Can we win, long term? Sure!
We are the smart ones, remember? Yeah, us Conservatives, we know how to think, to plan, to execute, to continue the mission, and accomplish the mission. When I do this sort of stuff in business, I start with the US Army’s operation order:
Situation:
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America is going broke and losing the freedom of the individual
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We needs to return the US to its historical roots while not relinquishing our presence and force for the good and right world-wide
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Reinforcements are everywhere there is someone who thinks rationally. One could start with my blogroll and the one found at those sites. One could also look for conservative media and commentators.
The Mission:
The American Counterrevolution. Take America back to the Constitutional Republic the Founders envisioned, while remaining the only people who will go out into the world to fight evil.
The Jungle; it was an expose of the meatpacking industry circa 1905. Sinclair stated that he wrote it to stimulate sympathy for immigrants, instead it started the demand for food safety that lead to the Pure Food and Drug Act. There should be better way to obtain this result but, we haven’t found it, instead we’ve trusted our government with poor results. Has anything changed? Yes, food is at least somewhat safer now. Interestingly, one of the drivers in the packing industry for better quality control has been, wait for it: McDonald’s and Wendy’s, they won’t accept mediocre quality or contaminated hamburger.
This afternoon I came across a report from Human Rights Watch entitled Blood, Sweat, and Fear. And yes I know, most of us consider Human Rights Watch a leftist organization, which it is. But when you are right, you’re right. In this case they’re right.
If you haven’t noticed I live in a town that is dominated by a Tyson Meat plant and I have many friends and neighbors that work or have worked there. That includes me, by the way. This town is also a Hispanic majority town, with Thais, and Somalians represented. I’ll tell you why as we go along. Incidentally, these studies are not new, I just happened to run across them. In my opinion, things have gotten worse.
We all know, I suspect, who Mike Rowe is. Yeah, that one, the host of Dirty Jobs on the Discovery Channel. He testified to Congress recently about real jobs and college, he has a lot to say as well as being on point. I found this over at Chicks on the Right, and am reliably informed by them (and their readers) that he’s not too hard to watch. So watch the video and then we’ll talk about it.
The first thing that struck me is how much like my Dad Mike’s Grandpa was. Able to do everything needed and do it professionally. Reshingle the roof? Sure, and build the house under it too, and it was the best built house I’ve ever been in. Want a color TV? Build it from a kit. Need a car to tow behind your motor home? buy one from a friendly wrecker operator with a frozen engine and rebuild it over the winter in an unheated garage.
This has really been a good day at founding great post and articles especially this by nebraskaenergyobserver.
I’ve written before about the ancient duty of the freeman to defend himself and his society, as have others. We often couch this in terms of the 2nd Amendment which states it as a right, which it is, but it is more than that really, it is a duty. I wrote a while back about a mother who successfully defended herself and her 3 month old baby. Link Here.
Out here in what we sometimes call the boonies, weapons are something we take for granted (rather like a pair of pliers), I know you city people don’t understand but, say you’re pasturing cattle, what else are you going to do with coyotes (the four-legged kind). In a house I owned a few years ago, you could hear them from the bedroom, and I lived in town. there’s also rattlesnakes and even the occasional mountain lion (even if DNR denies it, I’ve seen the tracks). If you are a rancher your profit margin isn’t good enough to lose very many calves.
But what we are talking about here is what an old friend of mine, a Vietnam era Seal officer, calls two-legged varmints. Your profit margin is one thing; your life, and your families lives are quite another. Another thing about living out here is that when I had that house, I was thirty miles from the nearest police station. No matter what, it’s going to take some time to respond. The common saying is: “When you need the police in seconds, they’re only minutes away”, out here it’s closer to an hour.
Nebraskaenergyobserver starts with the definition of Integrity going through to the Obama Administration’s integrity. It is a good post that makes one think.
1: firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values :incorruptibility
2: an unimpaired condition :soundness
3: the quality or state of being complete or undivided : completeness
That’s a good start, but doesn’t go far enough for our purposes does it?
Integrity in ethics
In discussions on behavior and morality, one view of the property of integrity sees it as the virtue of basing actions on an internally-consistent framework of principles. This scenario may emphasize depth of principles and adherence of each level of postulates or axioms to those it logically relies upon.[citation needed] One can describe a person as having ethical integrity to the extent that everything that that person does or believes: actions, methods, measures and principles — all of these derive from a single core group of values.
One essential aspect of a consistent framework is its avoidance of any unwarranted (arbitrary) exceptions for a particular person or group — especially the person or group that holds the framework. In law, this principle of universal application requires that even those in positions of official power be subject to the same laws as pertain to their fellow citizens. In personal ethics, this principle requires that one should not act according to any rule that one would not wish to see universally followed. For example, one should not steal unless one would want to live in a world in which everyone was a thief. This was formally described by the philosopher Immanuel Kant in his categorical imperative.
