leftist: Conquest is an illegitimate form of acquisition.
non-leftist: OK…
leftist: Well, up until the modern era, conquest was the main basis for acquisition.
non-leftist: again, OK…..
leftist: don’t you get it? When you buy something you are buying land or other goods derived from the land which were, at some point not to many decades ago, acquired through the illegitimate form of conquest. Someone took it by force!
non-leftist: What, exactly, are you driving at?
leftist: If it was originally obtained through conquest then passing that on to someone else is like selling stolen property! you might as well buy a car from a car thief!
non-leftist: But virtually everything on the planet, at one point or another was taken from someone else by force and then passed on from that point, by inheritance or sale, to someone else. By your form of reason there is no one who can claim ownership of anything, unless they grew it or made it themselves. Even then they grew it or made it from something that, according to you, they did not legitimately own.
leftist: That’s right. No one can claim ownership of anything at all. It is all a big sham! So hand over that Lexus you bought with your illegitimate money you earned from your ill gotten job you barbaric thief!

I have come to the conclusion that there is a critical mass level on facebook. With too few people whom you have friended you will not tend to spend any time on the site because there is too little to read about and too few people who read your posts. At a certain point, and I don’t know where that is (I think it is different for everyone) you will have the right amount of “friends” and be very free with your posts. Then you reach a certain tipping point. You become “friends” with people on facebook that you really are not friends with. You have people who not only do not share your religious-political-social mores but will be just fine in telling you how you are stupid in your thoughts and opinions on such things. Nothing wrong with that per se, differing viewpoints are good and will either persuade you to change your thoughts or get you to think them through enough to be firm in believing them. but it will reach a point where you will be uncomfortable with the things people say. When this happens you have reached a certain level where you will be forced to do one of two things. You either edit who can see things that you post, or you cease to be as open and honest about what you think and believe. You may not have reached this point and it may be a lot higher for some people than for others, but keep adding people as “friends” and you will. Personally I have been just fine with ignoring several people who have sent me “friend” requests because they are not really my friends but merely people I am ever so faintly acquainted with. But that is just my opinion and I am sure someone will disagree with it and tell me about it.

I saw the police car, or rather it’s blur, fly past my house yesterday while I was home for lunch. Lights and siren whaling. I thought, “Hmm he’s in a hurry. Must be a bad wreck.” A little over an hour later I returned to work and something was wrong. There were a lot of people in the office. I asked what the party was and received scowls. Only a few minutes earlier One of our employees had answered the phone and was called away by the State Police. You see her sister and brother-in-law, had been murdered only half a mile from my house. I called my wife at this point as she would be heading home from her job, and I told her to lock the doors and load the pistol. When she later left for her other job which would only take an hour and a half, she wisely took our teen-age girls with her. Last night I slept with the loaded pistol on my beside table. When I woke this morning I looked and saw that I had laid it on top of my bible. “Hmm.” I thought to myself “We sure aren’t Obama people are we?”

I have to admit it, I really needed this extra day off from work. I am feeling just worn out. I hope to get the brakes done on my truck today and I slept in until 8:45. Sorry it took you dedicating your life to a cause and getting shot for me to have the day off.

I was listening to the farm reports on the radio (yeah, I live in farm country) and they said that China has really upped it’s imports of soybeans from us, and South America is out of them. I have an idea, instead of paying farmers not to farm, why don’t we pay China back the $800B in food? I mean seriously we could simply say to them, “Hey, you can’t get it anywhere else (Europe is also importing more right now than before) and we have lots of it, you’re going to starve without our food so you need to take it in place of the money we owe you.” It’s a win all the way around for us. We are already paying farmers NOT to farm, how about we quit doing that and just use that money to buy the crop from them and then turn around and sell it to the Chinese at a profit? We end up not spending any extra money and we get rid of a lot of debt.

You hear it every day; we, as a country are too far in debt. Our current deficit for this year is already four times higher than it ever was before, which in and of itself is a pretty scary thing when you consider that the last president had doubled our deficit in his last year in office from any time before that (yes this means that we have spent eight times more money that we don’t have this year than we did just two years ago). So we get this wondrous news recently that some of the banks that we gave hundreds of billions of dollars to earlier this year are paying it back. This should be a great thing (and it would be if it were not for the fact that they got that money from the Federal Reserve Bank so they could pay it back to the Treasury. If that sounds like moving money from one pocket to another that would be… because it is) So, despite that, our glorious Leader had a great idea of what to do with all this new found money. He wants to pay down some of that deficit we built up with what he himself called “unsustainable spending” right? Um, no. His thoughts on what to do with all that money we just found by shuffling debt from one agency to another is… I kid you not “spend our way out of this recession”. That is right. Spend even more money that we do not have (but we are pretending we have by changing what we write down in our books). Is anyone in Washington seeing the Chinese grin as they think of how they are going to divide up our country when we collapse and they call in our $800B loan? Is there no one in the press who is willing to confront the games being played and actually report this idiocy? They sure seemed willing a year or two ago.