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July 4, 2015
Fireworks and ‘The Anti-Federalist Papers': Celebrating the ability to flee incompetancy
If you’ve ever worked for a complete idiot who believes that people follow titles instead of leadership, then you already know that defiance is sometimes needed in order to do a good job as defined by a sustainably good work ethic. Government officials are by their very nature prone to incompetence and the belief that it is their titles that people will follow—that if only a majority of the people who elect them can be convinced to cast a vote—that they represent the majority opinion and are thus insulated from competent assessment. The moment they get a nameplate on their desk they believe that they are so entitled to lead in any direction they wish without having any other qualification. The military is full of these types of people as is almost every position in government. However in the private sector where the best and brightest are encouraged to thrive, and to rise up to challenge management through healthy competition it is there where all things truly good emerge. Very little good can come from a system where incompetent people rule over the good, or that the good are prevented from making things better through their natural inclination by tyrannical power-hungry supervision. That is why in the United States we celebrate the 4th of July. It is a holiday of defiance and a reminder that sometimes idiots in charge have to be removed so not to ruin the lives of the good.
Leadership is all about respect, when good people know a better person is in a position to guide them to prosperity. For instance, people followed George Patton to the ends of the earth because they believed in the man as he was everything he advertised. Hitler would not have been defeated without Patton in a command position in Europe. A million pin-headed bureaucrats throughout the world gathered together in a thousand circle-jerk meetings about how to defeat the rising dictator and could not stop him with all the troops around the globe at their disposal. They had to have Patton to perform the task and break up the Nazi encampments all the way to Berlin. Patton was effective because people believed in him. People don’t lay down their lives for titles; they do it for people they respect. Without that respect, strategic objectives are impossible—except for the occasional shit-shot that just happens to work by happenstance, like a winning lottery ticket.
As my son-in-law and I were buying fireworks for our family 4th of July party I couldn’t help but notice the nature and body language of the people lining up out the door in the middle of a mid-week afternoon in Lawrenceburg, Indiana to buy fireworks. There was defiance in their presence as they were very conscious that they were illegally buying fireworks to take back across state lines to fire off at their homes while law enforcement stood down over the holiday weekend. Americans won their independence from England with defiance, and the 4th celebrates that defiance. It is the heart of the entire holiday. It is a holiday that celebrates rebellion from incompetent over-reaching leadership in the form of a blood inherited throne. The king of England expected people in the American colonies to remain loyal to his title, and that was simply not the case—it’s not how human beings work.
The settlements involved in westward expansion were about defiance. The boldest and most ingenious of the new American nation headed west to be free to function from the increasingly bureaucratic east. Along the way there were conflicts with Indian tribes, all of whom had acquired their land through similar battles with rival tribes who were meeting similar rebels seeking opportunity, and the Americans won by sheer will and cantankerous perseverance. The new nation flooded with ambitious people fleeing the titles of Europe for at least the opportunity to be their own people—to rule their own lives. The Indians could not stop that human desire to be rid of incompetent rule—that was the cause of westward expansion—to have the opportunity and freedom to live their own lives, and it built the greatest nation on earth—until America ran out of land and was forced once again to reconcile under the rule of people with titles, who sit behind desks bureaucratically running the lives of people from behind a nameplate bringing the same kind of ineffective stewardship to America as what we fled from in Europe.
Today’s Barack Obama, or Mitch McConnell types could not lead troops in the way that George Patton did, or even Sam Houston in Texas against Santa Anna. They are not respected and are incapable of real leadership. They are figureheads of administration and when they overstep their boundaries, they should be removed through elections. If they work the system in such a way—as they have—to stay in power regardless of public opinion then the Bill of Rights provides ways of preserving the American Constitution by forcible removal which sometimes is an unfortunate option. That is why we have the Second Amendment—it’s not to hunt rabbits, it’s to remove tyrannical governments from hiding behind nameplates and destroying our freedoms. The First Amendment is there to warn those knuckle-draggers of the danger to them if they continue to proceed—out of fairness.
Personally I think the American Constitution is way too Hamiltonian—too Federalist for my liking. My sentiments reside in The Anti-Federalist papers which I always have near me chronicling the Constitutional Convention Debates of 1787-1788. It is because of those Anti-Federalist Papers that we have a Bill of Rights—and thus the Second Amendment. It is clearly the plight of the Federalist types who are today’s soft bellied conservatives, progressives, libertarians, and blind patriots who accept with a shade of incompetency an adherence to The Federalist Papers and perhaps some Supreme Court case-law as a means of revision in a “living” document evolving over time by more desk sitting bureaucrats. Case in point, Justice John Roberts of the present court—I was thinking about him as I watched people buy fireworks at the store my son-in-law and I was at. The store itself was open 24 hours a day, seven days a week all the way up to the 4th. Proudly people were spending $300 to $1000 on explosives in large shopping carts to fill their cars with defiance and they had a swagger in their step that they don’t have otherwise. It was in the notion of defiance that they were most proud and it is there that the 4th of July holiday is best defined. It was reassuring to them to know that they were defying the law on the 4th, that just because someone like John Roberts stacked the court against the American Constitution recently with damaging case-law that future lawyers would use to make lots of money and further encumber individual freedom in favor of collectivist sentiment—that they had a means of rebellion against incompetency. I know that the Constitution is only part of the debate. The Anti-Federalist Papers represent still a large sector of the country that will always insist on defiance and freedom. All they lack is a leader who will unite them against a tyrannical government. I happen to know a few of those types of people, and right now we are using the First Amendment to help those name plate bureaucrats know their place. But at some point, the Second Amendment may be needed to remove the corruption and scum from the K-Street brothels, and Sodom and Gomorra scandals of the Beltway. Because they don’t know what they are doing, and are not equipped to lead us to a prosperous tomorrow.
The debates in The Anti-Federalist Papers tell the story of a nation reluctant to give control of the nation over to a central authority—because of the tendency of the weak to seek power and refuge behind a nameplate only to become everything that America fought from England only to become again was too tempting. There comes a time where the people of America must show defiance not just on the 4th of July, but the 5th, and 6th and onward to throw off the poor leadership of the nameplate types and free themelves to the best and brightest among them. Not the slickest talker or the most manipulative Shakespearian back-stabber. But the best that their society can produce, the Pattons, the Chennaults, and the Hustons to take the nation back toward The Anti-Federalist Papers arguments thus preserving the American Constitution with a swagger that is distinctly born of a free people. When you hear the fireworks from millions of American homes, it is The Anti-Federalist Papers that they unconsciously celebrate, and is the heart of what truly keeps us free.
Rich Hoffman
CLIFFHANGER RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
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July 3, 2015
The Wonderful Capitalism of ‘Jurassic World': Ahhhh, just let it just wash over you………..
I’ve covered a bit about what makes Jurassic World such a good movie. If you read my article yesterday, CLICK TO REVIEW, you already know I love museums and that the Discovery Center at Universal’s Islands of Adventure is one of my favorite places on earth—because it’s a dinosaur museum.
Jurassic World is partly great because it’s like that feeling you get when you arrive at Downtown Disney, or Universal’s City Walk for the first time and are bombarded by all the innovations of capitalism attached directly to human mythologies. Jurassic World obviously understands that phenomena and embraces it fully—which was a common practice in the 1980s, but has been pushed underground to a large degree by progressive filmmakers who want to pretend they dislike money to appeal to their base, while needing a lot of money to make and release their motion pictures to the world. Jurassic World doesn’t even pretend not to like it—it embraces capitalism fully with overflowing pride, and that is probably what I like most about it. Even the billionaire in the film was a good human being, and interesting guy who even though he had all the money in the world was still teaching himself to fly a helicopter for personal growth.
Some of the most obvious product placements were of course Coke, Starbucks, Brookstone and Oakley sunglasses, Hilton, Samsung, Verizon Wireless, Jimmy buffet’s Margaretville—among many others. There is quite a long list. After the movie my family even went to Dairy Queen where they had a really cool promotion going on with their Jurassic World Blizzard. It was simply marvelous. We had spent the day at an amusement park after recently seeing the movie and dined at Dairy Queen exclusively because of its tie-in to the film, and had a really great experience, which is shown in some of the pictures displayed here. Also shown there is a completely fictional promo video for a new Hilton at the Isla Nubar Resort. Obviously Isla Nubar is a complete fantasy. There is no island like that off the Pacific side of Costa Rica. But the movie did a wonderful job of building a fictional reality to serve as a backstop for all this product placement. The main area of Jurassic World from the view of the Hilton Hotel reminded me a lot of Cancun complete with all the capitalist investment you can find there in a tropical paradise. I find myself wanting to visit this specific Hilton and can’t help but hope that Universal Studios in Florida will build all these places for real so I can visit. I think they’d be crazy not to at this point. After the Fourth of July weekend of 2015, Jurassic World will be third on the all time money-making list behind Avatar and Titanic—and the film doesn’t open in Japan for another month. If Hilton actually builds that hotel, I will be the very first person to stay in their T-Rex room. You can bet on that!
While at the Newport Aquarium again shortly after seeing the movie we strolled into the AMC theaters for a bite to eat and guess what we saw there? A Jurassic Park Jeep from the original film, also shown in the accompanying pictures. It brought no small measure of pleasure to me to see it there. I had only ever saw one within the actual theme park at Universal Studios and at the AMC Theater at Newport on the Levee was one in really good condition. It was further evidence to me that behind the veil of cynicism that often resides behind virtually every news story is hope that is unleashed behind Jurassic Park and this most recent Jurassic World movie. I wasn’t the only person excited about the franchise and the products produced by it. Many others shared that love with me which crosses all political and demographic barriers reaching directly to the heart of a deep human hope for such things to be made into reality. These movies are not just about dinosaurs, they embody the hope that we find in every museum, or hope to find when we step in for the first time.
When I stand in the lobby of the Cincinnati Museum Center I love the marriage of science and capitalism. Just two days of this writing I gladly spent $22 for a couple hamburgers and fries knowing that I was supporting the museum in small little ways with the overpriced lunch. The food was actually good, but still overpriced, and that’s OK. Museums need dollars to operate and bring all the great aspects of science to the forefront of thought. Without money, there is no science—and there would be nothing I’d like to see more than education institutions accepting that their ticket to further funding for projects of interest is through capitalism, not socialism. There are far more opportunities for environmental research through a company like Exxon as opposed to the socialist resistance of Green Peace. Sea World is to my mind the closest thing to an actual Jurassic World that there currently is, and people should go and support those wonderful parks. There was a lot in Jurassic World that reminded me specifically of Sea World. One of my best memories as a kid was in visiting the Sea World in Aurora, Ohio when there was one located there way back in the 80s, then the one in San Diego. The money generated through Sea World does more for conservation than a whole city block of protestors in San Francisco. Science is a forward thinking process whereas just shutting down all capitalist endeavors in hopes of preserving nature goes against the very nature of being a human being. There is no better format for exploring these issues than the Jurassic Park movies—and Jurassic World embraces better than all the previous three put together the joys of capitalism as it propels science forward with hope, and wonder sprinkled with dire warnings of greed and excess. It’s not capitalism that kills everyone in Jurassic World, its deception and greed not by the billionaire, but by his employees who scheme behind his back for desires known only to them. It is within that concept that we see a truth that we recognize as a true paradox in a time where we will have to make similar decisions about our own lives very soon.
Jurassic World is not just a movie—it is the philosophy of our time, it is Plato’s Republic on a modern stage presenting questions to a hungry movie going public. But more than just that the movie is a celebration of capitalism and an argument in favor of it as the best option to propel mankind into the future. I love Dave and Buster’s so much so that we spent my 47 birthday this year at the one near my home. I love the bright lights, the wonderful food and the imagination of all the interesting games on display there. I love to play those games, eat that wonderful food while watching 14 different sports events on the multitude of televisions exhibited virtually everywhere you look. And guess what, there was a Dave and Buster’s in Jurassic World, and I really want to visit it. It’s time to start embracing our capitalism within our art so that we can have an honest conversation about what we want as human beings. People have voted with their movie tickets in favor of Jurassic World. It’s time now that the science communities stop pandering to government stiffs for grants and start befriending capitalism to fund their further endeavors. That is the future of science and the lesson of Jurassic World. Progressive reviewers and news reporters may cringe at all the product placement within Jurassic World but in so doing they ignore what is truly at the heart of all human beings. Steven Spielberg has understood that heart for many years, and nobody reaches it better than he does when he wishes. But its time that others follow the lessons learned from Jurassic World and stop fighting against capitalism when it is the lifeblood of true progress. Jurassic World is about the hope that progress can bring. It captures all the reasons we like attending amusement parks and museums—it’s not just for the knowledge of history—but in the potential of making it.
Rich Hoffman
CLIFFHANGER RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
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July 2, 2015
The Cincinnati Tablet: A little known miracle from an ancient past alive and well at the Museum Center
If there is such a place as heaven for me it would be everlasting life in a place like the Cincinnati Museum Center reading a book next to their multiple exhibits. It is well-known that I have a particular love of culture and obsess over how to implement successful societies based on mythology, recorded history, psychological necessity and how all that gets wrapped into a workable philosophy to achieve objectives. I spend more time thinking about those kinds of things than anything else—and if I had no other responsibilities in the world I would be most happy putting on a pair of camouflage pants and a t-shirt and going to a different spot of that museum each day and reading from my books—all day–forever. To be near history and the way those exhibits have been creatively assembled at the Museum Center is a marriage of all my favorite things. I have a few favorite spots, one is near the T-Rex skull in the Museum of Natural History and Science, the other is the area near the Cincinnati Tablet in the Cincinnati History Museum.
I have a particular obsession with the Cincinnati Tablet. It is located in the wing of the History Museum just beyond the WWII area and just ahead of the Native American, Colonial wings on the right side of the hall. There are complaints from history buffs that the Tablet is tucked away into a remote corner, but it’s quite out in the open and well-lit. The problem with the Tablet is that some believe that it belongs in the section of the Natural History Museum that deals with pre-Columbian society as the Tablet was found in a burial mound at the inception of Cincinnati at the exact spot where Fountain Square resides. Few realize that when they visit the Fountain they are on the spot of an ancient burial ground that was there long before there was ever a single building erected in the Queen City. Yet the Cincinnati Tablet is a bit of a mystery. Archaeologists would like to attribute it to the Adena or Hopewell Cultures dated around 500 B. C. to 100 A.D. Yet it is more reflective of the kind of art found in the Mississippian Culture of 700 A.D. to 1600, just ahead of the arrival of the first European colonists. But that doesn’t quite tell the whole story.
The Cincinnati Tablet is nearly identical to a tablet found in Clinton County called the Wilmington Tablet. Many have looked at these tablets and read into the numerical significance of the design. They appear to have similar markings as that of Mayan and Aztec Cultures and point to a much more sophisticated pre history of Native American tribes than are normally associated with history. Human beings like to believe that all life springs forward in a progressive manner meaning that each revolution around the sun that the earth makes, we get smarter and better. So we often get caught looking back at history as if we were looking at a measuring stick of some kind—we’re here now, so back then we must have been—there. That type of rationalization. However, this is not the case. Just as we are doing today in the modern age with all the tools of thought at our disposal, human kind is regressing. To sit on the trolley car at the Cincinnati History Museum and listen to the recording of the conductor dropping passengers off at various points from pre 1951 it is increasingly obvious that the human intellect has fallen a long way in just those 50 years. If such a declination of character continues to slide downward, it is easy to ascertain that human beings in another 200 years will easily be back to the types of hunters and gathering types associated with the Adena Indian.
There are some extremely complex mathematics associated with the Mound Builders that defy what we know about the Adena and Hopewell people. In the times of Christopher Columbus there were still some in Europe who believed that the earth was flat and that if one strayed too far to sea that they would fall over the edge. But it was the Greeks who came up with the concept of a spherical earth dating back to the 6th century. By the 3rd century B.C. Pythagoras had postulated that the earth was indeed round which was supported by Aristotle. For proof as to what I said about human society regressing along a Vico Cycle (CLICK HERE FOR REVIEW) look at the modern Greek people and their current collapsing economy. They are only presently a 100 years from becoming simpletons equivalent to the Adena Indians—hunters and gathers struggling each day to feed themselves instead of an advanced culture contemplating whether or not the earth is round through mathematics. The modern Greek people have nothing in common with their ancient ancestors of just 3000 years ago. They have declined as a society, not advanced. Yet, the Mound Builders from the same time period as Pythagoras understood that the earth was round otherwise they could not have predicted equinoxes and solstices or dates on a calendar. How did they learn that the earth was round if they did not read Greek literature? Or perhaps the Greeks were only verifying what mythology instructed them—based on ancient stories given to them during their days.
Another mystery if trade with the Yucatan Peninsula is considered among the Mississippian Cultures of North America is the nearly simultaneous rise of cities like Cahokia outside of St. Louis and Chichen Itza in Mexico. Their art and cultures appear to be extremely similar, yet nobody knows much about either because there is an assumption that nobody had the ability to travel such a distance to have legitimate trade ability. We assume that these ancient people were still learning how to travel by canoe until Europeans came along and showed them how to build a boat. But it is quite obvious if the facts are assembled, that there was great trade and interaction between groups of societies vastly separated, which is something that wasn’t supposed to be the case. The evidence of all this interconnectivity was likely destroyed when the Spanish attacked the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan built in 1325 and destroyed in 1521. Modern day Mexico City was built upon its ruins. Tenochtitlan was built on a vast island with complicated canals intersecting the city. In fact is was Bernal Diaz del Castillo who said, “When we saw so many cities and villages built in the water and other great towns on dry land we were amazed and said that it was like the enchantments (…) I don’t know how to describe it, seeing things as we did that had never been heard of or seen before, not even dreamed about.” Sounds a lot to me like the lost city of Atlantis which Plato spoke about only the dates are separated by several thousand years. The point of course is that what the Spanish encountered was an advanced culture, not a bunch of knuckle-draggers. So the Spanish did what they always have done, they attacked the city, destroyed the people and imposed Catholic religion on the survivors calling the area New Spain. By the time Santa Anna was fighting Sam Huston in the Republic of Texas just to the north, the New Spanish Empire was declining and the newly established “Mexican” was left conquered twice within a few centuries of each other by rival clans of European settlers. The origin culture had been destroyed by the Spanish and all the archaeology erased to history in the name of religion. As advanced as Tenochtitlan was it was around two hundred years newer than the ancient city of Teotihuacan located just 30 miles to the northwest. That city has a pyramid on the scale of the Great Pyramid in Giza and by volume as large as the one outside St. Louis, the Monks Mound. The dates on this epic city of sophistication and mathematics are 100 B.C. to 250 A.D., about the same time period as the Adena Indian over a thousand miles to the north across the Gulf of Mexico and up the Mississippi River, then up the Ohio. The assumption was that these cultures didn’t communicate, but it looks as if they did—or at least knew of each other.
As I look at the Cincinnati Tablet I can’t help but wonder if it’s not the remnants of an older culture that left the Ohio Valley well before the Adena Indian during what is called the Archaic Period. I have covered before the obvious signs of a lost race of people who were large in stature. The evidence of their lives is obvious in the unexcavated mound at Miamisburg, the burial grounds at Augusta Kentucky and the ancient city that has been buried under modern-day Lexington, Kentucky. CLICK HERE FOR REVIEW. The Adena and Hopewell Indians were similar in culture and intellect to the modern version of the inner city dweller compared to the suburbanite. The ancient suburbanite doing as humans always do run from their political disputes for destinations uncharted leaving behind the more parasitic aspects of their societies. In modern times most people living in suburbia are those running from the corrupt politics and high taxes of the large cities, and it looks as if this is what was happening in America well before Columbus found a map in Portugal convincing him that there was a way to circumnavigate the world. Of course that map was made by the Chinese who had been doing that circumnavigation for centuries—and had been trading with the same people who settled the Ohio Valley who were thus trading with ancient Mesopotamia. Again, all that assumed history was destroyed by two known events, the destruction of Tenochtitlan and the Library in Alexandria, Egypt, both by the same religion.
I tend to think that the Cincinnati Tablet was specific to the person it was found under within the mound. It may have been the tattoo pattern used to identify his people to his region, and when he died, they buried it with him. The Wilmington Tablet is similar, and was probably specific to the ruler of that area, etc. But the cultures associated with them are largely unknown, because the limits of science assume that mankind is always moving forward instead of following a Vico cycle of continuous birth and death—always starting over again as a civilization. Just like inner city dwellers occupy the grand establishments of a creative past, the Adena likely occupied ceremonial sites associated with a culture that left south to form a world of their own without the restrictions of collective association. I cannot help but wonder as I look at the Cincinnati Tablet if the origin of the Inca, the Maya and the Aztec were not in fact a combination people from Mesopotamia and China who merged in the Americas long before Christ was born and became ancient suburbanites moving constantly south until they ran out of room and were killed by a competing culture doing the same thing for the same reasons—leaving for opportunity elsewhere once civilization destroyed the luster of innovation and adventure in the individual.
I take such lessons into account when I have to build a culture, whether it’s raising a family or building a company. People desire to be their own explorers and to find for themselves the roots of their desires. They don’t like to share by nature when the itch of adventure is clawing at them. But people are quite giving once they achieve their personal objectives. And that is what the Cincinnati Tablet represents to me, a hint at a past long gone and a window into an issue that is still pressing the minds of mankind. The Cincinnati Museum Center gave the tablet its own little spot in between two worlds, the known history of WWII and the roots of Cincinnati’s founding as a colonial hub after the Revolutionary War. Because the Cincinnati Tablet is in and of itself not clearly defined by science, because much of the way to confirm them through logic has been purposely erased by future empire builders—and that is why I consider such places like the Museum Center heaven on earth. There is truth there only hinted at, but it is more than what you can find anywhere else. And all that history collides upon the Cincinnati Tablet.
Rich Hoffman
CLIFFHANGER RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
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July 1, 2015
Politics of the Old Union School: Understanding the inner workings of preserving history
Well of course Ronald Hicks, vice president for SHP Leading Design defended his efforts with Patti Alderson and my old friend Bob Hutsenpiller from No Lakota Levy to demolish the Old Union School with a brand new Boys and Girls Club of West Chester/Liberty with a $6.5 million dollar facility—by saying, “If any entity other than an education-based organization wanted to function in the structure, the occupancy of the building would change. That in turn would require a change of use for the facility, which would trigger ‘substantial wholesale upgrading of the building to current code requirements in order to change the function.” As I listened to Hicks speak about such invisible mountains of opposition I turned to lock eyes with the leaders of West Chester development—they were literally in the room and could easily handle such a change of use. But the elephant in the room wasn’t really about such concerns—it was a simple deflection to hide the real mechanisms of power percolating within the Lakota school district. The accusation that any other option was simply too hard for the old historic building was intended to mask the politics at play, CLICK HERE to read how the Journal News reported the issue.
The June 30th 2015th event was a who’s who of local politics as many of the heavy hitters from behind the scenes of most things political in Butler County were present. As I spoke to Randy Oppenheimer telling him honestly that I thought he was doing a good job as the Lakota spokesman, even if he was on the wrong side of things, another old friend of mine Mark Sennet was standing behind me talking to Lakota treasurer Jenni Logan and Karen Mantia about how the area developers have always been for Lakota schools. Mark was also in No Lakota Levy with me and on this issue was against the tearing down of the old school. But his dialogue was interesting. The next time there is a levy fight, I won’t be using the developers as a way to defeat the levy. It was in fact their lack of passion and commitment to hold strong that caused the last levy to be successfully passed. They were all too willing to side with Patti Alderson because she’s always good for potential projects down the road, such as this Boys and Girls Club deal. They were able to argue higher taxes and the impact to further development, but did not have the conviction to hold their line in such public forums, which was clearly what Mark was revealing quite openly.
To continue an answer to Randy about why I have so many blog postings and say so many things within those postings, it’s really to provoke thought from those who need to think more intensely about any given topic. For instance, there are elements to this Old Union School discussion that I can cover at this site that you simply won’t read in the Cincinnati Enquirer or the Journal News. Both news outlets were present, but they are not given the kind of space in their newspapers to cover the complete story, only the surface issues. In this case going back to the year before the Alderson/Lakota deal I was leading No Lakota Levy against the next tax increase attempt, we had a nice little press conference at Bob Hutsenpeller’s office within view of the Lakota East high school facility. I had Channel 19 there as well as Channel 5, and 9. I also had the Cincinnati Enquirer there giving Michael Clark an exclusive on a story where Patti Alderson refused to work with me on helping kids pay for their high sports fees at Lakota—which was an extortion racket designed to build support for a tax increase. Since Patti refused to help the kids then by working with No Lakota Levy—because of the politics of the situation, she and the Lakota school board worked directly with Michael Clark to write a hit peace on me hoping to break up No Lakota Levy. When it really pissed me off to the point of near violence they asked for a two-year cease-fire to regroup. During that time they went to work on Bob pulling him into an open alliance with Patti on this Boys and Girls Club project. Bob is a good builder, and a good person. He was the last one standing at the end, and it was hard for him. This deal is an opportunity to repair some relationships and get involved in building something significant within the community. Patti get’s to do some charity work which she likes to do, and the Lakota school system gets to marry together a major part of the tax increase resistance to an open levy supporter facilitator to deflect future opposition. Everyone wins—right? Wrong. They left out some missing pieces to the puzzle.
I was surprised that Michael Clark didn’t want to come over and say hello to me. Even with all our back and forth bickering, Karen Mantia said hello to me. What many don’t know, and what I explained to Randy a little bit is that I primarily make my living pissing people off. I work with people who outright hate me all the time, and I know that. My goal in all these efforts is to dig out thoughts, to get to the root cause of any effort. I don’t have a desire to be liked by anyone other than my wife, by anybody. That gives me a lot of freedom to provoke honesty in people and their relationships to money. Sure I’m angry at Clark. On the day he wrote his hit piece against me I was on several professional conference calls around the city while radio stations were reading on the air the way he assembled many articles from this site into a context that greatly favored the pro levy crowd. He all by himself threw turbo fuel on an already blazing inferno and he and the Lakota school board went for my jugular clearly. But that wouldn’t be the first time that’s happened in my life, and it certainly wouldn’t be the last. So it surprised me that he didn’t even say hello. When Karen asked where I’ve been, I told her I had been busy. Lakota passed their levy and this Old Union School deal has been some of the most recent activity since the 2013 levy passage. I’ve been focused on making an argument for a nationwide abandonment of public education all together, so haven’t cared much about the daily workings at Lakota—other than I don’t want to pay the taxes. But this Old Union School deal is something that affects all of West Chester, so I attended this meeting with interest, and I will get more involved in the future when Lakota tries for another levy. So Clark might as well get used to the fact that he’s going to have to see me around town. No Lakota Levy did not die with the alliance of Bob and Patti, the ruckus of all that controversy was a recruiting tool for me to bring new blood to the fight—because the developers were wavering in their resistance. That should have been obvious to all the smart people in the room. So I wanted to thank Michael Clark for the hit piece—it showed the cards of all involved and helped me tremendously. And at its roots, that is what is behind the Boys and Girls Club—and why I am against it, because of the cards involved that are hidden from the public.
I said in the Journal article that the school board did not solicit enough opportunities for the Old Union School project. They simply took Patti’s offer bringing Bob with her and went right to work hiring Hicks to design as the architect. He’s put in considerable effort so of course he’ll defend the project. But the Old Union School sits in a region where a conscious effort to preserve the historic nature of West Chester is taking place. Once Patti stamped her name on the deal most area developers knew to stay away, so there wasn’t much solicitation as far as options involving an auction of the property. There are many buildings like the Old Union School in Norwood, Ohio for instance that have been converted to office buildings. On the outside they have the architecture of Norwood’s traditions while on the inside they are contemporary. Such an option would be a prime utilization for the Old Union School which is just down the road from Union Center and is just a football throw away from I-75 access. Just across the highway are wonderful restaurants for lunch rushes, I would find it hard to believe that there are no takers out there for that type of development. I also brought it up in the meeting but there wasn’t much time to get into the meat of it, that due to declining enrollment, Lakota is facing the possibility of further school properties coming available. My point to them was that Lakota didn’t need to control the Old Union School property as an asset, that they could afford to let it go to someone who would love it, and nurse it back to health. An office complex there would make more money for the township, so zoning approval should be achievable. The leaders of the community were there to answer that question, but Hicks didn’t really want to talk about it. Hicks and his response were equivalent to a kid in the back seat of a car saying that he wanted to go to Disneyworld from Cincinnati, but he didn’t want to ride in a car the whole way. It’s just too hard to ask for a change of use—in his eyes. What he really meant was that he wanted to protect his time in the project and the commitment his client, Patti Alderson has in the endeavor now that it’s public. It doesn’t have anything to do with hard or not. It’s political purely and nothing more.
As usual Danielle Richardson did a good job of bringing debate to the table. Without her this whole deal would have just been rubber stamped and packaged into the Lakota win column with great fanfare at the expense of the community. She composed herself quite valiantly even though she is coming up on a July 8th variance hearing with West Chester trying to keep her pet chickens. Chickens like the Old Union School is part of West Chester history and makes our community unique. The people who judge top 10 communities around the country are the same type of people who typically support school levies, so their opinions are skewed toward progressivism. Danielle has given me eggs from her chickens and they are quite good, better than the eggs you can get at the grocery—because her chickens are happy, and healthy, and proud West Chester residents. So she has more than enough fights to deal with, and she composed herself well considering the implications. She’s an Ayn Rand purist and doesn’t think she should have to get a variance from the “state” to keep her chickens—which she’s right. But there are elements of West Chester politics who are breathing heavily down the necks of leadership to be one of those top 10 national communities. They see “progress” as new buildings over old ones and measure their success by erasing history and writing their own. Danielle is fighting for more than just chickens or the preservation of the Old Union School. She is fighting to keep West Chester’s history a treasured memory—something all the powerful people in the room at the Lakota school board meeting need to take into account as they take steps forward that they can never again retract once committed.
It’s a complicated web of entanglements, but all politics is that way. What matters is not whether or not people like you. They can hate me from now until eternity. What matters is that the right things happen, and sometimes people need to be challenged in order to do the right things. I like the idea of an office complex going into the Old Union School preserving its history for the next century along a historic area of West Chester that needs to retain its old style charm amid booming development. I also like the idea of stopping by Danielle’s house for fresh eggs they way I did when I was growing up and farmers handed out eggs like trick or treat candy in this region. Then I like to go over and have lunch at Jags spending $300 on a nice big Oscar steak and a bottle of wine. I like to have options and in regard to the Old Union School, because of Patti’s involvement, the best options for Lakota were ignored—and in the end that will cost them money in lost opportunity, and a place in preserving the history of an old school-house that is one of the last remnants of a disappearing past.
Rich Hoffman
CLIFFHANGER RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
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June 30, 2015
“Onward Christian Soldiers Marching as to War”: The communists are coming……….
Every now and then you get a haughty glance into the mind of the enemy. I’m not like Glenn Beck and others from the conservative side of things who seek to emulate Jesus Christ and turn the other cheek when we are persecuted. Quite the contrary—as I respect Christians as people of value who are the solidifying force behind family structure and social goodness, they don’t make very good warriors as their religion requires them to have forgiveness and to love their neighbors as themelseves. That’s where they lose me. That’s also why the Saul Alinsky methods work against them, because while they are being assaulted by a treacherous, collectivist oriented enemy, they are forgiving and surrendering moral ground to a clearly hostile force—and that’s not a good thing. For a republic that was founded on a Christian premise, sometimes it is required to fight for what’s right instead of turning the other cheek. Turning the other cheek empowers the enemy, which is not the way to preserve a life of traditional and moral aptitude. That is essentially what empowered this slug, Mike Caldwell to comment on one of my articles seen below about the socialist city council woman from Seattle. After his comment you can read my response, and then it will be understood where the assault against tradition is coming from, and how it can be countered.
Mike Caldwell
FUCK THIS SHITTY RIGHT-WING ARTICLE. ROT IN HELL BECAUSE THE USA WILL BE COMMUNIST. SO YOU CAN SAY GOODBYE TO GLENN BECK AND YOUR SHITTY STUPID FOX NEWS STATION OF HILLBILLIES, REDNECKS AND HUMAN TRASH !!
overmanwarrior
Guess what Mike, there is a whole country of hillbilly types that live between the cities and they aren’t going to put up with your socialism. They are kind to you people so long as they have guns, ammunition, food, and the ability to go to church. If you take that away from them, they aren’t going to play very nice. But they probably didn’t teach you all that in school did they?
Glenn Beck has said many times, even going back to 2010 that he is tired of fighting. For a time he became sick and wasn’t sure if he’d be able to continue doing what he does in the media. I am encouraged by what he is doing at Mercury Studios and I think the Blaze Radio is the new standard of talk radio—its sports free and filled with good traditional dialogue. It’s a true friend in the darkness. But the enemy knows that Glenn Beck is tired and when good people who are morally outraged have had their sensibilities assaulted one time too many, they by default turn toward an all-seeing deity in hopes that there is a master plan in the chaos somewhere that makes all this treachery have some kind of meaning at some level. I don’t feel that way. I never tire of fighting. I thrive on it, I often think of my favorite song from my church days where I was a church assistant almost every Sunday during service, “Onward Christian Soldiers Marching as to War.” God in whatever form made me the way that I am for a reason, and I don’t turn the other cheek, I never have and I never will. So that doesn’t bode well for the Mike Caldwell types—those who love socialism and want a society of collectivism to dominate the former freedoms of the conservative right.
I get the opportunity quite often to socialize in the cultured areas of Cincinnati, the Mt Adams areas, the downtown districts, the new Rookwood area around Norwood, and other places and I am constantly confounded by the small mindedness of people who are most comfortable in the concrete jungles of civilization and believe that all of society can be ruled from fountain side restaurant tables with a beverage of choice, a laptop, and a Smartphone. There is a big world out beyond the limits of their understanding and they never seem very interested in understanding it. The Washington D.C. Beltway is suffering every bit of this problem of being out-of-touch with that big world that exists between the big cities of America. However, I was born and raised in those cracks and I continue to spend a lot of time still in those kinds of places. I know very well what the smell of a morning mist in the mountains is like, or the cold muddy water of a cave against your belly feels like, because I’ve been in those places often, and they are a big part of my life.
I know the people well who live in those in between areas. Some of them are Democrats, some are Republicans, but very few of them are very firmly committed to politics, because it’s something they don’t trust from the scam artists of the big cities. Most people in America live in these in-between areas and they are like I said to the commenter, tolerant until they lose their freedoms. So long as they have food and money, they are giving. The minute they don’t have those things they’ll reach for the guns in their closets, or on a gun rack, and they’ll look for their basic necessities. And that is what makes most Americans so different from people in the rest of the world who have been conquered many times over by tyrannical regimes and ominous overlords. Communists in America really think that if they dominate the social life in America’s big cities that they can have similar results as the Bolsheviks did in Russia where essentially they took over a few big cities in that frozen land mass and the rest of the country had to follow. The same happened in China where communists took over Beijing and the rest of the country followed. In those regions the cities fed the outlying countryside and were the only means of cultural input. If a farmer wanted to sell their crop, they had to deal with the cities—so they had to adopt the communism of those cities in order to do business of any kind. It’s not like that in America. America is a de-centralized culture by design, and that is a major problem for the communist.
Communists have taken their message to public schools; there is no question about that. But kids tune them out for the most part doing only what they have to do to get by. In the rural cultures between major cities, even in spite of the communist influence of the public schools, there isn’t much love for the socialist way of life if the basic needs of those rural dwellers aren’t met. They are tolerant so long as they are getting their basics in life. But if those basics are taken away, there will be trouble. The fantasy of the laptop city communist running the lives of the Darke County religious conservative isn’t going to gain traction—and if those collectivists attempt to bring the suburbs under urban control, there will be violence—and lawlessness. Because the thin line that holds together the sanity of American civilization is unconstrained freedom that comes with distance. People are tolerant of other people so long as they aren’t thrown together and expected to adapt to a way of life they don’t agree with.
Since church service on Sunday mornings aren’t what hold my life together I’m quicker to look for the war words than many others might be. I’m also not tired of fighting, but am actually looking forward to it. I’m not going to look for it either, but my eye is on the horizon keen on the outline of the communists that I know are coming. They have been amassing for several decades in American culture on college campuses and large cities, and they need the resources of the productive to sustain their perpetual needs for consumption—and they will try to infiltrate the lands between the cities. But it will not go well for them because any political map will tell them the story. Communists are an extreme minority and they are largely concentrated in the big cities. If I wanted to, I could avoid a big city the rest of my life and never miss anything they have to offer. I could live happily with a canoe, a gun and a good woman forever and never miss the culture or the bright lights of a big city. But the communist can’t, eventually they run out of money and have to expand their disease to new territories. And that is why we have the Second Amendment—and why they want to take it away. Because they are coming and the Christian soldiers at that time will have no choice but to defend their way of life. Turning the other cheek won’t make the communists go away—but a well-kept gun will.
Rich Hoffman
CLIFFHANGER RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
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June 29, 2015
The Greek Economic Collapse: Coming to America with EPA control droughts and refused mining permits to save fish
This is what happens when you attach yourself to the weakest links, whether its business or global markets—what is happening in Greece right now is the result. Now don’t say you haven’t heard it before dear reader. Don’t tell me you didn’t hear the show on WLW years ago with Darryl Parks that I put on this very site showing that the financial game was crumbling—that we are all effectively broke even if the bills haven’t quite caught up to us in the United States yet. Because I’ve been giving the warnings for some time—socialism does not work, strong leadership is absolutely necessary for capitalist endeavors to succeed, and group consensus in either business or politics is worthless—because it weakens leadership instead of strengthening it. But when all those warnings are ignored and an insistence on socialist/collectivist behavior is promoted—you get Greece. The United States is not far behind. Already most of the money paid in taxes goes exclusively to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid leaving money for nearly nothing else. The United States is the only country on earth with opportunities for economic growth so lenders are still willing to provide low-interest loans, which are consumed daily. But at some time very soon, that will dry up, interest rates will raise, and at that point billions become trillions and there will be no way out—just like what Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is facing now in Greece, either complete relief of the austerity measures—or Greece will have to leave the European Union. In essence, Greece must be relieved of its financial burdens otherwise a major block of the Eurozone will be lost with Great Britain soon to follow. The European Union like all unions is rooted in socialism and allows the bad to hide behind the good and the more bricks that fall out of that union—the fewer places there are for the bad to hide. Bad in this case is economies too rooted in socialism to make themselves buoyant.
These are the types of people we were told in the United States we needed to be more like. Obama lectured Americans about the moral veracity of Europe early in his presidency even as Cyprus was the first to visibly fail economically. Behind that small island in the Mediterranean was of course Greece, which few wanted to acknowledge around the world as a real crisis. They even had an election where the socialist Alexis Tsipras won power promising no austerity to the Greek people, so they could continue to live under the safety of socialism—the protection of other people’s money. Now they have capital controls of 60 Euros per day. There are lines at Greek banks for people to get small amounts of cash that is supposed to belong to them. But because there is no money, everyone has to sacrifice their monetary levity and take what is available. Tsipras proposed that Greece have a July 5th referendum on how to deal with the financial crises making many very happy at the prospect of Greece defaulting on its debts. Since 2009 higher taxes and steep government cuts in exchange for bailouts have caused austerity measures that have unemployment at more than 25% on average and 60% among its youth—guess how they vote in elections…………………socialism because they have no opportunity otherwise which was always part of the plan.
Meanwhile in the United States as the nation continues to borrow around $100,000 every second leaving a current public debt of over $18 trillion Obama’s EPA is standing in the way of any further capitalists endeavors—most alarmingly the Pebble Mine in southwestern Alaska. The EPA with Obama has done everything it can to deny a mining permit because of the largest sockeye salmon run in the world which traverses the area. The mine is thought to potentially produce $120 billion dollars in new gold, but in just the time it takes the average person to pay their house payment from month to month, all the potential wealth that mine could have created would have been spent on the national debt. So it’s just a drop in the buckets, yet when even a drop would help, the Obama administration is more committed to the religion of global environmentalism. The dreadful cost of socialism has far-reaching impacts. For instance the cause of the current California water shortage as explained by Shannon Grove, Republican assemblywoman in Kern County is the EPA that created regulations that is literally dumping water into the sea to save a three-inch fish which resides in the area. The crisis is completely artificial because the environmentalists have used the EPA as a kind of inquisition where nonbelievers are tortured if they do not believe in the deity of Mother Earth. But behind the green hate for capitalism are roots that extend into various communist groups that have infiltrated our government for the purpose of halting capitalist activity—all the while increasing spending so that the economy will topple.
Yet nobody has heard much about this California drought, other than they need rain. It was a completely manufactured crises created by an intrusive EPA without proper priorities dedicated to human innovation. Capitalism likes the little three-inch fish from California, and the salmon in Alaska—and if left to their own devices will find solutions to have both, the wealth and the food supply, but there is more at work, a hatred of capitalism driven by rooted communism that is using sympathy for earth’s creatures to sabotage the American economy. The strategy will run dry sooner or later and when that happens America will be faced with the same options as Greece is now, regulated resources, lines to get gas, food, water and most of all—money. Confiscated assets will be the new word of tomorrow as tax increases and high interest rates will soon follow. All this will have been caused by excessively reckless spending and intentional sabotage of American assets and potential productive enterprise—all in the name of saving a few fish.
Look hard at Greece—I told you it was coming, and it’s on its way to America. It will have been caused by progressives for reasons that extend well behind a veil of conservation—directly into the foundations of communism which this country has fought many wars to prevent. Yet it’s in the United States in our schools, our government, and especially in our EPA. And it’s crippling our economy one regulation at a time. Greece didn’t have a choice; their economy was basically some ancient ruins and the sales of gyros to cruise ship tourists. America’s economic collapse is self-imposed, but intended by the same strategy as the radical Alexis Tsipras—to default on the debt and force social changes under a reset clock. Those behind the communist push want America at the same level as Greece and the other countries in the Eurozone who will also eventually fall under economic collapse as well. The restrictions on the economy are strategic to advance progressive political objectives. In the mean time, Americans will have to do something they are not used to, which they are just beginning to feel in California—restrictions to services to train them how to comply with central authority. The economic collapses are self-imposed both in the European Union and in the United States and those with their foot on the brakes are those who want global power for the sake of control. And that is something that nobody on the nightly news is willing to admit to anybody—especially since they have played their part in the debacle. But I can tell you this—people like me will remember how all his happened and I will be there to remind people what occurred and who was really at fault. That I will promise.
Rich Hoffman
CLIFFHANGER RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
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June 28, 2015
Gay Sex is Gross: Why traditional Americans are on a tactically selected vacation
I actually feel bad for many out there who have been reading here, and have listened to talk radio for some time and understood the warnings, yet didn’t fully understand what was coming. Progressives have a desire to “progress” from what we have traditionally been—which is the most economically powerful nation in the world that provides the most opportunity to the most diverse population anywhere—and to take the country to some centrally managed disaster they consider a utopia. Watching what’s happening to America presently is painful especially for those who love it. But progressives were always about performing this kind of military attack against traditionalists. They took advantage of our kindness, and the naiveté typical of American traditionalists. They have sought openly to not only progress the country beyond them—but to destroy traditional America in the process. It is now quite clear what Barack Obama meant when he said he planned to fundamentally transform America. After the Supreme Court rulings during the last week of June 2015 it is obvious what that means to progressives—and traditional Americans don’t like it. Matt Clark was back from his honeymoon and spoke very clearly about the tragic Supreme Court decisions involving the sustaining of Obamacare and of gay marriage. From WAAM radio in Ann Arbor, Michigan Matt had one of the better summations to date during his radio show and had a parade of very intelligent callers on to articulate their frustrations.
Speaking of vacations, if you are the type who is an innovator and a strong presence in whatever company you work for, you likely notice that whenever you take a vacation there is this vast parade of people who hide in your wake and try to assert their dominance while you’re gone. The stronger you are, the more of these second-handers there are to fight over the power vacuum you leave behind. It charges their ego like children to believe that they can steer the world as well as you have—even though they really can’t. They can hold the steering wheel and guide things along opposed to doing everything from the leading edge—but it’s their fantasy and it lasts until you get back from wherever you’ve been. It gets further infuriating when they declare themselves equal to the world, because what you do takes courage, insight, imagination, and a 24-hour, 7 days a week mental maintenance that they don’t commit themselves to, yet they want to be considered equal in the scheme of things—even though they don’t put nearly as much into success as you do. I have often deliberately baited these types over the years into revealing their intentions at times I determine to minimize the damage they can do—knowing full what their behavior patterns will entail to use their destructive behavior in a way that is positive toward a strategic assessment. In a lot of ways that is what’s happening on the national stage. I know I’ve warned about it for years, Matt certainly has along with a handful of others—but at some point you have to make the decision to let the progressives choke on their own skanky bi-product. They want to drive, they want the credit, but they don’t have the ability to sustain things so they progress themselves right over the side of a cliff threatening to take the rest of the nation with them. But, guess what—I’m not following and neither will most of normal America. To show the world what progressives are really about, we have to sometimes let them show their cards to a skeptical audience—which is what they are doing. Meanwhile we clean our guns in our garages and wait to return from a brief recess. Much of the damage currently witnessed can be repaired with good management. But these progressive scumbags need to be exposed, which is what we are seeing. Left alone they are painting the White House in colors of rainbows and unicorns while the rest of the world laughs, and it’s painful to watch, but it’s the only way to expose them of their true intentions.
My wife and I have been doing a lot of traveling lately and have been on the road extensively visiting family in remote locations. At rest stops along the way I would joke to my wife in the wake of all this progressive treachery that soon there won’t even be men and women’s restrooms—that someday soon we will be able to go to the same restroom at the same time. After all, with so many men who think they are women and women who think they’re men—complete with transvestites, gays, lesbians, pedophiles, child abusers, and other sexual deviants running around—what’s the point of even spending the extra money keeping the sexes separated with two bathrooms? Everyone might as well assimilate into some slime of humanity since progressives want to remove all barriers of judgment. But we all know that won’t work, it’s just a facetious statement. Normal Americans aren’t wired like that, and they won’t accept it. You know how I know that dear reader—because of the box office from the progressive machine itself in Hollywood, which I watch very closely to take the temperature of the country. When Disney puts out a romantic animation film like Frozen featuring two gay guys kissing and it makes a billion dollars at the box office, that’s when you can start worrying. But I think we’re all safe from that kind of thing. Not because Disney or some other studio wouldn’t want to try, but because movie goers would reject the premise—because they can’t identify.
The public schools are trying to wire our children into accepting gay behavior, as is every venue that government touches, particularly the entertainment industry. But what they can’t do is make it appealing to want to stick a part of your body into someone’s butt. That just doesn’t work and doesn’t have very positive biological implication in the realm of sex. It doesn’t make for a very good romantic comedy when people are forced to watch it on their movie screens—because human beings aren’t wired that way by nature. Progressives desire to progressive beyond such limits—but they are really just making fools of themselves. They are moving the needle a few percentage points today in the direction of their desire, but it won’t last. Gay sex is gross to most people and that won’t change through the aggressive progressive marketing that we are seeing. The harder they push their agenda, the more that Americans will cry out for traditionalists to come back from their vacations and resume control, which is why it’s important to let all this nonsense play out. If we always fix things for the progressives then they can pretend they are equal to the rest of us. Sometimes it’s good to take a vacation and just let things play out so their behavior can be exposed for what it really is. I know I’ve been warning people what would happen if progressives were not properly identified as the communists they truly are. But nobody wanted to listen because they were fat, dumb and happy. The money was rolling in, the jobs were plentiful, and our sports teams were keeping us entertained. It was at that point that people like me just dropped everything and went on vacation. You have to let the progressives show what they want to give the world so the world can finally dismiss them as irrelevant.
But that doesn’t take away the pain of seeing something you care about being dismantled and abused which is what is happening in America right now. It does hurt to watch, but people need to see this now so they can vote properly for the next president in 2016. They need to want the traditionalists to come back from their vacations of gun cleaning and Bible thumping and return America to normal. But before that can happen the progressives need to have complete ownership of the failure—which is what we are seeing at this very moment. Progressives might consider it a victory lap, but that won’t last very long because failure is a lonely road and so long as the traditionalist refuse to share that failure with them, there’s nowhere else to go but to say—“I told you so.” We all did. Traditionalists aren’t conquered or on the run, they are just on a tactically selected vacation—and they will return.
Rich Hoffman
CLIFFHANGER RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
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Gun Grabbing Obama: Attacking America from within by first disarming them
The communist oriented Democrats have been “community organizing” vigorously on the heels of the infamous June 2015 Supreme Court rulings going for what they think is the conservative jugular in the final year of Obama’s flamboyant rule as a socialist dictator. Over the weekend I received several emails from them advocating fundraising and liberal activism. Below is one such example from the Obama camp specifically targeting guns. Here’s what it said.
Friend —
We’ve had to come together as a nation too many times to mourn after horrific acts of gun violence. And right now, it’s not good enough simply to show sympathy.
We need to acknowledge that there’s more work to do — that these tragedies have become far too commonplace. This is a conversation that folks need to have, and organizers like you are the ones who will move it forward.
People across the country are stepping up, and OFA supporters and volunteers are working to prevent gun violence state by state and city by city — join their fight today.
As we take the time to heal in the shadow of this most recent tragedy, we have to ask ourselves what more we can do as individuals and communities to prevent guns from getting into the hands of dangerous individuals.
The lack of movement in Congress on this issue is incredibly frustrating. But their refusal to act won’t stop progress. Because of organizers like you, states like Washington and Oregon have introduced successful restrictions on gun purchases, like common-sense background checks.
No single reform will eliminate violence. But we can’t give up, or act like this is some kind of new normal. We have to make progress where we can, and OFA and other groups have a real path forward.
There’s much more to do — so join OFA in working for it:
https://my.barackobama.com/Stand-Against-Gun-Violence
I’m not giving up, and I hope you won’t either. Every voice is important.
Thank you,
Barack Obama
Remember, progress to a progressive is elimination one by one of the Bill of Rights, and the gun is highest on their priority list. So defend the gun by sending a nice message to OFA and let them know how you feel. Communists want a disarmed America for obvious reasons. It’s your job dear reader to make sure they don’t get their way. Send this article to everyone you know and make sure to take action and defend your rights—or you will lose them.
Rich Hoffman
CLIFFHANGER RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
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June 27, 2015
A Rainbow Colored White House: Once a nation of leaders–now overrun by second-handers
The White House putting rainbow-colored lights on it during the June 26th Supreme Court ruling in favor of same-sex marriage, or the previous day’s debacle of further sustaining Obamacare by that same court is evidence that the management of the nation is focused on all the wrong things in order to make the world “equal.” The world will never be equal—because there will always be one thing that will be ignored in that pursuit of equality—and it’s not black or white, rich or poor, or gay and straight issues—it is that the hard-working will always be plucked by the parasites of laziness. The unimaginative will always wait for those who think to provide direction. Leaders will always have followers, and those followers will always flock behind the brave. We call these followers’ second-handers and in the collectivist culture of the present White House they perform in all the classic ways of a typical follower, but they are allowed to believe that they can take equal credit for any successes that might occur. For the multitudes of second-handers this is good news for them—it makes them feel good, like they are part of problem solving the world. But they’re not. As always, and as it will always be, only a few do most of the work and take the responsibility of leadership as the others follow behind. Those who work hardest in our society will always be discriminated against by the second-handers. Second-handers are those who live through others—thus their designation. A leader will survive and flourish with or without a second-hander, but a second-hander cannot survive without a leader. That is the biggest difference and is the specific reason that capitalist cultures thrive whereas socialist cultures fail.
One of the great challenges of capitalism is in the nature of their corporations, which by their very design are socialist entities, or even raw dictatorships. The bigger they are, the more they resemble socialist enterprises. In these companies a ruling elite create a kind of flowchart leadership culture that have a mixture of second-handers and leaders who are all told that they are equal or in subservience to those above them, and they are forced to behave within that framework in order to get a pay check. This greatly limits the potential of the company because it allows second-handers to rise to the top by default through protection of an organizational chart. Washington D.C. is filled with these types of second-handers—people who think they are valuable assets to some government enterprise they have worked within for years. Their merit is not judged by their performances, but by their years of service. Leaders often become discouraged and either sit on their talents in frustration, or they leave not able or willing to take orders from a second-hander.
Of course second-handers are in the majority throughout the world, and these socialist systems were designed by them to hide their natural timidity. The primary reason all government departments and most large companies fail to innovate properly or remain competitive in global marketplaces is because the leaders within their organizations stop producing because they do not desire to share their efforts with the second-hander. Once the leaders stop leading, the second-handers flounder about directionless leaving as their only defense stacks of bureaucracy to buy time until some leader comes along to save them from their own lack of action. That is in essence what is behind most bureaucratic efforts—a lack of courage trying to hide the nature of the second-hander that designed it for their own protection.
Companies that thrive most are built by leaders. Those who survive longest find the leaders among their ranks and put them in charge—clearly forcing the second-handers to be driven toward objectives—and success is to be found in such a fashion. But when leaders are told to provide their benefits to others without merit, and that those others are equal to them, the leaders will just do something else and leave the second-handers to their own devices. It’s an unnatural relationship that is most exemplified by the current White House. With their display of the rainbow colors, they have shown the world that they have no idea what makes a country great and the lights are embarrassing. In this case they are putting an emphasis on gay rights but ignoring the rights of those who work the hardest—and that is a big mistake.
For instance, Tim Cook is a gay man and is the current CEO of Apple. Apple as a company is trading at a rate equivalent to a market capitalization of about $1.26 trillion. When Steve Jobs died, Apple took the best of their leaders and promoted him into the CEO of Apple which was a position personally mentored to Cook by Jobs even as he died. Cook’s success has nothing to do with him being gay, but that he was competent. However, without Steve Jobs, Cook would undoubtedly fail, just as it is presently on its decline as a company. Jobs built the foundation for Apple leaving a CEO like Cook to follow the formula of success, which is why the company continues to have value. But the innovation that made Apple great today was created yesterday by Jobs, not Cook. Without another Steve Jobs, Tim Cook will eventually fail and Apple will slide into the depths of mediocrity. Therefore Tim Cook is a second-hander to Steve Jobs. Tim Cook could not have created Apple from scratch the way Steve Jobs did. And without Steve Jobs, the company will collapse on itself as more and more executives take on the tendencies of a second-hander because that’s who is currently in charge. A failure to understand those relationships leads to eventual destruction 100% of the time.
Colleges are in the business of producing second-handers, not leaders. That is the reason the leaders of two of the most prominent companies in the world had their leaders both as college drop-outs—Bill Gates from Microsoft, and Steve Jobs from Apple. Microsoft after Gates retirement as head of the company has held their ground, but their continuous innovation that was seen under their former leader has ground to a stop and their decline is evident. Apple is not far behind—again because when second-handers are in charge they fail to uphold the ethics of a strong, imaginative leader. Whether the leader is Lee Iacocca from Chrysler, or Jack Welsh from GE, second-handers study, and study, and attempt to mimic the actions of great leaders, but they always fail. At best they prevent the decline of an organization with a slow slide into oblivion, but they can never advance it. For instance, there were many great minds in Europe during World War II. However, if not for General Patton, would Hitler have been defeated? No. It took one unusual general to lead millions of second-handers to victory over a tyrant. Without that leader Hitler would have won World War II. A failure to identify the leaders is one of the most detrimental aspects of any culture, and it is terribly embarrassing that the White House in Washington D.C. has displayed their vast ignorance to such a level.
America used to be looked at as a global leader, but with the proclamation that equal rights for second-handers is the primary motivation, instinctively the world knows that America is no longer a Patton of global trade, a Steve Jobs of innovation, or a George Lucas of imagination. It is a country waiting for somebody else to do something, and while everyone waits they pass silly laws about equality without paying homage to those most important to success—their leaders. When second-handers are promoted over great leaders the decline of the culture is dreadfully present. Therefore, equality is never possible. The vast majority of second-handers might be allowed to feel good about themselves at the expense of their cultural leaders, but when those leaders throw up their arms in frustration and walk away—the second handers have nothing to do but put rainbow lights on the White House and somehow declare it a victory. Meanwhile the world is laughing at the grotesque priorities of a nation that used to create leaders—who is now more concerned with appeasement as all second-handers do.
Rich Hoffman
CLIFFHANGER RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
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June 26, 2015
Clipping the Wings of Children: Public re-education centers open for business in your neighborhood
Even to this very day there has been great fear among conspiracy circles about the re-education camps that would spring up around the United States under United Nations control. Even Glenn Beck fell under the spell of that fear with his novels, Agenda 21. Essentially the strategy would be that local bureaucrats trained directly through local seminars into United Nations priorities passed down through Chamber of Commerce networks would gradually shut down private property taxing it beyond the reach of average homeowners. People would then be relocated onto government property using Sweden style public house to implement communities managed by the state. Those who resist would be put into a train and shipped off to re-education centers, similar to the concentration camps of Nazi Germany to either get with the “program” or to be killed. That is in essence what the conspiracy theorists have been concerned about. Yet reality is something else, the menace is not so literal. The bad guys don’t fit so neatly on a silver screen plot line—in a lot of ways, they are friendly faces from neighbors and community leaders who appear to do all the right things. But they are just as sinister nonetheless—perhaps worse because they behave in ways that we are taught not to identify as bad so we don’t see the behavior ahead of time.
For anyone who has ever had a pet bird, such as a parakeet they know that one of the things that must happen is that the wings of the birds need to be clipped so that if they get out of the cage, they won’t be able to fly too far. This always seemed bad to me. When I have had parakeets in my family I’d often get the birds out of their cages and let them fly around the house freely keeping a close eye on the door so they wouldn’t fly out and get away. But I didn’t like clipping their wings—it seems immoral to do such a thing to a bird. Yet its common practice at a pet store to deliver the birds with their wings clipped so that the buyer doesn’t have to worry about the little birds flying away. For human beings our wings are of course our minds. We fly not with wings, but with our thoughts and imaginations. That is the strength of the human being—the products of their minds.
In truth the re-education centers are already in place. We fund them with our tax dollars and we spend a lifetime of savings sending our children to their classrooms. Our public schools and colleges are those re-education centers that the conspiracy theorists have been warning about. Their primary function in these schools is to reprogram our youth into compliant citizens focused on progressive causes. In essence, to clip the wings of thought to keep their minds captive towards a cage of social justice as defined by progressives so that once grown, those students will be unable to fly away, but will stay in their cages for safety and reliability of food. The programming starts young and once the mind accepts the limitations imposed by the public schools and colleges, they will be adults forever after unable to fly away too far from the cages placed around them by progressive institutions.
The warnings have come from people like David Horowitz for many years. Many others followed—but the majority of the public wished to deny that this re-programming was occurring. I determined when I was going though the public school system that it was occurring and I resisted vigorously. If a teacher told me something was blue, I questioned it every single time—or I blew them off as know-nothings and obtained the information on my own. I was a naturally rebellious kid so that kind of defiance was easy for me. The angrier the authority figures were toward me, the more encouraged I was to indulge in the activity. Some people thrive in environments of conflict. Some people avoid conflict at all costs. Those unfortunately are the ones most impacted by this re-programming. In college I was sure that the primary focus of the institution was not in preparing students for a successful life in the style of American capitalism—it was to be in service toward a push for socialism on a mass scale. The entire focus of the institution seemed to be in teaching Keynesian economics and Marx philosophy. In essence, if birds were meant to fly and the most moral thing to do with a bird is to let it grow wings to fly as high and far as it could achieve in life, the intention of the education institutions were to clip the wings of those birds so that they would stay in the cages of life built by the politics of the day to make reliable taxpayers and well-managed creatures located in close proximity to the management tasked with feeding them. By clipping wings, the education institutions could ensure that every bird would be equally handicapped to live under progressive management. Even as an adult going into the Lakota levy fights of 2010 I still gave some benefit to the doubt cast by Horowitz over the years and had an open mind. Once I dug into the actual intentions of my local school system and contemplated the illogical diatribes they used to counter my assertions against them, it was clear what their primary focus was.
For me the straw that broke the back was when the school sought ways to cover up the story of a child molester in a third grade class—for the benefit of the institution at the expense of the individual lives of the students. About a year later after a third levy defeat the school dug in its heels to begin cutting programs to the students in spite of what the voters had declared. It was obvious that the intention of the school hell or high water was to impose a tax increase on the community and they would withhold service until they obtained what they wanted. They were playing an extortion game and using the children of my community to pull it off—which made me very, very angry, and changed my thoughts about public education forever. As I discovered in my research, all public schools were performing in essentially the same fashion, so it’s a nationalized effort coming directly from the Department of Education aligned with the progressive intentions of the national labor unions. The goal was to clip the wings of students so that they could be held hostage from parents who had placed all their trust into the schools leaving them with no other recourse but to go along to get along. It’s an abusive relationship designed to pave the way to extortion, which is not what education is supposed to be about. Parents want to believe that the education their children are getting are giving their children wings to fly with, but what they are really getting are wings clipped so that nobody can ever fly away—imprisoning them to the management desires of progressives within the United Nations. That is not a conspiracy theory—it’s a cold, hard, fact.
Most people don’t want to believe this hard truth, and I can understand it. It feels better to look at a parakeet in a cage and believe that we are saving it from the harsh world outside of their cage—that we as the owners are clipping the wings of the little creature for its own good. But in reality, we are denying it of its God-given right to live freely, and have destroyed its essence in the process. I am personally a person who supports zoos, aquariums, and theme parks like Sea World. But the same people who are advocating against Sea World’s use of killer whales are the same who most support progressive public education and the deliberate clipping of the intellectual wings of the youth—because at the heart of the United Nations efforts at all these issues—public education, conservation, civil rights, etc., is an almost god-like worship of nature. They care more for the earth than in human beings and would like to take humans back into a primitive state living in accordance with early nomadic people—to preserve the earth. Capitalism is a celebration of mankind’s mind. Socialism is a focus on the collective not only of human beings, but of all things on earth—and that is the intent of our education systems—to hold the minds of mankind within the cages of progressivism, not to protect them from the world, but to protect the world from humans.
If there is any doubt as to what I am saying—which I have said extensively over the years—watch the videos on this article, then do your own research. At that time you’ll discover that you and your children are just clipped winged avian nuisances that progressive intuitions want to stuff into a cage so they can worship their deities at the sacrifice of capitalism. That is what your children are learning in school and the path in life they are being imprisoned to follow.
Rich Hoffman
CLIFFHANGER RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
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