Dr. Tim Ball On Climate Alarmism

LISTEN HERE If you want to get an understanding of climate alarmism then catch this long interview.  I put it up for those who are seriously interested in the whole question of what we know about climate and what has been going on.  HIS WEB SITE

Dirty Harry Interviews Barack Obama

Rand Paul at the RNC

Worth a look if you missed it!

Speaking Standard English Seem To Be The New Racism

SEE HERE  It is pretty sad when the liberal commentary descend to the effort to find out how many ways you can call someone racist.  I guess that's what happens when you candidate has failed in almost four years to make anything better and has for the most part made things worse.  Nobody considers the obvious solution that he's doing the wrong things for the wrong reasons.  That makes to much sense, but I guess saying something doesn't make sense is some kind of racial code words since the liberals have taken to decoding us all.  What they really mean is that if you won't vote for Obama it must be because you're a racist.  Nothing else makes sense to these talking heads ... so since when have they demonstrated the ability to detect sense when they hear it?

Render to Caesar the Things that are Caesar's and to God the Things that are God's

SEE HERE The whole idea that man can control the levels of the oceans is a degree of hubris that is beyond stupid, beyond even megalomania, and borderline blasphemy.  I am reminded of God's question to Job: "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?"  I recently posted a link that references a recent study that compellingly links the rise of CO2 levels to the warming of the earth and not the other way around.  What this means is that the whole global warming alarmism is phony baloney.  Now those who have frequented this blog know I think this to be the case.  The science is just not there. 

The whole global warming schtick is based on ad hoc climate models.  The problem with all computer modeling is that you get out what you put in.  I used to call it Garbage In Gospel Out.  It's fascinating how people will salute when you say well the XYZ Model says ... whatever.  If they know that the model says just what the programmers made it say, they might seek a little firmer ground for believing it.  Generating the grounds for believing a model is called model validation.  Backward validation shows that the model accurately predicts what you have seen before.  If a model fails here it is really really bad because you know all this data.  Forward validation is does it predict the future.  This is tougher because you have to either wait of the future or hold back some information to use for forward validation from an earlier data set.  Climate models don't validate very well.

Karl Rove Is Not On My Good Guy List ...

SEE HERE ... on the other hand there is nothing in this piece that should be a surprise except perhaps for the over the top slime throwing of the commenters.  What do they think you say to big donors?  Do they think that high-rolling Democrat strategy briefings are any different?  Let's face it, if you want people to donate big money you have to give them some expectation that it will make a difference.  It's their money.  The stupid commenters seem to think that therefore they are owned.  The problem is that the system needs money to operate because we have turned the electoral contest into a beauty pageant that runs for two years.  I'm sure there are some ways to cut the costs but whether it would improve the result is questionable.  "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely." — Lord Acton Rove's idea of a JOKE pretty much shows what a jerk he is.

Deterrence Works? — Really? You Bet Your Life On That?

SEE HERE Krauthammer points out the fallacies in our thinking when it come to those who do irrational things like tie bombs to children and send them to kill innocent people. You cannot expect reason from the mad.

Some Images Stay With You and Others Just Fade Away

SEE HERE "We are four years into this presidency. The issue is not the economy that Barack Obama inherited, not the economy as he envisions, but this economy that we are living. College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life." — Vice Presidential Candidate Paul Ryan

Democrats Really Don't Have a Sense of Humor — They're Just Embarassing!

"Nuts!"

Condi at RNC — Pay Attention Because She Gets It

"We stand for free people and free markets." Condi nails it! "... You cannot lead from behind." "... our allies need reason to trust us ..." "...we are abandoning the field of free trade and it will come back to haunt us." "... a nation that loses control of its finances ultimately is a nation that loses control of its destiny." "... you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. It doesn't matter where you came from, it matters where you are going." "... there is no country that can do more harm to us than we can do to ourselves ... " " we must continue to welcome the world's most ambitious people to be a part of us ... continue to show we are a compassionate nation of immigrants." " the crisis in K-12 education is a threat to who we are." "... self-esteem comes from achievement not lax standards and false praise." "... God bless you and God bless this exceptional country, the United States of America."

The Truth About Paul Ryan's "Lies"

SEE HERE It's pretty funny when the most dishonest administration in the history of the presidency accuses someone of lying about them. Maybe we should shine a light on the situation and see how many cockroaches run for cover. The truth of the matter is of course that Paul Ryan was "right on" and frankly as one commenter to the article suggested of the Obama speech Ryan quoted from "... It is chock full of Obama lies, half-truths and broken promises. I really don't think the ObamaSycos want that speech to be highlighted in the campaign. ..."

Better to Be Prepared than to Be Sorry! — Tyranny Rising!

SEE HERE The Department of Homeland Security is a clear and present danger to Americans. It has all the earmarks of an American Gestapo. I don't like alarmism, but nothing this administration has done suggests anything but an unscrupulous lust for power on the part of the leadership and their minions. So read this with a grain of salt, but read it. You should not be unaware until the moment the shackles clack into place and you are enslaved.

The information is vague and non-specific about some sort of operation "going-hot" in the next sixty days to allow the elections to be put aside.  We've seen this before.  Is it valid information or simply the mad ravings of conspiracy theorists?  We'll probably know in the next sixty days.  Keep an open mind and be safe.

New Paper Definitively Links CO2 Rise to Global Warming

SEE HERE  Wow ... notice the cause and effect relationship.  The earth warms and the CO2 increases.  The CO2 has nothing to do with the warming.

The highlights of the paper are:

► The overall global temperature change sequence of events appears to be from 1) the ocean surface to 2) the land surface to 3) the lower troposphere. 

► Changes in global atmospheric CO₂ are lagging about 11–12 months behind changes in global sea surface temperature. 

► Changes in global atmospheric CO₂ are lagging 9.5-10 months behind changes in global air surface temperature. 

► Changes in global atmospheric CO₂ are lagging about 9 months behind changes in global lower troposphere temperature. 

► Changes in ocean temperatures appear to explain a substantial part of the observed changes in atmospheric CO₂ since January 1980. 

► CO₂ released from use of fossil fuels have little influence on the observed changes in the amount of atmospheric CO₂, and changes in atmospheric CO₂ are not tracking changes in human emissions.

This should at least begin putting this whole sorry political pseudo-science to rest. CO2 is not a climate driver.

A President With No Class At All — Some Commander In Chief

SEE HERE I guess the bottom line is that between trying to take credit for the bin-Laden take down, revealing national security secrets for personal publicity, and then on the occasion of the greatest single loss of U.S. military personnel in Afghanistan this is what the president does.  No class, no empathy, nothing but an empty suit.  I can see November from my house!

Marginalizing the Tea Party — Not A Good Idea!

SEE HERE The Tea Party is the only reason that the Republicans are even in this race.  The Tea Party is a grassroots movement of real patriots and all you get from the Liberals and the establishment Republicans is efforts to marginalize it.  It shows I think how out of touch with real people both parties are.  The Democrats have been captured by the ultra far left, essentially Communists, although they seek to conceal that fact with all sorts of euphemisms like "progressive."  Still if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it's probably a duck.  The Republicans have always been split between the more conservative grass roots and the "Country-club Republican" establishment that sees the party almost like a political game and routinely betray the grass roots because, frankly, they have no place else to go.  They must be terrified of the Tea Party because the Tea Party could develop into a place to go. 

Jon Voight — The Drama of the Hour

"If we don't address some of these problems we're in deep trouble."  Jon Voight says we have to do something or we'll go over the falls.

Ron Paul Treated Shabbily At the Republican Convention

This is despicable.  It casts the integrity of the Republican Party into question (not that that's a surprise, all the parties seem to be corrupt as hell) but Ron Paul had no chance of being nominated.  This was petty.  It was dishonorable.  It was the kind of crap that tics off the grassroots who are the heart and soul of the party.  We should get rid of all the establishment figures that think they are better than the rest of us and run the party like a private fiefdom or get a new party that has honesty and integrity.  This was outrageous and unnecessary.  It shows how stupid the leadership really is.  Joseph Sobran for many years called the Republican party the "stupid party" and for good reason.

I probably should add that I'm not a Ron Paul supporter.  My candidates didn't make the cut because of the slimy way politics operates in this country.  I wanted Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich, the only two figures except for Paul Ryan that had something resembling integrity and brains.  Well I support Paul Ryan and I'll take a chance on Romney since I don't have a choice.

"Truth — You Can't Handle the Truth!"

SEE HERE Red State exposes the liberal Politifact cover ... which builds cover stories to make liberal mantras appear to be factual.  It's a common enough liberal tactic.  What they do is agree among themselves what the truth is and then they all say it and that makes it true, right?  I call them "mantras" because they are just things they say without really demonstrating they are true just that they fit their agenda.  Fact checkers like Politifact and snopes are notoriously biased. SOME MORE It's hard to know where to go to get honest unbiased verification of things.  The only solution I've found is to try to find the extremes and figure the truth is somewhere in the middle, but that's time consuming and prone to error also.  It would be nice if honesty could once more become a common virtue.

Reality 101 — Thomas Sowell Style!

SEE HERE Politicians should stay out of the way.  They don't understand much, especially about business.  Most of them have never had an honest job in their lives unless they worked a while when they were in college.

Bottom Line?  Government meddling with insurance makes everything more expensive.  Not only is that true, but it's obvious.  Why don't politicians get it?  Maybe because they think we are all stupid.  And if we let them get away with it, then we are!

Brandon Raub In His Own Speak

This is the kind of thing that happens in the United States now that freedom of speech is being violated by "Big Brother."

It's Against the Law to Lie to a Politician? — Let's Make It Against the Law for Politicians to Lie to Us! What a Concept!!

SEE HERE James O'Keefe has more guts that most people.  He's been doing the kind of investigative journalism that the main stream media can't be bothered to do.  Apparently he could not come to Tampa for an event due to a "crime" he's been convicted of that limits his travel.  The crime is pretty funny.  Apparently he misrepresented himself to a politician.  I guess that's like lying to a politician which is pretty funny ... it seems more likely that it should be a crime for a politician to lie to us but they do it all the time.  Luckily through the miracle of technology he Skype'd in to the event he was scheduled to present at.  It's interesting how they come down hard on real investigative journalism and humor the sycophants that shill for the president.

If You Haven't Seen This You Should

The political spectrum explained the way it really is.

One Chance to Save the Country — Throwing Your Vote Away Is Idiocy Based On Ignorance

Let's get something straight.  The November election isn't like any other you've voted in.  If Obama wins America loses big time!  Man-up and vote no to the Obama outrage planned for the second term.  If you don't like what Obama has done in his first term, you haven't seen anything when he doesn't have anything to lose.  Hey Wild Bill, tell it to us straight!  Meanwhile go see "2016 Obama's America" and realize that this documentary substantially understates the problem.

VA 6th District and Others Prevented From Voting On Rules Change Due to "Convenient" Bus Transportation Issues

SEE HERE Maybe it is time for a third party if this is the way the Republican establishment wants to treat legitimate delegates that disagree with them.  This kind of manipulation is just one more sign that our political system has been corrupted and degraded.  It puts credence in the charge that the whole political process in the United States has devolved into a kind of political theater. 

Lord Monckton Calls the U.S. On It's Failure to Establish Obama's Eligibility for the Office of the Presidency

SEE HERE "Christopher Monckton of Brenchley calls GOP treasonous for eligibility inaction" He offers his own LINK with a downloadable pdf file which is 24 pages long and summarizes the case against Obama's eligibility based on his actions and the fact that the birth certificate proffered as evidence has been convincingly demonstrated to be a forgery.

RNC Protestors In Their Own Speak

Warning: Vulgar Language Ahead!  Do these people really represent the Democrat party base?  We've declined further than I could believe ... Wow!

The Truth About ObamaCare — It Still Has to be Turned Around

WATCH HERE ObamaCare is a financial and healthcare disaster.  Check out this informative video created by two doctors.

A Little Real Black History — Who Faught For Freedom?

There is something tragic about the fact that the black population seems not to know its own history.

The Democrats Score Another First! — 2 Hour Muslim Prayer Session

SEE HERE First of course they dissed the Catholic Cardinal Dolan ... now they've let him saying the closing prayers ... but what's this about two hours of Muslim prayer?  This seems like rant fawning on Islam and inviting Sharia.  Maybe it's a misunderstanding but the reference looks real.

If the GOP Shuts Down the Grassroots They Can Kiss the Election Goodbye

SEE HERE At least that's what I think.  Virtually all the work done for the party is done by the grassroots and they are being marginalized and treated like crap by the establishment.  This isn't unusual but it seems to be more egregious that usual since the grassroots is not in love with Mitt Romney.  On the other hand the campaign needs them so they better sort something out.  MORE

Politics — Sheer Lunacy

SEE HERE I always loving reading Thomas Sowell since he always strikes a tone that is the voice of reason in a world gone mad.  When Tom Sowell points out the obvious it has a way of seeming like a revelation.  Why don't the politicians and the media get it?  Why does absolutely everything have to be an over the top emergency end of the world crisis?  They are always trying to scare people and that's a bipartisan observation.  Some things are scary for sure.  Perhaps every scary claim needs to be prefaced by some statements that show it is a reasonable and well motivated claim.  Of course then the politicians and news media folks would have to think and that doesn't seem to be their strong suit.

The Article that May Have Influenced Todd Akin

SEE HERE John Willke is a prominen pro-life doctor.  This article points out the reasons why the pregnancy to term of violent rape victims may be relatively small.  Akin of course isn't an expert and should not have been making expert sounding noises, but there are experts that take a position similar to the one he took.  Much of this kind of thing is in how you define the question, so it isn't a simple matter.  The accuracy of Dr. Willke's assertions about the probability of rape victims carrying a child to term are disputed.

A Tribute to Neil Armstrong by Buzz Aldrin

SEE HERE

Are Fascism and Homosexuality Related?

SEE HERE  This purports to reveal the little known correlation between the two.

Akin Not Far Off Base ... A Physician Speaks Out

SEE HERE  Well, well ... isn't this interesting?  With all the screaming and yelling against Akin you'd think he'd committed a rape himself when in fact at most he slightly misspoke.  There is something quite telling in the uproar.  Abortion has become the feminist sacrament which sacrifices a baby at the altar of political correctness, never for a moment seeing that baby as the child that it is.  There is something tragic about all of this.  It shows how degraded we have become.

So Why Don't They Fix It?

SEE HERE In case you wondered, you're being gamed.  A friend of mine sent me the text of this in an email today so I googled it up and offer it to you.  The bottom line is that a very small number of people have all the power to fix the problems we face and instead blame them on nameless invisible forces that are seemingly out of their control.  Well that's phony baloney.  They could fix it.  The reality is that they want to fix it.  They like their prerogatives and its a bipartisan problem.  One hand scratches the other across the aisle.  Until we change the philosophy and stop electing unprincipled men and women this problem is only going to get worse.  It already looks to be on track to sink us all.

Narcissiam to the Max

SEE HERE Just another photo-op for Obama.  I'm not sure why people act surprised with the NIC does things that only the NIC would do.  Neil Armstrong was a hero.  Barack Obama is a hero in his own mind and pretty much no-where else.  Maybe we should start calling him president "moonbeam" after this.

2016 Obama's America — Glenn Beck Interviews Dinesh D'Souza

Haven't seen the documentary yet ... here's a video about it.  You should get out and see it.

With "Friends" Like These, Who Needs Enemies?

SEE HERE  Conservative doesn't mean Liberal-lite.  We need to break away from the phony Republican Establishment that wants only to walk the hallways of power but not to really develop policy or do anything worthwhile.

Heads Up! — The Scenario Seems Plausible

SEE HERE It's plausible if in fact Obama has enough support to pull it off.  The purchase of large amounts of hollow point ammunition by DHS and the fact that Obama has a lot of Communist supporters makes it at least potentially plausible.  The question is how many traitors are in our midst or are we just paranoid?  It's hard to tell.  If you're keeping track of the egregious behavior towards our veterans and the Tea Party, two really patriotic groups, you have to wonder.  The Boy Scout motto seems appropriate at such time "Be Prepared!" and the famous Ronald Reagan quote "Trust but Verify!"

2016 Obama's America — A Review

Well I just returned from the 2:10 showing of "2016 Obama's America" at the Regal Cinema in Harrisonburg. I didn't see much that I didn't know, but it was woven together and integrated, embedded in a rich cinematography that brought front and center the reality of the third world and the anti-American version of anti-colonialism that motivated Obama's father.

The movie's main weakness is that it is so psychological. The points the movie makes are valid and pointed and effectively delivered. The impact of the movie is one of putting Obama's worldview in perspective and showing how far it diverges from what we traditionally think of as "American."

The movie provides a foundational perspective that could be vastly expanded to detail Obama's associations and action. It sources Obama's inner philosophy and shows how his actions fit into a world view that it largely anti-American, a world view that seeks to diminish the role of America on the world scene. This can't be good for Americans and the point is made, perhaps not as forcefully as I would have liked, that we are truly coming to a tipping point.

Towards the end the movie documents the basis for Obama's stance on nuclear reduction which would reduce us to potential victim status. It documents the impact of Obama's middle Eastern policies which appear to be empowering a restoration of something like the Ottoman empire and marginalizing Israel. It documents Obama's economic policies which are setting us up for economic collapse if they are continued. These were all factually presented by experts in the various fields.

Perhaps it was too clinical. I thought it left much that could have been said unsaid. It was all sourced and factual, but it was also all understated. We see Obama through a lens that Obama himself created and that may not be the clearest or most accurate lens, but it is lens enough to see the great dangers that America faces if we continue down this path.

I think there should be a sequel which looks more at the agency of Obama's rise to power, the individuals, the strategies, the money and its manipulation, the policies, and focus on the pay backs and the motivations.  There is much more to this story.  Ultimately at least, it needs to be told.

Shouldn't We Stop Letting the Government Make These Decisions And Let the Free Market Decide?

SEE HERE I'm so sick of the government trying to micromanage the universe I could just spit. You'd think any of this makes sense. The Free Market can handle all of this better and if the government would just butt out we'd see prices fall and people could make the decisions on what kind of engines they want and how they want to spend their hard earned money. Government just screws everything up.

You Are Being Enslaved And The Politicians Love It!

This is the way the world ends, this is the way the world ends, this is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper! -- T.S. Eliot

Reasoning With Lunatics May Not Help, But Wild Bill Tries!

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

SEE HERE So what is this all about?

Marine Veteran Brandon Raub’s Attorney says he is getting calls from veterans and people all over the country reporting psychiatric detention for political speech. Tyranny Rising! Veterans are being targeted! Attorney reports that this has been going on for a long time, 20,000 alone in Virginia. This is troubling in the extreme.

NSA Keeping Up With the Times — Hope This Makes You Feel Safer!

SEE HERE The NSA eavesdrops on the world.  That's obviously one immense amount of data.  I imagine that it's getting even larger with the internet and all the other 3G/4G modes of communications that might have to be listened to.  I wonder if they can create storage fast enough?  It sounds like one helluva data filtering problem.

2016 Obama's America #1 In Ticket Sales At Fandango

SEE HERE That's amazing!  I'm going tomorrow at Regal Cinema in Harrisonburg and will provide a personal review tomorrow.  Judging from the reviews I've read already I don't think I'll be disappointed.

I Can See November From My House!

WATCH the turnout greeting President Obama when he visited Centreville, Virginia for a campaign event on July 14, 2012.  He was greeted by about 250 folks who were there to tell him what they thought.

Brandon Raub In His Own Speak

ALSO SEE HERE Court orders Brandon Raub released from the mental hospital.  Finds original arrest illegal.

An interview with the young veteran Marine Brandon Raub from the mental hospital the government took him to.  Listen to the interview and make your own judgment.  Do you think this was reasonable?  The government watching people's Facebook pages and deciding to deprive a citizen of his liberty because they don't like what he said.  FOUR MARINES WHO SERVED WITH BRANDON

MORE on Court Ordered Release.

Taxes and Liberal Lies

SEE HERE As usual the way the liberal media spins things is to try to suggest that somehow Romney isn't paying his fair share and they cite the average tax he paid as if this means anything when in fact 96% of American tax payers pay a lower average tax rate.  The problem is partly due to the fact that our schools are doing such a rotten job that most Americans can't do the math.  A BETTER ACCOUNTING shows that Romney paid more like 30% when you take everything into account.

The Smell of Deceit, the Stench of Tyranny

SEE HERE The media is doing us no service when it comes to tracking the growth of tyranny coming from the Obama administration.  A friend of mine in law enforcement put me onto this piece.  It is revelatory.  This is a blatant attack on free speech and a free press.  You'd think the media would be all over it.

Something As An Excuse ... Like Slavery

Maybe a little sense of history would help the Democrats when they're being hypocritical, but I doubt it.  They have been lying so long they believe their own lies.

More On The Akin Affair from Judge Napolitano

SEE HERE Whether Akin's remarks were brain dead or not, he was right on the fundamental point.  Killing an innocent human being is still indefensible.

Abortion Is Murder — The Intentional Killing of an Innocent Human Being

SEE HERE Todd Akin may not have expressed himself well, but it is a measure of the lack of principle in the Republican party that the establishment is running for the exists.  Rush Limbaugh provides a sobering analysis.  We live in a nation that has become so decadent that it intentionally kills its children and celebrates the fact as a right.  We export this evil to other lands and pretend we're doing them a favor as we try to kill their babies too.  All the time the left pretends this is a great advance, a break through in human potential freeing woman to be what? sex slaves for randy men?  They ignore the huge social costs of abortion and pretend that those who object are Neanderthals.  Sorry ... the gore is on your hands and in your hearts.  It is the American Holocaust.  MORE

Political Correctness and Stupidity Gone Mad

SEE HERE You just can't make this stuff up.  Every day some new and more preposterous thing that the government is doing comes floating into my life via the internet.  I may have to find a cabin the woods to go live in and read old books.  The surreal world I live in now is simply going totally and stark raving mad.  It seems to be driven by liberals and I don't even know why.  This story is quite mad.  It reminds me of the classical quote: "Whom the gods destroy they first make mad!" an ancient Greek proverb.

Quadrillions for Bad Science that Politicians Want

SEE HERE Christopher Monckton on the extent of the climate scam. " Science these days is a monopsony. There is only one paying customer: the State. Scientists increasingly produce the results their political paymasters want rather than seeking after truth."  The unholy liaison between government and science has produced corruption to an almost unimaginable degree.  We will all pay the price if it isn't turned around.

"The Police State Is Here" — Did They Just Notice?

SEE HERE Main Stream Media finally pick up on Raub story.

Stand By for Thuggery at the RNC Next Week

SEE HERE This should be interesting.  The big question will be how the police handle the demonstrations.  I remember the abysmal way that the demonstrations at the 1968 Democratic Convention were handled when the anti-Vietnam War crowd got brutalized by the Chicago police.  At least that was the way it was framed in the media.  We'll see how this goes between hurricanes and demonstrators it might be interesting.  Wet demonstrators usually don't demonstrate well.

What! — It Gets Crazier and Crazier!

SEE HERE Civil War? if Obama is reelected? I suppose it may depend on the composition of the Congress. It's disquieting to see elected officials and flag rank military officers saying the kinds of things that I've put up here on Brambles. I have never seen such polarization, such rancor, and such plausibility all together which makes the whole thing feel like a Twilight Zone episode.

Ammunition Purchases and Still Nothing Substantive on Brandon Raub's "Arrest"

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot! I think we should close down Homeland Security while it's still only an ulcer on the body politic, of course they've recently purchased 1.5 billion rounds of hollow point ammunition.  That's a helluva lot of target practice.  I wonder what they plan to be shooting at.  AMMUNITION WHAT AMMUNITION nothing to see here, move along!

GENERAL CHECKS IN On the other hand The Blaze offers, back in March when the order was only 450 million rounds, a slightly different interpretation.  Whatever the reason they're buying an awful lot of hollow point ammunition.  MORE

SEE HERE Brandon Raub is still being held without charges. Apparently if some bozos' complain about your Facebook posts you can be visited by the FBI and Secret Service and taken to a mental ward and held indefinitely, at least they're reporting he'll be there another 30 days while they evaluate him.  It's not clear, at least from my reading, that Raub's posts were all that over the top.  I've seen worse just from idiots posting rap lyrics.  So what's the standard that make Raub different?  Was it the fact that he is a veteran Marine?  After all there was that white paper from Janet Napolitano's Gestapo that branded former military, Tea Party people, pro-Life people and others as potential terrorists.  Apparently the radical union folks, Black Panthers and some of the Muslim radical groups don't quite make the cut.  So what's going on. Is this a trial balloon to see how many people would complain if they start violating people's rights? Move along ... nothing to see here!

Thomas Sowell Endorses "2016 Obama's America"

SEE HERE  Friday at Regal Cinema "2016 Obama's America" will be showing.  To be informed you need to go and see what is known about our mysterious president.  It may surprise you especially if you have not been paying very much attention.

John Stossel on Paul Ryan

SEE HERE  John Stossel is a Libertarian and I'm not, at least probably not as much of a Libertarian as he is.  Check out Stossel's take on Paul Ryan.  The Liberals nut-jobs have been trying to make Paul Ryan out to be a monster which I guess just shows how totally out of touch they are.  Ryan is going to make this ticket if anything can.  Romney made a good call when he picked Ryan and that says something positive about Romney, actually one of the few positive things I can think of about Romney except that he's not Obama.

Speaking of Voter Fraud

SEE HERE I've been listening to all the liberals talk about how little vote fraud there is so when today's Delancey Place showed up and it was about the history of political corruption and vote fraud I couldn't resist.  There are 1.8 million dead people on the voter rolls and that should be enough to swing any election that's at all close.  Do the cemeteries vote?  In the big cities they have in the past.  Has anything changed?

A Light Moment out of Curiosity

Police State 101 Continues ...

SEE HERE This case appears so egregious as to be unbelievable.  If this guy can be picked up and held in a mental institution for the kind of thing that he appears to have put on Facebook then the first amendment has become a sham.  We are on the leading edge of the transition to a tyranny if this stands.  I've put up some other concerns from significant and principled voices in our society and they are all sounding alarms.

The movie 2016 is coming to Regal Cinema on Friday I might add so you can go and look at an critical analysis of the administration's motivations.  Moreover, keep in mind that some knowledgeable people have said that this documentary is a significant understatement.  A REVIEW

We'll Know In A Couple of Months Whether the Republic Survives

SEE HERE I just can't get over the fact that this is what we've been reduced to.  Here we are speculating whether an American president will step down if he is not reelected.  The Founders must be rolling in their graves.

The Issues Before Us — The Dissolution of the Republic

SEE HERE The reality of what is going on here in America with this administration doesn't seem to have registered on most Americans who are too caught up in their reality shows, Facebook pages, and earning a living and living their lives. They better start paying attention soon or their lives are going to change for the worse.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

SEE HERE Who guards the guards themselves? is a Roman aphorism. The point of course is that of Truman's famous sign: "The buck stops here." If the guardians are not to be trusted than the system has failed. This tactic described in the reference is a classic one which was used in the now defunct Soviet Union. The fact that it is being played out here is disquieting.

Truth Trumps Lying and Our Society Is Very Short of Truth

SEE HERE Telling the truth is a problem in politics today. That is probably because there are so many liars in the business and so many spin-doctors and phonies. It means that people who are up front and honest are at something of a disadvantage. They're always under pressure to back down and betray their principles. There's a "Catch-22" involved to. When the principle is unpopular even though true, and you're forced to back down, then the usual suspects attack you again for being a hypocrite and unprincipled, despite the fact that they are the unprincipled ones who are holding the bad position and you just agreed with them to achieve what? Peace? Being "Nice"?

That's the position that Akin found himself in when he disputed the morality of killing an unborn child if it was the product of a rape. Rape is a nasty crime, probably under-reported. Abortion is a minefield of liberal and feminist creation that together with Contraception is likely much of the reason for the moral collapse of our society. He never should have paired the word "legitimate" with "rape." There is no "legitimate rape." Perhaps "real" would have been better, but leaving "rape" simply unmodified is enough. There is also no "legitimate abortion." Murder is more evil than rape. Murder leaves the victim dead. This is a dishonest debate fueled by the immorality of a sick society. I don't know anything about Akin. I don't know if he can survive this politically. But I'd rather see him fight than quit. MORE It seems to me that a failure of principle is in play here. Instead of correcting the bad wording and putting out a clear and principled statement, Akin's own party is throwing him under the bus. This is one of the things I find disreputable about both parties but especially the Republicans. Neither party can seem to stand on principle and both parties throw people under the bus, but the Republicans have bizarre habit of throwing people under the Democrat's bus when they should be demolishing the Democrats for their immoral principles and facile lies.

Religion Without Content, Life Without Meaning

Michael Voris outdoes himself today with a terrific send up of religion without content. I don't think this is just a Catholic issue. All religions have some segment that just goes through the motions and isn't authentic. The problem is a very pointed one. Being "Nice" is not the same as being "good." Indeed, "Nice" is mostly schmoozing through life without engaging anything very authentic. Authenticity has a biting edge which is the knife of good and evil, truth and falsehood, right and wrong, real and delusional, and "Nice" fails the fundamental test of authenticity. Our world is full of the "Nice" crowd who are uncomfortable when anything that calls for a decision, a real decision crops up. Our politicians are full of it and we are paying the price for virtue is incompatible with "Nice."

Follow Up on Ex-Marine Brandon Raub (of course there are no ex-marines Semper Fi!)

SEE HERE Oath Keepers ran a story under the head: "Veteran Marine Sergeant Victim Of Pre-Crime Authoritarianism" and this reeks of tyranny. Now we're going to predict that people might do something based on the way they exercise their freedom of speech. Note that some at least of the threatening sounding posts Brandon Raub made were song lyrics ... that's pretty standard on Facebook. Maybe the FBI and Secret Service have not caught up with social media yet. More disturbing is that nothing he posted is a smoking gun to justify being picked up and put in a mental institution. This is tyranny straight up!

Old Gingrich Hit Piece by the Republican Establishment

SEE HERE Why anyone would listen to Bob Dole or Trent Lott is beyond me. This is a piece that goes back to January but one that shows the divisions in the Republican Party for what they are, straight up old-boy establishment against conservatives. I'm supporting Romney as the apparent nominee of the party but I'd switch to Gingrich in a heartbeat as a more principled and more conservative candidate. The Republicans are deeply divided along the lines of principles. The establishment has exactly the same principles as the Democrats, power and influence ... and they'll say anything because they are relatively unprincipled. The conservatives and the Tea Party form the majority of the grassroots and they are fed up. It's no surprise, they've been lied to and gamed over and over again. They are only humored because they do most of the work. Well it's time to change that and the sooner the better.

The Double Standard In Political Discourse Revealed by Walter Williams

Of course to actually listen to an argument requires you to think based on data and principles instead of lockstep visceral emotions instilled by prejudice. Racial double standards are regularly applied. Walter Williams focuses in on this barbarism.

Barbarians In Our Midst ... Almost Killing A Random Guy Because They Were Bored?

SEE HERE I don't care if they are only teen-agers ... this kind of thing is monstrous and ought to be punished severely. I think a couple of years in some sort of juvenile slammer is the minimum this kind of thing deserves. Worst of all is that after the event instead of any remorse they thought they were cool and put up what amount to brags on Facebook. What are they taught in school?

Hmmm.... Questions Remain

SEE HERE So why does the government need all this hollow-point ammunition? Target practice? Planning on shooting people? Who? It's a lot of ammunition. Maybe they'll need it while they are herding the patriots into FEMA detention centers prior to "reeducation." "Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it." — Santayana/Churchill whoever.

Cynical, Hateful, Greedy ... Republicans? No Democrat Projection

The Democrats are and were the racists. A slam? No, just history! Now the lying has been going on even longer.

Human Nature Is Fallen — Some Have Fallen More Than Others

SEE HERE Robert Ringer has it right: "As I watch Obama and his army of lying thugs frantically spewing out the most preposterous lies imaginable, I am reminded of Eric Hoffer’s warning that the louder the drums of deceit, the more vigilant one has to be about learning the facts.  And therein lies the problem.  A significant portion of the populace is totally uninformed, and it comprises the very people who decide the winner of every election!"

Consider the sobering fact that so many of our fellow citizens have become acclimated to having their hands out and being wards of the state.  This direction, continued, becomes enslavement.  We are not so far away.  It has been coming on for a long time and the tipping point is in sight.  Wake up!

You Mean Lying Isn't Going to Work? — Bummer ... Can't Run On the Record

SEE HERE Well the good news is that Obama is spending tons of money on negative lying ads and it isn't working.  At least it isn't working as they had hoped.  So what's the bad news?  I guess that the race is still too close to call and that's sad because Obama has nothing but his lousy record and his smooth teleprompter reading to run on and that seems to have quite a lot of traction.  The conclusion is that the American electorate is brain dead on the whole  It's interesting that seniors are not so easily taken in by the negative campaigning.  I guess they've been more used to thinking instead of just swallowing the koolaid.

A Little Perspective ... Provided By Red State

SEE HERE I've about had it with the abortion debate.  What part of killing an innocent human child whose only offense is that he or she is small and defenseless makes it not murder?  The devaluation of human life has come with the notion that our personal pleasure somehow trumps other people's humanity.  Now we have a Republican candidate who is not particularly clever with words who used the phrase "legitimate rape" to point out that rape rarely ends up in pregnancy.  It was an unfortunate choice of words.  He obviously meant something like "real rape" as opposed to claims sometimes made after the fact in the case of consensual sex of rape.  It has all the usual culprits up in arms.

The point of course is while an actual rape is an assault of a most heinous and violating nature, if a child is conceived as a result, the child is innocent.  It is a harsh sentence to ask a woman to carry the child of a rapist, but it is worse to be party to a murder.  Of course in our insensitive and highly sexed age it seems that any expedient to avoid birth is permitted.  Does it occur to anyone that this is a fundamental rejection of life itself?  Why should your life be valued if you value the life of others so lightly?

Our president thinks so little of human life that he is on record saying it is all right to kill a child if it survives an abortion attempt.  In my mind that make Barack Obama a monster.  One has to wonder if he would like it if his mother had chosen the abortion option for him, but that would require reflection and the acknowledgement that there are somethings more important than yourself.

Dream Dreams and Make the World Better — The Adventure Continues!

SEE HERE "... nothing is withheld from us what we have conceived to do. ..." said Russell Kirsch It's amazing when you meet a legend.  Aren't legends all supposed to be dead?  It's also a reminder of how much we take the technological landscape for granted.  Everything has been created by someone, often many someones working together or in isolation.

I had a similar experience myself.  I had been asked to give a talk on the history of magnetic sensing, since I was an expert on MAD (Magnetic Anomaly Detection).  At the end of the talk an elderly gentleman started questioning me about the history, especially a part I'd only gotten by literature research from an old article in Scientific American.  It was about using saturable core magnetometers to do airborne magnetic surveys.

I began talking with him about his adventures and discovered his name was Otto Schmitt and that he was the inventor of the Schmitt trigger which was one of the fundamental circuits that went into early digital computer devices since it stored current state and could be switched.  I was blown away.  I don't know why but I just assumed that all those people whose names were attached to things like that would be dead.  This happened back in the late 1970's in a place on the University of Minnesota campus I think.

Those who have created the modern world still walk among us and it is our duty to continue the adventure.

This Is What Is Coming

The Psycho Therapy Attack Are Coming ... Wild Bill offers an example.

Tyranny? Do You Have to Ask?

OBAMACARE VIDEO All done in the name of helping us ... to the grave!  Be advised you have been gamed and this is just more of the Cloward-Piven collapse strategy.   And you thought the government cared about you ... silly you!  

2016 — You Need to See This Film

SEE HERE You're either part of the problem or part of the solution.  There is no middle ground.  If you sit back and do nothing then you're part of the problem.  This film explains the president's actions in a way you've probably never thought about.  Read the review.  Find out where the film is showing and go.

Meet Paul Ryan From "Uncommon Knowledge" on ObamaCare

Paul Ryan is the real deal.  We have to draw back from the tipping point that Ryan sketches in this interview.  This is tutorial in the pressing crisis of our times, an out of control Federal Government that has us on a path that ensures financial collapse in the not so distant future.  This is fundamental.  It is important.  It is also probably our last chance to stop the coming train wreck.

More on Ex-Marine Brandon Raub

SEE HERE I probably should start by distancing myself from some of Raub's beliefs.  I think talk of there being some 9/11 conspiracy to fake the Twin Tower situation is definitely fringe insanity.  It fails the test of the most basic questions such as why?  Or how would they have coordinated it?  The other thing I guess I'm not too crazy about is the idea that there is this vast conspiracy to enslave us orchestrated by international globalists.  I think our own indigenous radicals are conspiracy enough.  But I should point out that there is a minor industry out there providing support for all these beliefs and Raub didn't invent it.  HERE is a piece he wrote which seems to be generally lucid and not poorly motivated.  It has a Ron Paul flavor when it comes to the Federal Reserve.  He talks about the schools dumbing down the children.  I can salute that.  The idea that there is a lot of hidden technology is a myth I've heard all my life from a myriad of sources.  I think it's wrong but it's certainly not all that unusual.  So I'm not convinced that this guy is any more nutty than Harry Reid or Joe Biden.  Let's put them in a mental hospital and see how they do.  The question is whether this is a trial run on picking up a citizen, sticking him in a mental hospital and pretending he's a terrorist without due process.  I'd say it stinks to high heavens.  Who are they coming for next.  They should not be allowed to get away with this.

I'm From the Government. I'm Here to Help You.

SEE HERE With friends like these, who needs enemies.  The government regulations for every harebrained scheme that tickles a bureaucrat's fancy add up cumulatively to an incredibly large load for the economy to bear.  It's odd don't you think that there never seems to be a real assessment of how successful the regulations are?  There ought to be an agency independent of government that publishes an analysis of how effective they are.  I suspect if there were we'd either have a lot fewer regulations or a lot of bought and paid for analysts getting fat on government dollars just like the global warming alarmists are.

Thirty-Eight Red Flags that Add Up to Tyranny!

SEE HERE Joseph Farah is founder, editor and CEO of WND (World Net Daily) and he posts a long list of red flags that should have warned people that Barack Obama is and was engaged, as he said he would be, in fundamentally transforming America.  Most of those who voted for him thought that transformation would be in a good direction but after almost four years only the blind or the completely indoctrinated can imagine any longer that this is going to a good place.  November seems likely to be our last chance to stave off the coming collapse of freedom in America.

You Know Those Tolerant Liberals? — They Don't Exist

SEE HERE This is really no surprise.  I have been discriminated against often enough by liberals to understand that what they mean by tolerance is they will tolerate you if you agree with them about everything.  Otherwise you're Satan incarnate and to be condemned to the nether world.  It's pretty funny in a sick contemptible way.  These are, after all, people claiming to be seeking the truth but unwilling to actually discuss anything but their conclusions.  Conclusions is a misnomer however since generally they don't understand why they believe what they believe because they got it from someone else who got it from someone else and if it changes tomorrow, oh well!

Bullets for Barack

SEE HERE I don't know what to make of all the sudden hoopla about ammunition buys. Is it really something to be concerned about. The fact that there is a lot of hollow point ammo being purchased seems a bit strange I suppose. But I don't really know what kind of ammo they usually purchase. The volume of purchases appears to be large enough that there is concern about supply for private individuals. That leads me to wonder if part of the idea might be to dry up the supply of ammunition to civilians. In advance of a planned move to martial law that might make sense. Although the whole narrative that expects Obama to drum up a crisis to justify martial law seems far fetched. I am skeptical, but I'm also suspicious since I do see the individual in the White House as essentially a man of totalitarian temperament. To see that all you have to do is listen to him and watch his behavior.

The Medicare Piggy Bank

SEE HERE You've probably seen the shell game where the shells are moved around and the prize is supposed to be under one of the shells. The mark never gets it right. That's how I feel watching the Obama administration's ObamaCare health care plan.

It's smoke and mirrors. They tax and spend and move money from one bag to another while pretending that you're going to get more health care. But the reality is that there aren't any more doctors and many of the doctors who look under the hood are heading for the exits.

The reality is very different from the promises. Health care is being put under faceless bureaucrats who don't give one hoot for your well being and they will control whether you'll receive the care you need. Your doctor, well he becomes just another government functionary. How's that for motivation for those who enter the medical profession by a long and arduous path with much schooling and much more internship and journeymanship.

As usual, you're being gamed as the government slowly swallows the private sector. The objective is socialism and when they are finished you won't really be free any more. Despite the promises, you won't like it.

Politics Obama Style

This is a video that Obama's minions say "gave me chills" and frankly it gives me chills too but probably of a different kind.  As I watched Obama's calculating eyes sweeping back and forth between the teleprompters and listened to the message it was "Government will solve all your problems."

Unfortunately government creates nothing and it makes most of the problems that we have.  Where is the productivity and wealth going to come from when everyone sits back and says "bring on the goodies"?  The American dream is not about being taken care of.  The American dream is being about standing up and being productive, independent, and free individuals in a community of freedom.

Understanding Islamic Infiltration and Activism

As the Muslim Brotherhood crucifies their enemies in Egypt perhaps we should become more aware of what is going on in the United States.  For those who are still under the delusion that Islam is the religion of peace it should be pointed out that Islam has been at war with the West since it began in the 7th century.  Their objective has never changed, only their tactics.

SEE HERE There is something very fundamentally wrong when the United States Army is indoctrinating officers to consider the Tea Party potential enemies.  What part of their oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States does the Tea Party disagree with?  The whole idea of U.S. military operations in CONUS (Continental United States) is antithetical to liberty.  The Oath Keepers, those who have served in the United States military and taken the oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States want to remind the armed forces of their duty.

The Complicity of the News Media In Hiding the Terrorism of the Occupy Movement

Why does the Main Stream Media (MSM) keep ignoring the outrageous acts of the Occupy movement?  Worse why do they attack the middle American grassroots Tea Party movement that is simply regular Americans supporting the Constitution?

Leaking Security Information Is An Outrage And Puts Our Personnel At Risk

When Angels Cry!

The last bastion of virtue and courage in the United States is our military who go in harms way for our freedoms.  It is a shame that our current leadership doesn't deserve them and fails them.

Special Operations Speaks

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Yesterday, Fox News’ “The Five” ran a segment on the military members who are taking action against President Barack Obama and his administration for their deliberate, continuing national-security leaks that are endangering the lives of the military men and women who serve and protect the United States of America. In that segment, liberal smear artist Bob Beckel defended the Obama White House’s intentional release of highly sensitive and highly classified security information:
“The idea to suggest that the President of the United States would leak intelligence information, jeopardizing people in the field is close to treason,” Beckel said. “If I were them – I assume they are out of the military now – they ought to take their benefits and go home.”  ... Read the rest at the SEE HERE link above.

Obama's Success Story Not Looking So Rosy

SEE HERE It would be nice if the liberal progressive Marxist in the White House would stop lying to us. "GM is #1" he said just a couple of days ago. Well if it's #1 it's only in some delusional state that Obama is in. Read the numbers.

2016 Alert! Contact Regal Cinema

CONTACT Regal Cinema by clicking on that link and filling out the contact form and telling them you want to see the movie 2016 here in Harrisonburg on August 24th.  Here's the trailer below.  It's based on Dinesh D'Souza's recent best seller, "Obama's America" and is produced by Gerald R. Molen one of the producers of the Academy Award winning film Schindler’s List and co-producer for Rain Man which won the Oscar for Best Picture. MOVIE SITE If you'd like to see this movie at the Regal Cinema click on the CONTACT link above and tell them.

Didn't Hear This In the News Did You?

SEE HERE Crucifixions required by the Quran? I guess I missed those verses. This is horrific however. Muslim Brotherhood punishes those resisting Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi by crucifixion. Christians received extra punishment the article says. I'm sure it is all some misunderstanding. Afterall the religion of peace wouldn't do this kind of thing would it?  MORE

Did You Think You Have Freedom of Speech?

This is very interesting and troubling. FBI, Secret Service, and Police arrest former decorated Marine for his Facebook posts. This is chilling since it clearly is about suppressing free speech. The claim is that he resisted arrest. So we have a situation where an individual is confronted by overwhelming government authority and they claim he resisted. Resistance these days seems to include disagreeing with the authorities when they show up. He was not "arrested" they say but he's in jail. So what is going on? He's not been read his rights. This is troubling! SEE HERE ARREST VIDEO No sign of resistance and it isn't clear on what grounds the confrontation was initiated. Apparently the government is ramping up suppression of those who are dissenting voices. Only the kind of dissent that Obama approves may be allowed? Is that the message? Occupy Wall Street is just fine but Tea Party people and other patriots are not welcome? I want to see what motivated this.
UPDATE LINK TO HIS POSTS Frankly I think a lot of these are a bit over the top, but as one of my correspondents asked:

"What I would like to know, is why the FBI, Secret Service and the police are willing to take on this man, but are totally ignoring the New Black Panthers who have voiced their intentions of killing all whities and go into the nurseries and kill all white babies. These people are out there causing trouble and DHS is ignoring them and they are allowed to stand outside of Polling Places and terrorize voters as they enter there to vote. I don't know if this man had any real intention of carrying out his rants, or if he was just expressing his fears, concerns and desires to take action should the need arise. This whole situation concerns me."

The Corruption Of the System — A Failure of Justice

SEE HERE This should open your eyes to the fact that justice as practiced in America today is corrupt just as the political system has become corrupt. We live in the declining days of a great nation. Turning it around requires virtue and perseverance and we are surrounded by those who laugh at virtue and quit as soon as the going gets tough.

Reagan's Prescience — Where It Leads!

Can We Just Have a Straight Up Comparison

Ryan and Obama ... just a jaunty comparison.

2016 Movie at Regal Cinema in Harrisonburg August 24th

CLICK HERE for the trailer. A conflict of dreams, the American Dream and the Dream from Obama's father ... you decide. The movie is coming to Harrisonburg on August 24th at Regal Cinema I'm told, so look for it and be informed. The dream you believe in may be at stake.

Racism on the Left ... How Embarrassing!

This young woman frames the race issue as it is ... a game that Democrats play that cheapens the concept and is far removed from reality. One has to wonder why Democrats can no longer argue but just call names. Maybe it is because their ideas are really indefensible.

Learning to Think, Something Thomas Sowell Is Excellent At

Thomas Sowell is on my short list of clear thinkers. There are not enough in the world today. We badly need more. I'm currently reading his book "A Conflict of Visions", the revised edition. If you wonder why there is such polarization in our political arena today, this book will cast a bright and shining light on the question as only Thomas Sowell can do.

The Dishonorable Intelligence Leaks for Political Gain

This administration is disgraceful! MORE HERE When do these kind of things reach the level of impeachable offenses? WHITE HOUSE REACTION

Thinking ... Something We Need More Of ...

I'm not an objectivist although like many I've read several of Ayn Rand's works, notably Anthem, Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged. On the whole I think Rand's philosophy leaves something to be desired. But most things are inadequate. Perfection is rarely if ever achieved. David Kelley explores here the whole egalitarian idea.

Taxes! It's All About the Data.

SEE HERE If you really think the rich don't pay their fair share maybe you should look at what they do pay and question the idea of what you consider "fair" to mean.

Racist? The Sheer Intellectual Laziness of the Left

SEE HERE There is something so bizarre about the litany chant of "racist" that comes from the left. I suppose it's the only word they know besides "Nazi." The hypocrisy of the Democrats is boundless. They cry racism when the people they call racists are those who in fact freed the slaves, ended the racism, elected the first black people to the Congress and were instrumented in opening up the universities and frankly crafted the civil rights laws. But we're supposed to be the racists, right? Sorry if we don't salute the leftist progressive new-speak propaganda. Tell a lie often enough and people believe it. Maybe more people should read a little history.

Cold Fusion or Whatever It Is ... Is Coming of Age!

SEE HERE The reality of the so-called "cold fusion" phenomenon has been argued about since Pons and Fleischmann first announced they had observed the production of excess energy 23 March 1989. The mechanism and repeatability have been elusive goals but that seems to be changing. If so then in the next few years we may well see a revolution in energy production.

A Litany of Failure

The Obama stimulus was and continues to be a catastrophe. Tax payers could have spent their own money so much better. These government spending programs are always boondoggles.

The Lying Never Ceases! It might be understandable if it were not so plainly stupid.

It must be a Democrat disease to lie and lie and lie again. After all this lie is so bad that if you know the chronology it's quite clear it is a lie and not even close to the truth. I don't really understand. Is the Democrat party so certain that the American people are just plain stupid? Do they think we don't know that the cause has to come before the effect? Or maybe they are the stupid ones and think that things become automatically true because they say them? I just don't get it.

Nellie Gray Dead At 88

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I remember the first March for Life I attended. I don't remember what year it was. I attended every year for a while and then we moved to Minnesota and we got involved with pro-life activities on the same day as the March for Life. Nellie Gray probably never thought that she'd have to spend the rest of her life on this crusade to save the babies. She probably thought human beings were good enough to realize what a heinous thing they were doing. She's making her report to God now and it isn't pretty. Perhaps she's pleading with God as Abraham did to spare us because of a few good people. We seem on a path that will certainly lead to punishment. The only question is how long will God restrain Himself.

Pay Attention to the Grassroots!

SEE HERE Congratulations to Tennessee Tea Party. High fives all around for a job well done. We the people need to send that message to our corrupt self-satisfied politicians that they better start paying attention. We want reform and we want it now!

Let's Quit the U.N.

SEE HERE Instead of being constantly pressured by the thuggish nations that make up the majority of the U.N. why don't we just quit the stupid organization and start charging significant rent for the use of the New York territory they sit on ... or do they own it? We fund a substantial portion of that corrupt and useless organization and we'd be well rid of it. It arises from a flawed vision of global unity and tends to promote globalism. If you want to give up your freedom to a globalist agenda just keep supporting this stupid organization. It didn't work as the League of Nations and it hasn't worked as the United Nations.

Do You Think We Can Have Some Conservative Debate Moderators?

SEE HERE You have to wonder at the sheer insanity of the right for always saluting the selection of patently biased debate moderators. The Main Stream Media (MSM), read doctrinaire liberal progressives, seem to be the only ones ever selected to moderate these panel chats (debates actually require thinking on your feet not just spouting talking points). It would be better to have an adversarial moderator panel so we could at least have some cross-fire.

A Musical Interlude

I suppose this video was built by somebody else, but I enjoyed pasting up the code to bring it to you!  I didn't build that but I did put the code up.

Thomas Sowell on the Ryan VP Pick

SEE HERE Thomas Sowell always has something insightful to say. I'm still reading his book "A Conflict of Visions" and it's amazing how clearly he indicts the illusions of what he called "the unconstrained vision" which imagines that reason alone in the hands of smart people can form the basis of utopian societies. That's the thesis of the liberal progressive left. Here he get down to fundamentals. He explores the vision of Paul Ryan and contrasts it with the Obama administration. If it's results you're interested in then you're in far better hands with those that hold the "constrained vision." If you want to explore this topic further get a copy of "A Conflict of Visions." It's a good read!