147: Cruz Comments

As with almost all elected officials, I have no clue what the real political and philosophical position's of Ted Cruz are.  Unless it's the Prez, without sitting down with the guy one-on-one, I don't know how you'd ever be able to understand him.  But this much I do know:  The national press corps hates Ted Cruz, mocks Ted Cruz, and belittles Ted Cruz.  Therefore, I infer that at least some of his positions and ideas must have merit.  The national press corps (with some exceptions) is a pack of in-bred sycophants, a description which also unfortunately applies to most politicians.  The whole sick system is evidence of why government needs to shrink back to some level where it can be controlled.

146: Will BO Bomb Syria?

The answer to the title question and the Syrian issue overall is very simple:  Other than Syrians and Washington media, who cares?  Now take Washington media out of the equation and it gets even simpler.  This is an internal state issue that concerns a small country in a region of the world that most Americans could never find on a globe.  So why the hell has our national government been paralyzed and overwhelmed for a full two weeks on this issue?  Don't we still have millions of unemployed and underemployed citizens?  Don't we have an economy propped up only by relentless money printing by a runaway central bank beholden to government growth?  Don't we have a tax collection behemoth agency sticking its nose into places it has no business looking?  Don't we have a public education system that exists mostly for the benefit of teachers and administrators instead of children?  Don't we have a federal aristocracy (been known as the Senate and House of Reps) that desperately needs term limits?

145: Trying To Stay Positive

This business of staying positive in life is becoming a tricky affair.  Obviously as one ages, biology continues its relentless path toward decay and death.  Concurrently with the (hopefully) slow degradation of one's physical self, there is the tendency to see everything around us in parallel decline, for example the conduct of politics and business, which seem to be increasing connected.  In my adult lifetime and opinion, only Ronald Reagan and George Bush The Elder had any of the redeeming qualities of founding fathers.  These past five years of BO have been nothing less than disastrous, both economically and socially.  He has permanently defined the presidency as an office of social welfare administration, rather than an executive leading a nation.  Given the absence of anything resembling leadership in his background, this is understandable.  JFK is the only other non-executive I personally observed who occupied the White House, but at least he was raised by a strong executive, and he had military experience.

Our leaders today are influenced too much by their feminine side.  They are afraid to act.