Darkwater RetreatSearching far and wide for signs of intelligence.

The Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial

The Washington Monument

The Lincoln Memorial

Try to keep up…

Progressive Education?  Sheesh!

“We could say they spend like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors.  Because the sailors are spending their own money.”  -Ronald Reagan-

And now a word from the Infidels…

Anathema:  (an-ath’-em-a)

1.  A vehement denunciation; a curse or excommunication.

2.  One that is greatly reviled, loathed,  or shunned.

Peter Principle:

Observation that in an hierarchy people tend to rise to “their level of incompetence.” Thus, as people are promoted, they become progressively less-effective because good performance in one job does not guaranty similar performance in another. Named after the Canadian researcher Dr. Laurence J. Peter (1910-90) who popularized this observation in his 1969 book ‘The Peter Principle.’

Definition from www.BusinessDictionary.com                                                                                                  Over his head?  A long time ago.            

Pathetic:  Miserably inadequate.

Sychophant:  sy-co-phant

Slanderer, swindler:  a servile self-seeking flatterer

Conservatives and liberals are kindred spirits as far as government spending is concerned. First, let’s make sure we understand what government spending is.  Since government has no resources of its own, and since there’s no Tooth Fairy handing Congress the funds for the programs it enacts, we are forced to recognize that government spending is no less than the confiscation of one person’s property to give it to another to whom it does not belong – in effect, legalized theft. – Walter Williams

Quote concerning taxes and taxation by Voltaire (1764)

In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.

vapid:   [vap-id]

Without liveliness or spirit, insipid.  Lacking life; dull or tedious:  a vapid party.

poseur:(p-zr, pzr)

One who takes on an attribute, attitude, or identity to impress or influence others.

Enigma:  1.  Something puzzling or inexplicable.

                       2.  A riddle, or a difficult problem.

Maybe if we, as American youth, hadn’t been brainwashed in the education system and instead was taught the basics (Geography!) we wouldn’t have had to question why we have elected this individual in the first place.