5 Really Depressing Things and then Some Music

Barnhardt.biz ^ | July 20, ARSH 2013 | Ann Barnhardt

[plsjr]

1. The single most depressing thing to watch is the 36 hour news cycle of the populus. I can't understand it. I can't understand how it is that you people just collectively let massive, massive crimes go as soon as the media spoon-feeds you the next "big story". This has to be a function of the diabolical coupled with God withdrawing His grace. Memory is a gift from God. To choose to not use it, to choose to suppress it is a sin. 2. Um, yeah, it was reported about 48 hours ago (now outside the window, apparently) that the Obama regime has forced all of the Benghazi survivors to sign "non-disclosure agreements", which means all of those people were threatened with their jobs, and perhaps more importantly their PENSIONS, and thus they all, to a man, so far, have ROLLED OVER and SOLD OUT.

THIS, ladies and gentlemen, is why I fear the field grade officers and flag officers in the United States Military. I doubt there is ONE who would call bee-ess and go full bayonet charge if they were so much as threatened with losing their precious, precious pension. "I just have to make it x more years."

No, sweetie. You just need to make it through your Particular Judgment. Which leads to nausea-inducing point number three..."

[plsjr]

Ann, speaking her mind as usual, from her Galt place -the "Van Down By The River".

I keep praying that somehow the core of what was the United States of America will rise up and say "THAT'S ALL I CAN STANDS, I CAN'T STANDS NO MORE" (and kick the living crap out of bluto).

[darth]

Part of the problem is that Idiocracy was not a comedy, it was a DOCUMENTARY!

[dfwgator]

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[TADSLOS]

Truly a visionary film.

[Repeal The 17th]

“Stardust”
...as performed by Nat King Cole...

And now the purple dusk of twilight time
Steals across the meadows of my heart
High up in the sky the little stars climb
Always reminding me that we’re apart

You wander down the lane and far away
Leaving me a song that will not die
Love is now the stardust of yesterday
The music of the years gone by

Sometimes I wonder why I spend
The lonely night dreaming of a song
The melody haunts my reverie
And I am once again with you
When our love was new
And each kiss an inspiration
But that was long ago
Now my consolation
Is in the stardust of a song

Beside a garden wall
When stars are bright
You are in my arms
The nightingale tells his fairy tale
A paradise where roses bloom
Though I dream in vain
In my heart it will remain
My stardust melody
The memory of love’s refrain

[gaijin]

Sad, isn’t it?

I think that NO ONE now in the US military is questioning their orders. It’s either anti-depressants, or features of social media, or the decades-long State war on Christianity, but I think that as long as people now have a nice cell-phone and a cool page, then they’re good.

Tell them to do anything?

Well, is my PHONE ok..? My page is OK...? OK then I’ll do it..!

Seriously you could tell them to do ANYTHING, and with the Age of Aquarius in power and at the controls, you can be very sure that they WILL.

[Old Sarge]

Anyone in the military, even from MY era, knows that simple truth.

NO field-grade officer or higher (or senior NCO for that matter) is going to do anything to jeopardize that pension - the Holy Grail of military service.

It’s the same as a Congresscritter: as long as they are guaranteed their taxpayer-funded pension, their taxpayer-funded health care, and their dacha by the lake - just like their Soviet counterparts of another era.

[SatinDoll]

But, Sarge,...there isn’t going to be any money left for pensions. The present regime is using it to keep the government going.

From Ann’s blog:

3) All of the FEDGOV pension money is totally being raided. I picked up on a Market-Ticker.org thread that the way the FEDGOV is keeping from “hitting the debt ceiling” is by raiding the TSP accounts, which stand for “Thrift Savings Accounts”. Those are all of the retirement accounts of government employees, basically government 401ks. Yeah. The Obama regime raids the TSP accounts, leaves an I.O.U., and it washes out on the balance sheet since it is all “gubmint”, and thus the “debt ceiling” is not breached.

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This isn’t just for Federal government employees, either.

Public employees in general are being paid pensions from tax revenue generated by the local citizenry.

So what happens when the local citizens have earnings far below the pensions paid to city, county, or state pensioners, and a large number of citizens are either unemployed or on the dole?

Can you say, “Hello, Detroit!”

[pa_dweller]

The 14th most depressing thing is people who make their living with words not knowing how to spell. Besides that, it's the wrong word.

36 hour news cycle of the populus

[Old Sarge]

Yep. The ever-growing Ponzi scam. Sooner or later, the payees are going to demand their due.

[plsjr]

It didn’t bother me because I took Latin and recognized her intent (http://www.latin-dictionary.org/populus).

I can see where those who had only the botanical view would have issues...

[plsjr]

Being a retiree myself, I can identify.

I once thought being in the military was “God, Mom, and apple pie” patriotic; it seemed like a no-brainer to serve and be rewarded. It took a while for me to see the flaws.

Of course teaching the full truth is something that's conveniently overlooked by those who want to take advantage; so that education had to be self-acquired. In particular, it was a revelation to me that the founders had a problem with a standing army. I can see now with the NDAA under zippy and the militarization of police that they were justified in their concerns.

I can identify with Allen West and Chris Kyle, but cannot with the likes of colon powell and wesley clark (yes, the spelling and capitalization was intentional).

The difference I think is the servant's heart. Those who pursue power are not servants and that's what ends up in d.c., almost always.

There are a lot of arguments that will be held up against altering our military structure and returning to the founding premises but I think we must do so if we want to regain the freedom the U.S. of A. once had. Ike warned against the effect of having a military-industrial complex.