"what's Under My Hat By Monte Tucker

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Howdy friends and neighbors. Come on first Tuesday in November! I have already had about all of the Presidential election I can stand. Surely, somewhere out there in this great nation is a "good ol boy or gal", that is worth voting for. You know, someone that has actually done something, not just talked about what they think they have done. It's only the first quarter in the game between the R's and the D's. Both sides keep talking about the time for change.Just what are they going to change? They obviously haven't changed the game of politics. Billary and Bama Lama Ding Dong boost the word "change" every time I see the media put their face on my boob tube.

The first place they could start changing things would be on the Senate floor that they're already on. Just go and look at their voting records for the last several months and you will find they aren't showing up to vote. You know, the job they campaigned so hard to get by promising " change" but they just don't have the time. McCain isn't immune from this either.

Let's talk "change". What in the workd do these hot air compressors think they are going to change and why? Again, I'm just a professional bovine relocation specialist(it's the 21st century, we used to call them cowboys). But by the way I see it from Sunny Point, Okla., how are they going to change the greatest nation in the world? All of the candidates are demanding we must change! OK, I wake up a free man every morning and I'm free to do anything that is morally right or I can do nothing. If I choose to do something productive that day, well I can whistle at my dog, start up my ol' tan feed truck that I bought with the help of a free enterprising banking system I chose to use. Plus, there's the fact that other free Americans assembled this truck, and the companies that bought, sold and hauled parts and supplies to make tht pickup possible. As I turn the key, ol' tans fires up on diesel fuel that a mean, nasty, big oil company conveniently made very accessible and affordable to me. I turn out of my land that I can freely own, onto a county maintained road that leads to any point in Norht America I would choose to go to that day. Also, in this country, I am free to own livestock and free to care for them so that the livestock will return a profit so I can repay my bank, buy my feed and fuel, and provide for my family. On Sunday Morning (or any other day that ends in"y") my family is free to drive from our house on a ribbon of roads that lead to the Church of our choice and worship the real owner of all things we know, God. We can give praise to Him for all and especially for Jesus.

Why can't these hopefuls for the highest-ranking governmental seat see that it is just that simple???

Provide me with infrastructure and protect me from these knot-headed whack's that think they can take away our freedom. Billary, Bama Mama or McNobrain aren't going to change anything. The foundations of this great country can't be changed by one person, no matter how much they think they can. As Americans, we have the right to succeed or fail and try again as we please. As a free man, I'm getting good at failing but i get smarter when I try again.

When presidential candidates tout change, the only thing I see in this country that needs changing is them. Life in America is good and for those that don't think so, you're free to leave at any time, go to another country of your choice and try to change it.


Monte Tucker writes a weekly column. He is located in western Okla.

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Well said! USA, love it or leave it.

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You Know What's Stupid? Everything I Don't Understand

By Steven Bowman
February 27, 2008 | Issue 44•09

For far too long I've sat idly by, twiddling my thumbs and respecting the right of others to form thoughts and opinions independent of my own, and I can't take it anymore. I've got to speak up about the many things that annoy me or I'm going to go crazy. Take these new credit cards with the microchips in them, for instance. Man, those things really get my goat—trying to improve a device that was working perfectly fine as it was. Even worse are those wrappers on CDs that take forever to open. But you know what I hate the most? The one thing that makes my blood boil whenever I see it? Anything beyond my mental capacity, that's what.

God, all the people, places, and things I haven't made the least bit of effort to comprehend should just die already.

Will you look at all this stuff I have neither the intellect nor the maturity level to process? What a load of crap. It's in my face every day, doing lots of things I don't have an immediate desire to do and saying things I can't identify with at this stage in my life. How lame is that? I mean, what kind of pathetic loser would actually enjoy something that's so incredibly not among my personal preferences? Not me, that's for sure.

Maybe my standards are too high, but if you like any of the hundreds upon hundreds of things that are too multifaceted for my attention span, you should have your head examined, weirdo.

And don't even get me started on complex and sophisticated notions I can't possibly wrap my head around. That stuff makes me want to puke. Just knowing there are people out there who like—actually like—interacting with concepts that overwhelm my feeble consciousness makes me embarrassed to be an American. I don't like it in our homes, I don't like it in our schools, I don't like it outside of my comfort zone—well, I just plain don't like it. And if that makes me closed-minded, well, then I guess I'll have to dismiss that accusation outright in order to avoid being introspective even for a moment.

Why, only yesterday I saw a commercial on TV for a new product I have no immediate use for and therefore cannot see any value in. Who's making this worthless junk? Seriously. If I see one more household appliance I am not mature enough to own or operate, I'm going to punch someone. I swear. Sell that to the suckers with the money and inclination to buy it, because I wouldn't take it off your hands if you gave it to me, provided me with a living situation stable enough to house it, and showed me how to use it in a manner that didn't disrupt any of my cripplingly sedentary lifestyle habits.

Same goes with any TV show, movie, band, solo act, artist, book, burgeoning subculture, celebrity, fashion trend, or religious belief that makes me feel excluded from my peers or otherwise ostracized by the mainstream. That stuff is retarded.

While I'm at it, I'm sick to death of this growing trend of people who don't share my cultural heritage. I don't know how you did things back in that country I never took the time to educate myself about, but around here, we dip our fries in ketchup. That's the way it's always been as far as I know, and that's the way it's going to be until such time as I choose to acknowledge diversity among the earth's 6.6 billion people.

If things don't start changing around here, I might have to up and leave this town. It's gotten to the point where I can't walk down the street without having some flier thrust into my face, advertising some dumb concert or stupid party or annoying art festival or lame-o Minnesota primary or any number of other events that no sane person with a crippling fear of the unknown and a wildly underdeveloped imagination would ever want to go to. I've never been to any of these social gatherings, but I imagine the scores of people who attend them must be total idiots.

You know what? You geeks go knock yourselves out. Really. Have a blast with all your differences in personality and preference. Don't worry about me, because I'll be sitting at home alone listening to the same four records I've been listening to since college, laughing at your expense.

What a bunch of losers.

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In Response to "What's Under My Hat



I thought some of you might enjoy this. A good ol' farm boy from western Oklahoma writes a column like this each week. There is a lot of truth in this, or this is the truth, which ever you perceive.

'What's Under My Hat' by Monte Tucker----------January 28, 2008

Howdy friends and neighbors.. . .





Come on first Tuesday in November! I have already had about all of the Presidential election I can stand. Surely, somewhere out there in this great nation is a 'good ol' boy or gal,' that is worth voting for. You know, someone that has actually done something, not just talked about what they think they have done. It's only the first quarter in the game between the R's and the D's. Both sides keep talking about time for change. Just what are they going to change? They obviously haven't changed the game of politics. Billary and Bama Lama Ding Dong boost the word 'change' every time I see the media put their face on my boob tube.


You know, it's funny, for someone writing a weekly column, you don't show up anywhere in a google search. There are 4 links to blogs posting this letter, but no email address for Monte anywhere as commonly with other writers and press. So, whoever you are (I'll assume Monte), The candidates plan to change a number of things. Number one, the size of government. McCain wants his 100 year wars, which right now cost well over 400 Billion per year. Obama and Clinton plan to take your money to spend it on health care. Now the Federal Government doesn't collect enough money today, so that means they raise taxes or fire up the printing press. If they print more money basic economics tells us, if you have more money ($400B this year) chasing the same amount of goods, what happens to prices? Yes, they go up, currently at the rate of about 10-12% per year. Yet, the government reports inflation at 3-4%, by screwing with the items included in the CPI index.
You don't think politicians would fix the numbers so they don't have to pay such large cost of living increases to the millions on social security do you? No, they would much rather spend that on projects that benefit themselves and their friends, leaving the people who counted on the government, to take a 7% decrease in the cost of living EVERY YEAR. Yet, some wonder why people on social security are eating dog food. Not to mention the system will collapse as the baby boomers begin retiring en masse. The government has taken your retirement money and spent it. Social Security earns about a 1% return on your money, at least for those that get their money back before it collapses and millions are left with nothing. And yet many still look to the government to solve our problems.
The politicians also clamor for Universal Health Care, (i.e. Socalized Medicine), Just look to Canada and other countries around the world they say. . . What they don't say about Canada is that it takes on average 6-9 months to see a specialist in order to determine if you need an operation. Many patients die waiting for appointments. If you think the VA care is excellent, then you will like socialized medicine. I've spoken personally with a resident who works in the Dallas VA hospital, and he can't find a doctor after 3pm. They are out playing golf, shopping, or running errands. After all, without a profit motive, and a reward for proving above average care, what incentive do doctors have to; Properly diagnose a patient? Order the necessary tests? Keep up with the newest advances in medicine? They don't, in fact, I've heard from veterans on FTL who believe their doctors want to kill them, because it's one less patient to deal with. Probably not, but the incentive is there, no?


The first place they could start changing things would be on the Senate floor that they're already on. Just go and look at their voting records for the last several months and you will find they aren't showing up to vote.You know, the job they campaigned so hard to get by promising 'change,' but they just don't have the time. McCain isn't immune from this either.


There is one candidate doing exactly that, Ron Paul. He has introduced several bills to change the "status quo", and you can find out about them at www.ronpaul2008.com

Let's talk 'change.' What in the world do these hot air compressors think they are going to change and why? Again, I'm just a professional bovine relocation specialist (it's the 21st century, we used to call them cowboys). But the way I see it from Sunny Point , Oklahoma , how are they going to change the greatest nation in the world? All of the candidates are demanding we must change! OK. I wake up a free man every morning and I'm free to do anything that is morally right or I can do nothing.


I fail to see how you wake up free, when you are working 5-7 months out of the year for the government. When you are forced to give up the proceeds of your labor under the threat of violence, you are not free. While I'll agree, you are free to pick a different job, the government still takes your money by force if necessary regardless of where you work. In reality, government is nothing more than a group of men and women doing business at gunpoint. With this happening, you are not free, granted the plantation is very nice, with +500 channels, big screen TVs, and there's Britney Spears to talk about, but you are not free.

If I choose to do something productive that day, well I can whistle at my dog, start up my ol' tan feed truck that I bought with the help of a free enterprising banking system I chose to use.


Sorry Monte, your mistaken again. We don't have a free enterprise banking system. If you take out a Federal Reserve note (Which is no more federal than Federal Express, and keeps nothing in reserve), take a look at the top left where it says "THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE". You see Monte, that means the government has decided that you are forced to use this to settle a debt with another person. You are still free to use other forms of barter, but you are compelled by the threat of violence to accept this worthless piece of paper that is backed by nothing as payment for a good or service in the US. Go to the bank and try depositing or withdrawing your money in silver or gold.
In a true free market banking system, currencies would look something like the liberty dollar, which is backed by gold and silver. (Which FBI recently raided stealing over $3M in gold an silver the sunshine mint was holding in reserve for the liberty dollar note holders) In a free market, there would likely be competing currencies, and if one started committing fraud (i.e. taking your valuable commodities in return for warehouse receipts, and then selling off your assets it's supposed to keep safe), as the federal government does with the Federal Reserve you have recourse. An again the Federal Reserve is another government mandated monopoly on money, which is not a government body, but a lucky group of private bankers. I don't know about you Monte, but if my bank or monetary system starting pulling crap like that with me, I would drop them like a hot potato, and move all my assets into another compeeting currency. Of course when government creates a monopoly (as only governments, threatening force can do), they are free to screw you out of your savings year after year by printing more, spending it to enrich themselves and their friends, leaving the dollars you hold worth less.

Plus, there's the fact that other free Americans assembled this truck, and the companies that bought, sold and hauled parts and supplies to make that pickup possible. As I turn the key, ol' tans fires up on diesel fuel that a mean, nasty, big oil company conveniently made very accessible and affordable to me.


Interesting use of the word American's there, sounds kind of nationalistic to me. Of course, you are a good old boy from Oklahoma, who grew up saying the good old pledge of allegiance every day in school. Let me ask you something, what's the Pledge of Allegiance in other countries? Give up? They don't have them, America is the only country that has it's children pledging allegiance to the government every day in government mandated school. It tends over time to brainwash students in to accepting government as necessary. Of course, I'm sure you researched it and know that Francis Bellamy, wrote it. He was selling flags to schools. How many flags would be needed if government schools required kids to pledge to a flag every day in class? Francis was also a National Socialist, for those of you that don't know what that means, that's the NAZI party.
The "nasty big oil company", gets it's oil from around the world, especially the middle east. When you factor in the cost of American foreign policy to protect America's oil interests, what does that gallon of gas cost? And don't think it's free, as your paying for it through taxes or loss of value when the government and federal reserve print more. I'm thinking the free market would be even more efficient at delivering energy, in what ever form, to me without having to invade sovereign nations, destroy property, and murder innocent people. Of course, being a simple cattleman, you may not know that all oil trades currently must be done in the dollar. So every country out there buying oil, must first buy US dollars to purchase that oil. That gives a lot of strength to the dollar.
However, the US government has grown wildly out of control over the last decade (by wildly, I mean $10,000,000,000,000, yes that's 10 trillion, at the hands of the "small government" republicans). As the dollar and America continues to loose strength and standing in the world, other countries begin to stand up to the unfair and arbitrary requirement. One of the first was Iraq, shortly before we invaded for "Desert Storm", next was Hugo Chaves in Venezuela, which somehow created a well funded and armed terrorist group that staged a failed coup. Chaves believes to this day the US government is trying to kill him, as he pushes for oil deals with China, and Spain, reducing his dependence on the US. Now currently at bat, is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran. Well you know the Iran war mongering has been going on for a while now. There's a great book on this Monte, it's called Confessions of an Economic Hitman, that does a wonderful job of detailing the US Government's interference and entrapment of other countries in order to exert control around the world. It's written by the guy who talked Saudi Arabia into breaking the oil embargo, by offering protection for the royal family in return for the agreement to sell oil to the US in the event of another OPEC embargo. Great book, especially if you want to really understand why people around the world hate the American Government. (Did you seriously believe they hate us for our freedoms as politicians want you to believe?)




I turn out of my land that I can freely own, onto a county maintained road that leads to any point in North America I would choose to go to that day. Also, in this country, I am free to own livestock and free to care for them so that the livestock will return a profit so I can repay my bank, buy my feed and fuel, and provide for my family.


Sorry to keep interrupting here Monte, but your really laying it on *****. Okay, if you think you own YOUR land, then stop paying property taxes for the next 5 years, and see what happens, would you? Milder than that; do something on YOUR property that the bureaucrats demand a "license" or "permit" to do. When they fine you, refuse to pay the fine, it is YOUR land right? When they come to take you to jail for not paying the fine, don't go, if they initiate violence attempting to haul you away, defend yourself on YOUR property. What do you think will happen?

Tisk, Tisk, free to own livestock? Do thoes livestock of yours require a license? What about local regulations? Do you have to register (i.e. beg for permission), from the state to get your business license in this "free" contry? The law is the law after all. . .




On Sunday Morning (or any other day that ends in 'Y') my family is free to drive from our house on a ribbon of roads that lead to the Church of our choice and worship the real owner of all things we know, God. We can give praise to Him for all and especially for Jesus.


Speak for yourself Monte, I do believe in liberty which is the freedom to choose to worship whatever god you want, including the option I choose, which is not to worship any one or any thing.


Why can't these hopefuls for the highest-ranking governmental seat see that it is just that simple? Provide me infrastructure and protect me from these knot-headed whack's that think they can take away our freedom. Billary, Bama Mama or McNobrain aren't going to change anything.


You see Monte, it's theses politicians that put you in danger in the first place. Of course they are not going to change anything. They are too busy squeezing every last drop of power, money, and influence; before the house of cards comes tumbling down. I don't know if you have visited an airport lately, but the only ones that I've noticed taking away my freedoms lately is the government. If they hate us for our freedoms and want to seem them taken away, then the terrorists are gaining ground every day. In fact, every time government grows, you loose freedoms, because you HAVE to pay for it, not to mention comply with the new requirements! (or else!)

The foundations of this great country can't be changed by one person, no matter how much they think they can. As Americans, we have the right to succeed or fail and try again as we please. As a free man, I'm getting good at failing but I get smarter when I try again.


Your right, it starts with people freeing their mind, and thinking for themselves. Once people see government for what it truly is, they will choose something different, instead of clamoring for it to solve problems, which by design it's almost completely incapable of doing.




When presidential candidates tout change, the only thing I see in this country that needs changing is them. Life in America is good and for those that don't think so, you're free to leave at any time, go to another country of your choice and try to change it.


Okay "Monte", you did pretty good up to this point, but now your starting to sound like one of those nationalistic chain letters that people forward endlessly. So your saying if people don't like the current government, they should not try and change it but get out and go somewhere else? Let me tell you about a group called the Loyalists:

Loyalists were American colonists who remained loyal to the British crown during the American Revolution. They were often referred to as Tories, King's Men, or Royalists by the rebels. Later on those Loyalists who were forced out of the country and resettled in Canada were given the title United Empire Loyalists. Their colonial opponents, who supported the Revolution, were called rebels, Whigs, Patriots, Congress Men, or, in their own view, having rejected 'loyalty to the mother country' for the new United States of America, just 'Americans'. Historians have estimated that about 30% of the population were Loyalists (that is, about 900,000),[1] but because their existence has been all but ignored since, there are no exact numbers

So should the founding fathers have simply shut up, and found somewhere else to live? You do realize it was a small minority of several hundred men who threw off British rule, and formed the US government don't you? The people that wanted British rule to continue, because hey they thought life was pretty good, should they have been run out of the country? You also know there were over a million colonists just like "Monte" who thought, well life is pretty good, because they haven't come for me yet, and I'm still able to do what I want to, well mostly anyway and that's how it starts. . .


I'm Monte Tucker, and that is what's under my professional bovine relocation specialist hat. Wait, I'm not changing, that is what's under my COWBOY hat!







Please forgive me if I doubt that Monte, but a writer as talented as yourself, has a surprisingly low web profile up to now. I hope you managed to put a few of these items in your cowboy hat, so next time you can approach these issues a little better educated, as to how we got to this point. I sure do hope to hear from you, as you can write me directly at contact at obscured truth.com.

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