"Did You Get My Check?"

That's the burning question Facebook's Dear Leader Marky-Mark Zuckerberg will be asking members of the House committee next week, as he testifies before congress about Facebook's questionable handling of member's privacy issues.  But that's little surprise to normal Americans who shake their collective heads at the corruption that occurs between the Deep State and the so-called Titans of Technology.

But as USA Today reports, it's true.  I quote from www.westernjournal.com:

The congressional panel that received the most contributions from the company is the House Energy and Commerce Committee, whose lawmakers are set to question Zuckerberg on Wednesday.  Of the 55 members on this committee, all but nine of them have received contributions by Facebook for the past decade, with the average Democrat receiving nearly $6,750 and the average Republican receiving $6,800.

Panel members announced their committee would question Zuckerberg to shed light on what they call “critical consumer data privacy issues and help all Americans better understand what happens to their personal information online.”

They also said they appreciate Zuckerberg’s “willingness to testify.” In regards to Facebook’s campaign gift, however, Republicans got a mere 33 percent and Democrats got 65 percent, adding to about $7 million worth of gifts.

As we've posted here previously, part of the issue is the selling of information mined from users' profiles and posts that is used in political campaigning.  There was little interest in Facebook's normal business model when that detailed information was sold to the Kenyan's reelection efforts in 2012, but all hell broke loose when the Donald Trump campaign did the same thing in 2016.  Now the Democrats in Congress are in high dudgeon that  - gasp! - the Republicans should be able to access that business model's data for their own purposes as well.  Fair only works one way in the democrat mind.

The other issue, and probably more sinister, is the more than seven thousand fake Facebook accounts that were run by Russian operatives - the infamous trolls.  They would upload provocative posts, and when users "liked" them, the trolls would collect that data, and recruit those members to rally or protest or otherwise engage in political discourse.  All propaganda aimed at the expense of American interests, of course.

One such piece of propaganda is seemingly all-American on its face.  See image (right).  Posted on Facebook's Instagram, it seeks to elicit anger against the Muslim invasion.  How could any red-blooded American not agree with that?  It got 6,000 "likes."  But, friends and neighbors, it was a Russian plant.  Untold in this story - yet, anyway - is what happened to all the information contained on all those 6,000 Facebook users who "liked" that post.  Are they targets for Russian/Marxist/Leftist retribution?  Or perhaps recruitment?  Or is their personal information just stored, ready to be accessed and used at some other time?  I don't know, either.

But I do know that whenever you cede power over yourself to others, it will invariably be used against you.  Keeping your own personal power is what freedom is really all about.   And within the whole of mankind's history, there always have been forces that seek to relieve you of that power.  And only the vigilant and wary can resist.

And that's some of the issues - hopefully - that Marky-Mark and his Facebook data monster will have to address.

Right after he verifies that those in congress got his check.

Because We Can, That's Why

God is dead. Privacy is dead. Freedom is dead.  Sigh.  That's a pretty depressing revelation, don't you think?  Maybe I'll post a picture of my breakfast, or my dog, or the last theme park I visited, on Facebook and wait for all my "friends" to "like" it.  You know, all those folks whom I've never met, but were polite enough to invite me as their friend.  Maybe that thin gruel of social acceptance will placate me, and make me feel better.

The enlightened have already killed God.  It seems - to them, anyway - that it is no longer necessary for man to seek a higher authority.  We've evolved beyond that silly paternal longing.  Yet our most respected scientists have told us we are really nothing more than self aware protoplasm, and on an evolutionary scale, just a small step up from bacterium.  Well.  That's encouraging.  And this insane notion of worship-man-as-God was short lived; except perhaps within the Democrat party.  Thankfully.  To replace God, the enlightened ones have told us, we first had to acknowledge that we - mankind - was all the God we needed.  Wow.  That's a lot of gods.  And in nearly the same breath, now they tell us that we must build better artificial intelligence - superior to us - so that we may worship AI instead of ourselves or some vague, unseen creator.  I wonder by what name would we call AI - "them" or "it"?  

The technical revolution has made us aware - in no small fashion - that privacy is dead.  And the courts have upheld time and again that citizens have no expectation of privacy.  There used to be a quaint notion of privacy granted by God and guaranteed by the 4th Amendment, that Americans have "the right . . . . to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."  But we gave that away willingly.  We put our lives and soul on Facebook, for no other reason that to seek fleeting approval by others.  We allow everyone to track our every movement, and record our every utterance, just because we cannot turn off our cell phones.  We put our own eavesdropping devices in every room of our homes. Google. Echo.  Alexa.  We are not the consumer of this technology - we're the product of it.  And it's only $99 on Amazon.  Oh, and free shipping, too.

OK, what about freedom?  Have we lost that yet?  I think we have.  For example, think of all the words that you cannot use without being charged with a hate crime.  Whatever the hell that is. Think of a religion that you may not question.  Or, conversely, think of a religion that you're free - and even encouraged - to denigrate.  Say something about the evolution of certain aspects of the human race.  Or someone's perceived sexual orientation.  Speak the truth about certain political dynasties, expose their corruption and crimes, and see where you end up.  You will be ruined and broke.  You may well ask who invented the term "politics of personal destruction".  Or worse, you may find yourself on the receiving end; perhaps having a dirt nap and becoming worm food.

So perhaps there's something to be learned from the Luddites' resistance to technological innovation.  Maybe we should take a deep breath and reconsider this headlong rush into the Brave New Artificial World.  Let's have time to adapt, psychologically and socially.  Technological innovation doubles every two years, according to Moore's Law, and even that is accelerating as applied to other related technological disciplines. Heads are spinning, algorithms know more about you than your mother, cars drive themselves, drones hit targets from miles away, and media manipulate your thoughts and beliefs.  Humans have little chance against the accelerating - and inevitable - takeover of technology.

But even more, why would we do any of  this to ourselves?  Because we can, that's why.

Breach? What Breach?

Ladies and gentlemen, please stay calm.  What I'm about to tell you may shock and possibly enrage you.  But it's true. 

Yes, there was no breach of data at Facebook.   Nope.  None at all.  To call what actually did occur a breach is simply either naivete or outright propaganda.

Here's why.  Facebook is a thriving business that collects detailed information on every single user member, stores it, and then sells that information to other business concerns that require it.  For this, it makes an enormous profit.  It also sells advertising that is mated with users' personal interests, which is displayed on the particular page that that user is viewing.  For this it makes another enormous profit.

When the Democrat party, working for the Kenyan's reelection, needed a way to ascertain potential voters' political trends in 2008, they went to Facebook, who, as a matter of standard operating procedure, simply sold that data to the DNC.  No problem, congress, that's the business we're in.  

But when Cambridge Analytica, working for the Republican party and Donald Trump's campaign,  needed a way to ascertain potential voters' political trends in 2016, they went to Facebook, who, as a matter of standard operating procedure, simply sold that data to the RNC.  No problem, congress, that's the business we're in.  

It's ingenious, in a way.  While other data mining companies like Google and Amazon engage in stealth in their data collection methods, Facebook comes right out and asks users for it.  Right up front.  And  normal folks, most of whom love to talk about themselves, were eager to willingly provide detailed and intimate information about themselves, and upload that personal information to a public forum read by billions of people.  Facebook users completed detailed profiles of themselves, complete with sexual orientation and current domestic partnership information.  They breathlessly supplied a detailed list of their favorite books, movies, music, hobbies and interests.  They posted personal opinions, political leanings, and just idiotic and inane stuff freely.  And they "liked"  other users' ramblings.  Just so there would be no question as to who was actually posting this personal information and opinions, Facebook users added photos of themselves, along with their friends, family, colleagues, and even pets.   And they uploaded a lot of them.

All voluntarily.  Willingly.  Eagerly.  

Now, when this comes to light through a lopsided political revelation, these same folks are shocked - shocked! - that goofy little Mark Zuckerberg is actually Big Brother, watching - censoring and tracking - not only them but everyone they know!  One wonders if folks were thinking:  "What's the worst that could happen?"  Maybe.  You post your identity on the Internet and what did you think Facebook would do with it?

So it's off to Congressional hearings Marky-Mark must go, to testify that, well, this is the business we're in, but we just don't want the conservative right to be privy to any of this valuable and marketable information. 

In fact, we'll do whatever we can to censor their homophobic, racist, Islamophobic, misogynist, gun-loving hate speech, so as not to offend the more delicate left leaning members of our Facebook family.  And it's why we're shopping for lobbyists in Washington, DC right now, to ensure we can buy - er, persuade - congress to abide by our way of thinking.   We want to make sure that Facebook remains an open forum for all those who subscribe to our approved speech and thought.

So.  There was no breach.  Only selected preferred users are allowed access to data from our business model, certainly not improperly channeled to Cambridge Analytica to benefit the right.

Whoops.  Facebook stock has fallen 14% as of this writing.  That represents a $100 billion loss in market worth.  Advertisers are running for the tall grass.  And users are rethinking the ramifications of the Internet equivalent of the high school "slam book."

Well, maybe that's the rough justice that the market applies to those who would take advantage.  Hear that, Google and Amazon?

Spare Not The Rod

Andrew Breitbart once said politics is downstream from culture.  What he meant is that in our modern society, culture determines our politics, not the other way around.  And he may be right.

Consider the nonsense and tragedies in our lives today:  mass school shootings, insane 7th century cultists running around beheading everyone they can find, live steaming suicides on social media, social justice warriors executing anyone who doesn't think as they do, unchecked illegal immigrants causing crime, disease and general mayhem across the land, racists calling for the extermination of white people, and other dystopian events. It's a mess out there.

As Talking Heads' David Bryne famously asked, "Well, how did I get here?"  How indeed.  Let's look at that.  Was it the non-existent white privilege in western culture and philosophy that caused all this?  Many in the regressive left will tell you so.  Perhaps it was toxic masculinity, as the shrill harpies in the so-called feminist movement will enthusiastically attest.  Or was it guns in our culture, maybe?  But no, it was none of these.  Those are merely scapegoats of a cancerous mindset in our culture that worships oppression and victimhood.  And that is not unintended, I might add.  The regressive left is intent on bringing down the structure of western civilization, and we're now tasting the fruits of that poisoned tree. 

The root philosophy in western thought is self determination.  Self reliance.  Self responsibility. Belief in the guidance of a higher intelligence; a higher good.  And these are the principals that the left has been - and still is - attacking and seeking to destroy.  They seek to replace our ancient, traditional value system with anthropolatry, broadly defined as the worship of man as god.

In approaching and defining society in this way, the first casualty of western thought is the demise of ethics.  Regressives scoff at the notion of an intrinsic "good" or of a rival "evil."  In their view, the self is center, the higher good is communal.  Aleister Crowley put it succinctly:  "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law."  Those who would take exception to this stance are thereby  "oppressors" who must be defeated, and the anthropolatrists - the regressives themselves - are "victims."  Not a very inclusive philosophy, is it?

The next casualty is responsibility.  If there is no higher good other than self, then there is no need for ethics - the acknowledgement of good and evil (or "bad") - and thus no need for "discipline."  So for decades, the left has frowned on discipline as an affront to individual freedom brought on by authority figures - parents, teachers, cops - the ever present oppressors.  What has been the result of that?

The result is a generation or more of people who cannot cope with life as it is.  They can't deal with the crises in their lives, or rejection, or an opinion differing from their own, or restraints on behavior.  It's someone else's fault they feel ostracized, disenfranchised.  They become insecure in themselves, and then fall into self loathing.

Is it any wonder they need pharmaceutical support?  Or that they take up weapons to exact revenge from innocent and unknown folks, for some demonic imagined slight?  This lost generation, called snowflakes in part because of their delicate psychological condition, may never come to reality.  They live in a dark world where nothing is fair, where the deck is stacked against them.  They don't realize only they have the key to their own happiness.  But in anthropolatry, there can be no happiness; unfairness is perpetual and needs to be punished.  That's a pretty bleak outlook.

But to reverse this regressive thinking, we as a society should take a lesson from this failed experiment in total permissiveness, and ensure that life's lessons - good and bad together - are not lost, but exist to be experienced, to build character, resolve, respect, and yes, self sufficiency.  Ironically, the character traits and pursuits the regressive left despises most are the very ones needed to correct society's current unsteady course.  

So what is needed is more God, guns, white western culture, and toxic masculinity.  Oh, yeah.  And discipline.

Teen Mobs and Cowardly Leaders

Right on cue, the demonic left rises in unison to thwart individual rights, while politicizing a most tragic event.  Seventeen people died at the hands of a lone gunman - it really was a lone gunman this time - while the Broward County Sheriff's office most likely told its officers on scene to stand down and let the shooting play out.  Why would four armed sworn deputies just stand by and let kids die?   Easy.  To continue a false narrative that the left always espouses:  We must ban guns.

That's amore!

Had they entered the scene immediately on arrival - like the Coral Springs police did - they could have mitigated the threat and significantly reduced the number killed.  But they didn't.  The fact that Sheriff Israel is an ardent Hillary supporter played no part whatever in his decisions.  There were no political ulterior motives involved in letting the carnage go unchecked.  Nope.  None at all.

Nor was there any evil intent on the part of the FBI, who had numerous tips and warnings months in advance about the shooter's state of mind.  And his behavior.  And even the shooters own posts on public media.  But no.  No threat was found.  Seventeen people died.

But who's to blame?  Sheriff?  FBI?  The shooter himself?  Nope.  Why, it must be the NRA.  Yeah, that's it!  The NRA is to blame.  They lobby government to defend and protect the Second Amendment, so they all  must be gun nuts at heart, right?  If they weren't around, we could just go ahead and get congress to ban guns.  Or register them.  Save the children.  But that damn second amendment is so short and to the point in its wording that it's impossible to deny its meaning.  We gotta have an emotional, mob-ruled outcry to finally bully - er I mean convince - lawmakers to vote to repeal a guaranteed God-given right.  So we'll get a bunch of impressionable high schoolers, weeping in angst, script them up, and send them out to flash mob every political body out there.  There.  That should do it.  Who can be firm with logic in the face of a crying, screaming, and vengeful teenage tantrum?  Apparently our law enforcement leadership, both local and federal, certainly cannot.

More amore!

Remember, the midterms are coming up, and our whole Russia collusion story has been essentially debunked.  In fact, it may come back to bite us in the hindquarters when it's demonstrated that the Kenyan and Hillary paid for, orchestrated and implemented this whole fake scandal in the first place.  So, we really, really need a contentious emotional  issue.  And here it is.  Our stand-by narrative of gun control always polls well with our base. 

And now we have a perfect crisis  - one that won't go to waste.

Shoot First, Questions Come Later

All good people by now have learned there was another mass shooting Wednesday - involving a school - during which innocent people were killed and wounded.  And, as good people, many have a reaction to that senseless act.  Some blame white people, some blame guns, others blame mental health issues, and still others blame a lax law enforcement.  Here's a quick newsflash:  law enforcement isn't responsible for protecting folks, it's only responsible for curbing law breaking.  Which kinda leaves the task of personal protection and safety to each of us individually.

I'll undoubtedly get flamed for this, but I offer it up, anyway.  As does most common sense solutions, it will work.  Here're the facts:  the ratio of the number of casualties - those killed and wounded - is disproportionate to the number of shooters.  That means that one or two shooters can effectively kill dozens of unarmed folks in a very short period of time.  Think about San Bernadino, Fort Hood, Sandy Hook, Columbine, Pulse Night club, congressional baseball game, Boston Marathon, Las Vegas and way too many others.  What's the common denominator?  Unarmed victims.  Oh, and so-called gun free zones.

But the argument demands we show an opposite trend.  One where an armed good guy stops the armed bad guy.  And we can.  Here are just a few. 

In 1997, the assistant principal of Mississippi’s Pearl High School, Joel Myrick, used the .45 caliber semi-automatic pistol he kept in his truck to detain 16-year-old Luke Woodham after the teenager stabbed and bludgeoned to death his mother at home and killed two students and injured seven at the high school. 

A decade later, in 2007, Matthew Murray killed four people at Colorado Spring church before being shot by church member and volunteer security guard Jeanne Assam.

Last April, an Uber driver with a concealed-carry permit shot and wounded a gunman who opened fire on a crowd of people in Chicago’s Logan Square.

This September, an usher at a Tennessee church used his personal firearm to subdue a masked gunman who had already killed one woman in the church’s parking lot and injured six others inside.

Some years ago, science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein stated a startling but universal truth in one of his books. "An armed society is a polite society.  Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."  Well, now.  Isn't that concept one of the primary reasons the Founding Fathers so adamantly created the Second Amendment?  It was.  They understood so very well those quaint human attributes like personal responsibility and self preservation.  

Today, anyone with a keyboard or a Guy Fawkes mask can vent his anger, rage, frustration or disenfranchisement.  In perfect anonymity.  Exercising his right to an opinion, but without the responsibility to back up his words.  And in many cases, that leads to even more anger, resentment and disenfranchisement - and to a shooting.

But good guys - armed and vigilant - can and should shoot back.  Men and women alike.  Get armed, get trained, and get ready to save someone's life.  Or your own.

So, yes, all you snowflakes out there, more guns  - not fewer - is absolutely the answer to the problem when in the hands of responsible and capable adults.  When crazed lefties, like the vast majority of these shooters actually have been documented to be, decide to get their fifteen minutes of fame, and try to best the last killed-in-action number record, they may think twice about their plans of going out in a blaze of glory when a responsible adult shows up armed.

In the face of leftist rage - think Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, Black Panthers, Antifa, Resist, and more -  I'm reminded of Teddy Roosevelt's famous advice.  "Speak softly, but carry a big stick."

Sage advice, Teddy.  Get a gun, learn to use it properly, and carry it every day. I do. 

Enemies of the State

Well, well, well.  The declassification and ultimate release of the revealing and damaging FISA memo has the swamp denizens running for the tall grass. As well they should.  This memo states unequivocally what many of us knew all along, and that is that the Kenyan's reign over the United States government corrupted it beyond all recognition.  His Department of Justice has been anything but since he was immaculated.  Eric Holder first, then Loretta Lynch, both served their master faithfully.  At the country's expense, of course.  And in order to secure the Kenyan's so called legacy - the nation's "transformation" into a corrupt, third world shit hole - he had to be succeeded by a candidate as corrupt as he.  Enter the detestable Hillary Rodham Clinton. 

To assure her transcendence to the office of president, an insurance policy had to be developed that even in the event of her loss in the election, Trump would be taken down and removed from office in short order.  Enter the totally fabricated Trump Dossier.  It was, as we now have learned, funded by the Clinton campaign, and written by an ex-British spy who hated Trump deeply.  With the help of GPS Fusion, an opposition research firm, and some rogue Russian agents.  There was Russian collusion all right, Mr. Mueller, only it was by the DNC, not Trump.

The Kenyan's holdovers in the FBI went along with the insurance scam, they knew it was faked and without merit, but were conspirators as well as the DOJ and DNC as they petitioned the FISA court to allow them to spy on Trump and his campaign.

These are dark days for America, as her institutions are now shown to be politically partisan, and serve not the law and the Constitution, but solely the Democrat party and the unelected bureaucrats in Washington DC.  But perhaps this memo, along with the obvious bias in the news media, will shown the American people what many of us have said all along.  Drain the Swamp.

Here are the enemies of the state:

 

 

 

If Congress has any testicular fortitude, charges need to be brought against all of these bad actors, and others to be named, and they need to go to jail. The government must cleanse itself of the Kenyan's vile and corrupt legacy.   Those who violated America's trust must go to prison like all spies and traitors must do.

Then we can make America great again.

Enemy At The Gate

At last someone is telling the truth about the mass invasion in this country, euphemistically known as illegal immigration.  I quote:

"All Americans, not only in the States most heavily affected but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public service they use impose burdens on our taxpayers. That's why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens. In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes, to better identify illegal aliens in the workplace as recommended by the commission headed by former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan. We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it."

You may think - and rightly so - that this declaration was spoken by President Trump, but it wasn't.  Nor was it spoken by President Reagan.  Nope.  It was uttered twenty-three years ago by none other than President William Jefferson Clinton during his State of the Union address on January, 24th, 1995. My, my, have the Democrats changed their position on the cultural invasion!

Click on the link and the next time you hear Chuck U. Shumer babble on about the wall, immigration, DACA, Dreamers and the other unconstitutional policies the Kenyan enacted by his unlawful executive orders, remember these words. But wait!  Clinton was president before the Democrat party morphed into a totally Marxist philosophy, going all-in for identity politics.  In his day, democrats were comparable to today's moderate Republicans.  Today, however, democrats support invasion - er, immigration - because they need a perpetual underclass to play the role of "victims" of the so-called Caucasian patriarchy.  Uneducated, low IQ, diseased people with no marketable skills from third world shit hole countries are perfect for that role, whether they be black, brown or grey. And they make perfect Democrat voters - for life!

Immigration - legal and otherwise - has been a problem since Ted Kennedy changed the United States immigration policy with his Immigration and  Nationality Act of 1965.  Prior to that, the US policy was the Quota system, which essentially limited immigration to Western Europe.  Intelligent, educated white people with marketable skills were more than welcomed here.  But Kennedy saw the need for a permanent underclass, and was able to get his bill enacted by President John Kennedy, his brother.  See how that works?  Today we are dealing with nearly 36 million aliens, by some counts, most of whom are not productive in any legal sense, and who refuse to assimilate into our Western culture.  That means one-third of the US population is working hard to undermine and destroy the United States.  That's the bottom line, after all the weepy emotionalism is swept away. 

These people in our country are a problem.  And it's an existential one.  It's not about race.  It's not about social status.  It's about applying existing US law.  It's about neutralizing the threat of their planned destruction of the American culture and way of life.

Concerning illegals, we must identify, arraign and deport them all.  Literally with extreme prejudice.  Concerning legals, we must identify those here now, and take in only those who can and will contribute to the American experience, not tear it down.

And if Congress won't act, We the People must.  And I believe we will.

The End of Racism

At last!  The left has officially worn out the epithet "You're a racist!"  Every day, a thousand times, someone is called a racist.  It's a curse that's been over used, over blown, inappropriately applied and now rendered completely meaningless.  It's like "awesome," or one of my favorites,"gnarly," idioms finally cast onto the ash heap of meaningless rhetoric drivel.  And not a moment too soon.  

But what does it mean, in a larger sense, "racist," this neutered epithet?  Have people really rid themselves of all biases pertaining to race?  Not at all.  And, I dare say, nor should they.  People of all races, cultures and nationalities are essentially tribal in their outlook.  They are me. Or non sunt mei - they are not me.  One who is conscious of one's own origins is naturally wary of outsiders; one should be diligently discriminating in that regard. That's not a bad thing in of itself.  It's a natural component of our survival instinct.  Consider that your brain, when confronting a stranger, is making nanosecond evaluations to ensure your survival.  Is he different?  Is he dangerous?  And the decision tree falls away from that point on.  If yes, then appropriate measures are taken.  If no, none are.  If yes, but no, then a different set of possible measures are considered.  This mechanism in the brain happens pretty fast, so most people aren't even consciously aware they're doing it.   But that mid-brain analysis is there to keep you safe. And, it has nothing to do with hate.  

Basic decision tree

It has to do with recognizing differences, and reacting accordingly.  That's called discrimination.  Survival.  The left continually seeks to dehumanize people in any way it can.  Attempting to homogenize us all into a single artificial norm is one way to that end.  But they coat this homogenization with an emotional appeal that's hard to resist.  Aw, poor them.   They deserve better.  Come on over here, we accept you.

And that can be - and certainly is - exceedingly dangerous when applied to our immigration policy.  Some migrants truly are in need, most seek other goals. But to stand up and question the very real consequences of the unchecked influx of immigrants - who are assuredly non sunt mei -  is a rational act, and has nothing whatever to do with hate.  Or racism.  It's just another leftist-progressive con job.

Perhaps if we understand that we're being played by the left with its endless application of labels, like racist, intolerant, homophobic, islamaphobic, and countless others, we may be able to ignore those epithets, and think clearly and rationally about our survival. Nature programmed us this way for a reason.  The left's philosophies - which have never been right - claim we've evolved beyond that primal programming.  

I seriously doubt that.  It's deeply embedded in pure instinct, and denying that will result in a bad end.

Vicious Friends To The End

Well, well, well.  A new book is out.  In it are allegations about Donald Trump's temperament and intellect.  Same old stuff, warmed over.  Also in it are new allegations about who may be the White House leaker, the stirrer of political pots.  All eyes look to Steve Bannon.  "A moron," says Bannon of Trump.  "Sloppy Steve," tweets Trump.  Uh oh.  Seems like King Arthur is at odds with his Sir Lancelot.  Powerful men, both leaders in a tsunami political movement, butting heads like alpha rams in rutting season.  The MSM, delighted to observe the public reaction to Wolff's disingenuous ramblings, cry, "Hooray!  A rift in the movement!  Trump is undone!"

Nonsense.  Not so fast.  In every great undertaking, there have been failures in communication and policies in the chain of command, from ancient Greece (note Alexander's conquests) to Rome (note Julius Caesar's reforms), even into the early elections in the United Sates (note the Adams/Jefferson rift), and right up to the present age.  Consider that Winston Churchill fought tooth and nail against his own King and Parliament to dissuade them from a policy of appeasement with Nazi Germany.  Neville Chamberlain advised friend and foe alike that German ambitions were contained and it wouldn't attack the UK.  Germany wasn't, of course, and did.  History proved Churchill right, and Germany and the United Kingdom would be engaged again in war with each other.

Another example of rifts between players on the same team was the infamous public flogging of General George Patton.  Dwight Eisenhower was the Supreme Commander, Allied Forces, and General George Patton was Commander of the 3rd, 7th and 15 United States Armies at various times.  He defeated Rommel in North Africa, invaded and liberated Sicily, and was most famous for his push through France and Germany with the US 3rd Army, resulting in the liberation of Berlin.  Yet he and Ike were at odds for most of the war.  Both wanted to win, but had differing methods.  Ike was the commander of a force of individual nations - the Allies - and had to massage national hubris and personal egos for the duration of the war.  In contrast, Patton was a proponent of hard driving, never slowing offensives that, especially in Europe in 1944, probably shortened the war considerably.  At the edge of Berlin, Ike slowed Patton's 3rd Army's advance, so that the Soviets could be the first to enter Berlin.  That was a political move of which Patton disapproved entirely.  Patton was vocal about his opinions, and felt that the US should keep rolling eastward, and defeat Russian forces as well.  Hey, as long as I've got the Army over here and all.  Ike and the media were completely aghast over that.  History may well have shown that Patton was probably right about his trepidation about the USSR.  Promoted, demoted, and hushed, Patton was still admired by both his men and by the public at large, despite the Pentagon's and media's attempt to portray him as a arrogant, war-mongering self-serving braggart.  But at the end of the day, it was George Patton and the American 3rd Army that liberated Europe.  Ike went on to become the United States' 34th President, and Patton died from injuries he sustained in a suspicious automobile crash months later in December 1945.

So it may be wise to keep in perspective this so-called divide between Bannon and Trump.  It is probably real, arising from two forceful personalities dedicated to making America great again, yet each in their own way.  Trump, like Eisenhower has many factions to appease.  Bannon, like Patton, sees only an enemy in tyrannical globalism that must be resoundingly defeated.  

As history shows us time and time again, heads may butt, punches may be thrown, but at the end of the day, hands will be shaken, and a victory will be had.  And this story hasn't come to its end, yet.  Stay tuned.

2017: The Good Guys Are Winning

As we close in on the traditional day of celebrating Christ's birth, we take a moment to reflect on the amazing year that is all but finished.  Consider the impact of these events, if you will.

The American people chose a political outsider to become their forty-fifth president, and the established duopoly went into apoplectic spasms. Blindsided by the American people's complete rejection of the decades long slide into a course of decline for America, they struck back with a near constant attack on Donald J. Trump, the man folks elected to stop said decline, and to further turn the tide.  Fearing loss of power, the swamp - defined as both party apparatchiks, the MSM and all those unelected bureaucrats, lobbyists and judges - is fighting back.  Cries for impeachment accompany a year long "investigation" into Trump's alleged collusion with Russia that some call a political witch hunt.  Meanwhile, Trump seems unaffected by the swamp's temper tantrum, and continues to work his agenda.  Even the Huffington Post, no friend of conservatism, has admitted the Donald's kicking ass.  He's appointed conservative judges, passed a milestone tax reduction act, limited the insane importation of Muslim terrorists, is in the process of unifying the GOP leadership, and has completely exposed the MSM as the propaganda arm of the Democrat party that they are.  Not bad for a freshman predient, and a political outsider, oh, and for a rich white guy.

Grand Inquisitor, er, I mean Special Prosecutor, Robert Mueller continues with his fishing expedition. In a twist worthy of a political spy thriller novel, what he's turned up so far is the massive corruption, sedition and treason that occurred on the Kenyan's watch.  In a recent damning expose by Politico, no friend of conservatism, it's been reveled that the Kenyan stopped a DEA undercover operation of cocaine smuggling by Hezbollah through central America and into the US.  He did this to ensure that his nuclear arms deal with Iran would go through.  Don't want to piss off the Mullahs while you're handing them the means to build their own nukes, now would we?  Oh, and let's free up a couple billion in Iranian frozen assets, so the Mullahs can buy some yellow cake and get their nuclear reactors up and running.   And while we're at it, let's pay the ransom demanded for a couple of embassy chaps for another four hundred million USD.  In cash.  On pallets.  Don't want that bribe going anywhere near congress.  Fly it over on a C-141.  Shhh.

And speaking of yellow cake, now there's more scrutiny of Mizz Clinton's collusion with the Russians to take control of some twenty-five percent of America's uranium production.  The Clinton Crime Family netted a pretty hefty commission for brokering that sweet deal.  And her antics in working with DNC's Debbie Wassermann-Schultz to take Bernie Sanders out of the nominating process.  The fix is in, Bernie.  Sorry.  You're an old Communist anyway, right?  No hard feelings.  Remember what happened to Seth Rich for developing a conscience?  Worse, Mizz Clinton has been committing crimes, treason and sedition in her role as Secretary of State as well as a private citizen.  Arms to Syria in a gun running operation gone bad was the catalyst for the attack on the US embassy in Benghazi, in which several Americans, including the Ambassador himself, were killed by the very terrorists she had just armed.   No reaction from the Kenyan's administration.  Dead Americans?  Meh.  And collusion with those very same terror organization were conducted on a private server, and when her emails were leaked by Wiki-leaks, that server got immediately Bit Bleached.  Oops. Nothing to see here.  But as Mueller continues to investigate Trump, the evidence he gathers continues to indict The Clinton Crime family, the DOJ under Eric Holder, The FBI under James Comey, as well as the Kenyan himself.

High crimes and misdemeanors?  Hey, it's the Kenyan-Clinton crime syndicate we're talking about here.  It's too big to fail.  Well, we'll see about that.

So all in all 2017 has been a rousing good year.  Good for the American people, good for the economy, and good for making American great again.  It wasn't so good for those who seek her destruction.  Or for those who who profit by it.  

But this crime novel is far from over.  Stay tuned.  And Merry Christmas to all!

The Parable Of The Garden

Once upon a time there was a kindly old man who had a wonderful and productive garden.  He had labored endlessly for months to make the soil rich and level, well drained and open to the air and sun.  He planted seeds that would grow to fruition, and he arranged them into communities that benefited one another.  Root vegetables on one end, bean and legumes in the center, and flowering vegetables on the other end.  It was an act of love and mutual benefit as he would attend to and nurture his crop, and the crop would prosper and thus reward him with its bounty. 

For years he nurtured it, protected it, and was rewarded by its bounty of delightful vegetables and fruit. From time to time a weed would invade, and grow quickly and aggressively.  It would compete for soil space, and soon, as it towered over the native plants, it would rob them of needed sunlight.  At first he would pull the weeds, and cast them aside.  The garden was clear and healthy.  But the weeds would propagate, and were relentless in their invasion.  Each day the old man would find more and more of them, at the edges of the garden, and even now in the interior.  He'd pull those he could find, but he couldn't get them all.  Worse, the weeds were able to spread, and their roots were strong and deep.  When the old gentlemen first noticed this, he thought little of it; after all it was only a few weeds in a rather large and productive garden.  But soon it became a daily effort to rid the garden of all the weeds.  The vegetables and fruits that he had planted began to weaken as the weeds slowly took over.  Stalks became weak from a lack of nutrients, those nutrients being aggressively absorbed by the ever increasing number of weed roots.  The leaves became yellowish and drooped due to the ever increasing weed canopy robbing them of sunlight.  And now insects, which were never a serious problem for a healthy garden, were now able to take advantage of the plants' weakened condition.

To rid the garden of all the invading weeds became an ever more arduous task for the old man.  They could reproduce and invade faster than he could pull them out.  And any roots that were not removed would sprout even more weeds, made stronger by their survival. Soon the garden was all but gone, now nothing but a tract of uncontrolled and spreading weed growth.  The old man lost his bounty as all his plants died, but insisted that the weeds were not to blame.  It was only their nature, after all, he would tell himself.  But in that attempt at self consolation, he had denied and nullified his own nature.  And that nature was to protect, defend and harvest the bounty of his own labors, and for his benefit solely.  

And in that misinterpretation of the world as it truly is, the old man lost his garden to the weeds.  And soon, with no source of food, the old man, like his garden before him, wasted away and died.

Oh, That Bear!

Sometimes you eat the bear, sometimes the bear eats you.  That's an old Southern idiom that speaks truth to life.  Or put another way, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.  Who won and who lost in Alabama's razor-close squeaker senate race yesterday?  Time will tell.

Real man versus progressive twit

In the short term, the uni-party/Soros establishment machine - that is, the swamp - is the apparent winner, demonstrating that it can still crushingly apply the politics of personal destruction.  The accusations against Judge Moore were mostly proven as nothing more than political propaganda, aimed at keeping Southern women home.  It worked.  Had they turned out, a different headline would have greeted us today.  

Now the Democrats have gained another seat in the Senate, narrowing the GOP majority to 51-49, and putting at risk American constitutional ideals such as conservative judges appointed to the bench, limited immigration, and support of the Second Amendment, to name just a few.  McConnell must be gloating in his coffee this morning, having beaten Trump and Bannon - in his mind, at least - in the court of public opinion.   But the truth is that Doug Jones is a screaming liberal, and he won simply because he's not Roy Moore.

Moore was a flawed candidate for the established GOP.  He was way too Christian for the establishment - he had the Ten Commandments displayed in front of the courthouse.  Alabamians loved him for that; Washington DC was appalled.  He was too traditional in his Biblical beliefs - he wasn't supportive of so-called gay rights, feminism or of other progressive nonsense.  The very thought of him being elected to the senate terrified the swamp.  So the swamp managed to turn this election into a contest between men and women.  Rather, between men and feminists.  The pussy-hats won.  The bear eats you.  The campaign barely mentioned Alabamian concerns such as immigration, build the wall, and job creation.  Nope, it was all about he-ing and she-ing.  Say what you will about Judge Moore, a better choice for Alabama was certainly Morris Jackson "Mo" Brooks Jr.   But in this election, that ship had sailed.

The good news for conservatives is that they get a chance for a do-over in 2020.  Yesterday's special election was to fill the Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions when he was appointed US Attorney General.  So Jones' term can be short lived and temporary, if Alabamians so choose.  Alabama is a deep red state, and maybe they didn't like Judge Moore all that much, but contrary to leftist thinking and gloating, it ain't turning blue in 2020. 

So allow the swamp's gloating for now.   In two years, they'll be weeping again. The constitution is counting on it.