Pig in a Poke

I think one of our basic problems is we quit telling our kids the fairy tales, as they were written, - no we had to fix them up and make them better. I remember back in 1980, I bought into the Jupiter Effect, it was a scare which stated that in 1982 there would be a planetary alignment of all nine planets, (before Pluto was demoted) and that the combined gravitational pull was going to disrupt life on earth.

Well it didn’t happen, and I realized, it was no more than a “Chicken Little” story. Global Warming is the same story, “Chicken Little!” Simply a matter of making myself important, by scaring you.

If you want to sell something, first you scare your customer, then you sell him a cure.

I knew early on that Bill Clinton was no more than “The Emperor’s New Clothes” and is the case with Obama, he’s running around naked as a jaybird, and everybody refuses to see.

I think we need to get back to the basic stories & philosophies so the people learn to recognize bullshit when it is presented it to them. Ronald Reagan was very good at using basic stories, like the “Evil Empire” speech, I know he was referring to Star Wars, but Star Wars is a basic story of good and evil that was popular at the time, and the people understood, and responded. No matter how well you dress up a pig, it’s still a pig! Hahahha!!!! It’s true.

George Henry Nichols

Irena Sendler

Irena Sendler
Died: May 12, 2008 (aged 98)
Warsaw, Poland

During WWII, Irena got permission to work in the Warsaw ghetto as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist.

She had an ulterior motive.
Irena smuggled Jewish infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried.

She also carried a burlap sack in the back of her truck, for larger kids.
Irena kept a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto.

The soldiers, of course, wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the kids/infants noises.

During her time of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants.
Ultimately, she was caught, however, and the Nazi's broke both of her legs and arms and beat her severely.
Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she had smuggled out,

In a glass jar that she buried under a tree in her back yard.

After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived and tried to reunite the family.

Most had been gassed. Those kids she helped got placed into foster family homes or adopted.

In 2007 Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize. She was not selected.

Al Gore won, for a slide show on Global Warming. 
Later another politician,

Barack Obama, won for his ? extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.? What that gobbledygook means is anybodys guess.
In MEMORIAM - 65 YEARS LATER

I'm doing my small part by forwarding this message.

I hope you'll consider doing the same.
It is now more than 65 years since the Second World War in Europe ended.
This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain,

In memory of the six million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians and 1,900 Catholic priests

Who were murdered, massacred, raped, burned, starved and humiliated!
Now, more than ever, with Iran , and others, claiming the HOLOCAUST to be 'a myth', It's imperative to make sure the world never forgets,

Because there are others who would like to do it again.

Where's Your Compass?

You bunch of bleeding heart, whining, Dumb-Asses

You know I don’t understand this sometimes, There’s one fellow, maybe two, selling communism, a couple teaching Capitalism, a mess of you screaming on about liberty, a few selling god, this god, and that god, and the other god! Come on people, get a life. 

Don’t you understand these things by now!!! You all act like there is some great understanding here, some great solution, if only. Well, if I only had money? There is no great secret. I am who I am. We are who we are. 

We can’t go around saving each other, it can’t be done. We can help, we can lead, we can serve, but in the end…. That’s all we can do. They have got you sold on some kind of guilt trip that is just plain Crap!!! This guy got more than that guy… Whine!!! There’s more of them than there is of me… Whine!!! That bank charges less than my bank… Whine!!! Wal-Mart makes to much money… Whine!!! It’s all bull-shit!!! So…. what? It’s always been like that… Always… 

It's the nature of man... It's the way it was made... Life is contrast, you can't have white, if you don't have black, You can't have a medium, if you don't have a large and small, you can't have a man, if you don't have a female, you can't have beauty, if you don't have ugly , You don't have the rich, if there are no poor,and you can't have the joy of life, if you don't have the tragedy of death,  for one defined the other. It is the recognition of this truth that leads to an understanding and appreciation of life as a whole,

You have nothing to feel guilty about, unless you’ve done something sure enough. They're ten commandments, which one's have you broken? Fix it and move on.  But don’t let the TV make you feel guilty, or the radio, or the newspaper, maybe not even your preacher, depending on what he’s telling you, and you should know what he’s  suppose to be telling you. Don’t go around feeling guilty. My mother had an ole saying, 'Don't believe anything you hear and half of what you see...'  

You know what’s wrong with you people, you have forgotten your philosophy, and it’s like a compass, and here you are lost in the wood, with voices all around you, calling to you, pulling you this way and that, and here…? You don’t have a compass. Shame… Shame… Now I know a lot of you think you have a philosophy, some of them short cute phrases. Some of them quotes from this guy or that, but have you ever sat down and strung it altogether into a line of logic?  Have you ever sat down and followed the founding father's line of logic and tried to understand ,what they understood. 

I hear you quote, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Ben Franklin, Patrick Henry even Jesus Christ, but they acted, and those who heard these inspiring words acted, they brought their words to life in the way they lived and the way they affected the world. Why? Because they believed the things they said, they understood the line of logic they espoused, the ideal of individual sovereignty. They knew how it applied to God, to their neighbor, and most important, to themselves.

Their fortunes were not the most important objective, for King George II was not asking for that much money (something like two or three cents). To them, the objective was self determination; sovereignty. ‘The right for a man to live for his own sake.’ (Ayn Rand) For only under these conditions can a man give his life to God, or not. Only under these conditions can a man reach his full potential, or not. Only under these conditions can a man choose a woman and build a family, a dynasty, a legacy, a tradition, or not. This is what made America great, this is the great tradition of who we are, not the wealth, the wealth I promise is incidental, or as my father use to say ‘ just reward for doing what is right.’ 

If you claim to be Christian, as I do. If you claim the ‘Prince of Peace,’ to be your God, remember Christ said, ‘Do not be mistaken, I have not come to sow peace, instead I have come to sow division, to set father against son, mother against daughter, nation against nation.’ Also recall that he picked up a stick and cleared the temple, I repeat, he cleared the temple. Not because he was angry, not because he was mean, but because it needed to be done. You can't have peace, if you don't have war. 

Again, this is a clarion call, stand up and do, what needs to be done. ©

George Henry Nichols

The Philosopher

I have come to discover over recent years, that I am a philosopher, an old and forgotten art. Now we have a lot of people who say they are philosophers, and they philosophize. Most are filled with shallow foolishness. Others stab at it, missing this or that, because they didn’t think it through.

That is the art of philosophy, to think it thru, to find the truth, as best we can, and train ourselves to believe it. But that takes time and effort and a lot of information. That’s why a culture has philosophers, to do the heavy lifting, to figure it out according to what is known to be true. That’s the key; you can’t build a successful philosophy, and subsequent culture on falsehoods. Whatever you do, it has to be in harmony with the very real world around it, or it’s not going to work. You can’t build a culture that doesn’t believe in eating, they would stave. You can’t build a culture that doesn’t believe in sex, they would die out. Okay, these are basic truths that we have to follow in order to survive; to live better than we would otherwise, we need a philosophy. Therefore it is necessary to create a common philosophy on which to build a culture, for a culture is built on common ideas and goals. If these ideas and goals are flawed, then the culture will play itself out. That is to say: it will rise to the level onto which their philosophy is based in truth. Above that, they have no reality to build on, and the world around you is real, regardless of what you might think.

My mother was a philosopher; I didn’t know it when I was young, but I did listen to her, and she was a well educated and very wise woman, a woman who had a way of seeing things as they are. I’ll be quoting her quite a bit. My father was a very smart man, he liked math, and my father liked things to add up. He would say, “If it doesn’t add up! It doesn’t add up.” He also liked to say. “If it’s true here, then it’s true there.” That is to say, if 2X2=4, than 4/2=2, that simple, don’t over complicate it. If you see it here, then you’ll see it there. I’ll be quoting my father quite a bit as well.

My Mother once told me, it’s better to watch the game than to play in it. Play, be part of the game, learn how it works at ground level, what does it take to make it happen? But, your point of view should always be from the bleachers, and beyond. As a result of this advice, I never saw, what my peers saw, I never heard what my peers heard. That was an odd thing that I didn’t come to understand for many years. So I was always at odds with my peer group. I just saw things differently.

I was born and reared a Roman Catholic, and learned the foundation, and teachings of the Church. I remember once as a teenager, I asked Dad, “You really believe all that stuff at Church?” He said yes. Now remember, I was born in ’52, so I was right in the middle of all the new age thinking. So I said, “But it doesn’t make any sense, with what there’re teaching at school.” He replied, ‘it’s the only thing that does make sense, don’t be afraid to scrutinize your God, He can stand up to it.”

Back to being a philosopher, my Mother and my Father sent me on a journey, that I have come to realize in recent years, I need to write down, because, that’s what philosopher’s do.

I not going to tell you my life story, I figure that’s another book, nor am I going to rehash what others believe, for that’s not my purpose, my purpose is to tell you what I believe, what I think and how it applies.

My Dad and I used to like to watch archeology documentaries. It was fun to watch them dig up the past and talk about what they thought. Then once, in later years, they (archeologist) were digging up some fellows who had shipwrecked up around Nova Scottish sometime in the eighteen hundreds, and had been buried by the local’s in the permafrost. Dad looked at me and asked, “How long you gotta be dead, before its okay to dig you up?” And I looked at him and said, “I don’t know.” But it got me to thinking. Archeologist is a fancy and acceptable word for grave robber. Now, if you looked up archeologist, and grave robber in the dictionary, you would get two different meanings for the same activity. One we accept, and one we do not.

Just how long do you have to be dead, before it is okay to dig you up for the people, or for profit? A hundred years, five hundred years, should you dig up your own? How about cultures of the past, a people who aren’t really part of who you are? On what criteria would you base such a decision? Or do you just ignore it, and accept the idea this grave robber has a degree, works under the guise of an archeologist, and is working for your good.

When I was six years old, my father gave me a bb gun, He gave me a mess of rules to go with it, the first of which was, don’t point a gun at anyone unless you intend to kill them, second, you can kill anything you want (within the law), but you can’t kill a song bird, or its your ass. I knew what he meant when he said, ‘or it’s your ass!’ Well, I learned one bird from another, just so I wouldn’t get caught shooting a songbird. At the time I thought Daddy liked song birds. Well he’s dead, and the years rush on, and I have come to realize, he didn’t give a damn about songbirds, it was his way of teaching me to always know what in your sights, before you pull the trigger.

So you see, there is more to passing along a Philosophy, then just talking about it. You have to live it in traditions, and taught repeatedly. This is where the ole sayings came from, Sayings like; ‘Birds of a feather flock together,’ ‘ a stitch in time, saves nine,’ ‘Well done is better than well said,’ so on and so forth.

What makes this political? Politics are a very real part of the culture, and therefore the Political Philosophy has to be based in truth, in what is real other wise it will crumble, and the culture right along with it.

Remember a culture ruled by one man, or a group of men, can only rise to the level of that one man, or that group of men and their imagination, ideas and ambitions.

A Culture of people, who limit their Law, and express themselves as free people, can touch the moon. ©

George Henry Nichols 

Battle with the Fox (Phase I) The Media

We are in the Bier, by being who we are, ‘Pachyderms,’ we have mounted a resistant's to The Communist war brought against us. Now, we have our fight, how are we going to fight it?

Remember, the Rabbit quit the struggle, used his reason, took who the Fox and bear were and used it against them against. That’s what we’re going to do.

(IF you’re lost, refer to this link).

http://thebiggalootfrom.blogspot.com/2012/07/what-are-we-going-to-do.html

The Darling of the wrong (left), is Hollywood. The jewel of the crown. I am fed up with them, they have no class, no scruples, no morals and no respect for us their consumer, nor for themselves. And they fund our enemy.

People…. It’s 1984, read the bloody book. Have you read ‘Animal Farm?’ Read it! I mean it, you’re at war, prepare yourselves. ”we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.” So arm yourselves. Turn off the TV and read these books!

Which bring us to the battle, turn off the TV. And when you do watch it, watch only what is acceptable. I want you to search your Christian values, and watch only what is acceptable. You’ll find not very much, turn it off. They know how many people watch, and if you quit watching, the money dries up. Quit going to movies, unless you know who the producers are, and who’s side they’re on? Quit feeding the beast. If you quit feeding the beast, he grows smaller.

But we all have to do it, on our scared honor. This is key, those men of the revolution, were honorable, and put that honor on the line, and did what was necessary to win the war, and did so without being told and watched.

Now you take that time you sat in front of the TV, and go out and meet each other face to face. Get to know each other. For in a war, solders know that guy next to them, hell he’s your brother, and your life may very well depend on him. Get the picture? Get to know each other, form committees to deal with various issues. If they already exist, join them.

The wrong (left) is always in our face, preventing things from happening. They are a real pain in the ass. So… we use who they are against them, fight fire with fire. We become a pain in their ass.

For instance, we’re dealing with the media. Bring it down to local level. You have a local TV station, and the News is a bit tilted. Or they stick their nose where it doesn’t belong?

I ran across this story, it was being flashed like it was a big deal.

http://thebiggalootfrom.blogspot.com/2012/06/little-league-coach-fight-in.html

The news should not have covered it, but they did, and the story was about violence. Crap… Did the Umpire have it coming? That’s the story. There was no news in this story. It just painted violence. If this sort of thing happens in your town, get your committee and go down there and demand to know ‘Did the Umpire have it coming?’ Don’t tell them how to do their job, just demand the story, in person, in number.

If a story is slanted, and you know it, go down there and call them on it. Tell them what’s right, and tell them to do what’s right. And if they don’t, turn them off. Make a show of your indignation. Be insulted! And tell them you’re insulted. Demand the story, and the whole story. Whole them accountable.

We all know about freedom of the press, the government can’t interfere with the press. That’s it. They can’t, by law. But we can, by default it is our responsibility to hold the press accountable. The people hold the press accountable, not the government.

We have to stop ignoring this responsibility, and do our job, and insist they do theirs.

If your local paper is crap, quit taking it. Better yet, buy the paper, print the truth and you’ll do a business.

A void will appear, and this is where you rich guys come in, produce some decent TV, make a movie. Make a documentary; compete in the market place of ideas. Make a sitcom showing the fallacies of wrong thinking. The talent is out there, but Hollywood’s not going to have them, because they lean right, so let us put them to work. There are hundreds of unused channels on cable, get yourself a channel.

You have a clever saying, something you think people should hear. A billboard in time square brings $7000.00. On I-45 two miles from the causeway going into Galveston is about $1800.00. Which means if you’re not in a prime spot, they are cheap. Get your words out there, your ideas. Don’t wait on the Tea Party, don’t wait on the Republicans, do it. Churches do it all the time.

Turn off the TV and go bear hunting,

http://thebiggalootfrom.blogspot.com/2012/07/battle-with-bear.html

Actively go find and recruit some bears. Be active in Little League Baseball and work to return the rules and bring back the competition. Be active in the Boy Scouts, and learn some life skills. Spend a little time getting back to the earth with the kids, and learn what it’s about.

To put it simply, quit feeding the beast and compete in the market place, and make a show in the media by Voting, Election Day. Something isn’t right in your community? Get together and go down there and straighten them out.

Let me tell you what the wrong (left) is doing. They are keeping us barking, as long as we’re barking, they do what they want.

We watch them on TV and think, ‘What Fools,’ and we give them a good cussing from our couch. You bark. You get on Twitter or Face Book, and you engage and argue, and put up a good fight. You’re barking. You write a good column for the paper, and you rip them good, you’re barking. Barking dogs don’t bite, and the wrong knows it. That's why they have these protest and do outlandish things, to keep you barking. We have to quit barking, put some feet on the ground and show up where we need to, and bite them. Remember they are bullies, and bullies are cowards. You start biting, and they’ll turn tail and run.

I want all you people on Face Book, Twitter other social networks, quit barking, you’re barking at the devil, it’s what he wants. Instead, ostracize them, cut them off, block them. When a dog quits barking, watch out, that means trouble. And if we are going to win this war, we mean trouble.

Instead, talk to one another, and make plains to put feet on the ground, make a showing and be a pain in the jackass.©

God Bless you all.

George Henry Nichols