{"id":9705,"date":"2009-09-08T21:04:20","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T04:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=9705"},"modified":"2009-09-09T07:45:47","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T14:45:47","slug":"big-vampire-is-watching-you-but-every-day-is-another-chance-at-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/9705\/big-vampire-is-watching-you-but-every-day-is-another-chance-at-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Vampire is watching you — but every day is another chance at grace"},"content":{"rendered":"

This came in for a trackback on my NAR tax-credit video post:<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/hottopics.blogs.realtor.org\/2009\/09\/08\/\r\nmy-nar-tax-credit-video-“tell-the-natio\/<\/pre>\n
The link resolves to an https address — in other words, a secret inner-sanctum blog. They won’t stand up for themselves in the clean, clear light of day, but they’ll piss and moan to each other in private.<\/p>\n
It’s not that they’re gutless, mind you — or not merely<\/em> gutless. So much the worse, they know they’re wrong — and they still<\/em> won’t do the right thing.<\/p>\n
How horrifying to spend your whole life thinking you’re one of the good guys only to discover that you are every bit as corrupt as Charlie Rangel, immersed snout-deep in the corporate welfare trough, turning a million mostly-innocent entrepreneurs into cheerleaders and lobbyists for even more<\/em> legislative piggishness, turning three hundred million innocent Americans into cannibal’s fodder for your million-vampire-feast.<\/p>\n
Who killed liberty in America, the last best hope for freedom on this Earth?<\/p>\n
Was it Alexander Hamilton and the Whig\/Federalist\/Republican party, the original champions of corporate welfare?<\/p>\n
Was it Andrew Jackson and the Democratic party, who wanted freedom for everyone — so long as you’re not black, brown, red or yellow? Or was it Lyndon Johnson and the modern Democratic party, who want freedom for everyone — provided you’re not an American? <\/p>\n
Or was it the National Association of Realtors, who helped to turn a nation of hard-working, hard-charging, fiercely independent people into a gaggle of sniveling beggars, who can no longer even imagine paying their own way in life, who spend all their time concocting new ways to despoil their neighbors.<\/p>\n
With every passing day, we are that much closer to being a nation of vampires, and it was the National Association of Blood-Sucking Vampires who first taught us to attempt to live by plunder instead of production.<\/p>\n
But as much as I despise what they have done, still I feel for them as people. So I’ll offer up this much as a salve for the scabs they can’t stop themselves from picking at:<\/p>\n
Redemption is egoism in action.<\/p>\n
When you discover you have behaved badly, either willfully or inadvertently, there are three things you must do:<\/p>\n
1. Admit your error Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This came in for a trackback on my NAR tax-credit video post: http:\/\/hottopics.blogs.realtor.org\/2009\/09\/08\/ my-nar-tax-credit-video-“tell-the-natio\/ The link resolves to an https address — in other words, a secret inner-sanctum blog. They won’t stand up for themselves in the clean, clear light of day, but they’ll piss and moan to each other in private. 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