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The Difference between Us and Them: Morning Joe Team shocked by NRA advertisement

‘One of the grossest things they have ever seen?’ This is what the Morning Joe Team on the Progressive channel MSNBC said in regard to a recent NRA advertisement. Obviously these people don’t remember how poorly George Bush’s children were treated when he was president. But they have conveniently forgotten all about that now. Watch and listen how shallow the minds and memory of these progressives are.

There is no dealing with people like this from the “lean forward” channel. Wasn’t that the campaign slogan for the last Lakota school levy, and Barry Obama’s latest run for President? Progressivism is for these mush minded types, not real Americans. They haven’t a clue as to what the Constitution is about, nor do they care to learn. They wish us all to “lean forward” straight into the same brick wall that all of Europe is hitting. They are the primary example of why America must never give up their guns, because it will be these types of people who will run everything.

They can’t even remember the Bush Presidency which was only 5 years ago.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

John Stossel’s “NO THEY CAN’T”: Most politicians wish they were rock stars

President Obama’s press conference over the debt ceiling and proposed gun control measures on January 14, 2013 was so worthless that I won’t even waste my time discussing it here.  A response to his claims has already been refuted, dissected, and railed against on these pages and many others in copious quantities.  Rather, I would like to refer you dear reader to the video below, which is a bit long, but is one of the better interviews that John Stossel gave while promoting his book No They Can’t which is quite good.  Stossel’s book cuts to the chase in a way only an award-winning journalist of many years can in articulating the fundamental problem of any government could do—that politicians wish to rule over others as a primary concern—they are constantly on the hunt for new measures to use in order to rule over others—and are universally prone to manipulate the law in any fashion to advance their offensive against those they wish to rule.  Stossel concludes that government under any condition is not emotionally equipped to achieve anything close to their intended proposals, and almost every time they involve themselves in anything, they bungle it up.  So the more government there is, the more screwed up a society is. Stossel makes the argument clear in his book, which is discussed in great detail in the interview below.  I would suggest a full viewing of the clip provided:

Stossel’s conclusions remind me of a book I read years ago that I used to carry around like it was a Bible.  It was published in the late 1980s called A World of Ideas by Bill Moyers.  The book was written at the height of Moyers PBS career as a reporter on the heels of his excellent book The Power of Myth which is still one of my all time favorites.  These books were written when progressivism and communism were still undercover and functioning behind layers of deceit within the Democratic Party—before even the Clinton Administration came into power—so I saw no danger in A World of Ideas, only scholarly information that was quite good at the time without the political spin that might be seen today.  In that classic book Moyers basic thesis was that the quality of politicians in our Republic are bad because there isn’t any clear incentive for good people to enter the world of politics.

This is true for the most part.  I know a few people who are good and enter politics, but for the most part politicians are low life scum bags who secretly cry out for attention.  The people of quality that I know are either rich and chose to control politics with donations, or they hide in their garages and hire accountants to work around all the stupid laws that politicians come up with.  Those people don’t enter politics, of which I fall into a similar category.  I have had countless requests from many community members to run for local trustee positions that are coming open, or school board titles—and during every one of those requests I think of that old Moyer’s book A World of Ideas, especially the chapter interviewing Tom Wolfe—one of my favorite writers—specifically The Right Stuff novel.  A republic of any kind is only as good as the people who run it, and ideally the best people of any society should run for office, not the worst.

When I think of political office and imagine myself in one, I would likely go on violent rampages the first time the bureaucrats did a role call. It drives me crazy every time I see a meeting of any kind where they do a roll call.  Every political meeting I’ve ever attended is so ghastly ineffective that I find them appalling.  I don’t function well with rules or meetings that go on longer than 20 minutes, because anything longer is or more complex is to fulfill the inner whims of some stuffy politician hiding their incompetency behind the complexity.  This is one of the primary reasons that intelligent people avoid politics, because they simply don’t want to deal with stupid people.  But if only stupid people run for office, then the people managing all the tax money are stupid people, which is the case of modern politics in America.  Most of the people who run for office would fail in the private sector.  They would not be invited to charity events and treated like a big wig around town otherwise, so they run for an office to gain prestige.  They are not interested in committing their years of wisdom to an elected office, because often they have no wisdom to speak of.

I once had a friend who was a former Penthouse model and was married to a big time strip mall developer around the I-275 loop.  She was the classic trophy wife and her 60 year-old husband knew it.  He didn’t care that people thought she was a trophy wife—all that mattered to him was that his money was able to buy a 26 year-old-wife who was loyal to him who he could show off at social events.  She was from Sweden and was fascinated by politics at the time even though she was a very early version of a libertarian by nature.  I was baffled when she expressed to me her desire to meet Mayor Tillery at a fundraiser event that her husband was conducting.  I asked her why, because he was a Democrat—had bad breath like every other man and was an astonishingly average human being.  This woman was the kind of female who could attract any man in the world that she wanted, but she found herself drawn to “powerful” people wither they were literally powerful like her husband was, or figuratively powerful like Mayor Tillery was in Cincinnati politics.  It was people like her who feed the egos of politicians like Tillery and made them feel as though the work they are doing is important.

The same types of women swoon over President Obama and make like-minded politicians believe that they are doing important work, because they have a title that carries prestige in our society.  Because they are in politics, they have a celebrity status that exhumes power, even though their minds may be insufficiently developed toward leadership.  Smart people like the model’s husband who might not otherwise be able to attract such a woman with their looks become powerful through enterprise so that they can buy themselves such a woman.  But stupid people who desire the same kind of ability are lured into politics so that they can also attract those types of personalities.  The incompetent person who fears the private sector has learned that by giving away tax money to a lot of people, that they can purchase reelections for themselves and have access to the kind of men and women who clamor for powerful people—even if that power is only by title.  In no other form of endeavor could an average person like Mayor Tillery have women like my old Penthouse friend excited to shake their hand—but in politics.

We’re not talking about sex when it is said that politicians scurry for office to have access to women like the former Penthouse model.  This sometimes happens of course, but the end result is not a sexual one, it’s simply an attention grabber.  The small-minded person wishes to be addressed as sir, or madame, or by an official title that projects social importance.  These social butterflies wish to be treated with respect, even though they often don’t deserve it.  They like to see beautiful women and men standing behind the rope lines fighting to shake their hands or to get an autograph—and that is the root of the whole problem.

Stossel is not wrong or reckless when he says that government can’t do anything right—because they can’t.  Government can’t because they are a group of people who desire attention before anything, and President Obama is the classic case of such an attention starved human being—who might otherwise struggle to put together two dimes if he were not in public office.  Obama knows it, which is one of the reasons he supports socialism, and other progressive causes—and nurtures a deep hatred for the rich.  Obama desires to see the rich bow at his feat by using his perceived power to conquer them into submission so they are in awe of his power.  He enjoys knowing that the trophy wives of his political rivals seek out to shake his hand against their protests, because those young ladies are drawn to the power of the politicians—the tribal leaders of their community.  Women look at Obama the way the Penthouse model looked at Mayor Tillery in Cincinnati, with respect and wonder.  But these emotions are left over remnants of the human beings evolution from hunter and gather tribes to the perceived human sacrifice and altruism of the agricultural based city-states.  Intelligent people have outgrown the need for “tribal leaders” or “politicians.”  Stupid people are still in that pre-evolution period of yesterday—they are always trying to figure out who their “clan leader” is.  Like Stossel said in his book, it is the yearning for somebody else to take responsibility that leaves the good people on the outside of politics and the bad people inside—because that is where the fans are.  Like the Nickelback song states, everyone wants to be a Rock Star, but not everyone has the talent to be.  Others who are qualified don’t even have the desire to trade in their privacy for the constant bombardment of fans that comes with such social roles.  The politician in American society can be a Rock Star with just a simple election, and that is the real problem. They get the title without having the quality of mind to back it, which is why government can’t do anything right under any circumstance.  John Stossel is 100% right that when it comes to government—NO THEY CAN’T!  And they never will because the mind of everyone involved is faulty.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

The American Housewife: Backbone of our nation and families everywhere

For those who bought a copy of my new book Tail of the Dragon during the fourth quarter of 2012, you helped bring a small bit of joy to my family this past Christmas, and for that I thank you.  While I finished the novel I avoided the fun stuff I typically enjoy like playing Xbox and computer games because I had a schedule to meet.  Once the book came out in September and I did a little media for it, I felt I could take the time to enjoy life a little bit before getting too serious about the next one—which is in outline form now.  My wife had wanted to play an MMO with me called The Old Republic but it required us to purchase two high-end computers instead of having just one, so we could play at the same time.  The other computer we have is dedicated to my business ventures and the work that goes into this blog site daily, so my wife hadn’t been getting much computer time after her other computer had a terminal malfunction some time ago.  To play that new game I would have to buy two desktop PC’s, as tablets or lap tops wouldn’t be powerful enough in this particular case.  We would need personal computers that could run on the high-end and that would be costly.  There always seemed to be more important things to spend a few thousand dollars on, so the computers were put on the very back burner. I didn’t even want to think about something fun until the book was out, and we put a new roof on our home before winter hit, so she waited patiently.  She felt bad wanting to spend so much money just to play a video game, so she didn’t push it—but after the fourth quarter sales closed, I secretly put aside a little bit of money and bought us both two new super computers for Christmas which my kids and I surprised her with on Christmas Day.  Click the video below to see her reaction.

Much of the time it is my wife who does all the nice things for the family, so she is seldom surprised by anybody doing something nice for her.  But this year was different.  We’ve always been a traditional family where she maintained the home and I maintained work relationships, so we didn’t have the modern benefit of a dual income household to just throw money at our whims.  That benefit is something that we have both vehemently rejected out of dedication to providing for our children, and now grandchildren a constant loving female presence in their lives which far outweighs any monetary value.

I have been called a sexist my entire life because of my almost Amish-like adherence to traditional family values.  My wife has been called far worse because she has so obviously rejected the feminist movement of independence from men.  In our marriage which is coming up on a quarter century now, our household runs like many did in America during 1920 through 1950.  I treat her respectfully, she participates in politics equally, and she controls all our family income.  She cooks, cleans–is the family psychologist, maintains all the relationships with the extended family—her job is a difficult, thankless one. There is no prestige for the American woman who dedicates herself as a housewife and in my mind there is no job more important in the entire world.  My wife didn’t have a career, when our children needed to be homeschooled.  When my kids were little, my wife was a room mother at their school, and the teachers turned against her when during the fourth grade consensus emerged that all the little girls of that age needed to learn how to put a condom on a fake penis as part of sex education.  We of course declined to sign the permission form and the teachers retaliated.  Soon the administrators learned through the teacher’s lounge that my wife was “one of those women,” one of those “trouble makers,” so they made it difficult for her to even pick my kids up from school, because my kids did not ride the school bus.  (Yes, my kids were too good to ride the school bus with the other kids.  My wife drove them to and from school every single day of their schooling lives.)   My wife had resisted a progressive platform so the school circled the wagons to push her out.  We responded by pulling our kids out of the school.  We were able to pull the trigger when it was needed due to political pressure in the school district of Mason many years ago because my wife did not have a career—a commitment to a business interest outside of our family home.  If I had a quarter for all the times family and friends told us that we were wrong in our approach to raising our children, we’d be millionaires rolling in rooms full of those quarters.  Much of that advice we were given by well-intentioned people had its source with daytime television and talk shows like Opera who we now know was intensely committed to the spread of progressive ideas.  Their advice was wrong even though the masses seemed all to agree on those feminist statements.   It has never been easy because the rest of society was going in a noticeably different direction and we were openly rebelling against the progressive political attack against American tradition.  For a woman to stay home and care for her family in a traditional manner from 1990 to 2010 seemed to be the vilest insult against progressivism, judging by the insults that came in our direction.  So the older we have grown, the more flagrant we have flaunted our position, especially once we learned the source of the advice.

As discussed at this site in great detail modern progressivism is all about destroying the American version of family, so it should come as no surprise that children share authority between their government schools and their parents which leads to much of the misguided rebellion many young people cast against their parents.  It is also no surprise that divorce rates are so high because both spouses are dedicated to goals outside the family unit, and women have been told they must be equal to men in the workplace.  The progressive strategy has been to remove the heart of the family—women and demean them into pursuing male-like career goals—which are empty social acceptance roles that offer very little real substance.  The goal of this aimless existence is to put the faith Americans used to commit to individual family strength and instead invest into it faith towards government.  In my traditional view, American women are the government; they are the only government that matters.  They rule America’s households and in our family, nothing happens without the approval of my wife.  She even has legislative power over every oil change I conduct on our various vehicles.  I don’t buy anything without her approval, which is how it should be.

On the other side of the coin, for over 20 years now I have had to strive to make enough family income to compensate for two college educated adults because that’s what it costs to get through modern life.  Most of the time I pull off that task with extra revenue generating activity like writing books, designing t-shirts, or other types of creative enterprise.  In my younger days I worked various part-time jobs to pay the bills and sometimes rode a bicycle everywhere as we went for years with only one car that my wife needed to use for driving the kids to school.  At one point I rode 12 miles one way to work every day for over 1 year on a first shift job and worked a second job on the way home that helped divide up the return mileage to something less exhausting.  I’d peddle the remaining 6 miles home in the rain, snow, and extreme heat at around midnight and would start the whole thing again at 5 AM the next day.  I never missed work, or got sick, because I couldn’t afford to.  Sometimes the money has been easy, sometimes it was very hard, but always we have managed to keep my wife as the hub of the family and there is no government that supersedes her.  I have always put my wife on a pedestal because that is where women deserve to be.  They are not equal to men, they are bigger, better, and sweeter—and deserve to be cared for with love and understanding.

This brings us back to Christmas, for the first time in our lives, my wife wanted a vacation with me that involved actual time spent together—not on a tour bus through Europe, or on a Gondola in Venice being pushed around the canals by a heavily fragranced Italian man who looks like he’d rather be making meat balls. She wanted me to spend “time” with her—not writing books, not working on politics, not practicing bullwhips, or even back-woods hiking.  She wanted to spend time with me, and since she loves Star Wars, there was no better way to spend that time than with an MMO dedicated to Star Wars that requires thousands of hours of partnership.  But in order to play an MMO with another person, two computers are needed, and that cost is typically prohibitive for such a luxury item.

The gift was more symbolic than fiscal because it was a commitment to time spent rather than a dollar value—although to arrive at that moment it did require a significant financial investment.  The computers had to be powerful because we know family members who have tried to play The Old Republic on a single core processor and fried their video cards from the excessive heat generated, even with the graphics turned all the way down.  Because we both love Star Wars we wanted to play the game with full graphics resolution—(which are fabulous by the way), and we still wanted computing power to spare.  So my son-in-law and I overdid all the specs and built the computers seen in the video above.  My wife didn’t think it was possible because a few months earlier we had spoken to a Best Buy consultant about the amount of money it would take to buy computers that would play the game the way we wanted to play it, and his response was frustrating.  He gave us a cost of nearly $4000 for two computers.  Frustrated because we still needed a new roof, a dishwasher, and a number of other important daily items, we put it on the very back burner to revisit a few years down the road.

Over this past weekend my wife pointed out to me that we have now played The Old Republic for 20 straight days and we are only just getting started.  Our average playing time is 5 to 8 hours per session.  Saturday we played the game for 18 hours straight—no interruptions.  My kids are all playing the game and my son-in-law who built those computers built one just like them for my one of my daughters while he beefed up his to match the specs.  We have all played together and we have been playing with extended family members from out-of-state and it is everything that we hoped it would be.  When my wife saw that she had unlimited computing power it wasn’t because of the pretty lights or status of having a new expensive gift.  It was in being able to spend time with the people she loves in a game environment that she adores.  The computers are simply a means to get there, and in this case, the powerful machines are designed to operate without limitations that prohibit such an experience.

The first thing that people reading this will ask is how can we afford to spend so much time playing a game?  Well, in her case, she has the time because she is not in service to any institution outside our family.  In my case, I have worked hard to get out ahead enough to buy myself the time to play the game by releasing a new book that is out making money and freeing up my personal time, so in that way, I have afforded myself the ability to give my wife more of my time which is all she really wanted for Christmas.  The look on her face is as authentic as it gets and I offer the rare look behind the curtain of my family so that others can see the reality behind the rhetoric that often surrounds me.

Many of my readers and friends here have wanted to see pictures of my new grandson, and they are curious as to what daily life is like within my family.  We are a close family because my wife has dedicated her life to making it so, and she deserves a lot of credit for that.  It can be seen clearly in videos like the one shown above.   The tickets she received at the beginning of the clip were symbolic of the kind of vacation that we have been experiencing for the last 20 days.    It took her a long time to put all the elements together to figure out what was happening, but once she did, she was extremely happy, which earned for me the worth of the whole enterprise.  She has taken a lot of flack for being a full-time housewife over the years, and she has patiently put up with most of the slander that has been thrown her way which sometimes gets compounded when money is tight.  We know that most families cannot do as we have done, because these days so many women are embedded in the economy that if they all pulled out to become full-time mothers our national unemployment rate would jump up to 30 to 40% instantly.  Many women also would be lost as to their roles as central family beacons, because there is a lot of responsibility in that job, and they have been taught not to take that responsibility.  When things go bad, there is nobody but one person to point at and blame.  If a child goes bad, the mother often will blame herself, and many women hide from this responsibility behind their careers, and that will not change over night.    But most women deep down inside know that no matter how much money they earn, it cannot replace the impact of their love and attention for their families.  Kids who have such busy mothers are easy to spot in a crowd, and these days most of our society is functioning from a hunger for their mother’s attention that they never received as children.  The public schools are not adequate replacements, and mothers who make such decisions of putting career in front of motherhood are fools.

Progressives have attempted to change human behavior and they have failed.  Anyone who defends those failures is an idiot, and I know a lot of them.  Some people are so far into building their lives around that idioticrity that they will lash out at people like me by calling me a sexist, and calling my clothing “wife beater” attire as they did in my video A Whip Trick to Save America where I wore an Under Armor muscle shirt that was labeled by my feminist political critics in such a fashion.  Those people are wrong, and have built their entire lives around being wrong.  Many of the names progressive women have called my sweet wife over the years, and myself really reflect their personal feelings of guilt.  I know it, she knows it, and they know it.  My kids have witnessed it, everyone knows what the motives are behind the actions, and after all of that I continue to believe more and more, that a child needs a mother to be ever-present, and a family needs a string of such women to be strong otherwise failure is assured and the family structure will break down in the absence of such personalities.

The sacrifice to have a strong family by allowing the women of that family to serve no entity but their families is that money is harder to come by.  But it’s worth it for those few times when enough money is made that quality time with loved ones becomes possible.  In the case of the Christmas computer gifts it is not the machinery or hardware, it’s the time that playing the game will giver her with me, her children, her nieces and nephews, sisters and even parents that are scattered all over the Earth.  The gift she received was time with the people she cares about, and that is the a gift that extends beyond conventional value, and is the reason for her delight on that memorable Christmas morning that had been a long time and coming—which she waited patiently to see.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

The American Dream Labs: A new book by David Barton ‘The Jefferson Lies’

I received from a good friend and loyal reader here at Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom a great gift—one of the only things that I truly love in the world—a new book.  And this particular book is from one of my favorite authors and is about one of my favorite Founding Fathers.  The book is called The Jefferson Lies by David Barton and seeks to set the record straight about Thomas Jefferson as progressive secularists have attempted to destroy his good name in order to advance their diabolical causes.  The book was ironic because it represented a kind of book end to a string of announcements that had their source in one man—Glenn Beck who is proving to be one of America’s new Founding Fathers by creating the means to rediscover what made us so great in the first place.  If not for Glenn Beck the new book I received about Thomas Jefferson would not have been possible—because it is Beck who has given voice to scholars like David Barton who would have otherwise been whisked away into a corner of intelligentsia and subdued.  If not for the efforts of Glenn Beck’s media empires, fueled by the book publishing industry and a society starving for intelligent material, people like David Barton wouldn’t have a voice.

Much of the trouble in America today can be blamed on progressives.  The world of debt, of broken marriages, of childhood misery, of aborted babies, of a stupid grown-up electorate more interested in sports scores than who they will vote for in the next election, of kids walking around aimlessly with their pants down around their knees in public wondering why nobody wants to hire them for a job. Most every problem in our modern society is the fault of secular, tampering, small-minded, progressives like Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnston and a whole slew of other like-minded fools who have attempted to socially engineer mankind with their infantile foolishness driven by insecure minds not completely sane.  One of the reasons secular progressives have attempted to diminish the work of people like Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, George Washington, and one of my all time favorites—Ben Franklin is because the modern man of progressive thought is but a boot heel philosophically to those classic Founding Fathers.  Presidents like Thomas Jefferson must be defamed so that presidents like Woodrow Wilson can look equal.  The progressive, who is in charge of every public school in America knows that the way to make themselves look good is bring everyone else down—which is why the world around us is filled with so many stupid people.  (I mean I was at the movies the other day and I think the collective intelligence of the people around me might have been able to power a pocket calculator.  They all looked like they voted for Obama.  One kid was walking with his girlfriend and literally couldn’t carry their popcorn into the movie theater because his pants were pulled down so far that he had to hold them with one hand because his other was holding his girlfriend’s.  The girlfriend had to carry the popcorn and pop.  The boy probably had a brain, and he might otherwise have been a promising young man of some merit, but I could take one look at him and tell that he was probably raised off government assistance, that he came from a fatherless household, that he probably ran with a group of wanna’ be thugs practicing gang behavior as kittens practice fighting with a ball of yarn—to prove their prowess.  The boy was a victim of secular progressivism and their social experiments that have gone worse than a Frankenstein mad scientist experiment.) 

As I held the new Barton book in my hand I thought of the spot that I had sat in over a decade ago when I took my family to Monticello—Jefferson’s very innovative home.   I sat where Jefferson did as he wrote his letters and looked out the same windows that he did the day that he died on July 4th, the same exact day as his one time political rival John Adams.  The two men wrote each other furiously during the closing days of their lives, and July 4th meant something special that nearly defied death.  Both men separated by miles of carriage driven roads through an endless wilderness pushed their minds to see one more July 4th in 1826.  In fact, they died within 5 hours of one another, no phone lines, no television, just remote wilderness and a mutual love and respect for knowledge and the founding of America.  Jefferson was a smart man overflowing with self-driven ambition.  He was the result of his many thousands of books.  What he put into his mind came out as a direct result to the quality he had invested.  He read books ranging from Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations to Alexander O. Exqemelin’s The Buccaneers of America (One of my all time favorites first published in 1678—Oh what I would give to have an original copy of that book in my personal library!)  Like Jefferson my life would be meaningless without books.  They are the blood that pumps through my veins and that will always be the case.  I simply love to read them, and I love to be in their company whether it be a private library or a public one.  I love the presence of knowledge, thought, and enterprise.  I have often spoke of my disgust that the Library in Alexandria, Egypt was destroyed by the mob.  CLICK HERE TO REVIEW.  Progressives like all the parasites of the past know that the way to control the masses is to make them too ignorant to think for themselves—so that those same masses will always clamor for a leader—provided by the modern progressive politician.  The mentality is the same whether the period of time is the sacking of Rome, or the modern push for same-sex marriage as a priority over the national debt.  The secular progressive seeks destruction of thought to advance their sinister plots.

But the same man who made indirectly the new David Barton book about Jefferson possible had just spent a week explaining his new massive project—The American Dream Labs which is a fantasy right out of the pages of anything Thomas Jefferson or Ben Franklin could have ever hoped for in America.  Glenn Beck is restoring to our modern times a love of knowledge and innovation that founded the nation, and he is doing it beyond the reach of secular progressives.  Beck is achieving a kind of critical mass that George Soros and all his billions couldn’t stop, because in the “rock, paper, scissors” game of politics, intelligence always crushes stupidity and progressives like Soros have been crushed by a reawakening of the human spirit.  Glenn Beck simply refused to back down, and he is about to erupt with a creative energy driven by the same kind of restless force that drove Thomas Jefferson.  The results of this awakening unfortunately won’t be measured for a decade or two, but it will occur now that Beck has started the process.  The results of today are a direct result of progressive policies started in the 1990′s.  The conservative revival of Beck, Barton and those like them won’t be truly felt until around 2025 or 2030.  It takes a long time to emerge, but it starts in arts and entertainment–the rest of the culture will follow later.

Beck shares with me it appears a love of the theoretical city/amusement park Epcot Center.  Walt Disney, like Beck was committed in his day to the same kinds of thoughts and feelings that drove the Founding Fathers, which is why there are such strong themes referencing them in Disney World.  CLICK HERE FOR REVIEW.  Every city in America should take notes from Disney’s Epcot Center and form their infrastructure around those concepts.  But none do, instead they allow themselves to be shaped by corrupt politicians who try to scrape enough off the top to buy a new condo for themselves.  Modern cities are shaped by incomplete people.  So Glenn Beck is planning to build his own city called Independence, U.S.A. at a cost of about $2 billion dollars.  Click the link below to see all the video of Beck explaining the concept complete with drawings and further commentary.  Most important to me is that Beck is going to feature a library in the center of his city that will be available to teach politicians all over the country how they are supposed to govern based on wisdom, not diabolical greed.  I am extremely excited about Glenn Beck’s American Dream Labs.  He is attempting to do what Walt Disney never could, and Ayn Rand only thought about in the book Atlas Shrugged—he is building a Galt’s Gulch in plain sight—in the midst’s of secular progressive political control.

The American Dream Labs (CLICK TO SEE MUCH MORE)

Progressives who believe that everything is interconnected around the halls of intelligentsia obviously missed the boat.  They are right about the interconnected nature of things, and the need for wisdom, but they allowed their academic vision to be corrupted by the wrong philosophy—that of European collectivism, and they will fail 100% of the time as a result.  They outwardly proclaim to represent wisdom, and knowledge—but instead they represent foolishness, and apathy—so it is they who are behind the push to destroy the name of Thomas Jefferson.  And it is because of them that people like Glenn Beck must build a new city so that it can outshine all others as a gleaming example of how things should be done—not how they currently are.   Because of books like the one I received from my friend, The Jefferson Lies, Glenn Beck is moving his business operations into movies, television shows, more books, and more radio—in short, as I mentioned to Doc Thompson the other day—“Glenn Beck will be the new Ted Turner of modern media.”  Ted Turner represented the views of secular progressivism and the world has been shaped by his many billions of dollars.  Ted is indirectly responsible for that young man I mentioned at the movie theater who had to hold his pants up with his free hand walking like a penguin into a movie theater with his girlfriend.  The young man is the result of secular progressive thought advanced through Ted Turner’s cable television empires.  CLICK HERE FOR MORE.  Glenn Beck is now doing the opposite of all those past media tycoons.  Beck before he’s done will far out-grow his media model of Orson Wells, and I believe that he will out-produce Walt Disney—and that means an end to secular progressivism eventually in America—and I can’t wait.

The book I received as a gift on January 12, 2013 from one of my dear Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom readers represents this slight shift in embracing knowledge over political ideology that has helped feed the modern empire of secular progressivism.  The  book is a an early product of Glenn Beck’s American Dream Labs and I cherish the very pages contained within it like a lost treasure found after thousands of years of being buried in the sand.  All books have value, but some have more value than others, and anything by David Barton is a treasure trove of wealth and knowledge.  I am so thankful to have such a book in my hands.  Upon reading through it I am reminded of the rooms of Monticello which was an early version of Jefferson’s kind of American Dream Lab, and found it easy to understand why Jefferson answered his own White House door in his slippers and bed robe, and didn’t think enough of the presidency to even put the title on his tomb stone.  That is the kind of man who founded America, and that is the kind of man who I admire.  That is the kind of human being that Glenn Beck’s American Dream Labs will be committed to producing in The United States and that excites me greatly.  It is my hope that my grandson can go to the movies with his future wife and take note that all the young men there can carry the popcorn for their girl friends while holding her hand with the other.  The young men will be able to perform the task because they’ll have their pants pulled up around their waist and properly fastened where they belong, and not down around their knees like the messed up kids from the early 2010’s who had been virtually destroyed mentally by secular progressivism and left to root in the abyss of cataclysm.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

Doc Thompson on The Blaze Radio Network: What’s better than a pile of gold?

I first met Doc Thompson at a School Choice event in Mason, Ohio.  CLICK HERE FOR REVIEW.  Doc and I had done a number of interviews on the powerful 700 WLW radio station in Cincinnati that was having a major impact on the direction of not just education funding in the state of Ohio, but also the nature of education itself, so it was good to finally meet him in person.  Unlike most who sit behind a radio station microphone with a fake name and the many caricatures of oneself invented for the airwaves, Doc is surprisingly just as passionate about issues off-the-air as he is on.  This is how he came to meet me at the School Choice event, and we have stayed in touch ever since.  We would cross paths again at the Glendale Tea Party where Doc was the keynote speaker as trains stormed by during a particularly patriotic afternoon gathering.  We worked hard to bring Atlas Shrugged Part One to the Newport on the Levee movie theater, and we helped make waves with a carbon party at a local Cincinnati vineyard consuming as many carbons possible with fuel exhumed by the Sons of Liberty motorcycle club and a lot of outdoor grilling.  We also defeated a number of local school levies which generated extensive anxiety among the local labor unions and created discussions that had never occurred before in the world of politics because Doc had a microphone and would often call on me to expose many of the education facts that get shoved under the rug.  (CLICK HERE TO SEEM HIM SPEAK AT THAT GLENDALE EVENT). 

(CLICK HERE TO SEE THE VINYARD SPEECH)

One of the darkest days in my recent memory was when all the push back from this activity came to pass.  The unions organized a kind of community boycott against me, Judge Napolitano had his show Freedom Watch canceled on the Fox Business Channel–allegedly because of his constant support of Ron Paul for President—and Doc Thompson was fired from WLW Radio while on a honeymoon with his wife Yuna.  All this news came within about 5 days of each other and I had the impression that there was an all out assault on the kind of reforms I was fighting for, so I bunkered down which led to my famous latté sipping prostitute comments that made so much news around Cincinnati.  I didn’t care if it made people angry or even hurt their feelings.  It was time to change tactics because my friend was being forced to leave his job and I felt responsible for it.  Scott Sloan at WLW tried to assure me that I didn’t cause Doc to lose his job at that particular Clear Channel station but I had been around the block enough to know that politics behind the scenes had worked against Thompson and it was because he was a good guy not just behind the microphone—but in real life—that contributed to his termination.  I felt responsible because I helped fuel that trait with this blog site, (many of those interviews can be found here with an easy Google search).  Too many times over the years I have seen “good guys” punished in some form or another for being too good—for NOT running around on their wives, for NOT drinking enough at company parties, for NOT having a series of personal failures such as gambling addictions, eating disorders, or being chain smokers.  The people who run the world—at least those who have up to this point—like to cozy up with people who exhibit personal failure, because it makes them feel less guilty about their own wrecked lives.  Doc, it was clear to me, was a good person trying to fit in with a group who thought he was way too clean behind the ears, and it cost him his job, at least that’s my take on the whole ordeal.

After Doc left, I knew my relationship with WLW would change.  I did a couple of appearances with Marc Amazon, Darryl Parks, and then one very memorable one with Scott Sloan, but during all of them I felt I was betraying Doc Thompson, so I had to cleanse myself of that notion—which is why I said the things I did about all the characters involved.  It wasn’t just the gigantic assed despots who support school levies in my community, but their weak-kneed husbands who throw stones at people like Doc Thompson—because he’s too “good.”  “Goodness” should be rewarded, not punished, and here was Doc Thompson, squeaky clean socially, subbing part-time for the Glenn Beck Radio Show, winner of several Marconi Awards, and marrying a beautiful television news anchor while fighting for what’s good in American politics.  He was doing everything right, yet he found himself on the outside looking in, and it made me furious.  When Russ Jackson called me after my Enquirer comments (CLICK HERE FOR REVIEW) and wanted me to come on the Eddie and Tracy Show, I declined not because I didn’t want to argue on the air the merit of my controversial public statements, but some of those comments were directed at the people behind the termination of Doc Thompson, and I didn’t want to pour more fuel on the fire, while on the air.  The guilty parties know who they are, they put me on email block right after the phone call.   Not because I threatened anybody or said anything disrespectful, but because the guilty parties knew I knew what was going on.  (Only a few did this, most were innocent.)  

Logic told me that I had a book called Tail of the Dragon coming out—that I should play it safe and keep my mouth shut—like everyone else, because it would be good for me, my sales and my writing endeavors in the future.  But tactically, experience told me that a line in the sand needed to be drawn—so I said what I did to respond to all the issues occurring at the same time and for the good, the bad, and the ugly it was time to slug it out and not tap dance through the issues.  I sided with Doc Thompson even if it meant that he would be a street vender selling hot dogs at baseball games and would never get a broadcasting opportunity again.  When I meet good people, I do not betray them for any measure of personal advancement—politically, fiscally, or amorously.  I never have, and I never will even if it costs me a great deal up front.  Good people are so rare, that they are much more valuable than all the riches of the world when you meet them, and Doc is one of those people.

Doc went on to Detroit to work for a CBS station and he had success, only not long after hiring him producers announced they planned to convert their talk station into a sports network with an ESPN type spin on their broadcasting, so again, at the start of 2013, Doc appeared to be out of a job.  That is until Doc Thompson’s friend Glenn Beck offered him a chance of a lifetime with The Blaze Radio Network hosting a morning show nationally from 6 AM till 9 AM right before Glenn’s famous radio show that has a footprint of over 10 million listeners.  This means that Doc will be heard all over the nation on iHeart Radio with a Blaze Channel that is setting the broadcasting standard for the future.  Doc Thompson finally gets the opportunity to be the good person that he is under the business umbrella of Glenn Beck who is equally committed to being a “good man,” in all phases of being human.

The news for me that Doc was not just doing another syndication deal like so many other radio shock jocks currently do all over the nation, is extremely exciting.  There are plenty of Sean Hannitys, and Howard Sterns these days, and the world doesn’t really need one more.  They are part of the established order as it has been, not as it will be—and so far, Glenn Beck is a media personality who is shaping the world of tomorrow with the kind of ambition that eluded Nikola Tesla’s great fight with Thomas Edison.  The difference between Edison’s version of electric power and Tesla’s was not one of superiority, it was because J.P. Morgan backed Edison and wanted to control electricity—so Tesla was bought out forcefully and Edison prevailed shaping the way electricity is generated and delivered to this very day.  In the case of Glenn Beck, the situation is reversed.  The money is behind the better man and it has allowed people like Beck to hire good people like Doc Thompson to become the new standard in radio broadcasting.

Walter Cronkite made his name as a newsman because he was there when the television was invented.  Bill O’Reilly became the dominate newsman when cable overtook broadcast television years later as a reliable news source.  Both men were there at the start of major technical revolutions and were able to use their skills specific to those innovations to usher in a new age.  Doc Thompson will become that new standard that has not yet been heard on any broadcast, because another technological revolution is emerging around internet distributorship percolating outside of FCC regulation, and this will ironically allow good people like Doc Thompson to dominate that new age.  This time Doc will not be fired for being a good person, for not making enough “fart” jokes on the air, or spending airtime talking about the voluptuous attributes of women.   Doc will succeed because his new boss is Glenn Beck—a man who honors the honorable, and is committed to a goodness that has left Americans vacant.  Doc Thompson will become the new standard in broadcasting in 2013 and it all starts on January 21st on The Blaze Radio Network every morning with an emerging media empire driven by Beck that is committed to not just making money—which it is–but in the manufacture of “goodness” which ironically is a new concept in our media driven culture.  That is why Doc Thompson is one of the few types of personalities who could fill that growing demand.  Being a “good guy” is not something that can be faked when it’s required to come from a person 24 hours a day 7 days a week.  In the old days, newsmen and actors could “pretend” to be good people while they were on the set, or conducting an interview.  These days, with the growth of the internet and instant access to information at all times of the day, a radio personality like Doc Thompson must go beyond the traditional broadcasting criteria—the broadcaster must actually be “good” otherwise people won’t listen, because they have been burnt before with deception, and they won’t invest their time in a puppet show as they did in the early days of media.  In this new age, Doc Thompson is the whole package, and the world is about to learn what I already know, that The Blaze Radio Network just secured their future in history with the announcement that Doc Thompson will be their new morning man who will send all the competition reeling.  Being “good” can’t be faked, it has to be sincere, and Doc Thompson is as sincere of a person as I have ever met in journalism, entertainment, or as an activist.  If a pile of gold and friendship with Doc Thompson were set before me, I would pick Thompson, because that friendship is worth more than the gold.  This is why The Blaze Radio Network will explode as the next generation in broadcasting, and I am very happy to see it happen.  It couldn’t have happened to a better guy.

CLICK HERE to see my early thoughts about The Blaze with a contribution during it’s opening weekend of publication back in 2010.  I’m pretty good at spotting a winner. 

And this footage of Glenn Beck’s visit to Wilmington, Ohio and his Christmas dedication to one of my favorite films, It’s a Wonderful Life.

The fighters in this new way of thinking are standing up for what’s good, for the values we all celebrate in films like It’s a Wonderful Life.  Anything less, just isn’t acceptable and for me, I expect those values every day of the year…………………..not just during Christmas.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

Lee Wong President of West Chester: Turbulant politics ahead!

For all the reasons that Lee Wong is now president of the West Chester Trustees, local politics is at best dysfunctional beyond repair with the same old faces.  Only Catherine Stoker knows her true motives, but it appears that during an election year where Lee and Cathy’s seats are both up for re-election, Cathy—who has been a trustee for West Chester since 1994 and represents every brand of big government intrusion into business interests, private residents, and is a tremendous supporter of the public education black hole school funding that currently exists is dealing her friend a bad hand of cards. Cathy and Lee have a great relationship and work well together for their own collective oriented agenda, but politics is…………….well……………politics.  For an example CLICK HERE to see video and commentary on the sidewalk debacle that took place in Becket Ridge by Lee and Cathy.

If anyone has ever seen Lee Wong conduct a meeting, it is obvious that he struggles to keep everything organized, so it appears that Cathy is throwing her friend under the bus by allowing him to draw all the fire that is coming from the West Chester Tea Party’s commitment to fiscal responsibility—which is proving challenging. Cathy’s years of experience knows that whoever is president will take most of the fire as they are required to provide frequent quotes to the press—and this will be politically difficult for the kind of person that Lee is.

The same type of shuffle game occurred on the Lakota school board last year when Joan Powell relinquished her president’s seat to Ben Dibble.  She had an election coming up to win, and the new comer Julie Shafer was elected vice-president allowing Powell to hide in the background till the heat died down that was going on at the time.  CLICK HERE FOR REVIEW.  It is relevant to the trustees of West Chester as they are all politicians in the same community and are functioning from the same strategies.  While inexperienced politicians like Lee, Ben, and Julie are led to believe that they are being promoted for their good behavior, the more politically manipulative “old timers” know how to preserve themselves under challenging circumstances, and both Lakota school board members and the West Chester trustees are faced with huge challenges in 2013 from new blood running for their seats.

I know of two people who are thinking seriously of making runs for the trustee seats of Cathy and Lee, and they stand a great chance of removing those two progressive minded politicians.  Cathy had arranged with Lee in much the same way they worked out the issue of the side-walk in Beckett Ridge–that he would become president and she would be vice-president because they hold a 2 to 1 vote over the third trustee George Lang recently re-elected during 2011.  In Cathy’s case, it is best for her to appear she is not a power-hungry name plate goddess by relinquishing some of her power to Lee—while the real motive might be to diffuse political attention away from herself to Lee, so that her seat gets most of the progressive votes over the two conservative challengers who are planning to run against her.

It is interesting that there is never any explorations in the local papers about this kind of behavior.  Reporters have allowed themselves to be lap-dogs to people like Cathy, Lee, and Joan.  Reporters enjoy powerful people with name-plates because it makes for easy reporting, so seldom is any substantive investigation done into the motives of politicians when positions of power changes.  But in Lee’s case, it would seem obvious given his political handicaps what Cathy is up to.  Voter apathy is how Cathy has managed to keep her seat and maintain invites to all the prestigious West Chester social occasions for over 20 years.  Often, that is the real motive behind these types of politicians; they enjoy the social occasions and the feelings of importance that they offer.  They are always seeking ways to exploit voter apathy—such as changing around the names to make positive adjustments appear to be happening, to give the appearance of democracy in action. But the reality is quite something else.

It will be up to voters to prove Cathy politically wise, or not during the election of 2013.  In the past such decisions have worked, but that was before people started to wake up, as they are beginning to do now.  The question will be whether or not voters will give new people a chance to rock the foundations of West Chester politics with much more competent minds—instead of the scheming that goes on which centers completely on self-preservation using politics to provide the illusion of personal value in the context of social occasion.  The management of a district or a community is not about hand-shaking, charity events, or touchy-feely progressivism.  It’s about making hard decisions and care-taking the community’s tax money with more than lip service—it requires a surgical approach to all things financial, and a healthy disdain for the power of a name plate.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

The Passion of Alex Jones: What fighting for America looks like

CNN is clearly using Piers Morgan to show how radical the pro Second Amendment crowd is by first inviting on Ted Nugent with predictable results, then Alex Jones to bait them into animated gun totting diatribes designed to demonstrate how dangerous Americans with guns are. But it is backfiring.  The political left for years has had more than their fair share of radical nutcases expressing their viewpoints and now they are trying to paint radicals on the right as “nutcases” as if they were above the ludicrous diatribes.  America is showing that they are just as accepting—even willing to throw their support behind such animated personalities.  Alex Jones as a radio show is very popular, but as an entertainer—it is evident that Alex is 100% committed to what he believes and taken at face value, he appears to be a certifiable nutcase conspiracy theorist.  But the trouble with Alex is not that he may be certifiably insane, as people like Piers Morgan are attempting to frame in the court of public opinion.  Quite the opposite, Alex Jones is suffering from being “too awake,” he’s too aware of the world around him and the level of deception that human beings are capable of—a trait that most of society gladly shuts their minds off to.  When Alex Jones was asked to come onto the Piers Morgan Show to defend the Second Amendment, Jones exploded with the kind of dialogue that is becoming more and more common place all through the Midwest.  The direction of the conversation appears to have created anxiety on the CNN set.

Jones is popular because he speaks to the kind of Americans that know something is terribly wrong at the very top.  They realize that they have been lied to, they question all authority, and trust nobody in politics.  The Alex Jones listeners, who are quite numerous, have accepted that there is no authority on Earth that can be trusted, and they instead put their faith in self-reliance.  So it is not difficult for those types of people to question the reality and motivations of those in authority.  They may get the details wrong—but they do not get wrong the tendency of human beings to impose their will on other human beings as the ultimate ego boost that is incredibly prevalent in politics and the money that puts politicians in power.  That money often comes from political activist billionaires like George Soros and others like him who have an intense desire to shape the Earth into a vision of their own thinking, and they do not care if they impose their will on the individual rights of others who are not billionaires.  It is they who do wish to supplant the American Constitution with a document more “progressive” so that they can gain the ability to have control of more people.

Saying such a thing about billionaires is a fact.   It’s not a conspiracy theory at all.  Those types of personalities are ruthless by their nature, which is how they came to be billionaires in the first place—in most cases.  Many of these same types once they have become extremely wealthy try to redeem the sins of their past with what they consider the “greater good” as they see it.  But their good might be a tyranny to people like Alex Jones and his listeners, and guns are desired to be removed from society to impose the will of the billionaire’s version of good without fear of open revolution like Alex Jones threatened to Morgan during their interview.  Most of the patsies in the media are simply hired to represent the views of ownership, so the war is not with just the leftist political ideology of progressivism advocated by the President Obama’s, Elizabeth Warrens, Governor Chris Christies, Hillary Clintons, and the Piers Morgans, but the money behind the scenes shaped by people like Ted Turner, George Soros, and Warren Buffett.

When Jones talks about the Bilderburger Group, and all the intertwined groups that serve the political interests of the very wealthy, he is noticeably fearful of their motives—which indicate sinister strategies against mankind.  I believe that Jones was harassed while in New York City by thugs of the financially powerful who fully intend to destroy American sovereignty and rebuild it in their own image.  When Jones became out-of-control during the CNN interview, I have no doubt that executives at CNN were on the phone with worry over what their bosses would think of the Jones/Morgan exchange because it backfired obviously.  Jones did look like a crazy, maniacal, gun totting, lunatic—but he represents people like me, and millions of other gun supporters who reside in the core of America.  I have said myself that I am ready for a new American Civil War.  In fact, I expect it to become a reality in the very near future.  I’m not going to give up any of my rights for the “greater good” as George Soros or anybody else sees it.

The growing realization that eventually people like Alex Jones will have to come to, that will come with time, is that there is nothing to fear from all those conspiracy makers.  Once Jones and his fans realize that they have just as much power to inflict pain on the Bilderburgers or any armed gunmen who might try to harass them outside of the CNN building before an interview, they will discover that they always had the power—and that conspiracies of any kind are simply designed to move the minds of mankind in a particular direction, whether or not there is any truth to the conspiracy.  The idea of a conspiracy direct or indirect is designed to strike fear in the minds of the recipients.  However, once people realize that they are just as capable of inflicting the same kind of violence that the conspiracy perpetrators are, there really isn’t anything to fear from them.  There is no reason to fear the gun carrying thug, the politician and their security details, “hit squads,” or just public relations specialists—they are all only human.  If the quality of mind of one side is superior to the other with all other things being equal, then the strong mind will always prevail.  Guns make the physical nature of conflict equal leaving only the minds to prevail over others—which is why the powerful wish to remove guns from society—because their minds are not superior to everyone else.  Being more fiscally ruthless does not equate to a quality mind.  The only way the extreme billionaire redemption addict looking to suppress the sins of their youth with philanthropy, is to control society by taking away the physical ability of equality—because the mind of those billionaire activists is not superior to their opponents.  That is what the gun control argument is all about—power and control.  Once that is realized, there is nothing to fear.  The conspiracy generators are just pathetically simple people who use money to overcome their mental weaknesses in a quest for power and ruthlessness that made them billionaires in the first place.

Alex Jones is not crazy, and neither is Ted Nugent.  They are passionate, and utter their anger that the world is not the honest one that they thought it was.  In that regard their ideas about the world has been shattered.  They wanted to believe that people on the other side of the political aisle were good—and they are outraged to find out that they aren’t.  And they fear losing that equality measure of their political enemies having guns and them not having equal weapons because they desire to be law bidding citizens.  Their political enemies are dirty and won’t follow any laws anyway, so the good people who follow Alex Jones will always be at a disadvantage to the radical extremists on the political left.  Their anger isn’t insanity, its fear at losing their equal footing with those who wish to control their lives–so the emotions do get out-of-hand.  If so many people weren’t asleep, they’d be angry too!  However, Alex Jones would sleep better at night if he realized that the reason behind his conspiracy theories of ultimate control of the human population are because our enemies have insufficient intellects that cannot deal squarely with the minds of those they wish to suppress.  They are not superior, and cannot control our society unless we surrender our ground and guns to them.  Now that the chips are on the table, the other side has been exposed, and their argument will fade off into eventual oblivion like clouds on a hot August day evaporating before our eyes.   There is nothing to fear from those people, because their actions are based on poor intellects and an abysmal understanding of reality which is a tendency that means they should fear us a lot more than we have need to fear them.

Alex Jones in that regard is not crazy, he’s simply passionate, and that makes him a good, healthy American doing his job.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

Michelle Obama’s Email to Me: The lavish life of a wanna be queen

For some reason, Michelle Obama thinks I’m her friend.  She would be wrong.  Tonight she sent me this ridiculous email:

Friend —

Four years ago, during his first inauguration, Barack and I were thrilled when thousands of Americans from every corner of the country took part in the National Day of Service honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

We were so excited because we knew that the celebrations weren’t just about a new president, but about everything that we can accomplish together. And that starts with service.

So this year, as we prepare for another celebration, we’re hoping to renew that spirit of service and citizenship — we’re calling on all Americans, including you, to volunteer in your community on Saturday, January 19th, for this year’s Day of Service.

Please join us, and commit to serve on January 19th.

Throughout our lives, Barack and I have seen that building a full life isn’t about what you can get for yourself — but what you can give to those around you. It’s a value that’s been central to our lives together. And as parents, it’s something we’re trying every day to pass down to our girls.

This inauguration is only possible because of you and all your hard work. Barack and I are so grateful for you, and for everything you’ve done for us and for our country.

Pledge to join us for the Day of Service at an event near you:

http://action.2013pic.org/Pledge-to-Serve

Thanks,

Michelle

P.S. — When you commit to serve, you’ll be automatically entered for the chance to come out to Washington, D.C. for Barack’s inauguration — flight and hotel covered.

Lady……………..I don’t serve anybody.  The only thing I’ll pledge is to throw you and your husband’s ass outta office.  Enjoy your party spent with the money stolen from the American people through the strong-arm tactics of the IRS.  The time is coming when the princes and princesses of The United States will learn that it is they who serve, not the other way around.  And Michelle…………..sweetheart………….if you’re in such a giving mood……………..why not give back the millions of tax payer dollars you’ve spent on family vacations.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

New Frontiers in Education: ‘Star Wars The Old Republic’ on Alderaan

One of my changes in position on public education comes not from the revelation that the labor unions have no respect, or desire to work with taxpayers over school funding issues—but in learning about changes in education methods that are far better than the traditional way of learning.  To my mind first comes Rosetta Stone software which is completely changing the way that foreign language is taught to individuals, and is quite revolutionary.  It is only a matter of time before math, science, and language arts is revolutionized in the same way.  In fact, I believe that Microsoft Office is the most significant revolutionary step forward that any society has ever made, because it helps solve many of the basic language problems in communication with its powerful word processor and very excellent Excel Spreadsheets which I think are stunning in their conception.  The Cell design in Excel is one of those very unique inventions that are having a major impact on our society, because it makes complex mathematical computations accessible to a mass audience.  No longer is an accounting degree from college necessary to understand complex financial calculations.  This fact alone has helped stoke the fires for the present “freedom movement” that is going on in The United States where everything is being re-considered and re-invented as the revelation that we have all been duped by the political class for many years with fuzzy math and flat-out lies has been easily revealed by Microsoft Office’s powerful, user-friendly programs.  Excel by Microsoft has helped average people blow the lid off the truth that used to be concealed in the brief cases of politicians and understood only by accountants and lawyers.

Education based software like those mentioned above are the obvious signs of change that is coming on the forefront of learning.  Along the same education lines, yet in the field of entertainment I have been playing a new video game from BioWare called Star Wars: The Old Republic that I have found to be absolutely stunning in its conception, scope, subtle ambition, visual articulation, and intelligence that is absolutely mind-boggling compared to the kinds of entertainment options that were available when I was a kid.  The game is an MMO so you play with millions of other players from all over the world at the same time and interact with a storyline that is in essence an epic novel.  In fact, that is exactly how my wife and I have been describing it after over 100 hours logged onto the game during the last two weeks.  The Old Republic is a living breathing novel with sights and sounds where it requires the input of the player to advance the storyline.  To date, co-opting with my wife playing as a Jedi Counselor and myself playing as a Jedi Knight, we have made literally hundreds of decisions along the way that have proven how education in the world of tomorrow should be.  The decisions made have immediate consequences on the story so depending on how those decisions are conducted directly impacts the outcome of the story.  For the designers at BioWare if I didn’t know better I would think that they were trying to “teach” society the meaning of democratic republics and the value of being “good citizens,” because the content is very heavy, and without doubt, most of the young people who share that cyberspace with us in that massive concept of a game probably don’t retain much of the vast amounts of data provided.  But in watching them play the game, I have been impressed at how quickly some of them have advanced in the game managing many aspects of their characters with a complicated system of adjustments that must always be checked and dealt with.

There is a currency system in the game that is specific to over 17 different planets, plus the Republic itself has a kind of universal currency.  A player must manage their crafting skills, their armor damage, the specs of their weapons, armor and those of their companions.  They must also manage a starship of their own including the fuel to get from point A to point B, and countless other small little details that must be constantly maintained as the game is played.  Not to mention there are many opportunities to play with groups of 4 to 16 players at the same time so you have to coordinate with all of them to achieve mission objectives.  Most of the time my wife and I work as a team, I’ll designate that I’ll perform one task while she does another maximizing our efforts and it was during all this that I realized that much of what The Old Republic was doing is far better than the kind of things public education is trying to achieve in the old fashion way of teaching.  No wonder kids are so bored in school and aren’t learning anything when they are playing games like these for fun!

I had managed to curb my enthusiasm for the first 70 hours of game play by telling myself I only liked the game because it was new, or because we had to spend several thousand dollars to play it at the level I wanted to.  But after we visited the planet of Alderaan, the planet that was destroyed in the first Star Wars film A New Hope I realized that I was not only playing the best video game I have ever played, but was witnessing a revolutionary new way educating tomorrow’s youth.  Alderaan graphically and politically is absolutely magnificent.  The reason we spent money on buying new computers just to play The Old Republic were for moments like the environment on Alderaan, with snow-capped mountains all around the major cities that even have mist drifting in front of them.  There are windmills generating power off in the distance and everything is very lush, green, and advanced.  For those who know me, my favorite amusement park in the world is Epcot Center at Disneyworld, and Alderaan in the game The Old Republic is like a living breathing city of Epcot design with very complicated politics that must be unraveled by the game’s players.  It is extremely intriguing and really mind-blowing how vast that world is.  We tried for over an hour to get to the edge of the map world, (the programmed content of just that planet) and couldn’t do it.  Alderaan alone in The Old Republic is bigger in size than most video games that might be programmed for Xbox or the PC, so in relation to the other 17 planets in the game, it is difficult to comprehend how BioWare pulled all this material off.  There had to be mountains of scripts, dialogue performed by actors for many, many hours and large teams of programs just to create all the substance—but to connect it all with a storyline is baffling.  To stand on Alderaan and take it all in, and look at the mist forming and drifting across the mountains in the distance it had the same kind of look as the Smoky Mountains, the Colorado Rockies, the Canadian city of Banif, or the Swiss Alps—BioWare pulled off what I would consider an impossible feat with just this one environment—the illusion of reality.  Once a player is in that reality, they are open to be taught in that environment.  That is why The Old Republic is so superior to any other game experience I’ve personally ever had, but also sets the stage for education in the future.  This is the way education should be handled with all America’s youth.  No politics, no exploitation, none of the funding issues that are plaguing modern public education with inefficiency–but instead the kind of productivity that is evident in The Old Republic that encourages a player to learn, and rewards that learning with gratifications that are remembered because they are fun to pursue.

Needless to say that I am impressed beyond measure with The Old Republic, I get the feeling that I’m involved in the start of something truly revolutionary.  I remember how educators and scholastic purists had a negative reaction to the pocket calculator in the 1970’s the same way they are resisting Rosetta Stone software today for foreign language use.  Many will resist too the notion that a game like The Old Republic can replace much of the current education structure with a more efficient type of learning that is far more powerful than the type of collectivism found in public schools.  The Old Republic is the first of its kind and is heads and shoulders above anything else done to date—not just in the combat system, but in the story and what it teaches the player.  It is gigantic in an attempt that is utterly successful and it makes me wonder what the future holds if there comes a time where The Old Republic becomes considered graphically simple as a standard that gamers today look back on titles like Pac Man and Pong from years past and shake their heads at how far we’ve come.  The world is changing, and The Old Republic is evidence that not all of it is bad.  The lessons learned within the context of the story are valuable, morally sound, and players can see immediately the consequences of their actions in a way that life has a way of molding over many years.  On The Old Republic players can see those actions within the context of 200 hours of game play instead of 20 years of hard living.  In that way The Old Republic is the best form of educational entertainment I have ever seen, and I am proud to live in a time to see it developed into a reality.  I simply love the game and am a very proud subscriber, and will be for a long time.  It is a miracle of everything that is good about our modern times mixed with the power of myth, which is the backbone of every culture that hopes to survive into the future.  It takes more than math, science, and language arts to make a flourishing society.  It requires “context” to apply all those skills, and without that context, education only succeeds in creating mindless drones.  What The Old Republic does successfully, is provide “context” in a story which allows players to develop skills that are directly applied with quick and frequent rewards.  That is why The Old Republic is so revolutionary, and is the first step into a much, much larger world.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

The Steubenville Rape: Guilt, Evil, Sorrow, and Epic Institutional Failure in Education

Thank goodness for “New Media” (blogs, Twitter, and YouTube) otherwise the rape case at Steubenville high school would have went nowhere.  It has been well documented at this site the various instances of institutions that have covered up the very bad behavior that goes on in education establishments such as Penn State, virtually every public school and college, to protect their bottom line when controversy erupts over various sex scandals.  When their sports programs are caught over something despicable they participate reluctantly in the prosecution of outright evil—because they all recognize that their sports programs are their sources for funding.  Click here to review the Stacy Schuler case at Mason high school for an example.  Virtually all institutions have a tendency to turn their faces from evil in order to protect their own interests.  They do not care what happens to individuals, they only care about the collective survival of their institutions.  In the mind of the institution whether it be Steubenville high school, Penn State or my local school district of Lakota, they all are willing to use sports as a safety blanket to sweep all their garbage under, and they do so without apology.  They only care about individual lives when they get caught.

Specifically in Steubenville a couple of high school football players appear to have gang raped an intoxicated 16-year-old girl that was bragged about by other students on YouTube.  Fury broke out on both sides of the argument featuring the same old cover up neglect that is always present in these cases—primarily from adults who are so in love with the distraction of organized sports that they no longer recognize the rights of individuals. On the other side are the kinds of people who make a moral argument for justice on behalf of the victim.  In this case of Steubenville computer nerds making up the group Anonymous hacked a deleted controversial video where an 18-year-old Ohio State student bragged about the crime with his friends, then tried to take the video down once the heat came down on them.  Anonymous reposted the video which opened up the case nationwide.

But what I find most amazing is that Ohio State and now Kent State is seeking to distance their affiliation with the characters that were directly or indirectly involved in the “gang rape.”  Surely Ohio State and Kent State are quite aware that the same levels of rape are occurring every single night on their campuses, particularly on Friday and Saturday nights when group parties are most prevalent.  And surely the parents of every decent looking 16-year-old girl up till about the age of 23-years-old knows that their little girl has probably been gang raped in the exact same fashion as the girl at Steubenville high school.  Surely the parents knew that all the years they saved money so they could send small fortunes to these colleges that this was the kind of activity their children would be involved in.  If their child attends parties—especially ones where athletes are present, gang rapes of unconscious girls is common, not unique.  Surely they know that the problem is wide-spread and nowhere near an isolated incident.  These rapes happen every single night on their campuses, and they happen all the time in high school parties where drinking is involved.  If a girl loses consciousness in a crowd of boys, she will find her cloths off and sexually assaulted nearly 100% of the time once she wakes up again.  Any girl who brags that she has lost her memory at a party is trying to distance herself from the disgrace to save embarrassment—which is why these things don’t get reported more often.  When they do, the girl is blamed for getting so drunk that she put herself in danger—just as what happened in the Steubenville incident.  The general attitude from the public is that “boys will be boys” and collective salvation takes precedence over the individual rights of a passed–out young girl.  So why do the universities distance themselves from a few boys when tens of thousands of girls and boys are conducting the same activity nightly?  They are either liers, or extremely niave.  I would bet on the former.

Most of the time the fathers of these young girls are as guilty as the young boys who perform the gang rapes because secretly in the back of their minds they root for their high school and college sports stars to have sex with their daughters as though they are sacrifices to the Gods of sports.  These pathetic fathers, who are quite numerous in population density, enjoy knowing that their daughters have been the object of delight for the gladiators of sports, so they do not prepare their daughters for the primal aggression of girls and boys coming together under situations of intoxication.  Also the universities and education institutions using their progressive philosophy have taken on the mentality of orgy porgy from A Brave New World.  Schools everywhere at all levels use casual sex as a way to implement a social collectivism that was first experimented with in 1920 Petrograd—the cradle of communist thought during the Russian Revolution of 1917.  The term “Let’s Party” comes not from rebellious youth fighting for their freedom as we have all been led to believe in songs like the Beastie Boys performed, but from communist Russia and their strict adherence toward crushing individualism and cherishing the collective.  To the collective oriented institution, a young woman who has been gang raped has been stripped of her individuality and accepted into the community through group enjoyment so the behavior is encouraged—which is why it is so wide-spread on college campuses.  Partying is not about having fun; it’s about breaking down the individual ego with acts of disgrace that cause the masses to seek solace in collective salvation.  That is the goal of the institution philosophically.

If not for New Media and some of the computer geeks who used it–the story at Steubenville would have been covered up like the hundreds of thousands of other rapes that occur every weekend at every education institution across the country.  And the guilty parties are virtually everyone who has turned their eyes away from the nature of evil and embraced collectivism.  It is only for New Media that a change in society is occurring forcing it to look evil in the eye at Steubenville and deal with their emotions—instead of using evasion to turn away from the responsibility.  The little girl who went to the party and was allegedly gang raped by a small group of football players is ruined forever in the a way that innocence can only measure and I feel deeply sorry for her.  The guilt falls on many shoulders.  Women who find themselves in this kind of situation are ruined because men do not like to take on wives that have had sex with lots of other men, and now that her story is out, she will have to explain it forever not only to her future husband, but her future children, which will be embarrassing for the rest of her life.

That doesn’t mean her life will always be terrible, but there will always be that stigma that she will either have to explain, or avoid when dealing with others.  But the girl is not alone, she shares a story that many thousands of young women all share these days, and they try to ignore their checkered past when they finally do marry and try to start families of their own.  But the secret is always there in the back of their minds and all future relationships.  It is the source of much male impotency, sexual dysfunction, and amorous relationships that occur outside of wedlock in the decades to come regarding relationships.  Men like to know that their woman have been theirs and theirs alone.  But a society committed to collectivism wants to destroy that sense of possession, and that is the root behind the evil.  The girl was just doing what society has instructed her is “popular” and “proper.”  She has been taught that getting drunk is good.  She has been taught that self-respect is a bad character trait.  And she has been taught to surrender her integrity to the Gods of sports.

When I go to sports events I often park in the same areas as the players do who play on the field, and it always amazes me after a game the lines of young women who form up where the players exit.  All those young women are hoping to use their looks to sleep with a sports star that society thinks is so important.  The women in the back of their minds hope they might become pregnant so they can have a permanent connection to those Gods of the arena, or at least be able to brag about their powers of seduction to friends which gives them social prestige.  The girls who think such things are fools, but the people who taught them to think this way are worse—their parents, their school, their media driven society that turns its eyes away from evil by promoting it are the real villains.  Ultimately, the poor girl who went to the party at Steubenville, got drunk and surrendered her body to the athletes at the party did it for the same reasons that the groupie girls try to bed professional athletes—for social prestige. They of course don’t mean for things to get out of hand—but often that is the case.  Evil is at work in these events, and the guilt is on more hands and minds than the two football players who will be tried for the incident only now that the story has become a national story.  Those football players like the girl are only sacrificial victims to a society committed to collectivism.  It is society at large that sacrifices these young people once the evil of their actions are exposed in the light of day, and there is no court system in the nation that can prosecute such a wide-spread evil that is virtually everywhere.  It is an evil that has grown under our current education system and is a direct result of America’s social commitment to progressivism.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com