an open letter to the body politic (part one).

Before beginning this post, I must make a rather blunt statement regarding the perspective from which I am writing it: I despise politicians. I despise big government. I loathe bureaucracy. That is all.

To all my elephants and all my donkeys:

Let’s start off with being honest with one another about the “issues”:

Social Responsibility
The concept of social responsibility is not dying — it’s dead.

And fat-fingered, money-hungry politicians (yes, that’s you); along with lazy, self-serving, entitled citizens (that’s us) on both sides of the fence are at fault.

By systematically stripping the states, and thus the local communities that comprise their cultural fabrics, of decision-making power; you have created a hierarchal, bureaucratic, impotent and disconnected decision-making “class” of politicians. Most of these so-called representatives are doomed to become increasingly removed from the very communities and constituents they are sworn to serve; as the body politic refuses to establish term limits on itself, and the populace is too distracted and unmotivated to force it to do so.

Re-visiting and re-inforcing the concept of states’ rights would solve most, if not all, of our country’s most deeply-rooted problems.

For example … [READ MORE]

hussein hitler.

Although I’ve been exceptionally out of the loop lately, imagine my surprise when I fired up ye olde internet mechanism and noticed headline after headline about Hank Williams Jr.’s recent comments regarding the President.

On one hand, I want to strangle people when they try the old Obama = Hitler, Obama = Muslim, Obama = Socialism rhetoric.

You gotta admit – after a while, that shit gets old. [READ MORE]

marriage equality: an alternative approach.

Typically, emotions run high and logic runs low when discussing marriage equality, second parent adoption, or any other measure that hints at legislative recognition of same-sex couples.

In one corner, there are hardcore conservatives who hold that marriage is defined as a sanctified union between one man and one woman. They say our country was founded on Christian values that uphold marriage as a sacred institution. They believe same-sex unions are an abomination, and the acceptance or recognition of them as equal in any way to heterosexual unions is wrong, immoral, and certain to propagate an irreversible moral decline in our society. They hold that homosexuality is a pollutant amongst our nation’s schools, communities, and government.

Some Christian conservatives even believe the rejection of homosexuality not only affirms and identifies one as a Christian, but it also defines one as an American — and not just any American, but a patriotic American. To them, the rejection of homosexuality isn’t just a personal opinion, it’s a personal duty.  [READ MORE]