Agenda 21

For those of you that have never met me in person, at first sight you would think of me as some “hillbilly” or “redneck” with a rebel flag hanging in my garage.  I have news for you I don’t even have a garage so, ha.  But seriously, over the past couple of months I have been seeing ads for a thing called, Agenda 21.  At first glance it seems like a local bill trying to pass to keep you from walking your dog from 3 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. Tuesday, Sunday and Wednesday.  But, in one commercial that I saw for it, it was kind of disturbing what they said.  In the commercial (and I am paraphrasing), children are born with birth defects every day and we have to foot the bill, instead of spending the money on the unfortunate we need to spend the money one sustainable development.  This really puzzled me, at one point I thought it was an ad for a new political movement.  Then I thought, politicians may not have a soul but they do have a heart.  So then I started to do some more research on Agenda 21.  This took me a week to sit down and take notes and research every aspect in this and see if this was a good or bad idea.  I started with researching sustainable development.  What is this phrase? What does it mean? Well, to sum it up, sustanablists believe in global land control, global education and global population control.  Now, one out of these three I can agree with and that is education, we really don’t need a world of social jerk offs.  But global land control and population control?  Let’s start with land control.  For me I have a 3 acre lot outside of town, and with this land control idea,  it would be deemed that someone other than me would know how to use my land better than myself and really kick me out of where I live and make me move into some sort of city landscape close to work.  At least that is how I am taking it.  Who is to say what I can and can’t do with my property.  Now don’t be a smart ass and say “well you can’t have a meth lab”. Well no shit.  What I am saying is I paid for this and no one is going to come here and say well thanks for taking care of what you built it is ours now.  Now for my favorite, population control.  Are we going to resort back to the roman era in which if babies were seen unhealthy they were thrown over a cliff to die and call it “for the greater good”? Are we going to start going to families and say “well hey hey hey looks like you have 3 kids. That’s enough for you. Looks like it’s time to cut that nut sack off.”  How will this work? I mean, these people would hate the old school catholic family I come from.  There are enough of us to start a football team.  But never the less, this is really puzzling to me.  Why keep it a secret? Well here is why -“Participating in a UN advocated planning process would very likely bring out many of the conspiracy- fixated groups and individuals in our society… This segment of our society who fear ‘one-world government’ and a UN invasion of the United States through which our individual freedom would be stripped away would actively work to defeat any elected official who joined ‘the conspiracy’ by undertaking LA21. So we call our process something else, such as comprehensive planning, growth management or smart growth.” J. Gary Lawrence, advisor to President Clinton’s Council on Sustainable Development. If this guy is still around feel free to give him a call.  Now look there are good things to say about this plan.  They support recycling, green energy concepts and waste reduction (I guess that last one was kind of redundant).  But to say there will be one world government that will decide who gets what is well…. Stupid.  What else does Agenda 21 believe in? (Like it’s a real person) IT is also a belief that a few things that we hold sacred in this country are social injustices.  Private property is a social injustice, national sovereignty is a social injustice and universal health care is a social injustice. Say good bye to the affordable health care act.  Not the way I wanted to see it go.  In fact I would be in favor of the affordable health care act over agenda 21.  But this is not about the affordable health care act this is about Agenda 21.  Now with the point of private property being a social injustice, here is what they have to say -“Land…cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market. Private land ownership is also a principle instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth, therefore contributes to social injustice.”From the report from the 1976 UN’s Habitat I Conference.  So yea that American dream of owning your own home and raising a family behind a white picket fence yea this drops a big ol steaming deuce on that.  Oh and if you are a working stiff just like me, this is what they have to say about you- “Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class – involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work air conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable.” Maurice Strong, Secretary General of the UN’s Earth Summit, 1992. So say goodbye to air conditioning,  I mean we all want to sit around after work in the summer and baste in our own genital sweat right ? I don’t.  Shall I go on? I shall. Your individual rights like life liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be the last thing on their minds in Agenda 21.  What’s that you say? No it won’t. Well let’s just see.  Survey says! - “Individual rights will have to take a back seat to the collective.” Harvey Ruvin, Vice Chairman, ICLEI. The Wild lands Project. Feel free to call this guy too.  You are probably saying well they just can’t take everything away.  Well they want to. Your vacation spots, gone.  Ranchers and farmers your land cannot be used for what you purchased it for.  Hell you won’t even be able to have a garden in your back yard.  “But Darren no one has said this “really? -Ski runs, grazing of livestock, plowing of soil, building fences, industry, single family homes, paves and tarred roads, logging activities, dams and reservoirs, power line construction, and economic systems that fail to set proper value on the environment.” UN’s Biodiversity Assessment Report.  Now look I am all for the environment, green energy, alternative fuels etc.  I welcome it in fact, one day it may take the strain off of every Americans wallet.  I also want to be able to duck hunt and go camping without the fear of walking through a toxic waste dump on a federal grass land.  But somewhere along the way people have decided that we are not the majority to make these deacons.  We can make these choices on our own because we did not go to the right college or we did not go to college at all.  Now some of you that read this might say you will go along with it.  Let’s make one thing clear hear.  The people that came up with Agenda 21 think in the way of what is good for the gander is not good for the goose.  So they will be living in a big house by themselves with air conditioning and heat eating what they want when they want and so on and so on.  You need to take a look around.  It has already begun.  How many have noticed condos going up in the middle of town with retail on the bottom floor and housing on the second floor?  How many have noticed bike lanes going in everywhere.  Let me be clear I am not opposed to bicyclists.  But there main goal is to have a city where there is not car parking what so ever.  That’s just my opinion.  You are probably thinking what American idiot signed this?  Well it was not one, but two.  George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.  Yes sir democrat and republican if you want to call him that.  But let’s not get political, this is about your rights and the people that want to take them away at the U.N.  Their belief is that the United States should be on an even playing field with the rest of the world.  They believe the U.S. is the bully taking lunch money from kids in school.  Well if we are such a bad country then why does everyone want to come here?  Agenda 21 is not for the good of the people it is for the good of the few.  We have to do something now before we all fall into the proverbial snake pit.

Stop being a social jerk off.

Testing, testing, testing 123.  Just making sure this thing is on.  Now as many of you know I really don’t get to political at anything.  I have my views and I know that other people have theirs.  But this is how it is going to go.  Welcome to the next four years of your life.  Not four years of hell or any other regurgitated term you heard on MSNBC of FOX.  This is 4 years of what you make of it.  You can choose to go out and be happy and make the best of any situation or you can sit around a mope.  There will be no perfect president.  Now do not get me wrong I am in no way saying that I am in favor of the current president.  But I did not vote for him based on his name or his race or even just because of the letter D next to his name.  I did not vote for him because I don’t agree with his policies. 

This brings me to my next point, anyone of my friends after reading this decides to unfriend me.  Be my guest.  If a person cannot state his or her own opinion without someone getting butt hurt, that’s a sad day when your skin is now thicker than a piece tissue paper. 

What happened to this country?  I don’t ever remember a time of just when I was growing up that I was dependent on someone else, I mean besides my parents and even then I set out to prove a point at a young age that I could make it on my own, and I wanted to show my parents when it came time I was good to go to make my mark on the world.  Now a days we have jersey shore, 16 and pregnant and other BS shows that pretty much say “hey it’s ok to be a social jerk off”.  And also it seems to me that the nation has become a demographic in which it seems that if there are two white guys on a campaign ticket then it’s just not cool to vote for them.  When the hell did voting become “cool”? It’s not it’s a pain in my ass to stand in line with want to be Sean Hannitys and Chris Mathews.  I would much rather take a kick in the face from a golf shoe than have to do that every day.  But, most people are accustom to standing in line thanks to apple.  Sorry had to get a hipster shot in there. 

I was told a long time ago, believe half of what you see and nothing what you hear.  Has that good life lesson been pushed by the way side?  Have we become a society of people that just go along with everything we hear?  In my opinion just watching things over the past 11 years.  To be honest I really didn’t pay attention to all this when I was in school cause hey I had chicks and cars to worry about.  But back to my point over the past let’s say 11 years.  I, along with the rest of you, have witnessed an un speak able terrorist act to the American people.  I have seen an economic down turn that has not happened since my big paw paw lived in south Texas and drove his first car.  I have also witnessed the first African American to be elected to the presidency.  So to say that America is going to fail is just wrong.  America has come a long way in just a short time.  America is the only place where we have factory twin turbo half ton trucks getting 20 to 22 mpg.  America is the only place protesters can yell obsinities into a cops face and really have nothing done to them in the long run.  America is the only place where you can spill a hot cup of coffee on your leg and become a millionaire.  Wait maybe some parts of this country are going down but as a whole we are still better than any other country on the planet.  I mean for god sakes, we have Chuck Norris.  There will be people that come along in every lifetime trying to change America.  It will not work we will not stand for it.  It is in us to say well that is not working for me I will change that. 

So in the end of all this un organized rambling, start thinking for yourself.  Do not just regurgitate what you favorite media outlet has said.  Start thinking for your damn self.  You don’t need anyone telling you what will work for you. You know what will work for you.  Now welcome to the next four years how you decide to spend it is entirely up to you. 

CD sales

I am fixing to paraphrase this next quote, but Chuck Berry once said “ The record company sells my records for 35 cents a piece.  I make a half cent off of every record.  Where is the other 34 and a half cents going?”  Well after being around the music scene as little as I have, I can say I don’t know where it goes either.  But one thing I do know is I tunes hurts local bands in a small way.  Now I am not saying I tunes is the devil and you should boycott them.  I tunes is great and I use them to buy one or two songs instead of a whole album.  Or,  buy songs that are out of print.  But never the less I tunes does hurt local bands in a way.  Now what I am about to say does not speak for everyone or anyone I may be affiliated with.  But lets say you go see your local favorite band or a band that comes out of another town but you are still a big fan.  Over at their merch booth is their latest and greatest CD fresh off the digital press.  The merch man asks if you want to buy the new CD and you say “nah I will get it off of I tunes”.  Nine times out of ten the band will never see that money you pay for the album or the tracks that you buy.  You see most bands don’t take the time to go through the trouble of putting their songs on places like that.  They leave it up to the record company and if and when the record company decides to quit taking their share they will pass what is left down to the artists.  Now you have some bands that do set up their own songs and they receive all the money that is after the server gets their cut, but this is a far greater amount than if you were to let the record company do it for you.  You are probably asking by now, why don’t the bands just do it their selves?  Well do to contrary belief, not every band has a Ted Nugent style crew that takes care of every aspect and all the musician or musicians have to do is show up and play.  Most bands you see on the local level take care of their own business and loading their songs on the inter net for sale is the least of their worries.   They have to set up shows make sure certain people get paid, make show posters and write songs.   And next if you like to listen to music I mean really listen to music you will know that downloaded music is so digitally compressed that some of the accents that band may have put in there for your enjoyment well, it has been lost due to compression.   So next time if a merch guy asks you if you want to buy the new CD or even the older ones, keep all these factors in mind.   The sales at the show is on of the big pay offs to put gas in the tank and food on the table.   Now if I have gotten any of my facts wrong in this feel free to correct me after all this is just my take on the whole deal.  But remember the band cant sign your I pod after you buy the album and put it on there but they will be happy to sign the album you just purchased, they are happy to know you took a little bit of your heart earned money and spent it on them.  That in itself is a compliment to the band.