January 28, 2010. It has taken me a while for things to settle in my brain, but I'm ecstatic over the Scott Brown's US Senate win in the liberal state of Massachusetts...or Massachusettes as his opponent, Martha, or is it Marcia as Patrick Kennedy of the Kennedy Clan called her over and over again. Coakley had Massachusetts spelled Massachusettes during one of her campaign ads. It kind of reminds me of the Dan Quayle "potatoe" gaffe that the left ran over and over again like a broken record. The Media spent as little time as possible covering the misspelled state name. I guess it's because the Media are bad spellers too. I guess no one can spell in this country, even a liberal democrat from Massachusetts who happens to have a law degree and be the state's Attorney General. Do you think it's possible that she went to public school before she went to college and then went on to get a law degree? Of course, I'm sure it has nothing to do with any political agenda.

The Brown win in liberal Massachusetts is a milestone. The message couldn't be more clear. The independents, those undecideds that decide every election, are pissed. They are sick and tired of what is happening in our government. The election of a republican senator from Massachusetts defines their anger. Scott Brown is not a far right conservative, but he is about as conservative as one can be in the Bay State and still get elected. Politically, he and I are quite similar in our political beliefs with some minor differences. It's going to be interesting to see what happens now in November. I'm predicting that the republicans are going to pick up six or seven seats in the Senate, and about twenty-five seats in the House. They won't have majorities in either house, but they will be an effective buffer to prevent the more radical aspects of President Obama's effort at transforming America into a Fascist/Socialist/Marxist "paradise" that will only benefit government worker apparatchicks, the nomenclatura of academics, lawyers, and business owners that cater to the apparatchicks and nomenclatura, and minority member proletariat welfare recipients at the expense of the other part of the proletariat, the non-minority members of the working class and lower middle class. We of the working and lower middle class are sick and tired of being ridiculed, marginalized, and treated like second class citizens by those that think they are our betters. Well guess what? You aren't, and Scott Brown's election is just the first step in our taking back the country. Obamacare is barely on life support and probably won't pass. Same with cap and trade. Of course, there will be other attempts at increasing the level of socialism that the administration and their lemmings wants to force on us. All in all, I think that Barack Obama has now become a lame duck president barely one year into his first term. If things continue the way they are, he won't get a second term.

The republicans have just been handed a wonderful opportunity to put the country back on track. This time I hope they don't blow it. I'm not convinced that they won't however. They also have to do something that is going to be quite unpleasant, but completely necessary. Once they are back in power they need to go after the domestic enemies of this country. That means cleaning house in our education, legal, and social services "industries." No more playing nice. It's time to take the gloves off and get real nasty.

We will need to clean house in our education "industry," our legal "industry," and our culture "industry." It took a long slow march through the culture to get where we are today, and it's going to take a monumental effort to reverse the tide. The election of Scott Brown to the US Senate is a small but monumental first step. November 2010 can not come fast enough.

September 13, 2009. Wow! I thought the turnout for the Tea Party protest in Washington, DC was going to be about 50,000 people. I read today online that the estimate was at least a million and a half people. That's amazing. Also what's amazing when you look at the photos of the event is the lack of Che posters, the lack of the Socialist International and Communist organization posters, along with the fact that there doesn't seem to be a lot of trash on the ground. Gee, I wonder why. Comparing photos of the trash left on the Mall from the Obama Inauguration with a similar amount of people during the protest. It's a different class of people. These people that showed up yesterday, are not the spoiled, self-centered, asshats that are used to having other people pick up after them, while they pretend to be all for the environment. That being said, I think that a sleeping giant is waking up. Protests are usually the property of the Left. This one came from the Right. As Confucius once said, we are living in "interesting times."

August 19, 2009. This past weekend was the fortieth anniversary of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair that took place on Max YasgurÕs farm in upstate New York in 1969. I find it amusing that Yasgur was a conservative republican who agreed to allow hippies to destroy his farm, but I guess he was paid enough money for the use of his land to make it worthwhile. I hope he made his money up front, because the promoters lost their shirts when the everything is about them spoiled brats, who showed up without tickets and had not intention of paying for admission tickets, knocked down the fences and declared it a "free" concert. I have always had mixed feelings about Woodstock. I was lured by the whole celebration of the primalism that it was, because I had received my proper dosage of liberal brainwashing in the public schools. However, I did have a few conservative teachers. There were still a few of them left when I was in school. They hadnÕt been purged from the system yet.

I always thought the music was great. This was the music of my generation, both liberal and conservative. The bands that played there were rock musicÕs royalty. However, as I look back at it, I can see that it was the celebration of the left fork in the road of the two divisions of the Baby Boomer generation; there were those who came from a life of spoiled privilege and there were those that didnÕt. Those that didnÕt made up the right fork in the road, and the divide has been getting further and further apart as the years have progressed. Being part of that interim generation of the Baby Boomers that some demographers refer to as Generation Jones, I was too young to attend. I was only fourteen at the time, and there is no way that my World War II generation parents were going to allow me to attend an event of that kind anyway. My dad was a public school history teacher. Unlike most of the teachers today, and quite a few teachers at that time, the only liberal leanings he had were in regards to the New Deal. Until he died, he remained a true patriotic American, who had no use for anti-Americanism.

His dad had been a builder, and had quite a bit of money until the Great Depression hit and he lost all of his business. From that point on they struggled financially just to survive. My mother grew up relatively poor in an Italian immigrant family with thirteen children who all ended up in some sort of blue-collar job, as they grew older. Not one of them went to college. They all struggled growing up. My dad served in the Army Air Corps in the Pacific during World War II, and he consequently had absolutely no respect for the anti-war crowd. All he saw were spoiled brats who were in dire need of a good beating. My motherÕs brothers also all served in the military during the Second World War. The value of self-sacrifice that my parents grew up with, was part of my upbringing. We did without if we didnÕt really need it. Luxuries were few and far between. As a schoolteacher he didnÕt make a huge salary anyway. We were what would be considered to be lower middle class. We were the next rung up the food chain ladder from the working class. However, the working class and the lower middle class shared a lot in common, despite education and some minor value differences. We lived in the same neighborhoods, and we went to school together. One thing that was definitely shared in common was that many of the sons received a certified letter that required a proof of delivery signature that when opened began as follows: "Greetings." And guess what? They went to Viet Nam. You donÕt hear much about these folks. Those that came back, which were all but 58,000 of them, got on with their lives. For the most part, they embarked on careers that pretty much made up the bulk of the working and lower middle classes, which is where they came from in the first place. However, first of all they had to endure getting spit upon, have feces thrown at them, and be called "baby killers" when they returned by the other fork in the road, the Woodstock Generation.

LetÕs look at the demographics of that left fork in the road, the hippies and their ilk. Most of them grew up in a life of privilege. Few of them grew up working class or lower middle class. Many came from inherited wealth, but most of them were children of upper middle class professionals and left wing educators. They were spoiled. If they were the children of liberals and leftists in the education establishment, they were either open or closet Marxists. Everything was back then, and now that they are the establishment, about them. They despised back then, and still despise the working class and lower middle class whites. The hippies are now in charge of our government, legal profession, education system, and lurking in many of the policy-making positions of Corporate America and the Pentagon. This almost wasnÕt the case.

In 1968 various radical student groups and racial groups, now revealed by the Venona Project to have been financed by the KGB in Moscow with millions of dollars smuggled in from Canada, became violent. These were cogs in the ongoing cultural war to destroy the United States from within. To this day, this "cold civil war" continues.

Members of these groups seized control of Columbia University in New York City. There were other riots at other colleges and universities that followed, but they probably wouldnÕt have happened if the Columbia riots had been handled differently. Originally, the faculty of Columbia wanted the authorities to take back control of the campus by "any means necessary," but they backed down in their request at the last minute. Back then there were still quite a few college faculty members that were conservatives, but they were ultimately afraid of the political and social consequences of regaining control of the campus with force. This emboldened the Left, the Marxist Leninist funded by Moscow left mind you, to begin the acceleration of their assault on the American way of life. LetÕs hear it again for the Woodstock Generation. Nelson Rockefeller was the governor of New York at the time, and had the faculty requested "assistance," he would have sent in the National Guard to storm the campus, and restore order using "any means necessary."

The Silent Majority, my father being one of them, would have stood up and cheered as the spoiled brats brandishing Chairman MaoÕs Little Red Book were taken down. I remember hearing him say, "good, itÕs about time," when the Chicago Police gave the protestors a good thrashing during the 1968 Democratic Convention riots. Even though he never said anything about it, I think that he silently cheered when the National Guard shot those four students during the Kent State riots too.

This error on the part of the Columbia faculty was the turning point that set the stage for the Communist take over of our government that is attempting to come to fruition with the 2008 election. Woodstock in 1969 was the LeftÕs smug, arrogant, celebration of the beginning of the end of the despised values and prosperity of Middle Class America. With the final push happening today to force a socialist dictatorship on the American people, run of course, by the spoiled rotten leftists from the Woodstock Generation, I have a feeling that my dad is spinning in his grave.

July 17, 2009. It's been a while since I last posted on this blog. It's time for a new one. Have you been looking at what's going on? I think that some people have been, because there is a growing resistance to what the current administration and Congress is trying to do to the American people. Take a good look at the stimulus package that hasn't created any stimulus. How about job creation? What is the unemployment rate right now? Is it growing? Along with this, we are going to enact Cap and Trade so that rich liberals can get richer, and the rest of us willl get to pay much higher prices for energy. Of course, rich liberals will too, but they will offset that with investments in all those government subsidized green energy programs that will have large minimum invesments to get in the door, and then high rates of return, because of both government subsidies and the tax increases in order for them to make money. Guess who is going to pay for all of this? You and I. This is exactly what the Obama administration and their allies have in mind. I will be posting some thoughts on this as I"m done researching these things. Keep checking back from time to time. You can check out my other blog at chipclemmer.blogspot.com. I will be posting new things there too.

April 10, 2009: There is an item that was brought to my attention the other day. It's about a controversial fence that Montgomery College in Rockville, MD installed in August. The MC Board decided to make the campus completely smoke free. No smoking anywhere on campus. This forced smokers to head off site in order to light up. One of the places that they headed was a cul du sac named Princeton Place. I actually checked out the location in question personally, and then did some research on the subject, reading both pro and con reports about the impact of the fence and the policy on the surrounding community.

Here's my analysis and ideas for solving the problem: This is a perfect example of holier that thou do gooders and their nanny state policies run amok. This is the result of a sanctimonious adherence to the dogma of Political Correctness without taking into account the so called "unintended consequences" that always seem to happen when do gooders decide to do some social engineering. Thomas Sowell in his book "Applied Economics" referred to it as "stage one thinking." The people advancing the policy never looked beyond "stage one." Politicians are notorious about this when it comes to spending money, because it's not their money. This way of thinking also applies to other political decisions, which result in what is called "unintended consequences." At the same time, I am a firm believer that there is no such thing as an unintended consequence when it comes to politics, government or any aspect of social engineering. This is where I disagree with Dr. Sowell. It's the Cloward Piven Strategy. Create a crisis so that you can solve the crisis after you make things fall apart. Then the social engineers and their cronies swoop in and reap the benefits both financially and politically.

In April, 2008, the Montgomery College Board decided to make the entire campus a smoke free environment. The new rule took effect on August 1, 2008. Smokers were now forced to leave the campus in order to light up. One of the places that they headed was Princeton Place, because it was close the the area of campus where most of the classroom buildings are located. The next thing you know, the residents of Princeton Place began to experience the result of extremely mature college students behaving like extremely mature college students. Suddenly, you had parked cars with students in them taking up parking space on the street. Along with this, there was now a lot of drinking, drug use, sex in the parked cars and people urinating on the residents' front lawns. Other students who walked from the campus buildings to Princeton Place rather than driving there, contributed to the mayhem by littering; the litter was not just the cigarette butts that they left on the ground both on the street and on peoples' property. There was the usual plethora of beer bottles, condoms, fast food wrappers, and whatever else these environmentally sensitive, "we care," save the world from the evil Republicans, spoiled rotten individuals decided to throw on the street. They also tossed their litter on the front lawns of those horrible bourgeois residents who live there in their nice little middle class single family homes. In another words, lots and lots of recyclable trash on the ground coming from the caring, sensitive, and enlightened Narcissists, who are into saving the world from "the man." The people living on Princeton Place rightfully complained. There were hearings. The college decided to put up a fence to keep the students from heading down the sidewalk and going off campus to Princeton Place to smoke and engage in other activities. They were supposed to head in the opposite direction and smoke along Mannakee Street. The college was also willing to pay for benches and butt cans that would be located along Mannakee Street right outside of the main gate to the campus. The Princeton Place cul du sac was closer, so it became the smoking area by default.

Now there was another "unintended consequence." Many people around that area used the campus for walking, jogging, and other activities. Their access to the campus was now blocked. There was no gate installed at the location where the sidewalk joined the campus and Princeton Place. From my observation, it looked like a brand new sidewalk too. What a waste of taxpayers money to put in a sidewalk to nowhere. Again, this was stage one thinking on the part of the college Board of Directors. They were so eager to jump on the smoke free bandwagon, that they didn't look into the ripple down effect of the policy.

As a side note, I would be interested to see how many of these joggers and dog walkers are in favor of smoke free environments. I'm sure they are as long as the consequences don't affect them personally. Do you get my drift? Suddenly, the whine was about how they, and of course it's about "they", no longer had access to the campus in order to engage in the activities that they and the other "theys" wanted to engage in. They even went so far as to claim that senior citizens were now forced to get rides to the bus stop on the other side of the campus, because it was too far to walk all around the campus to get to the bus stop on Mannakee Street. This was a bold faced lie. If you check out the Montgomery Country Ride On Bus routes and schedules, as well as the Metrobus routes and schedules, you will see that the busses that go down Mannakee Street on the other side of the campus, every one of those busses, has to go down Rockville Pike first, which is a shorter walk from that area than it was to Mannakee Street when you cut across the campus. The infamous elitist "they" are being inconvenienced by not having access to the campus for their personal activities, so therefore it's war. How dare "they" be inconvenienced.

The Mayor of Rockville, Susan Hoffmann, claims that she may have found a loophole that will solve the problem. She says that part of the property that the campus fenced, is actually owned by the City of Rockville, and that the city has always allowed the college to use the property as their own. They could actually put a designated smoking area, on city property that is part of the campus, that would technically allow Montgomery College to remain a smoke free campus. That smoking area would be just inside the fence along Princeton Place. That would mean putting a gate in the fence and putting butt cans just inside the fence, or taking the fence down and putting butt cans along the sidewalk near where the fence used to be. Ok, I can see some merit to this, even though it is nothing but the city attempting to cover the ass of a college Hell bent on nanny state political correctness.

I've got a better idea. Let's take the nanny state to fruition and rub the education community's Socialist nose in the shit it produces. Since Montgomery College provides its employees with a health care plan, and students can purchase reduced rate health insurance that is available only to college students, somewhere and somehow that insurance is subsidized by someone. Let's keep health costs down. Let's make all students, faculty members, administrators, board members, and all other employees of the college, smoke, drug, and alcohol free. Make them all subject to random urinalysis testing for those substances. Let's give these do good liberals a little taste of the nanny state that they would love to force on the rest of us, while exempting themselves from their own policies. Not only would you have a smoke free campus, you would have a smoke, drug and alcohol free community. What a great example of Socialism. Look at how healthy everyone will become. Will this happen? I'm not holding my breath.