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November 17, 2013
Lakota School Board Activism: How things work behind the press releases
It is righteous to provide updates to the latest correspondence by the Lakota school board, especially when misdirection is involved. Below is a reply to a letter that was sent last week by my friend and No Lakota Levy supporter Graeme George. CLICK HERE TO REVIEW. The letter that Joan sent, who is the current president of the Lakota school board and one of the strongest advocates for higher taxes in the Liberty Twp, and West Chester area, indicates that the school board played no part in the levy antics that went on prior to the election which they won by less than 1%. The letter from Joan is a declaration of innocence and a statement of neutrality of any wrong doing in a close election. Yet it is clear from the Pulse Journal picture on the link above with Joan framed on the far right she was extremely active in pushing for levy passage. Since the school board is regulated by many laws preventing them from levy activism, they often rely on an inbred chain of command that does the dirty work for them, so that they can always have deniability—such as what Joan proclaims in the letter. So read the document for yourself dear reader, and then I’ll explain how the process works from my personal experience.
From: Joan Powell [mailto:joanpowell@fuse.net]
Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 10:42 AM
To: ’Graeme C. George’; ‘Mantia, Karen’; ‘Dibble, Benjamin’; ‘Murray, Ray’; ‘O’Connor, Lynda’; ‘Powell, Joan’; ‘Shaffer, Julie’
Subject: RE: Lakota School District Levy – November 5, 2013.
Not a single dime of Lakota money was spent on signs in this campaign. Every sign was bought and paid for by a community committee who raised money from individuals. Nor do we condone the stealing of signs in any way and as a Board/District has no knowledge of these activities. These young men made poor choices and if proven guilty should pay the price of their crime. Sign stealing or damaging is not condoned or considered acceptable behavior.
Unfortunately every election is tainted by unwise actions by individuals, some young and some old. We allow the police to investigate, and the courts to dole out appropriate punishment. So far we have heard nothing that indicates that these incidents were coordinated in any way.
On behalf of the Board,
Joan Powell
President, Lakota Board of Education
I must call attention now to the event which occurred to me personally on March 15th 2012 when I responded to the constant criticisms against me with a scathing diatribe directed at the perpetrators. CLICK HERE TO REVIEW. The school board had just suffered its third levy defeat and they had to break things loose. My affiliation with No Lakota Levy had just delivered a powerful wallop when they started Yes To Lakota Kids which garnered a lot of press coverage—particularly a Forbes article which got the attention of Lakota in a big way. CLICK TO REVIEW. The Forbes article came out on March 6. Upon seeing it, the school board became very concerned, so vice president of the board Julie Shafer went through my blog postings and found a response I had made in the wake of the Kroger Survey incident that she could use to attempt to smear me personally and posted it on her Facebook account specifically to encourage outrage among the levy supporters. CLICK TO REVIEW THE KROGER SURVEY. Up until this point my side and Lakota’s side had been fast and loose with the mudslinging, which was fine. They called me a greedy businessman and selfish meanie, and I called them latte sipping prostitutes with big asses. All’s fair in love and war, so it wasn’t a big deal. I had said far worse about Lakota and their supporters prior to Julie’s Facebook posting, but after March 6th, Lakota got scared—really scared because they saw what No Lakota Levy was up to, and they had to stop it, or fail to exist. They had to turn up the heat a lot and come after me in a way that was technically illegal, but from their perspective they had to. They had to maintain their emotional leverage upon the community, which the Yes To Lakota Kids was undermining—articulated in the Forbes article. The Lakota school board took personal action against me as activists to remove my name from contention hoping to destroy No Lakota Levy so that they could attempt another levy attempt during the summer of 2012. So Julie put up what I had said with the intent to create activism among the school levy supporters. That was her entire purpose.
Superintendent Karen Mantia then got on the phone and applied heavy pressure to what she considered “leaders of the community” with Patty Alderson being one—one of the wealthiest and most influential people in West Chester, and Cathy Stoker the West Chester trustee being another hoping to build a consensus against me of high-profile “women” a well-known progressive trick, the same one used against Mitt Romney during the latest presidential election—not because of what I said about levy supporters, PTA moms, or anything else, but because Mantia didn’t have an answer to the Forbes article. No Lakota Levy had reached out to the Community Foundation, which is a good group to partner up with because several No Lakota Levy people were on it, but well before March 6th they declined to be involved with No Lakota Levy because I was too divisive. This was before I ever said anything about them being prostitutes to their husbands or having asses the size of car tires. That came after the refusal to team up and the reasons provided, and was part of my pissed oftness in the blog posting which I couldn’t reveal without throwing some of my friends under the bus. So No Lakota Levy started their own charitable group which led to the Forbes article causing major political issues. It didn’t take much at that point for Mantia to call in support and convince Alderson to speak against me at a school board meeting that following Monday, as reported loyally by The Cincinnati Enquirer. Patti Alderson, board chair and CEO of the Community Foundation of West Chester and Liberty Townships, complained about my comments publicly to the board, which she had never done before until right after the Forbes article. Alderson said she wanted to clarify that her group, which also raises money for needy Lakota students, had no affiliation with Yes To Lakota Kids. Then West Chester Trustee Catherine Stoker said to the Enquirer that “the language used by Mr. Hoffman is not only egregiously offensive, but reflects badly on the No Lakota group that Mr. Hoffman supports.” From there a host of other women stoked directly by the Lakota school board said about me, “I was very disgusted by the blog Rich Hoffman posted,” said Lakota school mother Kim Hesselgesser. “I was also very saddened for this extremely disturbed man. To me it is evident that he has some agenda that goes far beyond increased school taxes. Although I hate the fact that he is getting exactly what he wants – a lot of media attention. I feel it is worthwhile to make the public aware of who they are truly supporting when placing No Lakota signs in their yards. Pro levy or no levy…is that the type of person you want leading a group in our community?” said Hesselgesser. Then there was another, Laura Sanders of Liberty Township said “Mr. Hoffman uses misogynistic and vile language when addressing women and mothers because most teachers are in fact, women and mothers. “He wants the public to think that he is merely attempting to rein in public school spending, but his underlying mission is really one of hatred and fear of women earning decent salaries. He alone is the destructive force behind the last three levy failures, and I hope this … convinces the women in our community that he is not a rational or credible source for the counterpoint argument,” said Sanders.
Again, nothing I said in those particular blog postings were things I haven’t said before publicly, and privately. Yet the timing is important because it all centers on the positive press that Yes To Lakota Kids received particularly after the Forbes article. The school board had no comment for the paper; they instead let Patty, Cathy, Kim and Laura do their talking for them. But, all those people were brought together by Karen Mantia and the antics of Julie Shafer indirectly from the Lakota school board. They could not win the debate, so they took a page out of an event that had just happened to Rush Limbaugh over the Fluke controversy. I know this first-hand because people close to Julie have told me; Lakota hoped to force me into a weakened public apology the same way Limbaugh was forced to do, as I was using a similar strategy as Rush Limbaugh. However, I’m not Rush Limbaugh. As No Lakota Levy did want to distance themselves for predictable reasons in a similar way that sponsors left Rush Limbaugh’s show Julie and the gang do not know of the events that led up to my comments in the first place where I told my friends that the “fat assed bitches were hurting children to extort money from the Lakota community and they needed to be stopped!” I made that comment when I learned that No Lakota Levy would be on their own in helping kids with their sports fees, about the same time that I learned a bunch of levy whores gathered at the Kroger Marketplace smearing my name to everyone who entered the building that they could get to talk to them. The phantom hand of the Lakota school board was involved in all these activities, and I could either take it, or tell them what I thought of them. Regardless, Lakota was going to try to go for a new levy because they refused to deal with their teacher’s union collective bargaining contract which was causing the tax increase requests. Lakota had already been beaten in several elections and never did answer the questions posed by No Lakota Levy. They simply did as Obama does, and that is ignore all unpleasant information and cover up their involvement with perpetual deniability. So what did I have to lose? Nothing. I had a book coming out soon unrelated to education and I wanted separation from education issues, and the controversy helped sell a few extra copies. So it was no skin off my back, and the fan fair delayed the levy vote for two years, which was very good for the Lakota community.
So when Joan says that the school board had nothing to do with the sign theft, and the pro levy activity regarding money and other pro levy activity, what she means is that their hands didn’t directly participate—but that they do passively participate through the channels described above.
That story is just one of many. It is not the exception, it is the rule. I have no doubt that through similar channels, the Lakota school board encouraged fundraising for the pro tax position, they encouraged sign theft, and they helped create a culture of maliciousness through their inner circles. They have legal deniability, but they are indirectly guilty. When Joan said in her post-election comments that many things “set the stage,” part of what she is talking about is described above. She has done a lot of table setting. On the fourth attempt, I did my own thing while No Lakota Levy tried to be fair and righteous, which was a Lakota strategy, to take the edge off the rhetoric which they couldn’t match. And the sign stealing was just as bad as it always was. The media were in Lakota’s corner, and the money flowed into the Pro Levy movement through channels shaped by the school board. Joan didn’t do the work directly through the board, but around the edges in the way that Julie put out the article I had written with the same intentions to create activism among their supporters.
That event I was involved in was the most personal example I have of how these kinds of things occur, so I can speak from the authority of experience. That is why I can call “bullshit” on Joan’s comments in her letter. Legally, she and her school board are covered. They have done no wrong under the law—but through whispers and notes under the desk, they’ve had others do it for them, so that the evidence could never be traced back to them. That is how they pass school levies—not through proper justification of income management, but through manipulation, deceit, and an arrogance that is socially destructive. It is important to remember that it is these people who run the schools that teach our children, and these are the measures they think are acceptable to get what they want. It should then come as no surprise when some of the students under their care try to hurt other people with coercion, or find themselves on the bad side of fate, because the kids are learning it somewhere, and the guilt falls squarely on school boards like the one at Lakota. They want the responsibility of being the center of the community. They can take the fall when things go bad. Letters like the one Joan wrote mean nothing to those who actually know how things work, and now you dear reader know it too.
End of Part One, read Part Two in the next installment
Rich Hoffman
November 16, 2013
The Obama Invasion: A 2014 car payment…………..without the car
I felt sorry for a number of Americans when President Obama attempted to apologize for the health care debacle over this last week. I know many people who have already lost their insurance plans, and this is before the employer mandate. Many more will be coming. My wife and I lost ours, but it really doesn’t affect us—because we never use it. We don’t go to the doctor. Over the years, we have practiced self medicine including major repairs to lacerations. I practically Super Glued my children together as they were growing up so to avoid the entanglements of the health care system which at the time was the best in the world. Ben Franklin lived into his 80s with no medical industry, and my grandparents lived into their 70s seldom ever going to the doctor, and this is the position my wife and I have taken. We’d rather live free or die. If a major illness hits us, we’ll take the later to preserve the former. And we don’t live sheltered lives. I ride a motorcycle every day of my life, and I ride it very fast. I ride it even in the snow and ice. She and I both live our lives dancing on broken glass knowing that it could break at any moment—and we’re OK with it. We carried health insurance at a premium of a few hundred bucks a month just in case—and now with the Obamacare issue; it is no longer worth it. I don’t like waiting in lines at the TSA controlled airports, I don’t like lines at the state controlled license bureau, so I’m sure not going to stand in line to have some state controlled doctor stick a thermometer in my ass. It wasn’t going to happen before Obamacare, so it certainly isn’t going to happen now.
However, many people do go to the doctor which these days are basically sales reps for the pharmaceutical industry. I find it rare to have a conversation with anybody in 2013 that isn’t on some sort of prescription medicine whether it be heart disease, cancer, or some sort of depression—and most of those are contrived by a doctor to simply bring cash flow into a pharmaceutical company that offers a drug for the ailment. Once such drugs are introduced to the human body the cell structure just like welfare recipients in real life become dependent and start to rely on the pharmaceutical drug. This is good for Walgreens and the Kroger Pharmacy, but it is bad for the bodies of the people taking the drugs. Drugs are welfare for the body, and once they are addicted to the supplement, the immune system no longer functions the way it was designed to. My position on medicine is the same as my social policies against welfare—hand outs, social safety nets, and third-party care make people weak, and the best way to overcome tragedy and illness is to fight through it as an individual. However, many of my friends do have bodies that are addicted to these drugs, they have cancer, and other diseases that the pharmaceutical companies offer relief in the form of medicine, and they are now addicted to those companies and the doctors who prescribed them. So Obamacare is a very real fear they have because incomes have not gone up, food prices are out of the roof, fuel costs have been too high, and health insurance has cost too much. To me, $200 dollars a month is too high, however at the start of the New Year 2014 many of my friends with cancelled policies will pay $500 to $600 dollars for their needed health coverage which is in essence a car payment—except they won’t get the car.
If many of my friends could have bought a new car prior to 2014, they would have—but didn’t because they couldn’t afford the $300 dollars a month extra on top of all their other obligations. So what makes President Obama believe that everyone will be able to pay $300 more a month on insurance? Where is that money going to come from? The answer is that he knows in the back of his mind that they don’t have it. He is using the classic Cloward and Piven strategy of fiscal collapse in order to bring about massive social changes which is a strategy created at Columbia University where Obama supposedly went to college. Obamacare is designed to crush the lives of the people who will have to pay $600 a month or more to get the same coverage they were getting at $300 a month. The extra money is going to pay for the policy of those who didn’t have insurance to begin with—it is wealth redistribution to the maximum extreme.
My wife and I will pay the penalty of $90 and we will get nothing—absolutely nothing for that money. Before Obamacare, I at least had some health coverage in case something really bad happened, but now I don’t. And where will the $180 dollars in penalties that my wife and I are forced to pay go—to the insurance of some destitute scum bag, crack whore, or obese food addict that purposely lived their life poorly—made bad decisions which made them dependent on government. I don’t want to help those people make their lives worse by helping them do it—yet through the government; I am being forced against my will to give money to those idiots for some ridiculous “greater good,” as defined by government.
Obamacare is a communist backdoor attempt. History will view it the same way as the Russian Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd—only the cries for communism won’t come from the city streets of a working class looking for equality against the perceived bourgeoisie but from the government addicts who want Obama to steal from the smart, wise, and healthy to fix the broken, sick and stupid. Nationalized health care is a progressive—(communist) dream and is designed to collapse the economy of America with the same ideology that was supposedly behind the World Trade Center bombing. American health care was the best in the world and was driven by the finest economy on planet earth. To attack it is to strike at the symbol of economic health that it once represented and to slowly destroy the American economy from the inside out. The $300 dollars that most people will have to pay extra for health insurance in 2014 is outright theft, and a nudge further to the political left of the entire nation. Obama and his minions know that many people currently addicted to pharmaceutical drugs will become more ill, they will even die because of his decision—but he doesn’t care—because he knew in the beginning as did the rest of them, that there would be casualties in this progressive advance. They only care if the causalities happen to their political enemies as opposed to those who support them.
So when you get your insurance bill in 2014, you are seeing an all out assault on American life—and more specifically your life. You are seeing the results of communism coming through the back door instead of the front and trying to catch you while otherwise distracted. And Obama knows what he’s doing. He might feel the bite of it presently when he has to speak to the press, or the people, but he knew from the beginning what Obamacare was—and it isn’t American. It is good to be nice, and civil to others. It is even nice to be compassionate. I do feel sorry for the street-walker, the homeless degenerate, and the typical gas station attendant. I stopped in a convenience store the other day to buy a Mello Yello for lunch and paused to watch the intellect of the cashier and a line of destitute souls buying lottery tickets. If I could have captured the intellect of the 7 people talking I might have been able to power an old IBM 386 computer between all of them. I felt sorry for those people, but I also realized that they were who they were by their own decisions. They chose to smoke too many cigarettes during their teen years, they chose to not read books and instead develop leisure time activities centered on drugs and alcohol. They chose to live off of government instead of trying to earn a real income because they are generally lazy. They chose to ride a bus instead of driving a car, or to live in government housing when they could own a home. They chose not to build their intellects, but to live as parasites off others who do have developed intelligence. I feel sorry for them not for what they are, but for what they could have been, and in their lives, it’s too late. Most of them could not redeem themselves within a lifetime, so they don’t even try. They effectively ruined their lives before ever getting started and it is these people who the government wants to chain the rest of the country to out of compassion. That is a bad strategic decision, nationally.
I won’t be participating in Obamacare. I’ll pay my fine like I throw money at a toll booth driving through Chicago, or paying taxes to a stupid public school but I won’t participate further and I’ll find a way to get my wasted money back through some tax dedication that is perfectly legal. I’ll get my money back one way or the other—but I won’t participate. I do however feel sorry for those who are trapped; their bodies are addicted to pharmaceutical drugs and have conditions that their immune systems can no longer fight without Walgreens help. Obamacare will sink them, and it is quite on purpose. Barack Obama knows it—he is feeling the pain of it, but collapse of American health care was the goal from the beginning—and nobody should kid themselves otherwise. He can apologize, lie, manipulate and otherwise deceive, but the truth is coming out ever so slowly, and it will have a major impact on virtually everyone who lives in America. The only way out at this point is to replace the members of the House and Senate during the 2014 election so that a total repeal is possible. But short of that, 2014 will be very painful financially for nearly everyone we know as neighbors, friends, or otherwise. And there is no escape this time.
Rich Hoffman
November 15, 2013
Meet Lakota Jim: Why school levy supporters are “stupid”
It is important to understand the kind of person who voted in favor of the school levy at Lakota, and many other places during the latest election. Once the results were in at Lakota, I received a parade of arrogant emails by statist pro tax supporters, and one of them I found particularly fascinating. Below I included a couple of days of comments that Jim from Lakota left me so to examine the mentality of the typical levy supporter. I have displayed only Jim’s comments as they were given to me omitting my responses so not to confuse his dialogue and the psychosis behind it. Jim below was so happy that he had gained the legal ability to steal my money. He resorted to name calling and rhetorical statements which centered on the standard labor union positions of—greed, statism, and “majority” democratic rule. It is not by accident that Jim said virtually everything that Superintendent Mantia said after the election because they are all functioning progressives—which is a direct allusion to classic communism. The fascinating aspect of Jim at the end of his comments is that he actually calls himself “pretty conservative.” He is the kind of person that is destroying our modern world, and he actually feels entitled to be as parasitic as the government will allow him. He supports aspects of American life that would have been despised 60 to 70 years ago, yet he is now representative of a “majority,” and he is proud of it.
His first comments begin of course after the election results were confirmed. He couldn’t wait to inform me he had gained through democracy the ability to steal my money, then when pressed on that statement, he resorted to the “greater good” mentality by framing me as “greedy.” The conversation only became more revealing from there. Read for yourself.
jim
jimzillion@yahoo.com
72.49.131.31
Submitted on 2013/11/06 at 3:24 am | In reply to overmanwarrior.Been waiting 5 years for this….ha ha hahaNovembra, LOLFinally, the majority has come to their senses and no longer want to see their community suffer because of no good politicians that haven’t solved this problem.Call you local congressman. Get him on this , try putting energy into making real changes that don’t hurt our children.Later, you have no issue to get attention anymore. We know you won’t he contacting our local rep to actually do something.
jim
jimzillion@yahoo.com
72.49.131.31
Submitted on 2013/11/06 at 12:09 pm | In reply to overmanwarrior.Yeah, greed, your last statement proves it. As long as you want something from ME.Yep , you are greedy and could Cate less about the children of Lakota.Have “fun” paying those taxes. LOL
jim
jimzillion@yahoo.com
72.49.131.31
Submitted on 2013/11/06 at 9:31 pm | In reply to overmanwarrior.Does the divorce mean you are leaving? Good riddance…LOL
jim
jimzillion@yahoo.com
72.49.131.31
Submitted on 2013/11/06 at 9:32 pm | In reply to Dan.Yeah, excellent with distinction for so many years just isn’t good enough…LOL, waaaahhh
jim
jimzillion@yahoo.com
72.49.131.31
Submitted on 2013/11/06 at 9:36 pm | In reply to overmanwarrior.Oh and by the way, you love the roads that the group hug democracy created. You like the military that the group hug created. How about the freedoms your group hug democracy has created and protects. Funny, you hate the excellent with distinction school district that helps your property values. Someone is greedy and miserable…
jim
jimzillion@yahoo.com
72.49.131.31
Submitted on 2013/11/07 at 12:53 am | In reply to overmanwarrior.Well since you’d rather fly than drive and don’t need the military. You probably don’t need the group hug created by the police and fire. So, please call them both. Tell the fore department that if your house catches fire, you got it covered with your garden hose.
And if someone commits a crime against you, you’ll do the detective work.
No need to use those group hug union thugs.
Go for it Mr. I don’t need govt. Give them a call. Let us know when you’ve done it.
Divorce the police and fire. They can leave you if you get in a wreck too.Nice thinker..Hmmmmm.LOL
jim
jimzillion@yahoo.com
72.49.131.31
Submitted on 2013/11/07 at 1:08 am | In reply to overmanwarrior.And further more. I don’t want to pay for your protection the police provide. I want a divorce from them. they should not patrol your Neighborhood. Why should I pay for the gas and their salary? If the fire dept pulls you out a bad wreck with the jaws of life. Heck, I shouldnt pay for that! Why?Same logic you are using against the schools. And yes, valuable educated people that benefit society are providedby the lLakota schools. So , you are benefitting from their products. Now , if you live in Cincinnati, I would sympathize somewhat.
jim
jimzillion@yahoo.com
72.49.131.31
Submitted on 2013/11/07 at 2:03 am | In reply to overmanwarrior.Ok, make sure you contact them to make them aware. Also, put a note in your car to make sure they don’t transport you no matter what condition you are in.
And while your at it, don’t use any roads crested by the govt, nor buy products created by people that went to public schools, products of the government.
And, get off the internet, that was created by a govt funded university.
Oh, and any medical advancements found by govt dollars, don’t use those.
Just go live somewhere put in the woods you rebel, eating totally off the land.
Yeah, the government really sucks.
Funny, you use George Lang as a promotion for your book about corrupt politicians. LOL, irony
jim
jimzillion@yahoo.com
72.49.131.31
Submitted on 2013/11/07 at 2:48 am | In reply to overmanwarrior.Oh and to further make you look Luke the liar and delusional fool you ate.Prefer to fly huh?He and his wife enjoy marathon motorcycle trips and is most recently proud of a trip to Key West where they covered over 3000 miles in less than 7 daysGet off the PUBLIC WORKER created roads Rich.Divorce the all public services.I’m tired of paying for your road use for your marathon motorcycle trips causing wear and tear on roads.LOL, stick a fork in you rich. Youll never publish this comment, you are done!
jim
jimzillion@yahoo.com
72.49.131.31
Submitted on 2013/11/07 at 11:47 am | In reply to overmanwarrior.Excuse it away. You want the govt services that only YOU see as a benefit to YOU.
Does govt get way too involved, hell yeah. I’m pretty conservative. I don’t vote either party because they are both morons.
You don’t see how educating children benefits our society. You bash teacher unions. Why? Because they make 60,000 average?? Seriously?Don’t tell me you are one of those tea party hypocrits. You’ll bash unions but go and watch major league baseball or football which have union “thugs” too.
Guess some athlete making millions playing a game is more important than some “bitchy” teacher. Again, this thinking is selfish and about YOU., your enjoyment.Stick a fork is an expression. Not a threat, not sure how in the world you’ve never heard that before.
Jim obviously chose to ignore all the facts that were presented to him as a voter and favored instead the progressive ideology of public education, that they are the care takers of children, and that endless supplies of money should be thrown in that direction in order to support his beliefs.
Many facts contrary to what Jim cited as reasons to vote for a school levy were provided yet he ignored them all. He chose ignorance so that he could believe what the so-called majority believed, which is an opinion shaped by years of labor union practices. Those labor unions were brought to America under a communist plot—the evidence is indisputable. Yet Jim believes that it is perfectly alright to steal my money because he along with others wish to take it. I do not pay higher taxes to Lakota by choice. I didn’t move to the district knowing the tax rate—they have been changed by outsiders through elections migrating to the district from progressive parts of the country over many years. Yet Jim feels entitled to insist that I move out of the community because he wants higher taxes, yet I was here first. I have been a stable force at Lakota; it is people like Jim who have been the variable. When I protested that theft, he then called me greedy—which is the standard progressive argument for everything. Jim is not part of a progressive conspiracy—but he has been instructed to become part of one through his education, his associates, and his politics.
The case has been made clearly; the most dangerous predator against young people is the public school system where pedophile teachers have a smorgasbord of innocent young minds to feed off of, and all too often they do. One of the most dangerous and destructive things a parent could do to a child is send them to a public school. Yet the government school of Lakota sold itself as a safe haven for children—and that more money would only guarantee more safe learning for kids.
What many don’t question is that it is not the corrosive teachers who are most dangerous; it is the things that the poor little kids learn while in public school. The bright minds of children with infinite possibilities before them moments before they attend their first day of kindergarten are destroyed bit by bit with each day that they attend public school. Why, because of Pirsig’s Metaphysics of Quality. CLICK HERE FOR REVIEW. Children naturally want to be at the front of the “train.” Public education teaches them to place their minds, and imaginations into the back and this ruins them for life. What people like Jim, Joan Powell and Mantia think are good, are only good for their political beliefs. What’s good for a human being is totally different. Public schools destroy minds, they don’t enhance them.
Think of all the people you know dear reader—how many of them are really alive—I mean REALLY alive? Yet they all started as bright-eyed young children. What happened to them? Public education…………the kind of public education that Jim supports. It only leads a mind to the kind of thinking shown above, a mixed up contraption of conservative politics, communism, labor union thuggery, statism, followed by tabloid entertainment driven by small mindedness. The people who succeeded most at public education are not happy adults. Look around and name one successful, happy example. Name one! Name one greatly successful person who got that way because of public education. Nobody can do it……….because they don’t exist. Yet Jim swears by it and feels entitled to write me to rub my nose in his victory.
Levy supporters are horrible people. They support a structure of learning that is destroying our world and they are proud of the path to hell they are paving. They are even pompous about it. Jim and his people are happy to have been given by government the ability to steal my money for a product I don’t support, which actually perpetuates violence and the destruction of children’s minds. Normally I would be very angry with Jim for his arrogance, but the next day after the election I was watching my grandson learn to climb the steps of our house and was amazed to watch all the little neurons in his brain kicking on. Everything is an adventure to a child, and I reflected how much I wish that human beings maintained their childlike curiosity well into their adulthoods. That they don’t can only be blamed on public education which seeks to put weights on the wings of learning. The moment a child enters those vile institutions, their learning ability becomes stifled. It won’t happen to my grandson, he will have no choice but to reach for greatness and see adventure with every breath of his life. But for people like Jim, he is the total of more than 20 years of mental destruction and I suddenly felt sorry for the poor fool. My thoughts of painting the sides of buildings with blood went away when I thought of how sad and pathetic Jim sounded in his comments to me, and could see clearly the source of his thinking. It would be terrible to be trapped inside the mind of a person like Jim—the typical school levy supporter who has lost the ability to think, process data, and learn. It wasn’t that Jim didn’t read the information No Lakota Levy provided, he just couldn’t because his mind had been turned off by public education. The information against the levy was placed before their very eyes and they were not only unable to read it, but not willing. Their minds were so sluggish that they simply allowed other people to think for them. People like Jim just repeat like a parrot what modern politicians say, what the unions write down as bullet points, and whatever Hannah Montana from The Pulse happens to write in the newspaper. They are non-thinking slugs inept by their own faulty minds and I feel bad for them the way I’d feel bad for the victims of a terrible car crash, or the trapped occupants of a burning building unable to see for themselves how to escape. Jim is doomed to a terrible life because his mind is broken, and his thoughts fragmented concoctions. Like chirping birds hungry for a new worm from their mother government Jim and his clan of levy supporters screamed for a new tax. They didn’t care where the money came from—that it was stolen from someone else. They only care that it goes into their mouths to fill their bellies. They didn’t care because their mind as adult’s no longer think—and that in itself is a terrible tragedy.
My anger at public education can be traced back to this solitary trait, that I see it not enhancing the lives of children, but destroying them. It saddens me to speak to an illiterate adult that has actually devolved from the average 4-year-old mentally. Due to this observation it is impossible to endorse public education unless you are a brain-dead sloth—which it appears Jim is. That is the only conclusion that could be made after reading Jim’s comments and studying critically the meaning behind his thoughts. School levy supporters are not just bad people who are metaphorically stupid—they are literally stupid, victims of minds that have been destroyed by public education. And they are too stupid to even know better the way an insect doesn’t understand that it’s caught in a spider’s web, or caught in the current of a swimming pool to be consumed within the filtration system forgotten forever to the world. Minds like Jim’s are no different, they have degenerated year by year from age five to arrive an illiterate mess to adulthood with Frankenstein ideals, none of them self-motivated. It is just tragic. I do forget sometimes that not everyone is awake, that many people like Jim are happy being blissfully ignorant and led about by the stupid, corrupt, and tyrannical because their minds have long left them. It is to the stupid that public schools like Lakota appeal to, and they know how they think, because they taught them. School levy supporters like Jim are simply trapped by government into believing anything they are told, because they are witless to question their reality—and that is even more tragic than a new tax of stolen money from the unwilling. At least people who are robbed of their money by people like Jim still have minds to become outraged and see it as an imposition. It is the biggest difference between the levy supporter and the non levy supporter; one still thinks for themselves, the other allows institutions to do that thinking for them. Instead of wanting to pummel people like Jim for their aggression against me and obvious attempt to rub in a victory from his type of voting slug, I can only watch Jim trapped in a system of his own ignorance as he lives his life consumed like a bug in a spider’s web by the mental acuity which placed him there in the first place. For a fleeting second I feel sorry for him because it must be terrible to be so damn stupid.
Rich Hoffman
November 14, 2013
Operation Underground Railroad: A hope for tomorrow that too many children need
My stance about public education over time has changed from primary concerns about finance, taxes, and teacher unions to the safety and preservation of young minds.Young people are the future of our country and the mind that drives young people is vastly more important than any other economic or social element. So great care needs to be applied to promoting the most aggressive growth of their world outlook—and in public education when a trusted teacher or administrator uses children as a sexual outlet—not only is the act despicable, but it stunts the wonderful growth that might otherwise occur in a young person. This kind of thing happens too often in public education because teacher unions prevent proper accountability giving refuge to the vile and evil among our human populations. Even worse than the high cost of education, teacher unions are allowing too many sexual deviants to be employed in close proximity to children.
Sex trafficking of children is something I feel very passionate about. I have talked about it here many times, and I find it to be the most horrendous human endeavor currently occurring. People who seem rational, sane, and logically good are buying plane tickets to Southeast Asia too often to engage in sex with under aged children. Too many grown adults deep into the corruption of their depleted ages seek out to psychologically destroy the innocence of youth as though they unconsciously are aware that they are out to eradicate optimism in the world because they can no longer touch it. Like parasites they seek to steal it sexually through children—and it is one of the vilest practices currently happening anywhere.
Glenn Beck told his audience Wednesday November 13th, 2013 that they helped raise $300,000 in a single day to combat child sex trafficking after a broadcast and promotion of the new group Operation Underground Railroad, which I deeply support. Thanks to the efforts of The Blaze readers, two Operation Underground Railroad jump teams have already been deployed to rescue more victims. Operation Underground Railroad is a group of freedom fighters intent to end the worst aspect of modern slavery, funneled through the sex trade industry. Some of the primary members have been working undercover for the American government for many years, but are sick and tired of just going after the effect of sex trafficking, the poor kids stolen all over the world to be used as sex slaves to punks, drug dealers, scum bags, and dick-heads. However, those efforts have not been enough. So Operation Underground Railroad members have decided to treat the cause, not the symptom and go after the losers who support human trafficking directly with assaults going straight to the door of evil.
Needless to say, I am a fan. If they want any help busting those scum bags they can give me a call anytime. It would be MY PLEASURE. But these guys at Operation Underground Railroad are professionals fully capable of taking care of these perpetrators on their own. What they need most is MONEY. It costs a lot to send up a plane and go on a mission to a far away land to rescue children from the evil that seeks to consume them. Endeavors like what Operation Underground Railroad are embarking on often take six figures to launch at a minimum not because the guys are getting rich off the effort, but because air plane operation and residence in a foreign country is extremely expensive. So money is needed to launch missions to the doors of evil and rescue the children enslaved under the architects of evil. The slave holders of the sex trade also need to be punished. They do not respect the court systems of the world and believe that their money can always purchase lawyers who will keep them out of trouble. This has allowed abuse in a similar way as the teacher unions have in public schools to advance the sex trade industry at an explosive rate.
No child anywhere should ever have to worry about becoming a sex trade slave. No child should ever have their innocence robbed from them to fulfill the fantasy of some bloated adult corrupted by their mismanaged lives. No child should ever grow up in fear of anything—because that is a direct failure of the adults who care for them. It is preposterous—and unforgivable! No child should be bullied, should have their mind stagnated, or worry that some stranger might sweep them up and whisk them away to have their lives ruined to satisfy the sexual hunger of a social parasite.
So please do support Operation Underground Railroad. Modern slavery is happening right under our noses. It might even be your next door neighbor. It might even be you dear reader. If you participate in pornography chances are, you are supporting the sex trade industry. If you hooked up with a chick in Vegas who was a nude dancer, chances are she was a used up victim of the sex trade prior to turning 18. If you went to one of the Nevada whore houses, you are supporting indirectly the sex trade industry which dangles not too far behind the antics of legalized prostitution. But worse than that, if you went out of the country for the purpose of having sex with a child, you are scum. You are a vile human being that deserves punishment far beyond any court system of bureaucratic pin heads. It’s not because you paid money to have the exchange, but because your money went to a slave holder against a child’s will that will impact them for life. For those types of people, Operation Underground Railroad is targeting and I applaud the effort not just with a standing ovation, but atop the tallest ladder I can find and as high as my hands can reach! CLICK THE LINK BELOW TO LEARN MORE.
OperationUndergroundRailroad.org.
The sex trade industry is driven by a demand piloted by evil. There is nothing redeeming about sex with innocent children……….nothing. There is no forgiveness of stealing away innocence from a life that has not yet had the privilege of making decisions about their life. Unlike the adults who seek out sex with children, a trafficked child does not have a choice. They can either be killed or allow the imposition upon them—because once they have been taken from the safety of their family environment—they are vulnerable and the crime is against the future potential of that child. It is wonderful to learn that there are people in Operation Underground Railroad who feel as deeply about this topic as I do. It is even better to see them seeking out to punish this vile evil where they live—in the darkness of the earths furthers corners.
As for the teachers of public school, if you confiscate cell phones with the hope of seeing topless pictures of your students, or you are texting sexual innuendo to young people fulfilling a deep dark fantasy that you think is carefully hidden, you are flirting with the crimes of the sex trade industry that Operation Underground Railroad is directly fighting—and are part of the problem. By giving money to Operation Underground Railroad the support structure to defeat such evil is put in place by good honest people who still recognize evil for what it is, and have the back-bone to confront it directly. There are few organizations that are worth such support these days, and I feel privileged to know that Operation Underground Railroad is out there doing what I wish I could do—beat the sex trade industry at its doorstep, and give a few more children hope for a tomorrow that they wouldn’t otherwise have.
Rich Hoffman
November 13, 2013
The Hope That’s Coming: A Star Wars mythology to change the world under Disney for the better
It looks like I’ll get to see the next Star Wars Episode 7 with my family at the new Liberty Center movie theater as the release date is now December 18th 2015. This is exciting news for me as my family loves Star Wars. Philosophically, Star Wars if very healthy stuff full of optimism for human potential. George Lucas has done something quite marvelous with it, he has combined the raw selfish energy of Han Solo—who is unquestionably Randian, and merged his usefulness with all the comparative religions of the world embodied in The Force. I have said many things about Star Wars and the impact it has on our society upon these pages because I see it as a cultural phenomena that has the potential to produce a seismic shift in human consciousness, and I’m going to say things here that I think will give people a lot of hope. I’ve been holding off until after the election to address some of these exciting developments, but I know you dear reader need a shot in the arm—so I intend to give it to you.
As I’ve discussed on several occasions I would say the most formal schooling I had which I didn’t consider a waste of time was the ten years I spent studying comparative religion and world mythology. The most important person in my life and primary motivator of my ideals has been and will always be Joseph Campbell. My parents did a good job of giving me value, but my intellectual development came from Campbell. What he did in the middle of the progressive era was quite astonishing. He was a conservative who had a following of radical hippies in search of meaning, and Campbell was able to transcend all those ideologies with an intellectual pursuit that has shaped our modern world. One of those nutty hippies was George Lucas—who wasn’t like the rest of the drug induced film makers studying under Francis Ford Coppola in San Francisco. He was a race car driver who had nearly died in a car wreck and had his life flash before his eyes with an intellectual hunger that was moving at a million miles an hour. It was in this period that Lucas discovered Campbell’s epically important book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, the most important book in my personal library. I spent ten years reading Campbell and was for a time a member of The Joseph Campbell Foundation while George Lucas sat on as a board of director. Campbell had died in 1987 but ten years later we had a big meeting in Washington D.C. which for me was a personal odyssey similar to The Wizard of Oz. Upon arriving at “OZ” I discovered that everyone was far from epic in their intellectual standards and had become mere cult-like followers of Campbell, which left me feeling as if I pulled back the curtain of an entire intellectual industry and discovered a decrepit old man attempting to appear greater than he really was.
I always took my kids to these kinds of things, which pissed off everyone as Campbell’s wife Jean had never had a child. There were no kids at the big meeting of the minds and they resented me for bringing them. But as a father, I always delivered to my kids the opportunity to live their own life of adventure without restriction of intellectual limits, and I wanted them to meet the kind of people who molded public sentiment. After the meeting, my family broke off to do our own thing and we didn’t socialize further with the Campbell followers. It was Halloween in Washington D.C. and my plan was to take my kids Trick or Treating. We went to a neighborhood in Chevy Chase, but my kids refused to go up to a single door because they didn’t trust the neighborhood and felt out of their element. So we went back to our hotel and I improvised. Using lessons learned from Joseph Campbell I decided to give my children a mythic experience, since that was what Trick or Treating was supposed to entail. While the Joseph Campbell Foundation members were down the hall trying to resurrect his dead spirit with chants and hand-holding, my kids went trick or treating at our hotel door. They were only 6 and 7 years old at the time and my wife was worried that we were ruining one of their precious Halloweens of their youth by being on the road. So I dressed up as a different character that opened the door each time my kids visited. I’d give them candy then they’d run down the hall of the hotel giving me time to change into a different costume, then they’d come back. I used everything I could find inside that hotel room to try to appear as a different person, or (creature) each time they arrived at the door proclaiming, “trick or treat!”
To this day, as recently as this latest Halloween where they are now girls in their twenties, they still talk about that Halloween in Washington as being their favorite—and it was a one man show put on by me exclusively. My wife did help a couple of times as I struggled to find new costumes with what was inside our room. The reason my children loved that Halloween so much was because I gave them a mythic experience, something that was representative of reality but spoke of higher ideals beyond temporal existence—which is what most everyone in one form or another yearns for. Some people look for it in sex, love, career, drunkenness, financial power, or in eating—but everyone is looking for meaning to each breath they take.
Star Wars is the best embodiment in the modern world of human meaning. It is mythology that goes well beyond a simple blockbuster film intended to make money for the Disney Company. It has an importance that is unfathomable to contemporary thinking, and is a gift from George Lucas that only he could have come up with after surviving his devastating car wreck. He lived a life of extremes; he was a race car driver, and an avid reader who wanted to be an anthropologist. Those two radically opposite ideals are what make Star Wars so important to the human race. The reason is that Star Wars is about values, and conveying those values through a story, which is the heart of all mythologies. Star Wars because it was set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away is able to transcend religious temperament here on earth and explore the meaning of value with conflict removed. Such an example would be of whose version of religion is correct Muslims or Christians. Star Wars explores the same values without violating people’s religious beliefs which is all too often the greatest hindrance to understanding. So it is far more than just another movie, it has the power through its story to transform culture—and I predict that these new films will do just that.
When the first Star Wars film came out in 1977 America was in the middle of the Carter administration, Nixon had just been impeached, and gas prices were too high causing long lines at the pumps. Iran was moving aggressively against America on multiple fronts and the USSR was trying to inject communism into America through every open sore. A New Hope followed quickly by 1980’s The Empire Strikes Back changed Hollywood and by their own merit kick started the 1980’s and the Reagan presidency. The way those movies captured the imagination of the world was a form that only mythology could generate. Star Wars is bigger than Star Trek which explores ideals in an interesting way. Star Wars is purely about mythology and the power of it to convey complicated messages. For the same reasons that my daughters loved that particular Trick or Treat event in Washington D.C. as little girls, Star Wars for many people no matter how jaded, is their “mythic experience,” and they can’t get enough of it. Star Wars is about values.
When George Lucas wrote the character of Han Solo played by Harrison Ford, he thought of all the motor heads he knew from his racing days. Lucas unquestionably had read Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, and Han Solo was his answer to a Randian archetype. He meant for Han Solo to be won over by altruism conveyed through Luke Skywalker during the course of the movies and learn how to think of others first—it is the classic sacrifice and the bliss stuff so crucial to Joseph Campbell’s writings. That was before Lawrence Kasden got a hold of Lucas’ script and made Han Solo one of the most compelling characters in the history of film—unintentionally becoming the ultimate hero of the entire saga. In fact, what is missing from Return of the Jedi and the prequal films is a Han Solo type of character. Lucas attempted to humble Solo a bit by the third film, and it came out a bit flat. Even though Lucas intended to make an altruistic film out of Star Wars, the values of the characters took on a life of their own and became their own mythic experience. Lucas being enough of a lover of capitalism wisely let the story take on the form that THE FORCE intended and let things develop along their market value. Harrison Ford went on to become an international sensation while Mark Hamill even though he was the star of the films, got lost in the shadows.
The new films are being written again by Kasden, and the implications of this are quite extraordinary. Kasden is a very, talented story-teller who clearly understands mythology in ways that are different from George Lucas and very complimentary. Harrison Ford, Hamill, Fisher and many of the original cast will be back for the new films, and Ford appears to have a multi picture deal with Disney, so the Millennium Falcon will survive well into the future of the Star Wars franchise it would seem. The Falcon is the most important space ship ever created, even more so than the Space Shuttle. It is a modern-day pirate ship and symbol of freedom and rebellion in the Star Wars universe, and is one of the most recognizable objects on planet earth. If I had to take a bet, I would say more people know more about the Falcon than who their local congressman is. They probably know more about the Millennium Falcon than most of their own family members. Disney wisely is beginning to flex their mythological muscle already announcing that they are building a full-scale replica of the Millennium Falcon at their Anaheim Park in California prompting this guy below to declare:
This has been my life long dream… to walk in a full-scale replica of the Millennium Falcon. After this, I can die a content middle-aged man.
Well, I reflect his sentiment. I’m right there with him and the hundreds if not thousands of others who share his opinion. I have not been shy about my love for the Millennium Falcon. My current favorite place in the whole world physical and virtual is aboard the ship I have on the game The Old Republic which is very similar to the Millennium Falcon. I understand why people are so excited about a full-scale Millennium Falcon at Disneyland, it is for them a mythic experience. I will love taking my grandchildren aboard a Millennium Falcon looking up at it from the foot of the loading ramp. That will be magnificent.
After eight years of Obama no matter what their political affiliation, people are tired. People don’t like communism and socialism, and for nearly 16 years, the United States government has forced heavy doses of socialism upon America growing government in ways that modern mythology has failed to capture. Television shows reflect too often statism, music is too political, and our court system is loaded with greedy lawyers trying to make mountains out of mole hills taking advantage of ACLU cases. Millions of online gamers have retreated from the real world to the virtual one to escape the tyranny of statism—because no place else is dealing with the mythic experience they require to comprehend the forces at play in their lives—except Star Wars.
When the next wave of Star Wars hits in 2014 with the Disney XD television show titled Rebels, it will have all the familiar signs of the past, the positive social impact, the economic stimulation, the cultural desire for goodness and fighting evil on behalf of justice. But this time a Disney financial machine in need of a new wave of revenue will use its considerable power for good because for the first time in decades the market need for goodness will line up with the needed greed of corporate interests and will benefit society in countless ways. It won’t be just a movie that comes out, but a mythological experience that will engulf most levels of human existence, and will be one of the greatest vehicles of capitalism displayed in a number of years.
Hollywood as a whole is in trouble. Labor agreements with the various entertainment unions will paralyze the industry in the coming years—within four years to be specific. Several studios will go out of business like the many steel and auto manufacturers of the past—collapsed by the labor unions and their collective bargaining agreements. Money men won’t risk their money if they have to share too much wealth and will move on to other forms of revenue streams—likely oversea investments. The reason Star Wars moved to December 18th, aside from gaining an extra 6 months to do post production work, was to avoid soaking up the money that can be made off the next Avengers film, and other big movies like Jurassic Park 4, and the Superman VS. Batman. Once Warner Brothers and Disney have played out the superhero films, and the stars demand larger fees under union rules, there won’t be many other large projects that can carry the type of box office numbers these big action films produce. The union wages being so high forces great box office turnout, and people aren’t going to line up to see the newest Oprah film, or romantic comedy getting box office numbers that justify the investment. This is going to crush Hollywood, because the revenue stream won’t keep going. Disney however has Star Wars, and they can hedge their labor costs with theme park revenue. Without those theme parks, Disney would be victim to the same kind forces that the other studios are going to face—parasitic labor union practices. Because of the vacuum of power that the Hollywood left will have in this period, they will be forced to compete with Star Wars, which is a force for good—or they will be financially crushed. The string of progressive films that have been projected upon the silver screen for two decades now will abate, because capitalism will force their hand to abandon their liberal ideals the same way that Lucas had to re-think Han Solo as a character—because the market drove the character’s importance.
Behind all this is a rather solid formula that Joseph Campbell outlined in his life’s work on comparative mythology. That work directly shapes the kind of stories that are told in the various Star Wars formats, whether it be film, television, books, gaming, or comics—the need for the stories are what matter most, and the reason for the need. Once those things are understood, they can be explored in the story telling process. That is precisely what is going to happen when the first Star Wars film hits in 2015. A market need is going to be fulfilled in a big way, and that need was created by anxiety driven through lack of mythological coordination. Statist governments have attempted to suppress that mythological need and reshape it in their own image—and they have foolishly attempted to force it down society’s throat without listening to the market needs. In the Star Wars equivalent, if government had been in George Lucas’ shoes, they would have forced the Luke Skywalker angle and suppressed the Han Solo one—and what they would have ended up with would be something along the lines of the prequels—entertaining, nice to look at, but lacking the kind of meaning that makes grown men want to walk through a full-scale Millennium Falcon as their life goal. It says a lot that a fictional space ship that is over 30 years old has more mythological meaning than any other creation proposed over that same span of time. The Falcon represents rebellion, defiance, speed, and freedom—that is why people love it. And as long as those symbols exist in our society, statist government will not succeed. So when Star Wars hits the new theater at Liberty Center, and a wave of excitement emits in a way that few people have seen in their lifetimes, more than a movie will be presented. A mythology will be offered, and that is more powerful than all the weapons of the world—because weapons are built to destroy the will of an enemy with fear. Mythology is designed to build a mind up to withstand the fears they are presented with, and in a perpetual game of tug and war between those two forces one that is generally regulated to only religions and some mild forms of entertainment, the other is supported by large governments with the endless ability to steal the money of their tax payers to support their grip on power. Star Wars does what only mythology without the congestion of focus on the afterlife can achieve, and that is to bring the mind to what it truly craves which is freedom, innovation, and rebellion against those who seek to suppress it.
I can’t freaking wait!
Rich Hoffman
November 12, 2013
The Pornography of Joan Powell and Micheal Clark: An unholy alliance of media and government
Another lap dog of the Lakota school system during the election of 2013 was Michael Clark of the Cincinnati Enquirer whose interview with Joan Powell prior to the levy vote was so close to pornographic that it should have been rated XXX. CLICK HERE TO SEE IT. Those two should have at least gotten a room and not done their dirty deeds under the roof of a tax payer building. By definition, pornography in this case is: the depiction of acts in a sensational manner so as to arouse a quick intense emotional reaction. We already knew what kind of guy Clark was. His wife is employed by public schools, so all his articles have a pro-government school slant. He did give No Lakota Levy a little coverage, just to keep the story line compelling, but nothing that would cause any danger. No Lakota Levy spent thousands of dollars on Enquirer ads, and Clark did seek out opposing opinions like the one below where he did confirm what I had said on election night, that many NO Voters did not show up at the election—because they took it for granted. Here is a quote from Clark’s recent article on the matter:
Bob Hutsenpiller, a local business exec and a leader of the No Lakota tax campaign, also cited the sparse ballot:
“That was part of Lakota’s strategy, with not a lot of things for (voters) to vote on. Sorry to say, but I have heard it from many seniors already who say ‘I should have gotten more involved.’”
Ron Lumpkins, a longtime resident of Liberty Township whose children graduated from Lakota decades ago, said the few local issues and races weren’t compelling enough to get him to vote. “When you get older and your kids have graduated years ago, you aren’t that involved with the schools,” he said.
Anti-tax sentiments were also active among some school parents.
“We’re already taxed to death so I wasn’t for it,” said Robby Smith of West Chester Township, who said he did not cast a ballot Tuesday.
Those guys were not alone, it appears that there were many anti-tax people who simply thought that the No Lakota Guys had this election in the bag, and they did not show up to vote. They took the effort against the levy for granted, and as Hutsenpiller said, it was part of the Lakota strategy……….or as Joan Powell uttered………“It is a sum of all the efforts from this campaign and all the work done on previous attempts that set the stage. The community campaign volunteers did a great job of contacting individual voters through phone calls and person-to-person canvassing. That personal contact was essential.” Part of that “setting the stage” was to force No Lakota Levy to prove they weren’t a bunch of “meanies” putting them on the defensive with insane accusations and boycott threats. This kept No Lakota Levy from tapping into the “anger vote” which played into the Pro Levy Lakota strategy, and kept turnout low from the anti-tax faction. Lakota also sought to win over all members of the media………..particularly 700 WLW which No Lakota Levy had a forum in the previous three elections. Through Willies in West Chester and Sheriff Jones, Lakota attacked that format not so they could communicate why Lakota schools needed a tax increase, but to keep No Lakota Levy from having a platform to tell the truth. Lakota sought to keep the truth away from people. They certainly sought to control the information which reporters like Clark willingly obliged.
After the election the pro tax people were beating on their chests proclaiming that the “majority had spoken.” I covered this in another article. CLICK HERE TO REVIEW. If Lakota really wanted to know what the majority thought, they’d support another vote giving people like Robby Smith, and Ron Lumpkins another shot to defend themselves from Lakota. Statistically, the election was that close and if anybody really cared, all the votes would be heavily scrutinized which would close the gap even further. The election is a statistical tie as it stands today, and another election would be justified if the “will of the majority” were really desired……….but its not. Lakota doesn’t care what the majority wants, they simply want a higher tax, and they will do anything and destroy anybody to get it. That’s all they stand for and ultimately what they are teaching children at Lakota.
It is hilarious that so many of these reporters believe they are fighting a moral crusade to pass a higher tax just because people like Joan Powell—who is a realtor, wants to use Lakota schools to sell easy homes to a bunch of panicky 30 something parents with school age children. The levy for people like her is to make money for her profession, and most of the staunchest levy supporters have their hands in real estate from the residential side—because it helps fill their pockets with money. The crimes against children are obvious yet people like Clark continue to support public education because ultimately he benefits from it. That’s OK; time will confirm all these accusations. The writing is on the wall, and history will prove what I’m saying to be right. Many people like Robby Smith and Ron Lumkin are not quite yet ready to admit to themselves what a corrosive force public education is in our communities so they don’t feel passionate enough about it to vote during off-season elections. They regret it now, but in the future they will act on their impulse much sooner, because it didn’t take long for the Lakota thugs to show their true colors. No Lakota Levy warned everyone, the media sought to suppress the message, but the information was on websites free to everyone. And that information will be true tomorrow as it was yesterday, and we will be there for the next time………….because you better believe it…………..there will be a next time.
Rich Hoffman
November 11, 2013
“The Majority Has Spoken”: Lakota Schools brags about their tax increase
“The majority has spoken,” Lakota? Are you fu**ing serous you low life scum bags? Where was “the majority spoken” quote on the last three elections? You idiots have a very selective memory……..but rest assured, I will continue to remind people 5 years from now, 10 years from now and 20 years from now what a bunch of fools, crooks and manipulators you were in 2013. I have never met such bad people as you who run Lakota in my entire life and I have known drug dealers, hit men, organized crime pawns, crooked cops, and corporate crocodiles. You people are the worst because you openly lie yet seek to deceive while pretending that you are angelic. I have already given my statements about the levy and how I feel about Lakota which has not abated after the election. CLICK HERE FOR REVIEW. And my opinions about public education are worse than ever. Lakota refused to listen to the other three election results and simply took some time off from the levy attempts while they rebuilt their public image and tried again in an off-election year. You didn’t listen to the “majority” of the voters from the previous elections and cut teacher salaries. You simply went for another levy attempt again and again until people said “uncle” and caved in to you losers. You people at Lakota are vile parasites. You won an election through extreme—and I mean extreme coercion, and you call it “the majority has spoken!” Well, to that I have a five-finger salute with four fingers missing, and only the middle one paying Lakota any attention. You people are absolutely unreal and I will NEVER forget it. I kept my temper in check until I saw this Pulse Journal article by Lakota official reporter Hannah Poturalski the lap dog of Superintendent Mantia. 
My 80-year-old good friend Graeme George sent the following letter to the Lakota School Board. Unlike me, he still believes public education can be saved. He has been hopeful and optimistic over the years as I have only become angrier and angrier with each new scandal. Maybe when I’m 80 I’ll cool off enough to put up with these idiots the way Graeme has. Graeme has used his years of maturity to quell me quite a bit, and I appreciate him. He and my wife are probably the only two people in the world who can calm me down once I get pissed off. So I’ll take a cue from him and let him speak out against the DISPICABLE comments by Mantia and the Lakota gang in the Pulse Journal article by Hannah. Here is Graeme’s answer to the Lakota School Board, so that the people who wisely voted NO understand how things work behind the scenes and know what’s really been going on.
Lakota School Board,
You WON the levy vote Tuesday, the 5th, the only way you could.
At taxpayer expense, you put out, or had put out, THOUSANDS of “YES LAKOTA” signs.
But, you stole, or had stolen, or allowed to be stolen, HUNDREDS of “NO LAKOTA LEVY” signs.
Those NO signs were paid for by taxpayers who don’t want HIGHER taxes.
You WON by less than 1% of the vote.
Putting out THOUSANDS of YES signs, and stealing HUNDREDS of NO signs, was how you WON the LEVY VOTE.
It will cost taxpayers FOURTEEN MILLION DOLLARS in HIGHER TAXES, because you employed thieves to do your work.
The Today’s Pulse of Butler County, November 10 – 16 quoted you saying “the majority has spoken.”
No!
The majority was cheated by criminal activities of people who stole our “NO LAKOTA LEVY” signs.
I put out NO signs several times after they were stolen. Many signs were destroyed and were replaced.
Some of us will appear in Butler County Court Wednesday, the 13th, when Joe Behm will be charged with theft.
He was photographed stealing our sign, and the license plate of his car was also photographed as he made his getaway.
Some of us will appear in Butler County Court Wednesday, the 20th, when Dillon Castner, Devon Jackson, Levi Combs, and Robert Rainer will be charged. Who do you think they will say led them to steal our signs?
Taxpayers won’t forget the methods used to get an LSD levy passed, and the amount taxes were raised as the result.
We must assume you will use these tactics every time you want to gain more money for the District.
What are our kids learning by these tactics? What are they learning by DOING these tactics?
With the money spent on the “Communications with the Public Program” about what the public wants in their Lakota School District, what did you learn?
Apparently not enough to SELL the levy. You had to resort to the methods described above to accomplish your goals.
Graeme George
During the recount, attorneys should check the ballot seriously. I would not put it passed Lakota to stuff the box, and every vote should be disputed. If Lakota really wants to see the “Majority” then we should vote again, and see how many people show up to protect themselves from higher taxes! But Lakota hasn’t got the guts……….because they know how they won…………..and it wasn’t straight.
Rich Hoffman
The Perfect Plan of a Communist White House: Obamacare–the attack on America
It doesn’t happen very often but sometimes I run across something that I don’t think I could say better. One such thing is a bit of commentary Wayne Allyn Root wrote about Obamacare that I thought was simply fantastic. After reading it, I concluded that I wouldn’t change or add a word. In it Root states clearly what Obamacare is all about as a progressive creation and it is something that every American should read. From my readers here at Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom I get dozens of these types of articles every day by email, and unfortunately I can’t often use them because the script is usually not up to my standards of analysis. The submissions are often interesting but are either too extreme or constructed off pure frustration. Other times they are laced with incomplete thoughts reporting only the results of things, and not the cause. With the Wayne Allyn Root article, seen below, he digs down to the heart of Obamacare in a way that I agree 100% with, and he managed to do it at around 1200 words, which is quite a feat.
Barack Obama is a doomsday president—meaning I believe he is deliberately seeking to wreck America from the kind of country I grew up in—and trying to make it into the kind of country he thinks it should be based on his childhood in Jakarta, Indonesia. He thinks he is doing the righteous thing, in a similar way that terrorists believe that they are doing the right thing based on Allah, or the Devil—or whatever demon haunts their thoughts. Bad guys always think in their minds that they are doing what’s right—they seldom ever want to hurt others for the simple joy of hurting. Barack Obama is a domestic enemy—there is no other way to understand his actions. While it may not be popular to say such things, the facts point to the noted reality—Obama and his clan of progressive scum bags wish to destroy America starting with the medical industry through its entanglements with the economy. Obama’s America is not the John Wayne America—it is an anti-imperialistic one that seeks to bring down the great “evil” beast from the inside out. Obama is not loyal to the American working at the local McDonald’s unless they wish to join a communist labor union. He is not loyal to the gun shooters of Kentucky, or the hot rodders cruising the streets of Gatlinburg, Tennessee. He is not loyal to the suburbanite conservative living in Butler County, Ohio . Obama is loyal to dismantling The United States to fulfill the work of his childhood mentors, and he only partners up with people who will help him with his intended goal of destruction of the earth’s last superpower in favor of global equality—particularly for places like Jakarta.
Last week Obama declared over the cries against his Obamacare program, that America should commit more resources to the country’s roads and infrastructure. He declared that Europe was building roads, China was building roads, and Brazil was building roads. But what he didn’t say was that all the countries he mentioned were either politically run by socialism, or out-right communism. Obama is a communist—he’s not even a soft tempered socialist—he’s a hard core—KGB rotten, scum bag communist—the kind that was warned about in the 1940s and 1950s. It does not matter if he is a card-carrying communist the way his mentors were during his childhood. What matters is what he believes—and how his actions give it away. Lawyers typically lie, cheat, and do whatever they have to in order to win their case. Obama is a lawyer—he will deny, deny, and deny until the end of existence. The truth will never come out of his mouth—because it’s not in him—at least not toward the American people. I have to believe he is probably good to his family—he’s probably honest with his children, and someday I’m sure they’ll spill the beans to what their dad believed deep in his heart. The evidence points to that conclusion now, and it’s a heart that doesn’t bleed red, white and blue—cowboy westerns, self-reliance, and American ingenuity. Rather Obama’s heart only bleeds red—the red of places like the former USSR and the global universities who believe to this very day that communism is the way all governments should function. These were the beliefs that gave young Obama his thoughts which were given from fathers who were communists, radical socialists, and revolutionaries too busy with their life to teach the little boy anything useful. Obama, the man—lost of any fatherly influence can only be considered great in his own mind if he fulfills the dreams of this fathers—his childhood role models—who were in some cases card-carrying communists’ intent to destroy America. Obama by his actions has shown that he wishes to fulfill their intentions . This makes him a domestic enemy from the perspective of traditional America and he would be prosecuted by the law—if he wasn’t at the head of the highest office in the land and had the Department of Justice eating out of his hand like a farm-yard cow chewing straw through an electric fence.
When I was a kid, there were often arguments that big time wrestling, the kind of stuff seen on TNT today, where Hulk Hogan, Jessie the Body Ventura and many others participated in, was fake. Many wanted to believe the story lines, the plots that took place out of the ring—and refused to believe that some of those characters were actually working together—and that the whole thing was only a show. Such is the state of modern politics. Publically the political participants might appear to spar over some issue, but the whole thing is only a gag—meant to tell a story. Deep in their hearts, all the politicians think alike as they were all taught in the same places by the same types of people—college professors like the radical nut jobs at Columbia University (read the link at the end of this article). Obama is the political version of Hulk Hogan—a character invented by big time politics to tell a story and disguise the real intent behind Obamacare. To pull it off, politics needed a communist who would swear under oath that he was a capitalist, who leaned toward Islamic faith while declaring he’s a Christian, and that he was born in Hawaii when it has been proven that the birth certificate was a fake. (Click to Review) That’s not to say that Obama wasn’t born in Hawaii, but the mystery surrounding his birthing records continue to be just cause for speculation. Obama has spent millions of dollars trying to hide his past for some reason that is still not been proven sufficient—besides his saying so. So with that set-up to provide context, enjoy what Wayne Allyn Root had to say about the true intention of Obamacare, and be sure to share this with those who need to hear it:
Why Obamacare is a Fantastic Success
By Wayne Allyn Root
There are 2 major political parties in America. I am a member of the naïve, stupid, and cowardly one. I’m a Republican. How stupid is the GOP? They still don’t get it. I told them 5 years ago, 2 books ago, a national bestseller ago (The Ultimate Obama Survival Guide), and in hundreds of articles and commentaries, that Obamacare was never meant to help America, or heal the sick, or lower healthcare costs, or lower the debt, or expand the economy.
The GOP needs to stop calling Obamacare a train wreck. That means it was a mistake, or accident. That means it’s a gigantic flop, or failure. It is NOT. This is a brilliant, cynical, and purposeful attempt to damage the U.S. economy, kill jobs, and bring down capitalism. It is not a failure; it is Obama’s grand success. It’s not a train wreck. Obamacare is a suicide attack. He wants to hurt us, to bring us to our knees, to capitulate, so we agree under duress to accept big government.
Obama’s hero and mentor was Saul Alinsky, a radical Marxist intent on destroying capitalism. Alinsky’s stated advice was to call the other guy a terrorist to hide your own intentions. To scream that the other guy is ruining America, while you are the one actually plotting the destruction of America. To claim again and again. in every sentence of every speech that you are saving the middle class, while you are busy wiping out the middle class.
The GOP is so stupid they can’t see it. There are no mistakes here. This is a planned purposeful attack. The tell-tale sign isn’t the disastrous start to Obamacare. Or the devastating effect the new taxes are having on the economy. Or the death of full-time jobs. Or the overwhelming debt. Or the dramatic increases in health insurance rates. Or the 70% of doctors now thinking of retiring- bringing on a healthcare crisis of unimaginable proportions. Forget all that.
The real sign that this is a purposeful attack upon capitalism is how many Obama administration members and Democratic Congressmen are openly calling Tea Party Republicans and anyone who wants to stop Obamacare terrorists. There’s the clue. Even the clueless GOP should be able to see that. They are calling the reasonable people, the patriots, the people who believe in the Constitution, the people who believe exactly what the Founding Fathers believed, the people who want to take power away from corrupt politicians who have put America $17 trillion in debt, terrorists?
That’s because they are Saul Alinsky-ing the GOP. The people trying to purposely hurt America, capitalism and the middle class, are calling the patriots by a terrible name to fool, confuse and distract the public.
Obamacare is a raving, rollicking, fantastic success. Stop calling it a failure. Here is what it was created to do. It is succeeding on all counts.
#1) Obamacare was intended to bring about the Marxist dream- redistribution of wealth. Rich people, small business owners, and the middle class are being robbed, so that the money can be redistributed to poor people (who vote Democrat). Think about it. If you’re rich or middle class, you now have to pay for your own healthcare costs (at much higher rates) AND 40 million other people’s costs too (through massive tax increases). So you’re stuck paying for both bills. You are left broke. Brilliant.
#2) Obamacare was intended to wipe out the middle class and make them dependent on government. Think about it. Even Obama’s IRS predicts that health insurance for a typical American family by 2016 will be $20,000 per year. But how would middle class Americans pay that bill and have anything left for food or housing or living? People that make $40K, or $50K, or $60K can’t possibly hope to spend $20K on health insurance without becoming homeless. Bingo. That’s how you make middle class people dependent on government. That’s how you make everyone addicted to government checks. Brilliant.
#3) As a bonus, Obamacare is intended to kill every decent paying job in the economy, creating only crummy, crappy part-time jobs. Why? Just to make sure the middle class is trapped, with no way out. Just to make sure no one has the $20,000 per year to pay for health insurance, thereby guaranteeing they become wards of the state. Brilliant.
#4) Obamacare is intended to bankrupt small business, and therefore starve donations to the GOP. Think about it. Do you know a small business owner? I know hundreds of them. Their rates are being doubled, tripled and quadrupled by Obamacare. Guess who writes 75% of the checks to Republican candidates and conservative causes? Small business. Even if a small business owner manages to survive, he or she certainly can’t write a big check to the GOP anymore. Money is the mother’s milk of politics. Without donations, a political party ceases to exist. Bingo. That’s the point of Obamacare. Obama is bankrupting his political opposition and drying up donations to the GOP. Brilliant.
#5) Obamacare is intended to make the IRS all-powerful. It adds thousands of new IRS agents. It puts the IRS in charge of overseeing 15% of the U.S. economy. The IRS has the right because of Obamacare to snoop into every aspect of your life, to go into your bank accounts, to fine you, to frighten you, to intimidate you. And Obama and his socialist cabal have access to your deepest medical secrets. By law your doctor has to ask your sexual history. That information is now in the hands of Obama and the IRS to blackmail GOP candidates into either not running, or supporting bigger government, or leaking the info and ruining your campaign. Or have you forgotten the IRS harassed, intimidated and persecuted critics of Obama and conservative groups? Now Obama hands the IRS even more power. Big Brother rules our lives. Brilliant.
#6) Obamacare is intended to unionize 15 million healthcare workers. That produces $15 billion in new union dues. That money goes to fund Democratic candidates and socialist causes- thereby guaranteeing Obama’s friends never lose another election, and Obama’s policies keep ruining capitalism and bankrupting business owners long after he’s out of office. Message to the GOP: This isn’t a game. This isn’t tiddly-winks. This is a serious, purposeful attempt to highjack America and destroy capitalism. This isn’t a trainwreck. It is purposeful suicide. It is not failing, it is working exactly according to plan. Obama knows what he’s doing. Stop apologizing and start fighting.
Oh and one more thing, Conservatives aren’t terrorists. We are patriots and saviors. We represent the Constitution and the Founding Fathers. We are the heroes and good guys.
Read more from Root at The Blaze:
Rich Hoffman
November 10, 2013
The Capitalism Of MMOs: Uncharted demographic numbers that spell doom for socialists
For those who have read the novel Atlas Shrugged and have an appreciation for it, let me share with you my own private Galt’s Gulch—the Atlantis found in the novel where an intrusive government gave the best minds in the world little choice but to simply go on strike and let the parasites of society rot on the vine. My paradise does not exist somewhere in the real world. I know many people, some with considerable amounts of money who are making arrangements in the wake of the Obama administration to re-establish themselves in places like Belize and Argentina to run from the encroaching governments that exist in the world. That is not my plan, as I see it as pointless, because eventually, the scum bags will be knocking on my door there as well. So for me—physically, I will stay in the real world and fight them, I’ll fight them in court, I’ll fight them in politics, or I’ll fight them with fists and guns—but one way or the other, I will not comply with governments hell-bent on individual destruction in the name of socialism. The distinction is a simple one; I support unhampered capitalism while my political enemies support degrees of socialism—through Social Security, health care, and various proposals of wealth redistribution. Most politicians alive in America today are some variation of a socialist because they seek to advance their power and influence artificially with looted money consumed by taxes—and they create more laws and policies as ways to extract more of my money.
With such a social position, it makes for awkward dinner conversations. Even though I appreciate that some of my well-to-do friends continue to invite me to all the big events around town, the charity extravaganzas where all the powerful minds of media, business and politics gather to stroke each other and feel important. I despise many of those people because of what they represent as entities openly advocating altruism not for what it does for the unfortunate, but for their own power base–and don’t make an effort to disguise it leaving such evenings fruitless. Taxation is often advanced through altruist schemes, and it disgusts me. I’d rather spend my time in my personal Galt’s Gulch where pure capitalism is alive and well, where I can do pretty much what I want when I want to do it, and I can fly around from point A to point B without the stupid FFA getting in my way, or the FCC trying to regulate everything I say and do, or the TSA trying to frisk me just because I want to make a regional flight to a city two states away. Or nearly half of everything I earn going to the IRS forcing me to run faster and faster on a treadmill that the government controls so they can take my money and give it to some slug who grew up doing drugs, slutting themselves around having babies out of wed-lock, or genuinely abusing themselves physically and mentally. In my leisure time I look for ways to be away from all those elements, and I have found it in the video game The Old Republic—and my current excitement is that they have just created a new expansion seemingly just for people like me who love to fly, but don’t want the extra cost of housing an actual airplane at a hanger that is marred down in more rules and regulations. The enjoyment of real-world flying is buried in paperwork, fees and taxes. When the new combat space simulator opens in December, I may never see anybody in the real world again, because I simply love such things, and will likely never leave the virtual world of The Old Republic again. I’ve flown in real life, and over the years I’ve played hundreds of thousands of hours of flight simulators and aerial combat games—and the brain really doesn’t know the difference. So I am very much looking forward to this new element in my current favorite game Star Wars: The Old Republic.
On that game my wife has over 2 million credits and I have about half that. She is very rich in that virtual world, because we spend a lot of time in The Old Republic doing things that earn credits—which is the money system exchanged. I also spend a fair amount of time on the Bioware website following the complaints of other gamers playing the game. I find their reasons for paying a monthly fee to play the game to be fascinating as many of them are raised by public education to believe in altruistic practices—so many expect Bioware to give away things for free, but many of the hardest core gamers are very much capitalists—people who are very innovative and expect to keep what they earn as they play. This leaves Bioware always looking to create incentives to keep game players pushing to do more things and stay interested enough that they pay their subscriptions and spend hundreds of hours a month playing. The incentives are credits and other rewards such as leveling up, earning certain titles, and acquiring unique items.
The Old Republic is what they call an MMO, a Massive Multiplayer Online game. As you play the game online, thousands of other people are playing with you in the same environment. It is similar to popular games like World of Warcraft in that the big distinction is that the worlds within the game are truly massive inspiring people to play together or against each other on a truly epic scale. Something that everyone who plays these games understands is that they expect to keep what they earn—and they get very angry at game developers who short change them with restrictions. If in The Old Republic Bioware taxed some of the credits my wife and I have earned at the same rate that occurs in real life, and gave those credits to new gamers who only played a fraction of the time that we do, most people playing The Old Republic would find that imposition absurd—unfathomable even. If Bioware did something like that, they would lose players by the hundreds. The players would leave to play another game where rewards were not consumed and distributed to those who don’t have the same level of commitment. Most people understand that it is unfair to tax in-game credits and give them to players who didn’t earn them.
Gamers who play these kinds of MMO products universally are raw capitalists. They totally get it and when it’s asked why they play so many games so often, the reason is similar to mine—because it is their own Galt’s Gulch. They know they don’t have the same opportunity in the real world to be successful because they either don’t have the political connections or access to capital because it’s been stolen from them by government. So they play video games because at least there, they can keep what they earn. I know this culture very well. Both of my daughters worked for Gamestop for a while, my oldest was actually a manager at several stores all over Cincinnati. When I’d go to see her for lunch I would get the opportunity to study these people and explore what motivated them. They are a relatively new market demographic that nobody in government knows what to do with. They as a generation from age 40 down to age 10 have pretty much dropped out of life. They don’t care to join country clubs to socialize, they don’t waste their time trying to get rich in the real world because it’s nearly impossible with all the government looting, and they don’t trust the media or their education institutions because they’ve been lied to and are disappointed. They don’t typically vote, they eat a lot of pizza, and they are happy to drive a piece of crap car because they don’t care if they meet a spouse. Most of those things take them away from their game environments, so they don’t participate. The game awards mean more to them, even though they are virtual. I was seldom ever at Gamestop with my daughter where she wasn’t slammed with business. It’s a gigantic industry. For instance, the new Call of Duty video game just released made a BILLION dollars in just a 24 hour span of time. A billion with a “B” which is a tremendous amount of money spent on a product of any kind in just one day.
The Old Republic video game I play with my wife cost $240 million just to produce the original content which launched with the game two years ago. If I had to guess, I would say they’ve invested at least that much more in the game since the release, and they are of course expecting to make the game profitable which means they have to make enough revenue off subscriptions and other revenue streams to justify the expense. With a half a billion dollar front loaded investment, Bioware understands that more than a few overweight geeks playing the game in their basement are needed. It has to be somewhat mainstream to have financial viability at that level of investment.
What all those MMO games have in common is capitalism as the primary driver. Game developers understand that it is incentive that drives game participation and the more restrictions placed, the lower the game sales. The reason that online gaming is such a current phenomena is because it is a refuge for people who love capitalism, and most young people do. Socially through their educations they have been taught socialism, which they find unattractive—but are intellectually unarmed as to how to deal with it. So they go to the online world of their choice and invest their time and energy into virtual capital instead of the kind based in reality because the virtual stuff is more real to them. (Think about that.) Most modern gamers find the fantasy world of World of Warcraft and The Old Republic to be more real than the REAL world. What does that say about our society?
The FCC would if they could regulate this gaming industry. After all, the NSA probably knows everywhere I’ve been and what I have done within The Old Republic just as they are tracking everyone playing all games online. And that is what scares them, because in their giant mega computer that comprises all that data and studies the behavior patterns of the modern America—or global video game players as there are people from all over the world playing The Old Republic they know what I just professed, and they are terrified to name it publicly. They cannot turn off such games through regulation as much as they’d love to because of the riot of anger that would ensue. People have found refuge from the statist world within video games, and once that is gone, there is no place left to run. The Obama statist types had hoped by now through education, taxation, and government employment to have “changed” the nature of the human being to more of an altruist and less of a capitalist. But it hasn’t worked and all that they achieved is they pushed people into a form of activity that doesn’t generate any taxes for them. The government can’t tax the millions of credits my wife and I have earned in The Old Republic. The IRS has no power there. I can’t use that money to buy a new condo, an airplane, or a car either. But who cares, because all those things force me further entangled with a government that simply wants to steal from me at every opportunity. So I gladly give up those material objects in trade for virtual ones that actually have more value—because within the world of The Old Republic, I earned them and can keep them.
The video game industry is about raw capitalism in its purest form. The economic theory of Keynesian thought would not work in The Old Republic or any other video game, just like it doesn’t work in real life. Wealth redistribution doesn’t work in a gaming world, so why would government statist types believe it would work in the real world? The answer is that they are in denial of what motivates and makes human beings viably functional. Governments have instead hoped to nudge and shape the world into artificial yearnings that have no basis in reality—and they’ve done it at great expense to human development. The test bed to these theories have been in the explosion of online gaming—particularly the MMO. It is also why I’d rather spend my time in The Old Republic than anywhere else because there at least I am free of the types who expect to mooch off my energy and effort because they are too lazy to do for themselves. And if that sounds like a harsh statement consider that I’m not alone—and it is that trait which drives an entire video game industry offering a kind of freedom that no longer exists in the real world—the freedom offered through capitalism.
Rich Hoffman
November 9, 2013
Darryl Parks Earns the Uber Man Card: Standing up to the FCC in a big way
Here is the official explanation from 700 WLW as to why Darryl Parks is no longer employed by Clear Channel, or hosting his Saturday radio show.
Darryl Parks has stood by me in tough times, especially when saying controversial things were needed. When 700 WLW desperate to separate themselves from the memory of Doc Thompson supported the antics of a bunch of Lakota Levy supporters to assassinate my name, Darryl was there to stop it. Darryl Parks built the modern-day 700 WLW and he was a much respected executive at Clear Channel. Darryl made Clear Channel a lot of money. So it meant a lot to me that he put an end to the hit pieces against me from his employees on the radio following things I wrote which took an uber-man card to write. Darryl is one of the few people still working in the media that appreciates, and gives out man-cards when a man stands for something he believes in. So it’s my turn to support him for standing up for himself, and his radio industry in the face of an imperialistic FCC imposition that is being launched against AM stations in 2014. Darryl after a series of executive meetings wrote a blog posting that took an uber-man card to write because not a single other soul working in the radio industry had the guts to call out the FCC for what they are trying to do—which is another topic that we will explore in much more detail in subsequent articles. Not long after that blog posting, Darryl Parks was fired from not only 700 WLW, but from Clear Channel.
Below is the blog posting Darryl had written, as he wrote it. Knowing a bit about Darryl, I have a pretty good idea what he was thinking. The radio industry is under attack by the federal government through the FCC. Darryl likely rationalized that he could end his career quickly like a man, or quietly like a mouse—slowly over time the way the other people in his industry have chosen. The FCC is making dumb decisions based on the opinions of a very successful radio man—and he wanted to make sure they knew what a bunch of idiots they were. So he told them in a way that only Darryl Parks could. It took serious balls to do what he did—it took an uber-man card, which is very rare in this modern world of sell-outs, pussies, beta men, and back-stabbing social climbers. Most people attending these meetings with Darryl would likely agree with him, but all of them lacked the courage to say anything about it—because it might cost them their career. This is how evil spreads, when good men do nothing—especially when they know better.
I will miss Darryl on the radio at 700 WLW. But he knows what Doc Thompson already is doing, and my friend Matt Clark at WAAM, that the future of radio is not in FCC controlled stations. Popular media personalities like Parks, Thompson, and even Ben Swann from Fox 19, have all had to make personal decisions in the face of comfortable careers where good pay and security might otherwise shut their mouths. Swann left television in Cincinnati by his own decision. Thompson was fired from 700 WLW as one of the last hires of Darryl Parks before Darryl was promoted to an executive job that was a nationwide deal. And Darryl probably didn’t think that Clear Channel would fire him for what he said, but he likely didn’t care either because his industry under the current FCC policies will end anyway. He was simply meeting the tragedy head on. So read what Darryl said and consider the implication of his termination. The posting which appeared on his 700 WLW blog site is shown below. It is well written and full of interesting facts. The worst thing he said about the FCC was that they were a bunch of “circle jerks,” which they are. Darryl made an observed fact metaphorically speaking. Should that cost him his job? Of course not, especially when members of The White House have openly lied, cheated, and in some cases allegedly killed others to advance their agenda. But when the FCC controls things and don’t like the views of those who refuse to “play along nicely” terminations will occur in a New York minute because the goal is not justice, but compliance, and the best way to hurt a person like Darryl Parks is in the check book and take away his voice. It’s not like it was a conspiracy theory against Parks where the Obama White House or anybody else declared that Darryl had to go. Rather the infestation of the FCC by Obama type federal employees is going after certain types of characters the way the IRS went after conservative groups. In a publicly traded company that is very concerned about perception, the safe money is to keep your mouth shut and put up with the intrusion of know-nothing FCC “circle jerks.” Well, not Darryl, he is a man who loves his man card, and won’t give it up in trade for a corporate suit, and the security of a “circle jerk.” That is why I will always like Darryl Parks even if I can’t hear him every Saturday morning on 700 WLW.
Last Blog Entry by Darryl Parks at 700 WLW:
If you would allow me the indulgence of being the radio suit that I am in real life for just one blog, because something has me irritated in a major way.
There is finally a call, as the Federal Communications Commission put it recently, to revitalize the AM band. You know create and ease rules to allow station owners to be relieved of horrible burdens. You may have read about this in the press or online. If you’re in the broadcast industry you may have read about it in one of the industry rags.
You think just one of these industry rags would speak the truth about the FCC’s ideas, suggestions and concepts? Nope. As Kevin Bacon’s character in Animal House said, “Remain calm. All is well.” What a joke the FCC is. And sadly, what a joke the people in the radio industry are who are nodding along without thought or the ability to intelligently reason the basic concepts of physics.
While AM radio may suffer from numerous other issues, this will focus on technical limitations of the broadcast band and the ideas the FCC has moving forward.
AM radio or “amplitude modulation” was first. Even back in the 1920’s and 1930’s companies like RCA which sold radios, owned stations and had the NBC Radio Networks knew of limitations on the band, limitations such as “static.” RCA was so concerned about static they, through a really smart guy they employed, invented FM or “frequency modulation” and then buried the FM technology because they had too much money invested in AM stations. The “static” you hear on AM radio is interference.
The AM signal travels farther at night than during the day. Most AM radio stations change their signal patterns and/or reduce power at night to keep from interfering with other stations on the same frequency or adjacent frequencies. Stations like 700WLW are considered a “clear channel” station, meaning the station’s signal is broadcast in a non-directional pattern and is the only station on that frequency at night. The power is a booming 50,000 watts. Stations such as WSM-AM, WGN-AM, WLS-AM and WCBS-AM are also “clear channel” stations.
Today, besides interference from other stations, the AM band is also being interfered with by computers, cell phones, even those new energy savings light bulbs. This is why it may be more difficult for you to receive a good signal from an AM station these days.
Just last week at the yearly “circle jerk” gathering of broadcasters called the NAB/RAB Radio Show, FCC Acting Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn announced a “Notice of Proposed Rulemaking” with 6…count ‘em…6 ideas to rid station owners of horrible burdens. What do these 6 ideas do? Increase interference! And no one. Not one freaking person in the industry press will talk about this. Obviously, they’re too busy copying press releases for their publications and pretending to be Kevin Bacon’s ROTC character.
Here are the 6 ideas proposed by the FCC.
Opening a one-time filing window, limited to current AM licensees and permittees, which will allow each to apply for one new FM translator station to fill in its service area.
An FM translator is a very low power FM signal, normally about 99 watts. The FCC figures there’s so much interference today on the AM band, as stations interfere with each other, why not spread the pain and cause more interference on the FM band. BRILLIANT!
Relaxing the AM daytime community coverage rule to allow existing AM broadcasters more flexibility to propose antenna site changes.
Translation: Stations that are non-viable can change their tower locations. (1) Non-viable stations probably don’t have the money to move a tower site, which will cost in the millions. (2) If a non-viable station does change its tower site, rules would be relaxed on these stations allowing for more interference with other stations. (3) If a non-viable station simply changes its daytime pattern at its current site it will cause more interference with other stations. BRILLIANT!
Relaxing the AM nighttime community coverage standards, which will also provide broadcasters, who may have difficulty finding suitable sites, relief for towers and directional arrays.
Remember what I said about the AM signal traveling farther at night? More AM band interference and more difficulty for the consumer to receive and hear programming. BRILLIANT!
Also, does the FCC really think a non-viable AM station will be moving its tower site? 700WLW’s tower site is 40 acres. Two towers, one almost 900 feet tall. What do you think this would cost to build? This is a non-starter.
Eliminating the AM “ratchet rule,” which requires an AM station to “ratchet back” its nighttime signal to reduce interference to certain other AM stations.
Here’s where I worry about the FCC and attendees at the recent NAB/RAB “circle jerk.” Really? You applauded this idea? They are saying they are in favor of increasing interference on the AM band and making it more difficult for listeners to listen to stations. WOW!
Permitting wider implementation of Modulation Dependent Carrier Level or MDCL control technologies, which allow broadcasters to reduce power consumption.
I know. What the f*** does this mean? Basically, by controlling the algorithms of modulation with the main carrier and the side-bands of the signal the station can reduce its electric bill. But, as with every immutable law in physics there is give and take. (1) By reducing the power and use of electricity needed, it makes the signal weaker and creates more interference on the listener’s end. (2) The FCC has noted that a reduction in signal power at certain modulation levels “inevitably exacts some penalty in audio quality.” This means if an AM station uses the MDCL control technology audio distortion is created on the signal. You guessed it. More interference.
Modifying AM antenna efficiency standards by reducing minimum effective field strength values by approximately 25%, thus allowing the use of shorter towers.
“Reducing minimum effective field strength values” means a weaker signal. 700WLW’s main tower is what is called a “half-wave tower.” That’s why it’s so big. Stations that have shorter towers have what are called “quarter-wave towers.” A half-wave tower creates a better and stronger signal. The shorter towers proposed mean? Yep. More interference.
Hey FCC. The answer is not MORE interference. The answer is LESS interference. And you do that by turning off non-viable stations. And before station owners start crying poverty, many of these non-viable AM stations have one thing that is worth a ton of money. The land their towers sit on.
What do you think those 40 acres in Mason, Ohio are worth?
http://www.jacobsmedia.com/parks.htm
Darryl doesn’t have to worry about his man card. They can take his job, but not his uber manhood! He can get another job with all his talent, but manhood can’t be earned back once lost. The blog posting was captured and posted with derogatory comments about Darryl by Fred Jacobs, CLICK THE LINKS ABOVE AND BELOW. Jacobs was one of the speakers at the “circle jerk.” It seems he didn’t like Darryl’s opinion of his performance. Click here to review. It took a month for the “circle jerks” to read the blog posting and figure out what it meant. Just like they don’t understand that more quarter-wave towers mean a message gets to fewer people because of the cluttered noise–yet that is just what the FCC intended all along because conservative political values are primarily communicated over AM radio, specifically large half-wave towers like 700 WLW. Bravo Darryl Parks, for voicing your opinion against the FCC. Fred Jacobs lost his man card a long time ago.
Rich Hoffman
