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The party never ends…

David K. Williams, Jr. | July 31, 2010

The Saturday Denver Post teases a story appearing tomorrow:

Debate the costs, but two economists say bailouts probably prevented a depression.
And as long as a drunk keeps drinking, he’ll prevent a hangover.

Unplug.

David K. Williams, Jr. | July 30, 2010

“The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you’re inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.”

From the Wachowski Brothers’ 1999 movie “The Matrix.”
Change the first sentence only slightly. Substitute “two-party duopoly” for “the Matrix.”
Then prepare to unplug.
In real life, the people still plugged in to the system are not our enemies. Not at all. They just need to be shown that freedom does not exist until they unplug.
Prepare to unplug.
You don’t need the system to survive. The system needs you – it bleeds you – so it can survive.
Unplug.

Physics can not be changed. Reality can.

David K. Williams, Jr. | July 25, 2010

My small-government GOP friends tell me often that I should accept the reality that we live in a two-party system with plurality voting.

They miss the point.
I accept reality.
They, however, fail to see that reality can be changed. At one time, we were a group of colonies subject to a monarchy. That reality changed.
At one time, Blacks in this country were chattel. That reality changed.
At one time, women were not allowed to vote. That reality changed.
Most of my small government Republican friends will acknowledge that they, themselves, want to change reality. The reality is that Barack Obama is in the White House. They want to change that. So do I. But I also want to change the reality that, right now, the only alternative is a Big Government Republican.
I will listen to arguments that perhaps Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee or John McCain would be better than Obama. Those arguments, alas, miss the point. All of them, Obama, Romney, Huckabee and McCain want the federal government to tell you and me how to live.
I reject the proposition that any degree of state control over my sovereignty is acceptable. The argument that a Republican wants slightly less control than a Democrat over my life is meaningless. I will not give it to them: not voluntarily.
Americans should never accept state control over our personal lives. Not even from a Republican.
Reality is, our government controls us. We can change that reality.

Tom Tancredo, third parties and a failed process.

David K. Williams, Jr. | July 23, 2010

Competition is always good. Always.
The more competitors, the more choice and the better off we all are. This applies to goods and services. It applies to public schools. And, yes, it applies to political candidates. More choice is never a bad thing. Ever.
When choice becomes a bad thing, there is something wrong with the system that creates that result.
Tom Tancredo is not the problem. Third parties are not the problem. Our two party election process, including plurality voting, is the problem. A two party duopoly, controlling and limiting the choices of every American citizen, is the problem.
If we want a better America, criticizing competition is misplaced.
Colorado Republican state chair Dick Wadhams called Tancredo’s plan to run for governor as the American Constitution Party candidate “reprehensible.” It is not. What is “reprehensible” is a system that gives the people of Colorado two really bad choices for governor. Anyone trying to solve that problem is not “reprehensible.” People defending the status quo are not “reprehensible” either, but they are horribly misguided.
Most people, even die hard political activists, act as if the two party system and plurality voting are some immutable law of nature, like gravity. Our election process is not a law of physics. It is not even a law of our Constitution.
It is a process that has simply evolved without any particular design, intelligent or otherwise. We can change it if we are willing to recognize the problem. Pretending that Tancredo and third parties are the problem is a bad diagnosis.
Our system is broken. While there is no panacea, there are ways to fix it. Approval voting is one such fix.

How is this “compassionate?”

David K. Williams, Jr. | July 21, 2010

In today’s Denver Post:

Social workers across the state say that attempts to fix the long-troubled Colorado Benefits Management System — a database that processes applications for public assistance like Medicaid, food stamps and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families — are actually making the system worse.
Instituted in 2004 under then-Gov. Bill Owens, the CBMS, with an initial cost of $223 million, has a long history of communications problems, crashes and failures — including overpayments and underpayments to recipients.
- State computer “fixes” faulted, Social workers say the long-troubled benefits system has become worse.
And somehow the “progressive” statists that want to force all of America into another government run program claim to be “compassionate.”
Lewis Carroll would not dare be so absurd.

Today’s newspeak

David K. Williams, Jr. | July 21, 2010

Republican governor candidate Dan Maes was quoted in today’s Denver Post as saying, “The next governor has to be able to generate income for the state, and I have proven I can do that.” (See “Maes claims, income at odds.”

Governments do not “generate income.” Governments take income away from those that generate income. I’m sure Dan knows that, but I believe the wording is important.
We need to use words correctly, and refuse to use newspeak. Wikepedia sums up George Orwell’s thoughts on newspeak thusly:
Orwell believed that, because this writing was intended to hide the truth rather than express it, the language used was necessarily vague or meaningless. This unclear prose was a “contagion” which had spread even to those who had no intent to hide the truth, and it concealed a writer’s thoughts from himself and others.

I am sure Maes has “no intent to hide the truth,” which makes it all the more important to point it out when he does.
Fight newspeak. Use plain English.

William B Thorne Press Conference

David K. Williams, Jr. | July 14, 2010

Dear Friend,

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if you have any digital pics of me in action please forward now. Thanks.

“Village Inn”

207 West Wolfensberger Road

Castle Rock, Colorado 80109-9632

303-688-3200

Last chance interview

COME ON OUT!

I am at 10% renal function with no intent to perform dialysis, I have a living donor and passed all the tests. NO National Registry for me, since I have a M.M.J. License in Colorado, an use 1 gram daily, the V.A. is denying me a transplant on a Genetic disease… Get the full story first hand on how they deal with the troops. I am having a press conference this, Thursday JULY 15, 2010 2 pm till 4pm I pay for standing at the plate and serving.

Last Chance to question? ALL Recording devices,

Flash Photography, videoing is encouraged.

Utube’s & Written Words, will come out of this Interview.

Learn first hand more of the Deception vs. Compassion

History will be presented and present

Sincerely,

William B. Thorne

970-388-2182

The McInnis foible

David K. Williams, Jr. | July 14, 2010

The Colorado Republicans are like the Keystone Cops – they are handing the Governor’s Mansion over to Hickenlooper and the Democrats.
Imagine this: several viable political parties that gave voters an option beyond a plagiarizing Big Government Republican and a quirky Big Government Democrat.
I know, that’s crazy talk.
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Ever notice how Republicans love competition: the more competition, the better off the consumer is, right? But when it comes to political parties, the GOP believes two parties are more than enough!
Lower the barriers for new entry? That’s crazy talk.

It’s not “Big Brother,” it’s “Perfect Citizen.” So it’s all good.

David K. Williams, Jr. | July 13, 2010

Nothing to see here, people… move along… your elected officials from the state sanctioned political parties are looking into this. Don’t worry. A new episode of “American Idol” will be on soon.
The classified program is now being expanded with funding from the multibillion-dollar Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative, which started at the end of the Bush administration and has been continued by the Obama administration, officials said.

You can’t have my scissors.

David K. Williams, Jr. | July 13, 2010

Freedom is dangerous, my friends. And that danger is what the state always uses as an excuse to take it away from you. The state treats its subjects like children with a pair of scissors – if we let them take away our scissors, we ARE children, subject to the whims of our parent – the state.

(”Oh, no! Dave, gays can’t have the freedom to love another! That’s TOO dangerous! Oh, no, Dave, grandmas that want marijuana to help keep their chemo down can’t have any marijuana! That’s TOO dangerous!”)