Kevin's Comments - About all things inconsequential or not

"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger" ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

I have often used this personal philosophy to comfort, encourage, motivate myself... knowing full-well that after years and years of use, the therapeutic aspects are very much worn and the more important asset is endurance and not strength.

"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering" ~
Friedrich Nietzsche

This Nietzsche guy sure could minimize life... I wonder if he would have waxed so prophetic if he lived in the 21st Century?

"When you look into an abyss... " ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Yeah, yeah... the abyss also looks into you. I think I'd stop payment on my co-pay if this was the advise I was being given.

"Surviving a jump into the abyss may not kill you and may make you stronger, but the lesson doesn't come from the jumping, the abyss, or the survival... it comes from understanding the lapse in character that allowed you to jump in the first place." ~ Kevin L Kalmes

So, what you don't allow to kill you only proves your strength comes from within and not from circumstances beyond or even in your control.

You don’t wake up one day a bad person. It happens by 1,000 tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest. ~ R. Brault

First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out–
because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out–
because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out–
because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out–
because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me–
and there was no one left to speak out for me... Martin Niemöller





Hello, my friend... you are heads and clouds above those who think compassion is a pillow too soft, empathy a weakness saved for stray dogs and horses, respect comes from a leather belt, sacrifice is expected from others, and generosity is a character-flaw... we know about shared sacrifice and shared prosperity.

We give all that we have and more than we receive in return... and for this we feel blessed!

If everyone embodied this gracious charity my friend, how would we shine above all others!

As conspiratorial as it sounds... it is about the deconstucting of the middle-class! Privatization of American jobs and professions that can't be sent overseas like teachers and education, security and prisons, public-private partnerships to build and run highways, private and foreign sector ownership of America's infrastructure.

Want to know why the Republicans won't support infrastructure job programs? Because investment firms including Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and the Carlyle Group benefit from the decay of America's infrastructure driving values down allowing purchases at the lowest price possible maximizing returns for their investors.

We will soon be paying Wall Street investors, Australian bankers, and Spanish contractors for the privilege of driving on American roads, as more than twenty states have enacted legislation allowing public-private partnerships to build and run highways. ~ ProjectCensored.org

Making Education Inconsequential

How does making our educators 'enemies of the state" promote the American Dream? How did teachers become the scapegoats for spending proliferation and billions of dollars in state deficits?

John Kuhn, superintendent of the Perrin-Whitt Consolidated Independent School District in North Texas... at a Texas Save Our School rally at Austin, Texas in March.

I stand before you today proudly bearing the label of unacceptable because I educate the children they will not educate. I, day after day, take these children broken by the policies adopted by the people in this building, and I glue their pieces back together. And at the end of my life you can say those children were better for passing through my sphere of influence. I am unacceptable and proud of it. Look around you. Public school teachers, you are the saviors of our society and always have been. You are the first responders standing in this rubble while they sit in their offices and write judgmental things about you on their clip boards. You are our heroes, and 27 billion is not near enough for what you're worth. You are priceless, public school teachers of Texas. Fear Not. This is our eternal glory.

It is ours to educate. I will march into that classroom full of children who need me. I will walk proudly into that classroom.

Bail out the bankers and bankrupt the teachers. We will still teach. I'm not in it for the money. I'm not in it for the benefits. I'm in it because it is right. I'm in it because the children... need somebody like me in their lives. I will Teach these kids.

Read more: Matt Damon Can't Save the Schools http://huff.to/qiHAzv

How naive we all are to imagine it's about the teachers... it's about privatizing education! It's about busting unions and bringing another group of Americans to their knees.

Governor Rick Perry announced his campaign for president in a speech to the RedState Gathering in Charleston, S.C., “I’ll promise you this,’’ he said, “I’ll work every day to try to make Washington, DC, as inconsequential in your life as I can.’’

And then he will work with the RWGOPTP's to make your life as inconsequential as he can while they deconstruct the middle-class one hardworking American at a time!