Boxoffrogs

APATHY KILLS

boxoffrogs — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:46:58 GMT

Who does the boxoffrogs would make a good leader for the United States? This is a muddled question which has much to do with choosing the lesser of two evils. This is because of a two party system which has entrenched itself in American politics. It is my opinion that a great leader would not be beholden to any party line and have his loyalty tied to the good of the country and not to himself. The irony is that these days a potential leader for the United States (or any “free” modern nation) has to have deep enough pockets to influence the media for a favorable reception by the citizenry. Therefore there is already a conflict of interest set in place because if the media isn’t bought, then the citizenry isn’t sold.

The media makes its money by selling us a bunch of sh**t that we don’t need through paid commercial endorsements for products. It has even gotten to the point that the media will actively display certain products in their programming for a price. Ever notice how that label on the Coke can is always facing the camera? So is it such a difficult leap in this day of 24 hour news networks that any “fair and balanced” coverage (positive or negative) would be influenced by a bit of compensation, be it money or favors?

I would imagine we are in a new world of corporate governance where the common people are secondary in the choices being made. This requires two seemingly polarizing political powers that can feed off one another’s diverse positions. These two polarizing positions would then be able to hold the lion share of any political capital and garner financial support from both the population and corporations depending on which side of the issue at hand was bought into. There is no political or economic gain for the media if there aren’t two opposing parties, and with this dynamic any fringe third party gets pretty much shut out of any coverage and funding. If the media doesn’t sell it to the people then there is no one to buy it.

Based on this concept, one therefore must throw in on a candidate from one of two parties in the United States. This is because a true grass roots initiative can not carry a candidate all the way to Election Day…yet. The United States remains too diverse and self serving for a TRUE independent to emerge and garner widespread support. Therefore unless you want to throw your vote away you currently have two choices, until we crack the system. The choices are to vote Democrat or Republican.

There are the Democrats whose principals include:
Choice is a fundamental, constitutional right.
Support affirmative action to redress discrimination.
End corporate welfare.
The U.S. cannot drill its way to energy independence.
Family is the center of American life.
Forward Engagement must guide proactive foreign policy.
Work to close gap between richest and poorest nations.
Strengthen gun control to reduce violence.
Every American should have affordable health insurance.
Encourage military careers with better pay & benefits.
A path for undocumented aliens to earn citizenship.
Change tax system to not encourage shipping jobs overseas.
New vision for America: strong at home, respected abroad.
Appoint judges committed to Constitutional rights.
Oppose privatization of Social Security (the U.S. pension system) and oppose raising retirement age.
Cut taxes for middle class, not the wealthy.
Cut taxes for working families, not richest 1%.
Every home should have Internet access.
Put science ahead of ideology in research and policymaking.
Raise Earned Income Tax Credit & minimum wage to $7 USD an hour & expand middle class.
More complete list at http://www.ontheissues.org/Democratic_Party.htm

There are the Republicans whose principals include:
Ban abortion with Constitutional amendment.
Lack of any recorded issue on U.S. Federal Budget and Economy. Have to look at each candidate for their spin.
Homosexuality is incompatible with military service.
Constitutional Amendment banning same-sex marriage.
Women exempt from combat.
Death penalty is an effective deterrent.
Best way to deter crime is to enforce existing laws.
Jail time and school drug testing deters drug use.
Limit role of federal government in education.
Achievement is basis for access to college.
No Kyoto Treaty, no mandatory carbon emission controls.
Private property ownership key to environmental agenda.
Encourage market-based solutions to environmental problems.
Families are the cornerstone of our culture.
Support abstinence and fatherhood.
NATO has shared responsibility for peacekeeping.
U.S. should position itself to dominate trade.
Promote free trade with America setting the standards.
Federal government should not interfere with states’ rights.
Will protect right to bear arms.
Government-run universal health care leads to inefficiencies.
Affirm traditional military culture & rebuild morale (no gays).
Only legal immigrants, through tightly controlled borders.
A distinctly American internationalism for the 21st century.
Workers will have choice to invest their payroll taxes.
Cut taxes to stimulate economy and help families.
Move more welfare recipients off the welfare rolls.
More complete list at http://www.ontheissues.org/Republican_Party.htm

If you really care and are American or want to see what it would be like to have to juggle an “American” agenda in your head about a United States Presidential Vote, you can go here and try this “Candidate Calculator”. I’ve tried it and my guy came in second, but they mentioned someone in the first place slot that will have absolutely no chance, based on the media dance, to get a final party nomination. The site is:
http://www.vajoe.com/candidate_calculator.html (everyone has linked this site and it is bogging down)

http://www.votehelp.org/ seems to be nonbiased candidate calculator and I get the same results.

Based on what I have experienced and the issues that the parties claim they stand on, I am probably more Republican than Democrat (therefore more conservative than liberal). I strongly disagree with many of the stances both parties take.

I would think that Mike Huckabee the Governor of Arkansas is more closely aligned with my values. Here is the best representation I have found about his views. It should be obvious at this point that I think this is a pretty good site.
http://www.ontheissues.org/Mike_Huckabee.htm

However I think the future reality may shape Mitt Romney as the Republican nominee. There is the problem I have with the Mormons and the magical underwear. This church is just a little too bizarre for my likings and I really don’t think that his moral foundation is one that matches mine at all.

If Huckabee is out I would totally have to rethink the whole deal. I can not really support the ideals of the State of Massachusetts and that is where this guy is from. You do know I am from the south and that is just the way it is.

A real frightening scenario is John McCain. Everyone runs around touting this guy is such an independent thinker. God bless John McCain going to war for his country and surviving a harsh prisoner of war camp, but do you people HONESTLY think he doesn’t carry any baggage around from that? I know Regan was an old guy when we elected him, but he didn’t have the military background like McCain does. If you love all your children and tax money being used up in some great big Islamic meat grinder then put all your chips in with this guy. Frankly I am tired of being the World’s Police force. I have no idea what we all have in common with the State of Arizona which is where McCain hails from as Senator. I must confess that I am a bit floored by South Carolina putting him up for nomination after he disrespected the Stars n’ Bars.

I would put the odds on favorite for secession from the union again as South Carolina. But South Carolina is not alone.
http://www.vermontrepublic.org/
http://dixienet.org/
http://middleburyinstitute.org/
http://www.hawaiiankingdom.org/
http://www.texasnationalist.com/shindex.shtml

The problem with my little conservative island really boils down to how pissed off everyone is at George Bush and DICK Cheney and the political system as a whole. From the looks of things we may be going Democrat like it or not. In this case I would hope against Hillary on any level. All we need is another ass in the Whitehouse that thinks the world owes them something. Hillary Clinton thinks just because she was a Senator for a short period from a state she isn’t even from, and married to a former President who was having affairs while he was in OUR office…and in the process redefining what is an acceptable level of “sex” is going to fly with me, she’s got another thing coming. I’ll write in Mickey Mouse on my ballot, get a short wave radio and build my bunker if she gets in.

Then there is Barack Obama. He’s pretty far to the left (liberal) on a lot of issues but I really think he is less on the left than Hillary Clinton. In addition, I truly believe he will do what is in the best interest of the United States and her people despite the wired Muslim thing going on. He’s denied the Muslim issue to a point, however he has been exposed in such a way as to make him a unique enigma. Does this make me homophobic and harbor a perhaps irrational fear of Muslims? You bet your ass! At least with this guy, I’ll hold off on building the bunker and stockpiling C-rations…for awhile.

Now to vote as a spoiler or to vote for the guy I really want in the primary is another ironic twist. In my state I have a call into the election commission to see if I need to register a certain party affiliation, or if I can remain independent.
Well that’s my two cents on it. It’s a “free” country ( in most some people’s minds) so I guess we can all say what we will.

Land of the Free, Home of the Republic

boxoffrogs — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:46:21 GMT

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Ok my peeps. In the interest of full disclosure I am proud to announce that I am a United States Citizen, Dixie by Choice and Southern by the grace of God. Mullets for all!

I would also like to disclose that I am a registered voter with no party affiliation, and since I live in the land of the Yankees I am sure I will skew that count just a bit, but not enough to matter. Not that this ever stopped me before.

Here we are at the end of yet another 4 year cycle in the land of free and home of the brave. Those political ads and talking heads promising the moon are a constant annoyance. For those of you that don’t know, the United States is NOT A DEMOCRACY and we got the papers to prove it (**see below).
http://www.constitutioncenter.org/constitution/

So lets cut the crap about reporting that the United States of America something it is not. America is a Republic.

R-E-P-U-B-L-I-C.

Now if you don’t have a clue what that means. Here is the just of it. The American Presidential Vote does not count as an equal across the States. Since we live in a Representative Republic the American Presidential Vote only counts in which direction a citizen’s state of residence decides to align its select set of votes. The country has retained, through bloodshed, the rights of the individual states that make up the Republic. Now this is an all or nothing deal for the most part when it comes to a vote for President. If a citizen’s state of residence leans one way or the other (EVEN BY THE SMALLEST OF MARGINS) all the votes will pile up for the winning candidate FOR that specific state.

It does matter in which state a citizen resides for this scenario to play out. If a citizen is in one of those central northern rectangle states, the Presidential Vote has very little bearing on anything nationally but can be more apt to sway the state one way or another by a citizen’s independent ballot. If a citizen is voting in a very populated state, proportionally their vote also has little bearing; however the state as a whole can sway an election more so than the less populated rectangles aforementioned. To put it bluntly; if a citizen is in a state full of morons they have a good chance of helping to elect a complete dumb ass. Just look what happened in ’04 when not enough hippies voted!

So here is the run down if it matter’s to you or not.

The bottom line is if a U.S. Citizen has no gonads then they stay out of the polls and don’t vote! They especially don’t have anything to bitch about for the next 4 years because their slack ass let it slide. I voted last time, like every time so I have the unalienable right to bitch…and I am.

During the last election I had the misfortune to vote by absentee ballot. My vote also cost me about $100 bucks (USD). You thought voting was free? Let me tell you how I had to exercise my right to bitch.

I was in the fabulous blustering metropolis of Ploiesti, Romania which lies in Eastern Europe bordering the western shore of the Black Sea during the last election in 2004. The city of Ploiesti is the first major city which lies due north of the capital of Bucharest. For all you history buffs, Ploiesti had the bulk of the oil refineries the Nazis used to power their war machine. It still has operational refineries by the way.

The Allies bombed the hell out of it during the last World War (not to be confused with the present or any future World War), but anyhow there I was.

I informed my state of residence polling place in writing that I would require an absentee ballot. This “service” and paperwork was provided by the Romanian U.S. Embassy, American Citizens Services in Bucharest. They are not on my Christmas card list, but that is a story for another day.
http://bucharest.usembassy.gov/Embassy/index.html

Now I set this absentee ballot request in motion in August 2004, so I figured this would have allowed plenty of time for the paperwork to arrive long before the election (which is the first Tuesday in November for those of you who may not be aware). I had a few things going against me for this scenario to pan out. The main issue was my state of residence polling location which (at that time) was in Florence, South Carolina. Flotown (as it is known in some local circles) is not exactly a bastion of knowledge and the portion of the population which happens not to be inbred certainly, for the most part, didn’t make it far outside the confines of the county with the almost exclusive exception of myself (and a few of my buddies…wink…you know who you are!). Just to ebb the controversy a bit, I will concede that there are a few good eggs still in Flotown, but I digress.

Florence South Carolina is at the point on Interstate 95 that you turn left to get to Myrtle Beach. I say left because only Yankees, misled Midwesterners, and Canadian Hippies think that is a tourist destination. It is also the terminus or start of Interstate 20 depending on how you look at it. Other than that, there is church (primary flavor being Baptist), Bar-B-Que (vinegar style), and boredom (large doses thereof broken up by beer, pot, and fishing).

So I am hanging tuff in the eastern euro hood in my lovely communist style bloc when I realize it is a month till election and I still haven’t gotten my absentee ballot from the banjo playing yokels at the “local” election office. I call the embassy and they confirm that my request for the ballot was sent out and that I would have to contact my polling location in the states to figure out what happened…at great expense to myself I add. So I call up Florence SC, USA from Ploiesti, RO and get this amazing representative from the Florence South Carolina Voter Registration & Election Commission.

She states to me that she DID have an application for my absentee ballot HOWEVER since there was NO ZIP CODE with my address then they could not mail it.

Now I go back to morons and voting and the right to bitch. There are a few obvious problems with the zip code theory. The most obvious is the term “zip code”. Now a zip code is a unique identifier used by the United States Postal Service to identify addresses in the United States. Since the United States Postal service would not be the one delivering my absentee ballot to my location in Romania, which obviously lays outside the United States, the need for a “zip code” (which is only valid for United States addresses) is really a moot point. It is an absentee ballot which is used by persons who, among other things, are out of the country. I asked her if there were any digits associated with the return address and she stated that there was. I then told her the amazing string of digits, which corresponded to my Romanian Postal Code (insert posta Romania pic) and she confirmed that these very same digits were attached to my request (attached by my own hand I may add).

Therefore I described the problem that now encompassed the gulf between us. She had my ballot and my address but yet failed to send it after she was timely notified for some stupid reason that only her third grade comprehension could understand. So I began my climb to the top of the ladder of the Florence South Carolina Voter Registration & Election Commission and finally reached the all knowing director. At this point it was decided to send my ballot via courier. The cost of this is no small pittance. For about $75 USD one can get something delivered to Romania from the States in about 10 days. What I didn’t understand was that for my vote to be counted I would have to spend the same to get it returned in time for the election. If only some ignorant person in Florence South Carolina would have sent me my stuff in a timely manner this whole thing could have been handled for pennies.

So this gets me to the point of voting. The guy I voted for turned out to be a complete disappointment and his Secretaries of State (yeah both Condi and Colin) caused me and my family direct and proximate harm. I also feel I have more than the right to complain about it because I helped these morons stay in office through my misguided Presidential vote. My right to vote cost on the last go around; the trips to and from Bucharest to Ploiesti, the calls from Ploiesti to Florence South Carolina USA, the fact that I had to pay a Romanian Notary about $10 USD to witness that it was me voting, and the $75 USD to return the ballot back to be counted in time.
The complete irony is there was no doubt in my mind that the state of South Carolina would go Republican (as it usually does) and the fact that I was voting the Republican ticket that year made no real difference because it is all about the electoral college and that we live in a REPUBLIC and not a democracy. However I retain the right to complain. So if more hippies would have set the bong down and voted for the tree hugger our country wouldn’t be in such a mess. Damn hippies let me down again. Oh yeah…I recon it is my fault that I spent $100 to vote for the present disappointment. However when I voice my opinion, let it be known it was earned. If you don’t vote then shut the f**k up. If you do vote, welcome to the club.

Now who I endorse is another story and for another day. Be passionate and be true and stand by your word.

** Article II of the U.S. Constitution does state:”… Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.
The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for two Persons, of whom one at least shall not be an Inhabitant of the same State with themselves. And they shall make a List of all the Persons voted for, and of the Number of Votes for each; which List they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the Seat of the Government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate. The President of the Senate shall, in the Presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the Certificates, and the Votes shall then be counted. The Person having the greatest Number of Votes shall be the President, if such Number be a Majority of the whole Number of Electors appointed…”

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The Rabbit attacks the Blog Hole, and how Ron Paul changed an idiot's life.

boxoffrogs — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:01:48 GMT

http://boxoffrogs.fatfreehost.com/MainPage/index.htm

freedomainradio.com and the people that run it and around on it.

This appears to be a liberal pro Ron Paul site. I was attacked because
one of their members is an idiot. I suggested he grow up and stop
blaming everyone else for his problems...in no uncertain words.

For this my original post was removed and I got this email.

-----Original Message-----
From: Freedomain Radio - Automated Email [mailto:s.molyneux@rogers.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 10:58 PM
To: boxoffrogs@notgettingtherestofit.com Subject: (Freedomain Radio) Post Deleted: Re: The Rabbit attacks the Blog Hole
Importance: Low

Your post was deleted by admin.

Subject: Re: The Rabbit attacks the Blog Hole

Reason: I deleted the original post...

Thanks,

Freedomain Radio team

So I went to the website and tried to log on from the same computer I posted from and got...

You are not authorized to view this page
The Web server you are attempting to reach has a list of IP addresses that
are not allowed to access the Web site, and the IP address of your browsing
computer is on this list.

So I emailed the Website System administrator.

On 1/9/08, wrote:
Oh mighty God like creature,
Are you kidding me? I have been insta banned because I had an opinion and
yet you allow James Pyrich to blast anyone he wants to? I recon that makes
you just another fascist pig in sheep's clothing. I feel honored that less
than 2 hours after my post you deleted it and banned me. Sometimes the truth
does hurt don't it? You may need to change that "importance" level from low
to high if you banned me from your stupid page (i.e. panties in a knot).
I've been kicked outta much better REAL places for a lot more
Rust Never Sleeps,
Boxoffrogs
P.S. To the guy I BCC'd-Check it out Psycho, I thought a true liberal would
stand up to a debate. Pass it on! Lata tata! HeHe

So to all you Canadian Hippies (and wanna bee's) and Ron Paul Supporters. I give you the original post. I am sure if this represents the supporters of Ron Paul then I think we can all learn a thing or two...

It's really an interesting concept this idea of a "free" domain
(with a presumed inference on the freedom of speech implied) however
certain members are rather fearful of this concept of free speech and
having the gravitas to take a stand when their reality is shaken and
cage needfully rattled.
You see I, your humble anti-hero, posted some comments on a
member's site directly linked to this. These comments were not in the
finest of form and may have exposed the tried and worn flawed thesis
of this fellow brother which seems to imply "It's not my fault…all you
people are wrong". This fellow brother decided not to post my comments
(as he apparently had to sanitize them for your un-dissemination); he
decided to attack your little fuzzy kitten of a blogger in a classical
maniacal condition worthy of any Psychology 101 class at the local
community college instead of just letting the whole incident pass.
Ironically unimportance of it all seems to be the main focus of his
rant.
Though I shed many tears over not being fairly represented I will
happily lead you down this little rabbit hole. Follow me and hear for
yourself.
http://james.pyrich.com/wp/page/2/

**It appears he has temporarily shut down his site…I wonder why?**

**FIND HIM HERE**

**OR HERE**

**AND HERE**

Scroll down and click on a little diddy called "Blog Attacks"

**Which aint there no more hehehe**
If you get past the fact that this individual does not know what
day it is as he is whizzing through the grizzly New Hampshire
wilderness (ranting to an inanimate object in his passenger seat as
opposed to something living that may have a differing point of view)
then perhaps you would wonder why my cavalier defense of self.
I am proud to be me, for it is pride that brings me here before
you today. When you insult me, you insult my family, because I
represent them. I add value to our society and my father and mother do
not need to hide in the shadows when my name is mentioned. It does not
matter what their social status is, my blood is their blood.
Another self evident truth of mine is that the spoken word is far
less powerful than the written word. Anyone can make mindless
utterances for hours on end. It is almost effortless…like breathing.
You can not reduce words to a "sound bite". My words are here, and
they are mine. I will live by them, stand by them, and die by them in
a passionate defense. You may not like my words, but you can not deny
them, for here they are.
Here is the record and I am gonna straighten it, for those of you
who may not know, I have personally met this individual brother whilst
he was residing above a liquor store in Passaic County New Jersey. He
may have no idea who I am, as that is quite apparent, but I do know
him. I am not related to him, nor do I wish to be, based on his
mindless easily spoken rants.
You see, I was not alone while I was listening to some of the
amazing diatribes of this person. Many of my colleagues were
surrounding me entranced in shear amazement. On a lark I was just
Googling some names when guess what I found. This was the most amazing
bunch of dirty laundry ever to grace this side of the internet. Like a
train wreck we could not turn away, the carnage being so complete. We
listened, and listened some more, and then my fair readers; I was
forced to write something.
I posted my comments and then, lo and behold, I got this
moderator warning that my post will first be reviewed. Now gee, let's
do some simple math. Let's see what that site name was again.
http://james.pyrich.com

**It appears he has temporarily shut down his site…I wonder why?**

**FIND HIM HERE**

**OR HERE**

**AND HERE**

Well my noble laureates, I hope we all came to the same
conclusion about EXACTLY who that final moderator was. But yea, fellow
intrepid voyagers, the post(s) remained unposted. In its place is a 10
minute and 21 second mindless rant with no supporting evidence (sans
my posts). Now based on some very preliminary and non scientifical
research, it appears that the only posts allowed by the phantom
moderator are POSITIVE ones. Any viewpoint allowed as long as it is
sanitized and compartmentalized. Hardly seems to be even worth the
effort. Then again I am not a farmer of dirt; I would rather grow a
mind. Not that truth was ever advertised to be painless.
Indeed it may even appear that I caused (ok I'll tone it down a
bit), or helped to cause, this brave mutterer of many hateful and
wasteful words to cause a person who wishes to comment to have to sign
up and be further scrutinized. To suggest that because I would not
sign up for an account just to post a comment and then go on a 10
minute and 21 second spew about how my little one line comments did
not bother him is such a specious feeble argument that I honestly fear
for the paper bag he must be hyperventilating in. I mean, Jesus on a
Popsicle stick, he's looking up my IP address and through server logs
and suggesting I am using some kinda commando browser that hides all
my info. No it is quite obvious that my little one line post(s) at
various notable points of his minutia didn't bother him so much. Who
is that man of mystery, that Box of Frogs? Why does he post on my
site.
No! No! No! It will bother him…nevermore.
Now this brother, who is not at all bothered by all this by the
way, suggests he thinks he knows who I am. As he states he spends only
1 to 3 minutes on something that isn't really worth his time over 3
minutes and 30 seconds into his 10+ minute monologue. Mathematically I
just don't get it but perhaps some scholar out there could bend time
and space for me, thusly reinforcing my talk is cheap (and some
cheaper than others) thesis.
He even suggests that I did not even listen to any of his voice
postings (some of which span close to 30 minutes) while spending a
lengthy 30 minutes on his site, all while sharing his musings with my
colleagues.
Yeah, I'll freely admit it. It was cheap entertainment at his
expense. It was more than 30 minutes too. We had to trade out laptops
as my battery drained but I did use my gmail account to post and the
little chicken (complete with falling sky) did not effort a response
to the obvious email account provided.
It took our friend a little over 5 minutes to identify me as
having a "problem". Full circle up to my paragraph two above, as you
may recall that tried and worn flawed thesis of this fellow brother
which seems to imply "It's not my fault…all you people are wrong".
Why the heck do some people have to drive 3 hours to work? Is New
Hampshire even 3 hours long? Nice job you got there Spanky. You must
be making millions to have to drive 3 hours, spending most of which
trying to say something clever into a recording device.
I am truly and deeply sorry I really didn't spend my "30 minutes"
wading through his 6-8 years worth of hopeless opinions. Please
forgive my heartless actions. I really should have devoted all the
hours a self important person like him deserves. My B.
I'm just a hostile attacking sanitized and compartmentalized
bastard who has been appropriately pigeonholed. God save the Queen.
Not knowing that an "attack" on him may also be a defense of others.
I have been christened in battle. I have been dubbed "the first
MAJOR attack by some douche bag". Can you feel the fear? The word is
mightier than the sword…but don't worry, he wont dwell on it. It wont
bother him. Just like the sands of time…RUST NEVER SLEEPS.
…Evermore