Let Those With Honor Step Up — We Have A Nation To Save

SEE HERE   We live in a country that has lost its soul and forgotten what it was and what it ought to still be.  If this goes on there will be no country, just an empty shell of a once free nation.  Stand up and be counted.  Say the pledge of allegiance and ask yourself what "to the republic for which it stands" means ... it doesn't mean centralized control by an oppressive Federal bureaucracy dictating everything to a people who were once free.  There isn't a whole lot of time left.  Stand up.  Push back.  Save freedom and keep your pledge.

Tra La La .. La La! Lie Like A Liberal

SEE HERE  Truth and reality are one and the same thing.  When a statement fails to conform to reality it is commonly called a "lie" however it may only be an error.  However when one contrives to distort reality because to tell the truth would be injurious to your interests then that is the very definition of a lie.  Should we be surprised ... not really!  It's what liberals do: Lie Like A Liberal!  We need a catchy tune with that in the lyric.  It's what they do to advance their agenda.  The agenda?  It should be obvious.  It is to increase their power and control:Tyranny Rising!

Messaging And Reality Are Not The Same Thing

SEE HERE  "Lie Like A Liberal" is a slogan I've been pushing of late.  It's because I've never seen anything like the number of lies that liberals and their sycophants in the media will push to realize their agenda.  The mantra continues on how good the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is when in fact it is neither affordable nor properly speaking care.  It is an act of course. 

It is an act of tyranny forcing the American people to buy a product whose "design" is dictated by the government, a design which requires many to fund measures that are blatantly immoral.  The New York Time this week came up with an echo of the "video made them do it" story floated by the administration right after the Benghazi incident, as if that's a plausible story to explain a well ordered and well equipped attack on a U.S. facility engaged in covert operations in Libya. 

Sure "Give me another" ... lie, lie, lie ... never ending lies emerging from this administration.  Lie Like A Liberal seems more and more descriptive as we see Tyranny Rising!

The New Year Should Be Interesting

SEE HERE  2014 is shaping up to be a watershed year.  We will discover in 2014 whether the Republic is done for or will have a new rebirth.  We will discover whether we are slaves or freemen.  Thomas Sowell in this piece doesn't quite phrase it that way but it is the subtext.  In the run up to 2016, the 2014 elections will be a sign either of our coming destruction or our near miss.

When Is Journalism Not Journalism?

SEE HERE  When it is agenda driven editorials posing as real news and given a big play by the New York Times.  Agenda driven journalism has become the standard these days and the result is a loss in credibility.  It's all propaganda now regardless of the side taken.  Agenda is not even very well hidden anymore.  If it's in the paper or on the television it is slanted and agenda driven.  Look for it because only by understanding the agenda can you evaluate the news anymore.

Great Send-Up of Obama ... Tongue In Cheek Hilarity

A lot of this is very funny but it is also stunningly on target and shows what a totally incompetent president and administration we have.  It's troubling to listen to the sheer incompetence incident after incident ... sheer outrageous.

Fear The Government That Fears Your Guns

SEE HERE  Settled Science was in the headline of this story and that always makes me laugh.  Science is never settled.  It's a moving target.  But the evidence is pretty conclusive on this one.  Government is a killer and big government is the biggest killer of all time.  Don't trust me.  Go to the data and see for yourself.  I'm for small government, the smaller the better.  Just enough and no more is my recipe for government.  We have so much more than enough that I used to share a joke I'd heard: "Be thankful that you don't get as much government as you pay for."  It's not so funny any more because I think we're getting to the point of having too much government for survival.  When it gets big enough government becomes a mass murderer.  It's much easier to murder the unarmed than the armed.  To take casualties when you try to murder armed citizens.  Solution: Disarm them!  Yeah, that's the ticket.  It's worked well in the past no doubt it will work equally well in the future.

The Honorable Serving The Dishonorable

SEE HERE  The death of honor and the rise of political correctness is also the death of a nation.  We live in a time of decline on almost any dimension.  Dishonoring those who go in harms way for us is an outrage.  It's time for a change, a big change.

The Signs Of A Dying Culture

SEE HERE  I'm sure that this growth in out of control mob violence by black teenagers is a symptom of the lack of connection with the culture of virtue, dedication, duty, and honor that was for so long that mark of America instilled by the founders in the beginning and lying at the heart of their commitment to a Representative Republic.  The culture of entitlement and sloth, of victim-hood and recriminations and mouldering resentment brought about by warehousing millions and pretending it is compassion has this as its payback time.  No doubt we will hear more hand-wringing from those who appear to think that only they have compassion and only their solutions are real.  This is social breakdown on a large scale with the possibility of growing to a massive scale.  Good luck on the future if you buy into the idea that more money thrown into the entitlement pit will solve this kind of problem.  This is despair writ large and brought about by killing hope and that's what liberals do better than anyone else. 

Last Revelation: Stand By For Collapse! Really?

SEE HERE  This series of insider covert briefings along the lines of the Nixon administration "Deepthroat" have come to an end with the insider leaving DHS along with many others.  So is any of this true?  I think the "precautionary principle" which liberals love to cite, suggests that there is enough smoke that it well might be true that there's a fire generating the smoke.  But what can you do?  I don't think buying a pile of gold will work.  I'm a bit skeptical myself, but I would not put anything past this president.  So I can't just say "ridiculous."  But not being bought into the Alex Jones style zillions of conspiracy theories I'm in a distinctly hunker down and be watchful mode.  I am concerned because I've never seen a run up quite like this and I've been around a long time.

Stupid Party Steps Up Again — We Can Lose This!

SEE HERE  I guess the Republicans need to learn that the people are in charge not the Karl Roves and the other establishment Republicans that think a political party is about shoving things down the throat of their base.  Want to see the base stay home?  2012 was a rehearsal for that scenario.  These folks don't get it.  They really think that the Conservatives want them.  I'm sorry but you folks are a bunch of total idiots if you keep this stuff up.

From The Greatest Generation To The Greatest Degeneration

Noteworthy Accomplishments:

During the 3-1/2 years of World War 2 that started with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941 and ended with the Surrender of Germany and Japan in 1945, the U.S. produced 22 aircraft carriers, 8 battleships, 48 cruisers, 349 destroyers, 420 destroyer escorts, 203 submarines, 34 million tons of merchant ships, 100,000 fighter aircraft, 98,000 bombers, 24,000 transport aircraft, 58,000 training aircraft, 93,000 tanks, 257,000 artillery pieces, 105,000 mortars, 3,000,000 machine guns, and 2,500,000 military trucks.We put 16.1 million men in uniform in the various armed services,  invaded Africa, invaded Sicily and Italy, won the battle for the Atlantic, planned and executed D-Day, marched across the Pacific and Europe, developed the atomic bomb and ultimately conquered Japan and Germany.

To be fair to Obama, one reader observed:

The Muslim in Chief has had some accomplishments though.  Welfare rolls have doubled.  The IRS is bullying conservatives.  He has the NSA spying on every American while ignoring Muslim terrorists!  Four Americans were killed in Benghazi and no one came to their aid.  DHS has labeled Veterans and Christians as terrorists.  More Americans have been killed in Afghanistan in Mullah's tenure than the 8 years Bush was in office.  Mullah had nearly doubled the national debt.  He gave 55% of Chrysler to the UAW.  He bailed out the UAW at GM to the tunes of billions of dollars.  He's had the Federal Reserve printing money like it's toilet paper.  And he's almost single handedly destroyed the great medical system in the world. It's worth noting, that during the almost exact amount of time, the Obama administration couldn't build a functioning web site.

Stop The World — I Want To Get Off

SEE HERE  When will the lying and conniving stop?  When does tyranny become treason?  The behavior of this administration is a never ending struggle to create a fundamental transformation which goes in the direction of a tyrannical state.

Dumb Politicians Aren't Politicians Long

SEE HERE  Walter Williams in an insightful piece unpacks why we are stuck here in 62% lala land spending so much money on entitlement programs brought to you by the progressive left and continued because to resist is political suicide.  Is there anything to be done?  Must we wait for the collapse wringing our hands and bewailing our fate?

"Total entitlement spending comes to about 62 percent of federal spending. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that entitlement spending will consume all federal tax revenue by 2048."

Inequality? I Suppose It Depends On What You Mean

SEE HERE  I think of inequality as doing the same thing equally well and getting different results.  I don't think of it as a simple equation determined by equal bank accounts or disposable cash or anything like that.  On the other hand the extreme egalitarians among us see inequality wherever they want to.  For them an unskilled worker should get a living wage just because ... regardless of the worth of the work he does.  Aside from being pure economic madness it fails to take into account any kind of appreciation of the responsibility of the worker and places all responsibility on the employer.  Such practices lead to economic collapse and not to any kind of prosperity.  In the liberal imagination money grows on trees and is inexplicably distributed unequally from a finite and fixed supply.  This is called the "zero sum game" hypothesis and implies that if you were an eager beaver got up early and ran so you got to the money tree first you should give some to the folks that slept in and walked to the money tree to find all the eager beavers had carried the money off.  Selfish weren't they.  You're just as good as they are, you just need more sleep and don't like exercise.  Well, sorry folks, the world doesn't work that way.

Mordor On The March — The Ravenous Evil Of The Left

SEE HERE  Seems like a good time to talk about Orcs ... the liberal left progressive collectivists are the Orcs of our world.  Sauron never sleeps nor is he merciful.  We live in a time of degradation and lack of morals, honor, duty, respect for the permanent things as Russell Kirk called them.  All truth characterizes what is actually the way things are.  The left doesn't care for truth only perceptions which are a sort of ersatz "truth" cooked up for the occasion.  Each day it changes to reflect the passions of the moment.  The final goal like that of a certain angel is "Non serviam!"  "I will not serve" truth or honor or virtue.  I do not acknowledge duty nor revere honor or God himself.  That is their creed, a solipsistic commitment to themselves.  We are seeing the results in a world wide game of "All fall down now."  

Reality At Its Core ... Beyond The State

SEE HERE  I don't read John Ransom regularly but this particular article's headline jumped out at me since I don't much care for Paul Krugman who seems to be simply a useful idiot.  Ransom points out a few parallels between what happened in Russia and what is happening in the United States.  Money talks and big money quickly changes the landscape.  We are seeing the rise of the oligarchs and they are a left-wing crew for the most part although politics is not their style.  They maneuver in the background and create a "reality" which is all smoke and mirrors.  Ransom ends the piece with a little morality play from the Stalin show trials.  Read to the end and think about it.  It is a sobering thought that concludes the piece.

Some People Don't Seem To Appreciate Our Fearless Leader

  Fancy that!  Obama and Clinton conspiring with the Muslim Brotherhood?  How could they?  All just part of the grand strategy I suppose.

Treason In The Wind? Fancy That!

SEE HERE  Treason seems all too probable as a plausible account that explains so many things.  It's interesting that Democrat lawmakers are suddenly interested in limiting the punishment for it.  Could it be that there are guilty consciences among our lawmakers or are they afraid that they skulduggery will out?

Emblematic Stupidity

SEE HERE  One has to wonder at the bizarre public face of the Obama administration that thinks for example (thinks is a misnomer) that a bunch of half dressed gay guys singing some sort of awful song while pretending to Christmas decorate and lust after each other is appropriate in the Christmas season or any other season for that matter.  Of the idea that pajama boy drinking hot chocolate is an appropriate face for the ObamaCare twenty something audience.  What's wrong with these people?  Oh yeah, they're liberals and checked their brains at the door ...

Impeachment? Not A Perfect Remedy ...

SEE HERE  Unfortunately there is no perfect remedy provided when we have a tyrant in the White House supported by co-conspirators in the Senate who have a majority and are set upon implementing measures that will have disastrous effects even in the short term.  We need to do whatever we can to bring this juggernaut to a halt.  Frustration, delay, obstruction ... whatever we can do ... it's not perfect but when the alternative is the train wreck slowing the train down will at least delay it.

Propaganda In The Schools

  Why are we providing positive propaganda about Islam in the text books?  Gee I guess there is only separation of church and state if the church is Christian.  This is an outrage.

Nothing To See Here ... Move Along

SEE HERE  Vote Fraud?  All my liberal "friends" keep laughing about vote fraud while claiming that such marginal and obvious measures as demanding Voter ID at the polls are racism.  Well I think you can convict them just on their struggle to deny even the most basic of voter integrity measures.  "Ignore the man behind the curtain" ... vote fraud is a Democrat staple.  They've been doing it as long as I can remember.

Granting Hope ... A True Calling From God

SEE HERE  We all rush through life often too busy to see the wonders all around us.  In Genesis it says that we are all made in the image and likeness of God, but how few of us stop and reflect on this and ask what obligation does this resemblance place upon us.  Too many think that the pursuit of personal glory, or wealth, or self-satisfaction is the measure of our life when in fact the reality will be that we will be judged by the largeness of our hearts and the extent of our love for others.  Reaching out to those in need is an expression of love and a gift of hope.  It is the Christmas season when God Himself gave of Himself to help restore man to the proper Way, a way of Truth and a restoration of Life.  It is not too much to ask that we extend that to others.

A Veteran Speaks — A Definition of Courage That Cuts To The Core

  Don't let them take your rights away just because they feel good about themselves when they empower criminals by disarming citizens.  What is happening to our nation?  We are being led by those seeking to enslave us to centralized power.  That's not the America I grew up in and it's not the America I want to live in in the future.  Tyranny Rising!

Why Does Anyone Listen To These Idiots?

SEE HERE  Well I have a confession to make ... I don't!  What is the point of listening to people who are so misinformed and ignorant and who seem to see themselves as some sort of anointed commentators to tell us how to think?  I've watched this get worse and worse since the late 1960s.  Instead of news we get regurgitated pap that isn't accurate and has an agenda.  The degree of ignorance about James Madison is simply stunning in someone who spews commentary on network news.  Do they do any research at all?  Madison was a genius and these people are something like maggots under a rock by comparison.

Freedom Of Speech and Religion — Under Attack!

SEE HERE  It's odd to me that such an unnatural and perverted minority as the gay crowd can whip up all the hoopla over a guy actually using his free speech to speak the truth.  The truth is that the bible and Judeo-Christian religion accurately signifies homosexual behavior as unnatural and grievously sinful.  This is news?  Oh, but we shouldn't mention it?  It might hurt the feelings of those who are trapped in obsessive sinfulness?  Actually that's a service called tough love!  If you're never called out for your bad behavior then you're much more likely to remain trapped in it.

Medicaid A Predatory Loan ... Did You Know That?

SEE HERE  Can we go back to having a Federal Government that was not such a galloping tyranny?

Capitalism Isn't Perfect ... Just Far Better Than The Alternatives

SEE HERE  The reality is that Capitalism, or as I prefer, Free Enterprise, is the economic system that has brought more prosperity to more people than any other system.  It is also the freest system when not gamed by big government and cronies who are only pretend capitalists because what they really are is a conspiracy between Hudge and Gudge (as Chesterton puts it) to steal from the little man and enrich the greedly.  But that's not Capitalism.  That's government tyranny disguised as Capitalism.  So before we throw out the only economic system that has on net enriched and freed people let's get our terms straight and study the reality of the situation.  Walter Williams gives it a go here.

Liberals Are Insane And That's No Doubt Why They Believe What They Do ...

SEE HERE  ... but they expect you to believe it too, and that's unreasonable.  Here are five totally stupid things that liberals do or believe that explain in part why they are so totally feckless.  We need to start sensitizing people to this illness because it seems to be catching and most of the teachers in the world are spreading it.  Before the society collapses and Western civilization is a distant memory we need to stop this madness.

The Liberal Blame Game Gets A Gingrich Sent-Up

The reality is that liberal policies actually increase poverty.  They don't end it.  They trap people in a cycle of helplessness.  We need a whole new and more authentic set of initiatives to help the poor escape from poverty.  The liberal policies of simply giving handouts is a trap which only breeds more and Speaker Gingrich is dead on when he points out that the record in the large Democrat run cities is universal is convicting the left.

Total Incompetence ...

SEE HERE  You have to wonder at the total incompetence of the government.  Who in their right minds would want the government bureaucrats running anything.  The railroads and the post office should be example enough not to mention the immense money sink as they throw money in great gobs after problems that should never have been problems in the first place.  It should be a cautionary tale that warns people off from government but the people who are sold on government as the universal solution never seem to learn.

In Case You're Worried

SEE HERE  I really don't know what this is all about ... the 72 hour bug-out bag ... three days and you're done?  What?  Maybe that gives you the time to sort things out in the event of a catastrophic event of some kind, but what exactly are we bugging out about.  We shall see of course, but I've never seen so many people so concerned about catastrophic events happening.  Is it really that bad or are we over reacting?  I have friends on both ends of that spectrum.  The conspiracy buffs are convinced that the end is near and the nothing out of the ordinary is happening folks are moving on in total bliss and ignorance.  Me ... I'm a bit worried but not sure if it's a catastrophic event to worry about or a government managed crisis to impose martial law.  Perhaps the end is near, and perhaps it's not.  I don't have a clue but I do think that things have been more weird in the past few years than I can remember ever before.

Pope Francis Says Catholic Social Doctrine Not Marxist

SEE HERE  I could have told you this if you'd asked.  Capitalism in it most raw form is not human is what he's saying.  Treating human beings as economic units is immoral.  Free Markets are good but the agents in these free markets should be interested in the human dimension and not just profit and loss.  I think it is pretty much that simple.

The Liberal Mind: What There Is Of It!

SEE HERE  I've started a small collection of books lately on the content, or lack thereof, of the Liberal Mind.  It was originally motivated by a quote my FB friend David Appleyard put up drawn from the book "The Liberal Mind" and that motivated me to buy the book and later to buy "The Kindergarden of Eden" another book which characterizes the liberal mind.  The question of course is whether "the liberal mind" is in fact a coherent category. 

All the evidence suggests that liberals, while of course they have minds, don't really use them for much.  They are bought into a wide range of relatively incoherent and inconsistent ideas (which I call 'the mantras') which paint them as all wise and aware of the evil (fill in the blank) who victimize all the less aware. 

It's really a riot when you think about it.  Most of the liberals themselves are quite well off and those that aren't are bought into the mantras of those that are.  But they demonize those who think differently from them and consider themselves superior because they do it.  It really is quite insane.  It's rather fun to play with them and pick off the mantras as they spout them.  In addition they play what I call "the cards" when they have nothing substantive to say which is almost always.  Examples are "racist", "I'm offended", "insensitive", "bigot", "hater", leading up eventually to "Fascist" and "Nazi."  Of course you can't leave out the direct personal attack.  These are all evidence of lack of thought and dishonest discourse.  Don't take them seriously.  I began to understand when I heard the story about William F. Buckley and Gore Vidal at the 1968 Democrat National Convention. 

Vidal called Buckley a "crypto Nazi" while Vidal was defending the North Vietnamese as if the Vietcong were an authentic indigenous revolutionary movement in the South.  Buckley warned him that he wasn't going to take it.  Vidal persisted.  Buckley called him "...a queer" and punched him.  Later Buckley was accosted by a young reporter who asked him how he could call Vidal such a thing and Buckley replied something to the effect, "... you heard what he called me didn't you?" and the young report dismissed it as political and said "But what you said was personal."  Now if you don't understand why this is incoherent you might have liberal tendencies.  It was an illumination in the vacuity of the liberal mind for me.

Dow to 20,000 or A Coming Collapse ... Flip A Coin

SEE HERE  I always find the never ending economic soothsaying that goes on about where the stock market is going to be fascinating.  The stock market is a proxie for the economy of course, or so people imagine.  When it goes up the economic picture is rosie and when it goes down things are not so good.  The pension funds of millions ride the stock market as do the savings and investment hopes of a great many.  The fact that the government trifles with the economy creating ever increasing debt as if there are no consequences is an example of the irresponsible nature of our leaders.  Here 14 experts say we have a problem.  I thought it was ironic because I had just read that other tea leaf readers were expecting the Dow to reach 20,000 —  I wonder if that is just before the crash?

Liars Here And Liars There, Liars Liars Everywhere!

The 'in your face' confrontation between the Executive and the Congress is an example of the arrogance of this administration and their total disdain for their own responsibilities.  They act like little tin dictators ignoring their defined roles under the Constitution.  This is not the way it is supposed to work.  This is Tyranny Rising!

Wherever You Look You See Liars, Frauds, And Hypocrites

  It's what politicians do ... almost all they do.  Outrageous!

Who Are The Biggest Liars? Democrats or Republicans ... Is This A Trick Question?

SEE HERE  I'm not sure you can trust any politicians.  They tell you one thing and do another.  The claim to stand for principles and in almost the next moment violate the very principle they said they supported.  I've always like Joseph Sobran's classification system.  The Democrats are the evil party and the Republicans are the stupid party.  Democrats never lie but they never tell the truth so they always lie.  The point being that Democrats don't think there is anything called 'truth' only perceptions and these change.  They always want to be perceived as empathetic, caring, generous, and all those other good things when all they really care about is power and control.

By contrast Republicans actually do have principles but they think they have to compromise to get along to go along and that when dealing with Democrats they have to accommodate their political rivals.  Accommodation means in practice surrender as if you can ever get anything real from a Democrat.  The elder Bush tried to make a deal.  He was always a great accommodater and this deal was to raise taxes in return for spending cuts.  He discovered as so often Republicans do, to their feigned surprise, that Democrats never keep a deal.  It's always cake now work later but later never comes.  They're both unreliable but for different reasons.  Democrats are just liars but are actually more predictable than Republicans.  Republicans just never seem to learn and are hugely susceptible to being gamed by Democrats which is why Sobran called them "stupid."

It's still not hard to make a decision between stupid and evil but both seem to lead to bad places.  Can we restart this game?  It's time for a big change.

Colorado Shooter Extreme Leftist

SEE HERE  Seems like all the shooters in these mass shootings are leftists, socialists, communists, and often emotionally troubled and on anti-depressants.  And then they want to take guns away from the sane folks.  Yeah, that's the ticket!  The whole country would be better off if leftists would realize how totally deluded they are about reality and almost everything else.  Even their delusions seem to have delusions. 

More Irresponsibility From The People Who Brought You Waco!

SEE HERE  The Waco Wackos are at it again, this time in engineered 'sting' operations that are an example of the brilliant brilliance blindingly brewing basically BATF baffleingly stupid.  These folks should lose their license to play for being so incompetent.

Time For An Article V Constitutional Convention?

SEE HERE  The decision ultimately is slide as we are into tyranny or take back the Constitution and make the Federal Government what it was supposed to be, a limited political institution serving the people and the states and not a gargantuan monster threat to the people and increasingly an agent of tyranny.

Tyranny Rising! — Martial Law? Against The American People? Really?

SEE HERE  I guess I must have missed the memo that says we're no longer in charge of the government.  Now we have the government putting preparations in place for widespread institution of Martial Law ... Really?  I tended to write this off as nutsy conspiracy theory stuff but as more and more correlated findings hit the internet the thing gets weird real fast.  I'd be prepared just to be on the safe side.  We seem to have a paranoid and very unAmerican government in place these days.

Georgia To Introduce A Bill Of Nullification On ObamaCare

SEE HERE  We need as many of these as possible.  This crazy federal nonsense must be stopped.

Liberals And Words

SEE HERE  I'm inclined increasingly to see liberals as victims of demonic possession.  Screwtape has many strategies and among them presumably is muting the human intellect by trapping certainly immoral persons into an endless loop of immoral and incorrect ideas without providing them with adequate ammunition to argue.  Who, after all, can consistently champion lies except the Father of Lies himself?  This may well account for the characteristics of liberals in debate.  "Fiends" may not be all that inaccurate.

Popes And The Free Market

SEE HERE  I don't intend to weigh in on the pope's first papal Apostolic Exhortation HERE but it certainly has ruffled some feathers whether due to bad translation or due to implications that suggest that popes are not very good at economics which is not all that unlikely.  It should be remembered by those on the left who are celebrating what they see as anti-capitalist remarks that the Church has long since condemned socialism as a breach of human rights and against the Natural Law so if he's condemning rapacious Capitalism, i.e. the kind that is motivated by greed and suppression of workers, then that's just fine.  It needs condemning.  But of course the usual suspects, the liberals, only operate on the extreme margins of ideas so any condemnation of a part is seen as a condemnation of the whole unless of course it is their pet Socialism as a step towards full-blooded Communism.  Meanwhile I'll watch the fireworks from the sidelines.  The pope is not a hero to the left and the pope bashing will soon begin.

The Truth About The Fragile Earth Fiction

SEE HERE  Human beings have very little effect overall on the earth.  Walter Williams shows this with a number of examples of historical natural catastrophes that the earth has sustained and survived.  These are hundreds of time, sometimes thousands of times, greater than anything man can accomplish.  So stop whining about a fragile earth because all you're doing is showing your ignorance.

Is It Time To Rock And Roll — Save The Constitution With A Convention?

SEE HERE  Here's a reflection by Michael Ferris on the recent Mount Vernon meeting.

"We are beginning to reach critical mass in our efforts to use Article V of the Constitution to rein in the power of the federal government.  The Mount Vernon Assembly is one of the major steps in that effort."

Ferris deals briefly with the concern about a runaway convention.  I trust myself, frankly, in the hands of state legislatures collectively more than in the hands of the Washington types who have demonstrated that they are not to be trusted.

Americans Are The Wealthiest Nation On Earth

SEE HERE  The distribution of wealth is not uniform and that is because initiative, effort, skill, and lots of other significant elements in generating wealth are not equal either.  When there is more it is everywhere however.  The American poor are the least poor poor on the face of the earth so the wailing and moaning about inequality is misguided and misplaced.  I've long been annoyed by the fact that most television shows show people living beyond my means and I'm not poor, at least I don't think so.  So if I can live that way then the poor probably can't either and the whole thing leaves a bad taste in my mouth because it generates envy.  But maybe the poor in Hollywood (is that a different standard of poor?) do have enough to live like that.  I'd like to see the nation continue to prosper and I'm annoyed that the president and his administration seems to be doing everything they can to ensure it doesn't.

All This President Is About Is Weakening The United States

SEE HERE  I'm so tired of hearing about yet another way that Obama has found to weaken the United States.  I've never seen a president so committed to destruction of our economy and our military, a president so disrespectful of his own people and their institutions, a president who frankly acts like a traitorous mole instead of a real president, a president who is simultaneously so disconnected from his duties that he is always saying "I didn't know" or "I found out on the internet just like you", a president who seems to have all his real duties performed by others while he plays gold and takes vacations.  In short I've never seen such an exercise in fraud and deception and so many Americans willing to see their nation destroyed and who stand back and do nothing.

Obama Fails To Live Up To The Duties Of The Office And His Responsibility As A Man

SEE HERE  Why we should play footsie with Iran is quite beyond me.  Those people only want a nuclear weapon to use it but worse if we're going to negotiate the first thing to negotiate is the immediate release of Christian Pastor Saeed Abedini.

Trifecta: The Fourth Amendment

Trifecta: The First Amendment Under Fire

This Is Extremely Troubling

SEE HERE  During the Bush administration two general grade officers were removed from duty at least that's the number in the article.  The Obama administration is purging the military and presumably that is about getting rid of people who won't take orders like "stand down" or "fire on American civilians" but of course I don't know.  I just know it is unprecedented and disturbing and most likely a sign of a growing threat of tyranny.

Gee What A Coincidence ... Expose ObamaCare Get An IRS Audit

SEE HERE  You just can't make these kind of things up ... we have a government gone out of control with almost every arm being used for political manipulation and intimidation, whether it is the IRS, the EPA, the DHS ... or some other alphabet soup agency that is here to "help" you.  I'd like a lot less help thank you.  All the government help seems more like tyranny on the march than anything vaguely resembling "help." 

Stupid Is As Stupid Does — Ignoring Reality Is Really Stupid

SEE HERE  So let's see, hmmm... Islam is a religion of peace whose proponents hijack large airliners full of innocent passengers and fly them into large building full of  innocent people.  Very peaceful.  A religion that divides the world into Islam and the World of War ... somehow the peaceful part doesn't quite resonate.  A religion that dictates cutting off people parts including heads.  Yeah, that's certainly a sign of peace.  A religion that counsels lying and deception against its enemies ... you know, lies like "Islam is a religion of peace."  A religion that subjugates those that are not of the religion when it gets into power. 

The Hive Mentality Of The Press

SEE HERE  And so a herd of flying monkeys is dispatched to distort and propagandize ... never underestimate the power of the hive to generate a common thread ... how this happens is a mystery.  Perhaps they have all been lobotomized with a common receiver installed that takes over what little mind they have left.  No one seems to know for sure but the effect is ... well ... unifying!

The New York Times And The Holocaust

A record of irresponsibility.

Love da'Judge

Truth up front and in your face.  I love this lady!

A Man Is Known By The Company He Keeps

SEE HERE  OK ... I've given the Nelson Mandela thing a pass.  It's a bad joke to fly the American flag at half-mast for someone who is not only not an American but can hardly be held up for inspection as a person dedicated to freedom except in the most narrow and rather bigoted sense.  Mandela was not someone I'd hold up for honors.  Some of the reasons are here in this article.  We should start wondering more about the people who are so quick to honor people like Mandela and ignore or even disdain people like Margaret Thatcher.  We live in decadent and declining times, but there is little point in hastening the collapse.

Scam the U.S. and the U.N. ... Yeah That's The Ticket!!

SEE HERE  Actually I think this is pretty funny.  The amount of money is peanuts compared to the amounts that the government commonly throws away on all kinds of fraudulent ideas that they dreamed up themselves.  I think we could likely save a lot of money by shipping the U.N. off to some state that really needs it like Somalia or Sri Lanka or the Congo.  Then we should withdraw since the whole thing is a shell game.

The Really Sad Thing Is We Pay These Incompetents

SEE HERE  I'm not sure if ATF does anything that I approve of, but certainly these incompetent sting operations are expensive and pointless ... just set-ups by government which tend to net the people they recruit ... how is that justice?  I wonder what the cost is per arrest?  I have no use for ATF and think the government could save a lot of money by shutting them down.  DHS would be another good agency to shut down while we still have some freedom left.

It's Time For A Change

SEE HERE  We must limit the power of the federal government and return to the vision of the Framers of the Constitution if we are to survive as a free republic.  Check out the link and download the 25 page proposal.  Share it with your friends and especially your state legislators.  Together we can restore the republic but if we fail at this critical time it soon may be too late for we are on a path designed by our enemies to end the republic as we have known it and "fundamentally transform America."  That transformation is being undertaken in bad faith for their design is to enslave us and not to preserve our freedom.

Did I Mention? — Scum Floats To The Surface Even In Political Discourse

SEE HERE  I don't remember if I put this up before but it's worth a second look if I did.  It is important to understand the sheer hypocrisy of liberals.  It isn't so much that they lie when their lips are moving as that "lie" is not really the right word.  A liberal doesn't mean anything when he speaks except that he wants you to continue to sustain him or her in power.  They don't really stand for anything but that.  So they tell you what they think you want to hear.  When I lived in Minnesota I was told that when Hubert Humphrey worked a room he told everyone he encountered in the room what they wanted to hear whether it contradicted what he had just told the earlier person or not.  It's called schmoozing by some but prevarication or lying is a rather more direct summary.  It's what they do.  You should never trust a liberal because there isn't anything there to trust, only the lust for power and control which is most similar to demonic possession.

A Thread Of Lunacy ... Who Are The Crazies?

SEE HERE  I started reading this and it went from lunacy to lunacy and I thought "Who is John Ransom?"  I don't follow him on a regular basis but he seems to manage to spin up a lot of liberal hate speech, although that's not particularly hard.  Just disagree with a liberal and you'll be called a racist and a Nazi in fairly short order if not always in the same sentence.  But if you have the stomach for it this post is a real ride with hills and valley of stupidity rising ever higher and ever lower.  There's probably a massive crash at the end ... not of this post, but of the societal rationality it displays. CLICK TO RIDE

Reviewing the Laffer Curve — Know What You're Talking About

SEE HERE  I'm always finding the brain dead liberals running down the Laffer Curve but of course they really don't understand it and that's shown constantly by their poor economic policies that insure the economy and continue our race towards a train wreck of an economic collapse.  Tinkering around with Quantitative Easing and all the other "magical" nostrums advanced by the brain dead is just keeping us on the sliding track down to the sewer. 

In case you missed the earlier video below find not only Part I on the Laffer Curve but Part III as well.



Part III below.

Not On This List? — Then You're Probably Not A Real American

SEE HERE  This list of 72 kinds of people that the government in one document or another thinks are potential terrorists should scare you to death because it's a list of things that you should be supportive of in many cases and things you have a right to disagree about in many others ... let me give you some samples:

(The first two are particularly outrageous since they are directed at the founding documents 1) the Declaration of Independence, and 2) the Constitution of the United States.)

1. Those that talk about “individual liberties”
2. Those that advocate for states’ rights

Oooo... How scary!  This really ought to include all Americans and that's troubling when the government demonizes those who agree with America's founding documents.  But it gets worse since there are 70 more of these kind of outrageous things.

Can't love your own country and believe in American exceptionalism ...  Gee I don't recall Europe defeating Germany or Japan without help ... or defend the South Koreans ... I think we're pretty exceptional and unselfish.

6. Those that believe “that the interests of one’s own nation are separate from the interests of other nations or the common interest of all nations”

Let's demonize organizations that take a stand on values ... sure that's the ticket ...

15. Members of the Family Research Council
16. Members of the American Family Association

Some are kind-of repeats in different language ...

46. Those that are “suspicious of centralized federal authority”
47. Those that are “reverent of individual liberty”

I think the bottom line is that this kind of thinking on the part of the Federal Government is a sign that they are gearing up to make the case that anyone they want to incarcerate is a potential terrorist.  I'd say that this is a sign of who the terrorists really are and it is disquieting.  "Be prepared!" is the Boy Scout motto.  We all ought to be getting concerned about preparation.

Take Down The Phonies And The RINOs — Integrity Counts Not The Smoozing With Liberals Republican Conciliators

SEE HERE  I've had it with people who lie to me all the time.  So that means all the Democrats who change their stories faster than a chameleon changes its camouflage.  But the Democrats are the only one.  They're liars but they are predictable and fairly consistent liars, but the Republican establishment "go along to get along" RINO Republican Establishment folks are worse.  They pretend to be on your side and then stab you in the back.  That kind of betrayal should not be tolerated. 

They all need to go in 2014 ... period.  Out!  No excuses ... Out!  And we need to start demanding that our representatives live up to their promises and vote on the basis of clear unequivocal principles and if they don't then "Out" —  If we do that then over time we will once more have statesmen in our assemblies.  Failing that we will continue to have scheming climbers who are phonies to the core. 

Media ... Do You Know The Answers To These Obvious Questions?

This administration is despicable.  They are liars.  They are connivers.  There is no evidence that this administration wasn't actually complicit in the Benghazi attack.  They are all liars in the administration and in the media. 

Honor The Constitution? — What For? We Want To Enslave You Not Preserve Your Freedom!

SEE HERE  That is certainly the way these people come across to me.  2nd Amendment?  You mean that old crumbly piece of parchment ... you think we should honor that?  We can't even read well enough to understand what it says.  It must be obsolete.  We'll see how many real Americans are still out there when the proverbial stuff hits the fan.  Good luck!  I hope there are still honorable men and women and patriots left because it's going to be a doozy.

FlowerAid ... A Whole New Concept In Government Flower Delivery

Receptionist: Hello, Welcome to ObamaFlowers. My name is Trina. How can I help you?

Customer:  Hello.  I received an email from Professional Flowers stating that my flower order has been canceled and I should go to your exchange to reorder it. I tried your website, but it seems like it is not working, so I'm calling the 800 number.

Receptionist:  Yes, I am sorry about the website. It should be fixed by the end of November. But I can help you.

Customer:  Thanks. I ordered a "Spring Bouquet" for our anniversary and wanted it  delivered to my wife.

Receptionist:  (Interrupting) Sir, "Spring Bouquets" do not meet our  minimum standards. I will be happy to provide you with Red Roses.

Customer:  But I have always ordered "Spring Bouquets" & done it  for years; my wife likes them.

Receptionist: Roses are better, sir; I am sure your wife will love them.

Customer: Well, how much are  they?

Receptionist: It depends sir; do you want our Bronze, Silver, Gold or Platinum package.

Customer: What's the difference?

Receptionist: 6, 12,18 or 24 Red Roses.

Customer: The Silver package may be okay; how much is it?

Receptionist: It depends sir; what is your monthly income?

Customer: What does that have to do with anything?

Receptionist: I need that to determine your government flower subsidy.   Then I can determine how much your out-of-pocket cost will be.   But if your income is below our minimums for a subsidy, then I can refer you to our FlowerAid department.

Customer: FlowerAid?

Receptionist: Yes, Flowers are a right.  Everyone has a right to flowers. So, if you can't afford them, then the government will supply them free of charge.

Customer: Who said they were a right?

Receptionist: Congress passed it, the President signed it, and the Supreme Court found it constitutional.

Customer: Whoa!  I don't remember seeing anything in the Constitution regarding flowers as a right.

Receptionist: It is not really a “right' as in the Constitution, but ObamaFlowers is Constitutional  because the Supreme Court ruled it a "Tax" and Taxes are Constitutional. But we feel it is a right.

Customer: I don't believe this.

Receptionist: It's the law of the land sir. Now, we anticipated most people would go for the Silver Package, so what is you monthly income sir?

Customer: Forget it. I think I will forgo the flowers this year.

Receptionist: In that case sir, I will still need your monthly income.

Customer: Why?

Receptionist: To determine what your 'non-participation' cost would be.

Customer: WHAT?  You can't charge me for NOT buying flowers!

Receptionist: It's the law of the land, sir, approved by the Supreme Court.  It's $9.50 or 1% of your monthly income.

Customer interrupting: This is ridiculous; I'll pay the $9.50.

Receptionist: Sir, it is $9.50 or 1% of your monthly income, whichever is greater.

Customer: ARE YOU KIDDING ME? What a rip-off!

Receptionist: Actually sir, it is a good deal. Next year, it will be 2%.

Customer: Look, I'm going to call my Congressman to find out what's going on here . This is ridiculous. I'm not going  to pay it.

Receptionist: Sorry to hear that sir.  That's why I had the NSA track this call and obtain the make and model of the cell phone you are using.

Customer: Why does the NSA need to know what kind of CELL PHONE I AM USING?

Receptionist: So they can get your GPS coordinates sir.

(Door Bell rings, followed immediately by a loud knock on the door)

Receptionist: That would be the IRS sir.  Thanks for calling ObamaFlowers.   Have a nice day, and may a Government-approved deity Bless America.

People Said It Didn't Matter — Until The Shackles Clanked Into Place

The Showed Up In My Mail Box And I Thought It Worth A Read

Looking back through the past 4 years, many "Whens"
pop up. Read them all to understand better where we are going as a country.

WHEN- he refused to disclose who donated money to his election campaign, as other candidates had done, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN -he received endorsements from people like Louis Farrakhan, Mohamar Kaddafi and Hugo Chavez, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN-it was pointed out that he was a total newcomer and had absolutely no experience at anything except community organizing, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN-he chose friends and acquaintances such as Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn who were revolutionary radicals, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN -his voting record in the Illinois Senate and in the U.S. Senate came into question, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN -he refused to wear a flag lapel pin and did so only after a public outcry, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN-people started treating him as a Messiah and children in schools were taught to sing his praises, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN-he stood with his hands over his groin area for the playing of the National Anthem and Pledge of Allegiance, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN-he surrounded himself in the White House with advisers who were pro-gun control, pro-abortion, pro-homosexual marriage and wanting to curtail freedom of speech to silence the opposition, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN-he said he favors sex education in kindergarten, including homosexual indoctrination, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN-his personal background was either scrubbed or hidden and nothing could be found about him, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN-the place of his birth was called into question, and he refused to produce a birth certificate, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN-he had an association in Chicago with Tony Rezco- a man of questionable character and who is now in prison and had helped Obama to a sweet deal on the purchase of his home, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN-it became known that George Soros, a multi-billionaire Marxist, spent a ton of money to get him elected, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN-he started appointing White House Czars that were radicals, revolutionaries, and even avowed Marxist/Communists, people said it didn't matter.and even avowed Marxist/Communists, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN- he stood before the Nation and told us that his intentions were to fundamentally transform this Nation into something else, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN- it became known that he had trained ACORN workers in Chicago and served as an attorney for ACORN, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN- he appointed cabinet members and several advisers who were tax cheats and socialists, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN- he appointed a Science Czar, John Holdren, who believes in forced abortions, mass sterilizations and seizing babies from teen mothers, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN- he appointed Cass Sunstein as Regulatory Czar who believes in "Explicit Consent," harvesting human organs without family consent and allowing animals to be represented in court, while banning all hunting, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN- he appointed Kevin Jennings, a homosexual and organizer of a group
called Gay, Lesbian, Straight, Education Network as Safe School Czar and it
became known that he had a history of bad advice to teenagers, people said
it didn't matter.

WHEN- he appointed Mark Lloyd as Diversity Czar who believes in curtailing
free speech, taking from one and giving to another to spread the wealth,
who supports Hugo Chavez, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN-Valerie Jarrett, an avowed Socialist, was selected as Obama's Senior White House Adviser, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN- Anita Dunn, White House Communications Director, said Mao Tse Tung
was her favorite philosopher and the person she turned to most for inspiration, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN- he appointed Carol Browner, a well-known socialist as Global Warming
Czar working on Cap and Trade as the nations largest tax, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN- he appointed Van Jones, an ex-con and avowed Communist as Green Energy Czar, who since had to resign when this was made known, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN- Tom Daschle, Obama's pick for Health and Human Services Secretary
could not be confirmed because he was a tax cheat, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - as President of the United States , he bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN- he traveled around the world criticizing America and never once talking of her greatness, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN- his actions concerning the Middle East seemed to support the Palestinians over Israel, our longtime ally, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN- he took American tax dollars to resettle thousands of Palestinians from Gaza to the United States, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN- he upset the Europeans by removing plans for a missile defense system
against the Russians, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN- he played politics in Afghanistan by not sending troops early-on when the Field Commanders said they were necessary to win, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN- he started spending us into a debt that was so big we could not pay it off, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN- he took a huge spending bill under the guise of stimulus and used it to pay off organizations, unions, and individuals that got him elected, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN- he took over insurance companies, car companies, banks, etc., people said it didn't matter.

WHEN- he took away student loans from the banks and put it through the government, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN- he designed plans to take over the health care system and put it under
government control, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN-he claimed he was a Christian during the election and tapes were later made public that showed Obama speaking to a Muslim group and stating that he
was raised a Muslim, was educated as a Muslim, and is still a Muslim, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN- he set into motion a plan to take over the control of all energy in the United States through Cap and Trade, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN- he finally completed his transformation of America into a Socialist State,
people woke up--- but it was too late. Add these up one by one and you get a score that points to the fact that Barrack Hussein Obama is determined to turn America into a Marxist-Socialist society.

All of the items in the preceding paragraphs have been put into place. All can be documented very easily. Before you disavow this, do an Internet search. The last paragraph alone is not yet cast in stone. You and I will write that paragraph.

The Economy Really Is The Republican's Fault — Thank God!

SEE HERE  Obviously that’s the Republican’s fault, at least by implication.

Think of all the great legislation Democrats could have passed in Congress if not stopped by the GOP.

Bwahahahaha.

Out here in the hinterland, however, we don’t measure the effectiveness in Washington, D.C. by the numbers of bills they pass. And inaction by the government is the right think to not do today in the hyperactive world of activist government. It gives the rest of us a chance against the machinations of Big Brother. So, for that respite I say to the GOP: Thanks for nothing.

Really…Thank you soooo much. If the economy IS growing, there’s no doubt in my mind that it’s the Republicans’ fault.

Conservatives Don't Want To Be Sweden

The left is a disaster, a bunch of bigots of epic proportions. Liberals condemn Conservatives as lacking kindness but in fact that's a core belief that liberals have that like so many is fundamentally a calumny. Liberals pride themselves on good intentions but don't take ownership of the mess they make of things.

The Judiciary Committe Explores Obama's Overreach

SEE HERE It's all about power as Barack Obama writes Executive orders, changes laws, suppresses the enforcement of earlier laws ... it's what tyrants do. Barack Obama has himself confused with a dictator which is no surprise since that's the way he thinks.

When You Have A Tyrant For President Insisting The Law Be Implemented As Written Becomes "Sabotage"

SEE HERE I guess sanity is not a characteristic to be associated with the Democrat party. Actually implementing a law as written is not considered "sabotage" — Is that funny or what? Unfortunately we have a president who thinks he is the law. He needs to be seriously challenged and replaced by people who actually respect the law.

Shroud of Turin to be Exhibited in Turin in 2015

SEE HERE  This doesn't happen all that often.  This exhibition is to celebrate the bicentennial of St. John Bosco, coincidentally the patron saint of my parish.

Oh Goodie .... Someone to Split the Liberal Ticket ...

This would be the flip side of the McAuliffe trick that took Virginia away from an authentically Conservative candidate —  They ran a phony Libertarian to split the Conservative/ Libertarian vote and it worked.  Turnabout is fair play ... Go Sanders!!  Socialists should not win but they're great to split the ticket with the DemoRAT marxists.

Education As A Tool Of Propaganda: Stigmatizing WWII

SEE HERE  This distortion of history for political purposes is what liberals do.  Never let an opportunity to frame America as contributing to the evil in the world go unemphasized even if you have to distort history in a one sided way to do it.

Stossel On Charity And What Brings People Out Of The Need For Charity

SEE HERE   "I applaud those who give to charity, but let's not forget that it's capitalists (honest ones, not those who feed off government) who do the most for the poor. They do more good for the world than politicians -- and more even than do-gooders working for charities."

The Future Challenge of the Next Black President

SEE HERE  Walter Williams points out that the legacy of Barack Obama will weigh heavily on the next black president.  When you elect the first black president on the basis of racism and not on the basis of competency then you get an icon that is one of failure and not of success.  Williams holds Obama to a high standard and points out the problems of failure to meet it.

A Climate Activist's Wet Dream ... Hey The Author Said It And It's True

SEE HERE  Gotta wonder just how delusional the global warming alarmists really can be.  The whole idea that we can affect the weather starts out by being ridiculous.  But even worse the idea that carbon taxes will have any effect whatsoever is worse.  Do you really want to pay tons more for electricity for no other result than enriching politicians?  I mean is there no sanity in the world.

Justice Clarence Thomas In His Own Speak

The sad thing is that the liberals fought to discredit this man.  It tells you the kind of people they are.  Thankfully he didn't get Borked like Judge Bork did.

The Degradation Of The Times

SEE HERE Of course they're lunatics ... are they liberals?  This pretty much shows the difference between people who have morals and values and people who don't. 

The Very Definition of Tyranny ... Yup, That's Obama For You

Bob Goodlatte opens the hearing: “President Obama has blatantly disregarded the Constitution’s mandate to faithfully execute the laws,” said Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., in a statement. “He has changed key provisions in Obamacare without congressional approval, failed to enforce our immigration and drug laws, and ignored his constitutional duties for the sake of politics.”

Speak Truth To Stupidity — Recognize Reality And Start Living It

They're all about wealth redistribution as long as it is someone else's wealth. Recognize the lies that liberals tell for the reality it actually represents. That reality is that the tyrants want to take what you have to distribute it to people who will blindly give them power and control. It's a sell out of all your neighbors. It ends in disaster.