Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Carny Nation



Today I am reposting an article by Daniel Greenfield. Daniel Greenfield is a New York City writer and columnist. He is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and his articles appears at its Front Page Magazine site. (http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/50990 )

I hope you enjoy it!

Carny Nation

Come right in and step right up. See the bright lights and the oddities of nature. Inside, folks, for the low price of twenty-two trillion dollars, you can see Binders of Women, Team Big Bird and entire reams of green windmills and fields full of bayonets and horses. Here lies become the truth and everything is full of sugar. And the highlight of the show with be Barack, the Exotic Prince from the Wilds of Indonesia and Kenya, with a special appearance by Oprah and a hologram of JFK. Here in the Carnival of Fools, the party never stops and no one ever has to pay the bill.

“There’s a sucker born every minute,” a famous connoisseur of them once said. And suckers are big business. Very big business indeed. But don’t feel too sorry for the sucker. The sucker is a creature composed of ignorance and greed. He believes in his own specialness. He believes that he can fool other people into giving him their money, when actually he is the one being fleeced. The mark is an aspiring scammer who is too dumb to realize that nothing in life is free and the scam is on him.

If you browse through your email’s spam folder, the chances are good that you will come upon a missive from a Nigerian prince offering you the opportunity to help him cart away his fortune in exchange for a sharp cut of the profits. These scams date back to the dinosaur years of the internet, and though there are occasional elaborations on the theme, the African scammers stick to the tried and true, even though the tried and true has become a cliche that anyone should be able to see through.

Why?

Because the Nigerian Prince scam is a self-selecting group. Anyone who still falls for it after all these years is dumber than your average sucker. The scammers know this and they don’t want to waste their valuable time hooking a difficult fish with a plausible scam. They go for easy marks for the same reason that some men fish with dynamite. Because it’s easier.

America has its own Nigerian Prince. I think you know his name by now. His campaign sent out nearly as many emails as his Nigerian colleagues do, promising fame and fortune to those suckers who would help him transfer some wealth from the 1 percent to the 99 percent. And now that his second term is here, the check is in the mail. And if the government check doesn’t clear, well that’s what happens when you put your faith in Nigerian Princes.
A scam like the Democratic Party needs suckers

A scam like the Democratic Party needs suckers. It needs millions and millions of the dumbest people that can be found outside of specially supervised group homes. And then it needs to appoint people to watch over them, give them the occasional food and minor check, and drive them in vans to the polls after two or four years so that the con artists can keep their manicured paws on the local treasury.

These people have to be stupid, yes, but like all marks, they have to be greedy. They have to be the kind of people who relish taking someone else’s money without working for it. The kind who grin at the idea of putting something over someone else. The kind who think that they are smart because they decided that the world owes them a living. They think that they’re smart, but they’re only the marks in a con. And when the con is done, like the guy depositing a check from Nigeria’s Prince Uscamo, they are going to be the ones left holding the bag.
A con plays on the greed of the mark. And on his stupidity

A con plays on the greed of the mark. And on his stupidity. And in a democracy, you can take over a country if you organize enough motivated suckers to vote for trillions in government money that they will never see, but that they are on the hook for. And if you don’t have enough native suckers, then you import more, taking care that your immigration policies favor the greedy sucker demographic. But unfortunately in a democracy where half the population doesn’t bother to vote and a quarter votes for the scammers, we are all on the hook for the scam.

We have just gone through two lovely elections that were won on the carnival principle. Put up a lot of bright lights, some unusual things for the crowds to gawp at, a few scantily clad ladies of the evening, and a lot of smooth patter, and forget taking any of the issues seriously. Tell jokes, juggle balls and deliver applause lines. And most of all promise the sky while taking the suckers for all they have and will ever have.

It nearly didn’t work, but the extra effort was put in and the vans delivered their cargo loads of moral depravity to the polls, where the poll workers showed them how to vote, and then the vans took them to do some food stamp shopping to remind them of how good life is under the scam. And many other people, the ones who don’t return emails from Nigerian princes, didn’t bother to vote, because they don’t believe in any element of the scam. And that just means the chief scammers have an open field.

And so the reign of the scam continues for another four years. The world will burn and the country will slide closer to the economic abyss. But in their dorm rooms, the Julias will pine knowing that their Nigerian prince loves them (doesn’t he send them daily emails personally addressed to them?) and the vans will go back and forth, and cashiers will run food stamp cards through the machines in neighborhoods which subsist entirely on the scam, and in the hospitals elderly patients will die because health care is free, but treatments are more expensive than ever. And the devil will laugh.

Carnivals have to end sooner or later. And the scam doesn’t look nearly as good in the light of day as it does at night, when everyone has had a few drinks and life seems good and magic can happen. A few of us hopefully thought that daybreak had come, but, no, it was only the light of the carnival and the drunken laughter of fools spending their last dime to hear their Nigerian prince crack a joke, hum a tune and pledge his undying love to them.

“The fool walks in darkness,” said the Chief Executive of a nation called Israel some 3,000 years ago. And for the fools of Carny Nation, who, as he observed, fold their hands and eat their own flesh, rather than work for a living, it is always the midnight hour, always time for another drink, another laugh, another novelty and another spin of the wheel that goes round and round and never stops until sunlight touches it and it turns to dust.
The fools of Carny Nation fancy themselves wise men. After all they eat without paying for it. They get money without working for it.

The fools of Carny Nation fancy themselves wise men. After all they eat without paying for it. They get money without working for it. Every baby they pop out buys them another pair of shoes. When they vote Democrat, the President of Carny Nation sends them a check. And so they put another vote in the machine, get back a few quarters, put another one in the mission, and wait for the day that the redistribution jackpot will give them everything.

Last year in Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia, the price of three eggs ran to 100 billion dollars. A beer cost 150 billion dollars and a roll of toilet paper, well it was just cheaper to use million dollar bills. We are talking about Zimbabwean dollars here, not American dollars, but eventually there will be no difference. Zimbabwe yesterday. America tomorrow. Money isn’t magic and there comes a point when no amount of words can increase its value. Eventually it becomes cheaper to print out presidential speeches on the bright economic future and use them as toilet paper.

When food stamps start coming in billion dollar quantities, then the sucker bet on Obama, Prince of Kenya, Indonesia and Chicago, may start looking bad. But suckers never realize when a bet is going bad. They double down and begin yammering some more about raising taxes. And why not. We’re sixteen trillion in debt. Why not raise taxes by a few trillion? You have to break a few billion dollar eggs to make a thirty-trillion dollar omelet. And that beer summit, it will cover the entire defense budget.

The grandchildren of Carny Nation will die in the streets, just as they do in their own home countries, but for now their future grandparents know that a baby buys a pair of shoes, 350 dollar Nike LeBron X’s, and that a vote for the Democrats will keep them from having to work or route them into nice government jobs with big benefits and easy hours. And when it all comes crashing down and their children are crying for food, because 100 billion dollar eggs are hard to come by; they will never blame themselves, instead they will blame the people they were scamming all these years, rather than the scammers who scammed them.
Carny Nation is more than just food stamps and welfare checks. It’s green windmills turning slowly in deserts with no wind

But of course Carny Nation is more than just food stamps and welfare checks. It’s green windmills turning slowly in deserts with no wind. It’s banks licking their lips at carbon taxes and consultants lining up to consult on everything from diversity to sustainability to intangibility. They are higher up on the scam pole, but like their van brethren, they’re still scammers who don’t realize that in the end they are the ones being scammed. Their children won’t die in the streets, but their bank accounts will.

Fools come in all shapes and sizes, in all races, religions and bank account sizes. Dumb isn’t measured by degrees or IQ points. Dumb people can absorb a lot of knowledge and spit it back. They can even discuss it incessantly in their best Word-a-Day language skills. The difference between dumb and smart does not come down to literacy or being able to juggle isosceles triangles. Memory is a skill and most people can learn something if they really want to and have the proper background for it. The difference between smart and dumb is the difference between knowing what’s real and what isn’t.

Intelligence is a bunch of brain cells packed by a few lines of DNA into a cranium. Those are mental skills and they come in handy when tackling Algebra or studying the history of the Mayans. King Solomon, that ancient chief executive of a kingdom despised by Carny Nation, wasn’t talking about learning as intelligence, but as wisdom. Wisdom isn’t just knowledge, it’s understanding that knowledge by drawing the right conclusions. The search for wisdom is the search for those right conclusions.

Fools are often very clever. Some have enormously high IQs and office walls packed with so many degrees that there is no room for a window. And they are still fools because they have no ability to draw the right conclusions. Knowledge is cheap. Your computer has access to more of it than all the wise men of history put together could ever dream of. Intelligence is a genetic gift. Wisdom is what you acquire with both or without either. It is the right conclusions that we draw about life from living it.

Intelligent fools are a Zimbabwean dollar a dozen and the Zimbabwean dollar doesn’t buy a whole lot. Carny Nation 2012 Forward to the America of the Super Future on horses and bayonets of irony and binders full of memes was powered by clever, intelligent, technocratic and even cunning fools. And above them all was our own King Fool, our Scammer-in-Chief, our Nigerian Prince, who like all scammers is passing the time scamming us while unable to realize that he is the one being scammed and the time will come, when he will fall beneath the bus under whose wheels he has hurled so many.

“There is no future for those who slander the Prophet of Islam,” our Nigerian Prince proclaimed, as part of his coverup of the murder of four Americans, left to die by his government. A coverup that has resulted in the first political prisoner in generations sitting in a cell. But there is a future for those who disdain Mohammed, that primal scammer who told his followers that they would have an endless supply of virgin girls to rape in paradise if they killed enough of his enemies and stole their stuff in the here-and-now. There is, however, no future for fools. There is no future for Carny Nation.

The Democrats have built themselves a pyramid scheme of Babel and it’s fools, suckers and marks all the way down. This is their Carny Nation and it only sustains itself by demanding greater levels of stupidity from its followers. The worse the storm grows, the dumber and trashier the base of its pyramid grows as vaccination against sudden conclusions from outside.

Popular culture, the media and politics becomes one. A great white noise machine of light and sound, carnival lights, smells and sounds, men throwing flaming torches in the air, shouts and cries, rap stars, memes, ladies of the evening, stars, banners, slogans, cheers and anything else that will keep the fools from realizing that the time is five minutes after five and the time is coming for the scammers to slink away into the night with their ill gotten loot and for the suckers who thought they were scammers and the marks who thought they were cons to clutch their carbon offsets and food stamps and raise their eyes dazedly as the sunrise exposes the tawdriness of the carnival, the false front stalls, the empty baskets and the last drabs of greasepaint on their hands.

And then Carny Nation will end.

Thank you, Mr. Greenfield, for this glimpse of who we, as a Nation, have become.

…..devereaux

Friday, November 9, 2012

Tom kennedy....own it!



Tom Kennedy…the liberal personified.

Regular readers of my blog understand that I do not back down from attacks, nor do I suffer fools lightly.

I prefer not to delete comments as I am not a believer in censorship, but when the language is sufficiently foul, and the content insufficiently useful, I will do exactly that.

That is what happened to a comment I received from a person claiming to be Tom Kennedy. After fully abusing me, he suggested I could respond on a Facebook page…a page that was not his (he only allows “friends” access to his page)…but instead was a page related to Canadian hockey.

I will not put a link here for that page….if Mr. Kennedy wishes to respond to this post and provide a link to his own page, I will happily list it.

Anyway, moving on….

I had already decided that today I was going to look at what the typical liberal is like. I was prepared to design a composite view of their character…and try to understand where they are coming from and why they believe as they do.

And then along comes Tom Kennedy…his comment on my blog was such a well written comment encapsulating everything that liberals think, that I could not refrain from including it here in full (of course, censored to the extent of the language used).

So…Mr. Tom Kennedy writes….

“Isn’t the internet great. It allows sh**heads like yourself to say sh** that would, in real life get your head cracked open. Hopefully you’ll suffer the same fate f****ng  c***. Please turn to the loaded gun in your drawer, put it in your mouth, and pull the trigger, blowing your brains out. You’ll be doing the whole world a favor. Sh***ag. I would love to see a son of a bitch smash your face in until it no longer resembled anything human, fa****.
-          Tom Kennedy”

So, what can we deduce about Mr. Kennedy from this comment?

I have to say that it took me a while to get my head around this…I had to pick myself up off the floor and stop laughing before I could give any credence to it.

But I really did try to put my laughter aside and get serious for a minute.

Let me see…he managed to not use any of the typical shorthand we have come to expect from teenagers and young adults…so I would put his age as at least mid-40’s. If he was younger than that, I would have expected more text style shorthand.

He uses punctuation, which implies to me that he is at least high school educated. His sentence structure and use of two, three and even a four syllable word indicates to me that he probably has some college education.  However, I suspect that his graduation from high school required him to attend some remedial English classes at college to bring his language skills to an acceptable level.  This is not unusual as about 40% of college entrants require this type of remedial coursework. This is far more an indictment on the education system than it is of Mr. Kennedy.

So, we can now start to paint a picture of Mr. Kennedy…

My best guess is that he is a late 40’s white guy, some college education (he failed to complete it) possibly in a liberal arts discipline like government studies. He currently works either as a low level government employee or in a mid-management level at a retail chain store…maybe a supermarket or shoe store, maybe electronics shop.

So, now, let’s look at his demeanor.
There is no doubt that he sees himself as physically intimidating…but that is his opinion. I see a bully disguising the coward inside. He needs to believe that his physical intimidation makes him powerful. He uses language in two ways…to shock and to intimidate. He believes the power of his words will send quakes of terror through my bones. (I might add here that it is clear he has not read many of my blog posts – his first real mistake!  Lol)

He is angry. Why, I have no idea…after all his guy won the election…so why is he so angry?

On second thoughts, if I was in my late 40’s and had failed to make a life for myself, with my best hope for the future coming from the handouts the government could give me, I would probably be angry too.

The difference is that I would be angry at the decisions I made that led me to where I was, and would then do something about it.

Tom Kennedy, on the other hand, is angry at the world for putting him where he is…and even angrier at the conservative movement that threatens his future livelihood at the government’s teat.

The final thing I want to look at is his comprehension of the reality of the world.

He seems to think that conservatives have loaded guns at the ready…and that the death of one conservative (me) would change everything that is bad in his life. Or maybe he is simply using me as a means of expressing his anger at all conservatives, and suggesting that if all conservatives were dead, he would become something more than he is?

I am not sure why he goes down this particular path…again, he seems to think that violence is the solution. Whatever. It seems to me that he is simply and purposely seeking someone or something to blame for where he is today…a lack of personal responsibility for ones own actions often leads to the search for someone else to blame.

So now we can draw a more detailed picture of Mr. Kennedy….

He is an angry bully, attempting to dominate me through foul language and overt threats, scared that my opinions will destroy the life he has planned...the parasite sucking the lifeblood from the producers. He is educated, but failed to complete his course of study and also failed to use that education to build a career, rather settling for the easiest way through life.

My guess is that he watches hockey in the hope that a fight starts and he can live his violent life vicariously through the TV set. (He is too much of a coward to actually confront someone in real life.)

He trolls the internet looking for blogs that he can rail against, in the forlorn hope that his angry words will make a difference.

What a sad life Tom Kennedy leads.

So, is that what the 2012 liberal looks like?

With only 15% of the population supporting Obama…and this guy so angry even though he won…I have to question exactly what a liberal is.

Yes, he certainly defines in every way what the majority of that 15% are like.

When I think of liberals today, I think of several descriptives:-
-          Crude
-          Crass
-          Violent
-          Moronic
-          Undereducated
-          Lazy
-          Bullies
-          Vulgar
-          Liars
-          And many more

Mr Kennedy, in a few sentences has simply confirmed everything I know about today’s liberals.

He IS what liberals are.

Now, I accept that not ALL are this way…but those who are not are also not distancing themselves from the vulgar and violent. They do not stand up and say “No, this is not who we are”. No, they snicker and laugh and turn away…hoping that the vulgar among them can make a positive difference.

Really?

Really?


Is that who you are?

Do you really think that Tom Kennedy represents you and your opinions?

Do you really want people like him…people who wish to use force to prevent freedom of speech…people who believe violence is the solution…people who cannot mount an argument but instead deliver laughable threats….is that who you liberals want to represent you?

If you do not stand up now…you are as bad as Tom Kennedy is. He is you whether you like it or not.

Yes…Tom Kennedy is who liberals are today…he is not a cartoon character…or a figment of the conservatives imagination.

He is YOU. Own it or do something about it.

So, Mr Kennedy…what are you going to say to this? How many vulgar threats can you make? Are you going to get your homies to come beat down my door and make an example of me? I suspect that you will not even respond to this. I suspect that you have moved on in your hit and run style…waiting for the next opportunity to king hit someone when they are not looking.

After all…that is the style of bullies…and liberals.

…..devereaux

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Our future......



By now you all know what America has chosen…

This choice was not just for the next 4 years, but was for the very future of this country, for your children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. For the millions of people who are not yet even a twinkle in their parent’s eyes…or their grandparents for that matter.

And America has chosen poorly.

America…the land of the free…is free no more.

Yesterday America decided that she would betray her founders, that she would turn her back on the Constitution and that she would follow economic constructs that have been proven to fail.

Why would America do this?

Well, to start with, only 50 million Americans actually chose this route. Nearly 50 million opposed it. And over 200 million chose not to exercise their right.

Putting it another way…a mere 15% of the population have decided that this is the way America will go.

70% of the population are simply too lazy to care and 15% have fought to not allow this direction.

But America ultimately allowed a vocal 15% to carry the day.

How could 50 million people be so stupid as to voluntarily choose this direction, you may ask?

I ask how 70% chose not to play!

But, at the end of the night when the votes were tallied, we understand that the country has indeed been fundamentally changed…a promise made by Obama 4 years ago…a promise we all thought was not yet fulfilled…close, yes…but not yet there.

We were wrong.

The transformation that started 4 years ago was completed last night.

So what can we expect in the next few years?

Brushing off my crystal ball I see the following:-

-         -  Tax increases, inflation and less employment will ensure a drag on the economy, perhaps thrusting us into a depression

-        -  Foreign policy supporting the radicals in the middle east will be expanded, leaving Israel out in the cold (Palestinian peace talk failure will be blamed on Netanyahu while American foreign policy continues to reward our enemies while putting our few friends in the area at risk)

-          - Government expansion through both government employment and quasi government regulatory bodies will squeeze the energy industry. More funds will be diverted to green energies regardless of commercial viability, while regulations will restrict and most likely impede total energy independence. Energy costs will skyrocket…and there is potential for government takeover of the energy industry under cover of “the good of the people”.

-          - Illegal alien amnesty will be a fact, as the borders become even more unruly and drug cartels continue their takeover of large swathes of border territories both inside USA and outside. 

-         -  Minority groups based on color, sexual orientation and any other way of defining them as not “normal” will be singled out for priority treatment under the guise of “fairness”

-          - The rich, the professional classes and the working class who have been responsible will be held accountable for the failures of America. They will be stripped of wealth, and the poor will be granted more food stamps, more free accommodations, more cell phones, computers and flat screen tv’s.

-          - Poverty will become the new normal as Galt’s Gulch overflows with producers taking their leave.

-          - A new department will be created alongside the new department of business…it will be called some fancy name totally opposite to its purpose…to ensure fairness.

The temptation to continue this list is great…but the depression that reading it will cause is counterproductive to what I want to leave you with today.

Yes, the country is heading down a path that cannot likely be stopped.

The people of America have shown they would rather vote for a living, than work for one.

The fundamental change that was promised has arrived.

But there is hope.

With nearly 50 million people already making their voices heard and voting against the tide, we have a strong core of folk who are ready to stand up and fight.

We must not allow this transformation of the country we love to happen easily. We must not roll over with a whimper and let them win.

After 18 months and two BILLION dollars spent on the campaign trail, we are, politically, in the exact same position we were in before the election.

Liberals are walking around spouting such nonsense as “the results of this election provide a mandate for the democrats”…nothing could be farther from the truth. They are stating these things in an attempt to divert you from fighting them at every turn…but that is what we must do.

Conservatives hold the house…and must be encouraged to stop congressional action unless it is in line with their own political beliefs. We must support our House in its battles, not wavering under the blistering attacks that will surely come.

We must force this Pretender-in-Chief to take actions that show him to be who we all know he is.

We must not give up…and we must never surrender.

Friends, fundamental change has arrived…but we have not yet been rendered powerless.

Until that happens, we must fight. We must hold high the principals of conservatism, never wavering in our beliefs, and never accepting the erosion of our God given rights.

Our future depends on us…but more importantly, our children and grandchildren, those not yet born, are depending on us.

God bless you all…and God bless America.

…..devereaux

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Katchers are comin'....



As the election gets ever nearer, I wonder what it would be like should Obama win?

I wrote this piece in March 2012, and reprint it here because, while containing a certain degree of tongue firmly planted in cheek, it conveys some truth about expectations should Obama win.

I hope you enjoy it!


Visions of forests, lakes, waterfalls and bikini clad girls swirl through my mind as the remnants of teenage memories and old man’s dreams efficiently wash away any logic that stubbornly claims ownership of my sleep.

And yet, through the colors and sounds of summer fun on mountain lakes, I recognize a noise that is out of place. My mind struggles to hear the noise between the laughter and raucous shouts of myriad memories. There it is again…a loud hissing noise, perhaps closer to a groan…or a growl? It fills the early morning quiet, and then is gone in an instant.

I recognize Sierra’s voice…distressed, loud…her big girl outdoor voice booming as she runs back and forth along the patio outside our bedroom door. This is not the same voice she uses when greeting the occasional stray dog that trespasses on our yard, and certainly not the voice that she uses to warn strangers that if they enter, they will be eaten….no, this was a voice I had not heard before…a voice full of urgency, pregnant with warning, and vibrating with uncertainty.

I shake my head to clear the cobwebs, mostly unconvincingly. The mercury is creeping past 60 degrees and I know it is going to be another perfect day. One advantage of living here is the weather….beautiful one day, perfect the next. The alarm had not yet gone off, and I took a moment to be thankful that the shrill alarm would not disturb my dreams this day! Sierra’s barking, however, was another thing, bringing me back to almost wakefulness as it matured into a more aggressive warning.

I heard the strange sound again. This time it is closer, louder…and definitely more like a hissing growl than a groan. Very loud. It split the eerily quiet morning like a thunderclap…and then was gone once more. I could smell an odd scent hanging in the air…it was almost like sulphur and ozone, but not quite. I tried to place it as I had smelled it before but that part of my memory had not yet awoken…it was still at the mountain retreat!

Stumbling from bed, I went to the patio door where I was greeted by a very distressed Sierra. She hid behind my legs, shaking and growling. She peeked past me from time to time, the guttural growling raising the hairs on my arms and legs. I looked outside, and saw ….nothing.

Tuesday is trash pick-up day, I remembered…the fog slowly clearing as sleep became a faint memory. Sierra must be barking at the trash man as is her normal Tuesday morning ritual…but if that is the case, why is she cowering behind my legs and not down by the gate where can watch the trash man jump when she reminds him that this is HER place? Nope…it can’t be that…and besides…that doesn’t explain that haunting noise and the odd scent hanging in the air.
There is the noise once more. Closer now. Loud enough to waken the dead….and the scent is much stronger. I take a deep breath and with Sierra close to my side step out onto the patio. I look toward the direction of the sound, briefly wondering why the normal birdsongs are not present, but again see nothing. Sierra takes a step forward and immediately barks and growls, looking skyward. Following her gaze, I finally see it.

Hanging in the sky like it was attached with hooks was …well…as I was about to mouth its name, the earsplitting hissing/growling noise reminded me of dragons of old, and this image was magnified by the fire that was coming from the belly of this beast.

With growling and fire emanating from its belly, it continued to hang there….no more than 20 – 30 feet above our back fence….waiting to pounce if we moved a muscle. The colors in the bright morning light were blinding, such finery as to compete with the finest peacock. And yet, such fearsome sounds.

Sierra looked up at me as if to say…”I told you dragons were real….and now, here is one ready to swoop down and catch the unwary in its talons and take it away, never to be seen again!”

Ever so slowly, the dragon passed overhead….seeming to be no longer be interested in us. Sierra watched intently, growling stubbornly, as it left to find a less protected target.

Just like children, dogs do not need stories of monsters and dragons to convince them that such creatures are real. They already know.

“The “Katchers” were out early today”, I muttered as I breathed a sigh of relief and made my way to my government issued height meter. The morning ritual of weighing myself had been enhanced by the need to check my height every day…my very survival depending on my being at least 5ft 10in tall!

Damn that Obama…damn Obamacare…damn “Apart Height” that march to slavery that Obama implemented in his 3rd term….oh how I wish America had listened back in 2012 when she had the chance to end this tyrant’s power grab…but it wasn’t to be.

Looking at the calendar it hard to believe that it is already March of 2018….just 6 short years since Obama was re-elected for his second term. How could we have possibly been so blind to have re-elected this monster…and how could we have gotten to this point in such a short time?

Being something of a history buff, and needing to record the truth for future generations (the real truth – not the government truth as told by the state run media) I sat at my government issued desk, and pulled out my tattered diary with handwriting using homemade ink…faded and inconsistent, it was hard to make out some of the words …the paper was the best I could find, and the ink was only as good as the last batch I could make from the juices of government provided fruits and vegetables. The art of handwriting had become unnecessary in this utopian age of computers and keyboards….but nothing written on a computer could be kept from the all-seeing eyes of the government controlled media barrons….so for my own protection, paper and homemade ink was the only solution.

Turning to the first page of the diary I note that things happened very quickly.

As soon as the votes were counted on November 6, 2012  and it was apparent that Obama was going to win by a small margin, he leaped into action, calling Congress together and setting out his agenda for the next 4 years.

Three days later, explosions at an oil refinery in Houston killed 17 workers and pumped clouds of noxious and highly poisonous gases into the air. The evacuation process was hampered by Hurricane Samantha which blew ashore as a category 5….never known to have happened at this time of the year before. A day earlier the hurricane had destroyed 3 deep drill oil rigs in the Gulf, spilling thousands of gallons of oil into the gulf every hour, in what is now hailed as the worst oil disaster the world has ever known.

(Some time later evidence was found that may have linked the oil rig disasters and the refinery explosion to a shadowy group known as “Cold Fish”, an eco-terrorist group with ties to Rahm Emmanuel and the Obama administration, but none of this could be proven.)

In any event, Obama sprang into action, closing down all oil operations in the country until further notice. The EPA was instructed to ensure all operations ceased and given authority to close down all refineries, all research activities, all drilling activities…anything that even smelled like it could be related to oil closed down.

The price of oil on the global markets reacted almost instantly reaching a high of $680 a barrel. By the time this oil reached the gas station as gasoline, it was priced at $34 a gallon!

The American economy stopped overnight.

Obama could not believe his fortune…within days of winning re-election he had been handed the ultimate tool for the fruition of his long term goals.

In short order and with the full support of the unions, he nationalized the energy industry, the motor vehicle industry and the finance industry. Farming and food production followed. Education and the media were the second to last to feel the swiftness of his actions.

And finally, medicine was nationalized.

This was left to last as he already had significant control of the industry through Obamacare…and that is where we, the people, made our biggest mistake.

You see, while it was clear that the balance of power had changed…that fewer people chose to work for a living, instead choosing to vote for a living (hence Obama’s re-election)…it was not clear how Obama was going to keep the economy running, even a socialist economy needs workers, and with more and more people choosing not to work, it did not take a Rhodes Scholar to understand that disaster was not far away.

But there was Obamacare…therein was the solution.

With Obamacare it was possible to mandate what level of care should be provided…and what would not be provided.

How could Obama use this to his own ends?

His first thought was that the elderly could be denied treatment until they had served a certain number of months or years working for the government….a neat idea except that he also understood that the elderly and the sick would not be the most productive. No...he needed a better solution.

He needed a way to get control of the lives of the young, the healthy, and the strong.

The solution came to him one night as he was sipping Crystal Champaign and watching the March Madness basketball games.

He noticed that the taller players may have been getting more of the ball, but it was the shorter players that were setting up the plays, had more energy, were faster and really were the engines of the team.

The engines…the engine….his mind saw an opportunity…what if the energy of the smaller people could be harnessed to work in the factories, the farms, the mines….what if we could use these “engines” to drive our economy?

And with that single thought, the tragedy of “Apart Height” was born.

It was simple really….

Use Obamacare to mandate that every person must register with their health provider and that on their 18th birthday they must present themselves for a government provided free medical exam. As part of that exam, everybody who was under 5ft 2in would be deemed to be in need of specific medical care, including a regimen of physical activity combined with a diet of high proteins, limited starches and daily vitamin supplements.

It was in the best health interest of these short people to be assisted through this health problem….the government would provide all their needs…while they worked to build the cars, the farms, the furniture, the entertainment that a civilized society needs.

Apart Height….it soon became apparent that many people over the age of 18 were also shorter….and Obama had a very elegant solution.

Since the country was now nationalized and everybody worked for the government, there was no longer any need for income taxes…the IRS had thousands of trained agents who no longer could justify their existence as tax collectors. They could easily be retrained as “Katchers” and sent out to locate anybody under the 5ft 2in height limit….catching them and transporting them to the special government facilities that would look after these folk.

And so it was…Katchers were dispatched far and wide in search of short people.

But the people were addicted to stuff…their demands for more and more free stuff became stronger and stronger….and Obama knew that his reign would only last as long as he could keep his addicted people happy.

To give away more free stuff…he needed to produce more…and to produce more, he needed more workers.

But that was a simple problem…it was easy to slowly increase the Apart Height limits…so each year since 2013, the height limit was increased. Slowly it crept up, until today…where it stands at 5ft 10in.

Where will it be next year? I suspect somewhere over 6ft!!

And all the time, more and more people are being taken by the “Katchers” to work in the production houses controlled by the government…while less and less people were tall enough to avoid the forced labor regime.

But an addicted people is a hungry beast…ravenous for freebies, and a never ending desire for more, more, more…

It happened in February 2018….the great Apart Height Escape.

You see, Obama had forgotten that intellect is not dependent on size. He forgot that man strives for freedom and when he is pushed far enough, will do anything to protect that freedom.

Six years of government sponsored slavery was enough time for the short folk to organize, to plan, to create underground railroads ready to spirit them away when the time came.

And on one cool morning while the guards were still sleeping off the excess of the night before, a nationwide jail break occurred.

Short people ran for the safety offered by millions of tall folk who knew in their hearts that Apart Height was wrong….that they would rather die than give up their freedoms that way.

The addicted remained in their drugged haze, too fat and stupid to know what had happened or why….too tied up in the latest episode of Washington Wives to care about their own future, let alone that of their neighbor, friend or even their families. As long as the government teat was offered and they could suck, they were happy.

When Obama learned of the jail break he dispatched the Katchers….armed with automatic guns they were ordered to shoot on sight…and if a tall person got caught in the crossfire, so be it.

He would teach the people of America who was in charge. The benevolent dictator who fed the addictions of his people became the fearsome tyrant overnight.
As the machine carrying the Katchers moved away…I sighed quietly and settled in for a nap before writing today’s entry in my diary…..

Visions of forests, lakes, waterfalls and bikini clad girls swirl through my mind as the remnants of teenage memories and old man’s dreams efficiently wash away any logic that stubbornly claims ownership of my sleep.

And yet, through the colors and sounds of summer fun on mountain lakes, I recognize a noise that is out of place. My mind struggles to hear the noise between the laughter and raucous shouts of myriad memories. There it is again…a loud hissing noise, perhaps closer to a groan…or a growl? It fills the early morning quiet, and then is gone in an instant.

I recognize Sierra’s voice…distressed, loud…her big girl outdoor voice booming as she runs back and forth along the patio outside our bedroom door. This is not the same voice she uses when greeting the occasional stray dog that trespasses on our yard, and certainly not the voice that she uses to warn strangers that if they enter, they will be eaten….no, this was a voice I had not heard before…a voice full of urgency, pregnant with warning, and vibrating with uncertainty.

I shake my head to clear the cobwebs, mostly unconvincingly. The mercury is creeping past 60 degrees and I know it is going to be another perfect day. One advantage of living here is the weather….beautiful one day, perfect the next. The alarm had not yet gone off, and I took a moment to be thankful that the shrill alarm would not disturb my dreams this day! Sierra’s barking, however, was another thing, bringing me back to almost wakefulness as it matured into a more aggressive warning.

I heard the strange sound again. This time it is closer, louder…and definitely more like a hissing growl than a groan. Very loud. It split the eerily quiet morning like a thunderclap…and then was gone once more. I could smell an odd scent hanging in the air…it was almost like sulphur and ozone, but not quite. I tried to place it as I had smelled it before but that part of my memory had not yet awoken…it was still at the mountain retreat!

Stumbling from bed, I went to the patio door where I was greeted by a very distressed Sierra. She hid behind my legs, shaking and growling. She peeked past me from time to time, the guttural growling raising the hairs on my arms and legs. I looked outside, and saw ….nothing.

Tuesday is trash pick-up day, I remembered…the fog slowly clearing as sleep became a faint memory. Sierra must be barking at the trash man as is her normal Tuesday morning ritual…but if that is the case, why is she cowering behind my legs and not down by the gate where can watch the trash man jump when she reminds him that this is HER place? Nope…it can’t be that…and besides…that doesn’t explain that haunting noise and the odd scent hanging in the air.
There is the noise once more. Closer now. Loud enough to waken the dead….and the scent is much stronger. I take a deep breath and with Sierra close to my side step out onto the patio. I look toward the direction of the sound, briefly wondering why the normal birdsongs are not present, but again see nothing. Sierra takes a step forward and immediately barks and growls, looking skyward. Following her gaze, I finally see it.

Hanging in the sky like it was attached with hooks was …well…as I was about to mouth its name, the earsplitting hissing/growling noise reminded me of dragons of old, and this image was magnified by the fire that was coming from the belly of this beast.


With growling and fire emanating from its belly, it continued to hang there….no more than 20 – 30 feet above our back fence….waiting to pounce if we moved a muscle. The colors in the bright morning light were blinding, such finery as to compete with the finest peacock. And yet, such fearsome sounds.

Sierra looked up at me as if to say…”I told you dragons were real….and now, here is one ready to swoop down and catch the unwary in its talons and take it away, never to be seen again!”

Ever so slowly, the dragon passed overhead….seeming to be no longer be interested in us. Sierra watched intently, growling stubbornly, as it left to find a less protected target.

As I watched the hot air balloon float serenely overhead, my mind searched frantically for a remnant of a dream ….but could not find it….

….it had something to do with short people…or tall people…or Obama….what was it?

While I don’t remember the details, I know that to re-elect Obama in November will be the worst possible thing that could happen to this great country.

Don't allow this nightmare to even possibly come true...while this is a work of fiction, it shows the "creep"...be it taxes, redistribution or height...the fix will be in and mission creep will take your freedoms, your property rights, and your soul.

There is only one way out....do NOT vote Obama!

…..devereaux