Education: There’s a Better Way….Find it.
Nobody’s Opinion
Not many candidates are talking about our very poor educational system. They all give lip service to it, but the fact is, it’s an overgrown behemoth bureaucracy of cancerous stagnation, that decade by decade, does nothing but leave too many forever in “service” jobs. 
If you watched this video you cannot but conclude that: maybe that’s the plan.
As the film suggest: the problems of our education or lack of thereof, has not been a big concern of our government. It’s NEVER been on the top of any party’s agenda: the subject is dropped once the President gets in office. The reason: unions and the money they supply.
George W. Bush’s “No Child Left Behind” was noble in thought, it’s just that the schools had already left everyone behind so badly, nobody could catch up.
Higher education may be no better off. Both the so-called best online colleges and the so-called best traditional colleges are still not serving students well. Thirty percent of college and university students drop out after their first year. Half of all students never graduate.
Still, despite the odds, there are some who do not let our poor educational system get in their way.
There was a small piece tonight on Sixty Minutes about an autistic boy savant named Jake, who was going to graduate from college at age 14. He excels in higher mathematics. He had an unbelievable memory, which helped, but it was his passion and his love of numbers that is driving him to be probably the next Einstein.
Not all of us are born with “supercharged” memories in our brains. As Thomas Edison once said, “We have to learn how to think.” 
“I am frequently asked about our system of education. I say that we have none. Our system is a relic of past ages. It consists of parrot-like repetitions. It is a dull study of twenty-six hieroglyphs.”
“Groups of hieroglyphs. That is what the young of this present day study. Here is an object. I place it in the hands of a child. I tell him to look at it. If we begin before we have hardened and dried his mind he studies the object with kindling enthusiasm. The mind of the child is naturally active. Why should we make him take his impressions of things through the ear when he may be able to see?”
(Later he claims that’s why he invented motion pictures…to teach.)
“The folds of the brain grow deeper through observation; they grow fallow from disuse. If we educate too abruptly–if we cram the mind with facts memorized for themselves alone, what comes? Pure atrophy.”
“The trouble with our educating as generally followed is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mould. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and lays more stress on memory than observation.”
He goes on to say what happens to our kids from not being challenged but rather…bored to death:
Bad teaching promotes: “A flagging interest, which leads quickly to the habit of listening without hearing, of looking without regard to the existence or non-existence of interest. At present, most young leave their schools only partially educated, and rapidly forget a large part of that which they have been taught. They fail to learn because the methods of teaching are wrong. They forget because the methods of instruction have made them actually dislike knowledge. “
Now, remember, this was back in Edison’s day.
He goes on:
“Universities fail: Careful thought convinces me that this is because the men who run them never have been out in the great world of struggle. Professors usually are men untried in any sort of competition comparable with that which their students eventually must face. Speaking generally, such men cannot impart the right ideas to the boys, for they themselves are ignorant.”
Nobody Thinks this is one of the very reason we have failed in America: Too many of our teachers know nothing about the everyday world, or even how to use the subject they are teaching in the real world.
Not many algebra teachers can tell you HOW to use algebra, or why—or even who uses it and when. I know, I’ve asked almost every algebra teacher I ever knew, and they had no clue.
Too many of our leaders come from some of these many ignorant teachers, most of them from Harvard, who Henry Adams trashed with delightful abandon in “The Education of Henry Adams.” (You can imagine how I loved that.) 
For instance: Daddy Bush, a Harvard alumni, while President, had never been in a grocery store. He was shocked, when he visited one, at the price of bread, and how the items were scanned by the cashier.
It’s hard to believe, how removed from ordinary life some of these people are.
Can you imagine what Edison would think of the schools system we have now? Where kids are not only not being taught how to think, they are being stuffed with meaningless crap like: recycling, diversity, global warming, sex, gender issues, and the trashing of our own history?
All you have to do is watch Jay Leno’s boardwalk to see all the college graduates who don’t even know how many moons the earth has.
“The main objection that I have against a college graduate is that he objects to work, especially if it is dirty. He does not want a job with much work to it, and when he does get a position, he expects to be appointed foreman at the end of the sixth week. Most of the men working for me have never gone to college. Those college graduate that I have usually show a lack of imagination. They scarcely have any suggestions to make in their daily routine which might lead to improvement in their various departments. “
And so, we are ruled by those Harvard constitutional lawyers who “scarcely have any suggestions to make their daily routine which might lead to improvement in their various departments.”
Nobody Thinks…that’s also the point: the daily routine of our leaders can’t get much better, and that’s why “we the people” need to think: Do I leave my child’s education to the public school system?
Or is there a better way?
“There is always a way to do it better..find it.”…Tom Edison.
You Might Want to See This…
Nobody’s Email
This morning, all the FOX money shows were aghast at this movie being circulated about Mitt Romney, because it was a basic attack on capitalism they all claimed. Even the Obama supporters were upset because of course, they want Romney to run.
Hucklebee was upset that we would “attack” our own. I beg to differ. Mitt is part of the investment/government that is running this whole mess. In other words: A RHINO. It’s why John McCain backs him. They are part of the -onepartyfitsall–that is destroying us. It’s a world now of ‘investors’ vs the people who HAVE no money to invest. Gee. Fun.
When you watch the movie, you find out that Mitt Romney has made a nice living off our “depression” caused of course, by our own government. Whether you think what he has done is okay..or crony-capitalism, really won’t matter if he is picked to run against Obama. This video makes Obama look like a kind, gentle, and moral leader, which we all know he is not. And it is almost assured that no such damning video will come out with such visual force against Obama. It will be lame compared to the suffering of poor people in this video.
Romney claims tearing down old buildings and selling them off, is creative destruction and part of our system. Is it? Well…in THIS economy it’s a feast to anyone with the money to do it. Suck the system dry, and hope it starts up again, right? Will it?
Sarah Palin said what the other candidates, particularly Texas Gov. Rick Perry, were concerned about was Romney’s claim that Bain Capital created 100,000 jobs. Palin said Romney should provide not only proof that Bain created 100,000 jobs, but that those jobs were created for Americans. If Romney does not provide evidence, Palin suggested that the information would come out, most likely as an “October Surprise,” in the general election if Romney is the nominee.
Erick Erickson said this:
I am a bit appalled by the sudden decision that it is verboten to level any attack at Romney because of Bain. Just as we can go after people in politics, corporations should not be immune from criticism. Mitt Romney tells us they are people too. It’s just that we should attack Bain for relying on the government as we attack Solyndra and GE for doing the same.
This powerful video will assure us another four years of Obama, because of the emotional reach it has for the majority of Americans no matter what party they are in.
Mitt is being set up to lose…again….the question is: Does he know it? And can all the network pundits crying “No fair!” save him from this video?
Nobody Knows.
Michael Moore: The Young Will Save Us
Nobody Cares
Michael Moore believes that all old white people are racist, because they didn’t vote for Barack Obama. It has not dawned on him yet, that some people actually vote due to something besides the color of you skin, or how Presidential you look. Another thing that hasn’t dawned on him, by claiming the old white people didn’t vote for Obama… he is also admitting that all the old white DEMOCRATS also did not vote for Obama, thereby admitting that the “older” and “wiser” democrats are all racist, and since he is old and white, that includes him.
Yes, Michael the Very Moore, is sure that those young white kids who voted for Obama are going to save the world. I can’t wait. Here’s one of them: 
Here’s One of Our Most Honorable…
Nobody Reports
After yesterday’s rant, I thought this would be a good uplifting piece to post. It’s from my very liberal, but very patriotic liberal friend. (Thanks to JR)
Captain Ed Freeman
You’re a 19 year old kid. You’re critically wounded and dying in the jungle somewhere in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam. It’s November 11, 1967. LZ (landing zone) X-ray. Your unit is outnumbered 8-1 and the enemy fire is so intense from 100 yards away, that your CO (commanding officer) has ordered the MedEvac helicopters to stop coming in.
You’re lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns and you know you’re not getting out. You’re family is half way around the world, 12,000 miles away, and you’ll never see them again. As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day.
Then-over the machine gun noise-you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter. You look up to see a Huey coming in. But…It doesn’t seem real because no MedEvac markings are on it.
Captain Ed Freeman is coming in for you. He’s not MedEvac so it’s not his job, but he heard the radio call and decided he’s flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire anyway.
Even after the MedEvacs were ordered not to come. He’s coming anyway. And he drops it in and sits there in the machine gun fire, as they load 3 of you at a time on board.
Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire to the doctors and nurses and safety. And he kept coming back, 13 more times! Until all the wounded were out.
No one knew until the mission was over that Captain had been hit 4 times in the legs and left arm. He took 29 of you and your buddies out that day. Some would have not made it without the Captain and his Huey.
Medal of Honor Recipient Captain Ed Freeman, United States Air Force, died last Wednesday at the age of 70, in Boise, Idaho. May God Bless and Rest HIs Soul.
I bet you didn’t hear about this hero’s passing. Shame on the American media.
Nobody Notes: this email is old…but it’s still worth noting.
The Pentagon is Pissed? Really? Well, So Are We.
Nobody Remembers:
Hillary Clinton and Leon Penetta were all over themselves apologizing for a video that was posted of four Marines urinating on three dead Taliban bodies. The Pentagon is mad.
KABUL, Afghanistan — A video showing four United States Marines urinating on three dead Taliban fighters provoked anger and condemnation on Thursday in Afghanistan and around the world, raising fears in Washington that the images could incite anti-American sentiment at a particularly delicate moment in the decade-old Afghan war.
(You’re kidding me right? Like there IS no anti-American sentiment now?)
“This act by American soldiers is simply inhuman and condemnable in the strongest possible terms,” he said. The actions of the Marines in the video could amount to a violation of the Geneva Conventions.”
If anyone should be mad, it should be the American citizen for just how badly the whole war was conducted—Not to mention how much it cost us– not the lame joke of a few soldiers. 
Has Hillary forgotten all those people who were KILLED on 9/11? You can’t even find their corpses. At least those Marines left the Taliban bodies to bury. We just dump our bits and pieces of blown up soldiers in some empty landfill in Virginia.
WAR is hell, and unfortunately, our liberal elites have NO idea what’s it’s like to spend day after day getting shot at, and then finding out, all your fighting has been for nothing because the enemy is being forgiven and helped back into the country with the blessings of the Commander-In-Chief, who goes by the common name of our enemy: Barack Hussain Obama.
Many people feel that the U.S. exit from the battlefield is no different from when the Russians left Afghanistan after ten years. There was no American victory there. The Taliban considers that they have beaten the Americans. That HAS to be hard on our brave soldiers.
Some men in war…just snap. At least they didn’t do what the Taliban do to their enemies: cut off their heads, and desecrate their privates. Right. The Taliban honors the Geneva Convention.
What a joke.
I’m stopping here because this is so uncalled for: Hillary should have said today: “War is hell, for everyone.” And walked off.
Hillary would be stupid to make a big thing about this: the American people will stand behind their Marines. It won’t play well in an election. 
My friend Mona, after seeing the video…expressed it well:
Sorry, but when our troops see the filth and horrendous pain that those people inflict on their own, and our people and country what those soldiers did was mild to what I am sure most would cheer them on to do. How can our men feel anything but that they are actually not even worth wasting their piss on, and I feel for those men. Who could blame them for how they felt and the one who took and posted this should be pissed on and hung as far as I am concerned as who ever put those men in harm’s way: what fools do, and I do not mean those Marines either!
Lucas, Beyonce, and the Commander- in- Chief
Nobody Notes
As you watch the trailer to Red Tails: is it me? Or is every white person in the movie racist? Just saying. 
“Money gave me exactly what I wanted, power over others.”—Oscar Wilde
Today it was released on CNN that Obama is leading in campaign donations. He has about $220 million to spend as compared to that snobby, rich, job-busting, mean capitalist-leading Republican Romney, who has only $56 million.
It helps when you don’t have to pay for your own travel expenses.
While they say most of the donations are in small amounts, from all the millions who love him..Nobody Wonders if those ‘small’ amounts are coming from some Saudi King laundered into a “democratic NGO” of some kind.
Really, if it’s the poor minorities, who voted 95 percent for Obama in the last election where they claim he gets the bulk of it, somehow it’s hard to imagine 16 percent of the population donating even $50 dollars apiece. The math doesn’t add up. Besides, most of his following are in the unemployed 45 percent. So, the man who claims to be with the poor man is actually getting more cash from the rich, like his friends in Hollywood and Wall Street (as it is being reported) than the Republicans. But, he doesn’t want you to know that.
The man who hates the rich actually has some rich friends that he adores. Two of his favorite friends are —
George Lucas and Beyonce. 
Beyonce not only sang at his inauguration ball, she is helping Michelle with her “move on” program. And to set a fine example for their “race,” Beyonce and her husband Jay-Z just spent $1.5 million dollars spoiling their new little baby, Blue Ivy. She has a $15,000 Swarovski high chair, a $22,000 crib, a $600,000 solid gold rocking horse, and a mini Bugatti Car. 
George Lucas, is another great bud. He not only leant the furry Chewbacca to help the Obama’s out on their favorite holiday at the White house, he has made a film to help his old buddy out, called Red Tail. It’s a film to encourage the young black boys who are sitting around watching football to join the Air Force and military.
“I wanted to make it inspirational for teenaged boys. I wanted to show that they have heroes, they’re real American heroes, they’re patriots that helped to make the country what it is today. And it’s not Glory where you have a lot of white officers running these guys into cannon fodder. It’s like a real, they were real heroes.”
Unfortunately, Hollywood didn’t want to make it, because it would not make a profit…evidently the rest of the world is racist, not only America..or it’s because it’s jingoistic— as Lucas admits. Yes America, Lucas, who is a liberal, has made you a war movie.
Lucas continued, “It’s a reasonably expensive movie. Normally black movies, say Tyler Perry movies or something, you know, they’re very low budget, and, even they won’t release his movies. It goes to the lower, not major distributors. And they do well, but they do a certain amount of money, and they know what that is, and this cost more than those movies make.And they don’t believe there’s any foreign market for it. That’s 60 percent of their profit.”
He’s mad because those Jews that control Hollywood wouldn’t do a movie that would not make money. 
Right. George Lucas, a man who made his billions off of that exact capitalistic concept; wants everyone else to be a socialist. Make the movie, even if it is a flop. We need to influence our black youth to join up, get a free education, and become Americans. Not a bad idea really. But, why should they? They can get a free education without joining the army. Obama really is a master. He got Lucas to make a film help him shore up his upcomng plans for a military of young black men, with his OWN money. The “Jews” in Hollywood, that have always dropped their millions into democratic coffers are racists. That’s basically what Lucas is saying.
Well, then Mel Gibson can claim they hate Christians also, because they wouldn’t fund HIS movie “Passion” either.
Coming from a man who took a character named Jar -Jar Binks and put him in his Star Wars episode to be the most perfect modern “Negros” stereotype ever invented in the modern world…a character who you not only had trouble understanding when he talked, but acted stupid and dumb…well, that’s mighty white of him. I’m sure all the black children in the world understood Jar- Jar perfectly. The rest of us had trouble. 
What Lucas doesn’t tell the black youth is that war makes cannon fodder out of everyone: the color of your skin really doesn’t matter. And uh…we have a black military general. And a BLACK commander-in-chief, who will think nothing of sending those black boys to Iran and cannon fodder.
Nobody Wonders: Who ARE these people?
Obama’s Tea Party
Nobody Cares
Last week all the talk was about how the Obama’s hid a Halloween party in 2009 that they gave for themselves and their kids at the White House because, they didn’t want the ‘people’ to think badly of them: throwing a party while the country was suffering. Come on: When has THAT ever stopped them? (Shouldn’t that salt that she is holding be a TEA BAG?)
The real reason was that the movie, “Alice in Wonderland” had NOT been released yet, and about half the country would have stayed home if they had found out that the Johnny Deppster was a big Obama supporter.
Anyway…The White House has corrected us all: THAT Halloween party was thrown for children of the military! 
Well, now…that’s different. They decorated the White House with the finest ghoulish decor, which Nobody Thinks fits the theme of the occupants at the moment perfectly. They served blood looking drinks in glasses, and had a merry old-time, with the famous movie star, Johnny Depp. Personally, I don’t see what the fuss is about: Hillary Clinton threw a party every single day she was in the White House, serving thousand-dollar plate dinners, and by the looks of it, she spent a lot more money on White House Parties than the Obama’s so far. You can see all her parties in a book that she wrote.
Better yet: don’t. Wait for Obama’s White House Party Dinner book to come out and compare.
Today I looked for the World Series Cardinals, who were supposed to be honored by Obama at the White House. But…I guess he didn’t have time because Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt showed up, who are MUCH more important to Obama than a bunch of smelly baseball players.
Military Child Gets to Meet The Ghost of Obama's Future
Being as this party was for the kids of military families, I want to proudly show this: 
IN this first picture, we see two children. The boy is obviously well pleased to get his picture taken with the daughter of no doubt, a general. Some of those kids in the background look like they are having a wonderful time! We also see a fine imitation below of President Bill Clinton, celebrating the many years and parties he has given in the White House. The decor is just stunning. Artistically creating the very FEEL of the Obama home, and just how a Obama Tea Party should feel. Not to mention, the giant pumpkin head standing on all the other little pumpkin heads pretty much sums up the feeling of the country right now. Obama is Pumpkinhead.
The fun for the kids was not only on the inside party, oh no. Having men dressed up as skeletons marching around outside of the White House put JUST the right touch on the party that every military boy and girls dreams about! So very clever.
Nobody hopes the Obama’s release ALL their future parties pictures: After all, they are living in OUR house, spending OUR money, and its good to know that they care for our military children.
Now..pass the salt.
The Perfunctory Dismissal of Depleted Uranium
Nobody Reports:
There is so much that is not being reported on your mainstream news, I thought I’d flash this. Last night, on Coast to Coast, Dr. Doug Rokke, was telling George Noory the host, that over half of our American soldiers from the first Gulf War, and Iraq Freedom, were suffering from the effects of being exposed to radiation from Depleted Uranium (DU) 
He was the doctor/expert in charge during the Gulf war of cleaning this stuff up, and almost all of his colleagus that worked with him, died painful cancer deaths. He’s still alive, but suffering badly. He said that over 40,000 vets had Leukemia. He also was very upset that they are not being treated but ignored. In other words: a big cover-up.
Now, when watching the above training film and the editing that was done over it, I’m not sure if it was a political ploy to damn conservatives, I’m also suspect placing “blame” since it’s very easy to blame ONE guy. The editor blames Ronald Reagan for using DU’s in the first place.
Nevertheless, let’s say Ronald Reagan did know about them, and granted permission to use them, and if this information is true, since statistics for the average citizen are hard to find, none of the Presidents since then, have stopped it. I don’t think DU’s are used in he Navy because of the fact that the stuff would be on board the ships, so they DO know the side effects.
Maybe the Presidents were not informed of the dangers to our soldiers, but that’s another blog. 
Only the people who have come back from the wars and their families can speak out about this, but I post it as just another example of our government not giving a damn about its citizens.
Nobody Wonders if that’s why George W. Bush gets all teary eyed every time he visits the soldiers.
I am posting the full summary from the Coast to Coast email here.
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On Tuesday’s show, registered nurse and talk show host, Joyce Riley, discussed the epidemic of violent & murderous episodes involving Gulf War vets, who have typically not found adequate support from the government. Dr. Doug Rokke, a retired Major of the U.S. Army also joined the conversation. Rokke created a U.S. Army Depleted Uranium (DU) Training film, but the DoD failed to ever show his video because of the severity of consequences from DU. A multitude of weapons contribute to DU, including bunker buster bombs, cruise missiles, cluster bombs, and tank & aircraft rounds, he stated. Symptoms from exposure include skin rashes, chronic fatigue, mood swings, memory loss, immune dysfunction, abdominal pain, and blurred vision, he detailed, adding that war zones have become thoroughly contaminated.
In addition to DU, battle fatigue, exposure to experimental vaccines, and toxic environments all contribute to an alarming level of PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) and physical/psychological illnesses suffered by vets, Riley reported. The VA fields an astonishing 450 suicides calls a day, and out of 600,000 troops who served in Desert Storm, over 300,000 have serious medical problems, she cited. Regarding such cases, “these are people who had something happen to their brains, their bodies; they come back and then they are kicked to the side of the curb, and told,’gee, we don’t see anything wrong with you, and then they’re out of the military,’ she lamented. In addition to high suicide rates, vets with PTSD have killed family members, and afterward report that they were in a fog, and have no memory of committing murders. The VA often gives PTSD sufferer antipsychotic or SSRI drugs, which she believes ends up accelerating their levels of aggression and problematic behaviors.
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The radio show is on late at night, and even though some of the guests and subjects are completely bonkers and just meant to be fun: like the existence of Vampires for instance, Noory has been in the front lines for what you don’t ever hear in the mainstream media. My guess is they don’t find him a threat because his show starts at midnight. Most everyone is asleep.
Having said that…if you do an image search for what DU’s do to the babies of Iraq, you will wonder why in the world did George W. Bush take so much precaution to bomb so carefully the city of Baghdad, when the future generations of many Iraq babies would be exposed to radiation.
DU really is a WMD. God…I HATE finding this stuff out, but as Americans, they should be telling us all this stuff.
The Golden Parachute Keeps Opening…
Nobody Knows
—That this was an email that I found very disturbing, so I’m not waiting till the weekend to post it. Besides, not too many people know exactly what happened to the men who ran Freddie and Fannie.
Where are they now? The three who bought down Wall Street– Here’s a quick look into the three former Fannie Mae executives who brought down Wall Street. 
Franklin Raines was a Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Fannie Mae. Raines was forced to retire from his position with Fannie Mae when auditing discovered severe irregularities in Fannie Mae’s accounting activities. Raines left with a “golden parachute” valued at $240 million in benefits. The Government filed suit against Raines when the depth of the accounting scandal became clear.
Tim Howardwas the Chief Financial Officer of Fannie Mae. Howard was a strong internal proponent of using accounting strategies that would ensure a “stable pattern of earnings” at Fannie. Investigations by federal regulators and the company’s board of directors since concluded that management did manipulate 1998 earnings to trigger bonuses. 
Raines and Howard resigned under pressure in late 2004. Howard’s Golden Parachute was estimated at $20 Million!
Jim Johnson, was a former executive at Lehman Brothers and who was later forced from his position as Fannie Mae CEO. Investigators found that Fannie Mae had hidden a substantial amount of Johnson’s 1998 compensation from the public, reporting that it was between $6 million and $7 million, when it fact it was $21 million.” Johnson is currently under investigation for taking illegal loans from Countrywide while serving as CEO of Fannie Mae. Johnson’s Golden Parachute was estimated at $28 Million. 
Where Are They Now?
Franklin Raines?
Raines works for the Obama Campaign as his Chief Economic Advisor.
Tim Howard?
Howard is a Chief Economic Advisor to Obama under Franklin Raines.
Jim Johnson?
Johnson was hired as a Senior Obama Finance Advisor and was selected to run Obama’s Vice Presidential Committee.
Kinda makes ou feel sick to your stomach. Our government seems to be rotten to the core: or as the great general would say: “I small a RAT!” Vote in 2012. It is the most important election of our time. 
(Thanks to Tom Beebe)
Nobody Notes: The black man’s golden parachute was a LOT bigger than the white men’s.
Manipulating the Masses
Nobody Flashes
If you watch this video, you will learn all you need to know about how the masses are manipulated to pick the very candidate that the Democrats want to run against Obama. OR…you will learn how the masses are manipulated into picking the man who the “elites” who run the networks, and the banks, and our politicians, WANT you to pick.
John McCain in 2008, was the big bogeyman, because it was said, he would get some moderate votes. It didn’t happen.
Mitt Romney, who everyone has said, will win tonight’s New Hampshire contest…is the new bogeyman that Obama is scared of. The psychology being that a conservative will vote for whomever he thinks the liberals are scared of.
Either way, more video’s like this should be made and shown to the public, to help teach them just how often they are manipulated.
(Thanks to Floyd.)
WAR HORSE: Perfection
Nobody’s Perfect:
Not too long ago, Obama reversed a law saying that you could not sell horses for food here in the United States. I was so angry…that I wrote about it here. Horses are noble creatures. They have carried men through battle, plowed his fields, gave him pleasure….forever it seems.
And so, when I saw this film, I was more than relieved…that Steven Spielberg has come out with a true story about the nobleness of the horse. Not only is this film filled with beautiful cinematography, it’s a masterpiece of storytelling. 
The movie is about a Scottish farmer who buys a horse that is useless to him, but his son and the horse bond for life. When the first World War comes, the father sells the horse to keep his farm. The boy, later joins up and goes to France, to look for the horse, and you know that in the end…they find each other in No Man’s Land, by some great synchronicity in life, which often really happens.
Towards the end of the movie, the horse finally gets free of his German Masters (How he got into the German Hands I won’t say, you’ll have to find out.) and runs through the barbed wire of No Man’s Land where he gets stuck, and a German AND an Englishman go out and both work together to free Joey. The scene is Speilburg’s way of telling us all: men can be good—war is bad.
To Spielberg’s credit, it’s not a political film. It makes no judgement, but shows the true goodness of horse and men. It also shows the immense cruelty and horror of war, without showing any blood.
This movie will make you cry….and it will make you understand the horse…by seeing the world through the eyes of Joey.
Spielberg has made the most amazing film: Jaws, Encounters of the Third Kind, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler’s’ List, Amistad, Back to the Future, Indiana Jones, ET…and now this. Unlike James Cameron, who used his movie Avatar to climb into the liberal global warming bandwagon…Speilburg doesn’t do that in movies. He never takes political sides.
And yet, he, and all his Hollywood friends fill the campaign coffers of Obama: A man who sides against the Jews. A man who just put horse meat on the menu: A man who put human beings into the grave if they are over 70, and go to the hospital. In Obamacare, they will be called ‘Units” and denied lifesaving care.
It’s true. They will not only shoot horses, but in Obamacare..anyone over 70. Just not with a bullet. (Unless of course, you are in Congress.)
As a filmmaker..Speilburg will remain a master of masters. But Nobody Wonders…how can he be so moral, tell such patriotic stories, put his considerable time and talent into making films about the honest, the noble, the good, and the evil of mankind, and then give millions to the very people who will promote exactly the opposite of every story of nobleness he has every told?
Any man who can say horses are food, and old people are no longer given a right to live, is evil.
How? And why?
Does our government actually OWN the great directors? Do the rich of Hollywood give money to protect their right to make what they want? Is that why?
Steven may not be perfect…because he gives such vast amounts of his money to Obama, who is the antitheses to all he shows us in his movies: but War Horse is a movie that can be watched forever more. It’s a perfect film. And I hope everyone in the world see it, and fights to save the noble horse from becoming simply meat for China. We need more horses on the planet, not less.
Go see it…and take your children. Better have some tissue.
What? Some FUN News?
Nobody Reports
Okay. So it looks like Mitt Romney really is going to outspend everyone, and all we can hope is that Obama doesn’t make him look like the fat-rich cat that he is. Not that Obama isn’t the fattest-richest cat on the planet.
But…look what some marvelous minds are doing while our politicians are driving us all nuts. I WANT this plane. I can’t have this plane. But…I want it nevertheless. I can just picture myself landing it on my street and pulling into my driveway. It looks like they might be our new “police” in the air though, so the only chance I will get near one is if my friend, Pattie, who used to work for the police, gets us in to see one.
Next on my list of “I’d like to have that.” …is this. Ferrari is making headphones now..for about $450 a pop.
Now, If i can just scarf up $450 dollars, and put on these earphones, when I go to the police department, I will hand the chief my new card: Which will cost me about $1500 for just one: encrusted in diamonds, it will say, in beautiful font: “NSA” That’s it. He will then lead me out to the plane of my dreams, then I will climb into the plane, with my Ferrarri earphones on, push the “on’ button, and those fans will whirl.
And then…I will take off, and be unafraid, because as you can see, you can’t crash this thing.
“To dream…or NOT to dream…that is always the question.” And in my Nobody case…it’s also usually the answer.
On the other hand, I think the NSA could afford to have a card full of rubies, that they should supply to ME because I’m a taxpaying citizen and I pay their salaries.
See…every Nobody can improve just about anything..except this plane. It’s perfect as is.
Live Free and Master the Art of BS
Nobody’s Notes
—That I missed the first part of the last Republican Presidential debate, but what I did see of it, gave me the impression that at this point, it really doesn’t matter much who is winning. (That’s me watching the debate. I put my best hat on.)
Mitt Romney did not make any sense when he was answering the attack by Newt Gingrich that his barrage of negative ads against Newt were filled with lies. Mitt said, “I didn’t see them.” then went on to address all the issues in the ads. So, if he didn’t see them, how did he know what they said? Then he blamed the people that MADE the ads. Not many people believe that Mitt Romney did not see those ads first, and if you do, then it’s not going to matter…unless you vote. You might want to do something else that day…I suggest, you go fishing.
Newt’s problem is his little cherub face. It’s a hard face to trust. Thomas Sowell has come out with his support, and that’s saying something. Also, Michael Reagan likes him the best— two people Nobody admires.
Quick thinking is Newt’s strong point, and he is the best reason to watch the debates. That, and Ron Paul’s funny faces. I watched Newt at a town hall meeting where he actually answered or (NOT) the questions from the people. He is much better at ad-libbing and LOOKING like he is answering the question, even when he is not. 
I don’t know what politicians call this little stunt, but they all do it: Let’s see how nebulous we can answer that without seeming snobby. They usually start off at the point, and lead it to another subject that they want to talk about and the question doesn’t get answered. It’s the old two-step, side-slip,then smile really big that every politican must master in order to succeed.
Mitt is not good at this, so like Obama, he is already not even allowing question and answer periods.
Obama handpicks his questions now. He looks down at his little piece of paper and says..”Uh…so and so.” And that reporter stands up and asks his question.
Very controlled. I simply don’t know why any of them show up. He could read their questions off a laptop. Mitt as President will do exactly the same.
Jon Huntsman’s strategy is to just say, “The American people want: Fill in the blank…HIM. Short. Sweet. Look in the camera. The audience loved it, which frankly, was pretty scary in itself.
What exactly is in their drinking water? And speaking of drinking…how about those NBC commentators? A bit too..passionate there, don’t cha think?
Nobody Thinks New Hampshire is Stephen King’s country. It is filled with scary liberals who know how to change a tire, and yet are highly educated at all the right schools—schools who have forgotten to teach them that in order to live free, you must pick the right leaders, who are NOT liberals. If you don’t, you are very likely to die sooner.
The “live free or die” motto would be better changed to: “Live well, or blame God, or George Bush.”
It’s timeless. Enjoy!
The Lessons From Atlantis
Nobody’s Opinion:
Here’s a video that was emailed to me that I haven’t seen, and unless you have nothing to do but sit around and watch C-Span all day, you didn’t see this either. It’s nothing new under the sun…the bankers and the top leaders of our government (let’s not forget the Brussels people) have been having secret meetings for years now. It’s chess on a global scale, and it’s not reported, but it’s a class of the .01 percent of the powerful who have gotten together to put in process certain scenarios to get the results that we have seen happen since 2008. The global crash, was caused by what Daniel Hannon would call “crony capitalism” and the rest of us call theft. They got very rich, and gave themselves huge amounts of money, while the rest of the world collapsed.
It’s the reason we see riots everywhere. The leaders of all nations: from the Wall Street Boys, to our own billionaire Congress, to the Saudi Kings of Arabia, to the Queen herself…the gold halls of Atlantis, for all it’s value, could not compete with this small group of..around 400 people.
As the people struggle, the rich have lost all morality.
As I was watching this video, I couldn’t help but think of what Plato wrote about the ‘lost’ city of Atlantis.
Whenever you hear about “Atlantis” you hear mostly about how “wise” etc. the place was. But according to Plato, Atlantis was known first and foremost for it’s spectatcular wealth. The buildings were all of gold, ivory, silver, laced with beautiful marbles beyond imagination. And every five or six years, the King and the princes of nine districts, would meet and for the most part…ruled well.
(Probably because they ONLY GOT TOGETHER EVERY SIX YEARS!)
Atlantis and its people lived in harmony. They had beautiful gardens, and mansions, and just about as much gold as you could imagine. And then it happened: at the height of its glory, the rich got…greedier.
“Then above all they appeared to be superlatively fair and blessed yet they were filled with lawless ambition and power. The portion of divinity within them was now becoming faint and weak. They were unable to bear the burden of their possessions and had lost their virtue. The wealth they possessed was so immense that the like that never been seen before in any royal house nor will ever easily be seen again.”
According to Plato, Zeus got angry…and caused earthquakes, floods, and tsunami’s’ to sink the whole island.
What would Plato say today I wonder?
If history repeats itself, then Atlantis will be destroyed. The rich will go down with the poor.
Now, you have to ask yourself: Did Plato make up this little island of wealth to teach some kind of morality lesson to the rich lords of his own age? Was this a “fable” handed down as a lesson of what happens when too many people get greedy and destroy the rest of the people?
Or was Atlantis…real? Nobody Knows.
According to THIS guy. It’s still here. And isn’t it funny, that when you hear about the lost city of Atlantis, you never hear about the “lawless ambition and power” of its rulers?
Something tells me…in the future, our own ambitoous and greedy rulers of the world, will write their own histroy (as they are doing now) and that bit of information, about how a mere handful of people who ruled the world, got very greedy and helped destory the once great wealth of many… will be lost to future generations, just as surely, as the story of the lost city of Atlantis.
In the future, it will be told to little children, that once upon a time: a great civilization lived where all the men and leaders were wise.
(Thanks to Amfortas)
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About
I am a nobody. If the different classes of America were color-coded, I would be in the yucky brown, one rung up from the bottom. I grew up in Naples, Florida and live near the Mississippi River now with my husband and two dogs. I am part of the slowly disappearing middle-class. I was a musician most of my life: drummer/singer/keyboards—but I retired before the plastic surgery flu hit. I have no degrees, which could be a good thing…depending on how you view our educational system. I do have three patents…but that really doesn’t make me a somebody. The one thing that is constant in my life is my OPINIONS, which i have more than perhaps even Carl Sagan could have imagined…mostly political. (yes…my ancestors were crabby buggers)
Hopefully other nobody’s will put their opinions on my site. But, if you happen to be a somebody, you’re more than welcomed to help out.
It’s my Nobody Opinion that Nobody’s Perfect, and Nobody Cares, that Nobody Knows why Nobody Wins, and when that happens, Nobody Wonders, why Nobody Flashes, why Nobody’s Fooled, but then Nobody remembers that Nobody ALWAYS Reports the truth.
You can email me at joyanna_adams@yahoo.com
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