Black Friday Mayhem

Black Friday is over for the year 2008. I did not sit out overnight waiting for the sale to start. I did not rush to the store and stand in first rush long lines. And I managed to land a very nice 19″ LCD TV for the bedroom at a great price at the Silvis, Illinois Wal Mart. I read that other shoppers were not so lucky at stores across the nation.

As is not so uncommon during special events, the crowds were out of control in several stores across the nation. One Wal Mart store in Long Island, New York reported Black Friday mayhem, which revolved around an unruly crowd tragically stampeding an employee to death. I have read several stories on the event including a couple of QCOnline postings where the blame game has already started in the comments sections of the posts. So far I have read many reasonings for the tragic affair by posters including placing the blame on: the nationwide event of Black Friday, Christmas, Security and several irrational jabs at blaming Wal Mart. I have been on both sides of the Black Friday line. I have worked retail many times during Black Friday Events and on rare occasions I have been a consumer during Black Friday events. Despite my numerous presence at many Black Friday events there was never an injury occurrence. There were consumer temper tantrums galore. But the only time I can ever remember actual violence was when I was a kid being dragged into K-Mart Blue Light Special Nights. Most Blue Light Special Nights were not Black Friday Events.

Neither the Black Friday event, Christmas, Security nor Wal Mart was the cause of this individual’s death. Black Friday and Christmas have been celebrated events for years. The violence that broke out this Friday was not representative of the events themselves. If we were to cease these events as some would call for, then will we cease very other event where a handful of individuals stir-up violence and mayhem? Shall we shut down sporting events, rock concerts, political rallies and media events? All have been home to various acts of violence. Shall we reduce the Interstate speed limit to thirty miles an hour that would reduce more injuries and deaths in weeks than have ever been accounted for during the history of shopping events. Also, if the company had a security guard at every entrance it is highly unlikely they could have slowed down the stampede of 2000 anxious people. And because Wal Mart offers great deals to their customers is not what killed this man. Lots of stores were mobbed with customers chomping to buy products at special prices. Violence is rare and not the norm at these events. There is blame to go around. But the blame belongs to the people who pushed, shoved and trampled the poor man to his death and injured several others. A combination of personal greed, envy, gluttony and pride all helped inflame the passions of anger and impatience, which is a deadly combination. It was mob mentality created from anger and impatience that killed the Wal Mart Employee. Sadly anger and impatience effect too many day-to-day activities.

This Friday, millions of people lined up across the nation to take advantage of special bargains and a fraction of those people lost control of their senses in a hand full of places. In the one case, they turned in to a mob that recklessly killed a man. And the facts are that even if someone is finally brought to justice for the event, the individual/s will be scapegoats for the throng of 2000 individuals that turned in to a mob. The cry for justice should be turned towards the mob not the events and institutions they tarnished.

Obama Administration – Second Amendment Supporters Need Not Apply

I have been around pistols, rifles and shotguns since I was a little tyke. Yet I have never owned a gun. I have not shot one since I was a kid and that was not a real gun. It was just a BB gun. I have just never really felt the need to own a gun. Not owning a gun is pretty unusual in my family as most of them, even the Bush Deranged, own some type of firearm. Yet one of the issues that has never went away since Barack Obama started his chase to become Messiah/Emperor of the USA has been his overt hostility towards individuals owning guns. He constantly defended himself during his campaign that he was not out to take a way our Constitutional rights to bear firearms. But his true colors about guns owners continue to come through. One of the recent revelations revealed about Obama and gun control is that he actually had the insulting nerve to ask if the applicant or any of the applicants family owned a gun on the applications that potential employees must fill out to seek employment with his administration. That is way out of line. It is none of his business if the applicant and/or especially the applicant’s family are pursuing their Constitutional Right to bear arms. It is an Obama anti-gun ownership witch-hunt.  For someone who claims he was not out to do away with the right to bear arms he sure has a strange way of displaying it. Personally I think it is time to become extremely worried about what the future holds for the Right to Bear Arms under an Emperor Obama administration. For the first time in my life, I am becoming convinced that perhaps the time to invest in guns is upon us if we wish to protect our family and property.

All Hail and Bow Before Emperor Barack Obama and the New Camelot

As we build up to the final coronation of Barack Obama as Emperor of the USA I have noticed a growing trend among the mesmerized sections of the press to start building and even exulting the yet unproven Obama administration to be the long awaited resurrection of King Arthur and the Camelot Legend . So with that in mind and considering the unclothed Emperor Obama’s penchant for creating pompous stages to amplify his enormous ego and need for adoration, I thought I would offer up the suggestion of the following Broadway masterpiece from Lerner and Loewe, the lyrics to Camelot –> as his inauguration overture (dates and events will have to be amended by Obama’s propaganda staff in order to propagate the Obama/Camelot Myth.):

Lerner and Loewe –  Camelot Lyrics

King Arthur, err I mean The Emperor Barack Obama’s Song Lyrics:

It’s true! It’s true! The crown has made it clear.
The climate must be perfect all the year.

A law was made a distant moon ago here:
July and August cannot be too hot.
And there’s a legal limit to the snow here
In Camelot.
The winter is forbidden till December
And exits March the second on the dot.
By order, summer lingers through September
In Camelot.
Camelot! Camelot!
I know it sounds a bit bizarre,
But in Camelot, Camelot
That’s how conditions are.
The rain may never fall till after sundown.
By eight, the morning fog must disappear.
In short, there’s simply not
A more congenial spot
For happily-ever-aftering than here
In Camelot.

Camelot! Camelot!
I know it gives a person pause,
But in Camelot, Camelot
Those are the legal laws.
The snow may never slush upon the hillside.
By nine p.m. the moonlight must appear.
In short, there’s simply not
A more congenial spot
For happily-ever-aftering than here
In Camelot.

In The Year 2025 – If Mankind is Still Alive They May Find

There is an old prophetic song from 1969 by Zager and Evans that paints a bleak look at the future of the World starting in the year 2525. I am pretty sure that some of the bleak images that they wrote about – are probably not that far away.

Currently the US National Intelligence Council has released a 2008 study that projects its own bleak images of the very near future. So theScoundrel is borrowing from Zager and Evans for parts of this post:

In the Year 2025 –

If Man is Still Alive, If Woman Can Survive – They May Find –>

A continued lessening of the US World Wide power status due to national infrastructure responsibilities and external struggles.

As US World powers diminishes an increase in the World power levels of China, Russia and India.

An heavily crime ridden Europe.

Russia – probably gaining control over other European Countries.

Communist China becoming the second largest economy of the World and continuing it growth as a Major Player among the Worlds Military Mightiest.

A continuation of a slow growing threat of nuclear conflict and/or bio weapons.

A diminished or mutated threat from Middle Eastern Terrorism dependent upon the economic prospects for the region. (That sounded like a noncommittal way of saying – a crapshoot – to theScoundrel.)

Technology growth inadequate to meet the needs of a fast growing World Population.

A lack of food and potable water supplies to meet the growth in World population affecting as many as 1.4 billion people. (Can you say time to limit Urban Sprawl!!)

Increased conflict among Nations as they fight to manage and balance the limited food, water, energy and other natural resources.

An extremely mobile/heavily populated Earth becomes even more endangered from the threat of plague like pandemics from constantly evolving virus events.

That is not a very optimistic prediction for the world. This prognostication of the year 2025 is not as bleak as the Zager and Evans song but it does makes it sound like now is the time to start preparing for increasing strife and turmoil. I suppose it wouldn’t hurt to kep an eye out for the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse either!

Tax – Tax and More Taxes

Quad City Online had a story on its site about how property owners are very unhappy with their property tax assessment. No surprise there! Despite struggling to keep out of being classified at poverty level for years – the Rock Island Co. answer has been to increase taxes on the hard-working Rock Island consumers and homeowners. No tax is too steep for RI Co. legislators! It is beyond ludicrous what property taxes are in this County. And despite a nation-wide property ownership crisis that has caused property values to decrease the deeply seeded Nepotistic one-party-rule Democrat leadership continues to find ways to jab the property tax bills even higher.  I guess we wouldn’t want any of the local politicians friends and family not to be able to keep feeding off the government’s treasury teats . What was it QcExaminer said the other day, Oh yeah – Boston Tea Party anyone!

To Bail Out US Automakers or Not – That is the Multi Billion Dollar Question

I have been reading about the recent suggested bailout of the US Automaker Corporations Ford, GM and Chrysler that just fell apart in the Senate. There seems to be lots of pros and cons concerning the bailout being tossed around the Internet. A poll on QCOnline seems to be leaning against the idea.  I am not sure if it is/was a good idea or not. If you consider past examples such as the TV/Electronics Industries, once a huge manufacturing base here in the US, government and history has not usually been kind to businesses that fail to stay competitive. Today’s electronics market is made up of items mostly made in Asian countries like Japan, South Korea and China. When US Electronics companies were being battered by foreign imports the US government did not rush to save American Electronic Corporations that either went out of business or was absorbed by foreign companies. There are no major manufacturers of televisions based inside the US that I am familiar with other than Vizio. And I do not even know if they build them here in the US. Curtis Mathis was down to one location in Texas but has recently been bought out with claims that they will become a force in the market again. Yet all the more well-known US Television Manufacturers that built the industry like Philco (1976), Magnavox (1976), Admiral (1979), Sylvania (1983), RCA (1986), GE (1986), Zenith (1999) have all went bankrupt or have been sold off to foreign companies as they became uncompetitive with foreign electronics manufacturers. No one in government saved their companies with bailouts. They were just allowed to become part of American Manufacturing History. I guess my question is why save Ford, Chrysler and GM from their own greed and incompetence when we never lifted a money-filled hand to save any of those companies?

Barack Obama the House Negro

Joe Biden claimed our enemies would test Obama early. He was right. Heck they have not even waited until Obama has assumed office. It seems the number two man in charge of Al Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahri, has declared Barack Obama a House-Negro. (I would bet Negro is probably not the exact slur al-Zawahri was going for.) Uh-Oh! As my late mother would have said -”Thems Fighting Words!” It looks like newly elected Prez Barack Obama gets zero respect from Al Qaeda. He will have to earn it on the battlefield. He also threatened Obama over his stated increased troops in Afghanistan policy by affirming that the Muslim fight would subsequently escalate in Afghanistan. Duhhhh! Gee I suppose that is almost a big surprise. Well it probably is to those that thought electing Obama meant an end to the current War. The only accomplishment the Obama led peaceniks along with the Democrat Party have created with their uproar over the Iraq War, is to move the War on Terror back to another location where we will have to reorganize our rattraps. Al Qaeda understands that. So they have thrown down the gauntlet in front of Obama to test his mettle. It is up to him how he responds like the peacenik he ran as early in his campaign or whether he is really the get tough guy that he morphed in to in the later stages of his campaign. And though I would not call Obama a house-Negro, he is what any politician that wins the Presidential nomination from the two-party system is – a political-party-puppet singing and dancing the party rhetoric as people behind the scenes pull all the strings. He will do just what his party tells him to do or he will be ostracized and hung up out to dry by his puppet handlers.

The Obama Myth – Everybody Must Get Stoned.

There is an old Country and Western song whose lyrics go:
Last night I came in at two with a ten but at ten I woke up with a two. The character in the song is lamenting about how too many beers stoned his selection process in his choice of bed warming company he had kept that night. There are many ways to become stoned. Perhaps one of the most common is allowing a smooth-talking con-artist to cloud your senses with words of emotion that you desperately want to here. A smooth-talker can make you hear and believe in messages that are not really there. You can find yourself among confused company when you start waking up with strange bedfellows. An LA Times reporter, Dan Morain, seems to be offering up a similar lament in a recent column concerning the recent election of Barack Obama. Now that the election is over and the mesmerizing sermon of the Messiah wannabe Barack Obama has started to wear off he has began to notice that perhaps the country just bought a pig in a poke. Now that the election is over some of the things such as the lack of Obama experience many of us have been chiming, since the anointment of the Holy Obama, has started to become more noticeable. It seems that not only is Obama’s political experience questionable but his claim to be an experienced attorney is also in question. , how embarrassing for the media and the Obama disciples. They were so busy inhaling the drug-like Obama mystique they forgot to check under the mask to inspect the being they were anointing as world savior! It seems that among his many deficiencies – in his four years as a full time lawyer – Obama had taken on just 30 cases and had roughly amassed just over 1/3 of the amount of case hours logged, in mostly minor trials, that is expected of a lawyer. We are just days past his election triumph and already the halo of truth, hope and change that Obama wore as his messianic crown has continued to become more tarnished through his electioneering dishonesty and deception. The lesson learned is that the path to believing in the Obama Mythology of Obama the Messiah of hope and change requires that everybody must get stoned. And stay that way. I will pass.

The Obama Crisis Has Not Disappeared

The 2008 USA Presidential election has been over for some time now. The winner as the whole world knows was media darling Barack Obama. Or was he? There were numerous attempts by Obama detractors to legally through the court systems derail the Obama Messiah Express. The lawsuits were challenging Obama’s Natural Born US citizenship status. The lawsuits were all kicked to the curb by the court systems. However there has been an appeal to bypass the Justice Souter rejection of one lawsuit that claimed Obama’s dual citizenship at birth disqualifies him from holding the office of President, by using an appeal to another Supreme Court Justice to review the case. There is evidently considerable pressure from outside sources for the judges to review the Souter ruling. I do not know if the lawsuit contains enough information that they can force a review of the 2008 election. Souter ruled citizens were not important enough to bring such a lawsuit. And in my opinion even if they manage a judicial review -and if the information proves Obama is not legally fit to be President- the Supreme Court Justices lack the rock hard testicles to overturn the election on this detail. As I in a similar post about a different lawsuit–> the legalities of these lawsuits are more complicated in detail and evaluation than I am going to speculate about. However I am providing the links to both blog sites raising the concern about Pope Obama. They explain the situation in detail. And the details sound like an Obama dilemma/constitutional crisis that is not going to disappear without an extended fight. If readers are aware of other sites offering up information discussing the validity of the lawsuit claim please post links in the comments section.

Hillary and Me

Natural Born Citizen

George Noory Attempts New Paranormal TV Show

Late night radio talk show host George Noory will attempt to convey his trademark radio show entertainment that revolves around guest interviews about current event/historical conspiracy, the unexplainable/paranormal and science/fringe sciences into the television medium. The television show will be called Unexplained with George Noory and will debut this Sunday on the Sci-Fi Network at 10:00 PM. Noory took over hosting the popular overnight radio talk show Coast-to-Coast AM from its creator Art Bell. Coast-to-Coast (C2C) radio show boasts of an audience of around three million listeners per week. The radio show operates from Midnight to Four AM central time and is carried by local radio station WOC AM. The show even has a Quad City connection since the occasional weekend substitute host of the show, Ian Punnett, once worked as a radio personality locally in the Quad Cities. The Coast-to-Coast radio show has built up an audience from an eclectic group of eccentric individuals that are willing and/or have the time to spend fours hours of what is considered most people’s normal sleeping periods listening to programs that include a myriad of subjects like Scientific Explorations/Events, Bigfoot, Who Shot JFK, Government Conspiracy Plots, the New World Order/Bilderberg Society, Time Travel, UFO’s, Aliens/Alien Abductions, Witchcraft plus some shows that are just way over-the-top bizarre. The subjects may be discussed from a scientific outlook or more often than not reach towards the bizarre fringes of science and conjecture. The interesting four-hour long radio shows often happens in what seems like an instant. The C2C uninspiring guests can make the radio show drag on. Which is why I am not sure how well his radio show format will transcend to a half/hour television format. A half hour is hardly enough to inspire and build interest in best subjects/material. The only upside is a half hour is plenty of time wasted on his abysmal guests/material.