Real Name: Hal von Luebbert Gender: male Member Since: June 25, 2008 Last Signed In: November 21, 2008 Profile Views: 241 Blog Views: 1434 Lots of laughs . . . I get a lot of laughs . . . Just came back to see what everyone is saying about the Swan Song. Obama, McCain, SITREP - Things for a Thoughtless Nation to Think About. SITREP - "What Happened?!" Following the Historical Trail to a Disaster. SITREP - continued 9/22/08 June 08 July 08 August 08 September 08 October 08 November 08 
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A Trip to Ohio, a Judo Seminar, and Microcosmic Views of a Decaying Nation
My recent trip to Ohio for a judo seminar saw me continue my proclivity for personally investigating the truth of matters. Having been alerted by a recent experience at the local Wal-Mart, wherein the pump said the gallon container had required 1.12 gallons of gas to fill (I paid, in reality for an extra 1.2 gallons in filling my ten gallon tank), I tested each pump selling me gasoline during the trip. The microcosmic experience revealed much about the United States of America and its now rapid deterioration.
During the trips first to Grove City, Ohio, then to Lubbock, Texas to pick up the grandkids and return to Port Lavaca, we refilled repeatedly (eleven time, total), first filling the gallon container in order to test the pump's accuracy. In eight of ten instances, the pump would have cheated us by as much as 1.5 gallons. We would, that is, have paid for one and a half gallons we didn't get. In the most egregious instance, that means we actually paid $4.40 per gallon, instead of the $4.04 the seller's billboard blazoned.
In one instance in Missouri, a place where service by an attendant was required, the latter refused to let me fill up the gallon container first and refused to sell me gasoline (guess what he was hiding).
At Junction, Texas, the TransAmerica manager (where we check two pumps before deciding we had no alternative to purchase there) registered interesting facial expression betrayal when I informed him concerning our tests and his pumps.
This, of course, is "America." It is the corporate capitalism we all profess to worship - at least until we have become its victim. Of course, it has a remedy, the remedy my story here suggests. Where possible (we quickly stopped using more than a half tank of gasoline before stopping for a refill, that in order to be able to go on to a more honest pump), wife Rita and I simply refused to be cheated.
There's more: unable because of schedule to install the new Brown's gas converters I am developing, we drove the entire distances at 55 miles per hour, letting speed on hills bleed off while climbing and accelerate on downhill distances. We shut the engine off at stop signs, drove on tires inflated to 35 lbs./sq. in. Our mileage during the nearly 3,000 mile trip was better than 40 miles per gallon (on flat stretches, half tanks of fuel averaged 42.4 miles per gallon).
How important are things like fighting back by means like these - even controlling one's speed on the highway? Just this: If the nation would do the same as Rita and I did during our recent travel, the savings - and the economic pressure on the oil industry and the government who profits by the former's excesses would amount to something in excess of thirty-five percent of present costs for fuel. Were the nation's motoring public to switch to the new (actually, very old - which also should tell you something) Brown's Gas technology, the nation's public might well obtain the political power (in a democracy, the people have political power, in a plutocracy, only the rich have political power) necessary to change things.
One thing more, in passing: This, of course, is a male - "alpha" male, some would say - reaction. Men - that's the old-fashioned, John Wayne sort like me, men like those I grew up among - fight back with action. Women fight with talk, discussion; and anyone paying any attention at all to events these days will recognize the degree to which we have become effeminized. With the nation's infrastructure literally crumbling under and around us, we talk and discuss. With eighty-eight percent of the public disapproving of government - increasingly aware, that is, of the truth about those who supposedly represent us there - we talk and discuss. With seventy-eight percent of us now desirous of ending the blood-bath misadventure of Iraq, we talk and discuss fecklessly - effeminately.
In a nation staggering under the fuel costs feeding corporate greed, we drive ninety miles per hour, and talk - whine fecklessly and effeminately - about the price of gasoline.
During the trip I refer to here, vehicle after vehicle - all kinds from compact car to "eighteen wheeler," shot by us at ninety mph (that's timed and clocked point to point). Another way to say the same thing is "drove demand and price as high as possible." The reason, in my view, is a driver rendered little more than a child by his obsessive, sociologically softened, inability to discipline himself. Reared in a nation effeminized, convinced that all reality including behavior can be modified by talk - "counseling" - he does what he feels like doing, rather than what an effective mind might tell him to do.
Just before arriving home, an SUV driven by a youth talking on his cell phone and talking simultaneously (ever wonder about all those new “descansos” on straight, level stretches of roadway?) to pals in the rear of the vehicle nearly collided with the rear of our car as it rocketed along the four lane, divided highway. When I, watching his approach in the rear-view mirror and expecting until the last minute to have him pass us, swerved at the last possible minute to avoid him, the youth in the passenger side front seat gave us the digitus impudens, middle finger salute as they hurtled by.
I speak often of microcosms, the small effect that betrays cause and effect much, much larger. The small whisper that is the gallon gas can test, and the cowardly gesture that is the middle finger salute from a car speeding past its recipient, roar thunderously concerning a nation effeminized, a nation of "girly-men."
We are the way we are, having lost our great democracy and its position of world knight errant, because we have permitted ourselves to become a nation and society castrated. John Wayne is dead, and so is the ideal he represented.
So. But. I hail from a state (Iowa) whose motto is “Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain.” I don’t surrender – to anyone - anything that is mine without a fight. Let the word, therefore, go our far and wide that when you attack me, Hal Luebbert, there will be a counter-attack. It will be real, not mere talk and discussion; and D***** well not the middle finger salute from a car speeding by. It’s always been that way; it will always be that way, until I die. The effeminized nation, with its morality and will crumbling like its highways, bridges, and infrastructure otherwise, its female “leaders,” its female police, firefighters, and soldiers, its foundering and wallowing educational system, its appallingly spastic legal system, etc, etc, etc, might do well to consider that there may remain many like me. I'm not vain enough to think that I'm the only one of my breed still extant.
When, just for one instance among all those to which I have alluded here, you have decided in your “talk and discuss,” our-of-contact-with-all-reality, manner that my individual right to self defense with a firearm is like corporal punishment in our schools - too masculine, too “macho,” that is - remind yourself that the right guaranteed by the Second Amendment will remain. Rights, you know, are given by God, not granted by Congresses, especially those mentally and philosophically degraded by the presence of women and effeminate males. Rights are not something that can be taken away by way of talk and discussion. When they are taken away – or lost by those base enough to yet remain alive – it is by force, action.
There are those like me who will resist, in other words, banding together if necessary. When your modern-day, lady cop shows up, contemptuously expecting us to yield to the decision of talk and discussion and hand over to you his right to freedom and the self defense without which all freedom becomes mere illusion, you will receive an object lesson in "sexism." That particular microcosm of society, together with that which is the history of feminism here in the Land of the Free become the Land of the Fee, will - ought - tell you about the macrocosm, the rest of today’s issues, too. Politic, posture, vote all you like; but realize that rights stolen by democratic process are rights nevertheless stolen - i.e., despotism. Like the technological and political power only recently given women by men, the power of talk and discussion capable of depriving more natural society of what it has been given by God or earned with its male muscle can become sufficiently oppressive to warrant in the minds of those less effeminate (and, hence, more physical) fierce, stubborn, determined - male, that is - resistance.
In short, the male mind, will, and muscle that won this nation may yet very well take it back. In fact, unless it does, it will be lost to us all, anyway. Think about it. To do that, you’ll need to read history; it might help – if he’s old enough - to listen to your grandfather, too.
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posted by
BIGJ
on Aug 3, 2008 at 08:40 PM
Spock, Mr. Luebbert, I am sorry but the return to the 1950’s is not the solution to the problem. When I talk to my grandfather, great aunts and uncles they tell me of hard times etc. This is why your return to the 1950’s is questionable in my eyes. One point I would make is that the modern feminist movement was born during the dark days of World War II. You had women in factories and shops (replacing their men) being sexually harassment, abuse, etc. Indeed the chickens are coming home to roost. This country deserves the problems today because of its sins of the past. The sad thing is that people won’t admit it. I bet you won’t admit it either. I do not want to seen as disrespectful, but I think it is best to aim for the future and not the dark days of 1950’s and 1960‘s. About the last angry man, I would/will play that role. I think it WILL matter either way. I think it is time to end the soccer mom movement as well as the macho man. It was the macho man mentally that got us into Iraq. It was the Soccer mom/feminist mentally that got us into our energy crisis. That’s why 2010 may be the year, my hat drop in the ring. posted by
OLDRUSTYBUCKET1
on Aug 3, 2008 at 06:35 PM
HAL: Your part about female cops reminded me of a humorous event that occurred in Mississippi. I don't remember whether she was a deputy sheriff or highway patrol officer. Evidently she was so impressed with "her authority" that a guy stopped for a traffic infraction got so tired of her crap that he overpowered her, handcuffed her to the push bars or grill of her cruiser. After he stripped her naked he used her radio to tell her department where to find her.
posted by
Spock
on Aug 3, 2008 at 12:13 PM
BIG, I do indeed advocate a return to the fifties (the sixties started the decay to which I refer here). As Tom Brokaw observed in his book by the same name, it was the "Greatest Generation" - the people who taught me most of what I know that's of real importance. Feminism did indeed contribute more than anything else to the destruction of the U.S., destroying as it did the male influence that made the U.S. the most socially advanced and, therefore, most powerful nation ever. I remember, you see, a nation rooted in male concepts of honor, duty, and integrity (the John Wayne Ideal to which I made reference in my essay here). All of that and more so related came under cynical and relentless attack during the sixties - the time of rampant feminism and its overt efforts to destroy what they called male dominance. Their success, unfortunately for their children and grandchildren - and for them - means the end of everything that gave them the power that energized their movement. One can only wonder, once they have returned themselves to the degradation and squalor their sisters elsewhere in the world endure, if they will recognize who it was that proved to be their ruin. And if I happen to be the "last angry man," so be it. It won't matter a hell of a lot, either way. posted by
BIGJ
on Aug 3, 2008 at 12:00 AM
Ernie, I am somewhat surprise that you made a reference about my threats to challenge a public official in 2010. I really want to know are you that scared or is it that I anger you? Ernie you do not know my politics. Read my New Society blog for its worth instead of bashing me over little errors. It is obvious that you have some prejudice against me. If Mr. Hal von Luebbert wants to run for that office, then great, someone need to challenge the person (s) in question. That would be better than having round after round of unopposed elections. As the young buck in here (26 years of age), I do agree 50% with Spock aka Mr. Luebbert. The main problem is FEMEMISM. I think we all know this. The solution to the problem is the women themselves. Hip Hop artist David Banner said it best, “if you wanna stop the problem, then closes your legs, ladies.” Most of these women are not looking for sperm donors, but they draw their attention to the bottom. This is why there are a lot of single mothers. Unlike Mr. Luebbert, I believe in hope, not the talk of a "decaying society". Mr. Luebbert, it seems that he wants the return of the 1950’s and 1960’s. Leave it to Beaver days. I believe that this community, this state, and this nation need is to renew itself. The Era of Good Feeling renewed America only to end by the slavery issue, Mexican wars, and other issues. As what I told Rust Bucket in my blog, most people are not aware of the RFID computer chips in clothing. Second , there are rumors that the Texas Department of Agriculture will try to implant livestock with those chips. This is one of the reasons why I am making threats to run. Most of the politicians and policy makers are either lawyers or businessmen. As what I told fellow blogger Kenneth Schustereit in his blog. Nobody, in the Texas government, never have clean toilets, teach someone's else children, take someone else’s trash, and do construction work for a living. Most of them have been pushing pencils. Pushing them right up our collective colons. Everyone in the Texas Senate and House would say “we represent the people“. I am like this, Kenneth. If you want to change things and to better society then you must understand the people. If you want to end crime, then you must gain knowledge from the criminal. If you want to end poverty, then hang out with the poor and the Have-nots. If you want to upheld and strengthen civil rights then you must hang out with the African-American, the Hispanic American, and the like. If you want to end the abortion issue, then you understand the needs of the woman as well as the unborn and the moral complexity of it. Someone in college told me that there are three types of people in politics. The first one is the opportunist, who rather play politics over policy to in order to gain seats for his/her party. Then you have the activist, who are more about bomb throwing than creating policy. Last you have the brown noser, who rather follows than being independent and led. The problem is that he forgot about the fourth and lesser known element. The last angry man element. The last angry man was there shouting when it is stated that the war in Iraq was unjust. He were there making noise about the illegal immigration problem. He was pounding the table, when TDOT under Governor Rick Perry tried to introduced the North American Union projects into Texas. The last angry man is upon us and people need to elect that person. posted by
Spock
on Aug 2, 2008 at 07:26 PM
I happen to be well aware of John Wayne's history. The reference was not to the man himself, but to the characters he portrayed and the symbol he became. Had I used Jim Bowie of Davy Crockett, even a medal of honor winner like Roy Benavidez - had I used Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, a Founding Father, or Abraham LIncoln - someone would find flaws in their actual character, and seek thereby to defeat the point I try to make. The fact remains that the characters John Wayne played in the movies were the role models our youth desperately needs. Heroes these day, after all and thanks to feminism's cynical effort to destroy male role models, aren't what they need to be. Like the Land of the Free become the Land of the Fee, they have been cancerously altered. Like Delilah destroyed Samson, feminists have destroyed the nation that was their greatest friend, ever. Thanks, everyone, for your interest. posted by
OLDRUSTYBUCKET1
on Aug 2, 2008 at 07:05 PM
SICCUM HAL: Good post. About this effeminized country of ours, I blame a lot of it on the sperm donors who've abandoned their families and/or their inseminated girl friends. I'm not putting down single moms, particularly young widows, struggling to give decent homes to their kids so all you thinking I am can forget that. It's obvious these gals are better off without sorry, no good partners. Someone impossible to live with deserves what she gets but the kids don't. However, if there's no man around to teach the boys "man things" what else can we expect? These gals who're selfish enough to want a baby bad enough to get PG just so she can have "someone to love" but no husband are ruining their kids' lives and maybe the lives of any grandparents who're saddled with the little shavers when they aren't physically or financially able to do so.One of the most pathetic guys I know of was hatched by a 40s something single mom whom we suspect had to pay a guy to impregnate her. Raised (if that's the correct term here) by this mom and a 70s something grandma was the stupidest thing I ever saw. I firmly believe that mama would've run barefooted through 50 yards of broken glass at his slightest whimper. He was more tolerable when she wasn't around. He was five when he stayed at our place while his mama went fishing. A two year old girl "terrorized" him all the time we were gone. He was probably ten when his mom, rather than let him ride with the other kids, drove him maybe 100 miles on a Sunday afternoon to a church camp. She called so many times to check on him and probably give "care instructions" that the priest called her Tuedsay night to, "..come get him and quit bothering us." Our kids were in high school when we asked them what they'd think about taking the kid to raise. Our son retorted vehemently, "I'd kill the little bas----." So much for that idea. That guy is now an irresponsible daddy whose mom takes care of his kid. She's scared to death her son will kill her some day if she crosses him somehow. Ain't he a real man? posted by
ragman
on Aug 2, 2008 at 04:19 PM
Be careful what you wish for Ernie. I always enjoy your blogs Mr. von Luebbert. I was shocked to read you think that Marion Robert Morrison is a man like you. I have much more respect for you. Ole' John was an actor--those were characters he played. He never served his country except to mouth off about things he had no Idea about; unless it was written on a page. John Ford (one of the greatest directors ever and Naval Officer) implored him to join the military during WWII like he and many others did. Wayne refused because he thought it might ruin his career. I have much more respect for REAL men like James Stewart and Henry Fonda, who met the call of their country. But, John F--ing Wayne, please! My lord, even Art Carney (aka"Norton") who was wounded at Normandy is a better example of manhood. Or Mel Brooks, but Wayne, no sir. All hat and no cattle. I disagree here......................................... But I agree--don't take crap off of anyone. That gets me in trouble, but so what. I am sorry honey! I know people love their mythology. So Now. Prepare for attack mode. posted by
ErnieCash
on Aug 2, 2008 at 03:31 PM
Well said, Mr. Luebbert. I'd certainly be pleasantly surprised to hear you announce your candidacy for public office in the near future. I'd be even more pleased if it happened to be the same office as someone else amongst us who's been threatening to do so was vying for. Ernie
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