The [psychopath] is unfamiliar with the primary facts or data of what might be called personal values and is altogether incapable of understanding such matters. It is impossible for him to take even a slight interest in the tragedy or joy or the striving of humanity as presented in serious literature or art. He is also indifferent to all these matters in life itself. Beauty and ugliness, except in a very superficial sense, goodness, evil, love, horror, and humour have no actual meaning, no power to move him [or her]. [S]He is, furthermore, lacking in the ability to see that others are moved. It is as though [s]he were colour-blind…to this aspect of human existence. (Cleckley, 1941, p. 90 quoted in Hare, 1993, pp. 27-28).

Psychopaths have no remorse, no empathy, for the destruction they cause others.  Instead, they feed off their unrelenting abuse of another human’s life, both business and personal. One psychiatrist put it this way, “Psychopaths are the world’s best manipulators, liars, and fabricators of truth.”

Psychiatrists by and large concur that a psychopath cannot change their evil ways.  As such, I have come to the conclusion that, in spite of never having participated in, yet being the sole victim of the sick mellow-drama going on in Sheboygan,  it is time I completely leave the stage.

WHAT MORE CAN ONE SAY???

Classic Chevy billboards from Detrot

Click the image to open a full slide show in a new window – these are cars when they were CARS!  : )

If you don’t know GOD, don’t make stupid remarks!!!

A United States Marine was taking some college courses between assignments. He had completed 10 missions in Iraq and Afghanistan .

One of the courses had a professor  who was an avowed atheist, and a member of the ACLU.

One day the professor shocked the class when he came in. He looked to the ceiling and flatly stated, “GOD, if you are real, then I want you to knock me off this platform… I’ll give you exactly 15 min.”

The lecture room fell silent. You could hear a pin drop. Ten minutes went by and the professor proclaimed, “Here I am GOD, I’m still waiting.”

It got down to the last couple of minutes when the Marine got out of his chair, went up to the professor, and cold-cocked him; knocking him off the platform. The professor was out cold.

The Marine went back to his seat and sat there, silently.

The other students were shocked and stunned, and sat there looking on in silence.

The professor eventually came to, noticeably shaken, looked at the Marine and asked, “What in the world is the matter with you?  Why did you do that?”

The Marine calmly replied,

“GOD was too busy today protecting America’s soldiers who are protecting your right to say stupid stuff and act like an idiot. So He sent me.”

The classroom erupted in cheers!

Am I a “day late and a dollar short” being that this occured Monday? Yes, I guess I am…had the video and did post it in the private section of the forum Monday night BUT…had mixed feelings about blogging it. However, one comment to me in the many requests received stuck in my head – “…but he made it public himself”. Yes, he did… So, here’s a video of the complete “confession”, if you will, to Sheboygan.

Concerned that the Prominent Black Activist [who] Admits Branding Tea Party Racist Is Effective Tool For NAACP & Democrats ?

Take the racism test:

Do you like him any better now ?

No?

Then you’re not a racist.

PACT Act: The U.S. Postal Service is prohibited from delivering cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products through the U.S. Mail to consumers.

Retailers that sell cigarettes [defined as anything but cigars] and smokeless tobacco products over the Internet must collect state cigarette taxes, smokeless tobacco taxes, and sales taxes and pay those taxes to the states where the customer who is purchasing the tobacco products resides. (gee, could it be about TAXES??? Not “Terrorism” as Kohl claimed in his response to me?)

Internet retailers must verify the age of the individual purchasing cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products to prevent underage youth from buying these products.

See any contradictions?

And there’s also the following that hardly improves on the contradiction:

The new mailing policy limits tobacco shipments so that only individuals can ship tobacco to other individuals via express mail in the form of 10 ounce packages, and only 10 such shipments can be made every 30 days.

Those wanting to ship tobacco must be prepared to provide verbal confirmation that the package is intended for a person over the age of 18 and, when it arrives, the recipient must confirm their age and verbally confirm that it was sent by someone 18 or older. (source: http://yuma.usmc.mil/desertwarrior/2010/07/08/feature5.html)

This has most noteably hurt Indian Reservations whose tribal laws have been preempted across the country. Many have been forced to close.  If they now must report their sales to each state for tax purposes they have undoubtedly lost their customers:

• The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives will have new authority to inspect records and inventories of Internet tobacco sellers to make certain that Internet sellers comply with the new regulations. Violations of any provision of the PACT Act will now be a felony.  (FOR SENDING A LEGAL PRODUCT VIA MAIL!!!)

View a slightly more detailed (yet not too confusing) explanation of the results of this Act.

What was most interesting though were the remarks by the Postal Service upon the bill’s passage:

“Enforcement will be difficult,” said Gerry McKiernan, a spokesman for the Postal Service. Because of privacy laws, “Priority Mail is sealed from inspection. All first-class mail is sealed from inspection. I don’t really know how it’s going to work,” McKiernan said.

Law enforcement agencies, of course, could get involved, McKiernan noted.  [At that time the ATF said it could not comment on "pending legislation."]

The Native Americans are not taking any of this sitting down (Go, Natives, GO!!!).  Whether or not they are still considering it, the idea of starting up their own shipping system was an option being discussed.  But the most recent – and some will say exciting – development is the court granting a temporary stop to the PACT Act for the NY Seneca nation due to a constitutional challenge:

Federal Judge Grants Temporary Stop to Measure for Silver Creek Entrepreneur
The Post Journal – June 29, 2010

And this costly (postage rates will soar) and destructive (jobs are lost, more damage to a suffering economy) PACT Act, which our own money-grubbing Senator Kohl was behind, truly does sound unconstitutional, so we’re pulling for our Native Americans to “reign supreme” on this one.  After all, it’s “we the citizen’s” who pay for our postal service. Why on earth can’t we mail something totally legal??

A friend of a friend passed this along…no idea who the original author is, but kudo’s to him/her. Pass this on to your Senators!

Serving in Congress is an honor; not, a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serving their term(s), then going home and back to work.

1. Term Limits. 12 years only, one of the possible options below.

• A. Two, Six-year Senate terms
• B. Six, Two-year House terms
• C. One, Six-year Senate term and three, Two-Year House terms.

This applies to all Senate and Congressional Aides as well.

2. No Tenure / No Pension.
A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when he/she is out of office.

3. Congress (past, present, and future) participates in Social Security.
All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people.

4. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.

5. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise.
Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.

6. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.

7. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.

8. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/1/11.
The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen. Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves.

9. Lobbying Congress will be illegal and, if commited by a former Senator or House Representative, it will be considered a felony.

And how about one more to round it off to a nice “10″: DO ONLY WHAT YOU WERE INTENDED TO DO:

1. Protect and defend our shores
2. Deliver the mail
3. Print (don’t pocket) the money

Tracking, recording and monitoring each person’s BMI along with forced “health care” just doesn’t fall under the role of the Federal gov’t – along with a myriad of other matters they butt their intrusive beaks into.

In other words, get the hell out of our personal business and tend to the business you’re elected to tend to.

Hat tip: Think Progress

And how stupid do they sound when the call Tea Party supporters and activists “Teabaggers”, anyway…grow up already, lefties! You’re imploding, IMHO.

ACLU: America is riddled with politically motivated surveillance
Cory Doctorow at 12:28 AM Wednesday, Jun 30, 2010

A new ACLU report, “Policing Free Speech: Police Surveillance and Obstruction of First Amendment-Protected Activity,” documents recent cases of politically motivated surveillance across America — cases in which people were put under surveillance “for doing little more than peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights.”

And Wisconsin is one of them…here’s a screenshot of the map: