Your President (or somebody's President) spoke last week. While his lips were moving, it was clearly evidence of how he continues to lie and decieve the American people, not that Congress and the Media haven't joined him in the Great American Fish Story.
The word stems from the idea that when your boat is sinking, you bail out the water. However, unless the leak is fixed or land is in sight, your boat will still sink. Read
the story
What
IS Caesar's?
Clearly,
the American People have very little understanding of ownership.
Michael
Patrick Murphy, (a
registered "Decline to State" Independent voter)
25th
of September, 2008, revised October 16, 2008
Sorry
for the delay. I've been a little preoccupied with things that
make money. I'm sorry for my readers
that feel abandoned. However, my procrastination is also due
to my wanting to write a very strong and important article
that addresses our current long overdue crisis. Some of you
will find my thoughts hard to believe. I tend to kid around
so much you might think that I'm joking. Just keep in mind
that I am deadly serious about most of it. I broke things down
to their lowest common denominators. Unless you believe that
2 plus 2 should continue to equal 7 in the political world,
I strongly suggest that you read carefully. Imagine what aliens
might see as they fly overhead. Open your mind to the possibility
that I might actually be right, and if not, am I more right
than the Democrats and Republicans? If you're still too biased
towards the big corrupt parties, then make sure you read the
last few paragraphs. If that doesn't convince you, then I guess
I can't win over all the people all the time. C' est la Vie!.
Just remember that more people are registering Independent
everyday and that's something that the Democrats and Republicans
can't say, no matter how impossible the two dying parties
make things for third parties and independents. Notice that
the
media isn't
saying
a thing about third parties. This is because the rich and powerful
are becoming desperate as they realize that a growing number
of Americans are no longer as ready to be treated like sheep. Read
the story
Bundles
of Love
Things
could always be better!
Michael
Patrick Murphy, (a
registered "Decline to State" Independent voter)
24th
of May, 2008
I sat there listening to a group of Carlsbad seniors
discussing politics and weighing in on whether Hillary
Clinton or Barack
Obama would become the next Democratic contender to take
on John
McCain. Thanks to Obama, McCain can
stay in people's minds instead of being forgotten until July
or August. McCain has a limited amount of fame for having attempted,
albeit unsuccessfully, to clean up American politics via the McCain-Feingold
Act and others to supplement and enhance it.
The
reason that the act failed so miserably is because evil finds
its way into the system regardless of
its laws. Our dilemma is that we let the devil
into the system in the first place. Then we spend billions
trying to get the devil to behave. The rich and powerful have
always run the political planet through less than ethical means.
I think most of my readers would agree or they wouldn't be
here in the first place. In the ancient tradition, the Republican
and Democratic parties have come up with new creative ways
to circumvent the intent of campaign reform laws.
In
the end, since in a democracy we are technically the rulers
of our destiny,
the faults in the system are ours. Revealing who contributes
money is convenient and links to opensecrets.org abound
on this website. However, this does not clean up the system,
partly because few pay attention and mostly because it endangers
the essence of our democracy and the secret ballot that protects
voters from retribution from employers, landlords and the
government itself. Read
the story
Tag
'em and Bag 'em
Voter
Registration and Outreach Invades America
Michael
Patrick Murphy, (a
registered "Decline to State" Independent voter)
19th
of April, 2008, updated 21st of April 2008
Americans
tend to take pride in our Democracy and how we are free to
vote for those that run our country.
We all know that the process has numerous flaws and is very,
very costly. We know that "snowbirds" still
vote in Florida, that politicians still pay their families
on staff exhorbinant salaries and the politicians that
loan themselves money can repay themselves with 33% interest.
Right now you have a government that works for lobbyists. Opensecrets shows
that 2.8
billion was spent on lobbying congress alone. Yes, there
is a lot that doesn't sit well with American digestion.
Still,
there is also a lot that Americans don't understand about how
their democracy has been compromised and
all but eliminated by the election process. There is no doubt
in my mind that it is time for a change that goes way beyond
Americans re-registering as Decline
to State (DTS) or independent
voters, partially free from party rhetoric and corruption.
Politicians can create all the political reform laws they want
and the corruption will still get worse. Right now, many of
us must disclose our contributions which can jeopardize our
home and work lives. "What if the boss finds out?"
"We the people" must demand
clean politicans from the get go, ones that won't take the
money from special interests and folks that live outside their
districts.. Until "we the people" become responsible,
we certainly can't expect responsible politicians to represent
us. Read
the story
American's
Abdicate Their Thrones
We
have become great enablers of Evil
Michael
Patrick Murphy, (a
registered "Decline to State" Independent voter)
17th
of April, 2008
Theoretically,
in America, we are all Kings and Queens. "We
the people" run the show through the world's
first constitution. The founding fathers thought
that was better than rule by one man or woman or
small group of men and women. They thought we could
do a better job than the King of England and its
Parliament. Today, we find that Americans have abdicated
their thrones with a variety of excuses that you
can easily imagine. Through our laziness and poor
judgment of character, we have allowed the Republican
and Democratic parties to represent us. We do not
take responsibility for their actions and continue
to blame the party representatives while reelecting
them to office. There is nothing logical about America.
Perhaps there never was. In America, two plus two
equals seven. Read
the story
Presidents'
Day Special
Americans
have abdicated their thrones. Where to now James?
Michael
Patrick Murphy, (a
registered "Decline to State" Independent voter)
18th
of February, 2008 (President's Day)
Last night, I saw "Elizabeth
- The Golden Age" DVD. This morning I got to the coffee
shop by 8 a.m. I am so entertained and well fed.
Liz,
who works the counter, told me the names of the commonly accepted
first five presidents in order and told me she
could name all 50 states from west to east. Cool! At 8 a.m.,
with my memory, I could not keep up. It was the perfect beginning
to my Presidents' Day special.
In
George Washington's day, many folks wanted him to be our king.
Legend has it that he turned it
down because he felt the United States should be different.
Instead, "we the people" would be king. As time passed,
most Americans gave up their sovereignty anyway. It required
too much discipline, honesty and responsibility and would take
time away from television. We say the "Pledge of Allegiance" as
though it were a part of the Constitution, the document which
literally took away all our property and freedom in one fell
swoop. Today, people that believe that this was not the case,
show their so-called patriotism by buying flag shirts and pasting
stickers on the windows of their cars. Meanwhile, Jefferson
and Washington's disappointment surely churns the soil beneath
their graves! Read
the story
NAFTA
The
North American Free Trade Agreement is Anything but Free
Michael
Patrick Murphy, Registered Independent
mmurphy@americanliberty.org - February
9, 2008
People
may wonder why it took me so long to write about this. My
reason is that I ought to read the full agreement before commenting.
Despite my own propensity to read lengthy books like "Nixon's
Memoirs"
and Bill
Clinton's "My Life",
in the end, I reconsidered. After all, if the prolific reader Bill
Clinton didn't read it all before signing it into law,
then why should I? Therefore, after NOT reading all of the
thousands of pages that constitute the NAFTA agreement,
I woke up this morning with a not so unusual epiphany that
NAFTA is anything but free if not for any other reason than
that the benefits are not outweighed by the cost in time
it takes to read the damn darn thing! This is especially
true when we consider that the title alone portends of a
greater fabrication under the covers.
For one thing, none of the countries involved
experience free trade on their own or collectively. For another,
we don't have anything to trade in the first place and I'm
not just talking about our lack of manufacturing
in the U.S.
Lastly, we hear a lot of complaining about
NAFTA which begs the question that a lot of folks are asking.
Do the complaints have merit?
Most
names given to things by the government intentionally mislead "we
the people." I think the
word "Free" in NAFTA is wrong even if it is politically
correct. (Statements that are politically correct are seldom
scientifically correct). Even the most intelligent among us,
that don't specialize in understanding any given issue, are
taken in by the governments' "grift." Read
the story
The Plague of the Witch Doctors
by Nelson Hultberg
The Keynesian economic paradigm is a grandiose endeavor in sophistry
and ideological criminality. This, in a nutshell, is the economic
history of the 20th century. A band of collectivist ideologues
(with the philosophical prescience of John Law and the moral
compass of a pack of wolves) hijacked Western civilization. They
have not guided our airplane bravely through the treacherous
storms of reality as Washington and its professorial cheerleaders
try to tell us. They have created the treacherous storms themselves.
This is what human beings get when they attempt to extract more
from life than they are willing to put in. Read
the story...
LOCK
DOWN
CA
Two Parties do the Two Step! - Public Policy Institute of California
Judges Competition.
Michael
Patrick Murphy, Independent
mmurphy@americanliberty.org - January
9, 2008
You have to be pretty dense, or out of
touch, or both, if you don't realize the bias in the CA
State Assembly or Senate,
the two dominant parties, or the press. You probably also realize
that Californians are political sheep, lemmings and
ostriches–just not you. Yesterday, the Public Policy
Institute of California presented a luncheon forum at the Sterling
Hotel in Sacramento.
Today, Dan
Walters presented another mush article talking about the
presentation.
The institute's David
Lesher moderated the panel, which consisted of Senator
Art Torres (Ret.), chairman of the CA
Democratic Party, Duf
Sundheim, former chairman of the CA
Republican Party and Daniel
Weintraub, a political columnist for the Sacramento
Bee. Obviously missing, and unexplained by the panel,
were any representatives of the Green or Libertarian parties.
Since the topic was the growth of Decline
to State (DTS) voters and third party stagnation, I think
those parties would have had a lot to say and added a dimension
to the discussion. I can imagine that even if the PPIC invited
them, that Torres and Sundheim might have refused to attend,
taking the air out of the whole event.
The other thing that was interesting was
that the luncheon was "free" and I think many of
the attendees came for the delicious spread put on by the hotel.
I had additional motives. Read
the story
Election
2008
Are
Americans Honest and Disciplined Enough for a Democracy?
Michael
Patrick Murphy, Independent
mmurphy@americanliberty.org -
January
9, 2008
When
a candidate runs as a Republican or Democrat,
the candidate puts one foot in cement. He or she becomes beholden
to their Party. When the candidate takes money from special
interests via lobbyists or otherwise, he or she is then expected
to perform as the money dictated. The candidate has then put
their other foot in cement. Finally, when a candidate wears
his religion on his sleeve to sell to religious folks, he or
she ends up putting that which is between his or her legs into
a third block of cement. This kind of a candidate can no longer
fix what is broken in America. They can only stand in place
and fill the job opening. They must kow tow and do as they
are told. Not doing so becomes politically fatal. Read
the story
Human
Trafficking
CA
Government Assists Human Traffic Trade - Advertises Otherwise!
Michael
Patrick Murphy, Independent
mmurphy@americanliberty.org - December
23, 2007
Who
can trust a Conservative Union Newspaper
owned by the Liberal Sacramento
Bee?
"Not
I!" says
this Independent. This weeks foray into incomplete
journalism was a "Special to The Union." According
to the article "Task Force Human Trafficking
Report in California," the UC Berkeley
Human Rights Center (UCBHRC) identified 57
forced labor operations in almost a dozen
cities, between 500 individuals from 18 countries.
The intent is to make
this sound like this horribly huge problem
deserving millions, if not billions, of dollars
of public attention. (It is in fact the largest
criminal occupation in the world, not even
tied for second!)
Let me put this in perspective
by rephrasing. The UCBHRC identified 57 forced
labor operations (Assuming that each operation
is its own business, we're saying that out
of 1,265,268 businesses, this industry represents
.005% of CA businesses). ...in almost a dozen
cities (there are 958 cities in CA, that's
means less than 2% of CA cities have forced
labor operations). Now all of these stats
represent the years 1998 to 2003. Does that
mean you can divide the above percents by
5? That makes the former .005% into .001%
and the latter 2% into .04%. Read
the story
Spending
Limit will Force Politicians to Get
Deficit Under Control
Ted
Gaines, CA District 4 Assemblyman
December,
2007
Recently,
the non-partisan Legislative Analyst's Office
(LAO) issued their annual forecast of California's
budget and fiscal situation, and the news
was very grim.
In
what should be a staggering
wake-up call for my colleagues
in the Legislature, LAO
forecasts that California
will face at
least an $8 billion budget
shortfall next year and
multi-billion dollar deficits
over the next several years
unless
lawmakers take action soon to get our financial house in order. Despite efforts
this year to enact a state budget with a $3.6 billion reserve, California
once again stands at the
brink of a fiscal meltdown.
Yet
the majority party in
Sacramento continues to
act as if
they have their own printing
press to make more money
when we get into a budget
crunch. On
the very
day that the report detailing our state's fiscal emergency came out, Democrats
on the Assembly Health Committee pushed through billions of dollars in
new government health care
spending. It is simply
unconscionable to even
consider
such massive
new spending when our current financial house is in such disarray. Read
the story
For
the Record - Legislator pay Raises
California is suffering from an 8 billion dollar
budget shortfall. Given our state's financial
crisis, it is not prudent for me as a state
legislator to accept a pay increase. At a
time when we are asking state agencies and
fellow Californians to make sacrifices, legislators
must also make sacrifices. Therefore, I have
rejected a pay increase of $3,110 that would
have taken effect today. - Courtesy Gaines
Gazette, December 2007
Libertarian
Investment
Robert
Page
Placer
County Libertarian Party Treasurer
Every
problem seems to be a government problem
and every solution seems to require government
spending—a Federal nanny with a club
in one hand and a check book in the other!
President
Bush has vowed "We'll do whatever
it takes"...reminiscent of his terrorist
rant, "Bring it on". In contrast
to the actions of President Bush and Congress,
a nation can't get rich through government
spending. The government diminishes our own
ability to spend, while incredibly, it also
takes from those yet to be born! This, along
with the cost of the undeclared War in Iraq
(and many other places in the world), the exploding
cost of Medicare and Medicaid and the rest
of pork including spending $2 million to study a rain forest in Iowa, is adding
hundreds of billions to a crippling National Debt. Read
the story
