The Blame Game

I have a very serious question to ask. If you didn't know, thanks to the media telling you over and over how the government was shut down, would you feel any repercussions from it personally? It's a serious question, not one that requires any answer to me, personally, but one that you have to answer for yourself. Once you've answered that question for yourself, then you have to decide whether or not to do something about it.

The media is full of blame, the politicians are full of blame, the American people are all taking their sides on who is to blame for this shutdown. The main streamers seem to want to blame the Republicans, shouldering the burden of blame fully on them for responsibility for this latest (I shudder to use the word that has been so overused the past several years) crisis. According to Media Research Center, the main stream media was blaming the pending shutdown on Republicans for two weeks before it even happened. There seems to be a trend to this, we'll discuss that at another time.

Who do we blame, who do we blame, who do we blame and pile heeps of shame? The real answer to this question is no further away than your bathroom mirror.

I'll let that soak in for a moment while posting a picture of a random Kardashian, Rob, who doesn't care about "keeping up" with the rest of the family, to distract you, main stream media style, from the real problems and events of the day:

I'm not here to play the blame game with anyone, I'm not here to play he said/she said. I will point out that the federal debt limit has been raised under el Presidente Obama. I will also say that we, the citizenry of the United States, do not do our own research on our candidates, but will instead let the media present our politicians to us like a pig at a luau. We the people do not participate in our government, as responsible citizens, such as were our founding fathers. We participate in keeping up...be it with the Kardashians, Miley Cyrus, or who George Clooney is being seen with this week. Distraction is the game of the day, and until the government shuts down, we don't really pay that much attention, and as a result we do not send the best and brightest to Washington, or even to our state or local governments, to represent US. When we do pay attention, such as in the case of the current shutdown, the main streamers do what they can to hype it up into an evangelical frenzy, only instead of preaching about the Grace and Wrath of God, their subject is how you should be afraid, be VERY afraid, that your nanny state isn't able to watch over you...

Just a thought.

Sic vis pacem parabellum.

Mike Tippitt

Requiem

It's been over a year and a half since my last posting saying I'd be back soon. Soon has arrived, and it is now.

There have been a lot of things that have changed in the past few years since I was actively blogging and keeping up with the melee that seems to be our political structure, some changes for the better, some for the worse, some changes of a personal nature, a great, great many changes that have happened in our country and in our world since I decided to pull my shingle in that day back in 2009. Some days it seems like yesterday, some days it seems to have all happened a lifetime ago. However, these are things that are private and personal to me, and while there are blog sites that are dedicated to the musings and going's on of the day to day and personal reflections, that was never the intention nor purpose of Highly Opinionated. This is a site that was, and is, dedicated to the following of current events and news, and how those events and happenings affect us politically and as a society.

For those of you who are finding me for the first time, let me qualify my positions by stating this: I am not politically affiliated nor aligned with the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, the Tea Party, the Green Party, the Libertarian Party, nor any other political party in existence today or prior to today. Our founding fathers warned us against the formation of a party system in this country, yet we have not heeded their warnings and have done so. It affects us adversely today, as can be seen by the current gridlock in our national government and the closure of "non-essential" offices and agencies of our government. We'll discuss "non-essential" at a later time, quite likely tomorrow morning.

For now, I am back, and intend to be back, for the foreseeable future.

Requiem

Sic vis pacem parabellum.
Regards
MT

Still Alive.............

It's been an interesting time away. I'm not going into everything right now for time constraints, but I do have a message: I'll be back...soon.

In the meantime, I've found a little something that I really and truly states where I'm at right now, at this point in my life, and I thought I'd pass it along.

Still Unbroken

Be back soon.

The Hawk