The Federal Government in shorthand

Congress are a group of incompetent children and pathological hoarders, who could never do what is right for the nation, nor make up their minds on decisions that matter most to the people who hired them.

All they do is waste resources, run the ships to ground, and char the country to ash.

The Democrats and GOP serve no one but themselves.

What they have accomplished since 1868 is consolidation of the land, while trampling on people's rights in the name of national security.

All political parties care about is who gets to rule over the ashes when everything has been said and done.

They care not for the people who live on the land, but its ashes.

If we want to advance ahead, we have to end political parties, install term limits on the government, and instill more anti-corruption mechanisms to assure that the mega bad can't easily pay off the government.

If only the people weren't  getting their news from Big Pharma would they rise up, and do what is necessary.

Can one trust the Real World?

When the real world can't keep promises they make, it is only natural to doubt it's trust.

The 9 years from 4-13 that make up childhood often determines whether the person can trust the rest of the world or not.

If the world treated them right, they will return the favor in kind.

All will be in good faith, and the teachings of the Gods shall be upheld amongst all who bask in it.

If the world treated them wrong, it'd be only natural for them to load up and question everything.

Authority is only as good as the quality of the laws, and the people who run the ship.

Society is full of normal people who couldn't care less for the well being of others.

Normal is equivalent to jumping off the cliff without question.

Crazy is when you're wide awake to what is going on around you.

Why be normal when you could be crazy?

At least when are crazy, you're less likely to jump off the cliff.

What I hate about Gamestop

If there is anything I hate about Gamestop Corporate, it would have to be their policy of knowingly throwing out the game cases with factory material, and selling the game at near retail costs.

Out of all the pre-owned/used games I have purchased from Gamestop, a good majority of them were missing their original factory case. 

The excuse I get from the staff, regardless of who was at the desk, was that "it was traded in without one." When the truth of the matter is that they were instructed to throw out the cases and pass it off as such.

How is that so?

According to former employees, they have confirmed that to be the case, out of "necessity" from Corporate to save space.

It's further evidenced by the many people who have made whole YouTube Channels dedicated to dumpster diving with figures such as "Speedy Diver," verifying the claims to be true and strong. With the majority of the cases that were discarded to be of Nintendo DS and 3DS titles, followed by every other system.  

Why is everyone so "anal" about whether the game comes with a case or not?

It all comes down to knowing what people actually have on their shelves, and if you, the buyer, are paying near retail price for the game, it is expected that it comes with the factory material.

If it didn't, the cost should be reduced accordingly, like all other pre-owned/used items when something goes missing.

Also, since e-games have gone mainstream, the discarding of the original case is considered disrespectful, whether the person is an actual game collector or not.

Which brings us to the bigger point of why Gamestop has become one of the most hated Companies in the world.

Gamestop used to be one of the greatest companies when it came to gaming retail. But since their buyout of EB Games, Gamestop went from the best gaming retail had to offer to something the Rockefellers would do to maintain dominance over the market.

As a result of what has happened, Gamestop is going the way of all once great major retailers when they make bad decisions.

 

Bad decisions whether influenced by shareholders, management or other shifting forces, always results in a ship that is about to capsize.

If Gamestop does somehow restructure and survive, their policy to throw out cases has to end.

Peter Schiff and the Post Office

The one position I disagree with Peter Schiff on, is his advocacy to shutdown the USPS.

 

Schiff for a long time has advocated shutting down the Post Office for as long as he has kept a video blog.

His reasons range from mass financial loses to how it's being managed.

Although Schiff is good with numbers and how the U.S. Government ought to get their balance sheets back in order, he apparently does not understand the Post Office in all its incarnations is tied in with the U.S. Constitution, as specified in Article I, Section 8: "Congress has the power...to establish Post Offices and Post Roads."

Which in short clarifies that the only business the U.S. Government is authorized to run is the Post Office.

From its inception, the Post Office was supposed to be another way of keeping the government accountable. If the government couldn't deliver your mail on time unhampered, the people had every right to redress government accordingly.

Even if the Post Office somehow goes bankrupt, which it has, all the government can do is restructure it and resume operations.

So in order for Schiff to have his way with closing up the Post Office for good, he would either have to shut down the government or amend the U.S. Constitution.

 

The Truth about "Jobs"

All jobs suck hell.

Say what you like about it.

There is no job that aint stressful or full of eggheads who couldn't tell the difference between apples from oranges.

As for "Real" jobs, there is no such thing.                     

What Cambridge defines as a "Real" job is all a farce.

None of what they list or define as "Real" contribute to GDP.

The only Real jobs out there are all in manufacturing, kitchen staff, construction, military, retail, transportation, and maintenance (plumber, electrician, gas fitter, gunsmith etc) as each contribute to GDP.

Whether being an artist, writer, journalist, security worker or programmer fall under "Real" is debatable. But if they contribute to GDP than take government grant money, then they are considered real as real can be.

Human Resources Director (amongst the many positions Cambridge defines as "Real") is as fake as fake can get.

Yet, what jobs shall remain when Bender finally consolidates the rest of the economy?

March for Our Lives is the March to your Deaths

March for our Lives are a group of Nazi Brown Shirts.

Everything they do as a group are what the original Brown Shirts did during the Nazis’ rise to power.

Anyone can argue that the Nazis laxed gun laws for all German Citizens on official parchment. But in practice, it was limited to those who were part of the Nazi Party or affiliated with them. So Jews, dissenters and everyone else not aligned with them, as a result, ended getting slaughtered.

March for our Lives claims that the U.S. needs more gun control laws as they believe that less of it is the cause of recent shooting events. The usual old 19^th Century Progressive Solution to legislate morality. What they don’t realize is that we already have too many weapon laws in place which are the cause of those events, and the rampant rise in crime.

Criminals are called criminals for a reason as they don’t follow the law.

Go to any jail with hardline murderers, and that is what they’ll tell you in Plain English.

The only things that March for our Lives shall be doing (if they have their way) is: allow real criminals to have the edge over the everyday people (lawful citizens), cripple the U.S. Economy (by putting millions out of work), and further solidify the neo-shogunate in America.

 

Of course, the group backed by the Teacher’s Unions, malicious parties (such as George Soros), and the Powers be don’t find that to be an issue at all. As they believe there is currently no unemployment problem, while burning their own Reichstag at the same time.

 

March for our Lives, is the March to your Deaths.

Batman Beyond (my thoughts)

Batman Beyond was the most memorable DC sequel ever made.

It told the story of what happens to Bruce Wayne when he could no longer physically be Batman.

For over half a century, the story of Bruce Wayne running around Gotham as Batman had been told and retold more times than anyone could count. A rich guy running a multi-billion dollar company by day and fighting sociopaths as Batman at night with the latest and greatest tech of the day.

This plot is great and all, but was becoming very stale by the late-1990’s.

Yet the question from the crowd always lingered, “What happens to Bruce Wayne when he could no longer physically be Batman?”

What Batman Beyond did was answer that question.

When the series officially launched, it brought a breath of fresh air to the DC universe than retelling the story of Bruce Wayne all over again with different tech.

The one-hour premier is the most unforgettable to kids who saw it air in the 1990’s.

It starts out with a semi-elderly Bruce Wayne doing his usual routine as Batman dealing with another hostage situation. Most of his gallery up to that point in time has died off, are locked up or left up to the viewer to speculate their fates. Things are all business as usual despite the upgrades to the Batsuit, until Bruce Wayne suffers a heart attack when dealing with the vigilantes. During the confrontation, Bruce Wayne picks up one of their handguns he knocked off one of their hands and points it at them.

To those who have read the comics from the various illustrators, Bruce Wayne has on occasion used handguns to fight crime. But this particular scene in the cartoon is the first time Wayne uses an actual gun against criminals. Although he saves the day, Wayne feels that he has betrayed himself for breaking one of his principles not to use actual guns against criminals as Batman.

After his last round, Bruce Wayne shuts down the Bat Cave containing all the things that made him who he was during his prime against his gallery of villains.

Time Skip forward a few decades to a futuristic Gotham.

Wayne Enterprises has recently merged with Powers Technologies creating Wayne-Powers. During the restructure, Derek Powers is made head of the company with the decline of Bruce Wayne’s health. Here we are introduced to Terry McGinnis. Terry is a troublemaker who has had issues with his folks, the authorities and everyone involving him. His day of dealing with other troublemakers, the Jokerz Gang (a cult who worships the original Joker) and the such are all routine.

 

Things change when Terry is chased by the Jokerz by bike all the way to Wayne Mansion where both Terry and an elderly Bruce Wayne fight off the gang like no one’s business.

After the gang flees, Terry helps Wayne back into his mansion after he collapses.

While in the mansion making sure that Wayne was alright, Terry accidently discovers his secret which gets him thrown off the grounds.

When Terry returns home, he learns the Jokerz had killed his dad over a disc containing Derek Power’s plan to sell deadly nerve gas to the Eastern Bloc Nation of Kaznia. This in turn prompts Terry to return to Wayne’s Mansion with the disc to get help from Bruce Wayne.

Wayne is at first very reluctant to help Terry halt this new wave of crime.

But towards the end, aids Terry in halting Power’s malicious plans.

At the end of the Premier, Wayne passes off the physical mantle of Batman to Terry, while Derek Powers becomes the prime antagonist “Blight.” 

Over the course of the rest of the series, Batman Beyond delves deep into the darker side of Bruce Wayne’s psychology, Terry’s adventures as Batman, Terry’s gallery of villains and what becomes of older characters (good and bad) decades after the fact. There is even a few episodes dedicated to an older Superman and the Future Justice League.

Much of the series is darker than any other Batman series in tone. Yet at the turn of the millennium, it was approved “okay” for audiences under 13. If this were to be released in today’s world, it wouldn’t be approved as “child friendly” from the darker undertones to some of its graphic content.

There was even a direct-to-video movie “Return of the Joker.” The movie is all about the Death of the Joker, how he was able to come back, how Terry deals with Wayne’s old arch-nemesis and what becomes of Harley Quinn. The movie is a conclusion to the series, not counting the Justice League Unlimited ending. To many including myself, the Death of the Joker in this movie is still considered the best out of all the other versions that have come before it. 

Batman Beyond despite being nearly two decades old still holds up after all these years. The story of the elderly Bruce Wayne, Terry taking up the mantle of Batman, and the real adventures of the new Batman. Every episode and character that aired were fresh and new to the audience. No rehashes of anything. Even if old characters from Bruce Wayne’s Gallery did come back, we got to learn how their stories ended.

The most significant episode is the one on Mister Freeze. The episode is about Derek Powers going to whatever length to reverse the effects of the chemicals that made him Blight. His researchers pull out Victor Freeze on life support from Cold Storage to begin the procedure. Research is going well, until Freeze’s body began to revert back to his previous cold climate state. When the procedure failed to yield solutions, Powers betrays Freeze for other research. Freeze luckily breaks out of the cell he was held in, retrieves his suit and goes on a rampage against Powers.

Although Victor Freeze dies in the end, what makes the whole episode interesting is that he can still hold his own despite the change of times, tech and characters. Yet despite his final suit being the most powerful from his previous ones, it wasn’t enough to beat Derek Powers as Blight.

There is a lot to say about this series. But I highly recommend watching for anyone who wanted something different than the usual Bruce Wayne affair. It won’t disappoint despite it being from the late-1990’s.

If DC decides to revisit Batman Beyond and revive it, I’d love to see what they do for the 2^nd go around. There is lot of space for development for Batman Beyond especially when DC has been expanding upon it in the comics. I’d love to see what comes of it when that time does come again.