Open Letter to the Next Generation

To Whom It May Concern;

If you are offended by this letter then you need to listen up. If you think this means you it probably does. If you would enjoy the same freedoms I have for almost forty years, maybe you would do well to take my advice to heart.

This goes out to those younger Americans, say, 30 and under who tomorrow will be this nation's leaders. And to them I say: You need to stop playing all of the stupid childish games that now occupy your attention to the exclusion of all else.

What do I mean by this? Well, you need to back the truck up for a moment and realize that you are now on a very short leash on which you are about to choke your fucking selves, because you fail to see it. Your childish behavior and stupid ways are going to trip you up, inevitably.

The reason we keep passing all of these bullshit laws is because YOU are not self-governing.

YOU don't see anything wrong with continuing in your stoner ways. Or contacting the ex girlfriend the judge specifically ordered you to STAY AWAY FROM. You prefer to try to repeal the drug laws which are admittedly way too draconian, and whine about how your life sucks when you are arrested for doing that which you should not do. Breaking the law is one thing but think about why many of those laws are there to begin with.

Its because our government has gotten way too reactionary to the point of trying to be pro-active. It has forgotten that its job is NOT to prevent terrible things but to deal with those who commit them. And if you weren't out there doing terrible things to begin with, we wouldnt have all these bullshit laws now.

People! Your government and judges do NOT CARE ABOUT YOU!!! Wake up and smell the coffee. They dont give a rat's ass about you, your wife, your child, etc. The only thing they give a fuck about is getting re-elected and holding onto the power to fuck your life up. Or more to the point, meting out "justice" when you fuck your own life up.

You can remove their power over your life only by self-governance and realizing that ultimately you will not answer to them but to God. As a society we have forgotten God and lost our fear of doing things we should not do, and our motivation to do the things that we should. Hence we are not out there helping one another but destroying one another through words and actions. We are not building each other up when we are playing games and tearing each other down.

You are ensuring the development of statism by taking God out of the equation altogether and making the government your higher power to which you will answer. As Lord Acton once wrote, "Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely." Its not just abortion and homosexual marriage; that was just the starting point. You will surrender your freedom when you put the government in charge of every aspect of your life. Divorce, child custody, restraining orders, visitation, division of property, etc. By committing sexual crimes you give them power to determine where you will live, where you will work, and possibly for the rest of your life.

It's when you go above and beyond the call of duty that the government loses its power, maybe not over your person but definitely over your spirit. Too many times I have seen lives broken and eyes heavy with tears because of the consequences the person must bear for their own misbehavior. They want to hang you. Stop giving them rope!!!!

Each time I have gone to court for some matter, I have won, because if you show the law your on the side of the law, then the law is on your side. If you do things that are against the law then the law will not be in your favor...

And against things such as mercy, compassion, love, faith, hope... there is no law.

Wake up and let the Spirit lead you out of this!!! Only when more people do this... will the need for letters such as this one be negated.

America is quickly becoming a no-man's land because of the notion that it's every man for himself. Its up to you to change it. You have the chance.

WEINERGATE and how the Press has GOBBLED IT UP

This is probably the oldest story in the book had it not been for the man's last name...

Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York said today he has engaged in "several inappropriate" electronic relationships with six women over three years, and that he publicly lied about a photo of himself sent over Twitter to a college student in Seattle over a week ago.

"I take full responsibility for my actions," Weiner said. "The picture was of me, and I sent it."

The announcement came as ABC News prepared to release an interview with Meagan Broussard, a 26-year-old single mother from Texas who provided dozens of photos, emails, Facebook messages and cell phone call logs that she says chronicle a sexually-charged electronic relationship with Weiner that rapidly-evolved for more than a month, starting on April 20, 2011.

View an exclusive slideshow of images obtained by ABC News.

ABC News reached out to Weiner earlier today for comment about his possible ties to Broussard, but he did not respond to requests for an interview. At a press conference later, Weiner confirmed Broussard was one of the women with whom he sexted.

Broussard's story had threatened to expose the secret online life of one of the House Democrats' most popular members, and a man many considered a leading candidate for mayor of New York City.

It also raised new questions about Weiner's explanation for how a photo of a man's groin area ended up on his public Twitter feed on May 27. Today the congressman said he accidentally sent the image to a woman, Gennette Cordova, who was following him on Twitter, as a joke.

Man shows picture of his hot dog to woman, man gets busted, man tries to lie his way out of it, man gets busted again, man finally admits he is a lying sack of rat guts and cat vomit and is thoroughly chastened, but won't step down. This was first brought to you by none other than Slick Willie (William Jefferson Clinton, former President, now a wrinkled old fart you wish would just shut up and die, Jimmy Carter Jr)




I don't think there is a man alive who hasn't at some point said "Look, here is my package!!!! Ain't it great!!!!" Synapse fails to see the big deal here. Perhaps if money were involved, as with the John Edwards scandal, then I could see making such a big deal out of it. As it is, dunderheads come in all walks of life. Only Edwards wasn't going to get out of his peccadilloes what the other guy did and that is becoming the laughingstock of the whole nation. After all, no one ever referred to a penis as an "Edwards":)

Perhaps if Weiner had the common sense to know that the mere mention of his name in connection with his improperly packaged hot dog was going to elicit such sniggering and outright laughter after he spent a week whining that his Twitter was hacked but he couldn't say with certitude it was not a picture of him, then he might never have done it. We can go on and on and on saying that such locker room behavior has no place in the halls of Congress, etc. etc. etc. but the fact remains you can't polish a turd. Nor can you fix stupid.

And the press has now dubbed the whole affair "Weinergate". Which is an obvious play on the first widely publicized scandal of "Watergate". Perhaps there should be a new nickname for this one and that would be "Whinergate".

But seriously. I will never be able to eat another hot dog again without remembering this story. :)

back online

Synapse is back after a few fucked up months long hiatus. I feel bad because the hard drive on my old laptop was going south for a few months and the last one to touch it before it cried uncle was my daughter.

Naturally she took the lion's share of the blame for it. But ol Synapse stepped up and told everyone No... the computer was preparing to shit the bed long beforehand.

When I find new material to gripe about I will let you know. In the meantime, I'm grappling with terminal illness both in myself and in the spouse. Its a funny thing to go to the hospital in an ambulance waiting for six hours, watching a packed waiting room trickle down to almost empty and your still waiting. Fucking Obamacare. Hey that didn't take long ;)