On The Hustings

It Has Been A While…

My last post was a little over a year ago. I was not in a great place, in all aspects of my life, but things are better now, I’m glad to report. I am working again, (in a field I had never considered), and am enjoying immensely! The not only employed but in a field, a company and a role that gives me he fog that had veiled my mind has lifted and things are sunny again, and I have a renewed…

[Blog] On The Hustings: Liberty the Loser

Democracy is great, unless its your team is on the wrong side of the results. For those of us independents, or invested in a “3rd party”, (Libertarian, Green, etc.), we feel like Democrats do today – and Republicans did this time two years ago – every election.

In America we vote not only on our various traditional political positions, (President, State Governor, State Treasurer, etc.), but also…

Sitting on the porch, sipping coffee, contemplating life and realizing I am slowly learning life’s lessons, but they are very expensive ones that leave me indebted in ways I never thought imaginable and to which I can only strive to repay.

Some of the problem is the transition between being a man of limited thoughts and ideologies to one of free thoughts, ideas and actions. The Christianity I…

[Blog] On The Hustings: I know An Old Lady Who Sat Idly By - #Benghazi #parody

There was an old lady who sat idly by. I don’t know why she sat idly by – It’s agist to ask her why!

There was an old lady who ignored pleas for help, The emails and phone calls and memoranda for help; She ignored the pleas and sat idly by; I don’t know why she sat idly by – It’s sexist to ask her why!

There was an old lady who helped blame a YouTube video; How absurd to blame a YouTube video!. Sh…

[Blog] On The Hustings: Just Not Happening...

I finished my last entry with the line

I think it is time I looked over them all, pick one and take the plunge, finally listen to the decades old advice of my family and start regaining that self-worth I’ve been missing for so long…

Come on, its easy, right…

Pick an idea.

Open up a Kickstarter or Indiegogo page to raise $$$.

Sell product(s) on Etsy, etc.

Make some money.

Like I said. Easy.

Excep…

[Blog] On The Hustings: Time To Succumb And Jack In The Cubicle...?

I’ve been unemployed a good long while now. Being unemployed as a married man with commitments is different to when I was in the same circumstances as a young twenty-something, still living at home with Mum. Being unemployed as a married man is depressing.

Sorry. That’s the truth of it.

In 2007, I was desperately looking around for another job whilst working out the remaining time with a company…

[Blog] On The Hustings: Little Hitlers - #MakeASongDepressing #TCOT #TLOT #P2

Little Hitlers in government, Little Hitlers made of bureaucracy, Little Hitlers, Little Hitlers, Little Hitlers all the same. There’s a boy one and a girl one And a black one and a white one, And they’re all made of bureaucracy And they all act just the same.

The Little Hitlers in government All went on the training course, And became slaves to bureaucracy, And they all came out the same. There’s…

[Blog] On The Hustings: Oligarchy In The USA - #MakeASongDepressing #TCOT #TLOT #P2

I am an antichrist! I am an oligarchist! Yes, I know what I want And I know how to get it. I wanna destroy liberty!

‘Cause I wanna be oligarchy. Make you my dogsbody!

Oligarchy for the USA! It’s been here some time and maybe It’ll stay a long time. Ensure freedom’s decline. Your future dream Is a Survivor scene.

‘Cause I love to see oligarchy! In the D.C.!

So many ways to get what I want. I use…

[Blog] On The Hustings: Abraham Lincoln Speech in Lewiston IL on August 17th 1858 -

“The Declaration of Independence was formed by the representatives of American liberty from thirteen States of the Confederacy, twelve of which were slaveholding communities. We need not discuss the way or the reason of their becoming slave-holding communities. It is sufficient for our purpose that all of them greatly deplored the evil and that they placed a provision in the Constitution which…

[Blog] On The Hustings: Maybe Arthur Jesus Is Better Than None!

In late 2009, I lost a pretty incredible job. It wasn’t the paid at the top rate in its industry, by any means, but it was the best wage I’d ever earned and it was a job that I was a natural fit for, (in fact, I had applied and interviewed for a different position, but some test results had the HR and management at the company ask me to me re-interview, for this other job!). The people were, on…

[Blog] On The Hustings - I (American) Dreamed A Dream...

There was a time when life seemed kind Its circumstances soft And the future inviting There was a time when life was blind And the world was a song And the song was exciting There was a time Then it all went wrong

I dreamed a dream in time gone by When hope was high And life worth living I dreamed that youth would never die I dreamed that God would be forgiving

Then I was young and unafraid So…

[On The Hustings] Woe, Woe and Thrice Woe... - | AKA Shit Just Keeps Getting Better

Well, well…

As if one of my recent entries, concerning our financial situation, wasn’t whiny and self-centered enough, in Monday’s mail we got two awesome letters that will provide more “woe is me” drama.

Firstly, I managed to get our disconnection notice for our natural gas delayed two weeks. That was the good part, the bad part of this is that in a letter we received Monday, we have to pay the…

Dudge OH Politics:

Amen…

Originally posted on Fuzzy Logic:

Dear America,

I look at you sometimes, lately, and I wonder who you are.  Remember when God, family, flag and country mattered to you?  Remember when you were a melting pot, welcoming legal immigrants into your expansive embrace?  Remember when that meant that people who chose, of their own free will, to come here had to assimilate into…

Dudge OH Politics:

I know exactly where this writer is coming from, right at this moment…

Originally posted on A GIRL CALLED JACK:

I didn’t manage to say very much on Channel 5′s The Big Benefits Row, beyond an opening remark about people not being able to just rock up to a food bank with a carrier bag and help themselves. I started to talk about the Trussell Trust when Edwina Currie, also on…

[Blog] On The Hustings: Not Lazy, But Disheartened - #TLOT #TCOT #TGDN

Our side of the aisle often likes to portray those receiving unemployment insurance as lazy ne’er-do-wells who aren’t interested in a job. Whilst there may well be some recipients who are like this, there are others who do not fit this mold.

Something that never seems to be addressed about long-term unemployment is the effect it has on the confidence & psyche of those in that position. I can…

[Blog] On The Hustings: The Wolf Speaks To America From 1000 Years Ago - #CCOT #TCOT #TLOT

This Christmas, I treated myself to Melvyn Bragg’s book The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language. I started reading it immediately. I’m only a few chapters in, but I thoroughly recommend the book for any English speaker.

Although I am not a…

[Blog] On The Hustings: How Is This Administration So Blasé Over The #Benghazi Incident? - #TLOT #TCOT

Late this past November, it was reported that the British government had made overtures of an official protest after claiming that Spanish authorities had opened a diplomatic bag that was in transit between Gibraltar and the UK.

From the linked article:

O…