Immigration Conflict

President Trump has sparked lots of controversy (and hysteria from the left) since his inauguration, with a quite respectable series of executive orders.  One order in particular, one that seems quite sensible to me, has been getting the most attention from the radical left lately.  That order bars entry visas for 90 days, for people coming from seven Islamic countries with a history of providing ISIS (?) terrorists.  Those countries being: Libya, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Yemen, and Somalia.

The media, liberals, and Hollywood celebrities are throwing a king-sized fit over the Presidents decision to protect American citizens from a mob of bloodthirsty radical Muslim jihadists.  Apparently they seem to think that we’re under some sort of a moral obligation to allow nearly any self-declared refugee into the country, without any verification or background checks, and then we can all kneel down and pray (a non-Christian prayer of course) that nobody gets blown up!

We are engaged in a war with an extremely radical theocracy, one based on a fifteen hundred year old culture of violence that is totally foreign to the western world.  A religion that teaches its adherents to kill or enslave anyone, men, women, and children, who do not totally believe in the teachings of their prophet, and who do not completely submit themselves to the orders of some rather bloodthirsty “clerics”.  It is most definitely not a good idea to invite tens or even hundreds of thousands of “enemy aliens” into your country during times of war!  Such an action is called an invasion in military jargon, and does not normally end well for those being invaded.  Consider, what would have happened if Franklin Roosevelt had invited the Japanese emperor to send a couple of hundred thousand “refugees” to California in early 1941?!  Or had allowed Hitler to send thirty or forty thousand “peaceful” Nazi Storm Troopers into New York City!

Trump announced a temporary ban on refugees from Syria and Middle Eastern war zones, dangerous Muslim-majority countries with inadequate or nonexistent refugee screening.  Are these people actually refugees, or are they jihadi fighters in disguise?  Well, a very loud BOOM, or a sudden flurry of gunfire may be your first warning.

You might note that the Presidential immigration executive order pertains only to those seven extremist countries, NOT to the entire Islamic world.  Nor does it ban Christian refugees from those violent Muslim majority countries.  Many citizens of those countries are already here, working, attending school, or what-have-you, and are law abiding people.  However, a number of them have already proven themselves to be jihadis by committing some rather heinous terrorist acts both here and in Europe.  And what about other Muslim countries that would be much more logical places for these Muslims to seek refuge?  They’ve banned Muslim immigration from those same violent countries from the very beginning!  Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Qatar— are they as racist as the loony left accuses the Donald of being?  That’s a question that Trump's critics are not about to answer. 

Personally I support the Presidents decision, after all, don’t we have quite enough homegrown wanna-be terrorists around, without inviting a few thousand more to come and join the festivities?  I do insist that we need to forget partisan politics for the time being, and start putting American lives first. As this war gains in worldwide intensity, as it will continue to do, Trump's decision will help in preventing even more radical Islamic terrorism in the US, and the deaths of even more innocent American citizens.  These are random terrorist acts as we have seen, rarely targeting specific people or places, but rather “targets of opportunity”.  So, as Mrs. Pelosi was asked, how many of your children are expendable in the interest of bleeding hearted liberalism?

The executive order signed by Trump suspends immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries for 90 days and all refugee resettlement for 120 days.  Such a delay is not a permanent ban, and does nothing more than allow our government to determine whether these people are legimate refugees… or are they bonafide terrorists looking for a chance to blow themselves (and infidel Americans) to paradise.  It provides exceptions for refugees who practice a religion that makes them a minority in their home country.

However, a federal judge temporarily blocked Trump's ban after Washington State and Minnesota, both hotbeds of liberalism, urged a nationwide hold on the executive order that has launched legal battles across the country. The White House said Friday night it will seek an emergency stay of the federal judge's order.  U.S. District Judge James Robart of Seattle determined there was a high probability that Trump's executive order was illegal and unconstitutional.  Yet entry to the US is NOT a constitutional right for non-citizens!  The two states won a temporary restraining order while the courts consider the lawsuit (which based on past judicial performance will probably take a few years).

Sadly, these protesters and their lawsuits are just following the lead of many prominent public figures on the left who have been having a complete meltdown since Donald Trump's victory in November.  These folks include celebrity snowflakes that live in a make believe world and who would like to think that just because they’re “rich and famous” they’re qualified to tell the rest of us how to think and live. 

Greg Gutfeld said that President Trump's actions during his first few weeks in office are driving the "worst people" crazy.  That, I would say, includes the "frantic media”, “bed-wetting celebrities", and the ACLU.

IMO Notes

Just a few notes today, inspired by several different e-mail sources.

One Missouri electoral voter, after being continuously hassled to change her vote from Trump to Clinton said that  “I don’t know if our educational system has failed to educate these agitators, or these are the children that took 4th place in little league and received a big trophy for having their shoes on the right feet.”

“At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child – miserable – as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill disciplined, despotic and useless.  Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.”  P. J. O’Rourke

The problem with liberals began when we first allowed our schools to teach the kids that the world “owed” them a living.  Our founders underestimated the effect of an underemployed intelligentsia hanging around the college campus and complaining because the bureaucracy isn’t burgeoning fast enough to allow them to loaf at taxpayer expense, while minding other peoples business, and spending other people’s money.  Sci-Fi writer Jerry Pournelle postulates a future where the vast majority of the countries population resides in the decomposing wreckage of our larger cities, staring at government TV propaganda, surviving on crime and government issued sustenance meals, along with government provided drugs and booze.  A world where the terms “work” and “work ethic” are no longer a part of the American language.  More or less the ultimate bureaucratic “welfare state” liberal socialism I guess, where only the elites own much of anything, and only the elites and the cops are allowed to possess weapons of any sort.

The election of Donald Trump sure did stir up the political pot!  The democrats haven’t been this upset since the republicans took away their slaves!  I’ve guess they’ve got reason though… since the time of Lyndon Johnson the democrats have been working hard at turning this country into the “United Socialist States of Amerika”, and now Mr. Trump and the silent majority suddenly threaten to dump those fifty years of plotting and planning down the sewer!  Mrs. Obama, in an interview on the Oprah TV show, inferred that with the election of Mr. Trump, that America has “lost hope”.  Well, perhaps the liberals have “lost hope” at any rate, but the rest of us finally have high hopes that Mr. Trump can reverse the damages of the last eight years, before our country falls completely apart!

On that note, our congress critters might want to watch their step in opposing The Donald’s efforts to straighten things out… there is another election coming up in a couple of years after all.  Here’s your chance to help set things right, don’t blow it.

It would appear that Mr. Obama and his liberal collogues are trying very hard to pick a fight with the Russians all the sudden, and instigate another Cold War.  Probably so they can skip town in a couple of weeks, and leave President Trump to clean up an unholy mess, and of course take the rap for it.  It might also appear that Mr. Putin reads the situation the same way I do, and is bending over backwards to avoid a fight.  Very astute of him I’d say.

You might also have noticed that immediately after Mr. Trump’s election, Syrian President Al-Assad began calling for co-operation with the United States.  President Putin suddenly says that Russia is ready to “restore positive relations” with the United States. Canada and Mexico agree to cooperate with President Trump to renegotiate or scrap NAFTA.  American industrial jobs are staying here instead of disappearing overseas and the Dow Jones industrial index skyrocketed to an all-time high.  Kind of makes me wonder just what we’ve been paying Mr. Obama for over the last eight years.

In the interest of fighting global warming and “ending pollution”, the liberals, hand in hand with the environmentalists, want us to shut down the petroleum industry, shut down the coal industry, shut down the vestiges of our nuclear industry, and breach our hydroelectric dams.  I suspect that doing so would also shut down any industry remaining in the country, and reduce us to third-world subsistence farming!  The current radical environmentalist movement appears to be little more than the old “back to nature” movement greatly magnified, and run totally insane!  Don’t get me wrong, I sort of like the Back to Nature idea as well… but I also like electric lights and indoor toilets, along with hot and cold running water!

A recent news article says those wonderful folks from the EPA now want out-back Alaskans to stop burning wood for their winter heat, because it violates the Clean Air Act.  Humm… perhaps those same bureaucrats would move to central Alaska and demonstrate to the rest of us just how to survive one of those long, cold, dark, winters with nothing but solar heating and electric cars?

By the way, in looking at my thermometer over the last few weeks, I’m beginning to wonder,  where is all that Global Warming that the loony left has been religiously promising me for the last several years now?  (I’m beginning to feel like the artic ice pack is invading my back yard!)

Donald Trump isn't a politician -- he's a one-man wrecking crew against our dysfunctional and corrupt establishment. We're about to see the deluxe version of a war between the working class and the smirking class.

Ann Coulter, with her insight and sense of humor, makes the definitive case for why we should all join the Trump revolution. The three biggest news stories of the 2016 presidential election have been: Trump, Trump, and Trump. The media have twisted themselves in knots, trying to figure out how he won over millions of Republican (and other) voters, and what he'd be like as president.  But Coulter isn't puzzled. She knows why Trump was the only one of seventeen GOP contenders who captured the spirit of our time. She’s got the ability to address the pain of the silent majority and of saying things the "PC Thought Police" considers unspeakable.  She argues that a bull in the china shop is exactly what we need to make America great again. She explains why conservatives, moderates, and even disgruntled Democrats should set aside their doubts and embrace Trump:

·He's putting America first in our trade deals and alliances, rather than pandering to assorted dictators and our sworn enemies.

·He's abandoned the GOP's decades-long commitment to a bellicose foreign policy, at a time when the entire country is sick of unnecessary wars.

·He's ended GOP pandering to Hispanic activists with his hard-line policy on immigration. Working class Americans finally have a champion against open borders and cheap foreign labor.

·He's overturned the media's traditional role in setting the agenda and deciding who gets to be considered "presidential."

·He's exposed political consultants as grifters and hacks, most of whom don't know real voters from a hole in the ground.

So far, the president-elect has nominated one of America’s greatest retired generals for Secretary of Defense, the CEO of the world’s largest company as Secretary of State, a woman who has spent her life fighting for school choice as Secretary of Education, and a world-class pediatric neurosurgeon who grew up in poverty and speaks with moral authority on the crisis of our inner cities as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.  These are extraordinary people who understand what needs to be done to achieve things in the real world. The press, which has been consistently wrong about everything so far, is trying their best to brand President Trump’s  preferred cabinet as unqualified right wing radicals. That they are far more likely to bring change to Washington than the typical establishment cabinet should be obvious to most Americans, and it is exactly why Donald Trump was elected.

I’ve noticed that the mainstream media is apparently starting the 2020 campaign season a bit early, preparing the way for a lot of unnamed liberal dimwits… err… democrats.

Before the election, plenty of celebrities, and even average everyday Hillary Clinton fans, pledged to pack their bags and take off for Canada if Donald Trump won.  (Do they actually consider that to be a serious threat that we can’t ignore!?)  But since that fateful day more than a month ago, Canada’s immigration department has reportedly received only 28 Trump related requests for asylum.  And none appear to have come from Hollywood, despite the large number of celebs who threatened to cross the northern border if Trump became president.

Essentially the Democrats don't care about you, the people they think are irredeemable, the basket of deplorables. The left only cares about the mass of democratic voters, people who live in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, and of course, the swamp known as Washington, D.C. who vote to keep them in office.  Middle America might as well not even exist.  Due to the discrepancy between the “popular vote” and the Electoral College vote, democrats now want to eliminate the Electoral College.  It must have just dawned on the DNC that if we remove the LA County and New York City democratic vote, Trump wins the nationwide popularity contest as well… by some 500,000 votes!

Former democratic President Slick Willie Clinton, in an interview a few days ago said that “Donald Trump doesn’t know much. But one thing he does know is how to get angry, white men to vote for him.”

Bravo Mr. Clinton. You finally got it right, but it took you a while. First you blamed the FBI for your wife’s defeat.  Then hackers, and next Russia.  Now it’s the electoral college. But you’ve finally come to the right conclusion. It was in fact your Democrat Party’s inability to appeal to angry white males (those of us who still cling to the Bible and our guns I guess) that cost your wife the election.

I’m a white male and I voted for Donald Trump because the policies of Obama and Hillary have wrecked the U.S. economy, killed middle class jobs, skyrocketed the price of healthcare, made it almost impossible to start or run a business, and they’ve spent our country into unimaginable debt and bankruptcy.  The truth is the Democrat Party offers not a single reason for any angry white male to vote for them. There’s not a single thing you offer to someone who works for a living. There’s not a single thing you offer to someone who pays taxes into the system. There’s not a single thing you offer to someone who desires no handouts from the government. There’s not a single thing you offer to someone who pays for their own health insurance out of their own pocket. 

Mr. Clinton, angry white males are angry at the Democrat Party for very good reason. Your party left us a long time ago. You wrote us off. You left us for dead. You made us feel invisible. You try to make us feel like villains for working hard, for earning an honest living, for achieving prosperity, for paying taxes, for asking for nothing from the government except to be left alone.  Yes, we’re angry. Yes, we voted for Donald Trump. This is called payback where I come from. 

To Mr. Obama and the liberal establishment; your attention please… we built it, you broke it, we’ll fix it without you.  You, and your like-minded buddies, ARE FIRED!

Dimocrats

I have to smile at the post-election antics of our Hollywood “Stars”.  After threatening, repeatedly, to “leave the country” or “go to Canada” if Mr. Trump won the election, I’ve noticed that since Mr. Trump won after all, en-mass they seem to be reneging on their campaign promise.  I understand that the weather in Canada is “too cold” all the sudden, or that it’s probably “to far” from the studio.  I’d also suspect that they’re somewhat concerned that Canada would deny them the political asylum that would further their publicity stunt.  Besides that, would any of ‘em really want to trade their cushy Malibu mansions for a life among all those “uncultured” rustic Canadians?  Oddly enough, with all the sudden concern about their reception in Canada, I haven’t heard of any of ‘em moving to Mexico either!  They’re probably worried about Mexico deporting them back to the U.S.!  (I wonder if we could refuse their return?)

Mike Pence’s trip to the theater didn’t end as badly as Abe Lincoln’s either, but I can just hear those entitled actors shouting “Sic semper tyrannis!” at him.  They had the gall to lecture Pence on the founding “ideals” of the country even as they throw infantile tantrums about those supposedly antiquated principles.  Of course those “ideals” they refer to originated, not in 1776, but more like 1966. And they’re not even ideals, but are little more than totalitarianism in which “freedom” and “justice” have no meaning apart from whatever liberals want at any given moment.  Perhaps the drug scene has fried their brains?  As one pundit put it, “At this rate, John Wilkes Booth may end up with a star on Hollywood’s walk of fame”, and I’m sure they’re mourning the recent death of that bastion of liberal thinking, Fidel Castro.

Apparently they are in a secessionist mood however.  Hollywood Dimocratic liberals are now considering an independent California through something they call “Calexit.” They would like to leave the country but without having to go through all the trials and tribulations of actually relocating to another country.  Besides, they can then elect Hillary as their President without all that outdated conservative contention, make Obama a justice on their Supreme Court, and out of our hair.  Still, I’d hate to see the United States break-up and go the way of the Soviet Union, which, with the exception of Russia has become little more than a loose confederation of squabbling third world countries. 

However, Calexit might not be all that bad an idea after all…  At least it would solve one set of problems facing our society.

Since the late 1950’s, conservatives and liberals in this country have more or less stuck together for the sake of future generations.  But our latest election has made me realize that this relationship has just about run its course.  The two ideological sides of America cannot agree on what is right for us, resulting in social and political stalemate.  So, rather than wreck the country with further rioting and an “unable to do anything” congress, let’s just chalk it up to irreconcilable differences, split the sheets, and each go our own way. 

Here are a few ideas for an equitable separation, adapted from comments in an e-mail I received recently. 

Consider, conservatives don't like liberal redistributive taxes, so California can keep them.  They’re also welcome to the liberal judges, liberal educators, NBC, the New York Times, and the ACLU.  Since liberals hate guns and war, the rest of us will take our firearms, the cops, the NRA, and the US Armed Forces. 

They can have wind, solar and biodiesel energy, and we'll take the smelly oil industry and those nasty coalmines.  They can have all the “Smart Cars” they can find, and we’ll keep the muscle cars, full size pick-ups, and SUV’s. They can keep Oprah, Michael Moore and Rosie O'Donnell as well, but good luck on finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move all three of them.  We’ll give them Je$$e Jackson and Al Sharpton as well.  You can also have your beloved ObamaCare, a free college education, lifelong welfare recipients, hippies, druggies, illegal aliens, peaceniks, wild-eyed environuts, and assorted protesters.  However, I dunno what you’re going to do for a Big Mac once you get rid of all those methane-emitting cows.  Tofu burgers perhaps?

We'll keep the Ten Commandments and our Judeo-Christian values of course, while California is more than welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism, political correctness, and Shirley McClain.  I wonder if we could interest them in a few wolves and grizzly bears while we’re at it?

We'll keep "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and the National Anthem.  I'm sure California would be happy to substitute "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing" or "We Are the World" which would probably attract a lot of rich NFL players.  Additionally, since it often offends them, we'll keep America’s Constitution, our history, our name, our flag, and capitalism.  As it seems to be much more in line with liberal goals and interests, they can have the Sierra Club, an open border with Mexico, diplomatic relations with the drug cartels, and the Rainbow Flag. 

They’re more than welcome to make nice with Iran and Palestine, while we'll retain the right to invade, romping and stomping all over those people and countries that threaten us or our allies.  They can also have the U.N. but we won’t be paying the bills anymore. 

Now that I’ve probably succeeded in antagonizing the entire loony left, and in the spirit of a friendly parting, I'll suggest they seriously consider which of us will need whose help in the next few years.

2016 Election

The 2016 Presidential election is over (Praise the Lord!), and, as happens in every election, the public has expressed their will, and one side emerged victorious, while the other lost.  Personally I don’t see anything overly complex about that.  As per usual there was a considerable amount of muckraking and mudslinging as well, which I don’t think is one of the better points in our electoral system.  Another point of contention was the possibility of a “rigged” election, with both sides casting a baleful eye toward their opponent.  Over the course of the campaign, Hillary raised 1.3 billion dollars, and I suspect spent most of it.  Mr. Trump on the other hand raised $795 million dollars, and again probably spent most of it.  The voters turned out in nearly record numbers, had their say, leaving Hillary with 60,839,922 votes, and Donald with 60,265,858 votes at last count.  Now, despite having a nationwide total of nearly 600,000 votes more than Donald, Hillary is not a clear winner, due to the idiosyncrasies of the American electoral process.  Here, the popular vote of each state selects “Electors” who are pledged to vote for a specific candidate.  (If you win a particular states popular vote, you win all that states electoral votes.)  The number of electors per state is equal to the number of congress critters sent to the capitol each term, plus three electors for Washington DC.  Ergo Sum, 538 electors determine who will be the next president.

This year Hillary won the entire left coast, and the northeast as expected, plus a smattering of central states.  Donald won all the rest, including a few that were considered to be “shoo-ins” by the Clinton camp.  So now the scoreboard reads Clinton 232, and Trump 306.  (270 electoral votes is the magic number.) This somewhat cumbersome system (rather that a direct “popular vote” system) was emplaced when the framers of our Constitution made an effort to restrain the more populous states from running roughshod over the smaller states, and it has worked reasonably well for over two hundred years.  Changing this system will require a constitutional amendment, which I don’t see happening in the near future either.

A little more than a week ago the Democratic Party insisted that everyone accept the legitimacy of the election.  Now however they’ve lost, so what we are seeing today is that much of the left think that, like so many other things, the world is a one way street traveling only in their direction.  I guess we can force ourselves to live with that as long as they don’t get to carried away.  This time around however, the kicker is a whole lot of spoiled liberals, concerned about loosing all their free stuff are, besides throwing temper tantrums in the streets of our cities, circulating petitions demanding that the electors change their vote, thus putting Hillary in office rather than The Donald.  Technically this could be done, as there are no federal laws forcing the electors to vote as they are pledged.  Some state do have laws that require that they vote as pledged, and I’d think that if they were to change their votes, they’re going to be in a lot of very hot water when they get home!  (Tar and feathers anyone?)

Since the later 1960’s the left has refused to hold itself accountable for any of its actions. Having once declared liberal dissent patriotic, conservative dissent, for the last eight years under the Obama regime has been called homophobic, bigoted, and racist. Both conservatives and avowed Christians have been viciously attacked by the radical left, hounded from their jobs, silenced, and punished for refusing to go along with the leftist agenda. The left, like spoiled children, demand that everyone follow their ideal of cultural homogeneity, and is outraged that so many Americans refuse to go along with their communistic, anti-American, and anti-Christian, secular agenda.

On November 11^th, 2016, the chickens came home to roost as the American people repudiated the rampant socialism of Mr. Obama, Mrs. Clinton, and the liberal left.  As a result radical liberals, appalled that moderates and conservatives would elect a president who might repeal some of their cherished social engineering failures, returned to their old strategy of civil disobedience, mass protests, and rioting.  Professional activists who have no skill other than agitation have trained a large group of people to do nothing but protest.  Demonstrating their childish nature once again, they have flown into hysterics rather than trying to reunite the country they have been so instrumental in dividing, and it’s quite clear that we are even more divided than ever.  The left may love humanity as a concept, but they are prone to think the absolute worst of their neighbors, and have nothing but contempt for those who do see things differently.  That worldview is on full display in the American streets today.

I was taught by my parents, and in school, to have faith in God, love of country, family, a belief in American exceptionalism, our capitalist system, Judeo-Christian values, our Constitution, a limited government, personal responsibility, economic freedom, along with our military and police.  Everything on that list, everything we believe in, everything that made America great, has been under assault for eight long years now, by the leaders of our own leftist federal government. 

And Hillary Clinton is still here, hoping against hope, to finish the job. She already publicly stated she wants to be Obama’s third term.  Hillary would open the borders wide, to let in millions of both illegal aliens and terrorists who have no love for anything in our way of life that made America great.

Illegal’s no longer come here to become a part of the American dream, they come for a love of food stamps, housing allowances, free medical care, free education for their children, free meals at school, and don’t forget $3,000 welfare payments disguised as "earned income tax credits," for people who have paid no taxes.  Illegals come here for the cradle to grave welfare state that America has become.  The majority of them will vote for Democrats forever to keep the checks coming.  Checks that require our taxpayers to foot the bill.  That apparently is Hillary’s plan.  Terrorists come here for one reason only, that of destroying our nation and our very culture, thus making us a parody of the land they left behind.

In the universe of the Star Trek sci-fi shows, the “Federation” is all about ensuring that people benefit, and have a role, in the forward evolution of a wondrous future.  This is a concept that we here on our little “Pale Blue Marble” should seriously consider adopting for the long term good of ourselves and of our descendants.  Well planned and considered progress is where we will find the utopia of which we dream, we will not find it in immediately adopting the instant, “feel good” welfare “nanny state” so stridently demanded by our current crop of unthinking radical left wing liberals, a nanny state that will only benefit the elites of our world, and drive the rest of us into abject poverty…

A Special Flag

On my living room wall hangs a very special United States flag.  Not made of cotton, nylon, or any other fabric normally used for flags, this particular flag is made of barbed wire salvaged from last year’s fires, and constructed by local artist Har-V Wolfsen of Har-V’s Wild Notions in Kooskia.  Har-V tells me that each flag contains about 200 feet of wire carefully straightened, formed, and welded together.  The finish is a powder coating done by a special process he developed specifically for this project.  I understand it takes about two weeks work to make each flag.

Har-V’s done several of these flags so far, and what will undoubtedly become the best known was presented to Presidential candidate Donald Trump when he was campaigning in Spokane recently.  This flag currently resides at the Trump campaign office in New York.  Another resides at the Veterans Memorial at the annual Sturgis motorcycle rally.

I asked Har-V why he decided to use barbed wire of all things, to make an American Flag of, and was informed that he had been asked to do so, and that no one else had ever done it before.  I commented that I had thought it might have been in protest the freedoms we have lost to political correctness in this liberal world we seem to inhabit, and got a sly grin in response to that suggestion.  But yes, barbed wire is quite symbolic I think considering the constraints that have somehow replaced the freedoms that made our nation so exceptional.

Consider, by the liberal standards that seem to be taking over our country, I was born white, therefore I am a racist.  I am heterosexual, which makes me a homophobe.  I am a Christian, which makes me an Islamophobe.  I'm an American Patriot that believes in the Constitutional right to own a gun, which makes me a radical right wing nut job.  I think and I reason, therefore I doubt much that the mainstream media tells me, which makes me a reactionary.  I am proud of my heritage and our distinctly American culture, which makes me a xenophobe.  I value my safety and that of my family; therefore I appreciate the police and the legal system, which makes me a right-wing extremist.  I am a veteran who believes in the defense and protection of this nation by all citizens, which makes me a militarist.  Heck, I’m not even sure which restroom I’m supposed to use anymore!

And, if I disagree with any of these liberal descriptors, then I’m called a “Hater”, probably correctly I guess, because I hate what the loony leftists and their ignorant followers are doing to the country I love, and have faithfully served for so many years.

In the meantime, my barbed wire flag hangs proudly on my wall.

Voters

The folks speaking out against Trump’s presidential ambitions are definitely making it easier for me to decide about voting for him or not.  So, to simplify things I’ll paraphrase a list of talking points I received in a couple of e-mails the other day.  

Is he the “Perfect Candidate” whose thoughts mirror mine?  Does he say everything the way I would say it?  Am I sure that his motives are pure?  Can I point to any other Politician that I like better?  Do I like what I have seen happen to my country over the last 7-1/2 years?  Do I like the "fundamental changes" that jerk in the White House has brought about?  My answer to all of these is… a very loud and resounding NO!  But, if I decide I don’t like Trump, am I then going to refuse to Vote, and let Mr. Obama’s handpicked raging liberal successor, Hillary Clinton win?  An equally loud NO! 

Contrary to the lamestream medias claims, I believe that Mr. Trump does have a number of outstanding presidential qualifications pertinent to the times.  Consider…

Obama is against Trump...  The media is against Trump...  The establishment Democrats are against Trump...  The establishment Republicans are against Trump...  The UN is against Trump...  The EU is against Trump...  China is against Trump...  Mexico is against Trump...  Soros is against Trump...  “Black Lives Matter” is against Trump...  “Move On” is against Trump...  The Koch Brothers are against Trump...  Planned Parenthood is against Trump....  Hillary and Bernie are both against Trump ...  Illegal aliens are against Trump ...  Islam is against Trump ...  Special interests are against Trump.  And our current collection of hateful, violent, loony Liberals are against Trump.  Humm…  if all these people are opposed to The Donald, and pro Hillary, then it would seem that Donald Trump is about the best qualified candidate we have!

If you have so many political insiders and left wing nuts, all scared to death of him, so that they all speak out against him at the same time, it's time to listen what all that corruption, perversion, and self-interest fears.

  

You may note that;  He's not a lifetime Politician...  He's not a Lawyer...  He's not doing it for the money...  He's a Natural Born American Citizen, and not a prior Indonesian citizen.  He doesn’t owe any political debts.  He doesn’t particularly favor Muslim terrorists or illegal aliens.  He doesn’t think that money grows in the taxpayers pockets, and he does know what a budget is for.

Now we get to a few bonus points as well;

Whoopi, Rosie, Sharpton, Cher, and Cyrus all say they will leave the country if he wins...  Without Mr. O’s hidden support, Hillary will likely go to jail... and a whole herd of unelected government “Czars” will become history!  The Constitution and the Bill of Rights will prevail...  You will not be able to marry your neighbors pet...  You will be able to keep your gun(s) if you qualify (If you’re not a criminal or crazy, etc.)  You can say whatever you want without being called a racist, Islamophobic, homophobic, xenophobic, religious God-fearing crackpot, sexist, etc...  Only living, registered U.S. citizens will be allowed to vote...  (Sorry about that all you undocumented democrats)  Welfare for illegal aliens will be a thing of the past.

Now, in further defense of Mr. Trump, he did not raise your taxes. He did not raise the price of food. He is not stoking up a race war.  He did not abandon any US citizens in Benghazi to be slaughtered by Muslims.  Trump did not arm the ISIS and allow them to exterminate Christians throughout the Middle East.  He did not betray Israel.  He did not provide financing and technology for Iran's nuclear weapons program.  He did not remove our nuclear missile shield in Poland at the demand of Russia.  He did not emasculate our military, and betray our veterans. Trump did not cripple our economy by increasing our debt to 20 trillion dollars. Nor has he increased welfare to record levels. 

Trump did not sign a law making it legal to imprison, and execute, Americans citizens without the benefit of a trial. He does know what a “Red Line” in the sand is.  Trump did not set free the terrorists held at Guantanamo.  He does not run off on vacation every time a crisis looms.  And I for one cannot envision Donald Trump, in the name of the American people, bowing, scraping, and apologizing to every two-bit dictator in the world!

Leftists tell us that Mr. Trump is unqualified because he doesn’t know anything about foreign affairs… well, from all appearances neither do Mr. O, Joe Biden, Hillary, or John Kerry!  He doesn’t know anything about Justice… and I don’t think that Mr. O, Justice Secretary Lynch, or Ms. Clinton do either.  He doesn’t know anything about national defense, but obviously Mr. O doesn’t, and Defense Secretary Ashton Carter should have resigned in protest after the axe job the liberal darling Mr. Obama has done on our military forces! 

The president cannot be an expert on every possible subject.  But he is expected to pick competent experts to run the various government agencies, give them specific instructions about what they’re expected to accomplish, then get out of their way and let them do their job!  Unlike Hillary, as a successful businessman Donald Trump seems to know how that works!

Donald Trump says he will make America great again, but that shouldn’t be to terribly hard.  After all, we’ve really got no place left to go, but up!

This is the Enemy

A Few weeks ago the Lewiston Tribune carried an interesting article about a gentleman who collects wartime propaganda posters.  Several of these posters were displayed in the article, with one specifically catching my eye as I had seen it before.  (Long before I assure you!)

Obviously a World War 2 poster that was aimed at Nazi Germany, labeled “This is the Enemy”, it depicts a hand, emblazoned with a swastika, stabbing a bayonet through a bible.  While Nazi Germany is long gone, this poster (with minor changes), strikes me as being just as pertinent today as it was 70 plus years ago, for, despite the assurances of Mr. Obama and the rest of the loony left, America, our beliefs, and our distinct culture, is under a massive attack today, on all fronts.   

The threat from Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan are long gone, thanks to my Fathers generation.  The threat from Soviet Russia is gone as well (unless Mr. Putin manages to resurrect it), thanks to my generation and not a few folks from the following one.  So, rather than leave us in peace for a while, the world just has to bring on more problems and yet another quite serious threat.  And no, I’m not speaking of Mr. Obama and his bleeding heart liberal henchmen who are trying to destroy our country, but rather the worldwide threat of radical Islam and the terrorism it preaches.  Nor is it just America under attack, but the entire western world as well.

Be it as it may, before Mr. Obama took office there was little presence of Islam in America.  Now, all of the sudden, Islam is a required subject taught in many of our schools, while Christianity and the bible are banned in those same schools.  Now we must allow Islamic prayer in schools, airports and businesses, while a Christian football coach is fired from his job for praying before a high school game.  A traditional Christian prayer is suddenly banned from a high school graduation ceremony because it might offend a Moslem.

Suddenly we are inundated with law suits by Muslims who are offended by American culture, and now Muslims are suing employers and refusing to do their jobs if they personally deem it conflicts with Sharia Law.  Of course if I made a similar claim about conflicting with the old Irish Breahon Law I’d be laughed out of court!  (Feisty as they may have been, at least my Celtic ancestors didn’t figure that killing everybody in town was the answer to any disagreement.)  I rather think that if Muslims are all that offended by American culture, they should really go someplace else!  But no, instead, we now have the Attorney General of the United States vowing to prosecute anyone who engages in "anti-Muslim speech".  By order of the man with three Muslim names, Jihadists who engage in terrorism and openly admit they acted in the name of Islam and ISIS, are declared NOT to be Islamic by our leaders and their actions are determined NOT to be terrorism!  We are constantly reminded from on high that Islam is a religion of peace, yet…

The beltway snipers were Muslims… the Ft. Hood shooter was a Muslim…  the USS Cole bombers were Muslim…  the Boston marathon bombers were Muslim…  the Libyan Embassy attack was by Muslims…  the Iranian Embassy takeover was by Muslims…  The first World Trade Center bombing was by Muslims…  the Beirut marine barracks bombers were Muslim…  the 9/11 attackers were Muslims…  On and on, ad nauseium.   

Yet it becomes US government foreign policy that rabid Islamists and the Muslim Brotherhood dictators must replace other Middle East dictators that were reasonably friendly to the West.  Conveniently our troops are withdrawn from Iraq and the Middle East, giving rise to a murderous reign by the ISIS.  In the face of this open warfare against the United States, Mr. O conducts a purge of the military, getting rid of our proven combat commanders, the US Navy is diminished to pre-World War I levels. The US Army is at pre-1940 levels. The US Air Force is scrapping 500 airplanes.  Our nuclear stockpile is reduced to 1950 levels, all of which means we don’t have very much left to defend ourselves with.  Now he wants to eliminate yet another 40,000 soldiers!

It surely looks like Mr. O is keeping at least one of his campaign promises, that of reducing Americas armed strength to levels that Muslim countries are comfortable with.  In order to do that of course a nuclear arms deal with Iran must be made at any cost, leaving the gate wide open for the further development of Iranian nuclear weapons, and generously funded by a few hundred billion dollars we hand over to Iran for just that purpose.  Oddly enough there’s is no money for American defense, secure borders, our poor, our disabled veterans, jobless Americans, or hungry Americans, but there seems to be an endless supply of money for Obama's "Syrian refugee" resettlement programs.  You might also have noticed that those “refugees” are overwhelming military age males.  It appears that in “running for their lives”, they left the women and kids behind.  But that’s all right we’re told, because those refugees are carefully ‘vetted.  Humm… ‘Vetted?  By whom, the ISIS?  If you have a bowl containing ten thousand M&M candies, and a couple of dozen of them contain a deadly poison, how many M&M’s are YOU going to eat, or give to your kids?

Strangely enough the most important thing for Obama to do after a mass shooting by two Jihadists, is to demand the disarmament of American Citizens.  Apparently he hasn’t realized that a Muslim terrorist with an AK-47 has little to fear from a hundred or so unarmed Americans, and he’s going to pay little attention to a “Gun Free” sign on a nightclub door.  (If you feel you really need an all-up [fully automatic] AK-47, talk to your neighborhood drug smuggler, not to the NRA or the local gun shop, as that class of weapon is already illegal in this country, and has been since the 1930’s!)

A new (June 2016) Department of Homeland Security report urges rejecting the use of Islamic terms such as “jihad” and “sharia” in programs aimed at countering terrorist radicalization among American youth.  Government agencies should employ “American English instead of religious, legal and cultural terms like ‘jihad,’ ‘sharia,’ ‘takfir’ or ‘umma,’” states the report by the Council’s “Countering Violent Extremism” subcommittee.  The report calls for avoiding the use of an “us versus them” mentality by shunning those Islamic terms, despite a 1,700-year history of violent Islamic extremism that lives by exactly those words.

Suddenly I’m a bit sick to my stomach when considering just how much “progress” has been made in the Islamic destruction of America in these last 7 years, a very brief period of time when  considering our 240 year history as a free nation! 

Another Memorial Day

I was able to take part in Grangeville’s Memorial Day ceremony again this year, something I have been doing for many years now, and that I consider to be quite an honor.  Memorial Day, as you know, is a national holiday we have set aside to honor America’s dead service members, AMERICAN soldiers lost in the wars we have fought since our revolution.

Copying a practice that began in the Southern states, on May 5, 1868, in his capacity as commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, General John A. Logan issued a proclamation calling for a "Decoration Day" to be observed annually and nationwide, initially to honor and to decorate the graves of those Union soldiers who died during our Civil War.  Eventually the Confederate Veterans merged their Memorial Day with that of the Union Vets.  It was observed for the first time that year on Saturday May 30; the date was chosen because it was not the anniversary of any particular battle.  According to the White House, the May 30 date was chosen as the optimal date for flowers to be in bloom.  Following the usual convoluted path of American holiday history, Decoration Day became Memorial Day, and was declared to be the last Monday in May, so that federal employees could have a three day weekend.  Traditionally on that day, we decorate the graves of our dead, have an occasional parade, the President lays a floral wreath at the grave of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery, makes a speech, and then we all run out and soak up a lot of beer and a few hamburgers.

Occasionally the President is unable to attend the wreath laying ceremony due to the press of other duties, which is understandable.  (Vacations and golf games excepted in my mind!)  This year, Mr. Obama was in Vietnam and Japan representing our nation, not at Arlington National Cemetery.  OK, well and fine… BUT…

WHAT IN GOD”S GREEN EARTH is this babbling idiot doing in Hiroshima Japan on our Memorial Day weekend, weeping over Japan’s war casualties and apologizing for WW II?!

“Death fell from the sky” in Hiroshima, said the man with three Muslim names, apparently forgetting that “death fell from the sky” on Pearl Harbor as well, which brought the US into that war.  Or has he forgotten that Imperial Japan tortured and killed hundreds of thousands of allied POW’s and civilians in the Pacific, and uncounted Chinese civilians as well?  Or perhaps that Japan kept fighting after they were totally defeated, and after the first atomic bomb, only surrendering after the second.  An invasion of Japan was in the works, to force them to stop fighting.  Experts believed that this “final battle” would cost one million casualties, both American and Japanese.  Imperial Japan brought the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima on themselves.  But our globalist, sociopathic apologist, moronic “president” tours and grovels and bows and scrapes to all and sundry, all the while ignoring the very people… and the national problems… he was hired to take care of in the first place! 

I’m not a fan of apologies, or in this case even the appearance of an apology.  Japan attacked Pearl Harbor by surprise, killing over two thousand Americans.  In those first few days they attacked the US, Philippine, English, Australian and New Zealand’s possessions, followed by Indo-china, Siam, Burma, Indonesia, and Java.  In doing so they killed thousands of soldiers, captured thousands more, and killed, captured, or enslaved millions of innocent civilians.  They started the war, we merely ended it. They committed terrible atrocities against allied soldiers and POW’s throughout the war.  Yet our nuclear bombs didn’t just take lives, those atomic bombs actually saved far more Japanese lives than they took.

Being somewhat outspoken in public, I often sound-off about all the apologies the liberal left demands we tender to just about every non-American on the planet!  As a result I’ve often been lectured about the apologies we owe to Soviet Russia, Japan, Germany, North Korea and Red China!  Then there were the American Indians, African-Americans, and of course a few groups I’ve never even heard of!  I suppose we owe England an apology for declaring our independence as well!  With Monday, June 6^th, being the 72ed anniversary of the Normandy invasion, I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see this incompetent blithering idiot apologize to Nazi Germany for eliminating their tyrannical hold on Europe.  No better than he likes the Israelis, he’ll probably be offering to rebuild the crematorium at Auschwitz as well! 

Author Wayne Allyn Root describes the situation with our apologist in chief quite well…  “Obama and his socialist cronies should apologize to every middle class American for the harm they've done to the U.S. economy; upward mobility; middle class jobs and the American Dream.  They've created an unimaginable DISASTER. They’ve destroyed the greatest nation…the greatest economy…the greatest economic system …and greatest middle class in world history.”

Both Democrats and Republicans say that "We're broke" and can't help our own seniors, Veterans, Orphans, Homeless, and Etc.  But, over the last several years they have provided direct cash aid to...  Hamas - $351 M, Libya - $1.45 B, Egypt - $397 M, Mexico - $622 M, Russia - $380 M, Haiti - $1.4 B, Jordan - $463 M, Kenya - $816 M, Sudan - $870 M, Nigeria - $456 M, Uganda - $451 M, Congo - $359 M, Ethiopia - $981 M, Pakistan - $2 B, South Africa - $566 M, Senegal - $698 M, Mozambique - $404 M, Zambia - $331 M, Kazakhstan - $304 M, Iraq - $1.08 B, Tanzania - $554 M.  Literally Billions of Dollars, and those folks still hate us!  He sends billions of dollars in military and foreign aid to countries that are awash in petro-dollars!

We live in a country where we have countless Homeless without shelter, Children going to bed hungry, Elderly going without needed medication and the Mentally ill without treatment.  Our schools are desperate for funding, yet Obama demands Congress allocate almost $18,000 for every illegal alien child or teen that enters America.  Billions more goes to other illegal aliens for welfare. 

The Left, and parts of the Right, seems to think that any problem can be solved if we just throw more money at it.  They of course look at the American taxpayer as an endless cash cow.  Not, apparently, recognizing that the cow’s gone dry, and that when you’re deep in the hole, it’s best to stop digging!  Our congress critters aren’t much better either.  They sit around twiddling their thumbs and plotting the next election while our chief disbarred lawyer and his appointed “Czars” pass federal laws by some sort of “Imperial” decree!

So yes, I reckon the liberals are right after all, it is time for an apology.  They, and Mr. Obama, owe a world-class apology to the American people for what they’ve done to this country.

Live long and prosper

“When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s and assorted licenses, social collapse is not far away, and it’s time to go elsewhere.  Unfortunately we’re running out of elsewhere’s here on Earth.  The nice thing about star travel once we get it developed is that it will make it possible to find “elsewhere”.”

There are, at best estimate, about 200 billion or so stars in our Milky Way galaxy.  Making a very conservative guess, let’s assume that only one star in 100 has a planet capable of being a human habitable world (1%, or two billion planets).   And let’s say that none of these planets harbor any sort of life, intelligent or otherwise (which I cannot bring myself to believe).  Assuming further, we’ll assume that only star systems with such planets are ever occupied by our species and adapted to our sort of life.  Thus, with star travel available to them, over the next million or so years our descendents could spread among the stars at an average rate of 2000 new stars per year, in an explosion of life than we can only imagine, thoroughly remaking the galaxy as surely as life has remolded a once barren Earth.

Logic tells me that life does exist elsewhere in our universe, so… as seen from the bridge of your approaching starship, imagine gazing down on a totally new living world and wondering how its people had shaped that world, and the world it’s people.  Imagine the variety of worlds and of the living species flourishing upon them! Water worlds, desert planets, jungle planets, mountains that reach above the sky and canyons vast enough to swallow a small moon.  Every habitat and every species ever imagined in science fiction will become real, and many more yet to spring from the imagination of explorers born half a million years from now.  Imagine the knowledge to be gained from each and every one of those planets.

And as long as we’re letting our imaginations run free, consider what happens once we’ve explored our home galaxy…  Look out into the vast distances of the cosmos, home to millions… billions… of other galaxies, each a swarm of new stars, new planets, and life unimaginable.  We have an entire fascinating universe to explore.  There’s an endless line of new places to go, new things to see, new people to meet, new adventures, and new knowledge to be gained. 

It can be argued that we have no human presence on the moon today because there has been a lack of public support, vague understanding, and little willingness to invest our hard earned dollars in space development.  Fairly or not, I lay this lack of public support squarely at the feet of NASA’s administration.  To all indications, NASA has lost the sense of adventure, the drive, and the challenge we associated with spaceflight in the 1960’s.  That very human drive to explore the unknown has been replaced in our government by nothing more than a culture of bureaucratic empire building.   Certainly competing economic interests play a role, but given the amount of money necessary to achieve those dreams of space development, the cost is actually nominal, even incidental.

Rightly so we have made hero’s of our astronauts for their pioneering of manned spaceflight.  In much the same manner we looked upon the space scientists and engineers whose labors made those flights possible.  To the American public in the 1960’s and 70’s NASA was the “fair haired boy” of the mirade of US government agencies.  We considered space flight to be the bright shining future of humanity.  Over the following years, this positive attitude began to change.

Rather than demonstrating to the public the potential of space development, what humanity as a whole could do in space, NASA insisted on resting on their laurels while a shortsighted congress cut the funding, thus making spaceflight the realm of only a very few select individuals.  This perceived “exclusivity of space” made the public feel left out, that there was no place for the common man in space exploration, that there would be no benefit for them or their children, and would in fact, would leave them at an economic disadvantage. After all, why should my hard earned tax dollars be spent on creating a bright and shining future for a very few space going “supermen”, leaving me behind in the dust and squalor of overcrowded planet?  Instead of pressing science and industry to open spaceflight to everyone, the public settled for any number of space operas of dubious scientific accuracy that did little more than pump millions of dollars into the Hollywood economy.  People never lost their fascination with spaceflight; they were just left out of the game by a mindless bureaucracy.

In the Star Trek universe, the Federation is all about ensuring that all people benefit and have a role in the forward evolution of that wondrous future.  This is a concept that we here on our pale blue marble should seriously consider for the long term good of ourselves and of our descendants.  After all, we’re running out of accessible natural resources. For the most part we’re now mining low-grade materials to feed our industrial demands, and even those materials are getting scarce. We’re running out of energy sources as well. What’s going to happen when the oil finally runs out?  The environmentalist’s object to our burning coal and oil, they won’t let us develop nuclear fission, and their alternate “green energy” programs have been a total flop so far. Yet the sun each second puts out about forty million times as much energy as we need on Earth, which leaves the possibility of building efficient space based solar power systems to solve our energy problems… until the sun burns out in a few billion years.  It would be nice if we could develop a new supply of natural resources as well… before we’re reduced to living in an updated version of the Stone Age! The moon, and the near Earth asteroids, contains a plentiful supply of just about everything we need here on Earth, and will need to live and work in space itself.  Professor John S. Lewis, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona states that an asteroid only two kilometers in diameter, and assuming typical meteorite composition, would be worth (at today’s prices) around 300,000 trillion dollars! That’s about the gross GLOBAL product for a very long time into the future!

The recently initiated engineering study “100YSS” (the 100 Year Starship), a NASA/DARPA program to study and develop the means of reaching the stars, believes, as do I, that pursuing an extraordinary tomorrow will create a better world today, if we, and our Congress critters, don’t allow it to wither on the vine. The social, cultural, political, scientific and technical communities, along with the electorate, must see human travel to the stars as not just the dream of a few wild eyed space enthusiasts, but a necessity for the very survival of the human race that we must begin work on now, while we still have the means to do so, so that all human life here on Earth…  and our children’s children into the far future… might “live long and prosper”.

I'm still here

A liberal is someone who feels he owes a great debt to his fellow man,

which he proposes to pay off with your money

Undaunted by a bunch of medical issues I’m still hanging around, writing on occasion, still mourning the loss of my wife, cluttering up the house, driving the kids crazy, snarling at business as usual politics, and hopefully irritating the daylights out of the loony left.  Like a good many other Americans, I also keep track of the news reports on what I learned in school many years ago to call “Current Events”.  (Despite the loud objections of liberal English majors about Sarah’s use of the term a few years ago).  Following the news, I’ve concluded that the sanity of the entire civilized world seems to be on rather shaky ground, with the third world not far behind! 

Russian imperialism is on the march once again in Syria and Iraq, (following the Ukraine escapade), while Mr. Putin seems to be laughing at the leaderless west and trying to restart the cold war.  China is happily making threats all over Southeast Asia.  North Korea is once again rattling her saber at South Korea and the U.S.  Moslems are happily massacring fellow Moslems and Christians throughout Europe and the mid-east, while Iran is threatening everybody in Southwest Asia with a nuclear holocaust, which, despite Mr. O’s assurances, the somewhat temperamental Israelis appear to be taking very seriously.  The troubles we face in Iraq and Afghanistan are far from being resolved, ISIS terrorism is still going strong with strikes all over the world, now with the threat of “dirty bombs” using radioactive materials swiped by the Russian underworld and sold to Islamic terrorists.  In response, Mr. Obama is cutting US military strength to its lowest level in over eighty years.  The industrialized world’s economy, led by the United States, is still in the basement and looks to be getting even worse, and now I understand, some U.S. citizens are even refusing to accept U.S. Dollars in exchange for their labor!

Things aren’t much better on the home front it would seem, we’re still loosing the long-term war on drugs, yet we’re now legalizing marijuana!  Social Security is still on the verge of bankruptcy thanks to Congress continually raiding the kitty to support assorted pork barrel projects.  The TSA is still strip-searching babies and little old ladies, overly zealous “Zero Tolerance” school discipline policies continue to victimize kids and make fools of assorted School Boards, “political correctness” now overrules Freedom of Speech, and ObamaCare remains “egg on the face” in Washington and an economic disaster to the rest of us. (One forecast claims that ObamaCare will collapse under it’s own weight within a year.)  Recent politically correct court orders are handing a couple of Muslim truck drivers a small fortune each after they were fired for refusing to deliver a load of beer on religious grounds, while Christians who refuse to provide a wedding cake (on religious grounds) for a same sex wedding can cost a Mom and Pop bakery it’s business license!  (Double standards anyone?)  Babies are still being killed (aborted) in wholesale lots in the interest of “choice”.  I’m not sure how much forestland we lost to wildfires this year (thanks mostly to the environuts and their weird “natural” ideas), but it seems like "most of California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and a touch of Montana” would be fairly descriptive.  Some schools are adding Islamic prayer rooms for the convenience of Moslem students, yet a High School football coach who happens to be a Christian got fired for praying during a ball game.  Politicians and wannabe Presidential candidates are happily lambasting each other, and the media, yet again, and of course the leftist media keeps telling us how wonderful things are under Obama. 

I have learned much from that same media in recent months though.  For instance, while black lives matter, other lives don’t matter.  Street hoods are really the good guys apparently, and the cops are wanton murderers.  The economy stinks, the Middle Class is shrinking, the Average Family income is still dropping, Black youths have over a 50% unemployment rate, Hispanic youth unemployment is over 35%, and after 7 years in office none of this is Obama’s fault.

Eric Snowden and General Petraeus were pilloried in the liberal press for breaking laws about releasing and-or not securing classified documents, but Hillary Clinton of course is totally innocent of any responsibility for doing exactly the same thing.  After all, “What difference does it make?”  Apparently we’re to believe that republicans want dirty air, dirty water, oil spills, trash on the streets, polluted oceans, old people without medical treatment, illegal immigrants and our own young people without educations being paid the lowest wages possible, and starving children wandering the streets.  The republicans started every war in American history according to one liberal claim, and of course those same nasty right wing people have some sort of a “war on women” going on as well, and they don’t believe in equal rights either.  Oh Yeah, don’t forget that everything is still Bush’s fault.  On top of everything else, Mr. O gives every impression that he hates our allies, loves our sworn enemies, and is totally afraid of Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea (and probably a mouse as well)!  With that, he’s doing his best to turn us into a completely disarmed third (forth?) world country!  And… Anyone who disagrees with his agenda is automatically considered a racist… and potential terrorist.

I certainly do not understand what has happened to the country I grew up in, or to the people living here in those days, who would, at the drop of a hat, fight the devil himself to defend our Constitution, citizens, and nation.  Try this modern liberal sort of crap with my feisty old Irish grandpappy and with naught but a blackthorn shillelagh in hand he’d definitely change a lot of attitudes!  When I was growing up, we saluted the flag… proudly.  We recited the Pledge of Allegiance… proudly.  We served in the military… proudly. And we did it all in English, no matter what our “native” language was.  We respected the cops, cussed at the taxman, helped our neighbors, worked for a living, and carried on with our lives as best we could without government handouts, or being told that the uber rich owed us anything.

Welcome to the new “feel good” world order of the loony left, and an entire generation of Americans that seem to have lost their minds, their manhood, and the American dream.  A new socialist world in which morality, honesty, respect, and truth seem to have been relegated to the ranks of historical oddities. 

Is it time for a real national leader yet, or is an uninformed electorate going to stick us with yet another leftist dilettante for four more years?