1.     A memorial service was held for Michael Jackson yesterday.    For those who haven't heard, Mr. Jackson died suddenly on June 25, 2009.    During the service  noted humanitarian Reverend Al Sharpton remarked that " Michael made us love each other.  Michael taught us to stand with each other."    Motown founder Berry Gordy called Jackson "the greatest entertainer who ever lived."

While most famous as a recording artist, Mr. Jackson also developed a cure for cancer, created a new strain of wheat which helped alleviate global hunger, negotiated an agreement with the world's nuclear powers and Iran to abolish nuclear weapons, solved the 3000 year conflict in the Middle East, and narrowed the racial divide in America.   He also was known to be fond of young children, particularly boys, spending many evenings tutoring them.    

Well, he must have done all this.   How else to explain the nonsense uttered by Sharpton and Gordy and the excessive outpouring of emotion and media coverage?    This is America's Princess Di moment, proof positive that our society has lost any sense proportion and ability to separate the substantive from the frivolous.   It is no wonder that Obama and the leftist Congress feel free to press on with all sort of outlandish and damaging legislation wrecking the American way of life.  They calculate that the American public is appeased by the  bread and circuses vomited up in the mass media; brain dead and more concerned with Jon and Kate or Brad and Angelina or Jennifer and whoever.   What a historic tragedy that at such a dangerous moment in history the dominant majority of the American people is constituted of arrested adolescents, ignorant of history, contemptuous of tradition, oblivious to everything but meeting their own appetites for comfort and entertainment.

2.     Sarah Palin has resigned as governor of Alaska.   The Washington establishment and Republican insiders and commentators are virtually unanimous in condemning the move.   All this indicates to me is how brilliant a move it is.    The political class and elite don't understand Mrs. Palin or her appeal to the Republican base and conservatives.   The Republican establishment and Democrats both hate and fear her.   They do so because they are phonies and protective of their privileged status.    Mrs. Palin is authentic and her authenticity  is why she is so popular with the average person.  People are sick of the political class.   People are sick of an arrogant elite who believe themselves superior in intelligence and breeding and worthy of running the country.   In fact, it is the politicial class and elite that are wrecking the country.   Sarah Palin is not a member of this crowd and represents a threat to their rule.    The campaign to destroy her will continue. 

3.        Barack Obama continues to side with the deposed president of Honduras and against the people and instituitons of that country who deposed Mr. Zelaya to uphold the rule of law.   I suppose this is predictable.   Mr. Obama's native mindset is totalitarian and impatient with opposition and dissent.   It's understandable that he sides with another would-be dictator.
 
4.        People who are paying attention and capable of being concerned understand that the United States will experience economic collapse in the near future unless current policies are reversed.    The avalanche of debt and the debasement of the currency will result in the collapse; the U.S. is not immune from the laws of economics.     I'm convinced that Obama and the leftist Democrats who run Congress actually desire this result.   Economic chaos and the distress it brings will cause people to demand more government intervention to ameliorate the situation.   It plays into the desire of the Obamaists to convert the United States into a banana republic, with themselves perpetuated in power by their ability to ration the necessitities of life to a cowed and impoverished population.   The president and the Democrat majority in Congress are not patriots under any definition of the term.   Rather, they are radical ideologures committed to the transformation of America into the latest manifestation of the socialist utopia.   There is a description for who these people are:  traitors.

5.        We should face the hard truth:  The American system of government is broken.   No branch of government is responsive to the best interests of the people; no branch is loyal to the Constitution.   The electoral process is rigged to perpetuate incumbents in power; when someone new does managed to get elected they immediately sell out and join the insiders club that is Washington. D.C..   The appropriations process is used to reward, buy off or pit constituent groups against each other.    Seriously, folks, if Obama tried to pull what Zelaya tried in Honduras, are you sure that he wouldn't get away with it here?