More Overreach

Further to my last post regarding the proverbial genie being irretrievably out of the bottle, more news about government overreach comes from Maryland, that bastion of liberalism.  It seems parents allowed their ten and six year old children to walk home from a local park by themselves.  A distance of a mile, in a neighborhood in which they live and know well.  And for this egregious act, the parents are being investigated for neglect presumably mainly because they believe in a concept called "free range kids."  Imagine.  Not only that it's essentially now a crime to "allow" your own kids movement free from governmental interference, but that some anonymous do-gooder finds it necessary to call the police.  Ironically, both parents are well educated, liberal, and have brain-based careers. Not your impoverished, uneducated and unemployed ne'er-do-wells you may expect in a case like this.  No matter, Big Nanny knows what's best for you and yours, and you better comply if you don't want us to take your little darlings from you.  Yep. That was literally the threat the county social servicers levied against the parents.

Kids and Bikes = FREEDOM!

Never mind that when you and I were kids, we roamed endlessly: to school, to friends' houses, play grounds, to the store, literally everywhere.  And we didn't need to be categorized as free range kids.  We didn't wear helmets when we rode our bikes.  Why?  Because it wasn't necessary.  Sometimes an elbow or knee lost some skin, but in those days, you shook it off, got back on the bike and continued with your day.  It wasn't a big deal.  Contrast that attitude with today's parents' hyper-caution.  Helicopter parents do no good for their children; in fact they do harm to a child's natural growth, both emotionally and physically.  But hyper-risk adverse parenting has been around for several generations now, and it's no wonder we've become a nation of coddled pussies, when we have no experience of want, misfortune or loss for a frame of reference.  What damage has this hyper-protection done to our very culture, as we become the home of the unbrave?  All risk has been mitigated in our children's lives, sadly resulting in the loss of a realistic notion of life, and certainly of personal responsibility.

Now the busy bodies aren't just the little old lady down the street, it's the government itself.  And as it tries to protect us from ourselves, it does nothing more than create mindless, scared, dependent automatons, and liberty is the fatality in the face of tyranny.  But of course, that was the plan all along.

What Genie? What Bottle?

The genie is out of the bottle.  The cat is out of the bag. We've reached a tipping point.  There are other homilies one can use to describe this situation, but these will do.  The point is we've reached a point in our national history from which there is no turning back.  The overwhelming rate of change at every level is now unstoppable, and we the people will not be able to adapt to it.

Let's see if we can identify some of the liberties we've lost in the few years.

Immigration

I've made my position clear on this matter here and here.  We're being invaded by elements hostile to the American Way and the world's highest standard of living, and who wish to see it destroyed.  Our leadership, under the hapless Kenyan, seeks not to elevate those with less than we have, but to reduce our standard of living to a third world level.  Excluding, of course, his cronies on Wall Street and elsewhere.  Today, leaked internal training documents from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reveal Border Patrol agents are now receiving guidelines instructing them that the vast majority of illegal immigrants in the U.S. are off limits to federal agents and are substantially immune to detention and deportation. In addition, Border Agents are no longer law enforcement agents, they are social workers.  I remind readers that all of this immigration policy is in direct contravention of existing US immigration law.  What does this say to immigrants who have come here legally, obeyed the law, learned English and paid taxes, and assimilated into the American culture?  With the invasion of tens of millions of undesirables through this unlawful policy, immigration policy will never be the same again.

National Security

Americans are spied on like never before.  Everything we do, say, watch, or think is monitored. The U.S. intelligence community is officially made of 17 organizations, but there is even more to the story. A groundbreaking investigation from the Washington Post found some rather daunting figures.  1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies are working on intelligence, counter terrorism, or homeland security in the U.S.  Just the NSA alone is contracting with more than 250 companies on intelligence work, including big names like Northrop Grumman and SAIC.  Many intelligence agencies are doing redundant work, such as 51 federal and military organizations that track the flow of money in and out of terror networks. We the people pay through the nose for this "security" that is watching mostly us.  When the Kenyan opens our borders indiscriminately, when the Kenyan will not categorically condemn Islamic jihadists, one would think we might need all this security.  But it's directed at us, not our enemies.  More liberties are sacrificed as the Kenyan's police state grows ever bigger, and ever more belligerent. And that genie will never go back in the bottle.

Armed Federal Police
Thomas Jefferson never wanted the new America to have a standing army, or to engage in foreign affairs, and would be appalled at the police state that exists today.  He believed in the tenacity of the American people, and considered them the militia, and that was all that was necessary to defend the homeland from all enemies, both foreign or domestic.  Hence the word militia in the Second Amendment.  But now alphabet agencies such as NOAA, FDA, IRS, and any others, now arm their agents with sidearms.  In the face of this militarization of the nation's agencies, an idiot professor in Wisconsin calls for the repeal of the Second Amendment, and Representative Keith Ellison, a Muslin Democrat from Minnesota, did so as well.  Obviously neither of these idiots understand the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, nor God-given liberty. 

All this is just cultural evolution, of a civilization progressing some will say.  A greater number of others will say something different as we witness the demise of the personal liberty concepts of the American system of self government.  And that genie had better go back into the bottle.

Mightier Than The Sword?

It Says, "Charlie Hebdo Must Be Censored"

The dhimmis are at it again. After the cowardly attack on Charlie Hebdo Magazine offices yesterday, and even after today's second attack in Paris, those "protected people" - the non-Muslims who defend the insane actions of radical Islam - can't wait to defend the violence by, as always, blaming the victim.  Not only that, but the Associated Press censored the satirical cartoons that allegedly started all this peace breaking out.  Dhimmi, indeed.

Why in the world would journalists, who live and breathe freedom of the press, be inclined to censor themselves willingly so as to not offend the perpetually offended Religion of Peace?  Especially when that brand of journalism often skewers religions of all stripes.  Christ in piss?  Oh, that's fine, no problem.  The artist even won awards for that piece, and nobody was killed, bombed or beheaded.  But let anyone put humor in the same context as Mohammad, and all hell breaks loose.  That sentence is to be taken literally, by the way.  Now this idiot Anjem Choudary comes on the scene to decry freedom of speech and redefine what Islam is really all about.  Yet the liberal dhimmis - those second-class infidels who are allowed to live as long as they suckle the Muslim teat - are defending what simply cannot be defended.  Islam is a cancer than cannot be left alone.  If it is, it will eventually overtake and kill its host.  It must be surgically removed with extreme prejudice.

But the world's journalists, who have always told us that the pen is mightier than the sword, are willingly giving up that power in the face of a despicable radically violent force.  They've surrendered, as they roll over to their Islamic masters.  Shame.

 Maybe the pen is mightier than the sword.  Or maybe not.

Nothing Trivial

Trivia Earth facts are funny things.  Standing alone, they make one think in terms of higher consciousnesses.  Consider:

Space

• The International Space Station is the most expensive structure ever built at a cost of $150 Billion
• Human beings can only survive in space unprotected for 2 minutes
• The time for the Earth to make one complete rotation on its axis is 23 hours, 56 minutes, 4 seconds.  That's why we have leap year every fourth year
• Since 1957, when Sputnik was launched, the Earth has collected 38,000 man made objects in orbit
• Of those, 5% are functioning satellites, 8% are spent rockets, and 87% are fragments and inactive satellites
• 12 miles is the limit to which a human can survive without a pressurized suit.  Called the Armstrong Limit, at that altitude water will boil at normal body temperature.

Oceans

•  Water on earth is 97% salt, only 3% fresh
• Antarctica has as much ice as the Atlantic Ocean has water
• Probably 1,000,000 species of life live in Earth;s oceans, and two-thirds have yet to be described
• 90% of Earth's volcanic activity occurs in the oceans.
• The deepest part of the ocean, the Marianna Trench, is over 6.7 miles deep
• Only 8 to 12 deaths by shark occur each year, yet 100 million sharks are harvested annually for their fins

Earth's Core

•  Lutetium is the rarest earth element, yet it's 200 time more common than gold in the Earth's crust
• 99% of Earth's gold lies within the core itself
• The core's temperature is 9,900 degrees Fahrenheit, as hot as the surface of the Sun
• The Earth's solid iron core is 1,500 miles in diameter, but the intense pressure prevents iron from melting
• Two and one-half miles below the Amazon River flows the subterranean Rio Hamza river
• Bacteria have been found 1.7 miles deep in the Earth. They survive by using radioactivity from uranium to convert water in to energy

Okay, that's enough distraction.  Now back to work.

Defining Deviancy Down

Global Homosexualism on the Rise

That famous observation by the late New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan - a Democrat, no less  - is more evident than ever, it seems.  Now that homosexual unions are legal in Florida, the local left wing newspaper nearly wet itself in delight with 24 point headlines.  You would think that a cure for cancer had been discovered, or an asteroid was headed our way.  Nope.  Nothing of any import.  Merely the continued destruction of civilization.  Homosexuals comprise less than 2% of the population, yet their agenda (whether real or imposed) is thrust upon the rest of the 98% relentlessly. One must ask: Why?  What, or who, is being served by this?  And what is the real agenda?  Don't accuse me of homophobia.  I couldn't care less who sleeps with whom, or how sexual congress is enacted in your house.  Really.  Don't ask, don't tell.  I don't care.  I do care, however, about the erosion of the fundamental notions upon which our civilization is founded.  If one is a homosexual and one seeks to live as such with one's partner, then fine.  Do it.  Don't try to pretend to be accepted as a normal, species enhancing familial unit, because that is realistically and biologically not the case.   And as such, "marriage" is a word inapplicable to define a union such as this.  Heterosexual sex is required to perpetuate the species, and by freely opting out of this process, homosexuals could - and should - be regarded as anti-human.  Sin and political correctness aside, the left's aggressive push for acceptance and legalization of homosexual unions disguised as marriage is not about basic human rights.  That is obfuscation:  in fact, it's simply about the desire to destroy western civilization's religious foundations, and to inject in its place a secular world view.

NYPD Officers Morn the Loss of Two

In more distressing news about the decline of American civilization, the radical underclass is at it again, this time with their war on cops. In New York, two cops in the Bronx were attacked and wounded. This time it's two Hispanic males caught on video.  This is just more fallout from the Ferguson idiocy.  As the ripple effect from the latent approval of blacks protesting any vindication of policing by the Kenyan and his pet monkey at Justice expands, more backlash against cops occurs.  Race relations have deteriorated markedly under the Kenyan's regime, and he and Holder have blood on their hands.  It's now patently acceptable to shoot cops on sight, and cops are now reluctant to shoot blacks.  Shall we now add Hispanics to that list?  Or should we just limit shootings to white people?  Today the National Paternal Order of Police wants to criminalize cop shooting as a hate crime!  

As the left, ever true to Alinsky's mandate, overwhelms the culture with impossible demands, deviant behavior is no longer shunned.  Get a tattoo, talk like a gangsta, welcome illegal diseased and criminal aliens, overturn the rule of law, shoot a cop, defy God, and worship at the altar of global warning and political correctness.  If America wants to be a shinning city on the hill and have her best days before her, as Reagan envisioned, she better recognize the cultural coup d'etat going on inside the halls of power, and act now to stop and reverse the perversion.  Time is running out.

Goodbye 2014

And good riddance to a most troubling year.  The accelerated demise of American culture was on full display this year.  We witnessed the chipping away at the Constitution in so many ways:  the enactment of KenyanCare, the government sponsored first ever unanswered invasion of sovereign US soil, the invited pandemics (that thankfully so far has failed), the release of our nation's enemies to fight against us again, the rise of the guilty-until-proven-innocent concept of law, and the war on cops.  Whew!  If the American people don't get involved in this coup d'etat, and fight this insidious cancer, there will be no future for our kids and grand kids.  That's not hyperbole, it's a fact.

But what can we the people do?  I have two suggestions.  First, get educated on the real goals of this administration and its supporters behind the scenes, and see though the obfuscation.  Read two tomes, if nothing else:  Saul Alinsky's Rules For Radicals, and  Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.  Don't buy them, that supports their cause.  Find them free on the internet.  Those two works embody the game plan for the End of America.

My Sentiments Exactly!

Second, disregard Political Correctness in all its permutations.  Political correctness is intolerance and censorship in disguise.  Do not let these people change your language.  Don't let them diminish it, either.  Say Merry Christmas, or God bless you.  Don't shrink back.  It is absolutely okay to have your own feelings, opinions and preferences.  Don't let them take the English language away form you.  Don't use their substitute words.  A homosexual isn't "gay,"  Negros (the proper name of the race) are not "African Americans."  They are Americans who are black.  A Muslim terrorist isn't a "freedom fighter," or a "combatant,"  he's a terrorist.  An illegal alien isn't an "undocumented worker" or an "immigrant."  He's a criminal border crasher.  Never allow yourself to be labeled "phobic" because you have a moral code.  Erosion of morality is essential to destroying the social fiber that makes us civilized.  I am not homophobic just because I don't endorse a homosexual lifestyle; and I'm not a misogynist simply because I don't adhere to the radical feminist movement.  Nor am I greedy if I own property and am financially comfortable.  And I am not destroying the Earth or changing the climate because I drive a sport utility vehicle.  I drive it because is utilitarian. And I am not a knuckle-dragging redneck due to the fact  that I own and use firearms.

Sound familiar?  There are many, many more examples of ridiculous and insidious political correctness that seeks to change you into acknowledging and accepting decivilization and tyranny. If you engage in mainstream media - TV and print - and you're a normal, red blooded American with both a moral and religious upbringing, you'll find yourself subject to ridicule from these sources.  Do not believe it.  You're normal; the hate-spewing media is not.

So next year join me as I abandon and avoid political correctness.  Recognizing it in all its permutations is the first step, and standing up to, and fighting against it is the second. But for now, put away the nonsense for a few hours and enjoy the New Year's party, and have fun. Here's to a better, more prosperous and more spiritually free new year!  Welcome 2015!

I'm Sorry, So Sorry

Apologies have their place.  The other day I apologized to my significant other for being really, really grumpy.  I was under the weather with a respiratory malady, couldn't breathe all that well, and I was really short with everyone and everything.  So I apologized, and that was the proper and socially acceptable thing to do.  But lately in the political arena, it seems that our elected officials are either (a.) apologizing for things for which they shouldn't be apologetic, or (b.) not apologizing for things for which they should, or (c.) both.

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise

The most recent example of inappropriate apology is the nonsense over House Majority Whip Steve Scalise's speech he allegedly gave - 12 years ago - to a supposed Ku Klux Klan meeting. Now it seems to me that a Louisiana Congressman should be speaking to his constituents, be they right or left wing, and that's not only part of the job, it's the job.  But the liberal media has "found out" about this long ago speech, and, well, in light of the results of the midterm elections last month, the time seems right to expose this racist Republican.  Give me a break.  I suppose that Mr. Scalise didn't speak to the NAACP, or maybe to the Black Panther Party, or maybe to the Socialist Party America, or anyone else on the left side of the political spectrum.  Nope.  Only to the KKK.  Now that it's come to light, Mr. Scalise feels the need to defend himself in the face of massive criticism from all sides, including Sean Hannity and Mark Levin.  To the extent that the conservative wing of the Republican party doesn't consider the current Republican leadership conservative enough, I'm sure they would like to see a change - within the party, of course.  But political posturing aside, I see no reason why Mr. Scalise should apologize at all for doing his job representing the folks in Louisiana.

His hope . .  Your change

In stark contrast to this recent non-event is the mutterings of the Kenyan, who has been all over the world apologizing for America, and in a speech in Cairo, embracing Islam.  He didn't apologize for that speech, even though many thought it to be, well, somewhat less than presidential.  He didn't apologize for "hiring" Black Panther party members to "monitor" polls in Pennsylvania.  Nope, not a peep of contrition.  Nor did he apologize for his regular attendance at Rev Wright's "God damn America" so called church, which was blatantly racist.  Instead he defends this hate, as evidenced by his response to the Ferguson riots, and insists that the good reverend was a mentor and major influence on him.  No kidding.  Has he apologized for releasing America's enemies from Guantanamo so they may resume their jihad against us?  Not at all.  In fact he even released five more captured Muslim terrorists just today.  Let the destruction continue.

The obvious contradiction in the hate lobby's hype is that it's perfectly acceptable to bash America, Southerners, White people, cops, and Christianity in general.  But under no circumstances must one criticize blacks, homosexuals or Muslims.  So Scalise must step down, but not the Kenyan.  Witness the demise of free speech and freedom of association.  We live in an intolerant time.

So with apologies to Miss Brenda Lee, I'm sorry, so sorry.

Short Takes

The news in general is an entertainment industry, I think.  Really.  What passes for news most assuredly falls into the "you just can't make this stuff up" category.  Consider:

ISIS Executes 150 Women

The Religion of "Piece"

Why would they do that?  Because these women refused to marry and breed with these jihadists. Soliciting idealistic young girls from the west, these jihadists seem to have run out of available women at home, although in this slaughter some women were pregnant.  Oops!  Oh well, we'll just start over.  As we're told endlessly by the mainstream media, Islam is a religion of peace, of conservative values.  Yet "militants" run brothels and keep sex slaves. They even allow women from the West to perform “sexual jihad” for the terrorists.  Remember the "4-F Rule" back in high school? Find 'em, Feel 'em, F*ck 'em and Forget 'em?  For jihadists it seems to be working. You can't make this stuff up.

The Emperor Has No Clothes

I can't hear you, America

Back in early 2012 I had an interesting conversation with one of my heroes, the honorable Newt Gingrich.  We were discussing the inevitability of a complete usurpation of power by the Kenyan should he be reelected.  I expressed my concerns that the Constitution, as well as the rule of law, would be trampled upon by this narcissistic Marxist poser.  Newt, ever the optimist, assured me that there were so many limitations in place - both in the law itself and in common political practice -  that such a thing could never happen here in America.  Far from this being an "I told you so" post, I do think that many of the fears conservatives had about this Kenyan have in fact become reality.  Now, despite - hell, in direct retaliation to - the landslide rejection of his policies through the recent midterm elections, he's even more embolden to act lawlessly. His executive orders are constitutionally questionable, as are his mandates through executive memoranda.  A bloodless coup d'etat has been achieved, and many Americans are not even aware of it yet.  Precedents have been set.  You can't make this stuff up.

Cyber Surrender

The Interview

Only in America can the mightiest nation in the world cave in to the lamest of threats from a third-ranked communist nation.  ABC news confirmed that North Korea hacked into not only South Korean cyberspace, but Sony Entertainment as well. Apparently incensed that Sony would produce and release a movie about the fictional assassination of Kim Jug-un, North Korea has intimidated Sony into pulling the movie in the face of threatened violence to movie goers.  Are you kidding me??  This is either the most cowardly act a company can manage, or it's the most innovative marketing ploy ever.  I, for one, can't wait to see the movie.  As the Kenyan mealy-mouths about "taking the threat seriously," he also encourages us to go to the movies.  Gee, thanks.  Newt Gringrich tweeted  "No one should kid themselves.  With the Sony collapse America has lost its first cyber war. This is a very very dangerous precedent."  And the primary actors now have full time body guards.  It's no wonder that testosterone supplements are in such high demand.  There is none to be found in Washington DC, that's for sure.  You just can'r make this stuff up.

Havana Cigars and '50s Cars, Baby!

1956 Oldsmobile Delta 88

What is there to say about the "normalization" of relations with Cuba?  The Kenyan has a pen and a phone you know - consider it done.  Every other president since Kennedy has held the murderous Castro thugs at bay.  But now - by Kenyan executive fiat - we'll have a new embassy in Havana, and despite claims that sanctions will stay in place, the Port of Tampa should be bustling again.  The pro-American Cuban exiles in Miami are having a fit, of course.  They can still remember their families killed, and their lands and businesses stolen by El Jefe.  And they remember the famous Alpha 66 and the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion.  Rhetoric notwithstanding,  exportation should be Cuba's main economy:  I haven't had a decent cigar since 1997 when I was down in the Cayman Islands, when a Cohiba was the ultimate Havana cigar.  And what about those cool, retro 1950s American cars?  I gotta get me one o' dose!  But the US gets nothing in exchange for this:  no guarantees of individual liberties, or anything else.  But in this administration caving is normal.  Normal relations with Cuba?  You just can't make this stuff up.

Gimme that Rock 'N Roll Music

Battle of the Bands, 1967.  Lightfoot on the Right

What has happened to rock 'n roll music these days? I'm talking about music that rocks.  Apart from the un-listenable drivel that passes for rap and hip-hop, there simply isn't any new, innovative rock music being brought out.  Is it the result of the doom, gloom and malaise that permeates the current culture that prohibits the recording of feel good rock 'n roll?  I think so, too.  When we have to resort to such unimaginably inappropriate combinations as Bob Dylan covering Frank Sinatra's hits, we are admitting that there's a serious dearth of any decent new rock music.  No wonder aging rockers such as the Rolling Stones, the Who, and Led Zepplin are still doing tours.  They're filling venues even with astronomical ticket prices because people want to hear rock music, and there's none being made.  I can applaud Sir Chritopher Lee's new Christmas album, however.  He's 92 years old, and can actually rock.

Even Nashville's thrown in the towel and produces very little real country anymore; it's all just homogenized popular music with a little twang, a fiddle and a slide guitar.  Some exceptions exist, of course, but mostly the current crop is pablum.  Outlaw country retired when Waylon, Willie, Merle, Bocephus, Johnny and others quit recording. I know this is just my opinion, but God, I sure miss 'em.