America is NOT like the place I knew in college in the 1960's. Today we have a citizenry pretty much devoid of what I would call "class". Restaurants are filled with parents who let their kids run and scream inside , oblivious to the desires of others to eat in peace. Trips on public transportation, like planes, are filled with what I call "screamers" (uncontrolled and coddled children) as well as "entitled people" filled wtih unrealistic expectations of how they should be treated. Government uses anything they can think of to call us criminals and fine and imprison us for "victimless" crimes. iNdividual human rights are being taken away seemingly every day.

Indeed.

This guy's an idiot, talk show entertainer/natural medicine voodoo healer.

Ahh, yes, the distractions of the kakistocracy...time to wake up and choose to be consciously human.

Many have the potential to "Be" but have inadvertently chosen "Not to Be".

the problem is that liberty tells so many people
to watch the kardashians instead. -- j
.

We haven't lost the war! Did our forefathers give up?, Did 8% of the population that fought in the revolution give up? Did anyone, that understood the way things have been created...give up? I think not. Liberty is life...survival instincts should tell you to fight for it!

is "hungry eye" a relative of eye candy? -- j
.

I take a slightly different view on this. I am agnostic, but I term myself an 'anesthetist' sometimes. I find it personally more uplifting to scorn the carrot of heaven or the stick of hell ("tuber and truncheon" as a friend of mine puts it) and uphold positive values simply because it pleases me to have made the choice to do so.

My opinion: Individual rights are neither god given (there may be a god; probably not) nor innate (such rights are generally taken away). We create the concept of personal freedoms, the same way we create the concept of justice...and we have to fight for such concepts all the time, and every single step of the way. There is no 'give'; there is only 'do'.

Jan

we must, then, teach the government a lesson. . how?
when a practical joker jumped on my back, years ago,
I just ... shrugged. -- j
.

Ayn Rand and the complete understanding of capitalism. -- j
.

after a thorough search, I found a reference to Ira Blue:::

http://bayarearadio.org/people/john-s...

must've been like the WLS breakfast show which I heard
on AM radio in the 50s ... taught me how to speak. -- j
.

I contend that human rights are inherent in the nature of
the human being, and we must acknowledge them or we will
suffer from our misjudgement. . we might call them "natural" or
"God-given," but they are essential. . deny them and, in the long run,
we are doomed. . and I contend that they do not include equality
in outcomes, but equality in opportunity and justice. -- j
.

listening to Rush's show is like driving through a new city,
following the sun. . you run across all sorts of strange
obstacles, yet you do make it through, laughing. . the truth
can take what seems like forever to gel in your mind,
after you connect the dots between Rush and Levin
and Fox and Savage. . but the truth is there for the searching. -- j
.

I would probably be fine with most of your vision, but I see nothing to suggest it is possible.

I do have to add that a society needs to have belief in a God of some sort. Simple reason is that if there is no God that means that all rights come from man, and if they come from Man that means there is no justification for individual rights unless the majority whish to grant them. That is a very dangerous position to be in...yet has always been exactly where communist countries wanted to be.

Very well said and I agree with it all (except maybe the Muhammad part but that is simply because I do not know enough about it). I think history will repeat itself like it has since the Greeks, meaning will continue down this collective road until we move to a dictator/tyrant. Which by the way, Oboma's ability to get away with anything and everything shows me we are much closer to the coming of a tyrant than I thought.

Dr.Zarkov: Enjoyed your commentary.

In my mind the Republic is lost and is not recoverable. The dying carcus may last another 50 years but the ending body will look absolutely nothing like what was born is 1776. We are very close to that now. We look more and more like Nazi Germany every day.

We are never going to be the "conservative nation" that we once were. If you long for the world of Mayberry RFD, that train left the station 50 years ago.

We have a chance to make something that is better than our old culture - a society that is not hidebound by crippling social standards and which embraces free enterprise. I say this because I do not want to "throw out the baby with the bathwater". I want to retain the liberal social values, but I want to adopt the conservative economic platform...and then move forward from that point to a nation that has no property tax and only a standard flat rate income tax.

If we can get that far, we can decide where to go from there, but I think that is the first step.

Jan

I have to disagree on one point - I think they do know the damage they are doing and THEY DON'T CARE! Just so long as they are on the fat side.

Over? Not yet. But I don't think that Judeo-Chris-
tianity can ultimately save us. Instead, we should
rely on Objectivism.
-----We can't just rely on luck, and what people al-
ready believe, to save us. Perhaps we should
start up privately-funded Objectivist centers to
teach true, authentic Americanism to the new
immigrants who do get in. Individual rights and
real American history, not FDR's "Four Free-
doms" and New Deal platitudes.
---And, lest they think we're patronizing them,
it wouldn't hurt to stress that Ayn Rand was her-
self an immigrant.
---I didn't know that Michael Savage's original
name was Weiner; I thought his real name was
Michael Savage.

Ahh! But we are a Republic! We should have been able to negate the inherent foolishness of unbridled democracy! How can you preserve the integrity of a system if one has no skin in the game. That is why we were set up as a republic and not a one person, one vote democracy that would only be allowed to work under the rule of a dictator. Luckily, we still have the vestiges of the checks and balances originally built into the system.

It is amazing just how stupid the American people truly are! To give up all of the things that citizens over the years have worked so hard to achieve all because of people like Gramsci, Allinsky, Clinton (both), Bushes (both), Boehner, McConnell, Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Graham, etc. have little or no understanding of just what kind of damage they have done either by accident or by design! If it was done with knowledge aforethought then it is truly a conspiracy of epic proportions of which we will inherit the whirlwind and, we are truly lost!