Hardcore Mind

Fear

Fear The Muslims are out to get us The sheep look up to the TV with fear The Jihad will blow up a bus The sheep are restless and scared   You might have a heart attack anytime The sheep run to the doctor in fear You could die while still in your prime The [...]

Sometimes I just want to scream

The picture below was posted on a Facebook page that one of my FB “friends” liked. Once again perpetuating the myth that all Muslims hate America, are terrorist and “hate us for our freedoms”. That they want to invade the US, convert or kill all the Christians and put a mosque on every corner. Of [...]

Panem et circenses

Panem et circenses or “Bread and Circuses”: “the phrase is used to describe the creation of public approval, not through exemplary or excellent public service or public policy,  but through diversion; distraction; or the mere satisfaction of the immediate, shallow requirements of a populace, as an offered “palliative.” This phrase is attributed to Juvenal who [...]

Your “Rights”

The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution and The Bill of Rights. Documents that founded the United States of America. Documents that resulted in the deaths of thousands of patriots who were willing to die for what those documents meant to them, their families and their country. Documents that, I’m afraid, are fading into history as [...]

Change you can control

Everybody has heard the Serenity Prayer: “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, The courage to change the things I can, And the wisdom to know the difference” True words to live by regardless of your religion, or lack of same. How much time do we spend focused on trying [...]

Laws and freedom

I was reading today some articles about laws in the USA, one in particular was about laws in most states that regulate the degree of tinting you can have on your car windows. The amount of laws in the US increases daily and yet, people still maintain they are free. You are free as long [...]

Distracted driving

I work in Egypt and spend most of my time there. About every 3 months I get back to the US and there is always an adjustment to driving in the USA versus Egypt. In Egypt there are few traffic rules it seems and the ones that are posted or known about are largely ignored. [...]

Crazy

Crazy What does it mean to be crazy or to be called crazy?   Well, there are many synonyms for the word crazy but one of the antonyms is “normal” so it would stand to reason that abnormal would also be synonymous with the word crazy.   So for my purposes, I’m going to use [...]

Continuous bullshit….

For those that don’t know, I spend much of my time in Egypt with limited TV watching opportunities. A few channels in English usually is either movies or old US reruns. I watch news rarely, and pay little attention to it on the popular websites. I’m in the USA now for a conference, sitting in [...]

The land of the constantly afraid?

Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. Wars are no longer [...]