Anger turned inward

I'm not a shrink. Nor am I a psychologist or a social worker.

I know how it is to feel very depressed, the kind that comes from internal factors, i.e., chemical imbalances and hard wiring in the brain, as I have been diagnosed with Bipolar I Disorder and am currently being treated with drug therapy. I have been in therapy for nearly five years.

The other form of depression is caused by extrinsic forces you cannot control such as the death of a loved one, a lost job and other life shattering events, which usually resolves with time and action. Sometimes you'll hear that depression is anger turned inward, much of which is caused by protracted feelings of helplessness and hopelessness. Many times people who are depressed need short term drug therapy to get them over the hump and back into the swing.

I think the American people are very depressed and yes, living those lives of quiet desperation because of the tremendous change and upheaval we are currently experiencing. Affected folks who are in their 50s and 60s are especially hit hard because they simply don't have the time to make up for losses caused by Obama's lame policies--and, yes, they're angry. Once that anger sets up and is equated with a foreclosure, a job loss or the dependence upon others for help, or all of these events occurring at the same time, facing the black dog of depression is probably unavoidable. We're only human, after all.

Moreover, there's insult to injury amongst older out-of-work men and women, which is the result of the generation gap between younger workers and them. Ageism is the large unspoken problem for many of these workers and again, that lack of control, and hurt, continues. No wonder so many people have given up looking for jobs. The longer they stay out of work, the older and less relevant they feel. And the more entrenched they seem in their spheres of no influence. They are in a helpless state.

And to whom do people look for some solutions? Well, that's another source of disappointment and frustration. We see a boy king--our president--who is doing his best to quickly push through all the progressive, collectivist, wealth redistribution programs he can, while we're supposedly not looking, and while Harry Reid hijacks the democratic process by removing the super majority vote from the senate rules. In the meantime, we have no representation. Depressing.

College graduates, dressed up and no where to go, must be distressed that they cannot find the job to pay off their student loans and instead find that unemployment among that group is beyond 53%. Young taxpayers must be miffed that they're being asked to subsidize the older and sicker among us while they are hale and hearty themselves. Why should they bear the burden of the rest of the world involuntarily? And why does this version of the Obama administration continually cozy up to immigration politics such as it did yesterday when he and Mrs. Obama met with protesters who are fasting at the Washington mall? Can't he differentiate between the war veterans he kicked out during the shut down and a bunch of illegals who are owed absolutely nothing from the rest of us? It is most depressing to see his constantly challenged allegiance going astray one more time. He does not have the impluse of a president who takes seriously his job of loving America first.

Instead, we are subjected to such onerous, behemoth POS legislation called Obamacare, about which we were lied to by the President of the United States. Instead of demanding that this entire debacle be defunded, we watch Capitol Kabuki theater. Any dollars which we have tried to put aside for retirement (if we have any), are becoming less valuable by Quantitative Easing, another useless scheme the Obama Regime has lain on the American economy. This redistribution of wealth is probably the most insidious of all of Obama's games. Once planted in the infrastructure, Obamacare will wipe out billions of dollars in wealth and destroy the insurance industry in the process. Of course, this was always designed to get the system to its end game--the universal care, single payer system. It's depressing to realize that death panels, euphemistically called health care rationing, are in our future. The eugenicists can't be far behind. In fact, some of them even wrote part of the law. What's particularly frightening--and depressing--is that the death panels will single out people like me, those they consider marginal because of mental health issues. Pretty Nazi-ish if you ask me.

Watching today's media is depressing. It is especially so as we view the Versailles press surrounding the White House and its inhabitants. For instance, did you know that the President hosted a Thanksgiving dinner for ten guests? And when he was asked who those guests were, the White House refused to give up their names. It is a private dinner...on tax-payer's china, in the tax-payers house, with tax-payer's wine and beef or turkey, and who paid the chefs and servers with tax-payer's TAXES! And the press corps just sits and slobbers over this president.

Depressed yet?

The list of the most remarkable changes and insults include our Middle East policy, what's left of it. It's interesting that we're challenging China militarily, not sure what that's about; and I'm not quite understanding the Muslim appointments in the White House, except there are six of them in high tier jobs which are connected in some way to Islamic relations. I wonder if we have the equivalent positions for other major religions. Somehow, I doubt that. All of this is rather depressing because Obama's actions seem so unilateral and dictatorial. He thinks he's Teflon...no, wait. He has been made Teflon by his toady press corps. So much more slobbering that it's slippery out there.

And finally, this morning, I am drawn to the latest, "I dreamed of  Peyton Manning," by Maureen Dowd, the leftist New York Times columnist. She states she is a latecomer fan to football (please, Lord, save us) and, with her new found "knowledge," attempts to compare the stars in football to characters in Jane Austen novels such as Sense and Sensibility and Emma. She says she's an RGIII fan. Wait till she finds out he's a practicing, demonstrable Christian! She'll have to look away when he gets down on his knee and prays and thanks God for the TD. Oh, and she wants to support a team that is not boorish. Well, that lets out the Steelers and the Raiders. Presumably, those would only include squads whose zip codes abut oceans. I'm pretty sure my Kansas City Chiefs would be considered peasants and most unworthy of her appraisals.

Now the lefties are fooling around with my football. Jane Austen indeed! Where's my antidepressant? Quick, before I get real mad!

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Bill Clinton's shot across O's bow

Has the Hillary Clinton campaign for president unofficially begun? Her husband, the ever subtle Bill, has offered some advice to a president in steep decline: President Obama, live up to the promises you made in the name of the Federal Government and let people keep their current health care plans.

President Clinton's guidance, however timed, most certainly gives his fellow democrats the cover they're seeking to drop this load of legislative dung--and the presidential dung maker--to make way for a new and improved health care plan; this time, however, the plan would be simpler and without personal indemnification and fines. It's the new Hillarycare 2.0, coming soon to all American homes--but, only for those who actually want it. President Clinton is using this issue as a front loading cover for Mrs Clinton's terrible job performance at the State Department, part of a likely constellation of many, many left wing ideological issues that she and her fellow big government-loving dems embrace as an instruction to a favored way of living one's life. Forget Benghazi and those enriching Chinese deals of the 1990s, she's your gal, your first woman president.

Mrs. Clinton's asking/instructing/conniving with her husband to kibbitz over Obama's broken promises can be enough to start the discussion on overturning and/or changing the entire law to fit her view of universal health care. During the presidential primary, she went to the mat insisting there was no way Obama's proposed health care plan could coerce the American public to buy insurance. It could not fine, nor for that matter, incarcerate anyone who would not go along with the plan, as it would be unconstitutional, and impossible to enforce (ironically, Chief Justice Roberts and the rest of the Supreme Court's left side declared the money part of the law a tax such that the IRS could enforce the fines and  impose possible jail sentences for recalcitrance).

That was then. Now we have a troubled and challenged system implementation which comes as a gift to the republicans and something that can be compared to a case of shingles for democrats; and strangely, a demonstrable boondoggle and an eerily untoward Obama legacy to Hillary Clinton. She can sing to the heavens for her good luck. What's eerie is that the Clintons usually make their own luck.

The Clintons are masters in the milieu of public imagery and perception management. They know they must react as opportunity presents itself. The ex-president carefully places a statement, usually some sugar coated criticism, and the media gratefully sends it into the stratosphere, like a second coming, for all to hear and see. Notice that Mrs. Clinton does not speak publicly unless it is a controlled interview or from the dais accepting an award or presenting a speech. She's not ready for her close up--probably deciding if she'll go Full Monty on a face lift. (I think she should, by the way.)  She will defy gravity, she must, according to Millineals.

Poor President Obama. I don't believe he realized back in 2007 just how harsh top flight politics would be. He's being directly hit for how he treated Mrs. Clinton in the primary. No matter how many career appointments, no matter how much he covers up for her on Benghazi, she'll never forgive him. In addition, this health care issue is a trickster which must be managed often offstage. More well-thought-out bombs will be launched as the need for ship-jumping increases in the party, and as the reality of the constraints and expense of Obamacare become known to the American people. Some of it has already started with Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana talking up her own changes to the ACA. The congressional elections are just a year a way, after all. The outcry is bound to increase.

In the meantime, let the salvos continue!

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Pull over, George. I wanna see the presidents!

Regardless of the fallout from closing down the government, probably the most salient takeaways of this whole event are the displays of the huge, impersonal and vast reach of our elected officials and bureaucrats as they hunker down and "mean business," to wit.

The Amber Alert apparatus is arbitrarily shut down--an important, vital key in missing child response--by someone in the upper echelon of our government, while Michelle Obama's "Get Moving" program is up and running.

Did you know that the World War II memorial is closed, yet the president can do golf over at Andrews AFB?

How about this?

This is the road past Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. The Feds have made it so one can't pull over or stop to take pictures of the monument. Think about that. This seems like a punitive action against the American people from a vengeful and immature group of those who are declaring that since the government has shut down, they are "...winning." As Speaker Boehner stated, this is not a damned game.

Evidently, the Dems think it might be a game because just the other day, a couple, 80 and 77, were scooped up and displaced from their Lake Mead cabin. They have lived in there for 30 years, but the Feds didn't care...they were to be out of there while the close down was going on (don't you get extra points for old people?). Using that reasoning, then, the president and Michelle, the kids and others should be moving out of the White House.

The Dems seem to think that if they make life miserable for everyone else, the Republicans will be blamed. There's an excellent chance that is true. However, people are fickle. The longer this goes on, and the harder the Dems make it on people, the more people see these ridiculous inconsistent, doasIsaynotasIdo kinds of treatment of people, the greater appreciation people have of smaller, getoutofmyface kinds of less intrusive and cavalier treatment.

Having the representatives of our government, e.g., park rangers, bureaucrats, Et al in these anti public stances can't help but distress many people. Now that the Obamacare system is starting up, there must be a deep distrust of our government and its agenda. Obamacare anxiety will increase as the facts about the health care plan are revealed.

We will begin to understand that the core reason for this shut down is based in stories like the following: there will be people paying $700 per month in premiums for health care that they are required to buy. Of course, the bad news gets badder; the deductible for this particular plan is $14,000. If you choose not to buy insurance, the federal government will fine you. The amount of the fine is grossly unfair. We're talking major bucks (they are different amounts for different cases). Here's the fun part: the federal government, using the IRS, will take your money from you by garnishment. Also there are huge tax consequences if you don't do what you're told. Oh, I forgot. You can go to jail. Seriously.

So, perhaps the closing down of this out of control federal system is going to play into the hands of sensible Americans, of all ideologies, in that they see with their own eyes what happens when power gets into the hands of a few...what happens when there are bills passed that are too big to read...what really is important when it comes to our liberty.

And. We haven't even got to the actual health care delivery system itself. That's another issue. We don't even know if it will work under these new schedules and directives! Ask a doctor how he/she feels about all this.

Meanwhile, George. I suggest you listen to your Lovey Dovey and stop safely by the side of the road, take out your camera and click away. I'll bet there'll be plenty more after you doing the same thing. Why, that's the American thing to do, isn't it?

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Palin's rant: Bombs Away on Obamacare

I admit it. I've been mad at Sarah Palin for a long time now. I think she blew it when she resigned from being governor of Alaska. That one event made her look like a quitter, someone who couldn't stand up, who just couldn't take it anymore. More importantly, if she couldn't take the job of Alaska's governor, then she obviously couldn't handle the vice presidency. It seemed to me that some people were right about her.

Moreover, she refused to turn herself into someone more serious, choosing instead to become part of a cultural phenom in which she and her family became clowns. There were the reality TV RV hunting trips that lasted one season. It was during that interminable series that we got to hear Sarah's form of swearing--"flippin" for the other f-word--and the slide down the ice sheet whilst mountain climbing, among other ignominious activities, not the least of which was shooting a wolf. From a plane. Even yelling at her kids became an enlightening moment for the rest of us. See. She IS just like us.

Then there were the moments with another reality TV woman, poor Kate Gosselin who had those eight children, and whose husband had left her for another. Sarah's ability to truly bond with women seemed suspect in that epi. Poor Kate, rain coming down, miserable and unhappy with outdoor life, looked like she wanted to shoot herself. Of course, Sarah, aka Frontier Woman, was impatient with Kate, who again, looked like she could slit her wrists, if only the kids weren't there. The kids had a great time, by the way.

Other moments of family life were uninteresting and interesting at the same time. I just couldn't believe that this slice of life in the Palin's house was really happening before us and that she allowed her family this exploitation. Yes, it was like getting down on all fours with them occasionally. They're pretty casual folks, after all.

Then came Dancing with the Stars on which one of her daughters participated. That's just an indignity I wouldn't wish on any of my friends. But the Palins were there, front and center, for the happy and exciting event.

In sum, I think the Palins decided they needed money and simply struck while the iron was hot. Isn't this a typical American story? Someone has to pay for that big motor home. And plane. And house on the lake.

For those reasons, and for one other, I was disappointed in Governor Palin (do you get to keep the office title if you resign that office?). She's stubbornly refused to capitulate to the importance of academia and her participation thereof. I just wonder.Why couldn't she have taken some time to go to graduate school, or studied areas of government affairs, or something? Many people come from remote areas of the world and get "finished," so to speak; I think "polished" is a better word for them, just by moving up and off of their own centers. There's a lack of curiosity that bothers me...and arrogance.

In this piece, http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/09/21/palin-ted-cruz-defund-obamacare, she's the feisty, old campaigner whom the right loves so much. She's also very, very bitter. But she does have points. She makes a particular one about the question of closing down the government, mainly that "they" hate us anyway, so it doesn't matter what the Republicans do.Of course, I disagree, knowing that perception in politics is reality, and a shut down government caused by Republicans regardless of their stripes is bad karma. That remains to be seen; thus the reason for defunding Obamacare without closing the government.

Mostly, her piece is pretty hot. She's out in full regalia in support of Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and is challenging the power structure of the party, daring them to ignore Cruz at their own peril. She hit the nail head on with her understanding of Obamacare, The Ruination of America. We all agree there and can move forward on that issue alone. In fact, we all agree on almost everything.

When the dust clears and families are paying upwards of $600 per month in health care premiums, it likely won't matter who's in power. They won't be for long. Our economy probably cannot sustain this expensive boondoggle.

Regardless, Governor Palin is letting everyone know that no matter what "they" say about her--the media, Democrats, other Republicans--she's never going to change. And she's more engaged in that type of rhetoric than ever. There's something about that bravata that inspires me, the citizen...and scares me, the Republican, to death. She's back and I'm not sure I'm happy about that.

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No more Clintons, Bushes, Cheneys, Obamas, et al.

Legacies. We're surrounded by them.

They're psuedo hibernating, some of them, in their respectable foundations--like Hillary at the Clinton Foundation, coming out only to sniff the air, clearly avoiding Washington snits, and then returning just long enough to have people wonder, "Where is Hillary?". Don't forget Chelsea.

It is in these lairs that the betters among us fulfill their beauty/fitness routines to get in shape for the fight. This foundation scheme is very convenient and is indeed a literal platform from which to spring forward towards the biggest fight of them all: America's presidency.

Then, there's Jeb Bush. And the nephew, George Bush. Why is it, everyone's a candidate, just like Grandpa and Uncle Georges? Enough already. Can't they find real jobs?

Liz Cheney? Okay, I guess. Another legacy, as if she somehow deserves to be where she is by virtue of genealogy.

And one Obama is enough for anyone.

What I like to see in the Republican Party are the new lines and new faces. I like when they kick the president where he lives and try to stop his illegal executive pronouncements like delays in Affordable Care Act.

I enjoy watching the Legislative branch of our government actually performing its job, riding herd over the Executive branch. It's absolutely thrilling to me to see our freshmen congressmen stand up and speak truth to power...and then follow through again and again. These new Turks are serious and seem uninterested in the core power of the old GOP and their rules. I admit to having to renege on my view of nepotism because the son of Ron Paul, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, is tearing up Washington. He's running for president. Then there's Senators Ted Cruz from Texas and  Mike Lee of Utah, both attorneys, who are convinced we can name this Affordable Healthcare Act a turkey before it even gets started, and hoping to defund the entire thing.

It is interesting that the President is using the guilt card as he stumps for implementation of the ACA.  He likes to say that we Republicans are denying some 30 million people from receiving their coverage. Of course, his metrics are as phony as his rhetoric. What he should be saying is this: your coverage is going to cost you yearly anywhere between $6500 individually and $12,500 for a family. And you have no choice. Those are the real facts. The old guard in the GOP seem to be oblivious to these issues while they hang on to the maddening status quo. In other words, they've given up, as usual, to the drumbeat that the Progressives have kept going, as if there's no other option.

In addition, considering perception in politics is reality, we in the GOP simply cannot risk poor PR--again--by shutting down the government. Surely this matter can be played more deftly than we've done so in the past. Indeed, some Republicans are arguing that the last shut down wasn't all that bad, that we gained seats in Congress, and it all came out in the wash. Be that as it may, the perception overall, was unfortunate, and the low information voter remembers those low lights, instead of the principled debate that the old GOP put forth. One still hears how the bad Republicans blinked, while the Dems and President Clinton played it to the hilt. Let's not make that mistake again.

Rinos need to understand once again that compromising with Progressives is a fool's errand. Some of the new blood in Congress gets that. Whether it be about Obamacare or immigration, we've been had over and over, and the new strong hearts of the party are correct in their impulses to stand firm. Out of all of these new voices, we can hear some strains of exciting and encouraging arguments, while the old is so old that it creaks from its constant preoccupation with twentieth century ideas and solutions, most of which belongs in a trash heap.

The new, on the other hand--those in the GOP who understand governing from strength, are on the cusp of change, ready to relieve the constrictive hold of the middletons in our midst. It is time not to compromise for compromise's sake; rather, the time has come for the GOP to acknowledge a new electorate with a new understanding of what it is to be a twenty-first century citizen of the United States.

New leadership, new ideas and new policies are needed to carry forth a reborn America--one which recalls the greatness of our country--first in the world in all things--as it used to be when we were not ashamed and guilt ridden because of the words of a few minority bosses and race hustlers.

In my theory of "Everything's Wrong in America," a huge axis change must occur. That begins with regular people beginning to understand the old ways of establishment politics. Of course, term limits are a part of that change. The professional politician is the bane of our lives.

Meanwhile, HRA, Hillary Rodham Clinton, is poised to be coronated Queen.

Dear Lord, I'm so sick of her. Why must we have these infernal personalities who are no more caring of you and I than she is of a bunch of animals in a zoo? It is the structure of the system, as well as their deep egos and greed (just how much are the Clintons worth now?), that we are subjected to the constant barrage of their politics and activities.

The Democrat Party has become nothing more than a clown car pouring out entrenched, tired, shameful personalities as old and predictable as ever. The Republicans? Well, fortunately, we've somehow found it in our beings to elect a few stars.

Out with the old; in with the new.

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