POKES AND PRODS - Editorial - SwampfoxNews.COM

"Dangerous hairdryers?" Oh, yes! And why are these 13,000 culprits so dangerous? It seems that if you drop them in water, why, they could electrocute you! Shame on those hairdryers! Bad, Bad, Hairdryers!

Yes, I'm being sarcastic. This is how stupid the current administration thinks you are, that you have to be babied and not held responsible for knowing that bathtubs and hairdryers don't mix. Think about it. They really DO believe you are that stupid.

And, you know what? If there are those who think things are going to be better under this guy, ever, maybe those people are.

February 14, 2012
Depending on the Lazy
To begin with, there is no GOP attack on women's health. There is no GOP war on contraception.

Neal Boortz has been calling people who don't think about politics except for 15 minutes before they walk into the voting booth, "the dumb masses," said really fast, for the past 20 years. Frankly, I don't think the masses are dumb. I think they are forced to be lazy. But, one thing is certain - the Progressives are hoping that their voters are the dumb masses. That's the only explanation for the imposition of egregious health regulations on religious organizations, and calling it the "preservation of women's rights."

Join me in a little trip back to the early Fourth Century AD ("CE," for those who don't otherwise know what era it is), when the Christian group (ηκκησια, ecclesia, kirke, or "church") became the official religion of the Roman Empire, one of the first things it did was establish the Church as the supplier of help to the poor, health to the sick, and succor to the wounded in battle. It took hard work, deep devotion, and plenty of money to make the system work. And for centuries, it worked. Even when Clara Barton started the Red Cross, the compassion was a religious concern. Otherwise. why is there a Red Crescent, a Red Star of David, or a Red Cross? Caritas is a RELIGIOUS concept.

As the church became more and more proficient in helping the sick, and as the church agreed more with the miracle of science hospitals sprang up all over Europe (medicine was more an individual thing in the Far East.) And this is the fact the Obama Administration wants you to forget. Hospitals are the CREATION of RELIGION. Voluntary, mass education is an INVENTION of RELIGION. The nurses in Europe are STILL called "Sister," the honorary of a nun.

Here's another little historical fact that Obama and his Progressive Goons would like for you to ignore: It has only been the last 70 years that the federal government has been sticking its fascist nose into American public education and health care.

What this means is that the federal government has turned our state and religious institutions, which require fundraising, into lazy bastards. As early as the 1970's I can remember Episcopal church personages talking about how wonderful it would be, if they could get government funding for their projects. It puts an interesting touch on the fact that the current Episcopal hierarchy is in the pocket of the Obama Administration, as well as promoting socialism, silliness, and sodomy. (..and, please, I'm not talking about being gay - sodomy is an equal opportunity unhealthy practice..)

The irony is overwhelming. The government shoves its way into the business of the Church and Synagogue, Mosque and Temple, and then tells them they have to play by the government's rules. And to add insult to injury, the rules are made by a non-elected body, because the elected body is too lazy to take the time to do it themselves. The Lazy serving the Lazy.

This is where we are, folks. And it will take pain and hard work to put things back the way it was - the way it worked.

February 13, 2012
Another Snow Job
Now we have all the news media trying to explain away why Washington County in Maine did not hold a caucus. They had 3" of snow. Three inches. In Maine. They held a girl scout meeting in Washington county on the same day and everybody showed up.

February 11, 2012
For What It's Worth
When you pay for something, you pay for something. If the poor Roman Catholics are forced to pay for insurance, and the insurance company offers a service to their workers, they've paid for the service. It really is that simple. Obama has offered nothing.

And, in any case, where does Obama get off trying to tell any of us we have to do anything?

Did You Notice?
CNN, yes, CNN, showed ALL the major Republicans speeches before CPAC. Fox? not so much. Oh, they showed a portion of Romney on Fox News, but only a head-shot of Newt - no sound. They're not biased? Really?

February 10, 2012
What?
Did you actually think that there WAS a bull market? Do you really think that Italy and Greece WON'T default on their bonds? Do you not think that most ratings services are not very nervous about it. Then, you must be one of those people who think NBC isn't biased and who like to be told, by government, how to live.

I feel like Tim the Enchanter in Monty Python & the Holy Grail, when he said, "I warned ye, but did ye listen t' me? 'Oh, No! Ets just a harmliss li'l bunny, i'n'it!'"

Tim The Enchanter I told you, weeks ago, that the market is moving sideways. To pick and choose, but mostly stay in cash.

I know, I know.. why can't I be more positive about the economy? Well, there is a very simple answer: the news is bad. Almost everything the government has and is doing is making the economic situation worse. Europe is a wasteland of initiative and invention and the Euro imitates it. If you don't believe me, ask anybody who believes in the precepts of Adam Smith.

MONEY HAS TO BE WORTH SOME, BASIC SUBSTANCE - gold, silver, platinum, oil, SOME real substance - ANYTHING that can truly represent a viable transfer of work done, energy expended, or substance made. A piece of paper, by itself, won't do it.

The Euro did represent precious metals, just as Middle Eastern paper is backed by oil reserves under the desert. But those days are long gone - gone with the increase in paper to fill the fiscal demands of bad social ideas.

And let's face it, I'm only one small voice talking to 5,000 readers every week. Many far more famous thinkers, with far larger audiences have said the exact same thing. Money must have a foundation. To do otherwise is to cheat every person who has placed trust in your paper.

Is it any wonder that the market is uncertain? No. It's not. What is criminal is that some people are proclaiming that this is a "great bull market." If you want to believe that, then fine, believe it. But just remember that when volume in the market is as slim as it has been, the market can go down just as quickly as it has gone up.

If the Euro folds - as it very well could - it won't matter who is President or Governor or Ditch-digger. Personally, I'm still buying silver below $35/oz.

February 9, 2012
Battle of the Ideologies
Right out of the box, I want to say that I believe that a woman has the right to kill her baby, if that baby threatens her life or health, physical or mental - in the womb or out. Self-defense is the first of all human rights.

Having said that, in the 21st century, an abortion is almost never medically necessary. Partial birth abortion has, so far, NEVER been medically necessary.

Enter the Roman Catholic Church.

As we suspected and wrote about when it happened, the Obama administration struck a deal with several political Roman Catholic types to support their ruinous healthcare plan. Now that Obama has gone back on his word (just like Lincoln, his idol), the Roman apparatchiks are furious, having been shown up as the fools they are for trusting him. Or, were.

Now, they may have become a real enemy for the current administration. You can mess around with contraception from prophylaxis, but you better not mess with abortion. That's a Papal no-no. RU-486 kills babies. Period. All "plan B" pills kill babies. Oh, you can call them "Fœtuses," but you know and we know and God knows that it's a baby being killed. Even Lutherans agree that it's a baby being killed, whether justifiably or not.

One of the things that is so hard to see amidst this fog of war is that the Obama administration has no right to dictate what anyone can or cannot do with their own body. Neither does the Congress. Government is foolish to even think it possible. But they do and have, and this lunacy must be stopped.

Paul and Gingrich will send it back to the states to decide. Santorum will nationalize it further. Obama will memorialize the opposite. Romney will.. well.. what week is it?

February 8, 2012
Romney Being Romney
I hope that there is no more argument about who is throwing the filth around, and who WAS throwing the half-truths and outright lies at Herman Cain.

The reason I keep writing about this, is that apparently, there are some people who actually think Mitt Romney is "all that." Well, he's not, and the more he talks when he's not scripted shows that he doesn't really have a clue what this country is all about.

Mitt Romney will not end the Fed. Mitt Romney will not put the country back on the road to a solid monetary foundation. Mitt Romney will not get the government out of education or religion or hundreds of other human freedoms. And Mitt Romney will not end the war on poverty or the war on drugs or the war on the IVth amendment.

He does not have the drive to preserve the Constitution because he can't visualize what an eleutherian society looks like. He may WANT TO, but wanting is not doing. And, frankly, until he curbs the disgusting behavior of his political action committee, admits fault in the attempted destruction of the reputation of Herman Cain, and starts exploring a system which upholds the Constitution, ethically, he may not be able to.

Eleutherianism is a transformational ethos which turns selfishness to enlightened self-interest and recompense-controllée into laissez-faire. It's what America was before liberals became progressives.

Foobaw is not Bastebaw
The crowds at Colonial Life Coliseum in Columbia are thinning out as Carolina continues to lose. Before we go crying in our collective beers, remember that most people who are die-hard Gamecock supporters would like for Carolina to win its basketball games, but for most, it's just a diversion between football and baseball season.

Personally, I can only remember two times in the University's history when South Carolina went to a basketball national final - when my dad was coaching the basketball team for Rex Enright - dad got to come home earlier from WWII and surrendered the team, when they got back from the finals, to Rex when got back later in 1945 - and the fabled Frank Maguire who, justly, had a coliseum named after him.

So, if you're going to be a real Gamecock supporter, you're going to have to steel yourself and go to the games, anyway. It's an important part of the history of Carolina, and live basketball is a wonderful spectacle. It's possible, also, that the Gamecocks might win. Stranger things have happened.

February 7, 2012
Another Lie from the White House
Did you hear? Obama doesn't have ANYTHING like the billion dollars the administration leakers claim he has raised. The current resident of the White House is so under-funded that he has decided to take PAC money. This is just another example of his incapability to come up with a program which works. The poor man cannot even raise enough money according to his own plan and has to raise money like his opponents.

It also means that, unless he can raise enough money, Republicans won't have to worry about being outspent.

Happy Birthday, Chuck!
200 years ago, Charles Dickens was born. And like the world in 1812..

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way

Dickens would not be pleased with today's world. No matter how hard we try, poor people do not create jobs. That task still rests with the needs of the producers - you know - the millionaires and billionaires. And frankly, folks, that's not going to change. Ever.

Happy Birthday, Mr. Dickens. With your talent and persistence, you would be a welcomed producer.

February 6, 2012
Yep, NBC Announcers Were Right, Right?
In their inevitable and uncanny ability to screw up a great event, the NBC Announcers pulled for New England and made excuses for them the entire game. Too bad for them. The "Old Guys" won Super Bowl XLVI. There was no projected blowout by the Patriots. Too bad for the bookies, too. NY won by five. It was bad enough having to watch my tax money being used for Superbowl ads by Chevrolet. But, somehow, the Giant's win made up for all of it. (It was also fun watching Baltimore Colts' Raymond Berry carry the trophy through the crowd of Giants players who touched the trophy AND took pictures of themselves and Berry on their cell phones.)

February 5, 2012
Another Non-Win for Romney
No matter what you hear from any news media, Mitt Romney has not "WON" anything. He has, once again, LOST to those candidates representing true conservativism. Gingrich, Paul, and Santorum have, together, about 54% of the Republican vote. And that same percentage of the delegates WILL NOT GO to Romney. Remember, also, that many disheartened Nevada Republicans did not show up because of the way the Establishment has treated them since the rise of the TEA Party.

What HAS happened, is that the core of the TEA Party has NOT been co-opted by the Republican Establishment, despite the Establishment's entschluß on Paul and Gingrich. My sources say, however, say that Santorum, has been co-opted and will eventually endorse Romney. Remember, neither Gingrich nor Paul are running in Mizzou. That marginalizes the Missouri results. But the media will spin it as a huge win for Romney. [My sources also tell me the fix is already in for Romney in Missouri.]

It's frustrating to hear journalists who know better paint this failure as a win of any kind. And it's not the end of the world, nor certainly not the end of this campaign for either Newt or Ron. But it is a sign that those who own the Republican Party are losing the majority of its conservative and libertarian backers.

Sorry To Hear
Sumter State Senator Phil Leventis is not going to run again. He, Harry Ott, and Mayor Joe are the only Progressives, in the State, who are honest, that I know of.

February 4, 2012
A Cloud of Inevitability
It occurs to me that the Republican Party may have already lost it's moral imperative. Until this past Tuesday, I'm not sure I even would have had that thought. But, there have been people on all sides who have commented about the mixture of America that Florida represents. Unless it represents selective ethics, the vote in Florida shows that America wants someone who will play dirty in order to win.

Simply because the media won't call him on it, as noted here several times before, doesn't mean that he isn't responsible. Mitt Romney won't stop the political PAC, acting on his behalf, from their dedication to the personal destruction of whomever is the biggest threat to him. Only the blind would fail to see it. So, it stands to reason that those who even bothered to think about their vote, acted in full knowledge that they were voting for a man whose lack of ethics were a match for his hoped-for Progressive opposition.

I have always been a fan of rough justice - the bad guy who kills the bad guy and then gets hit by a bus. Life does even out. And maybe, America making itself eat a ration of crap called Mitt Romney is justified, considering the political garbage that voters are willing to swallow in order to vote for him. But frankly, America deserves better.

Then again, maybe not. De Tocqueville [1805-1859] alludes that a country deserves the government it allows - a fear that permeates his work on the new country of The United States of America. (The actual quote comes from Savoyard, Joseph de Maistre [1753-1821] "Every nation has the government it merits." {"Toute nation a le gouvernement qu'elle mérite."} De Maistre's writings were well known in France and would have been readily available to a well read scholar such as de Tocqueville, although there is no evidence of his having done so.)

But just now, I'd like to cling to my fantasy that America can be saved, even if it's from its own image in the mirror.