve your ends that God or whoever has placed in your heart. There is that guy on TV who says “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at- - change”. My problem is that people who adopt this strategy seem to be the type of people who prefer rational and mental gymnastics- - to actual intestinal fortitude and effort. Bo Brady could have bent to the will of his hysterical wife and well meaning Attorney, and gone ahead and paid the kidnappers what he wanted. But instead when he picked up the phone from his wife, he told the kidnappers “You’re not getting one dime out of me. And I’m going to take some of that money and pay every two bit thug informant within a five mile radius and we’re going to hunt you down and get you”. Hillary believes in actual, concrete action with the experience of wisdom. Obama believes in dreams. Unfortunately he’s “Dreaming his Presidency away”. Let me just ask you this as a clear example that that guy on KCET is an idiot. Did people get Hope from reading Obama’s book? Did they in other words, “Change the way they look at things”? Now. Is the other part of the statement true? “Did the things they look at - - change?” Don’t all speak at once. Did they change? Are Bush and Chaney in jail. Have “extraordinary renditions” stopped? Has the Patriot Act been repealed? Have tax cuts for the rich been repealed? Have we withdrawn all our troops from foreign wars? Do we have health care? Do we have a vibrant economy? We don’t? What is our President doing now? He wants to “split off” the public health coverage portion of the health bill and try to pass it separately. He is that afraid of the Republicans and the Blue Dog Democrats mainly in the Senate, despite the fact that one hundred house democrats will just get “fed up” and not vote for the health bill at all. Does President Obama want that?? Maybe he does. In May of 2006 I made the following predictions of what a Hillary Clinton administration would look like. I wasn't very accurate.

· Looking over my laundry list of accomplishments for the Hillary Clinton administration we have - “Hillary is a tough campaign fighter”.

· Peace was concluded with both Iran and North Korea before she even took office so these two nations were not a problem.

· Smoking was banned virtually everywhere in the country where kids might be in proximity of any cigarette smoke.

· Junk foods of all sorts were banned from being advertised over the air waves.

· Hillary nominated first a gay lesbian justice for the Supreme Court and then an avowed Atheist justice got sworn in as the second pick.

· The problem of the deficit was solved and Hillary ran up the biggest surpluses ever. Other than that the economy is not even referred to as any factor at all during these eight years.

· Stem cell research was supported by the government and was fruitful.

· Gun sales were restricted nation-wide but one anti gun law was struck down by the US Supreme Court.

· The crime rate plummeted.

· The US Government prosecuted parents for not employing the V chip on their TV’s with kids in the house.

· Under new eminent domain laws supported by Hillary, lots of small community churches were bulldozed by the government.

· And there was a proliferation of copy protection in software.

It’s notable in all this there is no reference to the economy or banking or insurance interests, or any mention of national Health Care. There was apparently no concern about air pollution standards or energy usage or the carbon tax. There was no concern about the trade deficit, and NAFTA was never mentioned, either pro or con. There was no concern about terrorism, either pro or con. And there also seems to be a complete absence of any hate groups, or even spirited protests by the opposition, except pool Blacks complained about HDTV.