"Play" WAR

Why is it that as humans we are so focused with war and violence? Is it the proverbial yin/yang of the battle fought by good vs. evil? Or is it that we are ALL inherently BOTH good AND evil at the same time and the battles that exist outside of us is the SAME battle that we all fight WITHIN as well?
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I have noticed, especially since living in an apartment complex once again that kids, even at a young age are obsessed with fighting and "playing" war, often with near-realistic looking "toy" guns. It is no wonder to me why we are a nation based on a near constant war struggle with some brown people or another. This generation's enemies are the Islamics, just like our father's generation's enemies were the Cold War Communists and before that it was the Nazi's... we've just entered a new age of tyranny and McCarthy-ism, fully equipped with a para-military police state...
But as for the kids, I feel a sadness within when I see kids "pretending" to murder one another as if that should EVER be acceptable. Yet we still have this issue that is reinforced and permeated through our entire culture through the media propaganda. From my experience as a former Navy sailor, I believe there is NO HONOR in movies like "Act of Valor" that seeks to somehow sensationalize the presence of the U.S. military in foreign lands and continue the farce that WE are somehow supposed to police the world. Beyond that I have personally SEEN with my own two eyes the trauma and death from the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The kids that are "playing" war have been given a HUGE disservice from their parents' generation either from complete lack of concern or supervision to out right neglect.
When war becomes the "norm" and we can watch it on television like it is a movie, with all the special effects from Hollywood, the society becomes disassociated from the reality that we are ALL humans and we are ALL equal. The TRUTH is that wars only serve a few specific purposes:
1) For a small select group to subjugate the masses, often by force through war.
2) For the same group of individuals above to gain control of all natural resources and infrastructure such as mass transit, roads, and public utilities.
3) For the purpose of "thinning out the herd". War has ALWAYS been an easy way to curb the problem of population control since humans just can't or won't stop breeding.
4) To rally the sheeple around a cause to take the focus off the REAL agenda which is fucking over the masses and to justify stealing resources and lands from brown people.

What's even sadder is that even the poorest kids here in this nation are STILL much better off than their peers in the middle East that are continually riddled with gunfire and mortar rounds that they can barely sleep at night, or they live in fear that the Taliban will recruit them as a child, stealing them away from their village to be a soldier. Despite these advantages or disadvantages, it permeates the human experience both in "civilized" and third world nations alike. I think it originally was a part of our behavior because we had to develop the fight or flight reflex to avoid being eaten by a lion or crocodile, hell cheetahs run really fast.
Parents that work and their children are raised by the television have enough trouble teaching morality and non-violence into your children... I can only imagine how difficult it would be to teach forgiveness and morality in a country that had been warring for the better part of the last 2000 years, always with "an eye for an eye" mentality. The parent's there have no jobs, no future, and are constantly being bombed the shit out of ... I feel bad for those people, especially compared to the ethnocentrism and nationalism that Americans use to justify the televised war... hell, it's not really even discussed in the news much any longer... the media has been bought and sold a long time ago... if you want the real truth, YOU have to seek it out... you'll never hear a word of truth on the nightly news. It's all just Jerry Springer, professional wrestling, and COPS all rolled into one, convincing you that you live in a world of "TERROR" where every person walking down the street is a potential rapist or terrorist out to get YOU, leading down that slippery slope where everyone lives in this perpetual fear that makes them sheeple and it makes it that much easier for an overbearing government to take your rights away with bills like the Patriot Act and NDAA. And this is all after a nationally televised FALSE FLAG ATTACK by our own government on it's own people.
Perhaps some of the violent tendencies are only coming out MORE NOW because there are more people than there ever have been. We are being taxed and fucked over MORE NOW than there EVER has been before in the history of this nation. Chances are it's going to get worse, as well, as there is no better example of how people will act on their rawest emotions and basic instincts when all is lost and there is nothing left to lose. Human beings will revert to being animals once again... just look at what happens in high stress situations like the post-hurricane Katrina New Orleans... or the L.A. riots...
You may not see it, but there are other places in the world that are more in tune with the true necessity of violence, but they use it to RESTORE the public control of governments away from corporations and banks and back into the hands of the PEOPLE... something we haven't figured out in this country for a while... well since the CIVIL WAR to be precise. Truth is our generation is overdue for an in-country squabble. Don't believe me... that's fine, but wait until the banks collapse or the economy goes tit's up or the gas goes to 5, 6, or 7 dollars a gallon... or how about WHEN the unemployment rates go up to 20, 25, even 30 percent... you don't think there's gonna be fucking riots in the streets then I cannot help you with my blogs...
Hope for the best, but plan for the worst... If the housing bubble bursts again or there is a major national disaster such as a pandemic or god knows any other number of possibilities... we DO live in a volatile world of dog eat dog; survival of the fittest. It is the natural order of things that we have screwed up with our constant warring violence, overpopulation, and obsession with money... ALL THREE which are interwoven into our upbringing from a very early age. In my home I do NOT allow my children to "play" with guns or to "play" war. Let's be honest for a moment, guns only serve one purpose and that quite simply is TO KILL. PERIOD. To say anything otherwise is a fools lie. Hunting is just the murder of an animal for food... and FUCK THOSE ASSHOLES WHO HUNT FOR SPORT AND DON'T EVEN EAT THE ANIMAL!!
So people can call me a "tree hugging hippy" or some other ridiculous crap, but my truth is that I want MORE for my children than to be raised to be bullet catchers and come home in a body bag for some rich white assholes for-profit war mongering. There is NO DIGNITY in death, ONLY life... especially when you are fighting and dying in a war based on lies and profiteering in foreign lands against camel herders and nomads. You CANNOT convince me that these hillbilly farmers are a REAL threat, especially with the CIA (and other alphabet agencies) overthrowing freely elected governments, assassinations, and torture, as well as a flood of drone strikes sanctioned by a fake president named Barry Soetoro, who undeserving won the Nobel Peace Prize... and yet is responsible for the death of thousands of innocent men, women, and children. THIS is our leader. Land of the free, my ass. Our government fucks people over every day... commits acts of genocide and terrorism, but we're supposed to be angry and afraid of the brown desert people. NOPE. I'm afraid of the government and it's substantial rise to power and it's ability to strip the rights of citizenship, detain you indefinitely without trial, ship you to foreign lands, torture, and even murder you. President Obama holds the keys to this power, as given to him by his puppet predecessor George W. Bush, and he has YET to give up these powers. As we speak, the war-driven police state has in mind for you civil unrest, martial law, and the END of the Constitutional Bill of Rights. Think you're really FREE???
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You wanna be free... free your mind from fear, hate, and violence... they are only meant to keep you down and NOT empowered with the joy of love, camaraderie, friendships, as well as peace and harmony. It's up to you... your reality is just a paradigm shift away. This has been the Quiet Mouse.
Peace. Love. Respect. Tolerance. Forgiveness. Empathy. Hope.

Police Quotas

Namaste and welcome back my friends and fellow knowledge seekers.
Before we officially get started I just want to say that this is NOT meant to be a hateful blog against cops. I respect the job they are "supposed" to do, but not always the job that they actually do.

Moving forward, how many people have heard of the police quota system? Anyone? Well it's not just an urban legend. It may not exist everywhere, because some people, especially in smaller towns are a little more honest than let's say an officer in a large metropolitan area who would have to deal with more violent crimes, drugs, and whatnot.
Now it wasn't too long ago that I remember growing up in rural America and the cops used to dress like this:

Now, in our modern police state the normal cops dress like riot police with Kevlar vests and/or riot helmet.


I must confess that I was a rebellious youth with mixed opinions about the law. I don't want to incriminate myself, but I will admit that I have seen with my own two eyes police taking bribes AND selling confiscated drugs from the trunk of the police cruiser... just saying. Not trying to start shit, it's just the bad apples seem to always ruin the bunch, so to speak. In my opinion, ANY TIME you give one person the power over others, there is room for corruption and violent tendencies. In this nation that we live, there are now traffic cameras on nearly every corner, every building, every neighborhood... all to allegedly protect you and I from those nasty "terrorists". It may also just be my opinion, but they don't have to create a police state on my account, because I'm not afraid of the terrorists that OUR own government created to make YOU and I give up our rights with bills like the Patriot Act and NDAA.
Sorry I get off on a tangent at times, back to the topic at hand.
As I said before, it is more common in large cities, but it also happens everywhere as this nation runs FOR-PROFIT prison systems that, well, if they aren't full... the cops are PAID to make them full again, often with non-violent criminals such as cannabis smokers. It is noteworthy that you will notice out on the highways as you drive around that around the beginning and end of each month, respectively, there will be more people pulled over on the side of the road. This occurs due to the quota system that the police employ. It has even become public record in some cases that the police officers were threatened... YES THREATENED by their superior officers with strict punishments and the wrath of colleagues if the quotas are not met.
These punishments include, but are not limited to: subjection to undesirable assignments, denial of overtime and personal leave, poor evaluations, and sometimes suspension of duty.
Resources are diverted away from violent crimes in these cases as the easiest way to fill the for-profit prisons IS with non-violent offenders and often those called minorities such as blacks and Hispanics, again, often for marijuana. This strain on resources is leaving many local and state municipalities to cut funding for finding the REAL criminals such as MURDERERS, RAPISTS, and other VIOLENT OFFENDERS. I've NEVER met anyone in my entire life who committed a violent crime like burglary or murder over some weed... now can you feel me?
Point blank, the quota system for getting a certain number of tickets and/or arrests often leads to illegal arrests, summonses, and stop-and-frisks, and they undermine trust between the police and citizens whom they SWORE AN OATH TO SERVE AND PROTECT... NOT to punish and enslave. The illegal use of quotas damages the community that is already stretched thin due to the constant fighting over petty differences and EVERYONE, poor or rich, is trying to get some money, it seems... often the cause for violence and crime.
Do I hate police. NOPE. Do I respect them... sometimes. I WANT for them to do the job that they are SUPPOSED to do and that is to actually protect the people. The problem comes when they get too big of heads for their shoulders and start thinking that they are the law or they are ABOVE IT. That and they are stretched too thin that they go after the easy targets: non-violent offenders.
There shouldn't be a hypocrisy, but when our country is based on waging wars, it is easy to see how that same philosophy has been used to wage wars in the streets of a once great nation. I have said before and I will say again, the war on drugs is a war against the civil liberties of the American citizen. Un-Constitutional laws rushed through Congress by fascist dictators calling themselves Presidents have turned our home land into an official war zone (as per the NDAA)... as I have discussed before, any time you want to know about war and how the world works... follow the money to the rich white guys. In the case for the United States... well, the jury is still out on it's fate. Can the citizens unite against the tyranny of the rich bankers and corporate titans who seek the subjugation of the masses? Or are we doomed into this downward spiral where the police look like riot control as they prepare for MARTIAL LAW once the economy collapses again (AND IT WILL!!)
CHOSE YOUR REALITY! THINK FOR YOURSELF! Do NOT let the government or anyone else tell you how to think and believe. Don't want to deal with the cops... don't break the law... or don't get caught.
I like the first choice, but then again, some of the laws are just fucking stupid. I think the primary need for police is that there are so many stupid people now that they are forced to treat EVERYONE like a criminal... makes it just that much easier for them to instill shit like TSA pat-downs and pornographic body-image scanners, as well as Viper teams of mercenaries and contracted hit-men roaming our streets (Blackwater).
THE ANSWER TO 2012 IS 1776. Thanks to all those who speak out against tyranny like David Icke, former governor Jesse Ventura, and Alex Jones, among others. This has been the Quiet Mouse. Keep your freedoms and continue to fight for them, lest they be taken away by some ruthless politician or corporate asshole... oh wait they're the same person, lol... Oh, and DO NOT FIGHT THE COPS... LOOK UP YOUR RIGHTS AND HOW TO LEGALLY DIFFUSE A POTENTIAL SITUATION WITH THE POLICE.
Peace. Love. Respect. Constitution.

20 Years of Fun

I don't know how many of my readers are my age. I'm not sure how many of you remember the original Nintendo, let alone its games. Welcome my friends to my journey of parenthood and it's inherent ironies.


I remember exactly 20 years ago... wow it is indeed quite something to be able to say that I remember something 20 years ago...
Well, point being is that I was playing Super Mario 3 the other day with my son and it occurred to me that it was exactly 20 years ago when I spend part of the summer in a motel room in Oklahoma City with an original Nintendo and only 3 games: Tetris, Dr. Mario, and Super Mario 3. My mom was busy doing training for the opening of a Taco Mayo franchise which my parents later opened in Weatherford Oklahoma.
Now as an adult and as a parent it tickles me now to be sharing a game that was iconic to me as a youth with my children. The game is still about as difficult as I remember, but I don't have the time or patience to play for hours on end any longer. Don't get me wrong, I still LOVE me some video games, even though my tastes have changed over the years. It is wonderful to be able to still have something to share and bond with the younger generation over :)
Anyway... for all of the people my age with children who love video games... keep playing with the kids. Sometimes it's just you being there that is important... even if Bowser and his goomba buddies keep kicking your butt up and down the tv screen. Find the warp whistles... the first one is in the first mid-level castle where you have to get the raccoon Mario and fly to the top of the screen and go to the right above where the  dry bones turtle thingy is... lol. I'm sure with Google, you'll just look it up...
This has been the one and only Quiet Mouse. TTFN

Talking to Myself

There are times where it indeed seems like I am talking to myself.
Hello! Is there anyone out there?
I'm NOT really sure... I see people. I can hear them. As I have discussed in the past, it just really seems like no one listens. If you are reading this, then you are most likely already awakened, or are on the edge of pre-mature enlightenment. Welcome... this blog is for YOU.

How is a person supposed to cope and deal with this tumultuous world and it's 7 billion inhabitants these days? It is difficult at times, metaphorically, to see the forest from the trees. In this case, one human kind of blends in with the crowd and goes unnoticed. It is difficult being that one human shouting out to the universe for some kind of solace, some kind of peace and serenity, some kind of change... and yet we are left with the same thing as always... a world filled with apathetic souls just waiting to die... We stare at the idiot box and we hear the news about how so many people were murdered today and how there were so many violent crimes and we act like this is how it is supposed to be... and we just turn the channel if it says something we don't want to hear  or it's "negative" (like we live in THAT kind of fantasy world) as if that magically makes things go away or makes them in any way better. Perhaps if we ignore all the problems they'll just magically go away? Probably not...

It is easy for prophets, shamans, seers, gurus, and other mystics from the past to have sought answers to the universe by isolating themselves from society. How then are we to find that kind of inner peace and universal understanding? I personally don't have the time or patience to sit under a tree for a whole month meditating about life, the universe, and everything within... I would have to get up to use the bathroom, get something to eat, you know... interact with some people...
WHO ARE YOU?
WHAT ARE YOU?
Do you really think you are human? Do you identify so much with this mortal form that you believe this is who or what you actually are?
And what of the fellow inhabitants swarming around you, oblivious to what you and I already know, living but not alive... the REAL zombie apocalypse is the one created by the false dystopian world we live in, where EVERYTHING seems to be more important than people. Like the forest and the trees, we no longer can differentiate one another from a crowd and quite frankly there are so many people that the value of one individual life has diminished to the point where we THINK that constant wars are "normal"... that somehow the value of life for a brown person who lives halfway on the other side of this little blue planet is less than valuable than an American white person? Where does this false morality come into play? It's okay to tell everyone NOT to smoke cannabis, but we have troops guarding poppy fields in Afghanistan that are used to make heroin and opium based narcotics for American corporations and CIA drug dealers... but again, NO ONE CARES... NO ONE LISTENS... It's ALL a conspiracy theory, right?
CHOOSING to be ignorant and uninformed does NOT make the issues disappear or make them less real or relevant, it only makes he or she ignorant. We are ALL born pretty stupid. What's awful is that so many people genuinely WANT to stay that way... so deeply ingrained in this false reality, this Matrix of lies and conspiracy, that many people have lost their soul, their identity, and their humanity... let alone the knowledge of power that each one of us possesses.
With all of this, few will raise an arm or lift a finger. So while I go insane from my shouts to the heavens for REAL CHANGE... the ONLY change we are getting is FURTHER and FURTHER away from the goals of civil liberty, peaceful assembly, and the rights of free speech and to bear arms... and CLOSER to a unified world government based on dictatorship by the few to rule the masses like sheep or cattle.
If this is NOT your vision of how you want the future, then perhaps you should try to teach the younger generations as well as your own... hell, it still isn't too late to inform and teach our parents and grand-parents... but SOMETHING must be done.
I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it...
But then the apathy sets in again as I try to conquer my little remote corner of the world only to be dismissed because I'm a stoner... or because I am too young for older people to listen to and too old for my kids to listen to me. If only I could share my life's experiences with them for them to learn from MY mistakes... but NO!! That would be TOO EASY.
It is one of my greatest fears as a father that the stupidity of so many, the ignorance of more, and the apathy of MOST will ultimately be the undoing of US, the human race... the profits of a few generations of money has become more powerful of a force than anything known to humanity since the dawn of our evolution... I fear it will ultimately tear us apart and destroy our people to extinction. Do I think the world is going to end? NOPE. Will humanity survive or do ANYTHING positive to change the tragic direction we are headed? Probably not.

In the meantime I'm just gonna keep talking to myself and hope that eventually I will reach someone that will first listen, perhaps second agree, and third help me figure out a way to do something about it...
PREVIOUS EFFORTS HAVE BEEN FOR NOT... ALL IN VAIN...
Hell, you probably don't even have a clue as to what I am talking about... once your eyes are opened, they can NEVER be closed again. This is my gift and my curse.
Thank you for your time. This has been the Quiet Mouse.

Fashion "VICTIMS"

Hey there! Welcome back! If you are new here, namaste! Thank you for joining me today for another edition of the Quiet Mouse Strikes Back.

This is NOT a blog about the stupid trends in fashion that just recycle clothes from a generation or two ago back upon the mindless consumer driven youth. Bell bottoms were NOT really cool when they were popular... what makes you think we need that back as a fashion trend?
Moving on... today I want to talk more about how idiotic cultural trends are. See above picture. It is retarded that it seems to cost so much more for LESS clothing instead of more. It is trashy and wasteful to buy pre-worn-in pants that are pre-fabricated with holes in them. Shit... that's half the fun of getting new clothes is wearing them in YOURSELF to the point. It is usually when the clothes get holes that we donate them to Goodwill or the Salvation Army to give away to those less fortunate... NOT to spend a load of money JUST TO LOOK LIKE A BUM.

Furthermore, I have seen even more wasteful spending in two main areas: 1) women's clothing and 2) kids clothes.
Let me start with #1, women's clothing. It is silly that women pay MORE money to get LESS clothing. I was out shopping at the mall and I noticed that the skimpy clothing and skinny pants/hip huggers cost MORE than a more modest piece of clothing that was INTACT and NOT full of holes/fraying. It's NOT as if a fat person is buying skinny jeans worn in to make themselves "look" as if they had worked out... I DON'T THINK SO!
This is even more the case when you look into women's intimate apparell such as lingerie; bras and panties. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE places like Victoria's Secret and Frederick's of Hollywood, but I gotta tell you how EXPENSIVE these places are... especially since you can almost buy an entire pack of panties at Target for the same price as ONE from the higher end retail stores. This is but a small example, for it really DOES ONLY GET WORSE FROM THERE!
Moving on to #2, children's clothing. No wonder so many people shop at Target and Wal-Mart for kids clothing. For those who DO have children, you know as I do, that kids grow up so fast, there is really not much point in buying little Vinnie or Debby name brand clothing from the Gap or any of the other OVER-PRICED MALL STORES! This is especially true about shoes, although it pertains to almost ALL of children's clothing.

So what's the verdict? Well, I'd certainly recommend NOT spending more money than you need to on any piece of clothing, be it for a man, woman, or child. STOP caring about what other people think is fashionable and just dress yourself in something that is outdoor appropriate... and if you just INSIST on trying to be cool, you'll save money on buying a WHOLE pair of pants and cut it up YOURSELF, it that be your thing... certainly NOT mine.
The TRUE fashion "victims" are those who WASTE their money on what is considered "in style" because it all comes full circle... soon your out of date wardrobe will be BACK IN STYLE... just give it to a younger generation and they'll think they found something original and cool... you can just sit back and laugh cause it wasn't really cool when YOU liked it either.
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Just wear what is comfortable and makes YOU feel good. You don't have to spend a grip to know what you like and to look "cool"... cause YOUR definition, I'll bet, is more cost effective and nicer than the lame ass shit they are trying to sell you, modeled on some skinny, skanky, twiggy bitch on the runway...
Keep your money and keep your pride intact. If you're fat, DON'T WEAR SKINNY JEANS! Oh, and the dudes need to step up and act like MEN instead of wearing make-up and dressing like queers!! If you are NOT an underwear model, then it doesn't really do much good to try and dress like one!!
Peace. Love. Respect.

DON'T KILL THE MESSENGER!!

Namaste. Thank you for taking time out of your busy day to join me today. Let's jump right in... I'm gonna keep this pretty short.

I've talked to a lot of people who do work or have worked in call centers and other service industry jobs. It is painful to hear time after time the abuse that these poor people have to put up with from asshole customers. It seems to me that there are a lot of these ASSHOLES out in the public. What makes an otherwise "normal" person act so heinous towards a complete stranger. It's like that movie "Waiting"... by now you really aught to know NOT to fuck with the people that prepare your food. But why should that be any different than when you are on the phone talking with someone in a call center who is GENUINELY TRYING TO HELP YOU?
It seems to me that the cowards out there who are call center assholes don't generally have the sack to act that way to someone's face... but like a lot of things, I have been known to be wrong from time to time... in fact, upon further thought, I think it IS the SAME people who call and yell and scream at strangers on the phone that act like assholes to people at businesses, restaurants, and other service industry jobs.
Why is it that people have to be rude to one another? There is obviously some sort of jaded agenda and lack of respect for others... probably stems from a lack of SELF respect for his/her self that is choosing to act like a shit head instead of a decent, respectful human being.
I know sometimes it is easy to lose your temper, especially since many call center jobs have been outsourced to places like India and you cannot go to many service industry places without being overrun with non-English speaking Hispanics... but this is NO REASON to be hateful. We live in a diverse world full of great people... that does NOT warrant being a dick, though.

Regardless of the reasoning (which there is NONE), it is up to YOU as an individual to CONTROL YOUR BEHAVIOR, regardless of the surrounding circumstances. It is NOT anyone else in the entire universe's fault for how YOU act, but YOURS. I keep talking about KARMA and it's gonna bite a lot of people in the ass who mistreat their fellow human beings. Again, it doesn't matter how much YOU wish for good things in your life... if you act good, good things will happen in return. If you act badly, bad things will happen in return. It's a really simple rule, but it is human nature for many to lie, cheat, steal, and generally act like a piece of shit toward others. Perhaps we should all work on that because it is our ability to CONTROL our emotions and NOT just act on instinct, but with thought, respect, and humanity that makes us different and BETTER than the animals whom we are SUPPOSED to shepherd rather than slaughter.
Don't hate the player... hate the game. Don't kill the messenger!! Sometimes it might just be good news or someone who is WILLING and ABLE to help you. Don't be so quick to think that this person is inferior or stupid... the fact that YOU are calling THEM or asking them for help should show you where the intelligence lies... just saying. If you don't like having to deal with other people, perhaps you should just SHUT THE FUCK UP AND DO IT YOURSELF!!! No one wants to deal with "THAT GUY" who is an asshole for no good reason to complete strangers. If you're that guy or girl who does this... from all those in the service industry and ANYONE who has had to deal with these rude people: FUCK YOU, Mr. ASSHOLE!
This has been the Quiet Mouse. Keep your behavior in check. If you think you are going to be rude, then just shut up and say nothing. Pretty simple. No one wants to hear all the B.S. 

Say A Prayer...

Namaste and welcome back to another edition of the Quiet Mouse Strikes Back. Today this is going to be a short blog about prayer.
It seems ironic to me that some of those who call themselves "Christians" are generally some of the most arrogant, judgmental, and selfish people I have met despite the teachings of Jesus. No, I'm not lumping the entire group together because I DO think there are some good people out there and I think some of them happen to be religious, but having religion(s) does NOT make a person "holier than thou"!
Every time a player in the NFL scores a touchdown he thanks God personally, but never says boo when he trips up behind the line of scrimmage or fumbles the ball. Students and parents want prayer in school, as they lack respect for those with other cultures and traditions... as there are thousands of religious beliefs, who is to say what is right and what is wrong? And yet that doesn't stop people from continuing to judge others, often rallying around nationalism and segregation from others of different beliefs and ethnicity's.
My purpose for this blog is NOT really to incite dissent toward religion, but rather to tell those who chose to be narrow minded and  religious rather than free thinking and spiritual, to pray for something different; something LESS selfish.
It seems to me that most religious people pray for selfish interests like monetary gain, beauty, long life, better health... forgetting the entire time that God can only show you the path... it is STILL up to YOU to follow the path. So if YOU want something, you should take the gifts and talents given to you and use them to create your OWN REALITY; something better for YOURSELF.
I want to step aside for a second and make a parallel analogy... People who are religious are usually the SAME people that have blind faith in the government to NOT fuck them over, just as they see there being a deity above that is somehow looking out for ONLY YOU... YOU have the power within yourself to do amazing and great things, but people waste their talent, sit idly by and do nothing, living a long miserable life simply awaiting death because they think they will go to heaven, having forsaken this mortal world entirely. The ONLY person that you can count on to make your life better is YOU! You can look outside yourself for hope, faith, happiness, or anything else, but you AREN'T going to find it anywhere else but within your heart, brain, and soul.

So next time you pray, INSTEAD of praying for selfish interests like money and fame... how about you pray for your religious leaders to STOP molesting children?!? How about you pray for the government of the United States to STOP waging wars and bombing brown people in the Middle East and ALL around the world?!? How about you pray for the rest of your fellow humans to be kind and caring of one another instead of apathetic, fearful, and hateful?!? How about you pray for the BANKS to STOP stealing the hard earned money from people's bank accounts, retirement funds, college funds, social security, and investments, as well as their homes and property?!? How about you pray that the rich people will actually see you and I as human beings rather than sheep or cattle for them to buy, sell, trade, or take to slaughter?!?
Pray for something genuinely benevolent, for someone ELSE besides yourself!!! You will be amazed that once you change your paradigm, the entire world will change around you. ALL THE BLESSINGS AND ALL THE KNOWLEDGE YOU NEED IS WITHIN YOURSELF!!! You don't need religion to be moral and a good person. You don't need fear of reprisal or an afterlife in hell to keep you in line because the creator made you EXACTLY the way you are supposed to be... fearful, flawed, and imperfect, yet able to grow, mature, and evolve... two sides to the same coin. Take a good hard look at the man or woman in the mirror... If you are indeed made in the image of God, then YOU have the ability to rise up above your mortal limitations and to SOLVE your own problems, heal your own wounds, and move forward toward the infinite with hope, love, and compassion for your fellow men/women. It is only when we find the universe within and accept who and what we are that we can change the universe outside of our self.
We are ALL children of the one creator. Let's start acting like it and hold OURSELVES to a higher standard of living and behaviors. Please!
This has been the one and only Quiet Mouse.
Peace. Love. Respect. Humanity. Truth. Acceptance. Compassion.

Dream Within A Dream

You are a child standing on a great cosmic shore of the ocean of the infinite. Are you awake or are you dreaming?
No, this is NOT Inception... this is the Quiet Mouse and today, I hope to blow your mind. So follow me down the rabbit hole, won't you, Alice? Let's see how deep we can go into the realm of human consciousness. Open your mind, free yourself from the chains of your physical body and find who you REALLY ARE!

It seems, at times, to me that the world we live in is fabricated. It is a veil that has been lifted over your eyes to hide the truth from you. While your body and possibly mind are enslaved and shackled into the Matrix of what we THINK is reality, behind the illusion, behind the curtain is the Wizard of Oz... the REAL you, or is it me?
When you close your eyes, what do you see? What do you feel? Who or what are you?
My theory that I propose today is that the world that you perceive through your 5 senses (taste, touch, smell, hearing, and seeing) is the dream and what we call the "dream" is our true reality and the nature of our soul.
"How can this be?" You may ask.
Science has shown us, when we are mindful enough to look in the right places, that on the smallest sub-atomic level our universe is pixilated, sort of like a computer screen. The atoms bounce around from here to there and are only ever stable when WE chose to look at them. Both stable and unstable at the same time depending on OUR perspective. ALL things in the universe are energy brought into harmony through waves and magnetism. IT is always seeking to find a sort of homeostasis. WE are the delusions of our own egos, an infinite consciousness subjectively viewing itself broken into smaller increments we call consciousness, but yet we are still a part of the whole, the creator, the infinite source of wisdom and knowledge. Most people call it God, but it is neither a he or she, for it is everything masculine, feminine, or neutral.

When you "awaken" how do you feel? What do you see? What do you remember? Has your perception of the world changed? How do you know you are awake? If it is a matter of what you perceive with your 5 senses, then that can be explained very simply by interpretations from your cerebral cortex in your brain. EVERYTHING we perceive is done via the computer in our skull we call a brain.
Going further the meat sack we identify with and call "ME" is just a host body for our infinite consciousness to subjectively observe a physical existence to gain knowledge and experience to make us ready to graduate from a 3rd dimensional existence back to our true nature as an inter-dimensional infinitely conscious being, a child of the star dust... a triumph, although not necessary pinnacle of creation, we are. In this infinite universe, how would the creator self-actualize? There is no way to calculate the true size of the universe because God IS the universe and all things within.
With infinite wisdom the universe was created and God said... mind you that above I spoke about things moving in waves. Sound was the first wave... and God said... this is important because it breathed life into the dust where a dense cloud of atoms and molecules became the building blocks of life... and then there was the BIG BANG as God pushed out toward the edge. Creation after creation, God kept busy. Billions of Earth years passed, probably a lot longer than that to our limited perceptions, and life emerged on a tiny blue rock in a distant part of a binary star system.
Well, I think we all know where this story is going. But how does this explain my views?
Again, EVERYTHING is God, the creator. All stars, planets, life forms both terrestrial and alien, rocks, asteroids, comets, and a whole microcosm and macrocosm beyond the sight of the naked eye... it is all part of a neural-interactive simulation that many refer to as the Matrix. Others may call it the tree of life and so on and so forth. No matter how far we go, no matter how far we look, we will never find an edge or border to our perceived universe because in this limited form we are simply not meant to. Earth was meant to be a haven for life, a place for beings to grow physically (in a mortal shell), mentally (by experiencing a mortal existence through 5 senses and emotions), and spiritually (through the CHOICE that was made to self-actualize through a mortal existence, a greater understanding of God can be achieved as even God is trying to evolve into something greater, just as we are... as above so it is below).
Bringing the whole subject full circle... we as humans are really NOT humans at all. Humanity is just the shape of the vessel we are using to observe this reality. So who really is the man behind the curtain? A soul of infinite potential energy. A soul of infinite potential knowledge. A soul of infinite potential creation. Even though this is a finite existence as a mortal human, there is no real death, for there never was any real life. We identify with this body because we know no other existence. The veil has not yet been lifted... but it CAN BE. Through meditation, hard study, past life regression, and self actualization, one may come to realize these things.
There are some who say that they are religious and believe in God, but then close their minds to the bigger picture and the greater plan. Fate is fickle and waits on no man. The signs are all around us, trying to be shown so we can see. Are we aware? Or are we so busy being distracted by the Matrix that we've become  blind? Some are too apathetic, just waiting for death. It will come... it always does. But then comes rebirth. If we do not learn the lessons we are meant to, then we are sent back again and again until we do. We must gain certain knowledge and experiences before we can see past the narrow limitations of the 3rd dimension. It is fully within our spiritual grasp to open our soul, mind, and body to the 4th, 5th, and even higher dimensions of existence.
There is no need for war, and yet it is an ingrained part of the human existence to fight and seek separation; duality. There is no right, there is no wrong, there just IS. These are all constructs of a narrowly limited human mind that is based on 5 senses that only touch a very small fraction of the REALITY, about 1% to be precise. What is in the other 99% of what we cannot perceive? Higher dimensions with the inhabitants that God created awaiting our arrival? God itself? Infinite love and energy? All possibilities in a universe of infinite possibility. You may return here to Earth realm again to learn more. We are ALL students in this life whether we will admit to it or not. To deny our selves is to deny the very thing that makes us who and what we are, as we are ONLY HERE TO LEARN AND EVOLVE. PERIOD. Our brain is only a computer, the body only a biological machine, but our soul, the piece of God itself, is IMMORTAL. People die, but the energy is returned and renewed, for there can be no life without death, no day without night, no fear without love. We see these as polar opposites, but this is NOT true. They are like a yin and a yang. Upon first sight you might perceive two opposites. If you have, you failed the test. I do not see two opposites, but two parts to one WHOLE. Just like a human being. This is the nature of our existence. In order to grow as a spiritual being we must learn to ACCEPT our inner angels and demons as part of a WHOLE entity. Once we accept the self can we learn to accept the other inhabitants of this world who are our brothers, sisters, cousins, mothers, fathers, and loved ones. We are ALL part of God, experiencing a piece of an infinite universe subjectively.
People are waking up daily, slowly at first, but there is momentum as people seek understanding and solace in what can sometimes be a volatile planet. There is no need for worry or fear. There is a time and place for that. We have succumbed to the fear before but all that is done. Now we will be strong, determined, and we will have open minds, hearts, and souls as we face the dawn of a new age: an age of equality, prosperity, and harmony. WHEN we change our thoughts and perceptions, we will LITERALLY change the ENTIRE world around us. For those that are reading this... YOU are the enlightened ones or are on the cusp of PREMATURE ENLIGHTENMENT. It is our duty to awaken our family, our friends, our lost tribes of men and women. For when we awaken the world, the bounty of the heavens will unfold and both humanity AND the infinite soul will rejoice! Thank you for taking this journey with me. Namaste.
Peace. Love. Respect. To infinity and beyond!!

REVOLUTION: A Change in the Video Game Market

Hello and welcome to another exciting edition of the Quiet Mouse Strikes Back! Thanks for joining me today!

There has been a lot of reports in the news lately about the death of the home console gaming market. Nintendo, X-box, and PS3 being the top competitors are being hit right in the pocket book right now. A revolution is going on within the gaming industry. It takes a lot of money and time to put out a blockbuster game for the home console. Let's be honest here... for all those who do own a home video game system you can feel my own personal pain when I tell you it's a BITCH to have to pony up $60 for the newest game at your local retailer, or even $30 to $40 for a used/pre-owned game in the aftermarket battle at stores like Gamestop.
There are a lot of things going on in the world these days: political unrest, famine/food shortages, global pollution, pyramid scams, taxes, rising gas prices, etc. that make your dollar have to stretch farther than it ever has had to before now, well at least in the last 30 years or so.

The market is evolving. This cannot be denied. With the advent of new technologies, namely hand held portable devices, along with the cell phone/smart phone craze (i.e. apple iphone/ipad and android smart phones) it is easy to see why gaming is fundamentally and forever changing. From a consumer point of view it is far more economical to play a whole slew of either FREE or cheaply priced games on these new formats rather than shelling out $60 at the mall or big box store. The price range even for the expensive games on the hand held phones starts from $0.99 to $5, and some huge classics can go for close to $10... but still, by comparison, it is a much better price than a home console game, which you can't even take to-go like the phone. Games like "Words with friends", "Angry Birds", and "Draw something" have made the hand held market the go-to place to get popular new games that can be created and distributed cheaply and reach a far wider audience than the home console market. Then there are the added features of APPS (thousands of them that do any task/game you can imagine). In addition there are features like streaming video sites such as Netflix and Hulu that can be watched from the phone making it an all in one media entertainment device.

The new PSVita and Nintendo 3DS have done their best to combat this hand held market, but even with features like the Virtual Console, a re-hash of old NES, Super NES, Gameboy, and Sega games, it is still a matter of pricing as the operating hand held console is still above the hundred dollar price point, much higher than the average gamer can afford easily.
Cell phones on the other hand have taken off immensely as the home phone has died and become an icon of the past, similar to VHS and BetaMax. Convenience, features, price points, as well as the physical need to be in communication on the go has led to the point where nearly every adult has a cell phone now and the smart phones are starting to be more affordable to the masses. Go out ANYWHERE. STOP and look around. Inevitably you will see dozens of people if not hundreds of people all whipping out their cell phones. These people are talking, texting with friends, playing games, looking up a multitude of information on the internet, talking to SIRI... hell phones now can do almost anything as they are smarter, smaller, and faster than the processors of past console video gaming systems.

Now I want to talk about the DIRTY SIDE of the gaming industry. But stepping to the side for a moment I want to talk about blunders in industry. For example: Blockbuster video. This company was once the formidable face of the home movie industry, but online streaming from sites like Hulu and Netflix have killed this market. Is it entirely the online industry's fault? NO. Despicable corporate greed and practices like purposefully killing competition so they could be on top has come full circle and KARMA is biting them in the ass. The same can be said about the video gaming industry's top contenders of Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo. Rather than adapting to the market and jumping in league with the mobile phone boom, as they SHOULD HAVE, these companies have continued with business as usual, trying marketing ploy after ploy and investing large amounts of money into dying video game franchises... OR like Nintendo, investing tons of technology into the Wii U that is nothing short of a glorified iPad, but with none of the features except as an adjunct to the already dwindling retail gaming market. What WOULD have been a cool idea is if you could pause the live t.v. game and take it with you to finish later on the hand held remote with the touch screen. I foresee this as happening soon with the cell phones. I could totally see being able to access television features from the palm of your hand where the touch screen phone acts as the remote control for both the tv and the gaming console.

I got side-tracked, so let's re-focus. Dirty side of gaming industry is that both Sony and Microsoft have decidedly made it their personal missions, as corporations, to KILL the aftermarket re-sale of physical gaming, namely places like Gamestop, Game Crazy, etc. The greed of these companies will ultimately be their own undoing, as KARMA always seems to bite these companies in the ass. It's the consumer that decides game trends, NOT the technology, as ultimately it is the all-mighty $DOLLAR$ that runs the world of gaming as well as the world in general. The greedy move to kill the aftermarket of gaming has NO PLUS SIDE, for the manufacturers OR the consumer. This ploy will fail because people, in their cheapness will just play on their phones or re-adopt past gaming systems that are cheaper and has the physical media they desire. Even IF they were able to kill a retailer like Gamestop, people will STILL trade and sell games on places like Amazon and Craigslist, so really this effort by the gaming GIANTS is futile. Furthermore, people actually enjoy having a physical copy of their favorite games, if not to sell or trade, but perhaps just to allow their friends, children, or family members to try it out before THEY go buy the game. The next generation systems by Sony and Microsoft are intended to be ONLY STRICT DOWNLOADS... NO PHYSICAL COPY!
THAT BLOWS!!!

I guess my overall point is that the new generation of gaming systems will undergo much scrutiny and many of the avid gamers from MY generation are gonna say "FUCK YOU!" and stick with the retro classics of  NES, SNES, PS1 and PS2, et. al. Modern, younger generations of gamers that know no difference than PS online store and X-box live will see no major difference as they generally don't know any better. However it is the PARENTS, as they have the money, that will dictate if this non-physical media trend will explode as Sony and Microsoft have predicted. Only time will tell, but MY prediction is that the console gaming industry is setting itself up for failure. Instead of focusing all the time and money on gimmiky systems (that are quirky and over-priced) and games that make you dance around looking like a fool (Kinect/PS move), the focus should really go (like the phone industry has) back to making good quality games for a good quality price... so for home consoles, they should focus on the $20 to $30 range for new releases. If not... then I'm sure we ALL know what the end result will be, because the cell phone thing isn't going away any time soon.
This has been the one and only Quiet Mouse. Thanks for taking this time to hear me talk about something I know a lot about. I hope this has shown you some insight into this topic and got your mind racing to write about or talk about it with friends.
Peace. Love. Respect. Truth. Humanity. 

June 5, 2012 S.A.D.

Today I just want to make a short blog stating emphatically that this date is 5 June 2012. I live in Washington State. It is COLD and RAINY today; much like it is ALL YEAR ROUND, with a few breaks, like 3 weeks of ACTUAL SUMMER, somewhere around July/August.
I miss the warmth and heat of Texas, where I was from before moving up to the Oregon/Washington area. I'll admit, despite the rain and cold, it IS beautiful up here in the Pacific Northwest, however, my body is craving warmth, for Christ's sakes. Here it is JUNE and it is STILL COLD!! I want to be kicking back and enjoying this weather because my 2 kids are getting out of school for summer vacation and it still feels like winter/early spring... anything BUT the summer it is supposed to be feeling like.
Back in Dallas it's like 90 degrees. It's hot, flat, and dry there for the most part this time of year and I could totally handle a few days of rain as opposed to the year round depressing; overcast cloud cover here in Vancouver WA.
Here is what I was envisioning for this time of year:

But this is what we have INSTEAD of the idealistic vision for warmth and joy where I see myself walking around in khaki shorts and flip flops:


This I must admit I am none too happy about as I feel like a hermit, locked inside all day every day because I am depressed due to the overcast weather and I may well indeed have S.A.D. (seasonal affective dissorder).
My more ideal idea of a cold summer would be to have an ice cold glass of lemonade and a good working air conditioner, enough heat for me to take a long walk outside without fear of being rained on. It is NOT COOL how it is June 5th and I feel like I need gloves up here in the NW.
Well, that's about all I have to say about that. Living in Washington sure makes me miss the warmth of the south, as I'm a good old boy missing the great state of Texas. Perhaps this summer I'll be able to make it back to visit family... and perhaps I might just want to move BACK there once I finish up cooking school in March of next year. Perhaps?!?

No TAXATION Without Representation

Did you know that today in America we pay higher taxes than when the founding fathers and original settlers of this nation fought and battled in the Revolutionary War for independence from Britain?

Namaste and  to another edition of the Quiet Mouse Strikes Back! Let's jump right in with the topic and discuss this tax system. It never actually came to a public vote whether or not American citizens got a say in IF they had to pay taxes to a central government. Many people would be shocked and appalled to find out exactly where the tax money that you have to pay goes. Let's explore a little and find out, shall we?
So you may think that your tax money goes to pay for things like teachers, civil servants, infrastructure projects like roads and bridges, police, fire fighters, etc. Perhaps this may be true for local and state taxes (probably not or else the states wouldn't have their coffer open for government handouts either)... However, the MAJORITY of your tax money goes to pay the Federal Reserve as payment for interest on monies LOANED to our government, at HIGH INTEREST. I've spoke on this before but feel the need to say this again. YOU ARE A SLAVE TO THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT BECAUSE EVERY SINGLE DOLLAR HAS TAXED INTEREST ASSOCIATED WITH THE LOAN... EVERY SINGLE DOLLAR!!! This is debt that CANNOT and WILL NOT ever be paid back. It is NOT intended to be so.

Beyond the obvious fact that bankers are getting rich off of these loaned monies to the public use, there are a couple hidden places that our money gets sent. Remember the war for independence? Constitution? Well, you'd be shocked to know that part of your tax money goes to paying the crown of England a subservience fee. You'd be even MORE SHOCKED to find out that America is really STILL only a colony of the British Empire. Have you never wondered why WE, as a nation are ALWAYS tasked with bailing the English out of one battle or another?!? War of 1812?!? WWI?!? WWII?!? and many more...
I'm NOT an expert. DON'T take MY word for it. Do some research as I have. Make your own opinions. All I ask is for you to educate yourself to the realities of the REAL world we live in, and NOT this fake bullshit you see on television that is just propaganda and entertainment.
Moving on... you would be further insulted and shocked to find that millions of dollars are going to the terrorist nation state of Israel (which is made up of like 12 different tribes of people, NOT just 1), further funding this terrorism against the Palestinians in a pretty much non-stop war over the "holy lands", which pretty much seems like an oxymoron to me as war and "holy" do NOT compute... I don't really think that's the idea the Christian God or Jesus would condone, but MORE WARS and VIOLENCE has been waged under the name of religion and God than ALL other forms of human suffering COMBINED!!!

Let's look now at all the different kinds of taxes that Americans have to pay, shall we...
Income tax, payroll tax, fuel tax, state tax, federal tax, property tax, inheritance tax, capital gains tax, corporate tax, expatriation tax, sales tax... then there are a whole slew of licensing fees, registration fees, building permits and fees, poll taxes, consumption tax, environmental tax, and they're trying to shove a CARBON TAX on all peoples as a tax just for living and breathing as we ALL give out carbon dioxide as a bi-product to the oxygenation of our bodies in the breathing process. I'm sure there are even MORE taxes than that, like the gas tax, sin tax, etc.

Taking a step backwards I want to investigate the origin of this nation. In the 1750's there was a popular slogan "NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION". This slogan meant that the inhabitants, citizens, and workers of a nation had the RIGHT to have a decision in what taxes they paid to the government. It was even common in those days as we had more of an agrarian society for people to pay their taxes WITH the crops that they reaped from the Earth, like HEMP and tobacco. Our founding father found grievance with the English monarchy at the over-taxation on several fronts. First when the 13 colonies were founded, there was NO money other than the British pound. Like ALL central banks, the money was loaned out to the colonies at HIGH INTEREST making the colonies INSTANT SLAVES to the motherland, namely the BANK OF ENGLAND. Second the British taxed the hell out of consumable goods like tobacco, hemp, tea, cotton, and other products that were grown in the Americas and sent back to Europe, thus leading to revolts like the infamous "Boston Tea Party". The founding fathers did NOT want to be just another slave state to the Empire, so the Declaration of Independence was signed and ratified and thus began the revolution... or so we thought. I'm not sure if or how long this independence lasted, if at all... because the colonies were STILL dependent on Britain, France, Spain, the Dutch, and other European nations for their wealth, resources and support... see the Civil War if you need more evidence as the North was funded by one or more European nations, namely England, as the South was namely funded by France...

Skipping ahead a couple hundred years and things seem to be business as usual... for the BANKERS. Some of the most influential banking families of Europe descended into the Americas and over 200 years wore down society until they were able to get through the door, in an overnight hijacking of the American nation, they established the Federal Reserve, the ULTIMATE tool of enslavement for the American public. Before the FED, American currency was backed by REAL money, be it gold or silver. EACH DOLLAR was worth one ounce of silver and was known as a "silver certificate". Removing the GOLD STANDARD allowed the banking clans not only to directly influence American politics, but also to soften the laws in favor of large corporations, as they are primary funders for the banks themselves. It also allowed the banks to produce in excess millions, then billions, then trillions of dollars, unconstitutionally and illegally.
Hell, even the American government is nothing short of a corporation. This leads into current tax laws where the government is FORCED to abide by the FED regulations who continually use their power to increase the gap between the rich and the slave class of poor. They do this by controlling the interest and inflation rates, always to keep the little guy down so he can NEVER EVER get ahead... put simply those with money do NOT want to share... EVER! Put even MORE SIMPLY, the government is NOT the most powerful entity in the land, because THEY have to abide by the rules made by the FED as well. But who are these people of the FEDERAL RESERVE? Many of whom are Zionist Jews from the nation-state of Israel. Some are old banking families like the Rockefellers, J.P. Morgan, Rothschild, etc... many also are the same individuals or families from the Bank of England... so when I say that England is still pulling the strings for America, well, it's NOT untrue.
American policy for money and government is NOT being written by the President. It is NOT being written by the Senators or Congressmen or local state officials or even the "Supreme court". It is being written by un-electable individuals belonging to a cartel of banks and crooked individuals that do NOT care about the sanctity of life or your place in it. They do NOT care about whether or not the American way of life or ANY LIFE, for that matter, is preserved. They are OLD families that date back all the way to biblical times with OLD MONEY, power, and control over the masses, who they believe they OWN and can do with as they please. Geographical boundaries are a thing of the past, only left intact for the sake of keeping the sheep at bay, unaware of their own enslavement, a true free range human commodity to be bought and sold, much like the way this nation was founded on the exploitation of brown people. Then once slavery of black people ended, then the children were exploited, then women, then Irish were exploited, all the way up until now where it is 3rd world Asian nations and Hispanics exploited.
Who now are our "representatives" in politics that are supposed to do things "for the people"? They even swear on the bible, or sometimes the Masonic bible that they are going to serve the people... but even the politician with the best of intentions can be bought for a certain price, to change his/her stance on an issue in favor of the corporations, banks, and continuity of corrupt government. Once people get their hands into the pie it is impossible to get it back out, as they have sold their ideals and morals to the highest bidder, again at the expense of the masses. It is the good old boys club of secret society members, thugs, gangsters, and political pimps. On the rare occasion the system actually puts out someone who generally is patriotic and cares about the citizens who he/she represents, like Ron Paul, but this person will NEVER hold a major office like the presidency because he/she is NOT representing the status quo that keeps the masses in subservience with the largest corporations, bankers, and secret society members at the top of the pyramid scam...

Believe what you like, but it isn't going to stop the people on top from continuing to fuck you over. You may think you are being represented with this game of politics, but it is just smoke and mirrors, propaganda vs. truth. Somewhere behind a closed door or a curtain is the Wizard of Oz silently manipulating the real world agenda, an unseen face of an un-electable person who is so rich and powerful that he could feed the masses, provide economic stimulus, and actually heal a broken nation... but WON'T! That might be something that Jesus would do...