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You have finally landed on the one page on this entire site (and on the entire internet for that matter) that is purely without bullshit... my soapbox page. There are a lot of times during our show that, whether it's because of time constraints and other obligations, I don't always get to address some issues that I feel don't get the attention they deserve. There are even more times when I just don't feel like waiting until the show the next day to get some things off my chest. Thus, I have started the "Rob's Soapbox" page. If you have clicked on this page looking for someone to coddle your fragile sense of self-esteem, or tell you what you want to hear or to reinforce your outdated world view, then exit this page right now and go somewhere else. If you are in search of the last forum for reason and common sense left in the world, then sit back, relax, and enjoy. I make only one promise with this soapbox page... if you read long enough and often enough, you will eventually be offended. So here's my latest soapbox. Listen up, 'cause you just might learn something... |
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January 12th, 2009 THE WORLD WE DON'T LIVE IN I have made no secret of the fact, (long before the economic “crisis” that befell the United States, by the way), that Americans today are spoiled, ignorant, arrogant, thankless cretins who are born into the greatest nation on Earth with almost no knowledge of what it took to make this country as great as it is. Furthermore, they lack the desire to learn what everyone from George Washington to their own grandfather created, sacrificed, attempted, and achieved in order to make this the country that is the envy of the globe. When something goes wrong in America today, these same cretins immediately decry what a rotten country we are. One bridge in Minnesota tumbles and we’re told the nation is a total dump heap. A radical nut job at Virginia Tech University shoots three dozen people and we’re told that we’re a barbaric, gun-addicted country living on borrowed time until our next civil war. The greatest economic boom in the history of the world hiccups and we’re told it is America’s second great depression, despite all facts to the contrary. This is the America we live in today; dumber than a box of hair, with no desire to learn, only a desire to be told. People in this nation don’t want to think, they want to follow. “Please, oh mighty media and leaders of our nation,” we say as a collective group of dolts, “tell me what has happened and what you are going to do to fix it without causing me any strife in my life so that we can get back to the latest episode of the Mentalist.” Primarily, I have always lectured on this absurdity as it relates directly to the United States of America and its own history. I admit that I am ardently pro-America and I make no apologies for that. I will proudly argue with my whack-job friends for hours on end who wants to claim anything less of this great nation. Our country would be far better off if their were more people once again willing to publicly and proudly proclaim out loud that America is the greatest nation on earth and is the solution to, not cause of, most of the world’s problems. It is because of this view I hold of our country that I simply don’t understand how people that are so fortunate to have been born here (something they had nothing to do with, I might add) have no desire to learn what makes this nation so great; or, more sickening, why such people lack the motivation to work to make the country greater. Rather, they just want to sit back and reap the rewards of those who came before them; scumbags. For now, though, I want to most past America proper. There is a far more simple way than learning America’s history to appreciate what you have. When you read or watch the news and hear how bad America has it today, there is an immediate answer to the question “how can it get any worse?” There is a way that you can educate yourself right now, with almost no work on your part as to why America is today, despite what you’re told by others, the single greatest place to be on Earth: Leave. The only thing more stunning than ignorant Americans refusing to learn about this nation are educated Americans who decry how horrible this nation is WHILE LIVING HERE; if the country is sooooooo awful, why not move to one of the obviously far better nations located around the globe? The answer of course is that there is no place greater than America, right now today. I have long been intellectually offended by people who demand that in order to have a well rounded world view you needed to travel abroad. What a crock of crap. The idea that in order to be educated one must see and experience strife, tyranny and famine is one of the biggest loads of dung ever perpetrated upon this nation. I’ve never been to Africa, but I know what a giraffe looks like, thank you very much. Today, more than ever, these cries of the virtues of other nations and traveling to them are beyond sickening, nearing reproach. In the aftermath of 9/11, I publicly stated that I would not be leaving the borders of America anytime in the immediate future; not for reasons of fear or cowardice, but rather for reasons of common sense. It’s a bad time to be an American not in America. More correctly, it’s a bad time to be a non-American any where else but the United States. Spare me your anecdotal and/or personal stories of traveling the globe without incident. I am not an idiot; I recognize that plenty of people (including my own father) have traveled outside of America in the past decade and returned with nothing more than fabulous stories of how glorious the world outside of our country is. Bully for them. I am not telling people not to travel, I am just telling you that I won’t, and furthermore and more to the point, that I am the last person that needs to. I am aware of what a screwed up world it is, while most of you are totally ignorant to how fortunate you are that you rise and sleep under the blanket of freedom that is the United States of America. Right now today the world at all corners is experiencing things unheard of in America, solely because we are such a great nation. Pick up a paper and confirm it and then give some thanks. Thinking of taking an international cruise? Good for you; say hi to the thousands of pirates roaming seas ranging from the Aden to the Mediterranean. Think they won’t hurt you? Awesome; they tried to commandeer a luxury liner in December containing over 1,000 passengers. If they tried it once, they’ll do it until they succeed, especially since more than $50 million has been paid out in the past 12 months by cowardly nations succumbing to terrorism. Saudi Arabia just now got back an oil tanker containing $100 million worth of oil by paying a $3 million ransom. I wonder; if the largest oil producing nation on the planet takes 2 months to rescue $100 million worth of oil, how long would it take all of the nations on earth to rescue 1,000 people from 50 different countries stranded at sea? Have fun finding out the answer. Perhaps you fancy a trip closer to home? Great idea; might I suggest Mexico; a nation literally on the brink of all out, full fledged civil war ands decimation (yes, literally). Imagine the ignorance of our country that we pay no attention as a people to the devastation occurring south of our own border to the tune of thousands of homicides as a result of the greatest power struggle and drug war in Mexico’s modern history. Innocent people are daily being murdered on the streets less than 10 miles south of America, yet our view of the country as a society is Tijuana and Cabo Wabo. Idiots; the war is reaching those places already. Say hi to my grandfather when you get gutted. Incidentally, I would be remiss if I did not point out that almost all of Mexico’s current march towards self obliteration was caused by America and our failed mandate to force ethanol on the world, thus spiking up corn prices to levels unsustainable in nations like Mexico, and creating further poverty and desperation. Ooops, sorry, there I go again laying our facts and knowledge. I apologize; I know you don’t really want to learn so I will just stop now. Far less dramatic examples of the world’s problems being vastly greater than ours are readily available for those of you thirsting for a reason to actually like America; Europe is slowly turning over its society’s to Muslim law and rule with almost no talk of it occurring; most of South and Latin America is experiencing some form of internal war where murder is commonplace; guests at 5-star luxury western resorts in India are targets of mass massacres; most of Greece is rioting; all of the Philippines is at war; Canada’s health system is literally killing its citizens; and let’s not forget all of the gorgeous middle east which is lovely this time of year if you’re a piece of asbestos. Need I mention Africa? America is experiencing a crisis of absolutely no proportion. Our economic situation is no where close to as dire as it was just 30 years ago during the last major recession, yet allowing you to know that truth would either cause you to do some work on your own, or would make politicians and their empty promises meaningless. It is in their best interest to make you believe that they are the answer, as your beloved Barack Obama said just last week in a major speech, “only government,” can save the day. Glory glory hallelujah. If somehow the political wizards are able to avoid completely ruining this nation, America will be fine. Granted, for now, we are all trying to talk ourselves into believing that the worst is inevitable. It isn’t. Perhaps more importantly, whatever the worse is in America will remain now and forever better than most nations’ best. Too bad most Americans are too ignorant and spoiled to know that.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28589917
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