Today is a sad day. I said goodbye to an old friend today. A good friend. A friend I could count on.
We just shut down my Lotus Domino Development server here at work. We have been phasing out Domino for about four years now, and have not built any new apps on it in years. As our department has shrunk recently, we have made it a priority to consolidate servers and decommission unnecessary ones.
So, about ten minutes ago, I entered the final q command in the Domino console, and turned out the lights on good ‘ol DOMINO-DEV. While I moved on long ago, to Java, and now .NET, I still did a bit of Domino development every few months. I would dutifully use my good friend to test my changes, and he never let me down.
I will never forget the day he was built. A shiny new 1-U Dell 1650, all for me. I was the only user that logged onto my little buddy, and as I said, he never failed me, in all these years. We had finally set up a proper environment. I no longer had to worry about crashing a production box, and I could hack to my hearts desire, with no worried, of an angry boss calling, because the website had gone down.
Today, Josh Bearman has gone straight. He’s a successful writer in Los Angeles. But he was briefly a criminal mastermind — in 1980 — when he transferred to a new school in Minneapolis and joined the third grade.
It was a fancy school where all the kids had fancy snacks like chewy granola bars and Rice Krispies treats.
Bearman himself grew up in a spartan home with no sugar.
To make matters worse, kids wouldn’t just eat their lunches — they’d flaunt them. Every day, a brisk trade in lunch snacks would take place. Kids would pile all their best items onto one main table and start bartering.
“People would say, ‘Oh, well listen, I’ve just had my fill of Rice Krispies treats for two weeks in a row, straight. Why don’t I have some of your Fruit Roll-Ups?’ And so they would trade it all around,” Bearman recalls. “And it actually is a pretty efficient system. Everyone got what they wanted. It kind of all worked out for them. It didn’t work out for me at all because I was totally outside of this economy. Because my peanut butter and jelly sandwich had no currency value in this market whatsoever.”
Cake Futures
And so, Bearman came up with a plan. A scheme. A lie. He told his classmates that every year, on the last day of class, his mother would bake a cake. A huge cake. The most delicious cake you’ve ever tasted.
“So what I said was, ‘Listen, that’s going to be a great day. But in the meantime, I can offer you this special opportunity. And what we can do is, if you give me those Cheetos now, today, you can lay a claim — you know, on a share of this future cake. You can have a deposit, and have a piece of this cake when it comes.’ So, basically, I developed this sort of derivative lunchroom market for delicious cake futures.”
Please, watch this video. It is from a former KGB agent Yuri Bezmenov, and was recorded back in the ’80s. He is warning us about how the Marxist-Leninists (the Soviets at the time), planned to infiltrate and takeover our country.
Fortunately for our country, Ronald Reagan and others helped defeat the Soviets and they failed to take over while they were still in power. Unfortunately, their useful idiots were left intact. These are the Hollywood morons, the professors in our schools, government bureaucrats, much of our media, and others.
The Marxist-Leninist plan has finally succeeded in getting one of themselves, Barack Obama, into the highest office in the land. They used the idiots in our society, the lazy sheep looking for government handouts and those that pay no attention to anything, to elect him.
The Soviets worked on these things for decades. Senator McCarthy, while being branded as a kook, turned out to be correct. Our Department of State was chock full of Marxists. This was sixty years ago! Since the 60s these people have gained power across our country and have taken over our institutions.
We have seen the writing on the wall. We are headed for socialism-lite in this country at a rapid pace. The three-headed mongrel dog of Obama, Pelosi, and Reid, is chomping at the bit to get moving on their fundamental change. They plan to lead us into western European socialism as fast as they can.
Meanwhile the real dangerous communists are up to their old tricks. They have succeeded in their old plot to consolidate power in America around the soft American left. They have Obama to deal with. He is a weak leader, and has already proven to be soft on Russian aggression. There is more to Obama than this however, as we will look at shortly.
Seeing these developments, the communists of the world are acting. They are acting right now. Lets look at a couple of current headlines shall we.
Russian leader Medvedev heading to Cuba, VenezuelaHere we have the Russian President heading to Cuba and Venezuela. These are of course the two strongholds of Marxist-Leninist socialists in our hemisphere currently. The Russians are supplying weapons to Chavez, conducting military games with him, and moving to start oil field work there. The Russians are expanding their oil production capabilities in our hemisphere, while we sit around and worry about global warming. This will leave us defenseless in the event of a crisis, in which our foreign oil supplies are cut off. Game over.
U.S. critical of Russia’s Baltic missile threatsSo Reagan did teach the Soviet’s something about negotiating after all! What a shrewd move on the part of the Russians. Obama is going to fold like a house of cards on this one, and it WILL be only the beginning of the games. The Russians will continue to test him, and take full advantage of him as long as they can. They have judged him well I think. Hopefully they are wrong, and he will step up to defend our country and our allies from this resurgent monster. This would assume that he is in fact, not on their side.
China’s Hu to visit Washington, CubaThis one actually scares me. China and Russia have been enemies for centuries. Even though they were ideological allies for decades, they had generally rocky relations during the time of the Soviet Union. A coming together of these two, along with their western hemisphere comrades, could prove disastrous for us. This is the reason we fought communism for all those years. This is why we helped overthrow people like Allende, and fought the Sandanistas. We knew that communist expansion would be the end for us. That is why we spent so long fighting it. Now we are going to be run by sympathetic morons, just at the time we need to fight the most.
Move To Let Putin Re-Take Power”>Move To Let Putin Re-Take PowerVladimir Putin continues to consolidate his power. He is an old school communist, and former head of the KGB. This is why McCain kept saying that he saw him as such, during the debates. Unfortunately that didn’t mean anything to 52% of us. We were to interested in hope and change. Guess what? Change is coming, with it you may lose all hope.
Worried yet? You probably should be.
This brings us to the very interesting point of our discussion. Where does the American Left and their Messiah Barack Obama stand in all of this. Are they the well-meaning idiots of Jonah Goldberg, or Soviet-style totalitarian communists in disguise.
At this point I do not know the answer. There is also the question of whether or not it really matters. Good intentions don’t make up for losing one’s freedom or life after all. It would be nice to think that 52% of our populace could never be duped into voting for such a regime, but my hope in the American people was severely dashed when the picked Obama at all.
The circumstantial evidence pointing to Obama at least leaning towards authoritarian control is everywhere. His relationships with the Ayers, his membership of a black liberation church (liberation theology is rooted in Marxism), his shady dealings and election tactics in Illinois, and his polished message all point towards bad things for us conservative, patriotic, gun-toting Americans.
The most shocking revelation to me was his plan for a Civilian Defense Force. I have mentioned that here before. Just the thought of such a thing brings of visions of Hitler’s Brown-shirts, or Stalin’s old NKVD thugs. Couple this with Obama’s propensity for gun control, and you have a witch’s brew of bad intentions.
Our good friend Dirtcrsher brought the following video to our attention here. Please go see his post and read the comments if you have not already.
This scares me more than anything else that has been mentioned thus far. They seem to be aiming to turn our children into indoctrinated pawns for the state. What will they do next, have them spy on us, and report any negative comments we make against the anointed one? We will discuss this little plan in more detail here in a separate post later.
It has now been four years since Yasser Arafat was confirmed dead by the PLO (may he rot in hell forever). On the same day Mahmoud Abbas was elected chairmen. This day is implanted in my mind forever. It brought such great hope, that finally Israel would have a man they could really deal with.
This has turned out to not be the case unfortunately. It is a great disappointment to all who care about our stalwart ally. We must hold the Democrats feet to the fire, and demand that they continue to support the fledgling democracy. If we don’t no one will.
The Israelis need our support. Today I saw that Olmert is wavering on Jerusalem. It is a sad state of affairs for them, to have such leadership in this dangerous time. Hopefully soon a new and better government can be created.
