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.